What do you dislike most about Brighton?

[Spun Cuppa]

I know it is a bit NIMBY, and tourism/retail seem to be our only industries, but it gets my goat when in the summer, Madeira Drive is closed a majority of weekends, and stag/hen do's turn the town centre into a total toilet. The traffic totally nauses it up also, and us locals have trouble getting about Where are all these people in the winter

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Full of pretentious twats from London driving up house prices.

 

[brakespear]

The smell of Western Road and the general grubbiness. And that I don't live there anymore.

 

[withdeanwombat]

That the West Pier has been allowed to rot and fall into the sea.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Top 3 for me:

1. Property prices/rent
2. Parking
3. English tourists

Just out of curiosity and no offence intended, but who were you before changing your username to mustafa? I certainly don't remember a mustafa from 2003 If you're incognito these days, no problem.

 

[brightn'ove]

Why ,what's so bad about them?

more those that come down coked up off their faces on saturday nights

 

[janee]

Hove born and bred

 

[catfish]

Having lived in Worthing for most of my life I can't really find anything about Brighton to dislike.

 

[DumLum]

Hilly, away from the seafront

Lack of competition for the local bus company (to be fair they run a decent service but we pay for it!)

I used to live and work in Brighton and Hove using the buses every week. The price of a bus journey in the city seems to have jumped a lot quicker than inflation since I moved away. I embarrassed my other half when I had £3 ready to pay for our trip into the city centre. I was left scrambling around in my pockets and her purse for enough for the journey.

It wasn't that long ago that you feared getting turfed off because you only had a Five pound note to pay the fare and the driver wouldn't accept it as he didn't have enough change.

The only thing I can think of the comes close to that speed of price increase is the cinema.

 

[happypig]

The sea. Not its presence but the fact that the visibility is so poor and it's rough too often. There are dozens of decent wrecks off the coast of sussex but it's either too rough to go out, the vis is shite or there's a plankton bloom or some such.
If it were as clear as the waters round the eastern med or Red Sea it would be perfect.

 

[Bruntburger]

Full of pretentious twats from London driving up house prices.

This. Pushing those actually born here to the outskirts of town.

 

[The Spanish]

Full of pretentious twats from London driving up house prices.

like that bloody prince regent and his hangers on.

brighton would be dead if it wasnt for London. some of the last wave have been particularly unbearable but twas ever thus.

 

[The Spanish]

more those that come down coked up off their faces on saturday nights

yeah no native brightonians like a sniff do they. the whole towns awash with the stuff.

 

[mikeyjh]

Dirty

A bit too 'right on'

Nothing like as good a city as it thinks it is


Apart from that it's pretty cool.

Precisely this & the fact that I've twice arrived in the office this year with doggy doo on my shoe, filthiest city in the country.

 

[Questions]

@%1;

Indeed. They tend to be people who've never lived anywhere else. Brighton is cool, it's basically a decent town, one of the best in the area. But a lot of its residents seem to think it's some kind of bustling melting pot of a multi-cultural metropolis. It isn't. And parts of it are awful, although it's better than it used to be.

Oh definitely this and blokes who wear triilbys and women who wear leggings that are orange and black hooped and silly boots with no laces and.............
Basically people who spend 2 hours getting ready just to look different.....**** it Brighton is annoying really.

 

[Questions]

Having lived in Worthing for most of my life I can't really find anything about Brighton to dislike.

Don't start dissing Worthing you upstart.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

The systematic deterioration of a wonderful town by successive councils that have had their priorities wrong over many years.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Top 3 for me:

1. Property prices/rent
2. Parking
3. English tourists

Why have you differentiated between English tourists and any other tourist, just to make a point your not racist?

 

[Biscuit]

The cost of getting a bus.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I used to live and work in Brighton and Hove using the buses every week. The price of a bus journey in the city seems to have jumped a lot quicker than inflation since I moved away. I embarrassed my other half when I had £3 ready to pay for our trip into the city centre. I was left scrambling around in my pockets and her purse for enough for the journey.

It wasn't that long ago that you feared getting turfed off because you only had a Five pound note to pay the fare and the driver wouldn't accept it as he didn't have enough change.

The only thing I can think of the comes close to that speed of price increase is the cinema.

You can cycle the length and breadth of Brighton in no time, and while I appreciate that cycling isn't everyone's bag for a multitude of reasons, including mobility, I do look at people wasting their lives standing at bus stops as I wheel past and wonder why some of them don't consider a bicycle, rather than the costly, mind numbing, spirit crushing daily bus commute around town. It's amazing how much shopping you can fit in a small backpack to boot.