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Hello how do you make such monthly, I am a born again Christian and sometimes I feel so down 🙁of myself because of low finance but I still believe in God.

@chinyereUgwuoke-tp2lh

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Thanks to my Cole_ worker who suggested mrs Sandrina Edmondson

@chinyereUgwuoke-tp2lh

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She's a licensed broker here in the states 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Masuiatfres

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Great to see you guys talking about her, she really changed the game for me.

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Please how can I contact her? I do love to see for myself?

westminster and parlinment are the most dangerous places in london

@WendallExplores

27 күн бұрын

Top comment

@chuckc7815

26 күн бұрын

And Whitehall, always something incredibly evil lurking in Downing Street

@anngore3842

26 күн бұрын

​@@chuckc7815 Respectable crime.

@RandallSlick

26 күн бұрын

That's the truth.

@faay8912

26 күн бұрын

Exactly 😂

My Mum was a Psychology lecturer back in the 90's when i was growing up as a kid. She had studied at Oxford and knew lots of well-to-do people who were "finacially blessed". I travelled to London with her one particular weekend and stayed in an incredible multimillion pound residence near Camden which had marble floors and high ceilings. When my Mum and her friend went to sleep i snuck out onto the balcony to smoke a cigarette (i was only 14). As i smoked i looked down on the streets below. I was absolutely astounded at all the drug dealing, crime, yardies and fights going on in what was supposed to be an afluent area. I ended up sitting there watching the madness unfold for at least an hour before i crept back inside. I'm no sociology expert but something tells me that London has been full of crime and skulduggery since its inception.

@UdumbaraMusic

3 күн бұрын

London's always been quite notorious for crime but so has any major city, really.

@DistilledVoice

2 күн бұрын

I can honestly say I wish I moved out of London way before I did. I've been away over 4 years now after 29 years of the craphole that is london.. and even on the rare stint i do go back for a weekend (to see naive family who still live there) I get an overwhelming feeling if dread as the train leaves Newcastle to go down. It's not even just the crime etc.. its just the normal uncriminal people... you smile at someone and they look at you like there's something wrong. Having to analyse everyone instantly.. its draining.. I hate it

@user-bx3gh5js2p

10 сағат бұрын

That's so true

I broke down in Croydon about 20 years ago. And the guy in the yellow sweater reminded me of the guy who came to my assistance, nobody asked him to, but he did, he let me crash out in his flat, we went for a beer with him and his pals, and he wouldn't take anything from me even though without his help I'd have been totally screwed. Good people. Makes you proud to be British

@tonyclifton265

23 күн бұрын

and all he wanted in return was for you to w*nk him off?

@jamesgraham446

23 күн бұрын

That was 20 years ago. Britain has changed immeasurably since then. Your experience unfortunately is well within a bygone era.

@chrisb6296

22 күн бұрын

@@jamesgraham446 Since when exactly? There's lots of good people around

@chrisb6296

22 күн бұрын

Louder for all the doom and gloom merchants. The country is in a terrible state because of austerity

@charlesmaximus9161

19 күн бұрын

Did it ever occur to you that was because the fellow that helped you was actually British? Bet you won’t admit that to yourself, though. But you know it’s true. You really think Midnight Rude Boy at 6:52 is going to extend that kind of local hospitality to you, especially if it happened after sunset?

It’s not just Croydon, the country is a train wreck…

@audie-cashstack-uk4881

27 күн бұрын

You slowly drop used engine oil into a hot soapy fresh bathtub what happens the British are the hot soapy clean water in the tub mass migration is the used engine oil dripping into it

@simonh6371

27 күн бұрын

Yep even Camden, the ''hip'' touristy area he starts in, is looking run down, most of the shops on Chalk Farm Rd behind him are boarded up and graffiti'd there are beggars and people sleeping in tents, and it's dirty and littered.

@westboundbadger

27 күн бұрын

You can find dregs anywhere,..The wise people know the best places,..

@billybatts8283

27 күн бұрын

Tell me a place on Earth with western Christian values that's not.....

@westboundbadger

26 күн бұрын

@@billybatts8283 They must all be great as the rest want to move there.

The majority of Britain has been turned into a futuristic, dystopian horror movie. Thanks Government. It resembles the film, "Escape From New York".

@mjones4083

26 күн бұрын

Yes.

@brackenobama61

26 күн бұрын

ive been thinking this for a while

@davidwilkinson2239

26 күн бұрын

It’s not the government it’s the council’s

@nealgrimes4382

26 күн бұрын

But Snake Plissken isn't going to save us.

@cv507

25 күн бұрын

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I can't imagine why someone would choose London to live in. Too expensive, too big, too impersonal and too many weirdoes surround you.

@swayp5715

5 күн бұрын

Exaaaaactly!

@S5Dic09

5 күн бұрын

lazy "men" who don't want to work hard and don't want to learn more languages other than the standard english

@tayachting6345

22 сағат бұрын

Well now, that's the uK

Very articulate and fair in how you investigate these statistics. Great the way you interview the people who truly know what’s going on- the people who live it in the streets and residents. Great videos my friend! Keep up the great work!!!

Croydon is definitely not the most dangerous part of London. It’s a concrete jungle.

@paulsmith2823

26 күн бұрын

​@@Narrative711nah

@jasonthomas7880

26 күн бұрын

It wasn't the most dangerous part .I was in new cross. At the time😂

@hawky2k215

26 күн бұрын

Bradford is far more dangerous then Croydon!

@user-ub5qp8sq1w

26 күн бұрын

​@@hawky2k215yeah if your a 12 year old girl

@dopiaza2006

26 күн бұрын

@@hawky2k215 Yeah, but nobody goes to bradford unless they are into islams so we leave them to it.

I lived in Mitcham for 41 years and used to go to Croydon every week. It’s definitely not how I remember it from years back.

@theworldaccordingtochris4370

26 күн бұрын

Mitchum used to be alright

@wildrover65

26 күн бұрын

Same as me,used to go to Croydon regularly for the shops and for pie and mash,people were friendly always ready for shits and giggles,never had a drama whilst there,saw a few but never felt uncomfortable or worried

@SDW3-6-9

26 күн бұрын

Amazing how it's declined. It was the Saturday shopping destination for Tooting residents😢

@michaelpemberton592

26 күн бұрын

I lived in Colliers Wood. Croydon was our go to shopping place.

@bixbee1000

26 күн бұрын

I lived on the pollards hill estate as a kid back in the 80’s - early 90’s! Went to Alfred Mizen school and my sister went to William Morris! Still remember the library and the shop on the corner by the bus stop! Happy memories!

I was born in the UK and lived in South London and Bristol but have spent my life in Australia travelling back and forth every 3-5 years for the past 40 years. Parts of those areas have always been rough. However, during that time I have seen quite big changes in places that were once familiar to me. Now I don't really have any urge to return.

Croydon was a great shopping destination, as a kid I used to get on the 264 bus with my mum and dad from Tooting and go into Croydon often. As I grew up into my late teens Croydon was a decent night out, many would travel into Croydon from afar to party. Now Croydon in my opinion is a place to avoid, they can build as many souless lego blocks as they want but you can't polish a turd. It's grimy, dangerous and will only get worse. The council are corrupt and useless and any decent people in Croydon have moved away.

I could cry when I see what's become of Croydon. I grew up there in the 70's and it was a fantastic place. It is unrecognisable now to the town i once knew. Like the 62 year old interviewed, I was born in St Mary's maternity hospital back in the mid 60's. I could not have wished to grow up in a nicer area. But like others have said, it's not just Croydon, so many other towns have taken a similar downturn. Though gladly, not all have become as dangerous as Croydon. But honestly, if you could look back in time to the 70's you would not believe you were in the same place. Very sad.

@jamesrobertson9697

26 күн бұрын

Multiculturalist policy-making did this to Croydon.

@lemsip207

26 күн бұрын

Lots of places in the UK were fantastic places to live in the 70s and 80s, but not now. There are other places that were down at heel at that time, such as inner south London, and then became gentrified only to go downhill again.

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

@@lemsip207 this whole country is being wreckballed at the moment and we haven't even reached the end of that process. But in another decade it should start to improve again, I can't see this lasting because the countries causing it are on the slide.

@mariataif

26 күн бұрын

agreed from a early 60s born person from Croydon sad very sad

@eyesodd

26 күн бұрын

They are building tower blocks, but most sit empty, Saffron Tower the tallest one with purple and red colours on the outside currently has 66 flats for sale on one website. A one bed flat starts around £70k up to £250k. The ones that are occupied are going to the new arrivals.

Having lived there, I’d say Tottenham, Bruce Grove and Harringey would give Croydon a run for its money

@michaelscales5996

27 күн бұрын

And Edmonton !

@CaboloNero

26 күн бұрын

Wonder why

@adiem1653

26 күн бұрын

Lol yep my misses lives in Croydon and I lived in West Norwood. I used to go to Bruce Grove a few times a week - seeing someone there - and yes another wonderful diverse place

@user-yr7re9oe4s

26 күн бұрын

Do you know muswell hill and crouch end? I grew up there. Lovely place.

@markmellor-xx1vt

26 күн бұрын

Lived in Bruce grove was some spot lol, elephant and castle the road up there to camberwell lived there too mad spot aswel

Being from the midlands myself, I could tell exactly where about you are from. Your accent was difficult to place at first. Then I could hear you replacing the “Th” sound of words that begin with “Th”, with a “V” sound and it told me a lot. I love what you’re doing with your channel and how you confidentially approach people with a plan for your video 👍🏼

Some of the people you interviewed sums it all up perfectly. Especially compared to what London was like 50 years ago

I remember Croydon around 1970. Just your normal regular town. Alas all swept away amidst the mass immigration and social replacement. Dystopia here we come !

My daughter and son-inlaw will not work in Croydon, colleagues have been targeted by muggers etc....and it's dangerous!

@Win-xl7no

25 күн бұрын

is it heck. have lived here many years. you need to behave sensibly like in any gritty town centre, but its perfectly fine for every day living. your daughter and husband must be a bundle of joy being scared to work in a place blimey.

@tcaudiobooks737

24 күн бұрын

...keep away from it!

@kashif9145

24 күн бұрын

My brother lives there, Rolex watch, houses all around the country & he loves his lifestyle in Croydon

@NefBZA0999

24 күн бұрын

It's a big borough, not just a massive shopping centre.. wouldn't move back there even if my life depended on it.. dung heap..

@jake751

23 күн бұрын

Really????

The empathy you have in this FIRST video i watched of yours made me subscribe. Bless you man ...

Speaks volumes that subtitles are required.

Up until the mid-1980's Croydon was a fantasic town to live and work in, vibrant and full of energy with the best and most varied retail outlets in the whole country, after Harrods and Selfridges (In London), Allders was the largest department store in the UK, and many people to this day thought it was the best to shop in - Not to mention Croydon's two other iconic department stores, Kennards and Grants. Prior to 1989 when North End was pedestrianised and closed off to traffic, on a Saturday, around Christmas and during the annual shop sales (Without exaggerating), it was impossible to walk along the high street without brushing every single person you passed, to say Croydon was busy back then would be an understatement. Surrey Street Market has been trading since 1276, one of the oldest markets in the UK and there was a time during the 1970's / 80's when there was up to a five-year waiting list for a stall, and many generations of families worked there. Today Croydon is a shadow of its former glory, totally neglected with 80% of the shops either dilapidated or boarded up, depressing, filthy and full of unemployed wondering immigrants. This demise is solely due to Croydon Council and the amount of corruption, incompetence, and their mismanagement - Unfortunately not one Council leader was held to account or prosecuted, but instead getting massive financial payoffs and moving on to other high-powered jobs - All well documented. There is investment but only hungry opportunist investors constructing high-rise low-quality tower blocks, mainly rent only apartments. Unfortunately, Croydon is not an isolated case, there are literally 100's of other towns and area’s just like Croydon throughout the United Kingdom. I have travelled and lived in most of Asia and when one compares the United Kingdom to all these other countries you realise just how backward and third word the United Kingdom has become - Extremely sad but 100% fact.

@rumplestilskinsmum5094

26 күн бұрын

1000% fact and it is extremely sad, really is!

@threethrushes

23 күн бұрын

As a son of Croydon (b.1976, Mayday Hospital) educated locally I confirm this is true. Allders was a massive draw along with Grants. I did OK in life and emigrated from the U.K. (as did many of my peers) several years ago. The past is a foreign country. Thank you for your comment.

@knowbodhi

22 күн бұрын

i'm sure that when you were living in Asia the locals were cursing what their community had come to now that unemployed longhaired white people were mooching around their town and degrading their atmosphere! Croydon is alright. loads and loads of green spaces. loads and loads of great international food and ingredients. great transport, great culture, easy to lose a tail, easy to meet new people.

@EhsanMusic

21 күн бұрын

So you're saying it's only unemployed immigrants walking around? All the English have full time jobs right?

@dartanianrubanne3394

21 күн бұрын

@EhsanMusic Hello Ehsan, Please take the trouble to read my comment again, then cut and paste where you found the "Only immigrants." (Prevalence)

I dont think Croyden is London's most dangerous town mate. Try the Wandsworth estates after dark. Try the estates of Harlsden -- Stonebridge. Try Woolwich, try Haringey, which had the highest knife crime incidents between 2022 and 2023 (632), followed by Enfield (599) and Barnet (399 incidents). Gun crime: try Haringey and Southwark.

@kevinmott6205

27 күн бұрын

Try House's of Parliament after dark🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯. Its a joke OK calm down😊

@Timmyt79

27 күн бұрын

Try Newport,Gwent...not even after dark....

@user-zk1ro8bv3n

27 күн бұрын

We lived in croydon for 60 years was nice place until 20 years ago I hate going back there but have family in south croydon it has changed for the worse to many yobs on the street to much knife crime

@EpicAelflaed

27 күн бұрын

Yeah diversity really has worked hasn’t it 🫣

@gregsmith7821

27 күн бұрын

​@@EpicAelflaedShame the migrants always get the blame. To be fair, if the British tax payer chose to invest in them and a decent security service, I think things would be different.

Wendell, I appreciate your compassionate approach to these videos. I know some people would characterise it as poverty porn, but you give people a chance to speak and you do so without judgement.

Croydon is dystopian, but it also has a strange vibrance to it. I don't think having the home office based there helps. There was a good range of restaurants in South Croydon when I was there and nice pubs too. You could also get a good price for just about anything if you knew where to shop. I prefer Croydon to places like Elephant and Castle. North London can seem sterile at times. But ultimately, it comes down to the fact the UK as a country has been in steady decline for decades. Lack of visible investment and a huge brain drain.

Somewhere between Mogadishu mumbai capetown & lagos welcome to Blairs Britain Exactly how the govt planned 😮

@abc33944

27 күн бұрын

Lol… Blair bombed Libya .,. To give you modern Britain !!

@jazztheglass6139

27 күн бұрын

​@@abc33944ghadaffi armed and funded the IRA

@anthonymitchell6216

26 күн бұрын

​@@abc33944wasn't it "call me Dave "?

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

@@abc33944 Libya totally had it coming. Like a lot of places today. Maybe we did, who knows.

@Hattonbank

26 күн бұрын

Blairs' Britain?. Last year had record immigration, 1.25 million under a Tory Brexit government that vowed to cut immigration. And these are not white, hard working European immigrants but mostly third world with no assets, few skills and no concept of or desire of UK society.

Where has our country gone heart breaks ..

@Nttmf

26 күн бұрын

The country is fucked !

@clairewiseman-cq8ct

25 күн бұрын

THE ENGLISH ARE SELLING EVERY CITY OUT TO ISLAM BLACKS & INDIANS

The state of any town, city or country is a direct reflection of the people that live there... The people have been changed so the state of the place has changed accordingly. Croydon is not the worst. Try around Camberwell.

Fact. There are two thousand and seventy three super rich millionaires living in Croydon. It's true that there are rough parts but there are also hugely wealthy areas in Croydon.

@chameleon871

22 күн бұрын

What has that got to do with this? Are they going make Croydon better? Wake up, sheeple.

I was there in February 2023. Went to watch a match between crystal palace and Liverpool on a Friday evening. Going back to the Hotel in the Centre ( just opposite that empty shopping center you showed) was quite a scary experience. Some kid cut himself with a flick knife on the bus. The bus floor was full of blood. Some guy took off his shirt and applied it as a tourniquet around the kid’s wrist. I would definitely not have gone had I watched this video first. Didn’t feel safe at all. On the bus afraid to look at anyone just stared outside me and my son and were massively relieved to get back to the hotel safe and sound

@javieralvarez1072

23 күн бұрын

Who won the the game?

@pitagrozsaraiva

22 күн бұрын

@@javieralvarez1072 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@louis84100

21 күн бұрын

you probably stayed at the jury's inn hotel. there's a YMCA across the street. you would have been safer staying on the bus

@warzone2vpn

13 күн бұрын

It was hard growing up in Croydon , got awful after 1999, so glad I escaped to the coast.

@pez3565

8 күн бұрын

I'm staying there now working I'm from Liverpool Yemen it is pretty rough not guna lie 😮

I wonder what could have caused Croydon to have become such a violent dump?!?!

@philhawley1219

26 күн бұрын

We all know why.

@raychambers3646

26 күн бұрын

Walking up from Mayday Hospital a couple of years ago thought entering a third world country .

@atomo9255

26 күн бұрын

​@@philhawley1219oh we sure do pal

@belkentens

26 күн бұрын

Blacks?

@peterhewitt2252

26 күн бұрын

There are many social reasons,but the main reason is crap policing, I'm ex met .....

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, it's built on frustration, it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that everyone who reads this remains successful in life.

So happy that I left the UK 26 Years ago, I knew Croydon very well difficult to see it Now. I have lived in Thailand Teaching English. Now retired I have a great life. Bought a lovely house for a crazy cheap price that I could never have afforded in England. My Thai wife and and I live very comfortably on the State pension.

@threethrushes

22 күн бұрын

I left nine years ago, also to teach English (but in central Europe). Quality of life is off the charts! Godspeed.

My view on Croydon, I grew up here from 1982 onwards, then it was a very middle class area, great community spirit it was mainly white then. When the housing prices went up in nearby areas like Brixton, Battersea, Clapham and such. Resulted in an influx of people from rougher areas moving in as they could sell their homes , move to Croydon get a better home with money left over. They brought that more ghetto culture to the area, be it violent crime, and drug culture. This resulted with a lot of people moving out to towards coulsdon, redhill, Guildford and outside of London. The area has been neglected by the government and council as it mainly minorities and poorer English people. Where areas like Brixton and Clapham have gone through regeneration, Croydon ha gone through degeneration. The council has mismanagement public funds , fraudulent council staff, council being bankrupt, councils placing ridiculous charges making it not viable in terms of business. Croydon also has a massive rat infestation problem. Croydon is okay if your don’t present as vulnerable in terms of how you carry yourself. No local resources for the youth, no support for the vulnerable, local healthcare extremely poor, as the chap stated local hospital which use to be called Mayday is referred to as Maydie. I could go on and on, really sad when you think of the potential in the area, nice buildings, good transport link’s. On a governmental level no discipline in school, teachers are unable to effectively correct misbehaving children, like wise parents have their hands tired. This lack of discipline in the homes and schools just extends to the local and greater community, were some youngsters feel they can do what they like with no repercussions. A lot could be nipped in the bud if deal with it effectively at school level and homes

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

I was born in Luton 1980, lived in the burbs and London for a while. The further you move out the better your life gets. Until Covid19, they managed to wreck almost every other place during that time. Now the country is a smouldering pile of faeces and not even as bad as it will get.

@sweetbutshowa

26 күн бұрын

Well said bro. Very much spot on! I was born in Brixton and grew up there all my life (early 90s). I watched areas and estates around me getting gentrified, my old friends who were in the life of crime and many others who grew up in Brixton and neighbouring areas, were forced to move out from their council homes and homes they had on mortgages and given money to move out of the area, most of my friends moved further down south (South Croydon, Croydon, Mitcham, Thorton Heath) this was around 2006, even though Brixton was once the gun crime, and drug capital of London, over the years we heard and saw crime rates sore in Croydon whilst crime in Brixton started to decrease, .

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

@@sweetbutshowa Where are the other 7 comments gone? Lol wow free speech is another thing that this country can no longer boast about. Big Trouble In Little Britain. Great.

@gerbiljaws1377

26 күн бұрын

Bang on assessment. I went school in Croydon. Everything you said is 100% fact

@Goodman849

26 күн бұрын

What about horley, is that OK as currently in the process of buying a house there?

What have we done to Britain? 🤬🤬🤬

@TheGuitologist

26 күн бұрын

Flooded it with 3rd world.

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

Yeah it's a wreckage now, but I don't think it's as bad as it will be in another few years.

@richardryan3551

26 күн бұрын

It's not us it's this Tory government cheap labour they bang on about labour there the the ones who these migrants here to line there pockets and get rich 🤑

@xgtwb6473

26 күн бұрын

​@@DailyCorvidmr positive over here 😭🤣

@philhawley1219

26 күн бұрын

Robert Mawbey. We didn't do it. The evil government did. I hate them.

30 years ago labour flooded Croydon with immigrants and changed it beyond all recognition! I lived in central Croydon for years and we moved to get our children out and into a good area and secondary school.. just after we moved the riots happened.. right down our road! That was confirmation we’d done the right thing .. having said that people in Croydon are generally friendly!

@lukekelly7371

22 күн бұрын

Thirty years ago, the Tories had been in government for fifteen years.

@garyjackson5795

11 күн бұрын

@@lukekelly7371 Croydon Borough Council were controlled by Labour thirty years ago, from 1994 - 2006.

Good video but I have to critique you on some of your points/musings about Croydon. I think you've read some puff pieces about it. Contrary from being 'on The Up' Croydon is in steep decline. -The residential prices are actually insanely high, not affordable. And with more London professionals and office workers able to work from home for some of the week people are moving further down the train line where they can get houses for the same prices they can get a tiny flat in Croydon. -On the commerical front, Croydon was a retail town for decades, and at one point people came from quite far away for the shopping. As a result of council mismanagement and increased competition elsewhere from places like Westfield in London. Croydon's retail sector has been declining since the early 2000s. The COVID lockdowns essentially finished off most of what was limping on. The remaining big chain stores that are left are dropping out 1 by 1. And the smaller high street stores are either abandoned/derelict or occupied by take-aways and vape shops. There's no real retail here now. On the office space side of things, there's basically a whole road of empty office buildings 5 minutes from the station. On top of all of that the council has been bankrupt 3 times in recent years, so we have less and less services, but ridiculously high council taxes. A 2 bedroom flat will run you about £2400 a year in council tax. In short Croydon is in late stage decline, with no real prospect of it turning around. Most people with the means to are either leaving or looking to leave as soon as they can.

@threethrushes

22 күн бұрын

100 per cent facts. I was born in Mayday in 1976. Educated locally. University was my ticket out of Croydon. Exited HMS U.K. in 2015 for safer, warmer, cheaper, more meritocratic climes.

Immigration has destroyed my city of London

@philipnapier3585

26 күн бұрын

And the uk

@everettscott4745

25 күн бұрын

How's Brexit turning out for you, then? Oh, and the next time you see a doctor that is of a different colour or has a foreign accent, don't forget to let them know your views, and that you'd prefer not to be treated by them. Let me know how that goes.

@philipnapier3585

25 күн бұрын

​@@everettscott4745See a doctor !! You mean the ones coming off the dinghy. When I was young you went to the doctor's surgery in the morning and waited your turn Always got seen before midday. No such thing as appointments. If you were too ill to visit surgery the doctor made house later in the afternoon. Now it's a joke.

@everettscott4745

25 күн бұрын

@@philipnapier3585 Dang, man, how old are you? That was then, and this is now. Rice is no longer sold in brown paper bags from corner shops. This is called CHANGE. It always amazes me when people hark on about a past that never existed. It's an era of romantic make-belief. Do you also remember men wearing donkey jackets, delivering sacks of coal, and the chimney sweep? I don't know how you're conflating 'immigration' in one sentence with those 'coming off the boat'. Just twaddle.

@janjakobglasmeier5198

24 күн бұрын

@@philipnapier3585 but what does that have to do with immigration?

I lived in Belize Park and worked in St. John’s wood in 2000 to 2004. Those were both very upscale neighborhoods yet. People frequently had bars on their windows. Further, I had one experience where I was concerned that an older neighbor might be having some problems and we called the police. They told us to call the noise police. There was no concern about property theft. The one thing you saw was a lot of parking in enforcement.

At the start of the video I was trying to guess where you were heading. I was so shocked when you said Croydon, my home town. I’ve lived in Australia for the past 6 years and it makes me so sad to see what my home has turned in to.

@Peterbrendanalbert

22 күн бұрын

Why didn't you stay to try and fix the problems in your home town.? You can't moan from afar. You are part of the problem. Would you stay and fight? No... Bye then...

@kellykelly5291

11 күн бұрын

@@Peterbrendanalbertbecause life is for living and exploring new places. Not for being a stick in the mud.

@Peterbrendanalbert

11 күн бұрын

@@kellykelly5291 And that explains why. Thanks.

@JunkUtopia

4 күн бұрын

I can tell you for sure Croydon has hardly changed in the last 6 years. A few extra shops closed down cause of the pandemic like every high street, but lets not pretend it was some fantastic dream place only 6 years ago!!

"I see many things, but that's not my problem." That's actually a problem for the society

@mark5115

21 күн бұрын

For London it is for sure

Back in the 60`s, when I was a teenager, Croydon was a nice and popular place. Good shops, bowling alley and some decent pubs and clubs around and I did my apprentice training in Croydon Technical College. My in laws came from Roundshaw, a rough estate from when it was built, but most of the people were OK. Then the Home Office building opened in Wellesly Road, and it attracted the cause of the current problems, who were housed in the local area. Now, it`s a right shit hole.

@VikViking121

26 күн бұрын

Even in the late 90s Croydon was good. Buzzing night life with loads of clubs and bars. The Whitgift Centre at the weekend was so busy and full of people shopping it took ages just to get up the road. Its interesting you mentioned the Home office. Croydon has a lot of immigration with west croydon in this vid, a hub, I'd say 90% of the people are immigrants. Nice to see people from literally all over the world in one area but 90%? Theres an alarming amount of mental health issues and homelessness too.

@rumplestilskinsmum5094

26 күн бұрын

@@VikViking121 It its very sad to witness the decline in real life, I sadly still live just up the road an I am called an old codger by now

@Nik-sk7qr

26 күн бұрын

Yes I use to go to Croydon in the 70s to see Bands at the Greyhound on a Sunday Night great times .Status Quo played there all the time .Spent some time in the pubs in South Croydon ,Worked At Dees of Croydon as well .I also attended Croydon Tech for a while, but I thought in those days they classed it as being in Surrey ???But I wouldn't visit it today times change but not for the better.

@ericsalles3393

26 күн бұрын

I remember the bowling alley in croydon in the 60s .we used to sit in there

@Sir.T

26 күн бұрын

Now they've literally closed all the clubs besides 2 and most pubs and closed but still some open. The night life is beyond sht now.

Lived round here for a short while last year. One thing that stood out to me was that they'd have security on the doors of the puregym and locks on the female area within the gym. No music was played in the gym, instead the guys would come in playing their portable speakers from their backpack. Never felt safe walking home late after a workout with all the nutters around.

I use to work in West Croydon as i lived in Sutton most of my life ,and always went shopping in Croydon there as well as bars and clubs, my cousin lives off London Road, i walked along there last year to her house 20 minutes each way, thankfully didn't see any thing bad going on.

"Fugue for a Darkening Island" by Christopher Priest tells the story of Croydon and the UK, written 50 years ago but spot on with its predictions. Life goes on.

@RandallSlick

26 күн бұрын

Now there was a writer.

@tpmg5272

26 күн бұрын

Thank you for that. I've never heard of it until now. I have just ordered a copy!.

@leonardgibney2997

26 күн бұрын

Death goes on.

@Goodman849

26 күн бұрын

House sold, money in the bank. Backpacking in Asia. Missing England wanting to buy a house in horley.

@user-ub5qp8sq1w

25 күн бұрын

​@@Goodman849stay in Asia tou traitor

Got out of Wandsworth 5 years ago, would never live there again. We are ethnically being driven out of our own country, change has to happen

@bordersw1239

26 күн бұрын

The prison or the borough?😉

@RichP1988

26 күн бұрын

Armed resistance

@rarecockneyguvnor4945

26 күн бұрын

I agree

@mickyarams

26 күн бұрын

So what happened to chav towns like Jaywick? There are no ethnic people there.

@MeadowDay

26 күн бұрын

Too late for changes…much too late.

Good video mate. I'm from London north. Where you were, I had passed by there few weeks ago...smh.. absolutely dreadful mate. Bleak, depressing. When I went to visit my mates in Swansea,(townhill, mayhill) it was similar. England unfortunately is falling apart. I guess everywhere has its no- go zone. Be safe mate, cheers 👊🏻

@NoHeartAnthony

16 күн бұрын

No go zone, but you go there? Stop talking shite

Very interesting! Looked run down espec for London. Broken window theory? Thanks for risking your neck! The people u interviewed seemed really nice - impressively strong too considering their environment. If I lived there I think itd probably break me. Excellent report thanks!

London is just disgusting I hate modern London. Back in the 90s it was ok, but I avoid it like it's a plague rat these days!

@user-kx3fq1zo6f

2 күн бұрын

and every other city is going the same way.

Unfortunately immigration has destroyed not only Croydon but Britain in General. I barely noticed one English person in that video. Seriously where have all the Brits gone? The British government should be absolutely ashamed of what they've done to this country.

@Tefera-hf8fw

26 күн бұрын

the fat woman and the drunk at the station were English

@jammadee4786

26 күн бұрын

You look like an immigrant yourself 😂😂😂

@akashsareen1526

26 күн бұрын

He literally talks to at least three white people with English accents in the video

@umah6890

26 күн бұрын

Not really, don't blame every immigrant. Many contribute to the economy. Check many Northern cities with white Brits- rough and damgerous too. It's the system, government that allowed poverty. Desperate people can snap.

@tonycox5625

26 күн бұрын

Well let's face it, most of the British government aren't British! 😄

I lived in S London for 25 years and hated every moment. When we retired I told my husband (Born and raised in Brixton), that I was not staying in London anymore. Eventually he saw the sense and we moved 12 years ago. I miss Croydon and Bromley for shopping but that is all.

I grew up in Hackney mate.. it makes Croydon look like wonderland. If you go to a club and they ask if you got any weapon's and you say no, they give you one.

@samphire66

24 күн бұрын

Clearly a long time since you were in Hackney boy

A good old English city, well it used to be

@billyjesus5442

27 күн бұрын

honestly the place is buzzing these days. yeah the threat of death is always present, but outside of that its got everything.

@jimjiminy5836

27 күн бұрын

Still is. What do you expect the centre of a once global empire to be like?

@RendererEP

27 күн бұрын

Camden still feels that way. Very british style of punk rock etc

@corpsertag5967

27 күн бұрын

The surprises of Multiculturalism 🟥 🟧 🟨 🟩 🟦 🟪 🟫 ⬛ ⬜

@YesSir-ms3uk

27 күн бұрын

God bless the English language

London is 35% indigenous British. The capital city.

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

London is 35% skewered dead lambs hanging off metal railings. But it's cool because it has Wendy's.

@johnh1252

26 күн бұрын

And yet we get called racist

@albert21able

26 күн бұрын

I was born in London in the early 50s, I still live here, I would put the London indigenous population at around 15%. I travel all over London and never feel threatened or in danger, maybe because I am no longer a teenager, just a Pensioner

@everettscott4745

26 күн бұрын

What does that even mean? What do you mean by indigenous British? The Regional ethnic diversity UK government statistics doesn't classify any group as "indigenous British". It uses the terms "White British", "White Other", of which collectively, they weigh in at a sum of 54%. This far outweighs any other individual ethnic group, and far outweighs "Black" and "Asian" which together has a sum of 34%. Stats taken from: www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/national-and-regional-populations/regional-ethnic-diversity/latest/

@user-ub5qp8sq1w

26 күн бұрын

@@albert21able yeah the people talking like it's the South side of Chicago are people who live in county durum and further afield and very rarely visit London. I've felt less safe on bristol than I have in London.

I was born in Lewisham in the 70s. It was always poor and scruffy, but it was safe and had a community. The place changed beyond all recognition for various reasons. My Dad moved us away and it was the best thing we ever did. My Aunt and Uncle are the only members of the family who are still there. They are trapped. They are the only Londoners living on her street. Everyone else escaped or died.

Rumour has it, the people of Croydon go on holiday to Gotham City to get away from it all 😳

Not many places in London are good anymore

@SOLXXX41

26 күн бұрын

I live in SW London and it's OK round here

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

I think he meant for visitors, I have to agree I totally avoid London now. Since about mid 2018 it's been bad to visit.

@paulsmith2823

26 күн бұрын

​@@SOLXXX41yup Kingston bruv

@ChildrenOfTheKing33

26 күн бұрын

Rubbish 😂Mayfair is beautiful so is loads of places in London. How shallow .

@ChildrenOfTheKing33

26 күн бұрын

@@paulsmith2823I used to live in Kingston 😂Hounslow is worse

So many good people struggling is heart breaking. Thank you for giving them a voice on youtube.

@minerva2958

24 күн бұрын

What makes them good? Most of the people he spoke to were alcoholics, delinquents and people living off benefits. Nothing good about them!

@Piggybank80828

23 күн бұрын

What? He talks over most of them with leading questions.

dude thankyou for doing what u do, Much respect.

As a young lad in the 1970's a posh English family moved to my Scottish village from Croydon. At that time, i assumed Croydon was a rather nice town. The only part of London I've ever lived in was Woolwich way back in 1984/5. Went back for a visit, in 2012 and the whole place was completely different! It felt like I was in foreign city.

The town centre in Croydon has gone massively down over the last 10/12 years. The High Street used to be buzzing. The Whitgift shopping centre (where you go to here) was meant to have a complete refurbishment in to a Westfield which has been stalled for years. This has meant the town centre retail hasn’t been invested in at all as there is the potential for this to come along. A previous Labour run council invested very badly in housing projects and commercial property which bankrupted the council. High property prices have pushed some in now more gentrified areas of Brixton and Peckham in to cheaper Croydon. The North is very different to the South. The worst parts of Croydon are in the North, Thornton Heath and Selhurst are particular problem areas for crime etc. They are worse than where you are here. Sanderstead and Selsdon in the South are far more affluent and are much safer. Other tough areas of London are some parts of Brixton, Tottenham and North Peckham

@mitchblank

26 күн бұрын

Yeah the area he spent most of the video in has gotten really hurt by the general decline in brick&mortar retail. Even 10 years ago there was a lot of activity in the Whitgift Centre and in that stretch of North End. The rougher elements where there as well but you might not notice them much in a sea of shoppers. Now retail footfall is so much lower and the whole atmosphere is grim. Still, it's hardly an excursion into a warzone... you're just a few minutes walk from Boxpark, random indie coffee houses, etc. During daytime I wouldn't worry about that patch at all. Despite its current state it's still a commercial area that people go to all the time. There are worse areas in Croydon and in London more generally.

@lemsip207

26 күн бұрын

People shopping online has partially caused this. It's not always cheaper as then you have to pay shipping costs. They do that mostly because they get harassed by drug dealers, beggars, hawkers, and chuggers in town and city centres. I try and buy what I can in supermarkets and then suburban shops before I go to the city centre.

@laurastuart3814

26 күн бұрын

All over the UK shopping centres are empty.

@lemsip207

26 күн бұрын

@laurastuart3814 Malls were often built at the height of a boom and completed just around the start of a recession.

@Barrettszippo

26 күн бұрын

@kscterry "A previous Labour run council invested very badly in housing projects and commercial property which bankrupted the council." Says it all really doesn't it? Them and the scumbag tories have ruined our once great country.

I grew up in Croydon and moved away with my parents at 17, I’m. 61 now. There were places that were rough then but a visit to the Whitgift centre 5 years ago broke my heart to see how run down it was. I was also struck by how friendly and engaging strangers were, something I have brought with me through the years but had forgotten how prevelent it is in Croydon you noticed it too. Good old Surrey street market looked like a shadow of what I remember back in the day you couldn’t move down there. I used to wander all those streets in the middle of the night without a care for my safety. You wouldn’t catch me out there after dark these days it’s becoming a sad world😢

Failed society

Croydon McDonalds has a walk through airport style metal detector before you go in. Enough to make you lose your appetite

@davybean8981

26 күн бұрын

Or the will to live ?

@magirusdeutzjupiter2234

26 күн бұрын

All security is either BLACKS or Asians ..welcome to the UK Rule Brittania 😄😄😁😁😁😁😂

@celtichammer2847

24 күн бұрын

But there's plenty of chef knives behind the counter. 🤔 😳

@1fluffyrazor

12 күн бұрын

😂

Give Harlesdon a look. Makes Croydon look peaceful

@johnh1252

26 күн бұрын

💯

@albert21able

26 күн бұрын

I know Harlesden very well, I went through there last Friday around 9 pm, no problem.

@SobrietyandSolace

26 күн бұрын

I went to church in Harlsden and school in Croydon. Only saw shit happen in Stockwell, bits of Brixton (the ungentrified bit), Camberwell and Newham where I worked for 3 years each

@murphytoonz

25 күн бұрын

Grew up there. Left when I was 15. It was an S hole then and it's worse now.

@celtichammer2847

24 күн бұрын

Harlesden homeless rats & mice are now moving to Croydon.

Why are people in the comments afraid to name the Elephant in the room? Worked in Croydon in 1982 it wasnt too bad. After Africa was invited in the place went downhill. Your video proves that.

@174trek

22 күн бұрын

Elephant and Castle?

@igottheshaft

22 күн бұрын

I live in the States and I view Britain as my ancestral homeland. I almost unimaginable what's been allowed to happen to it. I understand that you have laws that might lead to a police investigation (so sad) for a "hateful" comment on Social Media. Here there are no such laws, but our problem is that KZread is run by people who censor our speech. I can't tell you how many seemingly innocuous comments I have made that are never displayed on KZread. It only ever cuts on way. For the explanation for that, I only have to look at the ethnicities of those who founded and run Google. Despite your laws, these comments would probably be full of people pointing out the obvious, if they weren't immediately scanned and shadow banned. You can still see them in your own comment history, but they disappear from the comment section entirely, in real time. I am surprised yours got through, but in short order it will probably be reported.

I was in London as a tourist by my self when I was 16 years old. That was in 1985. Times have changed for sure!

My grandparents moved out of central London to Croydon in the 1940s, it was a prosperous town near the ‘countryside’, many happy memories, I went to school there and worked there for several years and it was always thriving, I remember everyone coming out of shops and offices to watch the Olympic torch procession in 2012! Rapidly went downhill in last 10 years, I only live a few miles further out but never go there 😢 Would have been good to look at the history as well, the Almshouses, the Minster and the Palace!

Croydon used to be Surrey.

If you think so many cultures can live together in harmony, wish it could but sadly it cant

@L1623VP

23 күн бұрын

True. You can't put cats and dogs in a room, close the door, and expect them all to get along. It will come to a violent head at some point. It's for the same reason all creatures in nature from lions to ant colonies, have their own territory and will fight to the death to defend it. Any creature in nature without it's own territory or habitat in which to raise its own young and carry on its way of life soon goes extinct. That's a fact. In Africa, lions, cheetahs, and leopards are all "cats" but maintain completely separate territories for these very reasons, as do all creatures in nature. Humans use to do the same until only about 100 years ago. When you break a law of nature, you're in for a very hard lesson.

This is something of which you're so proud you're broadcasting it to the world...

I moved to Croydon from Nottingham when I was 18, and I never personally felt in any danger because I'm very aware and street smart, but I witnessed a lot. Decided enough was enough when not only a kid was stabbed to death across the road from my house, but someone also got shot, so I moved myself and my kids to Kent.

@Debbiecooke-ls1ss

26 күн бұрын

Hope you and your kids feel safer and happier now in Kent.

@RS-ln3ns

26 күн бұрын

THESE CRIMES KEEP TAKING PLACE IN ALL PARTS OF LONDON AND NOT JUST CROYDON.

@richardpennington5445

25 күн бұрын

What is the real cause of this? There are places that are poorer than Croydon.

@RS-ln3ns

25 күн бұрын

BECAUSE OF LACK OF DISCIPLINE. MOST OF THEM WERE BROUGHT UP WITH NO FATHERS TO ENFORCE THE DISCIPLINE WHICH THEY NEEDED, DURING THEIR CHILDHOOD

Our first family Television was a Philips Television manufactured in Croydon circa 1973

@PrinceJohn84

26 күн бұрын

A Philips G8 by any chance?

@signalcabin

26 күн бұрын

@@PrinceJohn84 don't know. All I can tell you there were 6 buttons for different channels : As this was for the Irish market, 2 buttons were RTÉ 1 and rte 2. I managed to put it out of order a couple of times ( born 1972 ) : very bad idea to turn this thing back in again just after turning it off. It ended its days being used for my Atari ST.

@mjh5437

26 күн бұрын

How fascinating,,,,,,,,,,,,,

@DailyCorvid

26 күн бұрын

Back in the day when Britain had production and the stuff they pumped out was super awesome. These days the only super awesome finds are American fast food chains for junkies.

@Nik-sk7qr

26 күн бұрын

Yes my dad and brother worked at the Phillips factory

I used to manage the Riley's club there in the 90s, travelled there often to a shop I like but that was 20 years ago after. It is mass uncontrolled migration, legal and illegal that is dragging everywhere down.

I lived and worked in Croydon since I was 13 in the 1980s and 90s I worked in Co-op, WH Smith, The Greyhound carvery as a chef and then in 2000 moved to the coast and I've only been back there about 5 times since. Croydon was my life. It was always busy daytime and nightlife was good. West Croydon is just a small part, it's always been home to the Asian community but it's where a lot of other migrants are housed now. South and east Croydon are more affluent and built up. It's sad to see the empty Whitgift Shopping centre, the boarded up empty shops. But that's the same with all big towns now. Absolutely right about the lack of police. They're not doing their job properly. They turn up after a crime when the damage is done. Maybe if their was more police presence, and the friendly bobby seen walking about the streets then there wouldn't be so much crime. A lot of violence is often domestic which is something that is difficult to police, but is still a sad statistic today.

Great vid. Noticeably fewer interviews and it's interesting people are so much less happy to chat. Keep doing your thing Wendall 👍🏻

Wendell sir, it's because the police have withdrawn from the streets over decades from foot patrols that crime across the country, including Croydon, has gone up. The police are supposed to prevent crime before it happens by a visible presence, not react to it afterwards.

Born in Croydon but lived in South Norwood which was known as a posh part of South London when growing up in the 80s, lived there 30 yrs and moved away 13 ago, best thing I ever did, the place (as phrased lots) is a shithole, let down and bled dry by previous councillors, I mean it's been bankrupt 3 times. It's the dumping ground for a lot of immigrants who arrive here because the home office processing site (Lunar house) is there and that's where their sent, and the mix of cultures (in the main) is good but with a mix brings tensions from people's homelands that carry over here. The main shopping centre (Whitgift) used to be rammed on a Saturday, every outlet was full and there was a waiting list for new tenants, the last time I went back (3yrs ago) you could take your pick, it was that deserted, unkempt, full of tat shops no wonder people I hear from back there say they'd rather go Bromley. The 90s and early 00s were actually good in Croydon, it had a lot going for it in the day with good shops and a bustling nightlife scene that would start on a Thursday until Sunday and again the place was rammed, I watched a video on youtube filmed in 2022 I think between 7 and 10pm on a Saturday night and the place was dead. It's just sa, would love to see Croydon return to it's former, not too distant glory but so many false dawns from the council (shutting down allders for Westfield anyone?) and their corruption with a building contractor (83M spent on Fairfield halls) I just don't think it ever will. I'm only halfway through the video but Croydon isn't just then high street alone but it's surrounds Thornton heath, Selhurst, Norbury, Addiscombe, Addington etc that are equally as gritty

@rumplestilskinsmum5094

26 күн бұрын

Yep, Norbury I been here since 1981. It's gutting and that's all I gotta say.

@lafluerpeter9

26 күн бұрын

@@rumplestilskinsmum5094 81 year I was born, Never really ventured to Norbury as a kid but my aunt used to live on Willow tree way from the mid 90s so would go visit. Yes it's really sad seeing whats gone on with the place. Matey in this video has played it safe but if he took the guys advice from west croydon train station and gone down towards mayday he would have started to see the real croydon.

@threethrushes

22 күн бұрын

100 per cent facts. I was born in Mayday in 1976. Remember Allders. West CR was always divey and dodgy, but there was the cinema up the road on the corner. Up until the mid-90s, it was still OK. It was heaving at the weekends (Blue Orchid!). I emigrated in 2015 for central Europe.

Born and bred here. Growing up in the 80s and 90s was great, I only remember good things about it friends family Whitgift was a vibrant shopping area along with the new Drummond centre which is now centrale. Had three cinemas, London road was always safe to walk down even at night.They had a massive Victorian department store called allders everyone was for healthy and worked had good incomes as they commuted from the city. Then labour took over the running of the council A bad bunch moved in, the people who grew up there all fled to Sussex, Essex etc not a good thing to abandon your home town but what was left then started to decline rapidly throughout the 2000s and never worked its way back again, so it is what it is now ☹️

@Sketch2805Studios

25 күн бұрын

I also grew up there in the 80-90s and 100% agree I have nothing but good memories but I moved away in 98" sad to see what it's become

Croydon the most dangerous place in London!?!? LOOOOL Even in the local area, Streatham, Peckham and Lewisham are more dangerous places to go. Croydon is a shopping centre.

@kevina9094

25 күн бұрын

Definitely Lewisham and some parts of Peckham. Streatham not so much now. Because Croydon is so big, it gets more attention than the other worse places.

@shanaazcloete8531

23 күн бұрын

Brixton is the worse, far more gangs than anywhere else. Lewisham is better than West Croydon. South Croydon and East Croydon are not bad places. Its West Croydon and Thornton Health that's more problematic.

@admusik99

23 күн бұрын

​@@shanaazcloete8531Brixton isn't that bad now. Gentrification has changed the demographics for good and bad, but for crime, it's nowhere near as rough as it used to be. It's more full of yuppies than criminals nowadays.

@malthuswasright

22 күн бұрын

Try anywhwere in Newham.

@MichaelJay-rr2vz

22 күн бұрын

Toooooootenham , North London Jungle !

nice,mate!anyway,do u have video around Shelby,Yorkshire?hows the life there?:) greet from Indonesia

I have worked and lived near Croydon, it has got worse and worse, and the reason is obvious. Unfortunately, Croydon is how the entire country will be in 15 - 20 years time. People have no idea what’s coming.

@EpicAelflaed

27 күн бұрын

Yeah mass immigration of .. everyone - Now these third world immigrants have completely destroyed the English towns and cities - including other towns and cities too. What the f*** were they thinking? Bring in 10 million immigrants in 25 years - what could go wrong? 😣😬

@LHBH8

27 күн бұрын

Seeing it all play out in Ireland now too, small towns being pumped full of migrants. Already happened here and in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia. Spain and Italy being transformed and Poland up next. They want white people replaced.

@binkyboobosh1

27 күн бұрын

In 15-20 years time the country will be full of white old people with nobody to look after them.

@eternaldrunk

27 күн бұрын

yep the reason is your trashy ultra-wealthy parasite government only cares for the ultra wealth parasite class, and treat poverty and homelessness with extreme neglect.

@Screwball70

27 күн бұрын

Without sounding like a right wing goose stepping neo Nazi , I will say it, the problem is immigrants, we don't know who the fk we letting in. The thing the worries me is most of the immigrants aren't women and children they are military aged men, from who knows where, who knows what crimes they have committed and these days you don't send an army in to invade the UK just keep importing foreign national men over year after year until there is a few regiments worth then destroy us from the inside, .

Hi mate, was a pleasure to meet you yesterday, going down to Cornwall. Ps (GWR staff)

I was born in Mayday hospital and grew up in Thornton Heath. Along with W Croydon, probably the roughest parts of the borough. Croydon is one of the largest London boroughs, with some very nice and wealthy areas, but varies greatly. I left in 1991 and don't think I'd go back.

@James-jd6in

26 күн бұрын

Black Swan demolished now a block of flats I think

@user-ub5qp8sq1w

26 күн бұрын

Where do you live now?

@mariataif

26 күн бұрын

also | was born mayday hospital early 60s also grew up Thornton heath went to ECclesbourne school then Whitehorse manor then moved to Shirley moved away 2001 and wont be going back

@magirusdeutzjupiter2234

26 күн бұрын

@@James-jd6in Nor would I, even the British Army would have problems at night in that stinking filthy rough place full of B.....Ba,,rds

@williamnunn8847

25 күн бұрын

I went to do a scene in a rap video in Thornton Heath, and the camera man was attacked when arriving, though i did not see it. Truthfully not an area where I would mess with anyone.

i lived in Croydon and then moved up to Brixton in the early 90s it's massivley changed for the worse since then

@Jack-ni4ft

26 күн бұрын

You moved to Brixton and you think Croydon has changed for the worse ... No disrespect but last year me and my girlfriend moved in together. She was living in Brixton near electric avenue. The day we moved her out I saw 4 people openly smoking crack in the alley, police cordoned off area where someone was stabbed, a drug deal behind our moving van and people trying to steal what was in the moving van. Before her and her flat mate had been sexually harassed and blokes tried to follow them into their flat on more than one occasion. She had been spat on and called a white wh*re and had to be escorted by a security guard in Pret back home because again, she was being sexually harassed by a number of blokes.

@garyrigby21

26 күн бұрын

@@Jack-ni4ft I moved out of there years ago in the 90s I'm in Liverpool now best move I ever made

@mranonymous9689

26 күн бұрын

Croydon got worse as Brixton got better

@garyrigby21

26 күн бұрын

@@mranonymous9689 Agreed

@magirusdeutzjupiter2234

26 күн бұрын

Is there any white people live in Brixton? I remember Brixton in the 70s, the buses were driven by blacks, all the passengers was black upstairs and downstairs, and just every one was black, this is meant to be London not effing Nigeria and Jamaica, I have seen more blacks in London than Africa I am not kidding 😀😀😆😆

Let me tell you my friend This world is the pits. I am 60 four-year-old. I knew that today I took my first breath.

I worked in Croydon back in the late 1980s and it was a cesspit back then. In those days it was plagued with skinheads and NF cretins. As for London, it's totally lost it's identity. Most 'real' Londoners like myself live in Kent/Surrey/Essex now.

@jonesroberts3640

26 күн бұрын

Essex and Hertfordshire full of Londoners.

Born, raised and still living in Croydon. Whilst crime is still a major issue here, I feel as though a lot of it usually happens between parties who are already on bad terms with each other (e.g. gang or school related) and if you just keep to yourself you'll be fine. It really is sad to see the state Croydon is in, though. I have very pleasant memories of being a kid in the 2000s and messing about in the Whitgift Centre with my brother whilst on a shopping trip with our mum. Went back in there recently and I honestly could not believe how hauntingly quiet it is. Most people nowadays will just go to Bromley or Sutton (also going downhill a bit) for all their shopping needs.

@ShitStainedBallSack

24 күн бұрын

You mean criminals keep committing crimes.... Shocking

@cantagiousca5220

24 күн бұрын

England is the 3rd world

@cantagiousca5220

24 күн бұрын

..but just carry on bending over England

@007JNR

24 күн бұрын

​@@cantagiousca5220you don't know what you are talking about do you?

@mustertherohirrim7315

24 күн бұрын

Open your eyes. Awaken from your happy nostalgic images. Its beyond The Crusades 4. Thats why we went there x3 times. To avoid this. 1.2 MILLION PER YEAR EVERY YEAR. explosive exponential breeding. Its over. Keep the memories. ​@@007JNR

Hello Wendell, glad to see you back my friend. Love your videos. We love you here in northern California. Thanks for all your hard work my friend peace and God bless.🙏💯💙🇺🇸

@WendallExplores

27 күн бұрын

Cheers mate

@Westhamsterdam

26 күн бұрын

These places are nothing on Oakland!

@rob_m

26 күн бұрын

@@Westhamsterdam I’m from London and spent some time in Oakland, what an absolute hole. Feel very sorry for the locals with so many implants from all over the US going there. What a true dump.

Is Croydon’s version of Centre Point still standing unoccupied just north of west croydon bus station, by the bridge? Whitgift centre was built in the early seventies, such a shame. Peep Show was located half a mile further north up London road.

It’s so sad watching the amazing Britain, the empire that is responsible for creating my country of Canada and so many other amazing countries around the world, fall so fast in real time. When I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s, we Canadians really looked up to Britain. Today? Ugh. Not only is Britain not an inspiration, it’s an absolute tragedy that my country and others around the world need to take note of in order not to implode ourselves.

@user-kx3fq1zo6f

2 күн бұрын

Sadly it has been destroyed by an enemy within and Canada is being targeted for destruction too.

I used to work as a manager for the Vue cinema in Croydon and the upper ups told me to tell the poor kids that worked there to confront and stop some black hoodlums to stop stealing sweets/getting free refills. Those workers were jumped by the kids after their shift and never came back. Those jobs had a very high turnover as many quit w/o ever saying anything. I see Croydon is still a shithole but I'm glad I'm no longer in the UK. I don't believe it will be getting better in the next few decades.

@threethrushes

22 күн бұрын

I emigrated in 2015. From Croydon too. I watch the decline of the UK with no joy. But it didn't reward competence, so I took my skills to central Europe.

I've lived near Croydon and now the West Country. Just as likely to get stabbed in our local town as in Croydon. Poverty and deprivation caused by politicians, has broken Britain.

@mrhushyamoaut6574

21 күн бұрын

Yes exactly, where there is poverty there is crime and there is poverty everywhere. This video is so misleading. Nothing to do with diversity or race.

The reason Croydon is so bad is because of the council that was getting some back pocket money from developers. Croydon used to be the area hun for shopping and night life but the council closed down most of the shops and night life making the town dead where is was vibrant. This government and khan has a lot to answer for but will not be held responsible unfortunately.

I grew up in London, but I would not even drive through Croydon.

@uksilverstacker413

27 күн бұрын

🤦

@breakfreak3181

27 күн бұрын

Clown.

@user-yr7re9oe4s

26 күн бұрын

Don't be dramatic. I live in Croydon and have never seen anything bad.

@sherblato9147

26 күн бұрын

😂

@Alexq79-

26 күн бұрын

@@user-yr7re9oe4sCroydon is pretty big but I’ve heard plenty of bad stories from it

I used to live on the Brighton Road Croydon, never was a problem a few years back; what has changed ? The population has changed !!

Croydon used to be such a wonderful place to live. I grew up on the borough where there was a great community feeling about the place. The shops, night time economy, pubs, restaurants and night clubs use to be in abundance where everyone would travel from all over London for shopping or great night out. It's a shame you only managed to speak with two genuine local Croydonians who told you how great the borough of Croydon used to be. Surrey street market definitely is not the same, all the old stall holders have long gone! Apart from one or two of the old stall holders remain like the bloke you briefly spoke with. Croydon is such a huge borough to police, this is why you never saw many police. I recall from my time growing up there, the police were there in great numbers, unlike today, officers now have to cover three boroughs, Bromley, Sutton and Croydon with lower numbers etc. I like many others Croydonians have left the borough for pastures new. I still come back to the borough to watch my beloved Crystal Palace FC, at Selhurst park, soon as the game is over I am out the ground and back in the safety of my car for the journey back to the south coast. If I get the train to London, it's amazing to see how many people are making the journey Selhurst Park. Lots of the original locals to Croydon have left for Kent, Surrey, Sussex to escape the place which was home for me and them also. Croydon is now the biggest dumping ground, which in my opinion has brought the issues, deprivation and violence which you see today. All I will say. God bless RIP Croydon.🙏🏼

I had a friend 2004 ish. Crying his eyes out he was on min wage delivering shoes to shoe fare. From Leicester to London we went with him even 3 of us couldn’t do it.. and seeing London me and my brother were crying snot bubbles at the IMMIGRATION it was hell on earth HELL ON EARTH live there no fking way

@Meloncholymadness

26 күн бұрын

I'm from Leicester too, it's also a white minority city

Grew up in London. Lived there for fifty years. Now I've left it because it's a complete sh*t hole. Very sad.

I was born in Maydie, was raised in West Croydon. Sad seeing it like that. I used to love it. It was always rough, but there was no knife crime. You didn’t feel scared to walk down the street. I feel bad seeing my home town like that 😔 used to love the market and the Whitgift Centre. As for the lack of police, they’re all out protecting Mr. Sadiq Khan. We had a peaceful anti-ULEZ protest quarter of a mile down the road from his house and we had 200 police turn up. To protect him from a bunch of OAPs. Don’t get that kinda turnout for the public. The whole country is corrupt.

The lack of Police on the streets certainly doesn't help reduce crime...or help with the Police's relationship with the public. Back in the late eighties, when I lived just up the road in Streatham, locals would know Police officers by their first names. Used to be this six foot eight bobby called 'Brian' who everyone knew and respected 'cause he had time to chat to you when you'd see him around town...even if it was just a quick 'Hello'. I'm guessing that's all in the distant past.