If you've ever lived in more than one part of England, you will know that language, culture and even the water vary massively from place to place.
The biggest differences are often drawn between those who live in the North and the unfortunate souls who were born in the South.
Well, in a thread posted to Reddit, expat southerners who have made the leap northwards have been sharing their thoughts on the things they've noticed most since moving.
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For example, a simple turn of phrase it seems can be slightly different depending on where you live.
"It's one weird expression - let's say you are offered a drink or a biscuit or something and you don't want it," wrote one.
"In the South you say, 'No thanks, I'm all right' and in the North you say, 'No thanks YOU'RE all right'."
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Attempting to explain the subtle difference, someone replied: "I believe it's supposed to be like 'no thanks, you're good to not have to go and get me a drink' or 'you're good as you are' that kind of thing."
Another said: "Different words for things, for example in Liverpool webs are trainers."
Offering a further difference in regional lexicon, and one that probably proves most divisive, another southerner broached the subject of 'lunch'.
Disappointed with their child's adoption of the local dialect, a parent simply said: "My daughter calls lunch, dinner. Nope."
As you can imagine, this sparked quite the debate.
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Backing the northern way, one person hit back: "Breakfast dinner tea, it's how we do it in the North."
While another added: "This is the way. Dinner at 12ish and tea at 5.30. 6pm or later and you're basically trying to be posh or fancy for some reason no one will ever understand."
Another big difference picked up by a fair few people in the thread was the topic of water supply.
"Tap water," wrote one. "Didn't notice a change getting there. Really noticed a change coming back home."
Agreeing, another replied: "Definitely better up North, I grew up on the South coast and we had really hard water, kettles used to scale up in no time.
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"I live in Lancashire now and the water tastes better and not seen any limescale whatsoever."
Sharing their continued disbelief at the clarity of the H2O up north, an ex-southerner added: "Lived in and around Newcastle for nearly two years now and still can't get over not having to descale the kettle every few months."
But it's not all good news.
Yep, there are those who've made the journey northwards and not particularly fell in love with the way of life... or the people.
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Upset with the level of manners on display in the North, a disgruntled southerner said: "I also found the people a lot unfriendlier than in the South, like purposefully go out of their way to make sure I had a bad time.
"Maybe I just worked with some bad eggs, but they seemed to reaaaaally not like my southern accent. I know a few southern people who felt very unwanted living up north too."
Their experience wasn't unique either, with another adding: "In the north, the average person on the street is quite friendly but it's rarely more than that.
"They tend to be very cliquey as you say, whereas in the south people tend to welcome you into the groups much faster."
One matter that was left uncontested, however, was that your pound goes much further the further north you go.
"Half-price houses," joked one.
While another said: "Everything is so much cheaper."
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