I Drove Through The WORST Neighborhood In Los Angeles. This Is What I Saw.
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2020
- Wow Los Angeles has some bad areas!
For this video, I drove to the south side of Los Angeles County - as far south within the county limits as you can get, actually. The goal was to witness the worst neighborhood in Los Angeles firsthand. I entered LA on the city’s far south end, along the coast, in the Los Angeles harbor region. The industrial landscape smelled of chemicals, and was eerily desolate. It was Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 11 am
The LA neighborhood of Wilmington is well known among people who grew up in Southern California. Not many have been here - but it’s notorious for news reports and pop culture lore. The type of place Long Beach rappers talked about in the 90s. This neighborhood has racked by crime and poverty for decades. Wilmington is about 9 square miles big, bordered by Long Beach and Carson. There are about 50,000 people in this hood - big enough that it would be a fairly large city in some states.
To get a good look at Wilmington, I’ll be generally driving north up Avalon Blvd, which splits the neighborhood in half. I’ll criss cross various side streets to give you some perspective on what the area is like.
Most of the Wilmington neighborhood is poor - folks earn about $15k a year each annually, which is really low - even for Los Angeles. 2 in 3 people here rent their home.
87% of Wilmington is hispanic, which is a huge difference from what this neighborhood was like back in 1990 when this area was 40% black. Gangs have always been a problem here, but gang activity peaked decades ago - back in the late 1990s there would be 40 gang related killings in this neighborhood each year. There’s still a lot of gang activity here these days, just less so.
Crime rates are nearly triple the national average in this part of Los Angeles. To make matters worse, the air pollution in this neighborhood is terrible, because it’s just blocks away from oil refineries. In fact, Wilmington sits on top of the third largest oil field in the country. That’s correct - right here in south Los Angeles, next to a bunch of ports, railyards and distribution centers along the LA Harbor is a large oil field.
On many Wilmington blocks, there’s either a liquor store, a fast food restaurant, a rundown school or a dirty park.
Anyways, I’ll continue the drive so you can take a look and judge the area for yourself. The worst neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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the crazy thing is that its a "ghetto" but those houses are like 500- 800K.
I was wondering how much a house cost there! In Detroit they will give you a free lot if you agree to pay the taxes. A house cost as little as 4000. no bullshit
@@stoneygreek damn wtf, thats crazy lol
@1Jvelocity99 dechroit is bad though
@@stoneygreek What is crazy is that if you would buy one of those homes you would spend about 500K to 1mil for one of those homes. Even in the ghetto you can't find many homes for under 1 mil.
It's supply and demand. In even the worst neighborhoods in greater L.A., you'll see very few vacancies. In Detroit, entire blocks are abandoned. Since the demand for houses outstrips the supply, a bungalow in Compton will probably cost what a mansion costs in Georgia. If Newsom and Garcetti continue in their idiotic policies, however, you'll probably see those abandoned houses popping up very soon.
I used to think Wilmington was rough, then I accidentally booked a motel in a New Orleans ghetto, then i learned what real terror was
You should go to Philly, crazy as it sounds even makes N.O. Look nice.
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My family and I visited New Orleans, even way before Hurricane Katrina hit. What a nasty, filthy, shady city. I will never return to New Orleans. Houston, TX is a little better, but not by much. Beautiful metro areas, that I have visited, are Denver and Nashville.
Los Angeles is safe. I miss the hood. Midwest is scary as hell.
@@kingladelldonaldson3728 America scares me.....i won't go there....
I'm from LA and a lot of people are fooled by the way the neighborhoods look. They aren't total slums like on the east and midwest but the stats are just as bad.
So true, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, nyc etc all look so much worse than this.
I think it’s the other way, they think that because it looks bad it means it’s dangerous
From what I see of the houses and neighborhoods in this video, Wilmington doesn’t look all that bad. Most of the homes seem to be reasonably well maintained and there’s no visible trash on the streets.
There's gang activity that's why and deaths year round. I work here and it is dangerous, but my students are the best compared to other areas like paramount, compton and dtla.
I grew up in Wilmington and I loved it! Yes it’s ghetto , I mean it is in LA, but trust me there are WAY worse cities in LA area than Wilmington! I still go back to visit all the time and It’s nothing how you describe 🤷🏼♀️
Learn the difference between a city and a neighborhood.
8 min in. I've seen way worse here in the Bay Area.
U feel me
Couldn’t believe what this fool said Wilmington is a very nice place
Preach! I'm Lennox born and raised and it absolutely baffled me when he called Wilmington the worst part of LA, the entirety of the San Pedro is really nice, it looks borderline middle class and neat, especially compared to, like, Expo Park, West Adams, or Lennox itself.
West coast ghettos never look as bad as ghettos in other parts of the country
true
@@K.B.Williams they also have very nice weather that makes it not look as bad
The buildings in California are way newer than buildings on the east coast. Ghettos on the west coast are just as bad, but the decay hasn’t set in as long.
Yes, very different from the worst city in northern Philadelphia
The worst looking ones are located in Watts, Boyle Heights, or Downtown LA. Long Beach, Carson, Compton, and Inglewood have always looked suburban.
I've lived in Wilmington my whole life, and I have never had my life threatened. I do all the normal things teenagers do. I freely go on runs, go on bike rides, and go to the park with my friends. Maybe it's luck who knows, but I personally feel completely safe. I agree that air pollution is not the best for the community.
💯. I live in LA but have been down to Wilmington many times. Definitely not the worst neighborhood
Everyone hates you if you are White however
It looks clean and like any other little town with tremendous sunshine and the Pacific ocean. I agree with you!!!
Lucky you
Lucky you, your experience isn’t the norm
This popped up in my recommendations. I’ve lived in Wilmington my whole life. This is home.
It sure doesn’t look that bad to me. A lot nicer than where I live.
it's the gang/gang activities that makes it not a good place to live .....
I think it's got the best people but wilmas is polluted and poor thanks for to oil and harbor.
@@arielbonzai462 yea.
@John Carter I second that! It's the worst place in LA county to be living in!
Clean streets, no graffiti, reasonably maintained housing. Just a working class hood. Residents showing pride
EXACTLY!!!!
There’s graffiti, trust me.
Wilmington aint the worst LOOKING hood in la 😂
Ikr this dude's tripping
Fr this guys need to go to slauson or fig
He should go to Boyle Heights.
i’m from here.. it’s not that it’s the worst “looking”, but it is VERY active. High crime and gang violence.
You haven't passed a single homeless tent.
Where I’m at I walk through this park and there’s literally a city of tents and homeless people
He didn't drive through the streets where they are.
He needs to go to downtown LA
@Sapphire Rings ... India? With English signs?
@@gejikas English sign is quite common in India.
I saw new asphalt on some streets. Well maintained yards. All vehicles looked in great shape. Cute older houses. A lady watering her lawn. Man, what a terrible place! 🤣🤣🤣 so nice to see at least the majority of the comments being positive about the city!
I've been doing a long term photography project in south LA and it's astonishing how a neighborhood can seem post-apocalyptic and very dangerous at 3 in the morning, but when you go back in daylight hours it's totally fine... just a lot of working class latinos driving pickup trucks. It's like there's 2 versions of every neighborhood down there.
True
Isn’t that because it’s just bad streets? In California were so stacked on each other you see the bad and good in every city. Long Beach has signal hill, LA has million dollar lofts a mile away from skid row. Orange County has Anaheim and Santa Ana, Riverside county has gated communities in the hills that are worth millions of dollars per a home. I grew up in Los Alamitos and most the population is super rich but a few streets are just apartments and the income variable is huge! I think every city and county has the bad and good parts and I don’t think people in other states can understand our dynamic.(other than New York City. SoCal is just a big NYC)
@@NickJohnson FU ! Liar !
A lot of it has to do with poor lighting. I live in Koreatown and some of my friends in South Central say it looks ghetto. But I think it’s because, one the city doesn’t trim the trees (it’s ridiculous), and two because the lighting is so bad it looks dark unless you’re on the boulevard.
Wow... that’s good insight. Because I wasn’t thinking things look too bad.
I was waiting for the ugly, decrepit housing tenements. The homes actually look very nice. The business district looked better any within a similar size city in Nebraska. I guess the crime rate makes the place bad, though.
Plus all the palm trees, can’t forget about the palm trees, those would make anywhere look nice
I used to go there for work occasionally it's way yonder mo' good..
Ikr f this state it’s so boring lol
They’re tearing down all the projects in LA. The Jordan downs is getting renovated as we speak. California “hoods” look better than 80% of the country lmao
LA's crowded. Your $ don't buy a house or structure, what you're paying for is neighbors, everyone around you. Exclusivity. 😕
It looks nice! 😁 You should've stopped at Tommy's Burgers for lunch! 8:48
it's too much for me at my age Tom :)
Lmao thanks for showing the beauty of our city! Yes it has "ghetto" parts, but show me a city that doesn't. I was born and raised right here in Wilmington. My great grandparents planted their roots here. So again, thank you for showing our beautiful little city to the world.
Edit: it's funny all the hate my comment has gotten! I'm not mad though, this is still my city.
Stop lying to yourself.
@@1javixD salty much?
he didn’t show the good stuff we have … making us look bad even tho it isn’t
@Andrew H because you’ll get arrested for being in a gang
@Andrew H “where people are more responsible than the average American 🇺🇸 “…
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Doesn't seem to be that bad tbh. I've certainly been to parts of LA that look worse.
It’s a gang war out there ☠️
Thank you I live in Wilmington. This was a down and dirty hachet job. He did not show the nice houses neighborhoods, new schools, parks and businesses. Johnson is a liar who doesn't know what he is talking about.
@@riverluxori1384 Yeah, not much going on there. Making average $15k is dispressing.
@@jaddison1112 agreed. Typical transplant perspective
@@jaddison1112 I know what you mean. I still have a lot of family in Wilmington and they are in very nice homes.
First, I love my city. Second, does anyone else notice his horrible driving?
Yes! I wanted him to slow down so I could l at least check out the streets that he was driving on. He was driving too fast
He ran a red light naughty boy !
That's right .. & Heck yeah, now I know I wasn't trippen . 😆. This guy better learn how to make them complete stops . And wait until a pedestrian is literally on the other side of the street when crossing. As well as HE NEEDS TO MAKE SURE HE does his homework and do some actual Research about Wilmington . 🧐
Didn’t see what’s so bad about Wilmington. It’s a working class neighborhood. And it’s certainly better than other parts of LA. South Central for instance.
You are right Martin!...
Raise the bar a little higher people.
@@mungia1500 they're getting there. Compared to how it was before.
Wilmington may not be the best part of LA, but it's certainly no the worst by any means.
I grew up there most of my life it ain’t that bad when it comes to gangs in most areas. It might look ghetto in some areas but the next street over can be a nice neighborhood there are a lot of longshoreman (they earn a lot more then your average person) that live in Wilmington which is why there are nice neighborhood next to ghetto ones. It’s not the worst place in la that’s for sure I don know we’re you got that info.
Wilmington had nice houses. Didn’t see homeless encampments or trash. What are you talking about?
@Aimee Webber I walked thought Theses parts and there are a few homeless but not like downtown. And it not really bad compared to south LA
I get to Compton and then skid row in the next couple of weeks. LA is too expensive to let homes go unused and boarded up.
All the homeless are around Anaheim Avalon and PCH.. alleys and backstreet are full.
well there´s some homeless people there. But I live in a apartment
alameda st has them in Compton especially don’t worry he just didn’t pass by them.
San Pedro has been my home 4 different times; only place I could afford the rent in the area. Having the tamale guy go through the neighborhoods and numerous food trucks to eat dinner at makes life easier for a single guy. Lots of great Mexican food options, Italian, Seafood etc in the area. My Mom grew up in the Wilmington housing projects and says life was hard for the family during the 60s. LA is not all glamour, that is for sure, it is a real struggle to make it here
Wilmington looks better than St. Louis where I live.
Most of St Louis is a shithole
E. St Louis is no joke
I grew up in Wilmington. There are nicer parts and it wasn’t bad growing up there. It’s the Heart of the Harbor. Many families whose parents worked on the docks and terminal Island have inherited their parents homes and have updated and made neighbors better. Yes many changes since I moved away in 1990. The gangs back then and maybe presently were Hispanic. You should have driven around Banning Park area were there are nicer homes.
True ! Homes remodled all the time. New Houses being built in previous vacant lots. I've lived in Wilmington all my life. Our weather cannot be beat. Better than 95%+ of the rest of Socal. By the way, the average Wilmington, CA home price is between $600,000 to $700,000+ in the last year. ( as per Red Fin Realty). The most affordable of most any Socal coastline community. World class beaches nearby. Cool summer breezes most days, while inland LA Metro areas, Valleys, and IE, sadly swelter.
I grew up in Southwest Atlanta, this place is Beautiful !
@Renard Buchanan I escaped 25 years ago, But I couldn't imagine any place in hell being worse.
Yea, Some Hoods in Florida blow this away for being deep ass Getto looking. And That was back in the 90s I' m talkin. Much less now.
@Renard Buchanan lie
@Renard Buchanan Maybe Skid Row is worse than The Bluff, but It would make for a great Comparison video
Are you still there? Have you been there recently?
There's a sign when you enter the neighborhood of Wilmington that reads "Welcome to Wilmington, heart of the harbor". We use to say more like the "fart" of the harbor, because of the strong smell there. Also Wilmington is where the first Der Weinerschnizzel opened up.
Its not the worst neighborhood in LA as far as crime goes, South LA is the worst. As far as quality of life goes, it's the worst with the pollution.
This is south la
@@NickJohnson no it isn’t, this is the harbor
@@Jaylinjamerson this ain’t south central dog south central is around Crenshaw high school
@@NickJohnson it’s not South LA. It’s South Bay. If you’re going to talk bad about a town atleast educate yourself where it’s located
It technically is South LA. LA extends all the way to the Harbor. South Central is a specific location near Downtown PART of South LA. You know, since it's in the south of LA.
I was surprised at the lack of people hanging on the street corners, garbage all around, homeless people camping out etc. Doesn’t look that bad to me, and believe me, I have seen much worse. I have seen daytime and nighttime ghettos looking like war zones both at night and in the daytime.
Yea ridiculous. Why doesn’t he drive through South LA? This doesn’t look bad at all imho
It’s working class idk why he’s acting like it’s bad
You missed the night life. There are chronic in the area. Some gangs do come out. I worked at the Los Angeles Refinery on Sepulveda. I was about to be killed in front of Tom's #1 World Famous Chiliburgers on 626 E. Sepulveda. Bloods, Crips and either MS-13 were on the corner, if it was not for Uber, I would have died. After getting quickly into Uber, I saw a Mexican gang member with a machete in his hand. His homie had a bow and arrow right outside the diner.
Next time Nick, drive to either Crenshaw and Rosecrans or Inglewood. Tell how that works out for you! OH! I know. Let's take a tour of Compton, CA (Florence and Manchester).
Wilmington is also close to SoCal beaches like Cabrillo, Torrance, Redondo, Long Beach, and Hermosa Beaches. Our weather is mostly very nice, and NOT as polluted as other areas inland. Cool summer ocean breezes and cooler summer nights are the norm. The LA Harbor is banning all forms of Harbor related fossil fuel engines. It will be all electric soon. Things are lovely in Wilmington most of the time and getting better. A waterfront park has been completed, and now extended right to the Harbor water.
All I see is blue skys and palm trees
Damn , I’m looking out my window here in northern Canada right now and I see 10 ft of snow lol
It looks like almost every other neighborhood in LA.
Haha it does for the most part!
Yeh, hard to tell apart from the video of the worst parts of Orange County Nick did a couple of weeks ago. I did notice a boat on a trailer parked on the street so crime can't be that bad there, although maybe it belonged to a drug boss and no one would dare take it.
@@davidwilles8577 i grew up here. He didn't drive through the worst parts. There are some nice houses sprinkled in here or there because of the port. Some people get lucky and make it into the long shoreman or refineries. Other than that not a whole lot of money. There are a ton of empty buildings and homeless now
@@rayrios1127 Well that makes sense then. I was watching this and saying to myself, that doesn't look bad. Just looks like a regular working-class/working poor neighborhood, and folks seem to do their best to take care of what they have the best they can, modest though their possessions might be.
LA is a dump.
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@@NickJohnson they don’t make them like that anymore
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@@NickJohnson
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Funny
I grew up in Carson and went to Wilmington Junior high. The salary figures you mentioned are wrong. A lot of Wilmington families are longshoremen at the LA ports. They make a good living there.
Definitely not a lot. I lived in Wilmington most of my life and not everybody is a long shoreman
So since you went to a school in Wilmington then you know a lot about Wilmington? Smh 🤦🏽♀️
This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about,I’m from south Los Angeles,and it’s not that bad over there,anywhere you go to at night will be dangerous for anyone not living that life.
Exactly!!! He has no damn idea. Like “oh let me do a quick google search and drive for 15 minutes. Yep, I know all about this town and why it’s the worst.” 🤦🏽♂️
Right he doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about. This is why when we see them in our neighborhoods filming we kick their asses out. Because they post bs like this!
@@kiwijordan4515 Eastside is the same thing. Not that bad anymore.
Well he did mention that it's not as bad as it was in the 90s
@@kiwijordan4515 It does make it better. It's a huuuuge difference from what it was in the 90s where he's at and the Eastside. Eastside you can walk anywhere if you're not dressed like a gangster now. So yeah, it's not that bad.
It really did not look that bad to me. I liked looking at the trees, which are not the kind you see in the Northeast.
Yea not too many palm trees in NY
It’s not even bad here dude honestly
Wilmington is the worst ... I only say that because my ex lives there lol
@Ronald Calove me too....hate her so much
Your EX SUCKS but not as much as KAREN MAPPY!
hahaha. ok.
Lol
@@antoniog2854 she give that good top tho?
I'm from Finland and that place doesn't look bad at all, one reason being weather, we have now rainy, cloudy, gray weather here so.... 😄
Other reason, many of those cars are much newer and nicer compared to typical Finnish cars.
Houses look also ok to me.
most of the bad areas are slowly being gentrified. i don't know what happens to the original inhabitants but since the cost of housing is so high in southern california's good neighborhoods, the developers are slowing buying up and renovating houses in the bad areas to make it somewhat affordable to first time buyers. i suspect this video is a reflection of it.
if it weren't for the gangs/gang activity in these hoods, it'll be a decent place to live .....
Yes most terrific things happen after dark, during day time we dont see the entire picture. Btw i am fascinated by Finnish part of Lapland and wanted to see Santa in his village. I went to Barrow Alaska which is 450 miles above Arctic Circle believe it or not crimes and homeless in Anchorage Alaska is increasing despite efforts to house homeless in abandoned hotels during winter.
We love our city. Wilmington will always be home ! It’s beautiful and ain’t no place like it 💯
Yesss !!!
I was born there
And that was Wilmington, DE - right ?
Omg yesssss
I'm from Carson and you're damn right, here, Wilmas, Pedro, no place like the HA
And also this area of Wilmington is just minutes away from “Palos Verdes Estates” which is a very expensive ocean front area, just west of it...does not look bad at all and it seems like it’s transitioning to a better community.
The entire wilmington is a rat hole 🤣🤣
He missed Palos Verdes, which is very scenic. I used to take Bus 246 to the end of the route. The view overlooked the Pacific Ocean, which is very scenic.
I think Wilmington doesn't look to bad why don't you do a video of Skid Row
That's something good to see
8:17 Did you just passed by on red light? 😬
Man U make it seem like it’s so bad it’s fine tbh I love it here I was born and raised there Wilmington will always be my home
Drive through the worst neighborhood in Seattle
I agree @Tech-Support-420
@@vardekpetrovic9716 yeah here in the UK the immigrants get everything for free, very frustrating 😤😡
@Jaskaran Singh free housing, money, education, healthcare, dentist, clothing.
@@rutter1ify highly doubt it
@@stewart2589 what?? I'm from the UK I should know😂😂
In poor countries ,what you showed us is already a beautiful village!🥺✌️
@@deusvult9741 this is a Million times better than downtown LA....
@@deusvult9741 this is a Million times better than downtown LA....
Wilmington is the connect. The history this place has is amazing. May be ghetto but theres much worse in LA
Latinos got it looking way better. Keep up the good work Wilmington!
For reals
Imagine if Asians moved in...hella a lot BETTER!
@@victry1nolan319 Is that a challenge?
@@victry1nolan319 not really, instead of folks having chicken running around, they'd have dogs
@@henkka6456 I get random chickens walking into my yard waking me up in the middle of the night. Lol
that's like a middle class hood on any south american country lol.
That's just what I said in the comments. Should have read yours first.
Truth. a real Mexican reconquista!
@Mr Cali wheteate the Greek Americans?
Most residents there are latino, like over 90%
Not Chile 🇨🇱
Not bad at all. Take a drive thru inner city Baltimore row houses if you want to see bad neighborhoods.
I was there about two years ago for a bike messenger race, I don't know what part of Baltimore it was but it was seriously fucked up, and I lived in the Tenderloin in San Francisco and nothing shocks me anymore.
@@freddymarcel-marcum6831 The TL was baaaaaad....
Neighborhoods on these video look nice compared with some of da places I seen in detroit!
@WP It's funny you say that but Baltimore niccuhs be banging L.A. gangs trying to emulate their life style.
Um I live in maryland and it's not bad hush
This isn't even bad. I've been to some pretty rough places imperial courts projects, Nickerson gardens and every street around that area. I do watts and compton. What you were driving around looks like a rich area compared to what ive seen.
Are you still in zone 12?????? (Sorry if you don't know this episode from King of Queens, but I just had to! :-) )
I was thinking the same. We do have homeless but how many tents did you see? How much garbage? Not the leanest city but it's not run down.
Crime does suck though. Three shot today, and a hit and run.
Wilmington is ghetto asf ifykyk
He drove past the wsw projects at the 0:40 mark
@@Alinoschka 😂
Looks can be deceiving but I have to say it doesnt look nearly as bad as I was expecting, South Bronx looks a lot worse.
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When I did uber before covid 19, this was my daily routine driving from orange county to LAX. It's not clean, but it's not that dangerous. Gangbangers don't fuck with people that are not other gangbangers unless they look real dumb and exploitable.
I grew up between Gage and Florence on Vermont. I think it looks downright nice now compared to how it looked back in the pre-1980's. But I look back at those times of my youth with some nostalgia. Maybe it's just the passing years and my memories playing tricks on me. Thank you for the video.
Awkward moment when he’s in your neighborhood...
Wave next time
Wilmington has alot of pride. The school stands are full at every football game. There's tiers of multi generation people that live there. This community is close and takes care if there own.
Ok Carolyn!
I agree with you. Yes they really do take care of their own.
It’s true my mom and grandma knows almost everybody in wilmington
@@nameisconfusing142 chismosas.... Just like mine
😲 That Clip In Wilmington. I Was living In A Homeless Shelter Back In February 2020 Till May. Thank You Crystal For Landing me A place. Sadly There was Nothing But Liars And Thieves. No Matter How Low oR Have Nothing I wouldn't Steal From your house Mate. To A Young Kid Who Was 21 And Fell To The Streets . Martinez Rest In Peace Thanks For your Car.
I do not live in the Los Angeles area. This area didn't seem too bad. That being said, this was done during the day; maybe night time is totally different.
Yup 👍
there's parts of LA I wouldn't want to walk around in the day time let alone at night lol. If this guy thinks this is the WORST neighborhood he hasn't been around very much. Looks like a good ol' suburb to me
@@jessewahab5557 I agree.
It’s not really bad at night certain parks people do hang out you might run into them but they do respect people if you leave them alone they will not mess with you
@@traplordbigjuicecup2046 I would hope it is that way as I would leave them alone and not bother them.
I think your videos are getting more interesting as I go through them. I'm glad you added music to the drive arounds; it smooths them out, they flow better. I found this video much easier to watch than the Orange County video of Santa Ana because you seemed to focus more on the sidewalks rather than just overviews. Good work and thanks.
noted!
This video is outdatred and false view of Wilmington. Wilmington Summer weather is cooler than 95% of SoCal. Wilmington is near many surf beaches and is literally right on the ocean. The air is clean most of the time, and the LA/LB Harbors are bannng all fossil fuel engines soon, ships trucks dockside equipment, only electric.
Wilmington is definitely nowhere near the worst neighborhood in la.
I take it you're exempt from stopping at stop signs?
I like the music you added while driving makes it more thought provoking while driving around.
Cool
That was pretty cool of you to show this! Great video
Nice video I love comming out to Southern California never a dull moment everytime I been.out there something crazy or epic went down good shit bro
I grew up in that area. That's why I will never say defun the police.
I know right. You have all these white people marching, take your butt to the hood, and then let me know. 😂
Smh u obviously don’t know the meaning of “defund the police”…. I suppose u think it’s ok for cops to be the criminals WHILE we pay them OVERTIME to do it!…specially the cops in Compton! They’re literally pimping the hookers that are out there at night! But yeah U like our taxes paying for criminal cops to pimp overtime instead of it being used to buy new books, computers, and equipment for the schools!
@@LaChocolatScorpio trust people in Compton aren’t scared of the cops. They’re scared of the gang bangers who terrorize the hood. So get the f out of here with your scapegoating. 😂
@@MarioRodriguez-gr8wc true !
Thanks For Sharing Nick. I Nice Drive In The Sun In California.. The East Coast, And West Coast Are Like Night And Day..
i know it makes this hood less bad looking.
@@NickJohnson You Got That Right Nick... Just Look At New York City. Hoods There Are Much More Intimidating..
it always makes me a bit sad when ppl call the place i grew up around in one of the worst :(
i grew up in wilmington in the 80s 90s. being the only white kid in my neighborhood had its challenges, but overall i have good memories of playing with friends in the streets. baseball, football, skateboarding. i moved away in the late 90s to the local beach towns but i still drive around my old hood once in a while. for as rough as some parts appear, its actually got a lot of good people and generational families. Nothing compares to going to red west pizza in the summer with my friends to play video games and get some pizza, if we had any money, lol. the area in between harbor park and harbor college was once vacant land, we built bmx tracks and would get in to all kinds of craziness. i learned to speak Spanish as a kid and that has helped me make a lot of friends i wouldnt have otherwise. much respect for hispanc culture and their love of family. Wilmas!!!!!!
The most unsightly thing I see are those power lines. Get them underground!
They have power lines underground?
@@jaykeen7163 of course!
@@louisesanto the power lines are kinda cool tbh
Hey Folks?
Just Think, to live in the Nice and Safe Neighborhoods that You just witnessed and viewed in This Video; You'll have to pay at least $1,600 a Month Rent for a 1 Bedroom Apartment, to live in one of these Lovely Neighborhoods that You seen.
Think about that....
I am a home owner in Wilmington Calif A historical city located in the heart of the Harbor! Where we have a VFW Hall with most of our residents including my father in law from World War 2 and my brother in law from Vietnam War My husbands family has lived here in the city of Wilmington for over 200 hundred years and my family in Carson for over a hundred years! I am very offended by the false information you have shared! Wilmington is a historic town with So much History located at Banning park is our beautiful Banning mansion located in the park they do offer tours and field trips from different schools throughout Los Angeles also historical mansions on six adjacent streets from the park, we also have the famous Drum Barracks We also have brand new schools that have been built and The Brand new Waterfront Park Most of our residents are homeowners and are employed with Union Jobs as Longshoreman at the Port of LA , Contractors, refinery, Kaiser Hospital or own There own businesses We take pride in our city that we live in and we do not want to be miss represented by you! PS the junk yards are on the outskirts of the city closer to Long Beach
The only person commuting crime there is you when you drove through that red light 😂
Drive trough at night might be worse. Most places are.
why ?
really? In Wilmington at night, has lights. Its very beautiful tbh
i drove through that city long time ago and felt that crime was about to happen anytime. it felt eerily dead.
Don't come judging the neighborhood bro go somewhere else
How bad can it be? Most of the houses don’t even have bars. I lived a few miles north of here from 1983-2003. Had to install burglars bars, which the first burglar defeated, had 2 more after that. Prostitutes and drug trafficking on nearby South Figueroa and at least one drive by on my street. I think that was worst than anything I saw in this video,
Looks more like a tidy working class neighborhood than a "ghetto". Take a drive through LA on I-5 and tell me what you see lining the freeway.
I've always found sunshine hides the awfulness of many places...
Not here in Los Scandalous Shitfornia.
You have to live there for a while to Understand what I'm talking about.
Sooo true
That’s Crazy bro you really didn’t highlight Banning High School which is known for athletes , even in the NFL. You didn’t go to Banning Park and see all the HUGE HOMES and didn’t even go to the port or Bannings Landing. You really need to do your homework before you say “worst neighborhood in LA”. That’s 🧢
i dont know what youre talking about
@@NickJohnson wack
@@NickJohnson maybe if you knew what you’re talking about then you would
Vince Ferragamo.
As much as you think it’s run down, its gotten better over time. Also, when you speak of gang violence its just 3 massive gangs tbh and thats it. They kept it oldschool. None of that South Central environment where every other block is a different gang. Its peaceful as long as you dont mess with the wrong crowd.
The worst part was your negativity and the eerie so called music.....I love my city of Los Angeles....hard working people, you left that part out. 🙄😐
Not a Sunday morning. You’re getting more courageous. Respect.
It was mid week mid day sun out - not very scary but next week was scarier. My driver is the only one who gets scared. We haven't seen a true hood since Pittsburgh
there's one street with beautiful old money million dollar homes Banning Blvd very impressive i wonder who can afford them if not passed down these are very expensive houses now
Yup just up the street from Banning Park
Proud of my city!! This guy didn't have to bash it like that. It's not that bad just stay out of the gang lifestyle. I've seen much worse in other cities. 👐
To me southern area like Florida, California , Hawaii, Arizona, could never have bad looking neighborhoods , I mean the palm trees are just so damn beautiful, this doesn’t look half as bad as Chicago’s ghetto
La can't afford to let shit get too rundown it's too expensive real estate wise
As a person from California and grew up in Long Beach I’ll say yes it’s not as bad as Chicago but don’t be fooled by the palm trees and beauty. Being in the wrong areas stuff can still go down badly.
You wouldn’t see window bars and fences until the early eighties.
Due to the fact that I didn't see any trash on the streets, thugs hanging out on street corners, cars parked on what used to be grass, nobody in the middle of the street in their cars, I'd say this was pretty decent. So, I don't know what in the hell this dude is talking about.
Having lived in the Harbor area of Los Angeles since 1977. Wilmington is know where near the worst neighborhood in L.A. and i never remember Wilmington having 40 Homicides in a single yr. You need to re-check your facts
After seeing your video on Illinois, I'd say if Wilimgton could be transplanted in Illinois exactly as it is, surely it might be the most beautiful city in the entire state.
What's so wrong with this neighborhood? It looks exactly like every other working-class hood here in LA. Houses look nice and upkept, I don't see a lot of trash or graffiti. Why vilify the working class like this? (the "scary" music is hilarious btw - "OMG IT'S A LIQUOR STORE!!!!" *cowers*
I did learn something new Professor Nick. I just looked up a tidbit you mentioned and lo and behold, there's oil in Wilmington with over 3 billion barrels in reserve. Who woulda thunk it?
I was surprised too!
My hometown. Many of the friends I grew up with still live here. There is a community that has been there for generations. Thank you for this video.
I'm from NYC area, north jersey, and when I moved to southern cali, I was shocked at how cute and clean the 'bad areas' are. Like, east coast hood places look like it, but in cali every neighborhood looks nice
The buildings aren't as old compared to east coast
Go To Watts bro, the West Coast version of St Lawrence or Castle Hill in the South Bronx
i disagree how can you claim its the worst when you haven't lived there most of your life and haven't experienced some of the good things from Wilmington.
1:15 that meat market has the best carne asada in the south bay.
I’ll have to try it, from Santa Ana and been up here for about two years and haven’t found a decent spot yet
That's not South Bay area
Anthropologists in the distant future will refer to these videos as, "The Johnson Archives". They will also be forever puzzled and entertained by Mappy.
Haha maybe
I’ve lived in Wilmington the majority of my life and I got to say that it’s not as bad as it seems. Yes there are bad parts but there are always going to be parts of every city that are going to be “bad”. If you would have driven down certain streets you would have seen nicer areas and nicer houses just like there would be in any other city.
Ok
I lived here my whole live and from what experience I have you shouldn’t really judge a neighborhood by its cover, and it’s definitely not your place judge my neighborhood with just a glance. I live in Wilmington
Thanks for the drive down memory lane. . I used to work in this area for insurance companies back in the 80s 90s and 70s
Whoever told you that the South Side of L.A. was the "worst" neighborhood in Los Angeles OBVIOUSLY never saw Compton, Watts, or East L.A. in general. SMH
What happened to the north end of Wilmington? A little farther on and you could have made a side trip and shown the famous 'Signal Hill'.
Yeah keep goin north and hit norfside Long Beach and paramount if you really tryna show bad parts of la county
Our longshoremen dispatch hall is in Wilmington Ca.
Wow, I went to elementary, jr high and high school in Wilmington or as the bangers called it Wilmas. At 10:31 you drove right past my neighbor hood and my old home. A lot of memories there it’s been years since I’ve been in Wilmington.
Thank you Nick for this post!. I partially was raised in L.A. and although it's not a good area today, I still kind of miss the area . I grew up in a part of L.A. two areas : Leimert Park & a section called Mid City.
The drive you took although I never went to South L.A. still made me reminisce.
there’s these neighborhoods by banning park that are pretty amazing to look at! the houses are super nice. should’ve shown that