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Apparently loads of us don't on a countrywalk.
i always do, there's a divid between extroverts and introverts. If the other person looks bright and responds, I might add a cheery comment about the weather.
My patch, Norfolk, definitely nurses a culture of not greeting strangers in the countryside. My girlfriend, who is more Norfolk than me, finds helloers like me intrusive and smug. I wonder if it’s derived from a taciturn Viking/Scandinavian influence: a Cornish friend who has moved to rural Sweden is exasperated by the Swedes’ reluctance to say hello.
When I walk in Yorkshire or Cumbria, everyone says hello. Durham and Northumberland are dazzlingly friendly. In my experience as a reporter it’s far easier to interview strangers in the north than south. But there’s no simple chatty-north, surly-south divide: I find poorer places more welcoming than rich.
Are you a hello-er?
Hello - do you say it?
Apparently loads of us don't on a countrywalk.
i always do, there's a divid between extroverts and introverts. If the other person looks bright and responds, I might add a cheery comment about the weather.
My patch, Norfolk, definitely nurses a culture of not greeting strangers in the countryside. My girlfriend, who is more Norfolk than me, finds helloers like me intrusive and smug. I wonder if it’s derived from a taciturn Viking/Scandinavian influence: a Cornish friend who has moved to rural Sweden is exasperated by the Swedes’ reluctance to say hello.
When I walk in Yorkshire or Cumbria, everyone says hello. Durham and Northumberland are dazzlingly friendly. In my experience as a reporter it’s far easier to interview strangers in the north than south. But there’s no simple chatty-north, surly-south divide: I find poorer places more welcoming than rich.
Are you a hello-er?
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