Inside Scotland's Roughest Housing Estates...

[@edwardcurrier7366]

The two guys at the end of document speaking pure facts 👊

[@cuttinaboot]

💯 bro

[@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally]

@@TalorcMcAllansame with Cumbria

[@michaelbrown165]

​@@kaz5781he is not telling any lies, he was filming in three different locations Kilmarnock Paisley and Port Glasgow hopefully that clears up matters for you 👍

[@TheMasterblaster32]

​@@kaz5781calm doon karen it'll be ok.

[@paulinezarzoso6181]

Im from Norfolk i moved to Aberdeen tillydrone 2001 06 it was crazy bad with drugs all ground floor windows boarded up well most i went back a couple moon back for my sisters wedding summer 2023 i was explaining how bad tillydrone is i was there for about a week i couldn't believe how much its changed i didnt see one junkie its in credible how they turnt that place around my mate thought i was lieing how bad it was the rest of the UK falling apart and tillydrone got lots better well it couldn't of got any worse .❤ oh yeah i noticed no on soesking dorick anymore i missed that ken fit i mean

[@SeanJames_]

"Deep in the Scottish Highlands"... *goes to Kilmarnock*

[@ryan1mcq]

🤣🤣🤣

[@_LC__]

😂😂😂

[@lindamcmahon3577]

No it doesnt

[@_LC__]

@@lindamcmahon3577 no it doesn't what ????

[@Bartaci]

took the words out ma mouth mate 😂

[@johnmcfadden1416]

As someone who lives in Inverness, actually in the Scottish Highlands, I would like you to apologize for the extremely misleading first sentence of your voiced intro. You are not deep in the Scottish Highlands you are film is set in Kilmarnock in the South West of Scotland. You should of looked at a map first or maybe googled where the Highlands begin, certainly not where you were.

[@MatthewCameron-ts2tk]

Kilmarnocks a far cry from the highlands mate he was way way off with that statement

[@portman8909]

Long live the Highlanders.

[@daviewinters7871]

Oooooooh fancy

[@piping9153]

Hilarious. Trying to get content from children drinking and taking drugs. Then surprised when bottles was thrown. Guys a walloper

[@aroemaliuged4776]

Yeah it is utter bull the whole documentary

[@wrux]

I grew up in a low income family on a council estate, but my mum had morals. She taught me manners and encouraged me to do what I wanted to do. I ended up going to uni even though I was broke and managed to get a computer science degree. I have been traveling the world for 10+ years working remote as a software engineer doing what I had only dreamt of doing at 15. Poverty is an issue, I grew up amongst it... but good morals and a role model is how people break out of that. It's sad to watch this and see kids that want to grow up to be dealers.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

That’s a great story FairPlay mate and yes I know it’s a shame they need good role models

[@sianadele3666]

Proud of you for breaking the odds. Currently fighting statistics myself, trying to do a bachelors degree and pass my knowledge on to the younger generation

[@Jesse-ii5md]

@@sianadele3666always remember to separate the signal for the noise. Go where the growth is please stay out of trouble and remember one day you will look back and smile ❤

[@MoSamuels1]

Same here, was the first in my family to go to university, didn't have much but was always supported by my mum in any endeavour

[@elflakeador09]

Well said, fair play to you for grafting away 👍

[@JD.78]

"You don't have to be highly educated to know when you're being shafted." - Some Old Guy -

[@Live1959-y7b]

😂 brilliant 😅

[@kieranwalker1850]

Some old scotsman

[@bethanyanderson2913]

👏👏👏👏

[@sgthaggis1448]

Yeah that Gentlemen nailed it on the head with that one. Us Scots have been shafted since a VERY long time.

[@maxwellescobar3089]

@@JD.78 turns out some old working drunk guy has infinitely more wisdom than most academic people 😂😂

[@loganullman-campbell5017]

Kilmarnock isn't the Highlands. It's just outside Glasgow.

[@davidandrew7724]

It’s isn’t the highlands but it also isn’t “just” out side of Glasgow It’s miles away from Glasgow

[@jonathanp89]

@davidandrew7724 Around 25 miles, to be exact. Glasgow Prestwick Airport is actually further away from Glasgow than Kilmarnock!

[@Primal_Primat3]

As the man said, its in the Highlands lol

[@michaelburns8519]

Kilmarnock is in east ayrshire - i live in the 'three toons' in north ayrshire - little bosnia straight up.

[@ElDubz2025]

Killie boys yasss 💪😆 cmon! hahaha what schemes this filmed in?

[@climbforsure]

the 2 blokes at the end sum it up perfectly. country is on its knees, people have had enough, meanwhile Rishi and his mates continue lining their pockets. Our grandparents would be ashamed of what this country has become.

[@sylviam6535]

The entire western world is pretty much in the same boat.

[@NobodyI991]

The Scottish government and local authorities aren't any better. Can't keep blaming Westminster. That's exactly what the Scottish government want you to do!.. I was for independence the fist time round, but after being failed by local authorities with no help from local MPs who can't even hold local authorities responsible what chance have we got. All corrupt b*5tard5.

[@PDW262]

Waiting for months for a house.....that sounds like heaven. Here (The Netherlands) you have to wait for 18-20 YEARS.

[@CarnageDogg]

Often because these degenerates can't be bothered buying cheap food and even attempting to cook and buy 2 takeaway meals a day plus alcohol from your so called Rishi's who work hard, don't drink everyday and save money.

[@anthonyr587]

@@climbforsure Here come labour to put the final nail in the coffin.

[@odyshopody9387]

I was born in Greenock, right next to Port Glasgow. You're actually in the Lowlands, not the Highlands! I grew up in the U.S. but have gone back to visit family several times. There are some rough area's in Scotland but I would say by far most of the country is beautiful, as are the people, especially when you get up into the actual Highlands.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

yes beautiful country

[@crackerjack125]

Stop takin the piss​@@HavingaSHOCKER

[@Summer09824]

Beautiful when it’s not raining 😂

[@elguaje7.]

@@HavingaSHOCKERhave ya not replied to anyone about calling these places the highlands

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

@@elguaje7. I made a mistake I don’t think I should be hung to the cross for it I’m not a big studio just me make this videos

[@ShaneMclane-PrivateEye]

Im from north Orange County California. The other day I rode a city bus down Beach blvd in the city of westminster. There are abandoned buildings, homeless camps, people shooting up on the sidewalk. I saw a pile of human crap on the ground at one of the bus stops. It's crazy to see how many cities and towns around the world are decaying at a rapid rate. Excellent documentary. Very well done, thank you.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Appreciate the comments man cheers definitely coming to the states in next 1 yr to make this videos

[@beng4647]

Capitalism baby! We will all die before we admit we were the bad guys.

[@GeeEm1313]

Yeah. I see that daily in Portland, sadly.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

Orange County? Hell yeah, Dude!! 😎 I'd love to visit the States, man, even though I know there are still rough areas like everywhere else, but I'd still love to visit good old America! 😊

[@chillinoutmaxin4630]

@@ProjectCreativityGuy96 Me too! Let's promise ourselves we'll do it one day. UK and Europe is also on my list, I've only ever been to Australia like 6 times 😅

[@GoogleMeAgain]

You’ve had a shocker with the opening statement then you hear Killie boys.

[@GoogleMeAgain]

@@TalorcMcAllan the highland killie boys is a new one

[@martinkerr2721]

@@TalorcMcAllan naw lol mer like that Aberdeen mob that accent faraboots u fae

[@MaytayMaya]

Ah yes. Clan Killie from the famous Isle of Kilmarnock.

[@skye8493]

I was meant to stay a week in Kilmarnock is it as bad as this video?😊

[@toemuncher3333]

@@skye8493depends where you go. There are nice and bad places in every town

[@joekyrollos9550]

I'm from Clydebank but studied in Paisley. I also got my first teaching post there. I've now been a resident for over 30 years. The Buddies are excellent individuals. I've friends in Kilmarnock & I've never experienced any problems. The Dead Scheme in the Port is a very sad situation. However when I visited the area 2 years ago, the last residents I spoke to were open & polite. I even met two families from Birmingham, that'd moved into the area. To improve their family's chances here in Scotland. If that doesn't speak volumes for my Country & the Scots I don't know what does? ❤

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

The people I met in Scotland were the warmest most accommodating people I’ve met on my travels in the uk and I was born in Birmingham!

[@MrSpliffy2]

Respect bro 🙏

[@tuxitalk1World]

I'm American, but my ancestors settled in Paisley, after leaving Ireland due to the potato famine. Sometime I want to visit Scotland and see the entire country. Acquaintances say the people of Scotland are wonderful and nice.

[@malcolmcaveney1132]

@@tuxitalk1Worldwe are I’m from paisley

[@malcolmcaveney1132]

Paisley isn’t the highlands btw 😂

[@mirceaungureanu5305]

Every PM should live in one of these places for a month before they’re allowed to go into office.

[@ghosthdel3098]

My mum is one of the kilmarnock council management team, we have a modest 6 bedrooms home just outside the city and she told me me the council dosnt care about them because they dont cae enough about their own future. They the typical non educated people. Thegt their dole money but instead of using that money to help them, advance, they use it for recreational use.They want easy live because they know the government will support them. F them

[@AntFlynn]

Why? Because people are too lazy to get off their ass and work?

[@loganford3921]

Anyone remember "The Scheme" with Dana and Marvin? That was also in Kilmarnock if I remember right.

[@Barry-th5jr]

😂 oan the scooby dooz

[@jeffmoxey4861]

And built the dug

[@jeffmoxey4861]

Bulit

[@yingyang6496]

I remember listening to them when I was young lol 😂, miners strike ect

[@GraemeDale]

happy as larry... who the fuck is larry n why is he so happy..

[@Andy-ko5eu]

Decent documentary, but one of the first thing you say is "Scottish Highlands" then show Kilmarnock in the south of Scotland.....the whole of Scotland aren't the Highlands

[@davidhunter9282]

I think the meaning of highlands in the Title is this land is where everyone is High on drugs. Love and Light to all❤ Scotland 4 eve.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jackdelacey2505]

Isn't it? 😂

[@wardosravin]

Yesh I didnt bother watching after that. Lost all credibility.

[@matthewb8774]

I am young and working class and can confirm the two old boys at the end nailed it. Sad times.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

! I can relate man thankyou for the comment

[@Yimadbast]

Jack and Victor at the end were spot on

[@robroy488]

"Oh look, it's batman n robin"

[@Davidwhannellisa111.Celt-vr6px]

Aye OK the guy made a mistake saying the Highlands. Geography is no his strong point. But he did shed some light on the deprivation and lack of work for the people of Kilmarnock and paisley.

[@Stong1337]

ngl its the same in every town in scotland... our country is full of it. The rich stay 200 meters from a scheme in Scotland. Everyone grows up with everyone. Will always be the same.

[@atticustay1]

Yeah but it’s a pretty huge mistake. It makes it sound like he thinks the whole of Scotland is the highlands, which is a bit offensive. You need to do basic research before making a documentary. It makes him sound totally ignorant about Scotland. It’s the equivalent of saying London is in the midlands or something

[@GrizzlyAdams101]

@@atticustay1Why is that offensive? Get a grip.

[@Carrie-h2b]

​@@GrizzlyAdams101people who do not care for factual information have no place on the Internet.

[@eddyquigley2350]

​@@GrizzlyAdams101 an easy way to put it is if someone was referring to Manchester city and called then utd am sure both clubs fans would be offended especially a city fan right now 😂😂😂

[@jasonanderson1757]

Absolutely great what those ladies are doing , well done 👋

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Absolutely

[@confidemus1869]

Kilmarnock was shafted recently with Johnny Walker (Diagio) pulling out the area. IIRC they even made a JW museum and placed it in Edinburgh. As someone who supports Kilmarnock you can see reflected in the support how much people are struggling. Football clubs are trying to engage youngsters or use community programmes to get people along to support their local club and their community but there's just not enough money. Scotland for decades has been shafted by governments. It should be one of the wealthiest countries on earth yet we have highest drug deaths in Europe per capita because there's fuck all to do, no houses and no work. Many folk you met if you offered them a chance at making a decent living would walk away from gang life and drugs. Real shame.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Really big shame and I dont know how we start to work towards changing that

[@thesloaneranger1]

Recently? They left in 2012

[@316kennyj]

all about choices ,,,,,no one ever forced to do drugs

[@leetori1]

How, by giving them money from the Big Oil?

[@chiefgilray]

Aye, imagine being Scottish and turning your back on Scotland in favour of Westminster... Embarrassing state of affairs in jockland

[@dandy193]

What's wrong is lack of Discipline, when I was a kid if I did anything like this, did anything that was disrespectful to anyone or anything I'd be punished hard. Today that has been taken out the hands of parents so we have feral yobs running around. I'm from a working class coal mining village in Yorkshire, I didn't turn to stabbing people, robbing people, drug dealing etc, so I can only put it down to lack of discipline and the breakdown of the family unit

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

discipline is the foundation of a good life youre absolutely correct

[@-blaire-]

the problem for them is that theyre growing up in a culture where their behaviour is promoted between the only other kids their age, and their parents couldnt care less about what theyre up to

[@linndrumfan1959]

​@@-blaire- That's very true.

[@jackm3720]

It’s definitely down to the breakdown of the family unit. Mothers do an incredible job, I’m not knocking them. But because the father isn’t there and only the mother, there’s a high chance a young male will become a Ned. A young male needs a man there to keep him in line. A mum just can’t once he starts becoming a man. I was brought up by a single mother, I was on that path. I had a close call (almost got a criminal record) and it woke me up to change my ways. I think if I had my dad there growing up I would’ve behaved myself a lot better, I’m 25. Every single guy I know who are like the young guys in this documentary all have the exact same thing in common.. no father growing up.

[@linndrumfan1959]

@@jackm3720 That's great in theory, but you have to remember a lot of these male youngsters often have "chavy" dad's! It's great if your dad has common sense and good values, but a lot don't have dad's like that in these rough estates.

[@anthonybradley3332]

Bro, great idea and follow through, the fact you turn up on your ones aswell. I appreciated watching and the thoughts you pose and the questions you ask are well thought out even if its just in the moment you ask it. I got a feeling this situation is common accross the uk with some places being affected more than others obviously. If you keep this up i wish you all the best my brother just be careful. 👊

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

I appreciate that! Thankyou I do try to exercise caution at all times it’s difficult to truly capture the raw side of the situation which many of the símilar KZbinrs aren’t capturing. More content coming soon taking a look into the gangs of Britain !

[@drservices71]

Just a tip for the OP, maybe get an Atlas as Kilmarnock is not in the Highlands, it's in Ayrshire, the Highlands start further North of Glasgow. Try exploring Scotland to hear all the different accents.

[@owemeonekenobi988]

It's in East Ayrshire anaw which makes it even better he got it wrong when there's a North Ayrshire that exists 😂😂

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

thanks m8

[@williammccondochie-u6d]

B​@@HavingaSHOCKERyou should know that before bumping your gums

[@chiefgilray]

He isn't called 'having a shocker' for nothing

[@strpied_kratos1287]

"You don't need to be highly educated to know when you're being shafted."👏👏

[@jaigray5422]

I grew up Rough in Glasgow had to fight everyday of life in the early 2000s both in school and out, left with very little qualifications and was going down a slippery slope. I was fighting rival gangs and constantly in trouble with the police daily, my out was the army at 18 years old that taught me discipline, self control and how to work with a team to achieve something bigger than myself and the small part of Scotland I came from. I left 5 years later and took up being a Chef and I still do it to this day. I see alot of young people from Chefs to waiters/waitresses, kids who work part time trying to make a few quid while their at uni or college. It's sad when I talk to them and they tell what kind of jobs they're going to try and get from doing their school work a vast majority of which wont ever get a job in their chosen field because the country is in complete shambles and said jobs literally are in short demand or none existent to begin with making it highly unlikely to achieve, and I don't have the heart to tell them not to do it I don't want to destroy their hopes and dreams. Very sad for kids these days and it's only going to get worse, the old guys at the end of the video are 100% spot on their isn't much of a future for young people anymore and sadly I don't think there will be anytime soon if ever.

[@jim2677]

THE TWO AULD GUYS HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD . ITS A BIG CLUB AND WERE NOT IN IT

[@Blacknblueredneck]

George Carlin

[@dylanm1234]

Killies in Ayrshire mate about 200 miles away from the highlands much closer to Glasgow than the highlands

[@jamesw9873]

He's even in Glasgow @5:02. That's Raglan Street and Cedar Court in the West End xD

[@dylanm1234]

@@jamesw9873 aye it’s deffo not highlands killie paisley and a bit of Glasgow with the looks of it

[@That_blue_Mt125]

Only 50 odd miles mate

[@dylanm1234]

@@That_blue_Mt125 Ayrshire to the highlands is 144 miles according to google

[@evelynwilson1566]

Ice cream wars were bad in the eighties. A family were murdered - their flat was set on fire and some of them were killed😢.We have poor areas where I live but Inverclyde is shocking. Its the same thing where I live, if folk have a job it's in care or retail but houses are expensive. Folk commute to Glasgow and buy the crazy priced houses so they can be near countryside. I've been six years on the housing list, I apply every week and every week I get rejected.

[@knownasgar7122]

one of the few channels actually doing what the video title says! Well done, sir.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Glad you liked it! I do try aha . If you like this one subscribe I will continue to document the no go areas of the world

[@WalkWithWallace]

Great documentary, you're a brave lad wandering about these areas particularly at night.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

cheers mate :) i grew up in areas not so much better so i can relate to these people and places tbh

[@Jolene492]

This video reminds me of why I left Scotland. Kilmarnock isn’t in the Highlands. To be fair people are stuck there and can’t get out

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

It is a shame

[@rhonahall2807]

@@TalorcMcAllanWe have been under the SNP for years now and they have done sweet FA for Scotland.

[@l3awjawz]

@@rhonahall2807 No political party will do anything for ordinary people until they are held *fully* accountable at *all* times.

[@KM-pq7sr]

@@TalorcMcAllan Humza Useless is making Scotland worse.

[@HereicomeOz]

@TalorcMcAllanif we were independent we would be in a far worse state. Drug deaths would go even further through the roof. Poverty would be a majority. Have a word with yourself son

[@ML6103]

My great grandparents migrated from Dundee to Perth, Australia in 1927. By all accounts they had very little schooling yet worked as weavers on the book binding for the WA library and on whatever they could. This gave them access to many books and by the end of their lives they were extremely well read. Their offspring became a businessman, an engineer and town planner, and a pioneering female physiotherapist. All I can say is...if this kind of filth is what we avoided being around by them migrating, thank god!

[@Ohhhhhhbbbb]

As a lad from Glasgow , best city in Britain, who has lived this life but am now 6 months clean from all alcohol and mind altering substances. This is pretty sad and embarrassing to say this least. We’ve got to break that cycle.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

I love Glasgow spent a lot of time in spring burn in my teens was definitely a memorable time in my life but I also witnessed and partook in that extreme sesh culture you guys have and am glad am out of it now a lot of the lads I knew have all had pretty chaotic lives and have never really moved on from it

[@mat5267]

Unfortunately it’s going to get worse. As the country pushes further to de-industrialize, there will be fewer and fewer jobs. This might become more widespread

[@dianeanderson7780]

Congratulations on your sobriety

[@teresabelshaw4262]

Scotland is not all filled with junkies and alkies we have decent people here as well.

[@KittyO7878]

The whole estate you're in at the end in port glasgow was built by the shipyards for workers, was a amazing place to live even 30 years ago. Had my 1st flat there when the school was still open and the shops, private landlords screwed that area right over. Also lived in the feegie for six years in a house close to the asda end, moved away around 11 years ago when most of those abandoned houses/4 in a blocks were still occupied, they are owned by the biggest housing association in paisley, seriously disappointing to see they've not sorted them out.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Proper interesting to hear that mate someone told me that but it’s very cool that you actually lived there bet it was nothing like it is now . It is a failed system I think these should be renovated or torn down and people on long housing wait list would have places to go

[@thehighlandclub8218]

This is really good mate well done for stickin it thegether, obviously not the highlands haha but everything else was spot on. I grew up in South Lanarkshire in the early 90's and it's mental that places look like this in 2024. When I go back to where I came from it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. I now stay in Johnstone and did some community service recently in all of these schemes around linwood, feegie etc and I was surprised at how run down they were.

[@pansypotter4]

Kilmarnock was full of industry. Thr home of Johnny Walker whisky, they closed the factory and moved it elsewhere. Also shoe factory and carpet factories all gone. If you look at some of the architecture in the town, it shows the wealth that used to be there.

[@crackerjack125]

That word used .scotland is used by England for all our money

[@terryt2728]

It reminds me of where I grew up in the US. I'm from WV. You can still see the mansions the coalmine owners lived in. Our little riny town had an opera house that big stars of the day would perform in. The town where all the mine owners lived was one of the first places to have electricity. Even before most of the large cities. The old opera house was turned in to cheap apartments for drug users. We don't have any work but we have plenty of drugs.

[@farouqomaro598]

Them big corps moved their businesses to China for cheap labour. Yet prices of their products keep rising for consumers.

[@ardakolimsky7107]

How can any Scot still think the union benefits the people of Scotland? Billions taken from Scotland, nothing done to drive job creation. Look at Ireland, similar size,..when Scotland was thriving through shipbuilding engineering and mining, Ireland was losing the millions to emigration, poverty everywhere, n industry. But they were independent and pulled themselves up, enacted economic and social systems to provide for their people. Now they are wealthier than Scotland, even though they had no natural resources to speak of while Scotland had huge oil reserves. Pathetic.

[@beeftec5862]

Rough with the smooth. Union has been beneficial historically. Just because you now have an example where you think Scotland fails, how can you predict the future?

[@ardakolimsky7107]

@@beeftec5862 Congratulations. I've never seem a more thorough sidestepping of the points raised. Completely ignored them, boiled them down to "rough with the smooth" I'd say it was lazy, but I'd be lionising your depth of analysis. Fancy addressing any of the points? Or are you happy to create strawman arguments and give absolutely no proof that the "union has been beneficial"? I await with bated breath.

[@DM-fj8wv]

@@beeftec5862 Poor attempt to divert from the great points the OP made.

[@tingtong8781]

God knows what state Scotland would be in now if it had voted yes in 2014. The corruption, incompetence and lack of accountability from the SNP/ Greens has resulted in Scotland resembling a banana republic 😳. Everything the SNP touch they f*ck up - education, policing, ship building, healthcare etc.

[@kylezdeath]

it has nothing to do with immigration

[@Clan501-Scotland]

Bro the ice cream van wars were no joke. Alot of people dont know but Duncan Bannatyne from Dragons Den made his first bag in the ice cream wars.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

yh there's a book on it , gonna order it and give it a read when I've got some time seems very interesting

[@JohnBee-jx3qi]

Ice cream wars from a child 😂😂😂 wee guys aint even frm glasgow but apparantly they know about vans from areas they have never seen or even been born in they times 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Clan501-Scotland]

@@JohnBee-jx3qi They were only telling the visitor about it. Its obviously been very well covered now in documentarys ect. Don't young English lads talk about the krays?

[@donnataylor5673]

Ice cream was brutal that poor family perished no escape

[@curlytoes9319]

Certainly no joke innocent children murdered... well I'm sure Frankie Boyle could find a joke in there somewhere but you get the point

[@adrianmcdonald84]

Those guys at the end nailed it. As a former 'ned' of the 80's 90's , if you aren't offering positions in society to the young people you can't expect them to perform to the values of that society. It's society's failure not the youths. If all you've got is hanging around your local area and there is drugs and cheap booze, what else are you going to do? A lot of these will be bright enogh kids. Sharp but without guidance or avenues to enter society and to feel valued. They are left to find value amongst each other. But they create the rules

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

I wonder what we can do to help the situation, I really hope I can do something with my platform as I think these kids need a little direction

[@jim_dubhglas]

Dear Uploader (Having a SHOCKER) --> Please post a video of just the clip from 21:28 through the end. These old boys are bang on, and their comments are true for most of the 'advanced' / 'first' / 'western' world countries.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

I can make it into a KZbin short but it’s capped at 60 seconds the interview was 10 minutes I’m looking into setting up a free patreon where I post said interviews if you think it’s a good idea I can start with this interview and send you a link once done

[@002lisamarie]

The Scottish Highlands is lovely. This is not the Scottish Highlands.

[@theceltic.craftsman]

Mate I live in a town in the Highlands and it's a fucking shitehole

[@002lisamarie]

@@theceltic.craftsman Which town ?

[@theceltic.craftsman]

Stornoway in the Cearns scheme

[@002lisamarie]

@@theceltic.craftsman Is all of Stornoway bad?

[@theceltic.craftsman]

@@002lisamarie the town centres is peacefull sometimes but the young Ned gangs usually are from the schemes in Stornoway but it still is quite bad generally because of lack of jobs massive drug problem not much stuff to do and the highest crime rate in the west Highlands.

[@elizabethtait2469]

What did that guy sitting in the street at the start of the video do to warrant a death threat? He has nothing, why be like this to him?

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

he was a nice guy i stayed with him after that to makesure he was ok

[@annegreen9499]

This was a really good wee film. The last few men you spoke to summed it up, especially the final two gents. I’m from near Kilmarnock. It makes me really sad to see the state Ayrshire’s in having grown up & lived here all my life, but sadly nothing you filmed surprised or shocked me. It’s just the way it is now. You’re brave though. I’d not walk under the railway, or the back of the park at night in Killy. I see the comments roasting the start for saying that it’s filmed in the Highlands when he’s obviously not, but he’s travelled up from England & I guess didn’t realise there was a difference. Anyhow, good video.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

@@annegreen9499 thankyou I really appreciate that Yh kay park at night was sketchy aha but that’s the realness :) other then that ayreshire has some nice places too wee villages

[@JohnSmith-bm6zg]

That was a surprisingly intellectual conversation at the end.

[@Frillar]

surprising why?

[@linndrumfan1959]

​@@Frillar😉

[@angelaquinn7661]

Oh do enlighten us, not think we are intellectual?

[@emptyhad2571]

Interesting way to put it

[@moniquetheobald889]

My God, I don't think I have seen a grimmer place, anywhere, poor souls, what a tragedy our country has become. Lovely lads that helped you though, our kids and kin have been abandoned.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

It is grim, thankyou for the kind comment

[@MikesGlitch]

Oi, i live quite close to there, it's not that bad

[@marcbrisbane6800]

Theres a lot worse places, especially in england 😂😂

[@KaiserBaz]

Anything looks bad when you edit it horribly. Plenty worse places down south than Kilmarnock, and half the video he's nowhere near it.

[@STIFFLER............5]

😳 the camera work on this video is absolutely exceptional. You captured the perfect dimness and lighting. I lived in an American neighborhood like this in the 1990s and it seems that the culture and housing predicaments are the same everywhere in the world

[@vfdtrdfvs]

Why did you use new street paisley video and pass it off as kilmarnock? 6.05 in the video you can clearly see castlevecchi chippy owned by paolo nutinis dad.

[@jbjaguar2717]

He goes to both Kilmarnock and Paisley in the video.

[@mcginleybhoy180]

The wee litterpickers are in Cedar St flats in Maryhill and there's a random 2 seconds of 2 boys in Stoneyhurst St in Possil (3:30).

[@rpw1013]

Sorry, but this video is just full of inaccuracies. The creators of this type of video don't do any proper research and constantly get crucial points wrong, from saying it is one area when it's actually nowhere close to there. Also the youngsters in the shopping centre at the start - so much bullshit, unbelievable.

[@josephbailey4249]

Be fair,The interviewer doesn't have a lot of resources to research in depth and and his interviews with 'ordinary people' seem very honest and balanced.If you went to any deprives area of the UK the Midlands, Wales , the North East or North West and N.Ireland you would find people of that kind ,doing their level best to keep the place clean and decent for everybody. You always get the show offs .We have them in the South East and London in general .Mouth pieces at every level, They are not representative ,although the deprivation is. What we need from whatever government is elected this year is a commitment to genuinely level up and to try and use these young people with their obvious talents for the good and suggest they move away from the bad .I really think that Kier Starmer as a former prosecution lawyer (and I knew him when he was a defence lawyer as well) appreciates the problems .We need solutions that is all and I leave it up to you what you decide to do. Its a democracy so they tell us after all.

[@Live1959-y7b]

He shows the evidence, people don't have to do too much research really, just have the guts and do the documentary. At least this guy had a go. I thought he did well 😅 poor man nearly got shafted.

[@Baron_von_Fargone]

​@@josephbailey4249😂 are you "the creator" or his boyfriend

[@Baron_von_Fargone]

​@@Live1959-y7bhe's a radjie mate 😂total radjie

[@josephbailey4249]

@Antacid420 I have exactly no clue what you are on about. Maybe you could us all on here something of a definition of your terms ?

[@JordanIdk]

I think part of this is who your parents are as well. I grew up in Paisley, in one of the houses up that hill in the background at 10:50. I kept to myself with a small circle of friends. When I left school, college was there, for free. After two years of college, two years of university were there, for free. Perhaps because my mother and the people I hung out with weren't into drugs or drinking on street corners, I never ended up in that situation, even living in a poor area. Different family, different friends, would likely have been completely different. The most danger I ever felt I was in came from ice on that hill in the winter.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

No way small world and I agree it’s how you act if you’re involved with the wrong crowd you can pretty surely see some stuff go wrong if you keep urself to urself your fine

[@TheScotlandguy123]

I Used to live in Kilmarnock. And going out at night is horrible junkies everywhere. Its not fair on all the mothers and children it really isn't. My gran also lives here and some junkies went and started ringing her buzzer at 12-1am. Most people are nice but most are junkies and rough people.

[@777vp]

this isnt just a documentary, this is pure, unbiased, unrivalled, journalism

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

means a lot man! hope i can continue to educate and create :)

[@Funster00]

'Deep in the Scottish Highlands'! You've had a shocker with the geography

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

True

[@002lisamarie]

Well done to the litter pickers. Keep it up x

[@larsstougaard7097]

Yes wonderful and they have a life time of work there

[@002lisamarie]

@@larsstougaard7097 They certainly do, but I hope they keep it up.

[@keith800]

​@@002lisamarieShould be the teens doing the litter picking it may give them something to do and a bit of sef respect.

[@002lisamarie]

@@keith800 Yes true.

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

It's beyond frustrating that there's so much homelessness in the UK and all those abandoned houses. The math isn't mathing.

[@zkakproductions2049]

Way way up north in scotland is amazing. It is almost devoid of chavy places and in addition is beautiful

[@jonathanmarkbotterell1926]

.....growing up in a deprived area, you find ways of just surviving. More of our towns are becoming empty of shops.Communities starved of investment and purpose. Governments have the money, but seem not to care that Supermarkets have sucked dry the life blood of 😢 our once bustling high streets.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Makes me think what will it take to bring about change though?

[@thesloaneranger1]

"Deep in the Highlands".......... "Killie boys!" *facepalm* The film may have taken a month to finish, but it took precisely 15 seconds to fall on its arse. I now live in South Ayrshire, and it is a million times better than Paisley where I spent 20 years. HOWEVER, the old houses in Ferguslie Park have been CPO'd by the council and are all due to be demolished and replaced with modern homes, so it is unfair to show the condemned area. You were literally a 30 second walk away from Well Street, which is actually coming down as we speak. Have I walked around Tannahill Terrace quite safely at 2am? Yes; Union Street in Glasgow at 2pm is dodgier. There is a slight lack of opportunities for youngsters these days, but part of the problem is getting parents to be more proactive too; in Paisley alone there are scouts/brownies/guides/Boys Brigade/youth clubs/swim clubs/basketball clubs/football/dancing/karate/theatre classes/army cadets and more - but parents have to actually encourage their kids to get off their phones and do something more constructive with their time. The Ice Cream Wars were no joke either, but that is a long time ago and thankfully not as relevant today. The Clune Park tenements again, are being CPO'd as the council have been desperate to pull these down for years. They are former homes for shipbuilders, and when the yards closed the families left.... theres nothing sinister about them. These flats can be bought for as little as £8000 and the council are doing their best to scoop them up like Pokemon. As you saw, the area is patrolled by the council who are doing their best. All in, a poorly researched and poorly presented documentary. Scotland is not all shortbread and tartan, but ironically, you have picked out places where something is actually being done. There are parts of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, Lanarkshire and Dundee which are worse..... and also nearer the Highlands than Kilmarnock.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Consider this , the likes of channel 4 who produce documentaries will have a producer , director team of camera operatives , a team to research and write scripts ... the list goes on . Guess how many people worked on this ? 1 person Im 21 and still very new to the art. Why dont you give it a go instead of commenting hate on here?

[@owemeonekenobi988]

​@HavingaSHOCKER Why don't you take a bit of healthy criticism and get your knickers untwisted, you weren't this brave with the 12 and 13 year olds so don't come it online 😂😂

[@owemeonekenobi988]

Complete misreprensation of our area and its people, believe me when I say that this guy is not some generous saviour trying to shed a light on existing issues, he's trying to make poverty porn in order to garner views, money, and/or admiration

[@ThePaderborners]

@@HavingaSHOCKER Its not a hate when someone just points a mistake about highlands.

[@LukeTG1TTV]

Great video. What's the little handheld mic? Sound quality is great.

[@Finnegan708]

I enjoyed this look at scotland. As an 🇺🇸who has been all across my country-we're crumbling as well. Like scotland,good people abound. But we're all having a hard time. God be with you.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

thankyou mate do you want to see more from the uk or all over the world ? im currently back filming now in the uk

[@Finnegan708]

@@HavingaSHOCKER i myself enjoy the 🇬🇧vids because what happens there comes here. I'm hopeful but feel hard times coming for 🇬🇧and 🇺🇸. Both places the natl spirit has been wrecked.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Okay mate will continue to document the uk the best I can thankyou for the comment and subscription:) have a good one

[@Kraken2681994]

Bless the auld yins man, life is what you make of it. If you want to see a change around you, become that yourself. 👍 The old fellas at the end are on the money, "you don't have to be highly educated, to know your being shafted" Priceless patter

[@l3awjawz]

AYe, love how the auld fellas said: 'You could study, gain certificates and move on' 'Education was the road out for us'... ...aye, which is why they're standing in the ghost town of Paisley in 2024! 🤣 Anair hing fellas: the ruling class have been bleeding us dry long before C0\/1d. We had a decade of austerity before that. We had a decade of war against some unseen "terrorists" before that. We had 20 year of Thatcher before that which Major, Bliar and Brown continued. Since 1979 and possibly even longer, Britain's wealth has been sucked out of the British economy into the offshore tax havens of corporate gangsters who have paid off the politicians to do their bidding.

[@Rocky-c5e]

Love the Scottish people. So friendly and with a great sense of humour. My dad lived in Glasgow and I loved going up to see him as the Scotts were such good value.

[@craftygirl138]

Just to let you know it's "Scots" it's a pet peeve for us when there's an extra t put in the word! 😂😊

[@badgermations]

I atcually kind of feel bad for the people living there. Imagine growing up in a place where everyone has bad behaviour. If you are constantly surrounded by bad people, unfortunately you have a high chance of becoming one of them. Then it gets passed down to the next generation and the area may forever be poor.

[@betamax1828]

This is a good video but im just loving how everyone is just pointing out the fact kilmanrocks nowhere near the highlands

[@YVONNEHEUINGS]

The two guys at the end spoke the truth.

[@ShaksWD]

I live in the outskirts of Kilmarnock, in Hurlford. I usually go in to the town to get what I need to get now and then and have seen a lot of business shutting their doors throughout time. It’s a shame

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

I have a friend that lives in Glasgow ( I'm from Toronto ), and he once told me that even if you wore a Glasgow Celtics jersey in the wrong part of town, you could end up getting stabbed!

[@doorsygall7477]

Still is like that noo

[@donnapalaussie19]

Bless those sweet ladies cleaning up the rubbish. It’s a shame the kids/youth don’t have that same sense of pride in where they live.

[@Gabos791]

The flats you were in at port glasgow locally known as Robert street is about 2 miles from one of Scotlands poshest towns as well called Kilmalcolm which is just behind the port. Poverty and rich literally 5-10 minutes in a car

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

I did not know this , thank you for teaching me something new

[@charlottemaclean204]

I'm certain that's me and my little one in the background at the bus station in killie.

[@wilfulsprite555]

The juxtaposition of that empty 'zero emissions' bus gliding through that derelict estate says it all. Says it all about how we got here and why.

[@garrymcdonald2180]

Thanks

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

thankyou garry :)

[@johnclinton4049]

Im from Glasgow, me and my cousin went exploring up there in port Glasgow the place was like a horror film or Chernobyl

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Never seen anything like that in my life before

[@skeletalwreck]

The two gents at the very end of this video made the biggest impact. And that says A LOT considering how well documented some of the sights of depravity are here. Really appreciate them taking the time to share some well educated and well informed facts and observations from the ground. A scandal is correct! ✌👍

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Yes I felt the need to put this at the end as it was so poignant

[@TheUnityv13]

More people need to hear what these two gents have to say. As a Scot that’s lived near Glasgow all my life, what they said is bang on. Scotland could have been so much better too much division

[@MacmartinsFifa]

Best bit about this was the two old Jo’s speaking the truth of the situation 👌🏻

[@elder_gambino3403]

crazy how much that one dude looks like ewen macgregor

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

True

[@james2479]

I love these titles of no go areas. I 99% guarantee anyone can walk through these areas with no problem.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

probly

[@joedwyer3297]

Hahaha and first time you go you get mugged by 40 drunk 13 year olds guaranteed😅

[@ToudaHell]

During the day, maybe. I can walk anywhere as a woman during the day. At night? No fricking way.

[@Lubomishka92]

I, 60yr old woman now, was actually born in Port Glasgow, brought up in Kilmarnock, worked there for many years. There’s a lot of decent hard working people in Kilmarnock, I’m glad I left, a long time ago, live happily in Europe. My parents would be ashamed of Kilmarnock now, it’s sad.

[@kevindunne6832]

It,s not the areas people live in , people are the ones that make a place what it is , i was no angel growing up ,but had respect for others where it was due , never into this vandalism crap wrecking kids play parks etc , no house break ins , no heavy drugs , a smoke which only leads to stronger stuff if the person decides that,s what THEY WANT , you can take a horse to the water but you can't make it drink

[@316kennyj]

voice of reason

[@JamesRogers-vs4vb]

Shit sticks

[@curlytoes9319]

Brilliant from those 2 old guys at the end 👏

[@12ozElephant]

Even Scotland’s most derelict towns are quite beautiful lol. Visited Edinburgh last October as an American tourist and was blown away at how beautiful Scotland is. Sad what’s happening to the UK economy right now. Hopefully things will turn around soon.

[@tracylouise222]

The amount of young drug dealers in Glasgow or nr abouts is absolutely truly disturbing. Knowing some of the parents that influence them to do it also,absolutely shocking

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Yes it’s fd situation the fact parents encourage it is next level messed

[@tracylouise222]

@HavingaSHOCKER yes,so sad but true.Im from Glasgow and know a woman personally with a crack cocaine addiction ,she's had her 17 Yr old son out selling everything and anything, just so sad and horrifc

[@Natasha-j9w]

If you’re going to Edinburgh, explore pilton, crazy stuff especially on ferry rd

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Will note it down thankyou Natasha

[@johnobrien6466]

Or niddrey n craigmiller areas used to be like bosnia in the mid to late 80s esp up around tbe jack caine centre an niddrey house parts

[@merlin767]

Great vid to guys at the end . Love from Saskatoon Saskatchewan 🇨🇦

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Big love to Canada , I will visit your country some day!! To make film

[@davidhunter9282]

Fark I lived at south Beach Ardrossan till I was 3 then we came to Australia in 1976. Nay good to see the hardship. Love and Light to all ❤

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Definetely not good to see the struggles, was it a good choice moving?

[@M6RJ]

You should be saying fak oi lived in saawth beach in aaardrossan till oil was 3 then cameee to oz in nointeen seeventy sux.. now gd t soi the haardship .lav an liogh ❤️

[@melissafarrugia9531]

So glad you are in Australia That’s what my Aussie Aunt says faaark 😂 I’m a granddaughter of a Scottish woman who was adopted and brought to Australia as a child. Love and Peace right back to You ❤

[@capital5901]

media and songs have a profound impact on these kids

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

like drill n stuff yh?

[@capital5901]

everything, in the need to create entertainment people have glorified drugs and hypersexuality@@HavingaSHOCKER

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

definetely notice that music in the 60s was a better frequency , but nowadays since the people funding the music only want one type of sound i understand the battle between artists and labels

[@kieranmaiden]

0:00 I'm from the Scottish Highlands. The highlands are the mountains in the north lad, none of these places are even touching them, let alone "deep in" them. (granted its just as rough up here in places, same as everywhere)

[@greenghoul157]

Kilmarnock isn't in the Highlands, the Highlands is places like Inverness

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

thanks

[@patsyballantyne9886]

Killie/Kilmarnock is in Ayrshire

[@janetashbrook5614]

The gentlemen at the end were right. No advancement now with colleges either closed or not offering courses in the evening for those working which was a route for many at one time. I went to College and University as an adult with three children through my local college which is now a housing estate. I hoped to continue doing courses at the college but no longer have one.

[@bluebaz]

The scheme the two lads were walking through is Ferguslie Park in Paisley AKA Feegie. It's actually better now than it was in the 80/90s. The last area with the flat roofed tenements is in Port Glasgow.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

i heard it was 2 gang families who ran the place

[@johnfindlay4215]

Grew up in Paisley on Murray St had Love St on one end and Ferguslie Park and the racecourse at the other end and we went to America to get away from that

[@bluebaz]

@@johnfindlay4215 know it well, my cousins all stayed in Logan drive behind Greenhill Rd at the end of Murray St. Long gone and replaced by St Mirren's new stadium... more crime gets committed there on a Saturday afternoon now than at any point in the 80s 😂

[@andrewdocherty73]

@@bluebaz I grew up in feegie all my days and it is now a lot better than what it was all those years ago

[@johnobrien6466]

​@@bluebaz🤣

[@Whatt787]

What a horrible place to live, especially in the Winter

[@jpc3603]

Finally, someone who documents deprived areas without it feeling exploitative or equivalent. Thanks 🙌🏼

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Thankyou for that I will continue to make unbiased documentary around the world

[@Der_Gewagte]

The worst part of it is, they have litteraly no reason to become a criminal, they are criminals because they think it's cool or because of their idol.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Sad reality

[@bethanwhamondb2871]

Actually you have absolutely no perspective of what it's like to live in these communities. Children growing up with potential addict parents in poverty, misbehaving to get attention because they've never had attention from their parents, the only people that make them feel any sense of belonging is badly behaved youths, drug dealers that want to abuse them for work and its a cycle that's hard to get out of

[@allwrighty100]

One of the best researched documentaries on KZbin. This guy ventures deep into the Scottish highlands (Kilmarnock) to talk to a gang of toddlers about gang life.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

u try

[@allwrighty100]

@@HavingaSHOCKER Try what? Looking at a map?

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

@@allwrighty100 make a documentary i will watch

[@allwrighty100]

@@HavingaSHOCKER 👍peace🍻

[@stepchicken3238]

@@HavingaSHOCKER Find out what a doc is first. It's not about wandering around derelict buildings not knowing where you are.

[@chrisicotec7652]

those two lads who were teliing you about the glasgow gang territories werent kidding... i used to live in the drumchapel area as a teen in the 90s, i almsot got killed for straying into the wrong area of my own scheme, spent months in hospital after it,fractured skull, broken jaw,multiple stab wounds all because i didnt live in that area

[@SmokeyJ420]

I used to be a Glasgow ned when I was younger 😂🤣 Glasgow's definitely worse than Edinburgh though bro 💯👌

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Aha on the buckfast yeah? And fair enough man i heard Dundee too? might have to check it out

[@SmokeyJ420]

@HavingaSHOCKER haha you know bro 👌💯😂🤣 yeah Dundee has a big drug problem and a lot of poverty as well.. I think most if not all the cities in UK are the same these days mate..

[@kjpkjp8083]

​@@HavingaSHOCKERYeah mate some bits of Dundee are rough but you'll need to remember and take an interpreter with you are you will get lost.

[@lewisbeaton7839]

They are all just full of little scaffy idiots. Scotlands a dump Im glad I left

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

noted!

[@samosaandersona8866]

Two older boys at the end are bang on ! Was that in Paisley ?

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

yh man

[@lonoreturns]

They are walking thru Tannahill Terrace.

[@lambruscopopcorn9431]

The same is happening in Edinburgh and I seriously start to think if I made the right choice to move here in Scotland! I love the Scottish people, they are lovely and friendly but the teenagers gang is a serious problem and I start to feel anxious when I go outside with my kids!

[@BeneathTheGold]

The sad part is this isn’t even the worst area. I’ve stayed in several areas around Scotland and the worst by far is the Inverclyde area. Greenock and Port Glasgow. Greenock is Scotlands biggest shit hole. That’s official although they use words like most deprived area but it amounts to the same thing.

[@boabie1463]

Hope you got a job finally.

[@BeneathTheGold]

@@boabie1463 😂😂😂

[@melvinluyindi7658]

My old manager at was from Greenock such a sound cunt, would travel from Greenock to Edinburgh to get to work

[@musicaladdiction4147]

Have you ever seen Airdrie, Coatbridge or Cumbernauld ? Especially it’s if the south Carbrain area it’s is like a 3rd world country and to say the people are not very friendly to outsiders is an understatement.

[@l3awjawz]

At least Greenock has the esplanade. Port Glasgow must be the arse end of Scotland.

[@WasabiDreams]

loved and subbed, well done on such an informative video

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Awesome, thank you!

[@saze264]

This was a really good watch, especially the guys at the end. Definitely nowhere near the highlands but the point of the piece & the message was still powerful.

[@HavingaSHOCKER]

Thankyou

[@jacquelinewatt1241]

Boycott the card reader drug dealers KEEP IT CASH, CASH IS KING 🤴 USE IT OR LOSE IT 😅

[@TheAvarusAnimus]

That man in the last 20 seconds.....was spot on!