10 US Cities With The Worst Reputations.

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    Top 10 Cities with the worst reputations.
    The United States has almost 20, 000 cities. Some of those cities have bad reputations. These reputations land on a city for many reasons. Urban decay, crime, poverty, or Fox News talking bad about them. It could be many reasons and that is what we are looking at today. Are these the most dangerous or worst states? No always.
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Komentáře • 597

  • @WorldAccordingToBriggs
    @WorldAccordingToBriggs  Před měsícem +11

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  • @LarcR
    @LarcR Před měsícem +164

    Crime has decreased in Detroit because even the criminals are moving out.

    • @delroywilson9588
      @delroywilson9588 Před měsícem +9

      That's why you measure crime by per capita numbers.

    • @mauriziomannini4674
      @mauriziomannini4674 Před měsícem +19

      😂 this comments gets a dark humor award!

    • @FloridaManPat
      @FloridaManPat Před měsícem +4

      I have a friend who lives just north of Detroit… he say invest in property in downtown… it’s empty but hopefully coming back.

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home Před měsícem +1

      I’m surprised tech industry hasn’t moved there. It’s a lot better than Fargo.

    • @manne8575
      @manne8575 Před měsícem +3

      @@delroywilson9588 If criminals move out, crime per capita would still decrease though. That doesn't change anything.

  • @lindacarlson8886
    @lindacarlson8886 Před měsícem +38

    Public policy is a MAJOR factor in most of cities' downfall.

  • @b-genspinster7895
    @b-genspinster7895 Před měsícem +31

    Homelessness and drug use are only footnotes in why San Francisco and Portland have bad reputations.

    • @a2ndopynyn
      @a2ndopynyn Před měsícem

      Correct. Pretty much every city with major problems is run by leftist Democrats and by leftist, I mean _Marxist._ Not 'liberal' - Ben Franklin was a liberal. Karl Marx was most definitely not.

    • @Entername-md1ev
      @Entername-md1ev Před měsícem

      I went to lisbon recently and I can’t help but think that if SanFran kept it’s head straight it could be as great as the Portuguese capital as they are pretty similar looking cities

    • @tarico4436
      @tarico4436 Před měsícem +3

      @@Entername-md1ev All drugs legal in Portugal, just like in Portland. So why is Portugal simply a great country and Portland a mess? After they legalized everything in 2002 in Portugal, all crime went down, and even addiction went down. Let people be free, a la "my body my choice," and people for the most part do a few drugs for a while, then the thrill wears off, then they slow down or quit doing drugs altogether.

    • @timcombs2730
      @timcombs2730 Před měsícem

      as a Portlander, this is true and I can confirm

    • @christineboone2850
      @christineboone2850 Před měsícem

      Not sure I understand. What are the factors you are thinking are the most important?

  • @k.chriscaldwell4141
    @k.chriscaldwell4141 Před měsícem +36

    Portland was scary in ‘93. Waaay scarier now.

    • @patrickbyrne5734
      @patrickbyrne5734 Před měsícem +1

      Disgusting but not scary

    • @timcombs2730
      @timcombs2730 Před měsícem +1

      Portland has never really been that nice….

    • @k.chriscaldwell4141
      @k.chriscaldwell4141 Před měsícem

      @@timcombs2730 In ‘93 I had an idealized view of Portland. I missed my intend exit driving in. Scary, and I once rode a public bus through Detroit’s “Donut.” I don’t scare easy.
      Idealized view busted, I drove on to Astoria.

    • @jakethelifter3824
      @jakethelifter3824 Před 7 hodinami

      Portland has a very low homicide rate and not that bad of an overall crime rate. There are far "scarier" cities.

  • @richardgregor5435
    @richardgregor5435 Před měsícem +23

    You shouldn't shame people who do decent jobs like welder or dockworker

    • @chuckinhouston9952
      @chuckinhouston9952 Před měsícem +12

      If you want to shame someone Briggs, talk about Federal government employees, not people who do real work to add value to society. Got it? Get it? Good!

    • @jimroscovius
      @jimroscovius Před měsícem

      ​@@chuckinhouston9952Whether you like it or not, too many of those types of jobs DO give a bad reputation. Look at Detroit, as an example. You couldn't pay me enough to live there, or any other place like it.

  • @thelastnic
    @thelastnic Před měsícem +16

    Surprised Little Rock, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Baton Rouge, Cleveland, Flint, Michigan, Gary, Indiana are not on the list.

    • @EthanNeal
      @EthanNeal Před měsícem +1

      Used to live in Baton Rouge, yes it has a bad reputation because of its crime rates, but there do exist genuine reasons to live there and there are nice parts of town. If you're going to LSU or Southern, or have some involvement with the state government and/or its varies agencies, you'll want to be near or in Baton Rouge for that. If you're going to live in Baton Rouge, the southern half of town is actually quite nice, Perkins Rowe comes to mind, but it's far from the only nice place in town.

    • @jamesballard6564
      @jamesballard6564 Před měsícem +2

      Cleveland has improved allot in recent years. I agree with the rest though.

  • @goldengirl54
    @goldengirl54 Před měsícem +18

    Isn't it called "Baltimorgue Murderland?"

    • @howardcitizen2471
      @howardcitizen2471 Před měsícem +1

      It’s “Bodymore”

    • @johndooley133
      @johndooley133 Před měsícem

      @@howardcitizen2471 If you need a direction in life . Go to Baltiimore , Where you can be some body !!!!!!

  • @LLYMYNT
    @LLYMYNT Před měsícem +11

    Have a guy at work from Chicago that had multiple problems living there. And now his wife wants to move to Memphis, I told him don’t do it, and he agrees with me.
    Love your videos ❤

    • @larrys4618
      @larrys4618 Před měsícem +3

      Memphis and not Nashville like most Chicagoans do when they move to Tennessee? So he wants to trade the boiling pot for the frying pan. Maybe his problems in Chicago are personal and not much to do with to the city itself.

  • @pskarnaq73
    @pskarnaq73 Před měsícem +73

    Michigander here. Flint is waaaayyyy worse than Detroit. Folks from out of town still think of the 80s and 90s Detroit, but it's gotten so much better. Of course, there are still areas where you want to stay away, but those areas are dwindling.

    • @Kingsized_Kevin
      @Kingsized_Kevin Před měsícem +8

      Born in Hamtramck in the 70s.. Lived there until 92.. I have been going back to Detroit to see family for the last 20 years, and Love how the City is turning around

    • @Kim-J312
      @Kim-J312 Před měsícem +3

      My friend says Kalamazoo is "little Detroit ". Sounds like a sad place he said drugs are everywhere there . I still love Michigan ❤️ though, I want to retire there 😊.

    • @Kingsized_Kevin
      @Kingsized_Kevin Před měsícem +1

      @@Kim-J312 ahh yes, The Zoo.. Those little Towns Adrian and Jackson have now gotten these bad Reputations

    • @DJF177
      @DJF177 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@Kim-J312damn don't retire there because michigan blows. Pure sad state.

    • @Kim-J312
      @Kim-J312 Před měsícem +1

      @DJF177 do you live there? I've only been to New Buffalo area and east to Three Rivers to snowmobile. I like that I could basically sled through town to regular gas stations to fill up and no one gives a crap about it. Locals were kind enough to get us back to the tail head . 👍Same vibe up in north woods wisco 👍. A couple of bars off trail had parking areas for snowmobiles 👍 . All that isn't happening in, for example, in Colorado or Idaho ect.

  • @lucasdog1
    @lucasdog1 Před měsícem +24

    Bad reputations follow closely to the politics of city leaders.
    Change my mind.

  • @IamDiamondDraco
    @IamDiamondDraco Před měsícem +9

    The largest amount of homeless are the ones you don't see; transitional homeless. Those between jobs, couldn't find a place before losing the last one. These are all working people who had bad timing and/or didn't have enough for first and deposit. They almost always solve their situations on their own so you don't hear about them but they are the largest. Yes mentally challenged and/or chemically dependant are huge but we(I have mental illness) are almost always financially challenged.
    Most people don't realize that almost all homeless are victims of the economy, as well as other things but the cost of living is always an issue with lack of access to affordable and proper healthcare a sad sibling. I've been homeless since 2012 and while on occasion I've gotten mental healthcare, I've NEVER gotten help with housing I can continue to afford after moving in. The ones you see in tent cities gave up and don't trust anything offered anymore.

  • @kingdoughnut7244
    @kingdoughnut7244 Před měsícem +33

    I have lived in Michigan for over 50 years, Detroit has a bad reputation because the people who live there are horrible people! Not because of poverty.

    • @ricosally6734
      @ricosally6734 Před měsícem +11

      Facts, I from there moved 13yrs ago, tell everyone that, new building, restaurant don't make a city it's the people, and Detroit got terrible people

  • @JUAN75001
    @JUAN75001 Před měsícem +8

    Excellent work as always Briggs !

  • @dariusbrock2351
    @dariusbrock2351 Před měsícem +2

    Another great vid Briggs, thanks again!

  • @RickHeggem
    @RickHeggem Před měsícem +31

    Your analogies and ability to turn a snarky phrase always amazes me. 😂

  • @MayWhite-bz7xl
    @MayWhite-bz7xl Před měsícem +1

    Really enjoyed this one Briggs.

  • @darlawittmier1793
    @darlawittmier1793 Před měsícem +16

    You clumped San Francisco and Portland together. Does that mean the are tied? I'm sure LA is in the list

  • @MoonlightXYZ
    @MoonlightXYZ Před měsícem +21

    Springfield IL also sucks. Honest Abe would cry if he saw this state today.

  • @Agent77X
    @Agent77X Před měsícem +17

    L.A. & Baltimore for sure!

  • @jonathanherndon1012
    @jonathanherndon1012 Před měsícem +31

    Smaller cities East St. Louis, Flint, Saginaw, Gary, Jackson, and Milwaukee not to mention Pine Bluff and Little Rock.

    • @deanzachariades6365
      @deanzachariades6365 Před měsícem +5

      Milwaukee's a smaller city? Compared to Chicago.

    • @mikeyc7072
      @mikeyc7072 Před měsícem

      Pine Bluff is less than 50,000 People - 80% of whom are the demographic which cannot be called out🤦🏼‍♂️!! Bit of a stretch calling it a “City” compared to all these other places!! Yes - it is a true Shithole💩🚽👎!! Just stay away, as the rest of us here in Arkansas do!!

    • @billschindler1381
      @billschindler1381 Před měsícem +5

      Baton Rouge and Memphis.

    • @mikeyc7072
      @mikeyc7072 Před měsícem

      Comment deleted😮 “Woke Supremacy” strikes again😂👏

    • @larrys4618
      @larrys4618 Před měsícem +4

      Milwaukee is larger than Atlanta. Not the Metro but the city limits are. As for Atlanta it should be on this list too.

  • @eldepavas
    @eldepavas Před měsícem +14

    In Part 2: Little Rock, Jackson, Shreveport, Gary...

    • @marthamcginty7444
      @marthamcginty7444 Před měsícem +6

      Ok. I lived in both Little Rock and Shreveport. I was on HIGH alert at all
      times even when grocery shopping in broad daylight. Now on west coast. My anxiety titer has dropped significantly.

    • @diodelvino3048
      @diodelvino3048 Před měsícem

      Id probably off myself if i was stuck in Shreveport ngl

  • @irmakalember9403
    @irmakalember9403 Před měsícem

    Hey Brigs Txs for shafting.

  • @annhowcroft9493
    @annhowcroft9493 Před měsícem +8

    I just love your humor, a honey badger with hemorrhoids and a bad tooth.

  • @cynthiaraufmann7625
    @cynthiaraufmann7625 Před měsícem +28

    can't believe you didn't include St Louis, a city you often mention as being horrible- it definitely has a horrible reputation!

    • @cammalham
      @cammalham Před měsícem +4

      This and I was surprised that New Orleans didn't make the list either

    • @firefighter1c57
      @firefighter1c57 Před měsícem +5

      St. Louis is massive overshadowed by East St. Louis in Illinois if we are being honest.

    • @boriskoblents8586
      @boriskoblents8586 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@firefighter1c57 too small a population to matter on this list

  • @mattnorman5241
    @mattnorman5241 Před měsícem +18

    memphis gotta make this list

    • @larrys4618
      @larrys4618 Před měsícem

      That's the first city that came to my mind. Memphis has replaced Detroit.

    • @jackjines3461
      @jackjines3461 Před měsícem

      My cousins son has been a police officer forever in Memphis and getting ready to retire. He said, ya just can't believe how downhill it's went and don't even go near Graceland after dark.

  • @onrycodger
    @onrycodger Před měsícem +2

    Wow! Great video brother! Thumbs up!😎👍

  • @romiemiller7876
    @romiemiller7876 Před měsícem +15

    Chicago is COLD in the Winter. It's the only city I know of where the wind blows down all four sides of a block at the same time.

    • @CC-cp5uf
      @CC-cp5uf Před měsícem +3

      That's second to the insane amount of crime.

    • @perfectallycromulent
      @perfectallycromulent Před měsícem +1

      @@CC-cp5uf no it's not. there are plenty of low crime parts of Chicago. no part is warm in the winter.

    • @katannyadirkson6147
      @katannyadirkson6147 Před měsícem

      😂

  • @crewser004
    @crewser004 Před měsícem +8

    Bridge collapse jokes? Too soon, bro too soon…

  • @ToddDolce
    @ToddDolce Před měsícem +5

    Cool video as usual Briggs....but a slight spell check needed for your episode cover. "Reputation". Ask me if it prevented me from watching your video,..of course not!!! Briggs rocks!

  • @georgesly
    @georgesly Před měsícem +56

    Most of these cities have these problems because they lost jobs. Detroit was motor city. The auto makers left and the other jobs and the city fell apart. Bring back the jobs and you stop the bleeding.

    • @buckshot6481
      @buckshot6481 Před měsícem +15

      President Obozo said everyone would learn to "write code". You know many blue collar Americans that could write code.

    • @jsimsgt96
      @jsimsgt96 Před měsícem +7

      Oversimplified to say the least

    • @K.B.Williams
      @K.B.Williams Před měsícem +3

      ​@@jsimsgt96It's the truth. Oversimplified is blaming it all on one race.

    • @darrellbrown8165
      @darrellbrown8165 Před měsícem +8

      Then they should get off their ass and go where the jobs are. I have crossed numerous state lines to work and lived in foreign countries for work 15 years. I'm not interested in hearing the whining and bitching.

    • @delroywilson9588
      @delroywilson9588 Před měsícem

      Maybe. The Baltimore region is thriving and has plenty of jobs.

  • @overbanked
    @overbanked Před měsícem +3

    Portland and San Francisco are known for drugs and homelessness, but it's Anchorage that is known for crime...

  • @dennisw.truman3325
    @dennisw.truman3325 Před měsícem +12

    Good afternoon Briggs! Have a great day! 🎚️🇺🇸🪖👮‍♂️

  • @captinnapkin0211
    @captinnapkin0211 Před měsícem +17

    Could you do a video on northern VA (Arlington/Alexandria)? Completely selfish reasons, but that’d be awesome!!!

    • @zmolekobecny2301
      @zmolekobecny2301 Před měsícem +1

      I would love that too! As European tourist I visited this area last year and it was a lovely experience!

    • @jeffreygnoza7057
      @jeffreygnoza7057 Před měsícem

      What about dale city virginia or that's real bad

  • @nelskrogh3238
    @nelskrogh3238 Před měsícem

    Good job Briggs, I even enjoyed the commercial.

  • @garyleibitzke4166
    @garyleibitzke4166 Před měsícem +9

    I was stationed about 12 miles north of Memphis at the then Naval Air Technical Training Center in Millington, Tenn. in 1971-1972. Memphis SUCKED even back then.

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home Před měsícem

      I went to Avionics A School then. I finished around May.

    • @garyleibitzke4166
      @garyleibitzke4166 Před měsícem +1

      @@Chris_at_Home I went to Avionics A and then AFTA. Spent a year there.

  • @CharlieOkayasu
    @CharlieOkayasu Před měsícem +7

    Im guessing Camden NJ will be on here.

    • @juanpablosaenz9037
      @juanpablosaenz9037 Před měsícem

      If you screw it up in hell they'll send you straight to Camden.

  • @jasontapia1032
    @jasontapia1032 Před měsícem +40

    San francisco has to be on this list

    • @kurtb8474
      @kurtb8474 Před měsícem +3

      I'm surprised NYC isn't mentioned.

    • @JLAvey
      @JLAvey Před měsícem +4

      Maybe because New York actually meets its low expectations?

    • @domin8ss
      @domin8ss Před měsícem +2

      It is. It's tied for 10th with Portland, and the first city discussed in the video. Did you even watch the video?

    • @aprilclover2429
      @aprilclover2429 Před měsícem

      San Francisco is actually still pretty nice. That's the best kept secret. I work in San Francisco and have no problems there whatsoever.

    • @aprilclover2429
      @aprilclover2429 Před měsícem

      Oakland is a tale of two cities. Crime is bad there and has been forever. But, Oakland has some beautiful areas and it is no longer affordable. You can live your best life in some parts of Oakland like the hills, Rockridge and Piedmont Avenue so long as you don’t become a crime victim. Oakland is gentrified and has great restaurants, parks, stores, cafes and natural beauty.

  • @Smackwater587
    @Smackwater587 Před měsícem +2

    The very best 👌 truth and storyteller!!! Go Briggs!!!!!! 🐐

  • @LJB103
    @LJB103 Před měsícem +4

    On a Detroit-centric site it was mentioned that you could fit the whole city of Boston or San Francisco in just the vacant land in the city of Detroit. Gary, IN?

  • @newyorkerinvegas
    @newyorkerinvegas Před měsícem +8

    Haven't watched the video yet but BEST THUMBNAIL EVER!

    • @WorldAccordingToBriggs
      @WorldAccordingToBriggs  Před měsícem +9

      I was thinking bad reputation and then I remembered Joan Jett had a song called "Bad Reputation". So I thought Joan Jett wears leather, lets find a girl in leather.

  • @gwats19577
    @gwats19577 Před měsícem +6

    You forgot Gary, Indiana!!!

  • @ColePhelps-cv2qh
    @ColePhelps-cv2qh Před měsícem +15

    When I was gradu from Marine corp boot camp, I learned my senior was from springfield, Massachusetts, and I then I understood why he joined the marine corps

  • @stevemoore9951
    @stevemoore9951 Před měsícem

    Greetings from the PPRC GREAT VIDEO TODAY.🇺🇸🍺🍺

  • @anye76
    @anye76 Před měsícem +4

    My hometown Springfield, Massachusetts ☹ that's why I moved from there over 20 years ago

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Před měsícem

      Grew up in 60s and 70s in Hartford area (Glastonbury) and Springfield (East Longmeadow) used to be a great place but haven't been back since 1975 went in Military then moved to Denver

  • @guitarplaytoday686
    @guitarplaytoday686 Před měsícem +1

    Your humour is delightful

  • @WaylonDog
    @WaylonDog Před měsícem +3

    As someone who has spent most of their life in the greater Cleveland area I’m kinda surprised that we didn’t make the list. In the early 2000s someone stole my mom’s beater Saturn station wagon in broad daylight. On another note Gary Indiana would have made this list if more people knew about it, it’s all burned out and smells like sulfur

  • @chrisp308
    @chrisp308 Před měsícem +8

    One word, "cities"

    • @kevinalford272
      @kevinalford272 Před měsícem

      Most Americans live in cities.

    • @larrys4618
      @larrys4618 Před měsícem

      ​@@kevinalford272most Americans live in suburbs.

  • @swimmer8585
    @swimmer8585 Před měsícem +7

    As a Marylander, Baltimore is getting worse and worse. There's about 3 neighborhoods that are safe, and they're getting worse. The only time there's some sort of peace and happiness is when the Raven's play. The whole city gets behind that

    • @delroywilson9588
      @delroywilson9588 Před měsícem

      Hum. The stats say different. Homicide was down 20% last year -- the biggest fall on record -- and is down almost 40% so far this year.

    • @mickjaegerguano4809
      @mickjaegerguano4809 Před měsícem

      I was in ft Meade in the early 90s and it was rough then.. the block, LOL!! last I heard the inner harbor is now akin to a dead mall, haven't seen it in 30 years.

    • @delroywilson9588
      @delroywilson9588 Před měsícem

      @@mickjaegerguano4809 It's a city of neighborhoods. At its best, the Inner Harbor was just a twee tourist trap.

  • @windronner1
    @windronner1 Před měsícem +1

    This has got to be one of the well produced geographically social commentary sites on internet. 👍

  • @raydaniel2490
    @raydaniel2490 Před měsícem +2

    When you talked about Oakland being a beautiful city, a view of Atlanta showed up lol. Despite that, I love ur videos and always watch them.

  • @pinstripepimp517
    @pinstripepimp517 Před měsícem +3

    Pretty sure a guy named Al gave Chicago that reputation years ago.

  • @codyway7424
    @codyway7424 Před měsícem +8

    Don't call the cops in Memphis. You are better off dealing with the problem yourself.

  • @boondoggle4820
    @boondoggle4820 Před měsícem +1

    Baltimore recently started a program that lets people buy houses for $1.00 under certain conditions. That’s how bad the urban decay and living conditions are in certain areas.

  • @davebodi
    @davebodi Před měsícem

    I see that DEVO album by the Lava Lamp, & S&H greenstamps. I can relate !

  • @Natasha-bf6yk
    @Natasha-bf6yk Před měsícem

    you were on a roll with the one liners in this one briggs 😂

  • @artfuldodger7838
    @artfuldodger7838 Před měsícem +2

    Detroit: Abandoned homes. The homeless were living in them? I'm not seeing a problem.

  • @GarrettWorcester
    @GarrettWorcester Před měsícem

    2:02 - How much do homes on Lombard Street sell for, and how in the El DeBarge do you park a moving van anywhere near the house?

  • @fearmynaturalgas
    @fearmynaturalgas Před měsícem +2

    Chicago has had a reputation since the 1920s

  • @nw9353
    @nw9353 Před měsícem +3

    Perfect Thumbnail. OMG.

  • @buckshot6481
    @buckshot6481 Před měsícem +11

    You could do a short on Cities with a good reputation 😏

  • @KurtAspaas
    @KurtAspaas Před měsícem +9

    I won't bring up strip clubs.

  • @garyharnish2395
    @garyharnish2395 Před měsícem +1

    😂😂😂👍💯dude is hilarious

  • @mattlyons8818
    @mattlyons8818 Před měsícem +3

    I'm quite familiar with Springfield MA. It has some bad sections that are ugly and have gang activity which ruins the city's stats, but there are plenty of decent neighborhoods within the city limits (particularly on the eastern side of the city) as well as some genuinely nice towns nearby.

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Před měsícem +1

      Graduated from East ongmeadow in 1973 and then went into air force in 1975 and haven't been back...used to be great in 1970s

    • @mattlyons8818
      @mattlyons8818 Před měsícem

      @@DENVEROUTDOORMAN That area is still pretty good. I'd totally live there.

  • @paulayala4816
    @paulayala4816 Před měsícem +3

    I was never a big fan of San Francisco or any big city for that matter. We had gone to SF back in 2004 and it was pretty nice. Then we went back in 2017 and it was already into it's big slide. "I stepped in human fecal matter and that was the highlight of my trip." There is another CZcamsr posting content on SF and it looks much-much worse since 2017.

  • @domin8ss
    @domin8ss Před měsícem +2

    Baltimore is a horrible city to be a hired gun. They have strict gun control laws.

  • @JonyRotten
    @JonyRotten Před měsícem +3

    Been researching this topic: The pandemic and eviction moratoriums (for good and bad) had huge impacts. The homelessness issue here in AZ is without doubt due to pricing. Opportunistic investors have priced thousands of individuals and families out of their rented spaces. I would barely afford to rent in my own neighbor where I own and still get calls to sell almost daily. Lose your home and any MH issue will most certainly be exacerbated. I love Portland too, It's heartbreaking to see. We Americans will turn it around

    • @Denise_2262
      @Denise_2262 Před měsícem

      It is sad thay so many corporations are being allowed to buy up all the single family houses and apartments are being built everywhere. Only 1 person running for president has even mentioned thus problem and it should be banned. The single buyer can't compete and all the boomers that are selling make so much more. The young people have no chance of owning homes if we keep going this route. I believe that is the goal but it is sad.

    • @JonyRotten
      @JonyRotten Před měsícem

      @@Denise_2262 "Attorney General Mayes Sues RealPage and Residential Landlords for Illegal Price-Fixing Conspiracy" Someone is working on it to what effect remains to be seen.

    • @diodelvino3048
      @diodelvino3048 Před měsícem +1

      Pretty much the biggest factor to the homelessness and mass amounts that moved out of California and NYC, after 2020

  • @charlesbittman7683
    @charlesbittman7683 Před měsícem +2

    I really enjoy your content. I’m not sure if this can is the best place to give my 2 cents. I’ve always lived in the chi suburbs. In the 80s & 90s I worked and dated in the city. My daughter recently graduated college and was offered a job in chi or MKE. She picked Milwaukee. I love Milwaukee. I visit her often. I’m kinda din ne with chi.

  • @juliebbb6031
    @juliebbb6031 Před měsícem +2

    I couldn’t find a place for topic suggestions so here you go: Assuming Manhattan is flooded permanently, which cities would make a good replacement? I mean a huge chunk of our economy is based there so all those company headquarters/banks/Wall Street has to go somewhere.

  • @usamarao3526
    @usamarao3526 Před měsícem

    hey Briggs! tell something about the Murray, Kentucky. Is it safe to live? I know its a very small town but I really need to know

  • @herbertfawcett7213
    @herbertfawcett7213 Před měsícem +3

    Chicago had a bad reputation way before Obama! And what about Las Vegas?

  • @CybeleCotter
    @CybeleCotter Před měsícem

    I visited Baltimore on business once. I liked the Italian District -- great restaurants! -- and the area on the water with its bookstores, etc. Loved their soft-shelled blue crab cakes.

  • @krisvseverybody
    @krisvseverybody Před měsícem +1

    Detroit is one of the best cities in the world. The NFL draft showed that visitors are safe and the foods are amazing. Come visit Briggs! I wanna show you around. 😄

  • @kevinakakp9120
    @kevinakakp9120 Před měsícem +3

    Yup as usual, Detroit is the big ol scary boogie monster

  • @masond7573
    @masond7573 Před měsícem

    6:28 I know it's not a great place, but certainly wasn't expecting to see my hometown on here

  • @paulschwartz5277
    @paulschwartz5277 Před měsícem +5

    In Oakland we call her BBQ Becky

    • @WorldAccordingToBriggs
      @WorldAccordingToBriggs  Před měsícem +1

      Wasn't she rediculous?

    • @paulschwartz5277
      @paulschwartz5277 Před měsícem

      @@WorldAccordingToBriggs Truthfully, she was right. In that part of Lake Merritt there are places where you are allowed to BBQ and places where you aren't allowed. The offending chef was not in the designated BBQ area. However, she made such a stink about it that she got the wrong kind of attention. Kind of a variant of Streisand effect. The next day about 25 people went to that area and setup their grills. Kind of funny really. BTW--I grew up in Oakland and I love the town, but hate what it's become. It's a result of ranked choice voting. But, I digress...

  • @timwang6705
    @timwang6705 Před měsícem +7

    Portland has a noticeable change in this spring. I drove by for a few times and found much less tents/deformed rvs

  • @richardsanty9063
    @richardsanty9063 Před měsícem +14

    The drugs from the addictions caused the mental illness in most of the homeless.

    • @montreauxs
      @montreauxs Před měsícem +2

      Perhaps. But remember.. It's their fault for trying out the addictive stuff.

    • @waterdragon2012
      @waterdragon2012 Před měsícem +3

      It’s the stress in general. They get assaulted. They don’t get sleep. Etc

    • @helenbranam2648
      @helenbranam2648 Před měsícem +2

      Not all of them. I happen to know a few people who were so badly abused by family members, as in more than 1 or even just 3. Then, when they married, it is the same thing all over again. Even the police are abusive to people who need help. Sometimes they even kill themselves because of all the abuse. Others work hard to get the help they need.

    • @richardsanty9063
      @richardsanty9063 Před měsícem +1

      @@helenbranam2648 Thats why in my reply I said most. that very reason you mentioned.

    • @waterdragon2012
      @waterdragon2012 Před měsícem +4

      I think the drugs are more a symptom than the cause. It looks to me like they’re suffering from traumas that can go back to their childhood. And out of desperation they turn to drugs for some relief from the suffering and then they inevitably get addicted to drugs. I think it’s mostly to do with trauma and not having enough support from family and friends

  • @robercoli6136
    @robercoli6136 Před měsícem

    Waterbury, CT

  • @domin8ss
    @domin8ss Před měsícem +3

    I really hate to oversimplify the cities on this list, but there is a trend worth mentioning. Every single one of these cities has a history of consecutive Democrat mayors for the last 40+ years, with the exception of Anchorage flipping between Dems and Reps. There's 1 or 2 that had an Independent here and there, but historical evidence from DC shows Independents vote along Democrat Party lines in most cases. There was a shift around the 80s where Republicans stopped being elected in these cities, and now they're all here on this list by World According to Briggs. Before I posted this comment I did take the time to look up the history of these cities before saying anything.

    • @chuckinhouston9952
      @chuckinhouston9952 Před měsícem

      Stop apologizing.

    • @jackjines3461
      @jackjines3461 Před měsícem

      Well to begin with, I believe it was 70's or 80's that the term WHITE FLIGHT" came about. Whites moved to the country and look at the cesspool cities.

    • @SA-hz1rs
      @SA-hz1rs Před měsícem

      have you seen dying rural america? who controls that>

  • @scrambler69-xk3kv
    @scrambler69-xk3kv Před měsícem +1

    Pittsburgh gets no love. Everyone still thinks it is a smoky steel town. These days it is a high tech medical, robotics, space research city. That also is home to a world class symphony orchestra, many wonderful museums a fabulous zoo and so much more. A very clean city as well.

  • @CerealGrrrl
    @CerealGrrrl Před měsícem +4

    I hear you on Portland. I love the PNW and am proud to be a native west coaster, but we do have our fair share of problems for sure.

    • @ralphjohnson3202
      @ralphjohnson3202 Před měsícem

      @cerealGrrrl The PNW is gloomy and depressing along with the weather and shity ass people.both Portland and Seattle are trash.

    • @ralphjohnson3202
      @ralphjohnson3202 Před 6 dny +1

      @CerearlGrrrl.Seattle should have been on been on this list.

    • @CerealGrrrl
      @CerealGrrrl Před 6 dny

      @@ralphjohnson3202 Yep, I avoid live in a suburb of Seattle about 25 miles north of it, and I avoid the city most of the time.

  • @ToABrighterFuture
    @ToABrighterFuture Před měsícem

    9:13 Okay, THAT was a good one. 😆

  • @pinstripepimp517
    @pinstripepimp517 Před měsícem +1

    Detroit is the punching bag for all these types of channels.😂

  • @williamf57
    @williamf57 Před měsícem

    Briggs, please come to Kent Ohio, this town needs an episode on it self. no best, no worst but a very lovely place to live. I would love to show you around. I think you would be very pleased with this city.I don’t know how you could reach me but you might. I’ll be looking for your reply!

  • @llc1976
    @llc1976 Před měsícem +2

    I’m not sure why the United States can’t won’t or fails to end homelessness. Some cities we just seem to have given up and given in. Why do we allow Kensington in PA or skid Row in LA? Could we build drug and alcohol mental health hospitals in these bocks and insist people are housed and can’t hang out on the streets?

    • @sniggitty
      @sniggitty Před měsícem +2

      There is no money/profit in fixing houselessness. if there were some way the corporate swine and equity firms could make money houselessness would end tomorrow.

  • @NYmomAdrienne3915
    @NYmomAdrienne3915 Před měsícem +25

    NYC is definitely on this one.. I lived there during the Giuliani and Bloomberg years and now live in Nassau County on Long Island but still go often. We deserve to be on this list, especially since it was so safe back when I lived in Manhattan in the Bloomberg years, it wasn’t all that long ago

    • @delroywilson9588
      @delroywilson9588 Před měsícem +1

      I'd be curious to see the actual stats on that.

    • @user-hp1ou3nb7t
      @user-hp1ou3nb7t Před měsícem +2

      I lived in the NYC area from birth to 1979. The best I've seen the city was when my wife and I visited in 2004. Go figure, New York didn't make the list.

    • @TheItalianTrash
      @TheItalianTrash Před měsícem +1

      The crime rates in NYC were higher every single year when Giuliani was mayor than it is today even after the huge increase in crime starting in 2020.

    • @NYmomAdrienne3915
      @NYmomAdrienne3915 Před měsícem

      @@delroywilson9588 in the mid 1990s projects like cleaning up Times Square were started and it became a shopping, dining, etc area like it is now. Used to be a place of strip clubs, prostitution, etc. The Civic Cleanup program went on in the 1990s under Commissioner Bratton. The NYPD took crime more seriously. The effects were realized after 9/11 and during Bloomberg’s administration. You can look up stats.
      In terms of political leanings, you can look up maps. Nassau County has more registered Republicans but Democrats do win the county. Suffolk County (more east than Nassau or further from the NYC if you aren’t familiar) and Nassau County both have Republican County Executives right now and prior to that they were both Democrats. You can look all this up

    • @NYmomAdrienne3915
      @NYmomAdrienne3915 Před měsícem

      @@TheItalianTrash I explained when someone questioned, he initiated the cleaning up of Times Square and those programs but they didn’t take effect until after 9/11 under Bloomberg. Giuliani initiated some of the changes that helped lead to the low crime and more prosperity in the Bloomberg era of NYC
      Under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership, New York City cut crime by more than 32% between 2001 and 2013. Due to that, new residents and businesses flocked to areas that were once considered highly dangerous and it was generally prosperous and safe to live in. Also the crack epidemic ended in the late 90s which was also a major crime driver.
      Between 2021 and 2022, violent crime increased by 39.2% and has slightly improved but not compared to the 00s.
      Also I forgot which, but either 2017 or 2018 actually had a very low crime rate even better than the Bloomberg years
      Things are definitely not as bad as the 70s and 80s, but we should make sure that we don’t go back to that insanity since we were almost there in 2020-2022
      The 1990s though were definitely great years for nightlife 😃 sadly the old super clubs ended in the end of the 1990s. Great times, sadly no more China Club, Limelight, Tunnel, Twilo, Soundfactory, CBGB..all done

  • @richdobbs6595
    @richdobbs6595 Před měsícem +1

    I think that you are ignoring the key issue - crime, gangs, homeless camping on the streets are symptoms of a failed judicial/policing systems. Digging deeper is that you get local governments that fail to address the issues, and electoral situations where they are not replaced for their failures. Pretty much all of these cities have been dominated by Democratic administrations for decades. Some of this is racial - Detroit and Baltimore for example. But in Portland and San Francisco it is ideological.

  • @rossmonwithaneaux8085
    @rossmonwithaneaux8085 Před měsícem

    Try Shreveport Louisiana

  • @JacquiMartin505
    @JacquiMartin505 Před měsícem

    Albuquerque NM?

  • @jamilantwi6678
    @jamilantwi6678 Před měsícem +1

    Could you make a video where you talk about the best countries to retire in

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 Před měsícem

      I thought that he already did. Perhaps search his videos before making an ignorant comment.

  • @user-zg4pw2nu8i
    @user-zg4pw2nu8i Před měsícem +11

    Detroit I can understand. But what about New York City?

    • @jackhoffmann8646
      @jackhoffmann8646 Před měsícem +1

      I feel safer in NYC than Ft Myers Florida

    • @johnperticaro6885
      @johnperticaro6885 Před měsícem +1

      NYC is one of the safest cities in the country per capita ❤ you watch to much TV plus all the crimes are in certain neighborhoods

  • @guitarplaytoday686
    @guitarplaytoday686 Před měsícem

    Storyblocks sounds great

  • @meganmangold1074
    @meganmangold1074 Před měsícem

    Born and raised in Baltimore and yes it is bad but i can still feel safe going downtown. Still drive through alot and work at an inner city hospital.

  • @HazMat1012
    @HazMat1012 Před měsícem +1

    Ive been to Boston because of extended family. Springfield is a bit of a surprise to me because I've been there a couple of times to visit the Basketball Hall of Fame.

  • @michaelatoz580
    @michaelatoz580 Před měsícem +1

    When I first started talking to my wife online from the Philippines she asked where i was from. I said Michigan she had no clue what i was saying. I said Detroit was close by. She replied Riot Town. Even the Philippines know Detroit reputation.

  • @pdxmtngoat
    @pdxmtngoat Před měsícem +3

    Don't let Anchorage keep you from visiting The Last Frontier State Alaska.

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home Před měsícem +2

      You sound like someone that works for the Chamber of Commerce of ANC.

    • @brenda5511
      @brenda5511 Před měsícem +3

      I love Alaska - such a beautiful state. But even my family in Palmer stays away from Anchorage.

    • @seanmcdirmid
      @seanmcdirmid Před měsícem +1

      Ketchikan is closer to Seattle than Anchorage by plane. It is a big state.

    • @olafharoldsonnii4713
      @olafharoldsonnii4713 Před měsícem

      How did Alaska get dangerous

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home Před měsícem

      @@olafharoldsonnii4713 4 years ago the powers to be deemed it bad to lock criminals up for nonviolent crimes. The criminals that committed these types of crimes have just moved on to bigger crimes.

  • @bcubed72
    @bcubed72 Před měsícem +9

    Detroit, E. St. Louis, Toledo.

  • @dylanc6856
    @dylanc6856 Před měsícem +1

    Agreed about Chicago. I've always been told it is super dangerous and people were worried about me moving there. But it was totally fine and safe. Would I walk on the Southside by myself? Hell no. But it's generally a safe place. The crime is quite segregated, sadly.

  • @captainjerk
    @captainjerk Před měsícem +5

    1:08 Socialism is a harsh mistress.

    • @WorldAccordingToBriggs
      @WorldAccordingToBriggs  Před měsícem +3

      I imagine it is. Good thing we don’t have it here in the United States. And yes, we don’t have it. It is a talking point in the news.