Liverpool is a horrible place

I was at Liverpool last week. I don't know why anybody would want to visit there so my free advice is to keep moving. It was undoubtedly the most unfriendly place I've ever been to, and that includes New York, Paris and the Cotswolds.

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Alfred22

Does being from the South (of England) give you an accent the way being from the South in the US does? Accents are important. I met a UK person totally accidentally in the parking area of a supermarket last week. She was from Dover it turned out, a member of the same American running club and a marathoner at that. She ran London once and we shared stories about our experiences with Philadelphia. To me she just seemed British but perhaps she had a Southern UK accent! The parking lot at this store now seems friendly to me.

Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

@Alfred22 Englands weird in that you have massively different accents if you drive 2 hours in any direction even though it's a small place. London area south sounds a bit more refined, but then it gets weird again for lack of a better word if you go southwest/east.

OnlyRhonda · 36-40, F

@Alfred22 Accents are very distinctive. There is no 'British' accent, but all the four countries that make up the United Kingdom have different accents, and they are divided and subdivided into regional and even district accents. South London, for instance, is different from North, Kent from London and, in Scotland, Glasgow vastly different from Edinburgh or Aberdeen. In Liverpool, my Kent/South London accent would immediately mark me as a southerner and, apparently, fair game. I did not experience such vitriol anywhere else.