[Brighton] Elm Grove / Bear Road

[Weststander]

Are you buying or renting!
Edit your buying, doh.

You might get more for your buck in Burgess Hill or Hassocks? Or Portslade?

Dull as dishwater, missing out on amazing Brighton.

 

[Jack Straw]

Elm Grove and Bear Road? Prices are bit steep.

This is a joke, by the way, simply reflecting the significant gradients of the roads in question.

A point I was about to make. A friend of mine used to live in Toronto Terrace, near the top of Albion Hill. When we went to the town centre, the walk back was always dreaded. Gradient should always be taken in to consideration, especially if you tend to walk everywhere. Coincidentally, she moved as the parking got so bad! Not her parking. She's good at that!!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Dull as dishwater, missing out on amazing Brighton.

I wouldn’t call living in an area of Brighton full of students amazing

 

[Machiavelli]

Thanks!

Parking not an issue as don’t have a car (nor plan to for the foreseeable). But appreciate in the future it might be an option we look into so worth considering.

Guess it’s a 25/30 min walk to the station. Other ideal location would be Seven Dials but out of our budget in reality unless we settled for a cupboard!

If you're a resident with a car you won't have a problem parking, as it's a resident permit area (I suspect the poster that raised this isn't a resident but perhaps needs to park there at times and finds it difficult).
If you hurry, it's about 16-18 minutes from Carlyle St (half-way up Elm Grove) to the station. It takes not too much longer to get to the sea and the centre of town, and not much more than that on a bus to get to The Amex.

 

[Chicken Run]

Portslade is an option for sure, although it’s not an area I’m familiar with (family are split between Worthing and Brighton so whilst I’ve been through Portslade a million times I’ve never really actually spent time there)

Portslade High Street has become extremely gentrified over the last few years, there’s loads of high end barbershops quite literally fighting for your business, amazing range of ethnic supermarkets selling oversize grapes and if your phone goes tits up then help is at hand with numerous phone repair shops that double up as vape stores

 

[Weststander]

Portslade High Street has become extremely gentrified over the last few years, there’s loads of high end barbershops quite literally fighting for your business, amazing range of ethnic supermarkets selling oversize grapes and if your phone goes tits up then help is at hand with numerous phone repair shops that double up as vape stores

Back in the day, there’d only have been traditional style launderettes.

 

[Chicken Run]

Back in the day, there’d only have been traditional style launderettes.

And banks, don’t forget the banks, on the left going up, Lloyds A & L/ AbbeyNat/Santander and on the right , Barclays, Natwest and Midland/ HSBC, have i forgotten any?

Edit Of course by ‘High Street’ i mean Boundary/Station Road not the Village version

 

[sully]

A point I was about to make. A friend of mine used to live in Toronto Terrace, near the top of Albion Hill. When we went to the town centre, the walk back was always dreaded. Gradient should always be taken in to consideration, especially if you tend to walk everywhere. Coincidentally, she moved as the parking got so bad! Not her parking. She's good at that!!

We used to be the other end of Toronto Terrace, beyond Southover Street. Pub crawls were great until it was time to head home and you’d ended up at the Greys.

 

[Weststander]

And banks, don’t forget the banks, on the left going up, Lloyds A & L/ AbbeyNat/Santander and on the right , Barclays, Natwest and Midland/ HSBC, have i forgotten any?

Edit Of course by ‘High Street’ i mean Boundary/Station Road not the Village version

With no branches to deposit cash, how’s the laundering process completed?

 

[Weststander]

We used to be the other end of Toronto Terrace, beyond Southover Street. Pub crawls were great until it was time to head home and you’d ended up at the Greys.

Did you like The Charles Napier?

Some of the older pubs were minute. My mum was brought up on the hill in the 40’s/50’s …. literally every corner was a shop or pub.

 

[trueblue]

As someone who moved out of the centre of town to Patcham, no regrets. After looking around a lot, felt it offered great value simply because it has no cachet. Three regular bus services, a virtually flat cycle ride into town, enough shops/pubs/restaurants to feel like a community in its own right and you can afford things like an actual garden and parking. Because we walked everywhere when we lived in Hove, can still go out in town and bus it back without getting home any later. Usually 20-30 minutes or so door to door in the evenings.

 

[Machiavelli]

Did you like The Charles Napier?

Some of the older pubs were minute. My mum was brought up on the hill in the 40’s/50’s …. literally every corner was a shop or pub.

Napier was lovely. Proper old school. Southover Street is still quite something for pubs

 

[sully]

Did you like The Charles Napier?

Some of the older pubs were minute. My mum was brought up on the hill in the 40’s/50’s …. literally every corner was a shop or pub.

That was one of many regular haunts and my original favourite.
Not sure I ended up with a particular regular in the end, but probably got no further than the No Name most evenings.
As you say, pretty much a pub on every corner. Happy days!

 

[Weststander]

Napier was lovely. Proper old school. Southover Street is still quite something for pubs

I only had occasional drinks in the area, all years ago. Every pub was cute in its unpretentiousness, I don’t know how they survive as so quiet in the week … but I pray they do.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Hey everyone,

I’m currently living in London but me and my partner will be looking to move back to Brighton next year as first time buyers. (Does that count as DFL if from here originally..?)

Will be commuting back up to London once a week for work.

Seen a huge influx of properties around Bear Road for our budget and requirements but am slightly apprehensive that they are being sold because of an issue in the area? I used to live just off Lewes road circa 12 years ago but haven’t really been back (trips to Brighton are for football or in the city centre).

Anyone on here able to colour me in a little on if the area is a good place to live? I know there’s been lots of student accommodation build nearby so wasn’t sure if that was the reason so many keep coming available

I live on Franklin road, enjoyed living in the area the past 10-15years. I've noticed bear road seems to have cheaper properties, can only think it's the steep hill and parking that has an impact on price?

 

[BN9 BHA]

I live on Franklin road, enjoyed living in the area the past 10-15years. I've noticed bear road seems to have cheaper properties, can only think it's the steep hill and parking that has an impact on price?

I did a paper round in Bear Road, I’m not sure if my knees are knackered from years of plumbing or delivering The Argus

 

[clapham_gull]

Thanks!

Traitor, they'll be none of us left at this point.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I did a paper round in Bear Road, I’m not sure if my knees are knackered from years of plumbing or delivering The Argus

Probably a bit of both! My knee has been giving me gyp recently, only another 40 odd years to go..

 

[LamieRobertson]

Probably a bit of both! My knee has been giving me gyp recently, only another 40 odd years to go..

Isn’t Her in doors an occupational health therapist or something like that? Cant she fix you up with some help…walking frame or something

 

[Justice]

My daughter ‘student’ lived in Bear road and has now moved to Dewe Rd. I’ve been there plenty of times and never had an issue. Handy for the P&R race course to. Or can just catch a bus on the main road to the Amex. Would recommend you need to some good insulation as the house in Bear Rd was cold in winter.