Here's What Florida's Redneck Riviera Looks Like
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2022
- What happened to Florida's most famous stretch of coast?
Everyone’s heard of the Redneck Riviera. This stretch of coast got its name because of its strong southern culture. And I mean strong. It’s in the Florida panhandle, which is often referred to as Lower Alabama. Much of it is less expensive to live in than in south Florida, and in many areas, it’s very poor and rundown. (show clip inlay). But this stretch of beach has also been a hotspot for tons of trashy party people who come down here to get drunk and cause problems. But those days might be coming to an end.
So of course I had to see it! And I went there. It was early May, so it wasn’t too hot and sweltering out. Actually, as I would learn by the end of my Florida adventure, I think early May is the best time to come to Florida. The crowds are at a minimum, and it’s not too hot and buggy out.
To get there, I took Route 331 south from Defuniak Springs to the coast. I had just spent a couple days in the rural part of the panhandle to see how it looks these days. I was impressed.
As we’ll see, the Redneck Riviera is a little bit of everything. It has some of the prettiest water in the country, and some very nice neighborhoods. But a lot of this region is poor and crime riddled, too. Some parts of the area are decent enough, but the drugs, the poverty, the cost of living and the constant abuse from out of towners is weighing this place down.
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I live in Gulf Breeze! I’ve have my husband watching your videos now. We would of loved to run into you! We bought out our house in 2011. It was a foreclosure. It is a typical Florida 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house with garage. It came with a separate man cave for my husband and 1/4 acre of land. We paid $112,000 for it! No idea what was up with those trashy comes! That was funny! It was really nice to see you showcase our hometown!
The video is very good.
Savannah, does your mom's first name start with a T and your grandma's first name start with a C?
I don't know you but I think I might know your family.
It's always looked like that , it's Lower Alabama ...LOL
I’ve lived on 3 continents and Fort Walton Beach is still the best place I’ve ever lived. A lot of those rednecks are honest and hard working
put few cold ones away at the eagles lodge ,nice people .
I live outside of Tampa ,yea its hot n muggy but the whole Eastern US is too.And for 6 months the winters are super nice.
@@richardmorris7063 6 months, keep dreaming 🤔
It's sad to see how the panhandle has changed. It was never Miami Beach and that's what was great about it. Ma and Pa hotels on the beach, good seafood, laid back. Perfect for southerners. Now...20 story high rises, tons of traffic, rediculously expensive. What a shame.
Amen. I loved the Gulf coast but that was back when. I lived in Panama City not PCB. It was my favorite place to live and I miss it but my friends who live there say Michael just changed everything. They said I wouldn’t be able to find my way around. They just got back in their house this past summer. I am down just north of Tampa now.
Sadly, this seems to be the trend across much of the US. It almost seems like everyone is following the same development plans.
"Perfect for southerners". Yeah, shitty, slow, filled with opioid addicted pregnant teens etc etc. All the great things in red southern states
Let's hope they don't discover Bama coast and Mississippi Gulf Coast.
It had to be cheap and dumbed down for southerners
to afford or understand
Me and my husband own a small business in central Florida for 7 years now and we're very rooted into our city and county. I'm worried if it doesn't get better soon we'll have to pack up everything we've worked so hard for almost a decade. We rely on our reputation for good friendly service and have noticed a lot of the new comers trust and support corporations over family run companies. If you're moving here from out of state please use small business with everything you need done from your homes to your vehicles.. eating out. Do your research and support the community you just moved to.
Been in central Florida for over 20 years. I love it, small town vibe, affordable for all but not any more; we are looking to move soon. It was nice while it lasted.
I agree, here in Montreal I shop at my local stores and I really like my local mechanic, much better service than the chains like Speedy, Mr. Lube and car dealerships!
@@patticakes74 who is stealing property from the elderly and what do you mean by property?
Don't give up, it's getting better!
@@rolandthethompsongunner64 So true. Our business is in the automotive industry and unfortunately get to see behind the curtain at a lot of dealerships and people think taking their car to get service from them is the gold standard because of price and it's the manufacturer but there's so much shady shit I could be here for hours. If you own and drive a vehicle educate yourself on everything to do with it and who works on it. Little bit of research and knowledge can save you from a headache.
I've grown up and still live in a one square mile town called Conshohocken in Pennsylvania. My parents paid 43K for our single house in 1984. Our town is 12 blocks long, and 12 blocks wide. In the early 90's, the borough of Conshohocken used a revitalization grant to start to fix it's infrastructure. New roads, new sidewalks, new traffic lights and a re-zoning of certain areas. The re-zoning was huge for Conshohocken. Streets that were zoned as residential were changed to commercial. If a company, like Oracle, wanted to build offices and parking garages, they would quickly realize that because of Conshohocken's zoning, it wouldn't be possible. With the revitalization grants, Conshohocken immediately re-zoned several acres of land which allowed not only Oracle, but other companies as well to make Conshohocken their home. These new companies that are on our main street "Fayette St" are ridiculously tall, towering over and in between our historical buildings. Our downtown Conshohocken looks like four skyscrapers are swallowing up our one square mile town.......and now families are moving out of Conshohocken because of the traffic, the noise pollution, a corrupt government, and if you don't own your home like we do, homes now cost 600k, and most families can't afford the school taxes, let alone the mortgages.
Same thing is happening throughout Pennsylvania. I blame out of staters moving out of major cities like NYC.. Moving is NOT the solution as it's not fixing the problem and harms locals who grew up there. Hopefully inflation and rising mortgage rates will decrease the amount of new home construction and force people back to their cities and stay put. This insane home building from the exodus from cities needs to stop.
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The only way to fix the exodus from cities is to fix the cities. To fix the cities you need to fix the people in the cities. There is no fixing people.
@@taxthesocialist2602 yes. I'm 45 and I've grown up in Conshohocken since I was 7 years old. We have a beautiful home with an incredibly big backyard. Every day, some entity will call our "landline" phone and say...."I don't mean to be intrusive (while being intrusive), but I am very interested in buying your home". Normally, my brothers and I laugh while listening to the sales pitch..."I know you don't me, and you probably don't want to sell your home, but please give me a chance, allow me to give you a price", but lately these pitches are more frequent, happening morning, day, and night and now even more aggressive. We stay in Conshohocken because we own our home. Owning our home has sheltered three different generations of our family, who were born and raised here. With all that being said, there's literally, nowhere to build anymore. If you don't have a beautiful backyard, you have concrete instead. We had a quarry at the bottom of our avenue, that was removed and flattened to build a very small cache of houses. The deer, the groundhogs, the bunnies, the squirrels, the chipmunks, and yes,even the skunks are all running around Conshohocken because they've stolen their forest to build homes there. I'm so sorry for venting about this with you, but I feel like you totally understand what has happened to my one square mile town.
I’m in Erie and it’s happening here too :(
@@taxthesocialist2602 no it’s not average peoples fault, it’s greedy foreign investors!
I lived in Fort Walton Beach from 2002-2008 then I moved to Italy. In 2019 I moved to Alabama and was so excited to go down to Fort Walton Beach. The entire Panhandle has changed so much in a fairly short period of time. Traffic is a nightmare and Destin is a mess with so many tourist now.
You moved from Italy to Alabama ? Thats crazy
@@frederickmuhlbauer9477 haha I actually lived in Hawaii and Washington in between and now I live in Australia. Gotta love the military life.
@@nicolerenee8402 it's at least nice getting to travel, especially when so many don't get to
True, east towards Destin FL area can be nightmare traffic in the summer, but then it's almost too calm down there off season. Alot of out of state people vacation homes, especially Louisiana.
I used love the stretch of US 98 better Gulf Breeze and San Destin even after Andrew but like much of America people are getting priced out of their hometown's. I grew up and live again in Northwest Arkansas and it's happening here badly!
"Constant abuse by out of towners" This can be interpreted in more way than one. They treat the locals like crap and the environment.
Yes that is a fact
It's the Californians moving down and pricing locals out of housing.
Out of Towners have no business coming to my town and put it down. They need to get their asses out and go somewhere else.
Californians and New Yorkers are jerks and everybody in the south knows it.
sometimes it is verbal as we are currently hearing. I don't know if he wants the poor in their rundown shacks or rich developers
It is soooo sad, depressing and shameful where this nation has devolved to. And I am BEYOND sick of all these big companies and the GREED and the lack of caring from the F@#$&*G politicians and interest groups. It’s enraging on SOOO many levels!
Quit working go on government plan like social security leave the work world if everyone does the big companies and government will go slowly out of business and see what they do
how do you feel about nasty people who won't pick up their own trash
A lot of the Housing problem too is due to Corporations buying rental properties and they jack up the Rent.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT i think its safe too say corporations are the main problem for all of us
I've lived in a lot of places, but nowhere else are there so many people with the kind of true grit, integrity and compassion that you'll find in Panama City. The place has a very rough exterior, but a heart of pure gold. LOVED the interview with Savannah and the drive-around views of the City.
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My wife and I vacationed in Pensacola and Panama City 25 years ago from Massachusetts. We remember the area as being dirt cheap, laid back, no traffic, with some spectacular beaches. Some of the Gulf beaches even seemed remote with sugar white sand
Its very expensive now. I wish I had my sht together back then so I could have bought me something along 30a. Its absolute bonkers how things have changed in just 2 decades.
Traffic is horrible now. Rt 98 is usually bumper to bumper with lots of accidents. Tourist season is horrendous,but after that comes snowbird season. Takes forever to get anywhere. Its miserable
Fort Walton Beach was really nice when we visited in 2000.
Not any more…😢
I grew up in the 80s visiting family in Florida.
It was a different place then.
Way more open, affordable and down to earth.
We would visit St. Augustine, Ocala and Vero Beach.
It was nice back then.
Thank you for covering this. I’m from central Fl, Tampa area, and all the people moving from NY and Cali have been destroying Florida’s housing market and pricing people from here out of the state unfortunately. Buddy of mine just sold a trailer on half an acre he bought for $40k 15 years ago for $367k when his original asking price was $250k.
And they knocked it down to build a 1.5 million dollar McMansion that took up half the lot and thus took affordable housing completely out of the market.
@@replicant_7774 You’re right too 😂 they paid that price for the land alone cuz the trailer got scrapped. It’s good land they bought but I just can’t imagine paying $360k for half an acre.
I will bet that is not all they will destroy....
This is happening all over Florida. It's hard to watch when you've lived here your whole life. I'd like to see a decent hurricane season scare these people away.
He should have kept it
This can literally discribe EVERY county in Florida. I live in a neighborhood where a guy was shot on the corner over a parking space, if you go 5 blocks over there's million dollar mansions by the beach.
every city/county/state is like that
It's what it is like here I'm across from Destin
We have lived in Panama City, Lynn Haven & PCB for 55 years, Your version of our wonderful area missed all the reasons for making this a paradise. To mention a few- that were not in your video -St Andrew State Park, Churches, Schools, Pier Park, residential neighborhoods like Bay Point, Kings Point, the Cove,Magnolia Beach, The Glades, Colony Club, & many more. For 40 years I was a Real Estate salesman, broker & broker owner. Over the years I have covered most all of Bay County from vacant land, mobile homes, prefabs, commercial property to multi million waterfronts & I can truly say you went to great deal of trouble to highlight the negative points.
I assume the areas you mention are for the wealthy, like much of this country. Your average person is struggling to make ends meet in a country where the economy is collapsing.
I love Panama City and the beach.
We all love those beaches.
I visit PCB often. I’ve truthfully never seen one homeless person.
Navy Sailors who attend A School in Pensacola: “This place sucks, it’s ghetto, humid, and boring”
Navy Sailors after being stationed one month in Norfolk, Virginia: “I miss Pensacola!”
Norfolk used to be such a cool place.
Not anymore...
Wouldn't the USA have to collapse before anyone is able to begin to even think its a realistic possibility to live in places that are designed for human beings?
Norfolk was definitely NOT cool while I was briefly stationed there in 1993. Virgina Beach was a cesspool and that was the highlight of the entire area. Of all the places I was stationed while in the Navy, Norfolk continues to standout as my least liked place.
@@2006gtobob My buddy did four years in the Navy and was stationed in Norfolk back in around 2008, and he said there's constant crime and it's scary to even go to gas stations off base at night. Drugs everywhere, sellers in the open day after day.
Lol. That seems to be true.
My husband was stationed at Tyndall Air Force base in Panama City and owned home - bought in early 2000s before market crash so we continued to rent it for years while living in west coast - real estate prices were really slow to recover from that - it was finally starting to get strong just before hurricane Micheal hit and we had to pause plans to sell - but finally could after we got home repaired just before pandemic set off. We were so blessed with good insurance and got house back in shape but took us a year but blue tarps remained for long time in his neighborhood. We so appreciated his former neighbors and locals that helped us on ground to get house fixed as we were so far away. Great people!
I have lived in Florida my whole life. I love the panhandle area. I call it the Forgotten Coast. It is my favorite part of Florida. The most beautiful beach in Florida in on St George Island at the State Park on the east end of the island. You can literally walk miles down the beach and not see one person. Totally wild. Exactly what a Spaniard would have seen 400 years ago.
Yes St. George Island has the best beaches. In the 1990s it was given the title of One of the Top Ten Beaches in the World.
I was born in Pensacola at the turn of the 60s and have family there now. Pensacola is one town that seams to have either good or bad areas and not much in-between,. I play in a Lynyard Skynyard tribute band called "Almost Skynard" and have played large venues in Pensascola and Destin and will be playing at Casino Beach in October. The funny thing is, I remember these same areas in the 70s. You could drive for miles down the beach highways and there would be nothing but sand dunes for miles. Now, its miles of Condos, which blocks most if not all the gulf view. However, my hippie-vibes are telling me, that the ones who thought they were financially secure are going to find themselves in big trouble real soon. There just comes a point to where you can over extend your life style, no matter how much money you make.
Nice band plug ❤️
What song is it you almost wanna hear!!!???
Stay off of Cervantes street in Pensacola. That's where all the street walking hookers and open air dope dealers operate. You can use one road North or South and not see any of that stuff.
The problem with Gulf Breeze is the people are know for being stuck up. They even brag about living in gulf breeze "proper", and the traffic cops are horrible.
I hope yr hippie vibes are right free bird.
ahh so your "Coming Home" in October on a "Saturday night special" you "Simple man" 😂😂
Savannah was a great guest. She was very well spoken and thoughtful in her conversation. Thanks for taking time to speak with Nick! Good job Michael as well!
I wouldn't say using the word "LIKE" or "Y'know" 3 times in every sentence is"Well spoken" .
@@j.richards2346 I didn't think she overly used like and you know as compared to past guests. A few here and there are ok. I know where you're coming from though. That bothers me as well.
Yet, I wish someone, please, start some kind of movement for people to live in places that cater to human beings in the rest of the former-USA where the few venture capitalists dont want to live.
@@SequentialGeek It's everywhere , yeah , they do this to people everywhere . If you find somewhere , let me know but it really has to be in the middle of Nowhere .
@@j.richards2346That drives me crazy the Americans say "like" every other word
“Dead flowers in a field of weeds”
Great quote
I'm a 5TH generation Floridian from Vero Beach, FL. My family was one of the 1st pioneering families from Oslo Norway that came here to grow pineapples!! Vero Beach has been growing especially lately but we will never let it get big like South Florida. Here we have a perfect mix of luxury and that Old Florida country feel. Beautiful beaches, great fishing and diving.
I’m wondering how many others like yourself have swathe same thing. Unfortunately growth is difficult to stop because money comes with it and money has influence. I’m old now grew up in Las Vegas, graduated from HS in Tampa, lived all over the US and now find myself back in Florida. There are only a few places I can’t think of that have changed. Even Vero and Sebastian have changed….
Yah, Hurricane Michael did brake a lot of trees. You can see it really well driving on I-10 South of Milton, FL. There are hills there, so you can see well inside pass the road tree line.
You had me rolling at "woman's napkin". XD
Im in the UK but I love this channel. The commentary is highly amusing on these videos but also fascinating to see how life is over there at the lower end of the scale. Cheers from Lancashire.
Yes, boom bust cycles. We're just still pretending we are booming here.
@@moonshinefuelWhat are you talking about? DeSantis' banana republic is coming along nicely, Florida has it's very own Pinochet. Go Floriduh! Never get woke!
@@notverynotoriousg5674 I don't think Florida is doing too well with it's banana based economy, most bananas are still imported into the United States.
I actually love Pensacola. It has it's own personality and it's full of Naval aviation history. It sucks transplants are ruining the panhandle.
Transplants ruined FL as a whole, just took longer to hit the pan handle.
Transplants have ruined all of the US not just the FL panhandle.
I hear you, transplants ruined sandiego too. 😢
Part of the reason why FL is more expensive is because the average pay is much too low for what they're wanting in rent/mortgage and honestly there's a lot of 'tax' for living in FL in the form of lots of insurance and little resources. If you're not into the breach that much or eating out everyday, its really hit or miss on what to do in FL. Than all of those 'rich' renters will complain that they can't get enough services because service workers dont get paid enough to live and work in the same area. .. and the traffic...
it's the same everywhere. everyone wants cheap prices, great food, and great service but they don't realize that no one can live on the wages business owners want to pay
amazing how in florida you can go from the redneck riviera to northern latin america still in the same state. blows my mind how culturally different parts of florida can be.
But seriously, we are bred to separate ourselves here...
@@SequentialGeek y'all got some crazy NPCs
jersey too
That ride from FT Walton to PCB when I grew up there was only a grass hut and park thru Destin. Then northern Developers came and built all the condos.
One thing that is going on here in Florida: big companies are buying the houses, then Renting them out. - Makes finding a house to BUY, all that much harder - And it’s happening all over the state.
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All over the country. Blackstone, Soros, other 'players' have a fiendish plan for destroying 'own your own home middle class America'.
it's happening all over the country
What companies around there are the ones mainly buying up the houses?
@@siberianXmustang
That, I don’t know..
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Dude, you ARE correct that Pensacola has bad neighborhoods (like ANY city) such as West Pensacola but East Hill & Downtown are NOT the only nice parts of the city...you completely missed North Hill & University areas (even nicer than East Hill). There is a bit of a seedy vibe but fun, vibrant and as you mentioned, the beaches are AMAZING! But anyways...it ain't for everyone 😊
He missed a ton on Panama City also. He called Panama City Beach, Panama City on several occasions, and what's the deal with all the comments on homeless people that are hidden very well. He missed 90 pct of Panama City. I'm sorry I wasted my time on such a biased video.
Hahaha, I heard this term ANY city before. Well, it says that there only light and no shadows in Heaven. The Beautiful Gulf is here on earth.
It’s like we are at war with an unseen enemy or something....
its called capitalism.
@@teebone2157 It's called urban exodus. The scamdemic and BLM riots caused the largest exchange of Americans moving to another state in our history. Politics is the ONLY reason this is happening. Blue voters are to blame for this.
We are, Satan is real, he hates you and all humans, as do his human and demonic slave army. They are HATERS.
@@teebone2157 it's called Cultural Marxism and Vulture Capitalism...not regular Capitalism. People need to stop being selfish and think about the long term consequences of their actions, but many don't care when it doesn't directly affect them sadly.
@@teebone2157 Yes.
I’ve lived in Walton County all my life. Never seen things like I’m seeing now. For a great vacation, you need people to serve your food, clean your condo etc. In the last few years, rent has gone up astronomically. There is now virtually nowhere these people can afford to live. And infrastructure is not keeping up with growth at all, creating an unfathomable amount of fatal traffic accidents.
I lived in Panama City Beach from 1980 to 84. When you could still see the beach. Only a handful of large beachfront condos existed. Regency Towers, the Treasure Ship was still there, You could see the blinking light at St Andrews State Park miles away down Thomas Drive. There were Junior Food convenience stores everywhere, Alvins Magic Mountain, The Sui-Slide, Miracle Strip Amusement Park, small hotels and lots of undisturbed sand dunes covered in sea oats. The weekends there was an increase of tourist, 4 wheel drive trucks from South Port and Lynn Haven with monster mudder ties and roll bars lined with KC Smiley Face Daylighter covers. 1980s Trans Am with the fire bird on the hood, trucks, Corvettes parked at the pier or the tower playing the only radio station in town at the time WPFM Looks completely different city now.
Too much money and development ruins everything. We took a family vacation to Myrtle Beach in the early 70s. It was an Amazing place back then. I wouldn't go to Myrtle Beach if it was free now. It's like a broke version of Miami Beach.
I also lived there during those times. Miracle Strip Petticoat Junction was owned by my dads best friends so we got to go all the time for free.
@@markrichards6863 Had a small business and lived in Myrtle Beach in the 70's and early 80's. When I left, it was starting to get out of control with condo's and monster hotels being built. Went back with my wife in May of 2010 for "bike week" with our Harley. I will NEVER go back! Increased commercial & residential building has created total traffic chaos. Myrtle Beach used to be nice - now it sucks big time.
@@georgedreher2322 I'm with you on that. It's crowded, tacky, has completely sold out to big developers. I don't know why anyone goes to Myrtle Beach any more.
That's the PCB I miss.
As a Floridian I can tell you that the entire state is rundown.. The Tri-County (West Palm, Broward & Miami-Dade) area is what keeps the entire state afloat. BACK IN THE EARLY 2000'S the area's elected leaders were pushing to have our area secede from the rest of the state. Our Tax Dollars go up to Tallahassee and most of it stays up there to maintain all the other counties in the state
Those other counties are always talking sh%t about us but they still living off our taxes. Go figure.
You must never go anywhere
@@ancientchurchofgod3798 Yuppers. I don’t go anywhere that’s not worth going to.
Stop lying and exagge. Florida still has mostly beautiful places.
I love living in Florida. But then again I don't live in the panhandle. I'm in the 6th borough of New York I call Soflo. I've achieved the American Dream here. Which I could not do in NY or CA or TX or TN. All great places I've inhabited. But the Sunshine State is the greatest in the union partly due to our great governor Ron. I hope he doesn't run for the White House in 24. We need him here. Thanks Nick for another enlightening and amusing video. Always a pleasure!
I love living in Florida too! Moved from Hudson cty NJ. And, never looked back. Live in Soflo too. Lol. Love our governor.
He's a terrible person. He is doing nothing for the people in that state especially children.
@@b1k2q34 not joking
@@lisahenke5027 He kept the state open during the pandemic, for starters. He is the best governor we've ever had. Who do you like, Andrew Cuomo? Thousands of seniors died in NY because he forced them into nursing homes where covid was. He was a serial sex harasser too.
@@lisahenke5027 I'm guessing from your comment you don't live in Florida, do you?
I laughed when you told Michael that he sounded like a relator. My cousin sells real estate and chastised me for calling him a relator, he said "I'm a realtor not a relator" lol🤣
Tomato-tomahto. I've yet to meet a truly honest realtor. They all have dollar signs for pupils.
@@markrichards6863 There's plenty of honest ones, but yeah...dollar signs for sure. They're paid well for the amount of work involved.
I visited Panama City for the first time in 2020 when I visited relatives and was shocked at just how bad it still looks after Hurricane Michael. 70% of the trees are either gone or bare, which adds to the rundown look. You can tell it used to be a nice and pretty place but as noted - people who were displaced by Katrina, Hurricane Michael, the pandemic and now the influx of people moving from other states have taken a toll on this city. Oh then there was that fire 2 months ago.... I would not want to live here but my rellies there love it. My aunt gets like 3 calls a day from people looking to buy her house and offering her a lot more than it's worth but she refuses to sell. She's had it for over 20 years and is keeping it in the family so her kids inherit it when she dies.
The MS/LA coast has taken 20 years and some places are still wiped clean. The trees will take 50-100 years to get back to the old growth phase that they had.
The community will never be the same because people have been displaced, and new phase moved in. I agree with your aunt. Keep that property!
(Edited because I sounded too snarky the first time!)
DeSantis' banana republic is the best state though, you must be lying.
@@anncoxwell7015 I was just pointing out how devastated the city still is from that. I know it takes a very long time to recover from a monster hurricane like that. If I sound unsympathetic I apologize. Florida is a beautiful state and PC has some nice areas - my aunt is in Southport which I thought was pretty nice and safe. However, it's not really a place I would want to live - I'm fairly content up in the Northeast. But I plan to visit every year for the holidays because I love my family there.
Auntie hold on to your property.
I lived in the Panama City area for five years. I was devastated when I got there and thought I had made up the term “redneck riviera”, but I still miss the people that were there to this day. They were the friendliest of all people of all the places I have lived.
As a New Englander (Boston suburb) I can attest to the friendly people in northern Florida. I just got back from a month long visit with family in north Fla and was impressed with how kind and laid back ppl were.
Property insurance in Florida will soon be impossible to find
Funny/Sad you said that about Property Insurance. Owned the same home in a Tampa area suburb for 25 years. Never had an insurance claim. Home insurance due July 1 is $3600. Rate has doubled in the past 2 years.
That's what the increased pricing in this housing bubble have caused. Time to move to the Smoky's.
It is pushing us out of Santa Rosa Beach Fla. the car insurance as well is through the roof due to unchecked population growth.
You are always so funny how you present our country messes. You make me laugh every time 🙏❤️🥰😂
I to noticed his jovial speech mannerisms....... I haft to give it to a guy that can make you chuckle while hearing about tragedy and devastation......
@@markbouldin6513 Florida is ran by debate evading sociopaths that say if you dont believe they have a real invisible friend, then you burn in hell much worse than a walking on a florida scorched road in bare feet.
You can't get much more mafia than that, they do make sure to throw in the 2000 year old cognitively dissonant stockholm syndrome for free.
Do you think they will get free universal mental healthcare there, or will they vote to not have it because they think they are pandemically protected by the bloodletting of their invisible friend?
Destin is on my bucket list-the water in Destin is beautiful!
It's pretty
Be prepared for loads of traffic and people
We just went beginning of May. Very nice and not crowded since it was before spring break.
I am camping on the edge of a gum swamp in Wakulla area right now, my land, off grid nightmare, just to get away from the Babylon to the north. My data coverage is really bad but CZcams works fine and this vid's comment section is GOLD. Nick, thank you, again. The yellow flies tonight are cute compared to what I left behind.
I was thinking same on comments. 😊
Hey as long as you can get CZcams! That's all that matters
@@NickJohnson bad Nick bot ! 😜
I'm from Florida and she's right, locals don't go to the beach. Especially not during Spring break. It's like that all over Florida. Aside from the beaches and the Orlando theme parks, there's not much to Florida and unless you make a lot of money, living life there is a struggle. Thats why I left.
I wish the locals didn't do or feel like that, i'd like to see n meet the locals..i still struggle to get out there🥞
@@nevaaisaka4777 most people who live in Florida don't go to the tourist hot spots just simply because its too crowded. Then if you think about all the drunks and out of control college kids that are there its just not a good idea usually. Most of us don't want to deal with that so we try to avoid it. Most of all them people you see out there on them beaches are from out of town. Real Floridians are at home or at work trying to make ends meet. Unless you make a lot of money, life is rough there. Not to mention it's hot and it can be down right miserable.
@@erocker78 I love the Sun, and warm climate, Florida gives you a big old hug when you go out in the beginning of the day like a warm blanket. I love it. But I need air conditioning.
Do you have to pay a fee to go to the beaches in Florida?
@@erocker78 I live in the Florida panhandle and I earn a nice living here and go to the beach all the time. I just don’t go to the same beaches as the tourists. Florida isn’t for everyone. I definitely have days where I wish I was living somewhere cooler, but it’s what you make of it. And I honestly wouldn’t want to be living anywhere else in the country right now with what’s going on.
I lived in central and northern FL from 82-97. I really loved the panhandle. It’s gorgeous. More rural back then. Loved it more than SE FL/Miami. Prettiest and best beaches. Sorry to see things are getting challenging.
It's still very nice.
I definitely agree with what she said about when you move from other areas and you came here because you didn’t like the way it was you came from, do not bring that to our city.
8:10 I like short term rentals. It gives many of us the chance to experience different types of living environments from the beach to the woods to the mountains to the city, places that we wouldn't otherwise be able to experience.
Panama City Beach is one of the coolest parts of the country and has some seriously underrated beaches, they are usually too crowded which is the biggest downside imo.
Don't forget all the toxicity from the Chemical plant and sewage!
It's still very nice to visit.
This woman Savannah is a great interview. What a sweetheart
I like how he not only tells us. He shows us ! Respect from chicago ✊🏼
Waffle House is gourmet eating in Florida. It’s also one of the main sources of employment. Marginal jobs and subsistence wages is the Florida norm
Very interesting !!
YEP!
Hahaha I haven't been to a waffle house since 2000. so funny . Oh I live in Florida For Decades 50 years
Even the fruit bowl at Waffle House is not healthy 🤦🏼♂️
thank goodness there are Waffle Houses where all the highly educated peeps can find a job.
I was there on vacation last year. It was awesome. I'm from California
Floridian in the Tampa area here. Housing is nuts . A one bedroom apartment is at least $1600
And I mean all over the bay area
Sure is, 3 bedroom in Pinellas park is $3800
The blend of the most beautiful beaches and southern culture makes this area my favorite. Pensacola DID just get hit by a hurricane (Sally). More recently than Panama City (2020). The damage wasn’t as bad as Michael but quite severe none the less
It's all fun and games until the next hurricane wipes you out.
Born and raised in Niceville and I wouldn’t change it for the world
Obviously it won't happen
This place wants to stay in the 20th century!
She speaks for so many of us across the country. Hurricane or industry leaving or changing . When these things happen the body of the community changes. It's like loosing an arm or leg, the prosthetic functions but will never be the same.
When people from big cities complain about rent prices rising they get told “move somewhere else”. That’s exactly what’s happening with these places in Florida. It’s a terrible thing to see and even worse to hear about CORPORATIONS actively buying swathes of land with the sole purpose of PROFIT AND GREED. Imagine building a home just to put it on Airbnb. Is this what capitalism is? Is this what a free market is? We can’t complain about homelessness rising and slums growing while allowing corporations to get off guilt free. It sucks to see places like the gulf become this but this is the result of PROFIT OVER PEOPLE. Imagine your community changing before your eyes and housing prices going thru the roof and being told you’re the problem when you ask for a minimum wage increase or a rent decrease. Amazing country we’re in. It’s only going to get worse if people continue to “just move somewhere else” instead of finding a solution to their problem in their cities. Next up is South Dakota and Montana.
This is VULTURE Capitalism, not the good kind. Still beats Communism 😅
They got Montana already. Average home price in Montana is actually HIGHER than Florida believe it or not. Nowhere to run now. Indiana and maybe North Dakota are the only cheap places left.
@@JesusChrist2000BC Indiana is in it's way. Our rent increased $250 in one year. It's cheaper than some around here but not for the condition of the house and the pay of the jobs in the area. The owner of the home actually lives in Florida and the company who manages his properties is having trouble keeping up with fixing and maintaining all the new properties he just bought. Please don't come to Indiana!
Welcome to modern day capitalism
Crooked town politicians. Lots of people dont vote local. One of the most important votes you can cast. Keep the character of the town. Dont let it get over developed. Thats what theyre for. If youre getting over developed, its the county pols. Vote them out or dont vote them in, in the first place. Thats where the greed starts.
Great interview, for the most part very well articulated. Enjoyed hearing about and seeing a part of the US I very much appreciate from my youth. Most urban areas across the whole of NA are experiencing similar problems, can’t imagine how a hurricane would compound these things.
@Nick Johnson this was an excellent video, great information on both PC and Pensacola. You did great as usual with the tours and going through the neighborhoods. And you could not have picked better locals to give facts and fair opinions on these areas. Great job!
They are both super cool people Marie
Getting away with watching you're vid at work pretending I'm working on computer until you said this place is all f*cked up and spewed coffee out of my nose lol
Oops Daniel sorry
I grew up in Panama City/PCB from 70's-late 80's. Since then, I lived in Orlando and then moved to Seattle in the mid 90's, and currently still live in WA State. I can honestly say, there is no place in the world I would have rather grown up than in Panama City Beach. Nothing can compare. Fond memories of days on the beach, mild temps usually all year round, cruising on front beach drive, summers spent at Miracle Strip and Shipwreck Island, sand dunes for miles and miles without a hotel, condo or home in sight. I haven't returned since I left, and probably a good idea to continue remembering those good old days and not how it is now. Great video!
Love the panhandle myself lol
Me, again, Nick! I LOVE your Florida videos! You make us look soooo bad that no one else is going to want to come. Here's the thing, my friend: I live south of the Panhandle on the Nature Coast. Real old Florida here and I like my town exactly as it is. I don't want to change a thing. Instead of me trying to impose my lifestyle, etc., what occurred was ME changing. After fleeing Cali, I'm quite done with progressive politics. Who would of thunk? Thanks for your hard work.
The glory days were the 1960s, 1970s, and very early 1980s. Those were the days of the now vanished but legendary Miracle Strip Amusement Park. Hate to see it like it is now.
This heat sucks! I live in NW Pensacola and recorded a temp of 106 on my patio yesterday
My son is in the same area and hes said the same. He loves hot weather so for him to complain it must be bad
One option is to sit in a ion soup created by a variant of the dyson fan that bathes you in a cooling airflow, and it also being able to do so with no moving parts other than fluttering ribbons activated by the nature of the pathway that a slow steady supply of electrons can be regulated, even from solar availability of that floridian sky. This is a type of fan that has no need for repairs and runs silent as the material choice of the ribbons involved.
One has been designed that has been tested and is still running 15 years later just the same as day 1. I dont think you can buy it though, however, you could possibly adapt the ionic drive of it to run a heat pump that can further cool things with a plumbing setup borrowing from how a car's radiator works with water flow or even better than water, exothermically activated coolants.
Hi, Nick. It was great to see that part of Florida again. As usual, I like listening to your unbiased commentary. 16:40 and 16:42 Enough is too much! LMAO
I have lived in Pensacola my whole life and it is an amazing place to live but most of what you stated are facts. The city isn’t controlling the homeless problem and housing is at an all time shortage and what is available is not even close to affordable for the average resident. Also the crime and more ghetto areas are just looked past and nothing is done to help the residents. Everything is focused on bringing in more wealthy buyers and tourists and we as a city are fed up. I love my city and hope to see change in the coming years but am skeptical
Honestly man I have also heard stories from my friends that their neighbors downtown are being priced out of housing because ya know they are building all that housing for rich folk now near the bay center
He skipped northeast and northwest Pensacola the neighborhoods are nicer. The Beulah area where I am is full of really nice people. I was raised here the residents here know we have a nice area and a ghetto area. We know where to buy and send our children to school. We have what Panama City doesn't have.. A decent size middle class. Lived in Panama City for 8yrs. It was pure trash. Education was not valued like in Pensacola where we have schools, colleges and a push for higher education. I had shut down my business took my children and ran back to Pensacola. I didn't value this area until I lived other states and cities.
Nice video, Nick! I like the interviews of the locals who know their towns the best. Pepsicola, I mean Pensacola looks like a nice place…
Thanks for your entertaining & informative videos! I'd love to see another video on my town, Asheville N.C.🏞 Keep being awesome!! 🌎🌝🌈
Jessica thanks! And do you really want me to bring it? We know what Asheville has become haha
Yesss! Bring it!
Hurricanes usually do a ton a damage just inland where it hits. Also all the money's on the shoreline so repairs come quicker I am from Florida,
I have lived in Pensacola since 1990 AND LOVE IT! We had several hurricanes that caused lots of damage though. Housing prices used to be so affordable until about 10-15 years ago. I have been all over Florida and we have the best beaches here. Wages are too low here, barely above minimum wage. I lived abut 6 months in Panama City in the late 1980s and it is so different now. Used to be mostly all mom and pop small motels and now it's high rises like south Florida. Not as nice. Used to also have two amusement parks on the beach. Hate it there now.
When I was little in the 70's PCB was awesome. There was a volcano you could walk through and there were birds and fun things to do. Plus there was the amusement park. I went a few years ago with a friend and it was so changed.
I don’t know how your videos popped up on my CZcams feeds, but, I’m happy they did! You’re quite entertaining 😂 We almost moved to Florida last year. Right in the midst of the bidding wars. We ended up selling our home in Plano Texas and moving to the coast of Texas.
Holy Kamoly Nick! You are amazing doing the reports from all over the country. So cool. You go to places I've always wanted to visit but after screening many of your episodes, some of these places wouldn't make the cut. Stay safe, drive safe, be safe. I'll bet you're spending a fortune on gas puttering around. Some real eye opening revelations in this particular video. Great job! Always looking for new material from you. Oh yeah, I enjoy your songs, the songs are well written and totally original! Put out a cd someday with the "best of"!🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
Haha you can buy my songs in the link in the description.
I used to live in downtown Pensacola 2015-2017. Good times. My son went to a Montessori school right off the park.
I live in Niceville, born n raised, its between Panama City n Pensacola, I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else ♥
I came to Panama City in 1982 and still here . I love the local people . I love the city .
I was stationed at Tyndall AFB, 09/81 to 12/83 and 02/85 to 12/86. I observed the upward recovery from the hurricane Frederick devastation to the build up of PC Beach and inland building boom. It saddens me to see how the rise and fall of the decades has affected the area. Hopefully the entire area will recover as it did in the past, only way better. 🙏🏾 and wishes for a better future for the area I spent my twenties experiencing. I learned a lot and grew wiser as a person. 😊
One of my favorite parts of Florida, too bad it gets hit with hurricanes so often.
It doesn't actually. I live in Panama City Beach. Michael is the first big one in over 100 years. Opel got us pretty bad on the west end of the beach. But the big problem is Pelosi punished Panama City for voting red, & held up the money. So the poor took it up the kazoo.
Yes. That storm factor is a first consideration.
Thank you for making this video with all the information. I’m from Texas and planning on moving to Pensacola.
Another outstanding video, as always. Thank you, Nick. Please keep up the outstanding work 🙏
Your lady guest is super talented in the use of words and ability to express situations, descriptions, etc.! Enjoyed and learned much here about down there! Been wanting to snow bird down there 👍
We have pics of us at the dinosaur mini golf in Panama CITY from about 1968.
Black population in Gulf Breeze , Fla. 4% .Black population in Panama city , Fla , 21% .
This is a cool channel. loving the florida vide as we too are exploring the west coast of florida. mostly in the big bend area to chiefland
Florida, Pennsicola, Destin, you name it , been there. Stayed at San Destin golf resort for 10 days (4th of July) season. Private, gated resort. What a blast, if you have to ask how much, don't bother. 4200 sqr foot 5 bedroom, golf cart, 24 / 7 limo service, fully stocked food and beverage. Another fine place is the Blackwater river resort. Cabins, camping, and river trips. Fantastic, a week will cost about 1500 with a decent cabin. Spent many a vacation with the family in all the above.
I'm almost 70. Never been to FL, ain't planning on it either. Same craps happening here. Rural and cheap are a thing of the past for most of us.
The more I observe the path this country is taking, the more I wish for a real life purge.
Sad
@Patrick
Tried that, some purple haired hippo went on about zim (I’m assuming she was talking about the show).
Be careful what you wish for, the great reset is coming
@@kim79710
The great reset is not actually for the US, it’s for a world without the US. We’re no longer going to police the world’s oceans so countries outside North America are having to relearn how to live like they did in the 19th century (and early 20th century).
@@kim79710 Biden is bringing a reset that we don’t want.
Liberals.👎
I remember when Destin was a village.
Pensacola was a favorite of people from New Orleans & Ft. Walton. Half the places were one or two story, cinder block motels with tile floors, right on the beach. Ft Walton had some nicer places, with pools even, lol.
We first discovered Destin beaches in the late 60s when staying in Ft. Walton and the beach was full of seaweed. We drove east to Henderson Beach and it was beautiful. There wasn't much of any place to stay in Destin yet, so we would stay in Ft. Walton and drive over to Destin during the day. In the early 70s Destin was still a village. We had friends who bought in Destin around that time, on the north side of the hwy. Not a single close neighbor! You had to drive what seemed ages to get anywhere.
I guess it was the 80s when Destin took off.
Navarre beach is my fav now. I haven't been in about 5 yrs, but I've seldom seen more than a few other people out there.
Even in the 90s you could still find small motels on the beach with great prices.
An interesting fact about Pensacola, run-down and crime ridden that it is, is that it has a Republican mayor and is in the most conservative area of the state. You won't find woke prosecutors or hands-off police there. The issues in the Panhandle are the education system and economic opportunity.
28:28 Nick, this is a prime spot where it's apparent that all the trees are gone. This stretch of road was surrounded by very tall trees on both sides. We were on the "Tree City, USA" list. The trees became missiles that destroyed everything.
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Very non informed biased video. Panama City alone estimates that over a million trees were destroyed. That's from the mayor. That doesn't include Springfield, Callaway, Bay County, PCB. Anyone can put up a video regardless of their knowledge on the subject.
@@mpbiii it’s also easy to bash a CZcamsr trying to research and learn about an area and talk to the locals. Have you planted any trees to help replace those destroyed? Has the mayor organized an event to plant more native trees?
@@mjg1544 Yes. OVER 50 Planted. Yes the Mayors of Panama City, LynnHaven, Callaway, Springfield, as well County Commissioners and State Agencies have been very active in this.
@@mjg1544 Have you donated anything except ill-informed advice?
Love your catchy little ditties and singin! It never fails to make me laugh!
I live in panhandle florida specifically in Milton , just move in from fort walton beach. It’s a nice quite place people are nice and approachable. Fresh fruits you can pick. Black water river you can swim or canoe . It’s really a good place to escape the hustle and traffic city.
Live in Fl and working on leaving..not the same anymore. Too expensive to live !
Fun fact: the areas west of the chattahoochee river in 2010 had 2.7% support to join Alabama
Bacm in 2020, it was 22.4% due to house prices and taxation, if they were apart of Alabama houses would not be selling for over 100k
It may even be over 30% now, Holmes county its around 60%
I drove through there 19 years ago from Mobile Alabama on Highway 10. FL panhandle to Saint Augustine, Jacksonville… is hot and humidity!
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I lived in Panama City from 91 to 2017. My dad got PCS’d to Tyndall in 91 after a year in Korea from Nellis in NV. We lived on base at Tyndall, in Springfield and Callaway. I grew up in Callaway. It was nice. It was safe for is in the mid 90’s to run the streets of Callaway/Springfield and Parker on our Bikes in middle school. Tommy Oliver Stadium and High School and Middle School football was our Friday Night, The Panama City Mall was good until Pier Park Opened. I worked Security at Panama City Mall, all over Panama City Beach. I was Security Supervisor at Emerald Beach when it first opened then later a shift security supervisor at Pier Park Mall twice. After moving to Texas I later became an Assistant Security Manager at a Mall here. Same company as the one at Pier Park. I was sent to Pier Park as part of the Texas Regional Security Emergency Response Team. I volunteered to be sent back home. Road out Hurricane Micheal in the mall management office. Went home a week later. Two weeks later came back w a moving van to get my sister and brother in law. When we came back and drove down to PC and Callaway it was hard seeing my home town devastated.
I will say we had issues w cost of living before the Hurricane. Its why I left in 2017.
I recently located to Panama City from Central Illinois and love the feel but it definitely has boom town feel.
I visited before and after the hurricane and the damage was indescribable. Savannah nailed it but I am afraid the it will change because of the large influx of people to the area recently. The housing market will only become worse here too as Tyndall Air Force base was recently awarded the largest defense construction contract to the base and the billions that are going to be spent there. I got lucky and found a beautiful, older neighborhood hidden away by the bay but am already seeing the gentrification here.
Welcome aboard, but please leave the deep blue liberal politics in Illinois, please and thank you 😉👍
I was stationed at NAS Pensacola in the early 80s and I loved the laid back atmosphere and the beaches in the panhandle, but it probably isn't so laid-back these days.
It still is Brian in the areas near nas.
All of the beaches and towns are actually very pleasant.
I went to Panama City in the 70’s and it was dreamy; it was very small town coastal Florida and I loved it.
I went to Spring Break there in 1991. It must have been just before MTV got into it. It was the "Cheap" solution for a few of us from Virginia. We had the red carpet rolled out for us everywhere we went, cheap (or free) booze, no lines, no crowds, and were just glad to run into a handful of other college kids at some bars.
You should have visited the area west of Panama City called 30A...whole different feel
Agreed… very different
I did. Lots of rich areas. I should have shown them