while i loved pre pandemic videos i truly think that being limited to france has brought the greatest videos youve made yet! due to the language barrier i have very little knowledge about the weirder parts of france and for an english speaker to make videos its absolutely fantastic to watch!
I would agree also on the point of finding the interesting stories to tell about seemingly mundane things. Take this opportunity to find out what is intersting in your town, what "secrets" are there?
Im living in the new Goussainville and my family did since at least one century, and I have to say that I could never expect that a foreign country could care about this village, glad to see this lol (sorry for my trash english)
It's amazing what triple glazed windows can do in a masonry building. In '05 I helped finish a loft 4m away from a busy 5 lane commuter arterial in San Francisco. The windows and wall mass almost completely eliminated the street noise. I imagine an A380 at full throttle might be more of a challenge.
It will probably more likely be gentrified and expensive. Just the cleanup cost is bad enough, and it is after all within spotting distance of an airport and close to central Paris by train. Of course, another problem is the listing because of the church, any buildings within 500 meter have to be restored, not replaced.
FYI the city of goussainville still exists. Its center simply has been moved a few kilometers away when the airport construction started in 1974. It's populated with a bit more than 30000 inhabitants and got plenty of shops 😀. What is shown here is the historical village, the "living museum" part of the city but in no way it can be assimilated to a real "ghost town" that would have been emptied of its inhabitants, stripped off the maps and forgotten by everyone. The city centre of the actual goussainville is quite busy during working days and week-ends 😀
Here in Los Angeles there was a neighborhood that had to be bought up and torn down because it was in the flight path of LAX Airport. You can see it when taking off. It's completely fenced off and only the streets remain. They do use it for filming. Many post-apocalyptic movies and tv shows were shot there.
THAT HAS TO BE THE WORST PLACE TO FILM EVER!!! I'm a filmmaker, and one of my early jobs as an intern a producer got a "good deal" on a set that was just outside an airport...we had to replace the sound for the film in it's entirety, so whatever the "deal" was they probably ended up paying five times that to have the actors come back in, and engineers do all the sound.
@@XANDRE. I was once involved in a location shoot in Stockton-on-Tees in the UK. It was set in wartime so ideal with houses due for demolition that already looked bombed-out, but there was a stream of low-flying airliners into Teesside Airport which must have added hours to the job by constantly interrupting filming.
@@davidjones332 It depends on how well they plan it, they could have gotten the schedule for the flights from the airport and then schedule everything around that.
Finally houses in Paris within my budget; €3 and some thimbles. With modern insulation, tripple glazing & quieter aircraft. Might even be reasonable noise indoors. Fascinating find!
@@metropod I went back and watched that Canal boat video. I'd missed that one. Thank you for an excellent recommendation. And I can now say that you are most definetely correct about your statement.
My time to shine (mon temps de briller) : At 4:33, the sign indicates the closest "Carrefour" supermarket (it's our Wall Mart). However, we see 4 icons : the "CB" sign (Carte bancaire, or Bank Card), then the "3615 Carrefour" sign. 3615 is a Minitel code. Minitel is a french terminal, ancestor of the internet, on which you could get several kind of online services. It was not deployed before 1980, so that sign was put there at least in 1980, meaning the village still lived a little bit after 1973.
Good detective work! Yes you're right - the village was never COMPLETELY deserted, the population dropped by more than half but there were always some people living there
For anyone who understands French, I recommend "Naissance d'une banlieue, mort d'un village", which explains the history of the entire town of Goussainville and is very representative of the evolution of the Paris suburbs, from quiet villages in the country to the deeply urbanized and connected towns of today.
I have lived in Gonesse, the town next door (you know, the town where the Concorde crashed in 2000). I have worked in Goussainville. Twice. I had no idea there was a ghost village.
Paris is truly the graveyard of the supersonic planes, considering that the plane that crashed in Goussainville was the Tupolev Tu-144, the Soviet counterpart to Concorde.
Hi Tim, Excellent video! I actually made the trek out to the Vieux Village yesterday! It's well worth it. I parked at Goussain Livres and walked around. I saw most everything in the video. It's surreal! You have produced another outstanding look at French and European culture. Thank you! Mark
Tim might not be able to travel where he wants, but it is still foreign territory to most viewers, making it just as interesting as anywhere else. Beaux bonjours du Québec!
Goussainville, est une ville qui est située à 20 ou 25 km au nord de Paris "RER D". C est juste à côté de l aéroport de Roissy. C'est très moche. Dans le reportage, il parle de l ancien village de Goussainville qui est désert aujourd'hui car l état, a racheté les maisons à cause de la proximité de l aéroport et des nuisances sonores. Mais il y a tant de villages de France que l on ne connaît pas... Et lui, il vient d un autre pays pour voir ce village mort !!! 🤣😭🤣😥 J y allait tous les jours à la gare de Goussainville durant 4 ans pour aller au lycée de Villier le bel et à Gonesse... Le cauchemar de ma vie. 😥😱😨 Heureusement que j'ai quittée cette région. Je la déteste.
@@Oceandelumiere Je sais bien qu'il parle de la vieille ville hein, j'ai regardé sa vidéo x) Je veux bien y aller pour faire de l'"urbex" très light et faire des photos pendant une journée, mais après évidemment il y a beaucoup d'autres choses à voir dans d'autres villes/villages. Aussi le nouveau Goussainville a l'air un peu glauque hahah ^^' Je pense que ce youtubeur s'est retrouvé en France lors du confinement et qu'il ne peut pas s'en aller de l'Idf immédiatement pour x raisons, du coup il en profite pour faire des découvertes. A mon avis il n'est pas venu exprès pour visiter des villages paumés mdrr
@@RhythmAddictedState 🤣😝😄 oui, je suis d accord avec toi. Le mec ne savait pas quoi faire de sa journée, alors il s'est rendu là bas... Je me suis permise d expliquer un peu pour les gens qui ne comprennent pas trop l anglais. Pas en pensant à toi, puisque tu as répondu en anglais. 😉
Dear Mr Tim Traveller, I love your videos. My friends are planning our holiday on going to places you talk about! Thank you very much for your time and effort. :)
You might enjoy the historic sassi (cave houses) in Matera, Italy. They stood empty for a similar period having been cleared for public health reasons, were then recoccupied and now a world heritage tourist site. Also used as film set for Gibsons Passion of Christ as it looks like the ancient Middle East.
Haha, that's the first time of my life when seeing a youtube video about an abandoned place I was like "OMG I'VE ALREADY BEEN THERE". I was so happy when I saw a video about Goussainville that I instantly clicked to open the video :D
A friend lived there for a bit, so I had the... chance ? To drop by. Goussainville would definitely not be my happy place ^^' (Lyon where I live or Strasbourg would be !) Knowing other parts of Ile-de-France, I was unsettled by the difference in wealth / prosperity between the northwestern part (like Goussainville) and the southeastern (like Sceaux where another friend lived). You only need seeing how public space is built and taken care of, the state or materials used for pavement, if there are bike lanes, vegetation or if it's an only car-minded 1970's urban planning stereotype. Sceaux and the nearby towns seemed very neat, enjoyable. Goussainville (mostly the part near the train station that I've seen) is grey and seems abandoned... The disparities were very stark, it shocked me. And it saddens me that we do not do enough to make poorer towns -at least their public spaces- be more lovely, quite frankly less depressing.
Hi Tim, I used to work at CDG back when Europe had an aviation business. I stayed in Goussainvilles neighbouring village of Roissy en France. Goussainville was known to us as the supersonic graveyard, in 1973 a Tupolev Tu144, the Russian Concorde crashed just north of Goussainville old town. Of course then in 2000 the Concorde crashed just south of Goussainville old town. There is a Memorial at both crash sites, worth a visit if you are in the area.
I live in Paris. I have visited this place with friends last summer. Thise place is so amazing, it is a travel in the 70's. I even entered in the houses. I have taken some photos.
I just wanted to say a thank you for this video a year later; I had a layover in de Gaulle when flying home to attend my brother's funeral, and thinking about trying to spot this place from the air gave me something positive to focus on.
Recently discovered your channel Tim, and I love it, been binging your videos. Love every aspect of pedantry corner. Thanks for making this content and please keep it up with your videos!
Last year’s movie “Old Guard” was partially set in Goussainville (filmed in Kent according to Wikipedia, though). I’m pretty sure the abandoned church in the movie is this church.
You should check out the Belgian city of Doel, near Antwerp. It's a similar ghost town, but deserted for different reasons. Awesome channel, by the way!
I've published a 360° video about one and a half years ago on my visit to Doel. It's far from the quality stuff Tim makes, but it's fun to have a 360° view for a change. 🆒️
Just simply love your videos. I look forward to each new episode. I enjoy your humor and I like that I learn something new in each one. Keep up the great work and thanks for making the effort on our behalf!
The Tim Traveler always has the best subtle references, and Geography Now is the last thing I would expect to be a subject of a reference. This is perfect.
Driving through Northern France on holidays, I've driven through so much little French villages that look pretty much exactly like this. And it looked like they had even less people there 🤣
They are not 30 min away from downtown Paris by train though ... France's countryside has become pretty much uninhabited by anyone younger than 80 yo ... (And some brits for some reason)
6:21 Yesss. I imagine it to be extremely awkward to suddenly show up in someone's living room. "Pardon - cette maison est-elle encore disponible?" "Non" "Ah, alors au revoir". (sorry for my horrible French).
Thankyou for mentioning wheelchair accessibility. While I'm unlikely to visit France, it's nice to feel included, usually wheelchair access is something that's overlooked.
I guess local authorities didn t think about immigrants in newly built projects as needing any care ... Wouldn t surprise me of 70's France, wouldn t surprised me of today's France neither tbh
@@gteixeira I am french born here from immigrant background, would not leave what I consider my country, still people living in projects seem not to be counting as much as the others ... Heard situation in Brazil wasn t easy for everybody either ...
@@nicolascavadini3570 I also have immigrant background and I was born in Brazil and no one would use that against me there. In France Iived with all papers done properly and spoke the language fluently, yet I was pick on for that and other things all the time. I decided to move to the US. Immigtants live here much better than in France, despite what media says.
@@nicolascavadini3570 It is not perfect for everyone, but with some effort you can do fine. Going through the effort to immigrate to France is not worth it tho. People will never see you as equal, regardless of how much you strive to be a local. Despite earning more in France, Brazilians end up spending more than the locals since the locals usually don't want to trade with Brazilians and those who do often offer lower quality services or goods for a higher price.
@ZƎLIOTT I know, that's one of the many, many reasons why I will never get tired of expressing my sincerest love for France. Despite being German, I am much more proud of having French roots in my family and was never really able to identify much with the way of doing things in Germany. We don't have a sense of material history or heritage here, (maybe for other obvious reasons), but in the city I live in, they still continue to demolish historic architecture to this very day. I feel very critical about this wish to undo everything past in Germany, for I suspect it to be a welcome invitation to more sinister forces that would prefer to define German culture and society by identitarian means rather than material landmarks or artifacts that have been critically reflected. I am very astranged to this puritanic obsession with efficiency, there is no sense for hedonism or beauty for that matter in this country. The German's idea of joy is to drive with an expensive car with 200 kilometres per hour over the Autobahn which to me sounds like the very definition of insanity. There are just so many things I envy about France and I would definitely live there if my French writing wasn't so terrible. That is unfortunately kind of important for the professions I'm in.
@@maniak1768 I'm french and sometimes I tend to only remember the bad things here. I'm actually so tired of my country. So thanks for bringing up few good things about France I guess ^^ I mean, I hate the politics here. And the administration. And few others things like the fall of our healthcare system and welfare system. But yeah, the history and monuments, as well as the art, literature, and landscapes, are amazing
Tim, let me tell you, that your choice of background music is spine-tingling. "Come on, feel the noize" on piano during a commentary on noise pollution? That's the old Top Gear level of reference joke. Chapeau bas!
Does anyone else watch Tim's videos, and just wish that they were Tim's best mate? I'm on the other side of the Earth in Australia but I'd happily abandon my life here so I could travel around the abandoned train lines, obscure borders and slightly interesting hills that punctuate Europe. I've visited numerous ghost towns here in Australia, but they're largely full of asbestos and emus, and those emus are damn dangerous.
I saw a couple of your videos a few days back and I am hooked! I am also inspired to do videos of lesser known heritage sites myself around where I live. Keep up the good work!
@@TheTimTraveller 😅 yeah you're right but it is a proper noun and the only example. Some villages and cities of France often times are the only exception, like L'Haÿ-les-Roses is the only exemple of an "ÿ" in French
Well, I have to say I really enjoyed viewing this video; quite intresting and somehow just a little bit intriguing too. Thank you and congratulations! for publishing this very nicely made, short documentary and uploading it onto YT. 👌
This seems like the perfect place to use adverse possession to get a free French home near Paris. I doubt the town officials would notice if you pimped up one of the houses and started living there as though it's always been yours.
My mother was born there, in a house built by my grandfather and his father. His own parents were armenian migrants, and there's still a large armenian community in the north of Paris, most notably in arnouville/gonesse a bit closer to the capital, yet still very much a noisy place because of the planes. That's also where the concorde and the tupolev144 crashed btw.
Saw that and thought it didn't look like any French words I know, typed into Google translate and puzzled by no translation, only when I got Google to read the words to me that I got the joke! 🤣🤣🤣 Top class work Tim! Absolutely brilliant, will be chuckling about that for days. 🤣🤣🤣
voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin Pour les Alsaciens, les Suisses et les Lorrains, Pour les Belges, y en a plus, Pour les Belges, y en a plus, Ce sont des tireurs au cul. Pour les Belges, y en a plus, Pour les Belges, y en a plus, Ce sont des tireurs au cul.
not quiet on par with the Germans though- we had people buy the cheaper properties around airports- build houses there and then they sued the airport because it was too loud- and then partially won...(so some flights can't start or land at night...)
@@olik136 we have the same guys in France, sadly. During the lockdown we've seen a few "oh I bought a cheap house 2 years ago near a 90 years old airport now used for medical evacuations. I can sue them ! Brilliant idea !"
@@matsv201 that's why they aren't at par in any way. A friend of mine with Italian roots went there to flee from french bureaucracy. A few years later she was glad to return to France and having to deal with a frustrating but transparent and (almost) inflexible system.
I'm here mainly for the Jimbo and the Jet Set theme. I love this channel because the music choices are even more on the nose than Homes Under the Hammer.
while i loved pre pandemic videos i truly think that being limited to france has brought the greatest videos youve made yet! due to the language barrier i have very little knowledge about the weirder parts of france and for an english speaker to make videos its absolutely fantastic to watch!
I totally agree
I second that. I love the mini french history lessons.
I would agree also on the point of finding the interesting stories to tell about seemingly mundane things.
Take this opportunity to find out what is intersting in your town, what "secrets" are there?
I agree! There are a lot of local stories, u just have to find them.
I third this motion and make an additional that the next location should be Rome, or somewhere in Italy!
An abandoned village is being revived and one of the first places to reopen is a model railway club.
That got a big laugh out of me. Thanks, Tim!
It makes sense to me. There is a lot of overlap between people into model railroads and people into historic renovation.
Well, they've got a bookshop and a church, so the model railway club is the most vital business to have in any community.
A bookshop and a model railway club. Tim and I seem to have something in common.
Clearly, there's hope!
Im living in the new Goussainville and my family did since at least one century, and I have to say that I could never expect that a foreign country could care about this village, glad to see this lol (sorry for my trash english)
Your English is brilliant 😊 My family lived in Goussainville
As things are getting too expensive in and near Paris, I see this as a nice chance for young people to buy something at a reasonable price.
Yep that's exactly it!
I was thinking "maybe you can buy a house for a few bucks here"
It's amazing what triple glazed windows can do in a masonry building. In '05 I helped finish a loft 4m away from a busy 5 lane commuter arterial in San Francisco. The windows and wall mass almost completely eliminated the street noise. I imagine an A380 at full throttle might be more of a challenge.
It will probably more likely be gentrified and expensive. Just the cleanup cost is bad enough, and it is after all within spotting distance of an airport and close to central Paris by train.
Of course, another problem is the listing because of the church, any buildings within 500 meter have to be restored, not replaced.
"Dirty plebeian millennials should be grateful we allow them to live just in front of the runway!"
- a random boomer, probably
An accordion version of “Come On Feel the Noise” to score the part about airplane noise driving villagers away. Nice touch, Tim!
The song's from 1973 too, the year he was talking about!! It's genius
Immediately prior, when he starts talking about the airport, a piano rendition of Jimbo and the Jet Set.
i quite liked the Homes Under The Hammer theme song playing when talking about buying back the buildings haha
Not much going “wild wild wild” in this village.
His musical references are always on point, but he keeps outdoing himself.
FYI the city of goussainville still exists. Its center simply has been moved a few kilometers away when the airport construction started in 1974. It's populated with a bit more than 30000 inhabitants and got plenty of shops 😀. What is shown here is the historical village, the "living museum" part of the city but in no way it can be assimilated to a real "ghost town" that would have been emptied of its inhabitants, stripped off the maps and forgotten by everyone. The city centre of the actual goussainville is quite busy during working days and week-ends 😀
Haha yes exactly !! I hate this town cuz too busy for me
Il le dit dans la vidéo : la gare de Goussainville se situe dans la partie moderne de la ville ;)
Here in Los Angeles there was a neighborhood that had to be bought up and torn down because it was in the flight path of LAX Airport. You can see it when taking off. It's completely fenced off and only the streets remain. They do use it for filming. Many post-apocalyptic movies and tv shows were shot there.
Yes, Surfridge.
So they get a huge movie set for the price of nothing! A real bargain!
THAT HAS TO BE THE WORST PLACE TO FILM EVER!!! I'm a filmmaker, and one of my early jobs as an intern a producer got a "good deal" on a set that was just outside an airport...we had to replace the sound for the film in it's entirety, so whatever the "deal" was they probably ended up paying five times that to have the actors come back in, and engineers do all the sound.
@@XANDRE. I was once involved in a location shoot in Stockton-on-Tees in the UK. It was set in wartime so ideal with houses due for demolition that already looked bombed-out, but there was a stream of low-flying airliners into Teesside Airport which must have added hours to the job by constantly interrupting filming.
@@davidjones332 It depends on how well they plan it, they could have gotten the schedule for the flights from the airport and then schedule everything around that.
Finally houses in Paris within my budget; €3 and some thimbles. With modern insulation, tripple glazing & quieter aircraft. Might even be reasonable noise indoors. Fascinating find!
that "What...?" at the Railwayclub may be the most hilarious thing this year yet.
It’d say it’s a 50/50 with the ending of the first of those canal boat lift monstrosities.
I think his rendition of how the French would pronounce "local authorities" trumps everything. Brilliant.
@@metropod I went back and watched that Canal boat video. I'd missed that one. Thank you for an excellent recommendation. And I can now say that you are most definetely correct about your statement.
That's the kind of stuff you just can't make up.
Half expected airport club
My time to shine (mon temps de briller) :
At 4:33, the sign indicates the closest "Carrefour" supermarket (it's our Wall Mart). However, we see 4 icons : the "CB" sign (Carte bancaire, or Bank Card), then the "3615 Carrefour" sign.
3615 is a Minitel code. Minitel is a french terminal, ancestor of the internet, on which you could get several kind of online services.
It was not deployed before 1980, so that sign was put there at least in 1980, meaning the village still lived a little bit after 1973.
Good detective work! Yes you're right - the village was never COMPLETELY deserted, the population dropped by more than half but there were always some people living there
Literally clicked the second the notification popped up as Tim's videos are the closest thing I get to a holiday at the moment.
We've just moved to Paris and your videos are giving us lots of ideas for things to do on weekends! Will be going here Sunday. Thank you
For anyone who understands French, I recommend "Naissance d'une banlieue, mort d'un village", which explains the history of the entire town of Goussainville and is very representative of the evolution of the Paris suburbs, from quiet villages in the country to the deeply urbanized and connected towns of today.
Great vid. Goussainville reminds me when I was a young Parisian watching on tv the 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash. Tragic day
As a person who lives in the Ile de France region, I hardly knew there was an abandoned village of such kind. Will definitely plan a trip there.
Fantastic deadpan, droll delivery and unrelenting cheeriness makes your work unmissable! Keep them coming Tim!!
I have lived in Gonesse, the town next door (you know, the town where the Concorde crashed in 2000). I have worked in Goussainville. Twice. I had no idea there was a ghost village.
Paris is truly the graveyard of the supersonic planes, considering that the plane that crashed in Goussainville was the Tupolev Tu-144, the Soviet counterpart to Concorde.
Hi Tim, Excellent video! I actually made the trek out to the Vieux Village yesterday! It's well worth it.
I parked at Goussain Livres and walked around. I saw most everything in the video. It's surreal!
You have produced another outstanding look at French and European culture.
Thank you!
Mark
Thanks for keeping up traveling (as much as you can) and filming even though lockdown makes it so difficult. We appreciate you, Tim!
I love watching all your shows. It helps me learn more about Europe than I ever did in school. (American here)
I never knew that Goussainville could be considered as a "gost town" or even looked like that. I always thaught that it was a normal crouded city.
It is, it's just the old centre who's abandoned. The new city of goyssainville, and the train station, is about 1km northwest
It is a crowded city (i was in High school thèse, i can tell). This just a part of the city
Tim your videos always cheer me up . The beautiful places normally not shared. Thanks mate.
Quiet Riot’s “Come on feel the noise” playing on accordion as Tim discusses the airport next door - brilliant!
Ahem. As a British person legally I have to inform you that it's actually UK band Slade's 1973 song, Cum On Feel The Noize...
Touché Tim! Quiet Riot - the greatest Slade cover band ever.
@@TheTimTraveller Most of the residents took the money to "Run Runaway."
@@TheTimTraveller Slade was underrated.
@@bama1usaf apart from at Christmas, when they're overrated.
Tim might not be able to travel where he wants, but it is still foreign territory to most viewers, making it just as interesting as anywhere else. Beaux bonjours du Québec!
I'm French and I had no idea about Goussainville. Thanks for this video. I'll pay this village a visit soon ☺️
Goussainville, est une ville qui est située à 20 ou 25 km au nord de Paris "RER D".
C est juste à côté de l aéroport de Roissy. C'est très moche. Dans le reportage, il parle de l ancien village de Goussainville qui est désert aujourd'hui car l état, a racheté les maisons à cause de la proximité de l aéroport et des nuisances sonores.
Mais il y a tant de villages de France que l on ne connaît pas...
Et lui, il vient d un autre pays pour voir ce village mort !!! 🤣😭🤣😥
J y allait tous les jours à la gare de Goussainville durant 4 ans pour aller au lycée de Villier le bel et à Gonesse...
Le cauchemar de ma vie. 😥😱😨
Heureusement que j'ai quittée cette région. Je la déteste.
@@Oceandelumiere Je sais bien qu'il parle de la vieille ville hein, j'ai regardé sa vidéo x) Je veux bien y aller pour faire de l'"urbex" très light et faire des photos pendant une journée, mais après évidemment il y a beaucoup d'autres choses à voir dans d'autres villes/villages. Aussi le nouveau Goussainville a l'air un peu glauque hahah ^^'
Je pense que ce youtubeur s'est retrouvé en France lors du confinement et qu'il ne peut pas s'en aller de l'Idf immédiatement pour x raisons, du coup il en profite pour faire des découvertes. A mon avis il n'est pas venu exprès pour visiter des villages paumés mdrr
@@RhythmAddictedState 🤣😝😄 oui, je suis d accord avec toi. Le mec ne savait pas quoi faire de sa journée, alors il s'est rendu là bas... Je me suis permise d expliquer un peu pour les gens qui ne comprennent pas trop l anglais. Pas en pensant à toi, puisque tu as répondu en anglais. 😉
@@Oceandelumiere Hahah t'inquiète ^^
@@Oceandelumiere très moche c'est le mot lol. Je vis dans les hauts de Seine et franchement même gratuitement jamais de la vie.
Dear Mr Tim Traveller, I love your videos. My friends are planning our holiday on going to places you talk about! Thank you very much for your time and effort. :)
The french translation for Local Authorities and the name of the guy are just perfect :D. Père fècte ! Wrili !
This was one of your best videos yet Tim. Loved the bit at 4:13 too
You might enjoy the historic sassi (cave houses) in Matera, Italy. They stood empty for a similar period having been cleared for public health reasons, were then recoccupied and now a world heritage tourist site. Also used as film set for Gibsons Passion of Christ as it looks like the ancient Middle East.
And in the soon to be released new James Bond movie!
Like I said, I third the motion for more "international" extended stays and that Tim should next go to Italy....just sayin'...
Your videos are alwasy a little bright spot in my day. Thanks for uploading!
Pretty sure the sound of jets overhead was drowned out by the sound of Tim's jaw hitting the floor when he found the model railway club.
Very nice travel video, I love to Travel myself. Cant wait to start again soooon. ALL THE BEEEEST 👍😊 ❤
Haha, that's the first time of my life when seeing a youtube video about an abandoned place I was like "OMG I'VE ALREADY BEEN THERE". I was so happy when I saw a video about Goussainville that I instantly clicked to open the video :D
A friend lived there for a bit, so I had the... chance ? To drop by.
Goussainville would definitely not be my happy place ^^' (Lyon where I live or Strasbourg would be !)
Knowing other parts of Ile-de-France, I was unsettled by the difference in wealth / prosperity between the northwestern part (like Goussainville) and the southeastern (like Sceaux where another friend lived). You only need seeing how public space is built and taken care of, the state or materials used for pavement, if there are bike lanes, vegetation or if it's an only car-minded 1970's urban planning stereotype. Sceaux and the nearby towns seemed very neat, enjoyable. Goussainville (mostly the part near the train station that I've seen) is grey and seems abandoned...
The disparities were very stark, it shocked me. And it saddens me that we do not do enough to make poorer towns -at least their public spaces- be more lovely, quite frankly less depressing.
Excellent stuff as can be expected.I really appreciate your videos. Self depreciation, humour and essential information. Please make many more.
Hi Tim, I used to work at CDG back when Europe had an aviation business. I stayed in Goussainvilles neighbouring village of Roissy en France. Goussainville was known to us as the supersonic graveyard, in 1973 a Tupolev Tu144, the Russian Concorde crashed just north of Goussainville old town. Of course then in 2000 the Concorde crashed just south of Goussainville old town. There is a Memorial at both crash sites, worth a visit if you are in the area.
Ah, so that's how I've heard about Goussainvilles.
The Concorde crashed at Gonesses. Between CDG and Le Bourget. A terrible souvenir for aviation fans. And for families too.
I live in Paris. I have visited this place with friends last summer. Thise place is so amazing, it is a travel in the 70's. I even entered in the houses. I have taken some photos.
4:11 "After going round in circles..." *plays The Magic Roundabout theme*
I just wanted to say a thank you for this video a year later; I had a layover in de Gaulle when flying home to attend my brother's funeral, and thinking about trying to spot this place from the air gave me something positive to focus on.
Really interresting place. As someone who has lived in rural eastern Germany for some time. I certainly can understand the fascination of lost places.
Tim, I always appreciate your musical musings. Just another feature that makes your videos so enjoyable 👍
So many places on my "want to see" list, and most of them from your videos.
Recently discovered your channel Tim, and I love it, been binging your videos. Love every aspect of pedantry corner. Thanks for making this content and please keep it up with your videos!
Last year’s movie “Old Guard” was partially set in Goussainville (filmed in Kent according to Wikipedia, though). I’m pretty sure the abandoned church in the movie is this church.
Bizarrely I watched that film yesterday and then saw this video...
Always enjoyable! If we ever get to travel again I am going to go back through your videos as reference material.
You should check out the Belgian city of Doel, near Antwerp. It's a similar ghost town, but deserted for different reasons.
Awesome channel, by the way!
I agree. It lends it self for fotoshoots and urban exploring! I have been there twice and came back with some cool pictures!
I was going to mention the same
I went to Doel 3 weeks ago, it is quite an interesting place.
Good shout! just been checking that out on google maps and it looks like a great visit
I've published a 360° video about one and a half years ago on my visit to Doel. It's far from the quality stuff Tim makes, but it's fun to have a 360° view for a change. 🆒️
th-cam.com/video/OMPB18dFvFY/w-d-xo.html
Just simply love your videos. I look forward to each new episode. I enjoy your humor and I like that I learn something new in each one. Keep up the great work and thanks for making the effort on our behalf!
Yay! More Tim. Your safety comscious travels lift my spirits. Thank you.
Your videos are what make me keep my head clear in this pandemic
Bruh that model railway scene hit me like a freight train. I can relate to that so much
You're one of the very few, if not the only one on TH-cam who considers accessibility for wheelchair users. Thank you
2:13 - It's time time to learn Geography, NOW!
That was a nice transition
you're looking for a crossover, aren't you?
Just watched the long South Africa episode.
@@joermnyc me too, i love the woman's accent lol
The Tim Traveler always has the best subtle references, and Geography Now is the last thing I would expect to be a subject of a reference. This is perfect.
best youtube Channel there is, even in this situation u bring joy to many lives. thanks
Driving through Northern France on holidays, I've driven through so much little French villages that look pretty much exactly like this. And it looked like they had even less people there 🤣
They are not 30 min away from downtown Paris by train though ... France's countryside has become pretty much uninhabited by anyone younger than 80 yo ... (And some brits for some reason)
Very sad. The same is happining all over Europe.
Great video, again 😀 and its nice you give directions 😀
Je ne dois pas être le seul mais je suis toujours surpris par le super accent plus français qu'un français ^^
He has actually:)
Nice touch with the under the hammer theme playing when covering the plans for redevelopment!
6:21 Yesss. I imagine it to be extremely awkward to suddenly show up in someone's living room. "Pardon - cette maison est-elle encore disponible?" "Non" "Ah, alors au revoir". (sorry for my horrible French).
Maybe you sound horrendous in your head but your French is perfect!
Ton français est excellent ;)
@Papy Petit Pois No... Some periods '.' are missing 😅
Je cherche les poils sur les œufs comme on dit.
@GeFlixes don't worry, your French is perfect, just my irony.
I enjoyed this video so much I watched it twice! Thanks Tim.
I'd watch a video like this every single day
Amazing video, as usual. Thank you, Tim!
Thankyou for mentioning wheelchair accessibility. While I'm unlikely to visit France, it's nice to feel included, usually wheelchair access is something that's overlooked.
Thanks Tim, really enjoyed the video, cheers
"but make sure it's not one of the inhabited ones" is a mood :')
Top content.
Really enjoy your excellent videos
The new part Gossainville is actually closer and in a more direct path to the runways than the old village!
I guess local authorities didn t think about immigrants in newly built projects as needing any care ... Wouldn t surprise me of 70's France, wouldn t surprised me of today's France neither tbh
@@nicolascavadini3570 Me neither. I lived in France as an immigrant until 2018. I'm much better off living in Brazil, tbh.
@@gteixeira I am french born here from immigrant background, would not leave what I consider my country, still people living in projects seem not to be counting as much as the others ... Heard situation in Brazil wasn t easy for everybody either ...
@@nicolascavadini3570 I also have immigrant background and I was born in Brazil and no one would use that against me there. In France Iived with all papers done properly and spoke the language fluently, yet I was pick on for that and other things all the time. I decided to move to the US. Immigtants live here much better than in France, despite what media says.
@@nicolascavadini3570 It is not perfect for everyone, but with some effort you can do fine. Going through the effort to immigrate to France is not worth it tho. People will never see you as equal, regardless of how much you strive to be a local. Despite earning more in France, Brazilians end up spending more than the locals since the locals usually don't want to trade with Brazilians and those who do often offer lower quality services or goods for a higher price.
I live in Val d'Oise so knew this village (and it's story) already, but have never seen it so well presented. Will take a look at the other videos...
The church looks beautiful. Gothic architecture rules. Long live the French gridlock if it is what it takes to save such a marvel.
@ZƎLIOTT I know, that's one of the many, many reasons why I will never get tired of expressing my sincerest love for France. Despite being German, I am much more proud of having French roots in my family and was never really able to identify much with the way of doing things in Germany. We don't have a sense of material history or heritage here, (maybe for other obvious reasons), but in the city I live in, they still continue to demolish historic architecture to this very day. I feel very critical about this wish to undo everything past in Germany, for I suspect it to be a welcome invitation to more sinister forces that would prefer to define German culture and society by identitarian means rather than material landmarks or artifacts that have been critically reflected. I am very astranged to this puritanic obsession with efficiency, there is no sense for hedonism or beauty for that matter in this country. The German's idea of joy is to drive with an expensive car with 200 kilometres per hour over the Autobahn which to me sounds like the very definition of insanity. There are just so many things I envy about France and I would definitely live there if my French writing wasn't so terrible. That is unfortunately kind of important for the professions I'm in.
@@maniak1768 I'm french and sometimes I tend to only remember the bad things here. I'm actually so tired of my country. So thanks for bringing up few good things about France I guess ^^
I mean, I hate the politics here. And the administration. And few others things like the fall of our healthcare system and welfare system.
But yeah, the history and monuments, as well as the art, literature, and landscapes, are amazing
Tim, let me tell you, that your choice of background music is spine-tingling. "Come on, feel the noize" on piano during a commentary on noise pollution? That's the old Top Gear level of reference joke. Chapeau bas!
"Gueaux ahouais" made me laugh so hard I cried.
You're not the only one!
I think his rendition of how the French would pronounce "local authorities" trumps everything. Brilliant.
...anyone wanna explain? Seems my french is a bit too rusty for that one
@@hadinossanosam4459 "Go away"
@@hadinossanosam4459 Try pronouncing it the way a Brit would pronounce French.
I live vicariously through people like you Tim love your stuff.
Best thing about Simon pegs videos is he tells you how to get there at the end not alot of TH-cams do that
Yes, it's very much appreciated. Bonus points for the wheelchair accessibility.
It very much mimics the style of "Wish you Were Here" (with the appropriate BGM). That programme had a similar segment after each review.
Does anyone else watch Tim's videos, and just wish that they were Tim's best mate? I'm on the other side of the Earth in Australia but I'd happily abandon my life here so I could travel around the abandoned train lines, obscure borders and slightly interesting hills that punctuate Europe. I've visited numerous ghost towns here in Australia, but they're largely full of asbestos and emus, and those emus are damn dangerous.
Hey, we're mask twins!
(Courtesy of the London Transport Museum)
I saw a couple of your videos a few days back and I am hooked! I am also inspired to do videos of lesser known heritage sites myself around where I live. Keep up the good work!
Today's "Halloooo" wins the Grammy award for best new album by a yodelling quartet.
Another superb video. You should become a French ambassador.
"Gueaux Ahouais" - how do I even pronounce that? Oh, I see...
"Go away" for those who don't know French pronunciation.
@@JudeFergy -ueaux should be the longest form of the sound "o" i guess, right?
@@CuoreSportivo no French word is written with -ueaux
@@Potiyop The village of Queaux says hi :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queaux
@@TheTimTraveller 😅 yeah you're right but it is a proper noun and the only example. Some villages and cities of France often times are the only exception, like L'Haÿ-les-Roses is the only exemple of an "ÿ" in French
Well, I have to say I really enjoyed viewing this video; quite intresting and somehow just a little bit intriguing too. Thank you and congratulations! for publishing this very nicely made, short documentary and uploading it onto YT. 👌
3:45: A large historic, church shaped problem. The squad of immortal mercenaries that roost there wouldn't leave without a fight;]
I know it's a reference to something, but I can't figure out what for the life of it.
The Eagle Has Landed?
@@fds7476
The Old Guard
Another jewel of a video. Thanks Tim!
Holmes under the hammer theme is just perfect
Love the "wish you were here" background music when promoting the village. Nice touch
I heard your sneaky "Jimbo & The Jet Set" theme there :)
Great spot!
thank you for showing this ghost town. it kinda looks incredible. ive just subscribed to your channel and cant wait to watch more. :)
Your impersonation of a french maire is ... extraordinaire :-D
I spent a part of my childhood in this town! What a surprise to see that it’s considered a ghost town
very interesting !
Tu fais quoi ici toi 😂
tu es partout mdr
@@MaidhouTaylorsVersion peut-être il habite à Goussainville 😂✨👻☠️
Mdr
Hey coucou Psyhodelik
Excellent video as always! I Merci Tim !
This seems like the perfect place to use adverse possession to get a free French home near Paris.
I doubt the town officials would notice if you pimped up one of the houses and started living there as though it's always been yours.
My mother was born there, in a house built by my grandfather and his father. His own parents were armenian migrants, and there's still a large armenian community in the north of Paris, most notably in arnouville/gonesse a bit closer to the capital, yet still very much a noisy place because of the planes. That's also where the concorde and the tupolev144 crashed btw.
Tres interessant Nils. Merci
4:22 Gueaux Ahouais! 🤣
Saw that and thought it didn't look like any French words I know, typed into Google translate and puzzled by no translation, only when I got Google to read the words to me that I got the joke! 🤣🤣🤣 Top class work Tim! Absolutely brilliant, will be chuckling about that for days. 🤣🤣🤣
It was the organisation he worked for that had me try trying to translate Franglais.
Very interesting and informative. Thanks for posting.
Love France from Ukraine, next year i Will try join the légion étrangère
Tiens, voilà du boudin..
voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin
Pour les Alsaciens, les Suisses et les Lorrains,
Pour les Belges, y en a plus, Pour les Belges, y en a plus,
Ce sont des tireurs au cul.
Pour les Belges, y en a plus, Pour les Belges, y en a plus,
Ce sont des tireurs au cul.
J'ai toujours voulu savoir s'ils servent du boudin là-bas, et si les Belge entré dans légion y ont droit 😄
Start to learn French NOW !
@@sapiense-science-cerveau oui à la cérémonie Képi blanc, et pour les belges qui ont réussi la marche., évidemment
Thank you so much for sharing 🥰
Ah, french bureaucracy; on a par with the Italians!
Great video, Tim! Is that a moquette mask?
"Match the moquette, match the moquette!" - sorry, couldn't resist.
not quiet on par with the Germans though- we had people buy the cheaper properties around airports- build houses there and then they sued the airport because it was too loud- and then partially won...(so some flights can't start or land at night...)
The Italian is more streemlined. Just pay the bribe fine, so you can legaly bribe
@@olik136 we have the same guys in France, sadly. During the lockdown we've seen a few "oh I bought a cheap house 2 years ago near a 90 years old airport now used for medical evacuations. I can sue them ! Brilliant idea !"
@@matsv201 that's why they aren't at par in any way. A friend of mine with Italian roots went there to flee from french bureaucracy.
A few years later she was glad to return to France and having to deal with a frustrating but transparent and (almost) inflexible system.
Double delight with Tim's videos. First the video, then the comment section 😄
Yeah, a French loving your content!
Fantastic video, Tim! And thanks for the correct pronunciation of NO!
This town is nothing but a ghost town
Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
@@patrickverlinden71 Bands won't play no more, too much fighting on the dancefloor.
I'm here mainly for the Jimbo and the Jet Set theme. I love this channel because the music choices are even more on the nose than Homes Under the Hammer.