When my girlfriend (who is from Russia) moved to York she was amazed at all the racism and unfriendliness she received, she went to London for a weekend and was all "wow, there's so much to do and everyone just takes you for who you are" - so a few weeks later she quit her job and moved South. At her goodbye drinks a load of inbred half-wits queued up to tell her that they would rather die than go somewhere as unfriendly and shit as London, moaned all through it until she finally got away, moved south and had a fucking whale of a time leaving those six fingered morons probably still sitting in the same pub banging on about how York Minster (which they can't even say properly) is half an inch higher than St Paul's or whatever.