The 10 WORST GHETTOS I've Ever Driven Through in the United States
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- These places will make you sick to your stomach.
I’ve seen a lot of America so far. I haven’t been to every corner of this fine country, but I’ve seen the highlights. Or most of them. It’s quite a great place, the United States is, for the most part. But there are some REALLY terrible areas in this nation, as we all know. And YOU people of CZcams want to see them. It’s pretty clear - whenever I load a video of a nice peaceful drive through a nice part of the country, the clicks are uh.
But when I drive through a BAD neighborhood, people on CZcams are like - I wanna see THAT. Why is that? Why do we all like to see rundown poor neighborhoods?
In this video, I’m going to run through the WORST ghetto hoods I’ve visited. These are all places where areas are rundown and neglected, where the crime is really high and people are poor. Now in MY opinion, the worst hoods are all in the northeast. Sure, the west coast has rundown areas, but the west coast is much more new, so the hoods don’t have that grimy, gritty rundown look. Midwest hoods look really bad, and southern hoods have large areas where there are clearly a lot of issues.
But when it comes down to the king of all true inner city ghettos, it’s the northeast hands down. We’ll see that shortly.
But enough of all the intro stuff. Let’s get down to it. These are the worst hoods I’ve ever seen, and some of the worst ghettos in the United States.
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In 2008 I was on an East Coast road trip. For part of the journey, I was with a friend. And we were trying to remember what the "deadliest city in America" was. Never could remember. Then, later on the trip I was rolling solo through Philadelphia and low on gas looking for a gas station. Well, ended up making a right turn where I shouldn't have. Sent me across the Benjamin Franklin bridge and into Camden. It was at that moment when I remembered the answer my question. Well, great. So I end up in the middle of the ghetto out of gas. I call AAA and am told it'll be an hour. I told them the situation and that I can't wait an hour. They asked for me to describe the area around me and I'm like "um, just a bunch of brick buildings with graffiti and broken out windows." Not wanting to be just sitting there, I decide to start pushing the car. At that moment, a man comes out of one of those buildings with broken out windows. And another comes from the other direction on the sidewalk. Both men asked how they could help. One said he has a gas can and can drive me to the gas station. Well, I took a leap of faith. Got in his car and got gas. Wasn't murdered. Goes to show that there are good people everywhere.
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY. THANKS FOR SHARING. WE NEED TO HEAR MORE OF THESE KINDS OF STORIES. 😊
You're lucky man, perhaps.
Amen!
Yep, can’t judge. Just because you live in a poor area doesn’t mean you’re bad.
That's great! I'm about to travel solo through Philly soon and I'm pretty nervous. This makes me feel better : )
There’s always those few houses in the ghetto that look like they try really hard to make it look like they don’t live in a ghetto. Nice, clean yard and a decent looking house. Those people are legends
My house
And the amazing part is that others don’t catch on. Being poor, or uneducated doesn’t mean you can’t take pride in where you live. Just pick up your own trash, right? Gentrifying? Drop the label and just clean up.
@@rjlovell1 💯
@@rjlovell1very true
@@rjlovell1 I'll never understand the litter. Hell, get the a burn barrel and a bottle of Thunderbird if that us what it takes.
To answer your opening comments: Amongst the many reasons why people click more often on the bad neighborhoods is the fact that they can travel with impunity through the well-kept middle class and working-class neighborhoods. Someone who travels through these rundown blighted areas does it at their personal peril. Thanks for allowing to vicariously visit these wastelands.
I was born and raised in Chester, Pa..... I was very fortunate to move out. I still don’t know how I did it sometimes. I just thank God.
Its a very rough and life there. But it’s also the place where I had my first kiss. Where me and my friends would climb trees and talk about WWE. Where we dreamed of being doctors and racecar drivers and football players. It’s where my mom read me bedtime stories about dragons and castles.It’s where my mom took me to church every Sunday. It’s where I blew out my birthday candles after making a wish for a new bike. It’s where I went to my first school dance..... it’s also where my friends turned to drugs when we realized we wouldn’t be doctors or lawyers because going to school was more dangerous then staying home. It’s where after getting robbed at 12 you realize you may need a gun just to get home to see your mom again. It’s where depression is considered a good day, at least you weren’t killed. It’s where your denied fair paying jobs because they see the word “Chester” on your application. Not everybody is capable to overcome great struggle. Most succumb to the environment around them.
It’s no excuse because the world does not owe anyone understanding. I just hope that as you see these towns and these people please remember, before we realized we were poor and destined to great hardship, we really thought we would do great things for the world. We thought the world loved us.
As a kid if I would’ve known where I was instead of wishing for a new bike, I would’ve closed my eyes and wished for my friends and family to have had a just reasonably fair chance.
Aww ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@NickJohnson Comment is condescending and in poor taste
Respect bro ✊
Thank you for sharing your perspective to help others better understand. You changed my view.
Wow you about said it all. Everything. This comment should be framed. Who would have thought when we were dreaming about how it will be while up in the highest branches of the tree I could get.. never ever thought it could get so bad and at the same time always hearing from the politicians “ we live in the greatest country in the world blah blah .. I was a fool to believe that. Every year it kept getting worse while the policies made it easier for the wealthy and much much harder for the regular Joe..now what? It’s so scary..
What actually breaks my heart is that a lot of those abandoned and run down areas could potentially be quite beautiful.
They all were at one point. Especially in Detroit. But when people just up and move and nobody else moves in or those that do are renters who sometime lower the property value... these are the results.
Actually its the results of ur people moving in, no offense
@Brenden Davis well if you are a boot starp theorists, this may be your answer. But it's deeper than that, much deeper.
My family from North said it used to be where all the rich people lived.....over on state street
That's because they all WERE at one point in time.
I'm a paramedic, and I have responded to horrific calls in some of the poorest (ghetto) parts of my state's capitol city. the people in those lower class, run down homes and struggling to feed their families on almost poverty level wages are some of the most polite, gracious and appreciative people I have ever come in contact with. in contrast, up in the hills where homeowners in their million dollar estates who spend their summers in their vacation homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands are some of the most elitist, conceited and miserable people to have to deal with.
Money stinks greed! Everyone has addictions weather it’s drink drugs money none make you happy! I’ve been to Africa where the kids are the happiest kids n they don’t have much at all just the simple things n they don’t know any different.
This world is unfair...
I can relate. I was part of a volunteer service that brought food out to homeless, addicts, mentally ill people - and the "worst" places to go (junkies, vs "just" homeless) were much nicer and more polite persons than the "better off" homeless people who actually sometimes earned better than I did as a student back then - because they had charm and were good at making passers by give them money.
I rest my case. FAMILIES IN THE GHETTO> Who decided it was a great idea to have FAMILIES in GHETTOS! STOP MAKING DAMN BABIES into poverty! Problem solves itself! You don't go making more kids when you can't fee yourself and are on drugs! We need a sterilization program! Look at third world countries! India, China, on and on. FILTHY WATER. FILTHY Conditions. Living like animals.
Those elitist, miserable people are paying the taxes, taking care of their houses and contributing something to society. Being a good person involves more than whether they have a personality which you like.
I'm from England and we have plenty of slum areas too. I really believe this is a generation thing. My grandparents were poor but they had pride. They did everything they could to keep their houses clean and presentable. Their children had enough food, decent clothes on their backs and encouraged to work hard and be honest. Fast forward 50 or 60 years and people have no pride. They are happy to live on benefits, dont care about their cildren and quite happy to commit crimes.
Drug gangs have taken over many run down areas, when my grandparents were alive, communities got together and would not allow this.
The world has changed Carrie
@@NickJohnson and not for the better.
How could you simply put this down to a generational thing? Surely the generations that were taught to work hard and be honest would pass that down no? You're clearly quite uninformed of the litany of socio-economic factors that cause these types of areas to appear. Particularly in America a lot of largely black/immigrant communities in the inner city were neglected and half demolished because of the post war suburbanisation and car dependency that basically moved the vast majority of middle and upper class families to the suburbs. So you're left with large communities of extremely poor people who were still being legally discriminated against due to their race. Throw this in with the failed war on drugs that Nixon coined in the 70s, which only increased crime, incarceration, addiction and violence in the poorest areas of not only America, but across the globe. In the UK, large housing schemes built just to house the poorest people with very little support, mix that with the increase in drug related social problems through the 70s and 80s and you have the situation we have now. Same happened in Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, etc. When you don't really know what you're talking about it can just seem like a generational thing, but society doesn't just change for no reason.
Which ghetto places do you no in England
From what I can see there’s no comparison to this am not saying there’s not but this is something else
Camden really does make me sad. I grew up about 20 minutes from there and I always remember a Boy Scout trip I attended (I went with my brother) where we served food at a homeless shelter. The people living there had some of the most character I’ve ever seen, and they were also some of the nicest people. My parents also grew up about 20 minutes from Camden and I remember them telling me how drastically it deteriorated since their childhoods. Camden used to be a strong working class community (my grandma worked at Campbell’s Soup in Camden) and now it has been left to be forgotten. It really does make me sad to see a place with so much history and past life turn into this.
Kind of sad that the United States is more interested in giving money to other countries when we have places that look like this.
So true.
Tu Pac lyrics stated best “ got money for war can’t feed the poor “
Exactly
It's kind of obvious now that the government wants people to be poor, sad, and unhealthy
The UK is the same.
The thing that's always the saddest to me is you can mentally peel back all the decay and imagine just how beautiful these places once were...
Yea, at one point probably back in the 50's they were nice family neighborhoods i bet.
Yes. Some of these homes appear to be huge too. I can definitely imagine them in their heyday.
@@lcam9241 exactly
Before white flight
@@midaughtry1995 so even if that's the case, why do the properties decline this much? I've heard the argument that the government deserts the area as well as in roads are not maintained, etc. But I wonder what's really the root of this?
The music was perfect. I watched it like meditation and fell asleep. So sad but peaceful somehow. Good one sir.
Yeah, it's like watching post-apocalyptic wasteland...
Do Americans realise why others don't want the American 'dream' in their country?
Giving tax breaks for factories to move overseas and then keep wages down back home for 4 decades was probably a bad idea in hindsight.
not to mention state funded homewrecking where they punish you for being married rather than a single parent
Itll trickle down I hear. Us poor people just gotta wait our turn and cut our corporate overlords some slack.
Well it was a GREAT idea if your intention was to make the Wealthy even wealthier. That was the REAL intention of "Reaganomics", or trickle down Economics. Trickle Down Economics was and is a joke and its proponents knew it all along.
Don't need hindsight to see that cheaper labor abroad is bad for the US. Unemployment for cheaper labor and subpar products. Money for their pockets is all they care about. Sad.
"What do you mean? It worked out great" - CEOs and Hedge fund managers.
Detroit ghettos in Detroit seem very unique with how many of the houses are so large with huge porches. Some even have large columns and two story porches. Those must have been beautiful neighborhoods in Detroit's golden era.
That's due to the city being built for 3x the population it has now. They were so sure it was going to expand they built it for tomorrow X3. Not only did it not it's population went down
I am a Detroit native...I was born and raised in the Eastside of Detroit. The homes are beautiful or should I say what's left alot of the Detroit neighborhood has been regentrified since. most of the homes were BLACK OWNED. A home back in the 90s or early 2000s would rent between $600 to $800 a month..4 to 5 bedroom homes. I miss the nostalgia of my city.
They were! I've seen and was born in Michigan. Beautiful in the day.
Jesse...I was born in Detroit & lived there as a child, several family members there, too. A lot of the bigger homes with the double porches are stacked Duplexes...they are lovely homes & some have been rehabbed beautifully. There are ghetto areas there, absolutely, but overall, Detroit IS improving....its definitely NOT Camden, Philly or even Chicago these days...
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Cleaning up the litter alone would greatly improve the look of these neighborhoods.
Its the broken window theory, and it works
Heck...that looked like a good day in Kensington! But yes it should definitely be up there in the worst area's in the US. If not number #1. Great video Nick as always. I love your work.
I love how you give us silence as you roll through the towns. It lets the mind wander. So many narrators "narrate" and don't let the viewer feel or absorb. Perfect.
Funny I see no one walking along the road. Gives me the Cream of a place that's dying
I agree with both of you! We are Americans! Every neighborhood should be representing us. No one should be living in poverty! I feel that these sports teams need to go and clean up the communities they are in. On the off season, athletes tend to get in trouble; give them something to do! In Las Vegas, the casinos need to be cleaning the communities they are in! Mayor Carolyn, you get a huge fail with how Vegas proper looks for those who live there! I wish every politician could stay two days in poverty, they would get it and things would be different. I know that sounds naive but if empathy can help, they all need to do it. Mandatory! Now!
You know I'm sure there's just a lot of poor people that just needs a helping hand with all the money we send to foreign countries why can't we help the poor people out it worked all their lives they're tired give a helping hand
@@sdpickens33 the poor will be always with us. Those are the words of Jesus
Sad to think that at one time each of these houses were someone’s pride and joy, someone washed the windows, swept the stoop and sidewalk, raised their children, celebrated Christmas or a new birth, mourned the passing of another. All gone now.
Very well said. You drew both a beautiful and sad picture.
That were just my thoughts on some of the homes shown. You could see they were once loved and well kept 😢
truth
Yeah it’s so easy to forget ❤️
I was thinking the same thing.
If the people who had those homes built could see what has happened to that home and neighborhood, they would be, I'm sure, just devastated.
You have done an amazing work getting the United States on video.
When I was a kid, I used to visit my cousin in Camden quite often. The loss of jobs was only one thing that hampered Camden. Camden wasn’t always the way it is today.
The Northeast has so many horrible Ghettos because we used to have amazing manufacturing jobs, but after those jobs moved overseas or where no longer needed it left big populations of people with no or poor paying jobs. The mass exodus of people out of some of these cities only furthers their economic decline. Growing up in the Northeastern USA I see towns like this all the time and there are millions living in areas like this with no hope of getting out.
You are correct..they always fault the people who live here
No you’re wrong BLM is what made the cities the cities
@@313barrygmail huh????
Midwest too
@@Suga29838 it is their fault,burning down buildings,smashing windows,spray painting and dumping trash on the streets,being poor is no excuse allowing your area to be trashed by others,action should have been put on the local government to keep the streets and empty buildings and grass verges cut and in some sort of order.
You can be poor and still take pride in your home and yard. I grew up poor and lived on a dirt road in MS. We had a trashy car and an old house, but we didn't have trash in our yard and the house was maintained. I see a lot of homes where people have no pride.
Right.. Ten times right
Exactly. One my friends grandad use to always tell us even if you don’t have a lot treat your stuff right.
Totally agree and i was just saying this to my business affiliate as we've been looking at homes to buy and invest in, economics has nothing to do with living like filthy pigs and sadly that's how many we've experienced present their property's to potential buyers while demanding outlandish prices. I won't repeat what we have encountered or run into, as it's too digusting and repulsive quite frankly but this has to do with no a financial or economic class, but the kind of class one conducts themselves with and I completely & entirely agree!!!! Just because one doesn't have loads of money, doesn't mean you can let your property go and live like dirty rats, it reflects on you and your lack of caring or effort, being mindful of a clean & sanitary environment, manners, being grateful, and these people presenting these filthy infested homes actually wonder how come they're not selling and that same pile of pitbull #2 will still be at every inch not picked up and the same wreck as it was a month ago when we inspected the property or viewed it. It take all but two minutes to sweep up the hundreds of cigarettes by the door, this is about laziness which I guess reflects their ill will & lack of ambitions but I still think rich or poor, care about what you have in life and keep it as nice as you can. Be grateful!!!! It doesn't require you be well off to do your chores!! Maybe it is all a packaged mind-set now. Which is why i am moving where it's nicer and people own their homes and take care of things, that positivity spreads just as negativity does. Seeing slums all around you is not motivating, let's face it. Or maybe it is?
Its the condition of the heart. No community spirit. No respect. No love. Love comes from something to believe in. Like Jesus. No hope
@Puppy Lover Yep. Me too
It's very strange to see that some of these homes held large families at one time these houses were built at a premium I'm sure . It's depressing the families that had roots and memories there . Thanks Nick for the video .
The last video with the windshield wipers in the rain.
And the sound of driving is like ASMR at 10:20 at night
That being said I love your videos cause I travel a lot and I travel by car and I really enjoy going through areas that have just been Left to die and it’s sad but very intriguing
I live in an upscale area of Austin, TX. There was a black gentleman walking my street with torn up shoes and overall looking Disheveled and out of place. He came to my front door with a clip board, and since my husband was home I felt comfortable opening my door. Upon closer examination, I saw he had a piece of his ear missing. Despite, his outward appearance he had a kind yet shy demeanor. He told me he was in a program for ex-convicts learning skills to help reintegrate into society successfully. The program he was in had him selling children’s books on this specific day. He shared with me that he grew up in Camden, NJ and felt he had no other choice but to turn to crime but was on the path to change his life. I told him I don’t have children to buy the books for but I wanted to give him some cash and get him a new wardrobe. I asked for his size and told him to come back that evening. I spent the day shopping for him and bought him enough clothes and shoes that he could throw away all the tattered clothes he was hanging onto. Never in my life have I experienced such gratitude from a human being. The look on his face was of true disbelief anyone would ever want to do this for him. He believed I was changing HIS life but he was changing MINE. He made me see different that day- that we are all the same no matter how different our lives may be. He taught me true compassion. I think of him from time to time and only wish he is achieving all he could dream of. Thank you, Xavier.
There are no legit prison rehab/ ex-con selling schemes; they are SCAMS. I hope he was bettered by this demonstration but, yeah, it’s been dangerous &/or foolish for most who fell for it.
You are an Angel .❤😊❤❤❤
And now you are a mark... gratz
Yr comment made me think. Thank you. Bless you and the gentlemen you helped.
Bless your heart. That was the best thing you could have done for him, he got some dignity back and no matter what the repubs insist I would bet that he didn't return a week or a month later asking for more did he? The repubs are the party of mean. Most of today's problems can be traced back to one person, one year, and one policy. Reagan, 1981, and trickle down economics, which never works because the wealthy who benefit from tax cuts will never let anything trickle down my God that would be socialism a hand out and that's the last thing poor people need. They need to work even if it's for slave wages and that is the problem. Most people living in poverty have jobs but the jobs don't pay enough to survive. Well they say then they need to get educated well fine but somebody still has to clean up the messes left behind by others and there's no reason those essential jobs can't pay a living wage. I'm not saying enough to support a family but certainly enough to support one person. But the owners of this country prefer to pay their labor poverty wages and let the government pick up the slack. So tell me who are the real welfare bums?
What really gets to me is that every house was once somebodys dream.
I build and restore houses so this is how my mind reacts. Creepy feeling!
Gets to a point the value of the home is so low the repairs cost more than the house value, however house proud you are you just stop throwing good money after bad and eventually you abandon the property.
That's what I see and feel when he drives through these neighborhoods, how they once we're. So sad
Just goes to show how dreams can become nightmares.
@@fahgedaboudit Haha
my town is over 800 years old, my fathers family lives here for over 400 years, his birth house is from the 17th century, still owned by family members...
they survived the 30 years war, 7 years war, Napoleonic wars, WW1 and WW2....
the USA looks at some places like the wars i listed happened just a few months ago, all at the same time!
From a little town in Sweden: Thank you for your informative videos about USA! I watch your videos because Im interested in real life around the world.
(Sweden have one of the highest taxes in the world it helps a bit really, nothing in this world is for free)
Nothing is free and I'm not an opponent of capitalism but in the USA we don't understand that sometimes a low tax rate actually costs us more. We love to shop at places like Sam's Club and Costco yet fail to see that some things are better paid collectively.
@@rhondahope4135what higher taxes isn’t going to help
@@Bell_plejdo568pit does in places like Sweden and Norway
@@Bell_plejdo568p they absolutely have in many countries. higher taxes on the rich sounds good to me.
The fact that you made it through Chester during the day is a miracle. I lived not too far from Chester and I never went there. Chester has been that way since the 80’s. If you were there during the night you definitely would not have came out.
It's a shame, there are so many beautiful homes literally rotting away. And on the other hand there are so many people in need of a home. A strange and cruel world we live in.
Non-resident property owners and landlords should be fined higher property taxes for dilapidated properties. Resident home owners should be offered low interest loans or grants to bring property to community standards. It's baloney cities allow blighted, depressed neighborhoods, which always encourage high crime.
That’s what I was so shocked by! A lot of those houses were phenomenal!
@@shaybelle8495 absolutely. I couldn't believe some of the homes shown were abandoned.
some of the houses just look so sad. I cried along with them.
Man on our legs man, we rob some dummies like you we make from them some stacks on the table like this 💸💸💸💸💸💸
You hit it on the head in Montgomery: "Poverty isn't what defines them". Having grown up dirt poor didn't define me and my friends back in the day. Having complete families and getting proper education to move out of it defined us.
Socially speaking, poverty does define them. Is just that sometimes people get to a place where they just accepted as it is and learn to live with it.
The poorest places are in the red states. The entire state.
Soul reason I'm for free education. Give people same chances, regarding their background. A level playing field to start your life. Let not your parents define your future. Only Scandinavia understands this.
"Them?" WTF.
"Poverty" has become a euphemism for certain things we're not allowed to talk about. I've been broke in my life, but I've never been like that.
Dig your soundtracks. Don't know if you are creating that music but it totally fits the rides
I lived in the ghettos up N.NJ and you'll always know you're in the ♥ when you start seeing Boost Mobile stores around ~.~
The thing that strikes me about Detroit is that I can see how grand many of the old homes and buildings once were. It must have been a great place to grow up in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
It is amazing what a little yard work, a coat of paint and picking up garbage can do to make any place quickly look so much better.
Detroit's corrupt government and the bailouts really screwed them
Or stopping scum living in them. Look at the demographic between 50s / 60s and current.
We know why it has turned into a festering third world dump.
Paint your house all you want. That won't change the fact that it's in Detroit.
@@mattcosner8681 True, it won’t work miracles. You really need to have all or most neighbors in a neighborhood doing the same, and doing it before many houses are abandoned, or it likely won’t work. So many abandoned places have such potential to return to prior glory, but you aren’t going to put a lot of money into rehabbing one building if the rest of the neighborhood is in shambles. You might even make your rehabbed home a target, if it appears to be the only place worth robbing. On the brighter side, it is amazing how the urge to rehab is contagious, when others see that someone cares about making their home nice again. I haven’t done much rehabbing, but what little I have had done has sometimes resulted in a neighbor coming to me and asking who I hired to do the work, as they are interested in improving their home. It can happen.
This is NOTHING compared to Minneapolis and St. Paul in May of 2020. 180 buildings were looted and burned with another 1500 damaged! People harassed firemen trying to put out fires and then they would not respond to fires. Total lack of leadership from Liberal Democrat MN Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Frey and St. Paul Mayor Carter!?! They along with the Lt. Gov. should be in jail for not doing their job to protect the cities!!
Whenever I watch these videos all I can see is what these neighborhoods would’ve been like in their prime and how proud so many of these families were to buy and live in these homes. A great reminder that life is fleeting.
I know Sarah!!
That's exactly what I wrote these old neighborhoods have rich history.
Newly built neighborhoods will look old after 100 year's or less.
Yes, me too. I see all the old cars, the kids running around, occasional leaking fire hydrant in summer...thankfully my home town is thousands of years old and still thriving.
I do that too
I saw it the same way as Sarah.
Very good video. Yep, I have witnessed ghettos and they can be scarey but many who live there are short on choices.
I recommend the book Eviction by Matthew Desmond for greater understanding of the problems in these areas. The piles of furniture at the curb, sheriffs at the door at 6am, U-Haul truck packing up and a lot more is explained.
I just hate seeing those beautiful old houses in that condition.
I think the same thing!
@Sightless Sniper yup, 100% correct here..sad..
@red diamond71 I guess that you are the only one that doesn't know.
@@stephensjurset6832 He is mad his neighborhood was one featured in the video so he tries to play"bully"
@Sightless Sniper People made them that way.
I’m 64 and grew up about 20 min from Camden and Kensington and as far back as I can remember they were horrible places. You’re right Nick, the states just gave up on them. It’s so sad because at one time they were very nice places. My Grandmother who was born in 1885 insisted on being married in Camden because it was such a beautiful wealthy city. Hard to believe that now!😢
Well keep in mind that people have to change first….you could build all new houses where those dilapidated buildings are but within a very short time MOST of those homes will be destroyed, until people can learn to appreciate & take care of what they do have then given them new homes etc is gonna be a waste of time & money.
@@frank-xp6pj It's a sad fact that many don't want to know about, but slums/ghettos are created from within. Yes, politicians and corporations are not exonerated, but the problem mostly comes from the people who call these areas home
😢 I've watched Kensington videos on CZcams and I know this was 2 years back I'm curious if they are taken. In a small area and know where to go or if it's really gotten that much worse than then or ???
Glad you are a survivor and hope you are doing the best in life you can
@@frank-xp6pj Agree.
@@brianew True. Do normal people leave old tires and garbage piled high in their front yards?
Hey dude those great video. It's sad how far our great cities have fallen! In which I applaud your work.
That being said, I am one of the Americas that spent their life growing up on the west side of the Mississippi.
As you may or may not know that's where a lot of the minerals from the kind of came from.
That being said I would like to see a series of yours delving deeper into the Western quote quote expansion. And how that made us the power house that we once were.
I see those cities that you're showing your videos and I remember growing up and Kansas City and in Albuquerque and is sad I know exactly where you're talking about.
But what's going to happen with? Just people showing us a story, or is something going to be done about it?
Excellent video tour of the worst hoods and ghettos of America, true no-go areas at night !
Some watch to realize how fortunate they are, others to realize they're not alone in the struggle.
I grew up in Cincinnati and it is horrible. I am blessed to have left the shithole.
Some also watch to gloat.
Very fortunate
So true.
@@Michael-hy2ud whatever it was that got you out, you need to keep moving. its spreading. so if youve found a way to avoid shitholiness, use it like hell.
Not surprised at all that someone told you to “Get the F out” during your trip to West Baltimore, which is in fact the worst part of Baltimore you can find yourself riding through. Ppl literally walk right out in front of you while driving which is scary because you don’t know if your about to be car jacked or not. I run a lot of red lights when I drive though Baltimore because I have no business sitting around longer than I need to. I’ve seen a few robberies, a stabbing and I’m pretty sure I saw someone ditch a gun once while driving through that part of town. Glad you made it out of Baltimore untouched. Thanks for the video.
I was in West Bmore one day and this chick jumped in my truck and told me to drive. I was in shock to say the least. She said you get out with me and get yourself some food too. I was like OoooK. I just did what she said and all was good. Not the norm of course. That was a good encounter for once. Normally, you are lucky to get out without seeing something bad.
Isn't Baltimore where someone tried to car jack him? (It's in another video)
Even in Los Angeles, about 8 months ago I had 2 guys walk out in front of me one with a pipe, I had nowhere to go, so I beeped my horn and floored the gas, the guy with the pipe I hit, as he tried to smash my car with his pipe,, he was trying to force me to stop, as he wouldn't move until I beeped the horn and floored the gas, he didn't move in time. But that's his fault !! 😃😃.
I think that I have gotten my dose of sadness and depression for the night. Thank you.
This makes me realize that however humble my home is I am so blessed.
Looking at those large, decaying homes in Detroit makes me think… those homes were once people’s sanctuaries. Memories were made on those properties. Children played in those yards. They were once a part of the American dream. So sad.
Your very right..
I thought the same thing
Sad in some aspects. But moving is part of human history. People go where the opportunities are.
Lots of banging after kiddos went to sleep...
@@TerryAnnOnline
In the United States, more so than elsewhere, the norm is to move. My parents come from Europe and I can walk to the house where my mother was born, where my great grandparents lived, etc. You feel a connection even though new houses go up the old ones remain or are renovated. It's the same with the "city" areas. There is so much (ancient) history and little change that one feels a connection when walking the same cobblestone streets that one's ancestors walked. In the states, everything is flipped constantly. Neighborhoods change so fast one doesn't recognize them after a decade or two. Point is, in Europe, people stay where they are so even neighbors become like family after a few generations.
In comparison, America is cold and impersonal. We follow the money and chase "standard of living" but never have quality of life. In America these two are thought of as the same, but they are not.
The reason why rundown areas spark the interest of people is that most of us wouldn't go there ourselves. It's more comfortable and safe to watch a CZcams video about it.
And judge democrats, liberals, the welfare state, big gov't, the lazy residents who do not want to lift themselves up, yada, yada yada.... the term about four fingers pointing back when you point at others is appropriate here
I agree. I admit I make very harsh but frank comments about these ghettos. But I do want it to get better but it wont.. and it never will. We all want these ghettos to become a safe and flourishing neighborhoods but there are a select few too many that prevent this from happening.
@@shyphyre Republicans made the policies that made these circumstances. Please look up how Ronald Reagan cut grants for programs that helped children and single mothers join the work force. This has little to do with Democrats. Most state legislatures are controlled by republicans and they hate the poor and minorities.
@@evanswatson2989 I lived through the Reagan era and remember those budget cuts the Republicans made. I never cared for him or his party. The GOP still denies responsibility for destroying poor neighborhoods
@@shyphyre One of the biggest problems in these neighborhoods in the breakdown of the family unit. And you can thank the Democrat party for the that. They incentivized women on welfare not to have a father in the home. If they did they would receive less money. Both parties have legislated harmful laws to these communities. Pointing your finger at just one is evidence that you don't understand the whole picture.
Thanks for the video. One comment though. THREE obscure little towns in PA that no one has ever heard of, and NO mention of Chicago on the list whatsoever?
I have always loved the look of run down neighborhoods, beautiful.
😂😂😂
Makes me feel way better about my neighborhood. 😆
I find videos on ghetto and run down cities so fascinating because they're a glimpse of old America, like old memories, faded over time.
The average thriving American city is full of suburban homes, parking lots and fast food restaurants.
But driving through these old run down ghettos, the average homes and businesses were built long ago. You drive past an old abandoned home, probably built before the 30s and you wonder, who lived in this home? What kind of memories were made within those walls?
This is why I love videos like these so much.
My house from 1935 it doesn’t look like that it just them not keeping it not fixing the roof
I'm originally from DC, now living in Maryland. DC has an area in South East off south capital street. It's a little run down but its almost plush compared to Kensington street in Philly. Never seen so much homelessness, trash, and people sleeping on the streets. I've been to Philly about 20 years ago but I didn't see it in that kind of condition.
There's a lot of boarded up run down houses, some with collapsed roofs. Government won't tear em down, it'll cost too much and they don't have dumping grounds big enough.
Dead mall videos are also interesting for similar reasons
Yeah no. When I watch these I think of the countless drug house trap house malnourished bums and killings robbing a etc that happened in these neighborhoods. This isn’t a rich neighborhood uphills it’s a garbage dump of a hood. Nothinh much positive happened here .
“Poverty isn’t what defines them.” For some reason I like that statement. Thanks for seeing the positive in some of these sad places.
I spotted the lovelt houses straight away. Even if poor can still have a standard for ones home. Stop the Govetnment from sending money to other countries and face these issues for their own people.
I noticed that comment also , maybe they are just poor in spirit ,
Having been raised in the Deep South, in areas where there was plenty of poverty, both family and religious ties are still extremely strong there. Both of those are strong defenses against despair - not enough to save people at times, but enough to give them hope.
@@dannyc.jewell8788 ?
What you own doesn't define who you are. Some of the brightest, shining faces, eyes full of love, I found in a small rural village in India, and they owned next to nothing.
In my experience, if you have basic needs met, and connect yourself to God, this is the source of happiness. Everything else is superfluous.
I was born in N.C., but raised in Bmore (slang!) This breaks my heart to see it like this. I joined the USAF at age 17, in 1962. Retired at age 38 and left the US, 3 months after I retired. I'm 78 years old now and living in the Philippines since 1983.
You understood you had to get out of there, not only the neighborhood but the whole country!
@@enjoyenglish1721 YOUR COMMENT IS SPOT ON! I had no other choice!
Your backstory makes you sound like Gary from The Corner
@@mrttripz3236 Sorry, I don't know who that person "Gary" is. Would he be a friend of yours?
A lot of the Philippines is beautiful, but there are some extremely slummy areas there, too. Far worse than anything I’ve seen in the U.S.
You actually made Kensington Ave look good. I got lost in my car near the train station. It was like zombie land…100’s of them. Come back in summer…..oh my 😮
I'm British. When we see houses that are sizeable, we presume that it's a nice-enough area. Our roughest areas tend to be either all terraced houses or high-rise blocks of flats. It's hard for me to see detached houses and think that's a run-down area.
This makes me think: someone (maybe even me) should do a British version of this.
Yeah, I’m half British and I’ve visited England several times…. trust me, brother, England and America are two different planets. America is a genuinely toxic culture. I guess we got it from those Nasty ones that set up shop here in the first place! (Capitalism +Religion Kills)
As an American I’d love to see that. That sounds miserable tbh 🥲
Start in Bradford.
@@jamesrobert4106 As it happens, I live in Leeds now and am from Ossett originally. Up until the mid-noughties, some villages near Wakefield (e.g. Fitzwilliam, South Elmsall) had roads that were virtually all abandoned. Those houses have long since been demolished though.
Same in France, our ghettos are big deserts of concrete, few trees, no gardens, big buildings full of misery. And in the vids , even the cars I see look pretty fine too^^ seems that they are not doing this bad in USA, they are just f*cking lazzy and dumb, just have to take a little bit care of their beautifull neighborhoud.
Americans ghetto look like middle class European suburbs😅( with more blcks and garbages tbh)
The wealth disparity of this country is depressing. I recently started a job installing home security systems, and I find myself in some of the richest and poorest neighborhoods in the DC area. Had two jobs the other day-one in a multi-million dollar home in Cleveland Park, and the other in a run-down house in Capitol Heights. Generally, the folks in wealthier areas get these systems to protect their expensive belongings, whereas the folks in the less well-off areas get them to protect their lives.
One thing I've learned from this job is that we're all the same. Most people are born into their situation, be it wealth or poverty. Stereotypes serve no purpose other than to divide us.
Amen ! I am in the eastern panhandle here in West Virginia ( born and raised in these beautiful blue ridge mountains) the rich have started their moves out here ( 50 miles from the sewer of D.C.) The homes here are now so high. We gave yes gave our oldest son our house ( we could have sold it for $300,000 ) my hubby and I said no the home will stay in the family) the crime here in Charles Town isn't bad. I sure hate all the farmland being sold, Apple and peach orchards all gone for cookie cutter houses.
@@tammywines7343 dad sold his part of the land in West Virginia moved to Florida, next to his part was my uncle's, his part went to pay for the old people's home he was put in, the man who bought my dad's property said they sold it cheap, wish he could have bought it I agreed then it would of stayed in one person's family. When I said I was going to look at my uncle's land, he told me to warn me I would be shocked , it would not be anything at all like it was, my uncle's part was a wildlife sanctuary, - they had cut down the trees, most all of them , land divided and left by my great great ( and another great?) Grandma, taxes took the land except what part my dad sold.
Thank you. What an astute and very true statement. Can't judge a man without walking a mile in his shoes.
l like the way you said that,truth is !
I always wondered,what do they get out of that! I guess we are short on hate,in their eyes!
I lived west of Detroit when it was in it's hayday and the automobile factories were full with people and not any robots, every street was filled with houses. Most of them were brick too. I-94 cut right through those neighborhoods. All the streets stopped at I-94. Rouge River was burning. There were tours in the factories. You could see steel smelting. Almost all my friends who had jobs in the factories were set for life - why finish college? I had one friend who rotated jobs when people were off, it was a full time job! Now they are all gone.
It's sad to see working class neighborhoods that were once nice looking so destroyed. Thank you for taking us thru places we're not likely to visit. God bless.
Man, I bet those houses used to be really nice back in the day. I know nothing lasts forever, but this deterioration is still depressing to watch.
No, Nanakanisurra. These neighborhoods have been like this since the 1950's.
@@muthah3013 Wow, that's even more depressing.
Yes before they became BLK
@@Nanakanisurra These people are renters. People who own the properties and take rents, do not do their moral duty to fix and maintain the properties. It is their responsibility, is it not?
@@muthah3013 Good point.
I would have loved to see some of these neighborhoods in their primes. Alot of these abandoned homes look like they were absolutely gorgeous homes at one point in time. I actually try and imagine some of these places during their glory days and how clean and cared for those neighborhoods used to be. You're right Nick Johnson, its sad to see how these places ended up trashed instead of cherished pieces of history
The home owners certainly weren't the poor people.
@@ceegabe1555 most of the rowhomes were always working class neighborhoods, but some time ago working class had decent standards because there was still an industrial presence in these cities
You can. Just need to vote every democrat out of office there.
I totally agree! My own hometown is only a shadow of what it once was. I'm just glad I was raised there as a child before it all went south!
@@michaeljwarren neither party actually cares about the poorer people, they say they care but they're just lying to get our votes.
Because some of never see nor realize this. Thank you for bringing the realization to us.
I drive through E St Louis for work. Ive actually seen new houses being built in certain sections. City still has a LONG way to go, but its the first new developments ive seen there in years.
When other drivers aren't stopping at stop signs. You know you're in a bad hood
haha, so true
I wondered if that was why that happened! I would have floored it and got the heck out of Dodge!
Sactown all way
i wonder if he flagged the other car to go around. then again, these places are basically the wild west, so who knows.
@Steven Darkins my son got stranded in jackson mississippi for about a week or more and he made friends with a homeless black guy who told him which areas to avoid there. They also found a couple abandoned cars in some run down empty building lol
the fastest way to be noticed as an outsider is stopping at stop signs in the hood.
Dirty south: Keep it movin chester! We watching you.
Yep. Don't stop at stop lights either
Yes I noticed he did that and the other car just went around him
A buddy of mine got pulled over by a cop, who asked him why the F he stopped at stoplights, and told him he needed to get the F out of the neighborhood.
@@RCAvhstape Same thing happened to my dad in the 70's. Cop pulled him over and told him to scoot if he didn't have any business being there.
I guess I'm pretty surprised right off the bat. When I used to drive through The Bluff in ATL, it was poppin. Particularly early in the morning because ppl had to get their sh*t before work. So I would think, any really bad neighborhood(s) would have the same business out on the streets pretty much anytime of day but mornings esp
I live in West Hudson County in northeast NJ. We have a pretty decent town being west here in this county. Miles from NYC and less congested then east Hudson County. Minimal crime thankfully. The town is heavy with Latino now, with eateries everywhere. It's like they help us thrive, it's a good thing. I have been here since 1961! We have a population of 44k. We do have many old time bars closing and redeveloped to luxury apartments, we were a bar town once with our neighboring town once in the Guiness Book as 'the most bars per mile'. Irish, Scottish club bars all gone now with very few remaining And some businesses shuddering. I take many Google Maps pics of places we lost also. Trying to remember what we had then. Google maps let's you look many prior years through street view options. I enjoyed seeing your PA/NJ finds. Thank you for doing this I'm glad you are safe. You need a ride buddy. Like a swimming buddy! Don't venture alone lol 😊 Thanks for your video 👍
The way nature is taking back Detroit is kinda beautiful, in a postapocalyptic kind of way
I think it's the best hope for these sorts of places. Then in many years or something, they can be completely redeveloped into something new and better.
@@JoePCool14 I've lived in Chicago for the past 37 years and Gary In . is a hell hole since than . There is no hope to idiots who run those places down . You can be poor but you can be clean .
@@WS-zs1ss I thought they were making a revival in places like Chicago and Detroit…?
@@tannerthepanman9202 Gary is not in Chicago . It's a hillbilly hellhole in Indiana .
@@JoePCool14 No! The people had to change or lt'll be the same thing!
This needs to be played on the mainstream media so Americans can see the betrayal of congress and business
The Federal Reserve is the main culprit behind this.
Plandemic
😂 msm is is a huge arm of criminal politicians and corrupted government.
That's what them pos democrat liberal do 💯💯💯
Democrats social engineering thumbs
I used to live in Hamtramck until I was in 2nd grade, which is pretty much a part of Detroit. Right now I live in the close suburbs. Anyways, Detroit wasn’t given justice on how bad some parts really are. I once saw a literal box of concrete with no roof as my dad was driving around. And I was thinking no way someone lived in that. It’s honestly sad that some people have to go through this.
You knew when you were coming into Gary, the sky was lit up,because of all the steel mills, in fact traveling I-80 back in the 70's that whole corridor from Chicago to Pittsburgh, the sky at night had a nice warm glow from all the steel mills.
My dad had a restaurant many years ago called Mario's Steakhouse in Camden. Sold cheesesteaks, Italian water ice and such. Somebody burnt it to the ground. Parents divorced and me and brother ended up in foster care and then back with my mom at 2105 Westminster Ave, McGuire projects in Camden. Our saving grace was both of us joining the military. Many years later I took my kids to see Camden on a visit back home. They were into gangster rap. I told them I will show you the gangster life style. After 2 minutes in Camden they beg me to leave. Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass just down the road from Camden so it had to be a beautiful place at one time. God bless Camden.
lol. that is funny.
Thanks for sharing. That’s a tragic and really sad story. I’m so glad for you that it’s only Part of your story you’re not done telling yet. You sound like a good dad. Have a happy life, a great purposeful life. ❤️
The military give us underprivileged kids a way out of bad situations. Glad all went well for you. Sad story but inspiring at the same time. 💪🏽😎
I went and stayed there for an entire week, for a school service trip
"My brother and I ended up in foster care".
I'm a trucker. St. Louis, Gary, and Baltimore are places that I pass through regularly. Having traveled most of the country, the entire states of West Virginia and New Mexico take the cake for being the most devastating places that I have visited.
Yes, southern Albuquerque is really really dangerous and full of ghettos. It is one of the highest ranking areas in the country for car theft and its murder rate is climbing. Some parts of southern Albuquerque look worse than like 70% of the ghettos on here.
Not surprised about New Mexico. West Virginia… eh… not surprised either…
You need to visit the Black Belt and Wiregrass of Alabama. Awful. Deserted. Horrible schools.
West Virginia is one big ghetto on a mountain
Yeah
thanks for the video. Stuff like this makes me have limited hope for this country.
Politicians in this country should be required to drive down the ghetto of their respective cities and talk to people who live there so they can get some damn empathy and make decisions that aren't 100% money driven.
Нет, они отправят деньги на Украину, чтобы убить как можно больше украинцев 😮
I grew up very poor, I lived with my grandma and all the money we had was from her widow's pension. The old house we lived in had no insulation, it was cold in the winter. But I never missed a meal and our house and yard was kept clean. There is no excuse for being dirty.
agreed
There are also no more widows’ pensions. There were no pensions for widows of color then and very little now. There are plenty of missed meals, poverty wages and kids left alone in an unsafe world. Cleaning has a low priority, especially when there are drive bys and people have to sit on the floor to avoid being shot. Your childhood was idyllic. Theirs’ causes undiagnosed PTSD and a live unworthy of living.
addiction
@@aGradeDubstep exactly. When you are an addict you don't care about anything else.
@@angrycannibal6625 Interesting post, Thank you. I can't relate to it personally (never experienced it), but I have seen pensions go the way of dinosaurs. Your post rings true.
exploring at dawn before they “all got up” 😂🤣😂😂😂
yeah criminals aren't typically early risers.
Crack heads dont sleep. They troll all nite. He found an abandoned part of the city at 6a.m. and narrated him a story. This was some detroit hater-aid $hit.
More like they just went to bed!
Import the 3rd world you get the 3rd world
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙅♀️
Really fascinating presentation. Have travelled north to south within the United States. Didn't realize that your rust belt has been so neglected. Too bad once hard working proud cities. Our rust belt cities rejuvenated themselves with new industries and government work here in Ontario Canada Toronto area.
I grew up in Detroit. We lived on a middle class street on the East side. We rode the city buses to Marshall Foch Intermediate school and then rode the bus, or walked, to Eastern High. I walked many blocks down Mack Avenue to the public library, with never a fear. There were open stores all along the way, the Delthe and Pasadena movie theaters clean, busy and safe. My school friend and I took the bus downtown to see Guys and Dolls at the Fox Theatre. Our school chums were Greek and Lebanese and Syrian, white and black and we all got along fine. I married at a beautiful church, and we had a nice little apartment on Elmdale. Then the riots happened and began the long spiral into the disastrous situation you see today. Most of these cities no doubt have similar histories.
As a carpenter for 38 years I just want to fix these homes
I would say 80% are beyond repair do to water damage.The framing and sub floors are just rotten to the core.
As a sometimes junker I wanted to haul stuff away to fix up 👩🔧🇺🇲🇷🇺
So they can be destroyed again the next day.... cool
I feel your desire but thats not going to change the systemic reasons why these and other areas have fell into this level. Of chaos and poverty.
Family breakdown plays it’s role.
When the liquor store is boarded up all hope is lost.
Did the Buddha said that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
@@tungsongkhai4880what the hell are you on about ?
Too right 🤣
No that’s good, we need less liquor stores in the hood.
Lmao 🤣
The opening question is a good one. Riding a metro through Kensington one sunny afternoon I just couldn't believe my eyes. I really wanted to believe that this is the worst it gets in this country. So in that sense, your video is kind of reassuring. But the question remains. Why do we want to see it?
I lived in McKeesport, PA in the 70s and 80s. At that time, the streets of downtown McKeesport were bustling; there were 3 department stores, a movie theater, and many restaurants and bars. McKeesport had Bowling alleys and roller rinks and it’s own newspaper, the McKeesport Tribune. They’re all gone….when the steel mills closed for good in the early to mid 1980s, the jobs went away. Unemployment has caused the ruin of many Rust Belt towns, and McKeesport was one of them. Many homes and businesses have been razed, but some are just empty and abandoned. It’s very sad.
I used to sell security systems in Camden and Chester. Camden was so bad I escaped getting jumped twice in one day. Everyone had guns in their back pockets (not the legal kind), and everyone kept telling me I was in the wrong neighborhood. In a nearby town someone pulled a gun on my friend. We also walked over a murder crime scene with blood still on the ground from the previous night. It's a rough neighborhood, no mistake.
@Autism Family what part of Camden?
@@rowdyboys951 Yes. ...joking aside the worst part was central Camden east of Church's Chicken (with bullet holes in the windows, lol) in the Whitman Park area. Louis street is like something out of a post apocalyptic movie scene, that's where I was almost jumped.
I never actually stopped in Camden for anything, I did however drive through it while driving on the highway in the opposite direction as Philadelphia, on the way to Cherry Hill, and let me tell you it looked really run down.
What state is this in?
@Anthony Coz I wish I had a magic wand.😔
It’s amazing that one of the worst ghettos has beautiful brick streets that you can’t find anywhere.
Timothy MacDonnell: I mentioned in another comment that Camden NJ won the award for Most Beautiful City In America in 1948. By the time I was growing up in the 1970s it had already become what it looks like now. It was a combination of two huge employers (RCA and Campbell's Soup) closing down, and the race riots of the 1960s.
This is the worst example of media depiction I have ever seen. But so expected by a Millennial
ya u talking about b more tim?
Signs of better times
Well, here in the Netherlands we have tons of brick streets
because nick ,we all want to know where not to move.. ty ;). but I like to watch the nice ones too!
Well run down neighborhoods
But they all have nice cars and
Trucks
Thank you for the video 😂
Being an Argentinian, one thing that surpises me is that most of the cars are pretty much brand new and all the streets are paved. The ''villas'' here (that's what we call ghettos) make these places look actually decent.
good luck to ya'll 🖤
I know. Americans do not have a realistic perspective on true poverty. The homeless in America are still wealthier than the most impoverished of some other countries around the world. I think the expectations are a bit too high. We all need to be very grateful for what we do have. The entitlement mentality of our culture is a big problem.
Guess I better move to Argentina then. 😄
@@williammunson2508 not sure you got the point...
It surprised me that the first comment I see is a fellow Argentinian. Also remember that the houses in our villas are mostly improvised with scrap metal, wire and wood planks, in the US you get houses of 1 or even 2 stories that are just deteriorated.
I'm talking about the NON homeless of course.
Its messed up that all these houses are abandoned, given the homeless problems we have.
I'd be curious know what would happen if the homeless actually moved in and lived side by side with those people there. I imagine the homeless wouldn't stand a chance.
That’s funny, the homeless would say thanx but no thanx, I’ll stay at the underpass, lot safer.
Exactly what I was thinking. Tear down and hire and train the locals to build tiny homes for the homeless and affordable housing and grocery stores, pharmacy, training schools. Get the gangs out - hire massive security forces. How can we afford to waste so much money on immigration and refugees when we don't even bother with our own?
Apparently many homeless perfer to be outdoors if they can network for drugs it is a consequence of addiction and there are even more drugs coming over the southern border as we sit here watching this. 99% due to alcoholism and drug addiciton just as it has for a long time with alcoholism.
@@valfletcher9285 Drop the border crossers off there and they will beg for a bus back to Mexico.
Really impactful video, it's tough to see the hardships. Thanks for shedding light on these areas
Pretty good top 4 as for looks and yes those are 4 are rough but when it comes to places rougher than these south chicago, st.louis, Memphis, orlando parts you wouldnt get out the car or walk during daytime
Some housing projects are even worse than these places, he's just smart enough not to go to them.
No he exploits places where there's no people out and about so he doesn't get hurt 😒😒😒
Hey Phil, I wouldn't call this exploitation. The people who live in these areas are exploiting everything from minors to government programs. You could always provide us with a tour of those really dangerous areas. How about it, tough guy?
@@michaelc.682 In my experience, after a few years of walking through open air drug markets in extremely neglected and poverty stricken neighborhoods (Mostly, but not always, in Miami): Overtown, Pork n’ Beans housing projects (Liberty City), the Triangle a bit in Opa-Locka, and so on, it’s my opinion that there aren’t really any places in America anymore that are unsafe to walk through during daylight hours (provided that you dress appropriately and know how to carry yourself).
The drug gangs do a very decent job making sure that their customers don’t get attacked or accosted. It can be intimidating the first several times you do it, but eventually it becomes routine.
And once you’re known in the neighborhood as someone who’s just coming on a regular basis to spend a little money, everyone pretty much is fine with you. I mean, I was there often enough that people knew me and sometimes would give me extra bags for taking the trouble to come to their spot consistently without causing problems for them (asking for shorts, drawing attention, whatever). I’ve driven through them and walked through them, even hung out in them for a while making small talk with the people there. Nobody cares. It’s not like people are just there constantly shooting at each other in the streets, in broad daylight. And if they are, they’re not trying to drop some random white boy. REALLY bad for business.
Maybe I’m just lucky, but it seems like if you develop even the smallest amount of street smarts, don’t make a fool of yourself out in the drug zone, and mind your own business, nobody’s going to hassle you. Except the police- I had more trouble with them than any of the residents. They know why you’re there, too...
All that being said, I quit doing dope about 4 years ago, and I’m very happy that I don’t have to visit these places on a semi-daily basis anymore.
For sure. If he goes down a road with a culdesac he wont post anymore videos he will be the video.
@@Yourmomgoestocolledge and I don't blame him. That's smart on his part.
Once, I had a flat tire while driving through the worst drug area in Virginia and I happened to pull in an abandoned car park. All of a sudden a man in a truck stopped and I was scared at first but he help me. He changed my flat and took me to a roadside tire shop. It was one of the worst neighborhoods. People were high in the street. He stayed with me the whole time until my tire was changed. I think he was an Angel in disguise. Then he went on his way. I paid him for staying with me. God only knows what could have happened to me that day. There are good people out there.
"God only knows what could have happened to me that day. "
Apparently, someone could've helped you change a flat tire, which is exactly what happened.
This notion of ghetto's being totally lawless and just pure suicide to enter is frankly very misplaced. Most people in ghetto neighborhoods don't give two shits about you, and if you stay out of their business, they stay out of yours.
Wow, you must have panicked at first. I feel for you about dealing with an unexpected tire problem. I do believe that many people are good and that you encountered a person who probably felt very good about himself to help someone. This is love. Thanks for sharing.
You must be an attractive woman, am I wrong? Those are always helped. If you were a guy then totally a different story.
wait, were you babysitting at the time and had to drive into the city to rescue your friend. Are you in fact Elizabeth Shue?
For every good story you guys tell, there’s two dozen that don’t get told, where things turned out exactly how you might expect
I really enjoy these road trips not because of the tragedy but because of he truth of our country being exposed. I know its not all like this but the divide of poor and rich Is sobering. I grew up in new orleans and there are many sights I've seen here that remind me of the worst parts of it. It helps to put things in perspective when you see the reality of all of this. BTW the music choices really fit for these places. Thanks Progressives!
Nice videos, from South Africa.
Philly.
This was 1993 and hubby drove over the road trucking. I rode with him for a year and one place we had to go (and trucking takes you to some shady places) was ghetto Philadelphia. We had a delivery at some place that was a nightmare to get to: burned-out tenements lined the street; cars up on blocks, barely room to drive the truck through at times. Get to the business and it was surrounded by a high fence topped with concertina wire. It looked like a prison, but this place was like that to keep criminals OUT. Hubby was exhausted, and innocently asked if he could park in their lot for a few hours to get a nap after unloading.
The supervisor narrowed his eyes and said, "You don't want to be here after dark." So we left. Back to threading through the dystopian streets slowly working our way at maybe a 5 mph crawl. Then some guy came angling out of an alley toward us. Hubby saw this and started cursing. Of course being a company driver he had nothing to defend himself with but a tire checker.
This guy intended to jump up between the tractor and the trailer and pull the air hoses which would lock the brakes. His accomplices would then hijack the truck and steal its contents at their leisure. The female passenger would have been an unexpected bonus prize. The driver would have just been in the way and ventilated most likely. We were on our way to being screwed.
Just as the guy had closed the distance by half, a cop car nosed around the corner, and the guy changed direction and ducked back into some other alley.
We kept going of course and soon found the main road out to the interstate. I told hubby that I would never set foot in Philly again, and he agreed that we were lucky to be alive.
TL;DR Nearly got hijacked in Philly ghetto.
Always pack. Better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. After 3,000,000 miles in a truck, they are words you will LIVE by.
Man o man
@@absolutely5376 Yeah. He was not allowed by his company to pack. This was when he was new to truck driving and scared to death that he'd be unemployable if they fired him "for cause". Things are a lot different now.
@@idagirl814 Thank you kindly.
@@absolutely5376 Reminded me of when I worked in behavioral health. Everyone in the office had some type of self defense item in case a client came at us.
It was against the company policy but at the end of the day, no job is worth dying for.
My father was from Camden, over on Howell St. When he was doing refrigeration repair back in the late 1940s two guys jumped him and robbed him. He caught up with one of them and was beating the guy in the head with a wrench when a cop came running over and grabbed him. He thought for sure he was going to jail with the thief laying on the ground covered in blood. The cop told him to move his refrigeration repair truck, he was blocking traffic.
Damm Ed. My guess is the cop knew the guy your Dad was beating and would of thanked your Dad if he wasn't blocking traffic.
In the 1940s? Wow. Sounds like Camden went downhill a long time ago.
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@@romaskincare9138
Camden used to be an economic powerhouse back in the day.
OMG. That took me out.
Thanks You for your show it was really good because this is Reality
I drove through Camden once on the way to the aquarium and my first thought was “why is every building pretty much burned down?” … also side note… one dollar houses in Gary, Indiana? I’m moving there!
One thing that struck me about many of these ghettos, was how beautiful the architecture of some of the old buildings and houses is. Some were even in pretty good repair/recently painted and spruced up. All some of these neighborhoods need is a little TLC and modernization of the infrastructure.
Ghettos do not occur naturally, they are created by the people living there
Yeah and people
they need white people, like back when they were beautiful neighborhoods.
@@davehart9972 newsflash buddy white people live in all of the hoods in the country lmfao get that shit outta here
@@davehart9972 Evidently it’s doubtful they need segregationists like you.
the craziest thing is some of us are scared to go there or would never want too. Then there is the kid who calls it home.
That’s deep!
When I grew up in N. Philly, I didn't know we were poor. And some of the scary situations I was put in just seemed normal to me as a child. The thing that struck me most in this video is all the nice cars. Back when I grew up there, few had a car, and nobody who had one would park it on the street, or it would be gone by the next morning.
I’m Close to philly and yeah it’s just the norm when your from this
I am so blessed
When you grow up in it not only are you accepted, it's normal.
I like watching something i can relate to. Also love history and seeing things decaying and poor upkept neighborhoods is interesting. Weathly places are okay, but there are more people less fortunate than not.
Man, the soundtrack is just… beautiful
Such an overwhelming sense of sadness for the people who lived, loved and died from these empty homes. And for the cities who have lost them.
Obv. I also find it sad but it's fascinating how over the decades some cities become wealthy and the centre of their states but then move to other areas and so on and so forth. In my province we had areas that were poor and others wealthy and now its the other way around.
They did it to themselves
@@Rob-qs3xx Nah. I don't think so... People are not in control of what governments and huge corporations do. Industry moves out, people move with it or they get poor fast. It's hard to navigate when you're unprepared to pay shit loads of money and your house is suddenly worth way less so you can't even move somewhere better.
I'm all for personal responsibility, but not for blaming victims of a system that never gave a shit for them.
It's half the cities fault in the first place.