Brighton is a busy, noisy, slum of a place. Wedding cake facades hide decrepit buildings made of rubble. Disgusting poverty sits alongside incredible affluence. The young student population lives cheek by jowl with retired and elderly people. The rich live in the same road as the poor.
Little palaces sit next to the many hovels unfit for human habitation.
A few bigots and racists live here as do thousands of wonderful people from all parts of the world. Millions of tourists visit each year from every continent. The most exotic cliques happily mix with the mundane anoraks. If you have money there is too much to do. It has the largest homeless population of any UK city ouside London yet it is one of the richest towns in Europe.