I Visited the WORST AREAS to Live in DUDLEY, West Midlands
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- In this video, we took a walk around some of the worst areas in live in Dudley, a market town in the Black Country, West Midlands.
Dudley, nestled in the heart of England's Black Country, once flourished with the energy and profits of the Industrial Revolution.
However, since the decline of industrial manufacturing in the late 20th century, Dudley has faced significant challenges.
With the fading of coal mines and traditional industries, the town has grappled with rising unemployment and economic stagnation.
You can see the effects today in some of the areas we covered, it’s a real eye opener if you’re not from anywhere near the area.
Seeing the crime statistics and deprivation reports is also eye-opening, and provokes some interesting questions that the local councils should be facing.
If you live in any of the areas covered in this video, we'd love to hear from you!
Please drop a comment below the video and share your experiences with the rest of the viewers, thanks.
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00:00 - Intro to the 4 worst areas to live in Dudley
00:36 - Russells Hall
03:59 - Wren’s Nest
06:35 - Eve Hill
09:03 - Kate’s Hill
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Before Merry Hill super store opened Dudley was a FABULOUS place to shop
My parents nearly in their 80's used to say that Dudley was the place to be seen when they were younger.
I heard a Brummie refer to there as Merry *Hell* 😳
I worked near 'The Lye' some years ago, mostly owned by the Chinese at that point. I'm told it all fell apart when 'Bronx' closed its doors
Totally agree with you! Dudley Town Centre was fantastic!
Well, it’s all relative 🤣
Dudley used to be a lovely market town. Unfortunately the Merry Hill Centre killed it off as a shopping town. It used to have some major department stores, great small shops and a lovely shopping precinct. The area around the Priory, castle and zoo used to be a real tourist attraction. My family comes form the local area - but we all moved away many years ago. I’ve not visited Dudley for getting on for 20 years, other than the Black Country Museum - which is well worth the visit. Battered chips are a true Black Country delicacy!
The zoo is still trucking!
Battered chips are a black country delicacy the blue submarine is a well known chippy and has won several awards. I've never really thought Russell hall estate was that bad. The wrenna, priory and kates hill have always had bad reputations. Was your crime data only for Dudley town rather than the whole borough? Because im surprised Brierley hill flats didn't make the list. I'd say one of the worst roads in Dudley is ivanhoe street. You should do one for the neighbouring borough of sandwell which is considerably poorer than dudley and usually described as one of the most deprived boroughs in the country.
Honestly, it’s a bit bizarre how they choose the areas to group crime stats. I think it’s to do with how the police divide their time/resources, even looking at the stats for my city, I know it’s not representative of the most dangerous areas.
But I have to stick to published stats for consistency, and the stats I used are from the police official stats.
I’ll look into Sandwell, the more I dig into this area or the midlands and the more feedback I get the more interesting and revealing it gets.
I used to go to Dudley all the time in the late '90s when I lived in Wolverhampton. I'd have my breakfast at the Inn Place in the mall, I'd go to Fellows for a pint, then at The Fusion on a Saturday night, maybe at Riley's for a game of pool afterwards...The people were friendly, the girls were hot and life was chill. Yes, it was generally a rough area but you'd only find trouble if you were looking for it. I miss those days.
Born and bred in Dudley,got to be honest,quite ashamed of the state of my hometown.moved to Kidderminster 4 years ago!
Plenty of rough areas in kiddy.. Lots of pikeys about aswel.
Kiddy is a tip aswel
Kiddy is worse!
Kidderminster is worse than Dudley rifle range is hard to beat
Drove through Dudley yesterday, it’s been absolutely destroyed, it was once a busy town, I remember it from the 70’s and 80’s, it’s shameful that it’s been allowed to be run into the floor.
Yes, it's sad seeing and hearing about areas in the UK that have gone downhill.
It went downhill when the EVIL thatcher and her Neoconservatives took over, same everywhere.
As always, with all of these places - which I have visited - it's the bad apples that bring these areas into disrepute, unfortunately.
You can throw another £10 million at Dudley,it won’t make any difference,it doesn’t cost you anything to put your rubbish and litter in the bin and take pride of where you live, people’s attitudes have changed so much these days,they don’t give a shite about anything other than themselves,they are downright bone idle.
The generations above them have clearly done a poor job raising these residents to be respectful and to uphold good values. Shame.
Spot on!
Well said
Very sad to see, when i left those streets fifty years ago Dudley was a bright bustling town full of every trade and profession you could name, now it looks like downtown Lagos, i was going to come up and kick over the traces, but perhaps i won't bother, i wonder what the root cause of its decline was, the round oak steel works closure, too many incomers?, i see my old primary school is the mosque now, and the Bluecoat secondary modern in bean road is a housing estate, i used to live right at the bottom of Bunns lane in one of the iron houses, one of which is now in the black country museum, but the real Dudley still lives on in my memories.
I remember Dudley when it had four cinemas a.theatre and two roller skating rinks
You walked past my old home at 9 St John’s Road at 11:20!
The crime rate is insane here & you have to be tough to survive 😆 I could go into why this area has gone down hill over the past 30 years but taking a walk around here would make it pretty clear 🙄
The church is beautiful so it’s worth visiting just for that! Interesting video!!
Waaaaah the Asians waaaaaaah waaaah 😢
I lived in central dudley for over 20 years and still live in the borough. I can honestly tell you the headline on this vid is 100% correct lol!
Nice to see russells hall spar is still going 🙌
The hospital is terrible, during covid im sure it was the midlands epicentre of the virus spreading...if you didnt have it when you went you were sure ti come home with it lol!
P.s. battered chips are amazing!!
Youth clubs around the country quite often get trashed, then the kids that did it say there's nothing to do.
Yeah, all that rubbish on the floor there didn't just fall from the sky
@@ukexploredyou should take a trip around Pensnett in Dudley along with Kingswinford and Wordsley.
Lil rats by me got their youth club closed down, terrorising the neighbours. Now they hang around the streets and parks in the rain.
It's almost as if the disastrous social revolution they lived through will take more to fix than a room a few snooker tables in, innit?
If you live up the hill near the nature reserve in Wren's Nest, you'll find plenty to love if you're a nature enthusiast. There are ponds, a large football field, and a community centre with a basketball court in the back. I'm surprised you didn't mention them. The area is not all bad.
Dudley was a really nice place, but the run down started with the closure of some big steel plants in the area, which were replaced with out of town shopping centres, one such area, Castle gate, was once the home of Dudley town football club, and a county cricket ground. these were closed due to mining subsidence, and were replaced with a cinema, hotel a few fast food outlets, and a bloody big Tesco, funny that !
Just found your channel and as I'm now in a council estate it's helping. Many in Leeds are worth looking at. We shouldnt have to live like this. I'm a former care worker but it's impossible to keep a job down around the social problems. Thanks for what your doing.
Glad you liked the video. I hope you're happy where you are and have a council that is doing everything they should, but sadly it's not often the case!
Uk is a dump ,so depressing the people are demented
@@ukexplored not remotely it's a neglected hell hole but thanks for asking
You stay strong and never give up wanting to make your life better.
A lot of the problem is litter and that’s down to the people who live in these areas. The Council don’t give a damn as is very self evident, or they would serving notices on property owners and cleaning up what belongs to the Council.
Do Tipton, Princes End, The Lost City, The Rocket Pool. You will want to be back in Dudley.
The two most requested or recommended places are probably Tipton and Smethwick, we're going to both of these this weekend actually, so we shall see!
Smethwick has been bad for decades it's 99 percent Asian so it looks like bagdhad...
@@kirk9363 Smethwick and Baghdad are full of Chinese people ?
I find Dudley so depressing, The top part by the church needs some serious work and the other part of the shopping area isn't a lot better. It'll be even emptier if Wilko does go
I can't remember the last time I went to Dudley. To put that into context, I live in Coseley. Beyond depressing.
Stoke on Trent would be a good area to take a look at especially Hanley what used to be a thriving shopping centre is dying off the council spend loads of money changing the road surface in the town centre while the pit holes are more like craters. I’ve never had “battered chips” either.
Yeah stoke on Trent is on the short list for sure, I really want to go there and have seen some interesting news reports about a couple of areas.
I think I’ll hit a couple more places in West Midlands first, Tipton and Smethwick are probably the two most requested areas, as are some of the most dangerous estates In Birmingham.
@@ukexplored yeah ok. Like I have commented on your previous video I used to deliver ceramic tiles round the midlands area so watching your videos I can see how these towns have deteriorated over the years. I find all your videos interesting 👍👍👍
Thanks, appreciate that. It’s the same with the areas where I grew up and the places I know well, they’ve all gotten worse, it’s sad. Travelling more across the UK aha been a high eye opener, too.
Lived in 2 of 4 places you mentioned in the 1980s through 1990s. It’s always been like that, I don’t see any change in the video since I left in the mid 1990s. Great that you made an effort to look into this town.
Dudley, like many similar places, is like it because of the majority of the people who live there - pure and simple.
Government policies haven't helped. When labour started rewarding families for having multiple kids and no job the problem families just bred like mad. I live in wrens nest. And the crime comes from the same families who all have 8+ kids. They pump em out for benefits. If you have a child aged under 3 you're not forced to look for work. So everyone has a kid every couple of years then don't raise them correctly.
Lol.
I moved to the Cotswolds when I was like 8, I’m a massive wolves fan like my dad, it’s just a shame the whole area round that way is so shite
when you are in an area and the place is full of rubbish in the streets, stained mattresses, old settees, bags of kitchen waste strewn about it can only happen because the people who live there hate them sleves, they also hate their neighbours, they hate their family and their friends, the destruction of your surroundings is like destroying yourself, you are were you live, where you live is who you are, inside their homes it will be just the same, rubbish everywhere, piles of clothes on the floor and tables full of empty beer bottles, kitchen sinks full of dirty greasy plates, old take away boxes everywhere, and it will stink, animals respect there lairs more than these people respect their homes, I'm at the age now where I realise there is no help for these people, build a high fence around them and lock them in and don't go inside,
Wren's Nest is probably the worst. I got expelled from the Dudley College Wren's Nest campus in 1999. I did nothing wrong, I was just defending myself from thugs from the Wrens Nest estate that were harrassing me. I could have appealed but the place was so rough I didn't want to return anyway so I just went to Walsall College instead which was so much better and safer! The Priory estate was also very rough but I think it's been knocked down now
Probably turned out for the best, as you said, but it doesn't change the fact that you were done wrong!
@@ukexplored Thankyou! 24 years later and it's nice to know again that I was wronged! Yeah, it was proper, proper rough. The college building has since been demolished which is probably a good thing!
Priory Estate still here it's where Duncan Edwards was raised
How could he ignore the priory estate it’s the roughest and hardest place in the West Midlands
To be fair these areas don't look that bad I mean my mother always used to say slums don't just happen people make slums,back in her day people lived in REAL slums ie no inside toilets,disease,rats,no bathrooms etc and no benefits people were really poor but we didn't litter or dump rubbish generally for other people to deal with.
What period in the 20th Century was that?;
Scarily recent I’m afraid - the old Victorian slums of Rookeries and the nightmares of Dickens were still being cleared and the inhabitants moved to tower block style housing into the late 1970s and early 80s. The tragedy is that the substandard housing of the industrial towns still exist
@detectivethinker3637
There were massive slum clearance programs in the UK between the 1950's and the 1980's.
Kind of strange you don't know that - unless you're not from the UK?
Dudley has been in major decline since the 80s, perhaps Merry Hill played a part, but I think there are too many reasons to count. James Whale, director of Frankenstein and other Universal horrors, was a Kates Hill man I think. I lived in the area twice and the return was an eye opener despite me making the return from Brierley Hill, which as suggested might be an interesting visit, one you could dedicate a whole video to really.
It will be interesting to see if the metro extension in Dudley/Brierley Hill makes any difference?
@ malachidrake, the whole of the UK has been in decline since the 80s. Margaret Thatcher was warned about the infiltration of undercover Communists working for the destruction of Britain but she ignored the warning, not surprising but very sad
Why ho why can't people look after their homes ..cleanup your gardens and get your rubbish to the tip.
Bugger! I lived in Kate's Hill in the 80s (Mons Rd). Then, it was an okay place to live, and Dudley Centre seemed vibrant. Nice to see that Malcolm still has his shop. There used to be a toffee shop in Dudley called 'Teddy Greys'. The banana and nougat toffees were divine. I wonder if it is still there? Anyway, I buggered off to New Zealand many years ago, and it seems I made a good move. Flaxen Saxon.
It is still there!
Hey, currently live kates hill... yes malcolms is still there but its not malcolms anymore (they just didn't change name) and yes teddy grays is still here :)
Yep. The original Malcolm would be in his 70s.@@user-sw3eh3um9i
I live in between eve hill and russels hall and your video makes it look worse than what it is.. I can walk any street here late at night and wouldn't have a problem. Don't see many people about. The leisure center is boarded up because they've built a state of the art facility half a mile up the road. Amongst a few more million on the town center. Russels hall is quite sought after because of the houses and the estate is generally quite peaceful and close to the hospital. Eve hill flats I believe are on the list to be demolished.. Blame the council for not maintaining the flats and as for the rubbish here an there it's common everywhere you go now because the cost of disposal people can't afford it. So when they leave a property they just dump it.. Again council should keep the streets clean. 🤷
Agreed. When i was a kid (in Brum) those road sweeper vans were a regular/weekly sight. These days (i live under Sandwell council now) they are a hugely rare and special sight. When streets are filthy people just drop more litter. When streets are cleaner to start with people are somewhat less likely to drop stuff. Its a feedback loop both ways. These days its just broken glass everywhere (schoolkids cause it in my experience). Whats a bit odd with Wrenns nest is that there is a majorly important scientific site that is somewhat famous in those circles (Dudley Bug) A clever council would make use of that. Make it a tourist attraction.
One of the buildings you showed on Eve Hill has had scaffolding round it for over a month, so I’m not sure when you filmed this.
Get the same thing in my Town as well here in King's Lynn,Rough places,Fly tipping going on,Garage doors been smashed up,All sorts of other things going on as well
Coventry next mate. Some good content to be filmed around there
Hillfields is worth a look at real run down inner city estate
Willenhall and Woodend also a good shout
Thanks, I've never been to Coventry so I'm interested to go, it's definitely on the to-go to list now, we'll get round to it.
I was born in Dudley in 1960. As a child I remember how decent Dudley and also the Russels hall estate was. Decent hardworking people with no sign of grifters and criminal immigrants then !
Typowa angielska 😂
Another insightful vid mate, thanks! You need to check out 'Westlands' in Droitwich. It's a middle class 'nice' town but that estate has always been a bit sketchy
Also up the battered chips
Thanks! I'm just walking around Westlands on Google Street, you're right, defo looks sketch around the community centre, some interesting housing, I'm adding it to the list of places to go to!
Westlands don’t touch these areas. I wound put winyates redditch and maybe few other estates and Elgar avenue, malvern above Westland’s droitwich for being rough. Although it may catch up in the long run. The only place in the midlands I actually avoid though would be lye on way to merry-hill and parts of birmingham.
@@ukexploredread comment above
3:20 orange buttered chips are one of Black Country's local specials. I also haven't tried it yet 😅
My background is from Rubery (South Birmingham)and now I’ve ended up in Dudley as my girlfriend, now wife , lived over here.
I can’t wait to get back to south Birmingham area 😢
I lived in Dudley in the flats years ago
The council's areas are usually like this because the people in them are young don't work or are on very low income so don't care about where they are living
The council also spend no money on the up keep of the blocks your just left to it with whatever the last tennant broke
Better get used to the smell of weed and loud music in the flats
The only way out of these areas is get a job buy a house and move to a nice area
I'm from Eve Hill originally near Russell Hall. I was from Himley Road back of The Grange Park. Yes it has it's fair shares of crime etc. But I regretted moving to Coseley then Wolvo!
When do you reckon you’ll do an episode on Birmingham? That’s definitely would be an interesting one to see.
It will be interesting for me too and I want to get deep into Birmingham, within a few weeks I reckon.
@@ukexplored all I can say is, just be careful, areas like Handsworth and Lozells are very dangerous places to be alone in (especially if you don’t know the area).
Yeah, I'm mindful of that, thanks. I won't be getting the close up shots walking behind flats and down alleys like I do in some areas!
Deep fried mars bars at a Walsall chippy … amazing
I moved to Yorkshire nearly 9 years ago from Dudley after living there for over 40 years. The areas you have listed weren't great a decade ago but seeing them now I'm glad I got out of the place its a massive dump now
I lived on Russell hall estate for 6 years never had a problem it was a lovely area , originally born & bred from cradley Heath , moved to Cornwall 11 years ago.
You need to cover chapel street estate in brierley hill (brierley hill also comes under Dudley) there’s about 9 blocks of high rises and about 15 smaller ones/maisonettes on the estate so you’ll be in your element lol
It was unfair to point out the closed down leisure centre. This was replaced by a much nicer facility a short walk away.
Are you referring to the Duncan Edwards centre in New Mill Street? If you are its quite a walk to there from the Dudley Leisure Centre in Wellington Road. Also I went in to have a look round about 6 months ago and for some reason they have mixed changing rooms, no thanks don't fancy seeing a naked bloke in all his glory!
@@amandashare1281 you'll have to look on the map. Old and new leisure centres are a short walk
@@philmcgroin Depends on how old you are, I am 70 and I do not feel that this is a "short walk" , which way would you go? Up The Dock , up Stepping Stone Street to the Gypsies Tent, turn right, then turn right into Vicars Street, cross the road into the other half of Vicars Street cross the road, into flood Street, then into New Mill Street!
I took a Dudley this morning.
I am not surprised that Dudley's rough knowing it near Birmingham 😂
I found my other half working on the road in Wren's nest some years ago 😂 If I tried to leave they'd never find my body 🤦❗
Many areas of the midlands were filled with two up two down houses. It was just a part of the industrial picture. People were poor but proud. Even polished there doorsteps weekly. If you dropped litter you got a clip round the ear. . This pride has gone. Littering is the norm. Councils and governments have all had a hand in this collapse. The influx of migrants has not helped. Early migrants took pride in there homes. But this disappeared rapidly. All in all its sad. Will it improve?? I doubt it.
Will never forget my time in Eve hill, it was so tragic that it became funny afterwards.There were knife fights everyday,,there was a guy there we used to call " final cut." Even the women loved punch ups lol and joined in
I live in Halesowen & used to work by Russell’s hall ( before i retired . I had to frequent the area @ night . To go to work . And i must admit . I never really had a problem with the area . There was no more crime there . Than anywhere else in the Borough . A tad unfair there .
I'm from Kates Hill but the posh part. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
ah really, that's cool! I was knackered after walking around for an hour, not used to hilly areas 😂
@@ukexplored You get used to the hills, its Dudley!
I'm kates hill...can you remind me. Where's the posh part 🤣
@@user-sw3eh3um9i My house! 😊😊
I can’t believe I haven’t watched this one until now. The Blue Submarine is a fantastic Chippy, the battered chips are superb! I live in Worcestershire these days and there is no chippy round here like that! I have known people on Milking Bank around the corner and there are some fantastic properties on there. Top video …. Smithy
😃 Thanks, yeah it's those little things that stick with you -- like trying battered chips for the first time -- ha, I have friends in Worcestershire, they're always saying I should check out Dines Green and Brickfields. 😀
@@ukexplored yes mate, do a quick tour of Westlands in Droitwich to whilst around the area. Just watched the Tipton video as well… top videos!!!
Whichever part of SE London has the highest rate of ULEZ camera vandalisation would be a "good" place to visit. As a rule, I try and avoid SE London. Keep up the good work. Is there a link to make a donation to buy you a coffee or something? You guys deserve some support for this undertaking.
I can't believe how many of those cameras go missing! There is a very good chance we will go London way next week as it happens.
That's very kind of you to offer a donation, you don't have to, of course, I did a link to the bio/about page for coffee donations though ☺
@@ukexplored Will have a look. best.. as for the cameras, it doesn;t surprise me that SE london is the hotspot for damaging them.
Vandalising the cameras has my full support.. The government found a way to tax clean air and penalise the average man.
Yall shoukd do the worst school! St james
I worked for the council a few years ago and trust me it's not that bad at all compared to a lot of places.
And Russell's Hall hospital is probably the worst hospital in the entire NHS in terms of the doctors and care! And BTW, I am a recent subscriber and am compelled to make two observation in your videos. 1 Your videos always seem to show doom and gloom around the UK! Is that deliberate? 😆 2. The roughest and most crime ridden areas in the UK, do not seem to have the lowest prices, proportionate to their 'unlivable status'! I did not mean to criticize the motive behind your vids, but just being curious!
A very long time ago, when my children were young, I remember taking them to limestone caverns via the canal way in Dudley! They were really beautiful and really worth a see.
I had to laugh at 3:04 - a garage so neglected a tree has had time to grow in front of it!
yeah, that's hilarious 😂
Need to try some battered chips
Is Buffery Park in Kates Hill?
I grew up in the next settlement along to Lye, Colley Gate. Go check it out…
Just walking around Colley Gate on Google Maps, interesting area, the shops on the main A458 were struggling at the time from what it looks like. I'll pass through it for sure next time I'm going that way.
this is the result of the do gooders that say anyone going to prison has rights so you put them in prison give them home comforts and let them go back and carry on were they left off. how hard is it to put these people in prison give them nothing at all hard times so they never do crime again this will clean the towns and cities up
Eve and kate were cromwells daughters 2 cannon's were placed on each hill to distroy dudley Castle so you now have kates hill and eves hill
At 1:40 I swear that gorilla used to be in Barry Island in Wales
Grim places like this, and council estates, appear to always have a Spar supermarket. Presumably, Spar targets lower, and underprivileged areas?
I lived in Dudley during the 70’s and 80’s. Since that time, and this might sound controversial, but the ethnic makeup of most Blackcountry towns has changed dramatically, and those immigrants brought their behaviours with them. It’s a fact that these people coming in do not care about the type of housing they live in or modernising and looking after their homes. Not all but most. I know some Indian families who have never given their homes a lick of paint in over 40yrs. Yet they drive around in 50k cars!
Never heard of battered chips 😂
Some places are scary
You missed claughton, buffery, netherton. A lot of shootings in them areas
Yup, I remember the shooting on vale road in Darby end (netherton) about a year ago!! Someone’s house got shot up I think, and over the pap pap bridge into Springfield, then brick house estate and lion farm although them 2 come under sandwell i think.
Yum been to Dudley?
Yum very brave.
Yam Yams?
It's a broad, black country accent@@thelegaloccupier1982
yam means you
@@earlbee3196 👍
I'm a regular visitor to Birmingham and have heard the "yam..."often in peoples dialect when they've been talking, but was told that it stems from a Black Country accent and not a Birmingham accent.
@@earlbee3196 "Yam 'roight?" Meaning "You alright?" If I've got that correct Lol
oh man you should definitely check out Brierley Hill and Netherton, brierley hill flats are awful and the town centre isnt any better
Thanks mate, yeah looking at those areas I'd like to go out and see them in person, I've added them to my list of places to go!
Poorest areas in Coventry next bro
Yeah, Coventry is on my list of places for the future, I started doing a little research on it already.
@@ukexplored poorest from income 5.Henley green / Woodend 4. Around the city centre in social housing estates 3.Foleshill east 2.hillfields 1. Willenhall
That’s what Coventry telegraph claims 👍
Just so we understand: a crime rate is when crimes are reported. A high crime rate simply indicates that more people trust the police to investigate the crime. The poverty level is completely amorphous and means nothing. Someone with a microwave, a mobile phone, and clothes could say they are below the poverty level.
That’s an interesting way to look at it; I’m not sure it has anything to do with ‘trust’, far from it.
And, no, that’s not how poverty is determined or defined. It’s based on several dimensions from a households census data.
Looks worse than Beirut 😞
The wrenna has gone down proper...not to mention the suicide rate in the Borough. I still live on the priory this is all local moved from lye to dudley in 98
Notorious Bradford road in Woodside, we all say it here where you don’t need a tv because it all happens outside including road rage where drivers smash each others cars up, armed police sealing off the road, a women stripping off with boobs popping out, never a dull moment!
John Bonham lived in the flats in Eve Hill.
Pensnett is probaly worse than all these areas
My town got offended bwt I'm in dudley port
The leisure centre filmed is bordered up as dudley was building a new one (which is now completed)
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Thanks, looks awesome - That's what the people of Dudley deserve!
@ukexplored you can find out more in this video as to what's happening
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But in general (as you filmed 2 areas I've lived in) the area is on par with neigh luring councils, lye is pretty accurate, kates Hill depends what side of kates hill you visit I used to live nearer to Oakham Road which is more uptown as its private owned properties, one part that wasn't covered in your video of kates hill is the recreational Park, which leads to be desires with broken glass, often gas canisters, overflowing bins, and lack of park equipment more of a football and basket ball pitch only) like wise wrens nest is quieter towards the Broadway and whilst you filmed an area which is a new estate of wrens nest I was surprised that was added as runned down as I believe that is a business house related to the warehouse or factory at the back)
Some areas that are known for trouble include halesowen, Smethwick, wolverhampton sadly most of the run down is from people refusing to accept that retail has been dying a horrible death for the past decade and a half, and people need to upskill not on fast track courses but university, funding is suffering on most council boroughs as the commercial side is loosing trade, the council has not helped the fly tipping issue by introducing charging and requirement for a permit or licence to use the tip for electricals and as for general waste you must book in advanced and not use a commercial vehicle, there used to be two tips but one has been restricted all together for dudley residents, there quite often scrap men come by to collect waste such as cookers and fridge freezers, bikes etc which is a blessing, as for housing with the cost of living going up, low skilled jobs declining in retail as many go out of business (try to remember 30 yrs ago, e-commerce was rare, so most depended on the high Street, now you can buy from China on ebay or some other country though amazon) so taxation from business as become diluted globally
I live in dudley no wonder i have panic attacks 😭
People got anxiety issues in Birmingham it's depressing ugly boring place .
@@marthasheilds2446 literally
Last year I traveled from Norfolk to Worcester to watch my horse run in an evening meeting. My sat nav had a mental breakdown and I found myself in Dudley. Bloody hell, I thought I had entered a time warp of decayed sixties Council housing and rubbish everywhere. I kept my windows up.
Battered chips are the night before chips recooked an sold too unsuspecting or savvy customer
Funniest comment to date - but won’t stop me having them again 😀
In terms of housing, what's a HMO?
House in multiple occupation, or 'HIMO' i.e. divided into flats.
@@EdMcF1 Yeah, and in an illegal way by packing too many people into unsanitary conditions
Eve Hill? But I live in Eve Hill and London Heights neighbourhood/area is the best part of Dudley due to it being very peaceful..... I'm so shocked and beyond surprised that Eve Hill is on the list as being one of the worst.
There is often very good and very bad areas within an area too, espeically if it's a large area. But the parts I covered in the video were certainly pretty rough.
@@ukexplored I’m sorry you had a very bad experience in Eve Hill, I do not condone the mess that some of the people have left in that area. I do hope you have a better experience in Dudley next time you come.
No need to say sorry! It's partly the residents, of course, but I put most the blame on the government and local councils, they have enough funds and powers, if used correctly, to do a much better job of bringing the country up to standard.
@@ukexplored True point on that.
What do you call a China man inbetween Halesowen and Stourbridge? Yamin Lye. 😁
dudley has some sweet treats like CCTV and a huge ocuncil.
A huge council eh, I wonder what they get up to 😀
mainly getting their investments in to the new housing developemnts they approve early....@@ukexplored
Have you been caught doing something by their CCTV? 😁
stealing panties....@@philashton
visit wednesbury next
I did part of wednesbury in my Wolverhampton video. It seemed to offend people, but it was coming out as the highest crime rate area in wolves, statistically - and I saw some pretty grim stuff there.
Councils banking all cash and doing sodd all
Dudley born and bread, strong in the arm thick in the head
Dudley ~ JB’s and Jimmy the Con.
Some places have always been bad, it’s just now they get more coverage on UA-cam & the like. Building more & more flats with people living on top of each other won’t help. The police can’t cope in some areas thanks to overpopulation and Tory cuts, and they seem to never patrol any more other than a casual glance out of the car window, so people are less concerned about being caught.
what a dump. love the dinosaurs though!
Dudloy.
Lol wolves is Hollywood ..
" dodgy characters " lol
Wrens Nest= fossils 😃
Eve hill is nowhere near as bad as your making out I live in even hill and we do no get a lot of trouble at all
There are good and bad spots everywhere. The crime stats don’t lie though, these are reported crimes. Happy to hear you’re happy there though!
Some of it is true, some just judgment of spoiled fancyAzz richBoy
These youth little bastards should be given a long prison sentence and not a slap on the wrist
Who in the West Midlands hurt you?? Lmao.