The money clearly isn't reaching a majority of people in the area or if it is, then they put other considerations before personal financial benefit.
And by the way that money came originally from UK taxpayers, not from the EU.
I'm not talking about 'areas', I'm talking about the people living in those areas and they don't consider they've benefitted which is why they voted leave.
If most "benefitted" from the EU they would have voted "Remain", but they didn't. They voted "Leave" which proves that most people in the UK DON'T benefit from EU membership.