Dortmund: the vibe
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The verdict
Mixed · 48Mixed signals: the one residents-focused video is dominated by decline and safety worries, while most other content is about football, rock concerts and stadium tours rather than living there.
- football culture
- stadium atmosphere
- local pride
- friendly fans
- open-air drug use
- crime in parks
- neighborhood decline
- dirty streets
- social divide
- Commenters see Nordstadt as a high-risk area needing cleanup
- Several feel the city has declined noticeably over recent years
- Some say the problems are national, not specific to Dortmund
- Football fans are enthusiastic about the city's identity
- Evidence from actual residents' day-to-day life is thin here
Read from 8 videos, 40 comments and 0 posts on 2026-11-07; the summary is written by a language model and can misread sarcasm.
Is Every City in the German Ruhr Area Lost? | Inside Dortmund 🇩🇪
Dutch Travel Maniac · 1.4M views · 2026
What viewers said
“Fun Fact: Almost no origin germans were spotted in this video”
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“Der Typ hat Eier aus Stahl. Passt auf euch auf. Danke für die Dokumentation!”
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“I was born in Dortmund—and seeing my hometown like this breaks my heart. Now I live in another, much smaller city—but the situation is much the same. This is how we all become uprooted....This country is lost”
♥ 306 likes
“What I find really shocking about your videos from Germany is that this clearly isn’t just a Dortmund problem anymore. I was born and raised in Berlin myself, so I know that many of these issues are not something you only see in one particu”
♥ 45 likes
“Danke für deinen kontent und das zeigen Deutscher Städte”
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“The good guys showing the real Europe, what the mainstream media will never.”
♥ 241 likes
“True! Government won't show, so you do! Thank you Tom!”
♥ 876 likes
“Thanks for the words about Poland on end part in film. Greetings from Poland and i wish you all best 💪😀”
♥ 20 likes
“The streets needs to be cleaned!”
♥ 613 likes
“Endlich bist du hier bei uns. Dortmund hat sich so stark ins negative entwickelt. Danke das du zeigst, was hier Sache ist. Bitte weiter so 🙏”
♥ 350 likes
Found with a YouTube search for the city and “digital nomad”, fetched 2026-11-07; titles, descriptions and comments belong to their authors and link to the originals.