I Ventured Into The WORST Neighborhood In Montgomery, Alabama

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2021
  • This part of Montgomery might be the worst place I've seen in a long time!
    For this drive, I left downtown Montgomery, the capital of Alabama and headed south into a neighborhood that I had heard was beyond repair. The goal was to document and show one of the worst areas in Montgomery. As it turns out, this is one of the worst areas I’ve ever seen. The day was Thursday, December 7, 2021 at 10 am, and the rainy day created a gloom over this part of town which made it look even more dreadful.
    This particular pocket of town is only a two minute drive south of downtown, in a neighborhood called Washington Park. Now Montgomery isn’t a very dangerous place overall - it’s about average crime wise, and ranks as one of the safest of Alabama’s big cities. But down here has shootings and robberies and it looks like it’s been completely forgotten about.
    The poverty in this state is beyond belief - this is the fifth poorest state in the country. In Montgomery proper, about 1 in 5 people lives below the poverty line, but in this part of town, it’s likely closer to 80%.
    In today’s modern America, this is stunning and this is deplorable. How we allow a community to exist like this is a disgrace. Our nation - the richest of all nations, which gave $10 million dollars - no joke to Pakistan for gender studies, and we can’t fix our cities? We literally give other countries so much money for the dumbest crap and yet here we are, with our own rotting communities filled with good decent people. What is going on in America? Call your congressmen and get things fixed Montgomery.
    Here is the worst part of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Komentáře • 590

  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  Před rokem

    Here's my entire Unboxing America Series: czcams.com/play/PLq-_cmf3H6yqgM1vGG305six5T7dqGURF.html

  • @davidmccullough3278
    @davidmccullough3278 Před 3 lety +65

    As a person who lives here, all I can say is were trying...

    • @kerrynight3271
      @kerrynight3271 Před 3 lety +10

      I'm sure you are. Wishing you the best.

    • @micmc7725
      @micmc7725 Před 3 lety +2

      David. What impact has the Housing Authority and subsidized housing had on the neighborhood?

    • @jasonfifi
      @jasonfifi Před 3 lety +7

      @@micmc7725 HA and subs have mostly impacted other neighborhoods, but you can see the hulls of absentee landlordism all over town. generally the victims of HA are the renters, and the homeowners and residents nearby, it's a giant handout to slumlords. they get a house able to pass inspection a few times, get a resident qualified for subs, make the resident(and taxpayers) pay for their entire mortgage in a few years... repeat until the owner has no interest in maintaining the property, at which point, they can't find another sucker, so they leave the property to rot and generally stop paying even the extremely low property taxes on it.

    • @derekhall2079
      @derekhall2079 Před 3 lety

      You have the Biscuits and the zoo. Other than that definitely not a travel destination.

    • @denisearmandinc5659
      @denisearmandinc5659 Před 3 lety +4

      Gump Town West Side

  • @martincarroll7470
    @martincarroll7470 Před 3 lety +80

    Even in that hell hole, some people take care of their property's.

    • @Charles-cb3lo
      @Charles-cb3lo Před 3 lety +3

      Because America is the Greatest

    • @jasonfifi
      @jasonfifi Před 3 lety +4

      there are really wonderful blocks in that neighborhood. one of my music students pre-covid was a very nice old preacher, his wife was a carpenter, and their house was a block off rosa parks down really close to that bright red cinder block building. they mow the lawns on their entire block every saturday morning.
      a good indicator of if a block is going to "come back" is if the people owning the property live in it. a great way to instantly bring the area back would be to mandate local ownership.

    • @mateo801
      @mateo801 Před 2 lety +2

      Very few and they tend to be older people that have better values and take pride in their property and family. Their children are more likely to care about their belongings and their children. You're a product if your parents. Unfortunately the number of crappy parents are growing. This is what creates dilapidated neighborhoods and crime. Lot's of fatherless homes.

    • @truthhurts...6574
      @truthhurts...6574 Před rokem +2

      ​@@jasonfifi that's a good idea. Instead it seems they let these property investors from out of state buy the homes up. They either or are sitting empty or they are renting them out. Nowadays depending on where you live renters don't take any pride in where they live by keeping it tidy and clean inside and outside.

    • @truthhurts...6574
      @truthhurts...6574 Před rokem +2

      ​@@mateo801 but yet the message is to have kids you can't afford or have any idea of how they will be provided for. A lot of people had kids when they shouldn't because they're unfit. Everybody is not meant to be a parent and it should normalized more. It would cut down on these wayward kids lost out here committing crimes.

  • @dannypgrizzle
    @dannypgrizzle Před 3 lety +34

    You might be surprised how, if the tables are turned, the “good people in our own rotting communities” would like to reorder the lives of helicoptering do-gooders who judge their lives as outsiders looking in. However, thanks for sharing the hand painted sign addressed to youth. There are neighborhoods in my city that look like this. I grew up in one.

  • @curtiswilson4737
    @curtiswilson4737 Před 3 lety +69

    Here's your answer Nick, go on the east side of Montgomery, and you'll see where all the money's going. One reason why I left Montgomery in'96, and joined the military, to get away from all that poverty. I'm in Colorado now, and will never live in Alabama again

    • @catholiccrusader5328
      @catholiccrusader5328 Před 3 lety +4

      Very smart move.

    • @derekhall2079
      @derekhall2079 Před 3 lety +8

      Bob Riley was the best governor this state has seen in many years. If we could get someone like him again the state will improve. Also this state needs the lottery to help fund schools and law enforcement, unless some corrupt politicians steal from the pot it is worth a try.

    • @ZyKingZionSmith
      @ZyKingZionSmith Před 3 lety +15

      East Montgomery isn’t good anymore. Especially around Eastdale Mall. Everybody’s moving to Pike Rd, Prattville and Millbrook now

    • @ddcheckchaser2014
      @ddcheckchaser2014 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ZyKingZionSmith facts East montgomery has been getting alot of shootings on the blvd

    • @michaelvictor1401
      @michaelvictor1401 Před 2 lety +1

      @@derekhall2079 You are crazy, he was the most corrupt politician, he makes Singleman look like choir boy.

  • @honeybfly2010
    @honeybfly2010 Před 3 lety +58

    It’s sad that some communities get so bad. Makes you wonder how some places get this way when I’m sure that at first it started out as a decent community.

    • @jillsmcfarland2001
      @jillsmcfarland2001 Před 3 lety +2

      The fourth industrial is very old plan.

    • @curtiswilson4737
      @curtiswilson4737 Před 3 lety +8

      That's how it is for real, but go on the east side of Montgomery, and you will see a total different side. They even moved Montgomery Mall from the black community to the white community. The messed up part of this, Eastdale Mall is a few miles from there. Now tell me that wasn't intentional.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před 3 lety +12

      It is sad and it's everywhere

    • @crespengrecohear4486
      @crespengrecohear4486 Před 3 lety +2

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    • @AlonsoRules
      @AlonsoRules Před 3 lety +1

      drugs

  • @craythachef7774
    @craythachef7774 Před 3 lety +20

    I grew up on this side of town. I'm 35. I tell you one thing a lot of us grew up in 2-parent homes. Over half of us. We had mom & pops in the house. A lot of elderly people also. Our house was fixed up because my dad was a mechanic, painter, roofer, etc lol. I'm in Old Cloverdale now. Its not where you start. Our strong foundation in God made the difference.🙌

    • @n_a3522
      @n_a3522 Před 2 lety

      Cap

    • @CodyCole80
      @CodyCole80 Před 9 měsíci

      Ridgecrest Native here; I concur.

    • @meganstokes88
      @meganstokes88 Před měsícem

      Im 36. Raised in Montgomery. This video was shared today in a mtg group and I was appalled with the comments. My Memaw helped raise me and she lived on south Lawrence street. Her home was well kept and she had a beautiful yard.

  • @brandyanderson276
    @brandyanderson276 Před 3 lety +14

    This is the area that I was born in. This is the WEST SIDE of Montgomery, AL. Our city knows that this side is never upgraded/updated or even cared for. Now, there are parts that HAVE been given nice touches and that would be work from the residents. So far in this video, you've driven past my childhood home, childhood friends' homes, a library and YMCA that I frequented and a school that I attended. It hurts my heart to see it being showcased this way, knowing that our city doesn't give a damn about this side of town. This is a predominately Black neighborhood. Again, we don't need you to tell us to reach out to our Congressmen and Congresswomen, they know and either have attempted to make changes and were completely ignored or there are some that simply DO NOT CARE. The East Side and Downtown is being built up for attractions. Oh and Gov. Ivey just spent $3 BILLION on new prisons here. TERRIBLE!!!

    • @saradeyo9434
      @saradeyo9434 Před 2 lety

      My kids went to the y too!

    • @kevinlong1942
      @kevinlong1942 Před rokem

      When the state comes in to rebuild, the residents destroy it within a few months.

    • @ritahipps724
      @ritahipps724 Před rokem +1

      If everyone would keep their homes up the neighborhood would not look bad and if the the younger people would help take care of their parents and grandparents homes it would help to some older people don't have family and it helps if their neighbors can help them out to it is sad that peoples homes are run down because people don't help others out in a neighborhood I always helped my older neighbors out with things that they could not do I really miss my neighbor that passed away last year she had no family and I helped her as much as I could 😢 I pray that we all can work together and help each other and make Montgomery Al a better place for everyone 🙏

  • @lorelailaval7676
    @lorelailaval7676 Před 3 lety +55

    Dec 2021? Travel machine? XO Johnson.

  • @johnnyjohnson205
    @johnnyjohnson205 Před 3 lety +30

    My mother still lives on first street he turns on in that video (Clinton St). I grew up in Montgomery and poverty is soul crushing. Filming in the rain was really appropriate, the sky is pretty grey and rainy during the winter in Montgomery. Thanks for posting.

  • @tgking6520
    @tgking6520 Před 2 lety +7

    It's crazy. I've lived here my entire life and all I want to do is get out. Everyone is leaving now because everything is in ruins. Everyone is moving to the Prattville, Millbrook, Pike road area now. I've never seen our city look so terrible and fallen apart. Most places you can't even go anymore due to crimes. And God hope you don't venture outside your house at night. I've gotten woken up many a nights to gunshots. Get your shot together Montgomery....

  • @thornbird6768
    @thornbird6768 Před 3 lety +32

    If I were a gambling woman I’d put money down there was once a factory not far away where the people of this town worked and the jobs were sent abroad !! This is happening all over the UK also ! Once thriving towns and cities reduced to nothing as the blue collar workers jobs disappeared and welfare / social security payments took there place !! These are sweet little houses with front porches that didn’t always look this way !!

    • @newmanoutdoors1564
      @newmanoutdoors1564 Před 3 lety +1

      Your right

    • @michaelciccone2194
      @michaelciccone2194 Před 3 lety

      Same thing in ELIZABETH CITY, NC!! a big cotton mill near great grandfather's house ..closed years ago...area on downside indeed.

    • @Selmarya
      @Selmarya Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, there are coal plants and cotton fields outside the Montgomery metro area and Birmingham about a hour and a half north was a major coal and iron city before the industry went cold and the city had its major downfall

    • @ddcheckchaser2014
      @ddcheckchaser2014 Před 3 lety

      @Shaun Rupert yeah we're thriving it's growing faster than ever

  • @chopparaces6637
    @chopparaces6637 Před 3 lety +26

    Hey I've grown up on Wade Street. Yeah the houses are old, a lot of them boarded up but the people around are super nice

    • @curtiswilson4737
      @curtiswilson4737 Před 3 lety +1

      You're right, but it's sad the white people are letting the black side of Montgomery rot before our eyes. When I went home in '14, when my mom passed, I was in disbelief on how Ridgecrest looked. It is destroyed.

    • @joanmccreless5979
      @joanmccreless5979 Před 3 lety

      Further more..there is nothing wrong with those houses..they might need a little paint..they were built almost a hundred years ago....

    • @brandyanderson276
      @brandyanderson276 Před 3 lety

      Montgomery has ALWAYS disregarded the West side since I was a child. These people have no money to fix up these houses. My childhood house and grandma's house looks the SAME from when I was growing up in the 80s. Same good people but sadly, same ol houses.

    • @craythachef7774
      @craythachef7774 Před 3 lety

      I kno Wade st. I grew up on Carlo st by loveless elem. Neighbors were always nice and will share anything with you. Houses just need sprucing up.

  • @susieblanco2722
    @susieblanco2722 Před 3 lety +35

    Lmao the sign for crackheads had me weak .. goodness 😫

    • @susieblanco2722
      @susieblanco2722 Před 3 lety +7

      But some are motivational

    • @taters7359
      @taters7359 Před 3 lety +2

      🤣🤣

    • @ddham2452
      @ddham2452 Před 3 lety +3

      I LIVE IN THAT EREA AND I'M NOT A CRACK-HEAD AND THE MAJORITY OF THIS VIDEO IS CALLED "THE WEST SIDE" WASHINGTON PARK STOPS WHERE EARLY STREET START PLUS DEC. 7, 2021 IS NOT HERE YET I KNOW IT'S A TYPEO AND THERE'S PLENTY MORE PLACES WORSE

    • @susieblanco2722
      @susieblanco2722 Před 3 lety

      @@ddham2452 did you make the signs?

    • @Vince-md8gj
      @Vince-md8gj Před měsícem

      When you have yazael living there, you need signs like that

  • @mlynn2161
    @mlynn2161 Před 3 lety +28

    Sometimes I feel like I need to chug a bucket of Prozac before I look at the devastation in some of these areas.

  • @davidg5629
    @davidg5629 Před 3 lety +27

    At least they have backyards. I'd lose my mind in a luxury high rise condo.

    • @davidg5629
      @davidg5629 Před 3 lety +1

      @William Mulvaney I was thinking more along the lines of bbq, Sinatra and whisky while looking at the stars.

  • @smallpicture
    @smallpicture Před 3 lety +32

    It doesn’t look that good but it doesn’t look that bad, either?

    • @davidburke2697
      @davidburke2697 Před 3 lety +2

      Small homes with cars in front. OMG, how tragic.

    • @MadcowMania
      @MadcowMania Před 3 lety

      As someone who recently moved here, I can tell you the neighborhoods are very deceptive. I drove around thinking "It's not that bad", but the city has a higher gun violence rate than Chicago! It's such a small city, yet there are multiple shootings almost daily. The city has one "good part," where I've almost been robbed twice. The rest of the city is lawless, with deceptively ok looking neighborhoods.

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Před 3 lety +1

      @@MadcowMania Interesting, been here since 2013 and habe never had that happen. While I often hear gunshots, they're usually targeted attacks and not random to just anyone in the vicinity, so I'm not too worried. Still best to stay indoors at night but I don't fear running to the store if need be, I just check around me and never zone out of my surroundings.
      But I don't say that to negate your experiences, just odd that you've had such misfortune happen to you.

    • @MadcowMania
      @MadcowMania Před 3 lety +1

      @@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley yeah, most are targeted attacks, and noones tried to rob me anywhere else but Eastchase, late at night. The Gamestop in Eastchase was robbed at gunpoint last month in broad daylight. Craziness.

    • @apriljohnson1243
      @apriljohnson1243 Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I have been in Montgomery since 96 and have never had that happen either. I have no problem going out at night even as a female alone. I go shopping primarily at night alone. You are absolutely right you very rarely hear about random people being attacked or shot at. Majority of murders are personal and are committed by someone the victim knew. I won't say all are personal because we do have the rare ones that are random because someone got pissed off about something. I had a friend robbed of his truck on Ann Street several years ago and I've had my car broken into but that happens EVERYWHERE. Now I do live on the East side closer to the Chantilly area now which I know is better than some other areas. I grew up off of N Burbank which I know is also better than some areas but not the best either. I mean come on it was known as "Polane". lol

  • @juanitaarrington3209
    @juanitaarrington3209 Před 2 lety +7

    Sir, as a woman who was born and still lives in montgomery i assure you that all towns in all america have bad and rundown areas. Montgomery is beautiful !! Great history, buildings, art, culture, and beautiful people! We're not called Alabama the beautiful for nothing. Stop giving people the wrong idea of montgomery by only showing the ghettos and messed up parts. which everyone has. I love my city! # sweet home alabama

    • @RELubber
      @RELubber Před rokem +1

      Thank you for writing this. I am considering moving to Montgomery and this video was giving me 2nd thoughts.

    • @Oranggee
      @Oranggee Před rokem

      But I grew up and still live in Alabama it does suck

  • @joshct9426
    @joshct9426 Před 3 lety +22

    I'd like to put the STOP BEING CRACKHEADS sign up in my yard here in Waterbury, CT.

    • @camknight2411
      @camknight2411 Před 3 lety +3

      Lol crazy i live in Montgomery but I’m from Waterbury 😂

    • @joshct9426
      @joshct9426 Před 3 lety +3

      @@camknight2411 Seriously? I never thought waterbury people moved anywhere never mind to Montgomery. He can do a whole video about you're two cities and which is worse lol

    • @jacquir8331
      @jacquir8331 Před 3 lety

      You should, it's your right!

    • @wigtea5620
      @wigtea5620 Před 3 lety

      Let me know I can make it happen.

    • @saradeyo9434
      @saradeyo9434 Před 2 lety +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @JoviusVonGlorium
    @JoviusVonGlorium Před 3 lety +7

    Here's me, being from Montgomery, realizing the rest of the US isnt like this.

  • @billmelater5799
    @billmelater5799 Před 3 lety

    Love the channel! Keep up the good work!

  • @blk_thor9438
    @blk_thor9438 Před 3 lety +9

    18:45 you past the church that Martin Luther King Preached at and had meetings at during the Civil rights era. My Grand father Walter Thomas was also apart of those meetings.

  • @carolyndavis6657
    @carolyndavis6657 Před 3 lety +9

    Just wondering what you use to determine how poor a state is? Alabama is considered 5th poorest in the nation but has very few homeless. If you only use income and it's not adjusted for the cost of living then you aren't showing the real proverty. Some of the states with the highest incomes also have the highest cost of living and the most homeless. Yes Alabama has problems but the starting pay for most jobs here is 11 to 15 per hour yet rent and mortgages are very cheap. Our unemployment rate is 3.8 which is one of the lowest in the country. We do need to fix our own country and stop sending money to other countries especially those who hate us.

  • @ashleyl5794
    @ashleyl5794 Před 3 lety +19

    Dang, 2021, lol! Way to be ahead of the game Nick!

  • @danteinferno3097
    @danteinferno3097 Před 3 lety +5

    That's so sad the entire place is so rundown. The richest country in the world and we can never take care of our own first

  • @snowywolf1376
    @snowywolf1376 Před 3 lety +14

    Love your content! It is very sad, makes me wanna flip houses, bring the communities back to life, open places to work. I have ideas just don't know how to put them into play.
    Anyways Keep up the great work! You do an amazing job!

    • @kathrynnard2133
      @kathrynnard2133 Před 3 lety

      As a Montgomery resident of 63 years let me invite you to come do that. in my neighborhood Highland Park that has gone down in the last 20 years people are doing what you're talkin about and the neighborhood is improving.

    • @ddham2452
      @ddham2452 Před 3 lety

      THEY REATHER TARE THEM DOWN THAN TO SELL THEM CHEAP AND HELP A PERSON FIX UP "NO" BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE REST

    • @thooks1234
      @thooks1234 Před rokem

      Grab your checkbook and a hammer. You can start today, head to Montgomery and start buying these crack shacks. You can buy them for $15k, put $100k in them and the fair market value will be $35k.....because of location, location, location. Your $125k fixed-up crack shack will be next to 19 other $15k crack shacks, full of thugs, crackheads, shootings, loud music, hollering, fighting, cussing, drug use and more.

  • @stormsandweather2713
    @stormsandweather2713 Před 3 lety +14

    I live in a very rough part of Montgomery but so far I haven't had to many problems I've been broken into once but I wasn't home and I usually just mind my own business and I have no problems .

    • @jasonbattles9477
      @jasonbattles9477 Před 2 lety +2

      Chris’s hotdogs is the best. No one can beat it

    • @tracyfrederick5606
      @tracyfrederick5606 Před 2 lety

      Same. Just gun play . Stay in your lane. I just saw a video of someone driving the west side at night. Had no clue and freaked out when they started shooting. Hit the interstate real fast. I almost laughed.

    • @truthhurts...6574
      @truthhurts...6574 Před rokem

      Do you have a security alarm and a pistol to protect yourself in your home? Maybe even a dog too.

  • @allenmorgan4309
    @allenmorgan4309 Před 3 lety +7

    If you want to see really bad go to Gate City in Birmingham, Alabama and a step beyond even that is Bessemer.

  • @markstanfield207
    @markstanfield207 Před 3 lety +3

    This was sad. So many boarded up houses. Kind of eerie too, there was hardly any traffic or people outside (I know, weather was crap). Thanks for sharing.

  • @texasgina
    @texasgina Před 3 lety +4

    I’m cracking up laughing because one of your ads on this video is from my company I work for LOL

  • @geowilliams8915
    @geowilliams8915 Před 3 lety +13

    Having lived here, and now living in a bigger city, I notice the nice wide streets through these neighborhoods. These were nice areas when I lived there, many years ago. There was an even more desolate part of town a little north of here called Clayton Alley. When I moved, the streets in that area were still unpaved.

    • @jasonbattles9477
      @jasonbattles9477 Před 3 lety

      They’re about to shut down Chris’s hotdogs downtown man

    • @geowilliams8915
      @geowilliams8915 Před 3 lety

      @@jasonbattles9477 Nooo! Seriously?

    • @jasonbattles9477
      @jasonbattles9477 Před 3 lety

      @@geowilliams8915 Yes it’s in the talks and they’re heavily considering it. I hope they don’t though, the pandemic put a lot of businesses out here.

  • @BlazingLaser
    @BlazingLaser Před 3 lety +11

    It looks a lot gloomier in the rain. Many of the houses look unoccupied. I checked the neighborhood out on Zillow. You can buy a lot of these houses in the $20k-30k range. Imaging paying $125/yr in property taxes!

    • @ddham2452
      @ddham2452 Před 3 lety +1

      THE HOUSES HE SHOWED NONE IS WORTH THAT MUCH. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: ROOF FLOORS WIRERING PIPES HOLES

    • @BlazingLaser
      @BlazingLaser Před 3 lety

      @@ddham2452 The houses I saw on Zillow may not have been on those exact streets. They looked like the houses we saw in the video but they were intact and looked at least habitable if not luxurious.

    • @ddham2452
      @ddham2452 Před 3 lety +1

      @@BlazingLaser THOSE HOUSES ON THE EAST SIDE WHERE ALL THE WHITE LIVE AND A HAND FULL OF BLACKS

  • @Nate-qj3uy
    @Nate-qj3uy Před 3 lety +3

    I live on the east side of Montgomery and there is a huge difference between the East side of Montgomery and the west side. East side has a shopping district, stores, two story houses, somewhat decent school systems, etc. But around the University? Complete and utter poverty it’s really overwhelming to look at. Only thing even slightly close to a shopping district there is a laundromat, a dollar general, and a metro PCS. And the schools around there are some of the worst ones in the city, state even. Some of these people have turned these houses into small businesses and I see that as some progress, but since everyone is moving to the east side of Montgomery, communities like these are being left behind.

  • @douglasmedcalf1052
    @douglasmedcalf1052 Před rokem +3

    I have been a volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels in Montgomery for several years. Almost all of my clients do a good job of keeping their property neat and orderly, even the ones who rent. This city has a lot of good people.

  • @Bigg-Edd352
    @Bigg-Edd352 Před 3 lety +5

    Damn my own hometown... you passed by some homes I used to stay at! Especially on adline and Holt street

  • @keishamurrell3095
    @keishamurrell3095 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for showing this area 👍

  • @glennmcgee1729
    @glennmcgee1729 Před 3 lety +8

    I did volunteer work for groups like Habitat For Humanity and surmised as much as you would like to help, people in despair see home maintenance , even on a very low budget, far down their priority list.

  • @tomstovall9982
    @tomstovall9982 Před 3 lety +3

    I was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. The problem is that the government needs to stop enabling citizens' helplessness. Pride in hard work and education is the solution. Less government, more self-esteem.

  • @aufan7134
    @aufan7134 Před 2 lety +3

    With all this poverty, I notice a lot of nice cars in the yards.

  • @Charles-cb3lo
    @Charles-cb3lo Před 3 lety +2

    You're living the real life.
    Subbed since Nov 2020!

  • @sinansn6499
    @sinansn6499 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for sharing this video

  • @jameswatts9814
    @jameswatts9814 Před 3 lety +4

    You have made many points in this video I live in montgomery born and raised we lived close to downtown back then these neighborhoods where in better shape its sad to see the state of them now they put so much money in building condos downtown it would be nice them work on the neighborhoods

  • @afnDavid
    @afnDavid Před 3 lety +9

    Take pride in yourself and your family. Pick up the litter in your yard. Pick it up all the way to the pavement edge! And teach your children not to litter. It takes ZERO money to pick up the trash in your yard! Many of these homes could of been saved had someone took time to do the little repairs, that all homes need, before they became big problems.

    • @ddham2452
      @ddham2452 Před 3 lety +1

      WE DO NOT OWN THESE HOUSES TELL IT TO THE OWNER

    • @truthhurts...6574
      @truthhurts...6574 Před rokem

      ​@@ddham2452 I believe he means if you live in them as a owner or a renter to take pride by keeping where you live neat and tidy. You know what they meant. They are correct too. No matter where you live you should take pride in the appearance of it by cutting the grass and keeping the litter picked up. It's called being being a good steward.

    • @ddham2452
      @ddham2452 Před rokem

      @@truthhurts...6574THESE HOUSES ARE OLD AND IN NEED OF REPAIR. WHERE IS THE TRASH? IT'S THE OWNERS PART TO FIX THEIR OWN HOME NOT THE RENTERS.
      I LIVE HERE AND ALL THE STREETS HE WENT ON I KNOW WELL AND ONE OF THESE HOUSES I LIVE IN. DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO?

  • @crollwtide9452
    @crollwtide9452 Před 3 lety +6

    Also, it amuses me that people "wonder" why there is so much poverty in this country. In this case, look to the west and north of where the drive was going - you'll see two interstates. These played a significant role in ruining formerly affluent black neighborhoods (yes, you heard that right - there actually used to be good inner-city black neighborhoods). This is also why you may have heard of efforts to scrap or cap existing freeways in certain cities. Many black neighborhoods were cleaved in twos or threes when those were built, and it drove out a lot of wealth that would have otherwise existed without this.

  • @sabarlow80
    @sabarlow80 Před 3 lety +4

    Gary looked worse

  • @job999
    @job999 Před 3 lety +8

    . Yeah and look how much money they give to Israel

    • @thornbird6768
      @thornbird6768 Před 3 lety +1

      Yep , looks like they have just funded a war over there ! The foreign aid budget doesn’t get used for good stuff , it’s used to destabilise countries all the while our own countries are being destabilised because of it !! Politicians are crooks and thieves !

    • @ponysoldier6770
      @ponysoldier6770 Před 3 lety +4

      And palestine too

  • @richarddavis1646
    @richarddavis1646 Před 3 lety +10

    Looks like Beverly Hills compared to the south and west sides of Chicago and Gary, IN.

    • @KaliefMartin
      @KaliefMartin Před 3 lety

      Maybe so but Montgomery destroyed or redone most of their projects (at least 10) by in 2000's, and to be honest Chi did too. As far as looks Chi not that bad its the residents in certain areas. Compare to the 90's and 80's not nearly as bad. Gary is basically abandoned.

  • @hardcorejab
    @hardcorejab Před 3 lety +6

    Bronx projects scariest places on Earth.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před 3 lety

      I know I have a video on it soon

    • @hardcorejab
      @hardcorejab Před 3 lety +1

      @@NickJohnson For the love of GOD don't go there!!

  • @moosemunch7721
    @moosemunch7721 Před 3 lety +2

    If this is the worst neighborhood you have ever seen, clearly you have never been to Detroit, MI.

  • @davel7014
    @davel7014 Před 3 lety

    So many places boarded up. Hey Nick! Hope about providing more commentary when you do these videos? Like, why are so many houses boarded up, why are so many houses being knocked down, etc. It would make for a much more enjoyable video.

  • @alaashallal
    @alaashallal Před 3 lety +5

    I mean, I have seen worse

  • @skykeg4978
    @skykeg4978 Před 3 lety +3

    Outstanding documentary Nick. Hopefully ( not likely ) your message gets to the right people regarding this ongoing problem.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Před 3 lety +2

      Not likely at all

    • @skykeg4978
      @skykeg4978 Před 3 lety +1

      @@NickJohnson
      I forgot to add that even if the message does get to these half wits, they probably won’t do anything about it nor will they care.

  • @ColossalMcBuzz
    @ColossalMcBuzz Před 3 lety +5

    Whoa, the day was December 7, 2021??? Nick, share that time traveling with the rest of us!

  • @goldtopazasylum
    @goldtopazasylum Před 3 lety +2

    i agree Nick, this says a lot about the people in our country, so sad

    • @PrettyPlusPepperMartin
      @PrettyPlusPepperMartin Před 3 lety

      Many of these homes were owned by African-American teachers, business owners, doctors, and professionals. The homes are on average 1200-1800 sqft. Those streets once thrived, but as the original homeowners aged and their children having no interest in keeping the property they either sale, board up or rent out the home to people who will not take of it. My neighborhood is 5 minutes away from all of this and we have maintained our homes and property and gain value every year. If anything, you just offered a glance to a huge financial opportunity to anyone looking for lots of property for a small investment.

  • @angelus8942
    @angelus8942 Před 3 lety +4

    How were u there december 2021 if its currently May 2021???

  • @david-lt9wj
    @david-lt9wj Před 3 lety +11

    The beauty of these neighbourhoods is the size of the lots....when the upswing comes these places will be in demand big bucks..

    • @chrisrob3854
      @chrisrob3854 Před 3 lety +1

      YOU KNOW WHAT TO SAY!!! I live in Montgomery believe me that property is gold!!!

  • @jhcccc
    @jhcccc Před 3 lety

    Great Scott!!!

  • @Barbara-xh3ox
    @Barbara-xh3ox Před 3 lety +3

    Nick, LOVE your channel and all the videos. I really find Nappy though annoying and fast forward when that is on. Do you really need to have them on your videos?

    • @GeminieCricket
      @GeminieCricket Před 3 lety

      Comic relief but also truth being told through the cartoon by Nick himself to himself to us.

  • @degreco4199
    @degreco4199 Před 3 lety +4

    The economy got sooo baaad that even "Clip-Uz" went outa business.

  • @itsmechyna8269
    @itsmechyna8269 Před 3 lety

    I seen that sign a million times already 🤣🤣🤣

  • @mattmasters4495
    @mattmasters4495 Před 3 lety +2

    If they were "good people" there neighborhood would not be a crap hole.

  • @jackhenrystelling7186
    @jackhenrystelling7186 Před 3 lety +1

    When will u go to Durham Nc we have had shots fired every night about 10 to 12

  • @MsBabieK
    @MsBabieK Před 3 lety +1

    In your intro to your video...
    The date could not have possibly been December 7th 2021 because today is only May 17th 2021...
    HOWEVER, thank you for making this video and stating facts.
    Who knows maybe now we can get some help to rebuild this city.

  • @alllawn7625
    @alllawn7625 Před 8 měsíci

    I love that sign 😂

  • @crollwtide9452
    @crollwtide9452 Před 3 lety +1

    Early on in the video, you rode by a vacant fenced-in lot where my late grandmother's house used to be (she died earlier this year). It was destroyed by a fire in 1987.

  • @FeliceChiapperini
    @FeliceChiapperini Před 3 lety +1

    "Thursday, Dec.7, 2021". Back to the future? LOL

  • @derekbuxton6626
    @derekbuxton6626 Před 3 lety +2

    Wrong date and I would not feel safe walking or driving around that neighborhood. I wonder what goes on at night.

    • @treythegod38
      @treythegod38 Před 3 lety +1

      Nothing I'm from Montgomery people pretty much be chilling out here

  • @marct7905
    @marct7905 Před 3 lety +3

    He sees six dudes walking...
    Does a U-turn.

  • @Rvalencia07
    @Rvalencia07 Před 3 lety +2

    I grew up in a small town in northern Michigan and this is pretty similar to what I grew up with.

  • @kimmom7785
    @kimmom7785 Před 3 lety +5

    This looks like so many neighborhoods in North Carolina too

    • @JonasMatthewBahta
      @JonasMatthewBahta Před rokem

      And the 3rd and 5th ward neighborhoods in Houston.
      Gary, Indiana is definitely worse than these neighborhoods in the video.

  • @slconley
    @slconley Před rokem

    I love the sign lol

  • @michaelsix9684
    @michaelsix9684 Před 2 lety +1

    a lot of planning, urban homesteading, and private development could renew and rebuild this area, we did this in Houston Heights, anything close to downtown in major cities is ripe for development and renewal

  • @davidfromdownunder400
    @davidfromdownunder400 Před 3 lety +1

    At least there was not the seemingly endless piles of rubbish and street people like I saw in LA a few years ago.

  • @vitoguido3258
    @vitoguido3258 Před 3 lety +3

    The thing I always marvel at, living in this surrounding area, is the cars these places will own. The house is shit, and they may not have much for food on the table and the inside of the house may be a reflection of the outside, but their rides are always clean.

    • @vitoguido3258
      @vitoguido3258 Před 3 lety

      Also, I could show you worse than that.

    • @sweetiesquad4lyfe582
      @sweetiesquad4lyfe582 Před 3 lety

      Now, this is true, of course. You see it everywhere. The reason is that cars to Americans are like water to fish. You simply must have a car, because you cannot drive a house to work or the stores.

  • @albertsancho5909
    @albertsancho5909 Před 3 lety +5

    When you'll post videos of Mobile and New Orleans?

  • @gregrhodes2171
    @gregrhodes2171 Před 3 lety +1

    "Call your congressman and get things fixed Montgomery!" I wish poverty were that simple.

    • @TheFruitMugger
      @TheFruitMugger Před 2 lety

      "Excuse me, Mr. Congressman? Could you pass a bill that fixes the poverty when you get a moment?"

  • @emily0071000
    @emily0071000 Před 3 lety +2

    I’m from Scotland but my dad is from a small town near Muncie Indiana. Parts of Muncie are worse than this (and worse than many other places you’ve filmed). But i’ve never been led to believe that Muncie’s problems are uncommon

    • @bmace7665
      @bmace7665 Před 3 lety

      Wow i knew muncie was bad. But that bad. As far as a visual look

    • @emily0071000
      @emily0071000 Před 3 lety

      @@bmace7665 yeah i specifically remember the area near the social security office, just north of downtown, being very rundown when i was last there in 2019. I think many properties have been demolished in recent years so maybe it will get better. The neighbourhood is walking distance from downtown & you can get a house for like $30,000

  • @Desmuu
    @Desmuu Před 7 měsíci +1

    Having grown up in a trailer park in rural Alabama this doesn't even look that bad to me.

  • @shawnnacoley3609
    @shawnnacoley3609 Před 3 lety +1

    As someone who lives here I wish there was a way to help make their lives easier and to help fix up the houses and stuff. I feel like if you could improve their quality of living at their home by renovating it, the ones with boarded windows, cracked paint , etc and help the houses and yards look better it could help the community. I think it would be amazing to some how get the money saved up to start working on the houses and businesses to help make it look better and hopefully bring the community together by helping each other out with the renovations.

    • @debbiescott6337
      @debbiescott6337 Před 2 lety

      I’ve lived in Montgomery for over 35 years. Anything that’s given to people for free will be destroyed. Unless you work for it yourself people won’t take care of it. Sorry but it’s true. Look at all the public housing. The people that live there trash it. They take no pride in something that’s given to them.

    • @ritahipps724
      @ritahipps724 Před rokem

      Amen people just need help the older ones that can't do it by themselves ❤

  • @Dangic23
    @Dangic23 Před 3 lety +8

    At least the weather looks nice for December.

  • @FluxNomad678
    @FluxNomad678 Před 3 lety +2

    The Montgomery neighbor looks patchwork with some houses a little rough and others really bad, boarded up, or maybe condemned. What is more striking is the condition of the nearby storefronts. I wondered if Nick gets to Mobile, AL. It has a decent downtown, some tourism, business from the ports, and yet crazy crime issues with Pritchard. Across the bay, Spanish Fort and Daphne is nice.

  • @behringerm
    @behringerm Před 3 lety +1

    I am sure you have received this before, but go to Selma and Lowndes County AL. Lowndes does not have sewer services. Many people in Selma have water spigots sticking up in the front yard to supply their water The people have health department approved septic tanks (if they are lucky). Many still have outhouses

  • @cherylpeterson244
    @cherylpeterson244 Před 3 lety +1

    Please do a story on Selma Alabama🙏🏾

  • @trevortat
    @trevortat Před 3 lety +1

    That's just sad. Such a shame. I would love to visit Montgomery. I would love to experience their 'Southern Hospitality.'

    • @adrian_b_chillinonmadden5133
      @adrian_b_chillinonmadden5133 Před 3 lety +1

      That’s just one side of Montgomery. Everywhere else it does not look like this. Just like every other city, one area is always poor looking. One side never gets any love, but neglect. Montgomery still has history

  • @Oranggee
    @Oranggee Před rokem

    I went there with my dad once and saw that same sign I’m surprised it’s still up 😂

  • @jordancastaneda9677
    @jordancastaneda9677 Před 3 lety +2

    I live in Brookhaven, although alot of people call it Ridgecrest. I bought a plantation that once encompassed the entire neighborhood for 35k three years ago. Alot of the people here are very nice, but at the same time the bad Ones are so overwhelmingly bad that it brings everyone down as a whole. The good thing is that most of the homes were built so well that it wouldn't take much to fix them, and they're dirt cheap. They're passing alot of infrastructure plans, and since the pandemic alot of people have been coming in and buying up these dilapidated homes to fix. There is an upswing happening. It's up to the bad lifelong residents to decide to quit littering, shooting guns nonstop, and playing into every negative stereotype, otherwise they're going to get left behind or put away in a corner somewhere in town. The good residents are brilliant, hardworking, and there's a true sense of entrepreneurship when you drive around.

  • @kwalos2836
    @kwalos2836 Před 3 lety

    This really looks like a investigation summary of a certain area. In my CITY

  • @ZyKingZionSmith
    @ZyKingZionSmith Před 3 lety

    I live in Montgomery. That area used to be really bad, but nobody’s there anymore

  • @williegohard1368
    @williegohard1368 Před 3 lety

    I just left that area I'm originally from Birmingham but I live in Montgomery this City needs so much

  • @jeffperson1184
    @jeffperson1184 Před 2 lety +1

    Got depressed all over again I'm glad I moved away from my Montgomery 6 years ago. I put so many applications in and nobody would call me back. Today me and my family live in Nashville and I have never had a problem finding a job here. I currently have a good job making 22 dollars an hour . I'll always go back home to visit but never to live again.

  • @TrekRidley
    @TrekRidley Před 3 lety +2

    When i saw that blue pimped-out car.. I know something is going on in this neighborhood

  • @djl5019
    @djl5019 Před 3 lety +1

    As I watch some of your videos, I always think what it was like 50 years ago. Just a history buff here.

  • @sever4781
    @sever4781 Před 3 lety

    The grey sky make it even more sad 😔

  • @barlowmcmaster9771
    @barlowmcmaster9771 Před 3 lety +3

    December 7th 2021 is on a Tuesday and and it hasn't happened yet at least where I live anyway

  • @MySeasonNow1
    @MySeasonNow1 Před 3 lety +1

    Those signs are there fr. I use to live near there.

  • @MoParRus340
    @MoParRus340 Před 3 lety

    December 7 2021??? How’d you do that?

  • @jg1468
    @jg1468 Před 3 lety +3

    Do a video on Humboldt county I hear it's dangerous 😳

  • @annehedonia156
    @annehedonia156 Před 5 měsíci

    I can't stop laughing about that thumbnail!! 😂

  • @suzannedove8603
    @suzannedove8603 Před 3 lety

    Have you checked out the Brightmoor area of Detroit?
    Brightmoor is WAY WORSE. I'm from there, it used to be such a great place to live.

  • @MO-co1kb
    @MO-co1kb Před 3 lety

    Did you make this from the future? 12/7/2021? If so maybe there is a chance to save that part of Montgomery. I still think East Cleveland is a bigger hell hole