Why I Have To Leave The North...

[Solly]

I think he needs to go home to China.

[SpencerH]

PH, now that you've made the choice to move you need to consider what type of jobs to go after. There's probably no need to stay in the manufacturing/product control side of things. Wasnt your research area neurobiology? Thats a pretty hot topic within many Pharma companies cos of all the anti-depressants etc. With that experience, you may want to turn to the medical writing/administrative side of the industry. Its not terribly exciting, but the pay is great especially once you're in for a few years.

[Alexander's Horse]

When I was a child I was prone to homesickness.

As an adult, I moved 11 times in 15 years - including twice to foreign countries. I'm perfectly portable now - go figure. I'll probably retire in a foreign land.

One thing about Europeans I notice is that they can get very rooted to one spot. It's quite staggering to me that for example someone could could grow up in England but never been to the continent. But apparently that's still quite common.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
I think he needs to go home to China.

WTF are you talking about? I had enough of that childish namecalling at primary school. However you are 21

[Provost Harrison]

Well you see I don't find the people in my present place of work at all hostile...I am well respected and liked and this has always been the case, which is why I get very suspicious over this Novartis business. As I said, someone has taken a very quick dislike to me and got rid...don't know why or what for. I am happy in my present place of work but the pay is crap...

[Alexander's Horse]

It's all about you, all the time, stop gazing at your navel.

As Chekhov put it:

"he imagined he was a simple ordinary man, that he was walking quickly, cheerfully through the fields, tapping with his stick, while above him was the open sky bathed in sunshine, and that he was free now as a bird and could go where he liked."

That's you if you want to be, you Ninny.

[molly bloom]

[SIZE=1] Originally posted by Park Avenue [/

It's not really "southerners" that northerners tend to take a dislike to. It's the general character they tyend to have.

ie, if you hear someone trying to out-shout everyone in a pub (even if it isn't even that loud), it will be a southerner.

Things I associate with southerners:

Drinking alcopops
Blonde spiked "messy" gay hair
Arrogant
Loud
Effeminate

Northerners:

A bit more rough
More swearing
More likely to have a fight
Down to earth

Most northerners grew up in, if not rough areas, then in areas where there was a rough fringe, and by making yourself "noticed" when out and about was an invitation to be a victim of someone. So we keep ourselves to ourselves. We are typical Englishmen. Southerners have affected too much by foreigners and their poncy ways - hugging and kissing when they meet, rather than a nod, saying "pleased to meet you" when leaving someone rather than "see yer later mate".

Of course to a southerner we may seem uncultured or whatever, but I don't give a crap. I don't false airs and graces, and it REALLY makes me uncomfortable when I have to start kissing relatively unknown acquantainces on the cheek just because it's custom.

Northerners keep their distance, yet are more loyal as friends.

Saying all this, I know a few decent people from down south, but in general their accents aren't as bad and they behave more like northerners.

Straight out of a bad makeover of a Monty Python sketch. Displays all the ignorance and fatuous prejudice we've come to expect from the Clot of the North.

These cliches might make for a poor ill-informed joke in a cheap second hand joke book flogged on Blackpool Pleasure Beach (an oxymoron, believe me), but as an accurate picture of the North-South divide all they depict with any degree of certainty is the vast Milton Keynes inside the head of the emigre sheep shagger.

I wonder where the rough fringe of Altrincham and Wilmslow are meant to be, Lardy Boy? Hulme? Moss Side?

[Solly]

Cheshire is hardly the typical northern county now is it..

And Lardy? Ha..you really don't know who you are talking to.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Cheshire is hardly the typical northern county now is it..

And Lardy? Ha..you really don't know who you are talking to.

Judging by the content of your usual posts, there's plenty of lard between your ears.

Unfortunately we get the benefit of your excremental maunderings, not the pork fat.

[SpencerH]

Cheshire? Wonderful cheese!

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Cheshire is hardly the typical northern county now is it..

Well it's like a posh extension of Manchester, like what East Yorkshire is to Hull

[Arrian]

Cardiff (lots of family there, seems like a nice enough city). You certainly sound like you need to move.

-Arrian

[Provost Harrison]

Well it is all a matter of spotting the right job. Manchester would be a marvellous place - decent cost of living, already have contacts there and the jobs pay a lot better...but no opportunity has ever come to fruition for quite exasperating reasons...alas to a point where it is seeming like a place of broken dreams with the number of interviews I have had there.

[Japher]

Come to the bay area, CA... plenty of QA posts looking for stuck up ppl... cost of living sucks though.

[Provost Harrison]

The cost of living in London is also ridiculous...probably more so than SF...I think only Tokyo beats it