It all depends on the definition of “worst” I grew up in a small northern village that was as rough as rats but I made dozens of life long friends who would jump under a bus for me 😎 it’s all about people and relationships you can live in Beverley hills and feel lonely isolated and empty…
I'll take Beverly hills thank you ,and as for that rough diamond salt of the earth rubbish ,you're only bestowed this welcome lol if you're seen as "one of them "woe betide if you're not
Quite true, that's why small villages are often more pleasant to live in although you miss out on a lot of big city accommodations. A "good place to live" has different meanings to different people.
As someone stuck in America, all I can think of while watching this is that even your “worst” areas have modern, sharp-looking transit and actually paint the lines on the roads for safety in night weather. The US has neither in many areas.
I was born and bred in Middlesbrough. It’s economically deprived but the people are the warmest down to earth people you could wish to meet. I grew up on one of the “worst” (depending on how you define worst) estates but managed to finish my education to masters level and work as a healthcare scientist. These people would give you if you had nothing…. Don’t confuse the word “worst” with economically deprived. The quality and integrity of the people I grew up around can’t be questioned. That’s my experience.
As an Iranian person which I moved to London in 1997 and I lived all over the Uk I have to say I never forget all the help and love from British people such a great time in Gravesend lovely people in ruchdale ,Bolton,Dartford,Luton and especially London,this is true every country got good place or bad places but Uk is on another level, i moved out of Uk on 2003 and got backed to my country and bcoz of my job I lived in Germany,Switzerland,Us but none of them like Uk and after 15 years on 2017 got married with a British girl and moved to London for the 2nd time i was very happy to see England again. Sadly my marriage didn’t work out and again moved back to Iran but I know I’m gonna see high street Kensington,Hide park ,North London,Victoria,Manchester and …. Again very soon I love UK like Iran
Where in Iran are you from? My daughter's father is from Iran but he has never seen her. He was here in the US in 1977 when I got pregnant with her. He left after she was born but never came to see her. She is married now with 4 sons. He has missed out knowing his grandsons. Have a nice day sir.
@@lynnegulbrand2298 Hello Lynne i hope you doing well, actually I'm from Tehran the capital of Iran, sadly there are lots of same story that i have heard from many people around and we can't do anything about it but some people leaving the wife or husband with a plan to go with someone else but some people leaving with this plan which is going to get a good jub and bring back some money to make a better life for family and in this way lots of strange thing happens,i know the story about a man that he left his family but he went missing in the Iraq and Iran war and after 27 years his family in Germany found out about and i know 2 person that they stuck in Iran and because of legal problems couldn't reunite with their families,can i have your daughter's dad name maybe me or others know him or maybe one day will meet him somewhere hopefully finger crossed.
@@stevenguegens7047 Hello Australian man you know what? My next destination is Australia for sure and I don't know who the hell are you that you telling me to not coming to Australia, so i make sure to pay the visit to your country because i know plenty of nice beaches and good clubs and nice girls are waiting for me but I'm not ignoble like you and i invite you to Iran Plenty of good things waiting for you as well as nice foods good nature and spatially Iranian boys,see u soon
@@samfaraji his name was Abbas Naini. He was in the Iranian military before the revolution in your country. I don't want to get in touch with him I just wanted him to know he has 4 grandsons. My daughter is a beautiful woman. She works very hard and just bought a house. I have always loved your country and people. I can cook Iranian food also. Have a nice day. Thankyou for wanting to help.
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Many of the northern towns have deliberately been left to rot by govts, councils, influx of migrants, lack of investment , they were once thriving towns
I've lived in Bradford for most of my life. Apart from the ghettos, the car and quad bike chases, police helicopters, black german cars driving up and down Manchester road because the drivers are bored. White shiny top of the range Range Rovers outside the owners run down terrace houses with knackered gate and overgrown garden. The closed shops up the middle part of the city. It isn't all that bad...
Haha the range rover bit, so true, funny af. Cars are like double the values of their homes, live in absolute rot holes, everything falls apart except the car. So true, no one gives a damn, no one has any pride in the area they live, literally barely summon pride for their own belongings. All about that image though, living in a rat house whilst driving round thinking your something 😂
The drivers and the fireworks and litter are definitely the worse things there. I found living there decent otherwise but those things were a real pain
I am sick to death of Peterborough being lambasted with this "worst place to live" brush by people who have never lived here. Lived in London 35 years and I can tell you it was wall to wall concrete, over populated, no one smiled at each other and unsafe at night. Peterborough is absolutely stunning. Wide open spaces, nice people, free.
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
I thought the USA was bad until I visited England .It used to be lovely, mostly,but it's turned ugly with non English people everywhere speaking foreign languages,some can't speak English .Homeless people sleeping in the shop fronts,drug addicts wandering around .Too bad
I agree. And that is why Peterborough house prices are expensive. So its not the bad place this video made it out to be. I think Grimsby should have made the list. Some parts of it look like derelict eastern Europe.
I’m not surprised that Middlesbrough, Rochdale, Oldham and Blackpool are on this list. I’ve visited all four of these towns and they’re pretty run down and economically deprived. Middlesbrough has a special place in my heart as I spent a semester there at uni.
Okay, let's sort this crap out once and for all... Virtually anywhere in the Northern Europe is nice to live in if you're wealthy. It's being poor that makes life miserable. I've seen it from both sides of the fence. England is a perfect example of the effects of massive inequality.
@@richatlarge462 exactly. Everything goes from lack of education. Obviously, no government of the world wants to have cult and educated peoples. Otherwise, how they will manipulate them to obtain favours, votings?!
@@richatlarge462 Doesn’t cause them, but often vast areas of poverty allow those behaviours to fester unchecked. Wealthy or affluent people are often just doing the sex crimes and rudeness. They’re too busy managing their money to to the other ones.
Im from southeast asia. This is true for many countries of the world. If you have money, you can choose the best locations the place has to offer, in an area w good schools, low crime rate ect. Being poor is hard. Except maybe if you live in Brunei where the Sultan ensures no citizen is homeless, without food or medical cover.
Having traveled all over the U.K. and being British you cannot say worse places too live by town or city, because all areas have crime and poverty to some degree. The U.K. Is a beautiful country sadly some people don’t respect the place they live in which is the case all over the world.
I do agree with Gravesend. The pub next to the sea defence wall was the worst I've ever seen and the town centre very sad. Iam originally from SE Kent and used to think that our sea side town was dead boring but as a child just after WW2 had the best education and a street full of friends. We were as free as birds and quite safe.
No matter where you live in The U.K you need to try & find the positives & dont dwell on the negatives as much as you can find it in yourself today. The problem with a lot of places thought The U.K is they where built up during The Industrial revolution & a hell of a lot are stuck in that period of time architecturally ether that or we have 70's style buildings that look 100% worse. What we need is more modern looking buildings & affordable flats as well as new Council built houses Thatcher has a hell of a lot to answer for. We have a lot of beautiful landscapes in The U.K wilderness to explore the winters are the real problem long & bleak. But things have opened up & there is more choice of things today in this day in age. But the our history of The Industrial revolution is holding us back but Government could not careless it's all about votes for them.
I was born in Sheffield, a long gone industrial city, 87 years ago, and left with my parents 15 years later. It was not a perfect city, but I still love it and think of all my lost friends often.
Sexton C: I think you mentioned the most important thing influencing what one thinks and feels about a ho e town: it depends o the quality of he relationships one has, the social life.not entirely of course, but i makes conditions more bearable. I lived in Stourbridge, a small town in West Midlands, and saw only the good part. I think it was considered a good, rather wealthy town. I lived simply and didn't understand or think about that, nor care for things like social class.
Sheffield is quite nice, not too small, not too large, quite cosy. I’ve lived in Rotherham 15minutes away for Sheffield and dear lord, I didnt think places like this exist in the uk
I was on the MegaBus from Newcastle to Manchester with a hangover and a come down passing through Oldham. It was a Sunday afternoon, grey and drizzling. Looking out of the window at the decay and deprivation of Oldham was the bleakest thing I've witnessed and most miserable I've ever felt.
I lived in Bradford and what a horrible experience it was. I didn't feel safe at all. We lived in the Manningham area in the Silk Warehouse right across from a police station. But I still didn't feel safe and was the victim of assaults and verbal abuse. glad to leave it behind me.
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
@@noel2115 what was absolutely awful was people assuming that because I'm a white woman, that I must sleep with any man... It was difficult to listen to and people spitting at you is disgusting. Several times with my son (who was 2 at the time) we had bottles, stones etc thrown at us. And I would leave the park crying, a man once asked why my husband wasn't with me... Why do I need a husband to be in a park with my son?
Not the first video I've seen on bad places in Britain where all of the images are sunny and clean and show decent-looking places with nice, old architecture. You need to show the crappy backstreets and visual evidence of why these places are rubbish. Most Birmingham suburbs are far worse than this. I briefly lived in Handsworth and it was like an independent state where anything went and the police would rather not even set foot in there. Murders, drive-bys, rubbish/rats in the streets, gang war, drugs, general lawlessness...it had it all. Place looked terrible too with gardens piled with rubbish, smashed-up cars everywhere, and just damage, decay, and lack of maintenance all around. Horrible place.
Ive worked in some of those areas in Birmingham. In Aston ive seen old furniture piled on the grass next to the road, litter everywhere, scruffy shops, nobody taking any pride in the place. Loads of areas around the city like that. Dreadful
I grew up on a housing estate in South London in the 70's . No money, no dad, no private school, no real opportunities. Had a bunch of good friends and a mother who ensured that I never missed school and kept on the straight and narrow. Now I'm fairly wealthy and my kids have private education and want for nothing. I wouldn't trade my upbringing for theirs for all the tea in Tesco's.
Only part I disagree with here is no opportunities when you lived in South london, you lived right by the capital of the UK. You want to talk about being raised with no opportunities try growing up in the Welsh valleys in the 80s and 90s.
I would. :) Only massive luck and an amount of work of a ship slave will get you out of disadvantageous background. You grew up in in the 70's - totally different world, 10 times slower than now. Now the wealth has their 7-8th generation and even the digital wizards are on their 2nd generation. And the more kids get into private school ahead of you, the less chance you have to make it at least equal to them. The more kids are born into the network, the less space is for an outsider to break into. The self-made-man movies were made in 70-80's and that was basically the last time when you could make it just by luck and hard work. Now it's all a linked network or marriages.
I grew up in the ghettos of Los Angeles and had no idea it was an undesirable slum until outsiders told me so. It was tough but we knew no other way of life so it was normal to us. It's where we lived, laugh, cried & made wonderful memories that I still hold dear. Home is home no matter where you find yourself so I believe the majority of locals in these towns would vehemently disagree with these assessments.
Can definitely tell you grew up in the US if you think we'd disagree with our town being on the list, its a common English pastime to bitch and moan about how horrible our situation is without doing anything to improve it.
The main issue is lack of cleanliness and rubbish everywhere, especially on the side of the roads, fronts of houses leave a lot to be desired., rubbish bags, dirty windows, simply too many places are badly maintained.
That is not the main issue whatsoever? The main issue is employment and the fact large corporations buy properties in lower income areas making them impossible to be bought or rented by the residents of that town.
I’m from Oldham, I lived there until I was 27, and I can tell you all it was a pretty good place to grow up. We had a nice house in a fairly normal suburb, it was just by the moors so I could go up there with my mates, I went to a good school, it was near Manchester, there was a quick and cheap train in to Manchester, and on a Friday night or a Saturday night it used to be a pretty good place to go out drinking. I’m in to indie music, and there was a great alternative music scene there when I was young in the 90’s/00’s. People used to come from other towns for the nightlife. Has a lot of really great chippies as well
@@djonfonsteen6331 well I was into indie music, and we had the ambition night that was well good for indie music, plus a few really good bars like Jackson’s Pit. Maybe for people into dance music it wasn’t good
I think you're missing key details about some of these towns ie Oldham Bradford Rochdale Luton.. lots and lots of Asians. I'm Asian by the way and have been to all of the ones listed above.
I'm not sure what you're saying. Do you mean Asian populations make a place worse, or better? Or are you suggesting a racist motive behind the choices made for this vid?
From the photos, they all look beautiful and well worth visiting. I've lived in Chesterfield, Swindon, Ipswich, Brighton, and London, and really enjoyed my time in all of these places, some more than others, and it always came down to the people I met, the friends I made. If you are on your own, out of work, and turning to the dark side (drugs and alcohol abuse), then you are probably not going to enjoy life no matter where you live. Greetings from Australia.
I was born in Bradford in 1971. I was lucky enough to escape to Cornwall in 1997. The place is hell on earth, especially now. It's like being in a foreign ghetto. Totally overrun and beyond repair.
@Charles Wetherspoon You might think so, but I have done a lot of empirical research in towns and cities across the UK and Europe. My observation is that there are obvious impacts from the prevailing economic conditions, but for the most part this is about poorly crafted public policy. I also observe that every town really is different, and therefore the one fit for all ideas that are often promulgated are simply not viable in the majority of cases.
I live in Australia, I went to England to visit my auntie and my cousins, it is probably the worst place iv ever been, London was OK but the rest of the country is just run down and depressing. The houses are tiny and all stuck together with very small backyards. It was always grey, wet and cold with rubbish everywhere. Everyone seems very unfriendly and miserable, probably because they all just sit at home watching tv.
Interesting list. I grew up in the U.S., on the East Coast, so my ideas of "the worst place to live" are some of the cities in Eastern NJ or parts of Brooklyn or the Bronx where you are told "get in a taxi NOW and don't you dare go walking anywhere", there's gunfire, and most of the buildings are boarded up. None of these places strike me as anywhere near that awful, though most cities have their "bad" places. When I came to the UK for an extended stay this year, I rented a place in Plymouth. I was roasted by my London friends, who told me Plymouth was a "total s**hole" (spoiler: no it isn't). When I do take the coach to London, the taxi driver will inevitably ask "Where are you going luv? Anywhere nice?" And when I say "London", they say, "Ah. Nowhere nice then." Definitely a very subjective thing.
I'm from the U.S. but live in England and it's true. Their bad cities with maybe the exception of London with their daily stabbings and gang activity are quite safe. I grew up in Los Angeles and this place is not scary or bad. I also live in the north in a beautiful village with wealthy people so not all of the north is backwards. We get a lot of snobby Londoners moving up here because of low crime and beautiful properties for a fraction of the price.
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Some of the towns and cities mentioned in the video are possibly the tip of the iceberg. I think that London has had millions of pounds spent on it in the last few years. I'm amazed at how much infrastructure geared up to tourism . I get the impression that so much has been spent that there is so little left for projects elsewhere in England.
London is it's own country. Its catering for tourists and the elitest wannabe assholes. The common person has no place in London. Its a sess pit now. It was great 20 years ago. Now it's more arrogant and stuck up than ever.
Not quite true. London is one of the 3 areas (the South East and West Midlands being the other two) that raise more in tax revenue than they spend. Tourism is one of the areas that helps this. These 3 areas have traditionally subsidised spending on the rest of the country. I don't know the current situation (since Covid and lockdowns hit) but the figures are available up to 2017 at least. Where the surplus is spent is up to the politicians but the Tories has preferred to support their heartlands in the south.
@@heliotropezzz333 Tourism is about to drop .London has a public transport system .Every other place in UK lost their's when sold off by Mrs Thatcher .Makes a huge difference.Living in Germany now my home city was Manchester and I'd ask you to study history .Manchester, Bradford and Belfast,made London the wealthy capitol it is via cotton / wool / and linen exports .to name but 3.. London has done the rest of UK any favours ever .Taxation is paid by all and should be equally divided .Preference should play no part .Every are of a country should be treated decently .
@@HelenaMikas I agree. Historically the wealth of the country came more from the north but then the electorate voted in Mrs Thatcher with her view that manufacturing didn't matter and could be left unprotected to sink, and she closed down coalmines without putting a replacement source of income in their place. Her mistaken view was that Britain could thrive on its financial services only and London was the hub of those.
These were once proud northern industrial towns Middlesborough, Bradford, Sheffield all ravaged by a greedy Westminster. Much of the rest of Britain including London has been built on the industrial and cities of the north.
I totally agree with you, I live in Sheffield, it as been devsted, over the years, all the steel, works, coal mines have gone, who would think, steel was invented in Sheffield.
Totally agree with your statement. I was born a d brought upon the Borough area. It was a great place to live and I will always be proud to say I come from Middlesbrough
As someone born and raised in the town of Hartlepool, I can say that it is rough the more inland you go (from experience, don't take this as fact) but in places like the Historic Headland and Marina there are some very gorgeous places to go, and especially when the Tall Ships arrive. Plus, on the headland, everyone looks out for eachother and helps a person in need while in places more inland you get people who are slightly less helpful and will only help you in need if you have some sort of friendship or relation to them. Overall, Hartlepool is a gorgeous town with amazing people, and even the queen (RIP) has visted during the summer and enjoyed it!
Well said. Uncontrolled immigration was criminal. Many of the Eastern Europeans I have worked with are materialistic and ruthless. In towns with little employment these are tens of thousands of them.
@@andygriffiths9916 I visited Wisbech a small Norfolk town where if you send an English child to primary school they will be a minority. It seems destroying a nation is of no concern to our current crop of the globalist political class. Our future will not be easy and events may very well spiral. An economic depression will show the fault lines in our society and see an exodus of the immigrants that seek only to exploit.
to me the uk feels like it doesn't have much of a community life anymore, which it used to have to a high extent up to the 90ies I suppose. The greyness of many towns is therefore so much more accentuated by loneliness.
I don't know if this is fair but I went to Blackburn for a job interview and was glad to leave the place and equally glad I didn't get the job there. It's one of the few places where I got a very bad feeling about the place.
Its a town of two halves. Literally. Its about 40% Asian, the rest are mainly whites on large council estates. Its a conflicting mix that gives the impression of it being rough. Problem is, media reporting of problems there is biased, you can tell which way. You dont get an honest picture of whats really going on for fear of upsetting sections of the community.
I grew up in Oldham and whilst the town itself is run-down and being left to rot I always loved that I had very easy access to Manchester (7 minute train ride) as well as the beautiful scenery of the Pennine hills and moors (10 minute car ride in the opposite direction).
Mate if you live 7 minutes from a large city you're living on a gold mine. Give it a few years and where you live will be the hottest suburb to buy in.
Totally agree. Driving into or through Bradford not a good idea. Good chance of a smash with another vehicle without insurance or looking for a whiplash claim. Absolute bandit country.
Oldham has a lot of all white council estates where generations of white folk have never worked but folk looks t the Asians who saved it from being a ghost town of junkies.
Why would you illustrate this with pictures of beautiful Victorian buildings, cathedrals, and bridges? They don't exactly look like bad places. You've added quiet suburban streets too: why not the council estates?
Went to school in Oldham, Clarksfield and Breeze Hill back in the 80's, biggest issues in the north is work or lack there of. People should start seriously questioning government over the last 40 years. What have they been doing in terms of job creation and stimulating the local economy....nothing basically.
Back in the 80s there was a lot of optimism generally in the UK. Im from up north and had a great time when I was younger. Never out of work. Everything has changed now. Main problem is the cost of living and property prices. Wages are not keeping up which causes more people to be in financial difficulties, stuck in renting or in jobs that are not secure. Its bad now.
One of the worst places to live, in England is...........................England...! And we have it pretty ok here, compared to the rest of the planet. Doesn't say much for the poor planet, does it.
True Keith! And why do we have a monarchy? That crowd of numpties own so much land globally that it’s obscene. In this day and age, there should not be such disparity between the haves and have-nots.
@@johnybravo5667 thats right! Thats why I’m still living with my parents. Our house is valued at £895.000, and I ain’t moving for shit. Need to save up for several more years before i get on the property ladder.
I come from Bradford. I left. I grew up thinking it was normal to see drug dealers in every McDonald’s car park after 6pm and getting constantly asked to get into cars with groups of men I’d never seen. This is only in the city though. The outskirts are vast, rural, and the people are nice. I now live in a safer town but I never feel uncomfortable anywhere after growing up in that kind of place. You become immune to seeing the depravation and crime after a while. You just see it as what it is. People struggling to get by and young men(mostly) making bad decisions so they look richer than they are in a place of poverty.
No mention to Skelmersdale, Leigh, Wigan, st Helens and Manchester or Liverpool. Oh lovely places to live with very similar problems the places mentioned in this video.
And Luton and Middlesbrough lol I'm from boro ,I know exactly what your thinking and you be right I thought the same,was surprised Rotherham wasn't top of the list tbf ! And Slough x
Firstly, a postcode doesn’t define you as a person. It’s just letters and numbers and where you hang your hat. I have been to London many times, and trust me that London has some of the roughest and most deprived areas in the country. If you don’t live in the wealthy and glamorous parts, London is a dump and massively overpriced. There is good and bad in all regions. And some the most genuine people you could ever meet come from the so called bad areas, salt of the earth working class people. Give me them over the stuck up plebs from the so called “better” areas anyday.
It is interesting how people keep mentioning all the little things that make life bearable. I am not an outstanding sports fan, but at the age of 87, and having left Sheffield 70 years ago I still love Sheffield Wednesday/Sheffield United. Of course, having lived in the Middlewood/Hillsborough area Sheffield Wednesday was my first love as a 5 year old.
Hi, Peterborian here. Peterborough has topped polls for worst place a lot due to the efforts of our thriving troll community who have never left Peterborough and don't know what the hell they are talking about and love to get drunk and wallow in self pity, much to the annoyance of the rest of us who stand proud in the ancient Peterborough tradition of MEDIOCRITY! I mean no good reason for it's supposed badness is ever even presented. Our city is not even bad, much less the worst, it is the epitome of fence sitting avarageness. From our size which isn't small or remotely big, to our football team who are okay, our historic buildings, which are impressive but there are better elsewhere, and our 'I suppose this'll do' pubs, and indeed everything else, even our status as an electoral swing seat, due to our proud tradition of wishy-washyness. I've always thought that it was a good place to grow up, as it's less traumatic than growing up somewhere bad, but still leaves room to be impressed by a full 50% of England. We do have a lot of self pity though. :)
Your home is what you make it. There are always good and bad areas. I live in London and there are plenty of both. Just remaining streetwise where ever you live and learning the surrounding culture is key. If it’s not for you try your best to move to a place that suits… if possible, I get there are reasons people can’t!
No your home is what everyone makes it.. If the majority of people think litter bins are a suggestion and any vertical wall is a urinal you cant do shit about it.
Learning the surrounding culture? That might prove difficult or Christians as Christianity has been frowned upon by other faiths and religions who have fled their own burnt out countries. They have no love for London her traditional people and would rather see London become like the razed War torn crapholes from whence they came.
My daughter was born in San Bernardino the slums of California when she got out of high school she wanted to go Uk to go to school so now she’s in Lincolnshire university
If I had to pick the worst place to live in England, I would simply say any major city. I was never a city goer but when I started to visit cities in England for work, two things surprised me; just how rude everyone is and how dirty the place is.
@@Thabito99 I love tower hamlets. Its so full of life. There's so much to do there. It has so many different cuisines, shopping centres, markets, activity places, the list goes on
I honestly can't agree with 90% of this list. I'm a travelling contractor, who has spent his last decade on the road in hotels in every city and town of the UK several times over. The only cities I can agree on is Stevenage. It's so devoid of heart and soul and even the residents hate the place. It's like a city that was built to simply 'house' commuters and no other care was taken to make it a decent place to live. The other I agree with is Blackpool... what a horrible dump. When I see that name name on my schedule my heart sinks. My list would be: Woking.... there is just nothing there, nothing unique or characteristic. Mansfield... Growing up there used to be a saying.. 'you're as useless as a tourist information centre in Mansfield' Rotherham.. Get drunk, fight... call police. Bradford is a paradise compared, at least there is stuff to do in Bradford Preston. Dark, depressing, boring... Rochdale is nicer, so is Oldham Stevenage... as described above. Blackpool... My number 1. Awful. Kings Lynn.. Lived there for 2 years. Couldn't wait to leave. Peterborough is much nicer than Kings Lynn, Kings Lynn is the inbred capital of the UK. A cesspool of hell. Grimsby... This guy has obviously never been to Grimsby. If he had... he would never have missed this off his list. My number 2 Seaham / Blyth.. I added these as one because Middlesbrough is not the worst place in the North East, and neither is Hartlepool. They can be both charming, despite their decline. But there are worse places in the North East to live... these two are examples. Sunderland is equal to Middlesbro... as bad, but not worse, interesting... but I would say neither are the worst. Torquay... Hard to say, as my childhood spent many happy days there on holiday with family. But it really has gone badly downhill. There are so many honourable mentions... Croydon. Bracknell (where I am today). Wakefield. Huddersfield. Chesterfield (my birth town). So many outskirts of London townships. Warrington. Kingston Upon Thames (because they gave me a parking ticket for being 2 minutes over the limit.. despite the Ringo app not working.) Dartford. Boston (The real murder capital of the UK) and Watford (because Luton, is actually a nicer place to stay than Watford.. and Watford is the HQ of wetherspoons.. so meh to Watford).
Watford is much nicer than Peterborough. It actually has middle class people. King's Lynn is ok, so are Bracknell and Woking. Have you been to Peterborough lately? It's gone downhill terribly and has been ruined by uncontrolled immigration. Stevenage is getting a lot of regeneration now.
Any place is bad if your skint.. bless.... Blackpool has the best Park in the County. Check it out.. locals go to poulton, Lytham for nights out meals etc... lots of nice housing and areas to live in Blackpool. The town centre is a working class holiday resort. They come from all over the country and beyond.. some stay in low rent accommodation and work seasonal job's. People from Blackpool dont live near the Centre... the Transidient folk live there.. Tourism is booming lots of investment.. some very nice Housing road layouts and areas within Blackpool. Any Tourist place will look bad if u look for Drunks to film or simple people with issues.
Wrea Green just outside Blackpool is the definitive English country village with green & a cricket match being played on, well worth a visit nice pub & beer was spot on. The comment on Blackpool Town centre was bang on, two streets back from the front would put Frank Gallagher right at home. Admittedly a Winter's day visit after a local relative's funeral we went into a pub on Lytham Rd & the pool table had someone asleep on top🎱🤣. We finished our drinks, jumped in the car & sped down the M55 & M6 as fast as we could (1 out of 10 for entertainment value).
I’m in Poulton just outside Blackpool Was born and raised Stepney east London The people and area are amazing The only regret I have I didn’t move a long time ago
Blackpool is not just a few St's of prom it has lots of beautiful housing if u just go back a bit of the prom area, use your legs a go a walk back from the front and u will find beautiful areas.
@@redflag8970 yeh Blackpool not to bad ,at least it don't look like part of Africa or the middle East yet, I would be quite happy to live in Bishpam nice place
Once you look past the casual racism you'll see that in most cases POVERTY is the common link. Poor people live in crap towns. Most immigrants are poor. You don't tend to hear of too many people fleeing the bombing in Zurich or Monaco.
All of England was really. But after it all sort of collapsed the North didn't get the same level of investment. Part of that is because of logistics, It's easier to get goods to Europe from the south of England so that is where the wealth ended up. Many of the towns on this list are in the "south", but none are below London.
I have lived in a few cities in England in the past ( Reading, Didcot, Kyngs L., Norwich and Peterborough), and I must say regardless the poverty issues Peterborough was the place where I was most happy! I managed to get off poverty and find a decent job , great friends and workmates, I still remember there where some old ladies working with me that used to bring me gifts all the time (parfums, socks , wallets, clothes, etc… they where looking after me as family , will forever be grateful, miss those times and the mates I had back there , Ferry meadows, nene park ….. no place I’ve ever seen matches Peterborough I still feel like it was my home and will be forever.
Here! Here! 🤨 Over the last decade+ I’ve lived in the Midlands - Barton Seagraves (suburb of Kettering), Alconbury, and in St. Neots. Been to and / or through Peterborough a few times, with co-workers living in / near it. Never heard this sort of “bad press” about Peterborough. (Even had my US-spec car fixed at a dealership up there!). It was a “big city” as far as I was concerned. I think anyone who says something bad / boring about their own town probably does wish to go out somewhere else. OR, they could simply invest themselves in getting to know their own neighbors (for starters) and put themselves into their town.
@@Ahuntrgw2013 i.lived in Alconbury for 3yrs. 30yrs ago. My father was in the US air force. He was stationed at the Alconbury base, but we lived off base in Alconbury Village. Iwas 12. I enjoyed living there. Quiet boring, perfect for getting into trouble lol...
@@006ahenry Then sir(?), perhaps you remember a pub called The Manor House? I lived on Hawthorne End, right up a short footpath that was just down the street from that pub. (Although when you were there, I think there would have been THREE pubs in the village.)
All these places are SUPER nice from an American and Canadian perspective. I just looked up Kensington philadelphia - it is very bad. Then there is Vancouver Downtown East side, Skid row in LA (a huge area), Baltimore, Detroit, Buffalo, parts of Portland, OR and Seattle, WA, downtown Atlanta, several NJ and CT cities. Then there are lots of rural areas where people don't have plumbing or electricity. The only area I can think of as pretty and clean as what you showed us is Vermont which has a raging opioid problem and lots of quiet desperation in the middle of natural beauty and heritage buildings.For Americans and Canadian worst means boarded up decaying buildings, overgrown empty lots, vermin, lack of basic infrastructure like water, electricity and trash pickup. Trash everywhere. Open drug use and sale. Gun violence and general lack of safety.
I have lived in Luton and yes, it is one of the worst. As a woman, I just wanted to put on a hoodie and baggy clothes not to be harassed. Gangs and dirt is everywhere. After my family came to visit, the were very concerned about how dangerous it is.
Doesn't matter how decent you are or how decently you try to live but living in a dump with ever decreasing standards will bring a sense of hopelessness and depression that will eventually drag you down. I used to live in Oldham and moving away was the single best thing I've ever done.
@ Montana S . Running away/uprooting will not solve problems. Humans migrations are a perfect example. By leaving their Countries/villages will creating more problems elsewhere. Locals or international.
Dirty? Compared to what? Bradford with like 200k people? Its clean for a city of 9 million try going to rome or paris my friend. Cramped is true though.
I’m from Oldham and it was a great place to grow up from 70’s to early 90’s, I then married a posh girl, who said “I’m not living here it’s shit hole” and we moved to Cheshire 👍🏻 My mother died late last year and I had to return to Oldham town centre to sort her affairs out, at a local solicitors and 2 local banks. I could not believe what an absolute shit hole it had now become! Full of scrotes and it appears to have become a dumping ground for asylum seekers, many of which couldn’t speak English. At my mothers funeral, I spoke to a couple of people who worked for Oldham Council and they confirmed my asylum seeker perception. I also noted that the mainly white and Asian communities are still living parallel lives! I also have close friends who live in Rochdale and I personally believe that Rochdale is a much nicer town than Oldham. Finally I work for a company that has its head office is in Bradford and occasionally I’ve had to stay over in local hotels. Now this city gives a whole new meaning to the word shit hole 👎🏻
Brilliant comment, I especially enjoyed the bit about your 'posh girl' saying 'I'm not living here it's a shit hole. It's interesting how we are all influenced from being born to believe that the place we are in is somehow better than everywhere else.
I’m originally from Sunderland now living in Bath I totally agree with you! The North-East has the most friendliest and genuine people in the country 👍
About Bradford I agree 100 % . However, Gravesend is not the only trouble town in Kent, there are plenty of them. Hardly any main city in the UK has survived the rise of unemployment, gangs and general corruption.
Many of the Thames estuary towns both in Kent and Essex are terrible. How is Basildon not on this list? It's the most depressing place I've been in England. Tilbury isn't any better either. At least some of the northern towns on this list have historical importance or interesting centuries old architecture. I am speaking as a southerner from Essex so really not being biased.
I am surprised that you haven't included Rotherham in South Yorkshire, believe me, I escaped from there two months ago, ssssh don't tell anyone, but Rotherham has been on it's last legs for many years, having to go between meadowhall and parkgate, the town centre has basically become a ghost town, there's parts of the town that's so rough, a week in Afghanistan would feel like a holiday Rotherham is top of the worse places to live in
@@JB-lt1dx I stayed in Rotherham for 15 years and couldn't wait to get out of the place again, the town centre is run down mainly because of meadowhall and parkgate shopping centres, there's more charity shops than I cared to count It's lost all the big named stores leaving empty store spaced The buses in Rotherham is awful, run by south Yorkshire first bus, a big majority of the vehicles should have been scrapped years ago I recently moved back to Edinburgh again and I have seen quite a lot of changes, it's completely different to Rotherham am glad to say :-)
I am surprised Rotherham isn't on the list...my mum's from Rotherham, but going back to when it was just a respectable northern town in the 60s & 50s..u know..in the era when working class people knew how to behave in a respectable manner! I dont even recognize the town centre from visits up there as a child!! It used to be so busy & so clean!! With just ordinary housewives (like my lovely na,na) doing a shop... & going into 'town' with her was a treat!! & the most good hearted people & soo friendly!! The outside shopping centres...& the modern working classes plus too much immigration (resulting in hundreds of young vulnerable girls being used & abused) has brought Rotherham to it's knees. Nobody knew where Rotherham was before that scandal BUT everyone knows where it is now!!! Rotherham didn't deserve that. My poor Aunties (all in their 80s now) are now embarrassed to say that they live there!!
Haha I was in Middlesbrough yesterday, decided to have a walk over to a shop and heard shouting and screaming, turned out to be a woman's dog was hiding under a van and she was kicking the crap out of the van! I would say that Stockton down the road is worse though
After living in Luton for over 2 years, I would put that town on the number one spot. Horrible place. A police helicopter constantly hovering over the area of Bury park.
@@deidredrakeBEST it doesn’t matter what you think of ethnic minority , I was born here and am part of England, u can accept it or reject it due to me not being white. Being white doesn’t qualify u as more worthy than others and doesn’t give u the right to call non white people non British
I was born and raised in Peterborough it not a bad place to live it not done me any harm.There are worse places then Peterborough let be honest. I only moved away because my parents wanted to move . I do still visits from time to time. It not all bad
I’ve traveled for work all over the UK for years and am always amazed that Middlesbrough makes these lists. It’s got it’s ups and downs just like anywhere else but it’s just not the place these videos say it is. Loads of decent affordable housing, genuine people, new tech creating good jobs, miles and miles of open countryside and seafronts on the doorstep, good road links and much more. And I don’t live anywhere near there before you ask. Barrow-in-Furness on the other hand - what a characterless slum of a place. Minging housing, the best jobs are done by outsiders who travel in for the week, knackered boats abandoned on beaches and if we ever enter true world peace, Barrow will just be a jobless ghost town as like lots of other places, it centres on one single industry. Ulverston isn’t far behind. Ulverston only exists because upmarket Lakes folk need somewhere to build larger shops and house their peasants, another example of the second-home buying middle class folk pricing the young villagers out with increasing house prices and they are forced to move to this slum.
It's just the usual PR for London, the BBC was always the worst for doing this, anytime they would report from Middlesbrough they would head straight to the worst part as they want to make sure that people down south don't think of escaping to a better life 😉
I have lived in Stevenage for 14 years and I am very happy there. I lived in Edgware for 30 years and I could no wait to get out of the place. Because we moved further out of London we were able to buy a far nicer house for less and although I work from home now there is a fast line into London that takes twenty minutes. There are certainly grotty bits but there are plenty of very smart houses as well. We have a great theatre and lovely parks and two outdoor pools a short drive away and the town centre is currently undergoing a very big development.
I don't think you can paint a true picture of any city just by solely looking at statistics. If you look at knife crime and murder rates London would be high up the list but it also attracts tourism from around the world and is a popular destination.
The problem is that London statistics are always inflated. First of all it is the largest city by far (you can fit Manc, Glasgow, B'ham, Leeds, Liverpool all in there with room to spare), and naturally that bigger population makes its numbers in such stats higher. Secondly the London region used for official statistics only consists of the urban area, whereas other regions in England cover much wider and countryside areas. Comparing other cities between themselves is fair, but not with London.
Oii…I live in Stevenage! 😄 I live in the Old Town though, which is somewhat nicer, prettier… The new town is not as bad as portrayed here though. It’s a large town that is still growing with Great Ashby almost being a town in itself. And there’s a lot of rejuvenation going on in the town centre. I moved here in ‘99 and raised both my kids here.. my daughter is 24, works full time, and is NOT pregnant! 😂
Stevenage has its problems. But it's know different from many others . And it's changing fast and in my view not a bad place to live. And I've been to far worse new towns and other areas then Stevenage.
I moved to Stevenage in my twenties and have lived there nearly 40 years now. The cycle paths form one of only two such comprehensive networks in the UK (the other is in Milton Keynes) and the excellent road network enables you to get from one side of the town to the other quickly. The town centre is currently undergoing a massive redevelopment, although I admit there isn't much greenery there. However, Fairlands Valley Park has an area of 120 acres not far from the town centre. Although there has been an influx of London commuters in the last 10-15 years, I don't consider being 30 miles from central London being a particular asset. The town has over 5,000 jobs in the pharmaceutical and aerospace industries alone (out of a population of 90,000) and the comparative lack of people at opposite ends of the social spectrum means that it is a very socially cohesive community.
It’s quite contradictory to say there are people who are obnoxious in some areas while making a list that in itself is obnoxious lol. You get idiots everywhere, city makes no difference.
I left England in 1976 as things started to turn for the worse and everything went downhill and cost of living started skyrocketing in most cities including London, where I lived. I don't know how people manage living there considering the quality of life and the high cost of living, taxes and low salaries. Moved to California and never looked back.
LMFAO talks about cost of living, and taxes and then in the next sentence says he lives in Cali... 😭 If you moved to Texas or another half decent state this would've made sense however.
@Outsider. Wow man that was a looooong time ago you left and musta been about when we had the 3 day working week and blackouts after 6pm at night with no tv or anything ☹️ Yep it was total shite in those years with the 18% mortgages coming just around the corner. But compared to what certain parts of the UK are like now it was heaven and safe 😎
I love England. I’ve lived in Manchester in a very depressed area but the local school was very high academic standard, and the people were friendly and warm. I’ve also lived in London and Surrey, but I actually enjoyed living in Manchester more 😀
I went to university in Bradford and loved it! The people were really nice. It’s a bit old fashioned compared to Birmingham but I have some great memories from my student days there!
It all depends on the definition of “worst” I grew up in a small northern village that was as rough as rats but I made dozens of life long friends who would jump under a bus for me 😎 it’s all about people and relationships you can live in Beverley hills and feel lonely isolated and empty…
Agreed
Well said
I'll take Beverly hills thank you ,and as for that rough diamond salt of the earth rubbish ,you're only bestowed this welcome lol if you're seen as "one of them "woe betide if you're not
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Quite true, that's why small villages are often more pleasant to live in although you miss out on a lot of big city accommodations. A "good place to live" has different meanings to different people.
I'm not English but some of the funniest Englishmen I've ever met were from the north. Poverty helped shape their sense of humour.
Cultural difference. In the north strangers would talk to each other, in the south it'd be considered very awkward.
Mr Bean is a good example.
Didn’t realize Rowan Atkinson was from the North his accent is southern
@@hojdog he is a continental French barstad
Cornwell has some really funny people too,the west country.
I was happily watching this, internally laughing at all the towns being mentioned, until my hometown of Peterborough came up as number 1
hes not wrong though is he ?😀lets hope they dont rehouse any ukrainean refugees there,these people have suffered enough as it is...
I lived in peterborough for 40 years A bit dull but not that bad
@@supernova046 😂😂😂😂😂
@@supernova046 lmao 🤣
I left Peterborough for South Africa 50 years ago. I was nine.
As someone stuck in America, all I can think of while watching this is that even your “worst” areas have modern, sharp-looking transit and actually paint the lines on the roads for safety in night weather. The US has neither in many areas.
Trust me, its just piss and shit painted over to hide the filth underneath. That's worse since it leaves newcomers unsuspecting.
@@Blue-ub8ld There are good and bad places in every country. It just depends where you live.
@@allarian8726 Looks to me as though it's the people, not the places that make them the way they are, if you are an example of a resident! 😎
You got that right!
cos USA like to think they are the biggest and the best, and leave their poor citizens wanting.
I was born and bred in Middlesbrough. It’s economically deprived but the people are the warmest down to earth people you could wish to meet. I grew up on one of the “worst” (depending on how you define worst) estates but managed to finish my education to masters level and work as a healthcare scientist. These people would give you if you had nothing…. Don’t confuse the word “worst” with economically deprived. The quality and integrity of the people I grew up around can’t be questioned. That’s my experience.
I’ve been it was full of junkies .
UTB!
Thanks
Well said x
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As an Iranian person which I moved to London in 1997 and I lived all over the Uk I have to say I never forget all the help and love from British people such a great time in Gravesend lovely people in ruchdale ,Bolton,Dartford,Luton and especially London,this is true every country got good place or bad places but Uk is on another level, i moved out of Uk on 2003 and got backed to my country and bcoz of my job I lived in Germany,Switzerland,Us but none of them like Uk and after 15 years on 2017 got married with a British girl and moved to London for the 2nd time i was very happy to see England again.
Sadly my marriage didn’t work out and again moved back to Iran but I know I’m gonna see high street Kensington,Hide park ,North London,Victoria,Manchester and …. Again very soon
I love UK like Iran
Hope you find your happy place, and thank you for the positive post
Where in Iran are you from? My daughter's father is from Iran but he has never seen her. He was here in the US in 1977 when I got pregnant with her. He left after she was born but never came to see her. She is married now with 4 sons. He has missed out knowing his grandsons. Have a nice day sir.
@@lynnegulbrand2298 Hello Lynne i hope you doing well, actually I'm from Tehran the capital of Iran, sadly there are lots of same story that i have heard from many people around and we can't do anything about it but some people leaving the wife or husband with a plan to go with someone else but some people leaving with this plan which is going to get a good jub and bring back some money to make a better life for family and in this way lots of strange thing happens,i know the story about a man that he left his family but he went missing in the Iraq and Iran war and after 27 years his family in Germany found out about and i know 2 person that they stuck in Iran and because of legal problems couldn't reunite with their families,can i have your daughter's dad name maybe me or others know him or maybe one day will meet him somewhere hopefully finger crossed.
@@stevenguegens7047 Hello Australian man you know what? My next destination is Australia for sure and I don't know who the hell are you that you telling me to not coming to Australia, so i make sure to pay the visit to your country because i know plenty of nice beaches and good clubs and nice girls are waiting for me but I'm not ignoble like you and i invite you to Iran
Plenty of good things waiting for you as well as nice foods good nature and spatially Iranian boys,see u soon
@@samfaraji his name was Abbas Naini. He was in the Iranian military before the revolution in your country. I don't want to get in touch with him I just wanted him to know he has 4 grandsons. My daughter is a beautiful woman. She works very hard and just bought a house. I have always loved your country and people. I can cook Iranian food also. Have a nice day. Thankyou for wanting to help.
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I'm surprised Wolverhampton isn't on this list.
Cannock should be. Inbreeding capital of England.
So am I. It is dump.
@@MrBagpipes nasty.
Walsall?
Dudley should be there
Many of the northern towns have deliberately been left to rot by govts, councils, influx of migrants, lack of investment , they were once thriving towns
So so very true
Yes a dam shame
Thatchers Britain lives on strong
@@CrawfordGrimaldi what has Labour ever done for the white working class's over the years , that has drove many true Labour supporters away
Why would you include influx of immigrants in the same sentence???????
I've lived in Bradford for most of my life. Apart from the ghettos, the car and quad bike chases, police helicopters, black german cars driving up and down Manchester road because the drivers are bored. White shiny top of the range Range Rovers outside the owners run down terrace houses with knackered gate and overgrown garden. The closed shops up the middle part of the city. It isn't all that bad...
Haha did u mention the fireworks after midnight and the special driving privileges for some?
And the hired super cars fireworks and drug use but if we lived somewhere else we would complain that it was too quiet
Haha the range rover bit, so true, funny af. Cars are like double the values of their homes, live in absolute rot holes, everything falls apart except the car. So true, no one gives a damn, no one has any pride in the area they live, literally barely summon pride for their own belongings. All about that image though, living in a rat house whilst driving round thinking your something 😂
i went to bradford once, went out on the lash and my friend stopped me walking to pull a syringe out my shoe.. i also got mugged later that night
The drivers and the fireworks and litter are definitely the worse things there. I found living there decent otherwise but those things were a real pain
I am sick to death of Peterborough being lambasted with this "worst place to live" brush by people who have never lived here. Lived in London 35 years and I can tell you it was wall to wall concrete, over populated, no one smiled at each other and unsafe at night. Peterborough is absolutely stunning. Wide open spaces, nice people, free.
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
I thought the USA was bad until I visited England .It used to be lovely, mostly,but it's turned ugly with non English people everywhere speaking foreign languages,some can't speak English .Homeless people sleeping in the shop fronts,drug addicts wandering around .Too bad
I agree. And that is why Peterborough house prices are expensive. So its not the bad place this video made it out to be.
I think Grimsby should have made the list. Some parts of it look like derelict eastern Europe.
@@babox8244 nah nothing beats USA
@@babox8244 Only an American would comment on people speaking a foreign language and see that as a bad thing!
I’m not surprised that Middlesbrough, Rochdale, Oldham and Blackpool are on this list. I’ve visited all four of these towns and they’re pretty run down and economically deprived. Middlesbrough has a special place in my heart as I spent a semester there at uni.
Okay, let's sort this crap out once and for all...
Virtually anywhere in the Northern Europe is nice to live in if you're wealthy. It's being poor that makes life miserable. I've seen it from both sides of the fence. England is a perfect example of the effects of massive inequality.
The best places to live in Europe are Spain and Italy.
Poverty doesn't cause garbage, graffiti, vandalism, sex crimes, rudeness, etc.
@@richatlarge462 exactly. Everything goes from lack of education. Obviously, no government of the world wants to have cult and educated peoples. Otherwise, how they will manipulate them to obtain favours, votings?!
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Doesn’t cause them, but often vast areas of poverty allow those behaviours to fester unchecked.
Wealthy or affluent people are often just doing the sex crimes and rudeness. They’re too busy managing their money to to the other ones.
Im from southeast asia.
This is true for many countries of the world.
If you have money, you can choose the best locations the place has to offer, in an area w good schools, low crime rate ect.
Being poor is hard. Except maybe if you live in Brunei where the Sultan ensures no citizen is homeless, without food or medical cover.
Having traveled all over the U.K. and being British you cannot say worse places too live by town or city, because all areas have crime and poverty to some degree. The U.K. Is a beautiful country sadly some people don’t respect the place they live in which is the case all over the world.
Travelled has 2 Ls if you are British.
I do agree with Gravesend. The pub next to the sea defence wall was the worst I've ever seen and the town centre very sad. Iam originally from SE Kent and used to think that our sea side town was dead boring but as a child just after WW2 had the best education and a street full of friends. We were as free as birds and quite safe.
It’s dirty and full of litter. Most English at least don’t even take pride in their own homes, never mind the streets they infest…
@@jakehowie442 You obviously haven't been to England, tosspot 🙄
No matter where you live in
The U.K you need to try & find the positives & dont dwell on the negatives as much as you can find it in yourself today.
The problem with a lot of places thought The U.K is they where built up during The Industrial revolution & a hell of a lot are stuck in that period of time architecturally ether that or we have 70's style buildings that look 100% worse.
What we need is more modern looking buildings & affordable flats as well as new Council built houses
Thatcher has a hell of a lot to answer for.
We have a lot of beautiful landscapes in The U.K wilderness to explore the winters are the real problem long & bleak.
But things have opened up & there is more choice of things today in this day in age.
But the our history of The Industrial revolution is holding us back but
Government could not careless it's all about votes for them.
How Slough isn't on this list is beyond me
I walked out at the town centre. i did not see any English people to be honest with you.
The mass immigration was a horrible idea
Yes. Thanks Tony Blair.
@@002lisamarie He is also responsible for the financial crisis and wars
@@Cyrus992 True, and the creation of Isis - and some people want Labour in power again. 🙄
I was born in Sheffield, a long gone industrial city, 87 years ago, and left with my parents 15 years later. It was not a perfect city, but I still love it and think of all my lost friends often.
i live in the US but would love to visit your beautiful country
Sexton C: I think you mentioned the most important thing influencing what one thinks and feels about a ho e town: it depends o the quality of he relationships one has, the social life.not entirely of course, but i makes conditions more bearable. I lived in Stourbridge, a small town in West Midlands, and saw only the good part. I think it was considered a good, rather wealthy town. I lived simply and didn't understand or think about that, nor care for things like social class.
Sheffield is an affluent city now. Primarily due to retention rate of graduates.
Sheffield is quite nice, not too small, not too large, quite cosy. I’ve lived in Rotherham 15minutes away for Sheffield and dear lord, I didnt think places like this exist in the uk
Sheffield ain't that bad. Right on the door to the peaks. Affordable housing. Booming student scene.
A Greater Manchester resident here. Can confirm that one should avoid Oldham at all costs. Even a brief visit will leave you clinically depressed.
Agreed. I have to go to Oldham often, I hate it.
What's so bad...
Oldham is a shithole !!!!!!
I was on the MegaBus from Newcastle to Manchester with a hangover and a come down passing through Oldham. It was a Sunday afternoon, grey and drizzling. Looking out of the window at the decay and deprivation of Oldham was the bleakest thing I've witnessed and most miserable I've ever felt.
@@bradleycoopie503 I agree ,as someone who loved the place in the 60s and 70s .since the fire at the indoor market ,and influx of immigrants .
I lived in Bradford and what a horrible experience it was. I didn't feel safe at all. We lived in the Manningham area in the Silk Warehouse right across from a police station. But I still didn't feel safe and was the victim of assaults and verbal abuse. glad to leave it behind me.
agreed.ive heard if you call the police in bradford the bengal lancers turn up 😀😀😀
Sorry to hear of the abuse you endured just for attempting to live to your means and what you know. Fucking arse holes
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
@@Abraham_Tsfaye that is not the case everywhere, I live in a very nice area now.
@@noel2115 what was absolutely awful was people assuming that because I'm a white woman, that I must sleep with any man... It was difficult to listen to and people spitting at you is disgusting. Several times with my son (who was 2 at the time) we had bottles, stones etc thrown at us. And I would leave the park crying, a man once asked why my husband wasn't with me... Why do I need a husband to be in a park with my son?
Not the first video I've seen on bad places in Britain where all of the images are sunny and clean and show decent-looking places with nice, old architecture. You need to show the crappy backstreets and visual evidence of why these places are rubbish.
Most Birmingham suburbs are far worse than this. I briefly lived in Handsworth and it was like an independent state where anything went and the police would rather not even set foot in there. Murders, drive-bys, rubbish/rats in the streets, gang war, drugs, general lawlessness...it had it all. Place looked terrible too with gardens piled with rubbish, smashed-up cars everywhere, and just damage, decay, and lack of maintenance all around. Horrible place.
Ive worked in some of those areas in Birmingham. In Aston ive seen old furniture piled on the grass next to the road, litter everywhere, scruffy shops, nobody taking any pride in the place. Loads of areas around the city like that. Dreadful
i protest, as a native boltonian that my town has not been placed in the top ten, a situation most of the populace are trying to remedy...
Just close your eyes and think of Warrington 👍👍😂
You mean Boltistani
@@MohiHash 😂 not saying a word
@@MohiHash crying 😂
If you are picking Bolton I want Leicester including. Terry Wogan once joked that they should build a wall around Leicester... How right he was.
I grew up on a housing estate in South London in the 70's . No money, no dad, no private school, no real opportunities. Had a bunch of good friends and a mother who ensured that I never missed school and kept on the straight and narrow. Now I'm fairly wealthy and my kids have private education and want for nothing. I wouldn't trade my upbringing for theirs for all the tea in Tesco's.
Only part I disagree with here is no opportunities when you lived in South london, you lived right by the capital of the UK. You want to talk about being raised with no opportunities try growing up in the Welsh valleys in the 80s and 90s.
Blessings
Why do you send them for to private school then?
Just been to Tesco, all their tea is out of stock, ya fucked now abo
I would. :) Only massive luck and an amount of work of a ship slave will get you out of disadvantageous background. You grew up in in the 70's - totally different world, 10 times slower than now. Now the wealth has their 7-8th generation and even the digital wizards are on their 2nd generation. And the more kids get into private school ahead of you, the less chance you have to make it at least equal to them. The more kids are born into the network, the less space is for an outsider to break into.
The self-made-man movies were made in 70-80's and that was basically the last time when you could make it just by luck and hard work. Now it's all a linked network or marriages.
How on earth is stoke not on this list?!
I grew up in the ghettos of Los Angeles and had no idea it was an undesirable slum until outsiders told me so. It was tough but we knew no other way of life so it was normal to us. It's where we lived, laugh, cried & made wonderful memories that I still hold dear. Home is home no matter where you find yourself so I believe the majority of locals in these towns would vehemently disagree with these assessments.
Can definitely tell you grew up in the US if you think we'd disagree with our town being on the list, its a common English pastime to bitch and moan about how horrible our situation is without doing anything to improve it.
The happiest people are in the poorest places ...
The main issue is lack of cleanliness and rubbish everywhere, especially on the side of the roads, fronts of houses leave a lot to be desired., rubbish bags, dirty windows, simply too many places are badly maintained.
That is not the main issue whatsoever? The main issue is employment and the fact large corporations buy properties in lower income areas making them impossible to be bought or rented by the residents of that town.
theres no need for maintenance if people pick up there garbage.
Problem is the immigrants
@@beeopper at least a brick wall has its uses… 😂
usually from illegal and legal losers who messed their country up now doing it to UK,
I’m from Oldham, I lived there until I was 27, and I can tell you all it was a pretty good place to grow up. We had a nice house in a fairly normal suburb, it was just by the moors so I could go up there with my mates, I went to a good school, it was near Manchester, there was a quick and cheap train in to Manchester, and on a Friday night or a Saturday night it used to be a pretty good place to go out drinking. I’m in to indie music, and there was a great alternative music scene there when I was young in the 90’s/00’s. People used to come from other towns for the nightlife. Has a lot of really great chippies as well
Who doesn't like chips 🙂
Never any good clubs in Oldham unfortunately. 90s Manchester was mint.
@@djonfonsteen6331 well I was into indie music, and we had the ambition night that was well good for indie music, plus a few really good bars like Jackson’s Pit. Maybe for people into dance music it wasn’t good
Well things change
Can be friends
I think you're missing key details about some of these towns ie Oldham Bradford Rochdale Luton.. lots and lots of Asians. I'm Asian by the way and have been to all of the ones listed above.
I'm not sure what you're saying. Do you mean Asian populations make a place worse, or better? Or are you suggesting a racist motive behind the choices made for this vid?
@@Snowshowslow Lots of Pakistani Muslims make a British town or city worse because of segregation and extremism.
From the photos, they all look beautiful and well worth visiting. I've lived in Chesterfield, Swindon, Ipswich, Brighton, and London, and really enjoyed my time in all of these places, some more than others, and it always came down to the people I met, the friends I made. If you are on your own, out of work, and turning to the dark side (drugs and alcohol abuse), then you are probably not going to enjoy life no matter where you live. Greetings from Australia.
I'm from Yorkshire originally and confirm the best thing about Bradford is the road to Leeds.
I was born in Bradford in 1971. I was lucky enough to escape to Cornwall in 1997. The place is hell on earth, especially now. It's like being in a foreign ghetto. Totally overrun and beyond repair.
From Leeds, can confirm!
From Bradford i can confirm
Bradford must be bad if a road that takes you to Leeds is classed as an upgrade lol
@@acidmack1041 Mate, if we are in a restaurant Bradford is a plate of steaming shit, and Leeds is a steak.
It is a shame that the narrator does not ask the question why?
We know the answer and it comes under hate speech ie gagging orders
@Charles Wetherspoon You might think so, but I have done a lot of empirical research in towns and cities across the UK and Europe. My observation is that there are obvious impacts from the prevailing economic conditions, but for the most part this is about poorly crafted public policy. I also observe that every town really is different, and therefore the one fit for all ideas that are often promulgated are simply not viable in the majority of cases.
@@Kelly14UK only if youre a racist who does not engage in critical thinking beyond what the tabloids want you to think
I live in Australia, I went to England to visit my auntie and my cousins, it is probably the worst place iv ever been, London was OK but the rest of the country is just run down and depressing. The houses are tiny and all stuck together with very small backyards. It was always grey, wet and cold with rubbish everywhere. Everyone seems very unfriendly and miserable, probably because they all just sit at home watching tv.
Soft lad you mate
Where did you go apart from London. There are some lovely places.
Interesting list. I grew up in the U.S., on the East Coast, so my ideas of "the worst place to live" are some of the cities in Eastern NJ or parts of Brooklyn or the Bronx where you are told "get in a taxi NOW and don't you dare go walking anywhere", there's gunfire, and most of
the buildings are boarded up. None of these places strike me as anywhere near that awful, though most cities have their "bad" places. When I came to the UK for an extended stay this year, I rented a place in Plymouth. I was roasted by my London friends, who told me Plymouth was a "total s**hole" (spoiler: no it isn't).
When I do take the coach to London, the taxi driver will inevitably ask "Where are you going luv? Anywhere nice?" And when I say "London", they say, "Ah. Nowhere nice then." Definitely a very subjective thing.
I'm from the U.S. but live in England and it's true.
Their bad cities with maybe the exception of London with their daily stabbings and gang activity are quite safe. I grew up in Los Angeles and this place is not scary or bad. I also live in the north in a beautiful village with wealthy people so not all of the north is backwards. We get a lot of snobby Londoners moving
up here because of low crime and beautiful properties for a fraction of the price.
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Some of the towns and cities mentioned in the video are possibly the tip of the iceberg. I think that London has had millions of pounds spent on it in the last few years. I'm amazed at how much infrastructure geared up to tourism . I get the impression that so much has been spent that there is so little left for projects elsewhere in England.
London is it's own country. Its catering for tourists and the elitest wannabe assholes. The common person has no place in London. Its a sess pit now. It was great 20 years ago. Now it's more arrogant and stuck up than ever.
Not quite true. London is one of the 3 areas (the South East and West Midlands being the other two) that raise more in tax revenue than they spend. Tourism is one of the areas that helps this. These 3 areas have traditionally subsidised spending on the rest of the country. I don't know the current situation (since Covid and lockdowns hit) but the figures are available up to 2017 at least. Where the surplus is spent is up to the politicians but the Tories has preferred to support their heartlands in the south.
@@heliotropezzz333 Tourism is about to drop .London has a public transport system .Every other place in UK lost their's when sold off by Mrs Thatcher .Makes a huge difference.Living in Germany
now my home city was Manchester and I'd ask you to study history .Manchester, Bradford and Belfast,made London the wealthy capitol it is via cotton / wool / and linen exports .to name but 3..
London has done the rest of UK any favours ever .Taxation is paid by all and should be equally divided .Preference should play no part .Every are of a country should be treated decently .
@@HelenaMikas I agree. Historically the wealth of the country came more from the north but then the electorate voted in Mrs Thatcher with her view that manufacturing didn't matter and could be left unprotected to sink, and she closed down coalmines without putting a replacement source of income in their place. Her mistaken view was that Britain could thrive on its financial services only and London was the hub of those.
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These were once proud northern industrial towns Middlesborough, Bradford, Sheffield all ravaged by a greedy Westminster. Much of the rest of Britain including London has been built on the industrial and cities of the north.
I totally agree with you, I live in Sheffield, it as been devsted, over the years, all the steel, works, coal mines have gone, who would think, steel was invented in Sheffield.
And illegal immigration
These were world famous cities with a proud with a well established industrial heritage.
Bradford is the heroin capital of England
Totally agree with your statement. I was born a d brought upon the Borough area. It was a great place to live and I will always be proud to say I come from Middlesbrough
It's amazing how the worst places are the some of the most ethnically diverse.... maybe not hartlepool lol
As someone born and raised in the town of Hartlepool, I can say that it is rough the more inland you go (from experience, don't take this as fact) but in places like the Historic Headland and Marina there are some very gorgeous places to go, and especially when the Tall Ships arrive.
Plus, on the headland, everyone looks out for eachother and helps a person in need while in places more inland you get people who are slightly less helpful and will only help you in need if you have some sort of friendship or relation to them.
Overall, Hartlepool is a gorgeous town with amazing people, and even the queen (RIP) has visted during the summer and enjoyed it!
Many parts of England are now foreign to English people and largely third world plus Eastern Europe.
Well said. Uncontrolled immigration was criminal. Many of the Eastern Europeans I have worked with are materialistic and ruthless. In towns with little employment these are tens of thousands of them.
@@andygriffiths9916 I visited Wisbech a small Norfolk town where if you send an English child to primary school they will be a minority. It seems destroying a nation is of no concern to our current crop of the globalist political class. Our future will not be easy and events may very well spiral. An economic depression will show the fault lines in our society and see an exodus of the immigrants that seek only to exploit.
@@Fidelisjoff Well said, astute observations thank you.
There's one serious common denominator in the majority of these towns that wasn't mentioned...
They are all dumps!
...which is?
@@DaDARKPass Demographics. There, ive made it easy for you.
@@oddities-whatnot Damn, I was really hoping that wasn't what he was trying to imply.
to me the uk feels like it doesn't have much of a community life anymore, which it used to have to a high extent up to the 90ies I suppose. The greyness of many towns is therefore so much more accentuated by loneliness.
I don't know if this is fair but I went to Blackburn for a job interview and was glad to leave the place and equally glad I didn't get the job there. It's one of the few places where I got a very bad feeling about the place.
Its a town of two halves. Literally. Its about 40% Asian, the rest are mainly whites on large council estates. Its a conflicting mix that gives the impression of it being rough. Problem is, media reporting of problems there is biased, you can tell which way. You dont get an honest picture of whats really going on for fear of upsetting sections of the community.
Well done. You diss Oldham, Rochdale, Bradford and Luton without even mentioning Islam.
Probably cos he's not a numpty, unlike you!
You can't insult the religion of peace.
@@misssarahashplant7493 Perish the thought! A beautiful, cultured religion known for its tolerance and respectful treatment of women!
@@Thomas-uf8si You won't like living under shariah law, prat!
@@datrenarakiel8202 He's got a point, love a curry!🤣
I grew up in Oldham and whilst the town itself is run-down and being left to rot I always loved that I had very easy access to Manchester (7 minute train ride) as well as the beautiful scenery of the Pennine hills and moors (10 minute car ride in the opposite direction).
I understand as have seen it Left to rot sums it up by a vile government for too many years.
Mate if you live 7 minutes from a large city you're living on a gold mine. Give it a few years and where you live will be the hottest suburb to buy in.
Born in Wigan and the best folk in the world are there. Poor as church mice but hearts of pure gold.
@@shermanator87 Not Oldham - I can assure you. I lived there 4-decades too long.
Or the number 76 through Failsworth, Newton Heath, Miles Platting, Ancoats and BAM! Town !
I was born in Bradford and have fond memories. It really makes me sad that I always hear bad news about the town.
It is a dump
@@tonyroy8123 blackpool is worse-as a utd supporter-liverpool is bad as well
@@benpenguin7382 hence the nickname Bradistan
@@benpenguin7382 people like you are why Yorkshire can't thrive Ben
@@zx-zw3jm Yorkshire would be absolutely amazing if they shipped them all out
Actually, Hartlepool isn’t too bad. Over 90,000 people live here, and quite enjoy it myself.
Bradford is definitely a place to avoid at all costs
Totally agree. Driving into or through Bradford not a good idea. Good chance of a smash with another vehicle without insurance or looking for a whiplash claim. Absolute bandit country.
When arriving in Bradford they have a sign saying ( HAVE YOUR PASSPORT READY). Leeds is in India.
@@rascalhusky8129 means?
The heroin capital of England
@@rascalhusky8129 they say mini Pakistans & you know when someone say Pakistans it means?
The way you listed bradford as having drug issues out in the open... is there a uk city that doesnt have this?
Hatfield, Hertfordshire doesnt have this problem
They don't police rich areas where cocaine is taken freely without fear of prosecutions.
Oldham has a lot of all white council estates where generations of white folk have never worked but folk looks t the Asians who saved it from being a ghost town of junkies.
Every inch of UK has drug problems
Where the hell is Doncaster?! I lived there for 6 years. Mad place in my opinion.
Why would you illustrate this with pictures of beautiful Victorian buildings, cathedrals, and bridges? They don't exactly look like bad places. You've added quiet suburban streets too: why not the council estates?
it doesnt fit the agenda and is a shite video altogether.
Can't show council estates I a negative light, it's not woke 🤣
Went to school in Oldham, Clarksfield and Breeze Hill back in the 80's, biggest issues in the north is work or lack there of. People should start seriously questioning government over the last 40 years. What have they been doing in terms of job creation and stimulating the local economy....nothing basically.
Back in the 80s there was a lot of optimism generally in the UK. Im from up north and had a great time when I was younger. Never out of work. Everything has changed now. Main problem is the cost of living and property prices. Wages are not keeping up which causes more people to be in financial difficulties, stuck in renting or in jobs that are not secure. Its bad now.
One of the worst places to live, in England is...........................England...!
And we have it pretty ok here, compared to the rest of the planet.
Doesn't say much for the poor planet, does it.
Too true
True Keith!
And why do we have a monarchy? That crowd of numpties own so much land globally that it’s obscene. In this day and age, there should not be such disparity between the haves and have-nots.
Re; The worse places in “London”??? a 2 bed flat is almost impossible to afford with a 30 grand wage. Trust me
@@johnybravo5667 uuu of the best of Ur health
@@johnybravo5667 thats right! Thats why I’m still living with my parents. Our house is valued at £895.000, and I ain’t moving for shit. Need to save up for several more years before i get on the property ladder.
From Sw1 london I love it
@@johnybravo5667 London is the ghetto of uk trust me
@Calisthenic Day Trader thanks 🙏🏼
I come from Bradford. I left. I grew up thinking it was normal to see drug dealers in every McDonald’s car park after 6pm and getting constantly asked to get into cars with groups of men I’d never seen. This is only in the city though. The outskirts are vast, rural, and the people are nice.
I now live in a safer town but I never feel uncomfortable anywhere after growing up in that kind of place. You become immune to seeing the depravation and crime after a while. You just see it as what it is. People struggling to get by and young men(mostly) making bad decisions so they look richer than they are in a place of poverty.
No mention to Skelmersdale, Leigh, Wigan, st Helens and Manchester or Liverpool. Oh lovely places to live with very similar problems the places mentioned in this video.
I wonder what Bradford, Rochdale, and Oldham all have in common?
And Luton and Middlesbrough lol I'm from boro ,I know exactly what your thinking and you be right I thought the same,was surprised Rotherham wasn't top of the list tbf ! And Slough x
Yup.
I wonder
Curry
Don’t forget LUTON, full of them!
Firstly, a postcode doesn’t define you as a person. It’s just letters and numbers and where you hang your hat. I have been to London many times, and trust me that London has some of the roughest and most deprived areas in the country. If you don’t live in the wealthy and glamorous parts, London is a dump and massively overpriced. There is good and bad in all regions. And some the most genuine people you could ever meet come from the so called bad areas, salt of the earth working class people. Give me them over the stuck up plebs from the so called “better” areas anyday.
It is interesting how people keep mentioning all the little things that make life bearable. I am not an outstanding sports fan, but at the age of 87, and having left Sheffield 70 years ago I still love Sheffield Wednesday/Sheffield United. Of course, having lived in the Middlewood/Hillsborough area Sheffield Wednesday was my first love as a 5 year old.
Hi, Peterborian here. Peterborough has topped polls for worst place a lot due to the efforts of our thriving troll community who have never left Peterborough and don't know what the hell they are talking about and love to get drunk and wallow in self pity, much to the annoyance of the rest of us who stand proud in the ancient Peterborough tradition of MEDIOCRITY! I mean no good reason for it's supposed badness is ever even presented. Our city is not even bad, much less the worst, it is the epitome of fence sitting avarageness. From our size which isn't small or remotely big, to our football team who are okay, our historic buildings, which are impressive but there are better elsewhere, and our 'I suppose this'll do' pubs, and indeed everything else, even our status as an electoral swing seat, due to our proud tradition of wishy-washyness.
I've always thought that it was a good place to grow up, as it's less traumatic than growing up somewhere bad, but still leaves room to be impressed by a full 50% of England.
We do have a lot of self pity though. :)
Those of us who know Oldham know that it is no longer in Britain .It opted out of our culture decades ago.
How true, it once used to be a place full of hardworking decent people.
I think taxi driver is now the number one occupation in Oldham. Paying income tax is mearly optional.
Republic of Oldham, I guess the population feels right at home
Diversity is our strength.
@@alanmawson9601 what strength? we're done for because so many are so woke!
Your home is what you make it. There are always good and bad areas. I live in London and there are plenty of both. Just remaining streetwise where ever you live and learning the surrounding culture is key. If it’s not for you try your best to move to a place that suits… if possible, I get there are reasons people can’t!
No your home is what everyone makes it.. If the majority of people think litter bins are a suggestion and any vertical wall is a urinal you cant do shit about it.
Learning the surrounding culture? That might prove difficult or Christians as Christianity has been frowned upon by other faiths and religions who have fled their own burnt out countries. They have no love for London her traditional people and would rather see London become like the razed War torn crapholes from whence they came.
No mention of the no go zones lmao.
My daughter was born in
San Bernardino the slums of California when she got out of high school she wanted to go Uk to go to school so now she’s in Lincolnshire university
If I had to pick the worst place to live in England, I would simply say any major city. I was never a city goer but when I started to visit cities in England for work, two things surprised me; just how rude everyone is and how dirty the place is.
You are missing parts of East London that are absolute holes, take a drive around there. Make these places look like heaven.
And West London ..what a shithole that is .
@@dia.6213 Newham, parts of Tower Hamlets, Barking & Dagenham, parts of Havering
Yet East London houses Canary wharf including Docklands, Wapping, At Katherine's. These areas are very expensive to rent let alone buying.
@@Thabito99 I love tower hamlets. Its so full of life. There's so much to do there. It has so many different cuisines, shopping centres, markets, activity places, the list goes on
At least you can get a job in London...
I honestly can't agree with 90% of this list.
I'm a travelling contractor, who has spent his last decade on the road in hotels in every city and town of the UK several times over. The only cities I can agree on is Stevenage. It's so devoid of heart and soul and even the residents hate the place. It's like a city that was built to simply 'house' commuters and no other care was taken to make it a decent place to live. The other I agree with is Blackpool... what a horrible dump. When I see that name name on my schedule my heart sinks.
My list would be:
Woking.... there is just nothing there, nothing unique or characteristic.
Mansfield... Growing up there used to be a saying.. 'you're as useless as a tourist information centre in Mansfield'
Rotherham.. Get drunk, fight... call police. Bradford is a paradise compared, at least there is stuff to do in Bradford
Preston. Dark, depressing, boring... Rochdale is nicer, so is Oldham
Stevenage... as described above.
Blackpool... My number 1. Awful.
Kings Lynn.. Lived there for 2 years. Couldn't wait to leave. Peterborough is much nicer than Kings Lynn, Kings Lynn is the inbred capital of the UK. A cesspool of hell.
Grimsby... This guy has obviously never been to Grimsby. If he had... he would never have missed this off his list. My number 2
Seaham / Blyth.. I added these as one because Middlesbrough is not the worst place in the North East, and neither is Hartlepool. They can be both charming, despite their decline. But there are worse places in the North East to live... these two are examples. Sunderland is equal to Middlesbro... as bad, but not worse, interesting... but I would say neither are the worst.
Torquay... Hard to say, as my childhood spent many happy days there on holiday with family. But it really has gone badly downhill.
There are so many honourable mentions... Croydon. Bracknell (where I am today). Wakefield. Huddersfield. Chesterfield (my birth town). So many outskirts of London townships. Warrington. Kingston Upon Thames (because they gave me a parking ticket for being 2 minutes over the limit.. despite the Ringo app not working.) Dartford. Boston (The real murder capital of the UK) and Watford (because Luton, is actually a nicer place to stay than Watford.. and Watford is the HQ of wetherspoons.. so meh to Watford).
Watford is much nicer than Peterborough. It actually has middle class people. King's Lynn is ok, so are Bracknell and Woking. Have you been to Peterborough lately? It's gone downhill terribly and has been ruined by uncontrolled immigration. Stevenage is getting a lot of regeneration now.
How did Birmingham not make this list 🤔
Any place is bad if your skint.. bless.... Blackpool has the best Park in the County. Check it out.. locals go to poulton, Lytham for nights out meals etc... lots of nice housing and areas to live in Blackpool. The town centre is a working class holiday resort. They come from all over the country and beyond.. some stay in low rent accommodation and work seasonal job's. People from Blackpool dont live near the Centre... the Transidient folk live there.. Tourism is booming lots of investment.. some very nice Housing road layouts and areas within Blackpool. Any Tourist place will look bad if u look for Drunks to film or simple people with issues.
Wrea Green just outside Blackpool is the definitive English country village with green & a cricket match being played on, well worth a visit nice pub & beer was spot on. The comment on Blackpool Town centre was bang on, two streets back from the front would put Frank Gallagher right at home. Admittedly a Winter's day visit after a local relative's funeral we went into a pub on Lytham Rd & the pool table had someone asleep on top🎱🤣. We finished our drinks, jumped in the car & sped down the M55 & M6 as fast as we could (1 out of 10 for entertainment value).
I’m in Poulton just outside Blackpool
Was born and raised Stepney east London
The people and area are amazing
The only regret I have I didn’t move a long time ago
Blackpool is not just a few St's of prom it has lots of beautiful housing if u just go back a bit of the prom area, use your legs a go a walk back from the front and u will find beautiful areas.
Blackpool fantastic place
@@redflag8970 yeh Blackpool not to bad ,at least it don't look like part of Africa or the middle East yet, I would be quite happy to live in Bishpam nice place
Immigrants is the common link. Enoch Powell told us so before he was shipped to Northern Ireland. They just bring their level of culture to Britain
Once you look past the casual racism you'll see that in most cases POVERTY is the common link. Poor people live in crap towns. Most immigrants are poor. You don't tend to hear of too many people fleeing the bombing in Zurich or Monaco.
@@michaelchannon2644 Poverty combined with differing cultures are a recipe for disaster.
No mention of out of control immigration in areas where that has made a huge difference.
Have a "stab" at London too. Place where noise, pollution, traffic jam, rude people, overpriced properties, drugs, and theft have no end.
A lot of the northern towns and city’s were once the heartbeat of the industrial revolution which made England a rich country
All of England was really. But after it all sort of collapsed the North didn't get the same level of investment. Part of that is because of logistics, It's easier to get goods to Europe from the south of England so that is where the wealth ended up.
Many of the towns on this list are in the "south", but none are below London.
Industry moved to China
@@mshams3463 Maybe we should... I could imagine Chinese people having to cope with the eccentricities of disgruntled Northern migrants.
Slavery made england rich
@@mshams3463 Due to cheap labor white industry owners moved their business to China.
I have lived in a few cities in England in the past ( Reading, Didcot, Kyngs L., Norwich and Peterborough), and I must say regardless the poverty issues Peterborough was the place where I was most happy! I managed to get off poverty and find a decent job , great friends and workmates, I still remember there where some old ladies working with me that used to bring me gifts all the time (parfums, socks , wallets, clothes, etc… they where looking after me as family , will forever be grateful, miss those times and the mates I had back there , Ferry meadows, nene park ….. no place I’ve ever seen matches Peterborough I still feel like it was my home and will be forever.
Here! Here! 🤨 Over the last decade+ I’ve lived in the Midlands - Barton Seagraves (suburb of Kettering), Alconbury, and in St. Neots. Been to and / or through Peterborough a few times, with co-workers living in / near it. Never heard this sort of “bad press” about Peterborough. (Even had my US-spec car fixed at a dealership up there!). It was a “big city” as far as I was concerned. I think anyone who says something bad / boring about their own town probably does wish to go out somewhere else. OR, they could simply invest themselves in getting to know their own neighbors (for starters) and put themselves into their town.
Thankyou for sharing that.
@@Ahuntrgw2013 i.lived in Alconbury for 3yrs. 30yrs ago. My father was in the US air force. He was stationed at the Alconbury base, but we lived off base in Alconbury Village. Iwas 12. I enjoyed living there. Quiet boring, perfect for getting into trouble lol...
@@006ahenry Then sir(?), perhaps you remember a pub called The Manor House? I lived on Hawthorne End, right up a short footpath that was just down the street from that pub. (Although when you were there, I think there would have been THREE pubs in the village.)
@@006ahenry Thank you for sharing! 👍🏻 It’s nice to “meet” folks who’ve travelled / lived in the same place(s) you have.
All these places are SUPER nice from an American and Canadian perspective. I just looked up Kensington philadelphia - it is very bad. Then there is Vancouver Downtown East side, Skid row in LA (a huge area), Baltimore, Detroit, Buffalo, parts of Portland, OR and Seattle, WA, downtown Atlanta, several NJ and CT cities. Then there are lots of rural areas where people don't have plumbing or electricity. The only area I can think of as pretty and clean as what you showed us is Vermont which has a raging opioid problem and lots of quiet desperation in the middle of natural beauty and heritage buildings.For Americans and Canadian worst means boarded up decaying buildings, overgrown empty lots, vermin, lack of basic infrastructure like water, electricity and trash pickup. Trash everywhere. Open drug use and sale. Gun violence and general lack of safety.
I have lived in Luton and yes, it is one of the worst. As a woman, I just wanted to put on a hoodie and baggy clothes not to be harassed. Gangs and dirt is everywhere. After my family came to visit, the were very concerned about how dangerous it is.
It's not Where you live, it's how you lives .
if you are celibate in a city with lots of pretty people that would be hell.
Doesn't matter how decent you are or how decently you try to live but living in a dump with ever decreasing standards will bring a sense of hopelessness and depression that will eventually drag you down. I used to live in Oldham and moving away was the single best thing I've ever done.
What a ridiculous statement
@Tina Disagree with your statement...
@ Montana S . Running away/uprooting will not solve problems. Humans migrations are a perfect example. By leaving their Countries/villages will creating more problems elsewhere. Locals or international.
You missed London of the top of that list, overpriced, dirty, cramped and agressive folk fighting over a buck
Maybe even worse, Brixton.
@@ddee8 22% of Bradford is Pakistani and there is poverty here and more chances of race riots. Only in London will you find rich ethnic groups.
@@ddee8 Indians are rich but Pakistanis are the poorest. 80% live on $9 an hour which is council estate level poverty.
Dirty? Compared to what? Bradford with like 200k people? Its clean for a city of 9 million try going to rome or paris my friend. Cramped is true though.
7/10 of those towns and citys have been blessed with multiculturalism i thought that was supposed to be a good thing.
Its gonna get worse when fascist Ukrainians start coming over.
I’m from Oldham and it was a great place to grow up from 70’s to early 90’s, I then married a posh girl, who said “I’m not living here it’s shit hole” and we moved to Cheshire 👍🏻
My mother died late last year and I had to return to Oldham town centre to sort her affairs out, at a local solicitors and 2 local banks. I could not believe what an absolute shit hole it had now become! Full of scrotes and it appears to have become a dumping ground for asylum seekers, many of which couldn’t speak English. At my mothers funeral, I spoke to a couple of people who worked for Oldham Council and they confirmed my asylum seeker perception. I also noted that the mainly white and Asian communities are still living parallel lives!
I also have close friends who live in Rochdale and I personally believe that Rochdale is a much nicer town than Oldham.
Finally I work for a company that has its head office is in Bradford and occasionally I’ve had to stay over in local hotels. Now this city gives a whole new meaning to the word shit hole 👎🏻
Brilliant comment, I especially enjoyed the bit about your 'posh girl' saying 'I'm not living here it's a shit hole.
It's interesting how we are all influenced from being born to believe that the place we are in is somehow better than everywhere else.
Middlesbrough is gorgeous if you get out of the town centre. People actually talk to each other here..
I’m originally from Sunderland now living in Bath I totally agree with you! The North-East has the most friendliest and genuine people in the country 👍
Hey
Spot on
Middlesbrough is definitely not gorgeous lol 😆
@@natashabegley1346 depends on which bit of Middlesbrough you are talking about.
About Bradford I agree 100 % . However, Gravesend is not the only trouble town in Kent, there are plenty of them. Hardly any main city in the UK has survived the rise of unemployment, gangs and general corruption.
Chatham, gillingham
The plague
I live near gravesend
. Its not that bad. There's a lot worse places in kent that's for sure..
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What would you say about Margate
Many of the Thames estuary towns both in Kent and Essex are terrible. How is Basildon not on this list? It's the most depressing place I've been in England. Tilbury isn't any better either. At least some of the northern towns on this list have historical importance or interesting centuries old architecture. I am speaking as a southerner from Essex so really not being biased.
All of these places look more developed, cleaner and more civilized than the best places in my third world country. Oh, the difference....
You've clearly never been to Kettering, Corby or Wellingborough...
Nobody’s mentioned London that would be my worst nightmare , it’s like the Wild West 👍
what does that mean? I live in London ,
So the number 1 tourist destination in the west is a nightmare?
So places like Kensington and Richmond are like the wild West?🤷
You mean the wild middle east surely!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dream-67 haha exactly, I live in Richmond and it's pretty decent, nothing like any of these deprived northern cities 🤣
I am surprised that you haven't included Rotherham in South Yorkshire, believe me, I escaped from there two months ago, ssssh don't tell anyone, but Rotherham has been on it's last legs for many years, having to go between meadowhall and parkgate, the town centre has basically become a ghost town, there's parts of the town that's so rough, a week in Afghanistan would feel like a holiday
Rotherham is top of the worse places to live in
I was just thinking why isn't Rotherham in this and I haven't even been.
@@JB-lt1dx I stayed in Rotherham for 15 years and couldn't wait to get out of the place again, the town centre is run down mainly because of meadowhall and parkgate shopping centres, there's more charity shops than I cared to count
It's lost all the big named stores leaving empty store spaced
The buses in Rotherham is awful, run by south Yorkshire first bus, a big majority of the vehicles should have been scrapped years ago
I recently moved back to Edinburgh again and I have seen quite a lot of changes, it's completely different to Rotherham am glad to say :-)
I am surprised Rotherham isn't on the list...my mum's from Rotherham, but going back to when it was just a respectable northern town in the 60s & 50s..u know..in the era when working class people knew how to behave in a respectable manner! I dont even recognize the town centre from visits up there as a child!! It used to be so busy & so clean!! With just ordinary housewives (like my lovely na,na) doing a shop... & going into 'town' with her was a treat!! & the most good hearted people & soo friendly!! The outside shopping centres...& the modern working classes plus too much immigration (resulting in hundreds of young vulnerable girls being used & abused) has brought Rotherham to it's knees. Nobody knew where Rotherham was before that scandal BUT everyone knows where it is now!!! Rotherham didn't deserve that. My poor Aunties (all in their 80s now) are now embarrassed to say that they live there!!
I owned a house in Rotherham but got burgled seven times and left when migrants turned up. No regrets.
@@godhams Hey, it's all part of the multicultural utopia your politicians sold you, enjoy!
Haha I was in Middlesbrough yesterday, decided to have a walk over to a shop and heard shouting and screaming, turned out to be a woman's dog was hiding under a van and she was kicking the crap out of the van! I would say that Stockton down the road is worse though
I did a thing in Manchester and was disgusted. I expected Jane Austen and got Detroit.
After living in Luton for over 2 years, I would put that town on the number one spot. Horrible place. A police helicopter constantly hovering over the area of Bury park.
Is that even a part of England anymore?
I worked in Luton for a month and it depressed me 😂😂😂
Mansfield would like a word. And to steal your wallet.
@Ronny Yes, my thoughts exactly - but I was affraid to write that. Maybe someone would be offended.
@@deidredrakeBEST it doesn’t matter what you think of ethnic minority , I was born here and am part of England, u can accept it or reject it due to me not being white. Being white doesn’t qualify u as more worthy than others and doesn’t give u the right to call non white people non British
Worst places to live in England. The North the South the east the west and everything in between
You know where the airports are.
@@misssarahashplant7493 Brexit prevents an easy exit now. We are all stuck on this shitty island!
Couldn't you leave when it was easy?
@@leod-sigefast 😂😂😂 come to Qatar next year, at least you will enjoy the world cup if you are into football
@@misssarahashplant7493you also know go back home and don’t forget take your family with you as well. Uk is full!
I was born and raised in Peterborough it not a bad place to live it not done me any harm.There are worse places then Peterborough let be honest. I only moved away because my parents wanted to move . I do still visits from time to time. It not all bad
It's terrible.
Used to live in Blackpool. The worst thing is the youngsters who cause mayhem on certain buses.
I’ve traveled for work all over the UK for years and am always amazed that Middlesbrough makes these lists. It’s got it’s ups and downs just like anywhere else but it’s just not the place these videos say it is. Loads of decent affordable housing, genuine people, new tech creating good jobs, miles and miles of open countryside and seafronts on the doorstep, good road links and much more. And I don’t live anywhere near there before you ask.
Barrow-in-Furness on the other hand - what a characterless slum of a place. Minging housing, the best jobs are done by outsiders who travel in for the week, knackered boats abandoned on beaches and if we ever enter true world peace, Barrow will just be a jobless ghost town as like lots of other places, it centres on one single industry. Ulverston isn’t far behind. Ulverston only exists because upmarket Lakes folk need somewhere to build larger shops and house their peasants, another example of the second-home buying middle class folk pricing the young villagers out with increasing house prices and they are forced to move to this slum.
A- good essay
Went to University there. Really liked the town and access to Redcar and Saltburn.
I spent a year in Barrow one week. It was grim.
It's just the usual PR for London, the BBC was always the worst for doing this, anytime they would report from Middlesbrough they would head straight to the worst part as they want to make sure that people down south don't think of escaping to a better life 😉
Middlesbrough Sir David Frost the Brexit guy has resigned. Happy are you ? Brexit has already ruined the UK. Thanks. Not.
Has nobody been to Rotherham my God even rats won't live there
That's why Dutch live there.
Did you speak to the Rats?
You certainly wouldn't live there if you had young daughters!
😂😂
Can't be that bad, as we have rats in Mayfair
I have lived in Stevenage for 14 years and I am very happy there. I lived in Edgware for 30 years and I could no wait to get out of the place. Because we moved further out of London we were able to buy a far nicer house for less and although I work from home now there is a fast line into London that takes twenty minutes. There are certainly grotty bits but there are plenty of very smart houses as well. We have a great theatre and lovely parks and two outdoor pools a short drive away and the town centre is currently undergoing a very big development.
Edgware used to be a sought after area, big jewish population but even they are moving out now, its gone to the pitts.
What do Oldham, Luton, Bradford and Rochdale have in common?
Can't think?
I don't think you can paint a true picture of any city just by solely looking at statistics. If you look at knife crime and murder rates London would be high up the list but it also attracts tourism from around the world and is a popular destination.
The problem is that London statistics are always inflated. First of all it is the largest city by far (you can fit Manc, Glasgow, B'ham, Leeds, Liverpool all in there with room to spare), and naturally that bigger population makes its numbers in such stats higher. Secondly the London region used for official statistics only consists of the urban area, whereas other regions in England cover much wider and countryside areas. Comparing other cities between themselves is fair, but not with London.
The biggest problem with London is Sadiq Khan
@@johnmitchell2269 please stay away from 👉🕋... save ur country England .
Oii…I live in Stevenage! 😄 I live in the Old Town though, which is somewhat nicer, prettier… The new town is not as bad as portrayed here though. It’s a large town that is still growing with Great Ashby almost being a town in itself. And there’s a lot of rejuvenation going on in the town centre. I moved here in ‘99 and raised both my kids here.. my daughter is 24, works full time, and is NOT pregnant! 😂
Yep agree...worked in Stevenage looks beautiful than what is shown here...
Stevenage has its problems. But it's know different from many others . And it's changing fast and in my view not a bad place to live. And I've been to far worse new towns and other areas then Stevenage.
I moved to Stevenage in my twenties and have lived there nearly 40 years now. The cycle paths form one of only two such comprehensive networks in the UK (the other is in Milton Keynes) and the excellent road network enables you to get from one side of the town to the other quickly. The town centre is currently undergoing a massive redevelopment, although I admit there isn't much greenery there. However, Fairlands Valley Park has an area of 120 acres not far from the town centre. Although there has been an influx of London commuters in the last 10-15 years, I don't consider being 30 miles from central London being a particular asset. The town has over 5,000 jobs in the pharmaceutical and aerospace industries alone (out of a population of 90,000) and the comparative lack of people at opposite ends of the social spectrum means that it is a very socially cohesive community.
Lived in The Nidge for 2 years and I loved it. Of course it’s got its issues, but it’s buzzing, busy and the old town is great.
How on earth did you manage to narrow it down to ten ?
Many of these places have experienced huge changes in demographics during the past few decades.
Racist
And certainly lowered the areas to the point they wouldn't look out of place in some middle-eastern s***hole
@@HonorableBeniah-A Pointing out factual demographic changes is "racist".
It’s quite contradictory to say there are people who are obnoxious in some areas while making a list that in itself is obnoxious lol. You get idiots everywhere, city makes no difference.
Very true words
You've never been to Luton then!
@@alanmawson9601
How dare you insult Helmand province calling it bad names like Luton?
@@theurg4504 If I was really obnoxious could have said Bradistan!
@@alanmawson9601
I could go further with londonistan😄😄
I left England in 1976 as things started to turn for the worse and everything went downhill and cost of living started skyrocketing in most cities including London, where I lived. I don't know how people manage living there considering the quality of life and the high cost of living, taxes and low salaries. Moved to California and never looked back.
Lol, come on, living in California, under that weather. No wonder you dont want to go back. That's the reason I bet
Isn't california known to be horrid these days with homelessness etc?
LMFAO talks about cost of living, and taxes and then in the next sentence says he lives in Cali... 😭 If you moved to Texas or another half decent state this would've made sense however.
@Outsider. Wow man that was a looooong time ago you left and musta been about when we had the 3 day working week and blackouts after 6pm at night with no tv or anything ☹️
Yep it was total shite in those years with the 18% mortgages coming just around the corner. But compared to what certain parts of the UK are like now it was heaven and safe 😎
@@LiveCustoms , Ca is like a dump half of it!
I love England. I’ve lived in Manchester in a very depressed area but the local school was very high academic standard, and the people were friendly and warm. I’ve also lived in London and Surrey, but I actually enjoyed living in Manchester more 😀
I love England too cause England is an ancient society with thousands amazing history and I am proud to be apart of it 😀.
@@Ccc.9125 Thank you for such a lovely comment .
@@Lakeslover1 Your welcome 😊.
I went to university in Bradford and loved it! The people were really nice. It’s a bit old fashioned compared to Birmingham but I have some great memories from my student days there!