Property News · March 18, 2016

Let’s move to Steyning, West Sussex


If Brighton’s getting a bit lively for you, nearby Steyning might be perfectWhat’s going for it? Brighton is so, like, over. 2016 is all about Steyning. OK, not all about Steyning. But a bit. Small market towns are where most people want to live these days, and are happiest, said so-and-so’s report the other week. I can believe it. I quite understand why you moved to Brighton. Escape the rat race. Images of nightly cocktails on the beach jiggering to Fatboy Slim. But face facts: a time comes in most people’s lives when they can’t be arsed paying oligarch’s rates for the privilege of lively living, aka slipping the baby-buggy through a tide of pavement sick, dodging hen parties and the waft of doughnut fat. When you reach that point, may I recommend Steyning? One of those delightful towns (Arundel, Lewes, et al) over the hump of the South Downs, all snuggly with its ruined Bramber Castle, hunched parish church, knobby flint cottages and half timbers, bookshops and tales of former glory in the 12th century. It’s not as debauched as Brighton (though, like most of Sussex, Steyning has its tales of avant-garde shenanigans), but there’s only time for so much debauchery if you’re up all night on nappy duty.The case against The quiet life. While cheaper than Brighton, it isn’t, um, cheap. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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