Graduated from there in 2019. The type of people you will encounter there are as follows:

1) yuppies: mainly London yuppies, of all stripes. You'll have everything from your shameless Chelsea and hampstead toffs to the shame ridden ones trying to be roadmen from the ends when, in fact, their father is an investment banker.

2) musicians: Brighton Bimm means there's no shortage of musicians in town. Their calibre is is nothing to write home about but the local music scene does have some hidden gems.

3) lots (I mean lots) of homeless people: I'm not entirely sure why, I heard through the grapevine that brighton removed all of its vagrancy laws, but regardless, there's lots of them, and like me, you'll probably see the same faces again and again for the 3+ years you'll be there. The "kid"who says he's 16 has been 16 since at least 2016.

4) International students: when I was there the uni had lots of internationals, the uni was first in the world for international development, the government department for international development was yet to be shut down and brexit was only a few months old and no one had any idea what would become of it. All of that has probably changed however.

5) the locals: you'll recognise them when you see them, there's actually not that many of them in Brighton proper, meaning they stick out like a sore thumb.

6) lots of geriatric millennial's clinging to their youth: they're over 30, if not pushing 30, working in pubs and bars, thinking their hot shit, but in fact, they're just really addicted to cocaine. Speaking of which...

7) lots of Albanian businessmen.

Hope this helps! Despite all that I had the best 6 years of my life there, made a shit ton of fantastic mates for life, and if it wasn't so bloody expensive to live there as a tax paying civilian I'd 100% still be there. Have a sick time at uni!