Ranking every UK city I've been from BEST to WORST!

[@EdBrinton]

Bit of a different video today, if you liked it give us a like, I appreciate it 😊

[@InvictaView]

A good review for sure, but, really, you're are only ever going to scratch the surface here in the UK. With many of the comments on your content, it's that familiarity thing. A lot of us have already seen so much of the UK, past and present, I think most here are now indifferent to all the good and bad around us. If we can't emigrate, we are here forever! Your a young gun, fair enough, you need to see these places, definitely. Trip wise, it's more non UK I want to see more of. Maybe you could collaborate with someone on your foreign trips, a local, like a guide, like hiring a cheapo taxi driver. Here, or on social media, you might be able to make contacts. Keep it up, whatever you do. ✔️🇬🇧👍💯😎

[@dannyd0g]

I've also visited many cities, and lived in 3, and the one ranking I disagree with most is regarding Bristol. I spent 3 years there at Uni and on the whole it's a prestigious and architecturally beatiful city, also with some arty and bohemian areas, which makes it very interesting. The natural setting of all the hills adds to the beauty too, with parts of the city split by hills and valleys, with some of the colourful Montpellier houses for example sitting picturesquely on a steep green hill. Really noticed in one time after a very late night / very early morning walking home in the bright dawn light, with that view and not a sole to distract me. The weather really is better down there too. I think it was Stephen Merchant who said that Bristol is like the San Fransisco of the UK. I'm not sure if he was entirely serious, but there are many similarities, which I can attest to having also had the pleasure and priviledge of visiting San Fransisco. The bohemian, creative, arty feel, the beatiful natural setting of the hills, along with the waterfront / bay settings, being some of the positives, and some of the negatives are the same too with the enormous homeless problems. And many other comparisons too. Where I lived in Eastville must have had a crackhouse near by, and there were prostitutes outside our house sometimes, or at the end of the street. So yeah it was a bit seedy to say the least. But so interesting! Nearby Easton and St Pauls had considerably worse reputations than Eastville. I heard recently that things in Easton have got really very bad with drugs, especially crack users and addicts, ravaging the area badly. That's sad and concerning if that is the case! After uni, I've lived in Manchester for almost 30 years and it has changed so much in that time period. It's been through hard times between the 70s - 90s, and large areas were basicall GRIM :- impoverished, scruffy, litter strewn, run down, empty, derelict, ugly etc. It was so bad for a period up until the mid 90s when the transformation began following the IRA bomb in the city centre in the mid 90s, and then some more improvements for the commonwealth games in 2002. And then since then teh transformation has been astonishing with the incredible growth of all the apartment blocks in the city centre. Love them or hate them, the transformation has been astonishing. Yes there are lots of rough areas, loads of homeless people, but fortunately the underclass seems to be shrinking or getting displaced to the rougher estates where I don't go. Unless you want to be surrounded by crackheads looking for what they can steal.

[@EdBrinton]

@@dannyd0g fair enough mate! Yeah Bristol has some good buildings for sure

[@dannyd0g]

@@EdBrinton Yeah it has whole areas full of them. Interesting video though.

[@EdBrinton]

@dannyd0g thank you mate!

[@alittlebitofwaffle4072]

Its one city I just can't make my mind up on. It does have a unique feel to it which is something to be proud of.

[@EdBrinton]

@alittlebitofwaffle4072 agreed

[@JimmuCossey]

2:24 most real statement in the history of statements ever

[@EdBrinton]

@JimmuCossey real

[@JimmuCossey]

@@EdBrintonBrighton above London is crazy but maybe but Londons more of a city you live in then a city you visit tbh

[@EdBrinton]

Very true mate! It's nearly a tie overall to be honest 😊​@JimmuCossey

[@JimmuCossey]

@@EdBrinton where are you going next

[@EdBrinton]

@JimmuCossey I'm gunna try and film something today in Hampshire

[@mandymclan]

Bradford is the worst place ever. Agreed. 😅

[@EdBrinton]

Agreed haha

[@ianwhitehouse2487]

@@mandymclan my daughter went to Bradford last year for her work, said it’s the only place she’s been where she was genuinely terrified, and she only stopped at the Asda to buy a sandwich 🥹

[@InvictaView]

Yes, I'd second that too. I had a drop off there one evening, circa 1992, in some quiet industrial area, and was actually asked what I was doing stopping in there area to buy a snack. They do truly exist these morons. And I was living in Slough at the time, which, is a far nicer place than Bradford I can tell you. 👍💯🇬🇧✔️

[@oldhamer111]

Trust me the Bradford of today makes 1992 Bradford look like the Garden of Eden ​@@InvictaView

[@oldhamer111]

​@@ianwhitehouse2487 Gee I wonder why 😢

[@globaltraveller]

Agree with one of the comments below. Best city in the UK is Inverness. A great place it's underrated but clean and well-kept, friendly locals, great pubs and restaurants, great music surrounded by great countryside.

[@EdBrinton]

@@globaltraveller can't go wrong with Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@InvictaView]

​@@EdBrintonTry Aberdeen, The Granite City. I rated it above Glasgow, Paisley and Edinburgh. Stonehaven is beautiful. 👍💯🇬🇧

[@conorwhite2066]

That's cause Inverness is isolated and the invasion has not reached there yet

[@EdBrinton]

@InvictaView good picks mate!!

[@alittlebitofwaffle4072]

Inverness is cool..had a great night out in Dundee once. Edinburgh is a must see. Scotland is generally amazing.

[@garyrigby21]

Best cities - Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Leeds. Worst - Nottingham, Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry

[@EdBrinton]

@@garyrigby21 good picks mate

[@tingtong8781]

Bradford 😦.

[@garyrigby21]

@@tingtong8781 yeah Bradford it's pretty bad let's be honest here

[@garyrigby21]

@@tingtong8781 any landlocked city has always been dull

[@tingtong8781]

@ so you were joking 😁!

[@garethpayne6907]

Really good video. I really liked Chichester, very middle England. I only saw the tourist bits of Canterbury and really liked it. Cardiff is great but other parts of south Wales can be rough in comparison. I've done a lot of Bristol doing family research but it's not easy to drive around.

[@EdBrinton]

@@garethpayne6907 thanks mate!

[@garethpayne6907]

@James-m9k4w I'd put Bristol as a B, simply because some parts are really good however the bad parts are really bad! Cardiff too ( Splott "beach" a Z).

[@EdBrinton]

@garethpayne6907 not a bad take actually!

[@InvictaView]

​@@garethpayne6907My visit to St Paul's was an eye opener around 18 years ago. Those eyes all followed me on a daytime visit to a pub. But others said this had changed as I'd have been thrown out 25 years ago. Still, it was the worst black and white experience I've ever had. No other city I've been to has felt like St Paul's did then. 👍💯🇬🇧✔️

[@Murdersville]

There's a difference between visiting a city for a day or two and living there (particularly given where in the city you live).

[@EdBrinton]

@@Murdersville I agree

[@Yodaspirit45]

@@EdBrinton Moving to live closer to family can turn out to be a bad move too i should know 😩

[@JimmuCossey]

Brighton is shite… I shall call it shiteghton

[@Lechonberryph]

Do small towns next! Or European countries

[@EdBrinton]

That's a great idea which one first?

[@shawn6796]

​@@EdBrinton boooring 😂😂😂 West is finished!

[@EdBrinton]

@@shawn6796 what do you reckon mate haha

[@InvictaView]

​@@shawn6796But hold on Brother, all is not lost. Syria will soon be open for tourists!'🇸🇾💯👍✔️😀

[@InvictaView]

​@@EdBrintonTurkey. East meets West. I'd love to visit Ankara one day. Its such an important country in the grand scheme of all that's happening today. 🇹🇷✔️👍💯😎

[@dantilley]

What tier would you place Oxford in?

[@EdBrinton]

@@dantilley a tier bro

[@Crimeajewel-me3me]

What do you think are the underlying causes of the decline you notice in different areas ?

[@EdBrinton]

@Crimeajewel-me3me it's so nuanced area to area. But usually lack of investment, high taxes on small businesses, online shopping, mass migration, decline in education standards, soft parenting, cultural shifts. The list goes on mate

[@improvesheffield4824]

This isn’t EVERY UK city is it? Where’s Nottingham, Derby, Chester, Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Liverpool, Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Belfast, Lincoln, Wells, St.Davids etc?

[@EdBrinton]

@@improvesheffield4824 they were not on the tier list I found. I'll have to do another video brother!

[@InvictaView]

​@@EdBrintonIt'll take a while lol! 😅✔️

[@EdBrinton]

@@InvictaView years to do them all haha!

[@robertfear7021]

Sir, the path you are on will not produce viewers. I get you're doing and appreciate it.

[@EdBrinton]

@@robertfear7021 what do you mean?

[@shawn6796]

Ehf viewers! This is for fun! 😅

[@EdBrinton]

@shawn6796 Unless I make "I visited the worst town" I basically don't get views. Otherwise I would've quit my job and travelled the world lol

[@InvictaView]

​@@EdBrintonBe radical and outlandish. More the better to provoke a reaction. 👍✔️😀😊

[@improvesheffield4824]

Oh, and how could I forget Oxford when you’ve included Cambridg? - also Norwich!

[@EdBrinton]

@@improvesheffield4824 I'll do another tier list soon :)

[@will_n775]

I agree with most of this from my experiences but London needs to be much further down, I live in Bexley/Dartford and the infrastructure is shocking but the city is even 10x more frustrating smh. Everywhere in the city shuts at 12 and is ridiculously expensive and South East London has been completely ignored, no nightlife, 1 s***y crossing with lots of traffic all the time and a high crime rate - lovvvvely. Oh and don't get me started on the 20mph speed limits, ULEZ, crappy trains, unreliable electric buses and people with bad attitudes😂

[@EdBrinton]

@@will_n775 yeah some parts of London are rough rough mate

[@will_n775]

@EdBrinton Yeah, I can't think of many upsides to London 😂😂 maybe some of the architecture actually but that's it

[@SageMillhill]

Thanks, that was great fun! ⭐ London is C at best.

[@EdBrinton]

Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️

[@Yodaspirit45]

I like the spaciousness and vibe of Bath and felt free visiting there to escape from that Bournemouth skunk ridden hellhole where i lived for 2 years in a rented bedsit slum back in the late 90’s owned by a crooked landlord

[@EdBrinton]

@@Yodaspirit45 yeah Bournemouth I've been before I've seen mixed reviews on it to be honest

[@Yodaspirit45]

@@EdBrinton If you ever return to barmy Bournemouth take the 3 mile trip to nearby Boscombe if your VERY brave trust me it’s an eye opener.

[@InvictaView]

​@@Yodaspirit45I missed that one. It must've been bad for Wetherspoons to close down! 🧐

[@iainmacdonald1189]

Misrepresentation. You should have called this "Ranking every major town and city in England and Wales I have been to"

[@EdBrinton]

This title sounds a bit better personally, thanks for the advice though brother I appreciate it

[@InvictaView]

​@@EdBrintonUnderstandably, this is only a snapshot. As I say to myself, I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list! 👍💯🇬🇧✔️😀

[@EdBrinton]

@@InvictaView people always get offended 😜

[@adhominem_]

wow, surprised by Winchester... liked it a lot

[@EdBrinton]

@@adhominem_ I just had a bad experience there but the city itself is gorgeous

[@ianwhitehouse2487]

I grew up in Lichfield and now live in Inverness, sat with bated breath and neither got a mention lol. Good list though 😂

[@EdBrinton]

Thank you brother! I appreciate that. Hows Inverness?

[@ianwhitehouse2487]

@ Inverness is amazing, you’d love it here, friendliest place in the UK and great for a night out

[@EdBrinton]

@ianwhitehouse2487 I'll have to visit. Never been to Scotland so I'll need to visit. Also wanna go Isle of Skye!

[@ianwhitehouse2487]

@ everybody loves Skye. Two more places you should visit that are brilliant but have a bit of a reputation, Glasgow and Belfast. Been to both loads of times and absolutely love them both

[@EdBrinton]

@ianwhitehouse2487 good shouts indeed! I'll have to fly there next year for sure

[@lewis6565]

Interesting that you put Cambridge at the top. Don't get me wrong Its quite pleasant down by the river in the summer time and mostly quite a safe city, but other than that there's really not much to do here if your someone visiting. I have been to most of the major cities in England and I would say from my personal experience Manchester is one of the best, as it's one of the biggest and thers lots to do there, also nothing is too expensive. Hotels were pretty cheap as were pubs resterants ect, and you don't have all the extra charges like London has (ulez and very expensive parking ect.). You also have the peak distrct and Sheffield within an hour or so drive of manchester which beats any of the national parks near london in my opinion

[@EdBrinton]

I'll definitely have to spend more time in Manchester it seemed like it had great potential!

[@lewis6565]

@@EdBrintonyeah definitely, also if your based around the south east, and looking for places to do videos, Colchester is fairly nice and I think is the UK's oldest city so it's got that going for it, also Norwich is quite nice has a nice market and and this shopping centre that's underground near the castle. Although they're definitely not the most exciting places in the world.

[@EdBrinton]

@lewis6565 that's a good idea I'll have to try visit! I definitely wanna go Essex actually soon

[@lewis6565]

@@EdBrinton Essex is quite a mixed bag much like Kent, some pretty nice towns and some pretty grim crime riddled ones, for good places I'd say Epping, Saffron Walden and Colchester, for bad places Canvy island, Harlow and Clacton

[@EdBrinton]

@lewis6565 good take indeed. Fun fact my grandad was from Jaywick haha!

[@tonyfield9613]

Enough negativity in the world without you spreading more, how about being positive for a change.

[@EdBrinton]

@@tonyfield9613 what shall I say

[@garyrigby21]

Have you visited Liverpool? my fave city in the UK

[@EdBrinton]

@@garyrigby21 I need to go man

[@garyrigby21]

@EdBrinton I hope you can make it

[@paulmckee4168]

No Belfast, disgraceful behaviour lol

[@EdBrinton]

@@paulmckee4168 somehow wasn't on this tier list for me to use

[@LoyalisterMcUlster]

thanks for the comment I was actually going to watch the video

[@EdBrinton]

@UKMDI It wasn't on the tier list, I haven't been there yet but I plan on doing a video there next month

[@shawn6796]

Have you figured out where you'll be settling (country) in near future? 😉

[@EdBrinton]

@@shawn6796 probably Thailand honestly or Philippines!

[@shawn6796]

@EdBrinton good on you. Help Thailand fight de- occupation 👍

[@EdBrinton]

@shawn6796 the people are so friendly you can't not love Thailand

[@shawn6796]

@EdBrinton and the food 👌

[@EdBrinton]

@shawn6796 it's top tier mate especially the curry

[@Abba555]

amazing but where is leeds and sheffield :)

[@EdBrinton]

@@Abba555 haven't been there yet so wouldn't be fair to add them :)

[@urseliusurgel4365]

Comparing what are really large market towns in rural areas, that just happen to be formally given the title of cities, to huge urban centres is like comparing apples and oranges.

[@EdBrinton]

@@urseliusurgel4365 it's a city tier list 💀

[@Lechonberryph]

@urseliusurgel4365 finding issues in everything. Shame on you Karen 🤡

[@urseliusurgel4365]

@@EdBrinton But St. Davids in Wales is a city, with a population of 1,750, how is that comparable to Greater London, also a city, with a population of over 7 million? Like I said, 'apples and oranges'.

[@urseliusurgel4365]

@@Lechonberryph I'm not Karen, I'm autistic, fully clinically diagnosed. If I see something that does not make sense to me, I comment on it. I am also an academic doctor in a scientific field, so illogicality is doubly uncomfortable for me.

[@EdBrinton]

@urseliusurgel4365 it's just a city tier list bro. I'm just a random guy it's not my job lol

[@OldWolflad]

Bit of a scam thread - "Every British city"...........NOT

[@EdBrinton]

@@OldWolflad thanks mate I just found this tier list so used that. If you want to file a complain you can email [e-mail]

[@Lechonberryph]

@oldwolflad seriously... Children are dying and all you expect him to visit every city quite literally. He's not exactly gunna name it "ranking almost every city".... Idiot comment

[@EdBrinton]

Little sad men always get cranky lol. They help the algorithm with their comments tho​@@Lechonberryph

[@Lechonberryph]

@@EdBrinton they do lol let him cry