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A British city has come under fire from its residents who bemoan “stabbings down the road” and “robberies every day”.
YouTuber Wendall wandered through the streets of Coventry in the West Midlands, the most central city in the country with a rich history. But the city has suffered from deprivation in recent years
One young skateboard-wielding man told Wendall the city was “shocking” and “rough”. He explained: “You’ve got stabbings happening down the road, you got robberies everywhere.”
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Wendall went for a walk through the city centre, where he came across a number of shuttered shops. “I’m already seeing signs of boarded-up dereliction,” he said. As he continued, Wendall drew attention to the "unsightly" nature of the city which had to be rebuilt following the Second World War.
Coventry, as an industrial stronghold, was attacked heavily by German bombers in World War Two and suffered mass destruction. It was rebuilt afterwards but in the brutalist style which was popular in the post-war era but has since divided opinion.
As he strolled he happened upon an entire precinct where all the shops were closed down. “Coventry is another UK town beset with post-industrial decline,” Wendall added.
He noted a lot of automotive manufacturing, once a blossoming industry in the area, had now left. "And once again you can see the boarded-up shops and the sad-looking high street," he added.
Homelessness is not unheard of in the town, with one many saying he had been on the streets for around four years. He claimed that people below the ages of 35 to 40 had an “institutionalised” acceptance of conditions there and didn’t seem to find the suffering town centre as “anything out of the ordinary”.
Not everyone was critical, of course, with some of the people Wendall spoke to were far more fond of Coventry than his analysis suggested. “People call it a s***hole, but it’s not really s***hole,” one bloke said. “In the hole that’s where you’ll find diamonds. You’ve got all kinds in Coventry. It was voted the city of culture. You’ve got all the cultures over here.”
Another man, standing in front of a shuttered shop, said there’s “nothing bad” about Coventry. Some spoke of their excitement that new development was coming to the area, with improvements in key areas at the heart of that optimism.
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