I could name at least 20 cities worse than this in Britain and Ireland

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think the title is quite unwarranted. It's bad...but not the worst.

@miroslavdusin4325

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond Maybe it is due to the contrast between expectation and reality. Put this city in some really poor country and it suddenly would look great :)

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@miroslavdusin4325 Yeah, that's a fair point! I think it's spot on that the contrast is why people pointed out this city in particular.

@Paul-eb4jp

7 ай бұрын

Go on then.

@connortopping6943

7 ай бұрын

@@Paul-eb4jp ok lol Birmingham, Glasgow Swindon Swansea Newport Grimsby Hull Bolton Bury Blackburn Fleetwood Sunderland Middlesborough Luton Bedford Milton Keynes Wolverhampton Coventry West Bromwich Stoke on Trent Easy work

This city looks better than the vast majority of smaller eastern european cities

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like I haven't spent enough time in Eastern Europe :D

@expo1706

3 ай бұрын

Not anymore. Depends where you are from Eastern Europe.

@Senoncifossimonoi.....

Ай бұрын

Ecco perché molti di noi farebbero italexit subitoooooo 😂

This is informative and thought- provoking!!

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Very happy to hear that :D Thank you!

I'm from Asia, recently went to Charleroi airport and it was quite horrendous. But the surrounding area with greenery looks not bad

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I think it's a mix of good and bad in Charleroi. The city center and the airport are pretty bad - but there are worse places for sure

@Senoncifossimonoi.....

Ай бұрын

​@@ThreeStarVagabondcerto ma sempre al nord nord est Europa 😂😂😂 In Italia è tutto completato diverso

Hi , I met u in the city center in Charleroi the day u were recording when I was walking around with my girlfriend, I love the video!

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Hey, it was so nice to meet you guys - and thanks for leaving a comment as well :D Happy to hear that you didn't feel like I made a botched job out of presenting Charleroi

@Senoncifossimonoi.....

Ай бұрын

​@@ThreeStarVagabond Tu sei bravissimo ottimo video .. È Charleroi che è una chiavica 😂😂😂

This reminded me of Detroit, Michigan USA. Was a vrey important and large city in the 1950's. It is making a resurgance now, still a long way to go. Hopefully Charlerio will do the same. I enjoy your videos, very well done! Thank you!

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Detroit would be fascinating to visit! I can imagine that there's a rich history there - and nice that there's a happy ending as well. Fingers crossed for Charleroi as well then. Oh, and thanks a lot :D

@nico8753

Ай бұрын

As a resident of Charleroi, this is basically that, we were the richest part of Belgium (even the world at one point) and then coal and the steel industry (Charleroi is a sister city to Pittsburgh) left and it went downhill, the city is starting the rebuild itself but they have to basically destroy a LOT of things first. Charleroi (and Wallonia as a whole) is very similar to the rust belt of the US

I come from Charleroi, I've spend more than 20y in this place. I've really enjoyed the way you've described my home❤ You are welcome back anytime! Congratulations and thank you for your work. Nice job ! Tanguy

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

Thank you for those kind words! I'll definitely explore more of Charleroi at some point - this was much too quick of a visit :D

I must admit it’s never been on my top ten list of places to visit and now after seeing it, well I don’t think I’d ever go there. The problem like you said is the unemployment rate, when there’s no income it’s hard to contribute to the economy. I love old abandoned building, but like you said they were apart of a industrial boom for them and when the need went away they dint restructure, instead they just closed and the down fall begins for a city, what a shame. Thank You for the tour, stay safe till next time

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's not really a tourist destination after all. It's a shame to see the city fall to decay like that - but it's really nothing new, or nothing unusual either. Unfortunately! Still, I hope that things will be better, and that this title of so-called ugliest city can be just a funny memory later on.

Actually, this was a survey covering 5 cities in the Benelux in a dutch journal. Charleroi came last. That does not make it the ugliest in the world

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Well, "the ugliest city in the universe" is what's said on the Internet. The Wolkskrant article is behind a paywall so I actually couldn't double check it myself. Guess you can't trust anything on the net, eh?

@mjpspit

7 ай бұрын

No problems. This is running around on the net.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@mjpspit Thanks for adding a correction!

This reminds me of many cities in north of England. I personally find beauty in industrial areas. I like the contract of different types of buildings. That might be because I come from Manchester UK. Parts of Manchester looks like this but the history of these places are fascinating.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I have to say that I got a completely different vibe from Manchester and Liverpool, though. There were some run down parts in both towns, but both seemed a lot more...alive. But then again, it's not like I explored either town very much!

@lioneldemun6033

7 ай бұрын

It s more aesthetically pleasant than the horrendous commercial zones that have blossomed in the periphery of French towns and cities for the last half century....

@Lechoslaw8546

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond How about city of ŁÓDŹ, Poland. Second largest city in Poland 1945-2000., largest industrial city then, now a ghost town. While 1919-1939 second largest and most beautiful Polish city Was LWÓW, now in Ukraine.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@Lechoslaw8546 Very interesting - I haven't been to either of those towns. It does sound like they have a history worth exploring!

@jakubkieszkowski2608

6 ай бұрын

Have been in both (Manchester and Charleroi) and Manchester was 100x better for me, even Liverpool was much prettier :P

Watch the video this morning, and saw the sad news this evening 😢 my heart goes out to the friends and families of the victims. Hope you and your loved ones are ok. Richard

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

When I read this comment I hadn't read the news all day so I had no idea what had happened. It's a sad day - feels like I could have had better timing with posting things about Belgium. Thanks for the thoughtful message!

@VAR_life

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond I would say that your posts will help to remind people that Belgium is a great country. We should not let the actions of a few mindless idiots ruin it for everyone else.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@VAR_life Agreed! There are good and bad people everywhere - we just have to remember that :)

Must visited next time when i go to Belgium, and it is interesting its name always sounded posh and fancy to me, never had industrial city in my head.

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

Well, it probably had posh intentions from the start! But then...things went a bit south...

I got inspired! Next time I will travel to Belgium I will pay a visit to Charleroi!

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

It really is interesting - even if it might not exactly be a pleasurable visit :)

I grew up in Charleroi. In 1984, my dad lost his job and my parents and I emigrated to South France. I sometimes go back there and I am surprised to see how people make fun of the situation. Even if, I confess, it might be one the ugliest cities in the world, it is a place of humour and distance. People have fascinating capacity to escape from the daily life.

@ThreeStarVagabond

5 ай бұрын

I could unfortunately not see the good aspects of the town when I visited quickly, but it doesn't surprise me. Every place has some good and some bad after all!

I went from holland to france and needed to pass trough charleroi. Quit a shock where we drove trough in the ring of the city. On one side big old dirty factories. The other side had houses all in different shapes and sizes and made with dark ugly building materials. Gave me a real gritty impression.

@ThreeStarVagabond

4 ай бұрын

I just took the train to Charleroi, but I can imagine that you saw some really run down things driving through! Such a fascinating place...if one is into stuff like that, of course...

That place reminds me of New York City.. on film they mainly show you new buildings.. but the outlining zones and even Manhatten have so much mixed broken down looking red brick buildings

@ThreeStarVagabond

3 ай бұрын

That's such an interesting observation! I've been to NY but that must have been....early 2001. And I mostly just visited Manhattan. I can imagine that it's changed a lot by now. And I really want to see more of the surrounding city next time...

@nathanpattee1629

3 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond you could visit upstate New York and see the Adirondack mountains. Then you could make a video on the most beautiful places in the world 🌲🌲🏕️🌳🌳🦌🦅🐿️🦝🐺🦊🐻🦆 pure nature that is rare in the world..Old growth forest.. absolutely no fake pine plantations...so you wouldn't see boring ole pine trees everywhere 😄

@ThreeStarVagabond

3 ай бұрын

@@nathanpattee1629 I sense a completely unbiased opinion here :D But yeah, I'd love to see the northeast in general - but unfortunately I'll have to wait just a bit more for that. Haha, I just find more places to go all the time!

@nathanpattee1629

3 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond haaaa😄 completely biased...

@ThreeStarVagabond

3 ай бұрын

@@nathanpattee1629 No no, I totally trust that it's objective :D

It's definitely rough-looking but has potential. The pedestrian areas could actually be nice with some restoration. But I suppose every town in Europe has these kind of spaces so there is no particular incentive to renovate this one. We have no such town centers in America.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

That's an interesting observation... I've never really considered that town centers aren't much of a thing over there. Guess the layouts of the cities are so built up around a car-based infrastructure.

Someone making such declaration obviously never visited Russia outside Moscow, St. Pete or Sochi, or industrial cities in Ukraine.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

...Or more likely, it was based on a Dutch poll, answered by people living closer to Charleroi than anywhere in the East?

It's interesting that remnants of old beautiful facades and decorated town houses are still there, but surrounded and either spread out or squeezed in by brutalism and modernistic architecture. I wonder what it looked like in the beginning of the 1900s

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

It probably was quite gorgeous. And it's a pity that a lot of the town will probably be replaced by modern architecture whenever they have the resources, instead of restoring the buildings.

Norilsk in Russia from what I've seen on the internet is far more depressing and uglier than Charleroi could ever hope to be!

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately I won't be able to go see it for myself for a long time - so I guess Charleroi will have to suffice for now

*"If you're seen as an ugly city, you might as well be the ugliest."* :)) That's some entrepreneurial optimism right there.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

And that's a literal quote from the guy who arranges the tours. Marketing genius :D

Detroit used to be very beautiful, and was one of the richest cities in the US and in the world, but took a real downhill turn and has a lot of abandoned factories, homes and other buildings. Charlerois is still mostly inhabited and is does not appear to be in the same league. They don't yet have parts of the city razed and urban farming and maybe haven't declared bankruptcy yet like Detroit. Also such cities may be competing in the number of bankruptcies over time, in the race to the bottom. China also has many mostly empty ghost cities like Ordos which could make such a list, especially once they start crumbling and lose their shine. There is not even a question of bankruptcy there, since there was nothing to begin with in some cases - the cities were built but hardly anyone moved in. Pripyat in Ukraine near Chornobyl you could consider as one of the top worst cities. Some parts of Johannesburg downtown have really taken a dive with a lot of abandoned formerly luxury real estate. Charlerois is still a long way off in terms of quality of life compared to some of those other places in terms of global ranking. There are also some cities in war zones which are in bad shape. Charlerois is in a good location and could be still turned around with better administration and business initiatives, free market reforms, etc. It seemed quiet in Charlerois from the video without any riots. Paris is a city in with some of the worst problems in Europe, with frequent unrest according to what I read. There is small elite in control still but much of the city is quite volatile, and the police need the support of the military. That is a sign that the civilian authorities are losing control. In the past in Detroit the police have given public warnings to visitors. Those are signs of some of the issues facing those cities. Caracas, Venezuela might be more dangerous to go out at night than Detroit, but it might not be as run down with fewer abandoned buildings. There are probably a lot of other worse cities than Charlerois, Belgium, so calling it the worst in the world is more like a simplistic joke on them than being realistic. To be the worst is not something to strive for. How about Havana, Cuba with all of its crumbling buildings, poverty and lack of electricity ? There were a few remote cities in the Russia which were used as gulag prisons during the soviet period which might still be pretty miserable as well. Mariupol in Ukraine though probably could top the list in its current demolished and depopulated condition. It is like a modern day Dresden situation - just levelled to the ground in many places and hardly anyone of its former nearly 500,000 population remaining - basically a whole major city practically wiped out just a couple of years ago. Mariupol is a significant historical tragedy. There are a lot of smaller frontline cities and towns in Ukraine which are badly damaged as well like Bakhmut.

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

I absolutely agree - the whole "ugliest city" thing just came from a poll in a Dutch newspaper after all, and then people jumped on that bandwagon. But I'm really curious about visiting some places like Detroit or Chinese ghost cities at some point. I'd love to be able to explore all places like that, but I'll go where I can for now at least. Ukraine is also someplace I'd love to visit, but that feels a bit...unwise now.

What strikes me about all these KZread bloggers and influencers is this - I know many do not film “ people “ out of respect of privacy, but wherever you go these days, there seems to be a lack of activity, no people out and about, no children playing, - has gotten worse since CONVID….😢😢😭 so sad, but we are in the end days

when i went to Charleroi and made my own video vlog, i never got harassed by anyone for filming or nobody begging me for money, i hate it when people approach me to ask for money ever since that one incident i had in Ghent.

@ThreeStarVagabond

5 ай бұрын

Ouch. I'm not very fond of that either - I very rarely give money, and I was yelled at by someone in Austria for not wanting to give him money. But happy to hear that you didn't have any issues in Charleroi! Some kids actually asked what I was doing and chatted a bit.

@Drago1995

5 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond most of them will use it to buy drugs anyway, so i ain't gonna give my hard earn money for people to buy drugs with it -_-, and about the filming if someone gives attitude i just say a it's free country and im in public so get hell out of my face before i start yelling police.

@ThreeStarVagabond

5 ай бұрын

@@Drago1995 Fair point! And I do my best to try to respect people's privacy and so on. Different countries, different cultures when it comes to filming etc. But sometimes it's just impossible to please everyone.

there are historical factors that might contribute to the negative image, on top of those mentioned in the film. The Marcinelle mining disaster of 1956 was the worst in Belgian history, killing almost 300 (about half of themItalian). In the same annus horibilis was one Marc Dutroux born, the most (in)famous resident of the same Charleroi district, a child rapist and murderer only arrested and sentenced after a really embarrassing series of blunders and omissions on the part of Belgian police and judiciary.

@ThreeStarVagabond

2 ай бұрын

Wow, good points! Thanks for that added insight 😊

Loved this one. Very interesting seeing a European rust belt. I think some people in the U.S. have this thought that all of Europe is some idealized space, with only certain places seeing blight. It was fascinating seeing how parts looked similar to rust belts, here, but then...much older building and murals.

@bobd7307

7 ай бұрын

A lot of Europeans see American cities as vibrant places with lots of space and affluence, while they see their own cities as old, run-down and cramped. It works both ways.

@ChristopherGronlund

7 ай бұрын

@@bobd7307 I figured. I had friends who idealized Europe as this perfect, wondrous place where they would go "find themselves." They apparently never watched movies made in Europe showing run-down areas or really researched their dream.

As an Albanian is beyond my comprehension that one of the most developed European countries leaves one of its largest cities into such disrepair at least our country has the alibi of a brutal 50 years communist regime and a seemingly never ending and messy transition. This looks like a city not built for humans but for “useful” masses and for soulless functionalism. There are a few very similar northern England cities.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I've yet to visit Albania, so I can't really say much about the architecture there. But yeah, it's definitely a different comparison given the history of the country! I've heard that Albania is beautiful in other ways though

@AndreaSanad-py3vn

7 ай бұрын

😢😢😢desolating ñut interesting city😮😮😮

@aureliogj7966

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond oh yes the nature is beautiful I mean you have alps half an hour away from beautiful beaches. Some cities have been thankfully left untouched from the early medieval times and Tirana itself it’s a very interesting mush mash of fascist, communist, Austrian, ottoman architecture and later day high riser towers and the previous mayor (who is now prime minister) was obsessed with colora and he painted the pre 90s apartment blocks in bright colours or commissioned graffiti artists to work on them. I actually find Tirana quite fun and dynamic and I recommend you visit. But there are some cities in central Albania stuck in the 60s 70s soviet style architecture in desperate need of updating

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@aureliogj7966 That really sounds fascinating! I need to make a road trip around Albania (and possibly some surrounding countries) one of these days. There's so much history and so many stories to be found about the entire Balkan area.

@aureliogj7966

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond absolutely, as Winston Churchill said: “The Balkans produces more history than it is ever able to consume”

Have you never been to Germany? The post-war landscape is absoulutey hideous. Any city north of 15,000 people was bombed back to the stone age. Now it's all drab and and even the modern stuff resembles just lego blocks. I should know, I live in the Ruhrgebiet.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I've spent some time in places like Essen but I think it wasn't quite as run down...

@DenzelPF-jl4lj

7 ай бұрын

The Ruhrgebiet is definitely not the pearl of Germany. But to say that all bigger cities in Germany aren't nice at all tells me that you've never really travelled in Germany. I can name 100 cities in Germany that are beautiful. To be honest, most of them are outside of your state though 😅

Dude could’ve picked any German city.

Reminds me of my home town Sheffield. The Steel City. Then the steel went and it feels depressed somehow although it’s still better than this place by the looks of it. Plus Sheffield is the greenest city in Europe by trees per population.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Hey, that doesn't sound too shabby at all for a place called The Steel City. Interesting turn of events, to end up that green instead... Hm... I wonder if anyone's made a list of cities by greenliness...

Compared to the videos exploring similar cities without hope in the US, it looks like New York.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Haha, yeah I think Charleroi's reputation is quite a bit overblown. It's not a great place - but there are tons of others that are worse. It's not a town I'll return to, but I might not even want to go to some of the US cities in the first place...

It's like my city, Łódź. I even went to some lantern to put on sticker of my club, ŁKS, and I discovered that someone did exactly like this some time ago, on exactly same lantern that I planned.. Im sure he had the same images of our city like me when we walked those streets.. it's not bad city, I mean.. it IS bad, but it has character as well, it is not that boring.. for example Groningen in the Netherlands is far more boring to me.. also Rosendaal, this is more like town, but gosh what a boring hole... Charleroi has some spirit, at least in parts of it

@ThreeStarVagabond

14 күн бұрын

That's a really cool way of looking at things! I agree that it's better when there's character and things happening, than when things are boring - but Charleroi also has a bit of a problem with unemployment etc. So, things could certainly get better even if the character remains!

The place looks like a city of lost dreams.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

That's SUCH a great description. Wish I'd thought of it myself...

You want ugly, you should see Charleroi, Pennsylvania!

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Wait, there's a Carleroi in PA?! Okay, I really should visit there as well...

@Ripleyripper

7 ай бұрын

When you ask for a plane ticket make sure you pronounce it 'Shar-la-roy' (no such thing as French niceties in western Pennsylvania)@@ThreeStarVagabond

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@Ripleyripper Haha, I can imagine my faux pas otherwise. "What the heck is Charl-woaa?! Take your stinking European language someplace where it's wanted! Here we speak American!"

Charleroi is changing but it takes time... Not everything is bad in Charleroi. Don't forget that we have an industrial past rich in metallurgy, glassmaking and coal mining!

@ThreeStarVagabond

6 ай бұрын

A very fair point! I hope that things will continue to improve over time :)

It's a very ugly city but I guess there are thousands and thousands uglier cities in the world, eg. in Russia, the US, UK, former East Europe, Africa and Asia and even Europe. BTW: the city has only about 200K inhabitants.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Oh no! It was the district around Charleroi including the city that had 400k. Damn, I should have noted that it didn't look big enough for that number. But yeah, it's not a nice looking city - but there are tons of others that are worse.

I am from FInland, and this made even me more depressed

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

Hang in there! Have some mämmi and forget all about the cold and never-ending darkness :D

How do people stand living there..is there any joyous activity or redeeming qualities that make it tolerable...

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I think people find joy wherever they live. It's possible to find beauty and pleasure no matter how the city looks. At least I hope so...

my grandmother came to USA as a war bride from Charleroi...i still have family there.

@ThreeStarVagabond

5 ай бұрын

Oh wow, interesting to have a history connected with a place that has such a rich history of its own!

This place is still better than the majority of cities in the world

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, that title is definitely overblown

What if you compare Charleroi with Borlänge .....????

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

Well... Borlänge might look a bit nicer but... It's Borlänge!

fine and nice

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Haha pretty much

Hannover, Ludwugshafen, Eisenhüttenstadt, Leeds, Liverpool, Paris (Banlieus), Marseille, Minsk......

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I've just been to Liverpool and Paris out of those, but I don't really think they compare. However, I have heard really nasty stuff about many of the old industrial towns in both the UK and Germany - so it might definitely be true for those others..

Modlin, Poland is a far worse airport than Charleroi. No places to sit, bad toilets, very strict security check, waaaay overpriced shops, when outbound. When inbound: no direct connection to Warsaw, Just the bus to other parts of the Modlin, and then the train. Not so far, but the roads are in awful condition, and the bus is always running way overcrowded. Charleroi is very quick, with toilets in good condition, a better shop selection, with more affordable prices

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I guess I found Charleroi a bit lacking in facilities but it really wasn't all that bad after all. Then again, no airport is particularly pleasurable to spend time in

Hi from the Belgian Ardennes. I'm not certain that is the only ugly, or the ugliest, city of Europe (not to mention the world) but it does have a bad reputation in the rest of Belgium. I've been through it a couple of times, and that's indeed a rather depressing place; but some of its "green suburbs" are rather nice.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

That's really interesting, to hear a Belgian's view. I can imagine that it's actually a bit better in the suburbs. I went past a really nice little spot on the way to the IM powerplant - but I was still a bit shocked that the city center itself is so run down. Both from the looks of it, and from the....general feeling.

have You ever been in Bytom Poland ?

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately not! So it seems like there are many more places to explore...

Kyiv, oh wait, it's about Europe

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Still a place I'd like to visit...

My friend, you have clearly not been to Coventry.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like I have a new bucket list destination!

It's probably cheaper than living in Brussels its still within commuting distance , it could be an area that attracts artists and hipsters ,.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

That could definitely be the case! And just an hour away does make for a reasonable commute. Makes sense.

I had never heard of this city before this video You should make videos of all the ugliest cities in each European country Then again you might become too depressed :(

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I would LOVE to do something like that! I've already started with Sweden a while back, but maybe I should look at some other countries too....

@brjnskjaard7287

7 ай бұрын

Yes!@@ThreeStarVagabond

Thsi city is def. not that ugly. If you haven't seen how run down cities are in Africa, Asia or the Arabic countries you haven't seen it.

@ThreeStarVagabond

3 ай бұрын

I totally agree. I mean, it's run down for the general west, but there's so much more out there that's worse.

You should come to Limerick Ireland. Every part of it , is a sh1t hole. They don't call it stab city for nothing.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Oooh that would be so much fun! Then I could cover all the nasty stuff while making up bad limericks, like: There once was a city quite shitty Where people were hard-boiled and gritty Irish delights Like shootings and fights Well, that's what you get in Stab City

@michaelzemrowsky2786

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond. Very good. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There are many cities uglier than this in the USA. And, have you ever been to Caracas? Creepy, in spite of the lovely natural setting. Is Charleroi the ugliest in Europe? Perhaps. Then again, the UK has a few strong competitors. And, I’d bet that Albania, Moldova and Romania have some strong contenders too.

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

I definitely imagine that there are many much worse cities! Unfortunately I've never been to Caracas - not yet at least. The whole "ugliest in the world" bit is really exaggerated and just based on that one poll after all.

@stogieguy7

Ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond I very much agree!!

Well selected music, it does not give a good vibe to the video :D

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Well I do my best to be creepy! Or wait! No, that came out wrong 😅

I could name numerous cities in the US that belong in that category. Philadelphia is one.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I really hope there are some cities like that around California as well, 'cause I'm planning a road trip over there

It looks like anywhere in Britain outside the prosperous parts of the Southeast.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Well, at least Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow were better looking!

@anonUK

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond The centre, yes- I don't know much about Glasgow outside the West End but parts of Mcr and much of L'pool outside the central areas are still similar to this, if not worse.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@anonUK Guess I mostly saw the central parts. But then again - these shots are from the center of Charleroi. Literally right across from the train station. So it's not like I had to look very far...

@anonUK

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond Have a look at the Peter Degnan photos of Glasgow in the 70s. Much the same story as Charleroi, Namur and Lille, as well as Manchester, Liverpool, Detroit, Pittsburgh, etc.

Si, el Rey Carlos II de España era enfermizo y feo pero fué un buen rey. Luis XIV se casó con la sobrina de su madre M.Teresa de Austria. Su madre Ana de Austria, ambas princesas de España.😊 Luis XV primo hermano del rey de España.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I had to google translate, but thanks for the additional information about Carlos II. Excellent things to know :)

there are ugliest cities in Europe, i can think in Kaliningrad , if main Russia counts as Europe then Chelyabinsk

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I would love to visit Kaliningrad actually. Never been to Russia but I'd enjoy seeing it for myself

It appears ugly in your video because along with the decay and unfinished construction areas, not a single building matches with the other or complements the other.

@ThreeStarVagabond

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, agreed. That, and the general run-down nature of the place really is what gives it its atmosphere...

I seen worse.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yep, and that's the point of the video.

Hey, there are so many uglier places in Russia like Pskov or Novgorod.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

That's fair enough! I guess I need to explore Russia to see for myself...

it looks like london tbh

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I loled, but I really don't think so! I love the looks of London :D

it looks much better than stoke or half the cities in north england.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I think I need to pay a visit to that area one of these days...

@Paul-eb4jp

7 ай бұрын

Stoke is bad but Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and other Northern cities are great.

Lol well I suppose if you don't consider the UK to be part of Europe...otherwise most cities in the UK and many if not most parts of London are uglier.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I've heard of a pretty miserable town in Scotland that I really need to visit, come to think of it...

Got off the train from Brussels to be met by hoards of beggars. Never seen anything like it. Unemployment is the obvious problem.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I didn't really notice the same thing in Brussels. To be honest, I found it quite a lovely city - but maybe it depends on the time of year when you visit...

@spm9153

7 ай бұрын

@rtraccquet : That has nothing to do with unemployment. Most of them are professional beggars, like in many touristic cities, gypsies coming specially for that from Eastern European countries. Plus some economic refugies from Syria or Afghanistan or African countries.

If you really want to start to get the idea of what "ugly cities" really look like, you should get out of Europe for a while and start traveling to some other parts of the world.

Bratislava looks even better than this one

@ThreeStarVagabond

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately I've never been to Bratislava. But I'm curious about how it looks with its brutalist concrete and stuff like that...

Am I the only one to keep asking myself: "When is he finally going to eat the Oreo?"

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Apparently I was teasing myself with it the entire day :D

@Tetsugakusha75

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" 😅

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@Tetsugakusha75 Damn you, I'm getting hungry now - I can't unsee the Oreo!

@Tetsugakusha75

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond Don't damn me, just eat 😋😇

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@Tetsugakusha75 😂

I think every country have bad city or suburb in the country 😂

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely! Certain areas just become depopulated or ripe with unemployment, in all countries...

hey, taking in account how much trash was lying around, it may also be the cleanest city in Belgium 😂

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Maybe that should be their new slogan? "Charleroi - We have less trash than Antwerp"

I dont know about the city but our KZreadr looks depressed. Go and enjoy a good Belgian beer and the city may surprise you.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I had fun once. I hated it. But having a beer and enjoying oneself is always great advice!

It looks lovely compared to ugly small towns in east Finland

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Well, Finland is a very special place after all :D

@mattilahde5220

7 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond Yes those soviet style towns in Finland are "special" as you say politely.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

@@mattilahde5220 It could be worse though. I have a suspicion that it's even uglier in Russia...

I wouldn't call it ugly. many nice buildings. It's just run down

@ThreeStarVagabond

10 күн бұрын

Hmm yeah I guess that depends on how you define ugly. Some might say that run down is ugly but I think I see what you mean

@mattburns7597

10 күн бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabond it reminds me of Liverpool in the 80's. The city of Liverpool has had a renaissance in recent decades and many previously unoccupied buildings are now offices, apartments, hotels etc and it now it's a really nice and interesting city centre full of things to do. This city just needs some TLC

@ThreeStarVagabond

9 күн бұрын

That would have been interesting to see! I was there in 2022 but I guess it's a massive difference from before then

Realy? I've seen much worst.

I have been here for two weeks now with work I can confirm it is a shiτηοle

@ThreeStarVagabond

2 ай бұрын

You have my condoleances! I was just there for like 24 hours, and I was pretty happy to move on after that...

This looks like any other (bigger) city in Europe. Not anything what the term "ugliest" deserves. No. I would say that city looks good. Never ever the ugliest city in the Europe nor the world. lol 😂 Where you've been before? Only in Copenhagen or Prague? Set your priorities right, buddy. I would like to live there in Charleroi, Belgium. Really :)

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I spotted the person who didn't actually watch the video 😂

Ugly by civilized standards. Try visiting Norilsk in Siberia first and suddenly this would look like an expensive touristic resort town.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Never been to Russia, so I have a feeling I'm in for a real surprise whenever I get there..

I lived a few years there, This is definitely one of the ugleist city

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yeah it didn't really feel like a place I wanted to live in at all!

but you are not totally right. least educated in europe first in junior mathematics contests

@ThreeStarVagabond

5 ай бұрын

Oh nice! That's actually really promising for the future then

@dancar2537

5 ай бұрын

@@ThreeStarVagabondother post of yours, not allowed to comment

@ThreeStarVagabond

5 ай бұрын

@@dancar2537 Probably some good reason for it then

Looks like every city in the UK 🙈

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I'm getting a lot of comments like this. Maybe I need to see more of the UK :D

@zainulabdin1720

7 ай бұрын

​@@ThreeStarVagabond😂

Posto orribile , un offesa x una nazione che ha Brugge Antwerpen, leuven , Gent .... Va solo bene x atterrare col volo low cost e prendere il treno x Brugge 😂😂😂

Thanks for a great documentary.The ugliest city in the world? Come to the United States ,we have competition for that title.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah that title is really exaggerated when it comes to Charleroi. I'd love to explore both pretty and ugly cities in the US actually! I bet that'd be really exciting

I see worse, too.

Athens is very ugly apart the acropolis

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Never been there, unfortunately - but I really should visit to see for myself

This city isn't that bad.. have you seen Taipei? lol. It's depressing.

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Hmm.. I've been to Taipei twice but I didn't really find it all that depressing. But then again, I never had much time to explore it except for some dinners and visiting Taipei 101 etc...

no way it's the worst in the world.. appreciate what you have lol

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

I'm sure they're happy with the city as it is. But it's still a bit funny that it got a title of the "ugliest city" just based on a poll

It ain't Bruges...

@ThreeStarVagabond

3 ай бұрын

Haha I totally agree about that!

There are city in the world that are much uglier than that city

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Yep, pretty much agree!

Belgium power 🇧🇪 🍟 🍺 🍻

@EdwinMartin

7 ай бұрын

😂

A bit excoriated, not an eye candy, but ugliest ?

@ThreeStarVagabond

7 ай бұрын

Agreed! That title is just hyperbole, based on a single poll

Parles bien du 6 on va te meler drre