Bristol! The UK's Most Shocking "NO-GO" Zone 🇬🇧
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2024
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Welcome to Bristol, a city of history, culture and adventure! Unfortunately in recent years this city has come under scrutiny for having a dangerous reputation. So I came here with my mate @JoefishJ to some of the notorious areas which are being compared to skid row in America! These areas are crime ridden and at times no-go zones! Surely it isn't that bad? Well, let's find out...welcome to Bristol!
The charity that help Annie in Bristol - www.bdp.org.uk/
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I use to live when the poll tax riots.happened
I love when a place has just the right amount of crime and homelessness like only petty crime and only willfully homeless people
I wait for the moment when she said, driving Husband to.. instead of backpacker Ben :D But you guys have a nice duo, great videos. And I really liked you enjoyed Baltic States. In Baltic States, you better try find a dude online that will guide you to good spots and has been doing it for years. Some good places are so difficult to find here and sometimes they are so ''cheap''. Like me driving finding old church ruins from 1712 and I could not even approach them. But the sun and the river and the nature was good enough.
and all the asylum get rooms and food when we have millions of homeless already here.
Funny how Bristol council charge £9 a day to drive a car there because of pollution but leave tons of rubbish on the streets 🤷♂️
Yeah go figure !
They probably have a huge social housing bill to pay every month.
❤ Bristol.. your town or city is worse
Doesn't cost me anything to drive my car in Bristol
Those narcs could have jobs to clean those dirty streets
A lad from Plymouth calling Bristol a shithole is hilarious !!
You seen my Plymouth video 😂
compared to Bristol! Plymouth is amazing 😂😂😂
He showed what Plymouth was like mate get your head out of your arse!
@@scottjj5488 You mean get your head out of Ben's arse.
@@alexburnett758 nah he wasn't brown nosing was he
Lived in Manchester most of my life, London currently, and Bristol for 3 years. Bristol was probably the most pleasant, safe and fun, and probably my favourite
But bristol has worse knife crime than Manchester tho!
@@2tapped-sc1oq i used to live in Luton, for 2 years running we had the highest murder rate in England... but it wasn't like you saw it on the streets or was generally obvious... people asked me if i dared go out at night there (folk from other areas) which seemed a daft question, of course we did, but maybe if it was late at night and you needed 50p for the electric meter you would call to people before you got to them as some folk can be nervous at night.... but it was fine... statistics and reality are usually different, likely knife crime is more between factions than aimed at public... although knife robbery without actual attack can happen anywhere... and would be regarded as a knife crime.. a lot depends on how bothered police are to write stuff up... Safety is a state of mind, you can be in the worst areas of anywhere and if you feel safe you generally are...
Clean up the graffiti
Bristol has massive levels of homelessness, ever increasing housing costs, horrendous traffic, terrible public transport, and lots of crime, the latter mostly related to drug addiction. Most of the crime isn't violent though. I lived there for not far short of 3 decades. I'm familiar with the areas you visited, but I never got mugged or even assaulted once in that time. I've been assaulted in other places but never in Bristol. Despite everything as far as cities in the UK go Bristol is still one of the better ones. It's only suffering the same blight as most other places in the UK, a process which sadly is set to continue.
Please don't repeat the lies told in the gutter press about no go areas. The nearest places to being no go areas in Bristol are parts of some of the outer suburbs built with insufficient amenities where bored teenagers hang around doing drugs and engaging in antisocial behaviour which might sometimes include picking on someone they don't recognise. Most if not all major UK cities have areas like that though.
Well said. I love bristol! ❤
Lmao 😂 the kids are just bored! They're not bad people 😂 absolute nonsense.
Born in Bristol depressing how the loony council been running it. Depressing the hopeless Tories have let our City go. First time in my life thinking of moving out
Exactly. This is the most accurate comment I've seen on here so far. This video is very sensationalist in nature, but hey its youtube and this guy probably just wants to farm some views. Bristol has it's issues but I've been here for 12 years now and indeed it has gotten worse but no where near as bad as other places in the UK. Also pretty safe for that matter. The first guy said it best, if you don't go looking for trouble, you'll be left alone... Even in "bad" areas.
cognitive dissodance goes crazy
Do Clifton in Bristol, it's like being in Bath. So many varied locations in Bristol.
I lived in Clifton for a bit… lovely place.
then do Twerton in Bath 🤣 see it depends where you visit. Bath is very 'curated' for tourists. People end up in Bristol and walk in a random direction aren't really going to be pleased are they. They have no idea where they are tbh, the Bald video was Avonmouth which is barely in Bristol, its a port 10 miles away although technically 'greater bristol' and he was calling it bristol.
The UK needs a serious wake up call
Revolution UK cometh
The UK needs a British government to do what British people want . Too much rich political foreign interference is destroying British culture and values .
@@AliG-nw1sd WEF
@@alexdavis1541 Oh vey!
The UK is fine, it's the people who run it that trashed it making it impossible for the needy to get help
I went to Uni in Bristol loads of nice places in a Bristol, should be shown both sides surely?
Face it Mate, this make the worst area of Pliladelphia look livable!
Its really gone down hill since the late 2000's.
Agree! One of Englands more unique cities.
I suspect there are many videos on RUclips showing only the nice areas of Bristol.
I went to Uni in Bristol, absolutely love this city. Its the drug capital of England for sure but the people are great.
Said the guy who buys his drugs in Bristol.
Which drug is the most popular?)
Love your content too Harry.
I bet you had some great times in Motion & Lakota Harry haha. Nice to know you've spent good times in my home town!
Of course the people are great, they're all stoned out of their minds 😆
Having lived in Bristol for 15 years I can assure everyone there are no 'no go' zones at all in the city. You can walk alone at any time of the night and very rarely encounter any trouble. A lot of the shots in this video are the best parts of Bath and then the worst parts of Bristol so its easy to create this huge disparity between the 2. Yes there are high levels of homelessness in Bristol but thats partly because its become such a popular city therefore the rents are so high and also partly because there is a lot support for homeless people and its considerably less grim than anywhere up north.
I can name loads of no go areas 😂 your not from here if you live here your probably a student or from the sticks or something
And not true brisrol is the grimist city because of the graffiti problem alone
@2tapped-sc1oq A student being something you have clearly never experienced judging by your inability to spell or read. I never claimed to be from Bristol; i purely highlighted the timeframe I have lived here as this seems a reasonable amount of time to be making the original statements.
Classifying graffiti as a 'problem' is subjective. The acceptance of it in Bristol has contributed towards an incredibly artistic and alternative place to live. It is also the home of arguably the most famous graffiti artist in the world in Banksy as well as hosting the annual graffiti festival Upfest which is becoming larger each year and acting as a platform for so many artist to share their amazing work @@2tapped-sc1oq
Love to see you swagger through Hartcliffe proclaiming that pal. Middle of the day there, they'd see you coming a mile off, and you'd be in the shit in no time.
The combination of you, Kat and Joe is always terrific. Keep the solid content and come to New Zealand some day mate.
thanks mate! yess would love to, dream country
NZ definitely nothing like Bristol that's for sure
Thanks Ben love when you and Kat go on adventures together.
£8 for a beer, daylight robbery
Try Banksy free Beer -
how do people afford life in uk?? Everything so expensive.. low wages..it just boogles me
will be returning next week to help out Annie and Anthony, stay tuned. They were amazing people, we spoke for a long time. The legend Fish went back the next day to find them but the rain was crazy so they weren't there, we will return this week and try again. Check out Fish's channel to see his video on this.
Thanks Ben some great videos I watch all of them along with Bald and Haralds! Well done to you all better than watching TV.
When Fish said you are one bad choice away from the streets. I wonder if two litters of cider is one of those bad choices. Kids don’t drink your end up on the streets.
They dont even know what day it is or how many children they have, they dont need help, they need more drugs.
Great stuff you are doing out there guys. Can't wait to see the next video
If you want to see some rough areas of bristol then you need to visit hartcliffe, withywood and knowle west, also go deep into st pauls and easton and not skim around the outskirts of it, be careful though as it may go wrong!
As a true Bristolian myself it's a pleasure to see this video. I'm very intrigued to see what area is the worst in the eyes of the uk. Overall Bristol is a gert lush place with characters that would go viral here for good and bad reasons 😂 crazy shit definitely goes down here but I feel safe in most areas of Bristol.
yeah huge city, this is just the 'rough' part as they claim
@@BackpackerBen You guys did a accurate job of displaying this part of the city, definitely some places where I'm like 'good lord'. I can see how some women would be wary going home alone on a night out in some places but for a guy your guaranteed to find an outside bed 🤣
I love the stokes Croft and St Paul’s area tbh, always had a great laugh, met so many different kinds of people and I’ve only had one knife pulled on me
That's OK then^ 😂
@@BackpackerBen should have gone to south bristol- hartcliffe and knowle west. Those are the actual dodgy places. It's a myth to say that St. Pauls is the roughest area. During the windrush large populations of poor caribbean people who were searching for a better life were crammed into houses in St Pauls- and when you cram lots of desperate people into a small area without offering any support, desperate people will do desperate things. It's not a bad area at all now and I find it somewhat of a racist rhetoric to claim that it is- even if its not intended in that way. It's a melting pot of culture and is extremely vibrant. Yes- Bristol has a very bad litter problem, awful transport infrastructure, and a rapidly increasing homelessness problem- but the government is poor because after so many years of incompetent ruling, state assets are at an all time low meaning the only way the government can make any money is through taxes. Never mind the incompetent previous mayor George Ferguson who lied about finances and just about everything nearly bankrupting the city in the days where that wasn't even fashionable. Do some proper research before making these videos please- should your aim not be to teach and explain WHY places are as they are, rather than just mocking and poo-poo-ing them?
Plenty of bad areas of Bath, you are looking at central Bath. A mile out you will be in some run down areas like Twerton or The Oval.
Bristol is the same, plenty of great parts of Bristol too. Easy to knock large cities in the UK.
Yes it is very easy to knock big cities in the UK. Primarily because they are absolute shitholes.
Thank you, someone finally said it. Some of the most deprived and debt-ridden areas of the region are here, and even with it being a small city as well we hardly go a month without some unfortunate young person being stabbed as well. Such a short space of time and the city’s fallen so much.
Yeah literally only that central bath area is nice and some nature areas surrounding but housing in bath is either millionaire areas or dodgy estate areas
I wouldn’t consider an associate of Bald and Bankrupt to be acting in good faith tbh.
Nothing wrong with Twerton in the daytime
Nice to see you again Ben always love your video to the end ✌️✌️✌️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I grew up in rural Devon, so found Bristol kinda shocking at first, but what's more shocking is that most cities have cleared all signs of the poverty we know is rampant from the city centres. I've worked in Stokes Croft for a decade, never been hurt or attacked by anyone.
Yea but that doesn't mean it's not a dangerous area tho! I've lived in south London even walked around east london had no problems what so ever what's your point?
I was in Bristol just a few weeks back , have to say it's my favourite city in England, felt safe, people were friendly and the city had a great vibe
Any party goer with a sort of unfettered liberal idea about reality, or off the head, will not really care much about where they are as it is ''free' and the 'vibe' etc - it is probably interesting, for a visit. If you don't want to be surrounded by painfully cool hipster travellers and students, or dull drum n bass sounds and so on half the time, then it is probably good for a visit.
What happened to "Shipshape and Bristol fashion"?
@@Earthfield-GeopolymerWorld that read like a veiled insult based on assumptions...
Cool story bro but there's 2 sides to every city lol
@@timkelly5602 Not really, it is just a fact, for the most part. Poverty is 'cool' to some people.
Enjoying these videos Ben
i was there yesterday and i got robbed. houses falling apart, homeless everywhere and a woman was desperately trying to pull money out of an atm, couldnt so i gave her a fiver for her and her sisters shelter.
there is also an absolutely massive underground drug problem in that city
insane mate, we got followed for a while so we had to cut it short and leave. Dodgy. Good man for helping the women mate
While living in Cardiff went to Bristol for the day, had lunch and a pint in a pub somewhere close to the city center, this is in 1997 anyway was reading a newspaper and a local randomly approached me and said "think your fyxxing clever reading a newspaper" in a aggresive tone. Never been since.
@@123bwlch reminds me of the famous "we got a reader" skit by Bill Hicks
@@123bwlch that is how i type when i cant be fucked for a youtube comment mate
Drops Bike and leaves it abandoned, prone and all alone 😢
Mr Fish!!! Why??? 😭
I bought a small 2 bed terrace in St Werburghs (BS2 same ss the Pauls) in the 1990s for £40,000. Even then it was said to have been "dodgy" place. Lived there 15 years great, no issues, loved it. Those houses are now £400k up. Its insanely expensive.
Thanks to all the Hipsters from London. Bristol was good 15+ years ago.
Fantastic Ben Kat & fish great content and a true story of many homeless people in the uk .
Love you two so much I even enjoyed the ad!
Love this vid, Joe Fish is a brilliant addition and very knowledgeable 🙂
Nice to see Backpacker Kat back ! Love Joe in the vids too
She loves an adventure 😬
Bath surrounding areas is where I grew up. As the guy said in the video, we never felt unsafe even as kids/teenagers. Nice video Ben.
cheers mate! Bath is great
if you are a woman one would feel less safe being alone. according to police crime stats the top crimes are violence and sexual violence. Ben needs to do some research on crime there.
Fish is a great companion! Would like to see you two together more in future videos.
Nice video.Thank you both of you (all of you) 🙂
Mate......Please go to Skid row and see with your own eyes that nowhere in this country is comparable!! Ive spent a good amount of time over the last 20yrs walking the so called bad parts of bristol taking pictures of graffiti/streetart. Ive never had any problems. I had a crackhead shout at me and it turned out all he wanted was to to tell me a new mural was round the corner. Bristol another great city with the same problems youll find worldwide.
I take pix of the street art and like you, have wandered about all over Bristol and have walked up and down Stokes Croft numerous times. I haven't been there for over a year but hope to get down there again soon - Stokes Croft, Peel Green, M32 J3 roundabout, St Werburgh's tunnel and lunch in Ikea!
exactly man right on
"Street Art", LOL!
It has the largest street art festival in Europe and there are stunning murals all across the city. @@IslesGiantsYankees
LOL. Bristol is very comparable to Skid Row, just on a smaller scale.
Man went to 3 streets, recorded some early post Friday/Saturday night rubbish and restaurant bins, and said the city is a dump. Excellent journalism 😂
Did I say the whole of Bristol was a dump did I? When exactly
And when he videos an ambulance saying it was the police. Whilst been stood on a road between two major hospitals. 😂 getting scared of rubbish.
@@BackpackerBen Piss off mate, what is the title of the video ? This is clickbait poverty porn.
Best ad plug I’ve ever seen
I've lived in Bristol for 25 years, never had any issues at all! Sure, there are some run down areas but so has every city! I'd take bristol over bath any day !
Yeh he's reachin like fck the nobhead
Mate this video is such misrepresentation of what Bristol and St.Pauls is like omg
Another tourist from London pushing the prices up😂
there shouldn't be any run down areas lol we are one of the richest in the world.
@BruceGeorgePeterLee13 what crack have you been smoking 😂😂
that was a good intro for your friend. I actually thought it was going to pop off for a sec
Valuable sharing, thanks Ben 👍🏻🇬🇧
Great stuff mate! Keep it up.
Yes Ben! You listened to my suggestion haha. Great to see you in my home town! Told you, you'd have no problem finding some interesting characters haha. And it seems you only just scratched the surface! There are plenty of lovely places in Briz though, Stokes croft is usually just where people go for a dirty night out or an afters at some random persons flat till the early hours 😂 It's really nowhere near as dangerous as it was about 20 years ago and even then it wasn't even that bad. It actually has plenty of nice independent bars and cafes down it now.
Thanks mate! Yes was a bit rough around here I can imagine a night out here is wild!
Bristol looks bloody lovely ! Bunch of hippies running about . Waiting for Glasgow
Lookin forward to see the japan trip , always great to see Kat , joe is a good bloke .
I left Bristol 15 years ago. So glad I did, it’s been taken over by immigrants and criminals. This is what you get when labour and greens run the council, can’t even collect the rubbish. I remember shopping in that abandoned Debenhams, that’s not even st Paul’s that’s the heart of the city centre. Utterly shocking state now
You can’t blame everything on immigrants, not all are bad but probably the system allows the bad ones to get in easily
They all make excuses for Labour Boroughs & Cities, never asking where the monies gone.
The only thing you'll find in Stokes Croft are hipster haircuts, sourdough, £8 pints and students on ket. Not to mention the cheapest house in the area is about 500k. If this scares you, then I agree.
Loving the UK vids mate! Keep them coming
Sad scenes in Bristol! Thanks for coming up for the day mate! See you soon...
see you soon fish!
I like Joe Fish. Hopefully we see him in more of your videos.
What a shame that any government lets a city such as this fall into decay
I hope you guys grabbed a Danny's burger whilst in stokes croft... won several burger awards. Just up from where you guys were peddling your shit story about how scary stokes croft is 🙄 @packpackerBen @joefishj
@@terryrobertson111 nah, Banksy's street graffiti is everywhere --- a bitta culture and folks love it
Absolute shame what's happening to this entire country.
Doesn't matter who's in power its all the same lies upon lies things need to change and fast. I went to Japan last year and yep its defiantly the best country in the world.
Keep up the good work Ben!
Japan is so good mate love it there
Hong Kong looks great too - until you dig below the surface. They work very hard at hiding homelessness/drugs etc. Japan will do the same.
honestly your videos are just so easy to watch and glad you speak to people and get their stories
you got it
Hello and hi to u both , and as usual it's always good to see the lovely Catherina , enjoy the rest of the day ❤
Spent some time in Bristol recently, some areas are a bit scruffy though generally i loved the place. The people are friendly, the shops and cafes are great, some nice museums, lively nightlife, the town centre is nice, a great place to visit.
Nice video mate! Keep it up the good work! 😎
Right on 👌🏼
Lived in Bristol for a year. Went to the BIMM uni on Stokes Croft & gigged regularly up and down that street - incredibly vibrant for arts, music and culture. Bit of trash and homelessness around but its not really any different to the rest of the country. Perfectly safe, never had any issues with safety at all. I've been fortunate enough to move around the country a fair bit and Bristol remains my favourite city in the UK by far.
If it's so safe then why has there been stabbings every few days? Since the year has started including 8 murder investigations
I used to go clubbing in Stokes Croft 2001-2006 as it was the main area for Alternative Music venues Blue Mountain, Powerhouse, Junction, Club UK, the Full Moon. All these have gone in the last 18 years and its pretty much gentrified now. It used to be quite dodgy area. I haven't gone around thee in over a decade.
It's changed a lot, obviously, but there's still plenty of clubs and alternative venues down there. You can focus on stuff that has closed down, but a lot of new things have opened too. I'd still crown it the main area of the city for music and nightlife. The Full Moon is still there btw - was my regular as right next to the music uni@@Delabane
Knife crime happens in all the major cities over the country and 9/10 the individuals are involved in crime, drugs, gangs. etc. If you're not up to anything dodgy then it's incredibly unlikely you will ever be the target of a crime. It's not the place that's dangerous, it's the activities one may chose to involve themselves in. @@2tapped-sc1oq
@@geomatt7701 In Stokes Croft? Maybe we define "Alternative" differently, I see it as Metal, Rock, Goth etc. Stoke Croft seems mostly full of Hipsters and Yuppies, which aren't Alternative. The only Alternative venue I am aware of now is Zed Alley near what was Colston Hall and its less then half the size of previous venues. Then the Alternative scene is a lot smaller compared to 15-20 years ago. I am just glad I had my 20's throughout the 2000's as it just does not seem there is as much, assuming anyone can actually afford to go out.
Need more Uk videos . Cheers from Sheffield 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I gotta tell ya mate I think you and cat compliment each other very well you make a great team and I hope you keep her around or more like she keeps you around for a bit lol ! Cheers from NYC man! Also a big shout out to Joe Fish!!! He is a an absolute legend!
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@@kieranhudson4938 Cheers
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Epic video Ben-jammin. What do you brits say? Legend!
cheersss mate!! yes legendd
You and Fish are a great combo. Keep it up guys.
I really enjoy watching your vlog! well done
Appreciate it pal
Remember these people, as you lay in your bed tonight full stomach and your warm house. remember they’re are still the inner children that once ran around the playgrounds with smiles and the teenagers that felt insecure and the 20 year olds that felt need to find themselves. My point is sometimes we loose ourselves along the way from a very innocent start to life. Bless them all and let’s hope they we can all push a change in the UK.
❤
I’m born and bred in Bath. We have our issues like most UK cities. There was a fatal stabbing last year outside the Mc Donald’s in south gate. Lots of issues in bath with social housing, you should travel to the outskirts, areas like twerton, snow hill, Weston, and odd down and you would see a very different side to bath. Bath city council maintain the city center because they know it generates tourist income. Not a very factual portrayal of the city of bath to be honest Ben but for sure Bristol is rough
Good morning, Ben and Kat!!
JoeFish is a top lad. Looking forward to more collabs.
🤝
I wouldnt say St Pauls is lesser known, it has had a famius carnival for 50 years and I think was the first Carribean carnival in the UK, even before Notting Hill and Moss Side Carnival or the carribean carnival in Chapeltown in Leeds.
I’m from the USA. I went to the UK with my parents in 1999 and 2004 . I absolutely love bath such a cool place and the English countryside is absolutely beautiful. The history in the UK is so incredible. I wish I could go back I hate the untied states.
Yes mate lovely place but comments here telling me it’s bad 😆 🤷🏼♂️
Fr man just what I was thinking, id be thankful to live in a place like Bristol being from the US, we basically live in an apocalypse lol guns and murder everywhere and 50% of basic needs not met and it gets worse every single year no matter who we elect
Amazing how Bath appears to be posh, expensive, elite, British, and boring, yet is clean, safe, well-run, and looks wholesome.
While on the other hand Bristol is edgy, cool, hip, alternative, multicultural, left-leaning, yet looks unclean, unsafe, poor, unhappy, the capital city of protests, and generally in decline.
Funny that. I wonder what could be behind these differences? Could it be recent governments with a particular ideology? I blame both the blue and red parties on this one neither of them seem to give a toss about the working class of our country.
A sad state of affairs.
What is left leaning 😂seems like you clearly are an american in the uk it doesnt go left and right leaning like america . These are both faces of the uk done by the atrocious beaureucy
Bath is bright yellow, of course. Largest LibDem majority in the country (12K). LibDems re-elected to run the council last time, again, with a large majority. Blue is almost disappearing.
Bath is a tourist town, I worked there for 3 years a decade ago. Bristol is better for work.
@@Delabane And Bath is best to live.
@@FTFLCY Not been to Bath since 2014. Might go there one weekend in the summer.
if you ever got the chance go visit Kensington Philadelphia. If you think Bristol is bad, you'll be in for a shock 😁😁
True...
And East Vancouver / Hastings in Canada is even WORSE than Kensington.
Bigger area , even MORE druggie wandering around.
Hi Ben. Any plans to visit Alaska one day? I'm still hoping Bald will sort his stuff out so he can go back to America. Cheers for the cool uploads mate.
For sure just waiting on the visa 🚀
@@BackpackerBen awesome!
Bristol City Council did use to collect bulky items from those unable to afford removal costs for free.
They now charge, which is unaffordable so results in dumping large items out on streets or next to discarded area.
Nice to see you here, maybe visit again to other out lying areas. Come back & explore each little suburb.
Some areas are good, some are not, some will surprise & some are left forgot, to rot.
Geeat video Ben. Nice and smooth with the sponsor as well 🤣
Legend! Cheers mate ;) not to cheesy yeah
Jesus man!!! I was just falling asleep ! Now you and Kat? That's not fair mate.
you got broken Britain to see mate, more important
@@BackpackerBen okay okay..fair enough good sir.
Wells is not a town. It's a city... a very tiny one, but still a city 😊
Is the Smallest City in the UK.
What's the difference?
@@parolofA city has to have a cathedral
@@jpmtlhead39smallest in England is actually City of London - what we think of London is not the ‘city ‘ then Wells , smallest in the UK is St David’s in Wales
@@stephenforrowThat's a bit of a myth nowadays. For example, Plymouth and Wolverhampton are cities but don't have a cathedral.
Thank you for this Ben. I live in the South of the city (lived in WsM before) which is mainly new development but quiet. The council is complicit in this as money is wasted and they're too much obsessed on the right things. St Pauls is a bad area. As I mentioned on Joe's video, I'm looking to stand for MP here in Bristol Central as the two main contenders are obsessed with identity issues and the cool crowd. Not those left behind. It's only for a minor party, but the thought of either of those women from Labour and Green winning frightens me and will kill Bristol off more. It's time to give Bristol back to the real people.
Love ur uk videos definitley you should do edinburgh stunning went there last november
I normally skip the ads but your acting was so cheesy I loved it!!!
;)
I used to go to Bristol in the 00s to go to galleries, shopping, coffee shops, restaurants....it seems to have gone downhill over the last ten years.....I'm living in Plymouth at the moment, it's got elements of this, Bristol looks further gone though
They are looking to knock down the Galleries in the next year. My late father was involved in it's building and in the 1990's it used to be packed. It was still quite busy in the 2000's but the Mall in Cribbs Causeway, the opening of Cabot Circus, the recession of 2008 and Internet shopping all contributed to its decline that it never really recovered from. In my view Bristol has been crap for last 15 years.
I grew up in Bristol in the 60's - 80's. St Pauls was rough back then. On the other hand walk a mile or two and find fabulous coffee, markets, restaurants, history, culture etc. I visited for a long weekend a couple of years ago and loved it. So much improved on when I grew up. The nice bits will trounce Bath. Obviously that doesn't look not quite as good on the clickbate.
Simultaneously the most awkward and hilarious product placement in a video ever. You two are hilarious! All the best
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Good to see the infamous Turbo Island and the Bear Pit. If you walk about 5 minutes west from where you were in Stokes Croft, you start seeing multi million pound houses.
I think we forget that these "Worst Places to Live" are somebody's home and neighborhood. Its nice to shed light on the real people who reside here, it being good/bad. Our western society needs a awakening to our problems. Great video again Ben
Meanwhile , back in the 4 star Migrant hotels , all expenses paid . What a shame the UK Government don't do much for its own Homeless 😞
Brother, anyone can apply for such housing and you would be surprised how easy is it to get in. But it brings certain responsibilities and rules which people are having tough time to follow. And for a lot of people it is easier to not follow any and end up on the streets again. This crying about "migrant hotels" etc. will not change anything unless people fight their own addiction first.
@nigelcurtis3421 Don't blame the refugees for being in the hotels, blame the current government for keeping them in them so their mates who own the hotels can drain the public purse.
Joe is a great addition
Some of those areas remind me of Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen. Definitely a place you should go, although if you're caught filming you might have big issues. Would love to see you and Bald walking down Pusher St 😂
That area gets tourists tho
@@Leojw10 still an interesting place with a colourful history and ongoing issues etc, probably would get loads of interactions too tbh. Me and my fiancee walked down Pusher St and there was like 100+ masked men and I don't think many were tourists, we felt like right doughnuts 😂
I visited Bristol for the first time last year with a lady friend. We came on the bus whilst holidaying in Weston Super Mare.
The weather was a bit iffy, never a good sign but where we got off the bus was quite a pleasant place. We walked along the dockside as far as the SS Great Britain and back. Found it a very interesting place and would like to explore more. Like most cities nowadays, my home city Sheffield included., it has its good places and bad places.
Unfortunately early 80's Bristol was saturated in Heroin , it never recovered and still has the same problem today only worse.
A good way to start a Saturday morning!
Enjoy! I hope...
Glad you made it out of there alive! 😂
Great video, all this begs the question as to how property prices in Bristol are still so incredibly high.
If he went to the nicer areas of Bristol you would see why. Clifton, Sneyd Park, Stoke Bishop Henleaze and Westbury Park are lovely
I moved to Bristol about a year ago, the first night in my new place a homeless person tried to break in. It gave me a bad impression from the start. I’ve been homeless myself and I never would have thought to break in to someone’s home. I’ve also been verbally abused for not giving them money. It’s made me wary of the homeless now when before I’d always try to help because I know what it’s like.
nah, Banksy's street graffiti is everywhere - Banksy would na rob anyone, bitta culture is answer ta da drugs an i forget
Your no another 'cool' person from London are you ;)
Would be amazing if you sometime make a series of videos about different parts of London 😅
the dangerous places? that would be a 85 part series
@@BackpackerBen 😀 may be half nice places and half dangerous. Thinking to visit London again, someday. Wondering how it’s looks now
@@FSWGNim going to Wimbledon London next Saturday for the first time in 3 month's and alot of the dangerous areas in London now have modern apartments and high rise buildings basically they are now developed areas but not all of London is dangerous some are safer then others.
Went to Bristol last yr and liked it
I'm originally from Bristol, I can say from personal experience that the city has changed and not for the good, but there are also great places in the city but its obvious that it is because of the class differences. The places I would recommend avoiding is King Square near Kingsdown due to a lot of homelessness but if you go to Clifton (roughly a few minutes away) and it is very clean, posh & rich with an obvious presence of high class society. Anyways love your videos and keep up with the great content Ben!
It seems more and more it harder to find affortable accommodations. Its always good to see whats going on out there thru your videos. Thx.
I’ve lived in Bristol for 24 years Ben. We’ve got the same issues as all big cities. Yes it’s a bit scruffy. But people look after each other and Stokes Croft and St Paul’s is nowhere near as bad as people make out. I’ve never felt scared or at risk walking around anywhere. As one of the people said, it’s has the best parties and it’s very bohemian and cultured that side
Doesn’t excuse the filth tho does it there is no excuse for it I live in Lincoln in the skid row part again totally daft easy access to town and country but it doesn’t excuse the filth and piss taking
'bohemian and cultured' that's one way to put it :P Does bohemian and cultured just mean unappologetically lazy and happy to live in squalor? I don't think it's what people said that's an issue, it's what we can all clearly see that's more the problem - just gross, I grew up in Bath and went to Bristol alot, I'm so glad I left though no way I'd want my children growing up around that 'culture'
'bohemian and cultured' = drug culture!
I fully agree with you about St Pauls and Stokes Croft. I would also add Stapleton Road (which The Sun newspaper once called Britain's most dangerous street) to that. Bristol has high levels of crime, but most of it isn't violent.
That's you, Council taxpayers shouldnt be putting up with it, why would you pay tax bills for Bristol, its unsafe, its a Labour City.
Nord was bollocks for me Netflix and Amazon prime knew immediately I was using a vpn
The first time I went backpacking to England myself I started in London, took a tour bus to Stonehenge and Bath. Really nice although this was around 18 years ago. Bath had the BEST fish and chips I ever had. I adore England and it's so heartbreaking to see it sliding downwards.
Amazing adventure
Indian person here. What's happening to the UK? Drug addicts, gangs going around in streets. And the English people are allowing this decadence to happen. A personal opinion is that the British Parliament should stop debating about Gaza and start talking about the welfare of it's own people. I sometimes watch the Commons proceedings and feel like immature people are running it. Anyway good luck to England and it's people, and big fan Mr. Ben. You, Mr. Bald and Mr. Simon make a great great trio. If possible come to India sometime, Kolkata to be specific. I would be glad to host you three❤❤❤
pudu
Breakdown of Christian society.
Diversity is our biggest issue. No one will say it but it's the truth
Yes unfortunately the country has been betrayed by it's politicians who refuse to go hard on crime because they have wanted to appear caring and empathetic, and of course being hard on crime is somehow racist, and that is the worst thing one can be in our this modern era. So yes, soft on crime leads un-surprisingly to more crime. More crime leads to the congregation of criminal like minds, less civic respect which leads into the creation of no-go areas and slums. The Uk is crying out for a hard hitting leader like the guy in El Salvador to purge the nation of it's lackadaisical entitled shitheads. The 'anything is ok', 'don't judge', 'be tolerant', lefty attitudes of the last 35 years have ran it's course and lead us here and we now put up with everything for the sake of being 'edgy and cool' and out of the fear of being called mean and racist. Bristol epitomises the whole culture of tolerance and acceptance leading to nonsense, where the best intentions ultimately incentivise bad behaviours, bad faith actors who game the system and reliance on the state. Too liberal and soooo' open minded that their brains fell out. But hey, Bristol got the music, diversity, graffiti and drugs, so that's the trade off lol
Word, mate, word! Can you please apply for governements in Western countries to counsel them?
Ive lived in a number of places inc Middlesbrough Reading, plymourh , Bristol and Leeds and tbh Bristol was the one i felt safest in, though i was warned to stay clear of st pauls, you should do one of Middlesborough next, there are parts of that town that makes St Pauls look like Beverley hills in comparison and i feel at pains to say that as i was born in 'Boro'
Yea mate boro will be done properly in the summer the storm was nuts there when we went so had to leave
Bristol is worse than edinbruh and leeds and Plymouth 😂
And reading 😂
Yes I would agree Middlesbrough is by far the worst city in the UK. At least Bristol has rows of colourful 19th century houses.
Aussie here. I spent a little time in Bath recently - it was very nice.
That acting for VPN was brilliant :D
I live in Redland/Clifton only 10 minutes walk from Stokes Croft and it's quite posh and family centered... I believe the hill incline puts most of the miscrients off but I did have a guy doing Heroin on my garden wall a couple weeks back. Believe it or not I went out for a chat with him during my evening joint and was surprised how normal and kind he was.
If you want to see even worse than Turbo Island (the bit in your thumbnail thats always on fire) walk further down to Easton or god forbid the 'bear pit.' Please don't do it after 7pm though...
Looked like they where in the Bear Pit, Debenhams in the background & chased off by some local lads !
@@frankythehousecat2681yes i commented before i viewed it stupidly
Stokes Croft is so tame compared to like anywhere in birmingham. To call it a no-go zone is a gross minterpetation. This probably your most dishonest video.
Stoles Croft seems to be alternative, gentrified, and derelict all at the same time and even in the same streets.
Innit, if you ever in Stokes Croft go grab a Danny's Burgers, won Britains best burger a few times IIRC.
@loquek I remember the Cube Cinema and a cafe opposite that sold cola made there. Tasted like cola did decades ago.
Good on you for helping those folks
A visit to Bristol back in 2001, via Cardiff, on a day trip. Parked in one of the multi-storey car parks for a couple of hours. After a little shopping, I got back to car with the spare wheel stolen from under the car, a Renault. Not sure if it was a bad choice of car or city visit.
Wow cat is back little dimond ❤