Leekbrookgull
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Please,will only Sussex exiles reply/post.Just how much do you miss Sussex? I live near Leek,great town,tip top area,but it where i live not my home,does any other exile feel the same?
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Sussex exiles.Just how much?
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Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
I went to the game last Monday, it was my first time back in Brighton for two years although I did go to a funeral in Crawley last year followed by a wake in Horsham. Hard to say how much I miss the place as I have been gone so long, but there is something about the county that I love, I can't really put my hand on exactly what it is but I don't seem to find it anywhere else that I have lived. I like it where I live now, Gloucestershire is undoubtedly beautiful and there are lots of things about it that make it a good place to live, in fact the attraction is that it is very similar, but not the same. There are no imitations, there is only one Sussex.
Franks Wild Years
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I miss Sussex and Brighton hugely. I really feel like I'm comming home as soon as I get on the M23.
I do wonder however wether it is just the usual sentimental emotion that all exilles have for the place of their birth.
I do wonder however wether it is just the usual sentimental emotion that all exilles have for the place of their birth.
Leekbrookgull
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You hit a chord,Gully i am like you miles away,but what is the first result you look for? Brighton/Sussex ccc?
Are you like me? out of Sussex,but can't take Sussex out of you?
Are you like me? out of Sussex,but can't take Sussex out of you?
Whenever I go back to Sussex I am always skipping about with joy, but after a couple of hours wonder why. The people are not particularly friendly, Withdean and Hove are crap for watching sport compared to the Blue Camp or Old Trafford, the music scene is adequate, but no more, not a patch on Manchester, the beer and drugs overpriced and watered down, and the women are not as easy as Northern lasses.
Yet for all that I still pine for the place. Is it hard wired into your brain like that of a salmon to return to your roots, or am I in denial about my love for Easy 10?
Yet for all that I still pine for the place. Is it hard wired into your brain like that of a salmon to return to your roots, or am I in denial about my love for Easy 10?
Stumpy Tim
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Miss friends & family, but not Sussex
Vankleek Hill Seagull
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El Presidente said:
It's not denial El Pres. You have the brain of a salmon.
Parson Henry
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I don't miss Sussex much really
Bono
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Have missed it since leaving in 1981. Still love the drive towards the coast once Gatwick is out the way, the first view of the sea (I couldn't be must further from the sea in any direction) and my 'hometown'. Luckily still have friends and family there and any excuse to be there is usually accepted.
PS Anyone with a spare ticket for The Who please let me know.
PS Anyone with a spare ticket for The Who please let me know.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
When I first left home I always used to go back to Sussex by train, at least until I had a car. I never felt like I was home when leaving Victoria as there were people there going to places other than Sussex, although they made people going to Kent leave from a different part of the station just so we didn't have to mingle with them, a sort of railway appartheid.
Once on the train it still didn't feel like home as there were people on the train destined for cesspools like Croydump and Redhill. For me I didn't feel like I was home again until i heard the dulcit tones of "Orsham, this is Orsham" out of the train window, then I knew, the names of the stations to Littlehampton rang out like the sweetest sounds you had ever heard. I always left the train window open, all the way to Pulborough, just to smell the Sussex countryside and hear the sound of the train rattling down the track. The brakes squeeling to a halt and the slam of the doors as the grateful passengers reached their journeys' end, then off to the pub to get wankered.
Once on the train it still didn't feel like home as there were people on the train destined for cesspools like Croydump and Redhill. For me I didn't feel like I was home again until i heard the dulcit tones of "Orsham, this is Orsham" out of the train window, then I knew, the names of the stations to Littlehampton rang out like the sweetest sounds you had ever heard. I always left the train window open, all the way to Pulborough, just to smell the Sussex countryside and hear the sound of the train rattling down the track. The brakes squeeling to a halt and the slam of the doors as the grateful passengers reached their journeys' end, then off to the pub to get wankered.
I really miss Sussex and can't wait to get on the M23 and start seeing the good old Sussex countryside again. I've lived in Cheshire for 17 years now but still feel like Sussex is really my home, I know all the streets and shortcuts, the people all sound like me (mainly) and it just feels like I belong.
Maybe it's because I've always made a big thing about being a Sussex gal but it's my identity and I will never ever call myself a Northerner or tell people where I live without adding 'but I originally come from Brighton'.
I'm proud to come from Sussex and always will be.
Maybe it's because I've always made a big thing about being a Sussex gal but it's my identity and I will never ever call myself a Northerner or tell people where I live without adding 'but I originally come from Brighton'.
I'm proud to come from Sussex and always will be.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
...ask a northerner what a twitten is and they just look dumber than normal!
butchy
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at uni in manchester and to be honest the only thing i really miss is being by the sea-the fact that the weather is worse ooop north does get you down and a regular and reliable source of harveys does also go a miss
Roger Mellie
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The sea and good food in nice country pubs. Live in London and have lived in Manchester, Leeds and Derby. City pubs just don't do proper food and have a big urge Sunday lunch times to run off to Sussex for lunch. Guess its just the country not just sussex. Got the only Harveys pub in London 5 mins away which helps on the beer side. But mainly its the sea. Nothing beats the sea on a sunny day, a stormy day, a winters day, an evening, first thing in the morning......
London Calling
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Miss living in Brighton
Its by far the greatest town the world has ever seen.
Sussex is also a great county, an equal to Yorkshire, Lancashire.
Unfortunately, we seem not to have a strong idealed indigenous population that stands up and tells the world how good Sussex is.
LC Living in Hackney.
Its by far the greatest town the world has ever seen.
Sussex is also a great county, an equal to Yorkshire, Lancashire.
Unfortunately, we seem not to have a strong idealed indigenous population that stands up and tells the world how good Sussex is.
LC Living in Hackney.
silky1
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Always like seeing some of the Sussex countryside on rare visits, can't say I miss anything about Brighton itself, my home is Staffordshire now, can't see me ever moving back to Sussex.