@@peterwilliamallen1063 I live in worcester, family from weoley castle, and travel there for work when the monies right. Everyone is out to rob you, can't let your guard slip for a second.. I went to digbeth for a daytime 'clubbing' do couple of weeks back, surprise thing for my birthday, I got i.d at the door, which coincidentally I don't have as I'm 40, and told the fella on the door the same, his reply - it isn't because your age, it's because you could stab someone or get stabbed... Nipped into a mates in bordesley green, the dhal was in the cooker.. then a gang of machete welding somalians had chased a man onto his drive and we're swinging machetes at him whilst he was on the roof of my mates car, powerless of stopping it. Theres at least a skips worth of dumped shite on every road I've worked on. I know Birmingham alright
@@mcfcworcester1365 Sorry mate you are just talking utter rubbish, I actually live in Birmingham and have done for 69 years and worked as a gas engineer in the Handswort area of Birmingham and during the Loozells riota and have not had any trouble , the reason Digbeth is in a state is that it is being redeveloped as the East Side of Birmingham with the new HS2 Curzon Street Station, a new BBC studio's, Film Studios being built by the makers of Peaky Blinders and new hi rise office and appartments and the Midland Mero which all takes time and the council is not going to tidy up building sites until they are developed by builders. As i Said what utter rubbish as every big City has problems so no you do not know Birmingham alright and even the tiny City of Worcester has it's problems
may be you also want to google Brexit and watch a nice documentary about the UK and your upper class: ruclips.net/video/np_ylvc8Zj8/видео.htmlsi=62h5UWPIh2qvDi3c
My wife is Thai and she thinks Birmingham is a shithole and our daughter who is 12 hates the place said she gets nothing but hassle from older boys and sometimes men, asking where shes going, where she from. You cant use public transport or really any public space without something happening usually silly behaviour, there is no general respect ! I honestly believe that to have a good life and live in I suppose a bit of bubble you need to be earning over 100k a year ! Gated smaller communities with a joint charge for upkeep maybe even a community healthcare premium. Its not working here anymore and it feels grimey and stuck in the past. I lived on jackshit in my twenties in bangkok, training in Muay Thai, coaching etc and ive only been back 6 years, the standard of living in Thailand is not great, but people are not as noisy and nasty like here in Britain. There is no Mr and Mrs Jones effect, people dont get something because the neighbours get it. Shithole and not because of the immigrants entirely, its the greed and lack of government to curtail it. Why are people converting perfectly good 2 bed houses into 4 bed HMO to rent out to students lol
Never had any issues in Birmingham, always lots to do, mostly very friendly, welcoming people… some beautiful architecture both very old and ultra modern… some of the best street food/restaurants/bars in the country, many of which are independent… this film was very sly with the editing, showing the few empty shops, many of which where in the same area that’s soon to be redeveloped I noticed… it’s great cosmopolitan city
@@undesignated3491 I live in Philly, and while it does look a little rundown, even Manhattan looks worse than this. Idk maybe if you go to a nice city like Grand Rapids
Online shopping to blame for all the boarded up shops, and it has ripple effect on the infrastructure like public transport cos who wants to visit a load of boarded up shops???
@@robertmclellan3658most of them are drug addicts with mental health issues. Some you give a place to stay they run away to squat somewhere else. Alot these people are not from Birmingham other councils up and down UK send them here to clean up their own areas. Because Birmingham council is in debt so every person they accept from other councils they getting payed
They have NOT kicked the Lord Mayor of Birmingham it was the Mayor of the West Midlands mate, get your facts right first before commenting they are two different people, the City of Birmingham has a LORD MAYOR where as the West Midlands Combined Authority only has a Mayor
What nonsense is this. The reason shops are empty and closing is because of people buying on the internet. As for the down and outs, I've travelled all over Europe and they're in every major city. There's loads of nice places in Birmingham and yet you've shown the worst bits. So what's your agenda?
@TheWhitehawker I live in Birmingham and there has been a lot of investments here in recent years. I have lived in Aston which is right next to New Town there are some nice neighbourhoods in those area, they are not posh but they are not as bad as you make it. My aunt and cousins live in Nechells, they have been living there for many years and I never heard them complain
@@vextally7566 When you live in an area you become desensitised to your surroundings and its only when you move away you can view that area objectively. I was in Aston recently and the railway station was surrounded in a sea of litter and have read of stabbings and shootings around the Newtown area. Okay there are some new buildings but who is living in them ? Those flat roofed ugly concrete council homes remain with high unemployment and people being dumped from all around the UK in these supported living accommodation HMOs just giving vast profits to unscrewplious landlords.
@@TheWhitehawker Basically everything you've mentioned can laid at the door of the local council. I'm going to include closed shops in that because the rise in business rates is laughable. Policing is also down to the local authorities.
@@TheWhitehawker I am telling you my experience as a local lad. Birmingham is actually a nice city. Is not perfect but is not as bad as being painted. The negatives you mentioned can be found in all major cities in the UK and many other countries.
Why have you walked around the worst parts only? There's so many busy streets, full of life and far easier on the eye and you have chosen to not show them. What's that all about??
It,s obvious that the reason for these videos are to accentuate the "demise" of" parts" of the cities they portray, therefore having no reason to film the places that have not been adversly affected by poverty and bad management, 😁...
These people saying totaly negative comments about Birmingham seem to know squid all about Birmingham (I could of said worce) they for some reason are biased against Birmingham and do not live in Birmingham or have ever visited Birmingham in their life. Birmingham now is a cosmopolitan modrn friendly multi cultral City. It is no better or worce than any other City Centre and the city is still under redevelopement at the moment. Try looking at other towns and Cities in the UK and they are the same as Birmingham and lot of it is the building of out of Town shopping outlets dragging people out of the City Centres through free parking as oposed to extorsionate car park charges in the City Centre and bad Bus services.
I would like to say the following. Having viewed re Birmingham that even though know for fact many other cities and indeed towns are in bad to say least predicament regarding closures etc of stores and shops plus outlets. Birmingham looking dire Indeed possible would fall into top 10 of places re poverty and inequality! Bad state of affairs--- why all this is now the normal in UK--- is due to and no prizes for guessing-- I know only too well.
johngreen6191 Blah Blah Blah to you as well, is that as mich vocabularily they taught you at school mate, makes a difference when prats like you who actually know nothing of Birmingham or visited it run Birmingham down for nothing which actually P-----s me off
Best thing about Birmingham is the road out
I work out of Aston and only sheer necessity would make me enter the "city".
Try looking for a City better then, I bet you do not even live in Birmingham
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@@peterwilliamallen1063 I live in worcester, family from weoley castle, and travel there for work when the monies right.
Everyone is out to rob you, can't let your guard slip for a second..
I went to digbeth for a daytime 'clubbing' do couple of weeks back, surprise thing for my birthday, I got i.d at the door, which coincidentally I don't have as I'm 40, and told the fella on the door the same, his reply - it isn't because your age, it's because you could stab someone or get stabbed...
Nipped into a mates in bordesley green, the dhal was in the cooker.. then a gang of machete welding somalians had chased a man onto his drive and we're swinging machetes at him whilst he was on the roof of my mates car, powerless of stopping it.
Theres at least a skips worth of dumped shite on every road I've worked on.
I know Birmingham alright
@@mcfcworcester1365 Sorry mate you are just talking utter rubbish, I actually live in Birmingham and have done for 69 years and worked as a gas engineer in the Handswort area of Birmingham and during the Loozells riota and have not had any trouble , the reason Digbeth is in a state is that it is being redeveloped as the East Side of Birmingham with the new HS2 Curzon Street Station, a new BBC studio's, Film Studios being built by the makers of Peaky Blinders and new hi rise office and appartments and the Midland Mero which all takes time and the council is not going to tidy up building sites until they are developed by builders. As i Said what utter rubbish as every big City has problems so no you do not know Birmingham alright and even the tiny City of Worcester has it's problems
Birmingham Labour council too blame the city is a right mess boot labour out of brum
may be you also want to google Brexit and watch a nice documentary about the UK and your upper class: ruclips.net/video/np_ylvc8Zj8/видео.htmlsi=62h5UWPIh2qvDi3c
My wife is Thai and she thinks Birmingham is a shithole and our daughter who is 12 hates the place said she gets nothing but hassle from older boys and sometimes men, asking where shes going, where she from. You cant use public transport or really any public space without something happening usually silly behaviour, there is no general respect ! I honestly believe that to have a good life and live in I suppose a bit of bubble you need to be earning over 100k a year ! Gated smaller communities with a joint charge for upkeep maybe even a community healthcare premium. Its not working here anymore and it feels grimey and stuck in the past. I lived on jackshit in my twenties in bangkok, training in Muay Thai, coaching etc and ive only been back 6 years, the standard of living in Thailand is not great, but people are not as noisy and nasty like here in Britain. There is no Mr and Mrs Jones effect, people dont get something because the neighbours get it. Shithole and not because of the immigrants entirely, its the greed and lack of government to curtail it. Why are people converting perfectly good 2 bed houses into 4 bed HMO to rent out to students lol
Never had any issues in Birmingham, always lots to do, mostly very friendly, welcoming people… some beautiful architecture both very old and ultra modern… some of the best street food/restaurants/bars in the country, many of which are independent… this film was very sly with the editing, showing the few empty shops, many of which where in the same area that’s soon to be redeveloped I noticed… it’s great cosmopolitan city
fatherless behaviour too
Birmingham born and bred. The decline of the city centre over the last twenty has been shocking. It’s well in the bin.
If you are a born and bred Brummie you are either blind as a bat or no you don't live in Birmingham
Like most "occupied" towns Birmingstan is dying.
Birminghm I am afraid to say is not dying it is thriving.
Empty retail units are the norm in every major English city. Internet shopping is to blame. Any fule kno that.
I pity the fule.
Coming from the US, this is genuinely the nicest looking city center I've ever seen. . . .
Well its not, ive been to the US come on speak truthful
@@undesignated3491 I live in Philly, and while it does look a little rundown, even Manhattan looks worse than this. Idk maybe if you go to a nice city like Grand Rapids
@@undesignated3491 It is one of the nicest Cities in the UK now it has been rebuilt
@@vanabantas6085 no where in America is nearly as depressing as birmingham trust me this is just the city centre u should see the rest of the city
@@hkpfghyuh google kensington ave in philadelphia
Has anyone come up with a good idea about what to do with all of the empty shops? The internet has killed off town centres so it's time for a rethink.
Yes, plenty of People but the council not listening.
@@BirminghamCityCouncil_2024 you think the council are responsible for private companies opening a store in an area?
They are responsible for the business rates that have closed many of them.
Give them to the homeless to live in.
Whats the point in filming this pointless video?
There are only food shops and service shops Birmingham city centre has gone from bad to worse
Online shopping to blame for all the boarded up shops, and it has ripple effect on the infrastructure like public transport cos who wants to visit a load of boarded up shops???
Brits are safer shopping online, it is not safe there, nor is public transport. White flight is also a reason.
It`s not so much online shopping as the "locals" being too tight to spend their money there- keep it in the family.
Is a shame poor people, helping Ukraine 🇺🇦 and let your own people homeless and lost 😞 glory to Democracy people 🥲
Don't be gullible, just professional beggars.
@@robertmclellan3658most of them are drug addicts with mental health issues. Some you give a place to stay they run away to squat somewhere else. Alot these people are not from Birmingham other councils up and down UK send them here to clean up their own areas. Because Birmingham council is in debt so every person they accept from other councils they getting payed
ITS FINISHED !
Cannot believe the government have the cheek to charge older cars for driving through that dive, with clean air zone fines!
such a shame , happening every where god help us , Proud Brummie
WHERE IS THE MONEY coming from?
The tesco bandits
Smoke & mirrors
They tart up the empty windows to try and cover the fact its a ghost town, just like other towns and cities.
All they have to do is by dinghy's and they are sorted..😁
Looks about 8am Sunday morning
Now they have kicked the Mayor out let's see what a Labour mayor can do to this once a thriving city centre
who kicked the mayor out?
@@user-wc3zt5fq2othe previous mayor was just voted out
They have NOT kicked the Lord Mayor of Birmingham it was the Mayor of the West Midlands mate, get your facts right first before commenting they are two different people, the City of Birmingham has a LORD MAYOR where as the West Midlands Combined Authority only has a Mayor
@@Jba8179 No he was not, it was the Mayor of the West Midlands not the Lord Mayor of Birmingham
There's a nice part too. Colmore Row onwards. The rest is a dump.
What nonsense is this. The reason shops are empty and closing is because of people buying on the internet. As for the down and outs, I've travelled all over Europe and they're in every major city. There's loads of nice places in Birmingham and yet you've shown the worst bits. So what's your agenda?
Worst bits ???? Have you been through Newtown , Aston or Nechells recently ?
@TheWhitehawker I live in Birmingham and there has been a lot of investments here in recent years. I have lived in Aston which is right next to New Town there are some nice neighbourhoods in those area, they are not posh but they are not as bad as you make it. My aunt and cousins live in Nechells, they have been living there for many years and I never heard them complain
@@vextally7566 When you live in an area you become desensitised to your surroundings and its only when you move away you can view that area objectively.
I was in Aston recently and the railway station was surrounded in a sea of litter and have read of stabbings and shootings around the Newtown area. Okay there are some new buildings but who is living in them ? Those flat roofed ugly concrete council homes remain with high unemployment and people being dumped from all around the UK in these supported living accommodation HMOs just giving vast profits to unscrewplious landlords.
@@TheWhitehawker Basically everything you've mentioned can laid at the door of the local council. I'm going to include closed shops in that because the rise in business rates is laughable. Policing is also down to the local authorities.
@@TheWhitehawker I am telling you my experience as a local lad. Birmingham is actually a nice city. Is not perfect but is not as bad as being painted. The negatives you mentioned can be found in all major cities in the UK and many other countries.
Why have you walked around the worst parts only? There's so many busy streets, full of life and far easier on the eye and you have chosen to not show them. What's that all about??
It,s obvious that the reason for these videos are to accentuate the "demise" of" parts" of the cities they portray, therefore having no reason to film the places that have not been adversly affected by poverty and bad management, 😁...
These people saying totaly negative comments about Birmingham seem to know squid all about Birmingham (I could of said worce) they for some reason are biased against Birmingham and do not live in Birmingham or have ever visited Birmingham in their life. Birmingham now is a cosmopolitan modrn friendly multi cultral City. It is no better or worce than any other City Centre and the city is still under redevelopement at the moment. Try looking at other towns and Cities in the UK and they are the same as Birmingham and lot of it is the building of out of Town shopping outlets dragging people out of the City Centres through free parking as oposed to extorsionate car park charges in the City Centre and bad Bus services.
there are far too many people who are homeless due to drugs and alchol
4 Horsemen of the #Apocalypse unleashed
Don't put off empty shops. Birmingham City centre more liverver..isnt that you see. Come Birmingham more busier.
I would like to say the following. Having viewed re Birmingham that even though know for fact many other cities and indeed towns are in bad to say least predicament regarding closures etc of stores and shops plus outlets. Birmingham looking dire Indeed possible would fall into top 10 of places re poverty and inequality!
Bad state of affairs--- why all this is now the normal in UK--- is due to and no prizes for guessing-- I know only too well.
2:16 the M&s store moved into the bullring, it was there early this year
Is this on a bank holiday 🤔
…interesting vid… Birmingham is a lively city…
You missed the bullring mate
See Europe full of 5 Star hotel and restaurant england to look around Europe 🌍🌎🌎 5 Star hotel and restaurant
Peter Allen Blah, Blah, Blah and up yours.
johngreen6191 Blah Blah Blah to you as well, is that as mich vocabularily they taught you at school mate, makes a difference when prats like you who actually know nothing of Birmingham or visited it run Birmingham down for nothing which actually P-----s me off
At least if you got a dog people will stop and feed the dog .the mind boggles 🙄
BORING
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People love dogs 🐕 arrr en he loverly 🤔
This is all because of the sins that you all had committed cruely
Nonsense
@@Bendidicucumberpatch You all are hard headed. You won't change at all.