Is Hastings trendy now???

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Been reading the Times today and it said that this posh bakery (Judges ?) and a fancy restaurant had opened up by the woman who started Green and Blacks.

When I've read things on here it seemed to say it wasn't that nice an area?

Is it all lush shops now?

It has been on the up for a little while now, althugh I wouldn't go as far to say it's trendy (whatever that means to you!)

I think it's probably being 'discovered' by those who can't afford to live in Brighton and immediate environs tbh.

There is a small arty/music community there.

no A friend was thinking of moving there and we went to check it out and it was awful really grubby rough and dare I say full of odd people.There is an old bit which is lovely though but is not cheap

Hastings and Eastbourne are often talked up as the new coastal hotspots, probably because people want to live in Brighton and can't afford it. I'd rather shoot myself before I'd move to any of the three of them, although I remember Hastings being OK to visit.

"Dover, for the continent...
Eastbourne, for the incontinent"

I have a friend who lives in Battle nearby which is nice but not cheap.

Hastings has a few nice spots but essentially still quite run down .Will take a lot for it to become trendy I'd say.

Shopping was crap last time I went,that usually is a good marker for how trendy a place is.

I knew someone who (as part of their journalism training) had to spend 6 long months working on the Bexhill Observer in Bexhill -on-Sea. I reckon perfectly happy people go looking for a seaside walk, happen upon Bexhill-on-Sea then go and jump off Beachy Head in total despair. I think B-o-S has more Stannah stairlifts per head of the population than anywhere else in the world. Hastings was grim in those days.

fiofio I thought Folkstone was very up and coming? The new Creative Foundation suggests that everyone who's anyone is moving into Folkestone's artistic quarter.

What happens to "up and coming" areas? Does anyone ever monitor when they deemed to have "upped and come"? Some areas of Sheffield seem to have been in that category for 10 years or more. When I read that Hillsborough was going to be our answer to Covent Garden I almost choked on my coffee.