How do people in the North see the South ?

[seafoid]

What aspects of the State in the North are annoying to nationalists?
What aspects of the South are attractive ?
What aspects of the south are not attractive ?

[gallsman]

What aspects of the south are not attractive ?

Southerners.

[ziggy90]

What aspects of the south are not attractive ?

Southerners.

Westerners are OK though?

[marty34]

Love the Cork accent, especially the cailíní when they talk. A great accent.

Great people in the south. 99%, like anywhere. Friendly, good craic and helpful.

[AustinPowers]

Love the Cork accent, especially the cailíní when they talk. A great accent.

Great people in the south. 99%, like anywhere. Friendly, good craic and helpful.

Can't think of  the Cork accent without thinking of this

[Blowitupref]

What aspects of the State in the North are annoying to nationalists?
What aspects of the South are attractive ?
What aspects of the south are not attractive ?

What's the south when Donegal happens to be more north than any county on this island?

[JoG2]

Free

[AustinPowers]

Free

Can you elaborate?

[Brendan]

There's an awful lot of arselicking of the British monarchy from free staters, disturbing so it is

[RedHand88]

There's an awful lot of arselicking of the British monarchy from free staters, disturbing so it is

I'd argue there are alot more northerners that are Royalists than southerners.

[RedHand88]

Attractive - more business friendly, less of a civil service heavy, public sector overburdened failure of a state than the north. Wages are higher, society is more outward looking and less insular. Also less sectarian. People are less entitled when it comes to healthcare. There is nowhere near the same culture of expecting everything for free all of the time.

Unattractive - nobody seems to know what potato bread is. Their attitude at times towards the north, their digs about being less Irish etc.

[Eamonnca1]

Always loved crossing the border. The south felt more free and less uptight than the north. (My mates used to do this strange thing of taking their seatbelts off as soon as they got into the south because they knew it wasn't going to be enforced because there would be no checkpoints. I doubt if they'd do it now.) You could fly your own flag without worrying what the RUC was going to think of it. You could go out and do stuff on a Sunday without certain people looking at you with disapproval for not wearing a suit or sitting in a church all morning or afternoon. You could fly your GAA flag from the car without worrying about getting bricked if you passed through the likes of Portadown.

I also prefer to listen to southerners talking. I find it a bit jarring to hear my own accent on TV, but that's probably similar to how people don't like to hear their own voice played back in a recording because it sounds different from how they hear themselves in normal speech.

This is a small detail but in the late 1980s I seem to remember the public payphones in the south were push-button tone phones, while in the north is was still analogue rotary phones. For me that was one of the first signs that something was happening in the south's economy.

Prior to the 1990s we'd resign ourselves to a pothole-infested road starting at the border, but now it's reversed with better roads and infrastructure in the south. You fly out of Dublin airport and you get the feel of being in a cosmopolitan, decent sized, European city. You don't get that feeling when flying out of Aldergrove which feels like a small regional airport.

In short, as a northerner I've always been fond of the south and always had a great time when visiting, but these days I admire it for how far it's come in such a short period of time.

[Brendan]

There's an awful lot of arselicking of the British monarchy from free staters, disturbing so it is

I'd argue there are alot more northerners that are Royalists than southerners.

Only by the Northerners who class themselves as British, sickens me seeing the Union Flag rolled out in Galway, Dublin etc to welcome Charlie Windsor, if it was in some sort of official capacity I wouldn't mind but the ordinary folk in the street waving them is too far

[marty34]

Dare I bring up the dreaded 'T' word.....Tayto?

[AustinPowers]

In my experience, there  seems to be a serious amount of children  in the south  with British royalty type   first names. Lots of Georges, Williams,  Harrys  , Henrys etc.

You wouldn't tend  to see that as much with  northern Catholics , and you would tend to see more Irish names  as well