what do you LOVE and HATE about brighton & hove?

[turienzo's lovechild]

for many of us, brighton & hove is home...........there must be things that you love about it (otherwise you wouldn't be here) but there must also be things that get right on your WICK!

and what about those who don't live in brighton & hove? what are YOUR likes and dislikes?

WELL?!

 

[Bluejuice]

LOVE

The seafront
North Laine
Many of our fine boozers
The architectural splendour of Kemptown


HATE

All the f***ing tourists
The piss poor wages on offer
West Street
The architectural monstrosities of The Brighton Centre and the Marina

 

[Gwylan]

LOVE

The seafront
North Laine
Many of our fine boozers
The architectural splendour of Kemptown


HATE

All the f***ing tourists
The piss poor wages on offer
West Street
The architectural monstrosities of The Brighton Centre and the Marina

Apart from the tourists, something that keeps the town alive, I'd agree with this.

I'll add

LOVE

The South Downs (countryside on our doorstep)
North Laine (shopping area supreme)
The Regency squares and crescents
Brighton Station - what a fine construction it is
Volks Railway
Marrocco's ice cream
And obviously, the Albion and Sussex CCC


HATE

The way that the West Pier was neglected
The lack of an ice rink (42 years and counting)
Traffic congestion on summer weekends

 

[xenophon]

Love nearly everything about it, wouldn't live anywhere else

Hate - too strong a word.

Dislike - skagheads and crusties

 

[doug7126]

love most of it
hate house prices

 

[Notters]

Love everything except west street and the house prices.

 

[Trigger]

LOVE:
Seafront
Great Pubs
Great Curry Houses
Cricket
Football
Horsey Racecourse
Public Transport Is Generally Good

HATE:
Drunk Tramps
Chavs
Violence
Lack Of Jobs
West Street And Surrounding Area
Littered And Piss Smelling Streets
Bad Traffic And Roadworks Everywhere

 

[Mendoza]

LOVE
Gemini's in the summer
Market Diner
China Garden
Sussex CCC
Brighton & Hove Albion
Badger
300+ pubs to chose from
Marrocco's
Grubbs
Taj

HATE
Poorly Paid Jobs
Bus Prices
Brighton & Hove Albion
The Planning Councillors not being brave enough to make the city modern
London Road from Preston Circus to St Peters Church

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Love
House Prices (one reason)
The Downs
My view of Varndean at sunset
The Lanes
Poets Corner
The Argus
The Brightonian accent that still emanates from areas like Whitehawk Hollingbury and Hangelton
The Quirkiness of 'The Cliftonville Spur'
Maroccos
The Mock Turtle

Hate
House Prices (another reason)
Cockneys who refer to the Old Stine
Unnecessary unwanted ridiculously dated festivals
St James Street scouser scroungers
Lion Do'r Orange gobs
Mary Mears and Geoffrey Theobald
SIMON I'm a Brightonian FANSHAWE (you're from Devizes)

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

LOVE:
The sea and the seafront.
County side is close by (not a huge fan of greenery but even I am bowled over by some of the South Down views).
Transient nature of the population.
The close proximity of all the stuff I enjoy (gigs, football, bars, clubs, restaurants) makes life very easy. I’m never more than 5 mins cab-ride from anything. Which ultimately means I can do a lot more. I’ve never done as many gigs as I have since being in Brighton.

HATE:
Our total inability to move forward quickly (or at all) with most things.
The city is totally anti-development which will could (IMHO) be our economic downfall. Name me a another city and I could tell you a few major new developments in the past decade. We’ve got bugger all.
The Regency Society.
It’s not a proper city.
Small and easy to exhaust your avenues of entertainment/socialising.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

LOVE:
The sea and the seafront.
County side is close by (not a huge fan of greenery but even I am bowled over by some of the South Down views).
Transient nature of the population.
The close proximity of all the stuff I enjoy (gigs, football, bars, clubs, restaurants) makes life very easy. I’m never more than 5 mins cab-ride from anything. Which ultimately means I can do a lot more. I’ve never done as many gigs as I have since being in Brighton.

HATE:
Our total inability to move forward quickly (or at all) with most things.
The city is totally anti-development which will could (IMHO) be our economic downfall. Name me a another city and I could tell you a few major new developments in the past decade. We’ve got bugger all.
The Regency Society.
It’s not a proper city.
Small and easy to exhaust your avenues of entertainment/socialising.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Dont slip past the passage

LOVE HOVE
HATE BRIGHTON

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The Planning Councillors not being brave enough to make the city modern

100% agree with this. And a big single digit to The Regency Society.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

HATE:[/B]West Street And Surrounding Area

West St actually provides a valuable service in that it keeps all the oiks in one area. If you didnt have it they'd be all over the place.

 

[scooter1]

I'm liking Hove a lot more since I hit my 30's, but what it really needs are a couple of decent seafront pubs for those random summer days..

As for Brighton, I just try to avoid it if I can. You can't drive there anymore without sitting in some god awful traffic queue, and when you can drive in there's nowhere to bloody park(£6 I paid for 2 hours last weekend so I could enjoy a family lunch). And the last couple of times i've been out of a night, it seems like everybody wants to fight everybody else.
I'm sure thats not the case and there are some alright places to have a drink of an evening, in fact I know there are, but thats not what it should be about surely......

 

[clippedgull]

Love nearly everything about it, wouldn't live anywhere else

Agreed. Born here, will die here

 

[ali jenkins]

I'm liking Hove a lot more since I hit my 30's, but what it really needs are a couple of decent seafront pubs for those random summer days..

As for Brighton, I just try to avoid it if I can. You can't drive there anymore without sitting in some god awful traffic queue, and when you can drive in there's nowhere to bloody park(£6 I paid for 2 hours last weekend so I could enjoy a family lunch). And the last couple of times i've been out of a night, it seems like everybody wants to fight everybody else.
I'm sure thats not the case and there are some alright places to have a drink of an evening, in fact I know there are, but thats not what it should be about surely......

I dont agree with this, I go out in Brighton quite often and spend a fair amount of time on West St and I hardly ever see a fight. Yes it happens but I dont think its as bad as everyone makes out!

Anyway...

LOVE

Albion
Cricket
Pubs/Bars
Seafront
Downs
Its my HOME

HATE

All the tourists in the summer. (I know they bring loads of money into the city, but I still dont like them!)
The main shopping areas
The price of everything

 

[glasfryn]

love everything about the place,born there and would like to die there.
hate having to live elsewhere for financial reasons
anyone got the odd 250k to give away

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I dont agree with this, I go out in Brighton quite often and spend a fair amount of time on West St and I hardly ever see a fight. Yes it happens but I dont think its as bad as everyone makes out!

Anyway...

LOVE

Albion
Cricket
Pubs/Bars
Seafront
Downs
Its my HOME

HATE

All the tourists in the summer. (I know they bring loads of money into the city, but I still dont like them!)
The main shopping areas
The price of everything

Living in Brighton and moaning about tourists is a bit like complaining the sea is wet. We're a tourist resort and have been for well over a hundred years.

 

[ali jenkins]

Living in Brighton and moaning about tourists is a bit like complaining the sea is wet. We're a tourist resort and have been for well over a hundred years.

I know that is what Brighton is all about but it doesnt mean I like it!