[Brighton] Brighton is actually a pretty rubbish place to live

[hans kraay fan club]

All I meant by "certain type" is the idea that only a subset of people born and raised in Liverpool are scousers.

Nonsense, sorry.

Born and raised in Liverpool, they're scousers. Even the ones who'd seek to pretend otherwise.

 

[BigGully]

It's just my opinion, there are no specific rules.

I just don't get it when people from Surrey that have lived in Brighton for a couple of years are called Brightonians.
And why shouldn't I be a Brightonian just because I have moved along the coast?

When you say you have never lived inside the city, how close to Brighton have you lived?

Uh oh, I feel this is a bit of a test .......

I have lived in Saltdean and Peacehaven all of my life, although I have no aspirations to be called a Brightonian or not I have a great affinity with the city.

My Mum and Dad are from Brighton and I have had a great insight to the life and times of the city and its sports, characters and nightlife from the 1930's up until now and I still live it

I now feel I am on the Calaise border waiting to cling to the next Brighton cab into the pool valley if you do not accept my application .......

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Nonsense, sorry.

Born and raised in Liverpool, they're scousers. Even the ones who'd seek to pretend otherwise.

I'll send the wife round

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Well I love living in Brighton, even if it is f*£#@%@ expensive!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

We were spoilt for choice with punk gigs back then, I used to watch a bands every week.

You definitely saw the light when you moved out of Medway
I have close family in Medway and I can't say I'm a big fan of that area, where did you live?

We were spoilt for choice with punk gigs back then, I used to watch a bands every week.

You definitely saw the light when you moved out of Medway
I have close family in Medway and I can't say I'm a big fan of that area, where did you live?

Spent most of my teenage years on the Parkwood estate in Rainham.

If you like punk and have any connections with the Medway Towns, you'll LOVE this...

 

[BadFish]

Brightonian means born and bred
you might have been born in Brighton and lived somewhere else all your life but you are still a Brightonian and the reverse is the same you might have lived in Brighton nearly all your life but it does not make you a Brightonian.
I have spent a few years living elsewhere, London,Shrewsbury,Chelmsford,Cheltenham, Eastbourne, and even Wales.
but I was born and bred in Brighton and it might have its bad points but that does not make me love it any less along with thousands of others, and even if it was a shithole I would still love it.
and as I said before just wish I could aford to live there.

My family have been Brightonians for generations on both sides, my grand dad was involved in much iconic plaster work etc on many important buildings in the town. By a strange quirk of fate my parents left the town for 10 years and I was born elsewhere. Consequently when we moved back to Brighton i was still an outsider for not being born at the Sussex County "Not proper Brighton mate, sorry"

We/they are a funny lot.

 

[BadFish]

Never claimed I had. Tho I'd argue that the DFLs moving down now are destroying the vibe that made our seedy dump of a town a bit special in the first place. You know what they say about the three stages of gentrification? First the hippies and the artists move in because of the vibe and because its dirt cheap.Then the teachers and the poorly paid middle-class move in because its still a nice place to live and they can just about afford to move in and buy a house and its still relatively cheap. Then (updating the third stage slightly) the DFLs move in, know the price of everything, the value of nothing and ruin everything the place once represented. But, hey, the property prices are going through the roof, there's a booming buy-to-let yield on investment, so that's all OK then...

Surely if we were in the third phase then people would be discussing property prices instead of all the cool things about the place.






oh

 

[BadFish]

Maybe your wife doesn't consider herself a Scouser as she left the city as a child.

Everyone that I have met that was born and lived in Liverpool for a number of years is always proud to call themselves a Scouser.
I have found Geordies to be the same.

I think people define themselves by the place they most identify with, I think of my self as from Brighton and although people say I'm not 'proper' it doesn't change the fact so they can get ****ed

 

[glasfryn]

I know many honorary Brightonians and I am sure there are many that frequent this board

 

[BadFish]

Nonsense, sorry.

Born and raised in Liverpool, they're scousers. Even the ones who'd seek to pretend otherwise.

I thought you had to born within the sound of a police siren to be a proper scouser!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Uh oh, I feel this is a bit of a test .......

I have lived in Saltdean and Peacehaven all of my life, although I have no aspirations to be called a Brightonian or not I have a great affinity with the city.

My Mum and Dad are from Brighton and I have had a great insight to the life and times of the city and its sports, characters and nightlife from the 1930's up until now and I still live it

I now feel I am on the Calaise border waiting to cling to the next Brighton cab into the pool valley if you do not accept my application .......

Application refused
Wannabe Brightonian

I don't know if you are on Twitter, but it always makes me laugh when I see people that obviously live in Peacehaven or Newhaven that put from Brighton on their profile page.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Spent most of my teenage years on the Parkwood estate in Rainham.

If you like punk and have any connections with the Medway Towns, you'll LOVE this...

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My daughter and her family live in Rainham, just off Mierscourt Road. My eldest son lives near the station.

 

[Blue3]

Brighton is the best place to live in the UK it's only my opinion like

 

[BN9 BHA]

I think people define themselves by the place they most identify with, I think of my self as from Brighton and although people say I'm not 'proper' it doesn't change the fact so they can get ****ed

Another wannabe Brightonian

 

[alfredmizen]

I think people define themselves by the place they most identify with, I think of my self as from Brighton and although people say I'm not 'proper' it doesn't change the fact so they can get ****ed

nah, youre a wannabe.

 

[Captain Sensible]

I love Saltdean

 

[BadFish]

Another wannabe Brightonian

Damn it

 

[BadFish]

nah, youre a wannabe.

Denied from Haywards Heath, ouch.

 

[BadFish]

A great man once said "it's not where your from its where your at" which is a bugger cos I am at Geelong

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Ich bin ein Newhavener