the English counties

[naughty boy]

What the fuck is 'East Anglia' all about? rubbish

Devon, Cornwall, and the other one. Weird, end of the world donkeys. And then Dorset. I just imagine them making jam all the time.

Lancashire, tho' - oh yes! Good people. Yorkshire talks itself up too much. Huddersfield is between the two counties I think. Wakefield interests me.

Bedford - is that a county? Hampshire?

I like the idea of Northumbria. Windswept, desolate.

[naughty boy]

[KeithPratt]

Sussex is beautiful and Hampshire is one of the best-kept secrets in the UK.

I had never really been to Somerset properly until last year, but I'd move there in a heart beat if we could make it work. Similarly Wiltshire, which is lovely.

I live quite near the intersection between Surrey, Kent and W and E Sussex.

I'd like to explore Shropshire too.

[naughty boy]

Have you ever been to the north of the country, Toby?

[Rayge]

I've visited all of them, lived in seven or eight, and while there are a few (Northants springs to mind) that are difficult to grasp as a distinct entity, they are all pretty nice places, and beautiful if you look at them the right way. East Anglia, for instance, fabulous for skies, bird-watching and mediaeval buildings, especially churches, as well as Constable landscapes and the lowest rainfall in the UK.
The people, though, no real difference county to county, although the big cities tend to have a specific identity. There are arseholes and decent people everywhere, and I haven't met a sufficient sample to say how the proporions differ, except that Bristolians are enormously unfriendly, people from the south Yorkshire conurbations similarly friendly and outgoing, and those in North Devon want you to get orff their land, while Whitehaven is well supplied with zero-hours contracted curmudgeons

[naughty boy]

it's true

[Brickyard Jack]

1 - devon
2- north yorks
3 -east sussex
4 - cumbria

[harvey k-tel]

They all sound like stupid places.

[sloopjohnc]

How bored do you have to be to put all the English counties in a poll?

I was thinking of doing a mock California county poll, but said, "Fuck it," when I saw that.

[sloopjohnc]

They all sound like stupid places.

[KeithPratt]

Have you ever been to the north of the country, Toby?

Yes, but I try not to make it a habit.

[clive gash]

Anything with a coastline can’t be all bad.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Huddersfield is between the two counties I think.

Ooohh
Controversy!

[The Prof]

Huddersfield is between the two counties I think.

Ooohh
Controversy!

Get him Mike

[trans-chigley express]

I'd like to explore Shropshire too.

It’s really nice, well worth exploring

[trans-chigley express]

I was brought up in Merseyside and Cheshire with long spells spent living in Nottinghamshire, West Midlands and Somerset. Cumbria is the best and probably the only county I’d consider living in if I ever returned to the U.K. I like Derbyshire and all the South West counties too.

[Footy]

You haven't even got Cleveland (or Tees Valley) on your feckin map.

[clive gash]

*Shudder*

[Diamond Dog]

"Wonders who voted Oxfordshire*.

[Darkness_Fish]

Although I'm technically a resident of Greater Manchester, I always count myself as Lancastrian, and I live about a mile from the border anyway. There's not much to recommend in GM at all, I don't even think the pennines between Blackburn and Bolton are part of the county. Likewise, there's also not much to recommend about Merseyside, though it does have a bit of coastline, and Formby beach is quite nice.

The rest of England is really a pretty great place, from my experience. Cumbria, Northumberland, Lancashire, the Yorkshires, and Cheshire are my normal stomping grounds, and probably the finest places known to humanity.