EYE WATERINGLY EXPENSIVE! Devon Poshtowns

Today on Turdtowns it's an episode of Posh Towns. This is the show where we visit the eight most expensive towns and villages in a County based on house prices. Devon is having a housing crisis with more second home owners than council properties. In some towns as much as 60% of properties are Air BnB and holiday rental. This is destroying the communities and leaving winter ghost towns. Many of these buyers come from London who have big wallets.
Do you think second home owners should be banned or taxed more? Do we have a god given right to live in the town we grew up in?
Watch this video and let me know your thoughts!

[@woodworm001]

Next turd towns should be North Wales - Rhyl, Flint, Connah's Quay, Colwyn Bay, Bangor, etc. I live in NW and there are many beautiful places but Rhyl could dominate an episode by itself, just don't bring your swanky Citroen.

[@MrWherg]

Buckley Town represent !!

[@stephfoxwell4620]

You forgot Abergele and Prestatyn.

[@ollyharris9438]

Yep a North Wales turd towns would be epic.

[@TommyWylie]

I was in Rhyl for a day in 1994. It was a dump, with boarded up shops everywhere. Welsh people ask me if I've ever been to Wales, and I mention being in Rhyl. The reply is always the same... "Rhyl's not Wales" they exclaim, "Rhyl's an embarrassment!"

[@teaboyuk]

​@@TommyWylieis it as bad as Skegvegas?

[@danielkerryann]

Great video Mr Towns! We absolutely LOVE Woolacombe. We live is Stoke, a TurdTown in the true sense of the word, but leave our caravan in Woolacombe over the summer and spend at least 6 weeks of the year down there (before dragging the van back to Turd Central for the winter). We're not at all surprised by the average house price, as the stock is dominated by large properties with a sea view. There are a fair few family homes set back, but a 3-bed town house will still set you back £450k, which would buy you a 6-bed detached home in Stoke. We like to go out of season, and we hear a lot of the locals moaning about the tourists, having returned after letting their homes for the summer! Let's face it, they wouldn't be there without us... co-existence and respect is the key, and thankfully, Woolacombe pulls it off admirably. I'd live there if I could afford it 🙂

[@bizling]

13:45 isnt this the grand designs house where the guy really buggered it all up?

[@marcdavey]

It is an eye sore, pass it everyday going to work. It does look pretty ugly.

10:25 FACE REVEAL!... 😆 I'm Portuguese and a lot of people in my country would be very happy if they could afford a CX-5. Good looking, reliable and with decent tech like most Japanese cars are.

[@MrMarmite5164]

They wouldn't be very happy about the amount of bullshit you have to do to get enough money to buy anything in England!

[@ratinatrap7815]

"Rightmold"..... love it

[@simoneibbotson2406]

That’s my favourite too

[@TheRagingTornado]

Come to Stoke on Trent for the next turd towns, the city could be an episode all to itself with the 6 towns (although Longton is starting to improve) and there are other smaller towns/villages within Stoke that could feature too such as Abbey Hulton, Blurton, Chell, Northwood and Smallthorne. Could do a few around Newcastle-under-Lyme as well like Silverdale and Chesterton.

[@AlexJBethell]

Yesss new turn towns dropped

[@GTLPT]

South and West Yorkshire should come next, some of the towns in there are basically crap, some of the cities are absolute shite as well

[@AFCManUk]

Random Trivia: Budleigh Salterton was featured in a 2003 episode of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the Bentley Continental GT. In the episode, Clarkson called Budleigh Salterton "Britain's most overpriced, dreary place" and said the name was typical of a Bentley Continental GT owner.

[@klemmr3233]

No Kingsbridge? I was surprised.

[@69spook]

Me too. He went to a lot of small hamlets which I have only visited a few times in my 25 years of living in Devon.

[@torbaggermaxpiper]

Or Dartmouth.

[@BB49.]

@@torbaggermaxpipertrust me my son works in Dartmouth and it’s got some dodgy places, Kingswear over the estuary is much more exclusive some of the house are incredible.

[@mikeboucnik-do6rq]

Or Modbury

[@Turdtowns]

They justdidnt make the cut based on price. Kingsbridge is about £360,000.

[@chrisd5610]

Salcombe is definitely the top posh turdtown of Devon!

[@raphaeltaylor755]

Exeter resident, been to quite a few places on the list. Devon’s a lovely place but quite a few places show the inequality of the county. Exeters definitely the best place to live in the county as it has the best access to the most beautiful parts and is just 2 hours from London

[@kacpergalecki5201]

More like 4 hours to London mate

[@user-dh7hr1pl2d]

Exeters a proper dump PAFC

[@IAMNationX]

​@@kacpergalecki5201you can get to London by train in 2 hours

[@thegreatstapley]

Yeah, Crediton resident here. The amount of drug dealers who've moved in of late means I wouldn't be surprised to see us feature in a Devon Turdtowns revisit someday.

[@IAMNationX]

@@kacpergalecki5201 you can get to London 2 hours on the train

[@hazelmurphy9235]

Surprised you didn't mention Topsham, which is a lovely little town on tne Exe estuary just outside Exeter.

[@blueybarnes9442]

Sir Reg Varney was from Budleigh Salterton …….Sir Reg of On the Fucking Buses 🚌 😅

[@Viator19]

Yep. Used to drink in the Feathers Pub in the High St. RIP

[@simonosborne4711]

The bench next to the bus stop has a plaque with his name on it.

[@michaelbarlow3686]

@@simonosborne4711 Yes but he moved to Stoke Fleming nr Dartmouth

[@pantani9886]

He died in a care home in Budleigh Salterton!

[@margaretderen2082]

MISSED THESE!!!! Thank you! Hello from Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

[@strubel1085]

Holy shit! Turdie is built like a strongman

[@megaflux7144]

hes a wrestler at heart.

[@bizling]

I want Turbtowns to narrate my life.

[@PHDarren]

Do Bedfordshire, I think institutions like the BBC don't think the county exists and it's always ignored as just a county to drive through on the way into or out of London.

[@tobythehairlessdog8876]

and it's got Luton and Dumpstable. What's not to like? Woof!

[@user-eg8pv2om7j]

Mark Steel's in town has done Bedford and Manu other places. Listen and learn.

[@benrobinson887]

Really enjoyed this one

[@carlmichael5592]

Dartmouth is interesting. Has a stunning estuary location, some of the grandest properties in Devon yet also some of the most deprived wards in Devon too.

[@Turdtowns]

I love Dartmouth and didn’t know about it’s seedier bits.

[@karluk7724]

You can park anywhere in the U.K. if you’re tired,you can sleep in your car for as long as you want. As long as you’re parked safely even the police can’t move you on. Remember the adverts,tiredness kills? There’s your answer,and I’ve used that many times bud👍🙂

[@Turdtowns]

Yea I know. But the point is I don’t want a nosey person banging on my car in the middle of the night. I need peace of mind that I won’t be disturbed because as you can tell fromthis vid I’m dead at the end of the day.

[@karluk7724]

@@Turdtowns FairPlay,I get that bud.👍 Love the videos👍🙂

[@pageant1fd]

Love your videos ! Take the urine and perhaps in doing so, wake up the County Council . Cheers. If you do Dorset , try Portesham , it’s a mixture of old quaint and modern village properties. No I don’t live there.

[@michaelj3282]

Great vid, a mate of mine had a 2 up 2 down ex fishermans cottage in Salcombe, he paid like 400k for it in the early 2000s, god nows what it's worth now. Stupid expensive and a pain to get around.

[@ciprianicincou2619]

Forgot to mention CHAGFORD with Gidleigh Park.

[@salimboudjema6018]

Bruv when you said: " I love my CX5" I LITERALLY SPAT MY DRINK OUT OF LAUGHING SO HARD!!!! Good for you tho

[@Turdtowns]

I never thought I would like it 😂 I know it’s a bit of a school run car!

[@RJRC_105]

Thames Valley Turdtowns next please.

[@bigglestornado3882]

A very good video, and nice to see what you look like at last. I come from Devon, but live now in Wales because I could not afford to live back home (in Brixham, Devon) when I left the RAF. It really is a case of the haves and have nots.

[@simonosborne4711]

Dartmouth, Topsham and Shaldon are all way nicer on the South Coast.

[@Turdtowns]

Yup love Dartmouth

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Turd Town-Middlesbrough.

[@sarson0001]

@turdtowns ........ Leicestershire

[@philgoss165]

Topsham, shaldon, all in this bracket I reckon lol

[@del1984fly]

Another Brilliant video !! Really nice to see the face from behind the camera. Keep up the good work, amazing content in a media world of rubbish 👍👍🤙

[@cohenbro4634]

Go to Aberdeenshire

[@Evilgrebo]

Stoke on Trent, mainly the Hanley Area. Empty shopping centre, rows of empty shops, maybe 3 night spots left and good chance you'll get spiked if you go. Last time I went there was a guy passed out with a needle in his arm on the main road.

[@Scrumpys]

I was born in Devon but couldnt afford to live there.

[@daz1975ify]

new place to visit Luton , just dont get out the car .

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

Nah, just pass through and go to a better place :D

[@chuntohk]

Come to Surrey. You can also make two videos here

[@Blindbags-and-buses]

You should make a video on posh towns in wales

[@AnitaCrockett]

No Topsham!

[@torbaggermaxpiper]

This has been a long time coming! 😊

[@saintsaens21]

it's what she said

[@tobythehairlessdog8876]

Salcombe is well overrated exactly as you say - but there are some fantastic Devon towns and villages that are actually reasonably cheap to buy a house - Lynton and Lynmouth are the ones that spring to mind first - I reckon you can get a nice house there for 350 to 400k, and kennels are roomy too. I've been for my morning walkies on Woolacombe beach loads of times and the beach is lovely, but the village kind of doesn't really exist - you're better off up the hill in Mortehoe. On Dartmoor, Widecombe (no Ann won't be there so don't worry) is cheaper than Lustleigh and has much more stunning views arriving into it from any direction. Basically the south coast is over-touristy, and some of the crap towns on the north coast, although crap and cheap, are really quite fun - Ilfracombe and Combe Martin. I go to Devon every year and when I go to the posh towns I always make sure to take a crap outside the most expensive house I pass by and run off so my owner has to chase me and doesn't have time to clear up the poop. Woof!

[@Turdtowns]

I think some of it comes down to location. Lynmouth feels a million miles from anywhere. I know it very well and wanted to move there but the traveling times put me off.

[@dianesullivan3034]

Love your vids. Thank you. I’ve wondered what you look like. Voice to face , couldn’t fit!!! You look exactly like your voice sounds. No worries, that’s good, and I’m weird. Not a bad weird. Keep on, you’re brilliant. Love the insight to places I’ve been, and where I might want to go.😂

[@polymath9372]

@dianesullivan3034 He doesn't look _anything like_ his voice sounds!

[@davidholgate123]

I agree with you that there's always a lot of comments on KZbin that the whole of the UK is struggling but that's utter nonsense... Those people are in a bubble... Me and my wife go to a new city, town or village in the UK each weekend and there's an absolute tonne of towns that are thriving... Wether you like it or not, middle-class towns are doing well and working-class towns not so much... I could name hundreds of towns in the UK that are amazing and would blow the average person's mind if they visited there!... Sometimes you can get a thriving middle-class town that is just 10 miles away from a rundown working-class town and even though they are geographically close, they are figuratively worlds apart... Residents in those two locations think that most of the UK is like where they reside and haven't a clue what it's like in each other's town either!... If you dropped a person from one of these rundown towns into a wealthier thriving town, their eyes would pop out lol... I personally know a lot of working-class people that don't even know this other world in the UK exists and they do not travel out of their own town unless it is to a similar town or city... They haven't a clue that there's hundreds of nice towns, villages and rural locations just a short drive from their homes!

[@warwickshiremidlandsweathe9067]

Do the shitholes of Warwickshire and Vale Of Glamorgan County plz

[@jeremynewell9903]

"Rightmold" hahaha 🤣

[@geebee6737]

A guy from Carlisle getting all judgemental 🤣 Love your vlogs but be careful with your envy 😉

[@nochocolatemuffins4u]

Shame you didn't get down to Newton Ferres and Noss Mayo

[@Turdtowns]

I actually did but no shop in mayo and ferres didn’t quite make the price.

[@LANCSKID]

I am more of a Jaywick man, myself. Nice asbestos cladded shack and as a second home, a caravan (mobile, until its wheels were stolen).

[@megaflux7144]

dude, this is your better channel. dont get me wrong, i enjoy reminiscing about days past.. but you really have something unique going on here. well done.

[@jasonyoung7705]

"Most british waters are brown, due to a mix of sewage, mud, and tears" So you've been to Hull then...

[@TheWolfXCIX]

Used to go on family holidays to Salcombe, gorgeous town

[@bluefarie10]

Budleigh's got an amazing wine shop - highly recommended!

[@davidtaylor9198]

Have you been to Scotland yet? I'd love an episode of both turds and posh up here.

[@26col]

Crewe. Destroyed by Cheshire East Council.

[@lupusinvictusvictorium8069]

You need to do turd towns in Lincolnshire Grimsby Immingham Scunthorpe

[@RJRC_105]

Gainsborough as well. Dead boring that is.

[@dorkbrandon4422]

Crikey scunthorpe, never again that's for sure!

[@brantnuttall]

Lincolnshire................

[@lupusinvictusvictorium8069]

@@brantnuttall skegvegas

[@charlesgarrett3283]

Keep going!! Boston, Sleaford, Grantham, Skegness, Holbeach, Gainsborough, Brigg, North Hykeham, Sutton Bridge. Only Stamford, Alford and Woodhall Spa at a push qualify as quite nice!

[@crabboi5953]

Surrey turd towns when??

[@Turdtowns]

Email me some suggestions for places to visit in Surrey.

[@Wiibiplay]

You should go to South Yorkshire

[@southhams]

You missed Kingsbridge, Dartmouth & Totnes, thanks we are full to the brim anyway 😊

[@Turdtowns]

They actually didn’t qualify based on the price. All have parts which dragged down their average price.

[@failedrockstar]

GRIMSBY

[@SilverfoxJB]

I spent many years living in Devon and so have visited everywhere in this video (except Westhill, which I had never heard of). I loved it. And if I ever came back to the UK I would only consider Devon or the Cotswolds. But, I won't be coming back!

[@West.Ham1964]

Woolacombe is well known for its parkrun ( not quite a park) but run on the beach and often attracts 200+ people a week and it does look a very pretty place.

[@JackoBlogs]

Definitely need to come to Merseyside man

[@cookudysu90]

The Next Turd towns should be the Caerphilly valley with its towns and villages.

[@Turdtowns]

that small bit of south wales that somehow hasn’t featured in my videos despite making 5 about Wales. Yea that’s annoying 😂😂😂

[@cookudysu90]

@@Turdtowns lol it's okay the only picturesque part is Caerphilly castle and scenery from the mountains 😂

[@thebaiblade]

I would love to see my home county of Hampshire get a video. There’s many hidden gems and incredible old buildings, but great places to cover would be Andover and Gosport.

[@Roamer17]

I know why Bigbury and Thurlestone are on this list - The coast there is stunning. I live next to Lustleigh - Beautiful chocolate box town that's like stepping back in time, it's also no wonder that its on this list, but it's not as isolated as you'd think. The moor and many touristy areas are pretty much on its doorstep. Moretonhampstead and Bovey Tracy are both a stones throwaway in either direction, even if the road is a bit pants. If you're a cyclist, you've got the Wray Trail running right through the town, following the path of the old railway. There's even a big department store (Trago Mills) that takes about 20-30ish minutes to cycle to from Lustleigh which is really easy to get to, for those inclined and know how.

[@Theon435]

Whats the nicest place in the uk that actually has amenaties, like a schooll and shops and a bar, maybe a skate park, there must be somewhere.

[@sallybutler1005]

Matlock Derbyshire is nice ! Google Matlock bath.

[@Turdtowns]

I can only comment on Somerset easily. I think Cheddar, Somerton, Winscombe tick a lot of boxes for me personally.

[@13thcentury]

Nice vid dude. You don't look like your voice. And good insight into the camping van. Would be cool to see some more like that.

[@JangianTV]

A very welcome notification! Great video as always, and nice to see you on ground level chatting to some locals. Please do one for the East Midlands sometime. 🙂

[@tealeafuk]

Great video, keep em coming. It really is worth sleeping in your car. I love these videos. great work.

[@Lemonator140]

As someone from Worcester, I reckon you should do Worcestershire next 😤

[@Bill-uf6os]

I visited Ilfracombe in March this year and was shocked. Very run down.

[@michaelbarlow3686]

I used to live in Kingsbridge the Salcombe 2nd home owners used to fill up at Tesco's supermarket in K/B having previously sent their Public/Private School Yobs ahead. There is even a no fly zone for PPL over Salcombe. Don't go there it's a Turdtown.

[@bouncingbennyboy1965]

What about the top 10 best counties to live in, in the UK (based on schools, crime etc..)

[@angrymuffinsb]

Aren’t you quite attractive! Surprised Tavistock wasn’t on here tbh.

[@andyduggan7810]

Another excellent video from one of my favourite KZbin channels, thank you.

[@uguhhibh]

Up the Marky!!

[@alexanderjohnstothard4316]

Marky D?? 😮

[@paulharvey9149]

It is absolutely shocking to know there are places where almost half the houses are second homes. We have similar problems in the Scottish Highlands and some of the islands, but I don't think it's that bad, as yet... I suspect you're right in your assertion that, if you can afford an expensive second home in the nicer parts of Devon, you can also afford the council tax increases; but clearly there does need to be some regulation that limits their availability. It's really difficult to know what the answer is to what can be done to help local young people join the property market in such places, where is often just no base-level housing available, at all. Really, you need some housing that is available to rent and perhaps buy into after a few years - given that if you don't have a higher London income and don't inherit any property, you're unlikely to be able to afford outright ownership until your old age. As you discovered during your recent trip to Co. Durham, there really are no areas in Southern England that come anywhere close to the levels of turdiness that are commonly found in the North of England, Wales and Scotland. That's not to say there aren't poorer areas in the south - rather, that their poverty is on a wholly different level, save perhaps for a few areas within the larger cities... You also have the disadvantage of living as far away from all of these places as is possible to be, in Cornwall! I wonder, therefore, if you've considered doing residential areas of cities such as Plymouth or Bristol? Alternatively, you might compare commuter towns of such places, say within a 30-mile radius, and score them on such facilities as public transport availabilty, or how long it takes to drive to work in the city; and what kinds of facilities are available locally, such as shops, entertainment venues, sports centres, swimming pools and schools. As a Scot, I'd love to see you apply your traditional model to the likes of Inverclyde (Greenock, Gourock, Port Glasgow, Wemyss Bay, Inverkip, Kilmacolm); East Ayrshire (Kilmarnock, Stewarton, Darvel, Hurlford, Cumnock, Auchinleck, Mauchline, Galston, Drongan); North Lanarkshire (Airdrie, Coatbridge, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Motherwell, Wishaw, Chapelhall, Bellshill, Viewpark, Shotts, Stepps); West Lothian (Whitburn, West Calder, East Calder, Polbeth, Blackburn, Livingston, Bathgate, Armadale, Broxburn, Fauldhouse, Winchburgh, Linlithgow.); and indeed you could probably manage to film several of these on one trip; and maybe also a couple of Posh town videos such as East Lothian (Haddington, Dunbar, East Linton, North Berwick, Gifford, Gullane, Cockenzie & Port Seton, Prestonpans, Musselburgh, Tranent, Ormiston, Macmerry, Longniddry, Pencaitland;) and, the Scottish Borders (Melrose, Galashiels, Earlston, Duns, Eyemouth, Kelso, Jedburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, Hawick). You might even manage some Lancashire or Staffordshire too, if you fancied it!

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

Get a Range Rover or an older big wheel 4x4 and you can park up anywhere...no one ever dares to try and remove you... especially if you have a highway maintenance sticker and an amber beacon on yer roof.... they'll think you're official!...

[@simonfunwithtrains1572]

Can't think of anything better to spend over a million quid on than a place that's overrun for eight months of the year people in awful holiday clothing. Blind drunk reveries every night of the week down the High Street. Getting your £150,000 motor bashed by white van man delivering Bollinger to the corner shop when it's parked outside your extraordinary expensive ex-mine workers cottage. At all because didn't have the extra £300K to buy a house with a parking space.

[@Pcr06]

Surprised to not see Dartmouth and Kingsbridge in the video, beautiful places. For the next video please do somewhere in North West England (Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester)

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

The moment you realise you have done wild camping night in one of the most expensive towns in Devon :D Got there late, pub had no free beds and left very early, so no one noticed (The Salcombe Lifeboat Park)

[@CraigJukes]

Come to Great Torrington, N.Devon. You can park here overnight.

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

I am wondering if you have ever done a turdtowns on my old home shire of Northamptonshire i lived there from 4 to 32 having moved from plymouth when i as 3 living there since i was 1 and i moved away from there when i got married to support my elderly father in law here in buckinghamshire. so im wondering if you havent done one on Northamptonshire would you be interested?

[@S-Ltd1000]

I live in the south hams and avoid these places at all costs. Still visit Bigbury on occasion out of holiday season. Also a huge fan of Mazda, own a skyactiv 3 and a 1993 Eunos Roadster.👍

[@NuckerIThink]

Having performed concerts at budleigh a couple times, I can say that the OAPs of Budleigh are some of the grumpiest I've met

[@malthus101]

8:39 - I'm going to recommend that hotel to the home office for housing our... "undocumented dreamers". Heheheheh.... this little liberal town in Devon should love that!

[@tobza348]

Great video, but very coastal centric. I'm surprised not to see Chagford on here. Thats the main haunt of the 'rich and famous'

[@simonatkins7189]

You'll be happy to know that Devon, Cornwall and Somerset councils are now enforcing something called the Localisation Act 2011, which means you cannot rent or purchase a property there unless you meet the same conditions as wanting social housing -- must have connections, such as relatives locally, a job in the local area, and have a family history there. For my own nomination, I think its time you ventured into the Midlands, especially the East Midlands, around Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Lots of it is run down, but we also have a number of posh areas. Theres a lot of ex-mining communities (check out the aptly named Coalville, complete with closed colliery in the town centre!) so theres a lot of places to explore.

[@andykeith1]

I used to live in the South Hams, but the slightly less expensive bit inland. Visited most of these places at some point. Agree with your assessment of Bigbury 😅. Salcombe had to be no. 1, but surprised Newton Ferrers or Dartmouth aren't on there. The pub in Lustleigh is very nice. Great video thanks

[@sockbath1367]

I’m sure “Right Mold” was brought to us by the same company as “Blonde for Men”. It’s helping all those blonde haired potters get a second home.

[@golfmk8r]

Saying hi from my house in Saunton / Croyde!

[@whataripoff999]

Great video. I live on the outskirts of plymouth and can support you on the fact that places like bigbury and Thurlestone are completely dead and souless - even in summer. As for salcombe - i can't stand the place. There is a level of smugness and superiority from those who ho there in the summer and its a ghost town in winter (which i prefer). Countryside around it though is absolutely stunning.

[@Deedee1987dee]

Poor people can't stand places like that. How dare people save up to and contribute to the community and live somewhere nice 😂😂😂

[@Opel_Guy]

I live in Devon and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Some of the lanes can be "interesting" and very narrow and do seem to go on for miles, especially the one's with grass growing down the middle!

[@saintsaens21]

You were so dramatic about Salcombe's P+R carpark :) It's a mere 700 metres walk to the water's edge, a bit hilly but very scenic.

[@alisonjones9089]

Trouble is many people are kipping in their car for much ore than one night. Cars are for driving not sleeping overnight

[@tomchloe3208]

I own a small 2 bed house in Woolacombe, love using it year round as a 2nd home. Only shame is that the town itself is very seasonal, so mostly everything is closed in the winter. But its otherwise beautiful, and great for walking the dogs on the beach

[@Tommy_Barlow]

Have you been to Kendal? Would be interesting. Or Winchester, Lancaster, Conwy in Wales ? (expat Scot in USA)

[@olliecooper4232]

I know you can not include every wealthy area in Devon, but I would also include Shaldon village too, starcross Kenton and Moretonhamsptead I enjoyed your content thank you

[@dazlad1972]

Love you ti doi one in birtley stanley consett Dipton rolwands Gill and that area and suburbs of gateshead like teams ...Bentham.....the leam etc