No, it's a shithole.Article in the Telegraph today... The young folk are moving there, hipster cafes, seafront renovation ?
Is it true? I largely know it for donkey rides and the seafront putting course. The town itself was always shite..
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A place can be more than one thing at the same time, though. Hastings is like that. There is a lot of poverty and there are a lot of people with addiction problems. But it's also a place where interesting stuff does happen, and it has improved in recent years.No, it's a shithole.
I mean there are nice people that live there, ofc, but it is a dead end town with a lot of poverty and a lot of people with addiction problems![]()
I went there as a kid and all I remember is the donkeys. Are they still there?
No…Is it true? …
By leaving?I saw a presentation a couple of years ago from someone at the Arts University who had moved to Bournemouth from Weston and claimed to have turned round the fortunes of Weston using 'art'. I can't quite remember how though.
This is the problem. New people move in somewhere and landlords/home owners see pound signs.Rents gone up a lot there recently which is usually sign.
It can certainly improve. I hope it does.A place can be more than one thing at the same time, though. Hastings is like that. There is a lot of poverty and there are a lot of people with addiction problems. But it's also a place where interesting stuff does happen, and it has improved in recent years.
Whatever Weston was or is, it can change and improve.
Shit thing is that I'd wager The Torygraph's angle has to do with fucking house prices. 'Doing a Brighton' afaict mostly means 'becoming unaffordable to live in'.
There you go. All about fucking house prices. Fucking Telegraph.
A place can be more than one thing at the same time, though. Hastings is like that. There is a lot of poverty and there are a lot of people with addiction problems. But it's also a place where interesting stuff does happen, and it has improved in recent years.
Whatever Weston was or is, it can change and improve.
Maybe. That was mostly the logic applied to Hastings 20 years ago. Brighton is now stupid expensive, and it's just up the coast, commuting distance, affordable (exact same history of dumping people there).It was always going to happen when Bristol became such a popular place - Bristol is now one of the most desirable (quite legitimately imv..) cities to live and work in in the UK, and there's a seaside resort half an hour down the motorway. Weston has its problems (which, let's be frank, is massively increased by every council within 50 miles dumping their 'problem children' in Weston because it's cheap) - as Weston becomes more desirable and the rents those councils have to pay goes up, they'll find somewhere else. Merthyr? Pontypool?
The amount of money that will be on offer means that it will be worth whatever investment is needed to build swanky gaffs and rip down the shitty bits of the town centre.
It had a boardgame cafe that shut over a year ago as the cost of living crisis bit over that rough winter of price hikes in energy. They hostda couple of radical bookshop events and the owners were really nice. Shame.Bit more from a young Bristolian recently moved to Weston:
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Never bored - sounds great! Does it have a good bookshop now?