Lived in Penhill for many years, left 15 years ago. Swindon was a sad angry place for me.

A great shame. Never fulfilled its potential as a town. The location is great yet it continues to struggle with no sign of recovery.

I would say it’s smallish , it’s one of the largest towns in the uk. It’s really not that bad.

Swindon is a great town I lived there for ten years

@Swishh14

2 жыл бұрын

True it is

People mainly talk about ex-mining towns when they refer to urban decay, but Swindon is an example of a town always on the cusp of being an industrial powerhouse. The moment the railway works left Swindon was the day the future for the town died. Today, the only opportunities in Swindon are becoming a desk jockey for Nationwide or Zurich. For the past 20 years, it's been on life support being a commuter hub for Bath, Bristol and Reading. Coronavirus has put 6 iron nails in that coffin. Not once in my 18 years in Swindon did I ever envisage myself staying there, the dream of every Swindonite is to move to Bristol, Reading or London. It's also an excellent example of how mismanaged local and national politics actually is. Take the gaudy new Regent's Circus shopping centre. Ugly, abandoned and the complete opposite of what Swindon actually needed, they practically had to pay Morrisons to occupy it (with cut price taxes). Where are the heavy industries? Where are the tech jobs? Where are the careers? Where is anything? The only way out of this shit state is a two pronged attack from the national government protecting industries in this country and killing off outsourcing, with local government selling Swindon to industries, and listening to business owners, entrepreneurs and customers about what is actually needed in Swindon to restore it's footing amongst the other towns in Britain. Things like vocational education for MODERN industries, business parks that can be used for niche purposes with specialist services, high capacity transport and shipping links, etc.

this is so well made, makes me nostalgic since i’ve moved away

I love the eerie music at the start, as well as the cloudy scenes it's a really good depressing video

Thought provoking and well made.

Lived in Swindon too many years. It drains the soul out of people. It has nothing of interest other than a damn roundabout.

@defn0tkc_tt

6 ай бұрын

Honestly. Fifteen years. Can’t wait to move away.

I lived in Park South. Left in1985. Have some good memories.

@karenpearson1207

4 жыл бұрын

Deb Zelman Me too! I left in 1983. I went to Dorcan school.

@bamboozled6302

3 жыл бұрын

@@karenpearson1207 i live here currently it was good about 5 years ago but its gone down hill and now its just nittys

Swindon's terrible reputation was somewhat unfair up until around 2015-2016. It was quite a decent place, good nightlife, lots of shops, quite clean...... Now it really and truly is a grim place. Went back to the town centre after many years recently and its like a post-apocalyptic urban hellhole. empty lots, charity shops and fake Turkish barbers. Its a shame really. Just seems to be full of recent arrivals now and they dont give a shit about maintaining their space.

@Elizabeth-ei7ne

9 ай бұрын

That’s really sad to hear. I’m American, but my dad was from Swindon and as a kid in the 90s we’d visit every summer to see my grandmother. The town’s bad reputation was a bit of a joke in my family, but one we never took very seriously. I remember getting freshly-made donuts at one particular stand in the Town Centre, and afterwards always begging my dad to take me to the big bookstore and the two-story McDonald’s (which seemed gargantuan to me then). I told friends at home horror stories about the Magic Roundabout, with due exaggeration. I got my first “grown up” watch at a jeweler there, and my first camera from Boots. I remember visiting a museum called something like STEAM! and searching for my grandfather’s name among a huge list of train workers that covered an entire wall. We still have a picture somewhere of my brother attempting to ride on the stuffed alligator in the town museum. Lots of great memories as I loved my grandmother dearly, and an indelible part of my childhood. Both Dad and Grandma are gone now, and in a fit of nostalgia I searched for Swindon in KZread - this is what I found. Really very depressing.

“Smaller towns” bruhhh

looks super cozy

I dont want to live there anymore

Don’t care it’s still home to me whenever I go o. Holiday I’m glad to come back, if you think this is bad then you’re life is too comfortable try living in a third world city. You just gotta find the nice parts and they’re are plenty. And yes I’m a swindonian and I’ve been addicted to crack and heroin lol so I’ve seen the good and bad of this town

I dont even live in Swindon but even i know getting rid of oasis was stupid..unless they plan to make a better one..why get rid of what makes a town successful?

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Great work.

This was really great, depressing but accurate and honest. Out of interest, why was it made?

The second one is my street lol

This makes me sad...

West is definitely the nicer areas but it still has a bad places

Swindon i've lived all my life most locals cause much trouble and strife a smile doesn't even exist and half the town are f***in pissed getting pushed into when you shop when will this madness ever stop? It certainly is the shittest Town with a colour scheme of Grey & brown Oh how i wish i could leave but without the money i can only grieve.

Not one comment on how the town has been flooded with immigrants to the point that the town now has lost any English culture it may have once had, We were never asked and now we are being replaced.

@chesterdonnelly1212

Жыл бұрын

I live in North Swindon. I hardly ever go to town centre. That whole area around town centre has no English people living there. I feel like North Swindon is a different town to Swindon. I like North Swindon. We have our own shops here, we don't need to go to town centre. Town centre is like a foreign country.

Swindon has now become a crack den for smack walkers...

@cartoonhead9222

2 жыл бұрын

It's so bad now, people just zonked out or having massive argies in their houses to the backdrop of domestic abuse and the pungent smell of weed.

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