So you don't like Brighton? Then stay away and convince your wannabe friends ....

[Deleted User X18H]

.....to do the same.

I don Style - The Independent

I bet this is fixtures.

Like Bendiorms Teeny Tina Clubbers! What does that mean?

Never met anyone born there? I know how he feels.

 

[Notters]

Yep, done two days ago; and 14 years ago.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Yep, done two days ago; and 14 years ago.

Yes lol. The article was written in 1998. I can bet you most people want to get the hell out of London these days. Used to enjoy going for the day, can't stand the place now.

I do know there are quite a few people that have moved down this way. I met one the other week, who has moved down from Croydon.
I asked him why he moved down here "Fing sh^t hole, and would never go back." was his answer.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Yes lol. The article was written in 1998. I can bet you most people want to get the hell out of London these days. Used to enjoy going for the day, can't stand the place now.

I do know there are quite a few people that have moved down this way. I met one the other week, who has moved down from Croydon.
I asked him why he moved down here "Fing sh^t hole, and would never go back." was his answer.

By any stretch of the imagination Croydon is not London.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

By any stretch of the imagination Croydon is not London.

Anywhere past Croydon is London to me lol.
Anywhere past Luton is too North for me.
Give me the sea anyday.

 

[mikeyjh]

Yep, done two days ago; and 14 years ago.

Some of the sentiment still stands true though, I find it odd that Brighton (or rather the people of Brighton) constantly have to shout from the rootops about how great/bohmenian/tolerant etc etc it is - Rather than just enjoying it for what it is, a decent enough seaside provincial town (city).....

 

[Rowdey]

Odd (old) article..

Some parts are true of course; it is a top boast from London'ers that they've 'moved down to Brighton', and they are so ferkin' superior about it.
There are more scabbo's on the street, thanks in part to above London'ers moving down.
Finding two knobhead ex-students to knock the place (1 a journalist..) probably just had the article writer wanking furiously in delight.
They should have tried Southampton, the place goes dead when the stoodes term finishes, because it really is a dump.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

14 years ago indeed and still we have cockneys and scousers with Dogs on bits of string. And people still refer to North Laine as North Lanes or even worse they refer to Meeting House as ' The South Lanes' and that really really grates.

 

[Gangsta]

14 years ago indeed and still we have cockneys and scousers with Dogs on bits of string. And people still refer to North Laine as North Lanes or even worse they refer to Meeting House as ' The South Lanes' and that really really grates.

Ha ha. I dont mind dogs on bits of string but North Laines is as bad a people saying "The Withdean" or "TESCOs". Please refer your complaint to that air thief John Catt, I'm sure he will be only to happy to divert public funds to take up these pressing issues. (see other thread near top).

 

[The Large One]

Some of the sentiment still stands true though, I find it odd that Brighton (or rather the people of Brighton) constantly have to shout from the rootops about how great/bohmenian/tolerant etc etc it is - Rather than just enjoying it for what it is, a decent enough seaside provincial town (city).....

Do they?

 

[Commander]

Obviously that article is a bit over the top, but I actually think the general jist of it is true. But I never realised this until I moved from Brighton to London.

Still planning to move back eventually though.

 

[Bozza]

.....to do the same.

But you're not from Brighton, are you?

And you don't seem to like much of how Brighton is.

Off you go...

 

[Common as Mook]

Do they?

Yes. Lots.

And I used to be one of the greatest exponents of it until I grew up. I'm a proud Brightonian though

 

[Gangsta]

Some of the sentiment still stands true though, I find it odd that Brighton (or rather the people of Brighton) constantly have to shout from the rootops about how great/bohmenian/tolerant etc etc it is - Rather than just enjoying it for what it is, a decent enough seaside provincial town (city).....

Sorry, who are these people "shouting from the rooftops"? If you go to any half decent area ( and some shitty ones ), the locals will stick up for it. Can't think of any personal experience that suggests otherwise to me.

 

[keaton]

By any stretch of the imagination Croydon is not London.

Apart from being a London Borough of course

 

[mikeyjh]

Sorry, who are these people "shouting from the rooftops"? If you go to any half decent area ( and some shitty ones ), the locals will stick up for it. Can't think of any personal experience that suggests otherwise to me.

Erm, there's a fair amount of it on here.... I confess that I can't produce evidence per se, but I had to recall this little gem from the 'Crap Towns' book describing Brghton as "labouring under the misapprehension that it is Barcelona", followed last year, with a distinct lack of irony from the cabinet member for culture - "Culturally we’re up there with Barcelona"

Don't get me wrong, I don't think Brighton is 'crap', it just is what it is, a lively provincial seaside town.

 

[Acker79]

But you're not from Brighton, are you?

And you don't seem to like much of how Brighton is.

Off you go...

Saved me the effort.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

there's a load of people like this. I f***ing resent them, especially ones that want to stay in this country too, but complain and spit and seethe about it non stop, breaks your heart it does, makes you want to hit them with a breeze block.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Although it was written 14 years ago I'd like to know where in the UK the writer thought were/are the top 10 places to live in the UK? Slim pickings if you ask me and Brighton would easily make it into the top five.

This was the highlight of the article for me:-

" But the real problem, she continues, is the people. "They think they're so special. For some reason, they are superior, particularly the lentil-muncher types."

These people angered me as a teenager, in my twenties and now into my thirties. Whenever I was at a house party I would always avoid these pretentious wastes of space like the plague. Chatting nonsense about how 6 months in India, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia or whichever destination was fashionable at the time about how the experience was so "liberating, a journey which really changed them as a human being."
Knowing that deep down inside such a bohemian existence was funded by daddy and when they got bored with Brighton, a job in the city was waiting for them courtesy of daddy.

Apart from these folk. I love Brighton.

 

[Randsta]

Got bored after the first paragraph tbh...yawn!