Londoners have absolutely decimated my city

I don't really have an opinion either way, I suppose I would be annoyed if I was priced out of my area but it hasn't happened here.
Where I used to live, very far from where we are now, there was an influx of Londoners after lockdown. Mainly due to so many moving to WFH models but still earning the London wages so being able to outbid most people in the area. The local papers were, not long after, full of stories from people who recently moved complaining that the rural life wasn't what they imagined, there were was nothing to do and they felt like outsiders... Now that is silly for anyone to do, I don't know why on earth someone would move from a huge city to a rural community, expecting life to be more or less as it was!

Places change. Populations move.

The gritty area of London I grew up in - which was admittedly a bit of a shithole, but had great community spirit - is now extremely expensive and full of young professionals working in finance and tech and who are not from London.

I worry about the lack of social housing and the lack of affordable housing full stop for a lot of young people who aren’t in well paid jobs. The vibe less so.

😂😂

Exactly what I was about to say.

Please don’t come to Hastings/St Leonards, OP. We haven’t the vibe. <weeps>

Come to Liverpool

I love Brighton. I love London too. London is definitely friendlier, where we lived anyway. Brighton does seem rather parochial , slightly bitter. Greens messed it up. Labour don’t seem to be much better. But hopefully Brighton will start shining again.

The Brighton I used to know and love (and live in) died at least 20 years ago.

It's now a horrible mish mash of performative woke-ism, terrible schools, drug users, homeless people and high earners trying to buy their way into the 'cool' lifestyle they believe it offers.

This is hilarious. So, Londoners are not people? They cant be a community? Or you only want SPECIAL people to be your community?

I know a family currently moving from London to Brighton - they are actually not from London, they came here when they were young, and now have a family and are moving on to a more family-friendly and affordable area where they can afford for their DC to have separate bedrooms and a garden. So should I tell them to stay because you are upset? Because they will want to renovate the outdated terraced house they buying, you might not like it.

To me it sounds like you are simply jealous of people with money and is very snobby about anyone who is not a Brighton hippy.

Absolutely this!

Rather fond of carrots last I heard

Oh no. The vibe Is compromised.

Everywhere south of London uses 'down from london'. And when I lived in Manchester it was 'up from london'.

Brighton is a real mess, a few home improvements wouldn't go amiss & substitute 'Londoners ' for another group of people and it sounds racist 🤷‍♀️

OP went be able to afford York.
Have you seen the house prices?

*vibrant not vintage

Expensive with slightly too short a trouser leg. And then there is the stabby gang side of things...just delightful

If they're buying to live there permanently then that's just tough really but if it's holiday home use only I feel your pain.

To the person/people who suggested Liverpool. It's one of the most wonderful and vintage cities in the world. Not sure it's waiting around for the OP to teach it about creativity.....

People from London I assume..

My friend is originally from London. She moved here years ago, but still has childhood friends in London. Many Londoners can't afford to live where they're from (London), in no small part because people from other parts of the UK (including Brighton and Hastings) have for years been moving to London... What are Londoners expected to do? Some, like my friend wanted to move somewhere else, but others don't or can't (jobs or family commitments).

I find the contradictory attitudes on here and offline bemusing. It's not only towards Londoners. It's directed at people in other areas too. People can't afford housing in their area or there's limited work opportunities in their area, so they're told to move away, but if they take that advice they're told they're unwelcome.

Unless the root causes (better work, education, and training opportunities, and more social housing everywhere) are addressed the issues will just get worse.

@Whothefuckdoesthat
It’s quite funny really, because people from towns and cities all over Britain have absolutely decimated the London that I know and love, moving there to make their money, pushing housing prices up so that the locals are forced to leave, gentrifying the character out of everything, calling themselves Londoners, then as soon as they have kids, moving back out because it’s not safe enough to raise their precious darlings there, or have them associating with the few local families that have managed to cling on.

exactly this, I was born and raised in the east end, no way I could afford to live there after uni. I also think the wanky hipster vibe it now has would've destroyed my soul. (Very similar to Brighton tbh)
Most people I know in similar situations moved to Herts, Essex, North Kent, where are we supposed to go OP?

Exactly what's happened. 😜

To find a born and bred Londoner in London is rare.... we've all been priced out.

so you and the people that lived in the same town are complaining about outsiders moving in and the solution is to move to another place and be an outsider yourself? Not only that you want to change the places you want to move to and liven them up

Hi OP. Are you Brighton born and bred, then? I can imagine it's hard seeing changes, as there is always an impact HOWEVER most of the Londoners you see are probably not born and bred.

What I have noticed is that true Londoners are actually quite chill and unpretentious. I am bias though, as I know many below average London earners who are absolutely 100% Londoners who were never going to stay and raise the next generation where they grew up due to cost. There are many where we live - I married one too 😜

Please don’t move to York as you sound like a patronising twat