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[Obligatory American boggling on how people so close to each other can develop such different accents]

That being said, England's Northern accents are quite nice.

What, Americans are supposed to boggle about that? New England has like twenty different accents!

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Well, west coast Americans, at any rate.

I don't know. The Northern Californian accent sounds different to me than the Southern Californian accent. And the San Francisco accent sticks out like a sore thumb no matter where it goes.

Yeah, but north/south CA is like, 600 miles difference.

I grew up in Northern California and there was a large variety of accents just at my high school. There were valley girl accents, surfer accents, AAV accents, Filipino accents some other accents that are distinct enough that I can mimic them, but not name them. I think it's pretty interesting that people who live so close to each other can have different accents, but I don't think that's unique to any one part of the world.

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+1. If you live in San Diego and have family in Oakland, it's equivalent to you living in Georgia and your family living in northern Virginia/southern Maryland.

You said it better than me.

Then you have a city like Boston, where my cousins say you can tell which street someone grew up in by their accent.

This happens all over. Even in smaller towns and cities.

I grew up in Virginia Beach. We have a strong Mid-Atlantic accent, think The Wire, that would never be mistaken as Southern. But you go to the the next town over, Chesapeake, and lo and behold, there is the missing Southern Virginia accent. And you go to the next town over, past that and it becomes even thicker.

+1

As a Northern New Yorker, I have an accent that tends to slip closer to northern English accents than it does to the accent in mid/southern NY.

I live in the Philadelphia suburbs, and there are at least 5 accents I can identify within an hour's drive in any direction from me, so it happens here too.

As someone living in Lincolnshire, I wouldn't've said South Yorkshire was "north east" England. You're just east, really. North-east is Teeside and Tyneside.

As someone living in London I think you're all Up North.

This. And live in caves and wear skins... (*has very posh-sounding public school-educated spouse born in Teesside*)

Posh sounding Teessiders exist? I've been told we all sound like scumbags XD

Judging you for saying "wouldn't've". Really? Come on.

I'm from West Yorkshire but spent some of my childhood in NE Lincolnshire. The way some of the kids made fun of how I said things, and how they treated me like scum because they made fun of everyone from Yorkshire, especially at summer time when a lot came to the seaside. Yeah. I kinda get how you feel. But I moved around so much I eventually lost an identifiable Yorkshire accent and just sound "northern" now - though I'm living in Scotland and a few Scots have managed to place me, but I don't know if that's just a lucky guess.

Anyway, embrace it OP. Nobody should feel bad because of where they're from. And I sometimes wish I had kept my Yorkshire accent because it's one of those weird things where I think it'd be a connection to home and my family, even though they're not all that far away really.

Hey, I love the way they sound!

The "West Coast" accent is gradually becoming "Standard" thanks to Hollywood, so I think the way I speak is boring. The way you do is lovely.

I was just talking about my love of accents from the north of England yesterday. I much prefer them to the other accents we typically get from across the pond. They have more character, for one thing, and are oddly, nasally sexy.

All I got from this is - are you from Rotherham?

That's actually kind of sweet

I'm Canadian but lived in the UK during the 1990s, and most of that was in the north of England.

Every time I hear a northern English accent - and yeah, that includes Sheffield - I feel like I'm hearing the voices of home.

It's a lovely accent, dammit ♥

Hey man, I hear you. My area of New York takes its cultural heritage from this general area, and I always felt more than a little kinship with the Starks.

I think it's actually pretty awesome that a modern author, an American no less, is able to write characters that still ring true to their cultural roots.

I don't know, I think it's a pretty logical leap to make. The Starks are blatantly the York side of a fantasy War of the Roses. The northern accent just makes sense.

I like North Country accents, and Sean Bean is pretty cool.