"Geordie" is a state of mind and not a geographic location.

Minniemouse, neither I cant stand football, sorry to offend anyone but I just don't like sport of any sort so a roar of 'Howay the lads' doesn't turn me on.

I've got that feeling too -I was born and grew up in Blyth, just north of Newcastle, so always thought of myself as a Geordie.
Sometimes I need to ring the Pension Service in Longbenton, and I just relish the pleasure of listening to a Tyneside accent.
I've been back many times and hope to return to live there one day - you never know.

My OH is a Geordie, who's lived down South for over thirty years. He still sounds Geordie, though it's mellow compared with the Geordies 'back home'. He's got Newcastle in him like writing through a stick of rock!

etheltbags1 Black and white or red and white?

Im a Northumbrian, born in Morpeth and lived about 15 miles from Newcastle. However I think of myself as a Geordie.
'EE hinny, ahm a Geordie lass'.
Sadly for my work I have to lose the accent and speak 'properly' but when I get home I revert to being me again.

I left 47 years ago and although I lived south for a few years and then settled in the North West I still have a slight accent and consider myself a Geordie through and through.....When people ask where I am from when I'm travelling I never know whether to say Newcastle or Manchester.