Portslade and the 'chav towns' of Sussex

[Nottseagull]

I was looking to see what Leon Knight was up to nowadays and a news site covering the Northwich area shows he's playing for a Cheshire village club, despite just turning 33. I noticed the site featured quite a lot of crime for a town of less than 20,000 and further research led me to a site called I LIVE HERE: BRITAIN'S WORST PLACES TO LIVE. On a list of five recent posts from around the midlands and south, the name Portslade caught my eye. Clicking on that reveals other surprising areas of apparent degradation, such as Hailsham and Sidley. Now, the critique of Northwich was roundly condemned for wild exaggeration, so would this be the case for the Sussex towns or suburbs featured? You can click the map for the county of your choice; there's no need to trouble yourselves with the Nottinghamshire one, though

 

[spence]

Filled with Littlehampton,Chichester and Crawley.

 

[pastafarian]

Filled with Littlehampton,Chichester and Crawley.

Littlehampton has a proud tradition of supplying some of Albions finest supporters.

Crawley not so much..........thats why Horsham is so important.

Durrington however...............................

 

[Nottseagull]

Durrington however...............................

Is it any worse than East Worthing?

 

[8ace]

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Go onto Zoopla and you will be shocked at the house prices in Portslade. Especially south of the old Shoreham Road.

 

[Dave the OAP]

To be fair, for a boundary road in portslade, I can give you blatchington road in hove which is horrible.

 

[Eeyore]

[MENTION=616]Guinness Boy[/MENTION] ....

Let me get the Pringles first.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

To be fair, for a boundary road in portslade, I can give you blatchington road in hove which is horrible.

Coincidently I lived in one of the flats in that picture and was born just off blatchington road!

 

[timbha]

Terry garoghan calls it the Olympic Village because everyone there wears shell suits

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Crawley is vile, I moved here two years ago for work reasons and I can not wait to move again

There was an acid attack, An ACID attack outside the cinema a couple of weeks ago.

 

[BadFish]

Most of that video seemed to feature Boundary Road, which is pretty much Hove.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Portslade is (just) too close to Hove and Brighton to be chavvy. Worthing, on the other hand...

 

[studio150]

Whoever put this together clearly does not have a grasp of local geography. Portslade station is in Hove for a start, as is Boundary Road.

 

[dangull]

Whitehawk is just scary walking the streets. Worthing is a nice place in comparison.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Go onto Zoopla and you will be shocked at the house prices in Portslade. Especially south of the old Shoreham Road.

Exactly. Those by the station are now going at a premium.

 

[8ace]

Whoever put this together clearly does not have a grasp of local geography. Portslade station is in Hove for a start, as is Boundary Road.

The person who named Portslade station probably had a worse grasp of geography.

 

[studio150]

The person who named Portslade station probably had a worse grasp of geography.

Doubtful given that fully it is (was) Portslade and West Hove station, which would of course fit with the location.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

The person who named Portslade station probably had a worse grasp of geography.

When I was a kid I'm sure the sign read 'Portslade and West Hove' [edit: beaten to it]

Anyway, anyone that thinks Sussex has chav towns has never been out of Sussex

 

[BN9 BHA]

Whitehawk is just scary walking the streets. Worthing is a nice place in comparison.

Odd comparison, Worthing is a town and Whitehawk is a deprived council estate in Brighton.
I used to live in Whitehawk and I can't say it was scary walking the streets, nothing like West Street on a Saturday night.

Don't know much about Worthing but it must have a council estate.