That’s my issue with things like this that it just buys into this geordie myth that they are the ones who are so hard done to,When in reality the huge investment has transformed the city
Whereas in reality as you say compared to us they are like the Home Counties. It’s areas like Teesside that is where the real story is but you’ll never see that Bonny lad.
See aufwiedrsehn pet a show written about Teesside lads needing to go abroad to find work - hijacked by geordie actors.
“The series was created by
Franc Roddam after an idea from Mick Connell, a bricklayer from
Stockton-on-Tees”