10 Crap Towns in England
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- What are the crap towns in England? The name England evokes pride, and living in England on its own, in the UK for that matter, is something to be proud of. However, it is not all English towns that you can and should be proud of. Some places are considered ‘crap towns’ in England. Please note that this position doesn’t originate from us. It is from observation of those living in those towns in England and those who have visited. And those who are living in these towns agree that theirs are among the worst towns to live in England. Yet, we can’t find any ground to refute their position based on our private findings. In this video, you will see the towns that folks refer to as the 10 ‘crap towns’ in England.
10. Blackburn
We open this discussion in a large industrial town of Blackburn located in Lancashire. It’s north of the West Pennine Moors and on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley. Blackburn is just 8 miles east of Preston and also 20 miles northwest of Manchester. The mere consideration of its location alone could give some people an idea of the reason for its being labeled as one of the ‘crap towns’ in England.
Beyond that, however, pieces of ratings Blackburn is been given in this recent past are bad. Not long ago, the author of a popular report named it one of the most segregated towns in Britain. We dare add that the tough riot is one of the results of idleness, wants, and general dissatisfaction with life reflected in how people throng turn to street begging. You’ll see youngsters bunking off school and harassing passersby for money to be used in buying a cheeseburger.
9. Oldham
Not many people will expect this old town of Oldham which is also the administrative and authority center of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham to be described as a ‘crap town.’ But what does the reality on the ground portray about this large town in Greater Manchester? It shows that the town which is about 5 miles southeast of Rochdale and 6 miles northeast of Manchester is actually one of the worst towns to live in the UK. Don’t let us relate want we ourselves have found.
Some feel that the town lacks all culture and sophistication that can be emulated.
8. Castleford
“A trip to Castleford is a real eye-opener . . . and you need to keep your eyes open because if you dare to close them, they’d have your wallet faster than you could say” said a voter who voted Castleford one of the ‘crap town’ in the UK. Coming back home in England, a town with this recognition is certainly one of the crap towns in England. This town in the City of Wakefield within the county of West Yorkshire has always got bad reviews whenever it is to be discussed.
This low standard in this town may be due in part to its being a town of kith and kin. Sentimental attachments to relationships are likely to come in the way of standardization and adherence to the due process. This Wakefield’s largest town was also rued thus “you have to wonder whether the essence of chavdom stems from bad breeding, or in the case of Castleford, possible interbreeding.”
7. Blackpool
It might take a while before Blackpool get itself off a list like this. It is a consensus member in the rank of the ‘crap towns’ in the UK. We have also seen it mentioned in several lists of the worst towns to live in England and the UK. Blackpool is also on and off of lists of the most depressing towns to live in the UK. Why then is it still boasting of being the entertainment capital of the North it claims to be when a stratum of the society actually sees it as one of the most boring places to live in the UK?
A reviewer said of this town: “While in Blackpool all you smell is weed, McDonald's, KFC - you may think it's a jolly seaside resort with candy floss and donkeys but it's a scum-bucket for the transients who come here to draw benefits in a holiday resort instead of in an inner city.” Is that not what you would expect of a place described as a ‘crap town’ in England?
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Put a Queen in a palace, she will keep it like a palace.
Put a pig in a palace, it will turn it into a pigsty.
Don't blame the location. The location doesn't know where it is.
A town is made into what it is or isn't by it's people. Pure and simple.
And what if the 'pigs' don't have the same resources as the 'queens' due to generational unemployment caused by the collapse of the industries that once sustained them, coupled with massive under-investment in local housing, public spaces, education, transport, etc? I know it's comforting to adopt the 'Daily Mail' view of the world whereby the blame for all social ills is laid at the feet of the victims rather than the perpetrators, but as Oscar Wilde pointed out, 'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'
Absolutely bang on
Funnily, most of these towns have been decimated by the imported.
@@jamesrobert4106 I was going to write up the same comment .. Exactly my thoughts .
I had this argument with an American that lived in a Ghetto. He was telling me how my race is responsible for his poor lifestyle. I asked what the problems were in his neighbourhood. He gave me a list of all the usual antisocial behaviour that you find in those kind of places. He confirmed that nobody of my race lives there. So I asked, so who is carrying oiut all this anti social behaviour? That's when he stopped talking to me.
So glad you included Oldham. I was born and brought up there. I can confirm that it truly deserves a mention. However, I am referring to central Oldham. Travel North 5-6 miles and you suddenly find yourself in genuinely beautiful countryside on the edge of the Pennine hills with a dozen or so picture-postcard villages.
You don't even have to travel that far, just the other side of Leas
It happens a lot that a town centre is shithole but suburbs are much better
Possibly because native residents made a short move for more desired livelihood without disconnected with the hometown completely.
So you were born rich nice stfu
From a Londoner - 10 crap towns in London (the capital is arguably a collection of towns) :
1. Ilford
2. East Ham
3. Barking
4. Dagenham
5. Tottenham
6. Kilburn
7. Harrow on the Hill
8. Hounslow
9. Croydon
10. Orpington
Walthamstow
Noel, you have hit the nail on the head with your London towns! You would have to LEAVE UK to see anything remotely as miserable and decrepit as Ilford, Barking, Dagenham and Havering in general! Worked in the Telecom building in Ilford for 9 years, and wanted to kill myself, or the general population of Ilford in its entirety and start again! I would not wish it on my enemies! On a plus point- I am fast tracked to heaven! After all, you can only do purgatory once! 😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣
Don’t forget Southall. Looks like a third world country
Don’t forget ALL of Canning Town and Tower Hamlets!
BRIXTON
I didn't know the Welsh police operated in Rotherham.
Wales is on Rotherham's patch: bit.ly/3J2A2pN :-)
They were on a course to learn how to ignore certain people from certain groups committing wholesale abuse, and instead learn to concentrate on online hate-speech.
Heddlu to you. Lol
I think they swerved that one.
@@paulkitchen1846 slight miss-hit there. Easily done but I couldn't help myself from commenting.
Have you noticed that all of these towns are in the North? There are plenty of crap towns in the Midlands and the South of England too!
Crap towns - Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Evan Blackpool Ha.
It’s grim up north.
@@andygrant1974tricky It's grim down south too!
@@andygrant1974tricky yeah but it’s grim everywhere there’s plenty of grim areas south and midlands besides not all north is grim you’ve got the Lake District and quite a few nice cities excluding the shit ones obviously
Yeah, but it was only the north dumps featured…..10 out of 10 grim northern towns. Says it all, it’s GRIM UP NORTH.
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PLEASE! All in the north west, Yorkshire and the Humber, and the northern East Midlands! What is with you! I live in the south east. There are crap towns here as well!
Easy picks for Top 10s
And then there is also the West Midlands which is notoriously bad that had no places mentioned
The pictures of Huddersfield are about 8 years old. Great town and proud to come from there.
Puddersfields, 😝😂🤣😭
@@paulholland5270 how old are you?
1000 years old my dear lad. 🤗
Im from Blackburn Lancashire. 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire 😎
Ok, back in the '70's, Rochdale was the most impressive shopping centre around and a joy to go to as a kid. It had at least 6 or more model and toy shops, just as an example, I was spoiled, now through economic pressure and poor management it is a shadow of its former self
Not just that though is it ;
Interesting how when describing Rotherham you have a collection of Welsh police vans in the picture. Not sure when the last time was that South Yorkshire police needed such a contingent of police vans from Wales.
I didn't know Rotherham was in Wales as well!
Perhaps brought a suspect to court who had fled to Wales?
Perhaps the Welsh Police want to get a better perspective on how the grooming situation is handled there.
During riots etc Police forces bring in other Police forces. Quite a popular thing. We all know how good Rotherham Police are when you look how they sorted the grooming gangs etc in the area.... Oh, no they didn't did they, they let it happens for years....
We have a load of Welsh police vehicles around my Cheshire town, we have the cast off's from Wales and Wales have new, (hand me downs)
What no crap towns down south ?
Try looking a little harder ignoring the North/South divide
Because the south is perfect
There is but just not top 10 worthy other than maybe Luton, gravesend or jaywick
@@joegilbert3149 clacton ?
It seems that you've picked the north of the U K for your crap towns but I'm sure there are towns down south that are also crappy. I was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, and it was the safest village, although I haven't lived in the U K for forty six years. There are many beautiful scenic places in both Yorkshire & Lancashire Derbyshire too.
Where do you live now mate?
Luton should always be on a top 10 worst towns list.
True you have Dorset, somerset and devon
I’m from Brighton(South Side) and I have to say that we have some pretty save towns and cities.
@@nahlataha1744 I agree I took a visit to eastbourne that's a nice area the whole the east coast way is nice
I was boern in Scunthorpe and am proud that the town name broke most early internet checks for swear words. We have an entry in Wikipedia on the "Scunthorpe problem". other towns that suffered in the early days of the internet was Penistone. Eventualy the US internet firms found out real town names in the UK and stopped blocking them.
Go to North Wales.
Lots of Penisaw and others.
Love your direct description, straight forward.👍 There are number of crap locations in the UK.🇬🇧 Not all villages are gorgeous.👎
I'm from down South, haven't been to many of the places mentioned so have no opinion one way or the other. I will say however I lived near Southend-on -Sea for most of my childhood and young adult life. I can tell you that in the fifties and just into the sixties Southend once had a fantastic high-street full of different shops. A Woolworths, British Home stores and a Marks and Spencer about six cinemas and many public houses. Not to mention the Pier and Seafront...Then it got pedestrianised!! plus masses of 'Street Furniture' that changed the character forever ...guess its a sign of the times that has transformed many English towns...
Tyler Avenue here!
It's significant that all of these 'crap' towns are in the North of England. ie North of the North-South divide and indicative of the lack of investment from successive Governments in the North of England. Let's hope the current Government's 'Levelling Up' initiatives help to make these places (and many others in the North of England) more liveable and prosperous. But as a proud Northerner of England, I won't hold my breath.
It's not just investment. The problem is, as older generations have died off, so has pride in England, pride of neighbourhood, pride in beautiful old buildings, pride in older industrial buildings and infastructure. Instead we have grey modernism, toy town colours, giant, galvanised metal sheds instead of brick factories, left wing councils. All the beautiful old chimneys and huge brick buildings demolished. The old industries have been decimated by foolish government policies, causing lack of skills and people on benefits or with rubbish jobs. Worst of all the natives have been displaced from their streets and neighbouroods by immigrants who care nothing for our heritage or customs.
No mention of Skelmersdale (Skem), Kirkby or St Helen's? The South is pretty grim too to be fair.
If you have Labour running a town there’s a good chance it’s a Turd Town.
I am afraid many areas of Londonistan are now so dark and dystopian, that they are considered no go. This is of course due to the dangerous nature of these places and the fact that law enforcement is very reluctant to intervene in case of the abuse of women and children, which has been the case in many northern towns, mentioned here in this video.
I went to Manchester a few years ago when visiting the UK. I was interested in the extensive tram network and noted that there are a lot of boarded-up buildings in the general outskirts of town. I have to wonder about the tax base and just how that tram network is financed.
Subsidised by local and national taxpayers.
random
Oh yes: come to MCR to experience the utter deluge of cars, the sports gammon and of course one or two arty credible gigs tagged on like frosting on a personalised cake from ASDA.
@@damianb2374 What's a "sports gammon?" I kind of have an idea, but am not sure.
@@lawrencelewis2592 generally it's a red-meat screaming car obsessive who probably smacks the other half around when his team loses :)
I don't understand. How is browsing the Web in scunthorpe any different from anywhere else in the UK? Bad Internet speeds?
Are you joking or have you led a very sheltered life to not to know there's a naughty word embedded in the town's name which Google really doesn't like at all so blocks all searches!
My opinion is a crap town is Barking, Essex. I lived there about 22 years ago. I would never go back.
i agree with ever thing you said its because people dont care about each other, they are finding life in general very frightening, hopeless. people need to learn to love themselves, each other. i include myself on the list.
Lol the thumbnail, Blackburn, ayyyyy, takeaway Street and almost all of those shops are permanently closed. First thing you see on the way in too. Beautiful.
I'm shocked Andover isn't on this list. I've lived here for over 30 years and there is absolutely nothing to do here unless you like charity, vape and coffee shops. I've only stayed here that long because I've never been out of work here.
It's just like that EVERYWHERE , believe u me 🤮
I worked in Andover for a couple of years, so sad to see such a lovely, historic market town in decline
I've been to most of these towns and yep they deserved to be on the list especially Rochdale, Blackburn, Oldham, Scunthorpe, Huddersfield, Blackpool, Rotherham, Grimsby and Doncaster but I would also add Dewsbury and Burnley on there. But this video should be named "10 Crap Towns in Northern England" - not a single crap town listed from the Midlands and The South and there are loads we can definitely add on the list.
10 Crap towns in the Midlands: Corby, Dudley, Walsall, Mansfield, Burton-on-Trent, Heanor, Ilkeston, West Bromwich, Grantham and Telford
Try Luton, THAT'S a shithole.
Telford ent bad
Telford isn’t crap, rugby is though
@@alanmawson9601 Luton would have been in my top 10 worst towns in the UK
@@tsungiraichiramba I do agree about Rugby
And a lot have the common problem of mass immigration.. Asian, Romanian etc. Hanging around in big gangs, claiming benefits, not caring for where they live etc etc etc.... Im sure this well not be a popular view but it is a true one.
100% agree.👍
It's surprising how people like yourself are soo vocal but soo wrong. Romanian work in many different industries and same for Asians, stop generalising
Same with america
Yes, poor helpless English people are being overrun by immigrants and that’s why they don’t fancy to work but instead claim benefits for generations…
It's as though something happened, 🤔 then things got worse
What about Hinckley in Leicestershire ? Too many charity shops / empty shops. Very depressing there. xx
Blackburn, Burnley? Yes there is widespread poverty however I don't think they are the worst of towns due to the fact due to the lack of opportunities etc there is a strong togetherness in the local community.
To be fair both along with Blackpool are awful.
I am from Blackburn. They weren't lying it is very grim and has got grimmer. Fed up of boy racers in b ws etc the takeaway photos are true. Too many opening and closing within 2 years. The takeaway cartons are like tumbleweed, the takeaways smell of cannabis as you pass them. As soon as I saw the photo of takeaways I said Blackburn straight off. Its full of zombies and hostels encourage more. The guy sat in the town centre is one decent honest guy sat there with his dog. They didn't need to make him look like he is a problem. He's one of nature's harmless gents and loves his dog it's a ghost town most of the time , the takeaways could do with closing down, too many of the same food and you hardly see anyone in them. Guess how they stay open. Same with the taxis where the drivers can't drive properly and cut in front of you. Car insurance is one of the highest in the country and its cash for crash claimants making it so
I am from Scunthorpe and I am surprised it only made no 2 spot, I think the problem lays with the steel industry as those that still work there are always worried that tomorrow it will shut down, It really is a town you leave rather than come to
So glad that you mentioned my hometown of Huddersfield. The town centre is a dump, although we have some amazing countryside
when I moved to Sheffield I always had this myth in my mind that Doncaster was a posh town because of all the horse racing and stuff. no idea why. the first time I visited, I was there 20 mins and pretty much decided it was best that I leave. that place is rough is shit.
Sheff ain’t much better, with all the murders and rapes going on recently
I’m from Doncaster, and I’m always surprised when it doesn’t appear on these lists.
@@phllvslc same mate always expect it to be number 1 tbh
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I went to Donny to work on 'Bin waggons'- on contract. For a short time.
I realise now, it was one of the low points in my life.
Bin waggons & 'Donny'- ah, bliss!
What’s that about scunthrope that you can brouse Freely?
We've got Wakefield Council to thank for Castleford being in this list. Castleford needs its own Town Council as Castleford folk deserve much better
I live in grimsby, you summed it up pretty well.. but grimbarian are some of the nicest people you will meet.
I agree, I'm a southerner by birth but I moved to Grimsby over 20 years ago; I've lived in several places but the people in Grimsby are the friendliest and kindest I've ever met - and this did show the worst places in the town, it's not all like that!
@@dagmaraelfman576 they were always going to show Freeman street and the old college because it's a deprived area. I'm proud to say I'm a grimbarian
Huddersfield is one of my favourite towns and I regularly visit for a few days at a time. It has couple of 1970 shopping areas that need updating but other than that it is architecturely stunning. How did Lowestoft not make this list? I wouldn't even get dog's out of the car and stayed 10 minutes.
dog's
I agree. This focuses purely on Lancashire and Yorkshire. How did Birkenhead rank on their survey? That's way more scary on a Friday or Saturday night. My guess is that they didn't do a survey of all English towns and this is completely fabricated.
Sure, it has its bad areas, but if you are lucky enough to not have to remain in them, it has some awesome bits too
Some outstanding buildings were demolished in Huddersfield in the 1960s and replaced with utter crap.
Huddersfield was booming in the sixties, it’s only gone downhill since Kirklees took over from Huddersfield corporation.
So you have just flicked through the books 'Crap Towns' and 'Crap Towns 2' which were published a couple of decades ago. Did you find them in a charity shop?
Whitley Bay must have been in the running. I've never seen so many boarded up properties. It looks like a post apocalyptic nightmare.
Hi I have been to Blackpool and I love it from bingo 2020 West Bromwich ❤️💜💕💞👍
Every word you said is spot on....!!!
Have you travelled south of Sheffield; these are all in the North?
I find it strange that Rotherham seems to have lots of Welsh police vans (Heddlu).
I now live in Bridlington obviously a seaside
resort super in summer anyway I used to
live in Huddersfield I am not sure weather
your 10 towns are ranked from 1 to 10
but if you go to certain parts like Outlane
Emley Kirkburton Shelley Farnley Tyas
it's very nice I was born in Halifax go visit
The Pierce Hall (not sure how it's spelt)
Great architecture ❤😊
How come all the towns are up north?
Looks like someone has bought the guide to Rugby League and pasted Grimsby into it. Plenty of places in the South and Midlands are much grimmer than these places. I get the feeling they never get counted as they as close to London which appears to the maker of this film’s centre of the world.
It always amazes me, but not really, how all of these downtrodden places have beautiful classic government buildings. All by design, no doubt!
They have those beautiful classic government buildings, you so discernibly observe, because all these towns used to have a vibrant and extremely viable economic activity that enabled those fine structures to be built. Put simply, they were prosperous once! But all that was a century or two back in history. The decline of all these places started about fifty or more years ago, and has accelerated dramatically over the last thirty of them. Almost certainly beyond redemption now.
The industrial revolution the North was the engine that powered it
The City Fathers of the Victorian era were proud of their towns and the wealth created by the various industries. They put money into buildings to last. Now? Council build rubbish structures. In Leicester, near to my home, the City Offices built in 1976 were demolished in 2016 due to rubbish concrete reinforcement. Where were the building inspectors? No one cares, least of all developers that make money whatever happens.
brilliant, i live between doncaster and scunthorpe :(
Stick wakefield in there !! No market & half shops are closed & those open are mostly nail bars & pound shops bring back the good old days !!!!!!!
Puzzled. Recently visited W Yorkshire. with a view to moving and found Wakefield itself to have a great range of shops. I live in Reading Berkshire where everything is closing except the potholes and roadworks.
@@DavidCase-ov5uo Leeds is better mate everyone here in wakefield saying same !! Wakefield is cheaper but it shows ,hope this helps
surprised Dover isn’t on this list
And Margate
@@briancross6726margate is my home town
what is a real shame is that all of these towns were some of the best towns in england back in the olden days.
What do all these towns have in common apart from being in the north.
That's right, they have many visitors from over seas that never go home.
all ten towns are in the north....it truly is "grim up north"....incidently...grimsby is so poor..that, the people of Ethiopia, recently held a fund raising rock concert for the town!!!
Pmsl
And no women had any "enrichment events" occur? No "forced diversity"?
The name England does not provoke pride, more embarrassment,.I wish it wasn't this way, but it is.
So I was born in Rotheram, lived just outside Doncaster and then (luckily) moved to Australia in 1957 aged 2! Have never been back to Rotherham since we left, but Donny just once in 1979. 5 minutes outside there and the country is beautiful, so not all bad.
Thanks for this update. We can all breathe easier now.
Too much homeless men/ youths and female crackhead and pros
Yea going to be hated for this.
You start lose dignity ' so hey!
What about Stoke on Trent or more specifically Hanley?
NB Grimsby has the most impoverished area in the UK, bar none. Therefore the Chancellor gave massive amounts of public money (including FROM Grimsby) TO Canary Wharf, Surrey and Cambridge - the very richest parts of the UK. If these towns are crap, then it is down to our riches-seeking politicians.
I agree with Grimsby. However, is it fair to show a photo of the crematorium?
Huddersfield is beautiful, this must be a wind up
It is a nice place, I don´t live there, but my children, partners and grandchildren do. I have never seen any trouble there. I´m from London originally and there´s streets there you wouldn´t go down, never mind areas or towns.
I've had two holidays in Huddersfield (2018 & 2121) I'll definitely go again, one of my favourite places in the UK.
I know! How is it even on here let alone 1st place?
You should put hull on that list
100% agree
True for Blackpool. It used to be great for summer hols. Last few times I have its had a week stank to it. 🤢
Will there be a "10 amazing towns" video where all ten are places in the South? There's a definite common theme to these videos...
On top of which people don't always have a choice where they live circumstances force situations on people. In every town, good bad or indifferent there are horrible people, meh people and lovely people. Those lovely people care about each other and love their family and friends regardless of the venue.
I find these kind of reviews arrogant and ignorant.
Maybe all the best places are down South?
Surprised not to see Southend on one of these lists.
There looks to be a common theme running through almost all the Towns mentioned.
Can't think what it could be 🤔
I will say it for you IMMIGRATION and I’m from crap Birmingham the council and police force are in special measures.
As someone who has lived in blackpool my entire life its truly a shit hole knowing that it was on the depressing towns in the uk list explains why I was so depressed as a kid I can't wait to move one day
How has the UK come to this?
It went left.
A shade too "North-centric". What about Slough, Luton or Yeovil? Bridgwater is no oil painting either. As for Swindon.........
Cor talk about having a go at the North area's i have lived in the north and now live in the South and i can tell you there is plenty of bad area's in the South.
Talks about Rotherham, South Yorkshire, shows pictures of welsh police vans.
You missed Burnham on Sea, Weston super Mare, just about all Essex towns, Wisbech, Peterborough and many more down south. The North doesn't have a monopoly on crapness.
Burnham on Crouch?
Cosham nr Portsmouh, Flint North Wales, Arbroath, Scotland, there are three extra pits definitely worthy of this post.- Oh, Wrexham too, and Pembroke dock town. Cumbernald too.
It was suicide or move each time for pro's & cons.
Joy of Uk life.😅
Weston is not that bad most of the West Midlands is worse
@@diamondsam of course WSM is very popular with West Midlanders!😀
@@robmontier639 There's a Burnham on Sea too, if I've correctly understood your question.
4:40 Why do the police vans have ''heddlu'' (welsh for police) written on them when they're supposed to be from Rotherham?
I recently moved in Huddersfield from India as a NHS worker and i doythink its too bad.
The town is too big to be called a town yet not too small to be considered a city.
It's no surprise that most of the crap towns in England are from Lancashire and Yorkshire. These areas, the cradle of the industrial revolution where the workers were exploited are dire. Left behind by Government investment and with high immigrant populations from the Indian subcontinent. I know I lived and worked in one of them. The towns in East Lancashre are particularly deprived in the areas where Cotton (weaving) was King in the last century
There is a reason I love living in Barnsley because unlike all the shitholes that surround it it’s actually nice
How about Billericay, Chelmsford, Haverhill, Ipswich, Hemel Hempstead, Croydon, March, Great Yarmouth, Northampton and Dover? At least up north we're friendly...
Chelmsford is a city
Rotherham isn't great. The centre is run down and it seems to have more housing estates than private houses but it shouldn't be in the top ten.
There are places you haven't mentioned that make it look posh
Scunthorpe should its own slogan, inspired by a nearby town's "You'll always find a pal in Spalding".
Definitely an anti Northern bias, and I live in London. Iam sure most of the named towns are grim but there are plenty in the south that are equally grim. Slough, Stevenage, Luton, Dagenham, Ashford and Jay wick for starters.
I live in one of these towns and for me it is perfectly fine, I don't see anything round with my humble town although there may be the odd terrible street but I don't live in one of them, I just live in a simple road and it's good enough that 1 bus goes through it.
Aswell since it isn't like a very popular city, I don't get massive crowds
All predominantly diverse with a peaceful religious outlook town's.
Grimsby was destroyed when we joined EU, same with Fleetwood.
Could have had the top 50 worst towns in the north. There are good areas in each of them. Just the main is bad.
I once went to an awful housing estate in Windermere, Lake District, 25 years ago whilst working in the area.
Burnt out cars, broken fencing etc. Didn’t expect that.
I wonder sometimes if money people bought the houses when they came up for sale, and if it is pleasant now.
It’s far easier to find excellent towns in the U.K. ( about four). The remainder range from crap, crappier, crappiest.
The one thing that links all these towns is that the main source of income for the population is no more. Textiles, Mining, Steel and Fishing and in the case of Blackpool, tourism.
How come all these crap towns are up north?? Is there no crap towns in the Midlands or Down south.
I'm from Barnsley. Since you included every other crap northern town, I demand that you make it a top 11 and include 'tarn.
Grimsby born and bred! That spot outside Asda at 5:00 I got mugged once as a teenager. Happy days! 😅 But yes I have to admit that is not a very nice town. I moved from Grimsby to London when I was 18 (and never went back) and even when I walked through truly horrendous areas of London like Peckham I always felt safer than I did in Grimsby. Grimsby was just scary. Chavs everywhere who just wanted to attack people 😅 On the plus side, good fish and chips and ecstasy.
You have not mentioned Warrington . Our council ruined the town , Golden Square is just a skid mark, .Gone are the great shops that were once here.
The only good things about the north is that the fish and chips is so much better and houses are cheaper - but then few people there can afford big houses anyway. Good place to live if you are a high earner like a doctor, lawyer, accountant, IT expert etc but shit for everyone else.
From a Midlands perspective, these are mine:
Coalville
Hinckley
Nuneaton
Wigston
Corby
Skegness
Swadlincote
Shepshed
Atherstone
Syston
"....we don't take delight in celebrating negativity" And yet here we are....
I am from Romania and I've been living in the UK for many years now but I like it here, some people can be rude and others nicer just like in Romania and everywhere else in the world
I live in Castleford and it is even more depressing now, full of HMO's and heroine addicts, all shops closed down. Can't wait to move
All in the North....hence the statement.... it's grim up North, but it's grimmer in Grimsby!
It's in the name pal. I've never been there but it does look a little bit upsetting.
At least three of the towns have had a grooming-gang problem for decades.
I see they didn't get any West Midland area's tbh Walsall should be #1 its a dead town now but 10 years ago it was booming
This video is in my top ten videos about crap towns!
i went to blackburn once on hotline from burnley and it was way worse than burnley it felt like blackpool
Why did the video show Welsh police vans while talking about Rotherham?
You could do a top 500 , but the worst towns have to be in the north west due to the terrible effin weather ...places on the south coast are too sunny to be crap enough ,despite being crap
I would rather live in any of these places than in London, which is one of the crappiest places on the planet. I stayed three days in Northolt once, utterly soulless and depressing, and another time in Acton. And you think Huddersfield is worse! The area round King's Cross, like a war zone at night. South of the Thames? Is it even in England? Not only is London horrible, it's miles and miles from anywhere that isn't horrible.
Your video is, actually, offensive...which I'm sure is your intention.
I get that you may feel that the north is overrepresented in this list, but are you sure that London is one of the crappiest places to live in the world? Consistently rated in the top 20 safest cities in the world (top 5 in UK) - In spite of the 'war zone' that is King's Cross, it's one of the easiest places in the UK to find work, 50% of it is made up of green spaces (which isn't bad) and it has some of the most renowned schools and universities across the globe. No idea what you mean by south of the river not being in England either.
@@eugenehenry6951 Did you ever watch 'Last of the Summer Wine'? That's Huddersfield, about 99% green space, right in the middle of the magnificent South Pennines area. You might think it dangerous if you're frightened of sheep.
@@dwm1943 You’re damn right I’m afraid of sheep! Have you not watched the New Zealand film, Black Sheep?!
I have watched Last of the Summer Wine (well, not sure if I’ve seen an entire episode); beautiful scenery. There are some wonderful, misrepresented parts of the north; don't get me wrong. If I had to move away, the first city that I'd explore moving to (if I had to choose a city) would be Newcastle. However, as far as English cities are concerned, only Bristol and Birmingham have a higher proportion of green spaces than London (London apparently beats Plymouth, Leeds, Bath etc.).
My wife and I love visiting the Lakes and Yorkshire Dales; and anyone who has been to Gravesend (in Kent) would never visit again unless they absolutely had to. I also recognise that so much in this country is London-centric; way too much!
So I understand the anger, frustration and resentment from people who, justifiably, feel like a forgotten younger sibling; I just think that targeting London and claiming it to be one of the worst in the world (although we are of course entitled to our opinions), may affect the credibility of some of your very valid points.
South London is most definitely in England. 😊
One great problem in England is that people look to the past for solutions. Bring back fishing, bring back manufacturing industry and mining, etc.
Modern markets must be embraced, and the requisite skills needed to compete in them learned. Also enterprise must be concentrated in fields where Britain can complete price-wise with China, Philippines, India, etc and also in sectors which will not be automated for some time. Instead of training to be a truck driver, learn skills which will be needed to make components for driverless trucks.