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.
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
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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
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.
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’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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.)
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 😉
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.
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**thole" (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.
100% and came here to just say that. Have been in Camden, NJ, work in Philadelphia (relatively "not too bad" in Center City, but can still be dangerous) and my husband works in Baltimore, MD which is an absolute shithole and dangerous. All these places look quite nice to me compared to East Coast America. I don't see boarded up or crumbling houses, drug deals... just look up "Kensington Philadelphia" on youtube and you'll see what I mean. Anywhere in the US is worse because of the sheer number of guns, and crazy people, here.
Eastern New Jersey is home to Alpine NJ, one of the most exclusive and expensive towns in America. It hosts a number of celebrities. Brooklyn is one of the most sought after areas - Williamsburg? come on.
We don´t compare the US to Europe. We also don´t compare South America or Africa to Europe. It is not important at all what Americans think! We live in Europe and in Europe "a lot of crime" and "bad areas" are defined differently since our countries and cities have never been warzones. Just because you Americans are used to living in hell in the United States doesn´t mean the rest of the world is as bad as the shithole you live in or come from. Gang wars, gunfire, boarded up buildings etc. are not normal at all! These things are signs of a deeply rotten, depraved and economically challenged society which is sick to the core! But then the US needs to practice in their towns and cities what they do best - war! War is the only thing the hellhole US is good at. It is and has always been normal in Europe to live in places where there is peace and just a crime here and there. Peace is normal for us!
@@VeledaG I think actually that’s what I was trying to say, compared to the US bad areas these towns are quite nice in my opinion. My husband and I are going to try to immigrate to Ireland once we retire in a couple years. Sick of the guns and violence.
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.
Middlesbrough is a great town. Always used to be there when I was younger. Its a bit of a melting pot of cultures who all seem to get along. My town hartlepool isn't a bad place to live either. It has its rough parts like any town. But also lovely parts too. People complain... but I've worked in every corner of the UK and thought that most towns are pretty much the same. Good luck to your town, wherever it is your ivory tower is situated.
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.
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.
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.
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 👍
@@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
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.
@@basconevinnie647 I'm jealous. I need some guidance please. Lately I've been considering buying dividends stocks for retirement, I have set asides $400k but somewhere along the line, I get cold feet maybe because I'm a rookie and have no idea what I'm doing.
agreed. if these are the worst places then you’ve got a pretty good country. they don’t look like the bombed out shells of places in the U.S. like Detroit, Camden or Gary.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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 😎
There is an intrractive crime map for the whole of the UK. If you looked at it often enough you wouldn't feel safe anywhere because even the areas with low crime still usually has the "Violence and Sexual Offences" category, which by the way is the most frequent crime category in the UK with antisocial behaviour running second. Oh and that is only recent crime as well. Whole country has way to many scummy people lurking. Think of it like the you are only ever so many feet away from a rat and replace rat with "Violent and Sexual Offenders". Then imagine the list of worst towns at that point.
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!!
I lived in an area that was not mentioned that had unsupervised kids scratching cars of foreigners and throwing bricks and stones at anyone's windows that did not fit it according to their standards.
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.
That list isn't far off the mark, very generous to Oldham; saying that there's 8 worse places to live. Giving a shout out to the following dregs of towns: Bedford, Preston, Hastings, Dover, Bridgwater, Grimsby, Halifax; all of which make Peterborough look like Shangri-La.
Halifax has some of the best surrounding countryside in England namely Ripponden, Shibden valley, Mill Bank, Bradshaw and a centre that includes The Piece Hall, Eureka, Westgate and The Square Chapel so it should be in the top 10 places to live.
@burner Second biggest city in UK, but not as bad for its size. Longbridge is now transformed from the biggest factory in the country to a shiny new educational and shopping area. City centre given a makeover. Still areas of deprivation but not as bad as it was
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.
Was in UK for a weekend. Flew into Heathrow and out of Manchester. I found the country wonderful and very familiar, probably because I come from one of the commonwealth countries. Generally cities undergoing de-industrialization have similar problems. It’s true of Detroit, true of cities in Eastern Europe and its true of some cities in the UK.
The uk isn’t a country ,, What country in the uk did you visit ? England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland? If you went from Manchester to Heathrow, you probably only saw a tiny tiny piece of England. Which happens to be a gloriously beautiful country,, outside of major cities, however, there are some cities that are stunning also. Neighbouring countries wales and Scotland also have astounding natural beauty, as does Northern Ireland. Unfortunately I’ve never been to the rest of Ireland so I couldn’t comment on that part. Just Northern Ireland .
@KungFu Nerd Rebellion Lol, get over yourself. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, not just you. You don't have to live somewhere to have a assessment of it. Having been stationed all over the world in the military, you can get a good idea of what a place is about as a visitor.
@@kralik2002sg Lol, I don't know what happened to your reply to me. It looks like it was deleted. I only have to look at your channel history of 'women's jugs' to see where you're coming from to dismiss anything you might possibly say. P.s. I don't play 'Call of Duty.'
@David Lockett Oh. The only reason to think Boro is a good place to come from is if you haven't been anywhere else. As soon as I lived in other places I had something to compare to. This isn't a knock on all of the people, but there is a serious dark underbelly.
@@dickmonkey-king1271 I'm from Boro spent 7 years in the RN so been about a bit. It a large town that like all large towns has good bits and bad bits. It isn't any worse than any large town down in the lovely south. It's not as nice as some Miss Marple type town in the Cotswolds, but then no large town would be.
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, as a Belgian citizen, for me this was a very interesting voyage through England. It surpises me that 8 out of the 10 towns shown here seem not to have a classic city centre, with city hall, church, bookshops, restaurants, cafes, cinema's and so on. Instead, numerous, similar streets, without character, every house seems to be the same and many of them are small and in poor shape. But Petersborough, for instance, is not from that sort. I like that city very much. Neither do I understand why Hartlepool has such a bad score; pretty nice town at the North-Sea coast. Splendid!
Rochdale actually has much of what you mentioned 2 cinemas multiple churches and bookstores as well as being on the footsteps of the pennine moors done of the outlying villages are actually quite nice aesthetically but same problems persist. Its the lack of council investment and high rates of drug addiction alcoholism homelessness high crime and low cost housing coupled with lack of jobs and opportunities
@@thakery5720 My goodness, I didn't know the situation was so dark, up there in the north. Quite frankly, Brexit was not a very good answer to those problems. Maybe many of the 'northerners' thought Brexit would bring them a better life, but how could it? Together, people and countries are always stronger, at least, that is my opinion.
Oh they do have all those things. At least the cities anyway. The towns, well they probably have some local town hall where people discuss things nobody is really interested in. The main problem is if you want a job, like say a STEM job, you've got to live in or near a city in the UK.
@@robbrike4619 I mean, following the laws and guidelines of other countries that will only pass laws that is in their own self interest regardless if it harms your individual country, is not always a good thing either. Theres positives and negatives. Especially with different values. Good luck passing laws that both North Korea, America and south africa all agree on.
Bradford has a town hall and sort of city centre, but the development sort of drags away from the surrounding streets. The bad quality is probably from it being post industrial
I moved from London to Peterborough 2 years ago and I can tell you that Peterborough is changing rapidly in a positive way, the only actual downside is the lack of nightlife and the north of the city is still quite rough but improving
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 live in Gravesend and can disagree with everything said about it. The transport is excellent being able to get to London, Liverpool or France very easily with the train stations and the buses run throughout all of gravesend and are all good. The main secondary school is rated as outstanding.
It's all relative I think....if you happen to have have viewed one of the many videos on 'worst places to live in the US' any of the UK cities you mention will undoubtedly look like fairy-tale villages in comparison.... the urban decay in the US giver new meaning to the word 'deprivation'. If you've ever been to Philadelphia, or Detroit, or Oakland (CA); Luton or Oldham will no doubt look refreshingly clean, safe and quaint! The sheer amount of homies in the San Francisco downtown, urinating and defecating out in broad daylight in front of office buildings and department stores, are a stark reminder of what real urban decay is like.
Those towns mentioned do not resemble the pics that were shown here ,they look way worse than that I suppose he has got the pics from some old websites trying to show their town in a better light ,still nothing like the depravity I was raised in in Glasgow in the 80s we could only dream of having a garden and your own front door onto the street .
Mate, go to any club area of most towns and cities in the UK, and you are guaranteed to find women pissing and passing out on the streets. Binge drinking is a huge problem.
People have got to shit and piss somewhere. And if the authorities won't provide public toilets or let homeless people use them ... We have the same problem here in some places. There's a certain kind of hypocrisy that goes with it though: a lot of those nice respectable pubs and shops won't let homeless people use the facilities and not all councils are keen to keep spending money on latrines that are routinely vandalised by drunken thugs, so something has got to give. And a passer by witnessing public urination and defecation will lament how disgusting it is. Yet on the other hand, some of those lamenting such behaviour will think nothing of going for a night on the town then wapping the old sausage out and letting the water flow because it's too taxing to wait until they reach the next pub in a hundreds yards or so.
Please don’t take this video too seriously. It never even mentions immigration. Most of these towns have absolutely massive immigration problems, eg Oldham, Rochdale , Luton & so on..
I agree. Towns are being flooded with people who do are a strain on our NHS, schools etc. And who don't contribute anything. We have enough trouble housing and feeding our own with many homeless people. Let's look after our own first
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.
One street back from the promenade in Blackpool. Written by me on a day I had to serve a abandonment notice… Central Drive... She’s shattered and broken. It’s a lonely life she’s in. Even her depression is suffering. Her body has had a autopsy report. And,yes she’s slowly recovering. Her self esteem levels distinctly distorted. And it seems all these feelings derive, From a lifetime of abandonment down on Central drive?... She’s seen so many teenage pregnancies and perinatal deaths. Overamping and severe stomach bleeds into her health. Hair falling out and a distinct lack of nutrition. The proximate caused by her solvent addiction. She can’t take it anymore. She’s lost her head and that rolls on the floor. And yes! It all derives. From a lifetime of abandonment down on central drive. The authorities have their weekly call to check on her disposition. To ascertain if there’s chance of improvement on her mental condition? But, they don’t care she’s just a number on the list of despair 😩 What despair when you can’t help yourself? What despair when the label says leave on the shelf? The label is quickly summized. “ A result of a lifetime of abandonment down on Central drive” xx
I moved to Peterborough from Norwich to work 9 years ago and can honestly say that Peterborough is going through a rapid change and is about to open a new university. It is a rough place and NOT very cosmopolitan. But it does have a strange charm and if you do have a decent paying job then it is a OK place to live. But you can see the poverty and drug problems the city has and it is not uncommon to walk around and see hypodermic needles and homeless tents hidden in the bushes. But the city is getting a major redevelopment and hopefully can improve.
I moved to Norwich from London recently and I love it here...having checked out a few places before Norwich, I can wholeheartedly concur with you, Peterborough has a strange charm and a certain optimism, also a beautiful cathedral....can never understand the "worst town in England" comments
I'm sure it will. 20 years ago Norwich was run down and the council and community have invested in making it an attractive place to live. Anything can happen!
I disagree entirely, never seen one crime in Peterborough, not one needle, my house price has risen by 80k in 2 years. Big open spaces. Great transport links. Cant ask for more tbh
As a regular visitor to mostly every corner of England over the years, Rochdale is the most horrendous place I have ever seen. I thought some towns in Scotland were miserable looking but nothing compares to Rochdale!
Yes there's still bad areas but it's under going a major regeneration in the centre. It's actually nowhere near as bad as other places in Greater Manchester that aren't on this list at all: Stockport, Moss Side, Wythenshawe, Cheetham Hill, Macclesfield, Hulme, Salford, Fallowfield, Chorlton-cum-Hardy etc are all far worse.
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.
Good Ole' Britain in the 70s: "... *Huge sections of the UK coastline were too polluted for swimming until EU legal action forced the government to clean up.* The British government tried to claim that the beaches of Brighton, Blackpool, Skegness and many other resorts weren’t used for bathing, to avoid dealing with the sewage, condoms and tampons that polluted them.." Good Ole' Britain in the 20s: BBC News 31 March 2021 *"Water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times in 2020,* according to new figures published by the Environment Agency... Untreated effluent, including human waste, wet wipes and condoms, was released into waterways last year… Rivers Trust, an organisation which campaigns to protect river environments in England and Wales, said: "This is a shocking volume of untreated contaminated wastewater reaching our rivers..." *"Southern Water was recently caught dumping up to 21 billion litres of raw sewage off north Kent and Hampshire coasts."*
Burghley house is actually in Stamford, I wouldn't class it as Peterborough! They could of mentioned Ferry Meadows though. I left Peterborough nearly 20 years ago to live near Blackpool.
@@sarahjj8464 I wouldn't class it as Peterborough either, it's definitely a lot closer to Stamford. However, when you Google Burghley House it does come up as "Historical place in Peterborough, England". I think Peterborough council must be paying Google to link it to Peterborough. If I were on the Stamford council I'd be rather annoyed and would want them to correct it. It could make a difference to where tourists choose to stay!
I grew up in Hackney East London and although gentrification has built the area up to reasonable standards, back in the 90s it was a shithole. Drug abusers everywhere, gun and knife crime that I lost close friends to, failing schools and teenage pregnancies. It was that hard you wished you were older to be able to do something and help family and friends but I wouldn't change it for anything.
Yep in the 80s Hackney was one of the worst places to live in the whole country. Now it's considered a desirable place to live in London! What a huge change.
I was born in Medellín, Colombia and spent my childhood there during the 80’s and 90’s, back when it was considered the most dangerous city in the world (thanks Pablo Escobar!). Looking at these towns, they would have been heaven to me back then.
Finally, they got an English guy who can actually pronounce these place names. In the previous version an American with a robot monotone read out names like 'Old Ham' 'Rock Dale' and Luton with the 'u' pronounced like 'umbrella'.
Not quite! Burghley House is pronounced without sounding the 'gh' as in Burley. The worst place to live is actually inside the M25 with the s***hole at the centre.
I want an English person to make a video mentioning "R Kansas" (Arkansas) and "Lewis e arna" (Louisiana). So tired of lazy Americans who have never visited getting European names wrong. I live in Worcestershire, it's tortuous hearing them mangle the name, even though they have Worcestershire Sauce over there
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 and more importantly the comments. I live in Manchester decades ago and now in Kent where the Council have surplus funds and CEO pay comparable to pm I think. My observations of the 245 Councils I think, majority of councillors were not professional..
Whilst in Poland I met a guy who had worked in UK . Said he loved it ! I asked where he'd worked ,- assuming some nice quaint seaside town ( Brighton , Hastings etc ). He'd actually worked in Northampton - and loved the place !?!?
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.
