The Evil Decline of Britain’s Dystopian Estates

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  @JimmyTheGiant · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @arfer · 2 years ago

  I lived in massive high-rise developments in South Korea for 16 years. They were great places to live. Clean staircases and lifts, ordered, perfectly safe, lots of lovely landscaped garden areas, and playgrounds which were never vandalised....it&apos;s not the architecture&apos;s fault. It&apos;s all down to the residents. When there&apos;s mass unemployment and little hope of economic progress in life, people stop caring.

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  @PoisonAndBeer · 2 years ago

  It was not an accident, it was done on purpose. Now middle class are busy being mad at the lower class and lower class are mad at the middle class. While the top are profiting and the rest of us are distracted trying to stay alive.

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  @rainier939 · 2 years ago

  It took a 100 years and we&apos;re right back where we started.

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  @OatyReading · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s a similar situation in Ireland, I earn too much money to qualify for social housing, but not enough to pay rent AND save for a deposit.

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  @jjm8603 · 2 years ago

  I love these little documentaries about the UK’s architectural history. I fear a lot of the buildings we’re throwing up in the present will end up like this too

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  @alphaomegadnb · 2 years ago (edited)

  I’m grew up in Peckham, in what was the largest estate in Europe for some time. My mum did everything in her power to get us out of there as soon as she could. <br><br>At the time I didn’t want to leave but looking back, and seeing how well I’ve done in life thereafter, I’m forever grateful for the struggle she went through to make a better life for us.

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• SH

  @shona5512 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Talking about the compulsory purchase thing reminds me of a neighbour of mine who worked very hard for many years to buy some land in the countryside to build a house. They paid £70k for the land outright and then started building their dream house with a £300k mortgage. They finished building their house and they moved into it on December 2017. In February 2018 the government decided to build a bypass for the nearest town and their home was in the pathway for the road.. So the council gave them £110k and said gtfo. <br><br>2 months of living in something they spent the previous 15 years of their life working for, and they&apos;re forced to take a £260k loss on it. Absolute bullshit how the government can do this to people.

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  @thebigdog2295 · 2 years ago

  Politicians are the same everywhere. They care more about their pocketbooks than people.

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  @everkief8650 · 2 years ago

  Its seems that turning horizontal &quot;slums&quot; into vertical &quot;slums&quot; really doesn&apos;t benefit those living there.

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  @ablamill8357 · 2 years ago

  I grew up on an estate in a block of flats in Eastern Europe in the 90s and the working class <br>(my parents and the neighbours) did indeed take care of the grim buildings and concrete filled environment.<br>Most people owned their flats, and only tiny percentage was subsidised by the gov.<br>I grew up poor, no vacations, second hand clothes, meat only on Sundays etc.<br>but in a civilised and relatively safe environment. No gangs, no dirt, no mess.

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  @aminmustfah2521 · 2 years ago

  This Channel is EASILY one of the best in Youtube. I am from England, I went to a Grammar school and subsequently to University. NEVER did I ever learn about this in School or in History. Instead we learned utterly useless information about a man called Caecilius in Pompei and what Henry&apos;s wives were called. Your videos are so well researched, thought out and presented. This information is absolute mandatory education for all Britons, in my opinion!

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