Yes, you have way too much light pollution. It looks like the sky is Bortle class 7 or worse

Class 7: Suburban/urban transition. The entire sky background has a vague, grayish white hue. Strong light sources are evident in all directions. The Milky Way is totally invisible or nearly so. M44 or M31 may be glimpsed with the unaided eye but are very indistinct. Clouds are brilliantly lit. Even in moderate-size telescopes, the brightest Messier objects are pale ghosts of their true selves. The naked-eye limiting magnitude is 5.0 if you really try, and a 32-cm reflector will barely reach 14th magnitude.

You need to move at least 50 km away from big cities to get dark enough skies to see the Milky Way well. Even at that distance away, you will still have a lot of light pollution causing the sky to turn blue in long exposure pictures. The milky Way will then be visible in the picture, but it will look like you somehow shot the picture during daytime or dusk.

A truly dark sky is only possible when you are at least a few hundred km away from cities, when the Moon is not in the sky and when the Sun is at least 18 degrees below the horizon. E.g. at 50 degrees Northern Lattitude around 21 june, the Sun does not sink far enough below the horizon, at local midnight you'll still have astronomical twilight. The sky may appear to look very dark with many faint stars visible, but weak nebulae will be drowned out.