no problem for me and many others who live here, after al the country we live in is not one anyway.
We live in two countries anyway and anyone from the south going north to the north east will tell you that you might as well be in another country and the attitude , expense, prices, cost of living, social issues etc are very different to us down here
Having lived in both Red England and the south, I can assure all that the differences you cite are spot on...the two regions have very little in common.