I Investigate UK Town 'RUINED' Now a 'GHOST TOWN' Locals Cant Afford To Live
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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In this UK Documentary I travel to the UK's poorest area, the county of Cornwall. To investigate reports in the British media of UK towns where the locals cant afford to live, this has lead to a number of these UK Towns becoming Ghost Towns in the winter months as the locals are forced out. Cornwall is the UK's most deprived area, with many of the the towns within the county being amongst the poorest towns in the UK, with some of the lowest salaries and highest unemployment rates in the country yet Cornwall has amongst the most expensive living and housing costs to be found in the United Kingdom. Has this combination resulted in the huge rise in poverty and homelessness across the county that we see today? To understand the issues at play in this documentary I investigate Mawgan Porth, on the North Coast of Cornwall near Newquay. This area was once a sleepy fishing village but like many of the towns in Cornwall has been turned upside but new residents arriving in the area. The likes of David Beckham, Chris Martin, Gordon Ramsey and Cate Blanchet allegedly own property in the area leading to the town now being dubbed the UK's Hollywood this change has forced most of the locals out... With many being forced to live fulltime in Caravans and Vans or VanLife on the outskirts of the towns they work in. I spent a night living the UK Vanlife to better understand the difficulties faced.
A quick google search will reveal a huge number of reports on the area in the British media such as:
The pretty UK seaside village ‘ruined’ by rich outsiders ‘trying to knock down every home’:
www.express.co...
Celebs are ruining our quaint seaside town & turning us into Hollywood-on-sea:
www.thesun.co....
The UK town where locals can't afford to live:
www.cornwallli...
#uk #homeless #britain #poverty #england #reallife #documentary #vanlife
Most of Cornwall has the same problem. Over tourism, second homes and AirB&B has wrecked Cornwall.
It’s happening all over Europe. Disgraceful.
It's the same here in Weast Wales.
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🌴🌴🌴 Another beautiful area being ruined by money 💵. So sad. Thank you for the tour.
Take care JoeFish.
Blessings,Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
8 ex council houses in our small village in Derbyshire are air bnbs. We got kicked off the waiting list. In Sheffield airbnbs are charging 1500 pound s a week for Sheffield council to re-home desperate families.
omg!!!
I lived in Cornwall for two years in the RAF. It's lovely - but try getting a rented property in the summer! All winter lets only - and you get evicted in April
That's crazy, never heard of terms less than a year.
Congrats on the growth of your channel from when I joined, you've gained over 25K.
Same problem in Llyn in North Wales except as soon as the English accent comes out their smiles quickly change to scowls
It's a problem here in the US. People forced out neighborhoods that they have lived in all their lives . Villages or townships gentrified. So Sad. Where is the management ? ThanK you for the tour.
It's a story that can be told around the world. All the best 👍👍👍 Joe. from Jim and Harriet
Yeah Cornwall is basically our California 😂
All those folks we saw you chatting with sounded like 'outsiders'.
You cant call white native British outsiders- we are all Islanders and need to stick together.
@keyo525 What a bigoted, moronic thing to say!
glad i subscribed when i saw you appear on bald's video. really diggin these productions of yours. i also like it most when bald travels around the UK.
Great work. Great vids. This kind of content and your effort can help make a change. Don't forget that
Ive always wanted to visit Cornwall, however the travel costs from the SE of England (on the train) are ridiculous + the cost of accommodation too. Certainly a playground for the super rich hey? Shame really....I'll get there maybe this summer! Thanks for the video, I've subscribed mate 👊🏽
To demolish is to destroy the history of a place. In my opinion people with lots of money have little taste. The modern glass and concrete buildings resemble city offices and always look cheap. Far better to buy a historic building and preserve it. My heart goes out to the local people who can no longer afford a home in their homeland.
The locals - like villagers and council home owners throughout Britain - sold to the highest bidder. If your property is valued at, say, £70k, yet an outsider offers you £500k, we all know who you are selling to. Just saying.
Affordible housing and jobs is a UK wide problem, not just Cornwall. If the rich want to build a mansion, so what if they buy land?
My dad is from Cornwall, so sad to see the current situation
My favourite place in Cornwall it's
Hollywell Bay! The beach beauty It's just simply unbelievable with many caves on both sides, the small one at the right side very end, has a healing well tumbling down from the top of the cave, (hence the name), such a spiritual place to totally abandon yourself forever in sheer relaxation + bliss..! I lived & worked in Newquay, I am aware of the poverty there, the total lack of winter jobs + housing situation impossible to rent any decent place at all! Newquay now it's more run down than ever when the free toilets by the train station finally got barred a few years ago due to the severe vandalism, and the council simply doesn't care..! Such a shame this is happening specially in such an idyllic place..!!
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Thanks for sharing, this is an eye opener and the government should do something to preserve this beautiful country make it GREAT AGAIN 🇬🇧❤️🙏
Bit of surf/van life down in those parts would be ace, certainly in the warmer months at least. Keep on with the extended adventures and these vids good sir
The UK needs a Jersey style protection on any properties under a certain price to be only available to actual locals. There also needs to be protection of the environment stopping hideous redevelopments which completely alter the historic view of villages & towns.
Lived in St Mawgan my whole life, i tend not to go to Porth anymore
Joe, how about checking out the town Prince Charles built: Poundbury in Dorset. Its supposed to be the perfect English town with modern classical architecture etc. Might be an interesting contrast with all the places you've been to so far?
Demolishing nice homes to put up meh mansions. Disgusting.
There’s nothing for locals there I live in NQY and surf instructor at watergate bay. Never go to Mawgan because nothing there if you drive through in the night this time of year don’t see a single house light on complete ghost town. #sharethewealth cheaper housing what’s needed. I have to lodge with someone in there spare room rents are sky high, even rooms to rent are getting sky high can be real struggle for hardworking locals, but we have our perks 🏄🏼♂️🤙🏻
Got to invest their PPE contract money somewhere I suppose.
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people dont have the IQ or thinking capacity or the ability to link the chains .. The greatest money expansion in history circa 2020 was behind this
Wow didn't know they were building these huge houses , very sad for the ordinary working people.
MP !!! There should be restrictions.
Your first shot of Fowey was on my Grans road (not a millionaire)
Also trained at Bedruthan Steps in Mawgan Porth.
Another great video. i live in a tent in snowdonia National park in North Wales.🌄
I was bullied out of my social housing in South London by an abusive upstairs neighbor that stomped every single day to stop me sleeping, it was an evil shaniqua, all the people who work for that Housing Association in South London are from the same Afro Carribean community group as the abusive neighbor and they didn't like how i always referred to the abusive neighbior as "it", so they sided WITH the abuser , lied about me, they pretended it was "normal houshold noise and footsteps" when it was stomping at 3am, they pretended that the threats and intimidation outside my balcony by the neighbior and it's thug gangster boyfreind never happened, they pretended that the neighbor had not broke my door buzzer by jabbing it for 5 minutes like a psycho when it was stuck out in the rain (somehow it locked itself out and suddenly the sky opened and it rained like i had never seen it,⛈biblical rain, it rained on that shaniqua for 5 minutes while it pounded my door buzzer as i watched from my window, and the moment another resident buzzed it in, the rain stopped, in an instant) ...... So i picked a town with a supermarket on google maps (i don't like always eating from a co-op or a spar which is all they have in small places in Wales) , i moved all my stuff to a storage container in town and i bought camping gear, tent, sleeping bag, gas stove, morning coffee is the FIRST thing i had sorted out (word to the wise old chap, Taylors coffee bags) ..... i am able to do this because i get disability benefits paid into my bank every month
I suffer many disabilities, crippling arthritis, COPD, PTSD since childhood, hypervigilance from violent home invasions.... , still waiting for a full autism/aspergers diagnosis (3 years on the waiting list now...) , i hear 24/7 screaming tinnitus that is a constant cacophany of whistling kettles, crickets, white noise, occaisionally a ting, ting, ting, ting, ting like a little bell, i hear constant sinewaves at varing pitches and the sounds on left and right are independant of eachother so it is a vibrant stereo cacophany..... i also suffer severe heaaring loss and in the left ear hyperacusis so EVERYTHING sounds incredibly loud and distorted in the left ear, everything is about double the volume of before the hyperacusis kicked in so sounds that are normally harsh like dog barks, child sreams, sirens are now extremely painful. ....... HOW do i keep going??? WEED! in the hardest times, when even close to death from the toll of my life trauma on my heatth and i have been , Cannabis gives you HOPE and PERSPECTIVE so you can not be overwhelmed by the trauma, circumstance ............. what else? oh yeah, my middle toe on the left foot dislocates several times a day and i cannot stand or it or walk until the toe relocates, this is aggrovated by carrying any kind of weight, it's got so bad i am getting a trolleybag for when i go into town to buy water...... i thought i could live on mountain water but its not all the same, the water from the stream gave me the runs, even after i boiled it for one minute, and it makes green tea taste like sh!t , metallic, i can't find any mining around the stream but i have to bring water into my mountain camp from town , i DON'T DRIVE so i do everything on the bus! .......
i try to camp within 2 miles of a bus stop and woods are good for cover and privacy , and i feel most at home in the woods, always have ....... all mountains look the same above the treeline anyway so i stay on the lower mountains, never been to the top of Snowdon, i am not a badge collector ...... Toilet isn't a problem as i piss everywhere like an animal (just away from Camp) , every morning i sh!t into a new empty binbag, immediately tie that and put it in the general trash binbag, i carry it down the mountain and dump it in a bin somewhere when i get the bus into town, Not so easy to wash your hands all the time, especially when it is 3 degrees C during the day here right now so i always have thin disposable plastic gloves , i put 4 plastic gloves on the left hand (this one wipes the butthole) and to be safe i put one on the right hand incase i accidentally touch pooey paper towel with the right hand (the left is bulletproof under 4 gloves) ....... i always use Gas to cook and heat water. i don't have fires , they attract attention, they p!ss people off if its on thier land, and fires stink, i don't enjoy dodging the smoke as the wind has its way and i don't like stinking iof woodsmoke, especially since my olfactory system (sense of smell) has gone through the roof since i have been sleeping in a tent every night in the national park, the COPD i suffer was killing me fast in South London, i do have pneumonia right now from not being vigilant and i got stressed by an energy vampire and that always get sick after that, but it's no boggie, i had worse pneumonia in 2019, i had it for 6 weeks, my trouser fell off me, i went down to 111 pounds (i am 5'9", normally about 145 pounds) .......
i have been applying for flats but with my situation, no job, disabled, clearly fcukin nuts, i realize am not going to get a flat in Gwynedd, North Wales, but now i have pretty much done winter in the tent and know i CAN do it, even disabled at 50 years old,
I have pretty much given up on getting a flat or house to live in here, a caravan or park home is more realistic to aim for ....... for now I just intend to camp here in the National Park until the wheels come off .....
I am a schizoid personality type, it doesn't mean shitzophenic or psycho, it simply means i am a loner, read the wikipedia artile on 'schizoid personality disorder' and that is a lot like me......... they call enjoying solitude a 'disorder' , we live in a mad world, well i used to, now i live in the wrold of Sun and Moon and Stars and a Robin that lands on the tent and tweets good morning and returns every night to tweet goodnight at me..............
now i won't ever be dependent on an exploitative slum landlord ever again which was the story for most of my life and Clarion the biggest social housing provider in the country is the WORST slum landlord of all, the people behind grenfell, they are a MAFIA who exploit the most vulnerable people who cannot get housing due to bad credit or disability or circumstance and we get STUCK in moldy, dangerous, abusive, substandard housing because Clarion know we have NO CHOICE and they juet see the housing benefit roll in ...... BTW Clarion staff run that company for the convenience of the staff, they work from home, work flexi time, they have the conceited attitude that they are "giving you a home" when it is not THIERS to give....... NOTHING works in Londoin anymore, anytine you deal with housing , NHS, council, police, you come up against the same lazy, dishonest, resentful people who serve themselves first, then thier own community, then other POC, then the native population last
Why dont the councils ask these mega millionaires to buy some little houses for reasonable rents as part of their permissions to buy and build ?
This is happening Byron Bay, Australia.
I lived in falmouth Cornwall twice. It was the only time i was truly happy. I am saving for a nice caravan and a pitch. Falmouth housed me, im cooler than all those celebs.
Nice one Bru!! :)
Towns & cities in UK are even knocking down very good new condition building just to get developers to build new whilst British people are not allowed homes or even any income.
The locals sold their land and property for a quick profit. Now they complain. Duh?
And its sad so sad its sad its a sad sad situation.
know mawgan porth very well,visited many times great beach etc,but not many facilities there prob cos they cant get the staff
How depressing. Those holiday mansions are an eye sore. This is what you get with uncontrolled capitalism.
Damned be those "celebrities". They could atleast build beautiful mansions to go with the scenery, but they don't care...
Who sold the properties to the "Outsiders" ?
People who know the value of their house and aren’t morons.
North Norfolk feels your pain
Devon is full of this type of a lister problem,second home ownership and social housing for drift ins
Rich England gets invaded by poor immigrants. Poor Cornwall gets invaded by rich Angles
We've got both pouring into West Wales with entire housing estates filled with the boat imports.
We went through 4 years of an awful and corrupt government, Now you in the UK need to vote out the Reps of the Oligarchs that run your country. We here have these huge homes everywhere, as well as "tract mansions" too. Los Angeles
2nd Homes for the rich, and all the others they have.
Those same rich people that preach to the less fortunate about Net zero and clean air etc etc etc.
Greed can't be satisfied.
Thanks again man.
The architecture is UGLY
All modern architecture is vulgar.
@ibrstellar1080 all that money and people build pieces of shit with it.
How was that ever allowed to happen.
All down to the Council and the planning authorities as some are total eyesores. Cornwall once had something money couldn't buy and that was the people that lived there, the proper Cornish dwellers. Your I have a few million to spend different people have spoiled Cornwall forever and it is very sad to see. Someone should be asking some serious question to the planning department at an extremely high level as the why has Cornwall now got to this level of total ugliness.
I am a bit confused by the video. Like what exactly is being suggested? Don't become rich and don't buy houses anywhere?
The councils have allowed this to happen and got very rich from it!
we only get 6 sunny days a year WTF build an expensive place here - its not lockdown anymore , just build somewhere warm - it rains here 300 days a year
Are you ever going north? Especially Liverpool
No, too dangerous.
@araonna no it's not dangerous! It has rough areas and Posh areas and the best nightlife in the country! The thing I noticed about Liverpool is you can go from the roughest area you've ever seen to the richest areas you ever seen! Lots of Students there too. Toxteth has changed a lot now and so has Kensington
Look at the towns of similar size. Most of them do not have "rich" people living in them and the result are even worse with lot's of boarded up houses an ribbish absolutley everywhere!
Is that the better option? When you listen to the people who complain it sounds like they prefer the deprived villages and find them more genuine.
Manchester here
Live in Cornwall? Better paint your roof blue! See what happens to those that aren't blue in Hawaii and California.
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hello jo
Are they digging bunkers?
but Locals turn the area into a turd town
Cornwall is the only part of the country that gets fairly frequent good weather. Parts of the county look mediterranean. With no infrastructure like the fishing industry that’s all but nearly vanished. You then have a huge populous of people who are what the state/council deem undesirable. So they’re filtering people out. And selling up the land and the former council houses into AirBB and yeah. It’s sort of neo-genocidal archetype that’s no first tier aggressive citizen harmful. Yeah not as destructive as the extreme war torn form of genocide. It’s corporately made created constructed into market rhetoric. Yet casualties are statically watered down proportionally. I guess it genocide culturally as the original Cornish are forced out. We have no industry, yet just say we did put aside immigration, just allowing complete control. We don’t have the infrastructure, the mechanised economy to even manage our own citizens. Let alone asylum seekers, immigrants. We have nothing here to keep us busy keep us prideful. Every borough seems to have some sort of social crisis. The next five years are going to be interesting. The lead up to 2030
Gaza ????
The rich will be already making enquiries.
Free Palestine
maybe new migrants-residents-citizens can use those homes in the winter?
Locals can moan all they want, but it’s the tourists that spend the money in the pubs and the shops etc to keep Cornwall afloat.
There not tourist's if they have holiday homes and it isn't making jobs in Hotels or hostels.
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goes to show celebs are stupid ................ they got the wrong county ........... doh