I Left Thailand and went back to UK Grim

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  • @paulbucklebuckle4921
    @paulbucklebuckle4921 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Back in the uk after a trip to Mexico, Mexico was alive, colorful, buzzin and friendly , the UK, grim grey and decay

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have Mexico on my bucket list happy days

  • @spud139
    @spud139 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I'm down in South Wales and local town to me is Newport, which is now like a ghost town with homeless sleeping in the doorways of the old shops. Like you the UK has provided me with the ability to be able to retire in another 4yrs. Safe to say I'm counting down the days. I'll then be off to Thailand to enjoy retirement. Do I hate the UK....No, but it's become a country where people are afraid of saying the wrong thing run by total idiots.

  • @aslansezen7423
    @aslansezen7423 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    i cannot stop thinking the decline of uk high streets is just the beginning

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for your comment

    • @markmiller5577
      @markmiller5577 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Poverty is the new normal, living standards are being reduced to save the planet

    • @user-kx3fq1zo6f
      @user-kx3fq1zo6f 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@markmiller5577 Except it's not to save the planet. This is a pretext for the real reason.

  • @tooyoungtobeold8756
    @tooyoungtobeold8756 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Politically the UK is a disaster. Agree that its is beautiful in The Lakes, Peak District, Cornwall, Scottish Highlands etc. In the UK we are taxed to death, political correctness, get fined for anything and everything, udeless police, politicians etc. I am thinking of returning to Thailand too.

    • @raalaa121
      @raalaa121 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed

  • @JONNYHOTROD
    @JONNYHOTROD หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    OUR COUNTRY IS ABSOLUTELY BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR!!!!

    • @LS-id5hc
      @LS-id5hc หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯

    • @tonydoherty8056
      @tonydoherty8056 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ah it is indeed ..but just Remember all the countries your great empire Broke over 100s of Years ..chin up

    • @vFLAWLEZZ
      @vFLAWLEZZ 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@tonydoherty8056yeah but that wasn’t us pal! We’re fucked, not the guys who did all that. Plus its not like the average person had any say in it

  • @Symptomless_Coma_
    @Symptomless_Coma_ หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Going back to visit family in the UK in a couple of weeks... absolutely dreading it!

  • @nanplabwern
    @nanplabwern 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for showing me around my home town, I was born in Rushden 70 years ago. Been living in Pattaya for the last 16 years.

  • @harry.flashman
    @harry.flashman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Welcome back Sir. We need more like you. Best wishes to you.

  • @johnmorgan8868
    @johnmorgan8868 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Good luck for the future mate
    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  • @TrevRaynsford
    @TrevRaynsford 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bridgwater has most of its shops in the out of town retail park. The high street has mainly bookies, charity shops and vape shops.

  • @CaldonianDude
    @CaldonianDude หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Even the pigeons looked depressed...

  • @mickwhewell1828
    @mickwhewell1828 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I also live in Hua Hin. I have no intentions of ever going back to the UK. Currently 36C and no water at the moment but so much better than UK Grim.Get out of there fast.

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      can't wait to get back to Thailand weather looks amazing

  • @Mangkut73
    @Mangkut73 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Hy Rocket,
    Anarchy in the UK.Thailand is calling you.
    Greetings Markus

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I won't miss the weather excited to get back

  • @DavidNess-pc6sp
    @DavidNess-pc6sp หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loved your uk vlog 100 % spot on . I live up in the north east a place called Ashington same crack everything closing down. I’ll be in Hua Hin 18 July as I’ve mentioned before would like to catch up with you for a cheeky Chang 🍺👍

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thank you I might be in Hua Hin then for a chang

  • @BrittanyLucy
    @BrittanyLucy หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    God it is bleak isn't it? Congrats on selling your house, and bon voyage for the big trip, look forward to hearing (and seeing) about it! From my point of view, shorter vlogs, maybe more often (though one a week is pretty good) are more interesting. I watch quite a lot of different TH-camrs and don't always have time to watch longer videos, up to 20 minutes is about right. But that's just me, you do you! Whatever sadness and hardship you've had in your life, you're making something really good of it now, bless you.

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      happy days thanks for your comment

  • @raalaa121
    @raalaa121 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Felt the same horrid feeling coming back from 2 months in Bangladesh. Vibrant, colorful to grey and dark.

  • @AjayRohaz
    @AjayRohaz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just got back from a trip to Los Angeles a few weeks ago and it is not the same as it was....It was a bit grim as well.

  • @stevewong46
    @stevewong46 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Omg , even though I live in Kettering I’ve never been down rushden high st , I’m not missing anything lol I guess it got worse when the lakes opened up , the best thing that used to be in rushden was the little horn burger place 👍really makes me think about moving abroad and start to live again instead of being a slave here ! Your personality changes when your In Thailand , so much happier, good on ya mate 👍

  • @arkham67
    @arkham67 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Banging down with rain and freezing cold man. Leg it Tony it’s not worth being here! 😂

  • @Saffie_Anderson
    @Saffie_Anderson 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Good day, if this is 9am on a Monday then sorry to say but that town and similar places are finished.
    I mean usually people will be running errands, food shopping, beauty appointments etc.
    shocking really, Its probably costing too much to keep the doors open. I’d call it quits, thanks for the video

  • @porkpie8667
    @porkpie8667 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Retail is knackered in the UK .
    How old are you young man ?

  • @leelatmir4128
    @leelatmir4128 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I live in east london. It’s amazing. Sad to see what you’re looking at

  • @GeorgeAusters
    @GeorgeAusters 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Plenty of nice places in the UK

  • @dannywilliams5192
    @dannywilliams5192 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    good on ya mate 🦘🦘🦘🦘

  • @wontbelongnow5567
    @wontbelongnow5567 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Good luck to you in your retirement from UK. Your getting out at about the right time in life because your still active enough to enjoy life. The UK has had its best years only going to get worse for the working people, they'll work all their life's to just get by in life .some won't ever be able to afford to buy a house and work to retirement age .and have
    Nothing.

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      fantastic comment

    • @SGuy889
      @SGuy889 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's very very very very very very true.
      Bloody sad and depressing BUT SAD.
      AM.ANGRY

  • @davidholgate123
    @davidholgate123 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The weather doesn't help... I've never known it rain as much as the last 11 months!

  • @rw1213
    @rw1213 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My gran took me to watch starwars at that cinema.. I've not been back to Rushden for a long time, it was a hole when I left and looks like its got a lot worse!!

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Rushden has it’s moments but I love the people

  • @BoomerBlogging
    @BoomerBlogging หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Besides London, where nobody can afford to live, the UK seems pretty dismal? And I gather that the humidity level in Thailand may well be manageable for a Brit? Just curious, how often do you plan to get back to the UK once settled in Thailand? Very interesting channel - thanks!

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      got no plans to come back

    • @SGuy889
      @SGuy889 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@rockettravels1977😅😅😅😅😅 boom

    • @user-kx3fq1zo6f
      @user-kx3fq1zo6f 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Most of London is dismal too.

  • @paultaylor7947
    @paultaylor7947 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I knew someone who started a vacuum cleaning business who never made it

    • @pingu8666
      @pingu8666 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That sucks!!!

  • @rsanders1569
    @rsanders1569 หลายเดือนก่อน

    LOL Willies. I find it funny that the majority of men in England have not been "cut" and the willies are all "cut". The kids needs to do their best to be true artist and at least graffiti accuracies. I'm just kidding of course. I actually think the roads and the rows of buildings have a charm to them. Love to see it with the sun shining.

  • @scottg3456
    @scottg3456 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It looks bloody grim there mate, can't compare to Hua Hin eh!

  • @valuetraveler2026
    @valuetraveler2026 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    UK is aesthetically grim but most places are going thru economic hard times. Question is how it can recover?

  • @PaulRLight
    @PaulRLight หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I visited my old town centre a couple of years ago.
    What's the deal with all of the kebabs shops and barbers?
    At least you're only there for 1 week.

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for your comment

    • @ozzy6668
      @ozzy6668 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      All just fronts for crime.

  • @Vlogging.a.dead.donkey
    @Vlogging.a.dead.donkey หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I know what you mean mate , I live in Kent , I’m 58 and beginning to feel muscle pains and feel like shit and the U.K. has gone right downhill .
    I’m off to Thailand next week for 3 weeks holiday and then I’m thinking of travelling throughout Thailand and doing a TH-cam vlog . What you think ?

  • @artofwargamblingstrategies
    @artofwargamblingstrategies หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    grimbola, i was in Philippines for 12 years until covid wrecked my business, back in the toilet aka UK

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for your comment

    • @CaldonianDude
      @CaldonianDude หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was it a tourism-based business then? Dive shop perhaps? Restaurant?

  • @keepitreal1547
    @keepitreal1547 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There used to be a saying 'it's grim up north'
    & now the saying is 'it's grim in the UK'
    How & why has the UK come to such?

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks for your comment

    • @philm7213
      @philm7213 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The middle and lower classes ended up voting Conservative who refuse to tax the super rich to an adequate level as they are their chums. Wealth gap has become huge as you ultimately have ended up in a system where those with the assets (retail and commercial property owners mainly) have created too much of a gap The goverment pumping out billions in covid made the problem so much worse as that money ended up with the super rich who own the assets. Joe public were fooled into thinking the government was helping them.

    • @Wayne-fn1sw
      @Wayne-fn1sw หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grim in Birmingham , Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds all shitholes depressing backwards people no care or investment.

    • @Ebawoaz
      @Ebawoaz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All depends on where you live and your circumstances.

  • @Ebawoaz
    @Ebawoaz หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That part of the UK looks bleak. I live in a nice part of London and prefer life in UK. Certainly visits to Thailand.

    • @CaldonianDude
      @CaldonianDude หลายเดือนก่อน

      London seems to have been getting its act together. Of course there are places there not doing so well, but overall the wealth there is staggering. Also impressed with the new dedicated bike lanes! :)

  • @alantaylor1201
    @alantaylor1201 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My once beautiful small northern city looks like a broken down slum. I would like to move to Europe but because of Brexit that is no longer possible.

  • @SH-tk2oc
    @SH-tk2oc หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where are all the people ?

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      At home watching my channel 😂🤣😜

  • @stephenporter6005
    @stephenporter6005 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Im trying to get my wife here from the Philippines the only way i can get her here now is a family visa for two and a half years if i can then we will move back to the Philippines this country has had it

  • @tonyc1167
    @tonyc1167 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wasn't that film Kinky boots filmed in flutter bingo hall? please don't ask how i know this 😂😂🙈🙈

  • @howardmitchell4554
    @howardmitchell4554 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The UK is dying ,
    I also plan on retiring to Thailand 😊

    • @user-hy6cd4ik6k
      @user-hy6cd4ik6k หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Mee too

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  หลายเดือนก่อน

      go for it

    • @Wayne-fn1sw
      @Wayne-fn1sw หลายเดือนก่อน

      Multiculturalism has deeply failed in the UK.

  • @sabrown3551
    @sabrown3551 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What made you change your mind and what will happen to your house in Thailand 🇹🇭

    • @rockettravels1977
      @rockettravels1977  29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I was only back in the uk to sell my house

  • @sdnalyam
    @sdnalyam หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Get out while you can.

  • @roberthornbrook8374
    @roberthornbrook8374 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You should of stayed in Thailand 🇹🇭

  • @nigelblaymires4668
    @nigelblaymires4668 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Writing was on the wall before u left 😢

  • @marialangley5528
    @marialangley5528 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm in pattaya. Been here 15 years. Popped back to England to drop my English wife off so she could look after her mum and came back. Jeeze I had to get back to thailand. From Maria and col. Look forward to watching some of your videos

  • @manpreetbrar838
    @manpreetbrar838 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thailand does not want immigrants either. Completely different people in every way.

    • @SGuy889
      @SGuy889 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He has 2 homes, 1 business, money in the bank . Home. Bank account.
      Hes not like the African, MiddleEast, Pakistan and Bangladesh single man coming here as economic migrants with NOTHING ..and bring nothing to our nation.
      You cant compare rocket to these boat people

  • @TheWelshman50
    @TheWelshman50 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Terrible weather get yourself back to hua hin

  • @geraldbeddows9017
    @geraldbeddows9017 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Unfortunately, governments have been allowed to cause the decline of Britain, Manufacturing has been allowed to relocate to the Asian continent and EUROPEAN countries. What's left has been acquired by none British organisations and foreign shareholders, Coal mining gone, shipbuilding gone, steel industry gone, motorcycle and car industry gone, when industries go so does thousands of jobs, causing a knock on effect leaving Town centre shops to close their doors forever. All the mass illegal immigration hasn't helped the situation, more pressure on Services to provide care, financial support and accommodation shortages. Covid caused many small businesses to close and unfortunately never recover, at the moment it’s not looking like anytime soon will it happen..

  • @scotty3463
    @scotty3463 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The UK is a total slum now.

  • @masterchiff6784
    @masterchiff6784 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I immigrated to this country when I was 10 years old, was never on benefits, paid high tax as a software developer, and what I have to say is that this country is done and I'm leaving, place is a shithole now days sorry... I hope it can make a come back but with all this new type of 'immigrants' and the government I don't think it will lmao.

  • @SGuy889
    @SGuy889 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bookies.
    Ecig shops
    Turkish barber's , they are fronts for criminal behaviour, & police dont give a toss, they are never busy.
    Watching this video really really really depressed to be British . In my homeland.
    Am really upset

  • @paulcoverdale8312
    @paulcoverdale8312 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh dear!
    I empathise. Commin back from most places is total shit.
    Sorry you had to come back.
    🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🥃🥃🪬🪬