Still here - thinking about leaving though.
Thanks.
Over the last 10-15 years - has Brighton & Hove got better, or worse?
It's gradually got a little worse, but there's a good chance it's about to get a lot better.
Still here - thinking about leaving though.
Over the last 10-15 years - has Brighton & Hove got better, or worse?
Agree, and there's quite a lot going that'll be great for the city - Valley Gardens phase 3, Black Rock, and Kingsway to the Sea will be superb addition to the city, for a start.Take a walk along London Road, Level, Valley Gardens. In the past places you would avoid completely but now pretty nice on a sunny day. Generally unless you have a specific reason to moan, like you are chronically addicted to driving a car, Brighton is miles nicer now than when it was in the last 90s early Noughties.
North Laine and The Lanes have lost some of their quirkiness. The town centre has taken a bit of a hit, like most places. But generally they have survived relatively well. Lots of nice restaurants, still enough decent boozers. A lot more outdoor activities now accessible than in the past.
Still gets a bit grim between the months of November to April but then so does most places.
Can get a lot more for your money elsewhere.
That’s a good summary. Parts of the seafront have also improved. But then I cringe at the decline of Western Road, Madeira Drive arches and the state of our parks and roads and that food banks seem to have become a permanent feature. Of course this isn’t exclusive to Brighton but as a nation I feel we need to reset our spending priorities.
Well they were all dumps in the 70s so what's changed?I think London Road is a dump , it reminds me of Streatham high road , as do western road , Boundary Road,
I'd watch a six-parter on national geographic. Episode 4, Simon tries a game of darts in the Blue Anchor in Portslade.Utterly shite.
Nah honestly, I want to come over for something between a week and a month, explore and document every part of it, highfive, f*** and dance with the inhabitants. I want to lick the walls of random houses and make reviews on the cats strolling by.
Then I could give you a good answer to whether your city is going to be a sterile utopia or rotten dystopia in the future.
I'm going to have an entirely fresh pair of expectationless eyes, like David Attenborough in "A Blank on the Maps". If we want the real answer we're going to need to make a petition for National Geographic or someone to fund this thing.
Until then I don't really have an opinion. It looks nice when travelling around on Google Maps.
What exactly were you expecting to have changed since last Tuesday?Even the car park where I got my first blowie is still there and looks the same as I remember it.
Are they luxury though, or cheap builds that will look depressing and weathered in 10 years or less? Those small apartment houses they built behind London Road, near Sainsbury's, look awful now, faded, rain ruined wooden exteriors/cladding, whatever you call it, (why use wood in this climate?) cramped and dark inside, plus I imagine the soundproofing is minimal.It's definitely become more gentrified and the proliferation of luxury apartments feels antithetical to what I like about the city. There was also a period where Aroe / Gary and other locals were producing an unreal amount of world class graffiti in prime spots and that era is sadly over.
It's a good spot for SOME touristsHaven’t really been into Brighton for years now, the Amex is about as far as I come.
Is Dukes Mound still a good spot for tourists ?