The UK’s Most Dangerous Neighbourhoods 🇬🇧

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  • @michaeldunning4643
    @michaeldunning4643 10 місяців тому +734

    We suffered hard in horden (like all of the other pit villages up north) after the mines closed. Please don't rinse the area to hard. A lot of us still live here and are trying to survive. We were abandoned by our government when we needed them the most. It's actually very upsetting. A lot of us grew up on these streets and will never be able to let them go.
    On the positive side I'm hoping some of this sort of recognition gets the area the help it deserves.

    • @humourless682
      @humourless682 10 місяців тому +52

      Its very bad to rubbish communities for clicks on UA-cam! Negative stuff about others is very fashionable though, and I guess the clickbaiters dont give a shit..............

    • @michaeldunning4643
      @michaeldunning4643 10 місяців тому +11

      @humourless682 to true, trying to look at the other side of the coin right now and hope the issue is raised

    • @chrismanners9091
      @chrismanners9091 10 місяців тому +21

      Never been to Horden, but I recognise what you say from places I know in South Wales. Hope things get better.

    • @chucksneedmoreland
      @chucksneedmoreland 10 місяців тому +8

      why were the mines closed? I would think now would be a great time to increase mining?

    • @michaeldunning4643
      @michaeldunning4643 10 місяців тому

      @chucksneedmoreland was the government, there's a whole story on it. Very interesting. It fuelled poverty in the UK. Margaret thatcher shafted us all. Everyone celebrated when she died.

  • @mattw1876
    @mattw1876 10 місяців тому +326

    You know what?…The Victory Club was the most heartwarming thing I’ve seen all year. It shows why, even though this country has always been cold, grey and wet, and the majority of us have always been exploited by the few, you cannot crush the innate toughness and spirit of the people of the UK. However little they have, communities like this care for each other. Thanks Ben, I wasn’t expecting that.

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +30

      Best comment of the vid 🇬🇧🤝

    • @Doogsa-dl8sc
      @Doogsa-dl8sc 10 місяців тому +5

      Agree with you, very heartwarming.
      Yes unfortunately you are right. "The have Yachts have always exploited The have Nots".

    • @gemmafisher1584
      @gemmafisher1584 10 місяців тому

      Casualty bump into Simon hah!

    • @xlxfx
      @xlxfx 10 місяців тому +2

      🤦‍♂️

    • @Syko1985
      @Syko1985 10 місяців тому +8

      They are the older generation that were there when things were once good. Its the younger generation that are ones feeling the real impact of the mines closing, as they don't know anything else other than the misery and they see it as "the way it is" which is the most depressing part of the area.

  • @mega_slam
    @mega_slam 9 місяців тому +258

    the fake doors made my jaw drop. crazy what lengths the council is willing to go to AVOID fixing a problem, rather then just fixing it.

    • @pmcpmc8005
      @pmcpmc8005 8 місяців тому +2

      Unbelievable

    • @stephenpope1988
      @stephenpope1988 8 місяців тому +6

      To me it feels like the council are keeping the money for their own lifestyle..!!

    • @stubuchanan5129
      @stubuchanan5129 7 місяців тому +8

      They spend money on Afghans and helping them rather than the people from Britain!!!! I’m a veteran and I’m homeless and jobless why don’t they help people like me and we could live there and fix it up make it a nice place again but no they dont !!!

    • @James-sr9vr
      @James-sr9vr 7 місяців тому +1

      And then they have the cheek to put up our council tax

    • @Focusfury05
      @Focusfury05 6 місяців тому +4

      It's the same here in Middlesbrough! Corrupt councils aren't bothered about the people..and how they have to live, as long as mp,s and alike can live off expenses, and fill up their off shore accounts! Few the rest of the country 😡💯%

  • @davidwhitton9050
    @davidwhitton9050 10 місяців тому +752

    Areas like Horden are the victims of over 50 years of abuse from successive governments, no investment and the closure of the traditional industry's often maliciously like Thatcher with the UK's profitable coal mining industry. Generations of kids that have grown up with no employment and no role models. Towns like Horden deserve better it's easy to forget how the UK's wealth was built on the back of these industrial towns and villages.

    • @peterhoward8727
      @peterhoward8727 10 місяців тому +34

      For investment to take place their needs to be a return on that investment. This is why money is saturated in specific parts of the country and places like hordan get left behind when the money runs out see ya.

    • @davidwhitton9050
      @davidwhitton9050 10 місяців тому

      @@peterhoward8727 absolute nonsense it's London based politics that has dragged the wealth from the regions creating the London parasite that has sucked the rest of the country dry.

    • @shadowmanNI
      @shadowmanNI 10 місяців тому +30

      Also ripped the heart of communities which are now easy prey for large groups of foreigners/migrants..entire neighbourhoods colonised

    • @davidwhitton9050
      @davidwhitton9050 10 місяців тому

      @peterhoward8727 Absolute nonsense 50 years ago that was a thriving community generating wealth and paying taxes, it was the malicious closing down of the profitable coal industry to break the power of the unions that destroyed it. Then 40 years of no government investment to replace the jobs.

    • @AndriyValdensius-wi8gw
      @AndriyValdensius-wi8gw 10 місяців тому +9

      There are parked cars. They must belong to somebody.

  • @SharonBaxter-rn8ny
    @SharonBaxter-rn8ny 10 місяців тому +212

    I live in Horden in an aged miners bungalow which is in a court and is beautifully landscaped and although a lot of Horden is in need of a massive amount of help, most of the people who live here, are wonderful warm and friendly, they look after each other. I know that the people who go to the Tuesday afternoon club at the Victory club raise around £100 to £150 a month which goes to local charities, in this last year, they have given £300 each to Air Ambulance, Mcmillian nurses, kiddies football team and the local hospice . This afternoon club was started to help combat loneliness and to help support the club.

    • @Debbie-henri
      @Debbie-henri 10 місяців тому +27

      But don't you think it's sad - that you, a resident of this town, together with your friends and neighbours in Horden, raise money for charity, when governments should be supporting good causes better themselves and not leaving it to people who live in a place that itself needs financial help to reinstate viable businesses, housing, a future for the young.

    • @AI-Records24
      @AI-Records24 9 місяців тому +11

      Should be raising funds to improve the local area not fritter away to the ceo of whatever charity won’t help any of you

    • @willsmith39
      @willsmith39 9 місяців тому +8

      ​@@AI-Records24That's exactly what they did. Did you even bother to read what the OP wrote before rushing to mouth off? Clearly not.
      I say good on them. All this UA-cam poverty porn has become a cottage industry, pretending to care when in reality it's just rubber by necking entertainment 'content' to monetize.
      So much of it on UK TV too depressingly.
      I remember Frankie Boyle describing the programme Benefit Street as "just more Human bear baiting for C4 to sandwich in between lager commercials"

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Debbie-henrithe government is not a charity. You try managing 70 million people. Some areas are bound to be left behind.

    • @crosetamimpreuna9390
      @crosetamimpreuna9390 4 місяці тому +3

      Hi, we're east European family and thinking to move close to Horden, because housing prices are more accessible. I saw there are some schools and shops around. My husband is intending to commute to work. I'd like to ask a local, how safe is the neighbourhood? Can secondary sc children walk alone to and from school? Are the schools ok? Thanks:)

  • @leerobinson9969
    @leerobinson9969 10 місяців тому +43

    This is why there is a housing shortage. It’s because councils are not maintaining housing supplies.

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому +1

      Firstly. There isn't a housing shortage. Secondly its not the council its the fact people moved away once the jobs were gone

    • @pauledwards5954
      @pauledwards5954 2 місяці тому

      Get the councils (AKA LOCAL GOVERNMENT) out

  • @caskew3838
    @caskew3838 10 місяців тому +247

    If only I had known you were getting on the Train- I'm a Driver on that line, would have loved to have said hello!... Absolute legends, glad you enjoyed Horden.... It's great to see places like these being highlighted as they're in desperate need of investment, forgotten and abandoned by successive governments.

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +12

      Next time mate! 😅

    • @heatherbowden1382
      @heatherbowden1382 10 місяців тому +3

      Hello Ben, not been to Plymouth for years, sad to see it soo run down. What about Birmingham!! All that litter. So sad! I know there's good and bad places everywhere. Keep on doing a grand job. Heather and rich. Devon.

    • @chrism2279
      @chrism2279 10 місяців тому +1

      Give him a cab ride!

    • @lauralishes1
      @lauralishes1 10 місяців тому +1

      Especially by the Tories

    • @englishpunk77
      @englishpunk77 10 місяців тому +6

      Sad video this. I had family who lived in Horden. Last time I was in Horden must've been the mid 80's, as the majority of the family lived in Peterlee- the nearest town to Horden, it was never like this. Thatcher screwed the village as well as loads of working class villages and towns up north. #neverforget

  • @baldandbankrupt
    @baldandbankrupt 10 місяців тому +279

    Ben I'm making a vlog #2. Was wondering if you'd like to be in it?

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +211

      No

    • @mwd331
      @mwd331 10 місяців тому +15

      ​@BackpackerBen you should!

    • @ValentinaMitchell1
      @ValentinaMitchell1 10 місяців тому +17

      Bald Ben is hot…definitely got rizz…

    • @comosaycomosah
      @comosaycomosah 10 місяців тому +3

      😂@@BackpackerBen

    • @X737_
      @X737_ 10 місяців тому +5

      @@BackpackerBenhave you had a tiff 😂

  • @seanhughes683
    @seanhughes683 9 місяців тому +11

    Big up for bringing this to light,miners families do matter,bring on the This is Horden TV documentary

  • @donnyb6888
    @donnyb6888 10 місяців тому +35

    Horden has an Anglo-Saxon name that comes from an old word ‘horu’ meaning ‘dirty’ with the ‘den’ part of the name referring to the dene or valley. Horden is first mentioned in the eleventh century as ‘Horeden’, when there is also mention of a ‘Horetun’ (dirty farm). Its literally in the name

    • @dkdebest
      @dkdebest 9 місяців тому +1

      It was named after the tory’s

    • @goldeneagle99
      @goldeneagle99 3 дні тому

      It means liebour party..

  • @joebenge3920
    @joebenge3920 10 місяців тому +179

    Birmingham is about to get a whole lot poorer now that the council has declared bankruptcy. They're planning to cut services by £367 million, about a third of it coming from children and family services.

    • @chrismanners9091
      @chrismanners9091 10 місяців тому +5

      Yeah, it's awful. I know you don't want to reward bad councils with free money, but it seems like the conditions are much too strict. Presumably the government are happy that the Commissioners are fixing things, so I don't see the need to hit Birmingham residents quite that hard.

    • @joebenge3920
      @joebenge3920 10 місяців тому +15

      @@chrismanners9091 I think there are a few different reasons Birmingham council got into this state, one being the billions they've had to pay out for equal pay claims. But the cost is going to be paid by the most vulnerable people in the city, who'll lose these vital services.

    • @jamesflynn3278
      @jamesflynn3278 10 місяців тому +8

      Among other measures being introduced are changing the rubbish collections to fortnightly rather than weekly, and dimming street lights to save money on energy. I lived in Birmingham for a few years and while there's some nice areas (Moseley and bits of Edgbaston to name two) I do worry about how dirty and unsafe places like Handsworth (featured in the video) will get. I feel for the residents.

    • @denisescally7090
      @denisescally7090 10 місяців тому +49

      @@jamesflynn3278 I was brought up in Handsworth, once considered a posh area in its day, great grammar schools and beautiful library. Then mass third world immigration.

    • @DrivebyRalphie
      @DrivebyRalphie 10 місяців тому

      It’s such a shame it’s got so bad
      These politicians that have run our country down so far down
      Shame shame shambles

  • @DrewsTravels
    @DrewsTravels 9 місяців тому +18

    The absolute legend of travel vloggers. Cheers Ben for the inspiration to create Drews Travels documenting life in rural Philippines.

  • @PETERGRIFFIN21380
    @PETERGRIFFIN21380 10 місяців тому +491

    “We’ve got an Aldi and a train station” life goals in the UK 2024 😂😂

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +49

      😂 all you need

    • @danieleverywhere132
      @danieleverywhere132 10 місяців тому +23

      i live in slovenia,my town of 10K people has Aldi,Lidl,Spar and more
      train is fast,new and free for retirees
      but it is true taxes are high

    • @pandaww.
      @pandaww. 10 місяців тому +2

      He was on about his audi

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 10 місяців тому

      @@danieleverywhere132 we can't have high taxes in UK, because the government steal it all.

    • @hermanmunster3358
      @hermanmunster3358 10 місяців тому +3

      I remember when Netto came to town, and we really thought we had made it! Then after a few years, it closed, and became an Asda Local, and our town became a place where dreams go to die!
      We still have a train station though, so at least we can escape.
      We can no longer use our cars, as the council has turned our town into an LTN, and has blocked off both ends of the street with two ton concrete blocks, so our cars are just turning to rust where they stand.
      So people have resorted to repurposing Asda shopping trollies, fitting them with washing machine motors and battery packs in order to get around, as they fit through the gaps between the road blockages.

  • @debshipard1664
    @debshipard1664 10 місяців тому +97

    Loved the people in the Victory Club. Making the most of what you have. A few drinks, fellowship and a pooled lunch. Good on them. One would think the Shire councils could pick up the rubbish. Job creation. Thanks Ben and Bald great vid once again.

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +12

      Top people in there

    • @demil3618
      @demil3618 10 місяців тому +7

      That singer wasn’t too bad actually.
      She had a good voice!

    • @deanhodgson5322
      @deanhodgson5322 3 місяці тому

      The shame is that these people have to make do with this. We deserve more in Britain

  • @Whatt787
    @Whatt787 9 місяців тому +11

    No visits from the Royal Family? Shocking

  • @MrPichichi78
    @MrPichichi78 10 місяців тому +41

    What a disgrace. The politicians that run this country should be ashamed of themselves.

    • @mrminority2053
      @mrminority2053 8 місяців тому +1

      This is what happens when Labour runs your council's, waste and take all the money and don't fix anything

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      Why does it matter that a place that no one lives in is rough anyway?

    • @Bagehot99
      @Bagehot99 6 місяців тому +2

      The local council are responsible. The central government doesn’t police these towns or run their street departments. The Labour councils turn everything to what they’ll turn the UK into.

  • @stevem-h3562
    @stevem-h3562 10 місяців тому +44

    I have to go to work In Birmingham 3 days a week. My mothers side of the family were from the city. Suffice to to say, it breaks my heart to see what Birmgham has become. Bits of it were always rough, it was an old honest working class industrial city, the beating heart of the Midlands.
    not now. I hate what Birmingham has become. Its awful. And its only getting worse.

    • @marktaurus206
      @marktaurus206 10 місяців тому

      Birmingham is very deprived and an ugly city full of crime depressing places. Lots of poverty and racist locals who hate anyone who is in different areas are segregated by ignorance and choice .

    • @wardy1461
      @wardy1461 10 місяців тому +5

      I live in Birmingham and it's nice here where I live

    • @marktaurus206
      @marktaurus206 10 місяців тому

      @wardy1461 it's a shithole segregated city Birmingham is full of poverty, drugs and low life people, lazy run council dirty streets and areas are full of divisions and racism locals are rude and miserable Birmingham has never been nice its always given off a bad reputation everyone is miserable and depressed in Birmingham.

    • @ste-rix
      @ste-rix 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@wardy1461 I agree I live in Birmingham and its nice where I live aswell

    • @wardy1461
      @wardy1461 9 місяців тому +1

      @@ste-rix I live rubery

  • @JoeLizFamily4
    @JoeLizFamily4 9 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @daniellockett9975
    @daniellockett9975 10 місяців тому +26

    Absolute chaos in a pub at 2pm on a Tuesday afternoon, I love it!!!

  • @gmc9451
    @gmc9451 10 місяців тому +24

    There are quite a few channels on YT that now report on the appalling state of towns and cities across the UK. We've had economic downturns in the past but this feels different, almost as if it's paving the way for some sort of reset.

  • @Lisabushaway20
    @Lisabushaway20 9 місяців тому +3

    Sticky bingo at 1pm what a community , love that. Shortage of housing hotels filled seriously how can they just leave poor Horden like that so sad

  • @ViBENo1
    @ViBENo1 10 місяців тому +25

    that visit at the club was wholesome.

  • @eyeswideopen880
    @eyeswideopen880 10 місяців тому +31

    Even a ghost would have some sense not to haunt one of these buildings

  • @Riobasshead
    @Riobasshead 9 місяців тому +6

    Most of them shops you walked past on soho road are still running you wouldn't believe it untill you come on a hot day 😂😂

  • @SimonJones265
    @SimonJones265 10 місяців тому +38

    Great video Ben. I visited Rhyl many years ago and it wasn't too bad.
    Lived in Birmingham all my life and there are many places you try to avoid. Generally in the north part of Birmingham and around the outskirts of the City centre.

    • @123bwlch
      @123bwlch 10 місяців тому

      The rep in Rhyl is drugs and problem people been dumped there from other areas.

    • @moss1066
      @moss1066 10 місяців тому +9

      Avoid anywhere that's benefitted from enrichment basically. Lived in the Black Country all my life but don't know how much longer I can suffer feeling a stranger in my own community now. Brexit voters have a lot to answer for causing this mass colonisation that the whole country is suffering from.

    • @jonnydoeson5562
      @jonnydoeson5562 10 місяців тому +5

      The state of that place. It’s an absolute 3rd world tip.

    • @chrismanners9091
      @chrismanners9091 10 місяців тому +1

      @@moss1066 Have a look at London school results. Lots of non-white kids doing very well, and better than lots of shires.People aren't avoiding these areas- see house prices.

    • @moss1066
      @moss1066 10 місяців тому

      We know lots of non white kids do very well in the UK. And so they should do considering how many of our resources are showered all over them to level them up above the natives who have been left to rot the past 25 years.. Not that they really need to do well in school as they will be above white natives in any job they choose thanks to this anti white woke agenda being forced on us.
      And of course people are avoiding those areas. Londonistan is now only 36% white British as nobody wants to live in that sewer anymore. House prices are what they are because the Commieservatives have an open border policy that prices the natives out. 48% of Londonistans social housing is in migrants hands so the native population who have to work to pay taxes to subsidise all these give aways to the 'new Britons' can't even get a place to live in their own city. And Khan is never going to be removed as Muslims don't do democracy. They are tribal so Londonistan will remain a Muslim city until we start the mass deportations@@chrismanners9091

  • @daz271
    @daz271 10 місяців тому +10

    Come to Grimsby buddy. Lots of areas like that. Massive difference between the haves and have nots. Happy to show you around.

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +1

      Cool, thanks! Maybe in the summer mate ☀️

  • @helmetmcbaron
    @helmetmcbaron 9 місяців тому +5

    All these abandoned houses and yet theres a housing crisis in Britian house prices are through the roof meanwhile we have derelict buildings everywhere

  • @ic66
    @ic66 10 місяців тому +67

    The UK, one of the richest countries in the world but saddled with debt.
    There have been so many changes in every aspect, over the decades. It's no surprise to me.

    • @prashant1208
      @prashant1208 9 місяців тому

      wealthiest country by looting the rest of the world, that loot is depleting fast.

    • @MeMyselfAndEyez
      @MeMyselfAndEyez 9 місяців тому +3

      Who told you we were a rich country? You then contradict yourself - we can't be rich AND saddled with debt!

    • @ic66
      @ic66 9 місяців тому +1

      @MeMyselfAndEyez Exactly. It is a contradiction. But the facts are out there. End of debate. Bye.

    • @MeMyselfAndEyez
      @MeMyselfAndEyez 9 місяців тому +1

      @@ic66 Thanks for highlighting none of them. Why bother posting anything at all. Useless.

    • @eltinmccarthy2469
      @eltinmccarthy2469 8 місяців тому +2

      You are in financial meltdown on any scale and you country is slipping into the abyss going down faster then a Trans man on a stipper pole.

  • @1Life_Dee
    @1Life_Dee 10 місяців тому +5

    Sad to see this over and over again all around England yet we have so many homeless and struggling people. Corruption at its finest starting with the government n councils.... And throughout our society sadly.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 5 місяців тому

      So true...the kleptocrats rule

  • @worldtravelimagesnet
    @worldtravelimagesnet 10 місяців тому +13

    It is strange how different it can look within the same city, have been to Birmingham and found it clean, beautiful canals amazing architecture! But that was the center.

  • @WNK1985
    @WNK1985 10 місяців тому +66

    As a person who has lived in horden all his life thank you for showing we are nice people 🙏

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +3

      🇬🇧🤝

    • @ScandalUK
      @ScandalUK 10 місяців тому +2

      Best bit about the place.
      I’m from a mining town that has been abandoned too - the people are amazing but our MP Rees-Mogg doesn’t represent us well.

    • @davedavis6087
      @davedavis6087 10 місяців тому

      respectfully ?

    • @dragonflyparade8143
      @dragonflyparade8143 9 місяців тому +1

      You are lovely people.

    • @kevinkiso4579
      @kevinkiso4579 9 місяців тому +2

      Bless your heart. 🌹

  • @paulapratley5904
    @paulapratley5904 8 місяців тому +2

    Some of the most deprived areas have the nicest people living in them xx Good luck to all the residents of Horden

  • @vodkaphix
    @vodkaphix 10 місяців тому +33

    *All by design this deprivation - You will own nothing and be happy!
    Birmingham city council (The BIGGEST in Europe) has gone bankrupt... it shows by the state of the streets and not ONE road sweeper to be seen for miles!! Lack of investment is not the biggest problem - it is that people accept the STATUS QUO THROUGH IGNORANCE*

    • @AI-Records24
      @AI-Records24 9 місяців тому

      Let’s be real though it’s their own fault they’ve gone bankrupt look at the bizarre spending patterns and the above inflation wage increases of the councillors simultaneously!!

    • @HorusHerotic
      @HorusHerotic 9 місяців тому

      👏

    • @michalinamarkowska8930
      @michalinamarkowska8930 8 місяців тому

      Very true !

    • @tinamarflynn7723
      @tinamarflynn7723 6 місяців тому +1

      agenda 21

    • @sweeneytodd011
      @sweeneytodd011 5 місяців тому

      The "you'll own nothing and be happy" is essentially talking of a world without money, it's a ideal idea of a communist based society.
      Btw when I say communist here I mean in the ideal of the system, a utopia not a picture of the Soviet system that it became.
      What is seen here is the by product of our capitalist society and is seen in certain areas of almost every major city in the world.

  • @fadedbones8151
    @fadedbones8151 10 місяців тому +19

    Great series mate. Dont stop

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +2

      🤝 sadly I will be here in 🇬🇧 but will continue in summer

  • @Samlovest.
    @Samlovest. Місяць тому

    Wow just stumbled upon your channel. What a complete eye opening vlog. Sadly this was 8 months ago,things will be far worse now. Well done for documenting broken parts of the uk. The people of Horden seamed very approachable. Just a little unloved mining town. Cheers tories.😢

  • @Kot824
    @Kot824 10 місяців тому +113

    After watching Bald’s video from Greece.. this is refreshing to see!

    • @michaelloran7021
      @michaelloran7021 10 місяців тому +26

      Turned it off after 5 mins it was awful

    • @silema8296
      @silema8296 10 місяців тому +3

      It's like Migraleve.

    • @demoncloud6147
      @demoncloud6147 10 місяців тому +1

      different camera angle

    • @lighting7508
      @lighting7508 10 місяців тому

      ive seen so many people complain what even happened? its deleted now@@michaelloran7021

    • @georgechapogas1054
      @georgechapogas1054 10 місяців тому +11

      Greece vid was pulled, likely due to tim the creep.

  • @poetryanne1
    @poetryanne1 10 місяців тому +7

    I recollect the Birmingham has had quite a few Binmen strikes and there was one late last year. It may explain the awful state of rubbish around the area you visited? Plus the city was bankrupted last year. An eye opening vlog Ben. Very sad what this country has become.

    • @horuslupercal2385
      @horuslupercal2385 10 місяців тому +1

      The binmen in Birmingham seem to be on strike at least every over year.
      It doesn't matter whether refuse collections are running or not, the streets of Birmingham are littered frequently, can thank the actions of the locals for that 😡

  • @commanda3536
    @commanda3536 5 місяців тому +4

    The roads and pavements look pretty clear and nice at the very least 😅

  • @paulmortal7611
    @paulmortal7611 10 місяців тому +8

    New subscriber here. Good to see TFT food reviews. - UA-cam Royalty right there 💪. Horden makes good television but the social clubs and rugby clubs in these areas are absolutely pivotal to bringing the community together. Never give up Horden.

  • @davem9208
    @davem9208 10 місяців тому +7

    Hi Ben. Great video of an area in Birmingham I used to live near. At around the 21-minute mark, you show a building called Bill House, which is actually on Soho Hill, but only locals may notice that minor difference. At the far end of the building from where you were, in December 2023 there was a serious fire, in which one homeless person is said to have died. The part of the adjoining building that had the fire has since been demolished and the site cleared, now just surrounded with fencing. Had that building still been there when did this filming, you would not have been able to see the partially red office block you can now see. It seems ironic that you later mentioned and featured the fire service vehicles being in the area,.

    • @koalameat9523
      @koalameat9523 9 місяців тому +1

      Ì used to ride my bike around there as a kid , its a damn shame whats happened and im not sad to say i left the uk in 96 as i saw what was comming

  • @JALOPPY
    @JALOPPY 9 місяців тому +12

    I love the videos you two make. Also love your spirit of adventure. Keep it up!

  • @trendrocksby
    @trendrocksby 10 місяців тому +32

    Well done Ben for covering this.

    • @dkdebest
      @dkdebest 9 місяців тому +1

      You want watch together darling

    • @fragster2008
      @fragster2008 9 місяців тому +1

      Do you not tend to watch many UA-cam vids like this. Any one could make a vid this esy. Very amateur made.

    • @patriciarowe6685
      @patriciarowe6685 9 місяців тому

      ​@@fragster2008Go do it then. Gobby.

  • @sdim7269
    @sdim7269 10 місяців тому +16

    Brilliant YouTubing between you, Mr Bald, Snoring Simon, etc. It's as if the journey starts with Bald's channel with a video from Plymouth, Weston, Birmingham, Horden.
    Then packer Ben's channel sort of continues their journey on from Horden to Middlesbrough, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (in Wales), Birmingham.
    Great team work on delivering really fascinating and shocking content about parts of the UK!

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +3

      Chaos mix up 😆 thanks mate

    • @sdim7269
      @sdim7269 10 місяців тому +1

      You know what mate, I'm going to join your channel membership. It's my way of buying you a drink as a way of saying thank you for the top content you do and raising awareness in the UK and around the world. Cheers bud 😊👍

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +2

      Legend mate thank you 🙏🏼

  • @sandranicholls8774
    @sandranicholls8774 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for putting this together. Horden has been ignored for long enough! Come on Labour and stand up and help the place. Most of the people are so friendly and fantastic but let down badly. They deserve better. When the pit was up and running it was a great place. All of those houses could be sorted out and good family put in them especially at a time when there is supposed to be a housing shortage. All that gets built is executive homes. Now come on and sort Horden out!

  • @jasejj
    @jasejj 10 місяців тому +7

    As a kid I had a couple of friends who lived in those streets in Horden. 1980s - lovely old place back then, full of people who'd have given you the shirt off their back. Tragic to see the way it has fallen.

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven572 10 місяців тому +9

    Back in Victorian times the Soho Road was second only to Londons Oxford Street as a shopping destination.
    Not anymore !

    • @thereallotharmatthae
      @thereallotharmatthae 9 місяців тому +1

      Oxford Street also becoming a dump. Now there‘s only Regent St left!

  • @jeanealoha1786
    @jeanealoha1786 10 місяців тому +3

    Great footage 👍

  • @MrDEWaters
    @MrDEWaters 10 місяців тому +40

    Birmingham reminds me of St. Louis (USA) where you have slum districts with decaying mansions surrounded by lots full of weeds and trash, that once were homes of the very rich in the Victorian years.

    • @gothenmosph5151
      @gothenmosph5151 10 місяців тому +6

      St. Louis is a hell of a lot more interesting city than Birmingham. It's better than Birmingham Alabama which itself is better than Birmingham UK lol

    • @ScandalUK
      @ScandalUK 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah but we have our sovereignty. Kind of…

    • @sweeneytodd011
      @sweeneytodd011 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@gothenmosph5151 how do you work this out? What can't you find to do in Birmingham that you can find in other major cities?
      I've been there many times and to other big cities,
      There are particularly poor run down areas of Birmingham same as any big city but it also has, well pretty much everything from the good to the bad that, again you find in a big city.

  • @anomaly1717
    @anomaly1717 10 місяців тому +27

    One of the wealthiest countries in the world, but look at their wealth distribution.

    • @willsmith39
      @willsmith39 9 місяців тому +2

      It's the same everywhere sadly.
      I mean just look at 'communist" China's gini coefficient - 46.7! That's MUCH higher than both the US and UK which are in the mid/ high 30"s.
      Obviously it's something they're well aware of given this recent "common prosperity" initiave. ( i.e. when your cosplay communism is actually more extreme capitalism than the West you probably need to look at that 🙄)

    • @anomaly1717
      @anomaly1717 9 місяців тому

      Zeitgeist series - Peter Joseph@@willsmith39

    • @HorusHerotic
      @HorusHerotic 9 місяців тому

      Well said ​@@willsmith39

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      Equal wealth distribution isn't necessarily a good thing. You've got no incentives if everyone has the same as you. When you've got people with more you can be inspired to one day achieve that, and when you've got people below it inspires you not to stoop that low

    • @anomaly1717
      @anomaly1717 7 місяців тому +3

      @@samuelpinder1215 “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

  • @maximus6452
    @maximus6452 3 місяці тому +1

    Nice content mate, really enjoyed the video.

  • @Glazier-nm4gn
    @Glazier-nm4gn 10 місяців тому +21

    One minute in and already disgusted to see homes empty and boarded up when people are on the streets or there are families stuck in B and B...This system we live under is on its arse ...
    Allegedly there is "affordable housing" being built but not affordable to those in real need...
    These towns were the backbone of Britain at one time and now they are treated appallingly as are their citizens...
    We live in a society now where profit and gain for the rich has led to a failing NHS , a failing transport system , foodbanks and homelessness.
    Bring hospital cleaning and catering in house .. Give the country our railways and buses back alongside utilities .
    Give people fair representation with a fairer voting system ....
    Sunaks personal wealth or even an eighth of it could have these homes and hundreds / thousands more fir for habitation ....
    People need to start getting angry (non violent) and start a "KInd" revolution......

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      Of course you think there's a homeless problem. You're from London, no one can afford to live in London. Outside of London it's fine

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      @@Glazier-nm4gn ah that makes sense. Didn't expect someone who supported palace to live outside London. Suspected that they have very local support

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      @@Glazier-nm4gn yeah that makes sense

  • @BeBoppin2000
    @BeBoppin2000 10 місяців тому +8

    Rundown does not necessarily mean dangerous.

  • @garthlyon
    @garthlyon 8 місяців тому +1

    There’s nothing more grim and depressing than a British urban environment, outside picture post card city centres in ancient towns like London, York and Bath.

  • @theterriblegolfer
    @theterriblegolfer 10 місяців тому +14

    This video is mental. I used to work with a lad who lived there & he always said how bad it actually was but I never knew it was really that bad. He even mentioned a person running from police went in his garden & he invited him in while the police were looking around the streets😂! The place is absolutely horrendous 😂

    • @marli288
      @marli288 10 місяців тому +2

      which place tho ?

    • @Murf-cz1iv
      @Murf-cz1iv 10 місяців тому

      Where you on about what area you idiot

    • @meme-mu8mg
      @meme-mu8mg 8 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Throlas
    @Throlas 10 місяців тому +35

    To us Americans this looks like every inner city community across the Country.

    • @robertpavey5615
      @robertpavey5615 10 місяців тому +5

      I imagine you Americans have an insane amount of abandoned buildings, streets and even entire settlements, especially in The Midwest.

    • @robertrobski1013
      @robertrobski1013 10 місяців тому

      Probably this is a reason why many Americans fleeing to another countries

    • @Anon1370
      @Anon1370 10 місяців тому

      yeh it is the same damn thing.....just different country the grass isn't always greener on the other side

    • @timwebster6151
      @timwebster6151 10 місяців тому

      I’ve watched a lot of stuff on UA-cam and it seems to be really bad in the states and we are not far behind, love from uk. TMW 69🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸

    • @gmc9451
      @gmc9451 10 місяців тому

      ​@@timwebster6151yes, channels such as TurdTowns and Wandering Turnip have been exposing the appalling state of towns and cities across the UK for some time now.

  • @wayneoriordan6749
    @wayneoriordan6749 10 місяців тому +172

    Ben our country is a absolute shit pit wtf has happened to it my grandparents died for this

    • @kishorekannan2630
      @kishorekannan2630 10 місяців тому

      Your grandparents steal from others countries not work hard to earn . Karma

    • @indefence7214
      @indefence7214 10 місяців тому

      I reckon we all know the answer to that mate.
      The major problem nowadays is that if we dare mention it, we'd get our comments reported and taken down by the snowflakes who encourage the scumbags into the UK.

    • @OliverKitkat
      @OliverKitkat 10 місяців тому +3

      Hi Ben a Cumbrian glad you are all doing ok we all need too stay together against the Tories god bless take care x

    • @dkdebest
      @dkdebest 10 місяців тому +13

      Too many racists

    • @rexterrocks
      @rexterrocks 10 місяців тому +5

      @@dkdebest Yeah, I can't believe some of these comments

  • @mrnobody1067
    @mrnobody1067 3 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for this vid I've been looking for a new home 👍🇬🇧

  • @kieranhudson4938
    @kieranhudson4938 10 місяців тому +30

    Just when you've seen the worst, another place tops the list. This is shocking 😂

  • @Colin32269
    @Colin32269 10 місяців тому +9

    Canada calling here...great channel pal.Here,Vancouver B.C is bad..a much larger version of Soho Rd in Birmingham.We have THOUSANDS of young men n women dying on Hastings St.in Vancouver hooked on meth,heroin,pcp etc...major problems
    Our gov't thought if they legalized the cocaine people would stop doing the crystal meth in B.C .
    Now in 2024 the streets are overflowing with garbage,tents pitched in all public parks, and dead teens everywhere.😢
    You tube has loads of videos of our problems in the downtown Vancouver😢

    • @marli288
      @marli288 10 місяців тому +2

      ❤ it's almost a Genocide 👀🤔!.. Helpless an Hopeless to do anything thus allowing it to happen! as we die defeated.

    • @Fannyschmeller2002
      @Fannyschmeller2002 9 місяців тому

      Canada is fucked bro I’d get out if I was you. It’s so woke there it’s like a place run by blue haired teens 😂

    • @DanWalker-i5v
      @DanWalker-i5v 9 місяців тому +1

      I was pretty shocked when I visited Hastings street, literally like a stereotypical scene of a rough area in an 80's movie with junkies strung out and passed out everywhere. However, I loved Vancouver!

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      Justin trudeau is underrated when it comes to absolutely useless leaders. No one ever brings him up but he seems like a right knob who has a degree in some pointless thing rather than politics or economics

    • @darrensmith2734
      @darrensmith2734 3 місяці тому

      I got to say this has a westmidlander proud of it Birmingham has the second city is slowing run out of time there's a number of city's which are creeping up it won't be long

  • @StephenYates-h6p
    @StephenYates-h6p 9 місяців тому +4

    Send this video to the government and hopefully they'll stop building on green belt and refurb these places. Liverpool is the same and to be fair most council estates are similar. Easier for the local government to keep them running down.
    It's probably cheaper to buy a street then a house in the UK

  • @Wilbraforce
    @Wilbraforce 10 місяців тому +5

    Another great video. - I'm flying over from the US next month for a whirlwind weekend to go to a football match... spending most of my time in Birmingham. Looks like a great time!🙃

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +1

      Have fun mate!! Keep safe 😆

    • @Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532
      @Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532 10 місяців тому +1

      Are you watching The Villa or Blues?

    • @Wilbraforce
      @Wilbraforce 10 місяців тому

      @@Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532 Villa

    • @2NeurOldies
      @2NeurOldies 9 місяців тому

      Birmingham is an amazing city ❤

    • @Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532
      @Kendoddsdadsdogsdead532 9 місяців тому +1

      Go to Brindley Place just off Broad Street and take a 1 hour canal boat trip up and down 'the cut' to see our industrial past.
      A walk round the back of the Mailbox is good as well
      You could also book a tour of our 'back to back' houses with guide.
      Out of the city 'Cadbury World' is a good half day out.
      And as for the football......get yourself down the Villa, don't bother with that shower in B9
      Enjoy.....stay safe

  • @stugill4513
    @stugill4513 10 місяців тому +11

    @ 22,58 a man diede just as you filmed he was uinloading sheets of glass from a truck when it slipped and killed him RIP that bloke

    • @zIridescent
      @zIridescent 9 місяців тому

      tyburn road?

    • @stugill4513
      @stugill4513 9 місяців тому

      yes was on local news@@zIridescent

  • @DebrasDeliciousDishes
    @DebrasDeliciousDishes 6 місяців тому +3

    Hey Ben, I'm new to your Channel, I was obsessed with the UK ever since I was a little girl but at the same some of these different parts I thought the States was bad .you know we have certain areas over here that's like crazy ,but 'm really shocked to see this, in the UK. It's so sad. I mean we have a lot of rough spots over here in the states like I said but it just hurt my heart to see that whole town fake windows and doors and it's like a ghost town. Thank you for showing us the realness❤

    • @cliked
      @cliked 4 місяці тому +1

      Just Remember that the vast majority of places in the UK are not likes this. I would recommend rural Wiltshire for some examples like the white horse

  • @FAMEROB
    @FAMEROB 10 місяців тому +6

    great vid! loving the UK content. Isle of Man would be an interesting place to vlog

  • @peppermoon7485
    @peppermoon7485 10 місяців тому +7

    Awww , that’s sad , it looks like it could be a nice place !

  • @E3S4
    @E3S4 10 місяців тому +1

    Haha find it funny you mentiond page hall. Used to live about 5 mins from that road and funnily enough currently live in Birmingham 😂 Soho road is about the same as page hall in my books

  • @Emma-Sól-Arts
    @Emma-Sól-Arts 10 місяців тому +23

    Its heart-breaking seeing my native land like this.

  • @kevinbrown-ge6sz
    @kevinbrown-ge6sz 10 місяців тому +21

    You can't judge how bad a city is based on the morning or mid afternoon in the middle of the week. Go back on a weekend during the night and see if you feel the same way. The encounter with the boys in Wales would have likely been much different if it was a Friday night.

    • @JakeLawry
      @JakeLawry 6 місяців тому

      Not really. The Welsh are sound as hell.

    • @shak7332
      @shak7332 5 місяців тому

      Trust me

    • @sheilabutterworth5800
      @sheilabutterworth5800 5 місяців тому

      So they will be done up for Muslim,s j

    • @sheilabutterworth5800
      @sheilabutterworth5800 5 місяців тому

      This is to get the Brits to move out ,,,,,,, and we all know who will take over. Wake up Brits all over UK its all part of the plan ,,,, and we have let it happen ,been fooled .

  • @helmetmcbaron
    @helmetmcbaron 9 місяців тому +3

    And i thought Cornwall was bad this place makes Camborne seem like a paradise.
    (Cornwall also had alot of mines in past but like this place they all shut down)

  • @williamwebb7917
    @williamwebb7917 10 місяців тому +48

    American here. My grandfather was born in Birmingham, so I had to visit while I was in England. While the city center was great, I was shocked to see neighborhoods like the ones you show. I thought it was an American thing. I’ve come to the assumption that people are people, no matter where they are.

    • @David-wl1tt
      @David-wl1tt 10 місяців тому +4

      Interesting comment William 👍

    • @craigrothwell6144
      @craigrothwell6144 10 місяців тому +5

      Too true, You can not build a slum, It takes people to make one.

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 10 місяців тому +6

      we don't have such slums in Germany or the Netherlands, it really is the english and americans that let things rot this much ME ME ME! the AngloSaxon way

    • @MylarBalloonLover
      @MylarBalloonLover 10 місяців тому

      @@Blackadder75 UK and US has more foil balloons, Denmark should be more like UK and US.

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 10 місяців тому

      @@MylarBalloonLover The Danes don't seem to miss their balloons.
      World Happiness report 2023:
      #2 Denmark
      #15 USA
      #19 UK

  • @petermauritzson9521
    @petermauritzson9521 10 місяців тому +4

    Ben, I´ve followed you around the world for some time now. Always interesting views from peoples daily lifes, in far away places. But I had no idea places like THIS exists, in that amount, in England! So close to my home, here in Sweden. It gives some perspective, when adressing problems here in my country... it´s just not bad in that way, here. This makes med sad, I want the UK to be so much better, than this! Pleace recover!! :)

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому +1

      Thanks for following mate! Definitely coming Sweden this year 😎

    • @petermauritzson9521
      @petermauritzson9521 10 місяців тому

      @@BackpackerBen 🤩 You are SO welcome!

  • @CallumTwidale
    @CallumTwidale 9 місяців тому

    Why didnt you show one of the best bits of horden just next to the pub you where in where they fix the tanks and military vehicles?? Best part about it haha

  • @barbarahalkyard1901
    @barbarahalkyard1901 10 місяців тому +8

    I find it very sad .These places where once held together by strong communities. Now they look like some back street in Beirut. Shame on these politicians. Who are voted in to improve lifes.Not ruin them.

    • @jean2740
      @jean2740 10 місяців тому

      Yes labour are running these suburban area's labour !!

  • @dbardy13
    @dbardy13 10 місяців тому +19

    I think these sad run-down towns are further proof what happens when your gov't sends $$ for wars overseas, vs, investing in local towns. So sad.

    • @jendrizzyy
      @jendrizzyy 9 місяців тому +1

      War makes them money, always has, always will

    • @cm182cm
      @cm182cm Місяць тому

      Stupid comment. What happens if Britain is invaded and needs foreign assistance?

  • @shannonmackey316
    @shannonmackey316 8 місяців тому

    Despite all filming on the same trips together, Simon, Ben, and somewhat better known Ben all make unique videos, individually interesting.

  • @ThatGuyMofo
    @ThatGuyMofo 10 місяців тому +7

    Wasn't Soho road the place where someone was speeding and crashed into another causing a pile up and killing 4

    • @ThatGuyMofo
      @ThatGuyMofo 10 місяців тому

      @@unelectedbureaucrat2003 Soho road is Birmingham you melon

    • @keeranbodalikar5911
      @keeranbodalikar5911 10 місяців тому +1

      Yes it was

  • @GrumpyOldGamer9221
    @GrumpyOldGamer9221 10 місяців тому +4

    A friend who once lived up the road in Easington would call that place Beruit.
    Peterlee is rough too, a new town but pretty grim.

  • @sharonclarke520
    @sharonclarke520 4 місяці тому

    I love this, especially the Victory club, people being included, brought together. This has disappeared across our country and it's so damn sad.

  • @magirusdeutzjupiter2234
    @magirusdeutzjupiter2234 10 місяців тому +5

    Now that's really sad, reminds of the depressing late 60s early 70s in South Shields Tyne Dock area very much the same in fact identical ..really depressed, poor, big anti social yobbos, crime, poverty problems, and just completely depressed. I never knew that place would be as bad as that. All that area is pretty rough Murton and Seaham is pretty rough aswell.

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      Yeah the 70s when the highest tax rate was 83% so even people with decent amounts of money were forced into areas like this as well

  • @alandavies1054
    @alandavies1054 10 місяців тому +4

    Why do I watch these sorts of videos…it really depresses me to see what our country is becoming.

  • @JspoonG
    @JspoonG 4 місяці тому +2

    What always amazes me about UK is... you go to places like that and see all this stuff... but then you look at the cars and they are kinda expensive, new or even sport cars :D

    • @debbiemoore2747
      @debbiemoore2747 4 місяці тому

      They want to act like they are higher class and to the majority who have been brainwashed by social media, class means money which means overly labelled glasses, bags and clothes and high end cars. Where anybody with common sense knows the truly rich don't show their wealth.

  • @harrydonnelly2781
    @harrydonnelly2781 10 місяців тому +6

    Go to Detroit mate!!! Or Cleveland or any major city in New York north of the Bronx especially sites like Rochester Buffalo and Syracuse Rochester and Syracuse since the 1970s have lost half their population upstate New York is a hell hole now but it is so sad to see that in a first world power house like the UK

  • @992GTS-DC
    @992GTS-DC 10 місяців тому +12

    That first street is so typical of parts of the uk. Abandoned run down houses, yet newish Mercedes SUV parked outside probably worth more than the house.

  • @PC-un1qm
    @PC-un1qm 9 місяців тому +3

    Go to Newtown or handsworth in Birmingham next!

    • @hasanliee7361
      @hasanliee7361 8 місяців тому +1

      Soho Road is the Main Street of Handsworth

  • @crystals1117
    @crystals1117 10 місяців тому +11

    Well, now I know the UK is not much different from the US.

    • @beardedbaldie2698
      @beardedbaldie2698 5 місяців тому

      It’s much much worse!

    • @terranceaddison4599
      @terranceaddison4599 4 місяці тому

      UK or US?

    • @beardedbaldie2698
      @beardedbaldie2698 4 місяці тому +1

      @@terranceaddison4599 The UK is definitely worse! In the US there’s more economic opportunity to get out of such places if you work hard.

    • @FeetRLife
      @FeetRLife 4 місяці тому +2

      @@beardedbaldie2698don’t think you’ve ever been to the US mate😂 least we get free healthcare

    • @beardedbaldie2698
      @beardedbaldie2698 4 місяці тому

      @@FeetRLife I have been to the US and have relatives there. The standard of living is much better and salaries are 2-3x higher than the UK. Our healthcare isn’t free, we pay for it via taxes. The NHS is run-down, backlogged asf and outdated, anyone who can afford to goes private anyway.

  • @iap-ug3oy
    @iap-ug3oy 10 місяців тому +35

    I actually cried when I saw this…where has all the pride gone in our country …and look who are flocking in now…..It is absolutely disgusting….

    • @BrianMcGuirkBMG
      @BrianMcGuirkBMG 10 місяців тому +4

      The problem is that nobody is 'flocking in".

    • @BrianMcGuirkBMG
      @BrianMcGuirkBMG 10 місяців тому +1

      It's the tories who have arranged things the way they are.

    • @ragepanda4272
      @ragepanda4272 9 місяців тому

      @@BrianMcGuirkBMG now it’s been made aware the government will more then likely rehome illegals there… sad but the truth

    • @HorusHerotic
      @HorusHerotic 9 місяців тому

      😂We have a uni party. 🤡 🐑 ​@@BrianMcGuirkBMG

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      ​@@BrianMcGuirkBMGthis is a labour constituency

  • @BarneyWobba
    @BarneyWobba 9 місяців тому +2

    Pissed up in Horden at 2pm. Legend.

  • @swalectrix
    @swalectrix 10 місяців тому +14

    The litter in this country is heart breaking. The litter in Birmingham was horrific.

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому

      ☠️

    • @bazzle_brush
      @bazzle_brush 10 місяців тому +3

      Honestly I never thought it was a problem.. until I went to Birmingham

    • @Whatt787
      @Whatt787 9 місяців тому +2

      There is little self-respect left in many areas of Britain--and the Royal Family could care less

    • @kevinwalker2952
      @kevinwalker2952 8 місяців тому

      @@Whatt787 Hahahah the "Royal Family" of course they dont care, they just need to keep the family going so they can reap massive cash rewards and top influence in the elite rankings.

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 7 місяців тому

      From all the chavs and benefit claimers. It's not an issue where I am

  • @garethwilliams2897
    @garethwilliams2897 10 місяців тому +14

    How many billion we given Ukraine? And look how we live, i used to debt collect on Soho Road, mile down the road is jewelry quarter which is actually really nice... Mad really the difference.

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 5 місяців тому +3

      How REALLY selfish!! and indifferent to human suffering. Selfishness is what causes places to become like Horden

    • @truefalse207
      @truefalse207 22 дні тому

      We're not giving Ukraine $£$£$ out of our own good!! It's 100% within the UK and wider European interests to harm the Russian federation in their illegal invasion of Ukraine, the cost of Ukraine losing will cost us more in the long term !!! IDIOT

  • @kevinkiso4579
    @kevinkiso4579 9 місяців тому +1

    I was just in Hordon in Google Earth, and there are some absolutely beautiful little communities there!

  • @elvisburgerking8675
    @elvisburgerking8675 10 місяців тому +4

    I had to visit Middlesborough once
    it was pretty dodgy, and I had to get a bus to an even dodgier part
    they sold me a car.
    it broke down after 20 miles driving, flat battery, alternator not working, luckily I had RAC any vehicle recovery.
    only after I got it home did I notice 80.000 miles had disappeared off the odometer since it's last MOT
    and it was registered as Blue when it was actually Black,
    but the VIN numbers matched the V5 and didn't appear to be tampered with, so not all bad.

  • @Kraggypandapops
    @Kraggypandapops 10 місяців тому +13

    Soho Road, I went shopping with my mom here in the 70s when I was a little kid and took the 70 bus up Grove Lane to Antrobus Road where we lived.
    Moved out after nearly 20 years. Really sad to see how much of a dump it is now but it wasnt much better back then to be honest. Childhood memories destroyed by the people that live there now.........

  • @Stop-being-a-div
    @Stop-being-a-div Місяць тому

    By the way that "house for sale" at 22:15 is the old police station, its the one that was set on fire during the riots in 2011, because nobody round there has any pride for their area at all

  • @jaydaintith
    @jaydaintith 10 місяців тому +5

    That was so funny, the lads in Rhyl getting you to say “dick head” when you asked them how to say “how are you”? 😂

  • @Slick2462
    @Slick2462 10 місяців тому +6

    You show some very depressing views of life in England but we have the same thing going on in the USA, only thing is that it is getting worse for America and we are importing more crime, drugs and poverty everyday?

    • @yoshi3294
      @yoshi3294 9 місяців тому

      Speak for your state, Utah is thriving

  • @montypython32
    @montypython32 10 місяців тому +1

    Do they not have weekly rubbish bin collections in Australia we have that and 2 free hard waste collections per year where you can put out old mattresses and household items not wanted

    • @BackpackerBen
      @BackpackerBen  10 місяців тому

      Nothing here it seems mate ☠️

  • @brianbs7348
    @brianbs7348 10 місяців тому +4

    and there are so many homeless in the UK. The Government make some jobs tidy up give these homes over to the homeless I'm sure it would save them the government in the long run

  • @ryanfrank4299
    @ryanfrank4299 10 місяців тому +5

    Just want to say that i'm really diggin your UK videos. You rock Ben-jammin.

  • @pixel.mp465
    @pixel.mp465 5 місяців тому

    2:31, very random but does that traffic cone look like it's floating above the ground?? 😆

  • @mickmulligan2273
    @mickmulligan2273 10 місяців тому +3

    Mate visit Erdington Birmingham