10 Worst towns in California. Southern Cal version
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- 10 Worst towns in California. Southern Cal version
I think it is time to tackle a list I hinted at earlier this year and never got to. When I listed the worst towns in America I said I had to cut Southern California out because it had like 17 of the worst 20. When you suck that bad, you get your own list is the rule here.
A couple of things with this list. I say town but technically some are small cities. I am just cutting out the major cities like Los Angeles and San Diego proper. If I say cities in the title I will have a bunch of geography nerds jumping up my butt. I don’t like anything jumping up my butt especially geography nerds. Most of these are in the LA metro or LA county.
This is another list that has enough to make 3 videos, but we’ll start with one and see how it goes.
These are not places you want to buy real estate.
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Surprised San Bernardino wasn’t on here
Especially on the 4 year anniversary of the shootings. :'(
Lol funny. I was thinking the same think. And I live in SB.
@@joylindadichamounix Wow that was already 4 years ago crazy
@@K.B.Williams, yes. I can't help but to cry when I think of it.
The I.E needs it’s own video.
Long Beach is such a diverse city like it has a bit of everything, from super wealthy neighborhoods, to bustling hipster areas, to chill middle class, to chill lower class, to rough neighborhoods. But it all coexists together instead of conflicting. It's my favorite SoCal city for so many reasons.
I live and love the LBC. dude is way wrong
This video needs to focus on Long Beach NOW! Every place has its past, but L.B. has not stayed in the past!
Yes, Long Beach is diverse! It's still the lowest priced property for a beach city. It has its own Terrace Theater & Convention Center, Art Museum, the Grand Prix, the Blues Festival (among other events) and the new Pike exists with shopping, dining, and lots of fun activities, next to Shoreline Village, another attraction across from the Queen Mary.
The amazing food options available throughout the city makes it an adventurous diner's paradise from Belmont Shore to downtown, to ALL AROUND!
Come to Long Beach and find out for yourself!
P.S. I love Long Beach!
I lived on Raymond and 8th when I was in 4th grade. And for 6th grade moved to Coolidge Street in North Long Beach. That was a bad move. Ended up moving to OC. I do remember going to The Pike.
Also check your title on your house there are many Oil rights still on property there. Standard Oil has paid out if you check .
I know the pike is so dope the shopping, the theater,signal hill, little Cambodia, downtown clubs, and bars I miss living there.
I love that the towns next to the Salton sea don't make this list. Even though they remind me of a zombie apocalypses IRL.
So true !
I barely heard of Salton Sea the other day
@Kawh
Salton Sea lmao…I used to ride dirt-bikes there…
@@chocboiwonda6810 barely? Were you close to not hearing about it and just made it in time? Lemme guess….you say I will be there “right now” too ?
God, they are creepy.
When I lived in Downey briefly about 40 years ago, I heard people calling Bell Gardens "Bell Garbage." Left California over 20 years ago but sad to see how much decline there has been.
Gina Towns in LA with 'garden' in their name always morphed into 'garbage' because, well... because ... that's what they looked like. In Orange County we had Garbage Grove. It still looks like groves of garbage but those garbage houses are in the $millions today.
As a Southern Californian kid, you’re right. Hemet is truly miserable and gross unless you cook and sell meth.
I picked up some county land with a Hemet address. Soon to be annexed by Temecula. I grew up in Newport and remember well when the Santa Ana Heights addresses were annexed. Newport Beach address gave all the homeowners a nice equity bump.
Everyone has to move there now because its the last place you can afford a 3 bedroom home on less than 30k. The only jobs in hemet are food service, cow insemination, and retail. or else drive to perris to work at a warehouse job or drive across the state to OC, Vegas, or SD for city work. Hemet is rough unless you got 5 generations of family's to spread out the mortgage on the stick house surrounded by tenement trailers, but at least you get space and the freedom of rural living i.e parking your car on the lawn and just tossing used motor oil wherever, merica.
You sure Hemet is not an abbreviation of, Hey Meth!!
Rodney Bellber lmao
San Bernardino is just as worse as Hemet. I have lived my whole childhood in San Bernardino, and its gotten ever since the 2008 economic recession happen, and since then it has gotten worse, and worse throughout the years.
When a city depends on a casino for tax revenue, you know massive levels of crime, drugs, and alcoholism exists.
Hawaiian Gardens
talking shit bought BG lol
I learned this fact from SimCity (when you build a casino your tax revenue goes up, but so does the crime rate).
Like Las Vegas? Where are the stats on that? Can you give me a few please
Any specifics? Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, oh yeah, where do you live I’m sure there’s some close to you too.
I been in California approximately 35 years and I think you miss other places worst than Long Beach. You miss watts, south central , Inglewood, San Bernardino, Victorville, Hesperia. Long Beach is growing. Now we have many beautiful buildings, beaches, restaurants, outlets, etc. And I miss that we have very nice people. 😃🙌🏻
You also missed Etiwanda, Riverside, East LA, and the Crenshaw District. We can’t forget the MacArthur Park area, too
What's up with Hesperia? When I lived in CA, Hesperia was middle clasd
not all of hesperia is bad yes there are bad areas but pratracally everywhere you go down here
@@davidclaro152 yea. Riverside is a shithole
As someone who grew up in Whittier, I felt this. My mom's from Montebello. When I lived in Temecula I had to go to Hemet frequently. I can attest to all of this.
I no longer live in California. I could never go back, despite the great weather. It just feels so soulless.
@@andrewleo1521 I loved Temecula. Never said I didn't. What does wine or video games have to do with anything? Geez.
Montebello isn't that b ad.
Fr biggest problem for me is the damn coyotes that come and kill pets since the city wants to build million dollars homes in a gated community in a city nobody wants to live in lol
The fact that San Bernadino isn't on your list is amazing. San Bernadino has been ranked the worst city in California several years in a row. Recently, it's also been listed as the 2nd poorest city in the country behind only Detroit. And as far as most dangerous cities go, it's always been in the top 20 for a couple decades now.
i saw that they were rated A+ for housing on a list
Gotta love home. Its not for the weak.
Nobody cares about San Bernardino
Maybe it’s too big for inclusion?
I thought foe sure san berdo wuld be number 1.thats why i watched the video
You're going to need a bigger list.
Gary Grinkevich I agree, I’m wanting to move. I would rather live in Las Vegas.
@@michelleosas-thegospel1cor54 Vegas has really cleaned up in the last 10 years, theres is still a skid row but its nothing compared to Santa Ana river bed these days.
And i thought living in fresno was bad. I mean i seen some crazy things. But nothing that bad.
They don't need a bigger list pick any ten and you will be right get it got it good
This was just LA. Lynwood is not even that bad.. #1 should have been Victorville or Lancaster
Hey, I love Long Beach!
Left there in 1995, but still own a condo one block from the beach. It's rented, though.
Long Beach doesn't belong in the same list as Barstow, Compton, or Hemet.
Long Beach can be pretty bad because of the people who live there. I once found a heroin needle in the sand 🥲
Omg LB is the 7th largest city in CA. There's a shit ton of different neighborhoods. And you're just a peach of a person aren't ya? 😂 I absolutely agree with Tom that LB does NOT belong on this list!! I've lived in 3 different LB neighborhoods for over 15 years and I'll never leave. The economy is booming here and lots of places are experiencing a Renaissance.
Absolutely love Long Beach, I haven't found any issues living there. The people there seem so fun and cheerful.
@@briangasca6534 i find that all the time in venice and santa monica
I was born and raised in Hemet. It was a small sleepy peaceful town before the 90’s, when people started selling in LA and moving to Hemet. The video suggests that these poor people moved there and then regretted it, when it was the trash that they brought with them that destroyed the town.
I go to school in hemet
I’m a Southern CA native, have lived here my whole life. I’m 99% in agreement, but would like to disagree on two points- 1) No one wanted to move to Hemet, not even in the 90’s. 2) Not all parts of Long Beach are as described. Some parts are quaint and beachy, friendly and relatively safe. Just need to be aware which part of LB you’re in.
Alot of parts of california are third world shit holes this includes beach citys regular citys like los angeles county orange county inland empire etc etc
The dessert citys are a dump too
Poverty is the main reason
This state like many in the usa are no longer resembling a first world nation
I live in the west part of long beach
I did a few moving jobs in Long Beach and the neighborhood's were absolutely beautiful.
I don't remember exactly what areas in Long Beach, but they were definitely expensive neighborhoods.
I am from Hemet, it is an utter hellhole, and cesspit. Never going back.
@@metaldiscipline3955 what makes hemet so bad? Just asking
Hey, Barstow has both a Taco Bell AND a Del Taco right off the freeway! What more can you ask of a town?
Lmao a bush
a chipotle and in n out too! :-D
Easy girls in the early 90s now I couldn't really tell you
Still got the Denny's?
Real jobs, things to do, great schools and no crime
Back in the 60’s and early 70’s Palmdale was a great little town. My grandparents lived there and my brother and I would spend a few weeks there in the summer. We would walk a block down to the community pool. They had a rec center and we could check out balls and board games. We were very young, no cell phones, no adults supervision, it was pretty safe. My grandma would feed the hobos who knew where she lived by word of mouth. I never felt scared. A few years ago I drove through it, I was heartbroken to see what it’s become. I’m grateful for the wonderful memories I made there.
This video should be called "10 Places in Southern California That Scare Westsiders, Suburbanites and Soccer Moms"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly.
Enjoy living in filth then
Enjoy crack towns stinky
Keep telling yourself that 😆
I've lived in SoCal all my life (44 years now) and can agree with all of the cities on your list EXCEPT one: Long Beach. I mean, really? What about San Bernadino? Moreno Valley? Hawaiian Gardens? How was this list compiled? You must have some personal knowledge of the area, so how on earth could LB make that list?
As with any large city, Long Beach (pop. 500,000+) certainly has it's fair share of issues. I wouldn't live downtown, nor would I live in North LB. However, the vast majority of the city is populated by middle and upper middle class residents in a rather vast suburbia. Additionally, it has thriving art and beach communities, coastal neighborhoods comprised of multimillion dollar homes, and a lot of fun things to do downtown and at the Pike. Plus... we had Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz. LOL
YOU FORGOT
JENNY RIVERA .👍🙏🏻
LONG BEACH CA. IS NICE 👍👍🤝🏼BUT EXPENSIVE
Long beach is the poorest coastal town in all of socal aside from Imperial Beach in SD. It is a shithole, maybe you don't see it, but there is a lot of sketchy people and all the easy sign to move in housing has helped ruin it. I was 16 and couldn't walk to my friends house from the pier or vice versa without drugs being offered from shady ppl
@@AuRowe , I never had a problem living there. I lived there as a college student and as working professional. What pier are you talking about? Shoreline Village doesn't have a pier.
HARD to keep Long beach out of this ugly group, especially when you have the CRAPHOLE -- Wilmington sitting right there! they just have gangs, the west wilmas are alive and well, killing their own, just because! People can't leave there, because they don't know how to act in a normal town!
@@yakkyuu12 I lived most of my life in San Pedro and it's getting to be almost as bad as Wilmington in some parts
Long Beach has great neighborhoods. It is definitely the best city on the list.
I grew up in Barstow, the city managers were also the local business owners and they put a stop to any attempts at development that might challenge their fiefdoms. What they got instead was rot and the areas outside of Barstow like Silver Lakes, Victorville & even Apple Valley have progressed. That old boys club has probably all passed away by now, but their legacy remains.
I grew up there in the 80s. It's really gone downhill :( Wouldn't ever want to move back, not that I moved far ha ha (VV)
I can’t believe Victorvillle didn’t make the list-what were we, number 12 or something?!? 😂😂😂
It was bad when I was stationed there 1980...I see things havent gotten sny better....
Ted Heaberlin. Middle between Barstow and Palmdale
Judith Huling-Cadieux-probably a lot worse!
@@tedsmusic5556 lol, oh my, that's NOT GOOD....glad I got out!!
Hesperia is just as bad
I had a job offer in Lancaster, right next to Palmdale, and turned it down immediately after visiting the town.
Good, it’s awful to be here, it’s a sinkhole that prevents you from leaving
Yeah it sucks especially in the summer gets super hot and Eastside Lancaster probably the worst area
I was born, raised, and currently live in Lancaster. It has gotten bad over the time, but I slowly seeing getting better, but only with the unfortunate rise in cost of living. Despite its rough edges, it has desert charm.
Haha good
Always trust the vibes. You did right.
You showed a picture of the Denny's I used to work at in Bell Gardens. I never thought of Bell or Bell Gardens as especially bad. They are comparable to all the cities in that area. Vernon should definitely be on this list.
Blythe, CA. #1, period. Anyone who has been there knows what I mean.
That town is some Hills Have Eyes shit haha
Fax
Niland
Omw there now.....the river
I was born and raised in Blythe lol. I moved to SD as soon as I graduated high school lol
I live in a beautiful area of Long Beach! On the Beach in Belmont Shores. Long Beach is a large city with diverse neighborhoods, but still many beautiful areas to live.
Got a number??? 🙂🙂
I lived there too, it’s beautiful!
Renee m. You rule
I agree!
@Dax P. LeBaron Doesn't mean she's lying. And so what that she's white if that's what she is. You have a picture of Darth Vader as your avatar. Grow up.
You mean the Southern Los Angeles version?
You mean the Southern L.A.County episode Part One. Lol
There is another?
Any other?
Good point, but remember that Barstow and Palmdale are both north of LA. Let's call it NOLA, shall we?
Philip Germani Barstows not its on the way to Vegas
I’m still trying to figure out how being low income causes someone to trash their own apartment/ home or steal / beat the neighbor’s.
Depression, mental illness, drugs etc cause people to do that. When you feel hopeless and frustrated, it radiates to all aspects of your life and makes you do stupid things.
Lived in Lancaster Ca in 1984- 1986 it was such a great little town and Palmdale as well went back about 15 years ago it was sooooo diffent lots of gangs
It’s been over run with drugs, it’s really bad there. That being said I still lived there.
The west side on both cities isn’t bad,some petty little crime not as bad as the Sfv though
This video should have been titled “Worst neighborhoods to live in LA”
But these aren't neighbourhoods, these are towns genius
@@Sk2PPer most southern californian see this as greater LA not towns
Good point @Sauce Boi
Yes, there are lots of great places in SoCal.
Anthony, I watched your contagious laughter playlist and you are a gift of God. Thank you.
Like Malik, I'm surprised you left out my hometown, San Bernardino.
I'm 78 yrs old and lived here all my life (in the SF Valley) You've told me things I didn't even know!! Fun listening to you. Thank you.
The last time I went through Barstow was 1996 when I was 12 and my dad got a new job at Pax River and me and my family moved from Ridgecrest, California to Lexington Park, Maryland.
I lived in Trona when young for 4 years. Ridgecrest was the closest town to us & it was a big deal when they got a McDonald's. I was happy when we moved to Montclair.
Ridgecrest meth heads
Fact: Huntington Park and Huntington Beach have everything to do with each other. Bothe we’re established by Henry Huntington who also owned the estate which is now the Huntington Library in San Marino.
Hemet is Mississippi
San Bernardino is Detroit with palm trees
Jaja yup
So True🤣😂
No you mean Bloomington... Hehe
I live in San Bernardino and that description is pretty accurate. At least there's good Mexican food here.
Good comparison. Lol.
If you’re from the IE & dating, when someone says they’re from Hemet, it’s an immediate deal breaker
If the meth mouth wasn't a dead giveaway, Hemet is definetly a second hand indicator.
Yupz
I was called out toan evacuation center, in Hemet, because some mental giant decided to smoke crystal meth and shoot up the neighborhood. Good times!
Same for You-pipa
😂🤣
You are right on point with Barstow California. I escaped from that ⚫ Hole 9 years ago and NEVER LOOKED OR WENT BACK ! It's a place for people who have lost the will to LIVE .
As a former Surf City Resident. Thank you so much for making the distinction between Huntington Park and Huntington Beach.
Born and raised in Southern California and very proud of it. I'm glad to see all of the transplants move away. Hope to see home turn back to the way it used to be.
It won't ever be like it used to be when property values were going up.
Yeah, you can pretty much give up on the 1950's LA returning fantasy.
Hate to tell you. People from SF and Silicon Valley are moving in.
@@garylangley4502 Shhhhhhhhh!
interesting fact. . . the great majority of California residents are from other states. It's mostly a state full of transplants.
I’m on the border between Lynwood and Compton California so I understand where he’s coming from
Whats wrong with Lynwood and Compton? They were great towns in the 1940s. 😂
James S.
NWA can fill you in!
Tortilla FLATS man.. but Compton is getting gentrified now..
Rob Roux i grew up in t flats hood in the 70s 80s and 90s by the time i was 13 i was shot at twice already and had a good friend of mine die in front of me cpt was no joke back them thats why i had to leave i also lived in park village projects a year or so and golden st by thr swap meet but the t flats area was the worst at the time
Me too! I lived in lynwood and Compton was 2 blocks away! Back in 2000-2006
No way, bad call on Long Beach. Loved living there and it's is an amazing place to live--def one of my favorites, second to San Diego.
Just depends on the area, east side longo could get pretty crazy but it’s not super super bad but not exactly safe haha
@@GOODFELLAPRODUCTIONS true haha
If you do a part two to this, I'd like to suggest a few other Socal cities; El Cajon, National City, El Centro, Vista, Brawley, and Lemon Grove.
National City, Lemon Grove, and San Bernardino for sure.
Sad, I have lived in Hemet for 30 years and have watched it change. Sad, very sad,
We were there in 82. Yes it's gone downhill but that's complaining that a broken down car is ugly. That valley is and has always been a toilet.
What was it like back in the day? This is fascinating to me. 💌
@David Wang Hemet yuk!
Tweekers suck.
@@MFCZcams683 back in the 90's had a friend living in Hemet, it was a small town feeling. Now, it's just a POS. It is sad.
Long Beach is way better than Lynwood.
what part of Long Beach you in lol haha. Lynwood is always nice and quiet driving by
Long Beach has a beach
Depending on what part of LongBeach but obviously the rich area of LB is better than Lynwood
As someone who has been to Long Beach countless times, it’s a beautiful and relatively wealthy city (as you saw in the photos). This guy’s only complain is that the houses are expensive and they found a dead body 50 years ago. It has million dollars seaside mansions and great night life. To me is seems like a smaller version of San Diego.
Most of San Diego is a hole now, so not sure that's a great'comparison.
I was very glad to see this video. I haven't seen any of your lists for quite a while.
I was born in Anaheim, grew up and lived in Lancaster until I was 13, then moved to Palmdale and lived their until I was 16. Then I moved to Salem, OR. Also I'm 18 and I just joined the Army National Guard. Weird stuff. Personally I'd say Lancaster Is worse then Palmdale. Especially East Lancaster, beech street is where people die.
I been to all dose city that’s crazy.
Why isn’t 29 stumps on this list?
@@philkearny5587 29 stumps laughs at this list.
I'm from Palmdale, born and raised, and I feel like east Palmdale is marginally worse than east Lancaster but they're pretty comparable
You DID the right thing now larn more in the Army ok.
Hey Briggs! Love your channel.
The body discovered in the Long beach amusement park belonged to Elmer J. McCurdy, a famous bandit killed in 1911, the undertaker displayed it and charged a nickel to view, the body traveled as a curiosity and eventually ended up as a scary display in the fun house. I love that story. Morbid huh... keep the great vids coming and thank you for your service.
I understand they gave him a proper burial.
I submit mostly filming locations at IMDb, but back in April 2012 I submitted this trivia.
Starsky and Hutch: The Psychic (#2.13)
SPOILER: Driving in the amusement park before discovering the dead Julio Gutierez in the van, Starsky and Hutch drive by the Laff in the Dark funhouse. In real life, in December 1976, the crew of The Six Million Dollar Man: Carnival of Spies (#4.18) accidentally discovered the hanged man prop in the funhouse was actually the mummified remains of Elmer McCurdy, a notorious outlaw who had been killed in a gunfight in 1911.
@@brothersterling McCurdy was an outlaw in Oklahoma who died suddenly while in jail. Having no family to claim the body, he remained at the local undertaker's for an indefinite period of time. After being embalmed, etc. the undertaker gave the body to a traveling circus show, that used it in some kind of arcade game.
After traveling and being swapped around for several decades, it eventually made its way to the NuPike Amusement Park in Long Beach until someone found it during the demolition of the park, and recognized it was, in fact, a real body and not a manikin.
The Long Beach PD and LA County Coroner were called and McCurdy was finally identified months later and returned to his home town. Funds were donated and he was given a ceremonial burial and a marker which remains to this day.
If you Google NuPike, McCurdy and Oklahoma you should be able to find the complete story on him.
I was born in Los Angeles, grew up in El Monte and still here after 40 years...this is as accurate as you can get!
"Used to be I could drive up to Barstow for the night, find some crossroad trucker to demonstrate his might." - Sheryl Crow, "Leaving Las Vegas"
“” We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”” - Hunter S. Thompson
I knew that town sounded familiar.
Madison County Sound Labs bat country
“We can’t stop here, this is
BAT COUNTRY!”
600 390 is definitely you don't wanna nobody what kind of empire
Long Beach is a great place to live when you live next to the beach 😉
So true
Even then.. Long beach beach is dirty and dangerous. That along with San Pedro and Venice is the beaches to avoid in LA. Honestly just go to the O.C. our San Diego.
My mom moved to Long Beach from Ohio in the 1950s when it was a fashionable place to be. There are still many decent areas especially near the ocean.
Psh, i live by the LB Airport and that area is great. House is worth almost a million and we bought it for like 350k in the 90's lol
Long Beach is a nice city. I lived there 3 blocks from the ocean, the bike trail is really awesome, the aquarium, Belmont Shore/Shoreline Village. Great food and plenty to do. There used to be a IHL team called the Ice Dogs, we had season tickets. They played at the convention center. So many cool places there.
This was a great video funny and I learned allot of interesting things about these cities I like to go to
you missed Hawaiian Gardens
Blanch Blanchard Hawaiian gardens is small and no one cares about it
Old Towne13 Yeah, with Samoan Gangsters.
Dude you need to do a whole episode on Hemet/San Jacinto, it's changing every month and getting crazy!
Id put Watts in there. Sketchy every time I worked there. Long Beach has a lot of bad spots, but A LOT of good spots too. I wouldnt qualify it as Los Angeles, LB is pretty much its own.
Good video and pretty accurate and entertaining. I grew up in the greater Los Angeles area. I noticed most of these cities are along the 710. Montebello is just a boring place. Long Beach is patchy, with good and bad parts. I would have thrown Riverside and San Bernardino in there in place of Montebello and Long Beach.
Fun fact about my home town, Long Beach: a few years ago the city drained the Colorado Lagoon which is a little pond next to a golf course. They found about 60 bodies in there... that was covered up real quick.
🧐🤔 that is not true
@@californiaboy1godbless108 I lived across the street, watched the construction workers put up the green wall, saw the police, ambulances and investigators move the body bags from my bedroom, and had a conversation with a construction worker when they were draining the pond
so we must be neighbors👍🤝🏼
@@californiaboy1godbless108 7 years ago we probably were lol
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I would like to see a part 2 of the list!
Carl Johnson part 46 comes out tomorrow
That list is 75 towns long
I get you lived in L.A. but how you missed Bakersfield, El Cajon or other parts of San Diego's east county is beyond me
San Diego East County is fine.
My big complaint about the video is Montebello. Its really not that bad. It has nice areas, a number of nice parks, and is right down the street from Monterey Park which is nice and safe (other than when a crzy goes on a massshooting but that's an anomaly).
I have been to most of those places. I lived in CA for a few years. He forgot a good one. The name is Lawndale. I was told when driving through that burg do not stop at stop signs when people are around, because you will get car jacked.
I'm from San Diego. This is a pretty accurate list. Worst part is the cost of living in these towns are way over priced only cause their in California.
I lived in Barstow for a year. And I never returned.
Was going for a promotion at work that would have taken me to Fort. Irwin.. I saw Barstow and was like, nah. 😂😂😂
Barstow and Fresno are two Cali towns, the mention of which causes great eye-rolling.
Thank you for this, it’s funny and informative 😎😇
My mom had a random idea to move us to Needles, CA in Aug. 1999.. Actually ended up staying til Jan. 2002
2.5 years of my life in hell lol
Been there to live also... Not much left now
Made the mistake of gasing up in needles. They take full advantage of the last station on I 40 was 150 miles ago. Can only imagine how much everything else costs.
@@kczcb4697 gotta go 5 min cross the river in to Arizona for half the price of the needles stations
Makes sense. Sadly in my case I was on fumes. Had no choice. No better for next road trip
Yeah it was pretty bad, when I’d pass through to go to Bullhead for hardcore shows. I can only imagine about terrible it is now
I've lived in California my whole life and you're 100% correct!!!
Still people don't move away.
Ronald Lopez actually natives are leaving in masses.
And yet you're still there... I left for good in the early 2000's. Never regretted it.
Penn Pusher I left in 1994. No regrets
I really would like to move to SOUTH DAKOTA, once I retired.
Misleading to say this percent is “working” and the rest “ live in poverty”. People can work and still live in poverty. Did you mean to say “unemployed”?
Yes. Very misleading sounding white boy haha
He listed % employed, then % in poverty...he did not imply anything, you assumed.
hemet, barstow, riverside, st bernadino, of course you know, that all those lovely places are in the inland empire and it would be such fun to organize a tour of those sucking gems featured as : the trail of tears, guns and despair !!
Been in Long Beach for 25 years and love it!
Me too it was also my childhood!
I lived there for 4 months and was bummed when I left
Yeah, clearly this guy is just wailing these videos together without doing any research. Long Beach is one of the best places to live in the country.
I live in Orange and I love LB ❤️
I agree! I live in Long Beach in Alamitos Beach. I love it!
what !?!? No San Bernardino on your list ?? you didn't do your homework well. Lol :)
san bernardino is not even close, to what long beach, compton used to be on the 90's
San ysidro .....YIKES
Lol 😝
and no high desert!
The fact that San Bernardino is not part of Los Angeles County already makes it easy better. Regardless of the crime.
I've lived in Hemet my whole life and I never had any problems here at all! The weather is good, it's not close to any big city so theres no overcrowded feeling and all the fun southern California stuff is within a couple hours drive. I'd call Hemet a hidden gem
As someone who has been through Hemet since the mid 80s, the weather is hot and horrible, might as well be in Palm Springs. Not sure where you moved from to end up in Hemet. Its very ghetto at best.
LOL oh please, Hemet is a fking dump. IT'S HOT AS HELL, there's nothing to do. It's where even the trash of the IE don't want to go to. Oh I forgot, yeah you can go next door to San Jacinto which is ALSO a POS.
I honest to god can’t think of one positive thing about Hemet. Most people avoid that place like the plague
never been to Calfornia but i learn from your videos. was just creepy about the body found. thanks for sharing
Four of those cities are cool and Ive never had problems going there : Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, El Monte and Montebello the rest on the list do suck .
Any town can suck! Rural areas can too!
Long Beach is awesome!
You put in Long Beach, but failed to mention San Bernardino? I'm curious what metrics you used to make this list.
Lived in Palmdale, California most of my life and it's not that bad. Lots of hiking a few lakes and it is way safer than most places in California plus it's easy to find your way around town here. ALSO have a water park called Dry town which is nice and JetHawk stadium in Lancaster which is a neighbor city
I moved from the SFV and I love Lancaster, way better standard of living.
On a business related trip to California last week I stumbled upon the most striking, large geographic feature I had seen in some time: the Salton Sea. THEN, I researched it...WOW! I would love your take on the place. I visited and, while I am well travelled and truly appreciate your videos, have to say I have never conceived of any place like it - and it's "story" is heartbreaking!
It's just so very sad ! No wonder folks don't want change especially by the army cor of engineering !
Montebello is not that bad. There are nice parts of the city and some nice parks.
Long Beach is a thriving city, a lot of new developments going on. Downtown is booming with construction.
North, West and East LB are bad areas. You guys are naming DTLB, Belmont Shore and near Cal State LB.
Yeah, there are a whole lot of new buildings being built
Um plz Long Beach is amazing so diverse everyone is cool until they not it’s the city by the sea no place I’d rather be!!! And I’m from the North Side!!!
I haven't found any bad places in Long Beach. Everyone seems chill, although there are some drug people out there but still Long Beach is a wonderful place to be in. The rent there is pretty high so it's hard to find places where the rent is below 1,000 dollars. Living by the beach is way more expensive 2000-4000. So far Long Beach is great!
Worked once in Barstool ... er, Barstow back when the railroad was the big employer there along with Yellow Freight. Even then it was a sunburned, wind blasted, scrub land that was devoid of any hope of gaining entry into the middle class. Home grown Rick Steves (yup him of PBS travel scope fame) moved out and has not found his way back. Anyway my first night there two men (pistoleros) had a gunfight on main street, Western style; no joke or exaggeration. On my way to Las Vegas I fill up in Liquorville ... er, Victorville, choosing to bypass Barstow. Maybe the town has improved.
You should probably reconsider Long Beach, it has its bad parts, but it also has lovely parts, and is a fun place to hang out.
At least when you get robbed it'll be a sunny day! Always looking for that silver lining.
Oh mah Lawd.
@@BigMoe3 Lynnwood was bad when I lived in so cal 35 years ago..must be a real hellhole now huh?
@@cherbear1996 I think so. It's a spin off Compton. I moved to another state. I didn't like all that violence growing up in Los Angeles county.
All these cities are majority Mexican. High % Illegals.. Im from Long Beach then moved to Whittier.. Briggs is not stating the illegal Alien portion of each city which is the reason for high poverty.. I know, I lived it. in my face daily...
Its always sunny in Phila …… er, Hemet.
Woohoo, my town made the list!...
...wait a minute 🤔😩
You need to list Needles & Trona in the desert in CA. They're horrific!!!
Damn. I was hoping they didn't say El Monte. I live in the vicinity of those locations showed in the video.
Hell Monte 😆
So "Worst" equates to poverty percentage? That's the only data I really hear mentioned.
Yea basically, but why would you wanna live around poor people
Poor= high crime source see statistics
You didn’t listen well. He lists many other stats.
Lifelong LA resident here...
10-8. Basically all of South Central Los Angeles....pretty much.
7. El Monte isn't that bad in comparison.
6. Palmdale also isn't that terrible, it really depends on the individual neighborhood. Some are shitty but most are decent.
5. See #7
4. Really? DTLB is really growing, yes there are some shitty parts around it but they are changing, but the downtown is a pretty desirable place.
3. Compton, south central..see #10,
2. Hemet...ummm....ok
1. Barstow? I can think of worse, alot worse dumps in the desert, California City, Baker, Ridgecrest, just saying. #1 for me is Salton Sea, now that is a serious dump.
So sad about Salton Sea, used to be a fun place to go.
I'm a life long native of southern California, been through all these towns listed, and lived in a lot of them that haven't been listed yet, and trust me, I can confirm all of them so seriously, STOP TYPING!!!!!
Yes the whole sea
Very entertaining!!!!. Thanks for the great info..
Good work. I grew up in Huntington Park (#10!), which at one time was a nice suburban neighborhood before the steel mills and auto plants left. And as bad as H.P. was, the "tri-city" region of Maywood, Cudahy, and Bell, was worst. But they are small cities in comparison to all the others you listed. That said, you may wish to do an "honerable mention" of such stragglers. Oh, and I am sure that Watts has not cleaned up its act any better in the past twenty years.
Born and raised in the I.E. lived in Barstow for 6 months while working a government contract at Fort Irwin. There is absolutely no reason to live in Barstow lol
Hemeth!
San Bernardino, Riverside, Colton, Rialto pretty much all of I.E 😂😂😂😂
Once spent the night at a motel in Barstow. Decent experience. I was surprised at the size of the town.
Palmdale's main industry is section 8.
And a retirement community for gang members.
fast 417. I used to live in palmdale in the early 90's it was nice peaceful affordable housing.etc. It's a shame all the wanted gangsters moved up there.
LOL
Really sad about Palmdale. Was awesome when I lived there in the 1980s
And meth addicts
This is true 😂 so many ex gang members
I remember passing through Barstoo, you're not kidding about the gas thing. I thought for a minute we were in a abandoned town.
Used to live in Hemet, now I’m working as an EMT out there. I have friends who live in Barstow also, worked as an EMT in most of LA county.
I live in Long Beach. Your information is old, some is plain incorrect. The housing in Long beach is the cheapest in the south LA metro, it's not 112% higher. I hope your intent is purely entertainment cause if not, do your homework!
Barstow actually has really cool geology, fun places to shoot, and lots of space. I'd add another gridlocked city like Van Nuys.
Barstow's a little bit out of the way but there's nothing wrong with it
Copper City dude! My grandpa used to take my siblings and I there on our shooting trips.
@James05574 those were the good old days
You know your a barstow lad when our one saving grace is "the desert is pretty cool " god forbid you lived somewhere so much worse than barstow this guy didnt cover it like baker,newberry,yermo or dagget .
@@legacy_the_archer the desert is cool. I've been all over.
Although a few are missing, I would have to say, after working or living in some of these areas, you nailed it. Looking forward to leaving Ca. soon.
Parts of Long Beach are great: near downtown and Belmont Shores.
While the Pike area, 2nd street, Belmont Shores, etc. are definitely worth visiting and fun. Long Beach has the same problem most nice places in Los Angeles (Greater L.A. which this is essentially a list of) have being that you take one wrong turn and within 2 seconds you are somewhere where you don't even want to drive your car thru, let alone get out and potentially walk around. My examples include: Venice, Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Downtown L.A.
@@Zander5446 you are very very wrong about Long Beach. There are very few places in Long Beach that I ever felt unsafe walking around. There are border cities that are awful, yes. But Long Beach does not belong on this list at all!
@@Zander5446 Manhattan Beach is a neighborhood where you turn a corner and feel unsafe?
@@anthonycameronnajera8471 I 100% agree. I'm curious what metrics he used to make this list. Long Beach is a great city.
I grew up in bell gardens and I’m one of the poor 💵 people here it’s a cool town I think 👍 Bg.