Property News · July 7, 2017

Let’s move to Hove, East Sussex: ‘It attracts more young people than anywhere in the country’


If you’d like to live beside the seaside, Hove is more laid-back – and more affordable – than neighbouring BrightonWhat’s going for it? Only the canny-eyed can tell the precise point, somewhere around Audrey’s chocolate boutique (straight outta Twin Peaks/the age of Glenn Miller), when supposedly rakish Brighton, inventor of the dirty weekend, segues into supposedly suburban Hove, land of Hyacinth Buckets. Those stereotypes of this twin city hold less and less true today. Stratospheric property prices in Brighton risk turning the place into Notting Hill-on-Sea, with all the dirtiness of an antiseptic wipe. Hove, meanwhile, though hardly cheap, retains un-spruced-up fringes, where those less interested in property investment portfolios but still hankering after sea air, like-minded people and kiss-me-quick can just about survive. No wonder, then, that it’s Hove, not Brighton, these days that’s attracting more young people than any other spot in the country. For now.The case against It lacks the intensity and density of Brighton. Suburban in places. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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