[2022-01-13] Why I HATED living in Manchester [nAA_GrDyJZ4]

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

I've been living in Manchester for 7

months and I'm about to leave soon, so I

thought I'd make a video about why I

really hated living in Manchester.

I've lived in quite a few cities all

around the world as an international man

of travel. I've got quite a lot of

experience living in different cities and

different countries and cultures. And

after you've had experience living in such

interesting and fascinating places such as

Tokyo and Japan and Korea and Seoul, it

kind of makes you realize that living in

your own country, especially in a very

boring and bland city such as Manchester,

just makes you realize that it's just very

boring here in England. Out of all the

cities I've ever lived in, I've never felt

so bored and uninspired as I have whilst

living here in Manchester. It's definitely

not been the worst city I've ever lived

in. That would still have to be Rotterdam.

I just really hated living in Rotterdam.

That place was terrible. Nothing really

bad happened here, and it's pretty

affordable to live here. And in general,

it's a fairly nice-looking city. It's

just, it's very bland, and there's not

really much going on. There's nothing

really interesting about the city in

itself. As an avid fan of fitness and

staying active, and being healthy. I love

going on walks in nature, and

unfortunately, when it comes to going

walking and having a nice place to walk

around in, Manchester is just a terrible

city for that. There's no park in the

city. There's no nice walkways with trees

and greenery. Most cities I've been to in

the past have all had a big, really big,

nice park in the city center. You've got

Tokyo, they've got the Meiji Shrine area

and the Yoyogi Park. In Berlin, you've got

the Tiergarten, park in Germany, and in

Seoul they've got parks everywhere. But

here in Manchester, there's nowhere you

can go for a nice peaceful relaxing walk.

Your choices are you either have to walk

down the streets and the roads where it's

just full of traffic, or you walk maybe 30

minutes out of the center towards the

edges of the city where, yeah, they've got

a few small parks dotted around here and

there. But I don't really want to have to

walk an hour in combined walking time to

be able to get to the park and then come

back from the park. I want to live in the

center of a city and also have a park

nearby that I could get to within 5

minutes. When I was living in Berlin in

Germany, I used to go outside every day

for a walk because they had a really nice

park right in the middle of the city

called Tiergarten. And when you went

there, it was like being inside of a

forest. The trees were so big and green

and full of leaves, and it was just so

relaxing and peaceful. And I looked

forward to going on a walk and going to

the park because it felt good. It made me

feel good inside. But living in

Manchester, I just feel like my mental

health has deteriorated so much just

because I don't really feel motivated to

go outside and go for walks. I only go

outside maybe once a week just to go

shopping, and I never go for walks. And

that's mainly because I just don't know

where to go. There's nowhere nice and open

and peaceful to walk around, and I don't

really like the idea of walking up and

down busy streets full of cars. I really

miss having my big garden from back home.

I used to go outside every day, and it

would really help me clear my mind and

help me feel better. Inside and get rid

of— help to get rid of any negative

energies that might have built up during

the day. But being unable to do that here

in Manchester has just been really

mentally draining. Being away from nature

and being away from any kind of open wide

areas for a long period of time is really

detrimental to the human brain and the

human psyche, I think. And countries like

Japan and Korea, they've really understood

this. That's why they've put such big nice

parks in the middle of the cities. And

it's something I never really thought

would be such an important thing. But

after living like this for several months

now, you start to realize that yeah, it's

very important to have nature and big open

wide spaces to walk around. So the other

problem I have with the city is there's

not really much to do in the city. Most

cities have something going for it, going

on in it, such as London has a Ferris

wheel and Big Ben and all these bridges,

and Tokyo has Tokyo Tower and Skytree.

Seoul has Seoul Tower and all the other

stuff it has. But in Manchester, there's

nothing like that. There's no Ferris

wheel, there's no cool fancy bridges,

there's no impressive big beautiful

buildings, there's no observation tower.

The biggest tower is the building I'm

living in right now. So this is the view

from my apartment, and as you can see,

it's a very nice view, but You can see the

city is just like a load of brown blocks

and there's nothing very eye-catching.

There's no cool impressive towers or

Ferris wheels or any monuments. If you

want to get an idea of what Manchester is

like, then just look at this. This is

basically all there is to offer, all it

has to offer. Just these brown buildings

everywhere. Nothing very fancy, nothing

interesting to go and check out. Very

bland. If I had— if

I had family coming here to visit me, or

I've had friends or a girlfriend coming

here to see me, I would find it very

difficult. I'd really struggle to find

interesting places to show them around.

Apart from the art gallery, I have no idea

where I could take people. And if you're

coming here for tourism, there's, there's

really nothing special about the place. I

don't think any tourists would ever come

here because Why would they? And this

becomes a major problem when it comes to

dating. So when you go on a date, you

usually take the girl to a nice place so

you don't just walk around, around circles

or sit in a boring coffee shop trying to

find stuff to talk about. In Japan,

there's so many places you could take a

girl on a date and have a good time. For

example, in Japan, I never really had

these problems when it came to dating.

Even if we didn't really click and the

conversation didn't really flow very well,

I could always just take her to a nice

park or a nice place where they've got

arcades and karaoke and nice places to

eat. I had this one date back in November

and it was so boring. We just walked round

and round in circles for hours and I had

no idea where to take her or what to do,

and neither did she. There was just

nothing to do. If it was Japan, we could

have gone to like an arcade game center or

maybe karaoke or someplace interesting,

but there's just nothing to do in

Manchester. I ended up getting really

bored and frustrated and I just said to

her, I think I'm just gonna head home, so

bye. And because of that, I just don't

really feel very motivated to go on dates,

and I've had the worst dating experiences

that I've ever had in any other city.

Ever since I moved to Manchester, my love

life has just completely gone down the

toilet. I haven't had any success on

dates, and I just haven't really felt very

motivated to go on dates either. Number

one, I find it very difficult to match

girls here. I don't get many matches,

every month, and even when I do get

matches, it's very difficult to get them

to meet up. It's like trying to draw water

out of a stone trying to convince them to

meet up. They expect you to chat to them

for weeks and weeks and weeks getting to

know each other before even being able to

bring up the idea of meeting up. If you

try and meet up straight away, they think

you're some kind of psycho. I don't want

to waste my time chatting to someone for

weeks and weeks, possibly even months,

and then when we eventually do meet up we

realize there's no chemistry and we don't

really find each other attractive. In

Japan, it was just completely different.

You can match someone and then go, hey, I

think you're cute, do you want to meet up

tomorrow? And then they'll just say,

yeah, sure. And then you meet up, see if

you like each other, and if you don't like

each other, then at least you haven't

wasted all this time chatting and trying

to get to know each other. I just think

it's a joke that some people think they

can get to know another person without

ever meeting them first. I think first you

have to meet in real life and then you can

get a real sense of what they're like.

The other annoying thing about dating here

in Manchester is they all kind of expect

you to be funny. In the Tinder profiles,

most of them have something like, you have

to be funny, you have to be able to make

me laugh or else I'm not interested. And

it's like they want some kind of private

comedy show when they go on dates. And I'm

just not very funny, unfortunately. I

don't know how to tell jokes. I don't know

how to be witty or do good banter. I'm

just not a very good comedian, I guess.

I'm not a very confident person and I'm

not a great conversationalist. I'm very

shy and awkward, especially when I'm

meeting someone for the first time. And

it's just a shame that the women here put

so much emphasis on the guy being really

funny and confident, because even if the

guy's not a great conversationalist or not

very funny, maybe he has other good

qualities, like maybe he's loving and

caring and kind and a hard worker. So

because of that, I just haven't really had

any success here dating, and I kind of

gave up, kind of realized that I'm just

not funny enough, I'm not very confident,

and most of the dates I went on, they

ended up just unmatching me the next day

anyway, and that really destroyed my

self-confidence. So in conclusion, I

haven't really had the best time of my

life here in Manchester. It's going to be

a very easy-to-forget experience living

here, and I don't think I'd come back. I

think it's a very convenient and easy city

to live in, and it's definitely

affordable, but it's just so bland. I

think I would have to give it a lackluster

5.6 out of 10. Not quite

up to my standards.