This can’t be normal #isleofman

Hold on.. You're telling me when the shops are closed, people aren't in the street full of shops? I'm shocked!

The working Manx person cant afford to go out much, huge rent or mortgage, high fuel price, heating oil up 75% and food prices. The rich come overs can afford to go out but you'll find then in restaurants.

Looks like a shopping street when the shops are closed

It's a retail area and the shops are closed, is that not most of the reason?

I’ve seen it like that at 1am many times 😂

It's 6am and taking a video for clicks

It was 8pm. Come here and see for yourself.

@investinginvest This is a truly innovative strategy to increase tourism. Kudos.

@Amadeus_IOM I don't mind increasing the tourism if there's a good pub there

Wait till Burnham raises taxes. UK will become a wasteland.

This is not the UK

@wiseweld The Isle of Man... While not part of the UK governed isles, citizens are classified as British. Same with Guernsey, and Jersey.

@Amadeus_IOM @wiseweld well said, was just about to say this myself !!

@TheBossnME @wiseweld And? The UK government still doesn’t set our taxes.

@DeanSylar @TheBossnME Correct so you yourself are saying no one in the huge population of IOM goes out anymore? IOM doesn't rely heavily on visitors?

@Amadeus_IOM @TheBossnME THIS video was filmed early morning, like 6/7am when NO ONE is around. this is a new type of baiting videos circulating the socials atm. Seen many claiming towns/cities are dead and empty 'cos of liebour when the video is filmed in the early morning.. lol !!

@Amadeus_IOM @TheBossnME Where are the homeless and the bums?

Most shopping streets are “dead” at 7.40pm 🤷🏻‍♂️

What, raining? 😎🇮🇲

Like a winters morning walking to work in the 80s 👌😉

See a single bench anywhere? See a single coffee shop that lets you sit for longer than your drink takes? Nope? That's why. These places are openly hostile to humans, you're not meant to be there. You're meant to come and place money at the altar then leave.

Compared to high streets in the UK and Ireland, this looks like heaven.

"Get a bloody move on! They're starting to notice that there's nobody in the town centre!"

The Isle of Man would make the perfect holding pen when the new arrivals and j*ws come to the conclusion they might be better off elsewhere. One group is already in place there anyway.

Say what

84000 alcoholics clinging to a rock tells me your in the wrong area of the Strand.

The shops are shut. You said yourself it’s near 8 on a Friday. There’s no bars, no late coffee shops. Everywhere shuts in a city apart from bars. 🤷‍♀️

For context please film when the shops are open, say around lunchtime It’s a shopping street If the shops are closed near 8pm why would there be footfall 🧐

It's simple. People are struggling to have any disposable income after paying the highest energy & retail prices in the western world.

1 its cheaper to buy online. 2 people dont feel safe

Isle of Man is very safe so it’s not that.

Till you get invaded

No asylum seekers here

Yet....

Isn't the isle of man now simply a tax haven for the Uber wealthy... Who don't frequent JD Sports and Costa Coffee... And didn't those Uber wealthy displace the natives by making the island too expensive for them to live on???

No restaurants or bars. Just closed shops at 19:40. Why would anyone be down there. It’s normal, you little parasite.

You're on the Isle of fucking man what do you expect 🤣

So, its quiet. You could seat the entire population of the Isle of Man in Wembley Stadium. I wouldn't expect the small capital of an island with 85,000 people on it to be busy on a bleak rainy evening. It's not Piccaddily Circus.

Online shopping. 🤷‍♂️ People just don’t go out anymore, and businesses can’t make enough to compete.

It really is mad how everybody just hibernates. Such a shame

We solved this problem in Ireland, by filling our city with Roma gypsies… theres zero trade happening but it looks busy 👍

Are they at home with their families? Work to live, not live to work.

A weekend break to isle of man for a couple is around £1000. Just too much.

No one cares

What was is no longer and what's left is the buildings that were built by people who are no longer there

50 years ago the strand would have been packed with holidaymakers

Could that be fixed with an overnight airdrop of about 17 million Somalians, Ghanaians, Eritreans, Pakistanis and Afghans? Make the place a bit more vibrant and lively maybe? I mean that’s what we do everywhere else.

This video is AI.

7.50 Oct 25.

It's the evening, of course nobody is in the shopping area.