I was in bham last week. Heaps going on. The architecture is banging. The squares and parks are sweet. It has teams and trains to get around. Def not depressing - it’s actually quite impressive.
Being from hull I can totally confirm this narrator is much more depressing than anything in this amazing city that I live in. I work all over the Uk and I can honestly say I’ve never left a place and wished I lived there, always great to go home
@@DataWatch. I would class anlaby common and anlaby park as the more well off areas with some community spirit left, can't say the same for the areas I've lived in the past 6 years I'm glad you're able to enjoy your days in that area though, the North is a bit gray right now
Hull being depressing is laughable. It's a gorgeous place and you just pulled some numbers out your arse and only went off it's crime statistics. The people are lovely, great food, fun activities and beautiful architecture. I already liked Hull, but when I had to live somewhere that wasn't Hull (Blackburn), it was truly miserable. I wanted to be back in Hull basically every day and when I finally returned to Hull, I've loved it ever since.
I'd say it all depends on what depresses you. Moved to Birmingham from London in 2015 to get into the property ladder, for obvious reasons. Got a 3 bed house with garden without much hassle just on time for the lockdown.. can't even imagine enduring 3 years of Lockwood on a tiny flat with No garden in London! Not to mention the property market is booming in Birmingham. This city is going through a lot of transformation, the commonwealth games were hosted here. It's such a young and affordable city, I find it hard to believe to be listed here.. but all opinions are respected or course..
Property market booming in Birmingham pushes locals out! #Gentrification we really don't build anywhere enough new houses. Prices in my area seem to have gone up about £50k over about the last year and a half which makes it seem like I'll be living with my parents forever!
Did something very similar. I also moved to Birmingham in an amazing place called Longbridge and it's is far from depressing. In fact it's brilliant. My nextdoor neighbor is also from London. Seems a lot of Londoners are moving here.
@Vaughanb Brean I brought my house on the old MG Rover site. Got me a new build behind the retail park. Absolute prime location like you said. Got the licky hills to my left and the town to my right with the train station a few minutes walk.
Doncaster, having lived 40yrs there left 23yrs ago.. went back to visit family...God so depressing. It's now a city but it's lost its roots, no heart now.
For most working people London has to provide the worst challenge to survive, plus every journey is hard work despite a large subsidy to public transport. It is the playground of the ultra-rich, so if you want to enjoy city life try Birmingham or Manchester, they have most of the advantages such as a big job market, great cultural facilities and lively night life combined with far greater convenience and affordability. I have experienced all three at first hand, so if you are a city lover but you are not wealthy, heed my advice.
TALKING out of your arse ..Hull is a great city and place to live ..steeped in history and was around long before other cities ..its a key town in UK History ..beautiful old buildings ,marina , ferrys to europe , many attractions 1 of these best Unis in the uk . Great old town 🍺 25 mins from the fantastic English coast ..beaches for miles n miles ...people flock from all over the uk to see east coast resorts if thats youre thing .Do your research properly .People are too quick to put these places down ..And most importantly of all real down to earth honest people...!!! I wouldn't live anywhere else
Did my studies in Birmingham and I really enjoyed it, the city centre was very compact for a city of its size and it is just a nice mixture of modern high rises, brutalist structures and lovely vintage architecture all mixed together in a sort of pragmatism giving it a unique character. I always thought it would be a perfect startup zone with its proximity to London, affordability and availability of industrial lands for reconversion.
If you only know Birmingham city centre, then you don't know Brum. I'm not being condescending, it's the same in every City. It is the people and their struggles that make a place not the buildings.
@@The_Hairy_Hermit well i did frequently undertake walks from villa park to the city centre after villa games now and then, so i saw a bit of the other areas as well. Do i know every corner of it, course not, just did my studies there, didn’t grow up there though. Just saying that I enjoyed my stay, I am living in Luxembourg where everything is basically looking the same and boring and I liked the variety of Birmingham in terms of styles.
Birmingham is a city of humanity to its full extent, and there is a lot of beauty to humanity. Selly Oak feels like a world of its own dominated by this student sociosphere, overlooked by the gorgeous University of Birmingham, a world class campus. Edgbaston has gorgeous trees, amazing botanical gardens, and University of Birmingham. Harbourne brings a thriving diverse cuisine culture. There are samples of the best cuisine from all around the world, is a place where one can feel overstimulated by choice. In a distance you can see the Queens Elizabeth Hospital which just looks so grand. If you go to the south west you get to Bourneville, the whole place smells like chocolate, especially around the historic Cadbury Factory. Kings Heath and Moseley has a thriving music scene which attracts a lot of lesser known talent. Gorgeous pub culture, I find that there will always be a pub for you to love, traditional or contemporary one to suit any personality, one of the most fun things to do as an alcohol enjoyer in Birmingham is a pub crawl. It adds an adventure to any night and because there are so many places to go for a drink, it is inevitable to have a story to talk about for years. No night is ever truly the same. Digbeth is awesome, full of street art and a place to go for a dance music enthusiast on any spectral alignment, be it House, Techno, Jungle, Deep Dubstep, Dub, Reggae, Ska, Drum and Bass, Bassline, Soul, Disco, Funk, Pop, Jazz, Rock - this place rewards a good taste through research and preparation. There are plenty of events and it is often hard to choose, applications like Skiddle and RA are a great starting point to find events around Bham. There is the classic club night energy of Broadstreet for all its good and the bad, a street of glam. There is Hippodrome a musical theatre venue like no other with some of the best events and the most wholesome and kind members of staff. There is the Gay Village with a colourful and vibrant night life. There is the picturesque Brindley place with a classy atmosphere a great place to go for a romantic getaway. There is the Jewellery quarter where there are so many Jewellery stores and red brick architecture. These are the factors I am most enthusiastic about, but this list is not extensive and,I after 8 years, still find new angles and am welcome through all doors. Birmingham is a fantastic city 💜
It is indeed, very unfortunate and a bitter reality that the UKs system of state support entraps people who seek benefits. The moment any form of reliable, personal wealth and economic stability is established, the eligibility to claim such support is stripped. To my understanding this works more like a trigger mechanism rather than a gradual transition. This in turn traps people in under compensated and under appreciated professions which do not allow for a significant jump to be made to allow for people to create prospects in these areas - and often these professions are the fibre of the society. Success has to be overwhelming to give people enough confidence to no longer seek benefits. Unfortunately, current economic environment does not support those that work hard, hard workers are exploited by the management who ensure a higher profit margin that secures better share holder dividends pay-out. What also secures better profits are lower costs, savings are made by offering the bare minimum for workers salaries. This issue is not exclusive to Birmingham, this is a UK issue and all cities have areas where people are unable to make the jump from the estates to the city centres. The top down investment has not lead to any real improvement to prospects that are truly worth giving up the stability of the benefits. Birmingham does not feel like an active industrial city that it is portrayed as, instead it feels like a museum to the industry titan which it once was. It was this industrious identity which allowed for people to have the initial economic freedom to make the leap to live in the more 'prosperous' parts of the city. As the city is becoming more and more gentrified I cannot help but feel that it will widen the gap which communities seeking benefits must leap over to seek life more prosperous parts of the city which are becoming more common, and expensive, by the day. So fellow Internet stranger, do not think of my comment as naive, by no means am I trying to paint a picture of Birmingham as a city that has complete fairness and equality and opportunity for all. All of the UK has a way to go yet to better distribute its wealth and expertise. I just feel that Birmingham has enough going on in many parts to make that leap much more exciting, and achievable.
I've worked in Bradford and Hull, but lived in small towns on their edges. I took the bus to Bradford and cycled into Hull. The Northern outskirts of Bradford are full of very pleasant places to live and this extends right down to the stone-built area of Manningham. With Hull, it is the west and north sides of the city and its peripheral towns and villages that play the same role. In both cities, I taught in high-performing schools, where a majority of the most successful pupils went to good universities and then got jobs elsewhere, often in or near London. It's a vicious circle. There isn't enough high-level economic activity in these cities to keep their most dynamic young people there and because these young people leave, the level of economic activity remains low. By contrast, places like Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester seem to be able to attract more highly-qualified young people with dynamism that feeds into the local economy. It helps that these three cities have high-ranking universities, full of students from other parts of the country. Going into these cities on visits, you don't have the same feeling of being somewhere that is struggling to energise itself.
Yet *Bradford City Centre* is quality compared to *Manchester City Centre.* Don't believe me? Just compare *Charlie Veitch's* daily videos around *Manchester,* to the *West Yorkshire Traveller's* occasional videos around *Bradford.* *Bradford* is also 3 times bigger than *Manchester* and *Liverpool* in terms of area, and almost 38 square miles bigger than *Birmingham,* so there's many many more things to see and do in the *City of Bradford.* *Sheffield* is less than 1 square mile bigger than *Bradford* so I suspect we have around the same number of attractions.
I'm happy in Bradford! I'm from Czech Republic and Bradford is my lovely town, living and working here 15 years. Farmers boy . I feel here safe never I seen crime .
I moved to Birmingham from Dublin in the 90's. The transformation since then has been remarkable. Top 3 depressing cities in the UK is a little harsh I feel.
Having recently moved from there, yes there has been some improvement, but under the surface it's still the same. People, especially young people, are totally miserable and it's very hard to make friends I found. Wages are low as well.
@@simonmaird6857 @Simon Maird If depression were cured by moving city, we'd all be happy. Unfortunately the grass will never be greener on the other side unless you work on yourself first and then consider moving. I can attest to this.
@@orourkeda For proper depression, absolutely you are correct. Birmingham didn't make me clinically depressed, it disappointed me at every turn it could. Moving away was the best decision we ever made. The grass was most definitely greener! But it depends on what makes you happy, I acknowledge that. But I'd hate for anyone to think the grass isn't greener elsewhere, it absolutely most definitely is! Try new places!
I visited Hull last year and was very impressed. Lots of lovely Victorian buildings in the centre. The old area around the Minster is very character full with really nice old pubs. Not sure why it gets a bad rep.
Birmingham is beautiful. There is bad and good areas to every area. The fact you can bike any wear do all the shopping u desire and eat out in a beautiful restaurant everyday is pretty awesome to me.
A channel named *Learning Canteen* based in the *Ukraine* which doesn't learn anything, and just spreads nonsense about places in the UK, which its heard from elsewhere, over and over again. *Bradford* was voted the 4th *UK's City of Culture* ever a few days ago. It's also: The *6th Biggest City in the UK by Population* - *542,128* to be exact. *The 7th Biggest City in the UK by Area* - *141.47 square miles* (366.41 square kilometres) to be exact. The World's 1st *UNESCO City of Film* and home of the *National Science and Media Museum,* which includes *Europe's First IMAX* and just the *3rd Remaining Cinerama Screen in the World.* The 7 time *Curry Capital of Britain* winners, and frequent hosts of the *World Curry Festival.* The Unofficial *Tea Capital* (if you want to know my reasons, then ask). The Former *Wool Capital of the World.* The Birthplace and Home of *The Brontë's* etc. Yet it's... Missing from most Maps of the UK's Cities. Missing from most Tourism websites. Ignored by the Mainstream Media...when it comes to the good stories at least. Even when the media do actually mention *Bradford,* it'll get a small mention, while the cities which they incorrectly assume are bigger, get almost entire articles to themselves. Plus when they actually visit *Bradford,* I often find them claiming to be *"near Bradford,"* or *"just outside Bradford,"* even when they're less than 2 to 3 miles from *Bradford City Centre.* As for *Kingston upon Hull* that was voted the 2nd *UK City of Culture* ever, and.... *Birmingham* is the *UK's largest city by population* (don't reply to me saying "you forgot about London" as London is not a city, never has been a city, and never will be a city), so it must have some attractions as why would anyone live there if there wasn't?
I agree but hes going on Stats.Ive heard of ethnic exploitatoin of white females from locals similar to grooming gangs ive met but i cant judge because ive never been so what do you know Olivia is it just racist slur iam been told or has Bradford major issues.
I have visited Birmingham since the 1980's and it transformation has been great..Yes in 1980 a lot of grey concrete the old Bull ring was drab ..but now looks quite impressive. I found it very clean and open. New library area is nice.Old New Street station drab buts that's gone..Moor Street station improved a lot also.
'transformation has been great' ? I'm lucky enough to live in a market town around 80 miles away from Birmingham. The amount of people from alien cultures living there is staggering and I feel very unsafe when I have to commute through B'ham on occasions. Horrible place now.
I will say 7 years ago Birmingham was a bit depressing, but a day of today the city is raising, looking beautiful and with a future view, were everyone is investing innthis city and giving back live
Really? I must have missed something then, because there's a lack of public seating a lack of public bins, no public toilets, cracked paving throughout some of the busiest areas throughout the city centre and the roads are atrocious. Besides, it's chaotic and difficult to get around the City Centre especially every time they do some so called improvement they move all the bus routes around, Birmingham is an embarrassment in that it doesn't even have a Bus Interchange and none of the transport systems are close together like other towns and cities.
Totally unfair to Birmingham Because it’s no worse than places like Manchester Leicester Leeds Coventry Wolverhampton London etc I can go on! All uk cities are dull and depressing! End of!!
I used to stay in Birmingham before moving to Bournemouth , listen , Bournemouth should be on this list , it’s is so depressing , only good for tourist ….. infact I am heading to back to birmingham this month
Sea ? Well I won’t be living inside the sea , and most people are too colour conscious , I like variety , proper night life , and a multicultural environment for once , u can have my share of the sea
For 20 years I traveled throughout the UK for work I've been every city in the UK here are my list of the three most depressing cities. 1 London.... it takes ages to travel anywhere in London, it smells of diesel and fast food... outside of the tourist areas the streets are dirty and the building are in need of repeat... it's very expensive.. the people are the most unfriendly in the UK. 2 Manchester very bad transport...very noisy trams...you can't help but pass very deprived area to get to the city center. True Mancuians are nice but the influx of middle class working in the city are just a down right rude. 3 Brighton ...dirty lost of rundown areas. Brighton is the only place I've been to where I have genuinely felt scared and unsafe. What what makes these three cities stand out are the people thses are the cities where I have found the majority of people to be rude unfriendly and unhelpful.
Some of the misinformation included in this video includes: 1 - "Birmingham is one of the largest cities in the UK." False. Birmingham is the largest city in the UK by population, as London is not, never has been, and never will be a city. 2 - Them saying go live in a retail park in Hull where there are no houses. 3 - That Hull was voted 137th out of 138 cities in the UK, yet that's not possible, as there's only 70 cities in the UK as of today, however that will soon be increased to 76 cities. 4 - That Bradford includes the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire, when what it should have said is "it also borders the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire." 5 - The ODEON in Bradford is more famous for being a cinema as that's what it was used for most recently and was used for for the majority of its history (and a venue for an exclusive preview screening of the Doctor Who Christmas Special in 2017), however he's correct it was also partly used as a ballroom and music venue (among other things) in its early years where acts like The Beatles played mainly in the 60s. 6 - "Bradford introduced free school meals and medical checks" which everyone in the UK gets for free on the NHS anyway. However Bradford created the concept of free school meals. 7 - "Bradford was recently ranked 2nd worst place to live" according to who? The only recent list I can find ranks Bradford 10th, and those type of lists are usually made by energy companies. 8 - That "Bradford is 35% unemployed" a figure which is repeated in multiple videos of theirs, yet the actual figure is 6.3% as of the latest 2021 statistics.
Yep I now live in London (I'm from Stoke) in the 10 years I've lived hear I probably visited London proper fewer times than in the 10 years before that. It's just a collection of small and medium size towns and villages which have become emmeshed. And 'south of the river' might as be on Mars at least for me.
@@SnowMexicann *London City* isn't its name. There's the 8 square mile *City of Westminster.* There's the 1 square mile *City of London* which is also a *county.* And then there's the *county* and *region* of *Greater London* aka *London* which contains those *2 cities,* and likes to pretend that it's a *city* too, even though places can't be given *city status* when they have *cities* within them, therefore *London* will never be a *city.*
@@randomperson5946 Why are you telling me something I have already written above? Also *London* is an abbreviation of *Greater London,* and *City of London* should never be abbreviated, therefore as I said *London* is not a city.
"Hull is the least safe city in East Yorkshire." Yes, also the most safe city in East Yorkshire. And that was your only justification for being the most depressing city? To any American watching, the commentator is a southern arse that would make you feel depressed regardless of the city you live in.
Wow this is such a damning and biased view of three wonderful cities! Each has so many positives, having visited them all and as a Brummie , I would rather live here than any other UK city. It has some of the best food, shopping and people that make it a happy place to live. In fact no city deserves the title as most depressing as that alone is enough to make one feel depressed!
I Live near Durham City ‘ though I spent a number of years with Teessiders ‘ while in the army and on Teesside ‘ Ok the boro may be a bit of a shit-hole ‘ but most of the locals are good people ‘ true Brits ……👍 🇬🇧
I've in Birmingham for a while in late 76..I absolutely loved it ..every city has its less desirable sides...bur some of the architecture and canals and the people made it to me a great place .. now even better . I moved back to Bournemouth however as I always lived by the sea ..but Birmingham is certainly not depressing..I prefer it to London anyway..love Brummie people
About Brummies; friendly, helpful. Compare this to London where you can get knocked to ground by scooter outside Bank of England at 10am and not a single person moves. Southeners will almost find the helpfulness intrusive, an example is; ask someone for directions and its a coin flip they will walk it with you
Birmingham? Depressing? You haven’t been have you? Honestly utter nonsense! More culture, more nightlife, more shopping, better restaurants than every other city outside London combined! Digbeth alone is incredible
Birmingham is a vibrator multicultural metropolis compared to most cities within the UK. It’s in the top 5 most visited cities it’s in the top 10 for most revisited cities. It’s also attracted £400 billion of investment and then you also have the Commonwealth Games 120 billion spent on roads and networks. It’s not a depressing place at all it’s a very nice place. I’m currently working in Luton now that’s depressing although it’s a Town but it has applied for City status and turn down multiple times.
You haven't provided any sources to verify this information. I'm keen to relocate to Birmingham - could you please provide links to the surveys you pull your stats from?
@@LetsAvYa.. damn right they are. Every time I'm in Birmingham, especially walking around the city centre my eyes are like 🤩😍 the women there are grade A stunners!
If you like City life and think Birmingham has little to offer you haven't spent any time there in recent years. Its my hometown, though I prefer living on the coast so I no longer live there, but I love getting back there for a weekend break. Luckily my best mate still lives there so he knows all the new places, of which there are many. Thanks to covid and other commitments its 4 or 5 years since my last visit and I know that a hell of a lot has changed since then, can't wait to see it.
I have only visited Hull once, many years ago, and don’t remember much about it. Birmingham and Bradford are two of my favourite places in England, and I also like Middlesbrough which is also often included in lists such as this.
Actually apart from about 15% of places including London most the place is boring and pretty depressing and the weather is mainly to blame not to mention the long dark nights where it can be dark by 3pm - no wonder a lot of the people are take some kind of drug / medication 😞
It's not entirely where you live its how you live, disrespecting a city just exposes who you are yourself, you find happiness in yourself & you should be happy anywhere, some people are happy feeling unhappy though, it's not the city it's the person
Ha! Birmingham? Seriously? Have you seen what happened their there over the last 2 weeks. Birmingham is a youthful, vibrant city with an extremely rich heritage.
I don't know where you are getting this from but Birmingham is one of the best city in the UK and Europe. In 2023, their unemployment rate has dropped and lots of people are having jobs. Birmingham is such and modern paradise, look at the architecture, look at the Bullring, look at Broad Street, look at the skyline. Birmingham has beaten Madrid, Budapest, Amsterdam and Berlin. Birmingham is truly the impressing, second city!
Let's show Brum some love, it's so diverse, people from all over the world make it their home, the most multicultural city in the country. The food is amazing, more Michelin starred restaurants anywhere outside London, and the home of the Balti. Its musical heritage is up there with the very best, its the birth of heavy metal and Bhangra , and its arguably home to British reggae. Downsides? Underachieving football teams, its been the gun crime capital for what seems like decades and the traffic around the M6!
I live in Birmingham n have never realised it was a depressing city your research is absolutely correct quality of life is below standard for most of the people specially people who r unemployed people who r homeless traffic is v heavy road conditions r not v good but it has lot of culture n traditions but still I'm proud to be Brummie
Excuse me but I've lived in Hull my whole life and this is kinda effensive and the city is beautiful and I think that he's wrong I bet he's never been there so how would he even know Edit this video was made on my birthday
I moved to Brum 4 years ago from Coventry and I can state it was the best move I've ever done . Great place to live good pubs,two magnificent art galleries, two theatres and loads of green spaces. If you want a depressing place to live try Coventry.
What about Luton 🤣 never been so depressed as living in Luton 🤣 yes it’s a Town but as applied for City status. 🤣 which will only make it more depressing 🤣
What really makes these places depressing is the weather, most of the year is dark and wet , even on summer , people from Rio's favelas are happier or at least less depressed than british people
Terribly ignorant video and completely wrong. There is nothing depressing about any of these cities and that's a pretty weird way to define a city, actually it's not possible to define what that even means. It's stupid. Bradford has some of the best countryside and suburbs anywhere in the UK. Hull and Birmingham are both amazing cities.
If you want to live somewhere nice in *Hull,* go and live on on a *retail estate* called *Ashcombe Road* where there are *no houses,* and consists solely of *shops and hotels* according to this video.
Hull is great. The old town is nice and the marina area is very nice. The minister is good to visit also the deep is good and thers excellent free museums. Bradford is near stunning countryside. And though ok ive mainly only gone to Birmingham city centre other than Oldbury i like it.
@@metaljukebox8710 I've spent 10+ years downloading, listing, sharing, commenting, adding, correcting and updating 130+ years of mainly *Bradford* based productions on websites like *IMDB* and *Wikipedia,* but mainly *IMDB.* I started updating *IMDB* on a daily basis around 3 years ago, yet even after 100s of 1000s of edits, I've barely touched the surface. There's 1000s I know of which are missing, never mind incorrect or incomplete. I mainly used to concentrate on adding and updating short films, mainly from the film students at the *Bradford College* and the *University of Bradford,* however after losing 10,000+ *Bradford* videos/images in February this year, which included a lot of rare TV films which will never be shown on TV again, I've now decided to concentrate on updating TV series, TV films and feature films. In the last week or two I've added and updated the cast, crew, companies etc for at least 16 TV episodes, from 3 different shows, which were mainly filmed in *Bradford,* plus many more things along the way. While looking for something regarding one of those shows, I randomly stumbled across an 11 year old news article about a writer from *Bradford,* who created the sitcom *Trollied* (2011-2018). That show was also originally supposed to be set in *Bradford,* yet even though she said they then decided to set the show in an *"unspecified location in the North West,"* it wasn't unspecified, as they set the show in *Warrington,* so I suspect someone from there twisted her arm. That writer also just happens to be the co-creator of *Hullraisers* (2022-present), yet her name is missing from the *Wikipedia* article about the show, so I will be updating that too eventually, along with double checking all the credits on *IMDB.* *Hullraisers* also stars at least 2 lead actresses from *Bradford,* and at least 2 more people who have starred in multiple *Bradford* based productions each.
@@metaljukebox8710 I haven't paid much attention to the local film/TV news stories over the last few years, as I'm too busy updating stuff on *IMDB,* however while looking for something a couple of days ago (I can't remember what), I found that... *Bradford, Leeds, Rotherham, Grimsby* and *Kingston upon Hull* are just some of the cities and towns used for filming in an upcoming *Netflix* production called *Bodies.* I updated its title on *IMDB* yesterday, and added the filming locations. *Hull* seems to be the main location on *Bodies,* but *Bradford's Little Germany* (and most likely other Bradford locations) is being used again. By the look of it, they're using the same warehouse which has been used as Tommy's Factory Office's in *Peaky Blinders,* the Belgium flashback scenes and the theatre exterior in *The ABC Murders,* and Jay's workshop in *Jay's Yorkshire Workshop.* *Bradford City Hall,* the heritage neighbourhood of *Little Germany* (especially on and around Hick Street and Cater Street), the Victorian *Undercliffe Cemetery,* the heritage neighbourhood of *Saltaire* along with *Salts Mill,* the *Bronte Parsonage Museum* and the village of *Haworth,* plus the arson attacked *Dalton Mills* (however as it consists of multiple buildings, I'm not sure if they set fire to the abandoned set from *The Limehouse Golem,* or another building), and the *Keighley and Worth Valley Railway* are just some of the most used filming locations in *City of Bradford.* *Lister Park* which includes *Cartwright Hall,* the *Midland Hotel,* a private backstreet behind *Napoleon's Casino,* plus an old cafe in the soon to be abandoned and demolished *Oastler Centre,* are also used for filming quite a lot.
This is harsh on Birmingham as the centre has improved and Bourneville/Edgbaston are lovely. Sunderland should probably be there instead. Parts of London are very ugly and depressing but escape to beauty is a bus/tube ride away.
Ive lived near the Reservoir in Edgbaston, wow. Really nice considering its just a canal topup lake. Early evening this time of year id prob not go across the dam of the "ressa" cause its bug central this time of year. But a walk around it, including some reps on the exersise bars will test you. 2 laps will hurt you, its bigger than you think.
When it comes to the economy of a place I'd argue that the most depressing aspect is how affordable it is. If you are in work, say on an average wage, can you afford to rent or buy a place to live? What about the price of a pint of beer or a take-out? On this measure Bradford (where I live) is far from depressing. Housing is more affordable than most areas, and I refute that the cost of living is high. My local still does a pint of nice ale for £3.20 (Dec 2022) for instance. Also Bradford is surrounded by some of the UK's most beautiful countryside, which is very accessible. Sure if you're poor and live in a run down inner-city area it could be seen as depressing. But why any more so for these cities than an area where conspicuous affluence and social inequality is rubbed in your face on a daily basis?
Bradford City Centre itself isn't depressing because no one goes there to get depressed. The only thing depressing is trying to drive through it! Some of the outskirts of Bradford are quite pleasant though.
Ive been here for 2.5 years AND IM going back to Australia 🇦🇺 Its different visiting here but living and working here is terrible the brits treat ppl like absolute crap and they are so full of self importance- emotionally stunted … awful 2 weeks and im gone …. GOOD RIDDANCE I CANNOT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THE UK
Birmingham! Where do you get your insulting incorrect information from? Have you ever been here or looked around? I am constantly surprised by how much is on offer here how much country side on the edges of the city and how easy it is to travel about. People are so friendly with such a diverse culture I wished I had moved here years ago!
I moved to Brum about 5 years ago, were Telford or Milton keynes even on list?? I live in supported accommodation and my housing association are Ferengi that should have lost their licence ages ago. The issues are the basic size/shape of properties are either a flat on a rough estate or a really narrow Victorian Terrice, we are packed in like sardines here in Brum. Good value for money tho, compairing to a house of similar build in an old market town Being bored in Brum is lack of imagination. Our internet service is dominated by Virgin, (old Tele-West cable lines), and it squits on "fiber" through BT/SKY/AOL (BT). The effort the council/planners are going through to get us our metro/trams is quite desruptive but welcomed and a really good effort. The bus service in many areas is 24hrs, although i think 4quid is pricey for day saver (that is a good deal if you are doing more than a city and back run). Now how to upset the snowflakes??? STOP GIVING THE HOMELESS MONEY, food - yes, tobacco - yes, even home them if you can. But please stop feeding the pigions. I live with a professional begger and i used to live with 4
Have to disagree about Birmingham. Its not the nicest looking but the people are friendly as you can get. Whenever I work there a stranger will say hello
I live in Bradford and I totally disagree with your opinion Try Blackpool it’s a total shit hole when you go off the Sea Front. I lived there for a very short period I’ve never been so miserable In all my life I actually had suicidal thoughts. I was so glad to get back To Bradford
Utter drivel and a highly selective set of ‘views’ and facts. I spent ten fantastic years in Hull after Uni. A fantastic place, with fantastic warm people who made me welcome and I miss the place 30 years later and still love to visit. Great architecture, history, galleries, music venues and the fantastic Old Town. Yes, it has its issues and downbeat areas (doesn’t everywhere?) but it regenerated very nicely after the City of Culture years and even though Covid lockdown gave it a good kicking it’ll be back.
I think Liverpool is also pretty depressing having lived there, very run down 50 % of it is in top 10% most deprived wards in UK, people with very similar outlooks on life, Lots of Betting shops, lots of takeaways etc. Can be very insular towards outsiders, Not much diversity, Locals are also very sensitive, high rates of unemployment, depression and anxiety, one of the filthiest cities to live in etc!
I actually live in Liverpool and I agree it's hard to find a nice place and as with any city the nice places are expensive it is also very rough and cold hearted however the docks are quite nice but all in all I agree with you Sean tuamia
Not much diversity in Liverpool? With the oldest Chinese population in Europe? A large Afro-Caribbean community in Toxteth,large Irish, Welsh and Scottish influences. The oldest working Mosque in Britain. The big Jewish population in Childwall. What exactly do you want?
@@grians_twin2126 it's a xxxxxx of a place (a run down dump), but it very unfortunate though, I just can't live someone that so bland and easily boring. The city centre does look very nice but after going through it a few times, it really gets so boring.
@@paulwild3676 when you go into town you mostly see white people everywhere, apart from parts of Bold Street and some coffee shops, so yes there is SOME diversity but not very much!
Such a lazy and very outdated view of Birmingham. All your negatives could be attributed to any other larger city in the UK. In the latest survey by Shelter Birmingham sits 5th behind Manchester, Milton Keynes, Brighton and Luton for homeless people as a percentage of population
Left Birmingham in 1984 swearing to myself that I’d never live there again. Hardly been back since, however most of the people that I know who moved there to study loved it and many have stayed. I think in many ways it’s now better than it was in the 70’s and early 80’s, although the music scene isn’t as good!
I was in bham last week. Heaps going on. The architecture is banging. The squares and parks are sweet. It has teams and trains to get around.
Def not depressing - it’s actually quite impressive.
Being from hull I can totally confirm this narrator is much more depressing than anything in this amazing city that I live in. I work all over the Uk and I can honestly say I’ve never left a place and wished I lived there, always great to go home
Kingswood? 💀
@@eatrawskin anlaby park
@@DataWatch. Is that really Hull, though? 🤔
@@eatrawskin yes, within city boundary
@@DataWatch. I would class anlaby common and anlaby park as the more well off areas with some community spirit left, can't say the same for the areas I've lived in the past 6 years
I'm glad you're able to enjoy your days in that area though, the North is a bit gray right now
Hull being depressing is laughable. It's a gorgeous place and you just pulled some numbers out your arse and only went off it's crime statistics. The people are lovely, great food, fun activities and beautiful architecture. I already liked Hull, but when I had to live somewhere that wasn't Hull (Blackburn), it was truly miserable. I wanted to be back in Hull basically every day and when I finally returned to Hull, I've loved it ever since.
I'd say it all depends on what depresses you.
Moved to Birmingham from London in 2015 to get into the property ladder, for obvious reasons. Got a 3 bed house with garden without much hassle just on time for the lockdown.. can't even imagine enduring 3 years of Lockwood on a tiny flat with No garden in London! Not to mention the property market is booming in Birmingham.
This city is going through a lot of transformation, the commonwealth games were hosted here. It's such a young and affordable city, I find it hard to believe to be listed here.. but all opinions are respected or course..
Property market booming in Birmingham pushes locals out! #Gentrification we really don't build anywhere enough new houses. Prices in my area seem to have gone up about £50k over about the last year and a half which makes it seem like I'll be living with my parents forever!
Did something very similar. I also moved to Birmingham in an amazing place called Longbridge and it's is far from depressing. In fact it's brilliant. My nextdoor neighbor is also from London. Seems a lot of Londoners are moving here.
@Vaughanb Brean I brought my house on the old MG Rover site. Got me a new build behind the retail park. Absolute prime location like you said. Got the licky hills to my left and the town to my right with the train station a few minutes walk.
@@stevecollins6858 It feels weird because thats the first time someone on UA-cam mentioned that place. 😂
Doncaster, having lived 40yrs there left 23yrs ago.. went back to visit family...God so depressing. It's now a city but it's lost its roots, no heart now.
I suggest Watford needs to on this list ..
NEVER been to anywhere so bland and depressing..
For most working people London has to provide the worst challenge to survive, plus every journey is hard work despite a large subsidy to public transport. It is the playground of the ultra-rich, so if you want to enjoy city life try Birmingham or Manchester, they have most of the advantages such as a big job market, great cultural facilities and lively night life combined with far greater convenience and affordability. I have experienced all three at first hand, so if you are a city lover but you are not wealthy, heed my advice.
TALKING out of your arse ..Hull is a great city and place to live ..steeped in history and was around long before other cities ..its a key town in UK History ..beautiful old buildings ,marina , ferrys to europe , many attractions 1 of these best Unis in the uk . Great old town 🍺 25 mins from the fantastic English coast ..beaches for miles n miles ...people flock from all over the uk to see east coast resorts if thats youre thing .Do your research properly .People are too quick to put these places down ..And most importantly of all real down to earth honest people...!!! I wouldn't live anywhere else
Did my studies in Birmingham and I really enjoyed it, the city centre was very compact for a city of its size and it is just a nice mixture of modern high rises, brutalist structures and lovely vintage architecture all mixed together in a sort of pragmatism giving it a unique character. I always thought it would be a perfect startup zone with its proximity to London, affordability and availability of industrial lands for reconversion.
If you only know Birmingham city centre, then you don't know Brum. I'm not being condescending, it's the same in every City. It is the people and their struggles that make a place not the buildings.
@@The_Hairy_Hermit well i did frequently undertake walks from villa park to the city centre after villa games now and then, so i saw a bit of the other areas as well. Do i know every corner of it, course not, just did my studies there, didn’t grow up there though. Just saying that I enjoyed my stay, I am living in Luxembourg where everything is basically looking the same and boring and I liked the variety of Birmingham in terms of styles.
Startup zone lol
@@Giovanniditessitore what's funny about that?
@@zeddist7472 I am from Paris, did an exchange semester just like you and I loved the city. I left on april and already came back twice 👍
Birmingham is a city of humanity to its full extent, and there is a lot of beauty to humanity. Selly Oak feels like a world of its own dominated by this student sociosphere, overlooked by the gorgeous University of Birmingham, a world class campus. Edgbaston has gorgeous trees, amazing botanical gardens, and University of Birmingham. Harbourne brings a thriving diverse cuisine culture. There are samples of the best cuisine from all around the world, is a place where one can feel overstimulated by choice. In a distance you can see the Queens Elizabeth Hospital which just looks so grand. If you go to the south west you get to Bourneville, the whole place smells like chocolate, especially around the historic Cadbury Factory. Kings Heath and Moseley has a thriving music scene which attracts a lot of lesser known talent. Gorgeous pub culture, I find that there will always be a pub for you to love, traditional or contemporary one to suit any personality, one of the most fun things to do as an alcohol enjoyer in Birmingham is a pub crawl. It adds an adventure to any night and because there are so many places to go for a drink, it is inevitable to have a story to talk about for years. No night is ever truly the same. Digbeth is awesome, full of street art and a place to go for a dance music enthusiast on any spectral alignment, be it House, Techno, Jungle, Deep Dubstep, Dub, Reggae, Ska, Drum and Bass, Bassline, Soul, Disco, Funk, Pop, Jazz, Rock - this place rewards a good taste through research and preparation. There are plenty of events and it is often hard to choose, applications like Skiddle and RA are a great starting point to find events around Bham. There is the classic club night energy of Broadstreet for all its good and the bad, a street of glam. There is Hippodrome a musical theatre venue like no other with some of the best events and the most wholesome and kind members of staff. There is the Gay Village with a colourful and vibrant night life. There is the picturesque Brindley place with a classy atmosphere a great place to go for a romantic getaway. There is the Jewellery quarter where there are so many Jewellery stores and red brick architecture. These are the factors I am most enthusiastic about, but this list is not extensive and,I after 8 years, still find new angles and am welcome through all doors. Birmingham is a fantastic city 💜
It is indeed, very unfortunate and a bitter reality that the UKs system of state support entraps people who seek benefits. The moment any form of reliable, personal wealth and economic stability is established, the eligibility to claim such support is stripped. To my understanding this works more like a trigger mechanism rather than a gradual transition. This in turn traps people in under compensated and under appreciated professions which do not allow for a significant jump to be made to allow for people to create prospects in these areas - and often these professions are the fibre of the society. Success has to be overwhelming to give people enough confidence to no longer seek benefits. Unfortunately, current economic environment does not support those that work hard, hard workers are exploited by the management who ensure a higher profit margin that secures better share holder dividends pay-out. What also secures better profits are lower costs, savings are made by offering the bare minimum for workers salaries. This issue is not exclusive to Birmingham, this is a UK issue and all cities have areas where people are unable to make the jump from the estates to the city centres. The top down investment has not lead to any real improvement to prospects that are truly worth giving up the stability of the benefits. Birmingham does not feel like an active industrial city that it is portrayed as, instead it feels like a museum to the industry titan which it once was. It was this industrious identity which allowed for people to have the initial economic freedom to make the leap to live in the more 'prosperous' parts of the city. As the city is becoming more and more gentrified I cannot help but feel that it will widen the gap which communities seeking benefits must leap over to seek life more prosperous parts of the city which are becoming more common, and expensive, by the day. So fellow Internet stranger, do not think of my comment as naive, by no means am I trying to paint a picture of Birmingham as a city that has complete fairness and equality and opportunity for all. All of the UK has a way to go yet to better distribute its wealth and expertise. I just feel that Birmingham has enough going on in many parts to make that leap much more exciting, and achievable.
@Dawson Davis There isn't a decent sized town anywhere that doesn't have run down estates so the nations 2nd biggest city is bound to have some.
Absolutely no where else can you eat ten different cultures foods within walking distance
@Dawson Davis espousing boring stereotypes,idiotic .
I've worked in Bradford and Hull, but lived in small towns on their edges. I took the bus to Bradford and cycled into Hull. The Northern outskirts of Bradford are full of very pleasant places to live and this extends right down to the stone-built area of Manningham. With Hull, it is the west and north sides of the city and its peripheral towns and villages that play the same role. In both cities, I taught in high-performing schools, where a majority of the most successful pupils went to good universities and then got jobs elsewhere, often in or near London. It's a vicious circle. There isn't enough high-level economic activity in these cities to keep their most dynamic young people there and because these young people leave, the level of economic activity remains low. By contrast, places like Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester seem to be able to attract more highly-qualified young people with dynamism that feeds into the local economy. It helps that these three cities have high-ranking universities, full of students from other parts of the country. Going into these cities on visits, you don't have the same feeling of being somewhere that is struggling to energise itself.
Yet *Bradford City Centre* is quality compared to *Manchester City Centre.*
Don't believe me?
Just compare *Charlie Veitch's* daily videos around *Manchester,* to the *West Yorkshire Traveller's* occasional videos around *Bradford.*
*Bradford* is also 3 times bigger than *Manchester* and *Liverpool* in terms of area, and almost 38 square miles bigger than *Birmingham,* so there's many many more things to see and do in the *City of Bradford.*
*Sheffield* is less than 1 square mile bigger than *Bradford* so I suspect we have around the same number of attractions.
@@danielgardecki1046 Don’t compare Bradford with Manchester. That is absolutely ludicrous. Manchester has no realistic rival outside London.
Are you sure 🤣
@@paulwild3676 Bradford is sick
@@paulwild3676 Leeds is becoming far better than Manchester and is growing at a faster pace. Will soon be the economic centre of the north.
I'm happy in Bradford! I'm from Czech Republic and Bradford is my lovely town, living and working here 15 years. Farmers boy . I feel here safe never I seen crime .
I moved to Birmingham from Dublin in the 90's. The transformation since then has been remarkable. Top 3 depressing cities in the UK is a little harsh I feel.
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I agree, especially after commonwealth games
Having recently moved from there, yes there has been some improvement, but under the surface it's still the same. People, especially young people, are totally miserable and it's very hard to make friends I found. Wages are low as well.
@@simonmaird6857 @Simon Maird If depression were cured by moving city, we'd all be happy. Unfortunately the grass will never be greener on the other side unless you work on yourself first and then consider moving. I can attest to this.
@@orourkeda For proper depression, absolutely you are correct. Birmingham didn't make me clinically depressed, it disappointed me at every turn it could. Moving away was the best decision we ever made. The grass was most definitely greener! But it depends on what makes you happy, I acknowledge that. But I'd hate for anyone to think the grass isn't greener elsewhere, it absolutely most definitely is! Try new places!
Hull is Britain's best kept secret, love the place.
I visited Hull last year and was very impressed. Lots of lovely Victorian buildings in the centre. The old area around the Minster is very character full with really nice old pubs. Not sure why it gets a bad rep.
Birmingham is beautiful. There is bad and good areas to every area. The fact you can bike any wear do all the shopping u desire and eat out in a beautiful restaurant everyday is pretty awesome to me.
The whole of the UK is depressing to live in
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Bit like North Korea then?
@@SuperNevile NOTHING is like north Korea.
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Hav u lived in India
Hull is not depressing but the guy reading out this list is very depressing and as he isn't even from hull he needs to mind his own business
Oo-er, missus. 😂
Birmingham is such a great city, people mock it but it’s transformed over the last decade. It’s not perfect but there are so many great things here.
This is ridiculous…all three cities look to have beautiful architecture. There are good and bad areas in every city.
A channel named *Learning Canteen* based in the *Ukraine* which doesn't learn anything, and just spreads nonsense about places in the UK, which its heard from elsewhere, over and over again.
*Bradford* was voted the 4th *UK's City of Culture* ever a few days ago. It's also:
The *6th Biggest City in the UK by Population* - *542,128* to be exact.
*The 7th Biggest City in the UK by Area* - *141.47 square miles* (366.41 square kilometres) to be exact.
The World's 1st *UNESCO City of Film* and home of the *National Science and Media Museum,* which includes *Europe's First IMAX* and just the *3rd Remaining Cinerama Screen in the World.*
The 7 time *Curry Capital of Britain* winners, and frequent hosts of the *World Curry Festival.*
The Unofficial *Tea Capital* (if you want to know my reasons, then ask).
The Former *Wool Capital of the World.*
The Birthplace and Home of *The Brontë's* etc.
Yet it's...
Missing from most Maps of the UK's Cities.
Missing from most Tourism websites.
Ignored by the Mainstream Media...when it comes to the good stories at least.
Even when the media do actually mention *Bradford,* it'll get a small mention, while the cities which they incorrectly assume are bigger, get almost entire articles to themselves.
Plus when they actually visit *Bradford,* I often find them claiming to be *"near Bradford,"* or *"just outside Bradford,"* even when they're less than 2 to 3 miles from *Bradford City Centre.*
As for *Kingston upon Hull* that was voted the 2nd *UK City of Culture* ever, and....
*Birmingham* is the *UK's largest city by population* (don't reply to me saying "you forgot about London" as London is not a city, never has been a city, and never will be a city), so it must have some attractions as why would anyone live there if there wasn't?
This is true....remember the old saying...comparisons are odious
Right
🤣🤣🤣 do you actually live in one of them?
I agree but hes going on Stats.Ive heard of ethnic exploitatoin of white females from locals similar to grooming gangs ive met but i cant judge because ive never been so what do you know Olivia is it just racist slur iam been told or has Bradford major issues.
I have visited Birmingham since the 1980's and it transformation has been great..Yes in 1980 a lot of grey concrete the old Bull ring was drab ..but now looks quite impressive. I found it very clean and open. New library area is nice.Old New Street station drab buts that's gone..Moor Street station improved a lot also.
'transformation has been great' ? I'm lucky enough to live in a market town around 80 miles away from Birmingham. The amount of people from alien cultures living there is staggering and I feel very unsafe when I have to commute through B'ham on occasions. Horrible place now.
@@dicksmall7976 Birmingham doesn't feel unsafe unless you get outside the city centre into some of the run down areas.
City Centre is good but most of the city is depressing and I lived there for a bit
Your all just scared because of what you see on television
@@smokeysmoked1231 Scared of what? I actually lived there for a bit
Hull is not depressing i lived there for a couple of years it was amazing
For Hull, how the heck did you come across and pick Elvaston Park!? It's a random small cul-de-sac amongst dozens of them on Kingswood.....
Proving the guy knows nothing about what he’s talking about 🤦🏻
No way is Hull depressing I worked there loads coming from Sheffield great place full of character and Bradford has some mental beautiful countryside
I will say 7 years ago Birmingham was a bit depressing, but a day of today the city is raising, looking beautiful and with a future view, were everyone is investing innthis city and giving back live
Over the past few years, Birmingham has improved massively as it’s received a lot of investment. The City Centre has improved massively in particular.
The people haven't though. Birmingham is a shithole
Really? I must have missed something then, because there's a lack of public seating a lack of public bins, no public toilets, cracked paving throughout some of the busiest areas throughout the city centre and the roads are atrocious. Besides, it's chaotic and difficult to get around the City Centre especially every time they do some so called improvement they move all the bus routes around, Birmingham is an embarrassment in that it doesn't even have a Bus Interchange and none of the transport systems are close together like other towns and cities.
BS
@@fay-amieaspen6046 there's no public toilets in most cities unless you are talking about the bus station
Totally unfair to Birmingham Because it’s no worse than places like Manchester Leicester Leeds Coventry Wolverhampton London etc I can go on! All uk cities are dull and depressing! End of!!
I used to stay in Birmingham before moving to Bournemouth , listen , Bournemouth should be on this list , it’s is so depressing , only good for tourist ….. infact I am heading to back to birmingham this month
Top place is Birmingham, I go there often and love it there, plus the women in Birmingham are bloody stunning too 😄
The Bournemouth area is wonderful, but clearly you are not ready to enjoy a chilled life by the sea.
Sea ? Well I won’t be living inside the sea , and most people are too colour conscious , I like variety , proper night life , and a multicultural environment for once , u can have my share of the sea
For 20 years I traveled throughout the UK for work I've been every city in the UK here are my list of the three most depressing cities. 1 London.... it takes ages to travel anywhere in London, it smells of diesel and fast food... outside of the tourist areas the streets are dirty and the building are in need of repeat... it's very expensive.. the people are the most unfriendly in the UK. 2 Manchester very bad transport...very noisy trams...you can't help but pass very deprived area to get to the city center. True Mancuians are nice but the influx of middle class working in the city are just a down right rude. 3 Brighton ...dirty lost of rundown areas. Brighton is the only place I've been to where I have genuinely felt scared and unsafe.
What what makes these three cities stand out are the people thses are the cities where I have found the majority of people to be rude unfriendly and unhelpful.
I think your the first person in history to feel "scared and unsafe" in Brighton, grow up John you wet lettuce.
Some of the misinformation included in this video includes:
1 - "Birmingham is one of the largest cities in the UK." False. Birmingham is the largest city in the UK by population, as London is not, never has been, and never will be a city.
2 - Them saying go live in a retail park in Hull where there are no houses.
3 - That Hull was voted 137th out of 138 cities in the UK, yet that's not possible, as there's only 70 cities in the UK as of today, however that will soon be increased to 76 cities.
4 - That Bradford includes the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire, when what it should have said is "it also borders the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire."
5 - The ODEON in Bradford is more famous for being a cinema as that's what it was used for most recently and was used for for the majority of its history (and a venue for an exclusive preview screening of the Doctor Who Christmas Special in 2017), however he's correct it was also partly used as a ballroom and music venue (among other things) in its early years where acts like The Beatles played mainly in the 60s.
6 - "Bradford introduced free school meals and medical checks" which everyone in the UK gets for free on the NHS anyway. However Bradford created the concept of free school meals.
7 - "Bradford was recently ranked 2nd worst place to live" according to who? The only recent list I can find ranks Bradford 10th, and those type of lists are usually made by energy companies.
8 - That "Bradford is 35% unemployed" a figure which is repeated in multiple videos of theirs, yet the actual figure is 6.3% as of the latest 2021 statistics.
Yep I now live in London (I'm from Stoke) in the 10 years I've lived hear I probably visited London proper fewer times than in the 10 years before that. It's just a collection of small and medium size towns and villages which have become emmeshed. And 'south of the river' might as be on Mars at least for me.
London City is, infact, a city. London as the county isnt a city.
@@SnowMexicann *London City* isn't its name.
There's the 8 square mile *City of Westminster.*
There's the 1 square mile *City of London* which is also a *county.*
And then there's the *county* and *region* of *Greater London* aka *London* which contains those *2 cities,* and likes to pretend that it's a *city* too, even though places can't be given *city status* when they have *cities* within them, therefore *London* will never be a *city.*
@@danielgardecki1046 its actually 1 square mile
@@randomperson5946 Why are you telling me something I have already written above? Also *London* is an abbreviation of *Greater London,* and *City of London* should never be abbreviated, therefore as I said *London* is not a city.
"Hull is the least safe city in East Yorkshire."
Yes, also the most safe city in East Yorkshire.
And that was your only justification for being the most depressing city?
To any American watching, the commentator is a southern arse that would make you feel depressed regardless of the city you live in.
"In the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull is the most dangerous city."
....that's because it's the only city in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
im from bham and it is sick!
once i went on a tour to other cities and i found my home ( Birmingham) alot better than them, trust me
blud if you wanna bait people in and jook em try a little harder to conceal it yeah? 😂😂
If Hull is so depressing then why do Hullensians walk around with beaming, warm smiles and a glint in their eye...?🤔
do we?
Chip spice?
Because if we don’t the most popular hot spots is not far away…
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Also chip spice…
20,000 homeless in Birmingham.
I didn't know there was that many.
“In the East Riding of Yorkshire Hull is the most dangerous city” - perhaps because it’s the only city 🤣🤣🤣🤣 done Hull dirty here!
Never thought of that,, and you are correct, well Done
Yeah I’m really surprised Beverley or Driffield didn’t take the top spot😂😂
@@inside1283 they are towns not cities
@@inglemirelane7687 that’s my point🤦♂️
init g its chill here a lil bit of this and that but nowt mad
Wow this is such a damning and biased view of three wonderful cities! Each has so many positives, having visited them all and as a Brummie , I would rather live here than any other UK city. It has some of the best food, shopping and people that make it a happy place to live. In fact no city deserves the title as most depressing as that alone is enough to make one feel depressed!
I think this guy is depressed 😀
Bradford is a terrible place,
My mum was born and raised in Hull and she says it's an absolute shithole.
@@paolor.479 🤣🤣
😂😂😂 How in the f as a visitor would you ever see how depriving it is to live in this gray crisis ridden shithole? 😂
The hate that Birmingham get’s now is unjustified. It’s completely transformed and is a lively, diverse and beautiful city.
Actually, I like all three of these cities and I think I'd be more depressed in a city without character like Welwyn Garden City or Slough.
If I lived in Slough/Salisbury/Reading I'd give up on life.
Slough isn't a City......
Brilliant point 👉
Middlesbrough is more depressing than any of these three cities.
YES.
I Live near Durham City ‘ though I spent a number of years with Teessiders ‘ while in the army and on Teesside ‘
Ok the boro may be a bit of a shit-hole ‘ but most of the locals are good people ‘ true Brits ……👍 🇬🇧
The moment you mentioned Birmingham, I knew this would be a shabby video, not well-researched. The metrics used are not standardised.
I live here....... its sh!t......... !!!
I've in Birmingham for a while in late 76..I absolutely loved it ..every city has its less desirable sides...bur some of the architecture and canals and the people made it to me a great place .. now even better . I moved back to Bournemouth however as I always lived by the sea ..but Birmingham is certainly not depressing..I prefer it to London anyway..love Brummie people
About Brummies; friendly, helpful. Compare this to London where you can get knocked to ground by scooter outside Bank of England at 10am and not a single person moves. Southeners will almost find the helpfulness intrusive, an example is; ask someone for directions and its a coin flip they will walk it with you
Humberside was defunct in 1996, were now apart of east Yorkshire again
Birmingham? Depressing? You haven’t been have you? Honestly utter nonsense! More culture, more nightlife, more shopping, better restaurants than every other city outside London combined! Digbeth alone is incredible
Birmingham is a vibrator multicultural metropolis compared to most cities within the UK. It’s in the top 5 most visited cities it’s in the top 10 for most revisited cities. It’s also attracted £400 billion of investment and then you also have the Commonwealth Games 120 billion spent on roads and networks. It’s not a depressing place at all it’s a very nice place. I’m currently working in Luton now that’s depressing although it’s a Town but it has applied for City status and turn down multiple times.
I have been there and it's depressing
You haven't provided any sources to verify this information. I'm keen to relocate to Birmingham - could you please provide links to the surveys you pull your stats from?
look how positive the comments are from people who live or have visited here, dont listen to this video
Birmingham is a great city and the Brummies (I've met) are top people. Plus the women in Birmingham are absolutely stunning 🤩
Women here are the best. 🔝🔝
@@LetsAvYa.. damn right they are. Every time I'm in Birmingham, especially walking around the city centre my eyes are like 🤩😍
the women there are grade A stunners!
@@thelegaloccupier1982 I would advise any man looking for beautiful and friendly women, come to Brum Town 👍
@@LetsAvYa.. I'm in B'ham in a fortnights time so my eyes are going to be everywhere that Saturday afternoon wandering round the city centre 🤩😍 Lol
@@thelegaloccupier1982 if you are here for the commonwealth, then you will have international options too 😂
Slough. The most depressing, aptly named doldrum, I've ever had the misfortune to visit. The Britwell estate.....Jesus wept!
Our guest came from NY and they liked birmingham city over london central
If you like City life and think Birmingham has little to offer you haven't spent any time there in recent years.
Its my hometown, though I prefer living on the coast so I no longer live there, but I love getting back there for a weekend break.
Luckily my best mate still lives there so he knows all the new places, of which there are many.
Thanks to covid and other commitments its 4 or 5 years since my last visit and I know that a hell of a lot has changed since then, can't wait to see it.
I love Birmingham and I am a Londoner. I’ve not been to the other two. I would think Croydon is pretty grim, but maybe it’s not a city
Brummies are nice, kind people. So different to London.
I have only visited Hull once, many years ago, and don’t remember much about it. Birmingham and Bradford are two of my favourite places in England, and I also like Middlesbrough which is also often included in lists such as this.
I wouldn't call any of these 3 depressing. Imperfect but definitely not depressing.
Everywhere in the UK is depressing. It's one of the worst countries in the world to live in and is governed by sociopaths.
Yes, a bit like North Korea.
This is his opinion people like me will disagree on birmingham, the 2nd largest city in the UK
Grew up in Birmingham and lived recently in Bradford. Can't agree with this list heh
Actually apart from about 15% of places including London most the place is boring and pretty depressing and the weather is mainly to blame not to mention the long dark nights where it can be dark by 3pm - no wonder a lot of the people are take some kind of drug / medication 😞
It's not entirely where you live its how you live, disrespecting a city just exposes who you are yourself, you find happiness in yourself & you should be happy anywhere, some people are happy feeling unhappy though, it's not the city it's the person
Nah - i get what your saying but - I’ve experienced living and working here !!!! NO THANKS MISERABLE PPL
Ha! Birmingham? Seriously? Have you seen what happened their there over the last 2 weeks. Birmingham is a youthful, vibrant city with an extremely rich heritage.
I don't know where you are getting this from but Birmingham is one of the best city in the UK and Europe. In 2023, their unemployment rate has dropped and lots of people are having jobs. Birmingham is such and modern paradise, look at the architecture, look at the Bullring, look at Broad Street, look at the skyline. Birmingham has beaten Madrid, Budapest, Amsterdam and Berlin. Birmingham is truly the impressing, second city!
London - top of the list. Ghastly even to visit, the sooner your out the better you feel.
Birmingham is depressing London is exciting loads to do.
@@marktaurus206 The failings of one place cannot be used to make another look better. Loads to do right where I am :-)
@@Roskellan London is more ideal as a tourist city even though over 10 million live in London nothing wrong with the city.
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Yer like getting stabbed
Birmingham is the best city outside of London in England.
It is indisputable that Birmingham is Englands 2nd City.
My sister study in Birmingham and no, that is wonderful city, the people who say that depressed city is one of KKK member.
Let's show Brum some love, it's so diverse, people from all over the world make it their home, the most multicultural city in the country. The food is amazing, more Michelin starred restaurants anywhere outside London, and the home of the Balti. Its musical heritage is up there with the very best, its the birth of heavy metal and Bhangra , and its arguably home to British reggae.
Downsides? Underachieving football teams, its been the gun crime capital for what seems like decades and the traffic around the M6!
Birmingham has improved massively and is now a wonderful City.
That’s not even funny , I have been to brum and this isn’t true , stop saying shite
How did Peterborough miss out? I demand a recount
I live in Hull. It’s not depressing at all? Why do you show just bad photos of my home?? This is so biased
I live in Birmingham n have never realised it was a depressing city your research is absolutely correct quality of life is below standard for most of the people specially people who r unemployed people who r homeless traffic is v heavy road conditions r not v good but it has lot of culture n traditions but still I'm proud to be Brummie
In Birmingham it is law to give identification details to the on street enforcement officers??I get fined £150
Preston Lancashire is a depressing place to live
Excuse me but I've lived in Hull my whole life and this is kinda effensive and the city is beautiful and I think that he's wrong I bet he's never been there so how would he even know
Edit this video was made on my birthday
Moved to Hull to Uni in 1991. Been here 31 years now. I love it!!! Ridiculous vid!! Lot worse cities out there!!
HP source originated in Nottingham
"The United Kingdom is one the best countries in the world anyone can live in at this time."
That by itself is depressing.
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The trash can of the world.
I moved to Brum 4 years ago from Coventry and I can state it was the best move I've ever done . Great place to live good pubs,two magnificent art galleries, two theatres and loads of green spaces. If you want a depressing place to live try Coventry.
Bradford is good and we’re city of culture underrated
love how the building on the right in the thumbnail is gorgeous 😂
makes me laugh how everyone just says hulls a shithole then you cask them "have you ever been" and every time they will say no
Not cities but depressing Telford Wolverhampton. But Bradford probably wins the prize
What about Luton 🤣 never been so depressed as living in Luton 🤣 yes it’s a Town but as applied for City status. 🤣 which will only make it more depressing 🤣
Stevenage, Massive body shutter
Wolverhampton is a city.
Bradford is okay and is surrounded by beautiful countryside, and many parks. I think people are prejudiced against Bradford for racial reasons.
Listen I’ve lived here for 20 years and have to say the decline and non improvement of the city is astonishing and simultaneously depressing
What really makes these places depressing is the weather, most of the year is dark and wet , even on summer , people from Rio's favelas are happier or at least less depressed than british people
That is a remarkably stupid and incorrect observation.
Birmingham is great I love this city
Terribly ignorant video and completely wrong. There is nothing depressing about any of these cities and that's a pretty weird way to define a city, actually it's not possible to define what that even means. It's stupid. Bradford has some of the best countryside and suburbs anywhere in the UK. Hull and Birmingham are both amazing cities.
If you want to live somewhere nice in *Hull,* go and live on on a *retail estate* called *Ashcombe Road* where there are *no houses,* and consists solely of *shops and hotels* according to this video.
Hull is great. The old town is nice and the marina area is very nice. The minister is good to visit also the deep is good and thers excellent free museums. Bradford is near stunning countryside. And though ok ive mainly only gone to Birmingham city centre other than Oldbury i like it.
@@metaljukebox8710 I've spent 10+ years downloading, listing, sharing, commenting, adding, correcting and updating 130+ years of mainly *Bradford* based productions on websites like *IMDB* and *Wikipedia,* but mainly *IMDB.*
I started updating *IMDB* on a daily basis around 3 years ago, yet even after 100s of 1000s of edits, I've barely touched the surface. There's 1000s I know of which are missing, never mind incorrect or incomplete.
I mainly used to concentrate on adding and updating short films, mainly from the film students at the *Bradford College* and the *University of Bradford,* however after losing 10,000+ *Bradford* videos/images in February this year, which included a lot of rare TV films which will never be shown on TV again, I've now decided to concentrate on updating TV series, TV films and feature films.
In the last week or two I've added and updated the cast, crew, companies etc for at least 16 TV episodes, from 3 different shows, which were mainly filmed in *Bradford,* plus many more things along the way.
While looking for something regarding one of those shows, I randomly stumbled across an 11 year old news article about a writer from *Bradford,* who created the sitcom *Trollied* (2011-2018). That show was also originally supposed to be set in *Bradford,* yet even though she said they then decided to set the show in an *"unspecified location in the North West,"* it wasn't unspecified, as they set the show in *Warrington,* so I suspect someone from there twisted her arm.
That writer also just happens to be the co-creator of *Hullraisers* (2022-present), yet her name is missing from the *Wikipedia* article about the show, so I will be updating that too eventually, along with double checking all the credits on *IMDB.*
*Hullraisers* also stars at least 2 lead actresses from *Bradford,* and at least 2 more people who have starred in multiple *Bradford* based productions each.
@@metaljukebox8710 I haven't paid much attention to the local film/TV news stories over the last few years, as I'm too busy updating stuff on *IMDB,* however while looking for something a couple of days ago (I can't remember what), I found that...
*Bradford, Leeds, Rotherham, Grimsby* and *Kingston upon Hull* are just some of the cities and towns used for filming in an upcoming *Netflix* production called *Bodies.*
I updated its title on *IMDB* yesterday, and added the filming locations.
*Hull* seems to be the main location on *Bodies,* but *Bradford's Little Germany* (and most likely other Bradford locations) is being used again. By the look of it, they're using the same warehouse which has been used as Tommy's Factory Office's in *Peaky Blinders,* the Belgium flashback scenes and the theatre exterior in *The ABC Murders,* and Jay's workshop in *Jay's Yorkshire Workshop.*
*Bradford City Hall,* the heritage neighbourhood of *Little Germany* (especially on and around Hick Street and Cater Street), the Victorian *Undercliffe Cemetery,* the heritage neighbourhood of *Saltaire* along with *Salts Mill,* the *Bronte Parsonage Museum* and the village of *Haworth,* plus the arson attacked *Dalton Mills* (however as it consists of multiple buildings, I'm not sure if they set fire to the abandoned set from *The Limehouse Golem,* or another building), and the *Keighley and Worth Valley Railway* are just some of the most used filming locations in *City of Bradford.*
*Lister Park* which includes *Cartwright Hall,* the *Midland Hotel,* a private backstreet behind *Napoleon's Casino,* plus an old cafe in the soon to be abandoned and demolished *Oastler Centre,* are also used for filming quite a lot.
As a person who goes to hull to see my dad, it's a shithole
Aren't Nick Rhodes and John Taylor of Duran Duran from Birmingham?
This is harsh on Birmingham as the centre has improved and Bourneville/Edgbaston are lovely. Sunderland should probably be there instead. Parts of London are very ugly and depressing but escape to beauty is a bus/tube ride away.
Ive lived near the Reservoir in Edgbaston, wow. Really nice considering its just a canal topup lake. Early evening this time of year id prob not go across the dam of the "ressa" cause its bug central this time of year. But a walk around it, including some reps on the exersise bars will test you. 2 laps will hurt you, its bigger than you think.
When it comes to the economy of a place I'd argue that the most depressing aspect is how affordable it is. If you are in work, say on an average wage, can you afford to rent or buy a place to live? What about the price of a pint of beer or a take-out? On this measure Bradford (where I live) is far from depressing. Housing is more affordable than most areas, and I refute that the cost of living is high. My local still does a pint of nice ale for £3.20 (Dec 2022) for instance. Also Bradford is surrounded by some of the UK's most beautiful countryside, which is very accessible. Sure if you're poor and live in a run down inner-city area it could be seen as depressing. But why any more so for these cities than an area where conspicuous affluence and social inequality is rubbed in your face on a daily basis?
Birmingham and Bradford are lovely cities.They have a large Pakistani community
Bradford City Centre itself isn't depressing because no one goes there to get depressed. The only thing depressing is trying to drive through it!
Some of the outskirts of Bradford are quite pleasant though.
Ive been here for 2.5 years AND IM going back to Australia 🇦🇺 Its different visiting here but living and working here is terrible the brits treat ppl like absolute crap and they are so full of self importance- emotionally stunted … awful 2 weeks and im gone …. GOOD RIDDANCE I CANNOT WAIT TO GET OUT OF THE UK
Birmingham! Where do you get your insulting incorrect information from? Have you ever been here or looked around? I am constantly surprised by how much is on offer here how much country side on the edges of the city and how easy it is to travel about.
People are so friendly with such a diverse culture I wished I had moved here years ago!
Iived over 60 years it's a absolute dive.yeah got open spaces but it's just a crime ridden shit tip..!
@@brumbykj then move !
@@jacktheplumber Don't worry I am soon.!!!
You won't be missed.
@@OGGY2354 Thanks Rolly.!!!
Hull is anything but depressing
I moved to Brum about 5 years ago, were Telford or Milton keynes even on list??
I live in supported accommodation and my housing association are Ferengi that should have lost their licence ages ago.
The issues are the basic size/shape of properties are either a flat on a rough estate or a really narrow Victorian Terrice, we are packed in like sardines here in Brum. Good value for money tho, compairing to a house of similar build in an old market town
Being bored in Brum is lack of imagination. Our internet service is dominated by Virgin, (old Tele-West cable lines), and it squits on "fiber" through BT/SKY/AOL (BT). The effort the council/planners are going through to get us our metro/trams is quite desruptive but welcomed and a really good effort. The bus service in many areas is 24hrs, although i think 4quid is pricey for day saver (that is a good deal if you are doing more than a city and back run). Now how to upset the snowflakes???
STOP GIVING THE HOMELESS MONEY, food - yes, tobacco - yes, even home them if you can. But please stop feeding the pigions. I live with a professional begger and i used to live with 4
Have to disagree about Birmingham. Its not the nicest looking but the people are friendly as you can get. Whenever I work there a stranger will say hello
Where's London in your list? I don't live there but every thing/genius idea from there causes depression
I live in Bradford and I totally disagree with your opinion
Try Blackpool it’s a total shit hole when you go off the Sea Front. I lived there for a very short period I’ve never been so miserable In all my life I actually had suicidal thoughts. I was so glad to get back To Bradford
ok. except london for you which is the best city to live in england?????
Why do you keep using stock footage of the USA when talking about the UK?
Utter drivel and a highly selective set of ‘views’ and facts. I spent ten fantastic years in Hull after Uni. A fantastic place, with fantastic warm people who made me welcome and I miss the place 30 years later and still love to visit. Great architecture, history, galleries, music venues and the fantastic Old Town. Yes, it has its issues and downbeat areas (doesn’t everywhere?) but it regenerated very nicely after the City of Culture years and even though Covid lockdown gave it a good kicking it’ll be back.
Would love to know where they got these statistics from?
I think Liverpool is also pretty depressing having lived there, very run down 50 % of it is in top 10% most deprived wards in UK, people with very similar outlooks on life,
Lots of Betting shops, lots of takeaways etc.
Can be very insular towards outsiders,
Not much diversity,
Locals are also very sensitive, high rates of unemployment, depression and anxiety, one of the filthiest cities to live in etc!
I actually live in Liverpool and I agree it's hard to find a nice place and as with any city the nice places are expensive it is also very rough and cold hearted however the docks are quite nice but all in all I agree with you Sean tuamia
Not much diversity in Liverpool? With the oldest Chinese population in Europe? A large Afro-Caribbean community in Toxteth,large Irish, Welsh and Scottish influences. The oldest working Mosque in Britain. The big Jewish population in Childwall. What exactly do you want?
@@grians_twin2126 it's a xxxxxx of a place (a run down dump), but it very unfortunate though, I just can't live someone that so bland and easily boring.
The city centre does look very nice but after going through it a few times, it really gets so boring.
@@paulwild3676 when you go into town you mostly see white people everywhere, apart from parts of Bold Street and some coffee shops, so yes there is SOME diversity but not very much!
@@seantuaima it's very racist
Such a lazy and very outdated view of Birmingham. All your negatives could be attributed to any other larger city in the UK. In the latest survey by Shelter Birmingham sits 5th behind Manchester, Milton Keynes, Brighton and Luton for homeless people as a percentage of population
Left Birmingham in 1984 swearing to myself that I’d never live there again. Hardly been back since, however most of the people that I know who moved there to study loved it and many have stayed. I think in many ways it’s now better than it was in the 70’s and early 80’s, although the music scene isn’t as good!
it's an extremely good city now, not much reason to hate it