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The appalling state of the place is largely down to Cardiff City Council who seem to be able to vanish our money into black holes.. Despite huge tax hikes, they've cut, cut and cut services over the last few years. Although seemingly having 5 and sometimes 6 figure budgets for pointless vanity projects, or imposing infrastructure changes nobody ever approved of.,, almost everything is now sub-contracted, and run on a shoestring. Refuse collection and things like cutting hedgerows and green spaces, cleaning signs, painting public metalwork etc,,,, it just doesn't happen.... and the arrogance that comes back from them is staggering to beyond belief. We didn't have bins collected for weeks and weeks over the summer, and they blamed striking action by a workforce being offered a below inflation pay increase,, after councillors handing themselves a 13%+ increase for , what they say,, is a job well done.. 🤮🤮
The money wasted on opening up the old canal at the top of Churchill way for a start. The "bus" station. Love to know where the money went from the land sold to the BBC by Central Station. Cardiff Council gave a lot to answer for
Being poor is no excuse for dumping old shit everywhere. Anyway, if things are that bad why are so called 'poor families' constantly upscaling their furniture and white goods? The biggest, newest flat screen TV's and American style fridge freezers and water coolers......... Doesn't it pay to work any more in the UK?
Not anymore. There was more money spent on public events that brought people together. The parks department used to organise guided walks in summer and wreath making and log decorating in December sessions. There used to be a summer street festival. Now people have withdrawn into their homes if they aren't the ones causing trouble.
I was born in ely (highbury road) in 1971. My parents moved us out when i was 7 because it was going bad at that point but it was a genuinely a lovely place to live up until then. My mother was born & bred there as were most of the families on our road. However as those families left or died a different type of people started to move in. I have no idea why but it is heart breaking to see what it is like now. I drove past our old house about 20 years ago & it bore no resemblance to the place i grew up in. The beautiful front garden with the privet hedge all ripped out with just flattened dirt & an abandoned car on bricks in the very spot we used to play as children. Now when i tell people i'm from ely, which i have always been proud of, i can see people who know what it's like now look a bit shocked & probably weary. It's such a shame.
@montybrewster7 I remember in the 90s cycling through there one summer's night after a cycle ride out to the countryside on the west side of Cardiff and it not looking bad on the surface even though there were problems there. Nobody was around, so we couldn't see people. That was the infamous Grand Avenue. I turned down places to rent there in the 90s and was thought of as fussy. I'm glad I didn't move there. At least there wasn't rubbish everywhere as the council picked up bulky waste for free and repaired the housing stock. Now it looks decayed and derelict. The X2 bus was rerouted along the Ely Spur because yobs threw stones at passing X2 buses on Cowbridge Road West. Cardiff Bus stopped giving change on buses because drivers in Ely were robbed for the money they had access to on buses, so after that, they took money for fares but had no access to the containers with cash. But there was no need to do that on all of the buses in Cardiff. There were problems there in the 80s and 90s but are far worse now. There are people living there who are afraid to go out at all even in the mornings because of all the crime and anti social behaviour. There is an estate between Pentrebane and Danescourt that now looks as run down as estates looked just before the Right To Buy was introduced in the 80s because councils didn't have the funding then to maintain all the housing stock. The houses bought by occupiers were later bought by private landlords and not maintained. The owner occupiers can't afford to maintain them either.
@@lemsip207 Wow, i didn't know that. I wish i could post pictures in these comment sections because people that know it now wouldn't believe what it looked like when i lived there as a kid (1971-78). It's unrecognisable now.
@montybrewster7 It really is far worse now. The last but one time I went there was in December 2018 and returned home feeling very depressed. This was in one of the worst parts at the top of Grand Avenue. Then, two years ago, I cycled there and found that Plymouth Woods was overgrown even at the entrance at Frank Road. All of Cardiff is neglected now even the 'nicer' parts. Grass verges arent being scraped back. Hedges are growing so thick there is no room in the pavement to walk in some places. There is flooding in Whitchurch on Merthyr Road every time there is heavy rain as the stream there that runs under the road needs dredging. But the eco groups rather blame climate change than neglected infrastructure. Because they want is to suffer. If the Thames flood barriers were being built now instead of in the early 80s, they would be protesting to stop that. They were built then because of huge tidal surges in the North Sea near the mouth of the River Thames.
@@lemsip207 I agree with everything you say. We are living in clown world & the neglect not just in cardiff but the whole of wales is so sad & demoralising. We can but hope for change.
@montybrewster7 It's all about creating a 'world class' city, but visitors don't want to come to a building site or one that looks very different to several years ago when they last visited and the street layout and buildings are very different. I saw that attitude in Plymouth where they were only building for visitors forgetting about the local people. The streets were never cleaned on the outskirts. The councillors wanted to close every small facility that the locals used.
Years ago cardiff council used to put on community skips for people to get rid of bulky items. At the tip over Bessemer close its free to tip in a car but if you drive a van it's commercial waste and your charged up to the tonne. You can pay the council to pick up the bulky waste. But it costs. People can't afford it so they just dump stuff. Everyone puts metal out for scrap men but they can't take the fridge freezers.
There was an accessible utility site at Waungron Road that was on two bus routes, unlike the Bessemer Close one. I remember the large skips that went around the city. Even the better parts of Cardiff now look run down with litter, rotted leaves, fading road markings, and blocked drain grills. Former council housing estates now look as derelict as they used to look just before the Right To Buy was brought in as private landlords neglect their properties. The worse parts now look third world. That's because the council still wastes money and blames Central Government for reduced funding. But that was closed for a bus interchange but instead another apartment building thrown up. People living in Grangetown no longer have a view of the River Taff and the Bay as they are lined with these monstrosities that few people live in.
What the tenant or home owner does is telephone the local authorities, and then one has to pay for your item of furniture to be picked up outside one’s address, that’s why there are unwanted furniture outside people’s homes.
@@owangutan82 A few aren't. But to narrow it down to the city area: Pontcanna, Waterloo, Whitchurch, Llandaff, Penylan/Roath Park and Rhiwbina. Lisvane, Cyncoed and Lakeside are too snobbish and Thornhill is just dull. parts of Birchgrove are nice enough but the area being sliced up by major roads is a downer.
@@jungatheart6359 I was actually thinking long and hard about Thornhill myself, it's not brill but it's not the worst, just a bit bang average, a few iffy parts too, might swap it out for the new Garden City in Plasdwr. A few of the people in Lisvane can be snobby, but I do find the people of Cyncoed very nice, and indeed Lakeside on the whole. Always gonna get a few snobs about.
OMG Once upon a time St. Mellons was a pretty, leafy suburb with a new primary school that I taught at for one week. In 1980 it was lovely; it must have changed somewhat. I once was grabbed on Newport Road, Splott so I will agree with you there.
I bet if you go to some of the worst estates it would be full of men over 40 riding around on mobility scooters when they don't need them. It gets them more disability benefits if they are out of work and on basic disability benefits. Like Glyn Tucker in the Tuckers who rides his from outside his house to next door to his son, daughter in law and niece. Yet he can climb over the back wall of his garden. Then at home they are dancing around with very young grandchildren and climbing up ladders. I can see them all riding then to the gym for their boxing training.
@rebornitsybitsy7515 Wales always took a few decades to catch up 😄 There was a time when it was quaint, clean and 'olde worlde'. Those days have long since been destroyed by immigration.
Most of these were doomed at the planning stage. I bet Ely looked great on paper. As you can see, the houses are quite spacious and there are lots of green areas. But being hung out on a limb miles from the city centre with only buses and no real local economy was never a great plan for social housing. Llanedeyrn is a kind of 15 minute city cage concept, Trowbridge, St.Mellons and Tremorfa (most of what you showed as Splott was in fact Tremorfa) more ill-conceived dumping grounds. Only Grangetown - once a decent area with a strong community and a deep history - is a tale of rapid decline. And everyone knows what caused that.
@xboxblakeyjnr8280 Dirty people dropping litter everywhere and putting bins out on the wrong door despite notices on lamp posts telling them when to. If you clear a path of litter there and then walk back along it, there would be more litter dropped. If you did that in north Cardiff, it would take a few weeks to get like that again.
If I lived in Llanederyn, I would want to get out of there often. There actually isn't much there. It was built to look like a New Town suburb all ring roads around it instead of straight roads through it and by passing it. People have never lived 15 minutes walk from all the facilities they use even though there were more corner shops decades ago. As a child, I didn't travel much, but that was because I was a child. As I got older I often caught the bus to town for dancing lessons, to the cinema and to the swimming pool. There was no swimming pool, cinema or library near where I lived, then only a once the week mobile library. My mother would do the weekly big grocery shop in the town centre and shopped often a quarter of a mile away.
I lived in Grangetown for 17 years, it gradually improved. The cost of houses was very high and a lot of young professionals were, and still are, moving in. It was a great place to live. You're just a small-minded racist talking nonsense on the internet.
What it is, you must put out an item of furniture, after paying a charge for the council to come and dispose up of the item of furniture to dispose of, on a certain day, that’s why there are different laws in Wales to England.
Being poor is not a free pass to be filthy. If that's how it looks on the outside, what the hell does it look like on the inside. I do blame councils in part. they need rules in place, not another new statute.
This is the problem when you import filthy immigrants from filthy countries… even the ones born here are brought up with a completely different culture and values than the natives, makes me sick
I lived in Llanedeyrn until last year. Could not wait to leave. Got rudely awoken Easter Sunday at 5:30 am to the police bashing down my neighbours front door. The neighbour escaped through a window into our garden brandishing a knife and charged at a policeman who tased him. Amazingly he managed to get past all the coppers and was on the run. Smell of weed just follows you around everywhere and it’s a scary place to walk as there’s so many subways and paths next to large wooded areas. Once it got dark I didn’t leave the house. So glad to have left. I was really surprised when it didn’t make the top 5 in your original video.
Broke my heart to see Ely. My aunty and uncle used to live there. I’m 66 years old now and I used to go there from Barry when I was about 6 or 7 to play with my cousins. It was a lovely place then and all the neighbours looked out for each other. Even though it was a council estate even back then they all took a pride in their homes. I’m taking 1960’s We played there without fear. They did move away from there in about 1976 so I haven’t seen it since then. What a sad state to see it like this. 😢😢😢😢
I've lived in grangetown 55 years. It's definitely not as nice as in the 70s 80s. Would take to long to touch on why. Still some lovely streets. Houses well.over £300K ...Avoidable crescent Merches gardens. Location wise its brilliant. Shopping centre. Cardiff bay. M4. Main post office. Train station. Next to central town . Main train station and big bus station can be walked to. Investment has not been great. Kids centres boxing clubs all closed down. McDonald's usually got vacancies
The UK is the 6th largest world economy but isn't that because of our finance meaning that most of that wealth is in and around London? The rest of the grass roots part of the country is in a piss poor state and it's getting worse. I'm fairly local to Cardiff so know all of these areas very well. Some lovely people I know come from all 5 of these areas so it's not all bad.
I think it would be a good idea for you to revisit Bristol and show us the really dangerous areas, statistically the most dangerous on the island of Great Britain and not show us areas where the unemployment rate is lower. The area around Easton, very close to the city centre, is not just dangerous as in the high incidences of violence and muggings and murders, but environmental hazards. Walking around that area, discarded hyperdermic needles are commonplace. Last time I walked up Stapleton Road I saw more rats than cats and dogs. And Easton isn't the only area in inner city Bristol with similar problems.
Stapleton Road is scary even at 9 am. I cycled along it from Temple Meads station to Narroways near IKEA one weekend each day. I nearly got knocked off my bicycle by those flashy car drivers who all looked very seedy. I found out later they were pimps and drug dealers selling to small time drug dealers who sell onto the end users.
The VT for ST.Mellons was misleading he showed Trowbridge not St Mellons, st Mellons has become one of the nicest social housing suburbs in Britain, it's lovely and green,the housing is modern and the old village of which it takes its name is a listed preservation site..
@@roberts82053 I was answering the question 'is it Cardiff' I was just confirming it was! But in answer to your statement, Ely is quite bad, I worked there during the Wilson rd riots and it was dangerous to leave your house, cars were not safe either! Luckily I had retired and did not work there during the latest riots!
Whilst the UK "might" be ranked in the top 10 of wealthy Countries, how much of that wealth is in the pockets of traditionally powerful families (many dating back to the Norman Conquest), and of course the vast concentration of wealth in London, especially in the "Square Mile" financial district? Wales has always been a relatively poor area, along with the North of England, and it's obviously still the case.
Never see an old car anymore on these videos. Growing up through the 80's and 90s, plenty of people drove old cars, including my parents. Most of the cars on these videos are also capable of squeezing old furniture in the back.
The UK being "the 6th biggest economy in the world" is all relative. Per capita it's nowhere near that figure. As far as GDP goes India has a bigger economy however the majority of Indians live in destitution due the GDP per capita where they ranks one of the poorest... Great upload by the way. Subscribed.
Overlooked point made at 7:21 about places of worship getting vandalised. I've only seen this affect Christian churches, often as a method of intimidation, with the end goal of getting the building demolished or converted. Interested to know if you've noticed this pattern on your travels as it seems to happen all over the UK, particularly in more 'vibrant' areas.
Unfortunately most people living in these areas have no respect for anything let alone themselves. You can live in poverty but still be clean. But most of these places live in a rubbish tip caused by the residents that live there. As you said alot of people can afford drugs and electric bikes but aren't able to get a job and be a respectable member of society
I always find interesting, that they concentrate the centre around middle of Grand Ave/Wilson Road, area, and never film the lower part, ie Vincent Road, Heol y Felin, Mill Rd Cherrydale Rd, Hollycroft Close etc.. and not all parts of Ely have fly tipping...
Ely was a deliberate social experiment in the 60s. A lot of iffy families were moved there. Very bad idea as it turned out. When I was a kid in Cardiff it was infamous with Grande Avenue as a no go area. Ironic name. The Welsh government has been a failure. Nothing has improved, its a very divided City. The rich are ok and the poor sray. The answer, meaningful jobs and a change in mind set. Its mirrored across Wales and the rest of the UK. Ghettos in fact but the name is avoided.
@roberts82053 Hi I worked in the DHSS in Westgate street in 1966 filing the case studies. It was obvious common knowledge. Maybe not as common outside the DHSS ( official secrets act)
Wherever we have supposed unemployment and deprivation ,there is always piles of litter ,can people with nothing to do all day , myself and other residents keep our area tidy, doesnt take long .really !.
Things have changed so much! Growing up in the 70s we didn't have much, but my parents were house proud and the best of things,we even had a beautiful garden that was tended to daily by my Dad and his health was very poor! No excuse to live on such conditions!!!
Sadly, when these estates were first built, post WW2, they were proper communities. Ppl had well-paid work, knew all their neighbours, had a community policeman & the schools were good. Thatcher ruined everything. You need to do a compare & contrast video in areas that receive the best service - Lisvane, Whitchurch, Cyncoed, Penylan, etc. For balance & to see where the money goes.
The whole cars-guns-drugs culture is something I shall never understand. There are far too many of them driving into Cardiff every day and nothing is done about it.
if you can afford a new mattress wich seems to be most of them,then you can afford to get old one uplited.honestly what is it with some people who like living in filth.
@@redmuttly75 No, I had to pay the council to collect it. They used to do it for free but there was a limitation on how many times each year they picked up for free. If that was reintroduced there would be a lot less mess on the streets and in front gardens. I won't buy a new fridge or washing machine now unless the supplier takes the old ones away for scrap. But the suppliers might be paying dodgy house clearance firms to take them away instead of taking them to scrap metal yards. Also people are throwing textiles into the street now the council won't allow them in the green bags and the black wheelie bins are slimmer unless there are six or more in the household. A couple with two or three children deserve a normal sized black wheelie bin.
Always bugs me that a single person in a property will have the same binspace as a family/multiple people @@lemsip207 It's not enough and flytipping has increased.
i come from originally llanishen/Whitchurch area. lived in caerau for a year, a women was killed by a dog near where i moved in on day 1, walked birdies lane and grand avenue on a friday night for funsies and it was pretty rough crazy drunk people starting on me. Lived in grange to and had crack dealing neighbours and woke up to armed police raiding the building which included my little studio at the time, interesting waking up to a gun in your face. Now in Roath just off Albany road and its clear the council dont give a shit about the area
Aww... Llanedeyrn. I grew up there in the 70s when it was still new. Shame to see it's a shithole now. In one shot you were right close to the house I grew up in.
I cycled down Ball Lane once. It was covered in rubbish as some idiots had put food I the green bags instead of in food waste bags in the brown caddies. Sorry that is Llanrumney. Llanederyn looks like it is part of a New Town with no straight roads.
All these places have good and bad parts, like any area I suppose. Some of those areas you have more chance of something happening than in say Lisvane in Cardiff, which many would class as mostly posh. Also, going in and out of an estate Is hard to feel what it's like day to day as with any estate you have good and bad days, even good and bad years. Llanederyn and Pentwyn in Cardiff used to have some tough parts years ago and as i said not the whole area, just parts. Same as Llanrumney in Cardiff, used to be very bad when I came here 32 years ago but has calmed a lot since then. And like any City we do have posh parts as well
I lived in Llanedeyrn for 20 years and never saw any trouble or had any problems at all. Certain areas were widely known as no go after dark but some of the estates are mostly privately owned and pretty quiet. It seems that you only filmed the shitty bits? Like anywhere else there are good and bad people.
If you Google house prices in Old St.Mellons you’ll see you’ve got them the wrong way round, you get million pound houses in Old St Mellons. Your also only walking down the worst streets, there are nice streets in each area. The council are crap so they don’t help keep areas looking tidy, it’s a nightmare trying to get rid of white good with 12 week wait for collection The crime rates are probably higher but people from these areas don’t bother reporting a lot of things.
You said places of worship have barbed wire in Grangetown and showed the St Dyfrig and St Samsom Church in Wales church. The many mosques in Cardiff do not have barbed wire. The Orthodox synagogue has a metal fence all around and always has security guards. You can tell who is really free.
@@Lordofthedead-z9h my towns been ruined a specific area as well use to be a an ordinary road now a road with gangs ,colorful stuff farm and corner shops like wtf.Let’s pray this doesn’t spread and VOTE REFORM .I’m Christian now and I feel way better and I think we really need to get back to our roots in Christianity with its moral and social standards and enforce them because we are a Christian country.I’m aware we like 30-40% Christian but we used to be a 90-100% once . I’m gen z Btw and I hope All my mates change as well because if not Britain will no longer stay Britain but britainistan which is sad considering we use to be a great nation 😞.LETS PRAY FOR OUR ROOTS OUR COUNTRY EVEN IF WE WONT FIGHT FOR THE CONDITION IT IS IN RIGHT WE WLL STILL PROTECT. ITs our HOME LANd🇬🇧✝️ .WE WILL KEEP THE GREAT IN GREAT BRITAIN EVEN WHEN THE SUN HAS SET ON THE EMPIRE EVEN IF ITs gone WE WILL STILL BE ON THIS LAND WAITING TILLL THE VERY END
I don't wish to have migrants here anymore than you do, and yet I haven't heard a single remedy to fix this so-called problem, and if it is, it's usually a sticking plaster! Why not address the causes? Stop meddling in other people's countries would be a good starting point! After all, the vast majority refugees/migrants who seek sanctuary tend to originate from countries where we've gone in and f×cked up. No Iranian ever needed to claim asylum before 79 No Afghani before 2001 No Iraqi before 2003 No Libyan before 2011, not forgetting Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, northwestern Somalia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, and Malawi etc. I'll be here all day. In fact, one would be better off looking for a Middle Eastern or African country where we haven't gone in and f×cked up! It's no wonder the UK is filling up with refugees. Perhaps WE REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
Used to live in splott in 2015 walking back from work late one night saw a dude shooting up in a phone box belt around his arm and everything was quite the site for a 19 year old 😂
Ely looks pretty terrible, but I was shocked to find it 'only' has a crime rate of 133 crimes per 1,000 residents. There's a place in Sydney called Mount Druitt where the crime rate is 511 crimes per 1,000 residents, but Ely manages to look so much more dilapidated and poverty stricken than Mount Druitt despite not being nearly as dangerous.
Please preempt your posts with 'this is my opinion, not backed up by cited facts... ' I can say what I like, pick stats out of the sky or online. I was gullible to people like you, then went to University aged 56 and learned that if I state a 'fact' in an essay, I must back it up with empirical, researched, published evidence! Sad that people believe anything. Now on a lighter note, one fact is that Dua Lipa is buying a house in Ely, Cardiff and Elvis is moving in as her lodger, oh and Michael Jackson is the cleaner! See, we all know that's untrue - or is it 🤣🤣🤣 FFS
I should imagine you got to be from there to fit in there it’s like where I’m from there are areas like that & if people see you there you get strange looks thanks for the video though
Might have dreamt this,but im sure in your previous videos you have given the statistics of ethnicity in each area,yet youve only given the numbers for one area...???!!! Why ? Also it might be interesting to research if any industries have shut down in each area that you visit
We bought our first house in splott. It was an eye opener. We renovated our house and got the hell out of there. I would have been worried about bringing up children there. We had a Chinese restaurant opposite us and I witnessed some horrible abuse towards them.
Ely is a nice place to live in minus what goes on and around I live and from Ely we just get shifted on 24/7 and for many years the council don’t do jack shit the councillors are even the same they just want Ely to get run down and that is happening that’s why people slag Ely off because of the way it looks
I went for lunch at the Coopers carvery recently and had a wander round Ely and wondered why people pick on it as i didnt find it too bad! Its always the so called poor areas that get picked on!
I live in Grangetown, have lived in my grandfathers house since he brought it in the 50s and I can tell you Grangetown has a nice community feel and is pretty safe. Only issue is litter and the prostitutes the council and police keep pushing to our area. People have complained a millennia but no response or solution to fix it. Every issue there might be with the area is all down to the police and council. Crackheads, prostitutes, roma gypsies... everything. Now places like Ely and Splott are grim. Don't know how Tremorfa wasn't added on there.
Drugs crime and antisocial behaviour is everywhere I lived in Canton cardiff there's been a few murders on my old block over the years! You covered Grangetown with no mention of the gas works theres a massive development to temporary house the homeless its alleged but people are claiming they are going to dump migrants there. As for the homeless they beg like mad and you see them up in the morning going for there fix. My friend lives in Grangetown and films crackheads looking for rocks chips on the floor around the telephone box that's upper Grange Town end it used to be a really good place Grangetown. Like most other places but Grangetown in particular has had alot of white flight and they moved the 3rd world in.
I know the development by the old gas works...cycled around it lots over the years. It is *rammed* full of immigrants right now....just waiting to be given houses that white people have waited decades for...
@@philuin9594 Nigerians have some of the highest academic achievement statistics of any group so I hope they don't pick up the bad habits of the native kids there. They'll be riding around on e-bikes wearing balaclavas in no time if their parents aren't careful with their upbringing.
the problem is the councils are house anyone in the social housing areas they cant house low paid workers or unemployed in areas that they live in as the crime rate will go up and it will effect the housing prices so they make sure low paid and unemployed families are kept in impoversished areas of social housing .I call my sister moving from a flat in st Mellons to a new flat in radyr brand new housing and the locals who bought their houses didn't want social housing in the areas there was meetings to get rid of them as they will effect their housing prices also I noticed the new house she moved in cost less than the old flat that she lived in everything was much cheaper the old flat she was in was over 40 years old also so had many problems with it
To be fair, they’re starting to move social rents increasingly into better areas and I’ve seen first hand what a disaster it is. When they move problem people there, not only do house prices plummet but those housed nearby in affordable housing (those in work) are also made to feel like they want to move on, so often do. Because they have life structure and get up for work. It’s not fair on them to be kept awake and endure anti social behaviour because chavs are so chaotic and degenerate.
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Overall cardiff Is lovely
ONLY 5?????????????????.
The appalling state of the place is largely down to Cardiff City Council who seem to be able to vanish our money into black holes.. Despite huge tax hikes, they've cut, cut and cut services over the last few years. Although seemingly having 5 and sometimes 6 figure budgets for pointless vanity projects, or imposing infrastructure changes nobody ever approved of.,, almost everything is now sub-contracted, and run on a shoestring. Refuse collection and things like cutting hedgerows and green spaces, cleaning signs, painting public metalwork etc,,,, it just doesn't happen.... and the arrogance that comes back from them is staggering to beyond belief. We didn't have bins collected for weeks and weeks over the summer, and they blamed striking action by a workforce being offered a below inflation pay increase,, after councillors handing themselves a 13%+ increase for , what they say,, is a job well done.. 🤮🤮
The money wasted on opening up the old canal at the top of Churchill way for a start. The "bus" station. Love to know where the money went from the land sold to the BBC by Central Station. Cardiff Council gave a lot to answer for
Being poor is no excuse for dumping old shit everywhere. Anyway, if things are that bad why are so called 'poor families' constantly upscaling their furniture and white goods?
The biggest, newest flat screen TV's and American style fridge freezers and water coolers......... Doesn't it pay to work any more in the UK?
Soon as you say diverse area you know there nothing positive happening there
And amongst all that poverty, you'll find some of the nicest, kindest people on God's Earth.
Not anymore. There was more money spent on public events that brought people together. The parks department used to organise guided walks in summer and wreath making and log decorating in December sessions. There used to be a summer street festival. Now people have withdrawn into their homes if they aren't the ones causing trouble.
Well said
I was born in ely (highbury road) in 1971. My parents moved us out when i was 7 because it was going bad at that point but it was a genuinely a lovely place to live up until then. My mother was born & bred there as were most of the families on our road. However as those families left or died a different type of people started to move in. I have no idea why but it is heart breaking to see what it is like now. I drove past our old house about 20 years ago & it bore no resemblance to the place i grew up in. The beautiful front garden with the privet hedge all ripped out with just flattened dirt & an abandoned car on bricks in the very spot we used to play as children. Now when i tell people i'm from ely, which i have always been proud of, i can see people who know what it's like now look a bit shocked & probably weary. It's such a shame.
@montybrewster7 I remember in the 90s cycling through there one summer's night after a cycle ride out to the countryside on the west side of Cardiff and it not looking bad on the surface even though there were problems there. Nobody was around, so we couldn't see people. That was the infamous Grand Avenue. I turned down places to rent there in the 90s and was thought of as fussy. I'm glad I didn't move there. At least there wasn't rubbish everywhere as the council picked up bulky waste for free and repaired the housing stock. Now it looks decayed and derelict. The X2 bus was rerouted along the Ely Spur because yobs threw stones at passing X2 buses on Cowbridge Road West. Cardiff Bus stopped giving change on buses because drivers in Ely were robbed for the money they had access to on buses, so after that, they took money for fares but had no access to the containers with cash. But there was no need to do that on all of the buses in Cardiff. There were problems there in the 80s and 90s but are far worse now. There are people living there who are afraid to go out at all even in the mornings because of all the crime and anti social behaviour.
There is an estate between Pentrebane and Danescourt that now looks as run down as estates looked just before the Right To Buy was introduced in the 80s because councils didn't have the funding then to maintain all the housing stock. The houses bought by occupiers were later bought by private landlords and not maintained. The owner occupiers can't afford to maintain them either.
@@lemsip207 Wow, i didn't know that. I wish i could post pictures in these comment sections because people that know it now wouldn't believe what it looked like when i lived there as a kid (1971-78). It's unrecognisable now.
@montybrewster7 It really is far worse now. The last but one time I went there was in December 2018 and returned home feeling very depressed. This was in one of the worst parts at the top of Grand Avenue. Then, two years ago, I cycled there and found that Plymouth Woods was overgrown even at the entrance at Frank Road.
All of Cardiff is neglected now even the 'nicer' parts. Grass verges arent being scraped back. Hedges are growing so thick there is no room in the pavement to walk in some places. There is flooding in Whitchurch on Merthyr Road every time there is heavy rain as the stream there that runs under the road needs dredging. But the eco groups rather blame climate change than neglected infrastructure. Because they want is to suffer. If the Thames flood barriers were being built now instead of in the early 80s, they would be protesting to stop that. They were built then because of huge tidal surges in the North Sea near the mouth of the River Thames.
@@lemsip207 I agree with everything you say. We are living in clown world & the neglect not just in cardiff but the whole of wales is so sad & demoralising. We can but hope for change.
@montybrewster7 It's all about creating a 'world class' city, but visitors don't want to come to a building site or one that looks very different to several years ago when they last visited and the street layout and buildings are very different.
I saw that attitude in Plymouth where they were only building for visitors forgetting about the local people. The streets were never cleaned on the outskirts. The councillors wanted to close every small facility that the locals used.
Years ago cardiff council used to put on community skips for people to get rid of bulky items. At the tip over Bessemer close its free to tip in a car but if you drive a van it's commercial waste and your charged up to the tonne. You can pay the council to pick up the bulky waste. But it costs. People can't afford it so they just dump stuff. Everyone puts metal out for scrap men but they can't take the fridge freezers.
There was an accessible utility site at Waungron Road that was on two bus routes, unlike the Bessemer Close one. I remember the large skips that went around the city.
Even the better parts of Cardiff now look run down with litter, rotted leaves, fading road markings, and blocked drain grills. Former council housing estates now look as derelict as they used to look just before the Right To Buy was brought in as private landlords neglect their properties. The worse parts now look third world. That's because the council still wastes money and blames Central Government for reduced funding.
But that was closed for a bus interchange but instead another apartment building thrown up. People living in Grangetown no longer have a view of the River Taff and the Bay as they are lined with these monstrosities that few people live in.
What the tenant or home owner does is telephone the local authorities, and then one has to pay for your item of furniture to be picked up outside one’s address, that’s why there are unwanted furniture outside people’s homes.
Man that Nitrous gas abuse is becoming real commonplace everywhere.
had a housemate who spent 5k on them and ended getting comitted in barry
My top 20 nicest places in Cardiff
1) Radyr
2) Lisvane
3) Cyncoed
4) Penarth
5) Lakeside
6) Rhiwbina
7) Llanishen village
8) Llandaff
9) Pontcanna
10) Birchgrove
11) Creigiau
12) Pentyrch
13) Penylan
14) St Fagans
15) Whitchurch
16) Gwaelod y Garth
17) Thornhill
18) Morganstown
19) Old St Mellon's
20) Tongwynlais
half of them aren't even in cardiff lol
@@owangutan82 A few aren't. But to narrow it down to the city area: Pontcanna, Waterloo, Whitchurch, Llandaff, Penylan/Roath Park and Rhiwbina. Lisvane, Cyncoed and Lakeside are too snobbish and Thornhill is just dull. parts of Birchgrove are nice enough but the area being sliced up by major roads is a downer.
@@jungatheart6359 I was actually thinking long and hard about Thornhill myself, it's not brill but it's not the worst, just a bit bang average, a few iffy parts too, might swap it out for the new Garden City in Plasdwr. A few of the people in Lisvane can be snobby, but I do find the people of Cyncoed very nice, and indeed Lakeside on the whole. Always gonna get a few snobs about.
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They actually come under the Cardiff ( well expanded over time ) postcodes!
I live in Birchgrove. It has started to look run down because of council neglect.
OMG Once upon a time St. Mellons was a pretty, leafy suburb with a new primary school that I taught at for one week. In 1980 it was lovely; it must have changed somewhat. I once was grabbed on Newport Road, Splott so I will agree with you there.
Both Cardiff and Newport are completely out of control, some of the things you see in those cities on a daily basis is unbelievable!😳
I bet if you go to some of the worst estates it would be full of men over 40 riding around on mobility scooters when they don't need them. It gets them more disability benefits if they are out of work and on basic disability benefits. Like Glyn Tucker in the Tuckers who rides his from outside his house to next door to his son, daughter in law and niece. Yet he can climb over the back wall of his garden. Then at home they are dancing around with very young grandchildren and climbing up ladders. I can see them all riding then to the gym for their boxing training.
This place looks like Hollywood compared to living at the graham park estate north west london during the late 70's
@rebornitsybitsy7515 Wales always took a few decades to catch up 😄
There was a time when it was quaint, clean and 'olde worlde'. Those days have long since been destroyed by immigration.
Most of these were doomed at the planning stage. I bet Ely looked great on paper. As you can see, the houses are quite spacious and there are lots of green areas. But being hung out on a limb miles from the city centre with only buses and no real local economy was never a great plan for social housing. Llanedeyrn is a kind of 15 minute city cage concept, Trowbridge, St.Mellons and Tremorfa (most of what you showed as Splott was in fact Tremorfa) more ill-conceived dumping grounds. Only Grangetown - once a decent area with a strong community and a deep history - is a tale of rapid decline. And everyone knows what caused that.
Honest question: what caused the decline in grangetown?
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@xboxblakeyjnr8280 Dirty people dropping litter everywhere and putting bins out on the wrong door despite notices on lamp posts telling them when to. If you clear a path of litter there and then walk back along it, there would be more litter dropped. If you did that in north Cardiff, it would take a few weeks to get like that again.
If I lived in Llanederyn, I would want to get out of there often. There actually isn't much there. It was built to look like a New Town suburb all ring roads around it instead of straight roads through it and by passing it.
People have never lived 15 minutes walk from all the facilities they use even though there were more corner shops decades ago. As a child, I didn't travel much, but that was because I was a child. As I got older I often caught the bus to town for dancing lessons, to the cinema and to the swimming pool. There was no swimming pool, cinema or library near where I lived, then only a once the week mobile library. My mother would do the weekly big grocery shop in the town centre and shopped often a quarter of a mile away.
I lived in Grangetown for 17 years, it gradually improved. The cost of houses was very high and a lot of young professionals were, and still are, moving in. It was a great place to live. You're just a small-minded racist talking nonsense on the internet.
I always find it interesting that they are living in poverty but can throw out furniture like there is no tomorrow...
I suppose that's good if you've just moved in somewhere and need to furnish your flat/house
It's broken furniture, and the cost of disposing it with the council is very high.
That's because you're stupid. Start with 'River's and Koch's postulates'
@@ramitsharma3773its not always broken. People throw out lots of good furniture into the street, just so they can buy a new item of furniture.
What it is, you must put out an item of furniture, after paying a charge for the council to come and dispose up of the item of furniture to dispose of, on a certain day, that’s why there are different laws in Wales to England.
Being poor is not a free pass to be filthy. If that's how it looks on the outside, what the hell does it look like on the inside. I do blame councils in part. they need rules in place, not another new statute.
This is the problem when you import filthy immigrants from filthy countries… even the ones born here are brought up with a completely different culture and values than the natives, makes me sick
I lived in Llanedeyrn until last year. Could not wait to leave. Got rudely awoken Easter Sunday at 5:30 am to the police bashing down my neighbours front door. The neighbour escaped through a window into our garden brandishing a knife and charged at a policeman who tased him. Amazingly he managed to get past all the coppers and was on the run. Smell of weed just follows you around everywhere and it’s a scary place to walk as there’s so many subways and paths next to large wooded areas. Once it got dark I didn’t leave the house. So glad to have left. I was really surprised when it didn’t make the top 5 in your original video.
Get in!!!! I’ve missed these videos! Will watch later after work. Hope your well mate ….Smithy
Broke my heart to see Ely. My aunty and uncle used to live there. I’m 66 years old now and I used to go there from Barry when I was about 6 or 7 to play with my cousins. It was a lovely place then and all the neighbours looked out for each other. Even though it was a council estate even back then they all took a pride in their homes. I’m taking 1960’s We played there without fear. They did move away from there in about 1976 so I haven’t seen it since then. What a sad state to see it like this. 😢😢😢😢
I've lived in grangetown 55 years. It's definitely not as nice as in the 70s 80s. Would take to long to touch on why. Still some lovely streets. Houses well.over £300K ...Avoidable crescent Merches gardens. Location wise its brilliant. Shopping centre. Cardiff bay. M4. Main post office. Train station. Next to central town . Main train station and big bus station can be walked to. Investment has not been great. Kids centres boxing clubs all closed down. McDonald's usually got vacancies
Hi westie 😜
The UK is the 6th largest world economy but isn't that because of our finance meaning that most of that wealth is in and around London? The rest of the grass roots part of the country is in a piss poor state and it's getting worse.
I'm fairly local to Cardiff so know all of these areas very well. Some lovely people I know come from all 5 of these areas so it's not all bad.
You missed st mellons
Trowbridge is a totally different place
I think it would be a good idea for you to revisit Bristol and show us the really dangerous areas, statistically the most dangerous on the island of Great Britain and not show us areas where the unemployment rate is lower. The area around Easton, very close to the city centre, is not just dangerous as in the high incidences of violence and muggings and murders, but environmental hazards. Walking around that area, discarded hyperdermic needles are commonplace. Last time I walked up Stapleton Road I saw more rats than cats and dogs. And Easton isn't the only area in inner city Bristol with similar problems.
Stapleton Road is scary even at 9 am. I cycled along it from Temple Meads station to Narroways near IKEA one weekend each day. I nearly got knocked off my bicycle by those flashy car drivers who all looked very seedy. I found out later they were pimps and drug dealers selling to small time drug dealers who sell onto the end users.
2:47 looks like the road sign says "Nowa Polska", which I would guess means "New Poland". There are quite a lot of Poles in Cardiff.
Since the Welsh Assembly was formed Cardiff has gone downhill. Take it from someone born and bred in Lannrumney nearly 50 years ago.
Most of Newport looks like that. Cultural enrichment.
Real Bretons are the Welsh 🏴
The VT for ST.Mellons was misleading he showed Trowbridge not St Mellons, st Mellons has become one of the nicest social housing suburbs in Britain, it's lovely and green,the housing is modern and the old village of which it takes its name is a listed preservation site..
That was Trowbridge Green they filmed not St Mellons!
@@joannesaltfleet2071 if I do recall it was during the council strike, hence why there is so much rubbish...
Council don't pick up nowt never did .. diversity at its best labour party controlled last 20 years..
If this is Cardiff I am disgusted it used to be so nice,I have lived all my 86yrs in Cardiff
And this is the worst I have seen it.
Yep its cardiff
For goodness sake! This is HIS opinion, it's not this bad, do you believe everything presented to you?
@@roberts82053 I was answering the question 'is it Cardiff' I was just confirming it was! But in answer to your statement, Ely is quite bad, I worked there during the Wilson rd riots and it was dangerous to leave your house, cars were not safe either! Luckily I had retired and did not work there during the latest riots!
Whilst the UK "might" be ranked in the top 10 of wealthy Countries, how much of that wealth is in the pockets of traditionally powerful families (many dating back to the Norman Conquest), and of course the vast concentration of wealth in London, especially in the "Square Mile" financial district? Wales has always been a relatively poor area, along with the North of England, and it's obviously still the case.
Poverty my ass, if people dont care about the place they live in it turns into a cess pit
Never see an old car anymore on these videos. Growing up through the 80's and 90s, plenty of people drove old cars, including my parents. Most of the cars on these videos are also capable of squeezing old furniture in the back.
to many foreigners
The UK being "the 6th biggest economy in the world" is all relative. Per capita it's nowhere near that figure. As far as GDP goes India has a bigger economy however the majority of Indians live in destitution due the GDP per capita where they ranks one of the poorest... Great upload by the way. Subscribed.
More sofas than DFS
Overlooked point made at 7:21 about places of worship getting vandalised. I've only seen this affect Christian churches, often as a method of intimidation, with the end goal of getting the building demolished or converted. Interested to know if you've noticed this pattern on your travels as it seems to happen all over the UK, particularly in more 'vibrant' areas.
If church in wales Anglican they are Satanic not Christian.
Unfortunately most people living in these areas have no respect for anything let alone themselves. You can live in poverty but still be clean. But most of these places live in a rubbish tip caused by the residents that live there. As you said alot of people can afford drugs and electric bikes but aren't able to get a job and be a respectable member of society
I always find interesting, that they concentrate the centre around middle of Grand Ave/Wilson Road, area, and never film the lower part, ie Vincent Road, Heol y Felin, Mill Rd Cherrydale Rd, Hollycroft Close etc.. and not all parts of Ely have fly tipping...
That was Trowbridge in the film not St Mellons!
Ely was a deliberate social experiment in the 60s. A lot of iffy families were moved there. Very bad idea as it turned out. When I was a kid in Cardiff it was infamous with Grande Avenue as a no go area. Ironic name. The Welsh government has been a failure. Nothing has improved, its a very divided City. The rich are ok and the poor sray. The answer, meaningful jobs and a change in mind set. Its mirrored across Wales and the rest of the UK. Ghettos in fact but the name is avoided.
Can you send a link to that fact please, the experiment? And not a mate in the pub who read it somewhere 😂
@roberts82053 Hi I worked in the DHSS in Westgate street in 1966 filing the case studies. It was obvious common knowledge. Maybe not as common outside the DHSS ( official secrets act)
I was driving past the police station in Ely and there was a guy outside smoking a joint and it stank my car out.😂
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Wherever we have supposed unemployment and deprivation ,there is always piles of litter ,can people with nothing to do all day , myself and other residents keep our area tidy, doesnt take long .really !.
Happy to see you guys are back!
Get them to clean it all up .bring back the chain gangs
Things have changed so much! Growing up in the 70s we didn't have much, but my parents were house proud and the best of things,we even had a beautiful garden that was tended to daily by my Dad and his health was very poor! No excuse to live on such conditions!!!
Sadly, when these estates were first built, post WW2, they were proper communities. Ppl had well-paid work, knew all their neighbours, had a community policeman & the schools were good.
Thatcher ruined everything.
You need to do a compare & contrast video in areas that receive the best service - Lisvane, Whitchurch, Cyncoed, Penylan, etc.
For balance & to see where the money goes.
You've blamed central government for council controlled services.
The whole cars-guns-drugs culture is something I shall never understand. There are far too many of them driving into Cardiff every day and nothing is done about it.
Better than the last vid... Good effort!
if you can afford a new mattress wich seems to be most of them,then you can afford to get old one uplited.honestly what is it with some people who like living in filth.
I used the same mattress for 23 years. It needed throwing out when it was 20 years old. Mattresses only last 7 to 20 years depending on quality.
@@lemsip207 i bet you didnt dump your old one in the street though.
@@redmuttly75 No, I had to pay the council to collect it. They used to do it for free but there was a limitation on how many times each year they picked up for free. If that was reintroduced there would be a lot less mess on the streets and in front gardens. I won't buy a new fridge or washing machine now unless the supplier takes the old ones away for scrap. But the suppliers might be paying dodgy house clearance firms to take them away instead of taking them to scrap metal yards.
Also people are throwing textiles into the street now the council won't allow them in the green bags and the black wheelie bins are slimmer unless there are six or more in the household. A couple with two or three children deserve a normal sized black wheelie bin.
Always bugs me that a single person in a property will have the same binspace as a family/multiple people @@lemsip207
It's not enough and flytipping has increased.
i come from originally llanishen/Whitchurch area. lived in caerau for a year, a women was killed by a dog near where i moved in on day 1, walked birdies lane and grand avenue on a friday night for funsies and it was pretty rough crazy drunk people starting on me. Lived in grange to and had crack dealing neighbours and woke up to armed police raiding the building which included my little studio at the time, interesting waking up to a gun in your face. Now in Roath just off Albany road and its clear the council dont give a shit about the area
7:40 That car has been there as long as I can remember, a good 7-8 years at the very least.
@striderwhiston9897 I'm surprised it not been removed for health and safety purposes.. let alone probably non tax on a street Rd.
Aww... Llanedeyrn. I grew up there in the 70s when it was still new. Shame to see it's a shithole now. In one shot you were right close to the house I grew up in.
I cycled down Ball Lane once. It was covered in rubbish as some idiots had put food I the green bags instead of in food waste bags in the brown caddies. Sorry that is Llanrumney.
Llanederyn looks like it is part of a New Town with no straight roads.
Its no better or worse than it ever was.
All these places have good and bad parts, like any area I suppose.
Some of those areas you have more chance of something happening than in say Lisvane in Cardiff, which many would class as mostly posh.
Also, going in and out of an estate Is hard to feel what it's like day to day as with any estate you have good and bad days, even good and bad years.
Llanederyn and Pentwyn in Cardiff used to have some tough parts years ago and as i said not the whole area, just parts.
Same as Llanrumney in Cardiff, used to be very bad when I came here 32 years ago but has calmed a lot since then.
And like any City we do have posh parts as well
It's like the end of the world... How can people make such a lazy filthy mess!!
I lived in Llanedeyrn for 20 years and never saw any trouble or had any problems at all. Certain areas were widely known as no go after dark but some of the estates are mostly privately owned and pretty quiet. It seems that you only filmed the shitty bits? Like anywhere else there are good and bad people.
During Splott you showed more if Tremorfa than Splott.
Yes, the older terraced 'real' Splott is pretty sought after.
And Adamsdown
@@jungatheart6359 I grew up there.
If you Google house prices in Old St.Mellons you’ll see you’ve got them the wrong way round, you get million pound houses in Old St Mellons. Your also only walking down the worst streets, there are nice streets in each area. The council are crap so they don’t help keep areas looking tidy, it’s a nightmare trying to get rid of white good with 12 week wait for collection The crime rates are probably higher but people from these areas don’t bother reporting a lot of things.
You said places of worship have barbed wire in Grangetown and showed the St Dyfrig and St Samsom Church in Wales church. The many mosques in Cardiff do not have barbed wire. The Orthodox synagogue has a metal fence all around and always has security guards. You can tell who is really free.
The immigrants (I’m black and support the brits❤️)#nototheimmgrants
When is it not?
@@Lordofthedead-z9h ik
@@Lordofthedead-z9h my towns been ruined a specific area as well use to be a an ordinary road now a road with gangs ,colorful stuff farm and corner shops like wtf.Let’s pray this doesn’t spread and VOTE REFORM .I’m Christian now and I feel way better and I think we really need to get back to our roots in Christianity with its moral and social standards and enforce them because we are a Christian country.I’m aware we like 30-40% Christian but we used to be a 90-100% once . I’m gen z
Btw and I hope All my mates change as well because if not Britain will no longer stay Britain but britainistan which is sad considering we use to be a great nation 😞.LETS PRAY FOR OUR ROOTS OUR COUNTRY EVEN IF WE WONT FIGHT FOR THE CONDITION IT IS IN RIGHT WE WLL STILL PROTECT. ITs our HOME LANd🇬🇧✝️ .WE WILL KEEP THE GREAT IN GREAT BRITAIN EVEN WHEN THE SUN HAS SET ON THE EMPIRE EVEN IF ITs gone WE WILL STILL BE ON THIS LAND WAITING TILLL THE VERY END
I don't wish to have migrants here anymore than you do, and yet I haven't heard a single remedy to fix this so-called problem, and if it is, it's usually a sticking plaster! Why not address the causes? Stop meddling in other people's countries would be a good starting point! After all, the vast majority refugees/migrants who seek sanctuary tend to originate from countries where we've gone in and f×cked up.
No Iranian ever needed to claim asylum before 79
No Afghani before 2001
No Iraqi before 2003
No Libyan before 2011, not forgetting Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, northwestern Somalia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, and Malawi etc. I'll be here all day. In fact, one would be better off looking for a Middle Eastern or African country where we haven't gone in and f×cked up! It's no wonder the UK is filling up with refugees.
Perhaps
WE REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
I don't think Splott will improve because its called Splott
GODS PLOT
Thank you, I really enjoy watching these videos 👍
Should have checked out the Channel View area in Grangetown as well.
Used to live in splott in 2015 walking back from work late one night saw a dude shooting up in a phone box belt around his arm and everything was quite the site for a 19 year old 😂
Strangetown aint rough .. I'd say Clifton street and city road is like a hellhole in the evenings
Ely looks pretty terrible, but I was shocked to find it 'only' has a crime rate of 133 crimes per 1,000 residents. There's a place in Sydney called Mount Druitt where the crime rate is 511 crimes per 1,000 residents, but Ely manages to look so much more dilapidated and poverty stricken than Mount Druitt despite not being nearly as dangerous.
You believe the shit he's saying? My research shows lowest poverty rate in Europe and aliens landed iltbere in 1965 FFS
Please preempt your posts with 'this is my opinion, not backed up by cited facts... ' I can say what I like, pick stats out of the sky or online.
I was gullible to people like you, then went to University aged 56 and learned that if I state a 'fact' in an essay, I must back it up with empirical, researched, published evidence!
Sad that people believe anything.
Now on a lighter note, one fact is that Dua Lipa is buying a house in Ely, Cardiff and Elvis is moving in as her lodger, oh and Michael Jackson is the cleaner!
See, we all know that's untrue - or is it 🤣🤣🤣 FFS
11:58 and we're giving most of it to the rest of the world.
I should imagine you got to be from there to fit in there it’s like where I’m from there are areas like that & if people see you there you get strange looks thanks for the video though
Might have dreamt this,but im sure in your previous videos you have given the statistics of ethnicity in each area,yet youve only given the numbers for one area...???!!! Why ? Also it might be interesting to research if any industries have shut down in each area that you visit
You've covered near enough every area of Cardiff over the two videos. It seems only north Cardiff is any good.
Monnow Court Thornhill in Cwmbran is rough
Labour run Wales 😂
North grangetown is far worse than south grangetown tbh, south grangetown is actually rather nice
Why is my house on here ?
Lived in Llanderyn back in the 1970 moved away in 1974
Looking at splott looks like you walked in to tremorfa that's not splott
Yes times are hard but there is no need to live like pio.
Grew up in 1 live between two 😂😂
Ely never used to be like that when lads had jobs to go to in industries now closed.
Ttemorfa isn't in Splott. Totally different areas albeit full of the same chavs
😂you walked past my old house in ely
Grangetown ain't all that bad lived there my entire life
How has Tremorfa missed out on a place again 😂
He did he just counted it as part of splott
Isnt that Tremorfa rather than Splott?
This as been like this for decades
Have you done Zooport yet?
Lived in llanedeyrn for 25 years I grow up there and unless you went looking for the trouble I’d save your safe as houses there! CF23 for the win!
We bought our first house in splott. It was an eye opener. We renovated our house and got the hell out of there. I would have been worried about bringing up children there. We had a Chinese restaurant opposite us and I witnessed some horrible abuse towards them.
Ely is a nice place to live in minus what goes on and around I live and from Ely we just get shifted on 24/7 and for many years the council don’t do jack shit the councillors are even the same they just want Ely to get run down and that is happening that’s why people slag Ely off because of the way it looks
I went for lunch at the Coopers carvery recently and had a wander round Ely and wondered why people pick on it as i didnt find it too bad!
Its always the so called poor areas that get picked on!
I live in Grangetown, have lived in my grandfathers house since he brought it in the 50s and I can tell you Grangetown has a nice community feel and is pretty safe. Only issue is litter and the prostitutes the council and police keep pushing to our area. People have complained a millennia but no response or solution to fix it. Every issue there might be with the area is all down to the police and council. Crackheads, prostitutes, roma gypsies... everything. Now places like Ely and Splott are grim. Don't know how Tremorfa wasn't added on there.
Drugs crime and antisocial behaviour is everywhere I lived in Canton cardiff there's been a few murders on my old block over the years! You covered Grangetown with no mention of the gas works theres a massive development to temporary house the homeless its alleged but people are claiming they are going to dump migrants there. As for the homeless they beg like mad and you see them up in the morning going for there fix. My friend lives in Grangetown and films crackheads looking for rocks chips on the floor around the telephone box that's upper Grange Town end it used to be a really good place Grangetown. Like most other places but Grangetown in particular has had alot of white flight and they moved the 3rd world in.
I know the development by the old gas works...cycled around it lots over the years. It is *rammed* full of immigrants right now....just waiting to be given houses that white people have waited decades for...
Did the sophisticated naturally law abiding whites fly to lovely law abiding white Ely?
@@martinwilkinson7939 not really ely has a growing Nigerian population moving in
@@martinwilkinson7939 Sounds like you don't like white people 🤔
@@philuin9594 Nigerians have some of the highest academic achievement statistics of any group so I hope they don't pick up the bad habits of the native kids there. They'll be riding around on e-bikes wearing balaclavas in no time if their parents aren't careful with their upbringing.
No what you talking about it's a lovely place 😅 I'm taking it 1 of them as Ely which is over rated and has a bad rep, the 2 boys killed were pushed by the polices actions if im correct but not 100©
Ely, Caerau, llanrumney, Llanedeyrn, Trowbridge, Splott, Grangetown, Butetown, Adamsdown and Tremorfa are all shit holes.
You forgot pentwyn llanedyern gabalfa and parts of fairwater
Sorry you said llanedeyrn
@@ZEEPOW77 after living in three of these and still living you are not wrong
@@neilwalters4571I didn't like Fairwater myself and the pub there!
I guess alot of British black people won't be attending the " unite the kingdom gathering" on the weekend.
BUTETOWN DOCKS 💪🏻
Adamsdown used to be posh...35 years ago.
And Roath
I had an extremely lucky escape when i never got a place in Adamsdown i had applied for as i would have hated it there!
@@bannaubrycheiniog1329 Roath has gone to rack and ruin as well!
No. I lived there 35 years ago it was considered the most impoverished area in Wales
@@WouldbeRenaissanceLady6926no it isn't!!
Now visit the nice Ely in Cambridgeshire
Cathays is a right dump!
It is so not! Students live there yes, it it's a vibrant multi cultural area and crime is comparatively low. But you have an opinion respected.
Cathays is nice just a lot of litter
the problem is the councils are house anyone in the social housing areas they cant house low paid workers or unemployed in areas that they live in as the crime rate will go up and it will effect the housing prices so they make sure low paid and unemployed families are kept in impoversished areas of social housing .I call my sister moving from a flat in st Mellons to a new flat in radyr brand new housing and the locals who bought their houses didn't want social housing in the areas there was meetings to get rid of them as they will effect their housing prices also I noticed the new house she moved in cost less than the old flat that she lived in everything was much cheaper the old flat she was in was over 40 years old also so had many problems with it
To be fair, they’re starting to move social rents increasingly into better areas and I’ve seen first hand what a disaster it is. When they move problem people there, not only do house prices plummet but those housed nearby in affordable housing (those in work) are also made to feel like they want to move on, so often do. Because they have life structure and get up for work. It’s not fair on them to be kept awake and endure anti social behaviour because chavs are so chaotic and degenerate.