Things I love about NI (in no particular order)

1. I don’t need to repeat myself for people to understand me
2. Belfast streets
3. The craic
4. We call a spade a spade
5. The accents sound normal
6. Advert breaks are short and few and far between (relatively speaking)
7. My friends
8. You always bump into someone you know in town
9. It’s green
10. Spelga toffee yoghurts
11. You don’t have to go too far before you reach the sea
12. Telephone numbers make sense
13. Methodist Youth things
14. People are real and brutally honest
15. We don’t talk about trunks, trash and candy
16. I understand how life works here
17. We have proper, definable seasons
18. I can talk at normal speed
19. It is breath takingly beautiful
20. The rain
21. Carrickfergus Castle
22. We don't need to see the sun to know it's there
23. The Yuky makes the best Chicken Chop Suey and Fried Rice this side of the Yangtze
24. We laugh at ourselves
25. I know my way around
26. You can play six degrees of separation when you meet a complete stranger (and usually do it in 3)
27. The bread
28. There is a discernable pattern to number plates
29. School students wear uniforms
30. Sarcasm is a recognised form of humour
31. Humour, colour and odour are spelt with a ‘u’
32. Maud’s Ice Cream
33. You could not buy a Christmas jumper with reindeers skiing for love nor money
34. Footpaths
35. The City Hall
36. We know that bigger is not always better
37. A trip to the doctor does not mean filling out a ream’s worth of paper in forms
38. The beach
39. Shops for the most part remain closed on Sunday mornings
40. Blackhead lighthouse
41. Tipping is choice not a requirement
42. We don’t need to finish every town name with the corresponding county
43. Bay windows
44. You can see Scotland on a clear day from my house
45. We know that Lisburn and Newry aren’t proper cities
46. 'Recognise' and indeed all words ending in –ise end in –ise
47. Our phrases
48. We believe that trousers that don’t trail the ground are just too short
49. And the word is trousers, pants are something else entirely
50. We believe in modest sized cars
51. Tollymore Forest Park
52. We don’t say ‘persons’, we say ‘people’
53. ‘Power’ only has one syllable
54. Sheep
55. Having to go to the ‘hole in the wall’ has meaning
56. Cheddar cheese is yellow, not orange
57. Public transport is an option
58. Puddles
59. The BBC
60. ‘Z’ is said as 'zed', it does not rhyme with ‘c’
61. We know that root beer is evil
62. It’s part of me
63. Botanic Gardens
64. Red on traffic lights means stop, no exceptions
65. ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t a recognised phrase
66. Castlewellan
67. Semi detached houses
68. Texting is not a strange concept and recipients don’t pay
69. Football is football and uses feet
70. The Lisburn Road
71. It’s ok that everything is ‘wee’
72. We can hide our shame of May McFetridge, s/he is not a national star
73. We fully expect it to rain every day
74. ‘Harry’ is not pronounced the same as ‘hairy’
75. Town centres still exist
76. Glenoe waterfall
77. Our bank notes are all different colours
78. James Nesbitt
79. Christmas lights outside a house are not de rigueur
80. Rugby
81. Mussenden Temple and Downhill beach
82. We’re proud the Titanic was built here
83. Moviehouse popcorn
84. We can take the bits of Britain and Ireland we like and ignore the bits we don’t like
85. The Big Fish
86. We all cringe when we hear a NI accent on TV
87. You can see the Mournes from Belfast
88. Ulster fries
89. The Waterfront area
90. The National Trust owns the Crown Bar
91. Three cubes of ice in a drink is sufficient
92. Windies are a recognised feature of a house
93. Anyone who makes it from NI gets our overwhelming support. Forever
94. History is all around us
95. We know to change our bank notes before going to England. We have all been told they’re not Sterling
96. Samson and Goliath
97. It’s diverse and contrasting
98. Day trips to Newcastle and Portrush
99. Pretty towns names like Gracehill and Katesbridge
100. It’s my home