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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by flr03 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:06AM (#50378162)
As a frenchman living in London for 10y+, I am always shocked when I go to medium sized cities in the UK. I love the country side though. Joke is that UK is a third world country bolted onto London, obviously exaggerated but if you look at numbers and you go there yourselves there is some truth in it.
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by VeejayRampay on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:34PM (#50383367)
Brighton was not like that at all though to be honest, felt more continental, affluent and modern

there's a chance that London money flows down there though, like Nice and the Riviera for France, I don't know

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by jen20 on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:09AM (#50389137)
Perhaps it's improved in the last few years, but Brighton is the only place I've personally seen someone sitting on a street shooting heroin in the early afternoon.
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by ahartmetz on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:27PM (#50399345)
...and Brighton is supposed to be a posh beach resort town, no?
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by jen20 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:28AM (#50404847)
That depends of the era you learned of its reputation I suspect. I'm not sure I've ever heard that idea despite growing up in the neighbouring county.

Expensive != posh -- the proximity and relatively easy trains to London probably help make it expensive.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by ahartmetz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:52PM (#50406949)
It was when I looked up what's behind Fatboy Slim's "You're not from Brighton". That was well after its release date (1998). Let's say 2010-2015?
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by jen20 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:32PM (#50410428)
Ah by then it was likely on the way to being gentrified - I'm thinking of 2003-4 kind of time.
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by ridkcrieuek384 on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:10PM (#50400278)
The profits derived from privatisation and the policies of de-industrialisation were concentrated in one city…

Unfortunately the British elites know how to colonise and extract, they’re just terrible at administering and building anything sustainable

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