Come to Rochdale

Another 'come to...' video. The PaintYourTownSHIT channel will be getting closed soon, after all the videos have been transfered here and gained plenty of views.


Do you like urban decay; impoverish destitution, and the joy of being at the backend of the textile boom? Then come and live in Rochdale, where chain-stores are kicking the crap out of tradition.

Come to Rochdale, and spend your days not knowing if you live in Lancashire or Greater Manchester.

Do you like half-baked ideas and the 'do-gooder' backward way of thinking that council workers offer? Well the Rochdale town planners are obsessed with wasting your money on endless amounts of traffic lights, confusing junctions, and traffic calming measures that cause chaos and high blood pressure, and calls a roundabout-laden road a business park.

Rochdale; because nobody cares about the damage great holes in the tarmac does to your car.

Come and live in Rochdale, because living in a tower-block is considered posh.

Rochdale; a town where the tramps are better known than the darlings of showbiz that were born here, where Bruce Springsteen lives in the bus station, and the Co-Op still has some credibility.

Come to Rochdale; because you didn't want a garden anyway.

All pictures and film taken on the 20th and 21st September 2010 in Rochdale
Featuring College Bank flats, known as 'the seven sisters', Kingsway business park, Rochdale bus station with reference to a young man who always hung around singing and playing air-guitar, The Co Op and the Baum public house. Maybe I should have taken a drive around Kirkholt estate too as everyone's banging on about that Waterloo Road thing

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[CopafaceBabyFirefly]

The only plus-side to living in a pit like Rochdale is that it's made desperate to do well for myself just so I can get the fuck out of it.

[g4rdenspoon]

@CopafaceBabyFirefly I actually miss the place really, having moved away 16 years back. Thanks. :)

[carlbowen11]

hey i live in rochdale i all so drive but never look at the trafik lights

[g4rdenspoon]

@carlbowen11 Really, what you drive through the reds then?

[StaffTheBozo]

He`s right.. it really is a Shithole. . and now they`ve turned those roundabouts into Traffic Lights you can now expect to wait 5 minutes to turn left up whitworth road at midnight compared to the old time of 0.5 seconds when the roundabouts were empty.

[g4rdenspoon]

@StaffTheBozo I had those lights in the film as they are particularly stupid, it's probably a ploy to get more fines out of taxi drivers.

Thanks.

[animay10000]

wow rochdale sounds bad

[TheJbrFan]

I'll be visiting as part of my work visit hope its not as bad as you say

[chok726]

this town will drag you down

[tingod99]

every place has it's bad spots and Rochdale is no different but Rochdale has some great things to our town hall is a gem and there are lots more, the main problem with Rochdale is the people like you that talk it down and rubbish it all i can say is, if you do not like it sling it

[YangSing1]

Im glad i dont live in the center of Rochdale. I live in Littleborough which is a little village and its much nicer.

[AceDubsteP]

prypiats better than this rochdales boring

[carlbowen11]

@g4rdenspoon yes lol only late at night mate

[LODeadPixel]

Man I need to get out of here...

[carlbowen11]

@g4rdenspoon yes all the time only if safe there are lots of back streets so you never really get stuck in trafik any way :)