I Went To The Saddest Place In The United States

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  • čas přidán 26. 04. 2023
  • This has been called the worst place in the state? Wow this place is terrible! What happened here?
    It was Day 6 on my southern road trip, and this was the first time I saw anything like this. It was a loss of oil and energy jobs that started Shreveport down the wrong pathway. Now, it's poor, dangerous and just sad.
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  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  Před rokem +83

    Here's my entire Deep South Road Trip: czcams.com/video/Pw21HXzMB2s/video.html

    • @susanhelms107
      @susanhelms107 Před rokem +3

      That is so sad bro pronounce the town that you're in and Louisiana that is so sad houses are all falling apart from the hurricane nobody wants to fix them it's so sad the Billings its City I can't believe it because it's that way I totally forgot what year when Katrina hit that place in Louisiana Louisiana looks somewhat beautiful it was beautiful back in the days thank you so much for sharing this makes me really think that people needs really get off their butt and fixes place and hope for the best anyways have a great day be safe sincerely Suszie😥❤😮

    • @OrpheoTreshula
      @OrpheoTreshula Před rokem +4

      Publicly here recorded, all this. Until there is no record anymore. Their choice, I guess.

    • @jharvey9898
      @jharvey9898 Před rokem +4

      I would eat at that guy’s barbecue for sure.

    • @phillipgrey
      @phillipgrey Před rokem

      Run by Democrats and black victimisation says it all....

    • @marcheprovencal592
      @marcheprovencal592 Před rokem +1

      What a trip.

  • @humanchildofgod3126
    @humanchildofgod3126 Před rokem +132

    The saddest part is… if someone buys land and builds their dream home… the residents will become their enemies. “If I ain’t got nothin, you can’t have nothing”!

    • @Bennysol
      @Bennysol Před rokem +19

      Misery loved company

    • @stevenpollard5171
      @stevenpollard5171 Před rokem +21

      Dave Ramsey quote,”Jealousy is when you want something someone else has. Envy is when you realize you can’t have what they have, and you don’t want them to have it, either.”

    • @artmchugh5644
      @artmchugh5644 Před 11 měsíci +4

      That is a pretty " DARK" 😊statement 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @drizzey680
      @drizzey680 Před 11 měsíci

      Damn Right, Cracka !

    • @Job.Well.Done_01
      @Job.Well.Done_01 Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@stevenpollard5171envy is an evil evil emotion.

  • @williambush7971
    @williambush7971 Před rokem +98

    My momma always told me there's nothing wrong with being poor but you don't have to be dirty. Clean the place up. Fix the broken windows, tear down the burn out abandoned buildings and get rid of the graffiti. Try to have some pride at least. I've never seen Casino's do anything to help a city. All over the south you see nothing but the poor folks shoving their welfare and social security into the machines hoping to get rich. I'd never approve casinos in my city or state.

    • @joanyow7952
      @joanyow7952 Před rokem +4

      A little elbow grease goes a long way. I have never understood those peole who want to keep their old appliance on the front porch and rusted-out automobiles in the yard.

    • @krystalshepherd4582
      @krystalshepherd4582 Před rokem +2

      Once whomever decides a casino is coming to an area it doesn't matter what the people want. We have one in my small city as of 12 years ago. People did not want it but we got it anyways. I know for a fact that thousands of names were forged in the process of it being approved.

    • @williambush7971
      @williambush7971 Před rokem

      @@krystalshepherd4582 When the politicians are being paid off there is no way to stop it. Once a politician sees dollar signs all common sense disappears.

    • @Lee-pf7bf
      @Lee-pf7bf Před rokem +2

      Red states for ya! The Bible belt, lol!

    • @joanyow7952
      @joanyow7952 Před rokem +1

      a committee has been sent to Detroit to do a study on cleaning up a city.

  • @DonnieHudson
    @DonnieHudson Před rokem +80

    Nick, I am a HUGE fan of your work. I've lived in shreveport for 33 years. I would have loved to have shown you around - the safer places. I always tell people- I live in the worst city, in the worst state in America. This film validates it. I own a small business here, that does very well - so it's hard to just "leave" but I'm working on it.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před rokem +14

      Aww Donnie! It would have been cool to meet you. Sorry your city is not well right now.

    • @soul2soul399
      @soul2soul399 Před rokem +8

      I was in Shreveport last year and had some really nice meals! We loved Bella Fresca, Another Broken Egg, and Fat Calf Brassiere! There are some incredible homes in the area and nice neighborhoods. Too bad we didn’t get to see more of that in this video. My favorite thing about Shreveport/Bossier were the people. Good friendly people with Southern hospitality. If the crime does get cleaned up, Shreveport could become a pretty desirable place with lots of cheap land for development.

    • @juliemanarin4127
      @juliemanarin4127 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I'm sorry. I live in Chicago...I wish I could get out.

    • @marcjorgensen
      @marcjorgensen Před měsícem +2

      @@soul2soul399 50 Cent our savior...and Mayor Arceneaux....JK though. He could have went to Elerbe or Provenance, the Southern Loop area. The old amazing homes off Fairfield...very biased one sided video. What he shows though, is all real and the way it is in those areas, and it has been that way for the the entire 30+ years I have been here.

  • @Methuselah969V
    @Methuselah969V Před rokem +30

    Agreed, I have driven a truck through Louisiana. The roads are total trash, and everyone drives so fast, too, ruining their cars driving 75 mph over craters ,and to drive fast to where ? to some burned out falling apart building.

  • @Britcarjunkie
    @Britcarjunkie Před rokem +139

    When the Greyhound Bus depot is fenced off, you KNOW it's a bad area, because Greyhound usually goes everywhere.

  • @The_RV_Chef
    @The_RV_Chef Před rokem +98

    I grew up in Shreveport and escaped 6 years ago. Losing GM, and AT&T was the beginning of the end. Once the Casinos came prices for everything skyrocketed while good paying jobs were replaced with lower paying service jobs. I have family there but no desire to return after all this time.

    • @rosierossjames9287
      @rosierossjames9287 Před rokem +4

      Me either 😭

    • @artmchugh5644
      @artmchugh5644 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Tell me about it!!! I was raised in FLINT MICHIGAN!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😢😢😢

    • @SuperDrestone
      @SuperDrestone Před 11 měsíci +2

      I dont even.know how I spent most of my life in that place.. Atlanta 3 years now

    • @artmchugh5644
      @artmchugh5644 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@SuperDrestone and you are still stuck in traffic!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🍺🍺🍺

    • @soulheaven9243
      @soulheaven9243 Před měsícem

      well, you could be living in Texarkana, its a countrier, even lower class version of Shreveport

  • @thomasfranco5997
    @thomasfranco5997 Před rokem +16

    I can't imagine when people who were brought up here, see their town like this. It must be devastating for them. Honestly it would make me cry. I would be upset that this is the America that was once was. So Sad!!!

    • @maxwellhesher1790
      @maxwellhesher1790 Před 5 měsíci

      It’s just the typical ebbs and flows of the economy. Detroit has gone through the same kind of downturn. I feel for the people of the city, but it’s not something they can really escape. Industry builds and destroys communities in America, and if I had to guess, the industry here was probably oil refinement or mining.

  • @DrAlexVasquezICHNFM
    @DrAlexVasquezICHNFM Před 11 měsíci +16

    You are truly doing wonderful work to document the obvious collapse of the United States. None of us want to see it per se but we need to know that it’s happening and your documentaries are helping increase awareness. I left the United States in 2013 to live abroad and when I came back nine years later I can hardly recognize this country for what it used to be

    • @aaajjj9632
      @aaajjj9632 Před 8 měsíci +1

      After 20 yrs living in Asia, I was planning to return to the US, but now this video will put a damper on my plans.

  • @gwag8410
    @gwag8410 Před rokem +209

    My memory of Shreveport, goes back to when I was 16 or 17, driving through downtown, I was pulled over by police, asked to follow the cop to the PD.. I had just bought the car, and my uncle’s name was on the registration.. I bought the car from him, and they were accusing me of stealing the car.. I was being interrogated by a huge detective in a small room, he was all up in my face, threatening to knock me through the f#%^*ing wall.. I never did admit to stealing the car…. Because I didn’t, I paid cash for it… so they finally let me go… little did I know, they had searched my car, while I was inside being interrogated… and all of my tools were stolen from the trunk of my car…. Shreveport left a bad taste in my mouth…

    • @johnjolly2087
      @johnjolly2087 Před rokem +34

      As a person very familiar with S'port police I have to say....sounds about right!

    • @gwag8410
      @gwag8410 Před rokem +18

      @@johnjolly2087 yes I lived about 70 miles north east at the time… I heard a lot of stories back then… I can’t say it was any better where I was from either 😉

    • @haroldbell213
      @haroldbell213 Před rokem

      I had the cops rob the hell out of me. If they see something they want it gone. No use in trying to get it back. I have known a few cops who would pull people over. Lots of the people pulled over had something illegal. Cops took what they wanted. They would show it off and if you know them you got freebies. I worked on police bike's. Not all were dirty but a few were terrible.

    • @luke-8449
      @luke-8449 Před rokem +6

      Damn

    • @jsoo67
      @jsoo67 Před rokem +11

      Damn that's messed up, but I'm just wondering why he didn't just call your uncle? I would think that would clear it up quickly.

  • @GenXGranny
    @GenXGranny Před rokem +103

    This looks like a Third world Nightmare!!

    • @daf62757
      @daf62757 Před rokem +3

      This is what the rest of America is heading for if we don't stop our government from destroying our country.

    • @loisaustin6200
      @loisaustin6200 Před rokem +15

      Makes Bulgaria look clean and prosperous.

    • @mizzmoze1103
      @mizzmoze1103 Před rokem +1

      And its all by design!! Part of the plan of the take down of U S A
      & Its everywhere and will continue until job done
      N W O

    • @faheemabbas3965
      @faheemabbas3965 Před rokem

      I mean it’s the entirety of America at this point.
      we’re nothing more than glorified Australia and Mexico

    • @skippymaster57
      @skippymaster57 Před rokem +1

      @@faheemabbas3965 Australia has places like Shreveport where there's derelict and run down homes, specifically Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, Derby in West Australia and some, but not all Aboriginal communities.
      The usual reason is excessive drinking of alcohol.
      The thing I am amazed at in the drive around are the near new and large SUV's sitting in some of the front yards. How do they pay for the fuel to run those massive V8s? They would cost over AUD$100K over here and are owned by miners who would earn that amount every 6 months. I live in a mining town in South Australia and there are some places like there as well, but nowhere as extensive ruins over multiple streets.

  • @alifetime360
    @alifetime360 Před rokem +11

    Shreveport sure looks different than it did in the late '70s - early '80s. It's truly sad. Although there are some good things to come from Louisiana, personally, I don't ever plan to return. Best of luck to anyone choosing to stay there. 🙏

    • @Andromeda_M31
      @Andromeda_M31 Před měsícem

      I was there in the in the 1980's. I don't remember any of this.

  • @barbaragalbreth4429
    @barbaragalbreth4429 Před rokem +10

    It's hard watching this happen in real time. I once rented a house in a lower middle class neighborhood about 10 years ago. In the five years I was living there, I witness terrible suburban blight. Homes just falling apart all around me. I felt awful watching this happen, but I couldn't wait to get out of there.

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln Před rokem +36

    It simply went down hill when General Mortors moved over seas.

    • @brianmatthews4149
      @brianmatthews4149 Před rokem

      Just like levi's out on the west coast they cut jobs moved to Mexico yet they want 70.00 dollars for there pants..they never got another dollar from this guy.

    • @hairdresser1300
      @hairdresser1300 Před rokem +1

      Lots of union car company plants still here in America. What car company does your money support? Do they have a plant in your state?

  • @chrisjas3129
    @chrisjas3129 Před rokem +78

    The line between the Haves and Have Nots is distinct...why is that? Why can't all citizens have decent roads? Garbage pickup? Safe parks? Maybe because the politicians don't care as long as it ain't in their neighborhood.

    • @loisaustin6200
      @loisaustin6200 Před rokem +23

      Maybe because they have learned that fixing things up does not help, that before long the new places look like the old dumps they tried to fix, once again run down, trash and garbage littered everywhere. People have to help take care of things

    • @lucystrider728
      @lucystrider728 Před rokem +12

      The haves are fewer and richer and the have nots are more numerous and we are losing our middle class. Why? Because wealth is being transferred from the middle and low income in cuts to programs and services, and to the richest in terms if cutting taxes for them. The 2017 corporate tax cut of 40% caused a 1.8 trillion deficit that Republicans caused and now want to cover by cutting sicial security and healthcare, medicare, and snap food assistance and so on.

    • @chrisjas3129
      @chrisjas3129 Před rokem +3

      @@loisaustin6200 let's clarify. Politicians are voted for, at least that's what I want to believe. City councils appropriate funds for their district. Governors appropriate funds at the state level. Shreveport is a old town WHY aren't her streets, parks, etc. maintained? Ppl are ppl but politicians never live in neighborhoods they turn into ghettos! And they NEVER at least walk their districts.
      God's speed.

    • @chrisjas3129
      @chrisjas3129 Před rokem

      @@lucystrider728 I abhor both parties. Neither really give a dam about the working class. Shearvport politicians to the entire Congress get their paychecks from our sweat. And 100% America is a fascist nation. 👿
      Stay safe.

    • @watersbey25
      @watersbey25 Před rokem +2

      I think the roads are fine in this video. . But it takes more than roads to make a city updated.

  • @davidarmitage289
    @davidarmitage289 Před rokem +10

    Brilliant video Nick. Loving all the real life images and listening to the locals talk about their neighborhoods

  • @cl8505
    @cl8505 Před 8 měsíci +11

    I live in Shreveport and love it. Lots of fun things to do, good food, fun social events, minimal traffic, everything is close. There is a lot more to Shreveport than the crappy parts that are shown in this video. And it is a fantastic place to raise a family. And people definitely swim in the river.. have done it many times. Also, a lot of other people are very happy here. Not everyone is unhappy.

    • @alostpilgrimsjourney5953
      @alostpilgrimsjourney5953 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @cl8505: Are you on drugs?

    • @cl8505
      @cl8505 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@alostpilgrimsjourney5953 No sir

    • @alostpilgrimsjourney5953
      @alostpilgrimsjourney5953 Před 6 měsíci

      @cl9505 I love Louisiana and have met some wonderful people across the state. How can there be two LA.?

    • @clockworkking777
      @clockworkking777 Před 6 měsíci

      You people go to hell for lying right.

    • @alexandercherry3796
      @alexandercherry3796 Před 4 měsíci +6

      I've lived in Shreveport for 47 years and own a Business here. I joined the Military in '96 came back and raised a family. It does have negatives however many towns across the US have negatives and I have tried to do my part to help. This guy went to the Bottoms south of DT perhaps only a few square miles and passed it off as S'port as a whole. Guy wasn't even close describing our town. I guess people find it entertaining to drive around with a cavalier attitude towards the plight of the less fortunate?

  • @commonsensemakessense8134

    I was born there and I'm so glad my mom got us out

  • @myfoodishere
    @myfoodishere Před rokem +332

    this seems like a good place to film something like the walking dead. how can a functioning government allow a place to get this bad? stay safe Nick.

    • @OnePalestine1948
      @OnePalestine1948 Před rokem +12

      Haha the walking dead zone

    • @allenvestal4474
      @allenvestal4474 Před rokem +9

      Music district of Austin. The extras don't need makeup.

    • @frednugent2310
      @frednugent2310 Před rokem +21

      It also looks like a great place to train for urban warfare.

    • @taiwanluthiers
      @taiwanluthiers Před rokem +5

      @@allenvestal4474 I seen some run down houses in Austin as well, but it's just one or two houses, not every house. Over here in Taiwan people think America's all gravy, it's not.

    • @BrianSapp945
      @BrianSapp945 Před rokem

      AMERICA IS A GOT DAMN CESSPOOL

  • @traditionalgirl3943
    @traditionalgirl3943 Před rokem +5

    I will add Shreveport and similar places to my daily prayer list. Where there is life there is hope. Light and goodness always defeat darkness and evil. The more people praying the better. This video helps facilitate prayer for our fellow man so thank you, Nick. ✝️🙏🌷

  • @soul2soul399
    @soul2soul399 Před rokem +10

    I was just in Shreveport last year. There are some beautiful neighborhoods and yummy restaurants in Shreveport. I didn’t go into the bad parts or into downtown, so my impression of it was better. Right across the river in Bossier City is a lot of nice suburbs and new shopping areas.

    • @roselee4445
      @roselee4445 Před rokem

      Bossier used to be the red light district

    • @joycejones898
      @joycejones898 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Exactly I live here in Shreveport and it seems to me that he went to the oldest parts of town. We are not some abandoned town he's portraying. We have alot of beautiful neighborhoods here.

    • @Kev621
      @Kev621 Před 19 dny +1

      I was about to say the same as well. I have friends who live there, and it seems he's being very selective. It's not represented only by what he's showing.

  • @knivesgunfights526
    @knivesgunfights526 Před rokem +101

    Nick, the sad part is that with the state of political affairs in OUR Country, things may never improve.

    • @stevenbrock635
      @stevenbrock635 Před rokem +2

      I used to like John Kennedy,not so much now,now I see why he knows so many riddles,no time for governing.

    • @ericrivera8410
      @ericrivera8410 Před rokem +6

      Keep voting Republican to see they won't help you

    • @Muskogee
      @Muskogee Před rokem

      ​@@ericrivera8410True, they block infrastructure and the Republican Governors and Representatives only care about fixing up the tourist spots in those cities and white communities.

    • @rikkisan1
      @rikkisan1 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@ericrivera8410Who will help us?

    • @larrymcclain8874
      @larrymcclain8874 Před měsícem

      ​@ericrivera8410 Shreveport vote Democrat. Blue city for years.

  • @britlew5933
    @britlew5933 Před rokem +25

    This still looks better than Kensington in PA.

  • @madmac4185
    @madmac4185 Před rokem

    Thank you for taking the time. For taking us along w/ you these many cruise's. Your review's are both informational & highly thought provoking viewing. You have your little niche `round here carved out well. Please keep it up ;- ]

  • @timrogers8503
    @timrogers8503 Před rokem +4

    I didn’t take Nick seriously at first, partly because he has a dry humor, sort of deadpan…but when you realize he’s speaking the truth, you can feel his vibe. He has done a better job documenting the dereliction of duties by our politicians and civic leaders than mainstream media ever has (or ever will). Keep up the good job, and try to stay safe, dude.

  • @warriora7245
    @warriora7245 Před rokem +72

    As someone who works for a casino in Vegas….I can’t believe the casino there doesn’t give back in much bigger ways to the community. Such a shame and clear display of corporate greed 😢😢

    • @modestproposal9114
      @modestproposal9114 Před rokem +5

      Do you know how capitalism works?

    • @joanyow7952
      @joanyow7952 Před rokem +6

      I doubt their take is as large as in Vegas. According to the storyline, there is no money.

    • @jwbjpb1338
      @jwbjpb1338 Před rokem +14

      Corporations (including casinos) could care less what happens as long as they rake in the money.

    • @modestproposal9114
      @modestproposal9114 Před rokem +2

      @AlisaRedBandana111CCCVVV41Dasha Brigades it is the economic system. Greed is mandatory in capitalism

    • @saintseer8214
      @saintseer8214 Před rokem +4

      pays like $16-20 and rents are like $2000 right?

  • @MisterTaylor2967
    @MisterTaylor2967 Před rokem +175

    This is a sneak preview of the entire US by 2040

  • @bertrandvonarb7482
    @bertrandvonarb7482 Před rokem +8

    waouh Thank you Nick for this amazing documentary without filters about the sad reality in Louisiana....You gave me the envy to do the same type of documentary in France or Germany where situations are getting worse and worse !

  • @markmccormack1796
    @markmccormack1796 Před rokem +3

    Your videos on Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi are the most depressing, but eye opening videos you've put out.

  • @flores_kelv
    @flores_kelv Před rokem +71

    Get those casinos out of there!!!! Nothing economically and socially good can come from those places!!!

    • @Raja-bz4yw
      @Raja-bz4yw Před rokem +1

      Agreed. Send them to Vegas.

    • @deborahnagel9011
      @deborahnagel9011 Před rokem

      @@Raja-bz4yw haha like veges needs more lol. and they will probably leave on there own ..looks like they are not making the money.

    • @beatriceprofit9442
      @beatriceprofit9442 Před rokem +1

      That's the only think keeping it up...

    • @asiandwanemeighan6479
      @asiandwanemeighan6479 Před rokem

      Capitalism is awesome 😂

    • @Bayoubebe
      @Bayoubebe Před 9 měsíci +1

      I live in south Louisiana and there are video poker casinos attached to gas stations on every other corner. It’s a sad sight and I know many ppl who have become poor over video poker addictions. It’s sad bc Louisiana brings in a TON of money from gambling. Where does it go?

  • @cienergi
    @cienergi Před rokem +54

    I believe cities lose jobs like factories and towns have an elderly population that can’t afford to keep their houses updated like they when they were younger. In my town, my mom’s childhood home went from a beautiful neighborhood to empty lots with a few homes. Generations are moving out of the urban areas.

    • @rubyparchment5523
      @rubyparchment5523 Před rokem +7

      Northern Virginia. I became disabled in ‘17. For 40 years, we were able to wave a $5. bill to have our postage-stamp back yards mowed by workers doing the common areas. Before I left, they wouldn’t do it for $20.

    • @devintaylor8702
      @devintaylor8702 Před rokem +1

      AMEN 🙏

  • @daveculp308
    @daveculp308 Před rokem +3

    Really good.. I like the lady towards the end. True family values right there.. and the old buildings are just so sad. I did home renovations for 20 years and to see these beautiful old buildings falling apart is so sad

  • @williamrandall6472
    @williamrandall6472 Před 8 měsíci +2

    After all the years that I drove semi truck, I was all over Louisiana, and I am very shocked to hear the statistics here,they're pretty grim.I thoroughly enjoy how you bring all these things to light Nick,Thank you so very much

  • @gregadams6827
    @gregadams6827 Před rokem +77

    Nick, you are the best!!! As a disabled man, I am happy living in the swamp lands as the locals really help me. This is a great place to live if you want to get out of the urban crime wave sweeping through my hometown of Memphis and second hometown of New Orleans. What you have said is completely accurate. Speaking of Memphis...please be extremely careful and I really mean it if you go there!!!!!!!

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před rokem +23

      Greg I already made it through that landmine

    • @devintaylor8702
      @devintaylor8702 Před rokem +3

      Amazing Im from New Orleans and I have lived in Memphis Tennessee
      My Dad is from Memphis it's my second home 🏠 but you gotta be careful there now it's terrible 🙏

    • @lindajenson4622
      @lindajenson4622 Před rokem +8

      I like your videos. I think the young lady you interviewed made a very good point about so many people no longer believing in God, the decline in the family unit and loss of values. Sadly, this occurring all across our country. 🙏

    • @krystalshepherd4582
      @krystalshepherd4582 Před rokem

      @@lindajenson4622 👍 I see the awakening happening she spoke of. I'm hoping it overtakes the majority and we can turn things around. But it may well be that this is the final awakening. All signs point to things will only get worse until the end but at least it's getting easier to find more like minded brothers and sisters in Christ who see the writings on the wall. We are seeing just how much evil has taken over and not only no longer hiding but openly coming for our children and it's firing up the need to spread the word of God. So many Christans have been living with to each their own for decades now despite the fact that God's word tells us it is our duty to spread his word.

    • @TheTread123
      @TheTread123 Před rokem +1

      @@NickJohnson I went to Memphis by car 30 years ago in 1993 to visit Graceland. Have the streets been bought up that lead to the mansion now?

  • @TheLosrodri
    @TheLosrodri Před rokem +143

    I’ve been to northern Spain and to answer your question, no I’d say abandoning things that are broken isn’t just an American thing. There were a lot of old falling-apart buildings in the countryside there

    • @Thats_him_with_the_daft_hat
      @Thats_him_with_the_daft_hat Před rokem +23

      It's the same in the UK. A good part of the North of England is moving towards becoming something akin to this.

    • @perfectallycromulent
      @perfectallycromulent Před rokem +1

      Balkan countries are full of bombed out and abandoned towns, some countries have lost 20% of their population since they got rid of communism and allowed people to travel again.

    • @rigbymauser
      @rigbymauser Před rokem

      But unlike the US even the poorest in Spain has a fairly good standard of a social welfaresystem they can benefit from. In the US living in a place like Skreveport, La which is completely f@#*% the people living there is f@&#” too. In America you are either bust or boom. Been to the deep south many times the people there is real nice people but they live in a country where things are mismanaged.

    • @jasonadamik2206
      @jasonadamik2206 Před rokem +20

      We were really surprised to see so many abandoned buildings in Portuguese cities. In the middle of good neighborhoods you'll see formerly beautiful two story homes just totally abandoned. We couldn't figure out why when the buildings were still in great condition that they weren't sold and lived in. We could only guess that the owners were old, died, and didn't have heirs or didn't have anyone in the family who wanted to live there.

    • @DarlingNikki2
      @DarlingNikki2 Před rokem +8

      @@jasonadamik2206 Sadly it seems many issues of home/property abandonment start that way, with children and grandchildren moving away, not wanting the responsibility of upkeep (or not being financially able to do so) and the home/property goes to rot. It's sad, too, when you see the beautiful architecture of past centuries over the world just going back to nature, but perhaps it is all meant to happen as we eventually do the same...

  • @ozairakhtarcom
    @ozairakhtarcom Před rokem +4

    Nick, your content is always unique to me and i love to enjoy learning more about life there in the USA. 👍

  • @devintaylor8702
    @devintaylor8702 Před rokem +2

    Good video I live in Lake Charles Louisiana you are welcome to visit Lake Charles,I have been through Shreveport it's very scetchy glad you are showing the world just how much help is needed here in Louisiana 😇👍

  • @Mountainrock70
    @Mountainrock70 Před rokem +70

    I worked in natural gas compression traveling all over east Texas to outside Shreveport. There was a huge difference from Longview, TX to Shreveport. But a lot of oilfield workers were moving to Shreve area for lower taxes and housing prices. Not sure this is a thing anymore lol

    • @shawnmeyer2788
      @shawnmeyer2788 Před rokem +3

      South side of Longview looks pretty bad and has for years. Every city has this blight to some extent. Some more than others. We go to Shreveport every so often to go antiquing and out to eat. We have always had a good day and never felt uncomfortable. This guy is only showing the bad side. Hes literally complaining about too much green grass. Lol

    • @Mountainrock70
      @Mountainrock70 Před 11 měsíci

      @@shawnmeyer2788 I now live outside tiny AZ village that is all blight but safe. Cant always judge a book by its cover. Somethings are happening now beyond our control.

  • @NewHaven203
    @NewHaven203 Před rokem +38

    I had a black friend from Shreveport during my time in the Navy. He used to wear a gold grill while in uniform. It was insane he never got in trouble or caught. He had told me Shreveport was a terrible city but it’s home for him.

    • @valfletcher9285
      @valfletcher9285 Před rokem +10

      He sounds like Major Payne.

    • @joanyow7952
      @joanyow7952 Před rokem +2

      that is what Pelosi says about San Francisco

    • @davidtrotman5990
      @davidtrotman5990 Před rokem +3

      @@joanyow7952 I live in San Francisco where there is a substantial homeless population. Given that Shreveport has population shrinkage, do you think some of the west coast homeless could be housed there? I'm just throwing this out there to hopefully start a conversation.

    • @joanyow7952
      @joanyow7952 Před rokem +6

      @@davidtrotman5990 No, based on comments, the area is too poor and downtrodden for California's homeless. The humidity would have them howling over the unsafe living conditions.

    • @meyokkob458
      @meyokkob458 Před rokem +1

      New Haven CT….I met a white guy from Shreveport he said you just got to know when to go outside…me being a black girl I wouldn’t go out there

  • @m.hensley-panlilio671
    @m.hensley-panlilio671 Před rokem +2

    Thankyou Nick, for showing America what's happening everywhere* around them. CZcams has become an unconventional finishing school. Its teaching viewers, basic life skills; and revealing unvarnished news stories...

  • @bighilltom
    @bighilltom Před rokem +1

    nick knows what questions to ask and when to ask them.
    thanks nick, always good

  • @GenXGranny
    @GenXGranny Před rokem +65

    My husband and I went to a Shreveport Casino way back after Hurricane Katrina, found some really good travel deal to stay at the Hard Rock Casino for a weekend, help bring some tourist $ into the region..man, what a mess that town was a year or so after the storm, and it looks pretty much the same, like nothing was done after Katrina to fix anything at all!

    • @jharvey9898
      @jharvey9898 Před rokem

      Corruptocrats

    • @richrolla15
      @richrolla15 Před 7 měsíci

      Lies you tell

    • @GenXGranny
      @GenXGranny Před 7 měsíci

      @@richrolla15 I did get the name of the casino wrong, honest mistake, it was Harrahs, (I think) we also did visit the Hard Rock in Biloxi around that same time and I must've gotten them confused, my bad. But I have been to both places after Katrina.

  • @mrscottswold
    @mrscottswold Před rokem +92

    Thanks Nick for bringing the US to the rest of the world. Zooming in to the street signs and following on Google Maps, while you're driving shows us just how bad things really are. Hopefully they can rebuild their once amazing city.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před rokem +9

      Wow that's some real sleuthing

    • @dodgecrockett3474
      @dodgecrockett3474 Před rokem +1

      Hi Mr. Scott's World. I just need some clarification. Are you saying that you retraced the same path on Google Maps as the driver did in the video? It seems to me that the two images would be similar, if not identical. If Google Maps for this area was produced a few years ago, was it your intention to contrast the current appearance of Shreveport with the way it looked a few years ago? I admire your optimism regarding Shreveport's future. Do you foresee the city's current residents to be the primary agents of an economic revival? Or would your vision depend upon transplants who have the means to invest in Shreveport?

    • @vladtheimpalerofd1rtypajee316
      @vladtheimpalerofd1rtypajee316 Před rokem +1

      ​@@NickJohnson Even this place is better than India.

    • @SpeedyRacer978
      @SpeedyRacer978 Před rokem

      @@NickJohnson ❤

  • @ExploringWithBonnie13

    Nice video. Its sad how many cities in the USA that are like this.❤ thanks for sharing.

  • @johncoyne7004
    @johncoyne7004 Před 11 měsíci

    I’d never know how poor these communities are without your videos.
    Eye opening and sad

  • @holdenc3082
    @holdenc3082 Před rokem +62

    The General Motors truck plant shutting down really hurt Shreveport. Lots of good jobs went away.

    • @cienergi
      @cienergi Před rokem +13

      In my town too😢 GM provided so many middle class jobs.

    • @holdenc3082
      @holdenc3082 Před rokem +7

      Yes. Buy American. GM family here.

    • @hadleymanmusic
      @hadleymanmusic Před rokem +5

      Yea the local auto workers union was corrupt so they shut down the plant since they have no control of the union.

    • @erindonofri689
      @erindonofri689 Před rokem +2

      This is why cities should never rely on one company to drive in profit. This is why sports is very important to cities.

    • @marianbrown7634
      @marianbrown7634 Před rokem +1

      ​@@hadleymanmusic IBEW at western electric and Baird poulon

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215 Před rokem +72

    Imagine being a taxi driver in Shreveport before Uber and Lyft? I'll bet their life expectancy wasn't too long.

    • @AJ-pu2em
      @AJ-pu2em Před rokem +6

      Hell a Taxi Driver here was a pedifial and killed a 12 y/o boy here.

    • @tonyafine1838
      @tonyafine1838 Před rokem +6

      R.I.P Justin Bloxum🤞🏽💙🙏🏽

    • @uttaradit2
      @uttaradit2 Před rokem

      Tiger kabs -= check 'em out

    • @Ladydeath22
      @Ladydeath22 Před rokem +3

      My dad was a cab driver here he was murdered in 2010....

    • @Ladydeath22
      @Ladydeath22 Před rokem +1

      @@AJ-pu2em my dad was murdered same time this happened...

  • @ilikenachosify
    @ilikenachosify Před rokem

    Nick you do a fantastic job … I forward these to my brother who is a high school teacher in Toronto Canada

  • @SlavicTom56
    @SlavicTom56 Před rokem +3

    Kind of like where i grew up as a child Aliquippa PA big steel industry J&L and now nothing, rest of my life grew up in San Diego left Cali in 2000 in Texas now South padre island watching Rockets blow up great channel Nic

  • @averyce2
    @averyce2 Před rokem +75

    Nick, I've traveled to 40 countries. It's amazing how many neglected city structures exist: Sonargaon (Bangladesh), Paramaribo (Suriname), Colon (Panama), Valparaiso (Chile), Ordos City (China). Just to name a few

    • @DarlingNikki2
      @DarlingNikki2 Před rokem

      Corruption and greed seem to be ingrained in human DNA. No area of the world seems safe from it, except maybe the few isolated tribes left untouched by our 'modern' civilization.

    • @alexam1848
      @alexam1848 Před rokem +9

      Ya,but none of this countries are displayng a dream.

    • @stephendacey8761
      @stephendacey8761 Před rokem +12

      @Nick Nicholas If you want to feel good wherever you live in America, go watch a video of the slums in Manilla in the Phillippinnes. Wow...poverty is beyond words. This area looks like Orange County, Calif. to that. It's sick b/c young kids, who look very happy, are living in a horrible environment.They have adapted b/c it's all they know.

    • @marleonetti7
      @marleonetti7 Před rokem +10

      america's cities are looking more and more like abandoned ghost towns every year . ever since the whole covid shut down thing , things have not really returned to normal and its like there is not much going on in the country anymore , no matter where u go .

    • @jeffrobodine8579
      @jeffrobodine8579 Před rokem +5

      Hopium kills.

  • @walterchevez9960
    @walterchevez9960 Před rokem +23

    I can’t imagine how beautiful must it been in the past. Now it just look like abandoned. This is really sad😢

    • @rumporridge1
      @rumporridge1 Před rokem +5

      America has tons of places like this. All democratically run. We must bring jobs back to the USA. That to me is the start of getting us back on track.

    • @antomin1709
      @antomin1709 Před 11 měsíci

      @@rumporridge1 Absolutely...WE NEED MORE TAX BREAKS FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,,, Few large cities are governed by Republicans - only 26 of the 100 largest U.S. cities have Republican mayors - making apples-to-apples comparisons difficult. But cities that do have Republican mayors do not have lower murder rates than similarly sized Democratic-led cities

    • @Job.Well.Done_01
      @Job.Well.Done_01 Před 10 měsíci

      @@rumporridge1it’s going to cost the government money that it can’t recoup. It isn’t cheap to build nations and that’s where we are now. This is nation rebuilding.

  • @WorkingProgress17
    @WorkingProgress17 Před rokem +8

    On a positive note, the lady you interviewed mentioned some hopeful factors. It is the few that do care and who are willing to implement change that make a difference. Never underestimate them.

    • @Matthew-nj4do
      @Matthew-nj4do Před 10 měsíci

      In Shreveport we are excited about our first republican mayor in 25 years and an Amazon warehouse coming to town, should be about 1000 jobs added. Shreveport has a lot of nice areas as well and old money.

  • @catalhuyuk7
    @catalhuyuk7 Před rokem +3

    I won’t go to the USA. I’m about 2 hours from the border and used to go at every opportunity. I could be wrong but I think the atmosphere has changed considerably since 2016. 🙁♥️🇨🇦

  • @randomguy6745
    @randomguy6745 Před rokem +19

    Born and raised in northern Louisiana 45 miles from Shreveport. Family lives there but that’s it. No jobs, schools are terrible, hotter than poop, nothing to do besides outdoor sports where you’ll die of heatstroke. The food is good though!

  • @salty_flightdeck_cpo
    @salty_flightdeck_cpo Před rokem +15

    The worst possible post-season scenario for a college football team is to end up going to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana.

  • @MIZZtyler1991
    @MIZZtyler1991 Před rokem +4

    I lived in Shreveport during an internship the summer of 2011. I couldn't leave fast enough when it was done. Easily the most depressing and run down city I've ever witnessed.

    • @richrolla15
      @richrolla15 Před 7 měsíci

      And ur still running, chasing a life that will never exist!

  • @Ratankumar-pd2qr
    @Ratankumar-pd2qr Před rokem +4

    All those empty homes, somebody must have built it from scratch, sweet memories, baby playing on the porch, grass. It is painful to watch but then US is so big that this seems normal.

  • @valfletcher9285
    @valfletcher9285 Před rokem +22

    I believe much of this is not a lack of funding problem. It's what I call a heart problem. No one can change another man's heart - still better looking than those Indian Reservations in Dakotas, Nick. That shocked me the most. That was. THe worst despair in USA to me.

  • @daveb8449
    @daveb8449 Před rokem +1

    Love these videos!

  • @janetackland493
    @janetackland493 Před rokem

    It’s so beautiful there. All those lovely old trees. Some cheap rentals there! Maybe free accomodation in some of those empty houses.

  • @membel
    @membel Před rokem +26

    You just had to say Casino and that would have explained everything in the beginning. Go to every town with Casinos and all that is thriving are pawn shops!

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 Před rokem +1

      My wife and I went to Atlantic City on one of those bus trips back in 2001. The casinos had been up and running for something like 20 years, give or take. The city, overall, didn’t look it had benefitted at all…
      The Yellow Pages had something like 50 pages of escort services. Haven’t been back. No desire to go back.

  • @kenanderson6568
    @kenanderson6568 Před rokem +23

    I'm a resident of shreveport. I woke up this morning feeling down. It seems the bluebird of happiness had flown away from my Windows sill and in it's place was the chicken of depression. I thought to myself I feel like doing nothing constructive toda but maybe a CZcams video will give me a little lift or maybe even a laugh or two. Sometimes they do that. This video popped up and so I watched it. Immediately after, and feeling a bit panicked.. couldn't catch my breath.. walls closing in.. I finally took a long, deep cleansing breath with a matching sigh. I once again glanced out my window.. that chicken of depression was gone.. but, there out my window .. it was the vulture of despair.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před rokem +6

    Sometime Nick should have a countdown on his top ten (or more!) worse places -rural or urban- he's ever visited. Better make it top 25. Some choices would be hard to decide on their badness.

  • @kellimac
    @kellimac Před rokem +4

    I am shook! I lived in southern Arkansas(not by choice,lol) in the late 1980s. We would come to Shreveport and Bossier City to go to a mall/shopping center and it was nice! The city was.clean and populated and seemingly thriving. So sad to see this, some of the nicest people I ever met were from there.

  • @jtt1928
    @jtt1928 Před rokem +83

    My dad’s family is from there😢….so sad to see this in America! My grandfather & his brothers moved away from there & into California back in the early1950s 🙌🏾🙏🏾. We still have cousins there & they said it’s still very segregated no surprise 😅. The reason why it’s so bad there is because of zero opportunity & poverty crimes. The bad education & no dads is just a symptom of no money/opportunity/2 Americas.

    • @CsImre
      @CsImre Před rokem +9

      You know what that dilbert guy said... he is right, sadly.

    • @phillipgrey
      @phillipgrey Před rokem

      Run by Democrats and black victimisation says it all.....

    • @NewHaven203
      @NewHaven203 Před rokem +6

      And it’s a democrat city, explains alot

    • @wti70
      @wti70 Před rokem +3

      Did the Amish cause all this?

    • @concretebob7680
      @concretebob7680 Před rokem +2

      @@wti70 I thought it was the Canadians......🤣

  • @richardbranton190
    @richardbranton190 Před rokem +30

    I absolutely love Louisiana i go there every year for vacation. The cities in Louisiana suck but if you go out into the country it's fabulous and the people are great

  • @l.ls.8890
    @l.ls.8890 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Just looking at this video today and it is truly sad to see all this poverty in such a rich state. I have been there some25 or so years ago and it has definitely degraded a lot.

  • @Raja-bz4yw
    @Raja-bz4yw Před rokem +3

    We need to get our companies to stay in the US . That'll help a lot.

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama5186 Před rokem +26

    As sad as it is, you did a beautiful job Nick. 🧡 🙏

  • @reldoc
    @reldoc Před rokem +27

    This is the downside to "urban" America. A large city needs a lot of support.

    • @norton750commando
      @norton750commando Před rokem

      Yeah, but corporate welfare is bleeding them dry. Did you see the chart of corporate incentives? Give away that much money and there's nothing left for the city supports.

    • @lynnrussell1641
      @lynnrussell1641 Před rokem

      End Stage Capitalism and the hard truth of Trickle Down not happening.

    • @bethrains3105
      @bethrains3105 Před rokem

      Rural communities are emptying out in droves. Takes more gas money to show you how abandoned those are.

    • @bethrains3105
      @bethrains3105 Před rokem

      @@blackcherry6877 Shreveport = 103 square miles, Denver = 153 square miles, Detroit = 139 square miles, it's a large city, try walking it

    • @bethrains3105
      @bethrains3105 Před rokem

      @@blackcherry6877 Those are MEGAcities, There is no official definition of a "LARGE CITY." Now you've been schooled.

  • @Kermitpan
    @Kermitpan Před 11 měsíci

    Good videos my man! I would of been curious to see more of Acadiana region around Lafayette.

  • @starphase1623
    @starphase1623 Před rokem +4

    I want to visit this city just so that I can grab a BBQ sandwich and have a good conversation with this fine Gentleman. He's very wise . Thank you for the tour . ☺️

  • @theGIGbetween
    @theGIGbetween Před rokem +14

    Casinos… The biggest possible waste of one’s paycheck. Just go ahead and give it right back lol

  • @ledzep3692
    @ledzep3692 Před rokem +20

    I remember my road trip from Warrensburg, MO. Back in the June 2018, I was headed to Baton Rouge to see my mom for the last time. I had just experienced Pine Bluff Arkansas along my trip and that was shocking. I was relieved to finally get to Louisiana, until I got to Shreveport. I honestly had to pull over to make sure Google Maps wasn't frozen. I did not want to believe that the squalid mess that I was observing was actually Shreveport. I drove around for a while just to make sure that I wasn't in the bad section of town. It did not get better looking, as I drove around. It wasn't this way back in the 1990, when I traveled through. I would have remembered if it was.

  • @rudetoy8264
    @rudetoy8264 Před rokem

    Very informative video! Hoping that you could do a piece on Cairo, Illinois

  • @randymorris8786
    @randymorris8786 Před rokem +2

    Thank you, Nick Johnson for the time and resources you put into giving us these updates around our country. Peace

  • @heather957
    @heather957 Před rokem +12

    Shreveport looks like the Southern version of Detroit!

    • @hollyrichards2477
      @hollyrichards2477 Před rokem +2

      I live here and say that all the time...little D😮

    • @tonyjones1560
      @tonyjones1560 Před rokem

      There was a CZcamsr who drove around Detroit and the vibe is exactly the same.

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama5186 Před rokem +12

    The old buildings are beautiful and should be restored. Wow

  • @josephk4310
    @josephk4310 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Nick, show the nice side of town too. Nice surrounding Suburbs.

  • @barbara8802
    @barbara8802 Před rokem

    Nice gentleman waving at you Nick! This reminds me of East Cleveland 😢.

  • @DrMatey215
    @DrMatey215 Před rokem +20

    Great Episode Nick! You're a modern day Mark Twain touring the country with your video camera.

  • @megaotstoy
    @megaotstoy Před rokem

    Been to Shreveport, Louisiana almost 25 years ago, in 1999. Looked like a pretty nice place.
    Greetings from RU

  • @thetgwarrior
    @thetgwarrior Před rokem

    Really love these videos

  • @hailheaven4372
    @hailheaven4372 Před rokem +21

    He didn't want to eat the Sandwich, can't blame him! 😂

  • @aggierowe9574
    @aggierowe9574 Před rokem +2

    I really hope this city turns it around…the old architecture is so cool

  • @KYBlooograz
    @KYBlooograz Před rokem +8

    I drove through Gary, Indiana about a year ago. The neighborhoods in Shreveport look a lot like Gary did. Block after block of houses with boarded up windows, fire damage, sunken roofs and abandoned businesses. It's similar to many neighborhoods in Detroit as well. Shreveport looks equally as sad, decrepit and abandoned, but when you factor in the heat, humidity, huge bugs and snakes it's a whole lot worse. It's horrible to see once thriving cities become so depressing, dangerous and unkempt. Very sad.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před rokem +3

      You're right Shannen

    • @kirkc4696
      @kirkc4696 Před rokem

      I agree with that.

    • @Matthew-nj4do
      @Matthew-nj4do Před 10 měsíci

      We have mild winters and nice weather April-June sept-Nov. there are some nice areas in Shreveport and a good bit of old money.

  • @jerrysacct
    @jerrysacct Před rokem +30

    Nick, thank you for doing this road trip! It’s incredibly sad and enlightening! I live in NW FL, and was shocked to see what has happened in Shreveport.
    Jerry

  • @mamajudah7269
    @mamajudah7269 Před rokem +20

    Hello Nick, I can feel the sadness with you through the energy in this video, it reminds me of Albion Michigan, where me and my son lived for 2 years in terror, kin there took part in gaslighting us Via a city in the south. I can hear your frustration, like me. This end is shadow banned.

    • @daisukishikamaru4920
      @daisukishikamaru4920 Před rokem +2

      Wow. My parents live just east of Ann Arbor and I remember thinking I’d look into housing prices in Albion I has no idea it was ever that bad. :(

  • @GeorgiaGirl__
    @GeorgiaGirl__ Před rokem

    My paternal grandmother is from Shreveport. So sad to see this city look like this

  • @user-df1cc8ol9l
    @user-df1cc8ol9l Před 6 měsíci

    I like your CZcams stories about our communities in the USA Today. Show more please Thank you.

  • @Zog696
    @Zog696 Před rokem +8

    What a brilliant way to see the USA! Nick’s sympathetic and insightful commentary provide us with a marvellous virtual Greyhound tour of contemporary America.These videos are irresistible viewing.

  • @southerngal7899
    @southerngal7899 Před rokem +30

    When I moved back here in '95, I went straight to where I used to live in Shreveport. I just couldn't believe how it had changed. Every house had broken windows and, well it was just horrible so I came over here to Bossier City. I did work some in Shreveport but soon started working at the Horseshoe then the Isle of Capri casinos here in Bossier. Now I'm on SS and want out of here but can't afford it. Looked for a HUD home but it was in Cedar Grove in Shreveport ughh😢. Nopeeee.
    It's really not as bad here in Bossier as Shreveport because we do have better police but it's getting bad here, too.
    Thank you, Nick, for this video.
    Thinking of just going to a nursing home because now our mh park has been purchased by a big company from Michigan and lot rent has gone up $110 a month in a year and nothing to show for it. Ppl like me will be run out.
    Love your videos.
    Barbara 🙏🙏✝️

    • @PTC702
      @PTC702 Před rokem +6

      I hope you find a safe and comfortable place to live. God bless you.

    • @southerngal7899
      @southerngal7899 Před rokem +3

      @@PTC702 Thank you so much. 🙏

    • @brianmatthews4149
      @brianmatthews4149 Před rokem +3

      Hang in there don't give up.theres always opportunities out there just keep your eyes opened.

    • @southerngal7899
      @southerngal7899 Před rokem +2

      @@brianmatthews4149 I'm elderly and disabled but ty.

    • @richrolla15
      @richrolla15 Před 7 měsíci

      Your not elderly! Your just don't understand economics

  • @brianturner7214
    @brianturner7214 Před rokem

    another good one Nick 😊😊😊

  • @stevenklein1460
    @stevenklein1460 Před 9 měsíci

    It has gotten a lot better. We recently even got rid of a mean statue at the court house! Happy days are here again!

  • @williamstroker6805
    @williamstroker6805 Před rokem +20

    I really appreciate your informative videos (and your droll delivery), driving around the different states. I'm from the UK and live in a lovely part of the country in South West England, not far from the Cotswolds. I don't think I've seen an abandoned building in years. Now I feel depressed.

    • @MK-zy3yd
      @MK-zy3yd Před rokem +4

      Sometimes it takes a comment to make you realize how bad things have gotten. I live in Florida and have family in Michigan, both states have some very poor and dangerous areas. I couldn’t imagine not seeing abandoned buildings in certain places.
      Not seen an abandoned building in years..wish I could say that. The U.S. is going the wrong way.

    • @mamabearblue5622
      @mamabearblue5622 Před rokem

      I live in the UK, near London. I had to move in a hurry nearly two years ago.
      I feel like I'm living in a Muslim country, everything has become so Islamic here.
      It's crowded & dirty, most shops are Muslim.
      I'm disabled & a friend took me out one day. I said to her, are there no white people here? All I saw was black people & Muslims.
      We are being flooded by illegal immigrants, & they are being put in hotels across the UK. Crime, especially rape & murder has increased. Many cities now look like Muslim countries.
      I know there are still many beautiful parts of the UK, I only wish I could move to a nice place. I hate urban life anyway.

  • @EternalEyeEntertain
    @EternalEyeEntertain Před rokem +12

    Looks like a great place to shoot a movie. Very dystopian.

    • @AliciaM5555
      @AliciaM5555 Před rokem +2

      Ikr?!

    • @The_RV_Chef
      @The_RV_Chef Před rokem +1

      There has actually been a few movies shot there. The Film industry came in the early 2000s but then the city council decided the city should be getting more and that was the end of the film industry there.

    • @mattskustomkreations
      @mattskustomkreations Před rokem

      Nope. It’s too flippin hot!

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 Před rokem

    Sad and disgusting. How is this allowed to happen? Thanks for the eye-opener, Nick.

  • @AprilHarmony9
    @AprilHarmony9 Před rokem

    Nick, my roots are very much apart of the Deep South (Louisiana is my heritage❤️❤️❤️). I need to watch your whole road trip!

  • @ajayfacts81
    @ajayfacts81 Před rokem +14

    Perfect location for a Zombie movie 😊

  • @FlintIronstag23
    @FlintIronstag23 Před rokem +10

    The foreshadowing of even worse areas than Shreveport has got me intrigued. Arkansas sounds like it is going to be interesting.