The WORST Place to Live in the UK? | BRADFORD 

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I lived in Bradford for 4yrs as an international student. I am originally from Seoul which is quite large and busy city all the time so Bradford was really calm and quiet city for me. There are some of hidden germ places to visit. It is not that bad as people point out to be. I loved the places in/near Bradford too, Baildon, Leeds, Manchester, York, Harrogate, Saltaire, Hebden Bridge and Ilkely of course! I loved the Bradford no matter what. It is my second home town for me. One day I hope there is a chance to visit Beautiful Yorkshire again. Cheers from South Korea x

I used to live in Aberdeen. I knew some Bangladeshi people. One guy moved himself and his family to Bradford. After a few months he turned up back in Aberdeen. I asked him why he moved back. He said Bradford was too rough.

Best part about living in Bradford is you're never more than an hour away from better cities like Manchester, Leeds, and York

Visited a few weeks ago. The architecture of Bradford shows that this was once a proud industrial city. The money has moved out long ago along with all the decent jobs. Bradford has too much crime, poverty, unemployment, drugs, low wages and business continues to move out resulting in deprivation . City of culture 2025 means money will be spent to polish up the city, but it’s money gone to waste, as it was with Coventry. City of culture will not bring back the businesses that the city needs. Bradford will simply continue to decline.

In Bradford we have bad drivers, crime, poverty and council neglect, but we have great appreciation for one and an other and its the businesses that make Bradford thrive and the hard work from the people working to make life worth living... IF YOU SEE SOMONE WITHOUT A SMILE THEN JUST GIVE THEM ONE OF YOURS and if you never been to Bradford please visit and enjoy.

I lived in Bradford for the 1st 30 years of my life. I've lived in Leeds for most of the last 20. They've definitely tidied up the city centre since I lived there. The brick paved pedestrian areas look really nice. But, as others have pointed out, there are a lot of closed shops and just a general sense of decline in Bradford. It's a real shame as it wasn't always that way.

I’ve lived in Bradford all my life and I avoid the city centre, reckon it’s 10:years since I went in, and I can see why, truly truly dreadful with at least 50% of the shops shut down, just dire.

Over in Pakistan they have Islamabad.....over here we've got islamabrad.......🤔

Thanks for the video mate! I lived in Bradford for almost 6 years when I was a student and it’s so weird to see these places once again.

Buttershaw, Holme Wood and Great Horton road are essential viewing if you want to see the REAL Bradford...

I live in bd, u can’t judge a place in half an hour. Live there ur whole life and you see the shit going on daily

“People think they are racing cars over here” 4:00 That’s very true

Great watching with your positive outlook of Bradford, thanks for exploring.

The building you so liked is the Bradford Town Hall. Heard the clock chiming in the latter part of your video. Interesting to see so much of the town centre closed to traffic. Is there so much pedestrian usage though? It's a bank holiday and the place looks empty. Thanks for posting, enjoyed the visit.😃

Hate this dump, my family are originally from here, and I worked in the city centre for 4 years. Thank god my parents had the sense to move and I was born in Leeds. This video didn't capture most of what the majority of Bradford is really like. The suburbs immediately surrounding the city centre are borderlime slums, the drivers you saw in this video? Yeah times that behaviour by 100x too.. Awful place, should be totally leveled with a shockingly large percentage of the population deserving to be levelled with it. Absolute pit.

*Bradford City Hall* and *Little Germany* (specifically on and around Hick Street and Cater Street) are some of the most used filming locations in the city centre, along with places like *Cartwright Hall* and *Undercliffe Cemetery* within a mile of the city centre which have also been used a lot. Name a period drama, and they will most likely have been filmed in one or more of those 4 locations. However just about every landmark in the city centre has been used for some type of filming, and I will most likely know what that filming was. I know of 1000s more *Bradford* productions (blockbusters and amateurs), and more locations, than the *City of Film* team.

You need to be careful as a cyclist in Bradford. It's not uncommon for drivers to pull out in the road and wait in the lane in order to turn right onto a junction. My dad was driving us along Manningham Lane (where you were, near the football ground) and a driver pulled off the pavement infront of him, he had to slam his breaks or we would have had a fender bender.

I don’t care what anyone says Bradford is a absolute shite hole. But I like it because it makes me realise I am sooo lucky not to live there

I’m Bradford born and bred. I love my city, it’s history it’s culture etc. there are areas I will not go unless I’m in a locked car but I can avoid them. Every city has its dodgy areas.

I was born in Bradford 60 years ago. Bradford Royal infirmary. Lived in more than 40 different dumps, from rip,eyville, to Manningham lane, to holmewood and on an on.. it was a polish/Irish ghetto back then and of course was an entry city for the Asian revolution that took over Bradford. I grew up eating fish and chips, and a meat curry. When I lived on Hollingsworth terrace. Their was one toilet for the street, a brick outhouse with a stone slab for a toilet seat. We rode the trolley bus for 2D to the town center to get my Irish drunk dad from the unicorn pub, and my mum would frequent the Sunspot bingo while we waited.. it’s an immigrant city, the immigrants change, but Bradford will always be a dump.

I've lived in Bradford my entire life and haven't had any problems at all! everyone I've been in contact with were very friendly, 0 problems in 17 years!

my dad was born in Lithuania the war, and moved 10-12 times before the age of 9. Finally, he settled in Bradford at age 9, until he came to Canada at age 21. He spoke very fondly of Bradford City. Very industrial, but very formative for him. He would love to see this bike tour. Thanks for uploading.

I actually lived in Bradford for 18 months, 2001-2003. I have fond memories... my first time away from home of rep. of Georgia. I was 19... haven't been there since but one of the best memories of my life

Yet iT is a gem of a city with so many outstanding Victorian buildings made of that awesome yellowish stone Any city anywhere would die for.

Great video, thank you. That mosque with the green dome you cycled past near the football stadium is the Tawakkulia Mosque. It was actually the first purpose built mosque to be constructed in the city. Its congregation is predominantly of Bangladeshi origin, which reflects the population of that particular part of Bradford. If you had turned left when cycling up Manningham Lane, (instead of going right in the rough direction of the stadium) you may have seen the city’s last surviving working synagogue, dating from the 19th century. Still struggling on, but with a very small congregation these days. It’s beautiful inside.

It's hard to feel safe in a car in Bradford because there appears to be no law and order. I have lived here all my life and it gets worse year on year, mainly due to the council leaders we have that fail to accept or deal with the real issues the city has. They appear to actively promote degenerates to the expulsion of decent people.. I am a cyclist and wouldn't dream of going into Bradford, far too dangerous. You mention it seems quite run down and you are quite correct because the labour council has made it so that decent people can't come into the city that was once a great city. They have simply lost the plot and live in some sort of time warp where they think everything will be ok whilst the decent residents prefer to stay away and travel to Manchester or Leeds for shopping etc. It's very sad but the council continue to run the city down, make it unavailable for decent people and generally do an awful job. Unfortunately the problem with Bradford, in the main, is the inhabitants that the council fail to police hence the good people stay away. Very sad for what was once a great City and community, now turned into a cess pit with no order and a completely divided culture.

I'm a second generation British Muslim. I was born in Bradford and I'm proud of this. It's like anywhere really it has it good parts and bad. The city has been through a lot and after the riots it went though it has meant less investment and less opportunities. You see people from all walks of life living here. So many amazing places of culture and traditions. The food here is perhaps the best thing because of its variety. I guess this is what I'm trying to say is that because it's multicultural this is our biggest strength. It gives individuals opportunity to learn from one another. Thanks for the video.

Hi. I live in Bradford and love how easy you made it look effortless riding around in Bradford. Please can I ask which electric bike you have so I can check what spec bike I need to buy. Thank you

All the money that's been invested in Bradford has been wasted. It should have been spent on building a twenty foot wall around the place and then filling with water. The place is a toilet.

Born and bred in this City - left about 15 years ago and would not return for a pension. Sadly the major problem in Bradford is racism and I know it is not something we are supposed to mention but the facts are facts. You see the racism in Bradford maybe isn't the way you would imagine as it is reversed against the White population. The immigrant population were given help and support way beyond that offered to the Indigenous residents under the guise that, were it not so, it would be classed racist, and despite this they were happy to remain segregated. Add to this backing from successive corrupt Councils and a breeding plan which would put a herd of rabbits on Viagra to shame and you end up with a City of residents split way in excess of your estimate. As a young lad growing up in this City I had no idea what racism was and had lots of Asian mates at school but when you spend your life watching the 'immigrant' population being given all the advantages simply for fear of sparking a race row then, well it would make anyone think... I was out at The Pile Bar night club in the city on the night of the first riots and walked through Manningham as the local 'down trodden' residents set fire to car dealerships and threw petrol bombs at the police - the only white faces around there then were me and the coppers. Following this the police were accused of racism for trying to track down the culprits and bring them to justice for the millions of pounds of damage. Don't get me wrong, there are bad in both cultures - Peter Sutcliffe and The Black Panther to name but a few of Bradford's contributions, but the Asian population now in Bradford is mainly young males who believe that this World was built just for them and owes them anything they desire. Hence why you were surrounded by a multitude of 'Boy racers' who believe they have driving skills way beyond their small potato brains. They have no intention of integrating and in fact, ethnic cleanse any street they move into. I am afraid the older population have now lost control of these youths and the young only seem to want he parts of their and our culture they like. I am sure the haters will not like what I have said but if you are White, of a certain age and live in Bradford, please tell me that this is not true. This country used to pride itself on free speech so this is mine - Black, Brown, Chinese, Indian whatever.. Lives Matter of course, But so do the White ones, and we seem to be getting forgotten in all of this... Here endeth the sermon...!!!

You missed some of the new routes Cycle Superhighway 1 (CS1 to Leeds) and NCN 66 near Forster Square which has been improved recently with dedicated paths. NCN 66 takes you out to Shipley and Saltaire. Riding around Manningham isn't where I would go!

The wealthy part of my family moved out of Bradford in the 1930s, and they said Bradford was a lowly dirty rough place back then. Heaven knows what they would think if they saw it now in 2022!

Before I get into my comment on the tour... 1 - The reason that there's hardly any decent nightclubs in the city centre, is because a Manchester born, and Manchester/Newcastle/Watford based businessman, bought all the best Bradford nightclubs on Morley Street around 15 years ago, and has ruined them. He's done the same with most of the Yorkshire nightclubs he owns, yet coincidentally, his Newcastle, Greater Manchester, and Greater London nightclubs seem to be doing fine. He's constantly rebranding those clubs every couple of years, and because they've spent most of the last 15+ years closed, it's caused a domino effect which has led to all the neighbouring clubs in and around Morley Street to close too. 2 - Darley Street is empty of shops, because practically all of the shops which were there already, were planned for The Broadway, so they moved when it opened. I don't know who picks the shops, but I could have done a better job, not that I know anything about shops, as I'd have signed up a lot more rare shops, rather than the standard high street shops. The Oastler Shopping Centre (which is actually an indoor market) will soon be closing in the next few years, as they're relocating to Darley Street which is being redeveloped. And the countless mobile phone shops on Ivegate, mainly used to consist of bars and travel agents. Now for my comments on the tour... Where are the main shops? They're in *Kirkgate Shopping Centre* on your left at 0:13, they're in *Forster Square Retail Park* on the left and on the right at the bottom of the hill at 5:40 (which can also be accessed from the lift/stairs to *Forster Square Railway Station,* or the walkway to the left of the *Midland Hotel* entrance), they're in *The Broadway* which you rode around at 7:22. Where are the pubs/bars/nightclubs? I'm not really sure myself, however there's the bars in *City Park,* there's some nightclubs on the right around 3:59, there's some bars on *North Parade* aka the *Independent Quarter* which is straight forward at 6:06, there's some bars down *Ivegate* at 15:23, and there's some underground bars and shops in *Sunbridge Wells* also at 15:23 which can also be accessed in the gap between *Starbucks* and *Wetherspoons* in *City Park.*

I live in Bradford and today I saw a group of drunks at around 10:30 in the morning So a normal day, man this city's shite

City of culture = City where the native culture is being diluted and even eradicated.

The film 'yanks' with richard gere was filmed in bradford little germany because it had german looking architecture buildings, my dad was a plumber at the time and he was chosen by the producer to plumb the showers in halfway through the film in the street for all the army solider actors .. That was 1979, in 1984 my dad told me and a friend "if you go to little Germany you might find some film props left behind" We did and we found some fake empty rifle bullets (still there after many years !) and some fake barbed wire with plastic spikes on it lol We never found richard gere tho :(

I was considering doing my masters in university of Bradford, but not anymore; I’ll explore schools in other cities, maybe Middlesbrough.

Most of the closed shops are due to the broadway as most of the large retailers have moved there and left bradford Center Shops empty. Been living more than 20 years no issues ever.

Your intro description was so nice and welcoming, I had to subscribe

Bradford and the people are an amazing place!

Brilliant- just subscribed 😊

Town and areas are run down because of the people who live there. My area is nice where I live because we look after our area.all the so call deprived areas are like that because 5e people who live there have no regard for their streets.. Manningham for example has beautiful grand houses that were one beautiful now they are all scruffy rentals from landlords trying to make a quick buck. Deprived areas are deprived of people who care about the area they live in

Bellevue has been known as a slum since my grandparents days. Wasn't the best choice of suburb but thanks for the tour. Lovely buildings in little Germany for sure.

Bradford city centre and the surrounding areas have seen some tough times. But you go slightly further afield and it has some very nice areas.

What bike do you have? Interesting video.

Aberdeen is worse. The city center only has one street, Union Street and it is full of pound shops and vape shops. The only real shop is Primark, that says it all really. Glad I moved to Tokyo 15 years ago.

This is the city of my birth and I lived most of my life there. The condition of the roads and the standard of driving as as bad as ever. The council is going to demolish the Kirkgate Centre which is why it looks run down. There is a significant Indian and Pakistani population in the city. In the 1950s a lot of cheap labour was imported from such places to work in the textile mills. Just about everywhere coming out of the city centre is uphill except for Canal Road going towards Shipley. The building you passed in the city centre is City Hall which is one of the few remaining examples of the fine architecture in the city. The city has lost many fine buildings such as the Swan Arcade and the original Kirkgate Market.

That motorway you referred to was just a normal 40 mph road but everyone drives 60 there 😂

Bro saw terraced houses and said it definitely isn’t pretty over here 😂😭

hey jay, can you make another video on huddersfield, i really liked that video. Why don’t you do a delivery video?

Vastly cleaner than San Francisco.

I love your videos! Keep it up!

Did you not notice how dead it is ? Used to be a thriving city centre.

I’m an American from Utah lol and I ended up in Bradford and wouldn’t have changed it for any other part of England well except maybe York… ha but I enjoyed it very much.

I lived in Bradford in the 1990s, actually is so much better, especially around the city centre, it was quite dirty and ugly then.

The "brick" houses are in fact stone.

I thought it looked quite nice, town centre much improved compared to 30 years ago!!!

Thankyou for a great video , i just stumbled upon it .bradford was actually one of the places on my visit list as i live in doncaster , and im a great fan of the asian community, to be fair i think it looks preety nice , i didnt notice too much valdelism in the city center , no graffiti , like ive seen in soo many other citys, ive travelled the world , and some of the most beautiful citys ruined by vandelism ,, , i will definately be making a trip up when the spring or summer gets here, , Thanks again :)

Was willing you to go on sunbridge road but you followed the road round twice..missed a great place there.

I lived in Bradford for 2yrs as an international student. It was so cheap there. Also the best part is you are only an hour from the major cities such as Leeds,Manchester and York

Bike lanes in Bradford 😅😅😅 no one on Bradford obeys the driving laws and half of them dont have a driving licence. Insurance seems to be optional while driving while on drugs is normal

What bike are you using is it electric

This is not the UK, this is Africa.

It's the worst place. I lived there since I left school and couldn't wait to leave. The town virtually closes after 6 pm every day. Then there's nothing until next morning. Nothing to do or go it's just a dead hole. It's Uni, in the town is crap with many staff there working from home. Problem being they never answer their phone if you need assistance. Each morning there is loads of rubbish dumped around the streets near to campus from Take away meals of parked vehicles from night before. Which the rats love.

Bradford resident here 🙂 born and bred

clean n tidy town and not to busy defo poshed up the town centre with new paving

Great vid, really enjoyed the open minded perspective offered.

Bradford was once the city of commerce for West Yorkshire, but the influx of a muslim population saw investors move their businesses to Leeds.

No it's not the worst place to live at all. The people that live here don't think so.

Compared to Bristol City centre, Bradford looks very well looked after!

Born n bred in Bradford, always be my home , lovely down to earth folk ,a shame the media has ruined its shine and reputation

Lots of nice historical buildings. Cheers from the Netherlands.

Is there anything there anymore?

is it rated bad because of the massive amounts of school girl rapes by gangs there? wasthis one of the towns affected if so that could be the reason?

was your bike stolen ?

I found this vid strangely compelling to watch. Thanks Jay.

Bradford is amazing. You should have cycled through lister park which is beautiful. Visited the food places and the bazaars. Manchester road has a lovely cycle bridge, Alhambra theatre. Bradford has so much more to it. Now that we won the bid I'm excited to see what happens next.

I remembered the 11th May 1985. 56 never forgotten. I was there on that fateful day. Not at Valley Parade 22:40, but in the city. Best Rgds from Germany.

Leeds Rd and Lumb Lane are areas to die for - literally

More cities please

Bradford town is great for shopping, that is, if you want to buy class A drugs or cheap alcohol.

As an eastern european, Bradford was one of the worst places I've lived in but still, I miss it a lot! In Short, dirty place but great people!

100% Dump..... Stay clear....

Bradford had tons of investment. What the problem is, as the majority of the people don't drink who live in Bradford it has no Nightlife and all the things associated with a nightlife, restaurants and atmosphere. the place just dies after 6pm. Leeds is 20 mins down the road and a completely different world, a true, lively 24/7 city

There's only one way to describe Bradford, a total shit hole! It is without a doubt the worst city I've ever been to. Not one thing is good about it. West Yorkshire has the highest amount of dangerous driving offences. I cycle through Bradford twice a week and you take your life into your own hands every time. The police do nothing, they're a joke! The council do nothing, I've reported serious defects in the road dozens of times. Nothing gets repaired, as I've said it's a shit hole. Best county without a doubt in England is Northumberland. Great beaches, fantastic countryside and amazing people. Fantastic for cycling. Great video!

You will find most people gauge Bradford by ethnicity hence why they think it's so bad. Its a good place to live if you can afford out of the city centre. Some lovely countryside living. It's just the city centre which is underdeveloped.

Video at 17-43 there was a no right turn sign, and you went right. Plus I can not believe you didn't show City park fountain. ! The big building . Was the Town hall.

I think the reasons Bradford gets a bad rep is because of the pathetic little 'gangsters' who think they are the toughest of the toughest.

Quite enjoyed this, but you literally cycled in the City centre reign mainly.

Bradford city centre is like many others in the UK with closed shops loads of off licences, the beggars mostly made up of cider drinking shop lifting alcoholics and druggies. The surrounding areas to the centre where asian migrants settled have a thriving foodie scene mostly vibrant in the evenings and ofcourse the crazy bad driving from smart whip sucking balloon heads, that said like most of tge UK the drugs trade, scams, and fraudelant activity are prevalent here but the worst issue of this city is the division, too much racism from within, the outskirts of Bingley saltaire denholme baildon etc you'll find much more affluent. The islamophobia and racism is obvious reason this city has a bad rep. But for young hard working second geno muslim man this is a great city we have the obvious cons that exist everywhere but the pros are halal food and mosques on every corner and the areas of heaton have less riffraf i.e rest of central bradford is like working class mixed with chav sink estate people thus lack of investment creates a shthole.

I have noticed that there are not too many skyscrapers in the UK be it London or Bradford or Birmingham or Luton.

I don't like bradford it's too unsafe for people now I prefer villages and small towns they are better

Because you are concentrating on the Center not the actual places people live.

Nice that you can cycle in the pedestrian areas. I noticed you managed not to run anyone over which my local council seem to think is inevitable.

Town centre looks cool 😎

With the best will in the world mate, you cycled around for half an hour........ergo, you ain't seen nuthin'! Anyhow, glad you made it out with your bike.....you did well. Tragic city.......an absolute tragedy.

It's years since I was in Bradford. Tbh, I think it looks better now than it did in the 1990s. It seems a bit empty though. The buildings look good and the architecture is very impressive.

Jay, your camera is pointing down on the road. What we are seeing is the road and not the sight.

What beautiful stone architecture