Rimbaud III wrote:I like Brighton, a lot, but I can't shake the feeling that it's simply Stoke Newington-on-Sea.


Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Do they have a Fresh N' Wild? I DON'T THINK SO.

I like Brighton very much.
I've met a lot of nice people here.
It is expensive, but it has a couple of decent record shops, some great pubs and lots of good places to eat.

honeyisfunny wrote:Tell me why I should and shouldn't move there!

Teeth Of The Sea w/ Wooden Shjips & The Heads
Friday 18 July
Freebutt, Brighton
7pm
£8

tommydski wrote:

MrFood wrote:Violent town center of a Saturday night.

Brighton is indeed in Britain.

That's not the only generic statement up there.

Actually, it sounds a bit like Bournemouth, except the art students are probably hotter. I'll bet you ten to a penny drugs cost more in Brighton though, so it depends how you want to play it.

johnnyshape wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:I like Brighton, a lot, but I can't shake the feeling that it's simply Stoke Newington-on-Sea.


Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Do they have a Fresh N' Wild? I DON'T THINK SO.

But they do have a Bills - which is the Fresh'n'Wild for orgainic-middle class-foodie types who don't have a F'n'W... http://www.billsproducestore.co.uk - same only posher.

Brightons ok. It's expensive though - as everyone else has said. We were going to move there a couple of years ago. But for the money we could get for out tiny central London flat we could only buy an equally tiny Brighton flat. It didn't seem worth it.


Also - the 'beach' is shit. Why live by the coast if you just have stones to walk on, no sand!

B_M_L wrote:But they do have a Bills

Ho! I was going to say the same, just the place if you run short of coleslaw with celeriac and sour cream from a single dairy herd.

johnnyshape wrote: Do they have a Fresh N' Wild?

When miss lived in N16 I used to obsess over the comments board in that place and would frequently pop in if passing just to read them. Where oh where can I find organic goji berries? Astoundingly, someone once complained the in-store music was somehow 'inappropriate.' I also saw the most audacious bit of shoplifting when a man stuffed tray containing a couple of huge salmon into his jacket and walked out as calm as you like.

Any road, Brighton is swell I think. It is bastard expensive and yes, gentrification abounds in parts but for a few years I've thought increasingly about moving there and now there are three of us I can't think of anything nicer than raising a family by the sea. We'll see. It's still (a little) cheaper than London and I like Hove quite a bit which is probably more reasonable but there's no way you’re going to get anything close to Sneinton rents.

Big plus points that Chris knows already: musically, it has a lot going on. It's probably the only other place (okay, maybe Leeds or Glasgow) outside of Nottingham’s DIY scene that has the diversity and throughput of bands, decent venues, network of local promoters etc. Church Road Recording in Hove is great and reasonably priced too. There's a high probability of seeing Nick Cave touching up the veg in Waitrose.

I don't think the violence is anything exceptional, especially considering the number of pissed up shirt and shoes descending for the weekend. The random brutality of East Mids low self-esteem leaves it in the locker room on that count. Crusties are thin on the ground these days too, especially compared to the cider n' heroin raggle-taggle 90s.

The proximity to London is a double edged sword, but for a man of your talents you'd probably be well-placed for freelance graphic design work to help cover the logarithmic rise in the cost of living.

In short: +1 on the chorus of nice place if you can afford it.

I was born here - yes it's a great place to live I'd recommend, most Londoner's certainly think so as in the last 12 years in particular they have flocked here in their droves driving up the house prices and trying to turn it into London by the sea, but it's not yet, fuck 'em with their slug and lettuce bars.

Modern Brighton (and surrounding area) seems (to me) to be a terrifyingly small area to contain such immense wealth and such desperate poverty. The part of Oliver James' 'Britain on the Couch' dealing with the Brighton area is eye-opening to say the least.

I loath the sort of home-counties social exclusivity that these places breed, but that's just me. Without checking, I'd bet £5 that Brighton is home to the world's largest Waitrose and densest population of Tarquins, and Oscars.

That said, the actual town is lovely.

Adam I wrote:Without checking, I'd bet £5 that Brighton is home to the world's largest Waitrose and densest population of Tarquins, and Oscars.

Maybe outside of London. Including London I think it would rank nowhere near Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, Parsons Green, Putney, Wimbeldon Village.... blah blah on the Waitrose/Tarquin/Oscar scale.

Rimbaud III wrote:I like Brighton, a lot, but I can't shake the feeling that it's simply Stoke Newington-on-Sea.


Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Since I lived in Stokey for 3 years and been to Brighton several times during this time, I don't see your point....maybe you're right if there's a cemetery like Abney Park in Brighton.