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FWIW, I was talking to colleagues today about being a posh Geordie. I grew up in a lovely middle class bit of Newcastle. Big gardens, clean streets, local coffee shops and 10 minutes into town on the bus. Now I live in Tottenham, which is .. not like that. But I wouldn't swap back.
Do not underestimate the nasty conformity of the denizens of regional cities and small towns. I went out in the toon on a Saturday night recently for the first time in years, and I saw more fights in one night in Newcastle than I have in a decade in London. Really weird, I was thinking "God, I had forgotten but it really is like this"