Shock in posh UK seaside town as it's named Britain's 3rd 'worst' place to live

Locals person deed retired aft the upmarket seaside municipality they telephone location was named the 3rd worst spot to unrecorded successful Britain successful a caller study.

Residents expressed their daze portion talking to Express.co.uk aft Hove successful East Sussex, known for its swathes of pebble formation and a wide promenade lined with colourful formation huts, was named the 3rd worst spot to unrecorded successful the UK.

The research, conducted by location buying experts housebuyers4u, created 5 categories based connected information from the Home Office and Tripadvisor. 

These see a civilization people (based connected shopping, nightlife, and more), a greenish people (based connected the number and standing of quality and parks), a lodging people (based connected lodging affordability), a inferior people (based connected vigor and gas), and a convulsive transgression people (based connected the yearly summation oregon alteration of reported incidents).  

But locals couldn't judge it and argued this was perfectly not the case. 

Oliver Hutton, 64, told Express.co.uk: “I've lived successful Hove for astir 9 years now. You tin beryllium what you privation here. No one's going to hassle you for it. 

“Before I moved here, I lived successful St Leonard's, Bristol, London, Oxford, I concisely lived successful York and I've besides lived successful Cambridge. Now, those are beauteous bully places to unrecorded but Hove, however, is mode amended than immoderate of those places. 

“It's the astir affable spot I've ever lived. It is besides the astir accepting spot I've lived successful presumption of property oregon your sex orientation.

“Everyone tin deterioration what they want. It's got the champion restaurants retired of immoderate metropolis that I've lived in. It's got immoderate bully culture, it's got wide streets and trees. Everything is wrong reach.”

Other residents mostly agreed with Oliver and were shocked to find that Hove had been listed arsenic the 3rd worst spot to live.

He continued: “It's linked with Brighton, obviously, but it's not portion of Brighton. It feels similar its ain thing. Nevertheless, it's seamless erstwhile you spell done to Brighton.

“You tin locomotion everyplace from present and the consciousness of assemblage is bully betwixt residents. It’s adjacent to the oversea - precise adjacent to the oversea and it’s besides adjacent to the downs.

“Access eastbound and westbound is each precise good. It's not postulation laden, adjacent successful unreserved hour, it's rather light. The main roadworthy ne'er gets afloat of traffic, which is great.”

Another resident, Julia Putnina, 37, has besides lived successful galore antithetic parts of the UK, she has present been surviving successful Hove for 5 years.

She said: “I decidedly disagree with it being the third. There's a bully assemblage successful Hove -  you get to recognise people, determination are radical who spell to the formation oregon swimming, there's a batch of oversea swimming groups and everyone is precise friendly. Neighbours usually are bully arsenic well.

“I’d accidental it's my favourite spot to live, retired of everyplace I’ve lived. The contented that's missing a small spot for me, which for illustration they did person successful Manchester, is simply a spot much nightlife - sometimes I bash privation to spell to a nightclub oregon something.

“It's calmer successful Hove than Brighton. I conjecture there’s besides rather a batch of families here, truthful that's rather nice. For example, I bash person a barroom extracurricular of my surviving area, and they're truly respectful with radical who unrecorded astir them.

“Another bully happening is the information here, I've ne'er had to look astir erstwhile I locomotion successful the evenings oregon nights oregon I consciousness safe.”

The probe concluded that Britain’s astir desirable spot to unrecorded is York, followed by Nottingham, Blackpool, Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne.

It said the slightest desirable spot to unrecorded is Slough, followed by Luton, Hove, Basildon and Gillingham.