Bradford, West Yorkshire. Population 501,700 (the vast majority of which are chavs, Asian drug dealers and partially disabled alcoholics on benefits). Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be enough words available in the English language to emphasise what a complete and utter f**king s**t-hole this place really is.
Apparently Bradford is the sixth largest city in the country, in terms of population, and was nominated for European City of Culture in 2008. Located just a few miles south of Ilkley Moor and the Bronte country, with its apparently diverse culture and industrial heritage, outsiders may be forgiven for thinking that Bradford might be a nice or interesting place to visit. “Why don’t we pop over to Bradford and have a trip to the National Media Museum Marjory?”
Don’t f**king bother!
Bradford is literally hell on earth. The city centre resembles a squalid cess pit, full of monstrous partially demolished 60′s concrete office blocks, Pound shops, amusement arcades, prostitutes, heroin addicts, Eastern European car-jackers, Asian drug dealers, pre-pubescent mums and mad alcoholic tramps having arguments with themselves. It needs to be blown off the face of the earth. There is NOTHING good about Bradford.
Dare to use public transport around the Interchange and you will inevitably get stabbed. Venture a mile or so out of the city centre (if you dare) and things don’t improve one bit. The area of Manningham (famous for some of Britains worst ever riots in 2001) resembles a third-world war zone. Listerhills, with it’s derelict crumbling mills and huge selection of emaciated, smack riddled whores wandering the streets, even in broad day light, is literally a no-go area, whilst Great Horton, Frizinghall and Thornbury offer nothing but row upon row of run-down or boarded up terraced houses, where you’ll struggle to find anybody at all who speaks English. Venture a couple miles North to Shipley and be confronted by a population of uber-chavs who reside on notorious council estates such as Windhill and West Royd. These cider swilling, wizz snorting, tracksuit wearing monsters are truly dangerous people, who will no doubt “kick t’ f**k out o’ yer” if you even glance in their direction. Set eyes on the architectural ogre of Shipley clock tower and you will no doubt require some sort of counselling.
Bradford: A City of Extremes. Extreme violent crime, sexual crime, murder, burglary, drug abuse, unemployment etc. etc.
Apparently Bradford Council is now slashing its workforce by 20% to enable funding of the construction of a huge pond in the city centre. Great work! This will no doubt be full of supermarket trolleys, traffic cones, syringes and dead pissed-up tramps within minutes of opening.
As if Bradford’s reputation hadn’t been tarnished enough over the last 30 years, it now boasts another famous serial killer to bolster further it’s image as the true infected arse-hole of the UK.
Bradford………Avoid it
Ive been mugged over 15 times now,and its realy realy realy got me down,Ill be a hundred and one soon,and Im all alone,all alone and frightened,frightened to go out,in case their waiting,them,waiting to get me.Ha Ha well not anymore,not anymore now Ive got hold of a 44 Magnum and have started kick boxing and weight training.
Well done to who ever wrote the article Bradford is a complete piece of crap. I’ve lived there long enough to know that bradfordians think there living in their own world. Complete dump. Still it’s better than Hull.
Whoever wrote this article on Bradford must know bradford pretty well, as that is everything bradford is. Not to mention it is like a rubbish dump. Litter and gum decorates the streets, the floors in the interchange look like they have been mopped with dirt. Even the elevators in the car parks look dirty, and you are bound to find a crisp packet in one of them. Public transport is equally dirty. When walking in some of the alleys, as well as going down the stairs in the car park, it smells like urine. Whatever you do don’t use public toilets unless you’re absolutely bursting. Also many of the shops in Bradford have been closed down and many buildings are derelict. Bradford’s skyline is littered with old looking apartment blocks. And what’s more, dare to venture out of the rubbish dump that is Bradford city centre, you are bound to come across rough council estates, such as Holme Wood, Buttershaw and Ravenscliffe with lots of shady folk. And Bradford is much more dangerous at night, with drug dealers and alcoholics. If women walk along the streets of bradford at night then it is certain they will be harrassed. But the worst part of Bradford is Manningham, which is Bradford’s red light district and is a hellhole. I feel sorry for the people who live in Bradford. Do NOT come to Bradford, even for the curry, you can find just as good curry as anywhere else. You are much more better off visiting leeds.
I live in Bradford and tbh its not as bad at all! There are a few areas which are quite rough (Canterbury, Buttershaw etc.)but thats in every city! There may be some areas which ‘offer nothing but row upon row of run-down or boarded up terraced houses’ but not all. Try Nabwood? Heaton? they’ve got some decent houses and the atmoshphere is quite good. About Crime? the crime rates in Bradford are much lower than London! Bradford has its advantages and disadvantages but on the whole its a geat city to live in!
Hahahahahahha absoulute quality ahhhaa now now comeon no need to be harsh..ya haven’t even seen bradford really if ya think its a s**thole? Have a look at londons worse areas then come look at bradford its not all bad now! As ya say leeds rd? Mate some off richest people of bradford live there so jog on…and yh it has its up’s an downs but everycity has them
There’s horrid henry an perfect peter everywhere !
Bradford Isn’t that bad… I think your over exaggerating. I’ve lived in Bradford all my life, most people are good and law abiding citizens and very helpful. Every city gets a bad minority but you cant label the whole population bad
For example: if a white or black person goes to a shop and steals you cant say “all white or black people are thieves”. In the same way there is a very small minority of people that are bad like every other city, no city is perfect!
As for the ‘no-go’ areas for ‘white people’, this is a complete myth, there are no such areas in Bradford, white people are welcome in every area and if there are any white people reading this please don’t hesitate to walk through an Asian area, you will be safe.
The riots that broke out in London and other parts of the UK in 2011 DIDN’T happen in Bradford, this further shows that Bradford is a peaceful town and NOT a chav haven.
Some people are just trying to use scare tactics to scare white people in to thinking that Bradford is a ‘chav’ haven when its not, its a completely normal city that has a good friendly population.
OP is spot on. I’ve just left Bratfud after 6 loooong years living in what is rightly described as a third world s**thole where normal ethics and laws do not apply. I really feel like I’ve just been released from an interminable prison sentence. It remains the only city in the entire world where upon getting into a council taxi at the rail interchange, I have been told to gtfo by the quite clearly coke-dealing driver or he will stab me up. A true hellhole, burdened with a council run by utter incompetents who divide every issue along racial and religious lines and stamp on dissenting voices that are contrary to the multicultural politically correct rules they have imposed upon the city. A sad place and one I would urge everyone to avoid.
Hi all i live in bradford and agree with most of the comments made. but what can you do? it the goverments and council faults Heres a few ideas.
make the gypsys follow our rules
come out of EU and send all the 400,OOO eastern europeons back creating 400,000 jobs and freeing up council houses i know councils and goverment say asylum seekers do not council houses but thats a LIE they just take a certain amount of properties off one list and put them on another.
One other solution is to stay in EU BUT increase the tax rate lets say to 40per cent for any one not born in uk this would deter people from coming and also insist they have capital of at least £100,000 before entering uK
LEts bring our brave boys back from iraq and afganistan and everywhere else saving billions
bring back national service so young men and women of all faiths have firstly a job, learn values.a trade,and get fit and many other things as well.
No imigration AT aLL
deport all the chinese, africans, koreans, thai and all none speaking asians iranian, iraqies even if we stayed in EU these people do not come under EU.
stop all marrage out side uk if you can’t find a wife or hubby here then there something wrong.
finally if where gonna borrow money from world banks lets use it for education and proper training for everybody
As someone who moved from London to Yorkshire a few years ago I have to say i can’t believe that somewhere like Bradford exists in 21st century!!! its literally falling down, and sorry but to the eyes of an outsider it DOES resemble a kind of undevelopedthird world hinterland. I can honestly think of no place like it in london. Even the poorest parts and better than Bradford. Its such a shame because it has the potential to be a wonderful, wealthy city again.
Bradford is dreadful.
I lived there for a little over three years and it was an awful harrowing experience.
The predominatley white estates such as West Bowling, are just as much no go areas for anyone who is not from there, asian or no.
I remember reading a news story a few years ago about a tramp who had died and just been left on the street to rot.
Literally that did not surprise me.
Please don’t be so harsh about Bradford and the people that live there. It’s a disgrace what is said about it! There are some nice people regardless of what religion they are. Myself and my family have lived here for years and we are happy here. Don’t judge everyone the same. Can you not see the good things in people instead of being so nasty? Every city has problems. There is good and bad everywhere.
Unfortunately, two years on – not much has changed.
We still have the same impoverished areas of Bradford, unemployment is at an all time low, the general attitude is negative; especially towards figures of authority. The reasons for this seem to lie in the inadequacy of the council and their failure to understand what money is, and how it needs to be used, instead choosing to pump it into pointless constructs, and ignoring the issue at hand.
The police force is not large enough, and doesn’t have enough power or funding. Enforcement is difficult, and individual officers will often choose to arrest easier targets, as opposed to targeting the real problem.
There are a number of areas which should certainly be avoided after dark, however most areas are perfectly safe.
But how would we solve this? Replace all the council members and ensure they are policed by an independent or government funded organisation? Have council members taken from another area? Whilst the general mood of the area is so low, it’s going to be difficult for any improvements to take place.
The lack of jobs, makes it difficult, however many Bradford locals have simply become too lazy, having been “on the dole” for so many years, they can’t comprehend why they should ever have to work again.
Sadly Bradford is a doomed city. I’ve never seen any other British city quite so run down and depressing. Local people say ‘Bradford is where Leeds dumps its rubbish’. The city is in an unstoppable spiral of decline both economically and culturally – a third world city in a first world country. Perhaps there are some nice prosperous parts of the city, but if so I’ve never found them; I don’t believe they exist. ‘White flight’ is not something ‘in progress’ but rather it appears to have been completed, leaving behind only third world immigrants and an impoverished white underclass who do not have the means to escape. No one in their right minds would ever move to Bradford. And these days I’m quite sure no one in their right mind ever does.
All of England is the same. Compared to Europe Its a second rate dump.The English are generally poorly educated poorly dressed, mealy mouthed, misfits. Who need to pick on others. Whom they class as lesser beings (non whites etc).To cover up the inner agony of being born as white trash, but who is to judge, and who gives a damn anyway. the last person to leave the place please hit the self destruct.
I’ve lived in Bradford all my life and yes it has got problems but name a city that hasn’t! Bradford has good people and bad same as every other place in the world. Yes Bradford has a few drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes but is that to say the whole population is like that? No. Most people i know are decent hard working people, not idiots living on benefits! Who are you to judge a whole city on the minority? Bradford is a nice place to live, not the best but most definitely not the worst. It has a lot of cultures and lots of history and there is some good, decent communities that help each other. Please just stop judging!
This articular is fact. I live about 7 miles form bradford but unfortunately i can still smell it. It really is a piece of s**t that will have no problem in giving you a home if your one of the following drug dealer, a ****, prostitute, drug head etc, etc
I had occasion to visit Bradford a few times last year – thank God I won’t have to go again. It’s a complete s**thole. Total and utter s**te in every respect with no redeeming features whatsoever. Do us all a favour and bury it.
10 / 10 Good article which sums up Bradford perfectly. It’s not all bad though there are one or two good areas outside of the city centre such as maybe Cottingley. However whilst surrounding cities e.g Leeds have their fair share of s**thole areas, Bradford on the whole is a complete s**thole – I know as I live there.
Sorry but I’ve lived in Bradford all my life, I graduated uni with a 1st class degree and know alot of people in Bradford, non of whom are anything like the people you’ve described in your blog.
As for your comment about , ‘Bradford: A City of Extremes. Extreme violent crime, sexual crime, murder, burglary, drug abuse, unemployment etc. etc.’
It’s not any worse that alot of place in England. You got other places like Leeds and they still have a same social problems as Bradford, they just have a better budget to throw money into half decent buildings and shops.
As for crime, im pretty sure in all the years i’ve lived here Ive read more about worse crimes in such places like London than here in Bradford.
Well, Bradford saddens me because it could be so beautiful, it has some fantastic architecture and the surrounding countryside is gorgeous!
But unfortunately, a lot of the nice and historic buildings were demolished and replaced by bizarre, apparently ‘modern, cutting edge’ designs that look grimy and s**tty after a few years and don’t fit in with the rest of the place.
Setting fire to old mills over the weekend for insurance purposes has long been a popular Bradford passtime. You can normally tell if this is going to happen to a nice old mill fairly soon if they suddenly open as a crappy sofa selling buisiness. Currently there’s a lot of sofa selling businesses housed in old mills – fire brigade, please take note.
Yea, there is some truly depressing subburbs of Bradford, some of these Asian, where as a white person you take your life into your hands if you dare to tresspass.
Leeds Road and surrounding scummy terraces house non-English speaking religious fanatics that have lived here for 30 years with their inbred off-spring whose passtimes include TWOCing, drug dealing and pimping, or just beating the s**t out of each other just for fun. They try to avoid prison by claiming to have mental health problems, which also does wonders for increasing their benefits.
The women walk around in burkas and breed one baby after another, often with deformities due to inbreeding.
Some of the ‘white’ areas are no better – Holme Wood and Buttershaw houses populations where no one has ever worked for generations. Their one aim in life is proberly to get on the Jeremy Kyle show. These poor excuses for human beings walk around in expensive but tasteless ‘tracky bottoms’ and the obligatory chav trainers. They complain about not getting enough benefits, so they also often claim to have mental health problems to get on the DLA.
Shops in Bradford are extremely crap, mainly poundshops and s**t tracksuit shops and some desperately boring chain stores selling their most tacky collections to cater for the population.
Currently there is a big hole in the centre of Bradford where they demolished some large stores that nobody missed and the intention was to build a large shopping centre. Nothing has happened for years, so they made some of it into a cheap ‘park’, ideally suited for winos and escaped nutters that mumble into their cans of Tesco Value lager.
It would actually be best to throw all of Bradford into the hole and grass over it and make it into a nature reserve for all the stray ponies that wander around housing estates!