I am a born and bred British lives in peterbrough. I havent work since i was 35yo. Now that i am 50 i dont see the point of working and getting taxed. I live modestly, dont wear branded clothes but able to save up from the benefits money i get and could go on holiday to magaluf and tennerife at least once a year. Let the kids who want to work and get taxed but for me i would rather get the free money. There is a reason why immigrants from developing countries want to move in to the UK, free money to start off their life
@@ghosthdel3098 I spend my benefits on booze and crack but if I didn't could've saved up to go Ibiza. I'm studying though so not quite as useless as you
Why are you being so rude? what have i done to you? each to their own, this life suits me however it might not suit you as you will have bigger bills with all the booze and cracks you consume. Dont be so rude just because you are hiding behind your computer screen. I hope Karma will get you in this life or next.
Peterborough turned a friend of mine from lifelong church goer that wouldn’t eat with his elbows on the table Into a raging crack headed pin cushion And he only went for the weekend
Peterborough was my closest City for a few years. There are some incredibly beautiful British villages very nearby just up the A605. Thatch cottages, acreage, working farms, stately homes and the like. The city centre never had anything other than the fairly modern and well stocked shopping centre
I m also small town outside Peterborough used to go into the city centre for nights out all time about 20+ years ago. was a decent place with lots of stuff to do. Don't even recognise the place any more.
I can confirm this I was once mugged in Luton high street at 6pm! Got a nice trip in the Ambulance! Only needed a few stiches though and I was OK. I only had £20 on me@@BackpackerBen , Another time the biggest Asian guy I have ever seen came across the road right in front of me and said "what are you doing walking in front of me you cunt". Luckily though he left me alone after saying that. One of the three lads ([I'll just say that) grabbed my wallet and I saw that lots of people were walking by so I tried to hold on to the wallet, thinking that "at least one person would do something". Answer was no -nobody gave a fuck and eventually I got punched and knocked to the floor! I was warned though "do you want me to knock you" well no not really, but I was expecting to have some help!
Luton funnily enough has one of the best bus services in england. Probably the best. With special road surfaces dedicated just for buses (to run fast). The town is okay actually, it's not that bad. Chavvy shitholes like grantham, havant, grimsby and skegness are depressing. Especially skegness. The local trains are absolute bangers
I know Peterborough well and have visited many other towns in the UK. I would say there are a lot worse out there than Peterborough. Northampton for one is definitely worse.
So interesting - I enjoy your channel and this content and found P'Borough a really interesting place to shine a light on. The interview with the two lads at night was insightful and from my experience having lived in Peterborough a long time ago was on the money. I thought it was pretty bad then but to see the decline is frightening. That street with all the nightclubs used to be buzzing - 5th Avenue was the place to go - All things fade away.
Thanks for another fantastic video. You have a great video voice. Always clear and understandable. Can you start asking people "why" when you interview them? Why do they think the cities are crumbling? What can be done?
In the 1980's Cambridge people would go on shopping trips to Peterborough to the Queensgate centre, and to Luton to the Arndale centre. Safe to say those days are over.
As someone who used to live in Peterborough and works there I can confirm jobs are bad, It does not feel safe, no one is happy or cheery, windows being smashed is normal. I used to live in a rough area where people would chase other people down the street with knives and machetes. Everything is downhill and so not worth being anymore.
I love this video, especially the collaboration with Timmy, a great professional in the field, his radio voice is unmatched.Congratulations on the video .
You drove right past my road at one point! I'm from North London and moved to Peterborough 2 years ago, I really thought you might catch some of the things I've witnessed since being here. I've never had to call the police before living here. I'm at the bottom of Lincoln Rd just off it, right by the theatre. Great video dude.
Britain is finished. If you own property here the best move "might" be to dump it before the market plunges and jump out of the country. If you are young and don't have much equity in the sinking ship, I'd simply abandon the place. In less than 5 years the demographics will turn what's left into an old folks zombi zoo and let's say you won't have to visit India as they are moving India right up your street. Britain is finished!
The 2021 UK census for Peterborough shows that only 71% of Peterborough residents were born in the UK and of those that were not, 12.8% of Peterborough residents born outside the UK have lived here for less than 10 years.half of the 12.8% have lived in the UK for less than 5 years.
44 years I've lived in different parts of the UK. I've been hit with a crowbar, stabbed, beaten by a gang of pissheads, all of them white British. Never to date have I been verbally abused, assaulted or stolen from by an immigrant.
I’m a Devon bey living in Brooklyn, NY, I spent 3 years on Lincoln Rd/Millfield, Peterborough, crazy memories, lots of diversity both good and bad. I’ve heard a lot of the High Street is dying like a lot of the UK !, sad. Britain in a decaying state of decline😩
Although I was not born there I grew up in Peterborough. I left for Bristol back in the 70's around the time of the Peterborough development scheme. I reckon it was around that time that the place started to go downhill. Having said that I actually witnessed an armed robbery right in Cathedral Square there where you began your vlog, I was 15 years old. I lived at the end of Dickens Street mentioned in the video. There were lots of small shops around then but sadly not many remain these days. The city has become very cosmopolitan and any civic pride seems to have evaporated. 😞
I was born in Peterborough. It was my home town {I moved for my job}. It was an all white city with good employment prospects with several major engineering companies . It was a railway centre with enormous brickyards. After the war many Italians migrated to the city because it offered good job prospects. Gradually the Indian and Pakistani population grew and some area became no go. My first home was above the Lloyds bank in Millfield. I would not like to be there now. I still have aquaintances there but one doesn't hear many good things said about it. The city began to deteriorate once the Development phillistines got there hands on it.
That 1st kid interviewed is just ignorant. If a town has a library, it's the best town in the country. Don't go out at night if you're frightened. Spend your day in the library reading about the Silk Road of the 13th century. If you're in the United Kingdom, you're a day away from a million great things and places to learn from.
LOL... been wondering when Peterborough would be on your list. I was born there and moved away when I was in my 20's (a long time ago... ). Hate the place. Would be happy never to return but family is still there.
You say that as if young englishmen aren't a bunch of criminals too, literally the crime capital of western europe, immigrants or no immigrants makes no difference there
What a really lovely review where you see the fascinating juxtaposition of the new and the traditional, mixed in with rather disturbing elements. The hotel didn’t look too bad but I think they could definitely upgrade things there. Those shots of the Cathedral at the end there were incredible. We have a nice religious community here, and also my cousin’s partner has family members living not far from Peterborough. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you ❤!
Hey ben! fun fact: that thorpe lodge hotel you stayed at used to have a smoke coffee shop about a year or so ago in the basement, similar to what they have in amsterdam!
I've observed a trend where disadvantaged areas in the United States tend to have predominantly Black or Latina populations, while in the United Kingdom, these areas are mainly populated by immigrants. What could be the reason for this pattern?
I'm British born and bred and I do not think immigrants from anywhere are to blame for the shocking state of the country. It's the criminally stupid and corrupt that sit in government and on local councils that are to blame.
There’s a lot of Polish, Romanians and Lithuanians in Peterborough. The Fenlands have a very high influx of immigrants, one reason why the area is very pro-Brexit
Another great video Ben, thankyou for showing us Peterborough. Wow I was shocked, I'm from Northampton and they call Peterborough "The Posh"! I think you should do a Northampton video Ben 👍😎👊🏽
Should’ve also shown the shopping centre and riverside area. Lots of new luxury apartments going up, likely trying to cater to London commuters. 48 minutes on the train and you can be at Kings Cross. I think that’s what separates Peterborough from lots of these places up North or on the coast. There are actually job prospects here.
I think it is more to do with Margaret Thatcher and her council house sell-off schemes. Council houses were sold off for thousands of pounds under their true market value so councils have had to increase business rates through the roof with the consequence that councils have gone bankrupt and the expensive business rates have driven the shops out of the High Street. Sons, daughters, grandchildren and God only knows who have bought family members council houses 'for a song' and pay no rent to the council. Either they own the house outright or they have a small disproportionate mortgage in which case the money goes in profits to a private bank rather than to a council that has legal requirements to provide essential services. It is people such as the working class on the streets of towns and cities such as Peterborough that voted for Margaret Thatcher on the understanding that they were to be given a free house. I have a friend here in Guildford who lives in a council house that his father bought for 14,000 pounds around 1988/89. Today, the same house is worth some 360,000 pounds. He has paid zero council tax for the last forty years, so where is the council supposed to raise money for libraries. health centers, fix potholes and the like? I do not understand what Tony Blair has to do with it though it is true to say that Tony Blair is a real socialist and Roman Catholic born-again Christian with a mere modest 40 million pound personal property portfolio. I wonder what Karl Marx is going to say to him as he tries to enter the gates of his socialist heaven.
As a Londoner, I can confirm this place is the absolute pits, I had to go there in July 2022 to renew my partners passport on a fast track service and had the unfortunate encounter with this depressing place, only Waitrose made it look good 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like your videos as they give an honest view on modern places in the UK and around the world, you are also fairly neutral and sensitive in regards to the many local issues, a bit of rawness and grittiness is fine so please carry on filming!
I visited Peterborough in the late 1990s, it was a nice city back then. Many people moved from to London to Peterborough in the later decades of the 20th century because good quality houses were much cheaper than in the capital and there was plenty of work. The 21st century has not been kind to this city but anti social behaviour is not confined to Peterborough and Luton, it’s everwhere
How strange that the decline of Peterborough has coincided with a mass invasion of flotsam and jetsam from Eastern Europe, including free movement for convicted criminals. What an amazing coincidence!
Now post Brexit you can enjoy some real, proper criminals, once the Nigerians and Somalis flood in. They will make your "Eastern Europeans" seem like Zig and Zag.
The last time I walked through Peterborough city centre I didn't hear one English voice. We went into a pub and, to a man, everyone was Eastern European.
Good morning greetings from Los Angeles, I absolutely enjoy watching you and Bald and Bankrupt’s videos keep up the good work stay safe 😊looking forward to someday seeing you and Mr.Bald making videos in the United States 🇺🇸 😊
The councils and government have a lot to answer for. Absolute mis management of funds and council tax . But it’s all going to be ok with the thousands of illegal immigrates coming over and taking up tax payers money and housing that could be used elsewhere where. What’s it costing now, 18M quid a day I believe??
Yes, and don't you want some of these Haitian migrants in the UK? They're all going to be flooding the US now. I'm sure it'll work out just fine. And when Biden apologizes for using the word illegal to describe a murderer, everyone can look the other way. You must say undocumented!
That is only 'chickenfeed' look how much has been spent on HS2 and it has neither reached Birmingham nor reached London. Taxpayer's money has been spent on compulsory purchase orders on land and now the government has lots and lots of spare land with nothing to put on it! I think it is simply ridiculous we voted for Brexit to get our borders back so why can the illegal immigrants not be sent back to the port of departure? France is in the E.U. whilst we are now a 'third country' France is twice the size of the U.K. it is twice as rich and it is a safe country, after all, since the end of the French Revolution, there is not even a guillotine in daily use! Why are these people not classified as economic migrants?
Ben: Travels to the most dangerous places in the world. Also Ben: I ain't filming in Peterborough, it's too dodgy lol. Like you said mate, sometimes you just have to trust your gut feelings!
Dudley is 💩. Did 3 years at the college back in the 80s and it wasn't too bad, decent open market, Churchill precinct. Went there few weeks ago. Definitely gone to the dogs.
Finally, someone who is not afraid to list the 10 best vacation spots to visit in England! 🤣🤣 I was thinking I should spend my vacation money on London, Paris, Rome, NYC, Barcelona, Thailand, Dubai, or even Tokyo, but why when I can visit the places on Ben's list and take lovely pictures of my bum, because they tell me to! 🤣🤣 Just another city in England that has fallen into ruins, slowly crumbling down to look like some of the worse places that Ben has visited, outside the UK! SAD!
Nowhere in the entire world will you find so much within such a relatively small geographical area than the UK. We have it all - mountains, lakes, rolling hills, canals, flatlands, wetlands, beaches, islands, rivers and forests. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful countries on earth. We have a temperate maritime climate where weather extremes are rare [although summers are getting hotter]. We are green 365 days a year. Contrary to British whining, it actually doesn't rain all the time. It rains more in Europe, Seattle and even Sydney. We have remarkably varied architecture-ancient, medieval and ultra-modern. Castles and grand stately homes are everywhere. We have some of the world's oldest and greatest cathedrals. We have houses over 1,000 years old. We have Roman ruins and some of the world's best and most famous museums. We have multiple world famous sporting events, the world's most important football league and world famous music festivals. We have two of the world's most prestigious and oldest universities with Oxford often being voted No 1 in the world rankings. London is often voted the No.1 global city and gets more visitors than virtually every city on earth. English villages, particularly in the Cotswolds, draw visitors from all over the world. We are only 21 miles from continental Europe and all the wonders it has to offer. All this has been ruined, since 2000, by the importation of 8 million low calibre immigrants from the very worst parts of Eastern Europe, North Africa, Africa, Middle East and South Asia and beyond. Great Britain, notably England, has become an angry and dangerous third world shithole. Don't ever come here.
Looks a lot like my city. Just this week there was an arson fire in broad daylight at an old house, office, then another homeless person found dead at the local landfill. Meth, fentanyl are to blame, huge rise in property crimes. Homeless community is growing fast as the cost of living crisis gets worse. 😢
I grew up in Peterborough, more or less in the shadow of the cathedral, and your video brings up many memories of home. I'm now fortunate enough to live in one of the nicest places in the UK (York), but still proud to call myself a Peterborian. There are, without doubt, worse places in the UK.
My employer sent me on a six weeks course in Peterborough some 20 years ago. I didn't like it then, but I thought that that was just me. At one point though I got talking to a waitress who had moved there recently because her boyfriend had got a good job there, but she was of the same opinion as me.
Ben as you and fish would know , most of the places that have a bad rep have bloody good people in them , it’s the fact most people and families in the uk don’t have a pot to piss in, social and economic issues aware bringing these places down so only ones ti blame are government both national and local . The money local council get gets spunked up the wall on needless projects and they forget about the public living in them , as I’ve said before I’m from the Muff also but I also lived in Corby not too far from Peterborough, little steel town where they moved Scottish down for the steelworks , then closed it all leaving a town with little work and lots of working men’s clubs 😮 I think Corby has improved due to its central location making it a great hub for businesses but social issue there remain like when I lived there
Peterborough is a good example of one of the chief reasons behind the decline of British towns. People often blame immigration or Brutalist architecture, but the real reason is much simpler: boredom. A friend of mine lived in Peterborough about ten years ago, unemployment was almost non-existent and he said that the only unemployed people either were physically unable to or didn‘t want to work. So you‘ve got a nice-looking old town centre, a growing population, a smooth economy, lots of green spaces in the city - and yet kids were smashing theirs heads in and there was an undercurrent aggressive mood. Why? There was nothing they could do. Bars, clubs, cinemas, sports grounds, community centres, even one of the UK‘s oldest shopping malls were all closed down. I remember the neighbouring small town of Ely offered a much bigger cultural diversity than Peterborough. From this video it looks like it got even worse post-Brexit, because now the economic decline is also kicking in (made worse by driving out the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian farm labourers that used to work there).
In usa comparable these places not bad at all. I have seen news reports about being supposedno go areas Islamic people only areas of cities. Is it true can you go to some?
@@expertadvice4uits hard to compare the uk with the us in my opinion because in the us u can buy what would be a mansion for the same price as a 3 bedroom house
From what I remember, Luton's had a poor reputation for at least 20 years. I've never been there, so can't comment. I've never been to Peterborough either.
This is such a depressing place. First thing you see are the signs of rampant addiction. I have witnessed human trafficking, rape in alleyways, multiple over doses, suicides, kidnapping and torture. I have never heard if anything goid coming from this place. It killed all my friends that went there inside and turned my sister into a hardcore drug addict i can never see again
There's worse places in Peterborough than the ones you went to. Shamrock Park with all the syringes in the bushes. Orton Centre, Bretton, Westwood Estate. It's a crap hole.
Being an Aussie, in 1976 walked the entire Pennine Way solo with many side trips. Everyone I met everywhere was pleasant , friendly and helpful, especially in northern England and Scotland. The scenery was fabulous and historically significant Wonderful memories. No problems at all except for one - being verbally abused and ridiculed in Peterborough!! C'est la vie.
You import the third and second world and you get the third and second world. Peterborough is Islamabad/Warsaw and has certainly suffered the killings and general crime that has brought. The last time I walked through the city centre I didn't hear one English voice. We stopped going into the city well over a decade ago. Having said that, in comparison to places like Walsall, Grimsby, Slough, Jaywick, Manchester, areas of London, and so many other places around the UK which truly are shameful shitholes, Peterborough gets a raw deal. Peterborough isn't grotty or decaying, it's just bland. The only thing it has is the splendid cathedral which is easily one of the finest in Europe. It has the largest arched doors in Europe. Most English cathedral towns are historical and attractive. Peterborough isn't. I don't know why the clubs have closed, but I do know London is so close by train that's where they all go.
I lived in Seattle, which has sadly fallen a bit in the past few decades. Similar problems all along the west coast of the states with drugs and petty crimes getting just a slap on the wrist, if that. Vandalism, drugs, and prostitution are getting worse and the subsequent collapse of the economic strength follows. Contrast that with Utah where they have annual pick ups for rubbish, swift penalties for vandals and assaults, and a focus on building up the economy and the community. No reason struggling parts of the UK couldn't adopt some of these policies.
Their are worse towns than Peterborough, like Slough, Rotherham, Batley etc, but Peterborough grew too fast, and twice when they've expanded and built, they built in the wrong way. If they had of built on top of the old it would have been better. Example, Peterborough tried reinventing the wheel, as an expression.
My Dad was born in Peterborugh, he moved to Kent at a young age... I wonder if he knew... lol Also, at 9:10 did he say Milfield? or Milf Field? If it's the latter it sounds like an interesting place... 😆
Ben, you should come to Coventry. It has the highest crime rate in the UK. I'm doing a PhD in Coventry right now. Most nights, I hear screaming and violent abuse on the street outside. Despite that, I like it here.
is it the architecture and landscape that make a country, no of course not, it's the people. Take the English away from England, and you've got a place I never went to visit. Signed from a NZ whose ancestors came from that once beautiful place.
One of the reasons we are in decline is because of 'others' who have made their home here. Others that don't belong here. Others that are here in too great a number.
The 'others' didn't cause the economic crash of 2008. The 'others' didn't vote in a government who then imposed deep austerity on the nation, making massive cuts to public services. The 'others' didn't vote to leave the EU another self inflicted wound because some people think its 'others' who are the problem. Its not 'others' who caused chronic underinvestment in local services. It wasnt 'others' who hiked our energy bills and caused the cost of living crisis. it wasn't 'others' who then elected as PM someone who crashed the economy in her short and disastrous term. it is not 'others' who will do nothing to close tax loopholes and offshore tax havens where the real wealth of the country can be syphoned off and hidden. But one thing these wealthy tax dodgers appreciate is useful fools who will point the finger at 'others' while they scam the country of its wealth.
I checked the demographics and it says 90% white. I think maybe its the immigrants maybe the society has degenerated. Become more lazy addiction to drugs from a young age and easy access to drugs etc. Most probably most immigrants are working harder than average white people there.
currently been homeless for the last 10 months. had a lockup in peterborough. spent some time sleeping out of it as I had nowhere else to sleep permanently. between that and a tent in another town until i got evicted from both and had to move on before the filth turned up. once the lockup owners found out (as a result of some local grasser) they kicked me out. cannot say i felt too alone in peterborough as homelessnes is pretty rife there as well as everywhere else in england. that's my experience of the city. wonderful. basically it is "illegal" to be homeless in england as one will find out if the filth find you.
We have a Lincoln Road here in Miami Beach 😂 And let me tell you it’s a complete 180° Peterborough looks more boring than anything. I don’t know if it looks that bad though. There are places here in the US that are much more rundown than this.
As with most places in the UK now, towns are being starved of infrastructure and potential. the Councils have a lot to answer for, where is the taxpayers money going to improve towns? Break down of Society and lack of funding for start up businesses to get towns on the map is totally insane. I feel this is quite deliberate to break down society. What are your thoughts?
I used to deliver methadone to Peterborough. Some of the areas were really rough. Early in the morning there's a shocking amount of homeless people. Paston was interesting
Ben you travelled around Afghanistan, but not Lincoln Road at night?💀
Don’t wanna push it to far do I
Not a lot of difference between the 2 to be fair.
😂😂😂😂😂
First question having watched 1 minute of your video. Where is your girl? Is she in the video?
@JoFuSoA No she's not.
Hey Ben, thanks for taking the time to interview me and my mate. All the best
You bet Josh! Thanks again mate!
Good to see Joe again, you make a good duo, be good to see you both abroad.
Top lad fish
Blimey, never thought I'd see my city on your channel, glad you made it out safe and well brother! :D
As a Brit living in Ontario Canada, I can confirm Peterborough Ontario is a shit hole as well. Must be in the name.
I am a born and bred British lives in peterbrough. I havent work since i was 35yo. Now that i am 50 i dont see the point of working and getting taxed. I live modestly, dont wear branded clothes but able to save up from the benefits money i get and could go on holiday to magaluf and tennerife at least once a year. Let the kids who want to work and get taxed but for me i would rather get the free money. There is a reason why immigrants from developing countries want to move in to the UK, free money to start off their life
Harsh 🎉
🤣 It didn't look all bad though
@@ghosthdel3098 I spend my benefits on booze and crack but if I didn't could've saved up to go Ibiza. I'm studying though so not quite as useless as you
Why are you being so rude? what have i done to you? each to their own, this life suits me however it might not suit you as you will have bigger bills with all the booze and cracks you consume. Dont be so rude just because you are hiding behind your computer screen. I hope Karma will get you in this life or next.
Peterborough turned a friend of mine from lifelong church goer that wouldn’t eat with his elbows on the table
Into a raging crack headed pin cushion
And he only went for the weekend
Whatttttt 😮💨
Are you on drugs?
He made the decision…
How did that happen though? Wrong crowd and bad influences? Depression or other mental health issues?
Peterborough was my closest City for a few years. There are some incredibly beautiful British villages very nearby just up the A605. Thatch cottages, acreage, working farms, stately homes and the like.
The city centre never had anything other than the fairly modern and well stocked shopping centre
I m also small town outside Peterborough used to go into the city centre for nights out all time about 20+ years ago. was a decent place with lots of stuff to do. Don't even recognise the place any more.
Luton= Andrew Tate 😮😮😮
That sounds beautiful ❤!
Thankfully Stamford is close by. A white refuge.
@@kevinengland7444Hopefully stays like that. Starting to see a change in Oakham lately
That guy cracked me up when you mentioned Luton. He gave up. It's bad here, but not as bad as Luton.
Number 1 🚀
I can confirm this I was once mugged in Luton high street at 6pm! Got a nice trip in the Ambulance! Only needed a few stiches though and I was OK. I only had £20 on me@@BackpackerBen , Another time the biggest Asian guy I have ever seen came across the road right in front of me and said "what are you doing walking in front of me you cunt". Luckily though he left me alone after saying that. One of the three lads ([I'll just say that) grabbed my wallet and I saw that lots of people were walking by so I tried to hold on to the wallet, thinking that "at least one person would do something". Answer was no -nobody gave a fuck and eventually I got punched and knocked to the floor! I was warned though "do you want me to knock you" well no not really, but I was expecting to have some help!
That guy brought a bit of vibrancy to Peterborough though
Luton funnily enough has one of the best bus services in england. Probably the best. With special road surfaces dedicated just for buses (to run fast). The town is okay actually, it's not that bad.
Chavvy shitholes like grantham, havant, grimsby and skegness are depressing. Especially skegness. The local trains are absolute bangers
I know Peterborough well and have visited many other towns in the UK. I would say there are a lot worse out there than Peterborough. Northampton for one is definitely worse.
So interesting - I enjoy your channel and this content and found P'Borough a really interesting place to shine a light on. The interview with the two lads at night was insightful and from my experience having lived in Peterborough a long time ago was on the money. I thought it was pretty bad then but to see the decline is frightening. That street with all the nightclubs used to be buzzing - 5th Avenue was the place to go - All things fade away.
Thanks for another fantastic video. You have a great video voice. Always clear and understandable.
Can you start asking people "why" when you interview them? Why do they think the cities are crumbling? What can be done?
Noted for next time. Leaving the country now need to get out 😆
I don't doubt it! Be safe! Can't wait to see where you go next. Be sure to enjoy some of it, too! ❤
I spent a decade busking saxophone on Cathedral Square. The 80s were fun in Peterborough.
I wish I existed back then
In the 1980's Cambridge people would go on shopping trips to Peterborough to the Queensgate centre, and to Luton to the Arndale centre. Safe to say those days are over.
I see a pattern emerging here in these worst places to live..
Immigration.
religion of peace
Yep third world foreigners
Literally majority of the places he's visited so far were just english drug addicts and abandoned buildings
Diversity
As someone who used to live in Peterborough and works there I can confirm jobs are bad, It does not feel safe, no one is happy or cheery, windows being smashed is normal. I used to live in a rough area where people would chase other people down the street with knives and machetes. Everything is downhill and so not worth being anymore.
It’s great to see Mr.Fish! He’s such a cool dude. And I’m happy to know you are travelling together. 😊
Loving the UK series!!
Just what i need on my saturday morningA
Appreciate it mate!
I love this video, especially the collaboration with Timmy, a great professional in the field, his radio voice is unmatched.Congratulations on the video .
Top lad Timmy
So who's to blame?
Government!
If they just put the REAL criminals in jail, make people feel safe, every
City will be nice again
You drove right past my road at one point! I'm from North London and moved to Peterborough 2 years ago, I really thought you might catch some of the things I've witnessed since being here. I've never had to call the police before living here. I'm at the bottom of Lincoln Rd just off it, right by the theatre. Great video dude.
Britain is finished.
If you own property here the best move "might" be to dump it before the market plunges and jump out of the country.
If you are young and don't have much equity in the sinking ship, I'd simply abandon the place.
In less than 5 years the demographics will turn what's left into an old folks zombi zoo and let's say you won't have to visit India as they are moving India right up your street.
Britain is finished!
I'm in Chicago and all we think about is getting out of here.
Well go ahead, leave Chicago and move to Peterborough😅@@bondmood
There a common theme in all the cities what has ruined them.
Low calibre legal and illegal immigrants from the very worst parts of Europe and the wider world.
Drugs. It is worldwide
Tory governance?
"Diversity"
Cost cutting, corruption, greed, stupidity, loss of common sense, political BS. Take your pic. Party loyalty instead of country loyalty.
Thanks again mate! See you next time! 👍👊
Yes fish 🤝🙌🏼
Great to meet you Joe 🙌🤝
The 2021 UK census for Peterborough shows that only 71% of Peterborough residents were born in the UK and of those that were not, 12.8% of Peterborough residents born outside the UK have lived here for less than 10 years.half of the 12.8% have lived in the UK for less than 5 years.
44 years I've lived in different parts of the UK. I've been hit with a crowbar, stabbed, beaten by a gang of pissheads, all of them white British. Never to date have I been verbally abused, assaulted or stolen from by an immigrant.
I’m a Devon bey living in Brooklyn, NY, I spent 3 years on Lincoln Rd/Millfield, Peterborough, crazy memories, lots of diversity both good and bad. I’ve heard a lot of the High Street is dying like a lot of the UK !, sad. Britain in a decaying state of decline😩
Do u like it in Brooklyn?
I'm the other way round mate!
Although I was not born there I grew up in Peterborough. I left for Bristol back in the 70's around the time of the Peterborough development scheme. I reckon it was around that time that the place started to go downhill. Having said that I actually witnessed an armed robbery right in Cathedral Square there where you began your vlog, I was 15 years old. I lived at the end of Dickens Street mentioned in the video. There were lots of small shops around then but sadly not many remain these days. The city has become very cosmopolitan and any civic pride seems to have evaporated. 😞
I was born in Peterborough. It was my home town {I moved for my job}. It was an all white city with good employment prospects with several major engineering companies . It was a railway centre with enormous brickyards. After the war many Italians migrated to the city because it offered good job prospects. Gradually the Indian and Pakistani population grew and some area became no go. My first home was above the Lloyds bank in Millfield. I would not like to be there now. I still have aquaintances there but one doesn't hear many good things said about it. The city began to deteriorate once the Development phillistines got there hands on it.
It could have been a beautiful, crime-free, homogenous fantasy-like utopia.
Too bad that the people chose differently.
You’ll need some Aldi slippers for that carpet or get Athletes foot.…..yeuch…
Too long
So blame the people instead of who is really responsible---capitalism.
@@ChrisP3000xgave me a good chuckle 😂
Ben you should do more videos showcasing Britain. I’m sure the British tourist board will love it😂
Been living in Peterborough before for half year it's terrible full of Muslim gangs
Surprise, surprise.
That 1st kid interviewed is just ignorant. If a town has a library, it's the best town in the country. Don't go out at night if you're frightened. Spend your day in the library reading about the Silk Road of the 13th century. If you're in the United Kingdom, you're a day away from a million great things and places to learn from.
True but realistically, most teenagers/young adults especially in this day and age won't find much amusement in reading
Loving these UK videos, brother. Can’t wait to see you out here in the Pacific Northwest!
Cheers mate!
Pacific Northwest🤘 I second that!
Back in the 90's Peterborough was a great place to visit, went there often. Sad now.
LOL... been wondering when Peterborough would be on your list. I was born there and moved away when I was in my 20's (a long time ago... ). Hate the place. Would be happy never to return but family is still there.
Ditto. 😢
I think we all know why these places are high in crime... We just don't want to get cancelled.
Racist. Show your name
You say that as if young englishmen aren't a bunch of criminals too, literally the crime capital of western europe, immigrants or no immigrants makes no difference there
@@billclark2253refugees are disgusting
@@billclark2253 …thank you for proving my point.
Maybe it was your decision to go Brexit.
What a really lovely review where you see the fascinating juxtaposition of the new and the traditional, mixed in with rather disturbing elements. The hotel didn’t look too bad but I think they could definitely upgrade things there. Those shots of the Cathedral at the end there were incredible. We have a nice religious community here, and also my cousin’s partner has family members living not far from Peterborough. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you ❤!
Thanks for watching!
@@BackpackerBen🙏🏼
Hey ben! fun fact: that thorpe lodge hotel you stayed at used to have a smoke coffee shop about a year or so ago in the basement, similar to what they have in amsterdam!
The #UK is on the ticking timebomb, #abyss #ruination and on the #precipice ....so dire and grim
I've observed a trend where disadvantaged areas in the United States tend to have predominantly Black or Latina populations, while in the United Kingdom, these areas are mainly populated by immigrants. What could be the reason for this pattern?
I don't think it's about immigrants, I think it's about wealth. Poor majority English areas are just as shit as any other poor majority immigrant area
I'm British born and bred and I do not think immigrants from anywhere are to blame for the shocking state of the country. It's the criminally stupid and corrupt that sit in government and on local councils that are to blame.
They're at an economic disadvantage so can only afford to live in poor areas.
I have been told by a native that it’s full of Pakistanians and Gambians
There’s a lot of Polish, Romanians and Lithuanians in Peterborough. The Fenlands have a very high influx of immigrants, one reason why the area is very pro-Brexit
Doesn’t look like brexit did anything as they would want! 😅
Another great video Ben, thankyou for showing us Peterborough. Wow I was shocked, I'm from Northampton and they call Peterborough "The Posh"!
I think you should do a Northampton video Ben 👍😎👊🏽
They call Peterborough United 'The Posh', not the city.
Great to see you Ben! Loved the video and glad to see you made it out alive 😅 Enjoy Birmingham!
Legend Jack!! Great to meet you mate
I like the honesty about the problems in the British society! Greetings from Macedonia!
Should’ve also shown the shopping centre and riverside area. Lots of new luxury apartments going up, likely trying to cater to London commuters. 48 minutes on the train and you can be at Kings Cross. I think that’s what separates Peterborough from lots of these places up North or on the coast. There are actually job prospects here.
Had a job interview in Peterborough once, in 2016. It was bleak then, but now... wow😮 glad i didnt get the job 😂
There's a common theme in these places 😅 Thanks Tony Blair you W ⚓
I think it is more to do with Margaret Thatcher and her council house sell-off schemes. Council houses were sold off for thousands of pounds under their true market value so councils have had to increase business rates through the roof with the consequence that councils have gone bankrupt and the expensive business rates have driven the shops out of the High Street. Sons, daughters, grandchildren and God only knows who have bought family members council houses 'for a song' and pay no rent to the council. Either they own the house outright or they have a small disproportionate mortgage in which case the money goes in profits to a private bank rather than to a council that has legal requirements to provide essential services. It is people such as the working class on the streets of towns and cities such as Peterborough that voted for Margaret Thatcher on the understanding that they were to be given a free house. I have a friend here in Guildford who lives in a council house that his father bought for 14,000 pounds around 1988/89. Today, the same house is worth some 360,000 pounds. He has paid zero council tax for the last forty years, so where is the council supposed to raise money for libraries. health centers, fix potholes and the like? I do not understand what Tony Blair has to do with it though it is true to say that Tony Blair is a real socialist and Roman Catholic born-again Christian with a mere modest 40 million pound personal property portfolio. I wonder what Karl Marx is going to say to him as he tries to enter the gates of his socialist heaven.
always with you even though I don't Leave comments now. will always be with you. Thanks for sharing the beauty of your country.
As a Londoner, I can confirm this place is the absolute pits, I had to go there in July 2022 to renew my partners passport on a fast track service and had the unfortunate encounter with this depressing place, only Waitrose made it look good 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well you're be familiar knowing pits.. coming from London
"Waitrose makes it look good"
Least posh Chelsea fan
I like your videos as they give an honest view on modern places in the UK and around the world, you are also fairly neutral and sensitive in regards to the many local issues, a bit of rawness and grittiness is fine so please carry on filming!
You got it 🤝 thanks 🙏🏼
This! 👆🏼
The only thing I remember about Peterborough was truckfest.... and that was shite.
I visited Peterborough in the late 1990s, it was a nice city back then. Many people moved from to London to Peterborough in the later decades of the 20th century because good quality houses were much cheaper than in the capital and there was plenty of work. The 21st century has not been kind to this city but anti social behaviour is not confined to Peterborough and Luton, it’s everwhere
City centre not the worst but if you go out to the estate's like Orton, Breton, Wellend to name just a few it most likely is.
How strange that the decline of Peterborough has coincided with a mass invasion of flotsam and jetsam from Eastern Europe, including free movement for convicted criminals. What an amazing coincidence!
Now post Brexit you can enjoy some real, proper criminals, once the Nigerians and Somalis flood in. They will make your "Eastern Europeans" seem like Zig and Zag.
The last time I walked through Peterborough city centre I didn't hear one English voice. We went into a pub and, to a man, everyone was Eastern European.
Yeah I never see native English people behaving like yobs, fighting or committing crimes.
But it's so nice and diverse! I always understand Pizza Bra when so you say Petersborough. 😄
Ben you need to go to Ashton-Under-Lyne even the charity shops are closing down.
Even in places like Leatherhead in Surrey, the charity shops are closing.
No one is mentioning the obvious reasons for the decline .
Asians
Hey mate watching you from peterborough south Australia love your videos
Appreciate it matey!
Good morning greetings from Los Angeles, I absolutely enjoy watching you and Bald and Bankrupt’s videos keep up the good work stay safe 😊looking forward to someday seeing you and Mr.Bald making videos in the United States 🇺🇸 😊
Appreciate it mate!
The councils and government have a lot to answer for. Absolute mis management of funds and council tax . But it’s all going to be ok with the thousands of illegal immigrates coming over and taking up tax payers money and housing that could be used elsewhere where. What’s it costing now, 18M quid a day I believe??
Yes, and don't you want some of these Haitian migrants in the UK? They're all going to be flooding the US now. I'm sure it'll work out just fine. And when Biden apologizes for using the word illegal to describe a murderer, everyone can look the other way. You must say undocumented!
That is only 'chickenfeed' look how much has been spent on HS2 and it has neither reached Birmingham nor reached London. Taxpayer's money has been spent on compulsory purchase orders on land and now the government has lots and lots of spare land with nothing to put on it! I think it is simply ridiculous we voted for Brexit to get our borders back so why can the illegal immigrants not be sent back to the port of departure? France is in the E.U. whilst we are now a 'third country' France is twice the size of the U.K. it is twice as rich and it is a safe country, after all, since the end of the French Revolution, there is not even a guillotine in daily use! Why are these people not classified as economic migrants?
Ben: Travels to the most dangerous places in the world. Also Ben: I ain't filming in Peterborough, it's too dodgy lol. Like you said mate, sometimes you just have to trust your gut feelings!
Spot on 😆
I was raised in Dudley, Born in Wolverhampton and i’d take Peterborough over the former. Great video again Ben! 🫡
Diversity get you there too?
Dudley is 💩. Did 3 years at the college back in the 80s and it wasn't too bad, decent open market, Churchill precinct. Went there few weeks ago. Definitely gone to the dogs.
@@46FreddieMercury91 Yeah it’s tragic. I’m doing everything I can to make sure I don’t have to settle in the Black Country/West Mids.
Come to Huddersfield mate like a ghost town now every shop is gone 😂
Nice to meet you Ben mate, see you in the future…. 🤝 Timmy Senior
Legend Timmy thanks again mate
Finally, someone who is not afraid to list the 10 best vacation spots to visit in England! 🤣🤣 I was thinking I should spend my vacation money on London, Paris, Rome, NYC, Barcelona, Thailand, Dubai, or even Tokyo, but why when I can visit the places on Ben's list and take lovely pictures of my bum, because they tell me to! 🤣🤣 Just another city in England that has fallen into ruins, slowly crumbling down to look like some of the worse places that Ben has visited, outside the UK! SAD!
Some people don’t like it mate but this is the reality of the UK. Someone got to show it
Nowhere in the entire world will you find so much within such a relatively small geographical area than the UK. We have it all - mountains, lakes, rolling hills, canals, flatlands, wetlands, beaches, islands, rivers and forests. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful countries on earth. We have a temperate maritime climate where weather extremes are rare [although summers are getting hotter]. We are green 365 days a year. Contrary to British whining, it actually doesn't rain all the time. It rains more in Europe, Seattle and even Sydney. We have remarkably varied architecture-ancient, medieval and ultra-modern. Castles and grand stately homes are everywhere. We have some of the world's oldest and greatest cathedrals. We have houses over 1,000 years old. We have Roman ruins and some of the world's best and most famous museums. We have multiple world famous sporting events, the world's most important football league and world famous music festivals. We have two of the world's most prestigious and oldest universities with Oxford often being voted No 1 in the world rankings. London is often voted the No.1 global city and gets more visitors than virtually every city on earth. English villages, particularly in the Cotswolds, draw visitors from all over the world. We are only 21 miles from continental Europe and all the wonders it has to offer. All this has been ruined, since 2000, by the importation of 8 million low calibre immigrants from the very worst parts of Eastern Europe, North Africa, Africa, Middle East and South Asia and beyond. Great Britain, notably England, has become an angry and dangerous third world shithole. Don't ever come here.
Looks a lot like my city. Just this week there was an arson fire in broad daylight at an old house, office, then another homeless person found dead at the local landfill. Meth, fentanyl are to blame, huge rise in property crimes. Homeless community is growing fast as the cost of living crisis gets worse. 😢
So Chyna pumping in fent into your country too, eh?
Man what a dump so glad I left London 5 years ago and moved to Spain
lucky you!
@@stvnlake yes before brexit, now it’s a bit more difficult but can be done
Another great video. Cool to see you touring the UK with Fish
Should have gone to some of the suburbs like Werrington, Paston, Bretton and particularly Orton Goldhay
I grew up in Peterborough, more or less in the shadow of the cathedral, and your video brings up many memories of home. I'm now fortunate enough to live in one of the nicest places in the UK (York), but still proud to call myself a Peterborian. There are, without doubt, worse places in the UK.
My employer sent me on a six weeks course in Peterborough some 20 years ago. I didn't like it then, but I thought that that was just me. At one point though I got talking to a waitress who had moved there recently because her boyfriend had got a good job there, but she was of the same opinion as me.
You are never alone 😊
Ben as you and fish would know , most of the places that have a bad rep have bloody good people in them , it’s the fact most people and families in the uk don’t have a pot to piss in, social and economic issues aware bringing these places down so only ones ti blame are government both national and local . The money local council get gets spunked up the wall on needless projects and they forget about the public living in them , as I’ve said before I’m from the Muff also but I also lived in Corby not too far from Peterborough, little steel town where they moved Scottish down for the steelworks , then closed it all leaving a town with little work and lots of working men’s clubs 😮 I think Corby has improved due to its central location making it a great hub for businesses but social issue there remain like when I lived there
25 years ago got off the train got in a taxi and the driver said "you've got your queen we've got your country" . First visit.
Beard?
You know that ...
Overpowering spicy aroma?
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬No-one asked us.
@@garth8979better then bangers ans mash and your blood pudding
Peterborough is a good example of one of the chief reasons behind the decline of British towns. People often blame immigration or Brutalist architecture, but the real reason is much simpler: boredom. A friend of mine lived in Peterborough about ten years ago, unemployment was almost non-existent and he said that the only unemployed people either were physically unable to or didn‘t want to work. So you‘ve got a nice-looking old town centre, a growing population, a smooth economy, lots of green spaces in the city - and yet kids were smashing theirs heads in and there was an undercurrent aggressive mood. Why? There was nothing they could do. Bars, clubs, cinemas, sports grounds, community centres, even one of the UK‘s oldest shopping malls were all closed down. I remember the neighbouring small town of Ely offered a much bigger cultural diversity than Peterborough. From this video it looks like it got even worse post-Brexit, because now the economic decline is also kicking in (made worse by driving out the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian farm labourers that used to work there).
Saturday morning Ben! 😊
Morning!
Top of the morning!
@@DivineVeganto ya
You need to come to Bedford which is just down the A1 from Peterborough 😅😅 be more than happy to show you round it's shocking
please bring Joe with you to the back streets of some country in Asia like you do with Kat. I think he would be a good laugh to see!! 😂
I'd live there without any problem mate
Bald would yes
@@BackpackerBen 💯👍🏻
In usa comparable these places not bad at all. I have seen news reports about being supposedno go areas Islamic people only areas of cities. Is it true can you go to some?
@@expertadvice4uits hard to compare the uk with the us in my opinion because in the us u can buy what would be a mansion for the same price as a 3 bedroom house
Yeah mate. Everybody has a plan until you get punched in the face.
So what's the theme with all the worst places to live, Peterborough, Luton, Bedford etc?
Bedfords alright not in the top 10 😂
From what I remember, Luton's had a poor reputation for at least 20 years. I've never been there, so can't comment. I've never been to Peterborough either.
They are all East or East Midlands
I would love to see Liverpool City in your vlog Ben
Summer 🤝
Liverpool is awesome
Manchester please
@@BackpackerBenBen try Bolton, you won't be disappointed....
Ok i lied! But it will provide a good insight. 👍
Saddest looking McDonalds ever😢
Yeah I live in Peterborough it's miserable
This is such a depressing place. First thing you see are the signs of rampant addiction. I have witnessed human trafficking, rape in alleyways, multiple over doses, suicides, kidnapping and torture. I have never heard if anything goid coming from this place. It killed all my friends that went there inside and turned my sister into a hardcore drug addict i can never see again
How did you witness all of that? Affiliation?
@@raregrimebeats1352 Knew a few of Peterborough's victims, the addiction stuff, anyone can see for themselves. Hate that city
There's worse places in Peterborough than the ones you went to. Shamrock Park with all the syringes in the bushes. Orton Centre, Bretton, Westwood Estate. It's a crap hole.
Being an Aussie, in 1976 walked the entire Pennine Way solo with many side trips. Everyone I met everywhere was pleasant , friendly and helpful, especially in northern England and Scotland. The scenery was fabulous and historically significant Wonderful memories. No problems at all except for one - being verbally abused and ridiculed in Peterborough!! C'est la vie.
You import the third and second world and you get the third and second world. Peterborough is Islamabad/Warsaw and has certainly suffered the killings and general crime that has brought. The last time I walked through the city centre I didn't hear one English voice. We stopped going into the city well over a decade ago. Having said that, in comparison to places like Walsall, Grimsby, Slough, Jaywick, Manchester, areas of London, and so many other places around the UK which truly are shameful shitholes, Peterborough gets a raw deal. Peterborough isn't grotty or decaying, it's just bland. The only thing it has is the splendid cathedral which is easily one of the finest in Europe. It has the largest arched doors in Europe. Most English cathedral towns are historical and attractive. Peterborough isn't. I don't know why the clubs have closed, but I do know London is so close by train that's where they all go.
I lived in Seattle, which has sadly fallen a bit in the past few decades. Similar problems all along the west coast of the states with drugs and petty crimes getting just a slap on the wrist, if that. Vandalism, drugs, and prostitution are getting worse and the subsequent collapse of the economic strength follows. Contrast that with Utah where they have annual pick ups for rubbish, swift penalties for vandals and assaults, and a focus on building up the economy and the community. No reason struggling parts of the UK couldn't adopt some of these policies.
I didn’t know Bournemouth was 9th on the list. I quite like it here in the Summer with all the beaches 😮
Never been. Heard it’s alright but got bad places
@@BackpackerBen Well worth a visit and a video of your take on it. Wendall did a video there a while ago.
When we went last year, some sicko nutter was beating one off on the beach looking at seagulls
Their are worse towns than Peterborough, like Slough, Rotherham, Batley etc, but Peterborough grew too fast, and twice when they've expanded and built, they built in the wrong way. If they had of built on top of the old it would have been better. Example, Peterborough tried reinventing the wheel, as an expression.
My Dad was born in Peterborugh, he moved to Kent at a young age... I wonder if he knew... lol
Also, at 9:10 did he say Milfield? or Milf Field? If it's the latter it sounds like an interesting place... 😆
I dunno, to be honest it looks like a beautiful town compared to Luton. I wouldn't mind visiting Peterborough to see the cathedrals.
Ben, you should come to Coventry. It has the highest crime rate in the UK. I'm doing a PhD in Coventry right now. Most nights, I hear screaming and violent abuse on the street outside. Despite that, I like it here.
We were there 3 days ago but just spent the night there. Will try get there for the summer
Not nearly as bad as some places Ben’s been
🤝 few dodgy streets but yeah defo not the 2nd worst 🤷🏼♂️
Used to be a great Town - not being racist but went in to deciine and the atmosphere changed once it become a hub for mass immigration.
What are the demographics of Peterborough?
is it the architecture and landscape that make a country, no of course not, it's the people. Take the English away from England, and you've got a place I never went to visit. Signed from a NZ whose ancestors came from that once beautiful place.
I lived in Huntingdon and St. Neots many years ago. And I remember Peterborough was first in the area to have a proper mall.
One of the reasons we are in decline is because of 'others' who have made their home here. Others that don't belong here. Others that are here in too great a number.
I think the incompetency of the people running the UK is the biggest reason.
Enoch was right
The 'others' didn't cause the economic crash of 2008. The 'others' didn't vote in a government who then imposed deep austerity on the nation, making massive cuts to public services. The 'others' didn't vote to leave the EU another self inflicted wound because some people think its 'others' who are the problem. Its not 'others' who caused chronic underinvestment in local services. It wasnt 'others' who hiked our energy bills and caused the cost of living crisis. it wasn't 'others' who then elected as PM someone who crashed the economy in her short and disastrous term. it is not 'others' who will do nothing to close tax loopholes and offshore tax havens where the real wealth of the country can be syphoned off and hidden. But one thing these wealthy tax dodgers appreciate is useful fools who will point the finger at 'others' while they scam the country of its wealth.
I checked the demographics and it says 90% white. I think maybe its the immigrants maybe the society has degenerated. Become more lazy addiction to drugs from a young age and easy access to drugs etc. Most probably most immigrants are working harder than average white people there.
@@spacelab777yawn
currently been homeless for the last 10 months. had a lockup in peterborough. spent some time sleeping out of it as I had nowhere else to sleep permanently. between that and a tent in another town until i got evicted from both and had to move on before the filth turned up. once the lockup owners found out (as a result of some local grasser) they kicked me out. cannot say i felt too alone in peterborough as homelessnes is pretty rife there as well as everywhere else in england. that's my experience of the city. wonderful. basically it is "illegal" to be homeless in england as one will find out if the filth find you.
We have a Lincoln Road here in Miami Beach 😂
And let me tell you it’s a complete 180°
Peterborough looks more boring than anything. I don’t know if it looks that bad though. There are places here in the US that are much more rundown than this.
He'd be better off wearing a hidden body cam and actually go to these bad areas, you'll definitely encounter some issues 😅
As with most places in the UK now, towns are being starved of infrastructure and potential. the Councils have a lot to answer for, where is the taxpayers money going to improve towns? Break down of Society and lack of funding for start up businesses to get towns on the map is totally insane. I feel this is quite deliberate to break down society. What are your thoughts?
worked and lodged in peterborough 50 years ago it was a lovely place back in the day
Most places were.
I used to deliver methadone to Peterborough. Some of the areas were really rough. Early in the morning there's a shocking amount of homeless people.
Paston was interesting