It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Oct 2nd 2006, 8:13 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Not quite over there yet, but based in Manchester and heading for Sydney.
Can I just add though that I lived in London for 8 years, then Leicester (!) and Manchester for the past 6 and IF one day we decide to come back to the UK we would be heading striaight for Manchester. Love it here!!
Graham
Can I just add though that I lived in London for 8 years, then Leicester (!) and Manchester for the past 6 and IF one day we decide to come back to the UK we would be heading striaight for Manchester. Love it here!!
Graham
Oct 2nd 2006, 8:18 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Originally Posted by borolad
paved the cenotaph at newbiggin by the sea in jan 04 bloody baltic there
I am from Halifax and can not wait to move I have lived in York (RAF) did my Paramedic Training at northumberland Lived in Bedlington Worked at Tynemouth Amb Station. Could not wait to leave very rough place to live and work.Danny
Oct 2nd 2006, 9:08 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Originally Posted by annqldau
It's grim Up North in the UK however, i'm finding it quite pleasant overall Up North in Aus...
so how many Northerners are in Aus now?
where have you settled?
and are you enjoying it?
I'm originally from Easington Village in Co. Durham on North East Coast of UK between Newcastle/Sunderland and Hartlepool (for those that don't know where that is).
so how many Northerners are in Aus now?
where have you settled?
and are you enjoying it?
I'm originally from Easington Village in Co. Durham on North East Coast of UK between Newcastle/Sunderland and Hartlepool (for those that don't know where that is).
Oct 2nd 2006, 9:09 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Originally Posted by annqldau
It's grim Up North in the UK however, i'm finding it quite pleasant overall Up North in Aus...
so how many Northerners are in Aus now?
where have you settled?
and are you enjoying it?
I'm originally from Easington Village in Co. Durham on North East Coast of UK between Newcastle/Sunderland and Hartlepool (for those that don't know where that is).
so how many Northerners are in Aus now?
where have you settled?
and are you enjoying it?
I'm originally from Easington Village in Co. Durham on North East Coast of UK between Newcastle/Sunderland and Hartlepool (for those that don't know where that is).
Claire
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Oct 2nd 2006, 9:27 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Originally Posted by deputy dog
From Middlesbrough and been living in Melbourne for last 15 months.
Oct 2nd 2006, 9:57 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
As you well know Ann...we are from the beautiful village of Sedgefield in the County of Durham. 
Now in Melbourne and feeling quite happy...but missing our friends in Brisbane (....see you on 22nd November ..ish)
Now in Melbourne and feeling quite happy...but missing our friends in Brisbane (....see you on 22nd November ..ish)
Oct 2nd 2006, 9:57 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
...and Im a Boro fan 
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Oct 2nd 2006, 10:04 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Cheshire...which isn't grim....ok, so St Helens and Crewe is 
Oct 2nd 2006, 10:39 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
from north lancashire now in Perth. It is grim where I am from, wasn't when I was a kid but it is now.
Oct 2nd 2006, 10:43 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Originally Posted by marcbolam
I thought Easington was a mining village (no miners now though after maggies revolution !! scab she was!!) near a small town in county durham called sunderland.
Now Easington is on the border and I cant remember if it is in County Durham or Tyne & Wear.
I was born in Sunderland (then town - now city), lived in Fencehouses (then County Durham, now Tyne & Wear), migrated to Oslo. Migrated to London (Leytonstone), lived in Chelmsford Essex, moved to Fencehouses, moved to East Rainton, Downhill, Gateshead, Whitley Bay and finally living in North Shields for last three years. - I am expert at packing and moving!!
Cant wait to get to Perth at the end of the year!!
I personally think that Northern people are more adventurous when it comes to travelling - not scared to try anything new. In fact when holidaying to some really far out places always end up bumping into someone from a couple of villages away, in fact we always play spot the toon army shirt game at far away airports!
Paula
Oct 2nd 2006, 11:03 am
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Originally Posted by CasG
Cheshire...which isn't grim....ok, so St Helens and Crewe is
Actually, Crewe is a dive, you're quite right. We backed onto the Rolls Royce factory, so that was always interesting viewing.
Where you from in Cheshire, Cas?
Oct 2nd 2006, 1:01 pm
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
Orig. from Oldham, now a soft southerner in Melbourne, loving it and am now Officially Australian and proud!
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Oct 2nd 2006, 1:52 pm
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
From Oldham, hated it. In Perth now but coming to Brisbane on Sat
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Oct 2nd 2006, 1:58 pm
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
That makes 3 of us from Oldham. Wonder how we could bear to leave.
Oct 2nd 2006, 2:01 pm
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Re: It's grim Up North... how many Northeners in Aus now?
I'm from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It's a top place in my opinion, great night out, great shops, good transport, good sporting facilities, relatively cheap compared to the south. There are some holes down south as well, just as there are oop north - personally, i think Sunderland and Newcastle are just rough, grim places, and Bradford is a hole, but then again look at Maidstone, Gillingham, much of south east London, Harlesden, Hackney, St Pauls in Bristol - all absolute sh*tholes.
And then there's Sydney. Yep, it has plenty of gorgeous areas, but has anyone been to Granville? Liverpool? Cabramatta? Bankstown? Punchbowl? Horrible places.
And then there's Sydney. Yep, it has plenty of gorgeous areas, but has anyone been to Granville? Liverpool? Cabramatta? Bankstown? Punchbowl? Horrible places.