brighton
everyone thinks it's a mecca for liberals and teh gays, where the streets are paved with happiness and everyone lives in harmonious harmony, with happy students sharing spliffs with happy gays holding hands with happy coppers.

It might be like that if you live in a giant georgian house in the posh end insulated by money, i lived in a scabby converted shop in the laines on the seafront, what they don't tell you about brighton is the chav problem, there's fuckin millions of the scummy bastards all trying their hardest to attain the perfect stereotype. At kicking out time at wetherspoons or when that big club opposite wetherspoons empties you're better off staying off the streets.

we had a massive grill over the window on the street to prevent them putting bricks into our living room which only seemed to enncourage them to try and climb up the front of our house, we did consider electrifying it but were too stoned to actually do anything about it.

unfortunately my car couldn't stay off the streets, cue petty vandalism every. fucking. week. When i came out and only found the remains of a fish supper worked into the gaps in my wing mirrors i gave a sigh of relief, usually it was a selection of panels kicked in or tyres punctured.

The other sport is motorbike tipping, i nearly cried when the bakery owner next door knocked one morning to say they'd picked my bike up and presented me with a box of parts which had been smashed off it.

if you have to live there don't live in the city centre no matter how bohemian and exclusive you may feel.

and the police are shit, they're under the impression that they only have to stay on the seafront or the pier, at kicking out time for the club they all fucking vanish, cowards.
(amazinglasercow now sporting terawatt mining lasers, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:54, 8 replies)

yeah but there's a Lego shop

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:03, closed)

and that place that sells only fudge.

( ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:08, closed)

living in that place next to brighton that shall remain nameless
i occationally get asked by people i know from other parts of the country how come i never go out and "enjoy the nightlife", my answer is basically what you just said.

noticed the bike thing, stamping on the spokes so the wheels warp out of shape seems to be a popular tactic, and of course, just nicking anything that isn't firmly bolted on (forshadowing comment from my brother last week: "who's going to bother nicking my lights?")
( ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:06, closed)

apologies
i've clarified now what i meant by 'bike-tipping', i should have said motorbike tipping. In my mind vandalising someones motorbike is equivalent to punching their child in the face. sickening.
(amazinglasercow now sporting terawatt mining lasers, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 10:13, closed)

Having lived there for a while
Brighton and Hove is a great place to visit.

not to live there though.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 15:12, closed)

brighton
yes it does have its problems at night and the place is overun with chavs . But on the whole i find it a plesant place to live . Bear in mind that i live up whitehawk where even the parking wardens are too scared to venture as rumour has it.
And the traffic problems every cunting weekend along the sea front.
(welgar, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 21:26, closed)

i later moved
up to a house near the racecourse and it was much nicer up there, i guess the chavs don't like climbing hills
(amazinglasercow now sporting terawatt mining lasers, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 10:14, closed)

!
The chavs live ON that hill! I know because I lived on Evelyn Terrace, Kemptown.

"Ha thats the pikey bit".
"No its not its Kemptown".
"No! Its up the hill from Kemptown in the pikey bit".
"Its kemptown".
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 14:46, closed)