The friendliest and least friendly places to live in U.K

It’s never the place it’s always the people. Some people don’t want to interact with you and some do. I’m always cheery and sociable, talk to anyone but some folk don’t want to know and I’ve found that North, South and all the countries I have visited. For some it’s intimidating when a stranger just pipes up.

As I said previously, people are people wherever you go. I have struck up conversations with cheerful friendly people all over the UK. I’ve also come across some very miserable and rude people all over the Uk.
It is not where you live but what sort of person you are.

I'm a Londoner and I will talk to anyone in a pub or on a tube as do all my family. Hate It when people say Londoners are unfriendly. maybe you mean the visitors in london are unfriendly

I love living in the East Neuk of Fife, small coastal villages (Sean Batty ITV1 last night did his programme from there), lots of nice shops, St Andrews if you want something a bit different or supermarkets, people speak to each other, help out best place to live.

westerlywind, that does sound annoying.
maybe polite passive resistance ?
or do you have any glasgow friends/relatives who could come down and big you up a bit in the face of the local snooties.
or you could play the slightly vague dotty card; when they are saying how disgusting the mess is, ought to have been swept up already...
you could smile sweetly and say,
oh, do you really think so, well you're probably right, i wouldn't know.
and drift away. do not respond to them in any way they are trying to manipulate you into doing.
do not acknowledge their self-appointed role.

I moved to Norfolk from the East Midlands 20 years ago in my 50s, largely because my grandparents had lived there and I had spent many childhood family holidays there so I loved the coast and countryside (still do). Funnily enough, just before I moved, I had a chance meeting at a bus stop in my Midlands town with someone who had moved to Norfolk but returned after a year because she found everyone so unfriendly. Since then I've often thought about our conversation because I did find it extremely difficult to make any meaningful friendships here and, even now, the majority of my friends are people who have come here from other parts of the UK. I don't find Norfolk people hostile but they do say that it takes at least 20 years to be accepted here, and I've never lived anywhere else that has such a big, and long-established, social class gap.

NotSpaghetti

I found Norfolk hostile. We have lived all over the place but wouldn't choose to go back there.

I found the Swaffham area of Norfolk just about the friendliest place I have ever lived in but hop over the border to Cambridgeshire and it’s a different story.

I also got on really well with the people in the Suffolk/Norfolk area around Diss.

Funny how we’re all different.

I am Swindon born and lived there all my life until aged 50 when we moved North West.
I got used to wishing people good morning and a nod to people on the street.
A few years later I had to spend a spell back in my own home town. Walking about tried to nod and smile and was ignored or people looked at me as if I'd gone potty

Nannashirlz

Being from the north east I’ve got to say us. Having traveled all over country and lived overseas. I’d say north east I talk to anyone and everyone no matter if I know you or not and everyone from north east is the same. Definitely not down south most ignorant people I’ve ever met. You can smile at them and they don’t even smile back lol

It's what you say that matters not that you talk to everyone. As a southerner I've been told how unfriendly we are ( great generalisations )and expected to accept it and happily converse with said NE person. Simply believing you are friendly doesn't make you friendly.

Beanutz2115

I think you must have lived in the wrong part of Rochdale. We have some lovely neighbours. There is racism though, because ‘minorities’ seem to be taking over the centre of the town. It doesn’t feel like England any more. I can shop in Asda and hear about ten different languages.

I agree with other posters, Merseyside is very friendly. I can go shopping in Liverpool and end up chatting to other shoppers.

Partner from Yorkshire, me Kent and we live in Surrey. On visiting Yorkshire I would be frequently informed how friendly Yorkshire folk were and how unfriendly Southerners were. Basically they were insulting me and I was expected to suck it up. I wouldn't, so of course that proved to them how unfriendly Southerners were.

Nanashirlz that is an awful generalisation.
Mind you I’m not from the North so obviously ignorant.

I found Norfolk hostile. We have lived all over the place but wouldn't choose to go back there.

Being from the north east I’ve got to say us. Having traveled all over country and lived overseas. I’d say north east I talk to anyone and everyone no matter if I know you or not and everyone from north east is the same. Definitely not down south most ignorant people I’ve ever met. You can smile at them and they don’t even smile back lol

Skybird I agree about Belfast. I worked there for a while. Travelling on the bus was a nightmare, everyone would talk to you! If I wanted a bit of morning quietness I had to keep my head down, bless them!

I think that Glasgow is a very friendly city . The people are very open and whenever I am there someone will always strike up a conversation with me ( even in public toilets ! )
The North East is England is also one of my favourite places , partly because of its beautiful coastline and also because of the friendliness of the people who live there

I moved to SW Scotland from another part of Scotland. It is a strange place. There are several buildings containing flats. They are nice flats. It is near town's main street, there are good walks interesting places to visit.
What is awful about the small area I am in is that there is a household who think they run the place. Their expectations are unreasonable such as a delivery was made before I even moved in and a bit of a mess was made. They wanted that cleared up before I could even get a brush out my flat. They want to tell everyone who should do this that or the other. In the properties closest to them there have been 5 changes of occupants in 2 years! No-one seems to be able to shut them up. No other resident seems able to make their own decisions. They just comply. They are just miserable people.
It is very disappointing.

Elless

I think Merseyside tops the lot, even when you are on holiday, here or abroad people pick up on the accent and chat. Scousers are tainted with a reputation they don't deserve.

Could that have anything to do with the tv “comedy” Bread I wonder? All the characters in that were portrayed as work shy scrounges, not a flattering picture.

Somerset is pretty friendly, much more so than Surrey!

overthehill

This is funny
youtu.be/PT0ay9u1gg4

hilarious

I think my street in Bristol is the friendliest place on earth. My fabulous neighbours organised a street party to celebrate my 80th birthday. Nothing could be friendlier than that!

I think most people are pretty friendly wherever you are but in Cornwall there's occasionally a lot of hostility to anyone from east of the Tamar. I realise there are housing issues but to resent 'incomers' just because they're from up-country and not born and raised in one local village can be disappointingly insular. Having said that, my daughters both live there and have made good lives and great friends.

BlueBelle

I haven’t found anywhere unfriendly but I think I shock Londoners on the tube or on buses as I talk to everybody and they don’t do they ?

I live in London and I talk to everyone! But it's probably my long-ago northern roots showing!

I've lived all over the England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Hands down Glasgow is the friendliest place. I found Yorkshire more nosey than friendly. Northern Ireland too divided to be unreservedly friendly, but the Republic of Ireland very friendly.