Studentification of Swansea part 1.mov

[moomoomoomzq]

Dave sounds anal....

[TheTalkingSh0p]

Complaining about the main source of income in the city is frankly, f*&king ridiculous.

[davyhotch]

funny thing is im watching this at five after a night out i havent wound up nieghbourhood watch today

[notreallyaninja]

Haha i actually know some of the students there.

[Obleddo]

In brynmill if you call the police, they're there in riot vans immediately! Thing is its not just a problem for the residents, in term time its a problem for the students aswell. There are nights, at the end of term and so on, when the majority of them are raising hell. There's a family with young children living across the road from me and when I get woken up in the middle of the night I feel really sorry for the kids, they must be terrified.

[loserkidst]

Superb!

[xola123x]

it makes swansea look like its a dump and its not at all! im studying at swansea uni and living there atm and its amazing, i love it! :D

[bertfrantic]

Since when were Brynmill and Uplands the posh parts of Swansea! MInd you I had no idea there were 18,000 students at Swansea, in my time (80s') there were around 5,000 I think. There's probably a real interesting story in here somewhere about the side effects caused by the massive growth of the Uni, but but the presentation is too OTT to take it seriously.

[TheScottishChristian]

looks  Quality :-)

[lol123rofl123]

This makes me want to go to Swansea LOL! :D

[blazemk]

@lol123rofl123 i was thinking of the same thing haha

[BBoyMonsta101]

Appreciate the concern, but this is so over the top. Comparing this to the blitz, is rediculous.

[BBoyMonsta101]

Appreciate the concern, but this is so over the top. Comparing this to the blitz, is rediculous.

[Insolution55]

Landlords just want to maximise profit by letting multiple occupation tenancies, they dont give a shit about the local community but students or no stuents, brynmill, uplands are much better places to live in swansea than say blaen y maes or townhill

if you think there is anti social behaviour in brynmill try being stuck in townhill/mayhill where the behaviour of local yobbos is much more malign those areas are a total nightmare, it is horrific in some parts of swansea

[squirrelwalk74]

to be honest i just dont see a problem here. its like garbage,violence,noise and so on are brought in to swansea by students!?? this is nonsense by wide margin i would say!

[xsasukex]

Im planning on becoming an exchange student from my college in America, and swansea university is one of my choices, is this really as bad as she's making it out to be? I mean I've seen worse, but is this univeristy pretty good? I really want to get out of here lol :D

[welshpitbikes]

Not anymore Ha Ha ! the Coalition and Lib DemoTwats have cut them back and should short this out.

[drniawo]

I wish to learn more about these wheelie bin fights please

[celticwelsh]

This documentary isn't biased at all is it =p

Brynmill isn't that bad AT ALL. It's just old Mail readers needing someone to moan about, and all the immigrants are in other parts of Swansea. 

[marleymike2]

lol I'm going there in september

[hassmann1]

In the student village was the only place i felt the village mentality feeling that older generations often talk about. I currently reside in King Edwards, Brynmill. May i just say i feel it is quiter, safer and cleaner than where my mother lives in Pentrebane, Cardiff. In Pentrebane i am too scared to walk the streets at night, in Brynmill i will do happily. May i also comment on the economic benefits that Students bring

[hassmann1]

Swansea University has been nominated "best student experience" a number of times. My university life started the year which was mentioned in this doc as the worst so far. I lived in the Student village in Sketty. I have lived a number of places, from run down inner cities, very small hamlets, country towns and prosper suburbs of large cities. May i just say the safest i felt, the most welcoming and caring place i lived was in the Student Village. i

[Beefxx]

It isn't all students. The woman next door to us in Uplands puts her TV on at 9am until 11pm. You can hear it through the wall all day!

[muskndusk]

The residents who don't get out before the influx get stuck in the area when the prices of the houses drop. Students are like a plague of locusts to an Ancient Egyptian Farmer.

[duffyovmount]

nice biased documentary...im mostly enjoying all the footage of bin day which is presented as the usual state of affairs. the locals should attempt to be more accepting. my neighbour, who appears at the front of the community meeting, insists on playing music and guitar as loud as she can at 9 am as some sorted of twisted revenge for whatever terrible wrongs we have inflicted upon her. she also has had the police round to investigate because she can hear our toilet flushing!!!!! ridiculous.

[JackieChimp]

dave's a cunt

[teamrhodz]

Three thousand students to eighteen thousand. Sounds like six times as much student loan money being put into the local economy to me.

[NickDiPerna]

Good if you happen to be a takeaway or bar owner...pretty damn useless to anybody else. I've lived in such an area for 16 years, and I'm still waiting for all this money to 'trickle down' into the local community.

[pezza87]

When I was a student in Swansea, it was my 'permanent resident' next door neighbours that caused far more noise, rubbish and trouble (the police were regularly called!) than the students on the street did. FACT.

[Studentification4U]

''Hyperbole'' is a term I would actually use to describe the process of Polytechnics being 'upgraded' into universities all over the UK.

You can make up all sorts of anecdotes about bad residents and all that, but studentification will always remain a problem due to masses of young people (regardless of caste) being thrown into one area. Every noble gesture from the government always seems to have the opposite effect; they simply don't think things through.

[TheLogicJunkie]

"Hyperbole" -- what a great term, in this instance. It captures things perfectly.

All they've managed to do is extend the livestock adolescence of public school, through another four years. It's pathetic. But with innovative technologies replacing so many human beings in the job market, what is to be done with all the newly-emerging young adults, if they can't find jobs out of ordinary high school?

Grind them into Soylent Green?

[NickDiPerna]

''Grind them into Soylent Green?''

Europeans were having less children anyway to match the decline in industry, without even the need for population control, but governments panicked about who would pay the pensions of the most pampered people in history; so in the end, immigrants were brought in to supplement the young workforce (cheap labour) and so we're now back at square one.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Interesting. So you think the problem is the pamper-programs of the elderly? Do you think they should have to go back to work?

[NickDiPerna]

Replacing one demographic with another is a form of 'ethnic cleansing'. This should be a Human Rights issue.

[Studentification4U]

It's about time this problem got some publicity. We should be thankful for the internet.