Anyone live in Brighton or hove

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What's life like living here ,any awful areas to avoid?

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It’s a place with a lot of contrasts, very wealthy areas and very deprived areas are side by side. There are big social housing estates which can be quite rough: Whitehawk, Bevendean, Moulsecoomb etc.

Quality of life is excellent, you have the beach and the Downs and there’s loads to do and see all of the time.

Brighton and Hove is a really big place so it might be more useful to mention the kinds of areas that you’ve been looking at? I don’t have recent experience of living in Brighton, but historically areas like the Whitehawk estate and Moulsecoomb were areas that were seen as less desirable. Don’t know if that’s still the case.

I don't know it at all , chance of a job near there
Have £400,000 for a 3 bed house

No where near enough money to live in any of the decent bits.

No, but I wish I did. Love Brighton ❤️

Depends what you are looking for. If you are childfree and want to be in the centre of things and dont mind a lot of weekend and after pub/club noise and hotels and air bnb's as potential neighbours then you would look around the seafront area. If you wan tot be in the catchment for good primary or secondary state schools , solid family areas then you need to look at those areas such as Fiveways, Queen's Park, Blatchington. If you tell us more about what you a re looking for I'm sure lots of us could advise. Budget is an issue and garden space - lots of Brighton is very hilly so not all houses have flat gardens but some vertiginous tiered ones.

Sadly, 400k wont get you very far in Brighton for a house.

Have a look at the Patcham area. It’s quiet with great views and very easy to get into town if you need too

For a 3 bed house (not a flat or maisonette) for around £400,000 you're going to need to look quite far out from the centre of Brighton or Hove. Property is expensive in B&H.

No chance

Where will the job be?
Can you commute in?

£400k might get you a place in Hangleton which is a residential suburb just next to Hove, although prices have risen out there recently too. If you can say more about what you need (eg proximity to station, parking, schools etc), I might be able to help more….

Hove has lots of good charity shops.

Croydon on sea tbh

Spot on.

You might just get lucky with a do-er upper, but a 3-bed house for £400k is pretty much what former social housing homes go for. (Not that there's anything wrong with former social housing, some of the smaller estates are pretty decent).

Mind you, living close to the centre has its own issues: traffic, nightmare parking and, if you're really close to the town centre, lots of noise when the pubs/clubs chuck out. My old boss lives very near the centre, and frequently finds people pissing in her front garden and she says weekend nights are a nightmare for sleeping because of frequent police sirens.

It wouldn't do for me, but then I'm a country bumpkin living on the edge of a small town a few miles away.

The problem is your budget won't get you the size of house you want except maybe in the rougher areas. Council estates, especially Whitehawk and Mile Oak, are no-go areas for many people, too much antisocial behaviour and crime. Living in the centre is very noisy and has lots of antisocial behaviour of its own, mainly drink and drug related (so fighting, public urination and so on, the sort of thing you get in many town centres but turned up to 11). Generally if you head north from the centre you will find better streets to live on than if you head east or west. It's kind of pot luck with the streets though, you need to visit them to get a feel for them. One street will much quieter than the next because the road pattern naturally feeds the traffic into one and not the other. For a while I lived on an inexplicably quiet street in the centre, much quieter than those either side, because drunks tended to either stagger up the first road on their way home or the last. But someone still took a shit outside my front door one night (and left their shit-filled underwear behind). That's Brighton.

Ok ,that's all really helpful thanks.
No kids in schools ,
Need to really get over for a visit , before doing anything else

Have you looked at areas you can afford on rightmove ?

I live in brighton and yes it's expensive . It's a good place to live but if you perhaps look at specific areas we can help more.

I cannot state enough how absolutely AMAZING it is to live by the sea, to live somewhere that you can get up and go to the beach and jump in the water before work or after work, to swim in a Olympic length open air pool, to play beach volley ball in the sand, to get a coffee or a drink in the fresh air.
B&H is a fantastic place to live. Everything is walkable, it’s incredibly diverse, has great live music, arts stuff ALL the time, an open air theatre, big parks, miles of seafront. The Downs accessible within minutes. Endless festivals.
We haven’t regretted moving here ever. We live in a community where everyone knows each other, street parties happen, and it’s a very safe city.
Rent somewhere for a week and try it out. The festival starts beginning of May with the children’s parade… it’s a month long. You’ll never be bored here, that’s for sure.

Towards above or up towards Patcham or Portslade is cheaper than a 7 Dials or centre of town. Woodingdean cheaper too.
I wouldn’t live right in the Laines/Lanes just because it would be busy all the time and noisy at that. Other than that I wouldn’t say there are no go areas.
People can be snobby about Whitehawk because it’s a lot of social housing but it’s just the usual mix of people from more WC backgrounds… My kids are friends with Kids from the area and they’re just the same as anyone else!

Depends where - are you willing to live further out? I know someone who got a nice place for about your budget.

What does that mean?

My friend lives in a 4 bed house in Hove a about a 5 minute walk from the sea. She bought it for about £900k and that was 10 years ago.

I grew up in a Brighton and loved it. I miss it. You won't get much for £400k near the centre but the bus network is regular or using the train line out to the west of the city would mean you can benefit from the city potentially at more affordable areas.

Brighton has so much going on for a relatively small city and it's amazing having the Downs and seaside so close. Having an amazing seaview across the city from a hill walk on the Downs is another thing I miss.

Me. I’ve lived in or around Brighton since I was a kid. Live a 15-20 minute drive outside of the city now for the cheaper property prices. 400k gets you little in Brighton but a nice house outside of it.