I was born and raised in the north and moved to London last year. I can tell you for a fact it's much better. It's still cucked but not as cucked as places like London, foids are still foids but less slutty, although more ugly. Less LGBT and 'God save the Queen' culture. People are more friendly and talk to you.
I'm from Lincolnshire I can tell you for a fact that you can probably sell the average house in places like London and buy like 8 houses of the same quality in places like Grimsby or Doncaster. You can buy decent average looking houses for like 75k JFL. People will say although it's cheaper you get paid less, this is partially true, but your net income will easily be much more than down south. A 30k salary in places like Lincoln or Wakefield is equaivalent to like being on 100k+ in places like London.
This is true it is poorer on average. But in the South (especially London) there is a massive disparity. I've never seen as much poor people in London than in the north of the country.
The north is poorer, but the 'rich areas' of these places aren't that richer than the 'poor areas' the gap isn't that big, but in that sense most are in a shithole anyway.