This is true; I work in London and travel a lot and I can only think of one occasion in the last 25 years when I've told someone I live in Brighton and they have been negative about it. And even then it transpired she was actually talking about Shoreham where she'd worked for 2 years.
Hear hear, well said. Britain, not just Brighton is having a tough period of local government spending cuts, and homelessness is a nationwide disease. I don't pretend Brighton hasn't got issues and multi-millions of £s are needed to renovate the sea-front. But I travel round the UK a lot and...
This thread seems to crop-up once every 2 weeks from someone who grew-up in Brighton but now lives in Dubai or Florida or Swindon, and they visit and discover that their favourite old corner shop has closed down and somehow they've never heard of Conservative austerity which means that local...