Yep. As they keep printing currency around the world all this is going to get worse unfortunately. People seem to only focus on the US Dollar but they've doubled the amount of pounds in existence in the last 5 years, all done by design to crash the west and bring in the great reset. Prep, pray and stay out the way people 🙏take care, cheers
@honestplaces down south they're mostly decent. Kent beach towns like folkestone and whitstable are still thriving, Bournemouth is still one of the best beach locations in the country, and Devon and Cornwall are still amazing. It's just the north that's shit
They're a relic of a time when everyone went on holiday without going abroad. Low cost air travel has seen to it that people can go and sit on a (much warmer) beach in Spain or Portugal for a similar price.
It seems like there's no connection between neighbours... or they just dont care about their neighbourhood... Such a pity, because it would only take one sunday to clean up the street if all the neighbours worked together...
Its the same oul shit here in Ireland too, useless fuckers that get everything handed to them. Usually couldn't give a fiddlers either about the community, all take take take and give phek all to anyone, blackholes on the rest of us. I couldn't live in that utter filth or even have that type of eyesore outside my door, I would go out and clean it. But sure look, inside of your house is lovely, just the area is an utter tip!
I was born there but lived in aberdeen almost my entire life. I think with towns like this is first chance people get they leave and never look back. Has a bad effect on a town.
Ive been off for months through poor health and been going pubs to escape from my problems but its expensive. Id saved up a fair bit from my last job luckily but an afternoon out plus takeaway is like 30-40 quid. Do that twice a week, its a lot just on booze and having fun. I cant maintain this way of life its not good for anyone. Some people are down the pubs every day. Ive no idea how they do it.
@@oddities-whatnot I used to think the same how people are down everyday, but these people I realised that some of them stay in the pub all day and literally pay no bills at home as they barely use heating or electric really, crazy but true for a lot of them!
@@oddities-whatnottry spunking your wages 600 quid for the week down the pub waking up the Saturday morning 300 pound in debt! That was my routine in Rhyl every week for 5 years so glad I'm not like that anymore
Not been in a pub since 2005, pulled a sicky, went in a pub, stood in the corner with a pint watching all the old boy's in the suits and ties sitting in the same seats having the same conversations with same clique, I thought that could be me in 30 years very depressing. Walked out never regretted it.
Tiki Room has an upstairs 80's club and downstairs is modern stuff. Ellises has a club at the back called Hidden that is open until 3:30am. Then there is Tinkers that play Trance, Dance and Techno. All of them don't open until about 9PM though. Most people start at Wetherspoons and move onto either Bodfor or them. Bodfor is good too, pretty busy on a Friday and Saturday and has live acts. You can have a good night when it's not full of nobs.
My parents come from Flint in North Wales just a few miles along the coast from Rhyl, I'm 50 now, back in late 70's early 80's when I was a kid, when we used to visit the extended family, they'd take me to Rhyl for day trips and I remember it being a fun place for kids and family's ..seem to remember there was trampoline park type place, I used to spend hours jumping around on the trampolines! Such a shame to see it in it's current state abandoned and run down...looks like an absolute dive these days. Great pity to see these places in perpetual decline...great upload though mate!
Did you go to the Sun Centre? I'm 50 and used to love going there. The sky monorail as a 7 year old was a mindblower. Not drowning in the wave machine was always a plus and the bumpy slide was super fast!
Kids want their families to go abroad. I use to take my kids on gady trips to Rhyl wit my late parents. We use to have a great time.its such a shame to see it in such decline.In my 50s i moved to North Wales for 20yrs and loved it nr Llangollen i didnt want to come bk to the Midlands but illness brought me bk..i use to go to Rhyl when living there to remanis looking out to sea .i only wish i hadn't got so ill i would still be there social media has destroyed a lot on line shopping buying slabs of beer so cheep in the supermarket. I know millions were spent on doing the front up nut seems nothing is going on there.😢
Dunno if you wanna spend it in absolute Boredom but I think I’d rather go London where there’s lots of things open transport fast and easy shops don’t close and there’s life
@@ciararespect4296 That's utter bollocks. Canada, NZ and Australia all had assisted migration schemes, not the USA. Very few Brits migrate to Seppoland for a range of reasons, not least that they're thick as f*ck.
Looks depressing,20mph means to have to leave home in March to get to your holiday in July😂😂 by the time you get there everythings closed down.That boozer looks like a friday fight club venue😂 Proper Grim surprised you didnt get mugged for your 2p's in the arcade 😂
Another great show and you hit the nail right on the head too many people don't want to make the effort my mrs won't go out Netflix prime tv x etc but of course the pandemic has a lot to answer for
Another great insight. Families on a budget probably nowadays visit Caravan Park holiday centres, rather than the old time guest houses on the seafront. But it is sad to observe the decline of places like Rhyl.
That looked like a Ghost Town mate , when i was a Kid we used to go to Silloth it's a small Seaside Town in Cumbria it overlooked the Irish Sea it's nothing special but it's tidy and worth a quick look if you're ever passing , take care bud 👍
@@michaelroberts7374 I'm glad you think so it hasn't changed much since i was a Kid in the 1970's & 80's , let's stop talking about it and keep it a secret 😀😃😄
Im 40 and my mum moved to abergele 2 years ago, we take my young son to the aracdes he loves rhyl, As you said as a kid you dont care. Rhyl is what you make of it IMO the beach hasnt changed right. We will continue to go crab fishing ride the mini railway and enjoy cheap food at the hungry horse lol.
Pubs everywhere continue to suffer with public house closes still widespread a situation that has been going on for at least three decades now. Rhyl is no exception but generally appears to be a neglected place with no takers for the abandoned and run down buildings. I personally think it’s a shame you don’t explore Wetherspoons when you find one present as you may increase your audience interest because that is one outfit that seems to get things right when it comes to operating Pubs.
Used to go to Rhyl sun centre as a kid, remember being amazed by the wave machine. Everywhere looks better when the sun's out but even that's impacted when you turn a corner and find litter strewn across the street
Easy to say people are staying home because of home comforts. May be partly true, but like everything else it comes down to money. ‘Mooching about’ and taking part in basic social activities costs money and everyone’s skint!
The place look deserted it’s such a shame, no one can afford anything due to the spiralling cost of living, how we used to love the seaside when we was little, nowadays every seaside town looks worse for wear, I live in one myself herne bay in Kent it’s not much better but got plenty of dingy pubs🙃
If this is Wales’ roughest town, then Wales must be a virtual paradise because it’s really not that bad. Practically every single seaside town in England is worse than Rhyl. Rhyl is basically a smaller and much safer version of Blackpool. I know, because I live right next to it and have been going there my whole life. Yeah, it’s a shithole, but it’s our shithole and as shitholes go, it’s not a bad shithole. 🤷🏻♂️😂
Banging out the uploads at the moment 😁 Really enjoy your videos. Have to say though because you never start the video off with whoever you're with or mention them, when they randomly appear I always think it's just some random stranger tagging along. Throws me everytime 😅😅
@@honestplaces Definitely 🤣 I'm always thinking 'that stranger is getting very close...' In the last one I thought you just went and sat directly opposite a random punter and started talking to him about your Guinness 🙈🤣🤣
So glad you enjoyed your cheap pint of Guinness. There is a pub just a stones throw where it is cheaper, I think. There are many fine pubs and cafes still open in Rhyl and they are very good. Many of the pubs you were looking for were just beyond your viewing and could be easily found and planned for a future visit. The fact that you focused on all the closures did not really represent the town in its best. The main reason there is so much closed around the beach area is that, we are in the process of stabilising the towns future, by protecting it from the sea. Sea defence work is on a two year program that will finish in September 2025. Hopefully, we can carry on transforming and renewing this town. Perhaps when the new Queens Market is open you will come back and visit and see Sunny Rhyl in a more favourable light. It's not at a bad place to live at all. I know because I am here and I love it rain or shine. 🌄☀🌞🏖😇🌴🌴☔☀
'The window cleaner don't come round 'ere. I can tell you that for a fact.' Love it 😆. I've been watching quite a few of your videos mate and love them, especially you're wickedly dry sense of humour. Keep them going. Cheers from Australia 🍻
Bloody hell mate, that advert was amazing! I thought we were going down the matress route at first, then you threw the sleep maskl curve ball. Seriously, it was so funny!
Poor Little seaside town! Looks so depressed... And I'm seeing it under a sunny clear sky. I can't imagine how it'd look during winter. I hope it does get some tourism in the next months so people and businesses can reactivate a bit. So funny to see these pubs have carpet floors... I can't imagine how difficult it would be to clean up the spills out of that surface.
Look at the state of that 5g tower in the opening shot! They put loads of them up during the first lockdown in our area followed shortly after by ANPR cameras that run of the wireless technology and yet people thought it was all about better connectivity for their phones!
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba should be yer intro soundtrack, but you'd get done for copyright, shame that. Looking forward to this, I'll bung the kettle on
I think cheap Spanish and Greek holidays spelled the death of all the British seaside towns. The lockdown years later made them even worse. I don't think they will recover unless holidays in Spain and Greece, etc. skyrocket in price.
"Endured" Rhyl EVERY year in early to mid 1970s. Hated it! Grandparents lived there and we got carted off without fail. It was a shit hole then, and probably one now. No desire to revisit the place, even for nostalgic reasons. Great video, even though I don't recognise the place today.
Yes Rhyl is a shit hole, but to be fair, you’re looking through night club windows to be open at 3-4 in the afternoon. They don’t open until later on in the night over the weekend. Maybe walk around Rhyl 8-9 at night on a Saturday to do a better review
could be any seaside town on any coast line, they all look the same, run down and neglected, i remember in the 80s and 90s they were clean, tidy and busy, at least the sand and sea still look nice.😎
I believe a lot of the places on the prom have stayed closed this year due to the massive sea defence being built.....its not worth opening with work like that going on. It's not the fault of Rhyl it's the thick stupid council they don't have a clue and they don't care.
Oi hang on , showing the run down areas and letting people slag it . This is my hometown and it wasnt like this before riff raff moved here and made it a shit hole . Show us the rough area of where you live . Ill say to anyone dont like it here piss off
They have even closed the Costa there now , it’s definitely a ghost town due to the cost of living crisis and covid which hasn’t helped it’s such a shame Rhyl has gone like this 😢
I was brought up by the sea, in Yorkshire, small town but many visitors all summer. Then Beeching closed the railway that brought the visitors, this was when most people did not own a car. A bit later foreign holidays became common. These things changed the place. Later again, they started housing homeless people there because there were cheap empty places which bigger towns and cities lacked. Some of those people were drug addicts. You might get how these things changed places.
I'd argue that people aren't 'not going out' because they're comfortable at home watching Netflix & RU-vid, but because the country is in such a poor economic state that people have next to no disposable income for the luxuries of going to the pub/restaurants/cinemas anymore. It feels like just a few years ago me and my partner or friends could go out to local independent restaurants and support local businesses with our money at the weekends. Now, even on what would once be considered a "decent income", that is no longer the case.
