Although people from Newhaven aren't prone to getting prickly and defensive when told that it's horrible.
Whether that's indicative of a functioning sense of humour, or just realism, is probably debatable :lolol:
In other words, Southampton's so awful that thousands of people decided they'd rather emigrate than stay there.
I'll also never stop finding it bizarre that people in Southampton think anybody else considers how much of their city walls are still standing to be remotely interesting.
It's a little known fact that when Scott arrived at the South Pole and observed "God what an awful place", he followed this with "but at least we're not in Southampton".