For the first six years after I immigrated from the USA to the UK, I was a traveling software consultant for a large American company. So, I got to work in almost every city in the UK. On the listing of this video, I've been to Grimsby, and grim it is! I also worked extensively in Blackpool, which is also a dump. Everyone, unfortunately, has been to Luton. If Luton were nuked, I doubt anybody would notice!
Maybe one way for places to be uplifted is for artists to move there and work there because its possibly cheaper.I have noticed that when artists move into run down areas,the places start to get a nice vibe ,buildings become colourful and murals get painted.Sculptures appear,land is uplifted,projects get done by artists.People start to be interested .Then others want to move there too.Galleries open,coffee shops open,artisans arrive,bakeries and quirky shops open. Tourism starts.Seen this time and again in run down areas I have lived in other places in the world that are far more destitute.Its not where one lives but the attitude one has to where you live.The U.K has alot going for it.
Without a shadow of a doubt individual London boroughs (and the same can be said for most cities in the UK), would knock spots off most of these nominations for bleak misery. In fact having been to all of them I would only agree with Luton and perhaps Larkhall, with Scunthorpe probably being the absolute worst, even Grimsby has the seaside and some attractions. Plenty of places worse than these, for example Bradford, Leeds, Dartford, Manchester, Birmingham, Sunderland, Margate, Leicester, Wick, Derby and unbelievably no mention of Middlesbrough!
Comedians used to refer to Morecambe as a cemetery with lights. They've spent a bit on it and it's not so bad these days, but still deprived like most places on this list. Most of these towns have suffered de - industrialisation and subsequent loss of jobs/income.
It's towns not cities:) Here is your answer. I live in Corby and they couldn't be more wrong with recent Corby changes. Lovely clean new estates, great swimming pool, cinema, new station, EV chargers, every single shop in a distance of 3 miles top. Hardly any traffic and woods and lovely villages 5-10minutes drive from every Corby part. Whoever done this list never been in Corby in 2022 and surely has no clue. However I'm really thankful to all who think that way as I could buy a nearly new, lovely 4 bedroom with a garage on a quiet and clean estate for a fraction of money you would need to pay in Luton or even Northampton. Tha ks to you all folks. I hope Corby will be voted the worst for years to come so I can buy even a bigger house with bigger garden and enjoy live here in lovely Corby hahaha.
Having lived in the UK for only 3 years, i never visited any of the places on this list, but sadly I did visit Swindon. So i definitely share your opinion. It seemed rather dismal.
I was born in Corby and went without till we emigrated to Australia. Years later when I visited my Grandparents in Corby it never occurred to me that their misery and austerity was a product of where they lived so much as the weather. I grew up where deprivation bathed in warm sunshine eases the suffering. It's real but literally less cloud hanging over your head. I honestly didn't feel so miserable without shoes in Australia.
I was born and grew up in Bundaberg in Australia and moved to the Lake District in the UK when I was 11 - thank god I did. I went back to Bundaberg 4 years ago and its one of the worst places on earth - compared to growing up in the lake district it just shows how lucky I was.
@D C Strange then, why so many Africans leave their countries and come to the UK (illegally) where the weather is significantly worse. I thought life is better where it's sunny regardless of money???
@@Al-iv3mb I agree - but NOT free at point of service for foreign visitors and economic migrants. It is PAID for by taxing US. It should be for US. Would you pay rent or mortgage for others to move into your home and push out you and yours?
Newtowns built around industry (Corby a prime example, though at the time of the huge steelworks was almost a Scottish town) that have had the industry ripped out of them then, hardly a surprise they haven't exactly blossomed. Grimsby, Hull etc mere shadows of their former selves thanks to shysters like Heath selling out and destroying our fishing industries, what did you expect would replace that, or coal mining and associated economical quality steel production, all good paying industries for decent honourable self respecting working class men...men increasingly unwanted in the new utopia planned by globalists and their paid lackeys in govts, unless of course their betters decide another war is necessary when all of sudden good old unwanted Tommy Cannon Fodder is then the best thing since sliced bread. Corby now has lots of work, much of it based around car storage preparation and distribution, food production or like much of the country has become a massive warehousing operation for sub standard tat made in China India etc, very few factories now make anything that sells abroad bringing real wealth and prosperity in, you cannot run an economic success on service industries or shifting electronic money from one account to another, as a famous grocer's daughter ought to have known not as those allegedly running the country since have been any better. Corby's once lovely surrounding wooded areas have gradually been flattened for ever more warehouses and ever more housing estates, as has much of that part of Northamptonshire. One of the saddest sights you'll see as you travel Northamptonshire's roads is the number of deer lying dead at the side of the road, their habitat destroyed and concreted over only to be replaced with warehouses and housing estates, lots of wind farms springing up too, can't let the birds enjoy natures wondrous bounty either can we.
I found Corby a depressing place tbh in the distant past but even worse 25 miles away and a lot smaller is Wollaston; a place built on shoe-making in serious decline.
Oh come on ! I went round the steelworks at Corby in 1971 when I was 18 as part of an economics A level study of the Nationalised Industries. It was already an old fashioned steel works having been built in the 1930s. It was running out of local ore and it was expensive to transport imported ore there, being in the middle of the country and not near a port. The price of steel internationally was plummetting due to cheap foreign competition and there was suddenly a vast oversupply in the world. It may have been the largest integrated steel works in Europe ( that's what they told us) but even by 1971 it was living on borrowed time and losing money hand over fist, so the tax payer was having to subsidise it massively. It was a shame, but it was the hard truth. I also used to play rugby at Consett in Co Durham now and again in the early to mid 70s against the steelworkers. Consett steelworks was in exactly the same position as Corby. It was the same in all countries with an ageing and thus less cost efficient steel industry, particularly America. I also worked for a time for a wagon trailer manufacturers that had a factory in Corby and in N.Yorks which took Corby and Teesside steel beams for production materials.
When the fishing industry was destroyed in Hull they build Bransholme estatefor the people.A new estate like the greatfield estate .Glorified prisons camps.
I exist in the South Wales Valley's and most of this top 10 are holiday destinations for us , Tredegar for example the home town of Cholera has an average lifespan of 23
So many depressing and life draining towns in this small island, add in what the migrants have done to many of them and you see why the best view is the road out.
Don’t you think it depends on who are running these towns , local Councils , who could run a campaign on volunteers to help spruce these places up with trees and flowers. Perhaps businesses could get together and donate trees and plants. Basically what is lacking is loss of pride in these places. It’s up to Local councils to get motivated and create a better living environment for everyone.
Exactly 💯 When I go from Corby to parts of London and Birmingham I always wonder why people pay 3 times the price of the house here with such low standards, traffic, dirty streets and so many homeless. If Corby is such a bad place to live how on earth I never had a car been broken into, or my work van, not my house for 18 years been here? Every single new estate in Corby and we got now 50% of the town built new, looks 10 times better and cleaner than shabby areas of London, Coventry or Leicester. How can they not see it?
Learning Canteen, as my fiancée and I are from Swindon, I went to College in Grimsby and my fiancée went to Blackpool to see the Illuminations. I agree that number 1 in the most miserable towns in the UK must be Corby in North Northamptonshire, Didcot in Oxfordshire and Aylesbury in Nottinghamshire.
Didcot sounds like a posh place from the name. I’ve never been there, but it sounds like the kind of place where people will cry their tits off over the queens death
My honest opinion: Ive been to Corby, No it is NOT great. But there is one factor you missed out here, Corby has alot of new work being done to it When i went there. (7 days ago) It does hold the title as one of the uks fastest growing towns, easy commuting to Kettering, Northampton, Peterborough. I live in sussex so im really not familiar with northamptonshire BUT i can say its probably looking up for Corby unlike some of the other places here. No, its not a great place, No, the high street isnt the best, but i can say a solid YES to its future. Otherwise, great video! Enjoyed it :)
Corby is the most thriving in the area. The reputation it once had still lies in some of the older estates but on the whole I'd live in most areas of Corby over Kettering Wellingborough Northampton.
Completely agree on that one! I have wrote in some comments above why. I had a choice to buy a large house in M.Harborough or Kettering and decided to stay in Corby as after comparing it all, commuting, shops, swimming pool, places for kids like playgrounds and woods, we decided Corby is best and it's still improving way faster than anything around here. Also, our house increased in value 95% since 2016 when we bought it (as we sold it we can tell that in fact it was real). I can't tell that about Oundle or M.Harborough as down there average is 50-60% price increase. I understand these towns been more expensive anyway but it's the change in price which indicates where the improvements and desire to live is shifting. And amazingly Corby looks like it's on the top around here.
It seems that the further south and further west you go in Scotland, the worse it gets. The further North and the further East you are, it just gets better and better.
The most miserable towns in West Midlands are Walsall Smethwick Wolverhampton dudley Tipton and West Bromwich and Brierley Hill they the worst towns in UK 👍🇬🇧
I once made the mistake of taking a rail replacement bus from Birmingham to Wolverhampton rather than a very crowded Manchester train. My mistake was not realising it was replacing the slow train and calling at all the stations, so I had a tour of the West Midlands. All I could think was, what a dump.
No it's called Globalism which is controlled by Zionist control governments. Gods chosen people ( ]3ws) hate Christian countries and hate the message of Jesus Christ. So they are purposly destroying all white nations Austraila, New Zealand, Europe, Cananda, USA through mass immigration. Their tools are cultural marxism, the Kalergi plan, outsourcing, LGBTQ propaganda, Feminism to completely and utterly destroy our culture. This is the communist playbook.
I can't watch anymore of this after the first two towns mentioned. A Brit doing a video on UK towns but using km instead of miles. It's my pet hate and I just don't understand it
@@ascproxima they are, there’s a huge number who are upset at anyone using anything other than meters, celsius, or grams and go out of their way to “correct” you and tell you that you’re a fool and wrong for using miles, pounds, or Fahrenheit
@@ascproxima I'm not offended but I just don't get why you would use km instead of miles. It's the same with Brit car shows on TV they are starting to use kph instead of mph now. Anyway everyone to their own however I still don't understand it
I worked in Corby for 8 years and spent my teenage years in Luton, some of the best times in England.I now live in the US and there are worse places here
I think towns or cities being shitholes, seem to equate with the politicians/mayors/councillors running the place. From what I’ve seen of once great cities in the US, over run with druggies and crime, is, in itself a criminal act by the leaders failing to take responsibility for their actions
I’ve never been to US but every time I randomly look on Google maps at somewhere in the US I would have to disagree. Every neighbourhood I’ve looked at is beautiful. Lined with lots of beautiful trees, huge roads, all the houses look unique and different, Unlike U.K. where usually every house on a street look exactly the same. And a lot of big houses too, at a price far, far better value for money than in any of these 10 miserable towns on here. Obviously US is massive, so there is bound to be deprivation. But I’ve looked up some of the supposed deprived areas on Google maps and they don’t look particularly deprived to me and I would argue the toss about what you said
@@cultfiction3865 I think you must have been in a coma for the last few years, BLM riots? Crime in New York? San Francisco and 25000 living on the streets in LA? Fentanyl addicts on every street corner in every major city? Just watched on RUclips 3000 robberies from cars in one month in San Francisco . Wake up , just RUclips it fella
@@santorini8423 Yeah but none of that has got anything to do with how miserable or depressing a place is. That’s all crime figures and drugs figures. Crime has always been far worse in the US partly because they are liberal on gun ownership and this will always translate to greater amounts of violence. I would argue that many of America’s troubles have political origins, rather than deprivation origins. And even in U.K. many cities have heroin addicts hanging around at every corner too
Who ever compiled this list has obviously never been to Dewsbury, which is without doubt the worst town I have ever been to. I hope to never go back there.
I knew somebody who worked in the cotton mills and who knew miners, those were the most miserable occupations ever, you must be dreaming to think otherwise.
For Airdrie, not all they photo's were actually of Airdrie. There were 2 of Coatbridge. Also, Airdrie has some beautiful old sandstone buildings. A lot of the people are really friendly, especially compared to Edinburgh. Everytime I've drew the short straw and had to go through Edinburgh, I've always seen people fighting and muggings. Looks great, but that's about it, not a place I enjoy going.
Don't know of your particular circumstances but I have lived in Edinburgh since 1996, north and west also, Leith too. Cosmopolitan and a touchstone away from gorgeous hills and the Lothians - one of the best cities to live in imo.
Blackpool is one of the best places in England to visit for a day out, but I definitely wouldn't want to live there. The town itself is a miserable, filthy, crime-ridden place, with the only thing it has going for it is its long history of tourism, with attractions such as the Blackpool tower, Coral Island, various piers, Sand Castle, Illuminations and the Pleasure Beach. And these were all attractions built decades ago, so it can't even be said the town is actively trying to boost its own reputation. Instead, it's merely surviving off the legacy of an era long past, without any real effort to better itself.
Bit harsh this ,all towns and city's in the uk have had there hearts ripped out with manufacturing etc disappearing not to mention uncontrolled immigration every government has let this go ahead christ knows what people do for a living anymore but just remember people have to live there lives in these places
Learning Canteen, you must have a very soft spot for Luton 🤣🤣🤣🤣 But I agree about Corby, Blackpool, Luton and Scunthorpe but there are other miserable towns like Walsall, Mansfield, Oldham, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston and Rochdale!!!
Yes I agree about Walsall they is so much more miserable West Bromwich Smethwick Blackheath Tipton and dudley they the most miserable towns in the UK 👍
I can agree to an extent about the towns in Lanarkshire (having lived there for a while) and of course Luton but you've obviously never been to Slough, Oldham....or Bradford.
Never understood the UK, for all that historical 'wealth' the nation seems more like Eastern Europe when you travel around. In fact I prefer to travel around Eastern Europe as it costs a quarter the price.
The wealth never trickled down-spoiler alert ,it never does-but now the Cons are going to level evertything up everythihg will be fabulous /s. Really like the Balkans,going to Ulcinj ,Montenegro for 2 mnths soon,spent 14 mnths there during the peak plague period,as you say not expensive tho with the GBP falling(thanks to the Cons again!)sadly that might change soon.
Doncaster heading this way. The town centre is unrecognisable now compared to how it was . My village of Harworth ised to be great, very busy industry here with Harworth Colliery (where I worked), She Factory, and Glass Bulbs Factory. All local work for school leavers, if they wanted it. Now all the factories gone. Harworth Colliery site is now a housing estate for 998 houses. Shoe Factory, small housing estate. Most fields and spare land all houses planted on them. Apparently it's called progress.
So sad this has been replicated up and down the country. Planning is haphazard whole estates parachuted into semi urban/ rural areas with no facilities. The real needs of people go undressed decade after decade. Lack of vision and leadership is endemic , feeds down to disempowerment of communities. The decline will only start to stop if there is full involvement and participation of the local inhabitants. Unfortunately this never happens with top down politics. Years on this division will remain as it has done throughout my life time. Slogans are just that.
The main thumbnail is a picture of the quaint village of Corby Glen in Lincolnshire.......perhaps if you did your research correctly... or at all, you'd have found a picture of Corby in Northamptonshire instead and known the difference.
If the idiot who uploaded this video done his research he would have to show real pictures of Corby. Full of new shops, buildings (Corby Cube, International Swimming Pool, new large supermarkets, new restaurants, new high Street shops and Caffè's, even new posh estates). It would be hard than to put 2022 Corby on research list as people are not blind and can see what the town look like.
Relatives in Norfolk do not describe many of their villages as idyllic anymore. Many migrant-filled holiday hotels where once were tourists. Few speaking English on the streets.
@@denisebrown4735 I grew up in a village a few miles away. Skem was built as an overspill town after slum clearance in Liverpool. Most of the population that moved there were scouse and the accent is predominantly Liverpudlian today, although Skem comes under a Wigan postcode.
@@TheHazzasez Hi Harry. Yes, I get your point. I was trying to also highlight the veiled anti - Liverpudlian undertones as veiled as it was from the previous commentator. As we know identity is complex.
I have lived in the UK for many years from the Netherlands originally.It is the neglect in many British towns .Old empty buildings standing there for years.I had a walk ones in Edingburgh renewing my passport.Miserable horrible looking houses no trees and it supposed to be posh.Anything what needs doing takes years.More committee meetings than work.
Totally misleading about Cumbernauld. The town centre isn't exactly great but theres a lot of very good quality housing at reasonable prices, an excellent rail service to Glasgow or Edinburgh all set close to very nice countryside. I lived there for a long time and would be very happy to go back if I needed to.
sure, blame her…ignore the bottom falling out of your industry because your products weren’t worth the scrap value you’d get for them nor the complete opening up of production markets that were far cheaper and of better quality than the crap you were producing nope, just blame her!
Sad to see whare I live the"new sun bed shop" boom is now nail shops & vape stores sad to see how most of our home villages & towns are so run down not to mention the charity shops witch do good to help others each government we have had has single handedly piloted our towns in to the ground no mater wht party is in charge really sad!!
These aren't towns that I think of as miserable when one thinks of the country as a whole. Towns show at being their best when the Sun is out and not behind clouds. I've only once been to the UK, only over a long weekend as it happens. The place was nice and warm both day an night. I liked it there, but have never returned there. Perhaps one day, who knows
The picture you’ve used as the cover post intending to be ‘corby’ isn’t actually in ‘corby’. it’s a village called ‘corby glen’ which is actually a pleasant village, close to Stamford, lincs. :)
TBH the list is silly. Not mentioning some really terrible places, than listing Corby as the worst with not a single thing mentioned why. Last 5 years Corby have been 1 of the most in invested towns across UK. Houses been going up here way faster than anywhere else. Tons of new clean and well looked after estates (we just bought a nearly new house in Corby and we move from Corby too. Couldn't find a better place around even in some so called idyllic towns where for double the money had none of the amenities, Caffè's nor shops I get here in Corby. Sadly I believe the author of this raport has not been in Corby in recent 5 years and definitely not been here in 2022. Tons of new businesses, colleges and posh estates (yes, I do call them posh, some houses costs £600+ and londeners and people from Oxford and Cam move to appar rundown Corby so maybe they are blind and can't see the problem with my town?). When I go up north, Lincolnshire or around Doncaster or Leeds I do feel we got hardly any crime here in Corby and am glad to come back to our terrible town hahaha.
Was surprised to see Luton on this list, I was under the impression that the further north you travel from London, the worst the towns and villages are. All due to the government obsession with London and the South East, all other areas get a lot less investment from, or promotion by the government. Well, you learn something new every day. Perhaps Luton have upset the government in some way. I do know that Luton has a regional airport, so perhaps the government are determined not to let any nearby airport become competition to Heathrow, so are starving the local council of investment, thereby ensuring there is no money to invest in the airport and local communities.
It’s a myth that the further north you go the more grim the towns are, many of the towns up north are beautiful, and many in the southern most areas are grim. It’s true that industrial towns tend to be north, and it’s true that there is generally more deprivation up north, but many of those northern towns are great places to live. London has some seriously awful parts as well as stunningly beautiful parts, for most people however it’s simple economics and you will probably earn more in the south with less opportunities in the north. As remote working becomes more and more common this may change very fast.
The cost of living, and especially housing, are much higher in the south. If you're in a like for like waged job eg Public Sector or unskilled jobs you'll be significantly better off in many places in the Midlands/ North.
Luton has always been, and always will be a Labour governed town. It's also a town with more foreigners than indigenous Brits. There are parts of Luton where you won't see a single Caucasian person (literally not one). In other parts of the world this is known as a takeover of a town. As for London, that is a city with the highest proportion of knife crime in the whole of Europe.
@@Ghostdancer4444 This is true. I moved from Bedfordshire to the Scottish Borders. Rent went from £750 for a two bed flat (in 2017) down to £415 for a three bed house (now).
You obviously haven't travelled much, nor do you seem to have any knowledge of history, and have an obvious political bias. Industrial fortunes wax and wane and "progress" many a time condemns previously prosperous areas dependent on a single industry to stagnation. This is a universal phenomenon. London has always had areas of deprivation. Luton was part of the boom in car manufacturing from the 1950s. Luton's airport is an international airport and for those living to the north and east of London means they don't have to suffer the M25 nor the madness of Heathrow.
Corby *Glen* is used as the video thumbnail. This is a village in Lincolnshire not at all related to the town of Corby & definitely nowhere near as bad. Although I must say that building - Fighting Cocks Inn is not a good pub.
Let us face it... MOST towns and cities in the UK are depressing. Half the problem being corrupt and inept councils...
Yeah fair thats why there's a pub every 5 minutes
I think we are very lucky, relative to the world.
What rubbish .. if you don't like the Town you live in move , you only have one life .
Lies it’s not all depressing I think you need to move
100%! Can’t think of any town centers thats not a copy-paste. Can only tell some place apart because of cheaper parking 😅
For the first six years after I immigrated from the USA to the UK, I was a traveling software consultant for a large American company. So, I got to work in almost every city in the UK. On the listing of this video, I've been to Grimsby, and grim it is! I also worked extensively in Blackpool, which is also a dump. Everyone, unfortunately, has been to Luton. If Luton were nuked, I doubt anybody would notice!
which city and towns are good in your opinion?
Someone once said: if a nuke was ever dropped on Luton, its estimated it would cause over £100k in improvements.
Try dewsbury West Yorkshire
@@peterflynn7083 Yep! You’re not wrong!
This is not a dig at anyone but Luton is actually quite favourable amongst Asian people
Maybe one way for places to be uplifted is for artists to move there and work there because its possibly cheaper.I have noticed that when artists move into run down areas,the places start to get a nice vibe ,buildings become colourful and murals get painted.Sculptures appear,land is uplifted,projects get done by artists.People start to be interested .Then others want to move there too.Galleries open,coffee shops open,artisans arrive,bakeries and quirky shops open. Tourism starts.Seen this time and again in run down areas I have lived in other places in the world that are far more destitute.Its not where one lives but the attitude one has to where you live.The U.K has alot going for it.
If individual London boroughs were included, many would rank rather highly here I am sure.
Agreed,it's a shithole
Newhams a carzy
Tower Hamlets? Tottenham? 🤮 Edmonton? 🤕
Getting worse too in london thanx to sad kahn.
Without a shadow of a doubt individual London boroughs (and the same can be said for most cities in the UK), would knock spots off most of these nominations for bleak misery. In fact having been to all of them I would only agree with Luton and perhaps Larkhall, with Scunthorpe probably being the absolute worst, even Grimsby has the seaside and some attractions. Plenty of places worse than these, for example Bradford, Leeds, Dartford, Manchester, Birmingham, Sunderland, Margate, Leicester, Wick, Derby and unbelievably no mention of Middlesbrough!
Bradford should be included.
Bradford's a city, not a town
@@cyndersparadigm That maybe but it's still a shithole
Must have been quite difficult to name the 10 most miserable towns with such a lot of stiff competition.
They missed Middlesbrough
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Everywhere is miserable these days
I agree
Not everywhere,yet, but far too many places mainly due to uncontrolled immigration under Labour.
We're miserable in Corby because we can't figure out how to get rid of the Londoners, Eastern Europeans and Syrian's that have flocked here.
Comedians used to refer to Morecambe as a cemetery with lights. They've spent a bit on it and it's not so bad these days, but still deprived like most places on this list. Most of these towns have suffered de - industrialisation and subsequent loss of jobs/income.
At least you've got tyson fury
I was born and raised in Coventry, I have to admit I am shocked to not see it on the list.
you had it so bad u want everyone to know
As a native to Cov I agree
@@jamncos take it you went to cardinal wiseman?
It's towns not cities:)
Here is your answer.
I live in Corby and they couldn't be more wrong with recent Corby changes. Lovely clean new estates, great swimming pool, cinema, new station, EV chargers, every single shop in a distance of 3 miles top.
Hardly any traffic and woods and lovely villages 5-10minutes drive from every Corby part.
Whoever done this list never been in Corby in 2022 and surely has no clue.
However I'm really thankful to all who think that way as I could buy a nearly new, lovely 4 bedroom with a garage on a quiet and clean estate for a fraction of money you would need to pay in Luton or even Northampton.
Tha ks to you all folks.
I hope Corby will be voted the worst for years to come so I can buy even a bigger house with bigger garden and enjoy live here in lovely Corby hahaha.
Whoever compiled this list has never been to Swindon.
Swindon is the pits
Agree, just got out, thankfully!
Having lived in the UK for only 3 years, i never visited any of the places on this list, but sadly I did visit Swindon. So i definitely share your opinion. It seemed rather dismal.
Yes! Like Southampton, you enter the district and feel a sadness hit your soul. Very grey.
So I'm actually lucky living in the middle of nowhere Dumfries n Galloway.?
I was born in Birmingham, fortunately I no longer inhabit the worst shit hole ever to grace the England. Why is it never mentioned in these top Tens?
Cos it's a city dah
..fantastic place. You are a moron if you can't appreciate what the place has to offer ..
Again, Aldershot is unfairly excluded from this list defying all logic.
And Swindon.
I was born in Corby and went without till we emigrated to Australia. Years later when I visited my Grandparents in Corby it never occurred to me that their misery and austerity was a product of where they lived so much as the weather. I grew up where deprivation bathed in warm sunshine eases the suffering. It's real but literally less cloud hanging over your head. I honestly didn't feel so miserable without shoes in Australia.
I was born and grew up in Bundaberg in Australia and moved to the Lake District in the UK when I was 11 - thank god I did.
I went back to Bundaberg 4 years ago and its one of the worst places on earth - compared to growing up in the lake district it just shows how lucky I was.
@D C Strange then, why so many Africans leave their countries and come to the UK (illegally) where the weather is significantly worse. I thought life is better where it's sunny regardless of money???
Until you step on a poisonous spider triple kill you, because everything you in Australia wants to kill you😂😂😂😂
There is something eerie about Bundaberg
@@Al-iv3mb I agree - but NOT free at point of service for foreign visitors and economic migrants. It is PAID for by taxing US. It should be for US.
Would you pay rent or mortgage for others to move into your home and push out you and yours?
Newtowns built around industry (Corby a prime example, though at the time of the huge steelworks was almost a Scottish town) that have had the industry ripped out of them then, hardly a surprise they haven't exactly blossomed.
Grimsby, Hull etc mere shadows of their former selves thanks to shysters like Heath selling out and destroying our fishing industries, what did you expect would replace that, or coal mining and associated economical quality steel production, all good paying industries for decent honourable self respecting working class men...men increasingly unwanted in the new utopia planned by globalists and their paid lackeys in govts, unless of course their betters decide another war is necessary when all of sudden good old unwanted Tommy Cannon Fodder is then the best thing since sliced bread.
Corby now has lots of work, much of it based around car storage preparation and distribution, food production or like much of the country has become a massive warehousing operation for sub standard tat made in China India etc, very few factories now make anything that sells abroad bringing real wealth and prosperity in, you cannot run an economic success on service industries or shifting electronic money from one account to another, as a famous grocer's daughter ought to have known not as those allegedly running the country since have been any better.
Corby's once lovely surrounding wooded areas have gradually been flattened for ever more warehouses and ever more housing estates, as has much of that part of Northamptonshire.
One of the saddest sights you'll see as you travel Northamptonshire's roads is the number of deer lying dead at the side of the road, their habitat destroyed and concreted over only to be replaced with warehouses and housing estates, lots of wind farms springing up too, can't let the birds enjoy natures wondrous bounty either can we.
Agreed! The area surrounding Corby is stunning, amazing villages and towns like Oundle.
I found Corby a depressing place tbh in the distant past but even worse 25 miles away and a lot smaller is Wollaston; a place built on shoe-making in serious decline.
Oh come on ! I went round the steelworks at Corby in 1971 when I was 18 as part of an economics A level study of the Nationalised Industries. It was already an old fashioned steel works having been built in the 1930s. It was running out of local ore and it was expensive to transport imported ore there, being in the middle of the country and not near a port. The price of steel internationally was plummetting due to cheap foreign competition and there was suddenly a vast oversupply in the world. It may have been the largest integrated steel works in Europe ( that's what they told us) but even by 1971 it was living on borrowed time and losing money hand over fist, so the tax payer was having to subsidise it massively. It was a shame, but it was the hard truth. I also used to play rugby at Consett in Co Durham now and again in the early to mid 70s against the steelworkers. Consett steelworks was in exactly the same position as Corby. It was the same in all countries with an ageing and thus less cost efficient steel industry, particularly America. I also worked for a time for a wagon trailer manufacturers that had a factory in Corby and in N.Yorks which took Corby and Teesside steel beams for production materials.
When the fishing industry was destroyed in Hull they build Bransholme estatefor the people.A new estate like the greatfield estate .Glorified prisons camps.
that's easy! anywhere my missus is visiting at the time! just look for the hovering black cloud and lightning bolts.
Corby ain't that bad, surrounded by beautiful countryside and villages, has a good roadway network and rail station
Nothing beats Stoke on Trent
Ha....Lutonistan at number 2.
I exist in the South Wales Valley's and most of this top 10 are holiday destinations for us , Tredegar for example the home town of Cholera has an average lifespan of 23
No Walsall on the list? Surely this can't be credible.
Yeah, Walsall is a bit rough.
Too much competition.
So many depressing and life draining towns in this small island, add in what the migrants have done to many of them and you see why the best view is the road out.
This video cracks me up. Keep up the great work 👏👏
Don’t you think it depends on who are running these towns , local Councils , who could run a campaign on volunteers to help spruce these places up with trees and flowers. Perhaps businesses could get together and donate trees and plants. Basically what is lacking is loss of pride in these places. It’s up to Local councils to get motivated and create a better living environment for everyone.
The irony is these are not the worst places to live. Parts of Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sunderland, London and Birmingham are far worse.
Exactly 💯
When I go from Corby to parts of London and Birmingham I always wonder why people pay 3 times the price of the house here with such low standards, traffic, dirty streets and so many homeless.
If Corby is such a bad place to live how on earth I never had a car been broken into, or my work van, not my house for 18 years been here?
Every single new estate in Corby and we got now 50% of the town built new, looks 10 times better and cleaner than shabby areas of London, Coventry or Leicester.
How can they not see it?
Learning Canteen, as my fiancée and I are from Swindon, I went to College in Grimsby and my fiancée went to Blackpool to see the Illuminations. I agree that number 1 in the most miserable towns in the UK must be Corby in North Northamptonshire, Didcot in Oxfordshire and Aylesbury in Nottinghamshire.
Aylesbury is in Buckinghamshire
@@brothersman524 Sorry by Bad, I must have misheard Learning Canteen.
Didcot sounds like a posh place from the name.
I’ve never been there, but it sounds like the kind of place where people will cry their tits off over the queens death
My honest opinion:
Ive been to Corby, No it is NOT great. But there is one factor you missed out here, Corby has alot of new work being done to it When i went there. (7 days ago) It does hold the title as one of the uks fastest growing towns, easy commuting to Kettering, Northampton, Peterborough. I live in sussex so im really not familiar with northamptonshire BUT i can say its probably looking up for Corby unlike some of the other places here. No, its not a great place, No, the high street isnt the best, but i can say a solid YES to its future. Otherwise, great video! Enjoyed it :)
I'm pleased to hear that. I knew the area well as a boy, but not been back for decades.
Corby is the most thriving in the area. The reputation it once had still lies in some of the older estates but on the whole I'd live in most areas of Corby over Kettering Wellingborough Northampton.
@@brickpug6088 Same, although Northampton would definitely have better railway connections, road connections, and shops.
Completely agree on that one! I have wrote in some comments above why.
I had a choice to buy a large house in M.Harborough or Kettering and decided to stay in Corby as after comparing it all, commuting, shops, swimming pool, places for kids like playgrounds and woods, we decided Corby is best and it's still improving way faster than anything around here.
Also, our house increased in value 95% since 2016 when we bought it (as we sold it we can tell that in fact it was real).
I can't tell that about Oundle or M.Harborough as down there average is 50-60% price increase.
I understand these towns been more expensive anyway but it's the change in price which indicates where the improvements and desire to live is shifting.
And amazingly Corby looks like it's on the top around here.
Ironically people have the most children in the worst towns, thus growing the population and making that town much worse.
My wife is surprised Jaywick isn't on the list...
Not sure how Merthyr Tydfil managed to avoid this, awful place! I've heard Newport and Wrexham are quite grim too but never been so unfair to judge
Runcorn is the worst
@@desertrose1226 I have heard it's pretty terrible there
@@desertrose1226 West Bromwich is the worst
Merthyr is very deprived. But it’s surroundings are beautiful.
@@cultfiction3865 Indeed, there are some really lovely places nearby
Clacton on Sea is a pretty miserable seaside town to me.
Blackpool USED to be such a town to go visit, it was a proper holiday for UK residents.
Now it’s just a dive, so sad.
I left Glasgow in the 70s, moved to Corby, never looked back, great wee town and great people in it.
Traitor lol
@@alasdairmc3197 survived*
It seems that the further south and further west you go in Scotland, the worse it gets. The further North and the further East you are, it just gets better and better.
The most miserable towns in West Midlands are Walsall Smethwick Wolverhampton dudley Tipton and West Bromwich and Brierley Hill they the worst towns in UK 👍🇬🇧
I once made the mistake of taking a rail replacement bus from Birmingham to Wolverhampton rather than a very crowded Manchester train.
My mistake was not realising it was replacing the slow train and calling at all the stations, so I had a tour of the West Midlands.
All I could think was, what a dump.
@@grahvis yes that what it is like in Birmingham and Wolverhampton very busy 👍
@@Bingo-zd1gp .
My usual train only stopped at Sandwell and Dudley.
The most miserable town in the UK, if not the world, is Port Talbot Wales!
Miserable even by the standards of South Wales? That most be something.
Wales and depression go together
Miserable towns are in the West Midlands West Bromwich Walsall Smethwick dudley great bridge Tipton and Wolverhampton
fart town it stinks!!!
If you want a view of the M4, 50’ from your bedroom window then it’s the place for you.
@@Bingo-zd1gp I agree, the West Midlands are especially depressing.
It was the massive deindustrialization of these areas that trampled them into the ground. No job, no income Thatcherism at its best!
No it's called Globalism which is controlled by Zionist control governments. Gods chosen people ( ]3ws) hate Christian countries and hate the message of Jesus Christ.
So they are purposly destroying all white nations Austraila, New Zealand, Europe, Cananda, USA through mass immigration. Their tools are cultural marxism, the Kalergi plan, outsourcing, LGBTQ propaganda, Feminism to completely and utterly destroy our culture. This is the communist playbook.
Anywhere named with a "B", Blackpool, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bradley, Bingley, Bradford, Burnley, all dreadful
I can think of whole bunch of other depressing towns I`ve been to, from Lochgelly to Bradford, Harlow to Hemel Hempstead.
Bradford another miserable shit hole in large parts,My missus booked a hotel there once,Never again no thanks.
Rotherham..unless youre a groomer then its heaven
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You can't put some towns or cities on lists like this
It would be racist 🙄
It looked quite nice driving through.
I can't watch anymore of this after the first two towns mentioned. A Brit doing a video on UK towns but using km instead of miles. It's my pet hate and I just don't understand it
careful, you’ll upset the youngsters who insist that only Americans use miles anymore
I don’t understand how you can be offended by that.
@@ascproxima they are, there’s a huge number who are upset at anyone using anything other than meters, celsius, or grams and go out of their way to “correct” you and tell you that you’re a fool and wrong for using miles, pounds, or Fahrenheit
I agree and I bet if you asked his height and weight it would be in feet, inches and stones
@@ascproxima I'm not offended but I just don't get why you would use km instead of miles. It's the same with Brit car shows on TV they are starting to use kph instead of mph now.
Anyway everyone to their own however I still don't understand it
Do I agree, no, you missed out London.
It's not a town?
If you think that Corby is the most miserable town in the UK you really haven't looked, there are plenty worse than this.
Too many foreigners.
I bloody hope not.
Corby is actually a dump
I worked in Corby for 8 years and spent my teenage years in Luton, some of the best times in England.I now live in the US and there are worse places here
I think towns or cities being shitholes, seem to equate with the politicians/mayors/councillors running the place. From what I’ve seen of once great cities in the US, over run with druggies and crime, is, in itself a criminal act by the leaders failing to take responsibility for their actions
Yeah we're not talking about the US, there's a hell of a alot of worse places there and I'm talking through experience .
I’ve never been to US but every time I randomly look on Google maps at somewhere in the US I would have to disagree.
Every neighbourhood I’ve looked at is beautiful. Lined with lots of beautiful trees, huge roads, all the houses look unique and different, Unlike U.K. where usually every house on a street look exactly the same.
And a lot of big houses too, at a price far, far better value for money than in any of these 10 miserable towns on here.
Obviously US is massive, so there is bound to be deprivation. But I’ve looked up some of the supposed deprived areas on Google maps and they don’t look particularly deprived to me and I would argue the toss about what you said
@@cultfiction3865 I think you must have been in a coma for the last few years, BLM riots? Crime in New York? San Francisco and 25000 living on the streets in LA? Fentanyl addicts on every street corner in every major city? Just watched on RUclips 3000 robberies from cars in one month in San Francisco . Wake up , just RUclips it fella
@@santorini8423 Yeah but none of that has got anything to do with how miserable or depressing a place is.
That’s all crime figures and drugs figures.
Crime has always been far worse in the US partly because they are liberal on gun ownership and this will always translate to greater amounts of violence.
I would argue that many of America’s troubles have political origins, rather than deprivation origins.
And even in U.K. many cities have heroin addicts hanging around at every corner too
Who ever compiled this list has obviously never been to Dewsbury, which is without doubt the worst town I have ever been to. I hope to never go back there.
I knew somebody who worked in the cotton mills and who knew miners, those were the most miserable occupations ever, you must be dreaming to think otherwise.
For Airdrie, not all they photo's were actually of Airdrie. There were 2 of Coatbridge. Also, Airdrie has some beautiful old sandstone buildings. A lot of the people are really friendly, especially compared to Edinburgh. Everytime I've drew the short straw and had to go through Edinburgh, I've always seen people fighting and muggings. Looks great, but that's about it, not a place I enjoy going.
AIRDRIE is a great place
I lived in airdrie on Clark St. The property was one of those sandstone buildings, the old provost's residence.
@@megalodon6108 I lived in 112 ardvuela Motherwell street I now live in Petersburn 👍
Don't know of your particular circumstances but I have lived in Edinburgh since 1996, north and west also, Leith too. Cosmopolitan and a touchstone away from gorgeous hills and the Lothians - one of the best cities to live in imo.
I lived in Drumclair Place in Airdrie in the early 2000s. It was a beautiful place to live.
Most towns in London especially Hounslow and Wembley is a dive , it’s like Calcutta.
Oh dear! One thing going for it though. Your house prices are extortionate. Sell and you could live anywhere else.
@@mariawildman1299 by the coast be nice
@@Lamby1010 That would be lovely 👍. Or a nice little village somewhere?
@@mariawildman1299 1 day 🤞
@@Lamby1010 Yes hold the thought.
Mansfield should be here
Blackpool is one of the best places in England to visit for a day out, but I definitely wouldn't want to live there. The town itself is a miserable, filthy, crime-ridden place, with the only thing it has going for it is its long history of tourism, with attractions such as the Blackpool tower, Coral Island, various piers, Sand Castle, Illuminations and the Pleasure Beach. And these were all attractions built decades ago, so it can't even be said the town is actively trying to boost its own reputation. Instead, it's merely surviving off the legacy of an era long past, without any real effort to better itself.
Bit harsh this ,all towns and city's in the uk have had there hearts ripped out with manufacturing etc disappearing not to mention uncontrolled immigration every government has let this go ahead christ knows what people do for a living anymore but just remember people have to live there lives in these places
Learning Canteen, you must have a very soft spot for Luton 🤣🤣🤣🤣
But I agree about Corby, Blackpool, Luton and Scunthorpe but there are other miserable towns like Walsall, Mansfield, Oldham, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston and Rochdale!!!
Yes I agree about Walsall they is so much more miserable West Bromwich Smethwick Blackheath Tipton and dudley they the most miserable towns in the UK 👍
@@Bingo-zd1gp Yes I agree. I lived in Birmingham for a bit and I know how miserable and ugly they are. Dudley and West Bromwich are terrible.
Blackpool is horrendous, as is Gt Yarmouth. Of course Jaywick is worse than any of the ten places listed here but isn't a town.
Where is Slough?
Your sanity would be lost if you knew 😂
Parts of Grimsby are pretty nice. Depends where you live.
Cleethorpes?
I worked in Rhyl, and i can guarantee it deserves space in this video..incredibly rough..
The arsehole of North Wales,how anyone goes on holiday there is a mystery.
Rhyl should be number 1 most miserable town
I can agree to an extent about the towns in Lanarkshire (having lived there for a while) and of course Luton but you've obviously never been to Slough, Oldham....or Bradford.
Or Worksop. Or Grantham. Or Barnsley
Bradford is a city.
Swindon, Stevenage, Derby, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Bolton, Guildford.
Guildford is lovely.
The thumbnail on the video is for Corby Glen in Lincolnshire. It has nothing to do with Corby, it's just quaint little village.
Never understood the UK, for all that historical 'wealth' the nation seems more like Eastern Europe when you travel around. In fact I prefer to travel around Eastern Europe as it costs a quarter the price.
The wealth never trickled down-spoiler alert ,it never does-but now the Cons are going to level evertything up everythihg will be fabulous /s.
Really like the Balkans,going to Ulcinj ,Montenegro for 2 mnths soon,spent 14 mnths there during the peak plague period,as you say not expensive tho with the GBP falling(thanks to the Cons again!)sadly that might change soon.
Completely disagree
@@kyzantia8884 with what?
Its citizens have been ripped off by their theiving govt
For a small country the UK still punches above its weight in terms of GDP, in spite of voters undermining it by voting for the B word.
Doncaster heading this way.
The town centre is unrecognisable now compared to how it was .
My village of Harworth ised to be great, very busy industry here with Harworth Colliery (where I worked), She Factory, and Glass Bulbs Factory.
All local work for school leavers, if they wanted it.
Now all the factories gone.
Harworth Colliery site is now a housing estate for 998 houses.
Shoe Factory, small housing estate.
Most fields and spare land all houses planted on them.
Apparently it's called progress.
Doncaster is no longer a town it became a city earlier this year
So sad this has been replicated up and down the country. Planning is haphazard whole estates parachuted into semi urban/ rural areas with no facilities. The real needs of people go undressed decade after decade. Lack of vision and leadership is endemic , feeds down to disempowerment of communities. The decline will only start to stop if there is full involvement and participation of the local inhabitants. Unfortunately this never happens with top down politics. Years on this division will remain as it has done throughout my life time. Slogans are just that.
@@denisebrown4735 I just want my England back.
Is that harworth and bircotes if it is my sister lived there and I can comfirm it is a shit hole lol
Donny has hot birds thou.
I must admit to being surprised that Hull wasn't on the list
That surprised me; perhaps times have changed there!
it's a city
We av the culture 😂😂
The main thumbnail is a picture of the quaint village of Corby Glen in Lincolnshire.......perhaps if you did your research correctly... or at all, you'd have found a picture of Corby in Northamptonshire instead and known the difference.
Fair point. Note that Lincolnshire was represented by Scunthorpe and Grimsby. Researchers were no doubt impressed with Boston...
If the idiot who uploaded this video done his research he would have to show real pictures of Corby. Full of new shops, buildings (Corby Cube, International Swimming Pool, new large supermarkets, new restaurants, new high Street shops and Caffè's, even new posh estates).
It would be hard than to put 2022 Corby on research list as people are not blind and can see what the town look like.
apart from the weather, in general It IS better to live in the North of England rather than in London, Cornwall and Wales are also better places.
Corby, I the best town in England.
I'd hate to see the worst.
no it isn't 😂
Why’d you show Edinburgh for a large chunk of where you were talking about “towns that have amenities greater than cities” in the intro?
This is a miserable video
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Rotherham , Preston , Burnley must be there .
Watching these videos makes me appreciate my idyllic rural village in Norfolk even more. Thank you.
These places must be bad if Great Yarmouth didn’t make the list !
Relatives in Norfolk do not describe many of their villages as idyllic anymore. Many migrant-filled holiday hotels where once were tourists. Few speaking English on the streets.
@@orion3768 indeed so you are familiar with Gt Yarmouth
@@orion3768 indeed so you are familiar with Gt Yarmouth
@@MTknitter22 yes, I live in Norwich
I'm always surprised that Skelmersdale, north west England never makes these lists.
Scared to offend scousers.
That comment is telling on your part 'Skem' is an outlying town outside of of Liverpool and isint considered to be part of Liverpool ie 'scouse' fyi.
@@denisebrown4735 I grew up in a village a few miles away. Skem was built as an overspill town after slum clearance in Liverpool. Most of the population that moved there were scouse and the accent is predominantly Liverpudlian today, although Skem comes under a Wigan postcode.
@@TheHazzasez Hi Harry. Yes, I get your point. I was trying to also highlight the veiled anti - Liverpudlian undertones as veiled as it was from the previous commentator. As we know identity is complex.
I grew up in skem and I'm also surprised its not here. When the bus strikes happened there was no way at all to leave
I have lived in the UK for many years from the Netherlands originally.It is the neglect in many British towns .Old empty buildings standing there for years.I had a walk ones in Edingburgh renewing my passport.Miserable horrible looking houses no trees and it supposed to be posh.Anything what needs doing takes years.More committee meetings than work.
What just ten.🤣😂😅😂🤣🥲🤣😂😅🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩💩💩
Swansea is ultra grim, should never have been a city.
going to live there for a few years starting next week. give me a brief rundown
@@AuroraAce. If you can head for the Gower area, Swansea is awful.
It's lovely in the beach parts. Isn't it getting some regeneration?
Is this about Yorkshire?
Plenty of towns in London worse than these. Think Tower Hamlets and the surrounding areas
Corby did well to beat Luton to the number one spot.
Please be luton please be luton
Dunstable !
In the first place UK itself is a depressing country
Dudley pretty miserable!if you bombed dudley you would struggle to do 50 quids worth of damage!
Sorry, went to Dudley a few months ago, I think it has already been bombed 🙄
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Totally misleading about Cumbernauld. The town centre isn't exactly great but theres a lot of very good quality housing at reasonable prices, an excellent rail service to Glasgow or Edinburgh all set close to very nice countryside. I lived there for a long time and would be very happy to go back if I needed to.
Bradford
Dewsbury
Rochdale
All dismal for the same reason.
Yup.
Corby's the capital of Scotland innit 😂
Perhaps they could have named it New Scotland.
@@rjjcms1 yeah maybe they could of ,but don't forget back then most of em couldn't read or write 😂
Sunderland….Definitely Sunderland.Where the Pigeons Fly Upside Down as there’s nothing worth Shitting on!!
And I’m from there🙈
Blackpool has the lowest life expectancy for men in the country at around 50 a lot are gone .
You missed out Barrow-in-Furness
There are many more miserable towns in this country, and who do we thank for that, "THATCHER THE TWATSTER"
I'm originally from Gainsborough 🏝️and we didn't like thatcher the milk 🥛👶snatcher 🙁and community ender 😑, but good luck to all of us 🍀👍
@@kevinruddy448 Did you know it was LABOUR that scrapped the daily milk for senior schools?
sure, blame her…ignore the bottom falling out of your industry because your products weren’t worth the scrap value you’d get for them nor the complete opening up of production markets that were far cheaper and of better quality than the crap you were producing
nope, just blame her!
It's New Labours uncontrolled immigration policies that ruined most of them.
Sad to see whare I live the"new sun bed shop" boom is now nail shops & vape stores sad to see how most of our home villages & towns are so run down not to mention the charity shops witch do good to help others each government we have had has single handedly piloted our towns in to the ground no mater wht party is in charge really sad!!
Obviously never been to West Bromwich or Cannock.
What about Portsmouth???
..you are joking! Wonderful place full of history and service traditions as home of the Royal Navy and a half-dece t football team/stadium and uni...
Portsmouth is ok.
These aren't towns that I think of as miserable when one thinks of the country as a whole.
Towns show at being their best when the Sun is out and not behind clouds.
I've only once been to the UK, only over a long weekend as it happens.
The place was nice and warm both day an night.
I liked it there, but have never returned there. Perhaps one day, who knows
The fuck?
I’ve lived in England for 16 years, when has there ever been sun?
You forgot Hull, Doncaster & Rotherham.
Take a shot every time he says “miserable towns in the UK” XD
The picture you’ve used as the cover post intending to be ‘corby’ isn’t actually in ‘corby’. it’s a village called ‘corby glen’ which is actually a pleasant village, close to Stamford, lincs. :)
TBH the list is silly. Not mentioning some really terrible places, than listing Corby as the worst with not a single thing mentioned why. Last 5 years Corby have been 1 of the most in invested towns across UK. Houses been going up here way faster than anywhere else. Tons of new clean and well looked after estates (we just bought a nearly new house in Corby and we move from Corby too. Couldn't find a better place around even in some so called idyllic towns where for double the money had none of the amenities, Caffè's nor shops I get here in Corby.
Sadly I believe the author of this raport has not been in Corby in recent 5 years and definitely not been here in 2022.
Tons of new businesses, colleges and posh estates (yes, I do call them posh, some houses costs £600+ and londeners and people from Oxford and Cam move to appar rundown Corby so maybe they are blind and can't see the problem with my town?).
When I go up north, Lincolnshire or around Doncaster or Leeds I do feel we got hardly any crime here in Corby and am glad to come back to our terrible town hahaha.
You know it’s stiff competition when Grimsby ain’t in the top 5
Was surprised to see Luton on this list, I was under the impression that the further north you travel from London, the worst the towns and villages are. All due to the government obsession with London and the South East, all other areas get a lot less investment from, or promotion by the government. Well, you learn something new every day. Perhaps Luton have upset the government in some way. I do know that Luton has a regional airport, so perhaps the government are determined not to let any nearby airport become competition to Heathrow, so are starving the local council of investment, thereby ensuring there is no money to invest in the airport and local communities.
It’s a myth that the further north you go the more grim the towns are, many of the towns up north are beautiful, and many in the southern most areas are grim. It’s true that industrial towns tend to be north, and it’s true that there is generally more deprivation up north, but many of those northern towns are great places to live. London has some seriously awful parts as well as stunningly beautiful parts, for most people however it’s simple economics and you will probably earn more in the south with less opportunities in the north. As remote working becomes more and more common this may change very fast.
The cost of living, and especially housing, are much higher in the south. If you're in a like for like waged job eg Public Sector or unskilled jobs you'll be significantly better off in many places in the Midlands/ North.
Luton has always been, and always will be a Labour governed town. It's also a town with more foreigners than indigenous Brits. There are parts of Luton where you won't see a single Caucasian person (literally not one). In other parts of the world this is known as a takeover of a town.
As for London, that is a city with the highest proportion of knife crime in the whole of Europe.
@@Ghostdancer4444 This is true. I moved from Bedfordshire to the Scottish Borders. Rent went from £750 for a two bed flat (in 2017) down to £415 for a three bed house (now).
You obviously haven't travelled much, nor do you seem to have any knowledge of history, and have an obvious political bias. Industrial fortunes wax and wane and "progress" many a time condemns previously prosperous areas dependent on a single industry to stagnation. This is a universal phenomenon. London has always had areas of deprivation. Luton was part of the boom in car manufacturing from the 1950s. Luton's airport is an international airport and for those living to the north and east of London means they don't have to suffer the M25 nor the madness of Heathrow.
Corby *Glen* is used as the video thumbnail. This is a village in Lincolnshire not at all related to the town of Corby & definitely nowhere near as bad. Although I must say that building - Fighting Cocks Inn is not a good pub.
Birkenhead really got lucky in this video 😂
You missed out anywhere in the Midlands and the 'Black country'. So this is irrelevant.
It was also a issue of poverty