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Best and Worst in Chichester, West Sussex*

Chichester, West Sussex Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• chruch
• New Park Community Centre
• Not a building as such, but the Bishops Palace gardens are always really pretty in summer. Though don't venture too far off the path - it's always easy to stumble stumble in the way of frantically making-out couples if you go too far behind the bushes!
• Has to be the terrace on Little London. Divine
• The City Cross. In the centre of the City where they used to host the market. Now a part of the part/pedestrianised area and a spot popular with young people, the homeless, and those that want to spread the word of Ganja!!!!
• Pallant House / Cathedral / Metro House (only kidding folks!)
• The cathedral spire, which towers above the city as you arrive from any direction
• Chichester multi storey (great for a skate)
• Chichester Cathedral's
• County Hall. A fine 1930's building, with nice gardens. Provides employment for hundreds in Chichester (many thousands elsewhere in West Sussex) doing very worthwhile community-focussed jobs. Chichester should be PROUD of being the County Town.
• Nat West Bank is Beautiful. So are many of the older buildings in the city.
• Cathedral- you can see it from everywhere especially nice from the top of the trundle

Demolish It Now Building

• Cathedral
• the toad.
• The sk8 park and rebuild it with BMXers in mind.
• MAFF building by bend in St John's Road
• The dirty bus and train stations are fairly horrible, as are most of the buildings at the end on South street from the jobcentre onwards.
• Chi College entrance hall with rubbish V shaped structure on top. typical Sixties concrete waste of space and materials
• Metro House!
• Chichester High School or Mcdonalds
• The building behind the Jobcentre in the Ave De`Chartres. I think it`s called the `Inland Revenue`.
• The TESCO store next to Nat West Bank, East St. is so ugly.
• Multi storey - crap kind of castle design - won awards so it must be crap
• County Hall.

The Best Things

• skating in summer, smoking. fighting wankers!
• La Havanna Bar, And the A27, cos it leads to brighton.
• The city and surrounding area are extremely nice
• The fact that you can still find a few "one off" shopsi.e.not parrt of chains, although this is slowing getting less common
• Cisestrians leave themselves open to all the claims of racism,homophobia,general spoilsport, because they are so up themselves they dare not blow their noses! but it means that to the rest of us they are very FAIR GAME!!!
• WE'RE NOT ALL SNOBS. I CAME HERE 7 YRS AGO, FROM LIVERPOOL, AND IT WAS A BIT OF A CULTURE SHOCK! JUST BEWARE THE CHI BORN AND BREDS, APART FROM THTA, WE ARE OK! HONEST!
• Pedestrian zones in the centre, good atmosphere, cheap food and friendly people.
• It is, at times, a cultured and gentile place that kind of reminds you that we have alot to be thankful for in this country. It is a beautiful old roman England town, full of splendour and small pleasant surprises.
• It's called SLOE fair bcos its held at the time when sloe berries are ripe.
• Real Ale & Jazz Festival - 4 days in July.... Chichester Festivities
• Slow Fair, Boot sales, Pubs, People.
• Chi` harbour is home to over 11,000 boats!!!! Chi` marina holds 1100 boats. Most of these boats don`t move. The ones that do mostly go only to East Head on a really nice day so that leaves about 2% that actually venture out of the harbour to maybe the Isle of Wight or over to Cherbourg for cheap booze.
• Excuse me, where are these 'well educated,. wealthier people' who are so good for the area? Most of them are posers with no money or brains, who behave aggressively and rudely and think they are wonderful. The area would be better off without them.
• The countryside is nice, as are parts of the city.. just a pity about the people who live there. Stupid, snobbish racists.
• It has well-educated wealthier people who band together and increase the average wealth of an area.
• No traffic jams, even in rush hour. A small city is easy to enjoy. The people are friendlier than in any other large town or city that I have visited. The open spaces are well kept and there are so many places locally to enjoy. Unless you are an immature moron who does not know how to entertain yourself and need everything to be handed to you on a plate. Open country and open water are all to be found nearby. Good shops, museums and pubs. An excellent provincial theatre,(very expensive at full price for seats but excellent value for students),the Festival Theatre and the Minerva Theatre cater for all tastes,(morons excepted).There is an excellent Market on Weds and Sats and a good car boot sale at the Rail Station on Suns
• The beautiful college girls (Chi has 2 colleges, mostly female.. they're stunning.. the girls, not the colleges)
• The girls round Chichester. Chi is full of 16 to 20 year old beauties, with lovely bodies. Oh, and most are really nice to talk to as well
• Knowing just about everyone cos it is so small
• The best thing about Chichester is that it isn't Waterlooville or Portsmouth, and has got more shops and beautiful people than Petersfield. In fact it's a pretty typical Cathedral city.

The Worst Things

• townie's annoying skaters who ask "can u have my brother":) hehe
• Some of the arrogant prats who live in Chichester... the old farts who push you out of the way in Smiths, the brainless idiots in 4 wheel drives who think it makes them look good, the stupid cows who wear sunglasses all year and who possess an arrogant, sneering expression
• The conservatism of the place The prices
• If you are under 60 ther is zilch for you to do,like most south coast councils, Chichester believes that no one should have fun until they are old enough to play bowls.
• UM, THE BORN-AND BREDS OF CHI! BEWARE
• Those selfish, stupid women who wear sunglasses on the top of their heads winter or summer, cloudy or bright.
• Lots of townies (though they're now being outnumbered by vast numbers of nirvana-loving hoodie-wearing 10 year olds, damn them to hell.) Bus service dirty and not always reliable, though okay as a last resort.
• Moaners. Basically apathy and moaning are a West Sussex pasttime. They engage in bickering and criticism and never get off their backsides to do anything about anything. Snobbery and reverse snobbery abound. I have lived in the area all my life and I must be one of the few people I know who doesn't engage in the instantaneous judgemental spasm that passes for a point of view of a Cicestrian
• The annoying people who all wear hoodies in town. They think they are so cool and hip because they like Limp Bizkit and Korn. They like to call themselves 'Grungers'. New skaters, related to the grungers, they can talk the talk and are getting in the way of the more experienced skaters who actually can skate, and don't just have the board as a fashion accessory.
• You go on bout theses middle class women-but its everyone-and i mean EVERYONE in Chi thats acts in that kind of way-from young to old-if people from chichester cared less bout how they looked-theyd be a lot friendliiier and happier bunch-its a shallow place really
• Townies, Grungers, Goths
• Too much rain.
• The breed of folk who retire here from the city and then try to change things. E.G. the airdrome and motor circuit have been here long before them so why buy a house on that side of town and then campaign to have them silenced?
• There are more mean minded people in the Chichester area than anywhere else I can think of, who are ready to engage in malicious gossip and rumour mongering against others. It's not those who have moved into the area in general: it's the people who have been in the area all their lives, the uneducated types. Nasty, very nasty indeed.
• the only club (thursdays) is a minimum four quid cab ride away
• The stupid women who walk about with glasses on the top of their heads, trying to look as if they're upper class Sloane Rangers. Most of them have no money, and even fewer brains. Self regarding, pitiful fakes all. The National Front would do well to set up a branch in the Chichester area: there are so many racists of all ages around who hate black people, Asians, people from France, Germans, Welsh, Scots, people from Hampshire, Hertfordshire, basically anyone not born in the Chi area.. I kid you not. They're all thick and stupid, and it shows so clearly.
• The stupid middle aged female frumps who speak with artificially 'posh' accents, wear sunglasses on the top of their heads at all times of the year and who think they're really special. Chi is full of the silly old bags
• The prats in their four wheel drive vehicles who think it makes them look rich, and who never take the things anywhere except to the shops and on the school run
• Traffic Wardens,the queue at Mc D's,and of mcourse the mindless morons who don't appaer to have a brain cell between them.
• The arrogant middle aged wallies who live around Chi The silly old fools who drive at about 10 mph everywhere The wifebeater who lives in West Ashling
• Some of the arrogant snobs who live around the area. Most have no money or brains, and it shows so clearly.
• Thick, smug people who think they are wonderful.. Chi has more than its fair share
• If you don't know people they can be a bit crappy Fights between munchkins on Friday nights when all the 14 year olds go drinking Big town families with long histories of doing each other over

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