10 Places in Michigan You Should NEVER Move To
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Move to these places and you're gonna regret it big time!
If you were going to make a list of places to NOT to move to in Michigan, you’d have a lot to choose from. Michigan. The land of wolverines. The region of lakes. The domain of all who hunt. Some might say Michigan is the prettiest state of all. It’s an outdoor paradise, and there’s really pretty farms everywhere. The people are super cool. Most of them. What’s not to like?
A lot. Like just about every other state in our fine nation, Michigan has its good and its bad. It’s not all like this. Many of this state’s largest cities are more like this.
For the next 12 minutes, we’re going to talk about the bad places in Michigan. Some I’ve been to and seen firsthand. Others were suggested by you. But all of the places we’re going to talk about rank terribly when you measure good things that Michiganders care about.
There won’t be many surprises.
Is your hood going to be talked about? Will there be any places in the UP on here? Stay tuned and see. So, put off that trip to Meijer for a little bit. We’re gonna hop in our pickup and visit the worst places to live in Michigan!
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People don't realize what's happened to Michigan over the years. It's not just a handful of cities. It's the entire state. They've been poisoned by the air, water, land. It's happened over a long span of time and it's dulled their own reality. They are almost all ill and the govt doesn't come forward with the truth. The water problem wasn't just in Flint. The only place online that speaks the truth is EPA. Unfortunately they are part of the problem. Most people here, have been here forever and if they just left for 1 year, they would never come back. But they're in a lifelong lockdown and fail to realize it. Now that may not include the UP. I haven't seen it since I was a child. Born and lived here until I was 30. I'm here temporarily. Can't wait to escape. I would advise anyone who is condemning your truth on the state to please do their own research. Check EPA. Check the crime stats. Check your state Sex Offender Registry.
So socialist democrats get together to plot how to destroy the American family jobs, the rich, and employers. They blame the rich for creating jobs. They blame the corporations for employing people, sparking innovation and making our lives better. So they destroy success by taxing and regulating companies out of existance. You would think democrats would want to preserve companies and the rich and successful. So they continue to vote democrats into power to destroy the most successful and prosperous nation on earth. They then wonder wtf happened. Then they blame republicans! You can't make this stuff up.
1.5 million people fled Detroit after the 1967 riots, "white flight" got the hell out of Dodge. It was crime that forced white people out, not poverty. Poverty does not mean crime, crime leads to poverty. Example, even in the, "Great Depression" people were hurting, but they still respected law and order and their fellow man.
So sad, but not surprising that my city is #1 on this list.. reason why tho that I refuse to let my kids grow up there. Still recovering mentally from being born n raised in Flint .
No body calls jackson " little detroit" ...
Ikr
Now we do
I always called Ypsilanti that. Lol
I mean unless their talking about JACKSON STATE PENITENTIARY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think Adrian or Monroe should have been on this list
My daughter moved from south central Los Angeles to Detroit and it was a huge improvement. She bought a 4 bedroom 2 bath house for the price of three month’s rent at her barely habitable South central place. Good people in Detroit.
Are you aware of all the shootings and unsensable murders lately?
@@michellepletta3040 In Deeeeetroit or S. Central?
Detroit
Detroit had 129 murders in 2020 and LA had 239. Per google.
so her 4 bed house was only $9,000 ??
I’m from Ohio, and a lot of our cities have the same issues mentioned in this list. Loss of industrial jobs to other countries, and out west. Both states used to be much better and it’s sad to see
We are the Rust Belt.
You can thank the democrats for the decline.
Thank
Bill Clinton for signing the Fair Trade Agreement and selling America out! A lot of these politicians need to be in prison. Total sell outs
@@zacklapointe887 Slick Willy, a total piece of, .... Signed NAFTA.
Thank the shit goverment
Love how people that don’t even live in Michigan can tell us about Michigan. They could never cut it up here!
He had a perfect 10
Yeah lol
NOPE
I SEE HE DRIVING ON WILDEMERE @ PHILADELPHIA
WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO 💯💯💯
👌💯👌Exter
Ypsilanti?
You don't have to live somewhere to look up the crime stats of that place and then determine it's a shitty place to live based on those stats. Google is a thing you know.
I’m convinced this dude’s never been to Michigan smh
@•Sakura [female ][Age: 26]• you’re a damn fool!!
It seems pretty obvious he's drawing from first hand accounts and statistics...
It would be worse anywhere else... where there's wild fires 🔥 , hurricanes🌀, torrential rain⛈, excessive heat🌡, continuous tornados🌪, i. r. any other state in the union! He🥢, life is good in in Michigan compared!!
@@johnbob4545 WELCOME HOME NATIVE SON 🌄
Hell he right to many people that love welfare more than work and unions can go to the grave yard and ford Chrysler whirlpool and others that have mo ed for cheaper labor slave labor for bigger profits have destroyed this country factory base my pray and hopes these companies go belly up for good as this country needs to go fucking belly up for good
This video caught my eye as we were born, raised and educated in the Detroit suburbs. Went to Cass Tech HS and then Wayne State University. Left way back in 1989 to sunny northern CA to practice medicine but still keep track of the few friends and relatives we have left. Its real sad to see my home area labeled as " crime, poverty, drugs and gangs" . It was a great place back then to raise a family and work with plentiful jobs available. Hope things will turn around for the whole Midwest.
That's crazy to hear my guy, 'cause I went to Cass Tech AND Wayne State University myself!
You left before I was born, but I've been here my whole life and if you check the crime statistics, crime has differently gone down since the 90s for the state as a whole, and for Detroit it's gone down less but it's still going through a downward trend since then as well
As for job available, it could be much better, but I've had many friends find a job around here after college. There are those that go out of state, but there are much more that remain, and several that return as the brain drain problem seems to be reversing!
I still wouldn't raise a family in Detroit or Pontiac and certainly not Highland Park, but metro Detroit is way more than those areas. There are also several suburbs that are also really stinkin' wealthy but most of the suburbs have been perfect middle class families
Affording a house is still a concern for the younger generations, but it's a lot more affordable than the west and east coast, with that said the price for housing is sky rocketing lately
The northern Midwest is still a great place, don't fall for sensationalized content
also the youtuber we're in the comment section of, he gets annoying to listen to fast, and the video of course is focused on the negative without much context given
it's really gone downhill
I've lived in Detroit all my life and it's not as bad as it's being depicted. Yes Detroit has challenges however crime rates are down, there is new construction for housing and businesses. Blighted houses are being purchased and rehabilitated, parks are being rehabilitated. There are jobs. Downtown is very much alive with activities and lots of shopping. People that don't live in Detroit or have not spent any real amount of time in Detroit should, then you will really see the real Detroit, not what the media and outsiders show the world. There is NO perfect community even the suburbs have crime in fact a lot of the suburban whites are buying property and moving back to Detroit.
@alondajohnson8943 You're Munchkin mayor Mike Duggan is always standing on plastic milk crates yelling, "Detroit is coming back." Yeah, it's coming back to be the murder capitol of the world. When I'm in town, I love how the main streets of Detroit are decorated with green police security cameras to help get real-time police help in those high crime areas of Dee -troit. The whole city looks like a green disco light factory. The real reason the crime rate is lower in Detroit is because fewer people live there. Even the homeless people don't hang around Detroit anymore. You can live and love Detroit because you like living in a sewer city.
You don't know any better.
You stay where you're comfortable living at. Empty lots where homes used to be. Empty corners where gas stations used to be. Whole city blocks with nothing on there. Just miles and miles of cement sidewalks are going nowhere, and no people or kids walking on them or riding their bicycles on them. Living in Detroit is like living in Chernobyl or Hiroshima after a nuclear bomb goes off. Detroit is the number 1 worst place to not only live in, but to die in also.
I was born and raised on the East Side of Jackson. I can't even dream of a better place to grow up in the 1950's than Jackson, Michigan. There were more engineers in Jackson than any other city in the US. I moved away in 1975, but I still love the place! The Michigan Theater is a showplace.
Cmon bk! Its booming. Especially east side burbs. Oakland County. Love it! I'm from east coast.
Detroit is and always will be a place people look down on. I’m born and raised in Detroit lived here most of my life. I’ve never been robbed or shot at. With sticking to what you know and being somewhat street smart it’s easy to live here... I love my city proud to call it home! 🤷🏽♀️
I love what they've been doing with the downtown area over the past few years. Still have a ways to go but there are still lots of things to see and do and I always have a good time whenever I go there.
I love Detroit and never have a problem when I visit even when going to Buddy's Pizza for the best pizza in Detroit.
Same! It does have its issues but love my city!!
Totally agree
I've been robbed three times in Detroit. All while minding my own business. They don't care here. If you look like a target you will be targeted. I still stay in Detroit. I can't wait to move. I hate it here.
Never heard jackson called “little Detroit” that’s either Flint or Saginaw lmao
I heard Pontiac as Little Detroit.
Definitely Saginaw for awhile we were worse than Saginaw
Or highland park
i’ve heard people call mount clemens “a little detroit” which is pretty inaccurate, but not totally
@@frizzyfrank2985I live up north now but the majority of my life I lived in Mt. Clemens and at it's worst it was never a little Detroit. Don't get me wrong I love Detroit, well the east side anyway. Detroit's west side is as bad as people think but I get offended by these people who have never spent any real time in the city and say terrible things about it. Now Flint sadly is in my opinion worse than Detroit anymore. Where I live now Flint is a big part of my local news and there isn't too many places I'm afraid to go but I don't ever go to Flint.
I was born in Flint in 1966. I moved to Chicago in 1991...and then moved back to Flint in 2013. It's relatively inexpensive to live here...and there are some great nature sanctuaries and Genesee County parks within 5 to 15 miles Northeast of Flint...and they are beautiful and non crowded parks. Therefore...I really think some of the other "10 worst cities" are much more depressing to live. My favorite Flint area park is called the "Davison Hogbacks" Genesee County park. It's over 15 miles Northeast of Flint but it's SOOOOO WELL WORTH IT!!! It's very similar to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan because of the very steep hiking trails and lakes and rivers. As soon as you park and open your car door you notice the QUIET...
I've lived in most these places or worked in. N ya flint would not be 1 on my list. It's bad no doubt....but worse then benton harbor? Not really. Not imo
The funniest part of your Flint video, is that at the beginning you drive right past an old fire station that is converted into a really good brewery and Kettering Stadium which hosts the Flint City Bucks soccer team. My sister live around the corner from it, and while it's not a fantastic neighborhood it's also got some interesting architecture and things to do.
Tenacity (the old firehouse) is meh, they're very empty every Friday/Saturday night that I've gone there. Very awkward setup as well, not much open floor space.
He just had to say meijerS 😂
I can't break the habit of calling it that. I actually called it that today in front of 2 clients
😂😂😂😂😂
I moved to Grand Rapids from NYC to go Michigan state university and everyone keeps getting mad at me for saying this... how are you supposed to say it anyway????
@@beanoweeno2902 it's just meijer. I can't stop saying it either.
Ml
Hey! You’re talking about my state, our cities. You didn’t stay long enough to meet the many good people, who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in dire circumstances. The places to explore are church communities and benevolent organizations where charity and good will abound.
I wish them well!!
You don't have to go to church to see the good in a society. Remember that.
I think Nick Johnson was out having tea with Whitmer while visiting Michigan. Then, Whitmer threw hot tea at his face when she thought he was an undercover Trump supporter.
✊🏼Preach baby, me too! Battle Creek Michigan!
@@amkayss13 My theory is that Nick hung out with Whitmer.
LMAO I love how you run the red at #7 Lansing HAHAHAHA YES! I LOVE IT
I’m from Southern California lived and moved and traveled allll over and lansing is where I’ve lived for 3 years. I actually really enjoy it ! The only bad part is like central and south lansing. The outer edges are not bad. Well at least west lansing and east lansing I really like ! Lots of nice trails and parks and good people .
I have never heard of battle creek called battle crack. I was born and raised in Michigan
Agreed, born and raised in Michigan. I was born in St. Joe but lived in GR, then Kalamazoo for many years. Binder Park Zoo is pretty cool...
Battle Creek is nicknamed “little Detroit” for a reason. Never heard of Jackson called this.
@@brianhays1797 no its not lol never ever heard it called little detroit
Me either lol
Only Detroit hustler know it by that name but hey it is what it is
My friends like to refer Saginaw as sagnasty.
Everyone that’s not from there call it that it’s kind of annoying
Exactly what we call Saginaw here in northern michigan
Saggybutt
Detroit suburbs - Wasteland, Garbage City and Stinkster
I was thinking the same! 😂
10-1:01-Inkster
9-2:12-Battle Creek
8-3:49-Jackson
7-4:41-Lansing
6-5-5:36-tie-Muskegon Heights-Highland Park
4-6:40-Pontiac
3-8:00-Saginaw
2-9:41-Detroit
1-10:41-Flint
At least there is no Grand Rapids
I was Born and raised in Battle Creek, MI
I'm from Michigan and some of these places listed I can agree on and I dislike
Need to add Owosso Michigan..Meth Capitol of Michigan
South warren
My wife was born in Benton Harbor and lived there until 1966 when we got married and moved back to my home in Royal Oak. It was a good place to live during her residency with plenty of good jobs especially the Whirlpool Corp. As the rust belt developed, people from Indiana and Illinois were sent from there on one way bus tickets to take advantage of Michigan's better welfare benefits. We now live 15 miles south of Jackson where we do most of our business. I've noticed a lot of new construction, both residential and commercial. The local hospital affiliated with the Henry Ford group a few years ago and has seen a tremendous expansive amount of growth and services and health professionals. I'm sure the Ford group and the increased number of medical professionals who could work and live elsewhere would do so if Jackson was a bad as you painted it.
I live in Brooklyn. That could be about 15 miles south of Jackson as well.
I live close to downtown Jackson. For 35 years I've walked back and forth to downtown. I've been witnessing a resurgence of new builds, storefronts filling up with cool shops, breweries and restaurants, and the most magnificent mural displays of anywhere in the world. I've never been assaulted or threatened by anyone. Sure, like any community, there are negative issues that need addressing, but Jackson seems to be cleaning house with a vengeance.
I have a lot of respect for the people in these cities who are trying to address these issues, as opposed to people who make videos about it and just put everybody down in the process.
The video is accurate. It’s too bad you feel that way considering he was providing statistics in crime unemployment and poverty. It is what it is. Pointing out these unfortunate facts is not “putting people down”
Yeah I'd take millennials over nothing when it comes to revitalizing cities here, rather than just leaving and moving to remote/rural locations.
Yep
Leave for real jobs and happiness.
Or kill someone and get shot. Enjoy jail. Get ripped off and start doing crime.
Or go to a nicer area w not much more than a rusted car and $200. It can be done.
It's always since small town people calling urban areas a dump...
Those people small town people are arrogant with small town minds
POTHOLES ARE REAL
Those holes are way bigger than the largest pot. More like kitchenholes. Those car killers
I once saw a car sticking half in half out of a pothole
@@gracecookie4604 hell yes. Man you would destroy the front end of your car lol.
It's the roads that are the delusions...
Welcome to Michigan the pothole state living here on the roads stink
This was great. Loved it.
Thank you Nick Johnson....truth teller.
Lived in and around Battle Creek for 30 years. No one calls it Battle Crack.
Battle Crick. That's what many of the "rustic folk" called it.
I’ve definitely heard it called Battle Crack, quite a few times actually
?i have, and I lived nearby for 40 years, my Dad for 67 years, my husband for 59 years. Battle Creek sucks big time.
Uh, yeah we do.
"52 per one thousand residents
With a crime rate of 52 per one thousand residents, Battle Creek has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 19." So, why not call it "battle Crack"? Sounds like a real sheet hole. I wonder when YT will start banning vids like this......too much reality.
Highland Park isn't just outside of Detroit - it (and neighboring Hamtramck) are surrounded by Detroit.
The tornado of 97 hit highland park and went through hamtramck i was a teenager when happend
Well said.
@@kekosunny6202 I just got home from my first year of college when the Tornado hit. I remember getting out of my summer job, and riding around HP after the tornado.... it was wild. Most people don’t remember it, but that was a bad one.
The tornado was trying to do that DUMP of a city a favor, but the corrupt democrats who run that city objected
I love the fact that our city's are so bad that HELL ain't even in the top ten for worst citys.
I lived and worked in almost every city on the list. Having bad neighborhoods in every state is considered functional by the government definitions.
I lived in Battle Creek you aren’t kidding about the cereal you can open up your window and your room smells like breakfast.
You bet! I grew up in Post Addition; I loved it when they made HBO (Honey Bunches of Oats), Cocoa Pebbles, and Honeycomb at the same time! Postum, though....not so much.......
And back when it was General Foods, they also made Tang there. The dust from that stuff would get on our cars; not fun to clean off.
yup
my favorite part of visiting battle creek with neighbor... would get baked and enjoy the fruity aroma! was heaven
I’ve lived in Battle Creek my whole life and I have NEVER heard anyone call it battle crack lol but shout out to the creek though 😂
Ong
I've lived there and live close now, and I agree.
There are a lot of crack heads in this city but I’ve never heard it referred to as battle crack lol.
That name came from the cracks ara your not a street person
Was in Kzoo and we called it The Creek lol battle crack lol what?
I live in Michigan outside of Grand Rapids I drove truck for 40 years in Michigan and you are spot on you hit the bull’s-eye I love the part were you called Ben Harbor Ben Harlem the home of plywood windows I thought I would ad that
back in the day, working in the auto industry had you set FOR LIFE. Now, not so much
I relocated with my whole family from Chicago to Michigan. It was the best thing we could of done. We all have better lives here and so do our children. Who all started school on time and Graduated on time. Life's good. Sorry about y'all experience lol.
Many parts of the state are very affordable. What city are you living in?
@@jacobpatterson9440 Ann Arbor
@@MsJwp247 not affordable lol
@@MsJwp247 I lived in Chicago and didn't like it bad place if u want to stay out of trouble but more than anything they don't help homeless or people who are less fortunate a lot of black and brown people poor and homeless
@@MsJwp247 I like Hamtramck, Dearborn and Ann Arbor
Moved to Detroit-Windsor in June after having lived in LA, Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, Toronto, Tianjin, Ottawa, and Guangzhou. For me, this city actually beats out places like LA, Guangzhou, and Paris by far for various reasons. I see strong potential here with wonderful people. Keep pushing hard, and Windsor, Ontario is right there with you to make sure you're always a transport hub & cross-border shopping destination.
What is Detroit-Windsor? Not the same place… Did you live in Downtown Detroit? Or Canada? Very misleading comment for 98% of Detroit…I suppose a positive out look anyway, doesn’t give me much hope for them other places you mentioned then
@@detroitdizthepoet313 It's a 5min trip from Downtown Detroit to Downtown Windsor, less than 2 miles. you don't have to feel they're parts of the same area, but it's factual that many residents do feel this way. Remember that the nearest airport, Walmart, Costco, Home Depot etc. to Downtown Detroit are in Windsor.
@@Charigun I live here..Your positivity is nice,but Windsor might as well be on another planet.If you actually lived here,you would know that.
@@johnpaultanascu5334 I’m from Windsor. How is it from another planet? 😂
@@detroitdizthepoet313 actually Detroit is really coming together. Especially the Downtown area. In both cities a lot of homeless people and drug addicts do exist but if you can mind your own, both cities are quite enjoyable to experience. I am from Windsor and I left due to it having the lowest employment rate in the country. I miss the area sometimes though. Very convenient places to live
Great video!
My friends from Michigan tell me Gretchen hasn't done a thing to relieve poverty or find/create jobs in the state.
She's too hung up on things that don't help the state one bit.
Actually Highland Park is inside of Detroit.
I mean your not wrong
Will I guess it does Border Detroit and Hamtramck. Definitely a dump though
It's an enclave.
Tom R Parts of Highland Park border Ferndale along Scenic 8 Mile as well. The Meijer is in Highland Park.
@@jag92949 The boundary of Highland Park is Six Mile (McNichols), not 8 Mile. That is Detroit again where it meets Ferndale.
“Only a fifth attend preschool and only 75% of teens graduate high school?” - Quite the improvement in stats
I watched with intense interest because my Mother was from Jackson Michigan. I have been to that state many times. Some of these towns have definitely changed in my lifetime. Best part of this video was the song at the end. Laughed my butt off.
Dude I am here super randomly, but instantly noticed chris zabriske playing at the beginning. Shout out!
I’m 30 mins from Detroit & I have friends from there & Lemme tell you, definitely the most hard working, amazing, street smart AND book smart people I know. Love Detroit.
Most people in Detroit don't work, many can't read, and street smart/ If killing each other is street smart then yeah.. regular Einsteins. .. I grew up in Detroit and live around 13 Mile rd. You should see what they did to the house I grew up in.... Pitiful!
I don’t like going around Detroit the news is horrid it’s sad what happened but don’t go around there is good people it’s not a good area sadly
MVYaden living around 13 mile is not living on Detroit as you worded it
MVYaden 13 mile is the suburbs
I grew up on 7 mile and Livernois and the area is still very nice and I lived in other places on the Westside
Detroit bout average. Unless you’re trapped in poverty there, you’ll be fine.
"Comedian start up kit" .... don't give up your day job..
Welfare wonderland ~ Michigan's nickname
Instead of winter wonderland...
I did not make this up, old saying regarding Michigan.
I love my city but I think I’m ready to move btw this video is funny asf 😂
I just found your video and was lmao towards the end. I know it's really sad info, but you are funny!
Jackson has never been called "little Detroit". where did you get your information from?
Downtown Flint has made vast improvements in the last 25 years. Most of the rest of Flint hasn't changed, but at least people are trying.
i don’t think people are trying lately 😂
Agreed. I’ve lived in or just outside of Flint for 50 years and never had any issues. Pretty harsh video. Could have done without the Governor Whitmer comment. Why mix politics into this? Can nothing be non-political?
@@itz_vxltures7118 well yes they have they havent been doing anything about the water here but is constantly fixing the streets and would'nt hesitate to come fix a power outage just on one street theres many restaraunts that you wouldnt find anywhere else here with good food they help out our community and has good paying jobs if hed look into it more it really isnt dead there its actually pretty active
How about they try to fix the water.
I'm in Jackson right now and had no idea James Earl Jones lived here, how cool! On that note, can't wait to move out! Thinking about the Upper peninsula.
I've been watching the videos but none of the city of Michigan of Eaton Rapids is ever mentioned what is that type is it good bad or different
Never in my life have I heard Jackson be referred to as 'Little Detroit'
I am also currently living in Saginaw, and it isn't absolutely horrible.
Oh yes it is....
@@allanjones2393 I'll live my life how I want, okay? You live yours.
@@deadmanwalkin_0422 No worries, bro. But I'm not the one who put Saginaw on the list of Worst Places In Michigan.....
@William Lee 2 months ago I was a different person.
@William Lee I was mad about this, and then went 'Damn I look like a retard sayimg this.' And left it how it is.
Michigan might have some not so pretty places but it’s my home state and I’m proud to call it home, now I’m going to relax and crack open a cold Vernor’s Ginger ale and a warm slice of Little Caesars pizza 😂😂😂😂😂
Mr. Scribs is WAAAAAAY better than Little Caesar's anyday!! Only in Muskegon tho.
Right on
Little Caesars is awesome right directly out of the oven but don't let it sit for 5 minutes or it'll taste like the cardboard it came in. Jets is awesome.
@@angelataylor7761 Y’all be sleeping on that Jets deep dish 😂
@@jameskaleniecki2956 I love Jets Pizza and you are not lying about Little Ceasars 😅🤣😆
I have lived in both Detroit and Lansing. I had a lot of fun in both places. Every place has it's pluses and minuses. Detroit has some big pluses. Never got a single bullet hole, they missed.
I live in northern-lower Michigan, and there's some shabby towns up here. Would love to see a small town version of this list. There's some villages up here that look pretty rough. One of them, Brethren, is the town where James Earl Jones was raised, despite being from Jackson. He did his first stage play at a nearby theater. The school he went to up there was in a terrible state of disrepair last time I saw it. Don't know if it's still there. It sits right in the middle of town, completely boarded up. Some years ago there was a man just down the road who got his head blown off by a SWAT team sniper during a stand-off over some pet wolves this guy was raising right there in the heart of town. Small towns in northern Michigan have some crazy stories. Up in Mio you got the infamous story of the two friends from Detroit who were murdered on a hunting trip by a couple of local thugs, beaten to death, dismembered, and fed to pigs. I used to work for a northern Michigan TV news station as a photojournalist and saw some pretty trashy places. Covered a lot of meth lab busts, animal abuse cases, even murders. Remember one that really disturbed me over a couple of punks who suffocated their grandmother to death to rob her and steal her pills. Happened in this little pink house on a dirt road. Lots of eerie places up in the woods around there. About as much ugly as there is beauty. Unless you find delabited buildings beautiful (collapsed barns, crumbling houses, old factories, abandoned hospitals, etc). Some impoverished areas up here that are hurting, no thanks to gretchen witchmer
Hey now... I hunt in Marilla, and I fish at Tippy Dam for brown trout. I also have a place more east in Fairview. Both places are run down, average house income is low. But the people I've always come across are great.
I grew up in Benton Harbor from 1945 to 1969 graduating BHHS 1963, loved the quaint little town, I knew you were going to mention it. I go back home and say I grew up here it is so beautiful, it has been refurbished . It’s sites share the St Joseph River flowing into Lake Michigan with its twin city StJoseph, Benton Harbor touting the world Headquarters for Whirlpool Corporation, definitely a place to visited for its unique views of the North and South piers and white sand beach and coast line all the way from Lakeshore, Stevensville to south Heaven Sagatuck. A truly beautiful vacation area
I drive the whole state for my job, never had any issues with anybody, anywhere.... Just saying.
Must be a truck driver those jobs are long and tough
Thats why this video is about living...having a home... in the worst areas....
in 1969 a field trip from up north to go to kelloggs was amazeing at 9 years old :)
I'm from Belgium.
One of our best, most famous, documentary makers, known for visiting random people all around the world (to document what their everyday-lives are like),
has now gone to the USA to do the same.
Small twist this time: he visits people who are related to himself in his family tree.
Previous episode escalated quickly.
In his search for a distant relative, he arrived in a town looking to make contact with a distantly related niece,
but.... the people in town published his picture on FB warning the entire town that "a creep" is running around town followed by a "film crew" that's "filming all children".
They warned everyone to not approach him and call the police instead... Defend their houses, defend their property.
He had no way or opportunity to defend, or explain himself.
He got more scared compared to any other country he's been to, and this includes Russia.
He ended up leaving the town prematurely before things would get out of hand, and before finding the person... (the town was Armada, Michigan)
There is something wrong in the USA.
This journalist is the nicest, kindest, warmest, journalist we have. Always nice, always listening to people their stories. Never interrupting.
He's been doing this for 25 years.
Now, if a whole town is scared of him... I mean, that's something to think about for a moment...
There's a right wing hysteria spreading in the U.S. and that town is part of it. They distrust and are afraid of everything and everyone that's outside their little bubble because they believe the conspiracy theories that are fed to their narrow minds. It's sad, but he was smart to leave because they're very violent, gun crazy people too.
I'm from Belgium, too, but grew up in Detroit. Wish he would learn he's distantly related to me! I live in north Florida now...
I have lived in several of these places in Michigan and I can say that I am NOT offended, however Lansing isn't that bad
I live in Lansing Michigan and as the capital city it should have much better attractions to draw in visitors. The exit from the airport is awful....should have some desirable visual shops.
@@coffeetherapyinacup - I'm not disagreeing with your comment, but.... have you ever attended the annual "Be a Tourist in Your Own Town" event in Lansing in early June? You'll find there are a whole lot more things to do in Lansing than most of the residents know about.
Yeah I live in Lansing and I can say it’s not that bad
@aDg 2k18 I might have to check out that tour but one of my favorite attractions is the Cooley Law school stadium though I haven’t been there in a few years but it’s nice to watch a Lugnuts game from time to time
@@punishedweeb3588do you live in the Southside?
There are bad areas everywhere!
I LOVE YOUR HUMOR.
I was ready to be triggered watching this but as soon as you said mentioned Gretchen I enjoyed every bit of this video! Hahaha! Love it!
The comments on this thread is proof of what these cities really are made of ppl with a lot of heart😤 much love Michiganders❤️
When commenting about Benton Harbor's come back, why are you showing picture of St. Joseph?
The fact that I love Flint and it’s a bright place is crazy OML
Glad to know that someone loves Flint like me and ain't saying nothing negative about it 👍
i live in battle creek and had no idea how bad people lived. My family is struggling too but its hardly as bad as most familys.
I have lived in this area all my life and work downtown. It is a shame that you didn't shoot the downtown area, the best farmers market around, UMFlint, Kettering University (which was only blocks away from the sad streets shown in your video). Flint has come far and the water struggle is still real....but we are trying and have not given up by any means. There are many intelligent people who live in this community.
I'm from the Flint area also. the NORTH side is just BRUTAL though 😕
@@brettholtslander2704 on soul
Flint Farmers Market's been on point for decades good looking out
Yeah it’s not all bad. From the south side
Flintstone!
Idk if this dude has ever been to Michigan, but I feel like half the stuff he said is just stuff he thought of off the top of his head
I live here. Most is truth, kinda. He probably has the raw data that our local news never talks about.
I live in michigan like who calls battle creek battle crack no one ever says that
He said multiple times that this is what Michigan residents wrote about their own state. Not him. He also used statistics.
the show " pawn stars" showed the filth infecting michigan to all of america to see.
@@Nmizzy614 I've never heard Battle crack before. I think whoever said that is just copying Ponti-Crack's nick name
Man Nick, I'm rooting for you to reach 1,000,000 subscribers! Won't be long. I've been telling people about you
Awww man is it cause we have the same name?? ❤️❤️
Great video
"Millennials" is everyone currently between 25 and 40 years old. Did you think it just meant "teenager?" It's a generation - a range of birth year.
They're the ones who've largely completed their education, but aren't nearing retirement, yet. Who would you _prefer_ to bring business to a recovering city? Retirees?
He literally is a millennial
and are the lazy ones
I’ve lived next to inkster my whole life, and I’ve never heard it called “stinkster.” Though it is rough and I avoid it. “Battle crack” is something I’ve never heard. I’ve never heard Jackson called “little Detroit.” Lansing is lovely if you don’t live in the college area. My sister lives there. Now, Highland Park and Pontiac….yeah, Not going there. I’m more comfortable in Detroit. Detroit has a lot good things. Bay City is NOT a bad place to live. I have no idea where you’re getting your information. Stats and numbers aren’t people.
My husband's co-workers call it that. He works in Battle Creek. I love how it smells though. The farm I worked on would smell fruity.
Battle Crack is practically a household name. I went to school Gull Lake district lived in Bedford. Step Dad was former Union President for Kellogg's current President at the time. I agree with the other comment about the smell of the city, it is amazing. Sometimes Cheerios sometimes Fruit Loops all you need do is roll the window down and you can smell fresh cereal and listen to gunshots at the same time. Lmao
He making it up
I've always called Toledo "little Detroit" lol
Bellevue here...BC is worthless!
I lived in the south side of Lansing for 3 years and had to drop to the floor when there was a shooting in my neighborhood at least once every 3 months. 4 drug raids and 1 fire happend on my street during those 3 years. One of the raids had multiple news teams on my street, I could barely get through to my house.
I have lived in the south end of Lansing for 41 years, your city is what you make of it.
I thought this would be a video about some of the little sundown towns in Michigan you gotta look out for but I feel like Nick is the kind of guy who'd live in one of those.... also don't worry, I don't think Gretchen is watching your videos dude.
Just moved to Lansing. So far, it seems a nice place to live, plenty of parks and natural areas, hiring signs everywhere.
Are you in the southside?
I love it, I'm also living in lansing
@@walkertexasranger4403 mind if I ask what you do for work there there and would you consider it safe?
I love living in Lansing. I’ve lived on the south side for 20 years.
Come to Grand Rapids
How about doing a "Best" cities in Michigan.
subagon Grand Rapids, Marquette, and Traverse City
Bstewotter Bay City residents nicknaming their city “Bay Shitty” beg to differ...
Pinckney!
Jag Channel u must not be from GR or watch the news
I did czcams.com/video/EGZQhrP73i8/video.html
That crossroad reminded me of the crossroads in Castaway when Chuck was trying to decide which road to take
My Moms side of the family lives near Muskegon Heights and I’ve heard stories about my Aunt and Uncle having sketchy people following them for quite some time around there
Any major city off of 75
*born and raised here, love this state and will never leave it!
Any metropolitan area off 94
@@lorishu48103 that stretch through Livingston to Ann Arbor has some $$
I was blessed to live in a small town in Michigan where everyone knows each other and we have lunch with the police and you don't even have to lock your doors.
Still? America WAS like that UNTIL circa the 1980's. Highly doubtful today. I live and grew up in rural Ohio surrounded by Amish farmers and WE NOW HAVE TO lock our doors etc!
Same . I still hated it. I moved about a hour from there. It was good for a few years. I'm ready to move again. Mind you I'm 52. I was born & raised my kids the same now grandchildren. This Granny is ready for a change. 🤣
Climax?
Or Hell?
Are you from Bath?
1st, I love your documentaries. I am a avid follower. I'm Native of Muskegon Heights, born & raised in Michigan, a resident of South Carolina for 7 years now. Michigan is indeed one of the most Beautiful States ever, with miles of Dunes, great sunsets & mostly great people. But sadly Muskegon Heights inner City has become something unrecognizable now. Limited employment opportunities, some City Leaders who have lack direction & some residents who've just given up. There are great people there, not all are bad. The entire City's Government needs to be revamped with Leaders who WILL make positive changes without concern to personal interest or favoritism. The City needs to be restructured, new homes built, better employment opportunities & a stiff arm in deterring crime. Thank you for showing my hometown! Hopefully it'll get better soon!
Ok Tammy
Democrats destroy everything. Marxism has never worked but democrats keep trying. Every major crap hole city in the nation has been destroyed by the democrats.
I just found this,lol. Thank you for noticing. "Love you Michigan" ❤ You're a very popular state.😅😂😊💞
Dude! You ran the red light while entering Lansing!
Bringing crime to the city!
That’s all the “gangsters” do in all the ghetto Michigan cities.. run red lights and blow through stop signs. They can’t follow the law.. they are gangsters they don’t want you to forget.. 😆🙄
Saginaw highway
Idea: states with the most dangerous animals
Florida.
1. Arizona
2. Florida
3. Louisiana
4. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina
8. Alaska
9. California
10. Hawaii
Arizona or Florida
@@jag92949 Good call on Alaska... I'm thinking the entire Pacific Northwest could be on there because of bears.
Detroit
Found this while searching for info on a particular lake in Michigan (Carp Lake - AKA Paradise Lake). It is amazing how CZcams takes you down a rabbit hole. Yes, I blame the website instead of my brain and fingers. :-) Anyway, the narrator drew me in right from the start and had me cracking up. All the boring CZcamsrs need to watch this as a training video! Thanks Nick and I will now spend the next God knows how long watching your other videos. How deep is a rabbit hole anyway?
it's strange to think that Inkster is so close to Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham where I grew up . Those places are really nice still.
They're slowly going down.
Dude u blew thru a red light in Lansing... Lawlessness
There’s lots of areas in Detroit where you should do the same thing!
@@windermere2330 State Fair and John R. I ALWAYS blow the light there on my way to work. The bums and hookers come up to the car there. I'm not giving them the chance.
I’m from right outside of Battle Creek, a place called Augusta right there by Urbandale, the west side of Battle Creek. The stats in the city are a little misleading because of a land annex. Kellogg’s cereal said they were leaving if Battle Creek didn’t annex land to increase the tax base for failing schools in the city, this was the 80s, If you look at the stats in original Battle Creek, before the annexed the immediate suburbs, changing the stats, you’ll see some numbers that are a lot more eye popping.
We have a Kellogg’s factory here in Memphis and it’s a pretty bad place too. But if they closed here, there are plenty more factories and warehouses here. Are there many other options there far as jobs? Just curious because it seems like people may depend on it there
I relocated there for work. Outside of work it was a nightmare I had never seen so many meth addicts and poor people with greasy hair in my life. I lasted 9 months. Never.Again.
Battle creek is a shithole wow so much vacant industrial land
Its a horrible closemind and historically bigoted place. The city is run by Kellogg and the Catholic church. And it's done so in a corrupt and oppressive way. The city government seems to find ways to target the disabled elderly and the poor with abject impunity.
There's a huge county jail n prison that used to hold ice members, as well as level four security..
Good job Buddy. 1m Views 🎉
Good commentary.
When your hometown gets a shoutout
Mine did
Shout out to Saginaw.
Skitown
Highland Park is inside of Detroit literally..
And Ham-town
Posting from Flint! And to be honest, I've been thinking of moving to Benton Harbor cause I keep finding amazing deals on homes right near Lake Michigan, to me living that close (close enough to walk) is priceless, and most homes around the coast end up being literal Millions of dollars, found a great little 0.15 Acre Lot 2 miles from the beach literally right in thew heart of Benton Harbor, for $5k! I am seriously considering!
Father was from Saginaw grandmother and cousins lived there many years and nothing but fond memories visiting there I’m glad this is just one persons obervation
Not everything they say about Michigan is true I'm sure you never been there, and every city have good and bad parts just like any countries why putting the worst on Michigan I, love this city and people who think that it's trash are totally wrong come visit it before you describe it, I'm sure you'll change your mind you'll love it.
True but it's mainly the government. Michigan has always been a little out of touch with the rest of society always playing catch up.
The south has way better laws, invest their money better, and people come flocking here for the capitalism. For young adults, the South is a happening, booming place with loads of activities and opportunities.I think Michigan's controling government and its welfare system doesn't give much incentive to move up in life(in some cities)
I think weather has somewhat to do with it. Alot of people not raised there won't deal with the weather. I don't mind it.
I've spent half my life in each place and love the lower population of Michigan.Being older the hustle and crowds are getting old. Last time i took a vacation up there the highways look deserted. People keep to themselves in stores and walk like highway rules. Lol My small city in the south has twice as much people than Lansing. There are never less than a hundred people in any grocery store going every which way. Summers are miserable. Too cold up there and too hot down here but winters have highs of 50, freedom is great, plenty of opportunity.Take your pick. For me I miss family and seasons. It sucked as a teen but now as an adult visiting with a totally different state of mind and a family of my own I may come home soon and try it for a year.
Michigan is beautiful with a failed socialist government. Detroit is burnt down with a communist Marxist government.
My number one problem with Jackson is that it seems as if they’re ALWAYS working on the roads !
That's Michigan.
The problem is, we use asphalt, and when they don't use asphalt, they attempt to make the concrete as cheap as possible, which results in early concrete failure.
In Michigan, the roads that survive the longest are made of concrete. You can often get 20 years or longer out of a road if concrete is used. Longer if the surface is maintained.
The biggest problem with asphalt is that water gets underneath the asphalt layer, freezes, causes uplift, and that results in cracking and eventually a pothole forming. Freeze-Thaw events, such as a sunny day during the winter, can take an asphalt road that is in good shape in the fall, and turn it into a mess of potholes by Spring.
Really? I go through Jackson twice a week and I never see _anyone_ working on the roads.
Remember, there are two drining seasons in Michigan: Winter and Construction.
@@sophiak1354 Yeah how's that going for you now?? 😂
yaaay flints #1!! Im a Paramedic in flint ya its that bad but kinda worse but I love running EMS in this city you literally never know how crazy your day is. Wouldn't want to live there but love working it
Scariest place I ever delivered packages to was in Detroit. Lansing isn't too bad. Everyone I delivered to was friendly. My favorite place to go is around whitmore lake
so basically you think any majority minority city is bad? Says more about you then those places and their populations.
A sad reality
Coincidence?....
crime data exists
Or maybe he is showing the link between poverty and crime....??? I'm blk and make great money. Most of my neighbors are blk and there are ZERO issues here where I live.
@@IyamSoRaya so you would agree that anyone who works, has ambition, an education... is able to succeed in this great country?
Damn, it's almost as if poverty and crime is linked
You think?
Lack of education + poverty = crime.
It's crazy what happens when you pt a people in a place and position where it's difficult to take care of yourself and your family
And also taking away people’s jobs for cheaper labor in other areas of the country and world.
@@flyersfan651 lack of any funding for schools=lack of education.
Love how I was born in Battle Creek and lived here for 10 years and now live in Benton harbor 😂
Lansing has really good food and fun for the weekend or traveling through. I travel a lot and live a nomad life style
Nice