[thomasforth]

"It's funny reading these articles from people who haven't grew up poor, in the north, never seen a council estate, or the way of life". I didn't grow up poor, but I did grow up in the North, went to the local comprehensive, and have lived on plenty of council estates. When I lived in Manchester I went to Ashton plenty of times, it's not that different to Hull.

[tiew9Vii]

It's not to different from a lot of working class towns world over with social economic issues from my travels. Nothing to do with 1066 and I'd say a lot of other points in the article.

I'm not in the UK anymore and been watching a UK YouTuber going around old towns https://www.youtube.com/@wanderingturnip/videos, some themes are not to different from a US YouTuber I watch going around US towns https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello/videos