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In a country literally desperate for new homes, to see so many empty and boarded up is insane
would you want to live there?
Far too many coming into this country!!!
@@Steve_1208Nothing really to do with that, it's decades of government incompetence, not building enough new builds and even less affordable ones, cutting council budgets constantly, no investing in infrastructure and many other factors, there's abandoned houses/streets and even whole towns sitting empty and forgotten. If you educated yourself in something more than bigotry you'd know that.
@@Steve_1208Yeah keep blaming immigrants, it's exactly what the government wants you to do, good boy
FYI, it’s called the “black country” because it’s where they used to mine coal.
I Rememeber when people wanted to ban the flag because of the chain links and "slavery".
Eejits
It's called the black country because they used to mine coal. You forgot it's also the area where they used to mine iron ore and make steel chain and other blacksmith ironmongery it was the first area to start the industrial revolution
The black country was so called because of the black dust everywhere during the day and the sky being red from the forges at night time it was heavily industrialised
I personally love the way the black country is proud of their history and identity and that it can be seen in people flying the flag.
I was always told that it was because all the buildings were black from the pollution of ALL the heavy industry there. After all, the north-east was one of, if not the biggest mining area of England, hence a futile task being likened to "taking coal to Newcastle". The building were so black in the black country, that a species of moth, normally speckled for camouflage, evolved a black sub-species.
Bin collections have been reduced to every three weeks four in some areas local policies encouraging fly tipping.
I think the most shocking thing is the cost of housing, even in areas like these! UK house prices are seriously out of control.
I could not believe that either. That's more than good/clean houses/areas where I live in the country up north.
Very much so how can it cost this much to live in such a pigsty? House prices are looney here, people are been played like a fiddle
And this is ONLY the 25th most deprived area ! Just think what the other 24 look like !!
"It felt dangerous; it smelt dangerous"
Nice little turn of phrase from the lad there
In 1968 I met a lad at my local club in Birmingham. I was 17 He was 19. He was a really nice person and we got on well. We spent a lot of time together, and I knew he was from the Black Country because he had quite a strong accent, but he never said exactly where he lived.... He eventually told me that he lived in the Pleck which was notorious for being a really bad place to live.
He hated living there and told me he had enlisted in the Royal Navy and was leaving soon... I've no idea what that area is like now but I suspect not much has changed.
I used to shop in Walsall Town centre in the 80s and it was a thriving market town,this is sad that it has deteriorated like this.
Every country has places like this I've learned from a fair bit of travelling, no hate felt!
Joel just to let you know, i wont say the estate, but im in the northeast england, not to far away from me is an estate, this video said if you want a fix and upper 160k, if i tell you, that they tried to sell these houses, in the village, a ex mining village for £1.00 $1.50 and they could not sell them, yeah joel i mean 1 quid, its not a typo
I'm down in Devon, but there are places up in Northumbria that make this place seem like a holiday park. The kind of places you get bricks through your windows for not being a local.
You talking about Horden. I also live in Durham so I know Horden. They have sold houses off for £1 in other places too such as some areas of Liverpool. Although typically the catch is that the buyer agrees to refurbish them inside
Hetton le hole?
Oh right horden lol. I live in Sunderland so I can vouch for that
Yeah someone recently made a video there who travels the world and said that the living standards there are no different from what you’d find in third world countries lol
Hi from Walsall! (pronounced "Worsull", and Caldmore is pronounced "Karma")
There's 260,000 people in the Borough, and there's posh bits as well as these dodgy parts.
I've been involved with the local construction industry for the past 30 years. The whole of that time has featured disused factories being knocked down and replaced with housing. What are all these people going to do for jobs? Can a country survive if it doesn't actually make anything?
Joel out here looking like a cool football player.
good to see the beard making a partial return. i really think it suits him
It's quite sad, really. I grew up in a town near walsall within the black country. Spent most of my life there living on a council estate. I now live on the opposite side of england in east anglia. I go back every now and then to visit family. It's so sad driving through the areas i used to live. There was a good community feel to these areas 20 years ago. Now people dont care, and it shows. The place looks like an absolute dunp now, and it makes me sad. Although it was a council estate, people used to take care of things, and now everything is run down.
Completely agree. I have lived around Brierley Hill and Dudley all my life and cannot get away soon enough now I have a young family. It is so sad to drive through Dudley and Brierley Hill town centres and see how they are now and how the general area is going down hill. Even the Merry Hill centre is a bit of a dump now. Also it has some of the worse air pollution in the country! When I was a kid there was always perhaps just one really poor family/run down house on the estate but that would be it and like you say there was much more of a community spirit
It’s so sad
I lived in Walsall ( nearer the centre ) in the 70's for about 2 years. It was a great place to live. He is filming a bit further out and the properties are rented out by private landlords but having said that it does look bad, worse than i remember.
It's brutal now mate. Like.....worse than brum. So gross.
I live in a small village 30 mins away from Walsall, its the people who live there not the place, i am not aware of those particular streets but the places i do know aren't that bad not even the town itself ( everywhere still has shops closed down due to when covid hit and the economy crisis ) so thats to be expected.
The rubbish problem has got worse over the years because bin men won't take it, so people employ ( a man with a van ) usually cheap ones and instead of taking it to the tip they dump it anywhere.
The village i live in has a good community with volunteers who do litter picking and take things to the tip for free, a local scrap man picks things up if you call him.
We have a low crime rate and still enjoy a carnival, school fate's, church bric a brac days, poppy day parades, etc.
I can walk the street at night without feeling fear.
It also depends on where illegal immigrants have been housed because they have no respect for our country or heritage.
So please dont think everywhere is like this Walsall and the black County is a big place the video shows 2 streets and social media doesn't help.
This man doing this video isn't local ( no accent ) he has come in done a video and gone, to get a full picture you need the good and bad Walsall is not the worst by any means.
💯% agree with what say about fly tipping and immigration...I visit the carnival every year .but sadly i see your village slowly changing for the worse too.
The depravation shown here is similar to that which exploded locally to me when the Meadowell Estate riots occurred. Those living there at the time made their feelings known to authority figures because they simply weren't happy. Fly tipping, no collection of waste, inadequate policing (at the time), high local taxes and other things all contributed. A lot of damage was done and took quite a while to clean up.
Admittedly, it wasn't just the locals rioting as people from other areas bussed themselves in to cause trouble. Order was restored eventually but the riots live long in the memory.
30 years ago I lived a couple of hundred metres from there, and it was always a mixed experience, the worst experience of all was a nearby house where an ice cream van business was based, as their cold store used to cause interference on the telly when it kicked in... Caldmore is an interesting area, as locals don't pronounce it as in the video... And it's a way to identify a local, as locals call it "Karmer" and I think it was the A34 murders that calling it that was a huge clue in finding the murderer... Caldmore also used to be where Walsall tax office used to be, and the car park was apparently the second most secure tax office car park in the UK (the most secure was the one in Cardiff, where the MP tax records were) as there were huge problems with prostitutes using the streets of Caldmore for their trade... An idea of the real Caldmore can be found in a book called "Kiss Me Softly Amy Turtle"... The naming of the Black Country is disputed, but the most consistent one is about a coal field, but the area (and surrounds) were described as "sky black by day and red by night" from the Victorian era until the 70s.
As for the video... It seems to be the very worst of the very worst that has made it to screen. The leather industry in Walsall included the manufacturer of the late Queen's handbags, and the leather museum in Walsall is less than a mile from Caldmore.
Please do come back to Birmingham, and do reach out to us locals who can show you a better version of the region. I wrote a lengthy post on your taken down Birmingham video reaching out to make your next visit better, and my offer still stands. Best wishes, Richard from Wolverhampton
Britains roughest estate was in Liverpool Booth or Boot Estate where they blow up the bus when it passed by and harassment of old ladies in their luxury council house.
I always believe it’s not the place or area that are bad, it’s the local authority and some of the residents who reside in these areas are the problem some people really do NOT care where they live, but love causing misery to others, unruly gangs of young adults, noisy residents who don’t care, there are other issues that cause issues in these areas which can be lack of investment from local government/council, or them not giving a rats ass about that particular area, huge poverty gaps, lack of employment or opportunities, various serious violent crimes which never seem to get reported or investigated, this scenario is huge across the country, I’m from Birmingham about 10 miles south of Walsall and parts of it are same as Walsall, areas like Small Heath, Bordesley, Bordesley Green, Alum Rock, Sparkhill, Sparkbrook, Hay Mills, these are the parts of Birmingham that I know of as I come from one of those areas, it totally embarrassing to say to visitors this is my city and this is the area I come from, no matter how much you complain to Birmingham City Council about social issues it just falls on deaf ears sadly, yet they still take council tax and it’s a total shit hole, it’s like what the hell where does that money go? As you may have heard Birmingham City Council went bankrupt in September 23 due to its own financial errors, in March 24 huge massive cuts of £300m were announced which will effect all the residents of Birmingham Council, with Council Tax rising 10% on all bands in April 2024 and 11% in 2025, they have also virtually wiped out all funding for “Fly Tipping” and Arts and Theatres, Bin Collections going once fortnightly, there are other cuts along the board and more to come it’s not looking very good at all! I’m sure this will happen across most local authorities across the UK, but Birmingham City Council one of the biggest council or the biggest in Europe is hit the hardest!
Nice shirt
I live in Stourbridge in the Black Country (where Jude Bellingham is from), and I'm proud of our heritage. Some of Peaky Blinders was filmed at the Black Country Museum, which is a fab place to visit. It might not always be the prettiest of places, and we have an interesting accent.... but I find that Black Country people are the friendliest! It's called the Black Country because of the smoke and soot which was produced from local industries. We even have our own flag! 😊
That wasn't the crime rate for Walsall, that was the crime rate for that small neighbourhood of a couple of streets.
People complaining this isnt England obviously havent grown up working class or been around lower working class areas.
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It's always looked like this since the 80s. It was worse in the 90s/2000s. England will always be like this because it's England
I grew up working class in a council house in the North East and this is most certainly not indicative of how I grew up. Yes of course there will be rougher areas and hideous places, always was, but it certainly not typical of all working class council house estates. My Dad always worked from open cast mining to bus driving to motor mechanic and certainly didn't have much cash coming in but we had a good life. Criminality taking over in some places now because Police are underfunded and not doing what they are paid for. Council houses that haven't been bought up over the years are being taken over by people who don't deserve them and there should be laws across the country that if you don't look after your immediate area and clean up you should be evicted.
Yes unfortunately it is England . It doesn't matter what they are given they will destroy it .
I grew up on a council estate in London in the 70s/80s and it was never like that
The people who live in these areas are to blame.
If you don't work, you get a free house and money. They're not poor, just scummy.
Nobody forces them to live in shit, it's all of their own doing.
its not everyone who lives in these areas but some of the nasty people that are put there make it hell for everyone else.
Lots of hard working people live in blakenall.its years and years of councils not acting and removing bad tenants .plus over the last couple of years blakenall has had more than its fair share of imagination which is making the problems worse
@Lee-rp3jr spot on and it's a shame . I have seen many areas go down from bad people being shoved in these areas and immigration where people just throw trash on streets.
Even in London where some people think the whole place is paved with gold, we have our fair share of rough areas and estates - their ten a penny across the UK
I spoke to a woman that had travelled throughout Europe and even further afield and she told me that most other cities on the continent were cleaner than British cities and there wasn’t the same problem with litter, people seemed to take better care of things
London is a hell hole
@@cultfiction3865 they never used to be. It's the people living there now that's the problem.
LOL, who thinks London is paved with gold?!?!
London is paved with human excrement, literally, for the majority of it. Terrible place.
@@corporealcasimir4885 can tell you've certainly never been there
I moved to the West Midlands over 20 years ago, and I found Black Country people to be warm-hearted and welcoming, though as this video highlights, there are some scary places too, and that's putting it mildly. Our whole country faces growing problems with social and economic deprivation, and this is creating a huge public health problem, which I'm not sure all Britons are acutely aware of. That said, the West Midlands has a rich, intriguing history, and you really need someone with plenty of local knowledge to guide you around.
Some will say I'm wrong but, many of our city councils have run out of money now. A few are declaring bankruptcy. This is a direct result of under investment from the government. Some will say councils waste money but I work in local government and it is not that simple. Why is a supposedly rich country failing so many of it's populus? I'm not clever enough to have an answer but I do have to see and manage some of the results. Many do the same. Day after day. It's exhausting and depressing - another reason why there are not enough good people to do a shitty job. 😕 My two penn'orth x
Some councils make ridiculous unwise big investments in shopping centres and dodgy schemes.
You can always tell about an area from the litter. Not just a few sweet/candy wrappers blowing around, but when it's trodden in in layers, you know nobody cares. And when you see old mattresses and sofas in front gardens/yards, and broken or boarded up windows you know it's very bad. Next you'll see shady, hooded youths with trophy dogs lurking on street corners. At that point, it's best to turn round and get out fast.
Actually im glad you are looking at this sort of thing, too many people just look at nice things. Things to consider is the local councils are underfunded so normal rubbish collections are infrequent encouraging fly tipping, the cutting of police funds has not helped. Aome councils are going bankrupt due to central government cuts.
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I don't wanna tar everyone with the same brush but the fly tipping always seems to be massive in asian communities. Even in yorkshire we have beautiful green hills and every so often you will come across a town or street even that seems to not want to use a bin ffs 😅
4.14 the media you talk about would be local newspapers reporting on local issues for local people so it is relevant. The UK government used to call this 'enrichment' but soon stopped after realising what 'enrichment' brought to the UK
To put the danger aspect in context, I checked Baltimore' s homicide rate, it has fallen on the latest figures to 46 per hundred thousand. Walsall's has gone up to 1.4 per 100,000. Last year there were four people killed instead of 3 the year before in a district of 280,000 people.
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So true. New York is one of US safest states and even that has 4 times the murder rate of London. Go a little further south to Philadelphia and that becomes 22 times the murder rate. I’m sure Walsall is a scruffy hole but probably about as dangerous as a Chihuahua
America has a whole different level of violence.
Many places out there are like war zones.
It needs the police, council and community to change it around. It's been done before. I noticed a New Deal improvement sign. New Deal was to blame for the demise of an area of my town. Private landlords from the south, bought houses and put unsavoury tenants in them. It didn't take long for good streets to places nobody wanted to live. It's improving slowly.. as house prices and rent grows, people are buying and renting streets around the bad areas. There's volunteers that pick litter, the council clear back alleys regularly and the police have a high presence.
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr.Blue Sky - Four Little Diamonds - Don’t Bring Me Down - Living Thing - Turn To Stone… all great songs
Joel, if you freeze the video at around 05:00 , the brick rubble and fences match your fireplace in your room against the insert box. This makes it seem like your whole room is rubble!! Ha, well that's what I saw & it made me 😂😂😂😂
I've walked on Google through the highest crime rate public housing project (UK estate) in the So Bronx). The grounds were clean. I visited on Google multiple times.
There's to many areas like this, there is no detterernts anymore,soft sentences,and the yobs just laugh, fortunately these areas are not the majority,l live 30 miles east of London in the Thames estuary and here in Benfleet Essex it's pretty good.
There are some very affluent areas in Walsall houses with 5 and 6+ bedrooms. These 2 areas are indeed very rough and I as a Walsall resident choose not to visit them. The way Caldmore was pronounced actually was key in finding a murderer decades ago. It is actually pronounced calmer and led to the hunt for a murderer being focused on people and places who would know this.
I myself have worked for decades in an area of Birmingham called Handsworth and it has a very bad reputation not least of which is the starting place for two riots over the years. It has an area called Handsworthwood where houses with 10+ bedrooms exist. As you say everywhere has it's bad sides but the media publicise towns focusing on the bad parts.
I still can’t believe you went to visit Digbeth in Birmingham!
Travelled all of that way to walk around an old Victorian industrial estate!
You missed all of the nice areas and places in Birmingham.
Which I imagine has reduced your option of Birmingham 😔
He walked out of New Street in a random direction, around Digbeth industrial estates and back to the station. I couldn't help but laugh. (I used to go to the Custard Factory quite a bit from here in Cov)
I went to Walsall for the Mercedes dealership. Felt so weird to have a Mercedes dealer there tbh, I was surprised how much fly tipping there was
In all my 65 years living in the UK and visiting lots of places around the country I've never seen any areas as bad as this. This is sad, of course, and worrying, but areas can be transformed and revived. The Kings Cross area in London used to be very seedy, run-down and a notorious red light district. Over the last 20 years it has been transformed into a modern vibrant area that is thriving, clean and uplifting. Let's hope the same can be achieved in these places.
Aayy love the shirt, hope to see you get involved (if you can) with the Euro’s this summer! Another great video
A lot of the UK is heading this way now.
Society doesn't seem to care much anymore.
Only where you are.
@@pyeltd.5457 I don't think it is only where I am. I live in Southampton and it's pretty bad, then if you look at Portsmouth down the road, it's just, so is Plymouth, and the list goes on.
@@Holcroft1969it was heading this way since the 80s/90s and some are doing a very slow turn around like Dartford Town which was at its peak in poverty in the 2000s.
@@pyeltd.5457 Certainly it seems to be getting worse by the day.
Where my Mum lives just down the road from me, it was always considered a nice fairly affluent area sort like Suburbia (always kept up together).
Her old next door neighbour Ken used to make his own bricks and make his own fence panels just to make it look lovely and uniform.
Since he's died it's been taken over by a guy who doesn't live there but he rents it out to loads of Labourers and Scaffolders who just get drunk and smoke weed.
A few years back, one of the people living in there tossed a used condom over the wall on to Mum and Dads garden, and he broke a load of the rear bedroom windows which still haven't been fixed to this day.
The UK is in a downward spiral and it's just getting worse by the day.
I lived and worked in Lincoln UK as an assistant warden of a probation hostel. One day we went to a clients house to pick him up as he was running late for our summer holiday camp.
I could not belirve the living conditions of the estate there was mud from one side of the street to the other, no gardens or fences just mud from one side of the street to the other.
I find it amazing that I'm continually told I live in one of the most deprived places in western Europe, Belfast West and there is Nowhere as bad as this 🤔
Not now, but back in the '70's and '80's it was Hell on Earth, I'm in Derry/Londonderry, so I know you know what I'm talking about.
I`ve seen some bad places in Mexico City. If these youths think they`re tough, let them be tough in La Merced Market. `Interesting thing about Bookies : You never find them in relatively affluent areas. They`re always on `Loser` Street, offering hope that gambling is the way to wealth.
I live in blakenall walsall and trust me it’s not that bad best place I’ve ever lived
It's not a dangerous area, it's just run down and scruffy.
Exactly. Soft as shit there it’s not dangerous
Yeah there pussy cats just surviving life.
I live on the border of Walsall and brum, believe me, brum is way much worse than Walsall, especially in brum Town centre!!
it's good to see you being unbiased and looking at it abjectly, the UK does have quite a few of these areas usually in post industrial areas that have seen economic decline just as the USA does. what you have seen here is the UK equivalent to a ghetto you'd find in the US, unlimited immigration really has stretched some of these areas to breaking point that is just the reality of it. the UK is a safer country than most industrialised economies but the areas that are bad are usually very bad.
As bad as it looks, it's still way better than America. Kensington ave alone beats the whole of the UK😂😂
Always appreciate your unbiased views in your videos man. Enjoy watching, respect from the UK.
I live in Stafford and wallsal is soo not dangerous not as much as the media... 😂
Hi from the UK! I live in Blakenall, have done for 11 years now. It has its moments 😂 I've never had issues here but there are certain streets that are hot spots for trouble. My daughter goes to a school in Blakenall. There are definitely families I avoid but generally it's a brilliant school. There are so many stories I could tell you 😂
Oh great. My hometown, Middlesbrough, is also more than double the UK average crime rate :(
Edit: Ah, I searched a little more and found that we're considered the 2nd most dangerous place in the UK.
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@@call_in_sick Ahahahah UTFB
I’ve never been to Walsall but I’ve seen a lot of these videos describing certain towns in Britain as rough and dangerous even though it’s really just the media sensationalising things. There are scruffy, depressing areas in Britain but I’m not aware of anywhere especially dangerous. Many here think that London can be dangerous yet, in relative terms it’s very safe. Chicago has 18 times the murder rate of London and Philadelphia has 22 times the murder rate of London. So when these videos call Walsall dangerous, it’s all relative.
If you wondered about countries with no rough areas I’d say take a look at Switzerland cos I’m not aware of any bad areas there. And even countries like Norway and France probably don’t have many bad places either.
I wouldn't feel safe walking around the banlieus of Paris or Marseilles by myself late at night.
@@daviddavis7710 I would. As long as you treat those around you with respect there’s no reason for a problem. I’d imagine that’s true for most places
The Banlieus around Paris are frightening. Some are no go zones even for the police.
France has them all. It's huge.
@@gdok6088 There might be some around the major cities like Paris. But I’m not aware of any bad areas in Switzerland
Just driving through these areas even if you dont know nothing about ithe area you will feel it it feels dark please I dont think it be wise you walk through you are a lovely young man it just takes one to get you and the rest will be there ❤❤❤❤❤ stay safe my friend ❤
It's such a shame, apart from the grotesque high rise flats (apartments for the US), the houses are decent. Unfortunately, as they are empty, the expected income via council tax is non existent. Earnings are low, unemployment is high and government funding has been reduced - all these factor into a poor economic state.
It also has to be said that clusters of angry, disillusioned, poverty stricken and definitely forgotten groups of people, do not function with hope/respect or pride. The residents cannot "turn these events around". The government MUST intervene, alongside contractors (as they did in Salford, Manchester), and togther, rejuvenate these areas as well as introducing employment opportunities.
Please, do not put the blame soley on the residents - they are the victims.
Amount of betting shops in so called “bad areas” is always a joke to me, go somewhere like Bromley & will see barely any, but go somewhere like Sydenham or Penge & will see so many
knife crime is bad espeically in those areas of the uk, but americas knife crime is still worse per capita its just not under the spotlight because of the gun crime
Thanks for your as usual fair-minded approach, Joel. I suppose "alienation" is the key word here; people just not feeling invested in the area in which they live and once the cycle of deprivation sets in, it tends to be a rapid downhill spiral. It is sad. My own view is that 10 years plus of Tory government, with the associated disinvestment from social spending have much to answer for. There are places that are different with no situations like this. Japan is a shining example of a society with a strong public conscience but also Hong Kong and Taiwan as I last experienced them. Cheers
Not just the Tory government Labour was in power in the 70s and some areas were bad even then.
Lmao as if labour are any better. 😅
I used to visit Walsall a lot for work, I don't remember it being like this.
I lost my friend a few years back not far from here, Bartley Green. He was 53. Stabbed by a 19 year old outside his own house
People just don't care, my very poor relations who lived in the 18/1900s in London, no money, no indoor water but they kept themselves and the place place spotless....no excuse.
Good to see you wearing a England shirt 👍
Be interesting to see Americas worst.
I've watch a few videos on the so called "worst" and its hard to choose.
It's a completely diffrent level, makes ours look like disney land 😂
Oh boy, why did it have to be near Birmingham?!! 🤪
Joel, I agree with your comments. Beware of media labelling neighbourhoods as good or bad. Dominic
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Knife crime is still higher in the US. Although not much consolation for those that are stabbed here.
But I'd take on someone with a knife over someone with a gun any day.
Thankfully I live in a quiet little English village, and not some hole of a city, so it doesn't affect me anyway.
I haven't watched the video yet so am commenting blindly, if that makes sense, but I believe that poverty in Britain at least is a political choice.
What we're seeing is the result of years of underfunding, of cutting social, policing, education and health services to the bone before selling them to the highest bidder.
People, especially vulnerable people, are falling through the cracks and then being blamed for the problems that poverty brings.
Things will not improve until those at the very top change their mindset because as a country we can afford properly funded public services; our gov't is actively choosing to siphon it off into their own pockets instead.
The government has reduced bin collections and bin size. What a great idea 🤦🏻♀️
Liverpool, Bradford and NW London are a lot worse than the Areas described in that video!!
3:14 even the toddlers are a dab hand at GTA or TWOC crime around Walsall
I live just down the road from blakenall, I don’t think it’s that bad 😂
a lot of these areas have been run down for a long long time, poverty and crime go hand in hand with drugs, and low education.
Interesting choice of background music 😂
JT, I'm sure you're aware that what we term as "Asian" are people from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Sri Lanka) and not from East or South East Asia?
4:45 “If it bleeds, it leads.”
Them youngens are quick to get a hold of a pigeon because they fast 👍🇬🇧
Great posr. But you need to say UK "estate" means in the USA "public housing project."
I think Portsmouth would be a good city for you to check out, I call it a patchwork city because you have the worst parts next to lovely parts. And of course it's how you get to Isle of Wight, it's weirdly interesting when you look into it properly but no person has the exact same view on the place.
I grew up there 😅
not really rough at all compared to the rough parts of towns in the states tbh, no part of the uk is anywhere near that level
Love your shirt ❤️
Councils are failing to deliver the services we pay for in council tax. and put it up another £100 a year.
Investing in police and surveillance is not a permanent solution. There is no investment in public infrastructure, child safety, elderly safety, or sensitisation programming.
i live in walsall. its not that bad. he was saying caldmore and palfrey wrong. you are always find dirty streets like you did in birmingham.
I can't think of a single place even remotely like this in my country. At all.
Which country do you live in?
When they see a sign about fly tipping being illegal, it's seen more as a challenge to see if they get arrested or fined. And as you can tell the fly toppers are very much up for the challenge.
We have a major 'north-south' divide. The conservative government closed mining collieries and steel factories in the 1980's-1990's, in the north of England. This lead to high unemployment. Since then, the government have failed to invest in new businesses in the north. Nine out of ten places in the north have the highest unemployment figures, whilst down south, eight out of ten places have the highest employment figures.
Most of the jobs in the south have gone to foreigners.
Lived in walsall for 23 years untill I moved to Blackpool and I must say I can't wait to go back I totally regret moving I've seen more crime in the short time I've lived in Blackpool than I ever did in the 23 years of living in Walsall
There are a lot of these "poverty safari" channels on YT now.
I lived in walsall for a bit.
Im a good lad, but ended up on probation because i beat the living hell out of an asian who broke into my house at 4.45am.
Since moved to a ye olde world village and its bloody lovely. Cities and towns are scabby
not everywhere in birmingham is like this
Sadly poverty and desperation exists everywhere in the world, always have and always will.
Send in the orange bab
I’ve just noticed what top ya wearing 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Never enter pub with a flat roof.
Joel 11 out of !0 for the England 2002 World Cup Shirt. Think Walsall is in the same hole as Detroit....Once the main employers closed or outsourced their manufacturing to other countries the area crashed. This lead to those who couldn't move or find work to be swallowed-up in the Benefits System. NB. On the 2nd June 2002 England beat Argentina 1-0. This is why your shirt is so important to our 'Happy Times'.PPS. on the 1st September 2001 England smashed Germany 5-1 in the same shirt. An iconic shirt for England Fans.
I have family that live there and I will fully not go out on my own its actually scary, my cousin fully had a machete pulled on her after a night out when she was getting food thankfully she got away, my nan has also been mugged like 10 times and doesn't go out alone anymore and I've been called a sl*t for wearing a skirt when it was one of the hottest days in the year
I live 5 mins away from Walsall 😂