That's a big question with lots of answers. So I shall do my best.

Crime: It's always been pretty bad for crime. It got worse in the early 90s after there was a riot and then we had the infamous race riot in the late 90s. After that happened, the Asian youth in the city seemed to become emboldened. I've had a number of friends be attacked for being white in an Asian neighborhood. I've seen fights break out in the city centre and if an Asian person was involved, it would be guaranteed every Asian within sight would go charging in, a common saying I've heard; "if you're going to fight an Asian, be prepared to fight 40 of them". It's not just Asians (and to clarify, it's not all Asians either, just a minority giving others a bad rep). White people are just as bad...(again, not all white people) a lot of council estates are just awful, notable shout-out to Holme Wood. I wouldn't walk through Holme Wood during the day. Whereas I'd happily walk through any Asian majority neighborhoods during the day. It's possible I could get away with it, if I name dropped the right family, but it's not something I'd risk. For every scumbag Asian I've met, I've met just as many scummy white people, eastern European people and black people.

Drugs are rife, homelessness is rife, violent crime is terribly high.

Antisocial behavior: Pretty much anywhere you go in Bradford you'll witness some level of Antisocial behavior. Feral teenagers go unchecked. Last time I'd been in city centre after dark with my kids, we'd been for a meal in Halifax. We had a 20 minutes wait for the bus to my house and the feral teenagers were just roving in packs. In just shy of 10 minutes, I'd witnessed half dozen assaults. (I hailed a taxi and got the fuck out of dodge). Last time I challenged antisocial behavior, I was walking along the canal and 2 kids were pelting swans with rocks. I called them out and within seconds I was surrounded by over a dozen teenage scumbags. When I used to pick my kids up from school, they'd be threatening the teachers soon as they were off school property. Their parents weren't much better either and this is in what's considered a decent school and an ok area. Obviously antisocial behavior isn't just teenagers, but it goes up to all ages.

Police are too underfunded to effectively tackle both crime/antisocial behavior. So they resort to big displays of traffic stops during rush hours and impound uninsured/no MOT cars to make it look like they're doing something.

Lack of vision: This applies to the council and residents. If anything remotely good or hip or cool etc opens in the city, it doesn't last long. Point of fact...Five Guys, awesome great something different from McDonald's and Greg's. It closed down after approx a year.

For years residents have called for something to be done about the city center. The council responded and in short said "these are our plans for regeneration of the city center" and everyone said "yes! Brilliant, this is exactly what Bradford needs" and the council said great, work begins next week. Now everyone is complaining the regeneration is taking too long, or it's killing the city centre, or it's short sighted. Now I'm no city planner or an engineer or an architect. So I don't know how these things go, but if does feel they should have done one bit at a time, instead they seem to be do most of it all at once.

If you know anything about Bradford City Centre infrastructure, you'll know all it takes is one little hurdle in the flow of traffic and it can and does have a knock on effect around the whole city centre and causes huge backlogs of stuck traffic. These roadworks haven't helped. Then take in to account all the building work for the old Odeon. There's been works going on outside Alhambra since before all this started, which has a serious effect on footfall flow. Then there's building works going on just off Canal Rd next to Broadway centre. Now add to all that, the Interchange bus station is closed indefinitely, due to safety concerns, which means all the buses that normally go through there and now overflow in to the city centre, which is already cramped due to the ongoing works.

The People: This has been mentioned loads, so I'll try to be brief. First, the elephant in the room, it's not a multicultural city like the powers that be claim it to be. It's a culturally divided city. I won't go in to why's or how's. There's exceptions, as with anything good or bad. I hold out a little hope, as I often see groups of teenagers with different ethnicities, downside these are the aforementioned, feral teenagers who's sole aim is to terrorise decent folk.

Racists aside. No one is happy. I did genuinely see comments, asking for Bradford City Centre to be regenerated and now those same people are complaining about it happening. People tend to unfriendly, again there are exceptions.

Driving: It's just awful. You are literally taking your life in your hands once you enter a vehicle and travel through Bradford. I once spoke with a fella who claimed he had driven in New Delhi and that it wasn't as bad as Bradford. A sensationalist claim, but I'm inclined to believe him.

I think I've covered most of it. I've been typing a while and fed up tbh.

On a personal note. To those who like to point out the good places in Bradford, Shipley (why this is considered a decent part I've no idea) Saltaire, Bingley, Haworth, Skipton. Ask anyone from these places if they consider themselves as living in Bradford, the answer will nearly always be a resounding..."Fuck no"

And as for "there's beautiful countryside surrounding Bradford" the optimal word there being...'surrounding' as in, far from anything resembling Bratfudd.