Well said 15 minute prisons..its only a matter of time before we are all gonna go down the toilet its strange but all the places he has named used to be a very happy places...not anymore..not long before all big cities are included 😢😢..thank you fella 👍
We live in semi rural Dorset. It’s a wonderful place. We lived in Devon for 14 years, I still miss it. There arent many big towns apart from Plymouth. Bits of that are depressing. We worked in Exeter, that is lovely.
The council housed drug addicts in the empty hotels. (A Labour Party initiative over 15 years ago) It has a very high theft rate. I wouldn’t even park a car there. Do not take any valuables into Blackpool. I will never visit again, I have no idea how people actually live there.
I remember a while back, Hythe, a small coastal town in Kent was voted 'the worst town in Britain' in a newspaper survey. It's an attractive and historic little resort with a nice shopping street, good recreation facilities and a nice bathing beach - a safe and pleasant place to live, much loved by residents. I suspect the vote was slanted by a bunch of schoolkids messing about. Probably best not to take these 'surveys' too seriously.
As someone who has traveled the country a fair bit, Harrow doesn't even come close to one of the worst places. Thamesmead, Basildon, Slough, Luton, and Birmingham are places that stick in my mind as some of the worst places I've visited.
Birmingham can be ok (despite the accent) but it depends which part you go to. Being born and raised in Coventry I'm amazed Coventry isn't on here, the whole city has been left behind for decades.
@@jackbeswick4662 I visited Coventry a few years back and thought how stuck in the 1950s the centre was having been rebuilt just after the war. Also surprised, for a large town, the number of small shops closed all day on a Monday! Overdue for a make-over.
Swindon needs to be on the list. Had to stop there was a change on my train so went out a bit and i never wanted to get out of somewhere so quick. The bus station is open air and smells like a nightclub toilet, the debenhams looked more like a prison than a department store, the roads are fucked, the people are rude and it just gives depressing vibes where some people with more fingers than teeth are shouting abuse at each other across the street - this place makes Luton look posh
I live just outside Swindon in Stratton - it is a really run down town centre that has been abandoned by the local council. The bus station is due for demolition. The train station building is an eyesore as is the now closed Debenhams
@@londonspade5896 I suggest you learn what languages they speak in Switzerland before talking nonsense! The majority (63%) speak German. Only 23% speak French. Italian and Romansh are also spoken.
Harrow. First and foremost, big up the Harrow Steps crew! If you grew up in the noughties around skateboards, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Gayton Library will never be the same again, and pound a pint night at the Junction on Tuesdays! I wouldn't say it's depressing, but excessively expensive. Biggest windfall we received is when parents capitalised on house prices and relocated. Unfortunately, we can't afford to live where we grew up anymore, so had to move to Watford, or much further afield. That being said, growing up, my memories of Harrow and Wealdstone was being able to go to Sam's chicken or Maccies without getting shot or stabbed, so you do have a point there!
I grew up in Ipswich and saying it's one of the 10 most miserable is pretty harsh, it's got it's good points, I agree it's nothing amazing but it isn't that bad! Felixstowe is worse in Suffolk, Harwich is worse too in Essex
Surprised. I used to live in Ipswich before and I found Ipswich a very nice place to live. In those days, I hardly heard of any serious crime in Ipswich. You are also right about Felixstowe and it is a very miserable place but nobody mentioned Felixstowe at all.
Ipswich these days is another Romford or Ilford, an east London overspill town. Most of the building in the last few decades has been awful, with the unique exception of the Willis-Faber building.
I was surprised to see Ipswich on this list too. I was born and lived in Ipswich for almost 35 years. Never saw it as miserable. As for crime, i always felt relatively safe there and thought crime rate was low in most parts of the town, except maybe the poorer parts. To me Ipswich was and will always remain 'home' and a cosy little town. Defo should have been Felixstowe not Ipswich on this list.
If we didn`t waste so much money on foreign aid and lifestyles for illegal economic dinghy divers, to name just two reasons, then we might be able to make things more palatable for our own.
I was shocked that Corby came out the worst, it's not that bad. It went into decline when the steelworks shut .I worked for the local paper and for some of that time worked from the Corby office. I know lots of places much, much worst. I would like to know who compiled this list
The concrete shopping centre in Burnley is deeply depressing; there are a couple of great Victorian buildings round the corner, a warehouse disused and a Post Office no longer for public use. I was also surprisingly disappointed with Keighley.
It's not the place that's a hole it's certain types of people that live there who make it a hole (eg druggies chavs and their feral offspring) Docaster was once a pretty decent place as I remember
@@easy-jay PS. It is not about loving to blame it on you. It is about my grief to what you have done to my home town. You need to take some responsibility rather than wallowing in what you have created.
Doncaster does not have a Minster and is not named after the river Don. Its name comes from the Roman camp Danum Castrum which stood on the site of St. George’s church. It was Danecastre in medieval times.
The thing that breeds crime in Luton is its infestation. Quite how Wallsall has escaped this list is beyond me, suffering from an even bigger infestation and subsequently its even grimmer than Luton.
I grew up in Corby and although I've moved away and wouldn't go back at this point in my life because i prefer the amenities cities have, i really don't think it's that bad of a town at all. The problem is, most of the people getting surveyed in Corby have never left Corby so they don't realise just how terrible and deprived some parts of the UK are. Corby is a great little town with a lot going for it compared to other similar sized towns. I mean, you just have to look at surrounding places like Peterborough and Wellingborough to get a real understanding of what miserable is.
Corby is a miserable communist experiment. The town centre has that dystopian looking robocop building looking over everything. But yea, Wellingborough is worse.
Well say what you like a bout Corby, it provides most of the work in Northamptonshire, and it`s industrial range dwarves that of most cities. It had the single biggest steel works in europe at one point, provided the steel for the pipeline across the Atlantic, has a crater on mars named after it as it was the first thing mentioned on a news report by Neil armstrong from space (porridge eating world championship) it also has a castle built by william the conqueror and a 17th century pub, a nature reserve, the kings wood, a small part of rockingham forest. 4 mcdonalds, 3 tesco`s, 3 morrisons and an asda lol. several greggs ;) a direct train line to Londinium. it is surrounded by masses of shire land and has lot`s of green spaces, It is by no means miserable, it is a hard town which changes all the time. if your being a cunt, people will tell you your being a cunt. It is an industrial town, the only true industrial town in Northamtonshire, so it is different from the shoe or market towns surrounding it. It gave the world Steel whilst kettering and northampton gave northamptonshire flip flops. It has it`s own accent too called corbyite so we don`t sound like the carrot crunchers around us we speak properly which makes us appear more sophisticated. You mock Corby beacause you aint Corby. whoever did this survey has certainly never been to Corby or most of these towns, i bet they got the synopsis from the urban dictionary, which i would encourage anyone with a sense of humour to take a look at.
@@darthmong7196 all these towns are massive dives. comparing kettering to corby is like being between the devil and the deep blue sea. northampton is one ugly place
Harrow is misleading -many of the photos show Harrow on the hill near the school which is very pleasant as you would expect near such an expensive school, Harrow town itself is totally different, basically 2 shopping centres and little else
These are nearly all up north which is a lovely part of the world. For real misery you've got to go to Kent, a strip of concrete on its way to abroad. Herne Bay, Strood, Margate, Folkestone. So run down, some of them that they qualified for EEC grants.
As someone who moved away from Harrow 20 years ago and now lives in a generally highly regarded country town, Bury St Edmunds, I have to say I found Harrow's 10th place on the most miserable list totally crazy. I found it a great place and miss it a lot, even though I see it has succumbed to the high rise craze that has swept the country in recent years. Coming to the country has been a shock to the system. Finding that there are no buses running after 6pm was the first thing; finding that many parts of Suffolk and neighbouring Norfolk don't have any bus service at all was another! Unless you can afford to have a car you are very restricted in where you can go. I suppose I had a romantic view of being able to take long walks through picturesque countryside, but the fact is that if you try to do it the chances are that the place you visit will have maybe 3 buses a day and that unless you can get back from your walk in time to catch the last one your only choice is to try to get a taxi. Yes, there are good points about the country, but day-to-day life was probably easier back in Greater London, where you could get a tube train or bus to virtually anywhere you wanted to go!
@@macraghnaill3553 I suppose people have different notions as to what "miserable" means, but surely the inability to travel around one's area is as miserable as it gets!
@@carlgrove8793 The reason public transport no longer exists in many places is because it costs too much to run for too few people, luckily the majority of people have cards so we can travel locally and beyond
I used to date a guy from Milton Keynes. He lived in a revamped part of the city, which was nice, near the train station. However one day we went out for a day trip. I wanted a bottle of water and he pulled up at Tesco extra. literally as I was getting out the car this guy came flying out of the shop door backwards and landed on his back! Then a big woman came out and started decking him!! I jumped back in the car and was like "DRIVE!" lol. All the houses in that area looked so run down and the area was so poverty stricken. Felt bad for them all. I am from Scotland. I am not slating people from England FYI, just sharing a story.
@@genapp3603 Someone could use 'quite happy' to mean 'very happy'. Or they could be unhappy with other aspects of their lives but location isn't one of them.
So basically from your comments the best thing about Corby are places outside of Corby and road links out of Corby so the people fed up with it can easily escape! Great vote of confidence! 😂😂
So the best thing about Corby is that it's easy to get out of, and that there are loads of better places around it? I mean look on the bright side. It's surpassed Kettering and Wellingborough in recent years.
Born in Burnley. Went to a good school and had good teachers. Played out with my friends, football etc. Had a good secondary school with a sixth form and came out with grades that took me to university. Had a paper round as a kid, then worked in a restaurant and a supermarket during uni. Then obtained a full time job in a company that gave me 10 years employment to managerial level and enabled me to move to Leeds. Decent football team, lovely country side, Towneley hall is great to visit, decent leisure centre, close to Manchester and Leeds and Blackpool for various leisure activities. Yes some areas arnt great like many places, but some areas very nice, like many places. I come from a working class family and worked for everything I have done with average means and intellect. In essence Burnley is nowhere near as shite as what this misguided video suggests in the grand scheme of things.
I love Burnley I come up every year for a walking holiday stay in the pendle area but Burnley is lovely and the people so friendly. An area I could live in. I live in Telford shropshire. They are building telford up too much now
I don’t know if I am right but I would imagine most of those places voted for Brexit when Boris has finished levelling up things will be so much better in these places
I live in suburban Luton, handy for London not too far away. And why Harrow, I thought it was a nice quiet suburb in north west London with an important private school.
My brother lives there, and I am going to visit next week. The part where he lives is a bit dull, I grant you, but much of it is at least as good as anywhere else I have been in my travels. Also, I have been to Harrow quite a lot over the years, and have seen FAR worse places. I used to regularly visit Debenhams in Harrow as a service engineer, and my abiding memory is of a stunningly beautiful blonde sales girl in the clothing department! There was not a man, married or otherwise, who could ignore her as she passed.....
I 💯 agree. I find it hard to go to town these days. Not a lot to do in it, considering its size. I wouldn't recommend the market area. Always people asking for money so they can buy drugs.
Hi did I hear you right average £60 thousand pounds a year I'm living on 14 pounds a week and it's hard very hard in a tent on the street in the back of a van in Blackpool
@@skylongskylong1982 thank you for replying I'm 60 years old and have worked since I was 8 year old and hard if you noow me you would now how hard my even when I was crushed in 1999 and paralisd from the chest down and I was still werking from my hospital bed and when I was released from hospital I went strat to work but for the last 20 years I've suffered with my right leg swelling just like a elefents leg Please I'd love to werk it was all I did even my 4 children despise me werking as much please be healthy happy and lucky
Harrow really is a crap hole … converted Victorian and Edwardian housing cram in families into slum-like accommodation. Filth and rubbish is strewn everywhere… Today, I don’t recognise it as the town I grew up in 😢
Worst place in Britain to live is Northampton, what a shit hole, the main shopping thorough fare (Abington St) is full of boarded up shops with endless ammounts of drunks gathered around in groups, and the further up you go the worse it gets. The Market square, if you can call it that, is a disgrace. The local council does not do anything to improve things and people either go to Milton Keynes, or more recently Rushden lakes to do their shopping. It is so bad, that once the younger generations reach an age they move away.
You make some good points... I lived in Moulton on the edge of Northampton and the Northampton town centre was a hole. I have mates who live there and they have told me that when they have to go into town English is a second language. The bus station was closed and the new depot wasn't high enough to cater for double decker buses and so they drop people off in a car park near the Police Station, with no public facilities or cover from the elements. The Council admin are a bunch of idiots.
My girlfriend is currently living in Hartlepool for Uni, but it has to be said that there are way worse towns surrounding it. Billingham, Stockton or Peterlee just for some examples
Whoever wrote about Ipswich has no idea of what they are talking about! Ipswich - Fabulous Marina at the top of the River Orwell ( Renowned as one of the UK's most beautiful rivers with fabulous beaches to chill out on, four Sailing Marinas, the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, loads of sailing and water sports) with brilliant hotels, restaurants, floating restaurants, bars and pubs with quality live music! Christchurch park - A stunning park with a lake and lots of wildlife, Christchurch Mansions is located within the park where you can chill out with a drink and take in the views. Christchurch Park Area - Acres and acres of stunning Edwardian and Georgian properties including the stunning Ipswich School - St Peters St Area, numerous medieval properties that are now wonderful independent shops, including the amazing 'Antonio Bellini's Italian Shirt Shop' One hour from London on the train - Ipswich even has a fantastic football club on its way to join the Premiership! I can go on and on........I have lived in quite a few places and Ipswich is the best place I have ever lived in! It should be in the top ten of best places to live!
Got stuck in Doncaster due to train problem on the way to Leeds ended drinking in The Railway Pub shown on the vid. Got some shit for being a "Cockney" because I've got a Southern accent gave some shit back and it got a bit tense for a while but ended up getting pissed with the locals and had a blinding time.
Didn't think Harrow was that miserable. Use to see a girl in South Harrow and the pub had a great local vibe better than depressing expensive pubs close to central. All its got a shopping center albeit a bit shit the cinema is at least cheap. Never found it that bad of a place tbh far worse placea
So to summarise "it has depressing expensive pubs in the centre; only has a shopping centre going for it; the cinema is a bit shit, but it's not that bad". Most English comment ever... 😄
As the population of this tiny island soars and the fields are built over with high- density housing that have no facilities you can expect to see most of England on your depressing list. Never mind we can all live and bathe together in the success and warmth of our multi- cultural happiness.
@@datadavis I and no-one I know have ever lived in or personally gained anything from a British Empire. Overall I benefited from this Empire as I also benefited from being part of a Roman Empire who besides killing a few of our warring tribes brought us many benefits eventually leading to a unified nation. Unfortunately this is all being undone by a massive influx of foreigners, many who do not share our culture and values and are setting up their tribal enclaves throughout our country, which by the way is unpleasantly full.
@@arfurwitt6221 Of course you have benefitted from the British Empire and still do. You really need to read a bit more and you even have the www to assist you in gaining this knowledge. Ignorance, coupled with bigotry is no excuse. I bet you love a good curry, or a pineapple juice or many other delectable delights etc that you would otherwise not enjoy had it not been for the British Empire past and present. So be grateful that you live a life you would otherwise not be experiencing and all at the expense of those foreigners countries and peoples that you look down upon. If that weren't the case these videos would be even more critical, as you would be more than just bored. Whilst you are at it check out videos of Chedder Man and others and alleviate yourself of your grosse ignorance! In short everything you enjoy today is a direct result of the British Empire!!!
Chesterfield must be up there with some of the results in this survey. Humdrum. The Borough council talks it up alot but it falls short on substance. The shopping centre has its fair share of charity shops just as other towns do, what is it with this model nowadays?
Well Quiite, listings like Crime and unemployment figures are highly relevant, but much else feeds on that. Misrable is a unquantafiable and variable thing though. Like the weather effect on people.
Fair point... if cornwall has miserable weather we can actually enjoy our own towns.... if the weather is lush.... tourists come and trash the place and act entitled when doing so 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a climate only a Druid could love. To be honest most of what humanity constructs is as ugly as hell from my perspective. It’s as though man has embarked on making our environment as depressing as possible. Wherever buildings fit into the landscape and have a naturalised look and aesthetic are best. Whether it’s a mountain temple or the sandstone buildings of the cotswolds, such environments are far gentler on the eye and mind. It all went wrong from the Victorian era onwards here in the UK.
Bigger part of the problem is thinking Government is the solution rather than the cause. Get that mentality out of your heads and you might have a chance.
He changed his name probably after visiting Sheffield. He called Sheffield the ugliest city in the world! I left Sheffield 20 years ago and was glad to do so. It's the biggest ghost town in Britain.
Harrogate should be on here I live there & no one speaks to you & everyone you speak to looks at you as if you killed one of their family a total dump I am stuck in the hellhole that is Harrogate since losing my job. If I could get transferred out I would do I am dead miserable.
The thing with Blackpool is theres parts of it that aren't really miserable at all, namely a lot of the northernmost and southernmost suburbs. Theyre not bad; its just about 35% of the town, almost all of which is the central part, is overrun with crime and infamously dirty/rough.
10) Harrow - I’ve never been there. 9) Doncaster - never been. 8) Ipswich - never been. 7) Burnley - now yes, I’ve been there. I worked away there for a couple of months three years back. Had a few nice curries, but yes, the town is a miserable dump. A miserable dump with a drive-thru chippy though! 6) Hartlepool - never been. 5) Scunthorpe - never been. It does contain the word ‘cunt’ in its name though, and I rather like that! 4) Dudley - been several times. Quite liked it. Nice zoo, nice castle, nice museum. Silly accent though. 3) Blackpool - been several times, both as a holidaying kid and stag-parting adult. Good laugh yes, but a right shithole. 2) Luton - never been. Don’t ever want to. A friend of mine used to live there, but he left when it became a no-go zone for the white infidel. 1) Corby - been a couple of times. Nice industrial estates..... But apart from that, yes miserable!
Surprised to see Harrow on the list, of all the parts of London that could have made the top 10 this would not have figured on mine. Tower Hamlets would have trumped all other London boroughs, it is a total sh*thole.
I'm surprised about Ipswich ! Cos from the pictures it does look very nice ! It's very isolated though ! Perhaps that has something to do with it ! It looks lovely though !
Just quickly looked online for rail travel from Bristol to Ipswich , what it gave was for 1 person for a one way ticket ( it also said cheapest ) was €161 . So I'm not going there by rail anytime soon .
I lived there for nearly nine years and left quite recently. There is no way it belongs on this list and I have endured 100x worse. There is plenty going on in Ipswich and parts of it are lovely. It has so much going for it and so much potential waiting to be tapped - I live in/around London now, but if that doesn't work out Ipswich is definitely somewhere I'd consider living again. It's very affordable, most of it is very peaceful and I had absolutely no trouble at all. They just need to sort the higher end job market and it would be perfect.
A good point here is relative to some countries England is a decent place to live ! But if you live in poverty ( as some do ) , then it can be very demoralizing , as England isn't perceived like this in other countries .
Tell the graphity artist about his town; the fly-tipper and the litter-dropper; the drunk who spills his evening meal over the pavement; the rowdy youth; the unkempt gardens; the broken telephones; those who spit and deface buildings. He will say he lives in a miserable town and bemoan those who do none of these things but try to live decently and find contentment in their surroundings.
UK looks like a nice place to live if you have money but miserable otherwise. Also the climate is not the greatest. I wouldn't live there. The people can tend to be passive aggressive and downright nasty as well.
Errrmmm Dudley is not known as the Black County. The geographical area including Dudley, West Bromwich and Walsall is known as the Black Country. We have a Norman Castle, a Zoo and they filmed parts of Peaky Blinders at the Black Country Living Musuem. The High Street is rubbish though.
It’s all very well complaining about living in a hell hole of a place but I will never understand why people will not , cannot be bothered , refuse to, take the initiative for themselves and clean up their surroundings , plant flowers (that grow very cheaply from seeds ) etc etc - make a ruddy effort themselves. This country has so much , enjoys so many privileges and opportunities , all of which is taken for granted whilst expecting local and central govt to do it for them - then they complain about too many rules etc. Take and show some communal responsibility . Raise the standards of environment and maintenance and put the layabout types to work. Create a responsible atmosphere whereby hooliganism , vandalism to include disgusting littering and defacing of buildings , is NOT to be tolerated. We should police ourselves to a degree , then with combined efforts, there is real teeth to the criticisms of over government, over taxation and matters such as a wholly disgraceful police force . Take pride in your town or city . Take command for the good of the living environment and the standards of acceptable behaviour. In short , do something about it , stop thinking we are owed a living, life on a plate . Furthermore, the calibre of people in government , local and national will also improve . IMO
Because if you make something nice, malignant morons will deface it and because the police are too busy chasing real crimes like snowball moaning and Facebook bullying, they won't do anything. If you try to do something, the morons will persecute you, deface your property, scream obscenities at you and make noise. Or if you lay a finger on them, you're going to jail or being fined. Honestly. These kids who deface and ruin things do it because they will get away with it and they know you, Joe Public, can't stop them and if you try, the law is seemingly on their side.
1:50 Despite Doncaster does have a reputation for crime, I enjoy going there because of its History as a Railway Town, I would love to see become more affluent and recognise as a Railway Town, because 2 world famous locomotives were built there,LNER 4472 Flying Scotsman and LNER 4468 Mallard.
@@leod-sigefast I used to live near Cambridge and always hated visiting it. It felt like a self-absorbed, twee bubble and the "town and gown" relations between students and normal people were frankly crap. Not my sort of place at all.
Where in UK isn't in decline, its a matter of time now. Nowhere is booming anymore.
Well said 15 minute prisons..its only a matter of time before we are all gonna go down the toilet its strange but all the places he has named used to be a very happy places...not anymore..not long before all big cities are included 😢😢..thank you fella 👍
We live in semi rural Dorset. It’s a wonderful place. We lived in Devon for 14 years, I still miss it. There arent many big towns apart from Plymouth. Bits of that are depressing. We worked in Exeter, that is lovely.
Is Cheshire still posh
How Rotherham didn't make that list is a miracle.
I was surprised as well.....
Rotherham is worse than Doncaster, that shows how bad it is, totally depressing.
At least Rotherham is close to Sheffield, if you're in donny you're near fuck all
I just mentioned Rotherham in my comment as the worst, then saw your comment. Yep rotherham is a horrific.
Barrow , Cumbria...a good town on which to test Nukes...its wealth depends on bulding killer subs...SLAUGHTER IT!
Took family to Blackpool last year,I nearly cried.how could one of my favorite memories become the most depressing town I have seen.
Cheap property though!
@@MariA-bu2jv cheap for a reason.
Why -- it became what it is -- bad management and lacking foresight by council and businesses
It’s hey day must have been a long time ago I’m over60 and it’s always been a shit hole
The council housed drug addicts in the empty hotels. (A Labour Party initiative over 15 years ago) It has a very high theft rate.
I wouldn’t even park a car there.
Do not take any valuables into Blackpool.
I will never visit again, I have no idea how people actually live there.
Surprised Dewsbury and Bradford aren't on the list. Poverty and poor education runs rampant in both of them, which just creates crime and misery.
I agree could've possibly added Heckmondwike and Keighley to your list.
I agree with all of the above and would like to add Ravensthorpe to the list of miserable places.
I like Dewsbury because I can fee like I am in Afghanistan without actually going to Afghanistan.....dya get me....innit?
Went to Luton once for work, its like the middle east.
Woof! That's real bad.
What wrong with middle East??
@@spotluxe1885 Nothing, as long as it's in the middle East.
agree, been there for 2 years, mostly in Dunstable .. depressing .. different world.
Nothing like showing everyone just how racist you are !
I remember a while back, Hythe, a small coastal town in Kent was voted 'the worst town in Britain' in a newspaper survey. It's an attractive and historic little resort with a nice shopping street, good recreation facilities and a nice bathing beach - a safe and pleasant place to live, much loved by residents. I suspect the vote was slanted by a bunch of schoolkids messing about. Probably best not to take these 'surveys' too seriously.
Rhymes with scythe so that can't be good
Strangely varied weather in Hythe. Icy in the morning, scorching by lunchtime!
I love Hythe, very family friendly and lovely green spaces, ♥️
Michael Howard is the MP (that should tell anyone all you need to know about Hithe)
I can name worse places including Slough & High Wycombe
If Typhoo put the 'T' in Britain, who put the c**t in Scunthorpe?
Boris's folks.
@@tonyduncan9852 Fair enough, but the only correct answer to that question is "your mum"
@@michaelcottle6270 "Come outside." - Where's my hat? :)
your mum and dad ! :)
As someone who has traveled the country a fair bit, Harrow doesn't even come close to one of the worst places. Thamesmead, Basildon, Slough, Luton, and Birmingham are places that stick in my mind as some of the worst places I've visited.
Birmingham can be ok (despite the accent) but it depends which part you go to. Being born and raised in Coventry I'm amazed Coventry isn't on here, the whole city has been left behind for decades.
Not to mention Waterloo South East London LALALA where I live 👉🇬🇧👈
Sir am I take it that you are suggesting that Harrow is not at all "Harrowing"?
Seems like everyone is too afraid to say that the worst towns now are those that have been turned into 3rd world s***holes.
@@jackbeswick4662 I visited Coventry a few years back and thought how stuck in the 1950s the centre was having been rebuilt just after the war. Also surprised, for a large town, the number of small shops closed all day on a Monday! Overdue for a make-over.
Swindon needs to be on the list. Had to stop there was a change on my train so went out a bit and i never wanted to get out of somewhere so quick. The bus station is open air and smells like a nightclub toilet, the debenhams looked more like a prison than a department store, the roads are fucked, the people are rude and it just gives depressing vibes where some people with more fingers than teeth are shouting abuse at each other across the street - this place makes Luton look posh
I agree with you. I lived in Swindon for 40 years and left 20 years ago. It used to be a friendly place to live but has turned into a heartless dump.
Swindon is peaceful in my opinion, I don’t see much rude/depressing vibes. Bath is the best place there in my opinion, especially with the park.
I live just outside Swindon in Stratton - it is a really run down town centre that has been abandoned by the local council. The bus station is due for demolition. The train station building is an eyesore as is the now closed Debenhams
The guy that made this video put Swindon in FIRST place of the best places to live in England lol
Yeah I saw that... Slough somehow made that list as well 😩
6:54 'Blackpool is the primary settlement in the borough of Blackpool'.
Thanks for letting us know.
Naming a place in England miserable is like calling water wet. Live in Switzerland for a few years, and you'll see what a country can be....
Then I'd have to speak French.. But it is truly the most beautiful country on this planet
Its what billions in criminal money can buy. I'm sure Putin owns a hefty share.
@@londonspade5896 I suggest you learn what languages they speak in Switzerland before talking nonsense! The majority (63%) speak German. Only 23% speak French. Italian and Romansh are also spoken.
@@kenfletcher1240 Yeah I know Karen, it was a joke
@@londonspade5896 I apologise. I thought jokes were meant to be funny, not dumb.
Why isn’t London on this list? That is easily the worst place in not only the U.K but also the world!!!
I'm disappointed that Grimsby isn't in the Top Ten Most Miserable Places. Come on Grimsby... you're not trying hard enough.
Clacton another....
Harrow. First and foremost, big up the Harrow Steps crew! If you grew up in the noughties around skateboards, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Gayton Library will never be the same again, and pound a pint night at the Junction on Tuesdays! I wouldn't say it's depressing, but excessively expensive. Biggest windfall we received is when parents capitalised on house prices and relocated. Unfortunately, we can't afford to live where we grew up anymore, so had to move to Watford, or much further afield.
That being said, growing up, my memories of Harrow and Wealdstone was being able to go to Sam's chicken or Maccies without getting shot or stabbed, so you do have a point there!
I grew up in Ipswich and saying it's one of the 10 most miserable is pretty harsh, it's got it's good points, I agree it's nothing amazing but it isn't that bad! Felixstowe is worse in Suffolk, Harwich is worse too in Essex
Surprised. I used to live in Ipswich before and I found Ipswich a very nice place to live. In those days, I hardly heard of any serious crime in Ipswich. You are also right about Felixstowe and it is a very miserable place but nobody mentioned Felixstowe at all.
Haverhill in Suffolk what a Shithole
Ipswich these days is another Romford or Ilford, an east London overspill town. Most of the building in the last few decades has been awful, with the unique exception of the Willis-Faber building.
Felixstowe is absolutely worst, lived in both and I nickname Felixstowe "gods waiting room"
I was surprised to see Ipswich on this list too. I was born and lived in Ipswich for almost 35 years. Never saw it as miserable. As for crime, i always felt relatively safe there and thought crime rate was low in most parts of the town, except maybe the poorer parts. To me Ipswich was and will always remain 'home' and a cosy little town. Defo should have been Felixstowe not Ipswich on this list.
If we didn`t waste so much money on foreign aid and lifestyles for illegal economic dinghy divers, to name just two reasons, then we might be able to make things more palatable for our own.
and if we didn't waste money on the royal family or illegal wars we would be able to make things more palatable for our own.
Government God
Gimmigrants, Gimmigrants, Gimmigrants that's why we are made to suffer, Chuck in spiraling costs for everything you can see were screwed.
Agree with you there Clemo
I from Leicester but I been about,Coventry and Sheffield were bad but you got places like Corby , Bolsover , Mansfield, Long Elton there’s loads
I was shocked that Corby came out the worst, it's not that bad. It went into decline when the steelworks shut .I worked for the local paper and for some of that time worked from the Corby office. I know lots of places much, much worst. I would like to know who compiled this list
“Worst places in england”
Scotland: “hold my buckfast”
The concrete shopping centre in Burnley is deeply depressing; there are a couple of great Victorian buildings round the corner, a warehouse disused and a Post Office no longer for public use. I was also surprisingly disappointed with Keighley.
I lived and worked in Doncaster for three years and then emigrated. It was a s- hole then, 50 years ago and apparently still is.
It's not the place that's a hole it's certain types of people that live there who make it a hole (eg druggies chavs and their feral offspring) Docaster was once a pretty decent place as I remember
I was born and grew up in Harrow. It deserves its ranking as a miserable place. But it was not always like that. Mass immigration has taken its toll.
Y'all love blaming it on us, loads of us are bad 100% but there's loads of good ones , take accountability for the bad people y'all have too .
@@easy-jay Good or bad you have still trashed the place.
@@easy-jay PS. It is not about loving to blame it on you. It is about my grief to what you have done to my home town. You need to take some responsibility rather than wallowing in what you have created.
The whole of London under Sadiq Khan is miserable
Doncaster does not have a Minster and is not named after the river Don. Its name comes from the Roman camp Danum Castrum which stood on the site of St. George’s church. It was Danecastre in medieval times.
st. georges church is now a minster ! :)
Danum was the Roman name for the river. Danum Castrum = Fort on the River Don.
The thing that breeds crime in Luton is its infestation. Quite how Wallsall has escaped this list is beyond me, suffering from an even bigger infestation and subsequently its even grimmer than Luton.
oh dear another racist
🐐💨🇵🇰...................💃🏻Eeeeeek!!!
Walsall is not on the list because it is no longer an English town!!!!!!
Why on earth am I watching this?
Same!! 😂
This Guy must be an avid reader of the Daily Mail full of S**T?
I grew up in Corby and although I've moved away and wouldn't go back at this point in my life because i prefer the amenities cities have, i really don't think it's that bad of a town at all. The problem is, most of the people getting surveyed in Corby have never left Corby so they don't realise just how terrible and deprived some parts of the UK are. Corby is a great little town with a lot going for it compared to other similar sized towns. I mean, you just have to look at surrounding places like Peterborough and Wellingborough to get a real understanding of what miserable is.
Corby is a miserable communist experiment.
The town centre has that dystopian looking robocop building looking over everything.
But yea, Wellingborough is worse.
20 years ago it was pretty grim. But it's way better than Kettering and Wellingborough on so many fronts.
Well say what you like a bout Corby, it provides most of the work in Northamptonshire, and it`s industrial range dwarves that of most cities. It had the single biggest steel works in europe at one point, provided the steel for the pipeline across the Atlantic, has a crater on mars named after it as it was the first thing mentioned on a news report by Neil armstrong from space (porridge eating world championship) it also has a castle built by william the conqueror and a 17th century pub, a nature reserve, the kings wood, a small part of rockingham forest. 4 mcdonalds, 3 tesco`s, 3 morrisons and an asda lol. several greggs ;) a direct train line to Londinium. it is surrounded by masses of shire land and has lot`s of green spaces, It is by no means miserable, it is a hard town which changes all the time. if your being a cunt, people will tell you your being a cunt. It is an industrial town, the only true industrial town in Northamtonshire, so it is different from the shoe or market towns surrounding it. It gave the world Steel whilst kettering and northampton gave northamptonshire flip flops. It has it`s own accent too called corbyite so we don`t sound like the carrot crunchers around us we speak properly which makes us appear more sophisticated. You mock Corby beacause you aint Corby. whoever did this survey has certainly never been to Corby or most of these towns, i bet they got the synopsis from the urban dictionary, which i would encourage anyone with a sense of humour to take a look at.
@@darthmong7196 all these towns are massive dives. comparing kettering to corby is like being between the devil and the deep blue sea. northampton is one ugly place
@Jean Love There are no urban landmarks to admire but the countryside, whilst unremarkable, is certainly lush and green this time of year.
Harrow is misleading -many of the photos show Harrow on the hill near the school which is very pleasant as you would expect near such an expensive school, Harrow town itself is totally different, basically 2 shopping centres and little else
These are nearly all up north which is a lovely part of the world.
For real misery you've got to go to Kent, a strip of concrete on its way to abroad. Herne Bay, Strood, Margate, Folkestone. So run down, some of them that they qualified for EEC grants.
Poppycock ! The Noth is far shiter ! 'Ows yer outages going oop thar !
The countryside is lovely, but the towns are grim.
Nothing wrong with Folkestone, fella. I've been here all my life and I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Even the seagulls fly backwards in Scunthorpe
The birds fly upside down over Hounslow and Slough though because there's nothing worth shitting upon.
As someone who moved away from Harrow 20 years ago and now lives in a generally highly regarded country town, Bury St Edmunds, I have to say I found Harrow's 10th place on the most miserable list totally crazy. I found it a great place and miss it a lot, even though I see it has succumbed to the high rise craze that has swept the country in recent years. Coming to the country has been a shock to the system. Finding that there are no buses running after 6pm was the first thing; finding that many parts of Suffolk and neighbouring Norfolk don't have any bus service at all was another! Unless you can afford to have a car you are very restricted in where you can go. I suppose I had a romantic view of being able to take long walks through picturesque countryside, but the fact is that if you try to do it the chances are that the place you visit will have maybe 3 buses a day and that unless you can get back from your walk in time to catch the last one your only choice is to try to get a taxi. Yes, there are good points about the country, but day-to-day life was probably easier back in Greater London, where you could get a tube train or bus to virtually anywhere you wanted to go!
I live in the Lake District, the nearest train station from me is 2 miles away and there hasn't been a bus service for years
@@macraghnaill3553 I suppose people have different notions as to what "miserable" means, but surely the inability to travel around one's area is as miserable as it gets!
@@carlgrove8793 The reason public transport no longer exists in many places is because it costs too much to run for too few people, luckily the majority of people have cards so we can travel locally and beyond
@@macraghnaill3553 Correct, and it should really be run as a public service.
"I came to Bury St.Edmunds, not to praise him." I'll get my hat. . .
No miserable places mate, just miserable people. No dangerous roads only dangerous drivers.
I used to date a guy from Milton Keynes. He lived in a revamped part of the city, which was nice, near the train station. However one day we went out for a day trip. I wanted a bottle of water and he pulled up at Tesco extra. literally as I was getting out the car this guy came flying out of the shop door backwards and landed on his back! Then a big woman came out and started decking him!! I jumped back in the car and was like "DRIVE!" lol. All the houses in that area looked so run down and the area was so poverty stricken. Felt bad for them all. I am from Scotland. I am not slating people from England FYI, just sharing a story.
Btw it's a town not a city and I've lived here for over 15 years and I think overall it's not a bad place to live at all
But did you get your water??
@@jamesmcandrew512 No, I got in the car and shouted "DRIVE"
@@jackdelacey7392 we lived there for a few years. We moved to a village in 2000. It wasn’t a bad place back then
Milton keins is gross
All of England's cities are miserable and scary to live in now
I live in Harrow and I'm definitely quite happy
It's quite hilly compared with the flatness of most of London.
I went to uni there and it was pretty grim.
because you said quite happy instead of happy we know what the reality is
@@genapp3603 Someone could use 'quite happy' to mean 'very happy'. Or they could be unhappy with other aspects of their lives but location isn't one of them.
@@lemsip207 nah they are definitely quite delusional because they live in Harrow
Corby has some amazing villages nearby. It also has excellent road links and a reasonably quick rail link to St Pancras .
Being inaccessible from London would be a huge plus.
So basically from your comments the best thing about Corby are places outside of Corby and road links out of Corby so the people fed up with it can easily escape! Great vote of confidence! 😂😂
So the best thing about Corby is that it's easy to get out of, and that there are loads of better places around it?
I mean look on the bright side. It's surpassed Kettering and Wellingborough in recent years.
@@darthmong7196 Or Well'rough as it's known. Not surprising as they have Peter Bone for MP.
@@stephenjon3502 I park outside his office when I order from Pizza Hut. It's drab and beaten up. How fitting, eh?
Haywards Heath....Not a patch on Burgess Hill which is the culture centre of Mid- Sussex...
Born in Burnley. Went to a good school and had good teachers. Played out with my friends, football etc. Had a good secondary school with a sixth form and came out with grades that took me to university. Had a paper round as a kid, then worked in a restaurant and a supermarket during uni. Then obtained a full time job in a company that gave me 10 years employment to managerial level and enabled me to move to Leeds.
Decent football team, lovely country side, Towneley hall is great to visit, decent leisure centre, close to Manchester and Leeds and Blackpool for various leisure activities. Yes some areas arnt great like many places, but some areas very nice, like many places. I come from a working class family and worked for everything I have done with average means and intellect.
In essence Burnley is nowhere near as shite as what this misguided video suggests in the grand scheme of things.
Very lazy video and you are correct in what you've said.
You know everything you wrote there I could hear as that horrid thick Lancs accent. Bless ya
I love Burnley I come up every year for a walking holiday stay in the pendle area but Burnley is lovely and the people so friendly. An area I could live in. I live in Telford shropshire. They are building telford up too much now
I love the people of Burnley and Ipswich some lovely places in both this survey is pathetic imo
Blackpool is a shit hole. My mate got noshed off for £5 there. Even the prossies are desperate.
I don’t know if I am right but I would imagine most of those places voted for Brexit when Boris has finished levelling up things will be so much better in these places
So much
Haha leveling up never happened
I'm from Nuneaton, couldn't wait to get out of there, one of the best decisions I ever made!
I live in suburban Luton, handy for London not too far away. And why Harrow, I thought it was a nice quiet suburb in north west London with an important private school.
Lots of dark-skinned types in Harrow....dya get me...innit?
Peterborough,Boston, Kettering,keigtley , Bradford
I currently live in Ipswich but calling it depressing is harsh because it’s quite the town despite being small
Yes nothing at all against Ipswich
Anyone is guaranteed a warm welcome from the local women hoping to extend the local gene pool
Glad you like it Shane, I went there once & that was more than enough for me 😂😂
everyone in ipswich has the same surname
Only been to Ipswich once, even the river was disgusting, full of tyres and shopping trollies etc
My brother lives there, and I am going to visit next week. The part where he lives is a bit dull, I grant you, but much of it is at least as good as anywhere else I have been in my travels. Also, I have been to Harrow quite a lot over the years, and have seen FAR worse places. I used to regularly visit Debenhams in Harrow as a service engineer, and my abiding memory is of a stunningly beautiful blonde sales girl in the clothing department! There was not a man, married or otherwise, who could ignore her as she passed.....
Can't believe Jaywick wasn't on this list. Great Yarmouth is also awful.
Take a look at Nelson East Lancashire
As a Doncastrian who managed to escape, I was chuffed to bits to find it on the list, but disappointed that it was only number 9.
I 💯 agree. I find it hard to go to town these days. Not a lot to do in it, considering its size. I wouldn't recommend the market area. Always people asking for money so they can buy drugs.
Kevin Keegan who is from Doncaster used to say 'chuffed to bits'...such as 'I was 'chuffed to bits Man Utd lost today.'
Put it this way your only happy if you're born here or settle for less and if you were born there and moved you see there are horizons.
Hi did I hear you right average £60 thousand pounds a year I'm living on 14 pounds a week and it's hard very hard in a tent on the street in the back of a van in Blackpool
Your local Lidle is looking for storemen at present.
Pop in, and ask to speak to the manager.
The money is above average.
Good Luck.
@@skylongskylong1982 thank you for replying I'm 60 years old and have worked since I was 8 year old and hard if you noow me you would now how hard my even when I was crushed in 1999 and paralisd from the chest down and I was still werking from my hospital bed and when I was released from hospital I went strat to work but for the last 20 years I've suffered with my right leg swelling just like a elefents leg
Please I'd love to werk it was all I did even my 4 children despise me werking as much please be healthy happy and lucky
Yea sounds like you overdid your working part a bit. Noone thanks you for it you know.
@@datadavis thank you for replying just that in it self means someone is listening please be healthy happy and lucky
Harrow really is a crap hole … converted Victorian and Edwardian housing cram in families into slum-like accommodation. Filth and rubbish is strewn everywhere… Today, I don’t recognise it as the town I grew up in 😢
Worst place in Britain to live is Northampton, what a shit hole, the main shopping thorough fare (Abington St) is full of boarded up shops with
endless ammounts of drunks gathered around in groups, and the further up you go the worse it gets.
The Market square, if you can call it that, is a disgrace.
The local council does not do anything to improve things and people either go to Milton Keynes, or more recently Rushden lakes to do their shopping.
It is so bad, that once the younger generations reach an age they move away.
You make some good points... I lived in Moulton on the edge of Northampton and the Northampton town centre was a hole. I have mates who live there and they have told me that when they have to go into town English is a second language. The bus station was closed and the new depot wasn't high enough to cater for double decker buses and so they drop people off in a car park near the Police Station, with no public facilities or cover from the elements. The Council admin are a bunch of idiots.
I live in Bournemouth and the high street is dying and there's lots of homeless people and rent prices are very high here
I live in Bournemouth town center, Triangle area and yeah! It's grim.
Yeah I live between Bournemouth and Boscombe and prefer Boscombe
My girlfriend is currently living in Hartlepool for Uni, but it has to be said that there are way worse towns surrounding it. Billingham, Stockton or Peterlee just for some examples
Blackpool ..serves the best candy floss anywhere.
Hartlepool is the worst easily, highest crime,drug problems, highest unemployment and highest council tax in the UK
The pictures don't show misery. Quite on the contrary, those places look pleasant.
I think they use 'ironic' photos on this channel about bad British towns, where they pick out the best buildings and areas - to be ironic.
that's why he mentioned the crime rates
Sorry how is Harrow on this list but Brent, part of the south and east London is not on here you taking the piss
Harrow is a very nice place, actually. Virtually anywhere north of Birmingham is far worse.
It even looked nice in the pictures!
@@annother3350 You mean in tourist guides? Some of it's a bit scruffy.
@@uktravel8341 no, in this video,it looked ok
Worse than B'ham? You need to get out more.
@@tumslucks9781 From Harrow, have a lot of family in Brum. Harrow is 50x nicer than places like Shirley, Erdington, Walsall and Sutton Coldfield.
The UK is just plain miserable full stop....I would recommend going to Ireland instead as they are much nicer people
I note that the photos make these places look pretty good.
Whoever wrote about Ipswich has no idea of what they are talking about! Ipswich - Fabulous Marina at the top of the River Orwell ( Renowned as one of the UK's most beautiful rivers with fabulous beaches to chill out on, four Sailing Marinas, the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, loads of sailing and water sports) with brilliant hotels, restaurants, floating restaurants, bars and pubs with quality live music! Christchurch park - A stunning park with a lake and lots of wildlife, Christchurch Mansions is located within the park where you can chill out with a drink and take in the views.
Christchurch Park Area - Acres and acres of stunning Edwardian and Georgian properties including the stunning Ipswich School - St Peters St Area, numerous medieval properties that are now wonderful independent shops, including the amazing 'Antonio Bellini's Italian Shirt Shop' One hour from London on the train - Ipswich even has a fantastic football club on its way to join the Premiership! I can go on and on........I have lived in quite a few places and Ipswich is the best place I have ever lived in! It should be in the top ten of best places to live!
So the miserable list is almost the same as the boring list.
Got stuck in Doncaster due to train problem on the way to Leeds ended drinking in The Railway Pub shown on the vid. Got some shit for being a "Cockney" because I've got a Southern accent gave some shit back and it got a bit tense for a while but ended up getting pissed with the locals and had a blinding time.
You can’t really count Luton as the uk anymore tbh
Cause your a racist
Used to live near Luton. Even back in the 80s it was somewhere you felt glad to leave
It's like living in Saudi Arabia
@@cherylbaker4290 Exactly!
The most miserable places in England are the ones which have the highest percentage of 'diverse cultures'.
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Not only Luton the country’s finished now all the English have gone to live in Spain
Cannot believe that Rochdale isn't included, it's a horrible place to live
Bet tameside,Greater Manchester ain't on that list? Coz it's grim....
Didn't think Harrow was that miserable. Use to see a girl in South Harrow and the pub had a great local vibe better than depressing expensive pubs close to central. All its got a shopping center albeit a bit shit the cinema is at least cheap. Never found it that bad of a place tbh far worse placea
Harrow was terrible... we were only allowed to have stuff in the wall that fitted within an A3 space
So to summarise "it has depressing expensive pubs in the centre; only has a shopping centre going for it; the cinema is a bit shit, but it's not that bad". Most English comment ever... 😄
@@psychonaut689Compared to other places in the UK, Harrow really isn’t that bad. Hell, nicer than a lot of other London boroughs.
As the population of this tiny island soars and the fields are built over with high- density housing that have no facilities you can expect to see most of England on your depressing list. Never mind we can all live and bathe together in the success and warmth of our
multi- cultural happiness.
Only 8% of Britain is urban with a population of nearly 70m so we have some way to go before it gets that bad.
Well, you had a multicultural empire, now you get to have a multi culti island - be thankful!
@@curtismantle what do you mean that 8% of the UK is Urban? The true figure is 84% .
@@datadavis I and no-one I know have ever lived in or personally gained anything from a British Empire. Overall I benefited from this Empire as I also benefited from being part of a Roman Empire who besides killing a few of our warring tribes brought us many benefits eventually leading to a unified nation.
Unfortunately this is all being undone by a massive influx of foreigners, many who do not share our culture and values and are setting up their tribal enclaves throughout our country, which by the way is unpleasantly full.
@@arfurwitt6221 Of course you have benefitted from the British Empire and still do. You really need to read a bit more and you even have the www to assist you in gaining this knowledge. Ignorance, coupled with bigotry is no excuse. I bet you love a good curry, or a pineapple juice or many other delectable delights etc that you would otherwise not enjoy had it not been for the British Empire past and present. So be grateful that you live a life you would otherwise not be experiencing and all at the expense of those foreigners countries and peoples that you look down upon. If that weren't the case these videos would be even more critical, as you would be more than just bored. Whilst you are at it check out videos of Chedder Man and others and alleviate yourself of your grosse ignorance! In short everything you enjoy today is a direct result of the British Empire!!!
Blackburn and Goole for me.
I find Ipswich a delightful town
Chesterfield must be up there with some of the results in this survey. Humdrum. The Borough council talks it up alot but it falls short on substance. The shopping centre has its fair share of charity shops just as other towns do, what is it with this model nowadays?
I think that the weather can make a big difference. 🤔
Well Quiite, listings like Crime and unemployment figures are highly relevant, but much else feeds on that. Misrable is a unquantafiable and variable thing though. Like the weather effect on people.
Then wales is miserable then.
Fair point... if cornwall has miserable weather we can actually enjoy our own towns.... if the weather is lush.... tourists come and trash the place and act entitled when doing so 🤣🤣🤣
It’s a climate only a Druid could love.
To be honest most of what humanity constructs is as ugly as hell from my perspective.
It’s as though man has embarked on making our environment as depressing as possible.
Wherever buildings fit into the landscape and have a naturalised look and aesthetic are best.
Whether it’s a mountain temple or the sandstone buildings of the cotswolds, such environments are far gentler on the eye and mind.
It all went wrong from the Victorian era onwards here in the UK.
@@MrDaiseymay With a clear head and open eyes one can easily see misery on people's faces, even if they do wear sunglasses or pull out a £50 note!!!
Bigger part of the problem is thinking Government is the solution rather than the cause. Get that mentality out of your heads and you might have a chance.
A dump like Corby keeps an ex-hedge funder worth £750 million in power, you can’t make it up
@@Redsleather Pursglove? Probably another fake Conservative prat, but he's not 'an ex-hedge funder worth £750 million'. Who are you referring to?
Harrow is certainly not a miserable place to live.
Did George Orwell choose his "nom de plume" after visiting Ipswich ?
He changed his name probably after visiting Sheffield.
He called Sheffield the ugliest city in the world!
I left Sheffield 20 years ago and was glad to do so.
It's the biggest ghost town in Britain.
Harrogate should be on here I live there & no one speaks to you & everyone you speak to looks at you as if you killed one of their family a total dump I am stuck in the hellhole that is Harrogate since losing my job. If I could get transferred out I would do I am dead miserable.
Would cheap housing be a good indication of how awful a place is to live?
Has anyone tried to correlate if there is a real link?
How is Bracknell not on this list?
Black Country… not county
So, in all the negative videos, Blackpool is the ONE you SHOULD avoid at all cost.
The thing with Blackpool is theres parts of it that aren't really miserable at all, namely a lot of the northernmost and southernmost suburbs. Theyre not bad; its just about 35% of the town, almost all of which is the central part, is overrun with crime and infamously dirty/rough.
10) Harrow - I’ve never been there.
9) Doncaster - never been.
8) Ipswich - never been.
7) Burnley - now yes, I’ve been there. I worked away there for a couple of months three years back. Had a few nice curries, but yes, the town is a miserable dump. A miserable dump with a drive-thru chippy though!
6) Hartlepool - never been.
5) Scunthorpe - never been. It does contain the word ‘cunt’ in its name though, and I rather like that!
4) Dudley - been several times. Quite liked it. Nice zoo, nice castle, nice museum. Silly accent though.
3) Blackpool - been several times, both as a holidaying kid and stag-parting adult. Good laugh yes, but a right shithole.
2) Luton - never been. Don’t ever want to. A friend of mine used to live there, but he left when it became a no-go zone for the white infidel.
1) Corby - been a couple of times. Nice industrial estates..... But apart from that, yes miserable!
You’re right about Luton ……
Burnley is no more a shit hole than any other deprived area but if you look for it you can find beauty
@@lindajackson4190 "shit hole" are your words. I called it a miserable dump.
@@YelpBullhorn It's probably because you had no mates.
@@ashyclaret yeah I built a factory on my own.
Surprised to see Harrow on the list, of all the parts of London that could have made the top 10 this would not have figured on mine. Tower Hamlets would have trumped all other London boroughs, it is a total sh*thole.
Basically London is one big shithole. Well wheres nice in the uk.
I'm surprised about Ipswich ! Cos from the pictures it does look very nice ! It's very isolated though ! Perhaps that has something to do with it ! It looks lovely though !
Makes a mockery of this survey Ipswich is one of the best places to be
'very isolated' with good rail links...
Just quickly looked online for rail travel from Bristol to Ipswich , what it gave was for 1 person for a one way ticket ( it also said cheapest ) was €161 . So I'm not going there by rail anytime soon .
Just so many shit holes to choose from!! Needs to be a top 100!
I am totally surprised that Bradford did not make it onto this list
No, Bradford comes under the “ Pakistani ( NOT’asian’ ) grooming-gang” list! That’s joined with Oxford and Rochdale! That’s a whole new list!
I live in Ipswich, and I don't think it's that bad. There are some really nice areas there.
I think it’s a dead place, I had to visit there the other day. But it’s definitely not deserving of this list - it’s quite average imo
I lived there for nearly nine years and left quite recently. There is no way it belongs on this list and I have endured 100x worse.
There is plenty going on in Ipswich and parts of it are lovely. It has so much going for it and so much potential waiting to be tapped - I live in/around London now, but if that doesn't work out Ipswich is definitely somewhere I'd consider living again. It's very affordable, most of it is very peaceful and I had absolutely no trouble at all.
They just need to sort the higher end job market and it would be perfect.
I love Ipswich what on earth is it doing on this list people are great too
A good point here is relative to some countries England is a decent place to live ! But if you live in poverty ( as some do ) , then it can be very demoralizing , as England isn't perceived like this in other countries .
That's extremely true, wholeheartedly agree
Where’s Middlesbrough ?! Usually in the top three on these kind of lists.
Included in Hartlepool ...
Tell the graphity artist about his town; the fly-tipper and the litter-dropper; the drunk who spills his evening meal over the pavement; the rowdy youth; the unkempt gardens; the broken telephones; those who spit and deface buildings. He will say he lives in a miserable town and bemoan those who do none of these things but try to live decently and find contentment in their surroundings.
UK looks like a nice place to live if you have money but miserable otherwise. Also the climate is not the greatest. I wouldn't live there. The people can tend to be passive aggressive and downright nasty as well.
The more amenities means more foreig ners, you can’t win
Errrmmm Dudley is not known as the Black County.
The geographical area including Dudley, West Bromwich and Walsall is known as the Black Country.
We have a Norman Castle, a Zoo and they filmed parts of Peaky Blinders at the Black Country Living Musuem. The High Street is rubbish though.
In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly happen. I guess that's why they're not on the list.
Where are Accrington and Skelmersdale?
Where does Canterbury rate on scale 1 to 10 ???
It’s all very well complaining about living in a hell hole of a place but I will never understand why people will not , cannot be bothered , refuse to, take the initiative for themselves and clean up their surroundings , plant flowers (that grow very cheaply from seeds ) etc etc - make a ruddy effort themselves. This country has so much , enjoys so many privileges and opportunities , all of which is taken for granted whilst expecting local and central govt to do it for them - then they complain about too many rules etc. Take and show some communal responsibility . Raise the standards of environment and maintenance and put the layabout types to work. Create a responsible atmosphere whereby hooliganism , vandalism to include disgusting littering and defacing of buildings , is NOT to be tolerated. We should police ourselves to a degree , then with combined efforts, there is real teeth to the criticisms of over government, over taxation and matters such as a wholly disgraceful police force . Take pride in your town or city . Take command for the good of the living environment and the standards of acceptable behaviour. In short , do something about it , stop thinking we are owed a living, life on a plate . Furthermore, the calibre of people in government , local and national will also improve . IMO
Because if you make something nice, malignant morons will deface it and because the police are too busy chasing real crimes like snowball moaning and Facebook bullying, they won't do anything. If you try to do something, the morons will persecute you, deface your property, scream obscenities at you and make noise. Or if you lay a finger on them, you're going to jail or being fined.
Honestly. These kids who deface and ruin things do it because they will get away with it and they know you, Joe Public, can't stop them and if you try, the law is seemingly on their side.
There's one good thing about Ipswich .no I don't think there is
1:50 Despite Doncaster does have a reputation for crime, I enjoy going there because of its History as a Railway Town, I would love to see become more affluent and recognise as a Railway Town, because 2 world famous locomotives were built there,LNER 4472 Flying Scotsman and LNER 4468 Mallard.
I moved to Burnley after being born and raised in rural Settle, Nth Yorkshire. I loved Burnley, the place, the people, the atmosphere.
Oxford they love to be miserable ,yet they live in a wonderful city
I found the same in Cambridge too. Lovely cities, really horrible rude miserable people.
@@leod-sigefast I used to live near Cambridge and always hated visiting it. It felt like a self-absorbed, twee bubble and the "town and gown" relations between students and normal people were frankly crap.
Not my sort of place at all.
Dudley... Luton.... Bradford...
Can’t believe Ilford in Essex didn’t make it
Ilford so bad they dont put on a map.
You mean the London suburb of Ilford? It's hardly in Essex any more.