Londoners have absolutely decimated my city

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NC as really outing.
I'm a musician and over the years I have seen what was a steady stream of londoners turn into a flood this year.
I'm so gutted. I know everybody has the right to live here but it has pushed so many of my friends out, artists and other musicians. It pisses me off that the whole reason these londoners moved here, they are also destroying.
I'm lucky as my landlord is really decent and hasn't put my rent up in years, so I can afford to stay here. But now I'm considering just leaving because of the vibe factor. It makes me really sad. I still gig a few times a week but the crowd is different. I miss my community, but now everybody is scattered as everyone who was pushed out has gone to different places.
I'm considering just jumping ship and moving on myself but I don't know where to go.
Today some more londoners moved into the street...The whole street is full of scaffolding as they seem to really love doing home improvements 😅
I know I sound really bitter. I guess I am. I don't know whether to stay or go, and of I go, where to?

Why don't you try a retirement village or join a cult community?

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.

You don't want Londoners in your city but your happy to live to someone's town/city because it suits you?
Yabu. People can live where they want

It has been the same for years! We sold our Brighton flat more than 20 years ago to someone from London!

We moved along the coast, I don’t really recognise Brighton as it is now. Not sure if it’s me getting old or the changes but I don’t like much about Brighton these days!

My immediate thought was Brighton! I’m a Londoner and I love it. Wish I could live there x

I can imagine that too. Probably once upon a time London was much more mixed than it is today.

Same impact if you’re renting. That’s one less rental home available for a local.

YABU anyway, Brighton hasn’t been affordable for 10+ years.

So you can move to where it suits you but “Londoners” can’t?

I also think you'd find, places like Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham wouldn't take too kindly to them trying to "liven them up" they have a vibe of their own and don't like stuck up southern softies trying to tell them their community isn't a vibe,

I say this as a manc, spent 15 years in London, now in Brighton :)

An influx of renters puts up rental income, it is also a market.

You will take a rental property someone else could live in.

@olderbutwiser I'm talking about the OP btw

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If you re read my post, I wasn't talking about livening those places up.

am quite energised by the idea of trying to grow a new community, just trying to assess whether those places can be livened up though

Oh wow, I somehow missed THAT comment!!

Just what Sheffield is waiting for, someone from Brighton to come and tell them theya re doing it all wrong

They're not Londoners, mate. They won't have been born here, I can guarantee it. They'll be from the fucking home counties. Actual Londoners aren't going to Brighton. Hertfordshire, yeah, not Brighton.

But you want to do exactly the same thing?!

‘These places definitely don't match up, but I'm tempted to do that as am quite energised by the idea of trying to grow a new community, just trying to assess whether those places can be livened up though, or whether I will leave town to try and contribute to creating a vibe somewhere else….’

How are you any different from the people you’re complaining about?

Interesting, I never considered that before. What's in Hertfordshire? 😅

Right? And so many 'Londoners' aren't originally from there anyway

Hmm how much time have you spent in London ? What is not mixed about areas like Peckham or E&C ? It's not all Clapham and Chelsea you know.

As for Brighton, don't you worry there is still plenty of deprivation try White Hawke or Hollington.

Airbnb certainly isn't helping.

I never said Sheffield or Manchester needed livening up, they're great cities.

But Hastings could do with a bit more to do

What makes you think that Hastings or Worthing want or need your ‘vibe’ either?

The arrogance!

With an attitude like this, I think I'd prefer you to stay where you are.

my town has become commuter belt it’s pushed the prices out of reach of locals which push them onto the next affordable town. Which in turn pushes those locals out to the next town and on and on and on.