Fish and chips £8.50 is cheap usually around £10 to £12 without peas!

Ed your bang on target good on you, Take care.

No proper industry totally gone, With Ai coming its about to get a hell of alot worse regards jobs, The future doe's not exist.

Governments have caused the decline over yrs on purpose, Take a look at The prisoner episode Free for all.

Good video mate

Southend has very good and bad bits but Thurrock, Basildon & Harlow are much much worse. I'll never forget me and my dad had 2 death threats in the same day in Thurrock, one in Aveley and another in Belhus😂😂😂

This is why I honestly struggle with how cities are decided or thought about because places that offer less are city's and places that offer and do more are not I'm referencing Maidstone and reading. As both offer more within a same ratio of space than a lot of these "cities"

Angela jennins im with you there my late husband was from hunter street he would never. Have it was cardiff bay it was always the docks to him as well very proud of were he came from

Wow, was in southend for a good 3 or 4 years for south essex college. Haven't visited since but have some decent memories here. Was told it was run down but doesn't look as bad as ive been told. If you ever revisit have a walk to Leigh on sea. Completely different vibe to the main town, nice pubs and shops round there.

southamton is really nice area

the area is real bad grrrr come back to maidstone in summer and do more video in other areas of our outer town

Im from chatham, grew up in sheerness tbh sheppey is better in the summer but still has a youth problem around the McDonald's area and drugs, minister is probably the nicer bit of sheppey

The peir was once longer but a fire destroyed it and was made shorter.

You never went to leigh it's closer to hadleigh. You went to westcliff.

Well, if you set out to make a place look bad...odd that there's nothing about Alverstoke or Lee-on-the Solent !

Great informative video thanks for posting. I went to Southend for a day for my work about 30 years ago. Nothing wrong with the place, just never fancied going on holiday there

Used to go to Southend for the airshow every year and they canned it so there was no point going, one of my last trips was on the PS Waverly years ago that went down there from Tower Bridge and docked at the end of the pier, charging to walk on the pier now is a piss take. Council have no idea what they are doing no matter who is running it!

Never been to Southend. I often wonder though how ordinary people afford the house prices in the south east. Paying to walk on the pier though is ridiculous.

I am from Croydon and I can understand some of the comments regarding the state of the estates however what you people with negative views the estates have a lot of hard working people living there such as web designers, para Legal’s and teachers. all trying to make it to the next level. It’s very easy for a KZbinr to come along and pick at the negatives. Like all areas Croydon has its issues just like the rest of the UK. To the KZbinr you insult those of whom haven’t had the best hand dealt to them in life. Please remember that when compiling your summaries. Think about it and try to be more socially responsible. Thank you kindly.

Who’s creating the dangerous place? I don’t understand. Some ugly post modern architecture though. Why don’t Brit’s demand lower taxes? People should be able to afford to open businesses and create wealth for themselves and their communities, no?

Timestamps 0:59 Hadleigh castle 3:06 Southend-on-sea council estates 5:22 The city centre/shopping areas 7:28 Beachfront and UK's longest pier 12:44 The "nice" part of Southend

the whole of the uk is a crap hole now

What a load of bull this is

You should do Banbury mate

Gravesend got its name from the plague, as this is where the graves ended.

The best thing about Dover is, you can get on a Ferry & leave it behind.

Born and raised around Maidstone, the town and infrastructure is great but it is suffering with modern Britain and capitalism with most shops being franchises and a huge problem with county lines the towns losing it’s identity in my opinion. For me Canterbury is a great spot still has some of the same issues but keeps in touch with the history more and more independent shops plus a short drive from Whitstable. Nice video mate 👍🏼

Why is it that smoking weed seems to have become normalised in the UK, so many generations are going to be f****d up because they can’t function without being able to take the edge off……ridiculous

Well done Ed. Some good local comments on this fair city. I liked it and have been there a few times since 2000. I was also there in November last year and visited the districts of Bitterne and Shirley, and another Wetherspoons in Port Solent too. That looked a moneyed area for boaty types. Nice restaurant complex though. The Ford Transit was built there for some 40 years, the factory closing down in 2013, all gone to Turkey now. They were well paid jobs. If you take the train towards Bournemouth, you'll see the cruise terminal, an impressive sight when one of those huge floating 'city's' come in. Next to that is the huge DP World container port. Other than that, there's not much I'd return to look at. I think if you're beach going, you'd go to Southsea or the I.o.W. I think you'd be impressed with both of those last mentioned places. Much better than Portsmouth itself. 👍🇬🇧💯🤔

That's the medieval merchants house, Tudot House is round the corner from there

The 8 bells (wetherspoons) aint that bad. Plenty of worse pubs in Dover. I cant see how Dover is more dangerous than somewhere like Ashford, Canterbury or Margate.

Did I hear "10 minutes on a train from here and your in the centre of London" ? You're having a laugh. I use to commute from Sidcup which took 30 mins or so, from Dartford on a good day? 45-60 mins.

Housing still remains a huge challenge that no government wants to tackle.

Your guide was quite helpful and provided a perfect tour. Southampton looks quiet and calm. Kudos Bruv 👏🏾

"one of the most dangerous cities in all of Hampshire" - there are only two real cities to be fair. Nevertheless I enjoyed your video!

If you want to see the rough parts of Southampton have a look at St Marys and Bevois Vally or any of the big estates like Thornhill and Millbrook.

Thank you for sharing this with us all

And you are from? La la land im thinking 😂😂😂

You obviously never went to minster. Or looked at the history of the place.

Bro I've lived in Chatham and was burn on sheppey and never felt that way.

Sounds like you're breaking wind mate

My Hometown ☺️

Yup! Very sad! I live here too! I pass that pub numerous times on my way into work! Oxford is VERY expensive… just like London prices!

I've lived in a couple of these places and they're all awful, pretty funny people get so defensive when there is rubbish everywhere and needles down the alleys. I'd just ignore them, they have fragile egos.

Sheerness is the Dark Souls boss of Kent 🤣

Not a bad assessment. I've been asked about the city before. It's not a place you'd advise people to go out of their way to visit like London or Brighton or Cambridge, but it's also not dead or a dump like many a town or city in the UK. It does suffer the same decline of the high street as most places. I wouldn't say it is average, I would say it is above average, but maybe not worth a visit as a tourist. It's relatively decent for shopping, and in the past decade it has become pretty good for restaurants. It's got decent nightlife and things to do. But it is a city centre of contrasts, with historic buildings awkwardly sat next to buildings that detract from them. One issue the city really has is getting certain sites redeveloped. Some plots of land in the city centre the council has been talking about its wish to redevelop since the 1980s, and it still hasn't, and other plots of land have seen the businesses closed down and sometimes demolished pending redevelopment and then everything's just stopped and been left abandoned. There are a few plots of land where I think greedy landowners are just sat on derelict land because property in the UK is just generally seen as an investment even if you do zero with it. It does lag a fair few other places in getting abandoned plots redeveloped or brought back into use. As for safety, yes, don't walk through the parks at night, and that particular one mentioned does get Police tape wrapped around it more often than you'd think, but otherwise the city centre is averagely safe. As for neighbouring south coast settlements, the town/city centre cores of Portsmouth and Bournemouth are incredibly run down to a point far below what you'd expect for those settlements, which in contrast makes Southampton look really good.

To be honest, Ramsgate shouldn't really be in this Top 5. I think you're being too harsh here. Sure it has it's run down areas, but it's also got some great spots in it. But I am really surprised that Gravesend isn't in your Top 5. One of the most depressing places I've visited in southern England. The town centre is as dismal as it gets. There's some really pretty looking buildings there, but the town feels very unloved, and there's an air of resignation and grimness that hangs over the place.

My bro lived in the tower block there in the shot at 10.30 mins after they moved all the drug addicts out back in 2000...it was not a nice place then...they renovated them and put young families in ..they are actually nice flats to live in now...theres an observation glass house at the top for residents only,,,you can see for miles on a clear day

Was going to have a holiday in Sheerness until I saw your programme?

So thanks for popping down to the city where I live. Southampton is a bit of an oddball of a city, full of contradictions. I've lived here for about 30 years and seen the city change immensely during that time. Also no offence but that's not Tudor House. Also there are only three cities in Hampshire and Winchester doesn't really count. Portsmouth is probably more dangerous and suffocating a place to live, unless you live in the rich bits, like parts of Southsea, Old Portsmouth or Gunwharf. On abandoned shops. I honestly don't feel like there are many in Southampton. It's nothing like the northern towns which sadly get less private investment. Plus we get over a million cruise passengers visit this city each year. I won't bite lol as I know you're new to this city but you literally pointed toward the cultural quarter and Bedford Place which are arguably the most vibrant parts of the city and called it 'as far as the eye could see, half shut down, every other shop' lol. The building he's referring to in Hoglands Park was a public toilet. It's now been turned into a venue for band practice. It's a locally listed building. On Debenhams, development has been slow due to the pandemic (as has the Bargate Quarter opposite, which was meant to be finished two years ago) but they got permission to demolish Debenhams about a month ago.