If the rent was the same, I'd still choose Eastbourne over Brighton, which to me looks like a cross between Club 18-30 and Ripley's Believe it or Not.
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Brighton is ridiculous now I could just about manage a day trip there but I'm not sure I could stay a few nights without being driven round the bend. And I used to hang around in Camden and Soho most of the time when I moved to London after school.
Believe it or not, yeah, they're well through the looking glass. TBH Eastbourne's a bit dead, all the cafes close at 3pm, but I wasn't doing anything in Brighton anyway, just going to the same places everyday, here I've got better access to coastal walks and Hastings down the road, which is a bit livelier.
It's way too busy these days, a victim of its own success, and that's just killed the vibe, now its full of dickheads in uber expensive cars blasting down the roads, its noisy as hell. And apart from a plethora of cafes, restaurants and pubs, it doesn't really have any major draws like a decent public art gallery or museum, unlike some of the seaside towns on the south coast.
fantastic view from those windows mike