Yep. Commented ahead of me. Cant believe the video just casually skipped over the well known "scunthorpe" problem. There are even dedicated videos about it from the IT community.
I lived in Stevenage for 14 years and I can honestly say, whilst not a beautiful town I certainly had no issue with looking someone in the eye!! That's a really bizarre issue.
I gotta agree, you'll only get stabbed if you're unlucky walking through lakes. weird seeing someone else from stevenage on this channel of all places though..
This video is wild. Didcot and it's gangs and don't give eye contact in Stevenage 🤣 What an absolute crazy person the narrator is! He's making everywhere sound like skid frickin row and the reality is that he's just mentioning places that are a bit poorer than the towns they're closest to. With that said, he does have a good point about Huddersfield, that is a bit of a dive.
@@joeyy5015 I'm gonna guess you haven't lived there long then, a guy murdered a few years back, and the gangs used to be a big issue in Didcot or "didnot" as it used to be known buy in the surrounding towns as they didnot know who the father was 😂, the gangs used to travel to the surrounding towns also, just targeting anyone on their own and beating the living daylights out of them. But like I said used to. And then there's the mention of Wantage that's also getting bad with the unsustainable housing, it's how Didcot became so bad. Thing is nearly every town in England hell maybe in every country if you scratch beneath the surface and find out what's really going on they're all just as bad as eachother, kinda better the devil you know
Hi JT, I have lived in Huddersfield all my 71 years. The town used to be very prosperous, there was a saying that there are more Rolls Royces per head of population than anywhere else . It was a thriving industrial town of textile, engineering and chemical industries. The decline of these industries, in the whole of the UK, has had a disastrous effect on Huddersfield. There are other factors such as the amalgamation of other, poorer, towns into a large metropolitan council area called Kirklees, but I won't go into the politics! Huddersfield was described as 'a most handsome town due to the Victorian architecture in fact, Huddersfield railway Station, now a Grade 1 listed building, was described by John Betjeman as “the most splendid station facade in England”. Please take this video with a pinch of salt, these towns are not as bad as portrayed.
Very true. Huddersfield has it's charms. And a wonderful little castle on a hill which is very scenic. Also has some brilliant little villages for a day out
yeah hudds isn't as good as it used to be as the council has let it become run down and is now primarily a uni town. the local music scene is fantastic though..
JT please ignore this rubbish, whoever compiled this video has never been to these places, that I can guarantee . Hope your new home is coming along well , best wishes to you and yours !
Yep, poorly researched (if at all) and obviously hasn't been to at least some of the places mentioned, I live in Didcot and as both myself and my daughter are regular train users and we have never seen gangs outside the railway station waiting to rob people, there may sometimes be gatherings of Oxford United or Swindon fans if they are playing each other (a bit of rivalry between the 2 camps) , the photos shown are outdated, the Crown pub is long gone and the first phase of demolishment of the power station was 2014 and it was all gone by 2019. Didcot may not be very interesting being mostly modern but it's clean and certainly isn't dangerous.
Bizarre that they chose to show the nicest possible pictures of the towns. Those lovely old buildings are well…old and not a reflection of the town’s current prosperity. They will be considered heritage buildings and therefore looked after. A lot of these towns though were once thriving but now are in abject poverty. I guess they’re a bit like Gary Indiana, towns deserted by industry, but maybe not as extreme.
I think juxtaposing the pretty pictures of the towns over the commentary roasting them was part of the joke behind the whole video. There are so many sly little nods and winks in the commentary to say this shouldn’t be taken seriously n
Id say they are. Caring for the old buildings would the responsibility of the local council and private owners, so can't be in complete poverty if they're managing to afford to maintain them
Knocking where you live is a local past time in the UK. A few years ago someone published a book call something like The 100 crappiest towns in the Uk, the authors had a public outcry, from people wanting to know, why their town was not in the book, Lol, so they had to bring out another book to include another 100 crappiest towns. Hahaha, only in the Uk. :) Xmas wishes to you all :)
Me too, grew up in Wiltshire and expected Swindon on the list, Trowbridge is worse the Swindon in my opinion though, at least there are some good paying jobs in swindon, its the same as Slough, good jobs but not a place you'd want to live for your whole life
I last visited Swindon about fifteen years ago, and I'm shocked to consider it might have got even worse since then! Literally the first person I ran into was a prostitute with missing teeth
@@BlueSunRUclipsomg trobridge is awful! My wifes uncle lived there, he died of a heart attack and his flat was emptied by his "friends" when they found him. Total shit hole!
Putting Luton at 4 was very generous by him it’s a absolute shithole and the quicker your out of there the better It’s a classic example where you need to check if your in England
Hi JT, i really would take this video about these towns with a pinch if salt. I was born in Scunthorpe and moved away about 20 years ago, to London. A few years later i mived back because my wife from London wanted to bring our kids up here because of less crime, better schools, nicer area in general. Plenty of green space, and houses at the time were a good deal less pricey than living in London. To be honest theres nothing any worse in Scunthorpe than any other town or city. If anything, covid has done worse damage to the town than anything else, a lot of shops and buildings remain empty due to going out of business because of covid, but slowly they are opening up with new businesses. One thing that did damage to the town was a tv show calked "Skint" a few tears ago, painting the whole town as a $hithole full of druggies and shoplifters living in squalor, when in reality, it was filmed in one small area focussing in one square block (which has since been regenerated by the local council at the cost if millions with a new precinct etc, so doesnt even exist in its previous form anymore) but as the show depicted drugged up shoplifters trying to sell their spoils, making ng the town look as bad as possible, it was later revealed that the show runners for the tv programme were going in to locql cheap shops such as pound shop's etc, then legally purchasing about £30 worth of items that were most likely to be stolen by shoplifters, then giving it to participants of the show to go around the area whilst being filmed "selling" their "stolen" goods to the local populace. Thus creating a bad vibe for a town that didnt deserve it. I notice they didnt mention any of the good facts that bring in billions to the town, and the country as a whole, every year due to the thriving big businesses in Scunthorpe? The fact that every burger mcdonalds serves, not only in the uk but the channel uslands, Ireland, parts of Europe and a few other places are all produced and supplied from here. The big furniture manufacturing companies are all based here, aswell as various multinational kitchen suppliers amongst other businesses. for example, Golden wonder crisp manufacturing is based here, who also make every supermarkets own brand crisps aswell as certain ranges of walkers/smiths crisps. The steelworks which is having a bit if a bad time globally at the minute, has supplied the world with steel for about 150 years, including the fact its steel was used to literally build half of Las Vegas. Has two top colleges and the university campus that people from around the world clamber over eachother to get in to. And also the people here are amazing. The help and sense of community that came about here because of covid was amazing. And i inow it was the same everywhere, people coming together and helping each other out, but thats my point. None of these towns and cities on this list are as bad as they are made out to be in this video. Everywhere has its good points, everywhere has its bad points. But i for one am glad to have been born and raised here. Its a proud town with proud people and a proud viking heritage, and it has a lot to be proud of. Way more than to be ashaned of. The towns name comes from the viking who settled it called Skuma, and it was originally called Escumestorpe which means Skumas homestead. Which over time became Scunthorpe. So JT the reason why websites were banning mention of Scunthorpe in the early days is because of a certain word that us spelled out in the town name. Remove the 's' and the 'horpe' from Scunthorpe, and what are you left with? Love your videos mate, i have been here since the early days, i was in the first couple of hundred to subscribe! Hope you have a nice Christmas and that you get settled in to your new home as soon as possible.
Scunny native here as well, before I started this video I was joking with myself if Scunthorpe would be on here. And it is, that take out shown in the corner of the title card is literally a 5 minute walk from the engineering college I went to. And while the steelworks are very good they are not what they used to be, I hope they still make steel at the Appleby Froddingham works though cos Scunthorpe without the steelworks would be like London without The Tube. I’m not familiar with the website censorship though
@@polarisukyc1204 yeah it doesn't do it so much now but from about 1995 to about 2005 websites wouldn't let you sign up with your address if you lived in Scunthorpe, men messenger and other such messengers would sensor it out so if someone asked you where you were from, and you replied Scunthorpe, from your side it looked like you had replied, but from their side they received nothing and probably thought you were being ignorant in not replying. Sometimes you would get kicked out of chat automatically, sometimes an instant ban! It really was a pain in the arse trying to sign up for eBay etc in those days. You had to just put Ashby or brumby etc wherever you were from to get it to accept your details. And yeah it will be crap at the end of the day if the steel works goes, but more commerce will come because it would be prime land for businesses, houses, better rail links hopefully bringing in investment and if successful would double the size of the town, big enough to receive city status (, technically you need a cathedral to receive city status, but it has been done before, besides, they could build one on the newly acquired land) I don't want the steel works to go but things happen. You have to make the most of it, and it is viable land for building as they have done it with Ashby ville which up until the late 70s, was part of the steelworks (ville pond being the former quarry and the land around it steel work buildings, offices and accomodation) and the steel works land is so big that it could house an airport and it wouldn't take up 1/5th of the land. It has so much potential, but it's nothing without investment. And the thing is, companies wait until the desperation sets in before making investments because they get it cheaper.
I lived in Corby for over 10 years. It's an old steel town thst was populated by unemployed people moving down from Scotland. Specificslly Glasgow. But when the steel works closed down, it left behind a town with the majority of people unemployed and lacking any usable skills for anything other than menial labour. The town is absolutely rife with drugs, crime, violence and was, at one point, the teenage pregnancy capital of EUROPE! It has undergone some renovation over the last 10 years or so and is slowly climbing its way out of the pit, but it still has a long way to go. One thing I WILL say though is that, besides the criminals and drug addicts, it also has some of the nicest, warmest, most generous people you'll ever meet. They have no airs or graces, because most of them have fought their way out of some form of poverty at one time or another.
Yeah Corby has changed a lot now, lots of new housing estates and new shops etc, definitely improved but still a way to go! I live in Corby still, my family moved down from Glasgow back in the 70s
I've lived in Corby for 63 of my 68 years . I've seen it go through the good and bad times. Now it's just an extension of Eastern Europe ! Every time I go into town I struggle to hear an English/Scottish voice.
The only middle England Town where Scottish is the 1st language. 🤣 . I used to load out of there regular from Corby Chilled with a load for their depot in Heywood North Manchester to take me back home.
I've lived in Chatham for years and its honestly one of the worst places to be. The pictures they used in the video are not representative of what you'd see if you visit. There are major issues of drugs, poverty, homelessness, and petty crime. Most of the shops in the high street are shady, and you would genuinely look out of place in jeans and a plain tshirt as the chatham attire is dirty tracksuits. Its a well known saying that Kent is the garden of England. Its also a lesser known saying that If Kent is the garden of England, then Chatham is the compost heap.
I live in Gravesend (unfortunately!) which is just down the road from Chavham...sorry, Chatham...and it's just as bad if not worse! That whole Gravesend/Dartford/Medway area as a whole is horrible 😢
@neilgayleard3842 I haven't visited London for some time and at the moment it would last place on earth I would go .Shocking rip off prices and the ever present threat of crime. No thanks .
I live in Aylesbury and it basically is just one perminant traffic jam and there is also basically nothing to do here except get on a train to London but we are only the 5th most hated town this year so assuming we carry on climbing at 4 spots a year it will only take us a short 10,863 years to be the best😂
All of the pictures of the town's in this video made them look really nice. I live in stevenage and you made it look like a village post card lol you should of put up some pics of the oval estate then it would of been deserving of number 7 😂
Yes JT I've been watching u for years and this is the first time Huddersfield has come up in one of your videos. I'm Huddersfield born and bred buzzing we got a shout-out with some justifiable reasoning.
I’ve lived in chatham 37 years…,, it has its rough areas and like most high streets in Britain the centre is declining but it has some great areas. Its suburbs are leafy and quiet… it’s an up and coming town.. great location, I have never ever had a car stolen. Had my house burgled. Been mugged….
Up and coming lol. Its not a great t9wn. I lived in Rainham for 20 years and went to school and worked in the Pentagon for a few years. Really was soulless.
A lot of towns in the midlands have become run down and small business's closed since covid struck. Although a lot is depressing UK still has many beautiful places to visit!
I live in Huddersfield, I don't know many people who have multiple kids by different dads and have never been mugged. There is quite a large Asian community but generally it isn't that bad (I moved from the South Coast of England). As a female I do feel wary walking outside late at night but who wouldn't when they are walking through what was the yorkshire ripper's area. Also generally the gang culture in the UK is nothing compared to the USA
Someone born and raised in Huddersfield here, I've never been mugged either but there is a lot of chavvy activity and the centre is just awful to be in, the outskirts get a lot nicer though so it's kind of hard to judge it
@@lukerollinson This list is strange, 2x in my life I've been mugged/attacked during nights out and that was Bristol and Bournemouth, considered two of the "nicer" cities/towns in the UK. It all comes down to where you go and who you know, all big towns are the same
During my time growing up in Huddersfield, I've only known good people there. Everyone in family are kind, funny and generous. My father was friends with what seemed like hundreds of good people too. It's probably not the best place, but it's also not the worst compared to others in my opinion.
@jermainwood6735 yeah it does get overblown mate. I have lived in Huddersfield growing up as well as Manchester and Harrogate as well. Obviously Harrogate is far safer than Huddersfield. Huddersfield is definitely friendlier and more down to Earth than Harrogate or York. The only part of Huddersfield I would be a bit wary of would be Birkby and Fartown especially after dark but even then your usually ok if you are not involved in the drug trade or the wrong crowd.
I live in Stevenage and never heard of not looking someone in the eye and I talk to anyone and everyone. Yes there’s parts that are rough but like everywhere else you get good and bad in every town. Stevenage would not qualify to be a city as we don’t have a cathedral.
I'm from Birmingham and moved to St. Evenage when I went to Uni. Got to say I thought I was moving up in the world when I first got there, separate bike lanes, green areas and parks, and even deer hiding in them (especially on six hills way). Dont know what those Stevenage lot are complaining about, the worst thing about it is that all the shops shut for the day 6pm.
I think JT may have hit the nail on the head when he says that SOMEWHERE has got to be the working town. There is a strong element of snobbery in some of these cases; these towns are often near much more beautiful and famous ( and very expensive) towns. We are also suffering from a national shortage of police. Petty crime is often therefore not under control. Scunthorpe is supposed to have a peculiar problem. It is said that anti-rude word filters won't accept its name, because of letters 2-5!
Huddersfield is probably my favourite town in the country! Ive lived near it all my life - thought closer to oldham - and its always way cleaner then oldham and it has weirdly polite homeless people
I was born and live in Luton, number 4 on your list of often voted worst town to live in. It's not all bad but there are certainly areas that are best not visited alone after dark. Best thing about Luton? It's easy to get out of. Lol Direct access to the M1 motorway, good train links and an airport.
Most of the info about Luton was semi-accurate, the pictures were old, gangs etc aren't as common as they're making out (maybe IDK), but knife crime is a problem. I recently learnt about the p... thing, I was shocked tbh, but there are specific areas that those things are more common in. I've lived in Luton all my life and never had any problem with safety or getting around at night time. Most importantly, I think Luton FC's recent promotion to the PL will definitely improve the town's image, especially with the money that will *hopefully* be spent to improve the surrounding areas.
Thank you! i scrolled through the comments reading about peoples opinions of luton and had to disagree with most, i've lived here all my life and haven't had a big issue, the litter and knife crime is a problem but i think its moreso a forgotten town that no one really talks about, but they focus on the bad parts. I think alot of opinions surroudning luton only focus on the negative experiences, but there are so many friendly people here, i wouldnt say there are an awful lot of gang related problems here but there are alot of individual issues, but as you said, hopefully the recent promotion to the prem league helps out, although i did hear someone bought the mall here and are hoping to upgrade, so cant wait for that!!
I like how the narrator is insulting these places, but their also showing really nice photos of buildings or scenery at the same time 😂 wtf! Which way is it.
4 years living in Luton town centre's homeless shelters/hostels changed my whole outlook on modern society. The first week I lived there I walked to the shop to by a cornetto ice cream, stumbled upon a 16 year old Pakistani lad flat on his back with a unhealthily sized combat knife sticking out of his chest.. that wasn't what got to me initially, it was his family stood their watching and screaming in horror while they watched the last bit of life drain from his face, i think it was a somalin boy that killed him. nice place but the scale of the immigration is kind of scary, i was by far a minority as a white English male. if you want a cheap experience of a sketchy UK town, well I'm pretty sure LUTON Airport has the cheapest flights going.
The Scunthorpe issue was because after the initial S, the next 4 letters of town’s name contains a very rude c word, and early internet filters would block mention of that town in particular due to over zealous censorship.
Yeah its due to poorly made naughty language filters, it searches for the letters in order but ignores the other letters around it. I remember one years ago that would throw a fit if you said you had just bought cucumbers in scunthorpe.
When I first started working for North Lincolnshire Council, their new IT systems would not allow us to send emails because of the C-word hidden in the town's name.
I'm a Brit. I live in a crap house in a crap street in a crap town in a crap county. My crap town isn't mentioned in the clip, but could easily qualify. However, if you impugn my crap house or my crap street or my crap town or my crap county, I'll bring down hellfire upon you and your descendents for eternity. Or at least until my darts team meets your darts team down the pub on Wednesday night, then it's; "My round!" "How's Janice and the kids?" "See you at the Rugby on Sunday."
😂 that’s the spirit! We can slag off our own ‘till the cows come home but anyone else look at our crap hole the wrong way and woe betide them! We’ll give them a luke warm cup of tea and stir it backwards for good measure!
Hey, it's not a crap country! There are still lots of things about this country that are good. Most towns are crap, it's when you go out into the country, visit the less known coastal areas and historical places that we realise how truly grateful these People really are.
I could cry thinking of some of these areas, many of our beautiful towns and cities have been totally and utterly transformed. unrecognisable, the crime is off the chart. the rape, the abuse, and the denial. we are in quite the state seriously we are in a great deal of trouble and it is taboo to talk about it. to the extent of it being criminal
Huh? Violent crime in the U.K. is lower than it has been in the past (the height was generally the 70s and 80s), while some areas have suffered from particular industries collapsing, other areas are thriving with new development and wealth. As a country as a whole on average, we are much better off than we used to be. And as for it being illegal to talk about? Huh? I honestly have no clue what you are talking about there.
@@sputukgmail May I ask how old you are? I grew up in the 60's 70's and 80;s and I think crime is a lot worse now. Some of the crimes we are seeing now were unheard of back then.
@@shaunwild8797 I too grew up in the same times - and I’m not going from anecdote, I’m going off studies and official statistics. The thinking is that lead in petrol and paint being removed has made a difference to the crime rate as well as social changes. What is different now is the amount and speed and explicitness of the reporting of crime which makes the world /feel/ scarier. Also, just getting older, we’re personally feeling more vulnerable as time takes its toll. But, the facts are, violent crime is down significantly. Remember back before our time, there were the teddy boys carrying knives, using bike chains, there were violent thugs attacking the elderly in their homes and more often getting away with it as we didn’t have DNA and CCTV to catch them and get them off the streets so one bad apple would be around causing much more harm for longer. There are lots of reasons it’s safer now. Remember, the news wants people scared. If you’re scared, you feel you need to watch the news to be informed and prepared, so the more they scare you, the more viewers/readers they get. At its peak in the mid 90s, there were approx 64 violent crimes per 1,000 people per year. In the 80s it went from about 25 up to 40 by 1990. Since then, it’s been in steady decline, down to about 20 in 2010, and lowest in 2017 at just 13, and has hovered around that since. So it’s roughly half the average in the 80s and less than 1/4 what it was at its peak in the mid 90s.
I was born in Chatham and I live to the the town right next to it 😅it’s next to one of the beautiful towns of England and that’s Rochester sadly I live in Gillingham which is worse than Chatham 😅the home of the chav 😞
In all of these towns there are good people working hard to make it a good space to live in. I always feel bad to see entire communities written off in this way, because I know there are good decent folk in these places.
The original video is so weird, sounds like it was written by Chat GPT in a foreign language, then badly translated by google translate, and read by an AI voice
I've been unlucky enough to be born in stevenage, moved to just outside of Luton, moved to Aylesbury, moved just outside Corby then back to Aylesbury! Most of these towns are only hated because they are dull or crowded or lacking in money but I do have to say, Luton really is that dangerous. There are a lot of cultural and gang problems and people are regularly attacked there.
Never heard of most of these So glad I live in a tiny village on Yorkshire moors don't think I could ever live in a town looks like most of these hated town are down south They can keep them
I don't know were you got this program from but it sounds like the Narration is Southern English. There is a North South devide namely Northerners are more friendly and forthcoming, Southerners not easy to get on with and can act coy when talking to you. Also Scouses, Gordie,and Brummies will never say they are British or English so Research that if you can.🇮🇪🏴🏴
I knew Luton would be in this list we used to live on the outskirts of Luton and I'd have to go into Luton to do my shopping but that all changed when I saw someone get stabbed outside the shopping mall, after that I did my shopping online I never went out shopping into Luton again. Thank you for another lovely video x
I have lived in Huddersfield all my life and on the whole people are very friendly and there is some great people there but the issue we have is there are a lot of gangs and murders happening and it has really brought the Town down. Such a shame
U missed bradford leeds London halifax Sheffield keighley Nottingham Manchester Oldham Blackburn nelson etc basically every town in the uk is a shit hole due to immergration and religions
I used to live in Corby I now live about 20 minutes away. From my experience it was awful living there, always a police car flying down the road. Everyone wanted to get a ASBO (anti social behaviour order) also have teenagers known as Chavs everywhere where you felt so intimidated walking past. Place was so run down.
I was born and bred in Huddersfield, apparently my face was a picture when it came up in the list. Not MUCH of what they say in their reasonings wasn't true when I lived there (for 23 years), might have changed now. Though, I wouldn't move back, at all.
Didcot is hated because it's a shithole. I live nearby, so feel I'm qualified to conment. There are no gangs though, not sure where he got that from, just teenagers with an attitude problem, nothing a swift right hook won't sort out.
I lived in Rainham, which is next to Chatham and went to school there before moving there for 2 years. Near the train station. It was the main shopping centre for surrounding towns. Its just a depressing place to be. From friends that still live in Chatham and Gillingham, they hate the place still.
I’m surprised Huddersfield is on there. I used to go to Huddersfield uni, it was nice :). I only lived 4 miles from it too before I went to uni. Alright it’s a bit scary as a fresher, there was one case of a mugging by knife point when I was there but that was one case.
As someone who has lived in Milton Keynes I can say it doesn't deserve to be on team list, I love living here, it is actually a beautiful city of you are willing to bother to explore it.
I’m from a mining town in the north west of England , we have local villains, dealers. gangs in the local cities on Manchester, Liverpool etc. all towns n cities have this.
I lived in Chatham (well very very close to it anyway) for a while, and yeah it's definitely quite disliked.. but honestly I'm surprised my current town is not on there, because it is really hated.. if I tell anyone where I'm from their face turns sour like they've just sucked a lemon
to be fair I'd say here in England it's less about two towns hating one another and more about a particular place being hated in the region. I can think of a few examples hahaha
Ah, one of those videos where an AI* has ripped some comments, random 'facts' and made a word salad. (* I hope it's an AI, otherwise a near illiterate idiot wrote the script)
For all the grief hurled at the north, it has one thing going for it that the south lacks: northerners. I'm Canadian, and Scousers, Geordies, and everyone in between are just the best IMO. You find the odd tosser anywhere, but in the north it's more likely someone will have a quick word with them.
I went to Sheffield about 20 years ago I was shocked it was filthy,bars on shops tacky looking takeaways horrible. However may be very unfair as that was a long time ago.
@@AdamF8 Agreed. We often visit my son, who moved there 17 years ago. It is a bit grim in places, but there aren't many big towns and cities which you can't say the same about. One minute you're in an industrial area, the next you're walking by a river. The people are friendly too.
I haven't been tempted to visit 9 of these, but I have been to Dover many times and lived and worked there for a short time. Dover is wonderful, it is a bit rough and ready, but the natives are friendly and there are many great pubs and restaurants. There are many tourist attractions, the obvious one being the castle and underground workings. The town is not choked in suburbs like so many in southern England and fine countryside begins a short walk from the town centre, not only the famous white cliffs. There are numerous attractions nearby and you can always pop over to France on the cheap. Some locals moan about it, I suppose its not as glamorous as Canterbury, but for me (a native of the Midlands and North) it is a favourite destination with none of the stuffiness and claustrophobia of so much of southern England.
easy to say this as you don't live here and only really experience the perks of the area, as why would you choose to experience the negatives. It's a dying town with a terrible amount of crime
Huddersfield is the only town where the shopkeeper refused to let us out of the shop until we bought something. It was an independent shop and we only went in to look at a top. We Ended up buying a top that we hated, but could afford, just to get out of the shop🤣🤣
Uh, ye that's, THAT'S KIDNAP. You were kidnapped then extorted,that's not normal, in the slightest. Should've just grabbed the most expensive things around, and started breaking them... "NO problem sir, I'll stay in your shop as long as you keep the door locked, oooo this looks expensive! 😅"
But the Tories have savagely cut council funding year on year so it's down to central government starving the local areas. Though normally they're Labour-controlled areas that they cut the most.@@amandacoleman8501
I have lived in stevenage all my life and have moved around the town and some of the things are fake. It is not offensive to look someone in the eye that is false. The community comes together a lot and the only reason it isn't a city is because it doesn't have a cathedral
Aylesbury is a lovely town with mostly friendly people, great resturants, decent education and murder is non existent. Aylesbury is a very historic market town just outside the Chiltern Hills and although I can confirm it is incredibly boring here and the traffic during rush hour can be pretty terrible between the commuter towns it's nowhere near the worst town in England. Aylesbury has nice and clean parks, manors, a great theater that is famous for hosting large events and Christmas shows, is home to some of the most famous people in the world from England football stars to David Bowie, Roald Dahl and is the birth place of the Paraolympic sports before it became internationally recognised. It's also famous for having one of the best spinal injuries units in the world too. The reason the town is hated is because of the terrible traffic jams otherwise like I said the over crime rate is low, it's an overall safe town where walking home at night is something I don't feel threatened by and murder here is so rare that when it does happen the entire town is shocked and angered by it. it's not a bad town and it doesn't have a bad overall community it just lacks in the fun factor and has a road system in dire need or reworks.
Aylesbury has awful restaurant that are even still all shutting down. Education is awful unless you’re in grammar schools. I know 4 people who have been murdered in Aylesbury. Bowie was from Brixton, they built a statue as he played a gig there and Dahl is from Great Missenden (20 min drive) and the theatre was only built in part of a scheme to try and improve the town centre as it’s an awful depressing mess that’s closing down
Aylesbury was ok until they built Fairfordleys and expanding with thousands of houses around what was a market town. Now traffic is a nightmare, Stoke Mandeville hospital can't cope, you can't park oh and don't forget HS2 but not as bad as High Wycombe which has become a sh1t hole due to curtain race,was ok back in the 70's I've live in both.
how dare you, Liverpool has a lot of good history...it's only gone downhill since Covid. it has loads of good places to stay and restaurants and mueums and it has the history of the beatles museum.
you're highly ignorant if you think that...both Liverpool and Manchester are two of the most iconic destinations in the UK...the only reason they went downhill in recent years is because of Covid.
@@doctors8966 it is a fact that covid caused the economy to go donwnhill for a lot of towns. if you're from manchester you should show some loyalty to your hometown. my hometown would never be hated by me (not that it is any of the ones on this video or liverpool or manchester) but my mum was born in Liverpool and i have visited many times and i have visited manchester plenty as well. hometown should be off the list by default based on loyalty...if anyone insults the town i was born in there will be trouble. major towns and districts such as; Oxford, York, Yorkshire, Liverpool, Manchester, Bath...there is no way they are hated unless you are bias or ignorant. Those all represent capitals of something or other; art, education, knowledge, food ideas, farming. The mere fact that i have barely heard of the towns on this video says everything...i haven't heard of them because no one CARES LOL.
What a ridiculous review of “Hated UK Towns”. Where on Earth did this guy get his so called facts!? I have lived in and around Dicdot my entire life and have never experienced, seen, heard of, or read about ANY of the issues he stated. Honestly, “Gangs of Didcot” had me laughing so loud… just preposterous! JT, I would take the whole thing with a pinch of salt!
Slough. The great English poet Sir John Betjeman nailed it when he began a poem: “Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now …”
Omg so funny. I'm from Chatham. When the dockyard closed it went down hill fast! The town centre is, well, interesting lol. I try to avoid it, full of cheap or phone shops, "Chatham chavs" shouting and arguing. Outside of the main town it's nice though. Lovely parks etc and they have turned the dockyard in to a tourist attraction which is really nice.
I once dated a girl from Luton, but she'd always insist on going to St. Albans (A small town nearby) as she said Luton was awful. I drove through Aylesbury to see my cousin who lived in a small village between there and a town called Binstead and it's not a fun place. There is also a city in Wales; Cardiff; that is one of the dullest places I've ever been even though I was dating a girl from there at the time. I have heard it's much improved, but...
You ask most people what is the most hated place in the UK and I guarantee that most people will say London. Unless of course you are from London! I've been a few times and personally hated the fact that everyone seemed to be in a rush, prices are 10 x higher than the rest of the UK and if you stand still for more than a few minutes you are likely to be approached by nefarious characters. You could not pay me enough to live there! I was born and grew up in Cardiff (which makes me a 'Welsh Cockney' in some people's eyes) and although it's a capital city the people are friendly and welcoming and there are only a few estates where you don't want to park up if you're a stranger.
Aylesbury is mainly hated on because is hasn't got much there. It's close, ish to Oxford and High Wycombe, which both have way better shops and entertainment. I personally don't think it should be the most hated town in the UK, there are way worse towns in my opinion.
Rochdale should be number one and we all know why.
I Know exactly what you mean
Why?
@@tonycowin Pedoville, plus it's a dump but mainly the first thing.
@@craigchristian344 yes the ist thing 💯
Any LABOUR run town should be on this list.
JT, look at the spelling of Scunthorpe and pick out the word within that may mean blockers block the websites 😂😂
I can't see it? ahhh, sorry just got it...cunt. (that genuinely took around 5 mins)🤦♂🤣
Yep. Commented ahead of me. Cant believe the video just casually skipped over the well known "scunthorpe" problem. There are even dedicated videos about it from the IT community.
See also Penistone (real place).
Big up scunny
Thorpe?
I lived in Stevenage for 14 years and I can honestly say, whilst not a beautiful town I certainly had no issue with looking someone in the eye!! That's a really bizarre issue.
Bar rev then on to pulse then the milk train back to pboro
I gotta agree, you'll only get stabbed if you're unlucky walking through lakes.
weird seeing someone else from stevenage on this channel of all places though..
I'm stevenage here aswell
I was gunna say, I'm from ware, so down the road. Stevenage is grim and grey but it definitely doesn't feel unsafe lol
@@liamtimms777???🤔
This video is wild. Didcot and it's gangs and don't give eye contact in Stevenage 🤣 What an absolute crazy person the narrator is! He's making everywhere sound like skid frickin row and the reality is that he's just mentioning places that are a bit poorer than the towns they're closest to. With that said, he does have a good point about Huddersfield, that is a bit of a dive.
Yeah, it’s so clearly deliberately over the top and tongue in cheek, it was so funny seeing JT take it all literally :)
Live right next to didcot haven’t heard of anything bad 😂😂
I was amused about the fact they didn't mention the real reason Luton is bad 😂
@@joeyy5015 I'm gonna guess you haven't lived there long then, a guy murdered a few years back, and the gangs used to be a big issue in Didcot or "didnot" as it used to be known buy in the surrounding towns as they didnot know who the father was 😂, the gangs used to travel to the surrounding towns also, just targeting anyone on their own and beating the living daylights out of them. But like I said used to. And then there's the mention of Wantage that's also getting bad with the unsustainable housing, it's how Didcot became so bad. Thing is nearly every town in England hell maybe in every country if you scratch beneath the surface and find out what's really going on they're all just as bad as eachother, kinda better the devil you know
Look at the spelling of Scunthorpe JT that's why it gets blocked from appearing on websites
Yep the second to fifth letters of Scunthorpe have long caused problems with internet filters.
How did Croydon not make that list? I was honestly expecting to see it at number 1
Agreed!
Hi JT, I have lived in Huddersfield all my 71 years. The town used to be very prosperous, there was a saying that there are more Rolls Royces per head of population than anywhere else . It was a thriving industrial town of textile, engineering and chemical industries. The decline of these industries, in the whole of the UK, has had a disastrous effect on Huddersfield. There are other factors such as the amalgamation of other, poorer, towns into a large metropolitan council area called Kirklees, but I won't go into the politics! Huddersfield was described as 'a most handsome town due to the Victorian architecture in fact, Huddersfield railway Station, now a Grade 1 listed building, was described by John Betjeman as “the most splendid station facade in England”. Please take this video with a pinch of salt, these towns are not as bad as portrayed.
It's a shithole and that's saying something as I'm from Bradford originally !
Very true. Huddersfield has it's charms. And a wonderful little castle on a hill which is very scenic. Also has some brilliant little villages for a day out
yeah hudds isn't as good as it used to be as the council has let it become run down and is now primarily a uni town. the local music scene is fantastic though..
I am extremely surprised Dewsbury didn't make this list.....That place is a ghost town of it's former self compared to Huddersfield.
@@My_man_G_UK its been a while since i've been there and it was bad back then. i reckon grimsby should've been added to this list as well.
JT please ignore this rubbish, whoever compiled this video has never been to these places, that I can guarantee . Hope your new home is coming along well , best wishes to you and yours !
Guess you haven’t come to Chatham then lol
That's strange......I just finished listening to Ricochet then stumbled on this vid lol!
I take it you’ve never been to Slough, genuine shit hole 😂
Yep, poorly researched (if at all) and obviously hasn't been to at least some of the places mentioned, I live in Didcot and as both myself and my daughter are regular train users and we have never seen gangs outside the railway station waiting to rob people, there may sometimes be gatherings of Oxford United or Swindon fans if they are playing each other (a bit of rivalry between the 2 camps) , the photos shown are outdated, the Crown pub is long gone and the first phase of demolishment of the power station was 2014 and it was all gone by 2019. Didcot may not be very interesting being mostly modern but it's clean and certainly isn't dangerous.
Bizarre that they chose to show the nicest possible pictures of the towns. Those lovely old buildings are well…old and not a reflection of the town’s current prosperity. They will be considered heritage buildings and therefore looked after. A lot of these towns though were once thriving but now are in abject poverty. I guess they’re a bit like Gary Indiana, towns deserted by industry, but maybe not as extreme.
I think juxtaposing the pretty pictures of the towns over the commentary roasting them was part of the joke behind the whole video. There are so many sly little nods and winks in the commentary to say this shouldn’t be taken seriously n
Id say they are. Caring for the old buildings would the responsibility of the local council and private owners, so can't be in complete poverty if they're managing to afford to maintain them
Knocking where you live is a local past time in the UK. A few years ago someone published a book call something like The 100 crappiest towns in the Uk, the authors had a public outcry, from people wanting to know, why their town was not in the book, Lol, so they had to bring out another book to include another 100 crappiest towns. Hahaha, only in the Uk. :)
Xmas wishes to you all :)
Can’t believe Swindon didn’t make this video
I live in Swindon and I'm surprised we weren't on the list 😅 we have gone downhill so fast over the last several years.
Me too, grew up in Wiltshire and expected Swindon on the list, Trowbridge is worse the Swindon in my opinion though, at least there are some good paying jobs in swindon, its the same as Slough, good jobs but not a place you'd want to live for your whole life
I last visited Swindon about fifteen years ago, and I'm shocked to consider it might have got even worse since then! Literally the first person I ran into was a prostitute with missing teeth
Literally in my top 5 along with Yeovil 😂
@@BlueSunRUclipsomg trobridge is awful! My wifes uncle lived there, he died of a heart attack and his flat was emptied by his "friends" when they found him. Total shit hole!
Swindon town centre is a complete shi* hole.
Putting Luton at 4 was very generous by him it’s a absolute shithole and the quicker your out of there the better
It’s a classic example where you need to check if your in England
The reason S****horpe gets blocked on websites is because of those missing letters…
Hi JT, i really would take this video about these towns with a pinch if salt. I was born in Scunthorpe and moved away about 20 years ago, to London. A few years later i mived back because my wife from London wanted to bring our kids up here because of less crime, better schools, nicer area in general. Plenty of green space, and houses at the time were a good deal less pricey than living in London.
To be honest theres nothing any worse in Scunthorpe than any other town or city. If anything, covid has done worse damage to the town than anything else, a lot of shops and buildings remain empty due to going out of business because of covid, but slowly they are opening up with new businesses.
One thing that did damage to the town was a tv show calked "Skint" a few tears ago, painting the whole town as a $hithole full of druggies and shoplifters living in squalor, when in reality, it was filmed in one small area focussing in one square block (which has since been regenerated by the local council at the cost if millions with a new precinct etc, so doesnt even exist in its previous form anymore) but as the show depicted drugged up shoplifters trying to sell their spoils, making ng the town look as bad as possible, it was later revealed that the show runners for the tv programme were going in to locql cheap shops such as pound shop's etc, then legally purchasing about £30 worth of items that were most likely to be stolen by shoplifters, then giving it to participants of the show to go around the area whilst being filmed "selling" their "stolen" goods to the local populace. Thus creating a bad vibe for a town that didnt deserve it.
I notice they didnt mention any of the good facts that bring in billions to the town, and the country as a whole, every year due to the thriving big businesses in Scunthorpe? The fact that every burger mcdonalds serves, not only in the uk but the channel uslands, Ireland, parts of Europe and a few other places are all produced and supplied from here. The big furniture manufacturing companies are all based here, aswell as various multinational kitchen suppliers amongst other businesses. for example, Golden wonder crisp manufacturing is based here, who also make every supermarkets own brand crisps aswell as certain ranges of walkers/smiths crisps.
The steelworks which is having a bit if a bad time globally at the minute, has supplied the world with steel for about 150 years, including the fact its steel was used to literally build half of Las Vegas. Has two top colleges and the university campus that people from around the world clamber over eachother to get in to. And also the people here are amazing. The help and sense of community that came about here because of covid was amazing. And i inow it was the same everywhere, people coming together and helping each other out, but thats my point. None of these towns and cities on this list are as bad as they are made out to be in this video. Everywhere has its good points, everywhere has its bad points. But i for one am glad to have been born and raised here. Its a proud town with proud people and a proud viking heritage, and it has a lot to be proud of. Way more than to be ashaned of. The towns name comes from the viking who settled it called Skuma, and it was originally called Escumestorpe which means Skumas homestead. Which over time became Scunthorpe.
So JT the reason why websites were banning mention of Scunthorpe in the early days is because of a certain word that us spelled out in the town name. Remove the 's' and the 'horpe' from Scunthorpe, and what are you left with?
Love your videos mate, i have been here since the early days, i was in the first couple of hundred to subscribe! Hope you have a nice Christmas and that you get settled in to your new home as soon as possible.
Scunny native here as well, before I started this video I was joking with myself if Scunthorpe would be on here. And it is, that take out shown in the corner of the title card is literally a 5 minute walk from the engineering college I went to. And while the steelworks are very good they are not what they used to be, I hope they still make steel at the Appleby Froddingham works though cos Scunthorpe without the steelworks would be like London without The Tube. I’m not familiar with the website censorship though
@@polarisukyc1204 yeah it doesn't do it so much now but from about 1995 to about 2005 websites wouldn't let you sign up with your address if you lived in Scunthorpe, men messenger and other such messengers would sensor it out so if someone asked you where you were from, and you replied Scunthorpe, from your side it looked like you had replied, but from their side they received nothing and probably thought you were being ignorant in not replying. Sometimes you would get kicked out of chat automatically, sometimes an instant ban! It really was a pain in the arse trying to sign up for eBay etc in those days. You had to just put Ashby or brumby etc wherever you were from to get it to accept your details. And yeah it will be crap at the end of the day if the steel works goes, but more commerce will come because it would be prime land for businesses, houses, better rail links hopefully bringing in investment and if successful would double the size of the town, big enough to receive city status (, technically you need a cathedral to receive city status, but it has been done before, besides, they could build one on the newly acquired land) I don't want the steel works to go but things happen. You have to make the most of it, and it is viable land for building as they have done it with Ashby ville which up until the late 70s, was part of the steelworks (ville pond being the former quarry and the land around it steel work buildings, offices and accomodation) and the steel works land is so big that it could house an airport and it wouldn't take up 1/5th of the land. It has so much potential, but it's nothing without investment. And the thing is, companies wait until the desperation sets in before making investments because they get it cheaper.
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@@polarisukyc1204 do you know anyone by the last name of Featherstone?
Do you know anyone by the last name of Featherstone?
I lived in Corby for over 10 years.
It's an old steel town thst was populated by unemployed people moving down from Scotland. Specificslly Glasgow.
But when the steel works closed down, it left behind a town with the majority of people unemployed and lacking any usable skills for anything other than menial labour.
The town is absolutely rife with drugs, crime, violence and was, at one point, the teenage pregnancy capital of EUROPE!
It has undergone some renovation over the last 10 years or so and is slowly climbing its way out of the pit, but it still has a long way to go.
One thing I WILL say though is that, besides the criminals and drug addicts, it also has some of the nicest, warmest, most generous people you'll ever meet.
They have no airs or graces, because most of them have fought their way out of some form of poverty at one time or another.
We moved from corby back to scotland before the steelworks closed down. I still visit corby and really like it there
Yeah Corby has changed a lot now, lots of new housing estates and new shops etc, definitely improved but still a way to go! I live in Corby still, my family moved down from Glasgow back in the 70s
We moved down there in the early 70s and moved back home in 1979. We lived on the Exeter estate. I young but have many fond memories of living there
I've lived in Corby for 63 of my 68 years .
I've seen it go through the good and bad times.
Now it's just an extension of Eastern Europe !
Every time I go into town I struggle to hear an English/Scottish voice.
The only middle England Town where Scottish is the 1st language. 🤣 . I used to load out of there regular from Corby Chilled with a load for their depot in Heywood North Manchester to take me back home.
I've lived in Chatham for years and its honestly one of the worst places to be. The pictures they used in the video are not representative of what you'd see if you visit. There are major issues of drugs, poverty, homelessness, and petty crime. Most of the shops in the high street are shady, and you would genuinely look out of place in jeans and a plain tshirt as the chatham attire is dirty tracksuits. Its a well known saying that Kent is the garden of England. Its also a lesser known saying that If Kent is the garden of England, then Chatham is the compost heap.
Chathams a chav filled shit hole lol I hate it. So feel you on that one.
I recall visiting Chatham back in the early 80s, only spent a couple of days there, but it left an impression that I never wanted to return!
I used to do a bit of work in Chatham. It didn't exactly scream inviting
@@mjc8281 Bloody hell. Not much changed in 40 years then.
I live in Gravesend (unfortunately!) which is just down the road from Chavham...sorry, Chatham...and it's just as bad if not worse! That whole Gravesend/Dartford/Medway area as a whole is horrible 😢
Not sure who made this is but relatively based on lies, Scunthorpe has a population of around Eighty thousand & most of these places down South
but us Northerners aint even real to most of these people (who make lists) anyway :(
Yeah Scunny has 79k foreigners and 1k English population 😂
@@SteveTidz Klaus Schwabs gang with Puppet Rat Boy at work.
Rochdale and Keighley should absolutely be on this list.
Add Nelson to them as well.
The British version of the series "The Office" was set in Slough, bit souless...
The original office, written by Ricky gervaise, rights sold to America to make their own, not version of.
The real number one hated place in England/Britain is London.
Couldn't agree more it's an absolute sithole
Exactly and it's getting worse by the day. We know who's to blame for it.
@neilgayleard3842 I haven't visited London for some time and at the moment it would last place on earth I would go .Shocking rip off prices and the ever present threat of crime. No thanks .
Yep fully agree, London #1 shithole of the UK
I live in Aylesbury and it basically is just one perminant traffic jam and there is also basically nothing to do here except get on a train to London but we are only the 5th most hated town this year so assuming we carry on climbing at 4 spots a year it will only take us a short 10,863 years to be the best😂
you cant even get a train from aylesbury to london ffs well not direct anyway LOL
@@deankelz29 you can it goes to Marylebone, assuming chilterns rail isn't on strike again
@@deankelz29yeah I think you have to get buses now, but it for sure goes from wycombe
All of the pictures of the town's in this video made them look really nice. I live in stevenage and you made it look like a village post card lol you should of put up some pics of the oval estate then it would of been deserving of number 7 😂
Yes JT I've been watching u for years and this is the first time Huddersfield has come up in one of your videos. I'm Huddersfield born and bred buzzing we got a shout-out with some justifiable reasoning.
I’ve lived in chatham 37 years…,, it has its rough areas and like most high streets in Britain the centre is declining but it has some great areas. Its suburbs are leafy and quiet… it’s an up and coming town.. great location, I have never ever had a car stolen. Had my house burgled. Been mugged….
My ma lives in the Dockyard, it’s nice in there!
Up and coming lol. Its not a great t9wn. I lived in Rainham for 20 years and went to school and worked in the Pentagon for a few years. Really was soulless.
Of all the places I thought would be on here; Im the most shocked that Milton Keynes or Bedford arent here 😅😅
A lot of towns in the midlands have become run down and small business's closed since covid struck. Although a lot is depressing UK still has many beautiful places to visit!
Crawley , tooting , lambeth , roundshaw , Carshalton , brixton , Lewis , 😂😂😂 so many unnamed
I live in Bedfordshire and I can confirm we all love to dunk on Luton because it’s a dump.
About 10 years ago i went to Luton Airport everyone was on their knees
True, and I live there.
I live almost in chatham and it is such a mess me and my family call it shatham. Thats how bad it is
I live in Huddersfield, I don't know many people who have multiple kids by different dads and have never been mugged. There is quite a large Asian community but generally it isn't that bad (I moved from the South Coast of England). As a female I do feel wary walking outside late at night but who wouldn't when they are walking through what was the yorkshire ripper's area. Also generally the gang culture in the UK is nothing compared to the USA
Someone born and raised in Huddersfield here, I've never been mugged either but there is a lot of chavvy activity and the centre is just awful to be in, the outskirts get a lot nicer though so it's kind of hard to judge it
@@lukerollinson This list is strange, 2x in my life I've been mugged/attacked during nights out and that was Bristol and Bournemouth, considered two of the "nicer" cities/towns in the UK. It all comes down to where you go and who you know, all big towns are the same
During my time growing up in Huddersfield, I've only known good people there. Everyone in family are kind, funny and generous. My father was friends with what seemed like hundreds of good people too. It's probably not the best place, but it's also not the worst compared to others in my opinion.
As someone who works in the court system, trust me when I say, you'd have been a hundred times safer back in the "Yorkshire Ripper's" days, than now.
@jermainwood6735 yeah it does get overblown mate. I have lived in Huddersfield growing up as well as Manchester and Harrogate as well. Obviously Harrogate is far safer than Huddersfield. Huddersfield is definitely friendlier and more down to Earth than Harrogate or York. The only part of Huddersfield I would be a bit wary of would be Birkby and Fartown especially after dark but even then your usually ok if you are not involved in the drug trade or the wrong crowd.
I live in Stevenage and never heard of not looking someone in the eye and I talk to anyone and everyone. Yes there’s parts that are rough but like everywhere else you get good and bad in every town. Stevenage would not qualify to be a city as we don’t have a cathedral.
Sunderland has no cathedral but is a city.
I'm from Birmingham and moved to St. Evenage when I went to Uni. Got to say I thought I was moving up in the world when I first got there, separate bike lanes, green areas and parks, and even deer hiding in them (especially on six hills way). Dont know what those Stevenage lot are complaining about, the worst thing about it is that all the shops shut for the day 6pm.
That must have felt like Paradise after living in Birmingham.
@@dkbrook9178 lol I thought I moved up in the world! Then I realised how Chavvy Stevenage is
I think JT may have hit the nail on the head when he says that SOMEWHERE has got to be the working town. There is a strong element of snobbery in some of these cases; these towns are often near much more beautiful and famous ( and very expensive) towns.
We are also suffering from a national shortage of police. Petty crime is often therefore not under control.
Scunthorpe is supposed to have a peculiar problem. It is said that anti-rude word filters won't accept its name, because of letters 2-5!
Huddersfield is probably my favourite town in the country! Ive lived near it all my life - thought closer to oldham - and its always way cleaner then oldham and it has weirdly polite homeless people
I was born and live in Luton, number 4 on your list of often voted worst town to live in.
It's not all bad but there are certainly areas that are best not visited alone after dark.
Best thing about Luton?
It's easy to get out of. Lol
Direct access to the M1 motorway, good train links and an airport.
Also the some of the pics that were meant be Luton were Wrest Park in Silsoe, which is a village between Luton and Bedford
Most of the info about Luton was semi-accurate, the pictures were old, gangs etc aren't as common as they're making out (maybe IDK), but knife crime is a problem. I recently learnt about the p... thing, I was shocked tbh, but there are specific areas that those things are more common in. I've lived in Luton all my life and never had any problem with safety or getting around at night time. Most importantly, I think Luton FC's recent promotion to the PL will definitely improve the town's image, especially with the money that will *hopefully* be spent to improve the surrounding areas.
Thank you! i scrolled through the comments reading about peoples opinions of luton and had to disagree with most, i've lived here all my life and haven't had a big issue, the litter and knife crime is a problem but i think its moreso a forgotten town that no one really talks about, but they focus on the bad parts. I think alot of opinions surroudning luton only focus on the negative experiences, but there are so many friendly people here, i wouldnt say there are an awful lot of gang related problems here but there are alot of individual issues, but as you said, hopefully the recent promotion to the prem league helps out, although i did hear someone bought the mall here and are hoping to upgrade, so cant wait for that!!
I like how the narrator is insulting these places, but their also showing really nice photos of buildings or scenery at the same time 😂 wtf! Which way is it.
4 years living in Luton town centre's homeless shelters/hostels changed my whole outlook on modern society. The first week I lived there I walked to the shop to by a cornetto ice cream, stumbled upon a 16 year old Pakistani lad flat on his back with a unhealthily sized combat knife sticking out of his chest.. that wasn't what got to me initially, it was his family stood their watching and screaming in horror while they watched the last bit of life drain from his face, i think it was a somalin boy that killed him. nice place but the scale of the immigration is kind of scary, i was by far a minority as a white English male. if you want a cheap experience of a sketchy UK town, well I'm pretty sure LUTON Airport has the cheapest flights going.
The Somalian’s are ruthless they have taken over this country’s county line
That whole list was complete nonsense.
The Scunthorpe issue was because after the initial S, the next 4 letters of town’s name contains a very rude c word, and early internet filters would block mention of that town in particular due to over zealous censorship.
Yeah its due to poorly made naughty language filters, it searches for the letters in order but ignores the other letters around it. I remember one years ago that would throw a fit if you said you had just bought cucumbers in scunthorpe.
When I first started working for North Lincolnshire Council, their new IT systems would not allow us to send emails because of the C-word hidden in the town's name.
I've lived in Bradford all my life and depends which area of Bradford you're from, all places have their good and bad
I'm a Brit. I live in a crap house in a crap street in a crap town in a crap county. My crap town isn't mentioned in the clip, but could easily qualify.
However, if you impugn my crap house or my crap street or my crap town or my crap county, I'll bring down hellfire upon you and your descendents for eternity.
Or at least until my darts team meets your darts team down the pub on Wednesday night, then it's; "My round!" "How's Janice and the kids?" "See you at the Rugby on Sunday."
😂 that’s the spirit! We can slag off our own ‘till the cows come home but anyone else look at our crap hole the wrong way and woe betide them! We’ll give them a luke warm cup of tea and stir it backwards for good measure!
Hehehehe... ..brilliant😂😂
Hey, it's not a crap country! There are still lots of things about this country that are good.
Most towns are crap, it's when you go out into the country, visit the less known coastal areas and historical places that we realise how truly grateful these People really are.
@@carriedudley8593 Not once did I say that I live in a crap country. Not everything is crap. Quite!
For Scunthorpe's blocking websites issue take a look at what the second to fifth letters spell.
Yeah, some spellcheckers/swear filters have similar trouble with the phrase "hotwater bottle".
Smingethorpe
I could cry thinking of some of these areas, many of our beautiful towns and cities have been totally and utterly transformed. unrecognisable, the crime is off the chart. the rape, the abuse, and the denial. we are in quite the state seriously we are in a great deal of trouble and it is taboo to talk about it. to the extent of it being criminal
I'll dare say it. Mass uncontrolled illegal immigration is what's ruining England.
Huh? Violent crime in the U.K. is lower than it has been in the past (the height was generally the 70s and 80s), while some areas have suffered from particular industries collapsing, other areas are thriving with new development and wealth. As a country as a whole on average, we are much better off than we used to be.
And as for it being illegal to talk about? Huh? I honestly have no clue what you are talking about there.
@@sputukgmail May I ask how old you are? I grew up in the 60's 70's and 80;s and I think crime is a lot worse now. Some of the crimes we are seeing now were unheard of back then.
Probably just reported less now.@@shaunwild8797
@@shaunwild8797 I too grew up in the same times - and I’m not going from anecdote, I’m going off studies and official statistics.
The thinking is that lead in petrol and paint being removed has made a difference to the crime rate as well as social changes.
What is different now is the amount and speed and explicitness of the reporting of crime which makes the world /feel/ scarier. Also, just getting older, we’re personally feeling more vulnerable as time takes its toll.
But, the facts are, violent crime is down significantly.
Remember back before our time, there were the teddy boys carrying knives, using bike chains, there were violent thugs attacking the elderly in their homes and more often getting away with it as we didn’t have DNA and CCTV to catch them and get them off the streets so one bad apple would be around causing much more harm for longer. There are lots of reasons it’s safer now.
Remember, the news wants people scared. If you’re scared, you feel you need to watch the news to be informed and prepared, so the more they scare you, the more viewers/readers they get.
At its peak in the mid 90s, there were approx 64 violent crimes per 1,000 people per year. In the 80s it went from about 25 up to 40 by 1990. Since then, it’s been in steady decline, down to about 20 in 2010, and lowest in 2017 at just 13, and has hovered around that since.
So it’s roughly half the average in the 80s and less than 1/4 what it was at its peak in the mid 90s.
I was born in Chatham and I live to the the town right next to it 😅it’s next to one of the beautiful towns of England and that’s Rochester sadly I live in Gillingham which is worse than Chatham 😅the home of the chav 😞
In all of these towns there are good people working hard to make it a good space to live in. I always feel bad to see entire communities written off in this way, because I know there are good decent folk in these places.
The original video is so weird, sounds like it was written by Chat GPT in a foreign language, then badly translated by google translate, and read by an AI voice
I live in Huddersfield just over 200 miles from north London it really is a nasty place to live
AYLESBURY wow I'm so surprised beautiful spot.
I've been unlucky enough to be born in stevenage, moved to just outside of Luton, moved to Aylesbury, moved just outside Corby then back to Aylesbury!
Most of these towns are only hated because they are dull or crowded or lacking in money but I do have to say, Luton really is that dangerous. There are a lot of cultural and gang problems and people are regularly attacked there.
Never heard of most of these
So glad I live in a tiny village on Yorkshire moors don't think I could ever live in a town looks like most of these hated town are down south
They can keep them
Slough a town in Berkshire in Buckinghamshire? 🧐
The boundaries changed in 1974
I don't know were you got this program from but it sounds like the Narration is Southern English. There is a North South devide namely Northerners are more friendly and forthcoming, Southerners not easy to get on with and can act coy when talking to you. Also Scouses, Gordie,and Brummies will never say they are British or English so Research that if you can.🇮🇪🏴🏴
I knew Luton would be in this list we used to live on the outskirts of Luton and I'd have to go into Luton to do my shopping but that all changed when I saw someone get stabbed outside the shopping mall, after that I did my shopping online I never went out shopping into Luton again. Thank you for another lovely video x
I grew up in old industrial town Dudley, so industrialized and smoke/smog filled back in the day, it's referred to as the Black Country!
I have lived in Huddersfield all my life and on the whole people are very friendly and there is some great people there but the issue we have is there are a lot of gangs and murders happening and it has really brought the Town down. Such a shame
U missed bradford leeds London halifax Sheffield keighley Nottingham Manchester Oldham Blackburn nelson etc basically every town in the uk is a shit hole due to immergration and religions
Chatham definitely needs to be top 2 on the list. Also, i'm surprised Strood and Gillingham aren't on the list at all
I think when they said Chatham they ment Medway as a whole or hole lol
@@mrmago6744some parts of Medway are alright though. 😊
That's a shame Corby was on the list. It has one of the biggest and best indoor skateparks in Europe. Adrenaline Alley, such an awesome park.
I used to live in Corby I now live about 20 minutes away. From my experience it was awful living there, always a police car flying down the road. Everyone wanted to get a ASBO (anti social behaviour order) also have teenagers known as Chavs everywhere where you felt so intimidated walking past. Place was so run down.
Im frm boro n its really hated for its large imigrance population n 80% council housing.
I was born and bred in Huddersfield, apparently my face was a picture when it came up in the list.
Not MUCH of what they say in their reasonings wasn't true when I lived there (for 23 years), might have changed now. Though, I wouldn't move back, at all.
Didcot is hated because it's a shithole. I live nearby, so feel I'm qualified to conment. There are no gangs though, not sure where he got that from, just teenagers with an attitude problem, nothing a swift right hook won't sort out.
I lived in Rainham, which is next to Chatham and went to school there before moving there for 2 years. Near the train station. It was the main shopping centre for surrounding towns. Its just a depressing place to be. From friends that still live in Chatham and Gillingham, they hate the place still.
I’m surprised Huddersfield is on there. I used to go to Huddersfield uni, it was nice :). I only lived 4 miles from it too before I went to uni.
Alright it’s a bit scary as a fresher, there was one case of a mugging by knife point when I was there but that was one case.
Im amazed that Milton Keynes didnt make the list. Although MK was given city status not too long ago so maybe thats why.
Milton Keynes kind of feels like it has similar situation ot Aldershot...a lot of people don't like it...but it's not the bottom of the barrel.
MK is alright, it’s just a bit ugly tbh
As someone who has lived in Milton Keynes I can say it doesn't deserve to be on team list, I love living here, it is actually a beautiful city of you are willing to bother to explore it.
Milton Keynes is definitely one I expected to be on here!
I’ve never found MK as bad as people make out to be honest
I’m from a mining town in the north west of England , we have local villains, dealers. gangs in the local cities on Manchester, Liverpool etc. all towns n cities have this.
I lived in Chatham (well very very close to it anyway) for a while, and yeah it's definitely quite disliked.. but honestly I'm surprised my current town is not on there, because it is really hated.. if I tell anyone where I'm from their face turns sour like they've just sucked a lemon
come to the uk and see how shite it is USA is massive compared to England but crime% for size is very close
to be fair I'd say here in England it's less about two towns hating one another and more about a particular place being hated in the region. I can think of a few examples hahaha
Ah, one of those videos where an AI* has ripped some comments, random 'facts' and made a word salad.
(* I hope it's an AI, otherwise a near illiterate idiot wrote the script)
I notice that basically every one of these was in the south and near London 😂 as a northerner I feel left out, as usual.
The wandering turnip channel has the north covered . Although his vids aren’t hate based, more sad really
We had Scunthorpe 😂😂😂
For all the grief hurled at the north, it has one thing going for it that the south lacks: northerners. I'm Canadian, and Scousers, Geordies, and everyone in between are just the best IMO. You find the odd tosser anywhere, but in the north it's more likely someone will have a quick word with them.
@@danmayberry1185 What you said!!! 100%
Wait wheres Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft? Yeah the seafronts are nice but hell holes beyond.
I went to Sheffield about 20 years ago I was shocked it was filthy,bars on shops tacky looking takeaways horrible. However may be very unfair as that was a long time ago.
Sadly Sheffield was much better 20 years ago. Although I will say that south west Sheffield is actually very nice Millhouses/Totley/Whirlow/Dore.
No chance, Sheffield is amazing honestly and shouldnt be hated at all
@@AdamF8 Agreed. We often visit my son, who moved there 17 years ago. It is a bit grim in places, but there aren't many big towns and cities which you can't say the same about. One minute you're in an industrial area, the next you're walking by a river. The people are friendly too.
@@eddiehawkins7049 Im from York and of all the citys ive visited Sheffield is my fave 👌👌
@@AdamF8 I've felt a damn sight safer walking around there at 2 or 3 in the morning than I would in Peterborough.
not ANY town can be Oxford as Oxford is a City , just thought i,d say . lol
I haven't been tempted to visit 9 of these, but I have been to Dover many times and lived and worked there for a short time. Dover is wonderful, it is a bit rough and ready, but the natives are friendly and there are many great pubs and restaurants. There are many tourist attractions, the obvious one being the castle and underground workings. The town is not choked in suburbs like so many in southern England and fine countryside begins a short walk from the town centre, not only the famous white cliffs. There are numerous attractions nearby and you can always pop over to France on the cheap. Some locals moan about it, I suppose its not as glamorous as Canterbury, but for me (a native of the Midlands and North) it is a favourite destination with none of the stuffiness and claustrophobia of so much of southern England.
easy to say this as you don't live here and only really experience the perks of the area, as why would you choose to experience the negatives. It's a dying town with a terrible amount of crime
The countryside around Huddersfield is second to none. Although the town centre is a s***hole
Huddersfield is the only town where the shopkeeper refused to let us out of the shop until we bought something. It was an independent shop and we only went in to look at a top. We Ended up buying a top that we hated, but could afford, just to get out of the shop🤣🤣
Uh, ye that's, THAT'S KIDNAP.
You were kidnapped then extorted,that's not normal, in the slightest. Should've just grabbed the most expensive things around, and started breaking them...
"NO problem sir, I'll stay in your shop as long as you keep the door locked, oooo this looks expensive! 😅"
That's strange
Should have phoned the police, you can't detain people against their will and force them to buy stuff
What was the shop?
Chatham should be higher lived near the town for over 10 years and it was getting worse and worse
Every town and city in the Uk is awful tbh🤣 down to the underfunding from our government
I couldn't agree more 🙌
Council tax pays for your local town so it's probably useless councillors who waste the money on vanity projects.
Small towns and villages are usually alright
But the Tories have savagely cut council funding year on year so it's down to central government starving the local areas. Though normally they're Labour-controlled areas that they cut the most.@@amandacoleman8501
Yeah even or especially in bigger cities, I live in Edinburgh and I'm severely disappointed here, love the city and hate it at the same time.
I have lived in stevenage all my life and have moved around the town and some of the things are fake. It is not offensive to look someone in the eye that is false. The community comes together a lot and the only reason it isn't a city is because it doesn't have a cathedral
Aylesbury is a lovely town with mostly friendly people, great resturants, decent education and murder is non existent. Aylesbury is a very historic market town just outside the Chiltern Hills and although I can confirm it is incredibly boring here and the traffic during rush hour can be pretty terrible between the commuter towns it's nowhere near the worst town in England. Aylesbury has nice and clean parks, manors, a great theater that is famous for hosting large events and Christmas shows, is home to some of the most famous people in the world from England football stars to David Bowie, Roald Dahl and is the birth place of the Paraolympic sports before it became internationally recognised. It's also famous for having one of the best spinal injuries units in the world too. The reason the town is hated is because of the terrible traffic jams otherwise like I said the over crime rate is low, it's an overall safe town where walking home at night is something I don't feel threatened by and murder here is so rare that when it does happen the entire town is shocked and angered by it. it's not a bad town and it doesn't have a bad overall community it just lacks in the fun factor and has a road system in dire need or reworks.
Aylesbury has awful restaurant that are even still all shutting down. Education is awful unless you’re in grammar schools. I know 4 people who have been murdered in Aylesbury. Bowie was from Brixton, they built a statue as he played a gig there and Dahl is from Great Missenden (20 min drive) and the theatre was only built in part of a scheme to try and improve the town centre as it’s an awful depressing mess that’s closing down
Aylesbury is a depressing place , unless you have money of course , it didn't use to be that bad
Aylesbury was ok until they built Fairfordleys and expanding with thousands of houses around what was a market town. Now traffic is a nightmare, Stoke Mandeville hospital can't cope, you can't park oh and don't forget HS2 but not as bad as High Wycombe which has become a sh1t hole due to curtain race,was ok back in the 70's I've live in both.
Seriously,you are on about the aylesbury in buckinghamshire? Its awfull
Chatham is a place I avoid since toys are us shut down lol it has a really nice dock yard they have a film set there 🙏
Liverpool has to be number one, unless cities are excluded.
No it doesn't it's a great City, only football mugs and Tories hate Liverpool and I say that as someone not from there.
What would make you hate Liverpool? Other than the boring stereotypes?
how dare you, Liverpool has a lot of good history...it's only gone downhill since Covid. it has loads of good places to stay and restaurants and mueums and it has the history of the beatles museum.
@@craigchristian344🙌 well said 👏
Labour are skum
Did u notice most of them towns were in south of England 😂just stay up north
Liverpool for me. I’ve been several times and it doesn’t look good. Chester to me it’s better than Liverpool in my opinion.
Chester was recently voted as the most beautiful City in Europe with Venice second so yeah that makes no sense, Liverpool is great though.
People from Liverpool try to tell you it's amazing tho Lol
you're highly ignorant if you think that...both Liverpool and Manchester are two of the most iconic destinations in the UK...the only reason they went downhill in recent years is because of Covid.
@@IDyce88 give me a break I'm from Manchester and I ain't gonna blame COVID Lol
@@doctors8966 it is a fact that covid caused the economy to go donwnhill for a lot of towns. if you're from manchester you should show some loyalty to your hometown. my hometown would never be hated by me (not that it is any of the ones on this video or liverpool or manchester) but my mum was born in Liverpool and i have visited many times and i have visited manchester plenty as well. hometown should be off the list by default based on loyalty...if anyone insults the town i was born in there will be trouble. major towns and districts such as; Oxford, York, Yorkshire, Liverpool, Manchester, Bath...there is no way they are hated unless you are bias or ignorant. Those all represent capitals of something or other; art, education, knowledge, food ideas, farming. The mere fact that i have barely heard of the towns on this video says everything...i haven't heard of them because no one CARES LOL.
Most of these places we're much nicer before mass immigration.
What a ridiculous review of “Hated UK Towns”. Where on Earth did this guy get his so called facts!?
I have lived in and around Dicdot my entire life and have never experienced, seen, heard of, or read about ANY of the issues he stated. Honestly, “Gangs of Didcot” had me laughing so loud… just preposterous!
JT, I would take the whole thing with a pinch of salt!
Same here, brought up in North Moreton, now live in Didcot.
Slough. The great English poet Sir John Betjeman nailed it when he began a poem:
“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now …”
Omg so funny. I'm from Chatham. When the dockyard closed it went down hill fast! The town centre is, well, interesting lol. I try to avoid it, full of cheap or phone shops, "Chatham chavs" shouting and arguing. Outside of the main town it's nice though. Lovely parks etc and they have turned the dockyard in to a tourist attraction which is really nice.
Swindon, reading, Grimsby.. were my first thoughts 😅
I once dated a girl from Luton, but she'd always insist on going to St. Albans (A small town nearby) as she said Luton was awful. I drove through Aylesbury to see my cousin who lived in a small village between there and a town called Binstead and it's not a fun place. There is also a city in Wales; Cardiff; that is one of the dullest places I've ever been even though I was dating a girl from there at the time. I have heard it's much improved, but...
Gillingham, Skegness, Jaywick all need a mention
Chatham looks very pretty how strange.
Luton should be number one, absolute cesspit of a town.
sheffield is very bad as well i will let you google abot sheffield
You ask most people what is the most hated place in the UK and I guarantee that most people will say London. Unless of course you are from London!
I've been a few times and personally hated the fact that everyone seemed to be in a rush, prices are 10 x higher than the rest of the UK and if you stand still for more than a few minutes you are likely to be approached by nefarious characters. You could not pay me enough to live there!
I was born and grew up in Cardiff (which makes me a 'Welsh Cockney' in some people's eyes) and although it's a capital city the people are friendly and welcoming and there are only a few estates where you don't want to park up if you're a stranger.
Absolutely this 1000%!
London isn’t an English city anymore.
Aylesbury is mainly hated on because is hasn't got much there. It's close, ish to Oxford and High Wycombe, which both have way better shops and entertainment.
I personally don't think it should be the most hated town in the UK, there are way worse towns in my opinion.
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