I use to live when the poll tax riots.happened

I love when a place has just the right amount of crime and homelessness like only petty crime and only willfully homeless people

I wait for the moment when she said, driving Husband to.. instead of backpacker Ben :D But you guys have a nice duo, great videos. And I really liked you enjoyed Baltic States. In Baltic States, you better try find a dude online that will guide you to good spots and has been doing it for years. Some good places are so difficult to find here and sometimes they are so ''cheap''. Like me driving finding old church ruins from 1712 and I could not even approach them. But the sun and the river and the nature was good enough.

and all the asylum get rooms and food when we have millions of homeless already here.

Yeah go figure !

They probably have a huge social housing bill to pay every month.

❤ Bristol.. your town or city is worse

Doesn't cost me anything to drive my car in Bristol

Those narcs could have jobs to clean those dirty streets

You seen my Plymouth video 😂

compared to Bristol! Plymouth is amazing 😂😂😂

He showed what Plymouth was like mate get your head out of your arse!

@@scottjj5488 You mean get your head out of Ben's arse.

@@alexburnett758 nah he wasn't brown nosing was he

But bristol has worse knife crime than Manchester tho!

@@2tapped-sc1oq i used to live in Luton, for 2 years running we had the highest murder rate in England... but it wasn't like you saw it on the streets or was generally obvious... people asked me if i dared go out at night there (folk from other areas) which seemed a daft question, of course we did, but maybe if it was late at night and you needed 50p for the electric meter you would call to people before you got to them as some folk can be nervous at night.... but it was fine... statistics and reality are usually different, likely knife crime is more between factions than aimed at public... although knife robbery without actual attack can happen anywhere... and would be regarded as a knife crime.. a lot depends on how bothered police are to write stuff up... Safety is a state of mind, you can be in the worst areas of anywhere and if you feel safe you generally are...

Clean up the graffiti

Well said. I love bristol! ❤

Lmao 😂 the kids are just bored! They're not bad people 😂 absolute nonsense.

Born in Bristol depressing how the loony council been running it. Depressing the hopeless Tories have let our City go. First time in my life thinking of moving out

Exactly. This is the most accurate comment I've seen on here so far. This video is very sensationalist in nature, but hey its youtube and this guy probably just wants to farm some views. Bristol has it's issues but I've been here for 12 years now and indeed it has gotten worse but no where near as bad as other places in the UK. Also pretty safe for that matter. The first guy said it best, if you don't go looking for trouble, you'll be left alone... Even in "bad" areas.

cognitive dissodance goes crazy

Thanks Ben some great videos I watch all of them along with Bald and Haralds! Well done to you all better than watching TV.

When Fish said you are one bad choice away from the streets. I wonder if two litters of cider is one of those bad choices. Kids don’t drink your end up on the streets.

They dont even know what day it is or how many children they have, they dont need help, they need more drugs.

Great stuff you are doing out there guys. Can't wait to see the next video

If you want to see some rough areas of bristol then you need to visit hartcliffe, withywood and knowle west, also go deep into st pauls and easton and not skim around the outskirts of it, be careful though as it may go wrong!

Face it Mate, this make the worst area of Pliladelphia look livable!

Its really gone down hill since the late 2000's.

Agree! One of Englands more unique cities.

I suspect there are many videos on KZfaq showing only the nice areas of Bristol.

Said the guy who buys his drugs in Bristol.

Which drug is the most popular?)

Love your content too Harry.

I bet you had some great times in Motion & Lakota Harry haha. Nice to know you've spent good times in my home town!

Of course the people are great, they're all stoned out of their minds 😆

I can name loads of no go areas 😂 your not from here if you live here your probably a student or from the sticks or something

And not true brisrol is the grimist city because of the graffiti problem alone

​ @2tapped-sc1oq A student being something you have clearly never experienced judging by your inability to spell or read. I never claimed to be from Bristol; i purely highlighted the timeframe I have lived here as this seems a reasonable amount of time to be making the original statements.

Classifying graffiti as a 'problem' is subjective. The acceptance of it in Bristol has contributed towards an incredibly artistic and alternative place to live. It is also the home of arguably the most famous graffiti artist in the world in Banksy as well as hosting the annual graffiti festival Upfest which is becoming larger each year and acting as a platform for so many artist to share their amazing work @@2tapped-sc1oq

Love to see you swagger through Hartcliffe proclaiming that pal. Middle of the day there, they'd see you coming a mile off, and you'd be in the shit in no time.

Revolution UK cometh

The UK needs a British government to do what British people want . Too much rich political foreign interference is destroying British culture and values .

@@AliG-nw1sd WEF

@@alexdavis1541 Oh vey!

The UK is fine, it's the people who run it that trashed it making it impossible for the needy to get help

I lived in Clifton for a bit… lovely place.

then do Twerton in Bath 🤣 see it depends where you visit. Bath is very 'curated' for tourists. People end up in Bristol and walk in a random direction aren't really going to be pleased are they. They have no idea where they are tbh, the Bald video was Avonmouth which is barely in Bristol, its a port 10 miles away although technically 'greater bristol' and he was calling it bristol.

insane mate, we got followed for a while so we had to cut it short and leave. Dodgy. Good man for helping the women mate

While living in Cardiff went to Bristol for the day, had lunch and a pint in a pub somewhere close to the city center, this is in 1997 anyway was reading a newspaper and a local randomly approached me and said "think your fyxxing clever reading a newspaper" in a aggresive tone. Never been since.

​@@123bwlch reminds me of the famous "we got a reader" skit by Bill Hicks

@@123bwlch that is how i type when i cant be fucked for a youtube comment mate

Drops Bike and leaves it abandoned, prone and all alone 😢 Mr Fish!!! Why??? 😭

Try Banksy free Beer -

how do people afford life in uk?? Everything so expensive.. low wages..it just boogles me

@@andrem999lots of people have gone into debt to survive these days hopefully things get better soon

Any party goer with a sort of unfettered liberal idea about reality, or off the head, will not really care much about where they are as it is ''free' and the 'vibe' etc - it is probably interesting, for a visit. If you don't want to be surrounded by painfully cool hipster travellers and students, or dull drum n bass sounds and so on half the time, then it is probably good for a visit.

What happened to "Shipshape and Bristol fashion"?

@@Earthfield-GeopolymerWorld that read like a veiled insult based on assumptions...

Cool story bro but there's 2 sides to every city lol

@@timkelly5602 Not really, it is just a fact, for the most part. Poverty is 'cool' to some people.

Yea but that doesn't mean it's not a dangerous area tho! I've lived in south London even walked around east london had no problems what so ever what's your point?

Yes it is very easy to knock big cities in the UK. Primarily because they are absolute shitholes.

Thank you, someone finally said it. Some of the most deprived and debt-ridden areas of the region are here, and even with it being a small city as well we hardly go a month without some unfortunate young person being stabbed as well. Such a short space of time and the city’s fallen so much.

Yeah literally only that central bath area is nice and some nature areas surrounding but housing in bath is either millionaire areas or dodgy estate areas

I wouldn’t consider an associate of Bald and Bankrupt to be acting in good faith tbh.

Nothing wrong with Twerton in the daytime

Thanks to all the Hipsters from London. Bristol was good 15+ years ago.

thanks mate! yess would love to, dream country

NZ definitely nothing like Bristol that's for sure

see you soon fish!

I like Joe Fish. Hopefully we see him in more of your videos.

What a shame that any government lets a city such as this fall into decay

I hope you guys grabbed a Danny's burger whilst in stokes croft... won several burger awards. Just up from where you guys were peddling your shit story about how scary stokes croft is 🙄 @packpackerBen @joefishj

@@terryrobertson111 nah, Banksy's street graffiti is everywhere --- a bitta culture and folks love it

yeah huge city, this is just the 'rough' part as they claim

@@BackpackerBen You guys did a accurate job of displaying this part of the city, definitely some places where I'm like 'good lord'. I can see how some women would be wary going home alone on a night out in some places but for a guy your guaranteed to find an outside bed 🤣

I love the stokes Croft and St Paul’s area tbh, always had a great laugh, met so many different kinds of people and I’ve only had one knife pulled on me

That's OK then^ 😂

​@@BackpackerBen should have gone to south bristol- hartcliffe and knowle west. Those are the actual dodgy places. It's a myth to say that St. Pauls is the roughest area. During the windrush large populations of poor caribbean people who were searching for a better life were crammed into houses in St Pauls- and when you cram lots of desperate people into a small area without offering any support, desperate people will do desperate things. It's not a bad area at all now and I find it somewhat of a racist rhetoric to claim that it is- even if its not intended in that way. It's a melting pot of culture and is extremely vibrant. Yes- Bristol has a very bad litter problem, awful transport infrastructure, and a rapidly increasing homelessness problem- but the government is poor because after so many years of incompetent ruling, state assets are at an all time low meaning the only way the government can make any money is through taxes. Never mind the incompetent previous mayor George Ferguson who lied about finances and just about everything nearly bankrupting the city in the days where that wasn't even fashionable. Do some proper research before making these videos please- should your aim not be to teach and explain WHY places are as they are, rather than just mocking and poo-poo-ing them?

Yeh he's reachin like fck the nobhead

Mate this video is such misrepresentation of what Bristol and St.Pauls is like omg

Another tourist from London pushing the prices up😂

there shouldn't be any run down areas lol we are one of the richest in the world.

​@BruceGeorgePeterLee13 what crack have you been smoking 😂😂

Did I say the whole of Bristol was a dump did I? When exactly

And when he videos an ambulance saying it was the police. Whilst been stood on a road between two major hospitals. 😂 getting scared of rubbish.

@@BackpackerBen Piss off mate, what is the title of the video ? This is clickbait poverty porn.

cheers mate! Bath is great

if you are a woman one would feel less safe being alone. according to police crime stats the top crimes are violence and sexual violence. Ben needs to do some research on crime there.

She loves an adventure 😬

Thanks mate! Yes was a bit rough around here I can imagine a night out here is wild!

If it's so safe then why has there been stabbings every few days? Since the year has started including 8 murder investigations

I used to go clubbing in Stokes Croft 2001-2006 as it was the main area for Alternative Music venues Blue Mountain, Powerhouse, Junction, Club UK, the Full Moon. All these have gone in the last 18 years and its pretty much gentrified now. It used to be quite dodgy area. I haven't gone around thee in over a decade.

It's changed a lot, obviously, but there's still plenty of clubs and alternative venues down there. You can focus on stuff that has closed down, but a lot of new things have opened too. I'd still crown it the main area of the city for music and nightlife. The Full Moon is still there btw - was my regular as right next to the music uni@@Delabane

Knife crime happens in all the major cities over the country and 9/10 the individuals are involved in crime, drugs, gangs. etc. If you're not up to anything dodgy then it's incredibly unlikely you will ever be the target of a crime. It's not the place that's dangerous, it's the activities one may chose to involve themselves in. @@2tapped-sc1oq

@@geomatt7701 In Stokes Croft? Maybe we define "Alternative" differently, I see it as Metal, Rock, Goth etc. Stoke Croft seems mostly full of Hipsters and Yuppies, which aren't Alternative. The only Alternative venue I am aware of now is Zed Alley near what was Colston Hall and its less then half the size of previous venues. Then the Alternative scene is a lot smaller compared to 15-20 years ago. I am just glad I had my 20's throughout the 2000's as it just does not seem there is as much, assuming anyone can actually afford to go out.

I take pix of the street art and like you, have wandered about all over Bristol and have walked up and down Stokes Croft numerous times. I haven't been there for over a year but hope to get down there again soon - Stokes Croft, Peel Green, M32 J3 roundabout, St Werburgh's tunnel and lunch in Ikea!

exactly man right on

"Street Art", LOL!

It has the largest street art festival in Europe and there are stunning murals all across the city. @@IslesGiantsYankees

LOL. Bristol is very comparable to Skid Row, just on a smaller scale.

nah, Banksy's street graffiti is everywhere - Banksy would na rob anyone, bitta culture is answer ta da drugs an i forget

Your no another 'cool' person from London are you ;)

❤

Wiring you the money now mate. Thanks for the ad.

@@kieranhudson4938 Cheers

If you truly believe that I have a bridg for sale you might be interested in. VPN's are one of the most pointless things people buy into around today. Just go ingonito, most browsers support that and its exactly the same and free.

You can’t blame everything on immigrants, not all are bad but probably the system allows the bad ones to get in easily

They all make excuses for Labour Boroughs & Cities, never asking where the monies gone.

Japan is so good mate love it there

Hong Kong looks great too - until you dig below the surface. They work very hard at hiding homelessness/drugs etc. Japan will do the same.

;)

Doesn’t excuse the filth tho does it there is no excuse for it I live in Lincoln in the skid row part again totally daft easy access to town and country but it doesn’t excuse the filth and piss taking

'bohemian and cultured' that's one way to put it :P Does bohemian and cultured just mean unappologetically lazy and happy to live in squalor? I don't think it's what people said that's an issue, it's what we can all clearly see that's more the problem - just gross, I grew up in Bath and went to Bristol alot, I'm so glad I left though no way I'd want my children growing up around that 'culture'

'bohemian and cultured' = drug culture!

I fully agree with you about St Pauls and Stokes Croft. I would also add Stapleton Road (which The Sun newspaper once called Britain's most dangerous street) to that. Bristol has high levels of crime, but most of it isn't violent.

That's you, Council taxpayers shouldnt be putting up with it, why would you pay tax bills for Bristol, its unsafe, its a Labour City.

Bollox it's full of bad minded scum bags and full of knife crime

you got it

True... And East Vancouver / Hastings in Canada is even WORSE than Kensington. Bigger area , even MORE druggie wandering around.

Is the Smallest City in the UK.

What's the difference?

​@@parolofA city has to have a cathedral

@@jpmtlhead39smallest in England is actually City of London - what we think of London is not the ‘city ‘ then Wells , smallest in the UK is St David’s in Wales

​@@stephenforrowThat's a bit of a myth nowadays. For example, Plymouth and Wolverhampton are cities but don't have a cathedral.

They are looking to knock down the Galleries in the next year. My late father was involved in it's building and in the 1990's it used to be packed. It was still quite busy in the 2000's but the Mall in Cribbs Causeway, the opening of Cabot Circus, the recession of 2008 and Internet shopping all contributed to its decline that it never really recovered from. In my view Bristol has been crap for last 15 years.

I grew up in Bristol in the 60's - 80's. St Pauls was rough back then. On the other hand walk a mile or two and find fabulous coffee, markets, restaurants, history, culture etc. I visited for a long weekend a couple of years ago and loved it. So much improved on when I grew up. The nice bits will trounce Bath. Obviously that doesn't look not quite as good on the clickbate.

you got broken Britain to see mate, more important

@@BackpackerBen okay okay..fair enough good sir.

For sure just waiting on the visa 🚀

@@BackpackerBen awesome!

Yes mate lovely place but comments here telling me it’s bad 😆 🤷🏼‍♂️

Fr man just what I was thinking, id be thankful to live in a place like Bristol being from the US, we basically live in an apocalypse lol guns and murder everywhere and 50% of basic needs not met and it gets worse every single year no matter who we elect

cheersss mate!! yes legendd

That area gets tourists tho

@@Leojw10 still an interesting place with a colourful history and ongoing issues etc, probably would get loads of interactions too tbh. Me and my fiancee walked down Pusher St and there was like 100+ masked men and I don't think many were tourists, we felt like right doughnuts 😂

Bath's architecture is beautiful. I really like Bath.

Right on 👌🏼

😅

If he went to the nicer areas of Bristol you would see why. Clifton, Sneyd Park, Stoke Bishop Henleaze and Westbury Park are lovely

What is left leaning 😂seems like you clearly are an american in the uk it doesnt go left and right leaning like america . These are both faces of the uk done by the atrocious beaureucy

Bath is bright yellow, of course. Largest LibDem majority in the country (12K). LibDems re-elected to run the council last time, again, with a large majority. Blue is almost disappearing.

Bath is a tourist town, I worked there for 3 years a decade ago. Bristol is better for work.

@@Delabane And Bath is best to live.

@@FTFLCY Not been to Bath since 2014. Might go there one weekend in the summer.

the dangerous places? that would be a 85 part series

@@BackpackerBen 😀 may be half nice places and half dangerous. Thinking to visit London again, someday. Wondering how it’s looks now

​​@@FSWGNim going to Wimbledon London next Saturday for the first time in 3 month's and alot of the dangerous areas in London now have modern apartments and high rise buildings basically they are now developed areas but not all of London is dangerous some are safer then others.

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People made it a shithole, look at it.

@@green4661 Is there a big city anywhere in the world that doesn't have some grotty areas alongside the touristy ones? Bristol has plenty of attractive places that Ben could have included to give a "Bath / Wells" vibe if he'd wanted to.

Appreciate it pal

pudu

Breakdown of Christian society.

Diversity is our biggest issue. No one will say it but it's the truth

Yes unfortunately the country has been betrayed by it's politicians who refuse to go hard on crime because they have wanted to appear caring and empathetic, and of course being hard on crime is somehow racist, and that is the worst thing one can be in our this modern era. So yes, soft on crime leads un-surprisingly to more crime. More crime leads to the congregation of criminal like minds, less civic respect which leads into the creation of no-go areas and slums. The Uk is crying out for a hard hitting leader like the guy in El Salvador to purge the nation of it's lackadaisical entitled shitheads. The 'anything is ok', 'don't judge', 'be tolerant', lefty attitudes of the last 35 years have ran it's course and lead us here and we now put up with everything for the sake of being 'edgy and cool' and out of the fear of being called mean and racist. Bristol epitomises the whole culture of tolerance and acceptance leading to nonsense, where the best intentions ultimately incentivise bad behaviours, bad faith actors who game the system and reliance on the state. Too liberal and soooo' open minded that their brains fell out. But hey, Bristol got the music, diversity, graffiti and drugs, so that's the trade off lol

Word, mate, word! Can you please apply for governements in Western countries to counsel them?

Enjoy! I hope...

Glad you made it out of there alive! 😂

Bristol is 💩

Obv. you walk around with eyes & brain shut

It’s safe but you won’t wanna be there at 2am 😆 well that doesn’t make it safe then 🤷🏼‍♂️

Bath at 2am is safe !

This video is absolute nonsense.. Bristol is not remotely dangerous.

Why don't you read the title! "Bristol! The UK's Most Shocking "NO-GO" Zone" This channel is not the place to find complimentary videos about the UK 😉

​bristol is not as bad for crime as some places in the north like Blackpool and Middlesbrough

It IS & its Not going to get better with Thousands of undocumented illegal Males arriving every week! The 3rd World are sending all the Crap they don't want & it's Not going to end up Roses, if I had Money & there was somewhere to go for us White's I'd be off with the whole of my family! If anyone is stupid enough to think that politicians are getting their own armed copper each for White Supremacists they must be off their heads, I Love the way our politicians are letting them in and give themselves Security, WHERES OURS??? BASTARD'S

UK has imported it's problems . There are way too many people in UK

It's the 2 or 3 trillion we spent on the EU and non employed foreigners which is diverting funds to invest in British towns and cities. It's been one big pyramid scheme aimed at stealing taxpayers money by the council, government officials and then the EU Mps and hangers on.

Legend! Cheers mate ;) not to cheesy yeah

Probably lost in a Ket den, stolen away by some crusties 😂