Which cities, towns or counties are the most insular culturally?

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IntrepidMaybe8579@reddit

London, being born and raised plus my entire family i can say theyre are alot of areas which are “owned” by specific races, my white brother has been mugged at knife point over 10 times and my aunt lives in a somalian owned area where ive seen even black kids getting mugged and knocked off a bike right in the middle of town in daylight

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Definitely if you are not part of the dominant community, and particularly if you’re elderly or socially isolated/disadvantaged anyway.

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IntrepidMaybe8579@reddit

Yeah and your really never part of the dominant community in london i dont even think were the majority of the city at this point

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

Yeah, I can't understand Londoners. They're great to connect with socially, depending on the area. But as a whole, they can quickly drop you as a friend and tend to be pretty racist despite the cosmopolitan nature of London now. In public, they bump into you, never say sorry and it's all claimed to be due to a "fast paced environment". Yeah right, they just lack manners.

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IntrepidMaybe8579@reddit

Eh it is the environment though its so jam packed everyone else is an inconvenience, stop to say sorry to someone after bumping into them you might just give them more of a reason to react instead of forget, get involved to be a good samariton if someones getting mugged end up getting mugged your self and jumped, cut someone off in traffic there a chance they get out and smash your window so yeah everyones a product of their environment

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IntrepidMaybe8579@reddit

And if your son was getting mugged by the same exact race over and over youd probably end up racist yourself, and us londoners are guilty for being very racist and even alot of white kids smashing up and stealing from indian stores ect so no wonder they react 🤣

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attilathetwat@reddit

I am from Edinburgh but don’t live there anymore. Found it very cliquey

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Hot-Excitement-6119@reddit

It’s still cliquey but the cliques are muzzles, polskis and uni students

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captainsittingduck@reddit

Burnley, Bacup, east Lancashire in general, comes across as inbred hillbilly central.

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TheeHappyDude@reddit

Bacup is a hellhole. What's it even there for?

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Amazing_Fennel_1542@reddit

Bacup was incredibly rough back in the day. Think it's undergoing a little gentrification nowadays. Same with todmorden. Burnley will always be a cess pit.

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blurdyblurb@reddit

Todmorden's great. I'd say it's undergoing hippyfication, due to the Hebden Bridge overspill!

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captainsittingduck@reddit

Passed through Bacup once about 15 years ago. There were people pissed everywhere and police with blue lights scrambling about. It's one of the roughest place I've spent an hour in 😂

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Rydeeee@reddit

Cornwall. Beautiful place, dependant on tourists, but hate them being there.

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Gary_Garibaldi@reddit

Liverpool is friendly, but scousers are still insular even if they are a friendly bunch. Culturally unique I reckon compared to everywhere else.

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

I would put Liverpool in the same category as Manchester. Mancunians say they are "proper manc" and believe they're awesome. Similar culture to North and East Yorkshire.

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Gary_Garibaldi@reddit

North Yorkshire doesn't have a similar culture to Liverpool. It's largely rural farmland for a start!

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hellopo9@reddit

I wouldn't say they're that culturally unique, but definitely very insular. The whole post-industrial history, hating Thatcher, Irish migration and musical scene is very common in England (I'd call it English culture).

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Responsible_Drive380@reddit

Isle of wight!

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

Thanks for the submissions so far. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Suffolk!

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unseemly_turbidity@reddit

I would have done, but I couldn't pick just one village.

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Careful_Efficiency44@reddit

Norwich?

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

Norfolk people I find to be more friendly than Suffolk residents but I can totally vouch that people from Norwich, King's Lynn and especially Diss are very weird and insular.

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

I grew up in Norfolk. There were kids at primary school who'd never been to Norwich (15 miles away).

We moved there from the Isle of Wight, some thought that was 'abroad'.

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nathanherts@reddit

Taunton.

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

Taunton is a horrid place to visit.

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nathanherts@reddit

I've definitely been to worse places, but it was a bit of a shock seeing practically no people of colour, coming from London.

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Even-Way9768@reddit

Royston Vasey

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

"You would not understand us, our customs, our local ways"

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Desperate-Coat-8791@reddit

a local place for local people

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lostandfawnd@reddit

We'll have no trouble here.

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Historical_Heron4801@reddit

North Devon.

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KezzaJones@reddit

Jaywick in Clacton is not welcoming to anyone.

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

Colchester and Clacton are cr*p holes

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neilm1000@reddit

I dunno, I went a few times when I lived in Wivenhoe, seemed alright.

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

That whole area. I’m from south Essex and it feels so weird and unfriendly up there, has done for years. Love Point Clear though, atmosphere is different there.

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neilm1000@reddit

I went to university in Colchester and lived in Wivenhoe for four years. It's OK when you get to know them.

Doesn't stop places like Frinton being bloody weird, though. It's less "inside the gates" these days, I think that TV programme put paid to that.

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Mediocre_Rhubarb810@reddit

I think Frinton nearby is far more insular than Jaywick

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freebiscuit2002@reddit

The Isle of Wight is a county that is literally an island. That's pretty insular.

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AwkwardTie9427@reddit (OP)

Isle of Man I also find to be the same.

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coffeewalnut08@reddit

The northeast, in my experience. It’s fairly interesting to meet so many people in this region who know little about the UK’s immigration process, visa types, foreign cultures, etc. but yet Reform UK is campaigning hard against immigration there.

If that’s not a prime example of politicians exploiting the ignorance of the local population, I don’t know what is.

No hate to northeasterners btw, it’s just my observations of things.

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Imo the north east is the friendliest part of the uk

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wonderman48@reddit

I'll second that the north east has a lot of friendly people and the geordies are the friendliest. I am biased though because I'm a geordie.

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prustage@reddit

In Ashton-under-Lyne, the town I grew up in, they proposed extending the Manchester tram network to include Ashton. This meant that instead of the 7 mile drive to Manchester being a slow slog along a old congested A road, it would be a fast commute along a dedicated track.

At one of the council meetings, many of the councillors were against this. I actually heard one of them say this:

"We don't want this connection with Manchester. We'll be flooded with Manchester people coming to Ashton and overrunning the place. Quite honestly, Ashton market is busy enough as it is on a Saturday; it will be impossible if half of Manchester start coming here too".

They completely assumed that the link was for Manchester (pop. 2.8milion) to reach Ashton (pop. 48,000), not Ashton to reach Manchester.

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neilm1000@reddit

There are people like that here in Stockport: a surprising number of people who don't want the tram because (amongst other things) "it will turn the place into Didsbury."

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Panceltic@reddit

Well, the line has since been built, and it's still a 7 mile slow slog along an old congested road, but in a tram :D

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DistributionTop1479@reddit

Banbury- it's a cultural vacuum in the arse end of nowhere and a breeding ground for far-right types. I used to work with quite a few Banburyites and they had some 'quirky' takes on interracial relationships.

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S3lad0n@reddit

I came originally from a rural poor family on the western border between Wales & England, and I’ve since moved away so I think I can be a bit more objective…

We’re often characterised as bumpkins who point at planes, cravenly follow superstition and fear outsiders, and honestly in some cases it’s not far off the mark.

Things like deprivation & economic depression, lack of education, political exploitation, identity suppression, and estrangement from cultural centres contribute to this.

There’s also a political silent majority in the rise there who lean either far to the right or to the left, and can have nationalistic sentiments (Welsh or English), which stem from a collective feeling of disenfranchisement and sidelining and mischaracterising by the rule of Westminster. In fairness, I don’t think the gentrifying centrist middle-class Tories & townies who move out there understand why the locals dislike them and don’t want them there.

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Substantial-Chonk886@reddit

Not possible to be objective.

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