Hastings, the new Shangri-La for London’s vulture lower investment class

Is Hastings Old Town a nice place to live or is Hastings Old Town rough?

With each new article in The Guardian, there’s more of them. Down-from-London (DFL) types or F.I.L.T.H (Failed in London Try Hastings), wandering around the Old Town at weekends, peering in John Bray & Son’s window after visiting the Jerwood Gallery. Their first visit to what they see as a quaint fishing village, with actual working […]

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Shipley, West Yorkshire – It’s just dire

Is Shipley a nice place to live or is Shipley rough?

The Bradfordian author Robert Swindells once wrote a novel called ‘Brother in the Land’. Set in a post apocalyptic Shipley things looked pretty bleak. If you were to visit today you would be forgiven for thinking that this depressing tome is anything but a work of nonfiction. Shipley is a small nowhere town on the […]

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