Do you feel a difference between North and South?

Pantsface

Me for one. Land much better on your drive up North

My gran always said, they took the best land, and left Donegal

Well...

tolosenc

This will end well...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Poles apart if you ask me....

Seanchai

Pantsface wrote: »

Do you feel a difference between North and South?

No.

starbelgrade

The roads are better in the South.

Pantsface

starbelgrade wrote: »

The roads are better in the South.

they really aren't

Sauve

Traffic lights that go amber for taking off as well as stopping.
I dunno why we don't do it down here, makes so much sense.

starbelgrade

Sauve wrote: »

Traffic lights that go amber for taking off as well as stopping.
I dunno why we don't do it down here, makes so much sense.

They love orange up North.

Sauve

starbelgrade wrote: »

They love orange up North.

You'll go far.

ArtSmart

we talking landscape here? yeah, it's (roads, gardens etc) tidier up north. right, lock thread now, save the trees etc.

Well .. euros and sterling feel different.. if that counts ..?

Kurz

I go up a lot and I don't feel a difference apart from a few cosmetic things like different coloured road signs. They drive smaller cars and keep them cleaner than most down here. As far as the people go, I mostly go to Derry and they just feel like a more urban version of Donegal people if that makes sense. I feel a much bigger difference driving to Cork :pac:

My name is URL

It's about time those feckin penguins bowed to their natural masters

Gran Hermano

One side of the border they shop in Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Top Shop, Argos, etc, support teams like Man Utd or Liverpool, watch ITV/BBC and read the Daily Mail. On the other side they are part of the UK.

jill_valentine

My name is URL wrote: »

It's about time those feckin penguins bowed to their natural masters

PENGUINS BOW TO NO ONE!

PseudoFamous

Pantsface wrote: »

they really aren't

Maybe in the 80s the roads were better in the North, but now we're streets ahead (Pun definitely intended) down here. Except in Clare, maybe.

xDramaxQueenx

The main thing for me is the accent.

Pantsface

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Maybe in the 80s the roads were better in the North, but now we're streets ahead (Pun definitely intended) down here. Except in Clare, maybe.

Have you driven Dublin to Belfast recently? Was a passenger, so could be wrong...

Pantsface

xDramaxQueenx wrote: »

The main thing for me is the accent.

Dramadoll its like talking to a smothered barbie

starbelgrade

Pantsface wrote: »

Have you driven Dublin to Belfast recently? Was a passenger, so could be wrong...

In fairness, the Dublin to Belfast road is hardly representative of the entire road network in NI.

LordSutch

Its gets colder up North in the winter. The traffic light sequence is different, they have have sterling, we have the Euro . . .

wintersolstice

chalk and cheese!

flyswatter

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Pantsface wrote: »

they really aren't

Maybe in the 80s the roads were better in the North, but now we're streets ahead (Pun definitely intended) down here. Except in Clare, maybe.

Our roads ain't got sh1t on Frances though, well behind in comparison but that's another story.

Pantsface

starbelgrade wrote: »

In fairness, the Dublin to Belfast road is hardly representative of the entire road network in NI.

true

where else do they meet?

Pantsface

flyswatter wrote: »

Our roads ain't got sh1t on Frances though, well behind in comparison but that's another story.

same with our men

but do you hear me giving out?





















:pac:

uch

We're all from the same Island, whats the problem

Chuck Stone

I suffer from cultural shock every time I cross the imaginary line.

Pantsface

uch wrote: »

We're all from the same Island, whats the problem

roads, attitude & c0ck dude

Cee-Jay-Cee

Apart from northern Ireland's two motorways the roads in the south are much better. NI haven't upgraded any of their primary or regional roads in 50yrs. If you get stuck behind a slow moving vehicle in the north then that's it, your stuck there, the road surfaces may be good, the road layouts are pure ****e.

Northern Ireland and in particular Belfast have piss poor road signage. Belfast is a nightmare unless you actually know where your going, it's the one city I absolutely hate driving in despite the fact I've been there countless times.

I will however concede to their traffic light sequence. Theyre much more effective and work better than the lights down here.

nacimroc

I work up there every month or so and I can't relax. They are worlds apart for me. Especially driving through areas with union jacks flying everywhere and kerbs painted. Crossing the borders alot years ago (Mothers from Leitrim so we went up alot) I still see it as 'not the south' so maybe thats why.

Their landscape is nicer/different because they have nice broad leaf trees and woods, we just got ****ty hedges and those ugly giant christmas trees that Coailte covered the place with.

pragmatic1

Class is a bigger deal up north.
It's more conservative and religion is more of a big deal.
People have better manners in general.
Services are better.
Property is maintained to a higher standard.
It feels more sterile and less relaxed than in the republic.