To think that Brighton is a hideous dump

[StunningCunt]

Just looking at these pictures:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179371/Broken-bottles-plastic-bags-left-strewn-Brighton-seafront.html

Yes I know there's probably a similar amount of rubbish on Bournemouth beach, but at least they've got SAND for fuck's sake.

As far as I can tell the only purpose Brighton serves is to be an easy journey from London on the train. All this bollocks about it being bohemian (i.e. lots of stag dos) is a front for the fact that it's effectively Croydon-on-sea - an expensive London commuter town but with extra vomit and seagull shit.

It's hideous.

Laughs bitterly at the idea of Brighton being seedy or alternative or full of tarot and crystal shops these days.

It hasn't been like that in years sobs. I wish all the yummy mummy Londoners would fuck back off up North and give us our hippy city back.

New Mumsnet campaign?

I'm a Hastings girl by marriage. When I met Dh I thought it was horrible. I effing love it now !

I remember Brighton when it was 'a dump' (early '90s). I liked it better then. It'll always have a place in my heart.

I visit often on day trips and love how varied the city is with a generally relaxed, open-minded vibe that I appreciate. I did my degree up north but I wouldn't have minded coming here to study and feel a little envious of students at The two uni's there.

It's just so expensive, of course. London living but with I rarely can afford to stay in hotels there as they cost so much and not just in the summer. I understand that locals who have well paid jobs locally are considered very fortunate indeed - certainly that would be ideal for me as I couldn't be doing with that commute to the smoke daily.

Yes it's a bit dirty, there's a lot of 'undesirables' floating around, and the drug problem is appalling, but I suppose they're all parts of what makes Brighton Brighton.

Oh Snoopers, I used to spend every weekend in you as a teenager, buying lots of tat and being pretentious.

I feel safe in Brighton. It isn't perfect but where is? It's actually quite easy to avoid the hen parties/drunks etc. And it really isn't as filthy as other cities in the UK. Tourists make it dirty in the summer, yes, but it isn't like that generally.

Whitehawk/Moulsecoomb - nowhere near as bad as some other estates around the country. Well, I don't think so, anyway.

People are disgusting to leave all that.

LOL... someone on this thread thinks that crystal shops are associated with devil worship and child abuse...
Err no... check out the Catholic Church for the child abuse... and what does the devil have to do with crystals (or vice versa)???

Why are people bumping up so many zombies today?!

It's sounds like you went to the Wong bits op.
I love it. And it's supposed to be seedy.

WRONG!!!!

The beach needs sand. It needs more parks and green spaces. The chavs need to piss off. Apart from that, I love Brighton.

My family have recently moved from Brighton to Broadstairs in Kent. We only lived there for a year, previously living in East London. It's early days for us but we already feel the move is for the better. The bin men strike last year in Brighton which went on for many weeks left the city stinking with vicious seagulls attacking all the piles of food and rubbish. It was frustrating and really put a downer on our time there. Besides and more importantly, we are already saving £550 a month in rent in a better property right by the sea! And it's only an extra 20 mins by train to London.

Hastings is is kind of Brightony too. On a smaller scale.

I've got mixed feelings about Brighton, I lived there for a year. The beach is a bit rubbish due to the pebbles, but it's a good atmosphere down there if you're having a pint in one of the beachside bars and listening to live music. It's a charming and unique place in some areas, but in others it's a crap hole. It used to depress me how the area was just full of pissheads and bums lolling around on the streets.

My family are all Brightonians going back several generations. Some bits I still love. I couldn't imagine living away from the sea and the downs (I love that it's impossible to get lost as you always know which way is south ). I like a sunday stroll along the seafront people-watching, the old architecture is amazing, I like that we have a victorian sea life centre rather than a shiny glass one, I have a fondness for Volk's railway and still have the occasional go on it. As the parent of a child with severe SN I reckon the services are pretty good and his school is fantastic (although I shouldn't say that as we'll get even more Boden-clad londoners!). Pavilion is pretty, I adore the view from the racehill and the fact that even as a city you don't have to go far to get a feeling of space, even if you don't have a car. It is easy to get to the Dyke on the open topped bus or to Stanmer park which is always a delight. There is a thriving music scene whatever your age or tastes. I love seagulls (those who don't should bog off or stop complaining about them). We are going in the Children's parade again this year to open the festival which is always a great community event...so many good things.

On the other hand, the place is filthy, it attracts far too many low-lifes, the bus fares are ridiculous, parking impossible, house prices and rents are astronomical. It's definitely a magnet for criminals of all types. Two members of my family have been murdered (25 years apart, but still). There are too many people who try too hard to be 'eccentric' or 'alternative' but who are basically just layabouts or drunks.

(And it's North Laine, not North Lanes btw. here if you are interested)

I did about a term and a half there 78/79 before I "dropped out". I sort of loved it and hated it at the same time. The Marina was new and awesome, the pier was still there, my halls of residence were vile but were in Kemp Town which was decrepit and seedy and I didn't realise it was gay although probably not as much then. I was full of low lives or at least I had never seen as many before. There was something very seedy about it and very chic but for me the seedy overuled the chic.

I was from somewhere both much smaller and also knew London very well and it just didn't tick my boxes. I had never seen and have never seen since the same levels of poverty (my college was based in Moulscombe) and it seemed so much to sprawl. It was so big it was overwhelming in a way that London isn't because London is a collection of villages which have boundaries and individual identities whereas Brighton is Brighton with Hove joined on. London is: Nottinghill, Kensington, Fulham, Chelsea, Putney, Clapham, Balham, Mayfair, Marylebone, Wimbledond, Dulwich, etc., and they all have a heart - I never found Brighton's although there was something unique about it but not a place my roots wanted to take in.

I have never smelled anything like the loos in one of the beachfront bars. They had quite clearly never been cleaned

That said I quite like the place (not the bar or loos)

YA definitely NBU if you are talking about football.

Re - the beach, I don't know what the big deal about sand is. I hate sand, gets everywhere. Pebble beaches FTW.

I've only been to Brighton once, but I loved it!!

Went there for a weekend, avoided the Churchill square part (same shops you get in every big town/city) and experienced the hen/stag party strip for about one hour before escaping and finding a grimy backstreet pub with an underground salsa club where we stayed all night, was brilliant!

As far as I'm aware I didn't meet any devil worshippers but then I live 20 mins from Glastonbury, so I'm probably immune to them now.

Yabu. I live here, there is so Much to so, child and baby friendly activities, loads of big parks. There are some nice shops and lots and lots of excellent places to eat. People are friendly and having lived here a log time I would say it is no more pretentious than any other city. It is 5 minutes from the south downs and all it has to offer. Ok, the seafront is not the best but that doesn't make the whole city a dump.

the dm photos are only the debris left from people visiting the place though, says more about the public leaving shite everywhere rather than a whole place being a 'hideous dump'

Despite the dirty seedy image Brighton is a good place to live, or maybe because of it.

As others have said it's so much more than a beach left covered in crap by visitors. And that tends not to happen in the winter when a walk by the sea can be awe inspiring.

It does depend where in Brighton you live. I'm fairly central and find it safe and friendly. And of course always busy.

Unfortunately, like a lot of seaside towns it does attract a low life element. I suppose it depend how tolerant you are of different types as to whether or not you're prepared to put up with that.

Someone up post mentioned the fact that houses tend to be overpriced. Well that's probably because an awful lot of people want to live here.