Property News · March 23, 2018

Let’s move to Eastbourne, East Sussex: ‘Things may be changing’


Downshifting Generation X-ers and millennials are moving in and I suspect they won’t be entirely satisfied by sweet sherryWhat’s going for it? I’m sure lots of dirty – even depraved – things go on in Eastbourne, but you’d never know it. The only time it threatened to get “a reputation” was in the 1950s, when local GP John Bodkin Adams went on trial for allegedly murdering elderly patients, but he was found not guilty. A close shave. Like its most famous daughter, Theresa May, the town has perfected its poker face. Chaos may reign, but the facade remains resolute. Perhaps at 7pm after a sherry or five, Eastbourne erupts into twerking and Jägerbombs. On the surface, though, it’s all gentle pleasures, high hedges and municipal borders, Eric Ravilious and toasted teacakes, and that astonishingly beautiful waterfront. It leaves the showing off to its neighbour round the corner, Brighton. Things, though, may be changing. Eastbourne’s gentleness has long attracted retirees; but its population is getting younger. Downshifting Generation X-ers and millennials are moving in and I suspect they won’t be entirely satisfied by sweet sherry. Eastbourne may get racy.The case against Thanks to miasmas gusting across the Channel, Eastbourne is one of the UK’s worst towns for particulate pollution. Most of it is delightful, but the stretch around the Arndale Centre is rather dreary. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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