KiwiGTI

Any opinions? Nice place to live or is Brighton better?

Simon C

I know someone who lives there. She likes it. I can ask her, her opinions if you want, but it may be some time, as shes travelling at the mo.

lucylastic

Haywards Heath is (or used to be, I haven't been there for a few years now) quite a nice place. Can't really compare it to Brighton at all, so totally depends on what you're looking for really!

KiwiGTI

Somewhere that is commutable to London, with reasonable decent neighborhoods to bring a child up in.

The Chief

My GF lives in Brighton and its a lovely place - however its bloody expensive


I suppose it depends where you work

KiwiGTI

Can't be as bad as London, might be working in Worthing, but also as a contractor i have to keep commutable to London because that's where most of the work is.

cottonfoo

Hertford

The Chief

Got just the place, Billingshurst - lovely little place and ideally situated been through loads of times

lucylastic

Worthing itself is ok, and some of the nearby villages (Steyning, Storrington, Pulborough) are really lovely

Daryl

Haywards Heath is a very good place to bring up a family, also has a decent selection of bars, restaurants, shops and leisure facilities. Brighton & Hove has all that and much more, but also has some crappy areas, such as Moulsecoomb and Whitehawk, that you would want to avoid.

Lewes is also very nice and is convenient for Brighton, Worthing and London. I'm not keen on Worthing itself, always seems a bit boring.

David Lock

Are you thinking car or train commute?? I'm actually in Storrington (see Lucy's post above) but it's a pretty slow old rail trip to Victoria or London Bridge (from pulborough). And road is not much better. But check with National Rail on-line which will give the timings. I woiuld say Brighton has more of a buzz than HH but if you're now a family I would keep out of a main town and go for a village. I don't think much of Worthing as a place to live. dl

David Lock

Hmmmmmm. With respect - have you ever stopped there or just passed through?

It wasn't too bad until they all moaned about the traffic. So they built a bypass and no-one goes there anymore Got a good school there though.

KiwiGTI

Thanks for all your views, 12 posts without someone mentioning chavs so it must be a nice place

The good thing about both Brighton and HH are the trains seem to be fast and frequent (24 hrs too). It's the extra bit to Worthing that adds time on but if I lived in HH I'd probably drive anyway.

David Lock

Well Billingshurst was mentioned but my boy (who went to school there) says its full of "Townies" rather than chavs. But I have to say I don't know the difference............