The Idler

Burgess Hill

Nestled in the heart of rural Mid Sussex lies Burgess Hill.

I grew up in a nearby village and shopping trips with the family often involved a trip there, though God knows why. A few years ago, they built a snazzy new shopping centre, but failed to

even half fill it with shops for the first two or three years. As I grew up and made friends who lived there, we would occasionally take our lives into our hands and visit a local pub or two. I can honestly say that, having been to nearly every one of them over the years, they are ALL crap, filled with overweight, back street hard nuts, just gagging to rip your head off and shit in the hole. Suffice to say, all the people I knew who lived there, moved away as soon as they were able. To make matters even worse, Burgess Hill is expanding as they build more and more faceless housing estates.

The town is now threatening to swallow up the surrounding villages, villages which have rich histories and which have for years slept soundly in the knowledge that they are separate entities. Pity these poor souls, for theirs is a terrible fate.

Richard Cutler

THERE�S NO DEFENCE

It’s pointless even having the “defend Burgess Hill” option available.

No-one who has ever been could raise even the slightest doubt that Burgess Hill is the epicentre of all that is bad about Britain, and I lived there for eighteen long years, I should know.

Neighbouring Haywards Heath is also so unbelievably horrible that some of the residents designed a website, which must have taken hundreds of man hours, bemoaning it’s total lack of any features which might make it ‘liveable’ (see http://www.thisishaywardsheath.com )

Simon Duck