That one of the reasons I want to move to Cornwall, I’ve had many childhood and adult memories touring it. Apparently it’s very poor, I can see what they mean about tourists. I usually go around May for my birthday, it’s still very busy that time. Because there are so many tourists “there isn’t many shops that are useful for the locals” commented one gentleman who moved there to open a business. As long as the people that visit treat the area with respect, do not litter, and not rude and obnoxious. Mostly the beaches that tend to get miss treated with trash, it’s the same with any tourist area where some people just don’t know how to act and behave not like savages. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is a massive contributing factor, for their dislike of tourists. That and the ridiculous price for goods.
As someone who lives in Peterborough, it’s sad to see we’ve been moved off the number one spot, but we are confident that our council can put us back there next year.
Quick question: as a Peterborough resident, did you happen to notice that 2 of the 3 street level photos are actually from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada? Shows the production quality of this video lol
We Americans are UK's number 1 ally. Also we the Americans have the best intelligence agency in the world CIA. Also we kind of 100% own youtube google . So we know a lot as well. Including depressive cities. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 special relationship for life.
no falmouth is bad (*although not the worst) i live there for all my life but now even though i have a fuill time job i cant afford to rent a 1 bed flat there so .....yeah dont get me started on the drugs and drunks oh and homeless
You’re the reason people don’t like living in Falmouth or cornwall in general people come down from up country and the prices raise up for people born and raised in cornwall
As a Cornishman, i think it quite strange for Falmouth to be on there! Cornwall is a very charming place and there are far worse places, believe me. 〓〓
As a Brit, this is absolutely bull. Half of these places are well-connected, economically active and naturally beautiful. There are a whole mess of basically abandoned no (or low) internet hamlets, rain-drenched grey block cities and towns with populations of nothing but 70+ year olds that are far worse than anything on this list!
@@anthonyberry1314 It's stuck in the past, quite frankly. There's nothing inherently wrong, but it's just not good enough for modern standards. Like it or not, the internet's probably the most useful tool developed in the last 4 decades
@@sezuin_6577 You're point is still irrelevant. There's plenty of people in the country that survive without internet. I'd rather go to a pub and everyone chat away to each other than go there and have everyone glued to a device. Talking to people, learning about a place and having a laugh with other folk is in no way "stuck in the past"
@@anthonyberry1314 My point isn't irrelevant. It's quite relevant to the topic being discussed. You go to a place without internet, you're cut off from the world. Sure, it's great if you lived there your whole life, but some of us have responsibilities that we rely on the internet to keep straight. A place without internet is stuck in the past. It doesn't have access to the improved quality of life that has been developed in the time since those places were built. And living in a place with internet doesn't mean you're devoid of social interaction. Go to a pub anywhere in the country, internet or not, and people will be socialising
@@sezuin_6577 suggesting that everywhere should have internet and everyone needs it just because you think you couldn’t survive without it is moronic. I use the internet for business and pleasure but it doesn’t mean I’d die if it was cut off in a place I was in for a period. Some people live happily that way and thrive. That’s like me saying that just because I drive an electric car, everyone that doesn’t is stuck in the pass. Completely false and blinkered
I am originally from York but I live in Peterborough. It is a shit hole. The council are crap. I walked my daughter through cathedral square a couple of months ago. We saw a man who had pooped himself. Another with a dirty needle in his arm. A woman ranting about a man who had just felt her up. A human turd on the floor outside Boots. A drunken man puking into the gutter. Someone peeing against the city bank window. A man driving on the wrong side of the road! This was all during the day!
I live in a Toronto suburb lots of immigrants I walk outside and never see another human except for the neighbours autistic adult son who walks around the block for a couple hours , I see birds mostly robins, blue jays and crows if I walk to the store I see a hawk I don’t know if it’s the same one , it’s a beautiful place to live but no everyone keeps to themselves
Bradford Boy here 👋 I'm surprised it's not 1 we're in debt businesses are slowly closing and lowest house deposit is £9500 which isn't too bad if you could save a penny to begin with
There is more to it then just being a beautiful place to live. Things like lack of community can take a massive toll. It doesn't surprise me to see Cornish towns on the list, because after all the tourists leave in summer, they are left with empty and deserted towns. That's what happens when second home owners buy up your town for holiday homes. Places like Bradford, I can imagine they have a lot of community, no matter how depressing some of the surroundings may seem.
It actually works I think because as an adjective it means: causing feelings of hopelessness, despondency, and dejection. So you could say Aberdeen is such a depressive place.
It kind of depends on how this was calculated, if it was calculated based off reported depression then yes it would be cities with the most depressed people. If it's about a depressed place, well I'm not sure about that economically speaking (not from the UK). If it's about whether it looks depressing or not. Well, I don't think any of these places fit that bill. If it's about 😂 The depressing is rather vague here.
@@milliedragon4418 its based on how people who lived in the cities voted. this makes it not very accurate at all, because in some towns people just dont care about surveys, so dont vote and their town is left out
Hmmm. As a UK citizen, I would've thought of places like Rochdale, Burnley, Bradford, Oldham, Luton and Birmingham would be on top of the list. They seem to be in the media a lot these days.
peterborough is actually quite bad, so does deserve to be on this list. it has the worst littering, tons of drug dealing, and you cant walk down a street without seeing a homeless person. traffic is always awful, and the suburbs feel like the backrooms. nice shopping centre though
@@muffinman4544 some of those places l have visited in the past two years & enjoyed my visits as have my friends. By what criteria are they & you assessing these places?
I agree Bradford has to be the worst but any place with a massive immigrant population should be in contention. They go hand in hand with class A drugs especially heroin. Then there's the grooming gangs usually Pakistani but also Afghan. Guns and armed robberies you'll also find.
"Most depressing places in the UK" Every shot starts off with a magnificent cathedral. You've never been to the UK if you think these places are our most depressing
Whoever picked Falmouth as the most depressive place needs their eyes tested 🤬 absolute disgrace Shocking Its beautiful, stunning, lots to do, 25 miles from where I come from. I have been to LOADS AND LOADS worse than Falmouth We will not tolerate the Falmouth slander its a wonderful place, use it on Exeter instead for goodness sake
@@davidmichael9034Yes, it is a word, as a noun - a depressive - it would refer to a person affected by or tending toward depression. Its use as an adjective is tricky. The best way of explaining it is by use of an example. Depression, as a mental disorder, is a depressive disorder. Such a person might experience a depressive episode on any given day. But it would be awkward to refer to the same as a depressing episode in a clinical sense. So the narrator's use of the word depressive is not appropriate. Let me try one more. A person who is a depressive experiences depression. A depressing person would be someone who causes YOU to feel depressed. Obviously someone you would want to avoid! Similarly a place that causes you to feel depressed is a depressing place not a depressive place. All that said, it is irritating - not irritative 😂 - to hear an American describe places in the UK he has never even visited.
@@chrisikaris5891 Points taken, but I would say depressive is hardly ever used, it is not a rem used even by the medical community. Anyway, to use it to describe towns is clearly wrong and ignorant. Yes, it is irritating! And I suppose irritative is a word but a word noone uses.
Even as a non Englandshire dude Hull is ok, always happy to visit and the people are open to some fun chat and a giggle. Pity about Vince the tyre fitter who supported Brexit.
As an American who lived in Aberdeen, it’s not that bad. Very grey and not the most desirable place to live, but top 3 is a bit harsh, at least from my experience.
@@JhanaMallari, for the most part. Never had any problems with the locals myself aside from a couple of hecklers and the occasional drunkards making a scene. As long as you mind your own business, you should be alright.
Who on earth answered that survey? Falmouth and Tiverton? Are you serious? Both are set in beautiful areas, one the coast and the latter amid glorious Devon countryside. Port Talbot? Other industrial places don’t even get a mention. It’s incredible how warped people’s perceptions can be. As the video went on I was convinced he was going to say the Cotswolds…
@@HiveFleetKronos40K It must have changed a lot then. But architecturally it was fine. It has a spattering of historic buildings, there was no seventies brutalism or modern monstrosity to ruin the calm aesthetic. As far as entertainment goes, that’s a different matter, but I have visited far worse in the UK and abroad than Tiverton and it is a town I was able to appreciate as a teenager and teenagers rarely notice such things
I’m Cornish, not from Falmouth but near enough to go there regularly, it’s genuinely my absolute favourite town I’ve ever been to. Chances are what they meant to say was Camborne an area close to Falmouth, being much larger they most likely sayed Falmouth despite it not actually being Falmouth
@@servouk I believe it. I remember as a kid my dad lived there for work and it was full of homeless people every time I went into town centre. Mostly old people from what I remember which is quite sad.
Im 53 now and Coventry born and bred, I haven't been to the city centre for.. must be 6 years, its sooo depressing. Miss the late 80's early 90's the nightlife was feckin awesome.. not so much now, its a dump.😢
Probably the reason Tiverton got on that list. (no more second homes please). We have low wages and a high cost of living that is being amplified through second home owners and tourists using the air BnB's these people rent out whilst not visiting their second house.
It's not the tourists, it's the second home buyers. So many locals are being pushed out of their home towns, because house prices and rent is becoming too expensive. I know so many people having to move outside their hometown because they can't afford it.
@@nothanks1239it is tourists , I went through st Ives yesterday.. frigging holiday makers are like cockroaches ..love summer hate the crowds of idiots .
That's why every bank holiday/summer weekend you get 100 miles of gridlock heading down from London and have to set off at 3am to have any chance at missing the worst of the traffic. If it was so awful the whole country wouldn't be flooding there every chance they get!!!
London is by far the most depressing place to live. High crime, high prices and no community spirit. It’s good for young people looking to make money fast before they move back out but I wouldn’t put down roots there
Hi, I'm from Devon and i live like 6 miles from Tiverton, it is quite depressing and run down, but I wouldn't say it's one of the top 5 most depressing towns in the UK, I can name towns that are more depressing than Tiverton in just Devon alone. Tho it is quite depressing, it has like 10k people and the only main shops are a greggs, a lidl and a tescos, theres a train station called Tiverton parkway which is 5 miles from Tiverton as well
As a local, i know they build large council estates in places like Falmouth to get people to have a nice place to live. Our Cornish infrastructure is crumbling under corporate weight and there is only one major hospital in Cornwall to serve thousands upon thousands of people flocking down here. It’s a bit sad to see a place I’ve know my whole life just for like this but it’s just life.
With a self-selecting sample, the only conclusion you can draw is that the people in these places were more inclined to vote. If you controlled for that bias, you would get some very different results, and Slough.
You also need to take into account that "depressing" is a very vague quality and can't be objectively measured. This kind of rankings are more of a meme.
@@UrbanStoriesPeterborough appears in these rankings Every. Single. Time. Honestly it’s probably the elderly declaring it depressing that there is a significant non white population. Most of East Anglia has been a Conservative stronghold for decades. It’s only recently starting to change.
I live in Stirling, that's a 7-minute train ride from Alloa. Honestly, Alloa may not have a lot of tourist attractions (if any), but it's such a bang for your buck to live. Rent is a lot more affordable than in Stirling, plus you get ASDA, Tesco and Sainsbury's all within a stone's throw on top of good transport connection to the rest of Central Scotland
As a Bradfordian, I'd say it's a mixed bag. City center has everything from gorgeous gothic architecture, a modern shopping centre to oppressive concrete monstrosities and allys full of crack heads. Then the surrounding towns can go either way. Some are dumps, some are nice, and some are a bit of both. And you're rarely very far away from a lovely walk. I've seen places in the UK that actually make me feel lucky to be from Bradford. At least we can get a proper curry.
I think you mean Ilford. It's like a third world area outside of London especially Ilford Lane and Seven Kings where so many honour based crimes are happening in there within that town.
@Great_WesternTVFan ilford doesn't seem too bad, just only at night it gets too fishy, as someone who used to live in ilford, it has been part of my childhood alongside barkingside or claybury, besides yeah ilford can be very fishy at somepoint, not too bad, its just one of my childhood places, tbh the places i think can get too depressing and by far overatted imo is hackney, generally it seems too large and drug filled, just in my opinion as someone who lives in tottemham, Islington, Romford, Clayhall and Brent cross has to be one of my favorite places in london for me.
Not one of the many deprived northern towns all of which outdepress any of these places, rotherham, doncaster, huddersfield, bradford, bolton to name just a few
@@Great_WesternTVFan most shops a shut in slough & abandoned, in both places the town centres are shit, at least Swindon has the outlet centre. Also the outskirts are nice in Swindon while the whole of slough is crap even though on the other side of the M4 is posh Windsor.
Living in Cornwall, with family in Falmouth, & having lived in several other places in the UK, Falmouth is one of the best places to live! Whomever voted it depressing needs a psych evaluation because most people could only wish to live somewhere so lovely.
I’m lucky enough to live in a beautiful place in the uk and all I find is that everyone who lives here hates it. All they do is complain. For some reason everyone feels the need to complain about their home town and it’s honestly ridiculous. Just enjoy it 😂
Damn, I never thought Tiverton or Falmouth would make this list. The SouthWest is so nice to live in. I live here now but traveled to other parts of the UK and still think Devon and Cornwall are lovely.
I would say anywhere in the Midlands of England down the immigrant M1 corridor to London… From Wolves to Birmingham to Coventry to Northampton to Peterborough to Milton Keynes to Luton to Watford and Wembley
I'm from southern England and there are many worse places than those on this list. Been to Falmouth and Aberdeen, nice places. Spent a lot of time in Aberdeen looking around and meeting the locals, always found it to be a lovely city. Strange list.
The whole country is depressing 😔 All that was owned by the British people and ran for the benefit of the British people Has been sold off to foreign investors, Or private companies , awarded big contracts , to milk the British people for as much money as they like , Electric Rail Roads Canals Gas NHS😳 Water all in the hands of private investors , or going into the hands of private investors . The British people have been sold as a cash crop to the highest bidder. We are being farmed by the rich! 75% of British water companies are owned by American corporations who have dumped untreated sewage in to British rivers and sea, For profit, It took ordinary people filming this pollution over many years for the government to act. And the water companies punishment is??? The government lets them increase the water bills of the British people, and the water companies shareholders walk off with £60 + billion.💵💵💵💵💰💰 Red or Blue, political scum who have never worked a day in their life ,
I knew someone would say middlesbrough. Lived in teesside my whole life and can honestly say that boro is great compared to redcar, saltburn, marske, brotton, skelton, loftus. Those are so much worse.
@@jayparmo2284 Granted they are but not Redcar. Redcars the jewel of the teesside riviera, rivaling San Tropez for glamour and celebrities soaking up the rays on it's pristine sun kissed beaches. 🤔🛥️🐋🌞🐟
Its ROTHERHAM It will take you to depths you didn't know existed in your worst nightmare... That's all you need to know Avoid Rotherham at all costs You will never leave!
I bet about 95% of the British population would happily move to Falmouth in a heartbeat. The locals just don't want them to, hence why they have put their home town on this list. Trying to keep people away.
Funnily enough we actually do get sun more often than you’d think. Also at least a mental person here is just a bloke climbing a lamppost with a bottle of Heineken, in America they campaign to run the country.
As a Falmouth local I find this hilarious. To anyone thinking of coming here in the summer and taking up all the parking spaces and crowding the beaches, you shouldn’t come it’s super depressing and not at all an incredible place to live and visit
Which town would you add to the list?
Slough fr
Where’s Croydon
Luton
@@ScepticalBrit london
Holyhead
This list seems like it was just a bunch of locals on an off day I mean no Grimsby? Coventry? Croydon?
Haha their to frazzled to vote in Grimsby 😂
Coventry needs to be first at night the place a complete ghostown
Larne?
Couldn't agree more with Croydon
@@chazzerbox131nah in order to take part you need to be able to read.
How the fuck did Birmingham and Luton evade this list 💀
I know right
Because whatever you think of Birmingham or Luton, Scotland is far more depressing.....😂😂😂
@@newprofilesowhat1339 nah mate, your thinking of Glasgow 💀. But dispite it being a shitehole we still love it 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Bradford n all man
@Mad_Scot I think Glesga looks magic now
Falmouth was probably voted that by the locals in order to dissuade over-tourism and keep it to themselves. It's a brilliant place to live.
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That one of the reasons I want to move to Cornwall, I’ve had many childhood and adult memories touring it. Apparently it’s very poor, I can see what they mean about tourists. I usually go around May for my birthday, it’s still very busy that time. Because there are so many tourists “there isn’t many shops that are useful for the locals” commented one gentleman who moved there to open a business. As long as the people that visit treat the area with respect, do not litter, and not rude and obnoxious. Mostly the beaches that tend to get miss treated with trash, it’s the same with any tourist area where some people just don’t know how to act and behave not like savages. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is a massive contributing factor, for their dislike of tourists. That and the ridiculous price for goods.
Aw, thanks for this comment! I just applied to study there and this video was a bit of a shock 😅
As someone who lives in Peterborough, it’s sad to see we’ve been moved off the number one spot, but we are confident that our council can put us back there next year.
Quick question: as a Peterborough resident, did you happen to notice that 2 of the 3 street level photos are actually from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada? Shows the production quality of this video lol
@@sethjm im so glad someone mentioned that. I was thinking i have never seen that clocktower and why the rear plates wasnt yellow
Same I live here and I’ve known this for years. Damn
No not Boro it's London
I'm happy that Peterborough makes these lists. It keeps it quieter.
I would never trust an American to tell me the most depressing places to live in the UK
Especially if he can't pronounce "Al O wah".
Exactly, they don't know shit 😂😂
*depressive, apparently 😅
We Americans are UK's number 1 ally. Also we the Americans have the best intelligence agency in the world CIA. Also we kind of 100% own youtube google . So we know a lot as well. Including depressive cities. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 special relationship for life.
Its from UK ilivehere website, not an Americans opinion.
This is an insult to people who live in actual deprived places
Alloa is pretty deprived and bad for crime.
no falmouth is bad (*although not the worst) i live there for all my life but now even though i have a fuill time job i cant afford to rent a 1 bed flat there so .....yeah dont get me started on the drugs and drunks oh and homeless
There are a lot of more horrid places than these.
i live in falmouth
Swindon is a dive 💯!
I'm from Swindon and now live close to Falmouth. I'd choose Falmouth in a thousand lifetimes over ever going back to Swindon
You’re the reason people don’t like living in Falmouth or cornwall in general people come down from up country and the prices raise up for people born and raised in cornwall
I’m from Burton on Trent and live in Bude now , I go to Falmouth for gigs a lot and it’s beautiful.
Amen. Lived in Swindon. Still shudder
I’m still in Swindon, hope to move to Falmouth/Penryn in the next year 🙏🏻
@@rileyrobman7188 I'm working class, moved my small business here, use local businesses to support my work, and rent from a local, but ok dude.
If anyone doubts Peterborough being on this list, book an airbnb on Lincoln road and try not to get a drug addiction.
Preach!
@@LtD973😮
We keep all the druggies in Millfield.
If you went there then you were either going to Millfield Autos or a Smackhead yourself !
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bro i live here its actually not too bad just mainstreet is
As a Cornishman, i think it quite strange for Falmouth to be on there! Cornwall is a very charming place and there are far worse places, believe me. 〓〓
I believe you.
London is an absolute shit hole. I'd literally go to Cornwall in a heartbeat if I could.
I'd say Falmouth is one of the best places to live tbh it's beautiful and the people are lovely
Oh yea
Aberdeen has to be worse. It's not even close
@@serpilkaddy1609you're more than welcome to go back to your ancestral homeland 😊
As a Brit, this is absolutely bull. Half of these places are well-connected, economically active and naturally beautiful. There are a whole mess of basically abandoned no (or low) internet hamlets, rain-drenched grey block cities and towns with populations of nothing but 70+ year olds that are far worse than anything on this list!
What’s so bad about somewhere with no internet and somewhere that has a high percentage of elderly residents?
@@anthonyberry1314 It's stuck in the past, quite frankly. There's nothing inherently wrong, but it's just not good enough for modern standards. Like it or not, the internet's probably the most useful tool developed in the last 4 decades
@@sezuin_6577 You're point is still irrelevant. There's plenty of people in the country that survive without internet. I'd rather go to a pub and everyone chat away to each other than go there and have everyone glued to a device. Talking to people, learning about a place and having a laugh with other folk is in no way "stuck in the past"
@@anthonyberry1314 My point isn't irrelevant. It's quite relevant to the topic being discussed. You go to a place without internet, you're cut off from the world. Sure, it's great if you lived there your whole life, but some of us have responsibilities that we rely on the internet to keep straight. A place without internet is stuck in the past. It doesn't have access to the improved quality of life that has been developed in the time since those places were built. And living in a place with internet doesn't mean you're devoid of social interaction. Go to a pub anywhere in the country, internet or not, and people will be socialising
@@sezuin_6577 suggesting that everywhere should have internet and everyone needs it just because you think you couldn’t survive without it is moronic. I use the internet for business and pleasure but it doesn’t mean I’d die if it was cut off in a place I was in for a period. Some people live happily that way and thrive. That’s like me saying that just because I drive an electric car, everyone that doesn’t is stuck in the pass. Completely false and blinkered
I am originally from York but I live in Peterborough. It is a shit hole. The council are crap. I walked my daughter through cathedral square a couple of months ago. We saw a man who had pooped himself. Another with a dirty needle in his arm. A woman ranting about a man who had just felt her up. A human turd on the floor outside Boots. A drunken man puking into the gutter. Someone peeing against the city bank window. A man driving on the wrong side of the road! This was all during the day!
To be honest this just sounds like a typical day in London 😂
prob reasons for immigrants ?
I live in a Toronto suburb lots of immigrants I walk outside and never see another human except for the neighbours autistic adult son who walks around the block for a couple hours , I see birds mostly robins, blue jays and crows if I walk to the store I see a hawk I don’t know if it’s the same one , it’s a beautiful place to live but no everyone keeps to themselves
This is how Muslim countries live
@@pulsey2001 there is no drugs in Muslim countries Genius ever go to one
All of these arent bad. Ironically the opposite.
Slough, Grimsby, Croydon, Bradford etc are much worse
Yeah but the people living there love it
Bradford Boy here 👋 I'm surprised it's not 1 we're in debt businesses are slowly closing and lowest house deposit is £9500 which isn't too bad if you could save a penny to begin with
There is more to it then just being a beautiful place to live. Things like lack of community can take a massive toll. It doesn't surprise me to see Cornish towns on the list, because after all the tourists leave in summer, they are left with empty and deserted towns.
That's what happens when second home owners buy up your town for holiday homes.
Places like Bradford, I can imagine they have a lot of community, no matter how depressing some of the surroundings may seem.
Ouch on mentioning GY!
@@animalntbeen to croydon, theyre all too depressed to even care
This should be ‘depressing’, not ‘depressive’. A mood can be depressive, but something that causes depression is depressing.
Yep, I messed up 🤦
There’s absolutely no point in trying to fix stupid, I’m afraid. 😂
It actually works I think because as an adjective it means: causing feelings of hopelessness, despondency, and dejection.
So you could say Aberdeen is such a depressive place.
It kind of depends on how this was calculated, if it was calculated based off reported depression then yes it would be cities with the most depressed people. If it's about a depressed place, well I'm not sure about that economically speaking (not from the UK). If it's about whether it looks depressing or not. Well, I don't think any of these places fit that bill. If it's about 😂
The depressing is rather vague here.
@@milliedragon4418 its based on how people who lived in the cities voted. this makes it not very accurate at all, because in some towns people just dont care about surveys, so dont vote and their town is left out
I’m sorry, but no Hull? No, Luton?! No Milton Keynes?!!
i live in hull and i am just as shocked
Luton is top 11. MK and Hull are not in top 20.
Used to live in Hull, fucking happy I left that shithole
Slough is a mong'ole aswell
I live in Hull and I've lived in shittier places. Lots of seaside towns have bigger problems.
You know not to take this seriously when Birmingham, Luton and Peckham aren’t on the list.
Dumbest list ever. Bradford wins most depressing place everyone. Even if the locals don’t believe so.
Proper dive. Drive around not through.
Good ol' bradistan
Bradford is a death trap! We drove through there and the drivers oh my god something out of Mario kart! Never going through there again😆
not depressing if you bend to allah and like how pakistan is
@@christopherclough559The backside of Britain, for obvious reasons!😮
Hmmm. As a UK citizen, I would've thought of places like Rochdale, Burnley, Bradford, Oldham, Luton and Birmingham would be on top of the list. They seem to be in the media a lot these days.
peterborough is actually quite bad, so does deserve to be on this list. it has the worst littering, tons of drug dealing, and you cant walk down a street without seeing a homeless person. traffic is always awful, and the suburbs feel like the backrooms. nice shopping centre though
@@muffinman4544 some of those places l have visited in the past two years & enjoyed my visits as have my friends. By what criteria are they & you assessing these places?
I agree Bradford has to be the worst but any place with a massive immigrant population should be in contention. They go hand in hand with class A drugs especially heroin. Then there's the grooming gangs usually Pakistani but also Afghan. Guns and armed robberies you'll also find.
People there dont have the internet, how are they supposed to vote?
Don't forget Grimsbry Hull and Middlesborough 3 ofnthe biggest lawless shit holes in Britain!
Where’s Grimsby? Slough? Luton? Coventry?
Crewe, Birmingham Blackpool?
Coventry? You're having a laugh mate.
Coventry is at least going through a regeneration project currently to tidy up the city and make it more vibrant.
slough is bad bad
Exactly I live in Peterborough and it’s bloody lovely
As a proud Aberdonian, I can say this infact is false. We should be number 1.
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Lies - a true Aberdonian would know the only place worse that our beloved granite city is Scumdee!
@@Digital_Pickletrue that
Haha nah man, at least its not Fraserburgh where seagulls and heroin are the only things that come to mind
... Actually, thats Aberdeen also?!
"Most depressing places in the UK"
Every shot starts off with a magnificent cathedral.
You've never been to the UK if you think these places are our most depressing
They're basically saying the best places are depressive shitholes, because everywhere is. Lmao
@@areyouavinalaff You're obviously correct. How did I not catch that 😄
There's 20 more depressing places within half an hour of where I live.
Or Chatham Kent
He's very right with Peterborough, I love there and theirs really bad drivers.
As a german, I couldn't imagine that a small town by the sea could be depressing in any way.
You’re right - Falmouth is delightful
My GF went to uni in Falmouth while I went to Coventry uni. I spent as much time as I could, and more, in Cornwall.
I thought that too. Falmouth looks lovely.
I draw your attention to Skegness.
@@daemonharper3928I’ll see your Skegness and raise you Mablethorpe! 😂😂😂
Falmouth Cornwall? Are you kidding me it’s beautiful!
It's an overpriced uni town that's gone to shit in the last couple decades.
Whoever picked Falmouth as the most depressive place needs their eyes tested 🤬 absolute disgrace
Shocking
Its beautiful, stunning, lots to do, 25 miles from where I come from. I have been to LOADS AND LOADS worse than Falmouth
We will not tolerate the Falmouth slander its a wonderful place, use it on Exeter instead for goodness sake
lots to do in falmouth?
This list is rubbish, most of them are good, you should see Birmingham, places like small heath and alum rock, then you will know bad places
I thinks it d sarcastic
Aberdeen is known as scotlands most junky filled place
@@sambennett2354 really, that's a shame, I went there many times as a kid, we stayed close to the sea, I loved it
@@sambennett2354Dundee is not Aberdeen. Maybe Aberdeenshire
Found the PAB, folks. Bet he wears nappies when he goes down Coventry Road....😂😂😂
Londoners spend £2000 a month to live in a box room, with streets riddled with violent crime.
Also Birmingham exists. Nuff said.
Hi lain pfp
True
They've obviously never asked anyone in Wales😂
The people who voted should spend a few weeks in Rhyl. They'd have a new found appreciation for their home towns.
They don't have Wifi to fill out these surveys
rhyl 🤮🤮
blaenau ffestiniog...beyond words how depressing that place is
Swansea😂
Did you mean depressing rather than depressive? This mistake alone reduces the value of your report.
Yes, 'depressive'? Is it even a word?
@@davidmichael9034Yes, it is a word, as a noun - a depressive - it would refer to a person affected by or tending toward depression. Its use as an adjective is tricky. The best way of explaining it is by use of an example. Depression, as a mental disorder, is a depressive disorder. Such a person might experience a depressive episode on any given day. But it would be awkward to refer to the same as a depressing episode in a clinical sense. So the narrator's use of the word depressive is not appropriate. Let me try one more. A person who is a depressive experiences depression. A depressing person would be someone who causes YOU to feel depressed. Obviously someone you would want to avoid! Similarly a place that causes you to feel depressed is a depressing place not a depressive place. All that said, it is irritating - not irritative 😂 - to hear an American describe places in the UK he has never even visited.
@@chrisikaris5891 Points taken, but I would say depressive is hardly ever used, it is not a rem used even by the medical community. Anyway, to use it to describe towns is clearly wrong and ignorant. Yes, it is irritating! And I suppose irritative is a word but a word noone uses.
@davidmichael9034 You are absolutely right. Depressive is hardly ever used. And I have never even seen the word irritative. I just made it up for fun!
I moved from the US to Peterborough a while ago. Now, I see the sun almost three times a year!
Fr and the people are so nice and definitely don’t just stare at you creepily while they’re high outside queens gate 🤷♀️💀😭
@@Molly-_-_09287literally i never go queensgate anymore because of the druggies
@@Molly-_-_09287 and the public spaces dont smell like weed, and there is never any congestion on the main roads
The streets aren't full of "chavs" looking to mug you either, and Lincoln road is so friendly and safe
Here in Peterborough we have a beautiful Cathedral...er...Ferry Meadows...er...have I mentioned the Cathedral?
Hull has entered the chat and is confused 😂
It ain't that depressing.
Hull isn't too bad. There are places that are worse.
Even as a non Englandshire dude Hull is ok, always happy to visit and the people are open to some fun chat and a giggle. Pity about Vince the tyre fitter who supported Brexit.
Yo, Hi from Halifax! - as the old rhyme goes: 'From Hull, Hell and Halifax, good Lord deliver us'
There's a place called Methill and yes it lives up to the name
1. Rochdale
2. Slough
3. Wakefield
4. Lancaster
5. Oldham
No way Slough
Migrant places 😂
Great to see my home city at no. 3 😂
Do 1 Tory
@@absolutezeromusicofficial I live in Wakefield now and it’s not that bad!
As an American who lived in Aberdeen, it’s not that bad. Very grey and not the most desirable place to live, but top 3 is a bit harsh, at least from my experience.
Are the locals friendly?
@@JhanaMallari, for the most part. Never had any problems with the locals myself aside from a couple of hecklers and the occasional drunkards making a scene. As long as you mind your own business, you should be alright.
Who on earth answered that survey? Falmouth and Tiverton? Are you serious? Both are set in beautiful areas, one the coast and the latter amid glorious Devon countryside. Port Talbot? Other industrial places don’t even get a mention. It’s incredible how warped people’s perceptions can be. As the video went on I was convinced he was going to say the Cotswolds…
tivertons terrible. there's not much to do unless you're really into drugs
@@HiveFleetKronos40K It must have changed a lot then. But architecturally it was fine. It has a spattering of historic buildings, there was no seventies brutalism or modern monstrosity to ruin the calm aesthetic. As far as entertainment goes, that’s a different matter, but I have visited far worse in the UK and abroad than Tiverton and it is a town I was able to appreciate as a teenager and teenagers rarely notice such things
Tiverton is DREADFUL.
@@T0FFII Far from the worst
@@HiveFleetKronos40K try crack head ilfracombe first
I’m Cornish, not from Falmouth but near enough to go there regularly, it’s genuinely my absolute favourite town I’ve ever been to. Chances are what they meant to say was Camborne an area close to Falmouth, being much larger they most likely sayed Falmouth despite it not actually being Falmouth
Yeah, also seems like everybody in St. Austell was too stoned to bother to vote!
Same from penzance
Yeah Camborne doesn't have a lot but I lived in Falmouth 5 years ago and it was a beautiful town to live in. It just got too expensive.
Didn't Blackpool have the highest rates of actual depression in England? I remember reading an article about it but it was years ago.
Blackpool is also consistently the most deprived area in the UK according the index of multiple deprivation
@@servouk I believe it. I remember as a kid my dad lived there for work and it was full of homeless people every time I went into town centre. Mostly old people from what I remember which is quite sad.
Finally looking through the comments at someone who agrees with Blackpool! Biggest shithole ever, I have genuine ptsd from a night out in Blackpool.
@@tompayton84 It's a nice place to go because it has plenty to do. Just once you look a bit deeper than the surface it has some serious problems.
@@tompayton84 I love a night out in Blackpool icl 😂
Whoever made this video is clearly insane...
One of the best places I lived was Falmouth. Far more things to see for free and very beautiful
As someone who lives in Coventry, I can say that this ranking is inaccurate
Mate Coventry is so fucken weird, it’s not just depressing it’s STRANGE
You are missing Nuneaton, that place is not only just strange it is just sad to look at
@@benmacca1 Very true
Im 53 now and Coventry born and bred, I haven't been to the city centre for.. must be 6 years, its sooo depressing. Miss the late 80's early 90's the nightlife was feckin awesome.. not so much now, its a dump.😢
@@benmacca1 Nuneaton is literally the city version of league gentlemen
Falmouth is lovely, the locals just don’t want any more tourists
Probably the reason Tiverton got on that list. (no more second homes please). We have low wages and a high cost of living that is being amplified through second home owners and tourists using the air BnB's these people rent out whilst not visiting their second house.
It's not the tourists, it's the second home buyers. So many locals are being pushed out of their home towns, because house prices and rent is becoming too expensive. I know so many people having to move outside their hometown because they can't afford it.
@@nothanks1239it is tourists , I went through st Ives yesterday.. frigging holiday makers are like cockroaches ..love summer hate the crowds of idiots .
Yeah we really don't...
Falmouth is a lovely town,Eastbourne is more grim.
I’ve lived in Aberdeen my whole life and it’s quite charming if you live here
Yeah, such a quiet and happening place at the same time
In recent years it is starting to lose its charm😊
@@yunuscurrie3410I know exactly what you mean.
visit mastrick and you might change your mind
@@isolaviola NAH.... Northfield...
aberdeen city centre is depressing but the rest of it is beautiful
The seagulls not bother you? I left because of them.
I think the bullshitometer just exploded! 😂
Cornwall is probably the best area in the uk
yes
I've only been to 2 places in Cornwall..
TAKE ME BACK TO NEWQUAY I HATE IT UP HERE *northerner crying intensifies*
Keep quiet! We need to reduce traffic.
That's why every bank holiday/summer weekend you get 100 miles of gridlock heading down from London and have to set off at 3am to have any chance at missing the worst of the traffic. If it was so awful the whole country wouldn't be flooding there every chance they get!!!
@@sarahj909 it’s like that with Hunstanton and Hunstanton isn’t special, the waters permanently brown this side 🤣
clearly you've never been to the non-tourist towns
I guess the whole of Northampton is too depressed to vote
Was waiting for Northampton, it’s so shit here
Bro hasn’t seen Jaywick or Clacton 💀💀
You win with Jaywick. I’d also add Walton to that.
@@ellemorgan1331
Oh come on!
There's only about 20 houses in Walton!
It's a lovely little seaside town.
London is by far the most depressing place to live. High crime, high prices and no community spirit. It’s good for young people looking to make money fast before they move back out but I wouldn’t put down roots there
The residents of Hull must be furious!!!
Hi, I'm from Devon and i live like 6 miles from Tiverton, it is quite depressing and run down, but I wouldn't say it's one of the top 5 most depressing towns in the UK, I can name towns that are more depressing than Tiverton in just Devon alone.
Tho it is quite depressing, it has like 10k people and the only main shops are a greggs, a lidl and a tescos, theres a train station called Tiverton parkway which is 5 miles from Tiverton as well
Like Ilfracombe
@@RidanceMax and Torquay
*SLOUGH,* upon learning that it’s not on this list:
_”Wut?!? Hold my (stout) beer …”_
We all know it’s Birmingham
As a local, i know they build large council estates in places like Falmouth to get people to have a nice place to live. Our Cornish infrastructure is crumbling under corporate weight and there is only one major hospital in Cornwall to serve thousands upon thousands of people flocking down here. It’s a bit sad to see a place I’ve know my whole life just for like this but it’s just life.
With a self-selecting sample, the only conclusion you can draw is that the people in these places were more inclined to vote. If you controlled for that bias, you would get some very different results, and Slough.
You also need to take into account that "depressing" is a very vague quality and can't be objectively measured. This kind of rankings are more of a meme.
@@UrbanStoriesPeterborough appears in these rankings Every. Single. Time. Honestly it’s probably the elderly declaring it depressing that there is a significant non white population. Most of East Anglia has been a Conservative stronghold for decades. It’s only recently starting to change.
Note that a few of these places are Tourist destinations. A shit-ton of people trampling your patch would tick anyone off
I’m honesty shocked Luton isn’t on here
I live in Stirling, that's a 7-minute train ride from Alloa. Honestly, Alloa may not have a lot of tourist attractions (if any), but it's such a bang for your buck to live. Rent is a lot more affordable than in Stirling, plus you get ASDA, Tesco and Sainsbury's all within a stone's throw on top of good transport connection to the rest of Central Scotland
Obviously never been to Bradford
Bradford is a dump but its a funny dump.
As a Bradfordian, I'd say it's a mixed bag. City center has everything from gorgeous gothic architecture, a modern shopping centre to oppressive concrete monstrosities and allys full of crack heads.
Then the surrounding towns can go either way. Some are dumps, some are nice, and some are a bit of both. And you're rarely very far away from a lovely walk.
I've seen places in the UK that actually make me feel lucky to be from Bradford. At least we can get a proper curry.
There are loads of places worse than there. You are having a laugh.
@@darkforest4891 Yes
Croydon is by far the most depressing place. It's a third world country on the edge of London.
I think you mean Ilford. It's like a third world area outside of London especially Ilford Lane and Seven Kings where so many honour based crimes are happening in there within that town.
Croydon is depressing, many shops closed, rubbish on so many streets led by a bankrupt twice council.
From someone who’s been in Croydon all my life I can confirm this
@Great_WesternTVFan ilford doesn't seem too bad, just only at night it gets too fishy, as someone who used to live in ilford, it has been part of my childhood alongside barkingside or claybury, besides yeah ilford can be very fishy at somepoint, not too bad, its just one of my childhood places, tbh the places i think can get too depressing and by far overatted imo is hackney, generally it seems too large and drug filled, just in my opinion as someone who lives in tottemham, Islington, Romford, Clayhall and Brent cross has to be one of my favorite places in london for me.
@@DeCubei Barkingside and Clayhall are also Ilford
As soon as Tiverton was on the list, i was sceptical, then you pulled out Falmouth.
I mean, Birmingham, Coventry, Grimsby, Luton, Slough
As soon as I saw tivvy I knew it was accurate, I live there
Aberdeen? I think it’s nice place to visit during summer.
Its to live, not visit 😂
never visit aberdeen unless you would like to be dissatisfied
What a ridiculous list. By the way, Alloa is produced Al-ah-wah
It's all oh ah actually 😂😂
I live in Aberdeen it’s an amazing place it’s way better than were a lot of my friends came from
Not one of the many deprived northern towns all of which outdepress any of these places, rotherham, doncaster, huddersfield, bradford, bolton to name just a few
Your pronunciation of Alloa! It’s AL-o-wa
It sounded like hello in Hawaii.
Book him Danno!
Ikr. U live there too or is it just me? Lol
Great burger van outside the football ground.❤
Im calling bs. Devon? Cornwall? Aberdeen? When theres places like Luton, Slough and Swindon?
Swindon is like a paradise compared to slough & luton. Still shit though
@@AK.2425 but Swindon's town centre is completely dead and deserted. I bet Luton or Slough's town centres are still bustling
@@Great_WesternTVFan most shops a shut in slough & abandoned, in both places the town centres are shit, at least Swindon has the outlet centre. Also the outskirts are nice in Swindon while the whole of slough is crap even though on the other side of the M4 is posh Windsor.
1. England
2. Scotland
3. Wales
4. Northern Ireland
5. UK
Living in Cornwall, with family in Falmouth, & having lived in several other places in the UK, Falmouth is one of the best places to live! Whomever voted it depressing needs a psych evaluation because most people could only wish to live somewhere so lovely.
I’m lucky enough to live in a beautiful place in the uk and all I find is that everyone who lives here hates it. All they do is complain.
For some reason everyone feels the need to complain about their home town and it’s honestly ridiculous. Just enjoy it 😂
This is the most true comment here 😂. The UK is full of depressed people lmao
Damn, I never thought Tiverton or Falmouth would make this list. The SouthWest is so nice to live in. I live here now but traveled to other parts of the UK and still think Devon and Cornwall are lovely.
As is Cambridgeshire including Peterborough!
Weird. I love Falmouth. It’s absolutely fantastic. Gorgeous place. 3rd largest natural harbour in the world too. 👌🏻
I would say anywhere in the Midlands of England down the immigrant M1 corridor to London…
From Wolves to Birmingham to Coventry to Northampton to Peterborough to Milton Keynes to Luton to Watford and Wembley
Why was Slough not on the list
I'm from southern England and there are many worse places than those on this list. Been to Falmouth and Aberdeen, nice places. Spent a lot of time in Aberdeen looking around and meeting the locals, always found it to be a lovely city.
Strange list.
I’m not far from Tiverton and this whole area is depressing. Locals stare you down, nothing to do, very weird vibes.
I live near Tivvy and the locals are very inbred (apparently)
I disagree. There are some lovely places in Tiverton, but even if you don't like it there's no way it should be anywhere near the worst town in the UK
@@JoshPhilp Blundell’s is nice, my grandfather’s old school
Lol Tiverton is fine.. the locals don’t ‘stare you down’
@brothershamus1160 nope they're trash
Yep, we did this to deter the tourists, there was a Facebook group about it
Falmouth isn't that bad!! Camborne is close by, I'm a bit surprised that's not on there instead.
Ah, train don't stop Camborne Wednesday.
@@iainhewitt😂😂
This was literally done by a local meme account that organised it I literally live hear and love it
I wonder, are you literally a real person?
@@grahamhughes8011 yes yes I am are you why the fuck would you think I'm a bot
Yep I agree with Peterborough I’ve been there many times and it’s so depressing 😢
Aberdeen is a great city.
aberdeen is complete rubbish, i live there
@@D.music85It's not rubbish at all, Aberdonians are just naturally moaning bastards.
Yes for 3 sunny days a year and wind is somehow friendly 😅
The whole of the UK is the most depressing place on earth.
Bangladesh you mean
That's because of your emotional limitations, not your context. The sun still shines on a slum.
Agree. I too would be depressed if I lived on a island that had bland food, warm beer, crappy weather and fat arsed women.
If beer and women is your level, there is no point in enumerating the cultural or aesthetic advantages of living in the UK.
Grimsby: do I mean nothing to you?
as a person that lives in falmouth cornwall i’m utterly shocked 💀
As a British citizen, I can confirm this list is nonsense. Luton, Coventry, Grimsby, Hull, Croydon. They're Mt Rushmore of shitholes.
Add Telford and Manchester.
Tiverton is quite a nice town the locals are nice and they will even help you with anything.
No they're A-holes
Help you empty your pockets lmao
@@burgerbait is that an insult at British people?
@@VRstudio2024 No. Just people from Tiverton.
@@burgerbait you from America?
The whole country is depressing 😔
All that was owned by the British people and ran for the benefit of the British people
Has been sold off to foreign investors,
Or private companies , awarded big contracts , to milk the British people for as much money as they like ,
Electric
Rail
Roads
Canals
Gas
NHS😳
Water
all in the hands of private investors , or going into the hands of private investors .
The British people have been sold as a cash crop to the highest bidder.
We are being farmed by the rich!
75% of British water companies are owned by American corporations who have dumped untreated sewage in to British rivers and sea, For profit,
It took ordinary people filming this pollution over many years for the government to act.
And the water companies punishment is???
The government lets them increase the water bills of the British people, and the water companies shareholders walk off with £60 + billion.💵💵💵💵💰💰
Red or Blue, political scum who have never worked a day in their life ,
It's all by design bruv ✌
And some people think the allies won WW2 😅😅. Churchill bankrupted the nation and destroyed the British empire.
As someone who lives in Cambridge I am appalled that Peterborough didn’t win.
Falmouth is the few nice places here in cornwall, Camborne, Newquay and Liskeard are 10x worse
Try a weekend in Middlesbrough, itll feel like a year and you'd lose a nut to be in Tiverton.
I hate that town
Yet people call it a city
It's too shitty to be a city
I knew someone would say middlesbrough. Lived in teesside my whole life and can honestly say that boro is great compared to redcar, saltburn, marske, brotton, skelton, loftus. Those are so much worse.
@@jayparmo2284 Granted they are but not Redcar. Redcars the jewel of the teesside riviera, rivaling San Tropez for glamour and celebrities soaking up the rays on it's pristine sun kissed beaches. 🤔🛥️🐋🌞🐟
People who are voting on this haven't got a clue, go to somewhere like Blackpool and see real depression
I used to live in Falmouth, honestly love it there.
Was a bit depressing in winter and during covid but being next to the sea helped. Honestly miss it
Aberdeen, and Falmouth are beautiful places
1 Birmingham
2 worst accent place (brummie)
3 burn and ham
Its ROTHERHAM
It will take you to depths you didn't know existed in your worst nightmare...
That's all you need to know
Avoid Rotherham at all costs
You will never leave!
I lived in Aberdeen for years and I loved every day I spent there - I miss the crisp freezing weather of winter and the long summer nights
I live in Tiverton I can confirm it is depressing asf
i felt a weird sense of pride as it came up cuz it nearly never gets mentioned anywhere
@@HiveFleetKronos40K same in a way
Damn
Absolutely
People's Park is the only good thing about Tiverton
I don’t trust an American telling me where is depressing and where isn’t
Falmouth is such an amazing place.How the hell is luton not on there
I bet about 95% of the British population would happily move to Falmouth in a heartbeat. The locals just don't want them to, hence why they have put their home town on this list. Trying to keep people away.
All the uk is depressing. 24/7 rain . Dark . Cold . Mental people . Weirdos …. No sun = depression
Funnily enough we actually do get sun more often than you’d think. Also at least a mental person here is just a bloke climbing a lamppost with a bottle of Heineken, in America they campaign to run the country.
@@JohnNoodle4not3as an American, I wish we could get that caliber of person to run for president.
@@For891 lol 😂
It doesn't rain that much, at least in the South East. Annoying when it does but it's dry much of the time
Too 5 most depressive places in the UK:
5. The UK
London is the worst place hands down.
London as a whole isn't bad but parts of london such as croydon are absolute shitholes
I'll never be visiting London again.. Its a proper DIVE!!
As a Falmouth local I find this hilarious. To anyone thinking of coming here in the summer and taking up all the parking spaces and crowding the beaches, you shouldn’t come it’s super depressing and not at all an incredible place to live and visit
No hate but there are some FAR more depressing places in Scotland and the UK than Aberdeen.