I would like to live in Brighton and Hove

I had the pleasure of working in Steyning… it’s a posh little village with sweet FA going on! A lot of private dentists though, I’ll give it that.

I brought up my family here. Moved here when pregant with DC1. Made loads of friends while on maternity leave. Have two teens who love living here. So much for kids to do in Brighton, every kind of club and activity under the sun for every age, fantastic people running the clubs, you could not ask for more. Live in a great community, excellent schools. Downs on our doorstep for the dog. I'm well past my partying years and mostly meet friends for dog walks and swims these days but my older teen enjoys the gigs etc. Brighton feels so much more alive than where I grew up (NorthWest) but gets a lot of hate on mumsnet.

TBH the kind of people who rock up on MN to slag off B&H and say it’s ‘dirty’ or whatever aren’t the people we’d want here anyway!
Nebee more proud to be a Brightonian than when the far right rocked up to ‘march’ through the streets and 300 of them found themselves kettled in at the station all day by 4K locals singing and dancing and had to piss if back to what we shitty little towns they’d crawled in from.
Fat Boy even brought some decks to provide a bit of music.Good man himself.

I live a few miles from Brighton, and I agree. "Edgy" is exactly the word for it.

I wouldn't go for a night out in Brighton now. Drunks puking all over the place, fights are pretty routine and it has a lot of stag and hen party people who come down for weekends. A few months ago, I went to a comedy club in Brighton, I got a cab to pick me up from the club and we saw 4 separate fights before we'd even got beyond the city centre. It also has a significant drug problem and a lot of homelessness.

There are still parts of Brighton that are really lovely, even quite close to the centre, but £250k would only get you a 1-bed flat unless you got lucky and found a doer-upper.

A friend has a lovely one-bed converted flat in a nice side road between Preston Park and Withdean Park, so a fair way out of the centre. She had it valued a few months ago: £350k for a 1-bed flat!

Absolutely filthy, everywhere stinks of dope,

This made me lol, @Flatandhappy , but only because a former colleague of mine remarked that the only time you can't smell dope in Brighton is when it's overpowered by the smell of piss!

That’s absolute bollocks. Sorry, I mean absolutely true so please don’t be coming here. We’ll only mug you, piss on you & then blow smoke in your face …

This is such nonsense, I dont know where all these visitors to Brighton are hanging out? Not where the residents are it would seem....for a piss and dope free experience I recommend One Garden in Stanmer Park, SeaLanes swimming pool, Hove Seafront, the UnderCliff walk, Beach Box Sauna, the Brighton Festival in May, Artists Open Houses etc.

I spent 5 years in Brighton, I won't do it now. It is not a child-friendly place
Hove is lovely but also not much to do with children, I wouldn't recommend it and i used to love Brighton

There are some v good schools, plus a few not so good ones (like anywhere?) Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College ranks as one of the top-performing non-selective sixth form colleges in the UK.

BHASVIC is a non selective state 6th form with some of the best results in the country and is in the top 5 schools for Oxbridge offers… if you care about that sort of thing!