1. Football is incredibly important.
For example, in Liverpool you can choose between Liverpool, Everton, Tranmere Rovers, or exile.
2. People walk everywhere.
And with views like this, you can see why.
3. Hills are often higher than 20 foot.
4. They also have really big ponds, called lakes.
5. Nowhere is where you thought it was.
6. Drinks are mind-bogglingly cheap.
7. And so is property.
8. There is no business that cannot be encased in a red-brick building.
9. Liverpool still really cares about The Beatles.
There's a museum, a hotel, a painstakingly restored gig venue, and an annual weekend-long multi-stage festival made up almost entirely of Beatles cover bands.
10. It always looks like it just rained in Manchester.
11. Blackpool has looked the same for years.
12. The Geordie accent is impossible to understand.
If you go full Dances With Wolves you might pick up the odd word after six months.
13. Biologically, Chester is half Zebra.
14. There are a thousand small villages and they all have a Boots.
15. IT RAINS SO MUCH.
16. But confusingly, no one wears coats on nights out.
17. The definition of "cake" is incredibly loose.
18. Fish and chips and gravy is actually a thing that people do.
19. There's no such thing as too much pastry.
20. People genuinely are more friendly up north.
21. Which means you might actually befriend a stranger.
22. Is it better than the south? Yeah, it probably is.
