00:00Stokes Craft and St Paul's have been voted as one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world by Time Out magazine.
00:06Let's ask locals if they agree with the veredict.
00:09Stokes Craft is a bit of a funny area, as you know it's got gentrified a lot in recent years.
00:14So it's a bit of a mix, so you've got the students here, you've got the hipsters, it's all quite trying to get funky and trendy
00:22but you still want that sort of grimy underbelly, yeah?
00:24You walk through half past six in the morning and all you see is random crackheads.
00:28I love this area, I've been here for ten years, it's interesting seeing how it's kind of changed or there's attempts to make it change.
00:36It's definitely got more expensive since I first moved here.
00:41But yeah, it's cool, I live two minutes walk away from Gloucester Road, at the Zetland Road Junction, and it's amazing.
00:47I've just got restaurants, bars, everything I want on my doorstep, which makes me lazy in terms of why would I ever leave this area?
00:55I've got everything I need here.
00:56I love it, it's like a really welcoming place. I've lived in Bristol my whole life and I always really liked it down here.
01:03It does kind of make me quite sad though, because I feel like a lot of people look down on St Paul's and Stoke's Cross because of the homelessness
01:10but that doesn't make it any worse, it's just a welcoming place for them to go.
01:14What are your favourite things about the area?
01:17The street art, definitely. The graffiti and the... I don't know, it's quite a unique atmosphere, it's very wild, expressive, creative.
01:31I feel like it kind of brings high street shopping back, because a lot of that has died out with the internet and that,
01:36but there's so many cool shops up here and you've got a grocer's just down there, it's really nice to have real shops and not the internet.
01:44What issues are there with the area?
01:47It's overpriced, crime, rubbish, noise pollution.
01:57The moment I work in the old Sparks building in town and I probably walk through about three or four areas that have a lot of homelessness and drug addiction,
02:07you can regularly walk down the street and there's just someone passed out on the floor.
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