I was in Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh last year for weeks. Inverness if one of the most beautiful and serene places I have been to in the world. I live in a big city in the USA. I hope to go back to Inverness this year. I walked around day and night, and the people were the friendliest in all of the places I visited in Scotland. I wish I could live there to keep up my study of highland music and WW1 Scottish regiments - 6 months a year. Use the time to learn and explore the breathtaking beauty. This AI generated video is insane. WOW - if one were generated about a big US city it would be dystopian - and I like where I live now.
Inverness? Really? The most benign place you’ll ever go to! Some of the stuff in this you were plainly either making up or your sources weren’t being very truthful
Just watched the first part about Falkirk. Absolute nonsense. Falkirk is fine, the high street isn't what it was 10 years ago but that unfortunately is not unusual throughout the UK. You need to research your videos properly.
Every town has a no go area and always has, even before the drug scene. Eighty years ago when I was a child in a Scottish town, ( I won’t say which one, ) there were rough areas. Even or more so in Victorian times. Poverty is not always the cause, there are just some people who don’t want to live within the law and cling together like a pack of feral animals.
Stirling really isn't seen as a 'chav' town. It's very expensive and considered quite posh by those of us in the surrounding area - or at least some parts are. It's also a major tourist site, has a beautiful Castle, a University, lovely countryside, and a fascinating history. I lSame with Inverness and Falkirk. Stirling, Falkirk and Inverness are pretty safe though and certainly not rife with murders - only Glasgow really has that problem, murders aren't something that are very common in Scotland. I live about eight miles from Stirling and roughly fifteen from Falkirk. The Forth Valley is a beautiful area, with lovely countryside and a great history. We do have a lot of poverty, unemployment and a drug problem but it's certainly not a murder hotspot and most places in it are pretty safe. I love my home area of Clackmannanshire and I would certainly recommend that visitors to Scotland go to Stirling, Falkirk and when travelling north, to Inverness. To be honest, this video and the one about Worst English Towns unfortunately come across as very snobbish.
I have been to all of these places. and I have not seen the things he has said in this video. Kilmarnock is going down hill the last visit and more shops are boarded up. I would say that places like Maypole with few shops and a main road with trucks which are making the windows and stone dirty is a worst place to be. even along the road in Girvan the main high street has many closed businesses. there are quite a few places were there shops are limited types, hair dressers, bookmakers, takeaways only open after 5pm, or were high parking charges make places not worth visiting.
Stirling is one of the few places that has only one rough part called the Raploch. The rest is lovely in my limited experience of it. I have only been to Paisley once but by god is it a dive.
It is something more than ironic that the photographs don’t sync with the commentary. That a picture is worth a thousand words is something which the creator should think about very deeply. It appears that this person hasn’t done so, so far. Let us learn from the Americans, who interview, for example, University students, to point out just how ignorant they are of the rest of the world. This series has the hall mark of someone who uses Google maps for his picture collection and whose research essentially stems from some government agency whose definition of poverty is something different from what some of us have known in the past.
Greenock is like a big concrete scheme by the sea. At least yous have nice views across the water - something that most other towns don't have. Also being next to the Port makes Greenock look better too.
@@labos7250 LOL you've obv. never been to Birkenhead or Blackpool! Both have a esplanade and both are rough as phuq! 😂 As for Greenock, that town probably had more scheme gang rivalries than any other town outside Glesga!
"getting on the roads of this town, you see some folks displaying publicly, their low social standing and education" ...... Ok so I stopped listening at this point, that's such a vile, snobby and victorian view of people. Makes my shit itch.
There are some real rough , tough areas in Aberdeen which get ignored due to the misconceived ideas of Aberdeen being “ oil rich “ . Woodside in particular is a rough area with Tillydrone , Torry and Northfield also dodgy .
Paisley is 8 minutes train from central glasgow; the rents are cheap, the Last Post is an awesome pub, and there's many more that cater to whatever type of person you are. They got a privately-run woodfired pizza delivery, one of the world's best butchers, a proper tobacconist & pipe shop, every commodity you need in shops, so what the hell you' on about.
Thing about Scotland is it’s the cities that sit in this weird juxtaposition between the more anglicised central lowlands but still trying to cling on to their Scots identity that always seem to fair the worst, and I say this as someone in one of those towns. Look at the towns/cities, though. Falkirk, Stirling, Coatbridge, Airdrie, Paisley… you could draw a line from just outside Edinburgh around Glasgow through my hometown, Dumbarton (which featured in many of the Wedt Dunbartonshire pics, including at the end of my street). There’s honestly no coincidence There SHOULD be money in these areas, but there just isn’t. Families are all working class and very, very poor
Lot of the trouble is these were the heartland of Scottish heavy industry when we were a manufacturing powerhouse (before it was shipped abroad to the Far East). Nothing replaced that. Don't know about Inverness though... not exactly Lowland/Central Belt there!
When did the boundaries move? The last time i checked the Auld Kirk was in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire. Not in West Dunbartonshire as the intro to that segment would suggest.
Stirling is a major university town and quite pretty and Inverness is the major service centre for the whole Highlands with good shopping and eating. I think the fact you listed Inverness but not Fort William shows a lack of research. The rest are all quite crap though...
"You'll find a lot of junkies with one of them ready to accost you". He says that as if saying "You will find the view from the bridge to be the loveliest in Scotland."
question though if everything the narrator speaks off in the video is true. How precisely did the traffic cone land flush on the head of the Statue of Victoria? eehh
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I feel like you've made a judgement on a lot of places here without actually visiting them. Stirling? Falkirk? Inverness!? You can learn a lot more from experiencing places than you can from reading about them mate. This video may be well edited etc but the content is extremely poor.
what these videos cease to show is that it,s "society" that has turned certain areas into disrepair and slum conditions and as for "bad areas to live" I don,t doubt it! but what isn,t pointed out is that without proper work or incentives for the up and coming younger folks of today the same beat will go on since time began, if things don,t get better society won,t either! you can go to any town or city in the u.k. today and find these "pockets of depravity" these places are what they are, count yourself lucky if you don,t have to live close by, i,m sure that even places like Kensington" has it,s problems, if you consider anywhere to be "slightly dodgy" avoid it ,but don.t do it down because it,s "poor!"
An interesting list with some interesting omissions.The truth is most people who live in some of these towns knew their town would be listed (Coatbridge and Cumbernauld for example) However that is where people stay and it is up to people to be positive about towns.
You don’t seem to have provided the sources or statistics for your “findings and research”. It sounds like you’ve done nothing more then read and regurgitated social media comments which is hardly research. My town isn’t on the list but I still take exception to a robotic sounding twat judging my Nation and running down the environment of millions of good honest hard working people.
Im Polish dude. Im living in Cumbernauld for 15 years and I love it. You need to know how to talk to locals and that simply it. To me Glasgow is the worst place to live in Scotland.
WTH is this tripe? Inverness is a great place. I live about an hour North of Inverness so spend a lot of time there for all sorts of things as its the main hub that services the entire Highlands and Islands area. I have never had any issue ever in Inverness in all the decades I have been travelling to it or living around it. Good place, good people, got everything anyone could need and surrounded by some of the best scenery in the World. Its one of the best cities in the UK!!!
Rigside, Lanarkshire, a council estate stuck in a field, that was a weird place when I was working out of Carlisle on a magazines sales job in 1994. Half of the place was boarded up and we decided the vibes were so bad that we drove off quite quickly. Seemingly it had two murders in a week.
@@RickPop85 It's bleak, but I suppose having all the junkies stuck in a field is better than them making the nice new Glasgow the council wants to promote look bad.
Moved out of Scotland some years ago I lived in a place called Bellshill terrible place, I have been asked would I go back definitely not best thing about Scotland is the way out, much better in England Nicer people and a lot more.
This video is absurd, I stayed in Scotland for 2 years in my 20s. The place and the people deserve much more than what is being depicted in this fake video.
I stayed in an area in Glasgow that is considered ' rough', Clydebank, then later to Paisley. None of them are affluent areas, but the people I encountered were very decent and helpful in general. @@BlueRfr
You greatly over exaggerated on Inverness, yes it has rough parts(like Merkinch which was shown in 90% of those photos), and getting stabbed is extremely rare although it is a boring town to live in
Correct. The ferry/merkinch was pretty rough but the headbangers have been banned from it and its vastly improved. Hilton, raigmore the same. Its a city it has a couple of rough areas but overall its a lovley very friendly place and sorrounded by some of the best scenery in europe for which millions flock to see every year. How dare they tag inverness with this list stupidity. Dundee,leven,forfar,aberdeen,perth,and a 100 other places a lot worse than inverness.
@@wallacesousuke1433 They literally ran a cafe out of business to sell more souvenirs when there are literally 2 more souvenir shops on the same street. Nothing interesting happens at all.
I visited Scotland from the U.S. earlier this year and road tripped all around the country. The worst place I visited in my travels was Dumbarton. It was the only place during my visit to the country where I encountered rude people and filth everywhere. It really was a disgusting place.
@labos7250 you know that's not a real thing, right? Lmao. You can't possibly be that dense and naive. Also this is literally a "worst places to live in Scotland" video.
I thought Stoneyburn was the worst place but then it's worse place to live not simply exist. My parents are Scottish, after a long absence and military career yearned to return home after retiring. They bought a house in Stirling, but were driven out, vandalism and arson. The car was set alight alongside the house. Why because they "englified" They got out pretty quick and back to the South West of England, at huge finacial loss. It's time the majority stood up against the minority and stopped letting themselves be shit all over.
@@charlestaylor9424 i agree my friend .its like they keep voting to be skint again. Without the independence agenda they got nothing. People would start talking about dead junkies, education, health, poverty.......etc
This whole series is poorly presented and badly edited. The presenter mentions deprived areas at the same time showing listed buildings or beautiful rural landscapes. Hardly any images of shit estates or council flats or neglected town centres. They are just regurgitating statistics and quotes from the Crap Towns series of books. Truly risible.
I just came back from a trip exploring Scotland. Stayed in Inverness and Cumbernaud, cant believe they're the worst places, felt safe and nice there. Those places could probably be near the top of a list of best places in other countries.
Utter crap, please do your research properly. I live in Stirling and take great offence at your comments. Have you ever been there or in fact have you ever been to any of these places? This is the worst channel of misinformation that I have ever come across!
There really only 2 parts of Inverness where you should try to avoid at all cost Hilton and in a lesser extent Lochardil I’m thankful I never grew up in either of those areas
@@VampiraVonGhoulscout aye it is shite pal lol i moved to melrose in the scottish borders over 17 years ago and it was lovely, recently moved back up closer to glasgow due to a relationship breakdown down so starting a new, it'll not be in my home town tho 🤣 i value my safety & sanity hahaha.
As someone from cumbernauld i expected us to be on this yet it still makes me sad to see, we have some runned down areas but we do have some nice ones too just give us a chance plsss
As someone who spent the 70s 80s and 90s in and around condorrat,Cumberland and Abronhill it is most definitely a shiit hole.. Got outta there went to London and now live in Ireland. Best thing I ever did..
What a load of rubbish, is this some sort of plot to keep the Stirling house prices down, because if that's the case I'll go along with it 😂 Having moved from Inverclyde and been in Glasgow before that there's many places far worse than Stirling, I'd put it in the top 10 best places to live in Scotland!
Has anyone noticed that people breed like mad in the worst parts of uk? Thus within another 16 years that town has even more unemployment due to two parents having 5 children!
I’m from Coatbridge originally and have never, ever been accosted by a junkie, jakie (piss head) or anybody. I agree it is a toilet but the folk are just ‘depressed’, with no hope, no wonder. The best thing in Coatbrig/The Brig is the Glasgow train.
I have to admit when I visited Coatbridge for a few days a few years back to visit a 'friend' who turned out to be quite the nasty, vile individual who was more interested in taking pot in front of her kid and screaming at him, that it's a pretty grim place... didn't see any real trouble but it's almost as if once the main industry went, like with so many towns up and down the UK, Coatbridge seemed to have died with it.
Inverclyde has one horrible area Robert Street though it was not always like that, the problem is the landlords I do not know why there is not a compulsory buying order then the flat can be demolished.
I haven't been to Stirling since the1970s, but I remember it being a nice city. I recommended it to a couple visiting Scotland from Canada. When they returned, they told me it was basically a dump: people doing drugs on the main street, etc. Their description of the town is consistent with this video.
We had Inverness as a port of call on a cruise of the British Isles. We wondered where the hell we’d been dumped. It was all charity shops and bookies. It was a rainy day and that only helped to make it more miserable. I have no idea what the cruise line was thinking.
Perhaps if the government never spent about four billion pounds a year ,and rising, on keeping illegal immigrants in hotels alone, there would be plenty of money available for infrastructure projects.
I'm surprised that Stirling and Inverness are on this list. Both certainly have districts of a certain notoriety, but where doesn't? Elsewhere they're reasonably prosperous! Also, West Dunbartonshire is an entire council area, not a town, and it's inclusion here does seem rather unfair. Sure, there are some rough areas; but by no means does it all fall into that category - and if we're talking rough council areas, then where, pray, is Inverclyde, or West Lothian? Again, both also have very nice parts. I'd suggest you maybe go and do some more research before you do further character asssination of struggling communities.
im from Paisley we had Gerry Rafferty who came from ferguslie in Paisley, paulo nutini is from paisley many more talents from this town a ley line runs through the town i always felt our councils never wanted it to thrive the way it could have if they spent the money on the town
As someone English who has moved to Inverness i have no idea what he is talking about.
I was in Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh last year for weeks. Inverness if one of the most beautiful and serene places I have been to in the world. I live in a big city in the USA. I hope to go back to Inverness this year. I walked around day and night, and the people were the friendliest in all of the places I visited in Scotland. I wish I could live there to keep up my study of highland music and WW1 Scottish regiments - 6 months a year. Use the time to learn and explore the breathtaking beauty. This AI generated video is insane. WOW - if one were generated about a big US city it would be dystopian - and I like where I live now.
Inverness? Really? The most benign place you’ll ever go to! Some of the stuff in this you were plainly either making up or your sources weren’t being very truthful
I think it's a more or less 100% AI generated video. Somehow, I don't think olumayowaonline is actually narrating...
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Totally made up from what I can see, so sad people put out this inaccurate stuff
DO NOT TALK ABOUT STIRLING THAT WAY
Agreed he insulted my hometown and it's number 1 on the list 😢😢😢😮😮😢
I live in New Orleans French Quarter, right near Bourbon Street. Stirling sounds like NOLA.
Just watched the first part about Falkirk. Absolute nonsense. Falkirk is fine, the high street isn't what it was 10 years ago but that unfortunately is not unusual throughout the UK. You need to research your videos properly.
Compared to Inverness Falkirk is like Paris in comparison
Falkirk, is that bad I’ve got a barbecue stone
Falkirk is boring and if I had the money I'd move tomorrow any where in England
I really like Falkirk, especially it's Steeple
Falkirk is a shithole
Every town has a no go area and always has, even before the drug scene. Eighty years ago when I was a child in a Scottish town, ( I won’t say which one, ) there were rough areas. Even or more so in Victorian times. Poverty is not always the cause, there are just some people who don’t want to live within the law and cling together like a pack of feral animals.
My town kinda has a no go but also kinda doesn't it's odd
Stirling really isn't seen as a 'chav' town. It's very expensive and considered quite posh by those of us in the surrounding area - or at least some parts are. It's also a major tourist site, has a beautiful Castle, a University, lovely countryside, and a fascinating history. I lSame with Inverness and Falkirk. Stirling, Falkirk and Inverness are pretty safe though and certainly not rife with murders - only Glasgow really has that problem, murders aren't something that are very common in Scotland. I live about eight miles from Stirling and roughly fifteen from Falkirk. The Forth Valley is a beautiful area, with lovely countryside and a great history. We do have a lot of poverty, unemployment and a drug problem but it's certainly not a murder hotspot and most places in it are pretty safe. I love my home area of Clackmannanshire and I would certainly recommend that visitors to Scotland go to Stirling, Falkirk and when travelling north, to Inverness. To be honest, this video and the one about Worst English Towns unfortunately come across as very snobbish.
What about stenhousemuir?
Neil oliver lives there
What a relief i am about to move to Derry as I will work in NHS Forth Valley
It’s shit hole
Stirling is beutiful this video is full of it
How about do some proper research or visit more places in Scotland before making such an abysmal list
I have been to all of these places. and I have not seen the things he has said in this video.
Kilmarnock is going down hill the last visit and more shops are boarded up.
I would say that places like Maypole with few shops and a main road with trucks which are making the windows and stone dirty is a worst place to be. even along the road in Girvan the main high street has many closed businesses.
there are quite a few places were there shops are limited types, hair dressers, bookmakers, takeaways only open after 5pm,
or were high parking charges make places not worth visiting.
@@davidsworld5837 Covid lockdowns have helped to accelerate the destruction of the high street in most places... Nice one Nicola!
Stirling is one of the few places that has only one rough part called the Raploch. The rest is lovely in my limited experience of it. I have only been to Paisley once but by god is it a dive.
The birds and bees pub out in the country Stirling class
Yes it only needs the one area the raploch will spread its crime around no problem.
That like Durham (which is nice), the city is good but the surrounding towns are hideous old mines slums
Why is not just called Raploch instead of 'The Raploch'
Fixated on crime...
One of the worst places to live in scotland is nicola sturgeon's constituency of govanhill.
Facts 👍
Grew up in Cumbernauld , had my first flat in Govanhill . It wasnt THAT bad 😂
What's ironic is that the slideshow shows mostly decent looking pictures.
It is something more than ironic that the photographs don’t sync with the commentary. That a picture is worth a thousand words is something which the creator should think about very deeply. It appears that this person hasn’t done so, so far. Let us learn from the Americans, who interview, for example, University students, to point out just how ignorant they are of the rest of the world. This series has the hall mark of someone who uses Google maps for his picture collection and whose research essentially stems from some government agency whose definition of poverty is something different from what some of us have known in the past.
I know Falkirk and Stirling very well with having family there, I have never felt unsafe ever in either place
But you can't spell STIRLING, 😂😂😂
@@alindaalexander3994 what do U mean
Falkirk is full of men with tattoos on their necks, why is that?
I mean we are talking about Scotland mate :D
I think your standards is a bit lower than most people unfortunately or that your tolerance for scum is higher.
I've been told my home town of Greenock is pretty rough! Surprised Inverness made the list and Greenock did not.
Aye greenock loves a right good petrol bombing 😆 I'm from glasgow so I'm clued up in the petrol bombing scenario lol.
Greenock is like a big concrete scheme by the sea. At least yous have nice views across the water - something that most other towns don't have. Also being next to the Port makes Greenock look better too.
@@l3awjawzA town with an esplanade isn’t rough lol. Greenocks got some rough areas but it’s not as bad as most towns in west/central Scotland.
@@labos7250 LOL you've obv. never been to Birkenhead or Blackpool! Both have a esplanade and both are rough as phuq! 😂
As for Greenock, that town probably had more scheme gang rivalries than any other town outside Glesga!
I'm English ! Married, worked, lived in Cumbernauld for 20yrs. Never a problem ! Very happy !
Do you ever leave your house? 🤔
What’s it called ……. A shiit hole…
Wheres dundee?
"getting on the roads of this town, you see some folks displaying publicly, their low social standing and education" ...... Ok so I stopped listening at this point, that's such a vile, snobby and victorian view of people. Makes my shit itch.
Makes my blood boil especially when i saw Killie & Cumbernauld on the list
I'm raging why is my town of Greenock not on this list, it should be in the top 3 at least.
Impressive pride of place.
There are some real rough , tough areas in Aberdeen which get ignored due to the misconceived ideas of Aberdeen being “ oil rich “ . Woodside in particular is a rough area with Tillydrone , Torry and Northfield also dodgy .
Paisley is 8 minutes train from central glasgow; the rents are cheap, the Last Post is an awesome pub, and there's many more that cater to whatever type of person you are. They got a privately-run woodfired pizza delivery, one of the world's best butchers, a proper tobacconist & pipe shop, every commodity you need in shops, so what the hell you' on about.
Thing about Scotland is it’s the cities that sit in this weird juxtaposition between the more anglicised central lowlands but still trying to cling on to their Scots identity that always seem to fair the worst, and I say this as someone in one of those towns.
Look at the towns/cities, though. Falkirk, Stirling, Coatbridge, Airdrie, Paisley… you could draw a line from just outside Edinburgh around Glasgow through my hometown, Dumbarton (which featured in many of the Wedt Dunbartonshire pics, including at the end of my street).
There’s honestly no coincidence
There SHOULD be money in these areas, but there just isn’t. Families are all working class and very, very poor
Lot of the trouble is these were the heartland of Scottish heavy industry when we were a manufacturing powerhouse (before it was shipped abroad to the Far East). Nothing replaced that.
Don't know about Inverness though... not exactly Lowland/Central Belt there!
Who is this walloper?
Hees a Peelie Wally 🤣🤣🤣
When did the boundaries move? The last time i checked the Auld Kirk was in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire. Not in West Dunbartonshire as the intro to that segment would suggest.
Stirling is a major university town and quite pretty and Inverness is the major service centre for the whole Highlands with good shopping and eating. I think the fact you listed Inverness but not Fort William shows a lack of research. The rest are all quite crap though...
What a load of crap...most towns have bad areas. I've lived in the Falkirk area for 10+ years and have no problems
Visited Falkirk a few weeks ago & through my eyes it's a really nice town (love the steeple & wheel)
Whoever put this garbage together needs to see a doctor.
"You'll find a lot of junkies with one of them ready to accost you". He says that as if saying "You will find the view from the bridge to be the loveliest in Scotland."
Everything he said could apply to London.
True, ppl street begging on the North circular.🙈☹️
question though if everything the narrator speaks off in the video is true. How precisely did the traffic cone land flush on the head of the Statue of Victoria? eehh
You do realise that London is not in Scotland?
@@DavidJones-mn7ie , there's a London in Ontario I do believe the first post is only just saying as a course of fact.🤔
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That fuckin' voice man
Can't believe people are taking this seriously 😂
Why not?
Because if you don't you will get stabbed up there
Agreed. Click bait.
Yeah, sounds like a video by someone who hasn't even been to Scotland
It's a piss take 🤣🤣
I feel like you've made a judgement on a lot of places here without actually visiting them. Stirling? Falkirk? Inverness!? You can learn a lot more from experiencing places than you can from reading about them mate. This video may be well edited etc but the content is extremely poor.
How's falkirk know any nice areas to live in?
@@TheMasterblaster32 boness is alright bit boring but
@@TheMasterblaster32 jesus christ man, you really don't like Scotland do you
Load of nonsense. Your cover picture is Port Glasgow, Roberts St area. GREENOCK ALSO THE MOST DEPRIVED AREA IN THE COUNTRY
what these videos cease to show is that it,s "society" that has turned certain areas into disrepair and slum conditions and as for "bad areas to live" I don,t doubt it! but what isn,t pointed out is that without proper work or incentives for the up and coming younger folks of today the same beat will go on since time began, if things don,t get better society won,t either! you can go to any town or city in the u.k. today and find these "pockets of depravity" these places are what they are, count yourself lucky if you don,t have to live close by, i,m sure that even places like Kensington" has it,s problems, if you consider anywhere to be "slightly dodgy" avoid it ,but don.t do it down because it,s "poor!"
An interesting list with some interesting omissions.The truth is most people who live in some of these towns knew their town would be listed (Coatbridge and Cumbernauld for example) However that is where people stay and it is up to people to be positive about towns.
Stirling does not belong on this list. Coatbridge and Paisley well deserve their spots.
Stirling really?
Greenock has some of the worst levels of deprivation in Scotland.
Along with the love of petrol bombings.
You don’t seem to have provided the sources or statistics for your “findings and research”. It sounds like you’ve done nothing more then read and regurgitated social media comments which is hardly research. My town isn’t on the list but I still take exception to a robotic sounding twat judging my Nation and running down the environment of millions of good honest hard working people.
Who wrote this? It’s like someone from another country made it up.
This is the most untrue video I have seen on UA-cam.
To me whole Scotland looks depressing . I could never live there. And it rains all the time. Fuck that
How did Grangemouth not make the list? It's literally on fire as we speak
But even with few shops, parking is free. there is a toilet. I would more say Bo-ness along he road with even less shops.
Is grangemouth on fire a lot?
Is stirling a nice place to live in scotland? Shall i move there from london? Bored of england and house is expensive here.
Hi, did you move? if yes, how has it been for you? considering moving from London too
Im Polish dude. Im living in Cumbernauld for 15 years and I love it. You need to know how to talk to locals and that simply it. To me Glasgow is the worst place to live in Scotland.
I ❤ Cumbernauld as well
WTH is this tripe? Inverness is a great place. I live about an hour North of Inverness so spend a lot of time there for all sorts of things as its the main hub that services the entire Highlands and Islands area. I have never had any issue ever in Inverness in all the decades I have been travelling to it or living around it. Good place, good people, got everything anyone could need and surrounded by some of the best scenery in the World. Its one of the best cities in the UK!!!
What a load of rubbish, Falkirk, Stirling etc all fairly safe, poor but safe.
Rigside, Lanarkshire, a council estate stuck in a field, that was a weird place when I was working out of Carlisle on a magazines sales job in 1994. Half of the place was boarded up and we decided the vibes were so bad that we drove off quite quickly. Seemingly it had two murders in a week.
dumping ground by councils for Glasgow junkies still the same in 2022
@@RickPop85 It's bleak, but I suppose having all the junkies stuck in a field is better than them making the nice new Glasgow the council wants to promote look bad.
Junkie holding pen 🤣
There's reason that Lanarkshire folk call it 'Rignam'. ;-)
Sounds like Upperton,, it is like a marage of easterhouse tenements sitting in a damp field in the middle of nowhere,, it is a surreal place.
Moved out of Scotland some years ago I lived in a place called Bellshill terrible place, I have been asked would I go back definitely not best thing about Scotland is the way out, much better in England Nicer people and a lot more.
Sean Connery lived in the best part, Bermuda.
@@LabRat6619 So what does that prove he had a load of money the poor people have to stay in that shit hole
@@petemullen842 Yet he kept banging on for the SNP - when he didn't live here... Bit of a hypocrite really!
@@douglasherron7534 Exactly agree.
This video is absurd, I stayed in Scotland for 2 years in my 20s. The place and the people deserve much more than what is being depicted in this fake video.
well where did you stay, i live in edinburgh, yeah, it’s beautiful, but jesus there so much bad areas
I stayed in an area in Glasgow that is considered ' rough', Clydebank, then later to Paisley. None of them are affluent areas, but the people I encountered were very decent and helpful in general. @@BlueRfr
Having lived in Scotland for 10 years, I can truthfully say most of it is a 💩🕳️
Inverness also featured on the most popular destinations for tourists video. Doesn’t make sense.
As if us tourists had a clue!
You greatly over exaggerated on Inverness, yes it has rough parts(like Merkinch which was shown in 90% of those photos), and getting stabbed is extremely rare although it is a boring town to live in
I dont get how a place can be "boring" or how that means it sucks to live in there...
Correct. The ferry/merkinch was pretty rough but the headbangers have been banned from it and its vastly improved. Hilton, raigmore the same. Its a city it has a couple of rough areas but overall its a lovley very friendly place and sorrounded by some of the best scenery in europe for which millions flock to see every year. How dare they tag inverness with this list stupidity. Dundee,leven,forfar,aberdeen,perth,and a 100 other places a lot worse than inverness.
@@kevinmulligan5090 I live near Perth, it's a rundown shithole with not a lot going for it.
@@wallacesousuke1433 They literally ran a cafe out of business to sell more souvenirs when there are literally 2 more souvenir shops on the same street. Nothing interesting happens at all.
@@kevinmulligan5090 Hey, hang on, nothing wrong with Forfar (except for the recent influx)!
Stirling shouldn't be on this list
Yes. Aberdeen Scotland. Worst da nomic hell there is.
The Golbals was the worst part of Scotland. Looked like Soviet Scotland just like how Woolwich or elephant and castle estates was Soviet England
Golbals? It's Gorbals, ye numpty
Yip 30 years ago!
I visited Scotland from the U.S. earlier this year and road tripped all around the country. The worst place I visited in my travels was Dumbarton. It was the only place during my visit to the country where I encountered rude people and filth everywhere. It really was a disgusting place.
I live there…and your right
It must’ve been great coming here and not hearing gunshots constantly.
@labos7250 you know that's not a real thing, right? Lmao. You can't possibly be that dense and naive.
Also this is literally a "worst places to live in Scotland" video.
I thought Stoneyburn was the worst place but then it's worse place to live not simply exist.
My parents are Scottish, after a long absence and military career yearned to return home after retiring. They bought a house in Stirling, but were driven out, vandalism and arson. The car was set alight alongside the house. Why because they "englified" They got out pretty quick and back to the South West of England, at huge finacial loss. It's time the majority stood up against the minority and stopped letting themselves be shit all over.
Hard to do with the SNP actively encouraging them.
@@charlestaylor9424
Ridiculous, pointless, needlessly inflammatory and not a statement you could ever back up with fact
@@charlestaylor9424 i agree my friend .its like they keep voting to be skint again. Without the independence agenda they got nothing. People would start talking about dead junkies, education, health, poverty.......etc
I believe Edward II could not get away from Stirling fast enough.
Correct saved his head rolling and rightfully so.
tbh I think its a bit harsh putting kilmarnock on this list there are towns that are way worse in Ayrshire
This whole series is poorly presented and badly edited. The presenter mentions deprived areas at the same time showing listed buildings or beautiful rural landscapes. Hardly any images of shit estates or council flats or neglected town centres. They are just regurgitating statistics and quotes from the Crap Towns series of books. Truly risible.
Totally with you. Vids like this seriously rile me up, especially when i see places i love on them
One main shopping centre in Stirling is called the Thistle Centre.
I just came back from a trip exploring Scotland. Stayed in Inverness and Cumbernaud, cant believe they're the worst places, felt safe and nice there. Those places could probably be near the top of a list of best places in other countries.
You were lucky... Inverness isn't that bad, but this videos description of Cumbernauld is spot on.
Utter crap, please do your research properly. I live in Stirling and take great offence at your comments. Have you ever been there or in fact have you ever been to any of these places? This is the worst channel of misinformation that I have ever come across!
There really only 2 parts of Inverness where you should try to avoid at all cost
Hilton and in a lesser extent Lochardil
I’m thankful I never grew up in either of those areas
Thanks. I'll buy a house down the Ferry, then.
Apart from Inverness, I can confirm every single one of these having moved around a lot as a kid. I'm from Glasgow and I've always hated it here tbh.
Hated what glasgow?
@@TheMasterblaster32 aye it's shite 🤣
@@VampiraVonGhoulscout aye it is shite pal lol i moved to melrose in the scottish borders over 17 years ago and it was lovely, recently moved back up closer to glasgow due to a relationship breakdown down so starting a new, it'll not be in my home town tho 🤣 i value my safety & sanity hahaha.
@@TheMasterblaster32 I'm thinking of moving to Finland. I've got a month long trip booked for the summer to see if I like it.
Billy Connolly lives in the best part of Scotland, Florida.
What about glenrothes and Glasgow
As someone from cumbernauld i expected us to be on this yet it still makes me sad to see, we have some runned down areas but we do have some nice ones too just give us a chance plsss
As someone who spent the 70s 80s and 90s in and around condorrat,Cumberland and Abronhill it is most definitely a shiit hole.. Got outta there went to London and now live in Ireland. Best thing I ever did..
THIS IS COMPLETE BOLLOCKS
No it’s no shut up mate
@@haydenbonat1042 if paisley is on it you better believe its a spot on video 👍. Can't fart in paisley without a stab coming your direction.
8. Falkirk; 7. Coatbridge; 6. Stirling; 5. Kilmarnock; 4. Paisley; 3. Inverness; 2. West Dunbartonshire; 1. Cumbernauld.
Wow! So bad it's good. It's like it was written by a teenager in America or India who used no sources other than Google.
The title's wrong. It should say " The worst place to live: Scotland "
What a load of rubbish, is this some sort of plot to keep the Stirling house prices down, because if that's the case I'll go along with it 😂 Having moved from Inverclyde and been in Glasgow before that there's many places far worse than Stirling, I'd put it in the top 10 best places to live in Scotland!
All are much better and safer than Birmingham. London. Manchester. Etc etc.
Correct
Stirling and Inverness!? REALLY!?
Why is the west highland port for Calmac ferries to the inner hebrides here?
If it was not restricted to towns, this list should include Glasgow Southside at No.1.
That Coatbridge section was brilliant
Great research. Funny how Craigmillar and other places aren’t there
it is part of Edinburgh, can't be on the list
@@andreward8510 Ah yes. Some parts of Glasgow in the list aren’t in Glasgow
Has anyone noticed that people breed like mad in the worst parts of uk? Thus within another 16 years that town has even more unemployment due to two parents having 5 children!
The Aristocracy used to breed like mad.
I love in Kilmarnock the pub you show is great
I'm a strong Kilmarnock (football team & town itself) fan as well
“A town that is historically in the country of Stirlingshire” in the COUNTRY of Stirlingshire?! 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Dundee?
Well, that was a well balanced and reasoned review with pertinent points. Not.
How did muirhouse not make the list
Why have I never seen the Learning Canteen channel before - this stuff is pure gold.. :)
hilarious innit
I’m from Coatbridge originally and have never, ever been accosted by a junkie, jakie (piss head) or anybody. I agree it is a toilet but the folk are just ‘depressed’, with no hope, no wonder. The best thing in Coatbrig/The Brig is the Glasgow train.
I have to admit when I visited Coatbridge for a few days a few years back to visit a 'friend' who turned out to be quite the nasty, vile individual who was more interested in taking pot in front of her kid and screaming at him, that it's a pretty grim place... didn't see any real trouble but it's almost as if once the main industry went, like with so many towns up and down the UK, Coatbridge seemed to have died with it.
Utter rubbish I've lived in falkirk there's nothing wrong with rhe town
I had Ancestors in Govan suburb of Glasgow
They lived in harmony row I was told by my grandfather it was everything but harmony lol.
Govan is quite a weird place. There are nice parts but then you go round a corner and it's like Chechnya.
@@Philliben1991 correct
Inverclyde has one horrible area Robert Street though it was not always like that, the problem is the landlords I do not know why there is not a compulsory buying order then the flat can be demolished.
Im amazed that Greenock is not on the list!
coatbridg can be a bit rough but million worse places within half hour drive
I haven't been to Stirling since the1970s, but I remember it being a nice city. I recommended it to a couple visiting Scotland from Canada. When they returned, they told me it was basically a dump: people doing drugs on the main street, etc. Their description of the town is consistent with this video.
You missed out Hawick 🤣🤣
We had Inverness as a port of call on a cruise of the British Isles. We wondered where the hell we’d been dumped. It was all charity shops and bookies. It was a rainy day and that only helped to make it more miserable. I have no idea what the cruise line was thinking.
Shame it was a rainy day for you. The charity shops look gorgeous in the sunshine.
Inverness is a dreary hellscape with a sky high suicide rate. The place is no cheer and shite beer.
Perhaps if the government never spent about four billion pounds a year ,and rising, on keeping illegal immigrants in hotels alone, there would be plenty of money available for infrastructure projects.
Most British towns are all charity shops and bookies nowadays. At least Inverness is attractive.
I'm surprised that Stirling and Inverness are on this list. Both certainly have districts of a certain notoriety, but where doesn't? Elsewhere they're reasonably prosperous! Also, West Dunbartonshire is an entire council area, not a town, and it's inclusion here does seem rather unfair. Sure, there are some rough areas; but by no means does it all fall into that category - and if we're talking rough council areas, then where, pray, is Inverclyde, or West Lothian? Again, both also have very nice parts. I'd suggest you maybe go and do some more research before you do further character asssination of struggling communities.
Greenock? Some of these are definitely not the worst 😂
Love a right good petrol bombing in greenock, I'm from glasgow and you get occasional ones but folk just seem to want to burn everyone in greenock.
Inverness?? Come on you can’t be serious!
Stirling? Ridiculous.
Take Stirling off the list, Dont know how it got on in the first place, Keep the rest in fairness. lol
I thought stirling was one of the safest cities in scotland..
Utterly amazed Inverclyde avoided this list 😂
Good point mate.
im from Paisley we had Gerry Rafferty who came from ferguslie in Paisley, paulo nutini is from paisley many more talents from this town a ley line runs through the town i always felt our councils never wanted it to thrive the way it could have if they spent the money on the town