First it was the friend who joined the great migration to the North. Wherever she goes in her new town, if she mentions she’s just moved from London people ask if she’s finding everything cheap.
Apparently new arrivals are ingratiating themselves with the locals by chirruping about bargain beauty treatments and pints for a pittance, unaware that one man’s praise is another’s galling sense that their hard-earned treats feel two-a-penny for soft Southerners.
