Brighton Born

[willyfantastic]

i was born in brighton but never lived there (will be next year though) but never had a bad reaction when ive told them i was born in brighton

 

[Colossal Squid]

99% of the time the line "I was actually born here" is met with "wow, that's a rarity, I've never met anyone ACTUALLY from Brighton before"

This is a city absolutely rammed with tourists and outsiders. I have no problem with it but there can't be many other cities in the UK with such a high proportion of residents who weren't born in the area

 

[Cat Fish]

It is irrelevant I agree - however I often get the impression they feel Brighton was somehow insignificant before they turned up - admittedly these people are all in the creative industries and are self absorbed by nature! I love my home town but it does seem to be changing in terms of its demographic - I always thought it was a good thing but not so sure anymore.

 

[Cat Fish]

99% of the time the line "I was actually born here" is met with "wow, that's a rarity, I've never met anyone ACTUALLY from Brighton before"

This is a city absolutely rammed with tourists and outsiders. I have no problem with it but there can't be many other cities in the UK with such a high proportion of residents who weren't born in the area

This is what Im talking about exactly - must be highly unusually in other towns to be thought of as a rarity in your home town.

 

[SK1NT]

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?20534-Where-Were-You-Born&highlight=where+were+you+born

 

[Gullys Cats]

Cant see how you can be proper albion if you are born outside brighton tbh.

Very clannish

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This is what Im talking about exactly - must be highly unusually in other towns to be thought of as a rarity in your home town.

It's a sign of the modern times that the workforce is a lot more mobile now.

 

[ofco8]

I was born in Brighton many years ago. It is amazing that when people here ask where I was born (for some reason they think I am a Londoner) and I say Brighton so many of them say "blimey that is unusual, nearly everyone I meet have moved into the city, not born here".
Shows how attractive the city is to those born elsewhere.

 

[TheMajor]

Cant see how you can be proper albion if you are born outside brighton tbh.

Good lord !

I said something similar, yet milder, to this 3 months ago ( I suggested everyone should be living in Sussex who attends the Amex) and got my whatsits chewed off by NSC - How did you get away with it !

 

[HovaGirl]

Cant see how you can be proper albion if you are born outside brighton tbh.

Ridiculous thing to say and almost racist, if that is the word for "petty Brightonian bigot". I support Federer, but I wasn't born in Switzerland. I was born in Scotland (not my fault, I had nothing to do with it), but I support Brighton.

 

[Munkfish]

Ridiculous thing to say and almost racist, if that is the word for "petty Brightonian bigot". I support Federer, but I wasn't born in Switzerland. I was born in Scotland (not my fault, I had nothing to do with it), but I support Brighton.

Racist!!! What are you talking about you Dipstick, the original post by TFBB was pretty clueless, but your post is googling stupid.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I was born in Scotland.

And you have the cheek to bang on (often) about immigrants.

 

[Comedy Steve]

Its starting to get depressing the amount of people who express patronising surprise when I say I was born in Brighton (as were the pervious 7 or so generations on my Dads side). Does anyone else get this? Hopefully there are still a high number of Brighton Borns still able to live here!

Yes, me also. 5 Generations of Brightonians on my Dad's side here and he's a genealogist; before 1841 it becomes trickier in Brighton and Hove to confirm it and before 1801, near impossible (unless you are gentry/mormon). Have you had it researched? Curious as I don't often meet anyone with a longer (provable) Brighton lineage.

 

[SwedishSonna]

Brighton General was a former work house.

Didn't know that. Just looked on Google Street View and can see how it could have been. I was born in Royal Sussex County.

 

[joeinbrighton]

Yes, I have quite often encountered surprise and amazement when I have said to people that I am a born and bred Brightonian. I just tend to play on it a bit now and just say something along the lines of 'one of the few' before anyone else says it.

 

[Bakero]

I predict that this thread will descend into a binfest about people who say The LaInes wrong.

Brighton Boy, and still proud to be despite............... The Universities. We were here when the Laines were fields and the Lanes were a housing estate.

What are 'the Laines'?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What are 'the Laines'?

http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/1998296/
Laine means field so you can use the word laines to mean fields.

 

[Box of Frogs]

Have Manchester United got the highest number of supporters not from the area they play in?

*doffs tin hat*

 

[Cat Fish]

Yes, me also. 5 Generations of Brightonians on my Dad's side here and he's a genealogist; before 1841 it becomes trickier in Brighton and Hove to confirm it and before 1801, near impossible (unless you are gentry/mormon). Have you had it researched? Curious as I don't often meet anyone with a longer (provable) Brighton lineage.

My Dad has researched it so will ask him - I know we are directly related to Martha Gunn (guess everyone probably is in some form!) Our family lived in the Northern Lights Pub I think.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Its starting to get depressing the amount of people who express patronising surprise when I say I was born in Brighton (as were the pervious 7 or so generations on my Dads side). Does anyone else get this? Hopefully there are still a high number of Brighton Borns still able to live here!

I get the same thing. I live and work in London, but I always get annoying surprise when I tell people I was born in Brighton/Shoreham (Southlands Hospital). And the amount of people who assume I live in Brighton, just because I support the club.....gets ****ing irritating when I have to repeat myself.

Wierd