@@androsp9105 America is car dependent as fuck, you'll only see one or two pedestrians in SAFE suburban neighborhoods. Kinda the fault of bad urban planning/sprawl
my friend got robbed at a red light in detroit. when he stopped at the intersection he got boxed in and robbed. apparently its smart to roll through all red lights and stop signs in bad neighborhoods like there
You'd be amazed at what happens to an unoccupied house. Knew folks that lived on the west side. Neighboring house was vacant for 3 years but you'd have guessed at least a decade based on how it looked. Imagine the housing stock in a city that lost half of it's population over a few decades.
Yes Hattori. People can strip them to the bare wood in a matter of weeks. I saw one beautiful McMansion (yes a newer home like the ones on Sandbar Ln that go for around $600k but it was northwest... Rosedale or smthg) last year with 6 or 8 bedrooms, 3 storeys, 4 bathrooms and a pool out back. There were pics of it 3 months earlier with the pool filled and the shrubs trimmed all nice. It looked like the owners were only on vacation. A short 3 months later, the house was listed for $69 000 bc it was a carved out wreck inside. Thieves had ripped the kitchen and bathrooms apart, yanked all the light fixtures and huge chunks of the walls out in that time. The place was still fully furnished. The thieves didn't even want the gorgeous white leather sectional in the living room. They just dumped everything and took what they could sell. Metal, sinks, furnaces, wiring, etc. Once chunks of the walls and ceilings are gone and the windowframes are pulled off, the awful Michigan weather does the rest. The place can rot down to unsalvageable in less than a year. That's when the owners usually end up setting fires so they can at least collect their insurance money.
There is a theory that if all the people leave a city for a whole decade and come back, the city itself will be indistinguishable and animals will come back as well as grass on roads. I not sure it's true but its kinda surreal to think about.
I remember my father cried when he showed me the neighborhood he grew up in in Detroit. It is very very different now, and this video is a great representation.
@@CooManTunes stop dude. We both know damn well neither party gives a fuck about anyone earing under 200 thousand dollars. Dems at least pretend to give a fuck about the people, Republicans don't even pretend lol
@Rowdy Jr. Demonrats are the worst of the worst. Globalists tend to be this way. However, I've never voted, for either side, so I agree with you. I feel so lucky, to be so pure and free of the corruption! :')
Lol blame the Democrats 😂 so tell me, as a Republican how are you personally making Detroit better? GTFO with that political bullshit. Don't rely on politicians to make things better. Change starts at the lowest level.
@@Andy-sh9eq Everything that could go wrong. And it started decades ago. Building of suburbs, Auto plants closing or moving, Civil Rights protests and riots, White flight, disinvestment in the city, fear, crack cocaine, which is what my era started to see. I remember when my neighborhood was beautiful, and I remember when it started to change. And it was definitely related to the crack epidemic. The crimes that are normal now started in the 80's. The first time I remember someone shooting a gun anywhere we all were was in '88 at the skating rink. Shooting was unheard of in our neighborhood. I suggest you watch Anthony Bourdain's Detroit episode. He's the only one I've seen who really nailed what happened and with respect.
Dude! We were neighbors! I lived on drake, 2nd house from the corner it was in your video, from 72-85 and went that same walk! Sometimes took the street before Davidson and cut through a field. Mrs. Stevens was kindergarten and mrs. Deneau 4th grade... it was a gorgeous school. My mom and I actually peeked in that door about three years ago, the wood floors were buckling, but the old fireplaces were in there, some old drawers from the built ins in the wall scattered on the floor. So many memories.There was a park behind that country house. And next to the park behind that business was all this abandoned equipment.. I swear i saw a small Ferris wheel in there once. It was a great childhood, wouldn’t change it for the world. Thank you for the video!
pauliganful i just thumbs down ur comment touching story and shit but i just want to see what happens next i got bets on what kind of comments come from this
I NEVER SEE THUMBS DOWN ON CZcams VIDEOS AND I CAN ALREADY SEE THE KOTEX WEARING MEN AND SENSITIVE IDIOTS THAT ARE GUNNA START A WAVE OF VAGINA FEELINGS
They tryna be brazy Detroit became popular in the 1950s/60s when the Car companies came in. Then gas prices rose, foreign car companies started getting more market share, and inflation rose. American car companies also started getting lazy and put out increasingly gas inefficient and unreliable cars. This resulted in the Detroit car companies outsourcing for cheaper labor and as a result Detroit people got laid off en masse. Then mostly Caucasian people left the city to go to the suburbs. People call it the Great White Flight. Now the downtown and surrounding 5-9 mile radius are filled with crime and poverty. When I lived there I lived 25 miles out from downtown but my family grew up at 13 mile. (The roads are named after how far they are from the city) They said that 13 mile used to be the middle class area. So it seems to be spreading.
Morris Aaa once the city started failing with the decline of the auto industries the US government just basically told them to go to hell and let them die lol
damn does detroit actually look like that?! that's sad :( it's so bleak and depressing. it looks like it used to be a really nice place. that school is massive and beautiful
OK so I live in Detroit and grew up in Detroit and yes there’s a good side and there’s the bad side. the town is very beautiful and there are some neighborhoods that are more worn down than others I live in the warn down neighborhood but I still love it it’s not as bad as people say or make it look like! There’s also the more upkeep neighborhoods that look like probably your town houses such as a normal subdivision there’s just the worn down parts that people focus more on I guess. But either way the worn down parts are more gloomy than others because those are people that don’t have a lot of money because the rent is only ranging from 200 to 500 a month so people don’t have money will live in the one down parts, they don’t have enough upkeep money to put flowers on their porch. Detroit is working on getting rid of those old abandoned houses but there’s just so many of them Detroit is so big it’s hard. Yes there are killers that room the street but don’t mess with them and they won’t go for you!
It really does and it’s depressing. I went to grant and lived in the area more than 20 years ago. Now it looks like a war zone. Michigan spends all their money on downtown Detroit to attract tourists while a lot of the city looks like this. They closed almost all of the schools, there are no movie theaters, malls, fine dining restaurants etc. As a kid, Detroit once had all of those things
as someone who doesnt live in the us, this looks exactly like a scene from the walking dead... i didnt think this scenery actually existed - the weather doesnt help the look either!
TheWeeaboo i live in australia which hasnt had as much colonisation by the europeans for long in comparison to other countries, so nothing here quites compares to this. i cant comment too much about europe but i feel like all the cultures have their own styles of housing and architecture to them, so for me it just looks very american looking lol
Given the vandalism, weather, and lack of attention, it's amazing that any of these beautiful old houses are even still standing. Their architecture, craftsmanship, and quality of materials has not been replicated in the past 70 years. Such a shame that the marvelous school is closed and abandoned. Sorry to see what's happened to wonderful Detroit. Hope the city can get its act together. It's too much of a treasure for this to continue.
True. One of the oldest franchises. Only ten double digit win seasons. Never more than 11 wins in one season. No super bowls. Barry Sanders. Calvin Johnson. Worst American sports franchise of all time probably.
The amount of detached houses in the neighbourhoods is scary to me, a fellow Brit. American neighbourhoods have so many detached houses in a typical neighbourhood it's like a foreign land compared to any typical suburban area in England. I live in Bournemouth by the way xd
Now imagine walking in 16 inches of snow. I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s walking 16 blocks to school in Detroit also. Rain, sleet, lots of snow. We made it, thank God.
Detroit in the 70's: Muscle Cars Detroit in the 90's: Gang Violence Detroit in the 2020's: Sushi shops and lack of updated agriculture. It's like a backwards evolution chart.
CantStumpTheTrump MayTrumpHaveMercyOnYou fuck up yaself weasel. the guys making a comment about this dudes memories and saying how things have changed. no need to be a fuckwit.
I really appreciate all of your videos they are eye-opening! This virtual trip is sad, you can see that area was once a nice family neighborhood and now it looks like a ghost town with a few restored homes along the way. The school is haunting to see, I can imagine all of the children that went there experiencing all that goes with growing up, and yet, there it sits vacant and empty, so sad.
Half of the outsiders on this video, obviously not native to Detroit, have no common sense. It’s appalling that ignorance is held to such high regard over others in this life. No drug dealers are out here driving orange cars. Detroit is presently being gentrified therefore y’all can continue to systematically keep failing to kill people who look like me with neocolonialism, and hopefully then come pay us a visit beyond your phone screen! As an actual native to metro Detroit, I would reason that the car belongs to a (non-Black because that’s just not how the process works) millennial of a family of great credit looking to renovate his hipster home starting at $1 and up.
So sad to see how there used to be hundreds of homes where families lived and kids grew up. Now it's only a depressing place to see. Houses rotting and decaying and never seeing the light kinda brings a tear to my eye. Hope Detroit recovers from this
the inner city is doing fine. I think that while their approach to fixing Detroit is helping all the rich people downtown they need to actually put more work into the outer ring. A lot of like normal people have been starting charities and stuff for them though.
Shirley here I grew up in Detroit. My friend and I would spend Saturdays downtown all day shopping and eating lunch and walked from store to store until our skinny legs got tired and take that long bus ride back home down grand river to green field and get one more bus. Our parents never had to worry about us.
@@wiltchamberlain6869 no, not me. Moved there in 79 or 80 for about a year before I moved to Hamtramic. I was 21 or so. A cheap place to live. Even then most houses were still up , not a good area even then.
"...made into multiple small apartment's" ....what? ....small apartment's what? (Apostrophes indicate possession or the contraction of "is".) Maybe it was good they shut down that K-8 elementary school after all.
@@TheMasterTelevision I remember hearing in an interview with Steve Perry that they just needed an extra syllable before "Detroit" and they weren't too familiar with the area, so they just threw "South" in front of it, haha
*Detroit was once one of the most important cities in the United States, nowadays it is nothing but a ghostly place, God bless America! Greetings from Brazil*
Yup gives them a sense of protection and comfort even in a run down house. Having a roof over your head is what most ever wanted not all homeless people are crazy so let this be a lesson to open up a bit and bring struggling people in to your house even for just the night. Have them share their stories educate your kids if you have any. Be thankful and grateful to whoever take/took care of you cause life aint free. You either die with a family or without one. Most people just give up and are ready to die if the time comes. Just want to let people know that no homeless are a nobody all were just like everybody else the innocent child who because of various reasons end up on the streets. Society is harsh to these people they may have been born unhealthy and were damned from the start. Instead of feeling sorry for them, do something to help its because of poor choices made, we have this problem. Things will get better for everyone dont lose faith. Thanks for reading this and just letting people know im not trying to be offensive in any type of way by how my comment was said just want to bring a little humor cause all this depressing sorry if anyone took it the wrong way. Anyways happy new years to everyone be safe!
I love watching these videos. After watching this, I started watching documentary about Detroit public school system. Interesting to watch from an Aussie point of view. What it was then to now. Thanks CharlieBo313 for the in-depth look into America's suburbs.
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Good video. I grew up in East St. Louis. The street where I lived is now a forest. All the houses are gone and nature took the land back. I can tell you really 'felt' this documentary. God bless you.
Grant elementary school. That was my school, the best in the city. Mrs Thomas, Mrs. Simms, Mr Richardson. Mrs. Gherdinni. It was a great place to grow up. I had my first fight on that front lawn in first grade. But a lot of good things also happened here also. Most of the teachers cared about the students.
This still looks better than the most of towns here in Russia. In fact a nice place like this would be considered to be really expensive and most likely would be separated from the rest of the town by a huge fence and will have a security guard at the entrance road and whatnot.
@@primalghost9470 there are safe and dangerous places in Russia, just like in any other country. Check out the murdering rates here and in the US considering we have more cops per capita than any other country(except Belarus) and it's way more hard to legally get a gun here than in the US.
Just love seeing Detroit n the houses r truly fascinating, actally u no wat they remind me of al the time, Halloween thats wat lol, i really dont no why but i think its just the way the beautiful old houses r built. thankx for the upload n narration charlie. ps, its so sad to see so many of the nice old hoses go to ruin.
Well you could say Detroit lived and died with the automobile-industry, just warning example that no city should be built around one industry like that....when one indudstry that used to give jobs to so many people goes down, this is what happens, for smaller towns if a big factory gets closed down, thats basicly same as death penalty for small town, in Detroit it just happened on much larger scale.
yeah everyone knows about Detroit but that happened in loads of towns across southern Michigan. It's more drastic bc Detroit was so huge but there's alot of towns that only a couple people live in now coz all the industry left
I love your story about walking to school . I now live in my orig hometown of elementary school . It's a great story . I'm sure you had lots of friends to walk with . Great memory ..as you get older ,they often mean alot .
5:07 brand new car at a destroyed house 😂 Edit: the car people of the internet have spoken and have i decided, the car still looks brand new to me dont care if its a 15-20 years old. look at the house its parked at that shit is new compared to it lmao
Dude Man I was wondering about that. You think maybe they were just doing some business there (city inspection or something) and not living there? Crazy
Well atleast he now got a story to tell to his kids or grandkids like "back in my day I had to travel 200 miles to school". Not really but you get what I mean
i grew up on the lower eastside too, a different part of Conner by the river, and i feel your pain for your lost memories of how it once was. peaceout do
Holy shit. That first corner you turned on. Covert and Carrie. My great grandma lived at that first corner till she died in the early 2000s. My grandma lived there with her six kids, and my dad lived in that house. I spent a great deal of the 1980s and early 1990s hanging out in the yard. Good memories.
Damn I knew that there was gonna be a detroit become human comment! I knew!!! But yes. And I'm my game I accidentally killed kara... oops... imma replay it this weekend tho so I'll fix it! Lol
wow, that school building is beautiful. Too bad it's abandoned now. I can just imagine what it was like back in the day. But I think that a lot whenever I drive through Detroit.
Don't know why this popped in my recommended, but it makes me feel for my neighborhoods future. I'm going off to college in a good seven or so months and my neighborhood looking like this just a little more tidier. Not to dox myself, but I'm out in the suburbs of Chicago and it's day and night with some neighborhoods. Some streets look like crackhead central, then you scoot a town over and it's some goody two shoes grand houses. They opened a new homeless shelter down the block last year, and I don't even bother walking over to the Seven Eleven anymore because it's so dangerous sometimes. I know this rich/poor divide only going to get worse, but I just don't want to revisit my old house and find out it's all torn apart and shit. I dead ass watched this video and only saw my house. Thank you for this my guy.
Detroit used to have many good jobs in the auto industry. As more and more of that work started being done in Japan and other countries, the Detroit auto makers closed plants and laid off workers.
65 years of Democrats happened. High taxes and Democrats making NAFTA deals so the factories closed up and the jobs went elsewhere and the city is dead now.
*smh* Marc don't listen to those racist doucherags. Detroit has had a majority black population for close to a century. Through the downturns *AND* boom times. Black Detroiters are no less employable than anybody else.The ratio of working black families to nonworking blacks in Detroit, as a reflection of each passing economic cycle, compared to every other ethnic group is about the same. A number of factors caused the auto industry (their main industry and the hub of all of American industry at one time) to start losing money in the 80s. Cheaper Japanese cars, green technology... some say mismanagement and fear of changing to suit the changing market. So the Big 3 hit up GW Bush in '08 for some corporate welfare money to keep the industry from dying. Obama got stuck with making good on GW's promise. They got their money, but 2 of them moved their operations to China and Mexico anyway. Chrysler stayed but they had to lay off huge numbers of workers. They seem to be trying to boost productivity every so often. Remember this ad? czcams.com/video/SKL254Y_jtc/video.html So with most of the city unemployed, the population dropped from just over 2 million down to around 700 000 in just a few years bc nobody could pay their mortgages and taxes anymore. So many skilled labourers, many of whom were used to earning between $40 000 and $80 000/year were suddenly *homeless.* I've seen vids of these guys out panhandling and trying to sell their construction skills in the street, with handheld cardboard signs. So naturally some of them will do what highly skilled people do when it's freezing and they're starving. They break into abandoned houses and sell whatever they can find. That includes copper wiring, radiators, even the kitchen sink. Then they find another abandoned house and squat there bc the bank just foreclosed on everything they owned, and Michigan winters are harsh enough to kill a person. It is sad. My grandfather used to take me through the Windsor tunnel for IHOP pancakes when I was little and he was a border guard and things were good all around. I haven't been to the D since the mid 90s. My sister and I were quite sad to hear that even the Pontiac Silverdome is a stripped down wreck, and scheduled for demolition. She saw The Rolling Stones play there in '89. We grew up on the other side of the border, but I still have a bit of a soft spot for our neighbours bc we spent most of our days with their radio and tv programming. (Here dog c'mon dog... me 'n dog want you to go to Telegraph Road... right now... lol that used car ad was such an earworm.) There was a documentary called Detroipia made around 2014 if you want to know more.
@ Bigg V: It's coming up on election time. I think Sandrov is a Russian election rigging bot. I'm still smh over how 96% of Detroiters voted for Hillary but Pumpkinhead still won Michigan. czcams.com/video/ZZ-Kwr0VFUE/video.html #notmypresident
That's so sad. It looks like the apocalypse like we see on tv except this is real. Your school looks like it was gorgeous back in the day. You must have so many fond memories that still live inside those walls. Thank you for sharing this. It's also sad to see all those houses broken down and rotting - I think about all the holidays and birthdays and good and bad memories people made in them. Every place has a story.
Charlie speaks! Cool videos dude. Good stuff. 👍 I'd love for people to get a look at Connecticut's destroyed neighborhoods. They all think we're rich here.
Americans:
- “That looks like it went trough a nuclear war”.
- “That is horrible”.
Me as a Russian:
- That’s a nice looking neighbourhood !
Same. Where I'm from this would be considered as one of the richer neighbourhoods
@@Cravberry hes trying to be funny
Same
John Davidson
Prettier than blocs and flats
John Davidson Lol commies
I straight up thought it would be a kid walking to school whilst talking.
“whilst”...
👑I thought the same to👑
Varsity what about it ?
Varsity Yea, your point?
@@varsity5806 its proper english you fiend
The lack of pedestrians is unsettling.
even rich parts of america are like that
Andro B no ones going to be in a suburb lol
@@guguigugu you dont understand. Try visiting us sometime haha
@@zivex5860 Do people not walk places in the us?
@@androsp9105 America is car dependent as fuck, you'll only see one or two pedestrians in SAFE suburban neighborhoods. Kinda the fault of bad urban planning/sprawl
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?”
- C.S. Lewis
Wow
The days are long, but the decades are short.
Like the age of CS 's object of affection?
That's not true at all everything changes nothing stays the same
@@vlonelone311 The quote isn't meant to be literal, but rather figurative.
Detroit looks like it went through a nuclear war.
@nikola zazzoslki that's what's happening in Toronto.
Nah...just years and years of liberal policy
@@seferino Please, Toronto is a great city. People in Detroit left and they last almost half their population
nikola zazzoslki just look up redlining it’s that simple...
@Roughman Or, get this. Ik its very hard for you, but follow with me as best as you can. He could almost just almost, be joking.
They could literally shoot the walking dead here without changing the scenery at all.
Georgia is already a wasteland
I can attest to that, since I have been living here for nearly 20 years.
Ok true
@John Sabp here we go...
Damn americans are so racist, thank god i live somewhere where nobody even knows of the topic!
@ꀯ hahahaha 😂, I'm dead yo...
my friend got robbed at a red light in detroit. when he stopped at the intersection he got boxed in and robbed. apparently its smart to roll through all red lights and stop signs in bad neighborhoods like there
Damn
Your friend shoulda had a gun on him.
Someone I worked with told me that also happened to her father in Detroit too. They put a shotgun to his head.
Or just lock your doors
@@Astrothunder_ A handgun wont save you against 3 dudes with shotguns
All that’s missing is super mutants, rad-scorpions and bloatflies.
Najib Rahman don’t forget the enclave, Yao Guai, and of course one, LibertyPrime
Vnarves Death is a preferable alternative to communism
@Aaron Z. hes quoting the video game fallout. Dont get yer knickers in a twist
@Aaron Z. Boomer detected
@Aaron Z. Lol
R/iamverysmart
Honestly this is how our old minecraft saves be lookin right now
Bro fax
Zoomcuck
bepis lmaooo those ps3 days of Minecraft were wild 😂
bepis yessir
"2b2t, the oldest anarchy server in minecraft"
Detroit looks like a post apocalyptic city like they show in Hollywood.
Aman Rathore there's an abandoned zoo on Belle isle that was actually used for smth like that
@Kahn Girde' my heart goes out to you bro.
@Kahn Girde' you make it out soon keep your head up
Or in those zombie games people play.
And Hollywood gets behind the kind of politics that ruined the city
Sad to know that was probably a great neighborhood once, the guy even said it it was all nice.
Yeah I researched the school and it said it had the most students in the late 90s, only to end up abandoned by 2007
the house at 1:12 looked like a beautiful (at one time) Tudor style home.
Those houses are still bigger than the average house in the UK and it’s crazy how spaced out everything is.
That’s America for you lol
These are small houses for where I’m from in the US
Yeah man you live on an island, y’all ain’t got much to work with 😂
@@keenjones8840 k no need to be rude dud
@@keenjones8840 True
It must be surreal to see the place you grew up wither away in such a short amount of time.
You'd be amazed at what happens to an unoccupied house. Knew folks that lived on the west side. Neighboring house was vacant for 3 years but you'd have guessed at least a decade based on how it looked. Imagine the housing stock in a city that lost half of it's population over a few decades.
Yes Hattori. People can strip them to the bare wood in a matter of weeks. I saw one beautiful McMansion (yes a newer home like the ones on Sandbar Ln that go for around $600k but it was northwest... Rosedale or smthg) last year with 6 or 8 bedrooms, 3 storeys, 4 bathrooms and a pool out back. There were pics of it 3 months earlier with the pool filled and the shrubs trimmed all nice. It looked like the owners were only on vacation. A short 3 months later, the house was listed for $69 000 bc it was a carved out wreck inside. Thieves had ripped the kitchen and bathrooms apart, yanked all the light fixtures and huge chunks of the walls out in that time. The place was still fully furnished. The thieves didn't even want the gorgeous white leather sectional in the living room. They just dumped everything and took what they could sell. Metal, sinks, furnaces, wiring, etc. Once chunks of the walls and ceilings are gone and the windowframes are pulled off, the awful Michigan weather does the rest. The place can rot down to unsalvageable in less than a year. That's when the owners usually end up setting fires so they can at least collect their insurance money.
Just like fucking giant big footed termites!
When you look at it like that,thats one huge step backwards.Can understand how most places just don't ever recover.
There is a theory that if all the people leave a city for a whole decade and come back, the city itself will be indistinguishable and animals will come back as well as grass on roads. I not sure it's true but its kinda surreal to think about.
That sadness in his voice is very real
i didnt hear any sadness... i hear nostalgia
685 disagree wit you
George Bushwaller where?
He doesn't sound sad. He sounds like he's just explaining things.
George Bushwaller 1k like
Must be heartbreaking seeing ur childhood memories .. demolished
I remember my father cried when he showed me the neighborhood he grew up in in Detroit. It is very very different now, and this video is a great representation.
@@amethy1616 If your father has ever voted for democrats, then he's contributed to the deterioration. Let's hope he didn't.
@@CooManTunes stop dude. We both know damn well neither party gives a fuck about anyone earing under 200 thousand dollars. Dems at least pretend to give a fuck about the people, Republicans don't even pretend lol
@@cameronstout6919 Demonrats are pretenders. That's true! They're as fake as you can get, so I definitely agree with you!
@Rowdy Jr. Demonrats are the worst of the worst. Globalists tend to be this way. However, I've never voted, for either side, so I agree with you. I feel so lucky, to be so pure and free of the corruption! :')
I like how everything that's not a house looks like a factory in the rust belt - even schools.
poshko41 they probably were at one point
You’re channeling Foucault without even knowing it.
Shame, some of these houses would look REALLY nice if Detroit wasn’t in shambles
John Miguel cuz of the democrats.
Lol blame the Democrats 😂 so tell me, as a Republican how are you personally making Detroit better? GTFO with that political bullshit. Don't rely on politicians to make things better. Change starts at the lowest level.
Tencups Man fuck both the Democrats and Republicans. They’re both scum who don’t care about the people
Anglus Patria seriously.... you sound like an idiot... stop.
@@m3tr0idgrl you know what they say if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
"Let me move before I get a ticket or somethin"
*(Proceeds to drive the wrong way down a one way)*
He wasn’t wrong... he was moving lol
Ticket in that area LOL, LOL, LOL.... Can't see a cop miles away..
Wrong way down a one way street
He could scream and no one would hear him for miles so who gives a fuck? Lmfao.
@@Deadbeatcow STAR
1:12 love that corner house. Has a gothic look to it.
Research tartaria mudfloods it was probably left from an ancient civilization
Why do you say that? Have you no clue in life ?
Mate thats grus house
@@ChristosCampbell That's the biggest bs ever.
It was beautiful growing up in Detroit. The decline is heartbreaking, but I wouldn’t change the experience for anything in the world. I love Detroit.
Kina what caused the decline and damage?
@@Andy-sh9eq Everything that could go wrong. And it started decades ago. Building of suburbs, Auto plants closing or moving, Civil Rights protests and riots, White flight, disinvestment in the city, fear, crack cocaine, which is what my era started to see. I remember when my neighborhood was beautiful, and I remember when it started to change. And it was definitely related to the crack epidemic. The crimes that are normal now started in the 80's. The first time I remember someone shooting a gun anywhere we all were was in '88 at the skating rink. Shooting was unheard of in our neighborhood. I suggest you watch Anthony Bourdain's Detroit episode. He's the only one I've seen who really nailed what happened and with respect.
Dude! We were neighbors! I lived on drake, 2nd house from the corner it was in your video, from 72-85 and went that same walk! Sometimes took the street before Davidson and cut through a field. Mrs. Stevens was kindergarten and mrs. Deneau 4th grade... it was a gorgeous school. My mom and I actually peeked in that door about three years ago, the wood floors were buckling, but the old fireplaces were in there, some old drawers from the built ins in the wall scattered on the floor. So many memories.There was a park behind that country house. And next to the park behind that business was all this abandoned equipment.. I swear i saw a small Ferris wheel in there once. It was a great childhood, wouldn’t change it for the world. Thank you for the video!
pauliganful i just thumbs down ur comment touching story and shit but i just want to see what happens next i got bets on what kind of comments come from this
@@mistertapia4491 dislikes don't matter
I NEVER SEE THUMBS DOWN ON CZcams VIDEOS AND I CAN ALREADY SEE THE KOTEX WEARING MEN AND SENSITIVE IDIOTS THAT ARE GUNNA START A WAVE OF VAGINA FEELINGS
@@mistertapia4491 wot
Mister Tapia stfu
That’s a long walk for an elementary school kid.
@Aplles Lsst we had to walk through 10 miles of snow barefoot while being chased by bears
and uphill both ways
mishell128 carrying 100 pounds of school supplies and my baby sister
I live in Compton too, I had to walk twice as long as this video and always had to walk past gangsters
its not long lmao thats why americans are fat yall have problems with regular walks
4:14 horror movie plot averted
Underrated comment
Agreed
Looks like a part of an asylum from outlast
Ah yes, Detroit.
Once the motor of America's economy,
now the engine of its decline.
CarthagoMike can u tell me why?
They tryna be brazy Detroit became popular in the 1950s/60s when the Car companies came in. Then gas prices rose, foreign car companies started getting more market share, and inflation rose. American car companies also started getting lazy and put out increasingly gas inefficient and unreliable cars. This resulted in the Detroit car companies outsourcing for cheaper labor and as a result Detroit people got laid off en masse. Then mostly Caucasian people left the city to go to the suburbs. People call it the Great White Flight. Now the downtown and surrounding 5-9 mile radius are filled with crime and poverty. When I lived there I lived 25 miles out from downtown but my family grew up at 13 mile. (The roads are named after how far they are from the city) They said that 13 mile used to be the middle class area. So it seems to be spreading.
Justin S Thank u for taking your time to tell me that, very interesting
Justin S thanks for the insight
Morris Aaa once the city started failing with the decline of the auto industries the US government just basically told them to go to hell and let them die lol
Honestly looks like a set design from a movie when the world ends, so sad to look at.
Yeah Are Houses On Certain Spots Always Have Looked Like This
They just old houses whats so sad lmao
Smiles Santana Bc what other major city looks like this?? Do you not realize what this place used to be ?
A lot of poland looks like this or at least where im from
In the 70s i bet it was beautiful
Scariest part of this vid was seeing the Pontiac Aztec
Funny
Walter white moved to Detroit
there's a meth lab nearby
Everytime i see one i think of the heisenberg theme..everytime
@@Carl_McMelvin oh yeah
The school looks like it would've been a nice building, imagine all the kids laughing as they come pouring out the doors
damn does detroit actually look like that?! that's sad :( it's so bleak and depressing. it looks like it used to be a really nice place. that school is massive and beautiful
cherub some parts look like this will most parts do like 20% of it don’t it’s clean and nice
OK so I live in Detroit and grew up in Detroit and yes there’s a good side and there’s the bad side. the town is very beautiful and there are some neighborhoods that are more worn down than others I live in the warn down neighborhood but I still love it it’s not as bad as people say or make it look like! There’s also the more upkeep neighborhoods that look like probably your town houses such as a normal subdivision there’s just the worn down parts that people focus more on I guess. But either way the worn down parts are more gloomy than others because those are people that don’t have a lot of money because the rent is only ranging from 200 to 500 a month so people don’t have money will live in the one down parts, they don’t have enough upkeep money to put flowers on their porch. Detroit is working on getting rid of those old abandoned houses but there’s just so many of them Detroit is so big it’s hard. Yes there are killers that room the street but don’t mess with them and they won’t go for you!
No, it is a lot worse, the houses in the video are in the nicer more well to do part of the city
@@ernestoguzman6388 I am Indian and I have to agree. I hate it, here
When we used to go to down town detroit all you would see is burnt down houses and abandon shops it was real erie and dark
The area looks dead, even the trees have given up on life. :(
Bob Morton or maybe it’s winter
kaybronson100 😂😂😂😂😂
kaybronson100 Do you know what sarcasm is, or you can't take a joke? Just ignore & scroll on if you don't get it, instead of making yourself look dumb
It really does and it’s depressing. I went to grant and lived in the area more than 20 years ago. Now it looks like a war zone. Michigan spends all their money on downtown Detroit to attract tourists while a lot of the city looks like this. They closed almost all of the schools, there are no movie theaters, malls, fine dining restaurants etc. As a kid, Detroit once had all of those things
@@1w598 Do you know what sarcasm is, or you can't take a joke? Just ignore & scroll on if you don't get it, instead of making yourself look dumb
as someone who doesnt live in the us, this looks exactly like a scene from the walking dead... i didnt think this scenery actually existed - the weather doesnt help the look either!
It actually helps with the whole feel
As someone who does live in the US, same
very depressing
TheWeeaboo i live in australia which hasnt had as much colonisation by the europeans for long in comparison to other countries, so nothing here quites compares to this. i cant comment too much about europe but i feel like all the cultures have their own styles of housing and architecture to them, so for me it just looks very american looking lol
There’s a lot of places in the Midwest like this. Whole towns that have been abandoned.
Given the vandalism, weather, and lack of attention, it's amazing that any of these beautiful old houses are even still standing. Their architecture, craftsmanship, and quality of materials has not been replicated in the past 70 years. Such a shame that the marvelous school is closed and abandoned. Sorry to see what's happened to wonderful Detroit. Hope the city can get its act together. It's too much of a treasure for this to continue.
2020: watching someone else’s memories
The hardest part about living in Detroit is you have to watch the Lions every week.
Well at least they can watch the tigers in the sum- oh wait
Lol
LMAOOO FACTSS😂
mick that's brutal 🤨
True. One of the oldest franchises. Only ten double digit win seasons. Never more than 11 wins in one season. No super bowls. Barry Sanders. Calvin Johnson. Worst American sports franchise of all time probably.
who knows what goes on in that abandoned school now. no way I would step foot in there.
Betcha there isn't 10 cents worth of scrap metal in that old school.
probably drug use, drug deals, illegal firearm sales, gang rapes etc pretty nasty shit.,
I hear they still have a chemistry class....
Scary shit that.So sad that a place of learning,friends and fun turns into a place which you are too scared to enter because of present activity.
Sex lots of sex
everybody here: *it looks WaR t0rN*
me, a south londoner: *bit spaced out init*
The amount of detached houses in the neighbourhoods is scary to me, a fellow Brit. American neighbourhoods have so many detached houses in a typical neighbourhood it's like a foreign land compared to any typical suburban area in England.
I live in Bournemouth by the way xd
@@samwright4758 exactly man what happened to all the semi detached houses, also do they not have estates/council flats?
@@shadybeashooketh1911 plenty of council estates, plenty here...or are you talking about America
@@samwright4758 i'm talking about America lmao
same in ireland, all estate houses look pretty much the same, most being semi detatched, or the council terraced houses.
Now imagine walking in 16 inches of snow. I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s walking 16 blocks to school in Detroit also. Rain, sleet, lots of snow. We made it, thank God.
Detroit in the 70's: Muscle Cars
Detroit in the 90's: Gang Violence
Detroit in the 2020's: Sushi shops and lack of updated agriculture.
It's like a backwards evolution chart.
Grindcore Rager 67 the accuracy tho.
Lollie Dolly black people smh🤦🏻♂️
@Lego IG-88 Truth hurts, though.
@@MandenTV guess you've never been to west Virginia
From Detroit Rock City to Detroit Gang City
So sorry, man. I know this had to be a tough video for you to make.
CantStumpTheTrump MayTrumpHaveMercyOnYou fuck up yaself weasel. the guys making a comment about this dudes memories and saying how things have changed. no need to be a fuckwit.
Yeah ot musta been hard bcuz the camera kept shaking
Agreed. Very sad to see
It is very sad for this man for sure. So sad to see such beautiful, once proud, well-built crafstman homes just turn to piles of wreckage.
At least he can point to his house . I grew up at Gratiot and Warren and just about all houses are gone - 4700 block .
I really appreciate all of your videos they are eye-opening! This virtual trip is sad, you can see that area was once a nice family neighborhood and now it looks like a ghost town with a few restored homes along the way. The school is haunting to see, I can imagine all of the children that went there experiencing all that goes with growing up, and yet, there it sits vacant and empty, so sad.
5:07 when you care more about your car than your house
Grappler senpai an obvious “drug dealer car” too
Zachary Yan wouldn’t they want to stay low?
Ailin Ell some people just can’t help but show off
fools calling doom on their own heads :p
Half of the outsiders on this video, obviously not native to Detroit, have no common sense. It’s appalling that ignorance is held to such high regard over others in this life. No drug dealers are out here driving orange cars. Detroit is presently being gentrified therefore y’all can continue to systematically keep failing to kill people who look like me with neocolonialism, and hopefully then come pay us a visit beyond your phone screen! As an actual native to metro Detroit, I would reason that the car belongs to a (non-Black because that’s just not how the process works) millennial of a family of great credit looking to renovate his hipster home starting at $1 and up.
So sad to see how there used to be hundreds of homes where families lived and kids grew up. Now it's only a depressing place to see. Houses rotting and decaying and never seeing the light kinda brings a tear to my eye. Hope Detroit recovers from this
wonder what happened to the families that lived there sucks to see neighborhoods being abandoned only few make it out thats the harsh reality
the inner city is doing fine. I think that while their approach to fixing Detroit is helping all the rich people downtown they need to actually put more work into the outer ring. A lot of like normal people have been starting charities and stuff for them though.
Yeah, I agree, really sad :(
Shirley here I grew up in Detroit. My friend and I would spend Saturdays downtown all day shopping and eating lunch and walked from store to store until our skinny legs got tired and take that long bus ride back home down grand river to green field and get one more bus. Our parents never had to worry about us.
They bulldozed my preschool and now it’s a Milano’s pizza
Urza. Aw man that sucks😕
Did they give the kids jobs?
A small village elementary school that I used to go to as a kid was abolished and now two people live in the building.
Good?
Garrett Powell nope, that would’ve been messy lol
Imagine walking down this neighborhood and a random dude with a mask starts chasing you
As a Canadian, my stereotypical self thinks that Detroit is just deserted half of the time.
After watching this yeah no I still think the same.
This is the 10th layer in Dante’s Inferno.
I’d rather live in the other nine. Apart from the one that’s really cold 😂
joejitsu034 I think the 9th is the one that’s pretty cold🤷♂️
Allah Bruh bomber It doesn’t matter brother. I’m only going up 👍
It actually is, Dante just couldn't describe this shithole.
nigga this is dis
I used to live in that red house across the street from school on Stockton in the late 70s it was made into multiple small apartment's.
Wilt Chamberlain didn’t you hear him say in the video that it didn’t look like that when he was growing up? it used to be a lot nicer
@@wiltchamberlain6869 no, not me. Moved there in 79 or 80 for about a year before I moved to Hamtramic. I was 21 or so. A cheap place to live. Even then most houses were still up , not a good area even then.
Wilt Chamberlain Shut the fuck up.
White flight
"...made into multiple small apartment's" ....what? ....small apartment's what?
(Apostrophes indicate possession or the contraction of "is".)
Maybe it was good they shut down that K-8 elementary school after all.
4:20 You're worried about a ticket? You should be more concerned about feral ghouls and raiders
That school is so beautiful, what a shame it's so dilapidated
My thoughts exactly.
Just a city boy,
Born and raised in south Detroit
My god you poor soul
There's a joke to that song, there is no "south Detroit". Just East Side, West Side, and downtown/ midtown
@@TheMasterTelevision I remember hearing in an interview with Steve Perry that they just needed an extra syllable before "Detroit" and they weren't too familiar with the area, so they just threw "South" in front of it, haha
@@flatstheflounder2884 it was more they just thought "South" sounded better in the recording session.
Chuck Norris there is southwest/downriver
J D thats east of Detroit
Nobody:
CZcams: aight let’s show the world this random guy’s middle school
max wong dude I’ve been recommended this video for weeks. I’m sold lol
Original
CAN WE PLEASE STOP WITH THESE UNORIGINAL AND SUPER UNFUNNY JOKES PEOPLE
they’re making me sick
Charliebo313: thanks CZcams for the 460,000 views.
wong: 😑
DAMN bro you got the whole squad laughing
😐😐😐😐😐
*Detroit was once one of the most important cities in the United States, nowadays it is nothing but a ghostly place, God bless America! Greetings from Brazil*
Ye is because lot of black people
@@jenss.3613 true
1:21 if you told me that this is in chernobyl i would believe you
My mother was a teacher there by the name of Mrs. Johnson. I spent so much of my life in this building. Wow
well at least the homeless arent homeless but are still homeless
Mr. E stfu
I think I know what you mean
just to clears things up, they’re homeless but have shelter in an abandoned home?
Yup gives them a sense of protection and comfort even in a run down house. Having a roof over your head is what most ever wanted not all homeless people are crazy so let this be a lesson to open up a bit and bring struggling people in to your house even for just the night. Have them share their stories educate your kids if you have any. Be thankful and grateful to whoever take/took care of you cause life aint free. You either die with a family or without one. Most people just give up and are ready to die if the time comes. Just want to let people know that no homeless are a nobody all were just like everybody else the innocent child who because of various reasons end up on the streets. Society is harsh to these people they may have been born unhealthy and were damned from the start. Instead of feeling sorry for them, do something to help its because of poor choices made, we have this problem. Things will get better for everyone dont lose faith. Thanks for reading this and just letting people know im not trying to be offensive in any type of way by how my comment was said just want to bring a little humor cause all this depressing sorry if anyone took it the wrong way. Anyways happy new years to everyone be safe!
Lmao...haha
I think this is the last remaining place where I can afford a decent sized house
I love watching these videos. After watching this, I started watching documentary about Detroit public school system. Interesting to watch from an Aussie point of view. What it was then to now. Thanks CharlieBo313 for the in-depth look into America's suburbs.
I'm really liking this narration or commentary because now when we got questions you already going to be answering them within the video.
this place just gives me a depressed feeling through the screen, thats crazy man. Prayers for the D
You know exactly how the people feel there
pause
Jesus loves you all ❤️ John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only son that whoever shall believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life”
Jesus loves you and he stands at the door of your life and knocks. Will you invite him in ? He loves you so much! the first step is simply talking to him and believing in him
L. Bay If some guy called jesus knocked on my door and started telling me he loves me I can 100% guarantee I would not let him in
Jon W nope this is not some random guy. I’m talking Jesus the king of the world, he is God and healed me of a 13 year addiction. No counselor and not even myself but it was through Jesus and calling on his name that I am free. I’m telling you Jesus is real !
That's quite a walk to school and I can't imagine the winter months. Hard life in Detroit.
It’s like the Zombie apocalypse took place and everybody just either left or died
Good video. I grew up in East St. Louis. The street where I lived is now a forest. All the houses are gone and nature took the land back. I can tell you really 'felt' this documentary. God bless you.
may I ask what street it is? I would like to see it.
If this is a well known place, well, I'm not from St. Louis.
Grant elementary school. That was my school, the best in the city. Mrs Thomas, Mrs. Simms, Mr Richardson. Mrs. Gherdinni. It was a great place to grow up. I had my first fight on that front lawn in first grade. But a lot of good things also happened here also. Most of the teachers cared about the students.
@Somali pirate who's actually somali lol, why ? Fighting and bullying and confrontation builds self esteem, character, and self advocacy.
@Somali pirate who's actually somali what the fuck are you doing here?!
How are you everywhere
@Somali pirate who's actually somali *you're proud
@Somali pirate who's actually somali ...Shut up!! That's a rite of passage... Every kid had a fight or most did..
This still looks better than the most of towns here in Russia.
In fact a nice place like this would be considered to be really expensive and most likely would be separated from the rest of the town by a huge fence and will have a security guard at the entrance road and whatnot.
Really? It looks kinda sad
@@15systemofadown Russia is incredibly poor.
@@johndeer5033 $200 a month kinda poor
@@primalghost9470 there are safe and dangerous places in Russia, just like in any other country.
Check out the murdering rates here and in the US considering we have more cops per capita than any other country(except Belarus) and it's way more hard to legally get a gun here than in the US.
Stop trying to make your country sound gangsta
Just love seeing Detroit n the houses r truly fascinating, actally u no wat they remind me of al the time, Halloween thats wat lol, i really dont no why but i think its just the way the beautiful old houses r built. thankx for the upload n narration charlie. ps, its so sad to see so many of the nice old hoses go to ruin.
*50,000* *people* *used* *to* *live* *here.*
_Now_ _it’s_ _a_ _ghost_ _town._
Most people won't get the COD4 reference.
Diversity will do that.
Halo2Trigate wow 🤩
COD4 reference? It’s Pripyat..
Halo2Trigate WAY more than 50000
Well you could say Detroit lived and died with the automobile-industry, just warning example that no city should be built around one industry like that....when one indudstry that used to give jobs to so many people goes down, this is what happens, for smaller towns if a big factory gets closed down, thats basicly same as death penalty for small town, in Detroit it just happened on much larger scale.
It kind of makes you wonder about the future of silicon valley?
yeah everyone knows about Detroit but that happened in loads of towns across southern Michigan. It's more drastic bc Detroit was so huge but there's alot of towns that only a couple people live in now coz all the industry left
@@ZnenTitan silicon valley will deteriorate, but the wealth of the bay area is extremely diverse, and at no risk of deteriorating.
Thank you for walking us through your walk to school. I’m very interested in the infrastructure of Detroit
I love your story about walking to school . I now live in my orig hometown of elementary school . It's a great story . I'm sure you had lots of friends to walk with . Great memory ..as you get older ,they often mean alot .
plot twist: this is actually Chernobyl
Nah dude, Pripyat stayed in a better shape than that.
Soviet engineering never fails.
Nah, it's 2020 Wuhan, China under ncov but no ncov ... yet
@@whatanunfortunate nope, its actually worse than this
@@goldy5223 I was joking
The houses look like crap but all the cars are shiny and new.
Drug $$$$$ SNAP & ADC is their Sugar Daddies Nation Wide...
drug money, goverment checks, in debt like a mf, thats why they will stay in these situations for life.
It's always like that xD
i guess if you considered 10+ years old shiny and new i guess
Which cars ???
5:07 brand new car at a destroyed house 😂
Edit: the car people of the internet have spoken and have i decided,
the car still looks brand new to me dont care if its a 15-20 years old. look at the house its parked at that shit is new compared to it lmao
Dude Man I was wondering about that. You think maybe they were just doing some business there (city inspection or something) and not living there?
Crazy
This man bought a nice car over a nice place to live
today is not yesterday , that was a fresh car not just a nice paint job 😂
Priorities
Probably belongs to someone in the next house using the empty space
I love the narrating Charlie, would love to see more vids like this. U have a very calming voice
Dam you had to walk a long way to school.
Well atleast he now got a story to tell to his kids or grandkids like "back in my day I had to travel 200 miles to school". Not really but you get what I mean
I went to Osborn and walked about 2 miles every day.
i would always go to my friends house after school and would start my walk back home to mine which was a 5 and a half mile walk
damn were you ever on xc?
in the uk if you live more than a mile from school you get a bus which i refused i preferred walking
When is Fallout: Detroit coming out?
Patrolling the urban wreckage makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter
LOL
Todd Howard BETTER have a new Fallout game for me soon. I would love to see it in Detroit
MapleMilk it would literally just be normal Detroit. A fallout version of Detroit would look 90x better then the real one.
i grew up on the lower eastside too, a different part of Conner by the river, and i feel your pain for your lost memories of how it once was. peaceout do
The school is so beautiful, as well as other homes, you can tell it was a beautiful neighborhood
lots of these houses could be renovated or reused for the homeless. What a shame. Detroit deserves a second chance
The car factories left for China. Need to bring them back.
Tom Peled The US is a service economy. Putting manufacturing jobs in one of the richest countries in the world is insane.
@@pkamoments4798 Ever heard of Germany? They have a very large manufacturing base, and they're as rich and developed as the U.S. lol
Detroit had a thousand chances. Chose to be stupid on them all.
Well they probably already to live there. Its called squatting
Cleveland: At least we're not Detroit
Kumo Sakura WE’RE NOT DETROIT
@@nate1141 you had to be that guy
at least Detroit was great. Cleveland has always been boring.
@@neonsamurai4604 we have the America's finest orchestra here in Cleveland.
Amy Bahre again, cleveland has always been boring
Holy shit. That first corner you turned on. Covert and Carrie. My great grandma lived at that first corner till she died in the early 2000s. My grandma lived there with her six kids, and my dad lived in that house. I spent a great deal of the 1980s and early 1990s hanging out in the yard. Good memories.
Thanks for sharing, to bad about your old school, it is a beautiful building.
Imagine how many drug addicts and homeless people hang out in that abandoned school and empty houses😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Good for them making uses of property that was abandoned
Well it IS Detroit
D'angelo JacobHymenShits yea
I see Todd's house, maybe Alice and Kara still there...
shoulda known sum dbh comment would be here
Damn I knew that there was gonna be a detroit become human comment! I knew!!! But yes. And I'm my game I accidentally killed kara... oops... imma replay it this weekend tho so I'll fix it! Lol
I'm pretty sure they're in Canada now. 🤷♂️
The Crow Depends , Or maybe in the Death camps
same
Thank you for sharing this. I really appreciate it!
Detroit stand up! I love my east side! East Warren Ave. #WarrenUp
bro that was a long ass walk especially for some kids
Don't you know in our day..we walked 5 miles to school uphill, both ways ... (:
It was a 5 minute drive going 20mph probably. So 20 minutes of walking?
Jon Acord wanna boomer this comment but that’s harsh
@@JonAcordJRA 0k b00mer
wow, that school building is beautiful. Too bad it's abandoned now. I can just imagine what it was like back in the day. But I think that a lot whenever I drive through Detroit.
@@ode4014 where?
Saw my old house 😥
Which one was it? Timestamp?
Some of that architecture is really nice. I'd buy it.
That's heartbreaking bud
Don't know why this popped in my recommended, but it makes me feel for my neighborhoods future. I'm going off to college in a good seven or so months and my neighborhood looking like this just a little more tidier. Not to dox myself, but I'm out in the suburbs of Chicago and it's day and night with some neighborhoods. Some streets look like crackhead central, then you scoot a town over and it's some goody two shoes grand houses.
They opened a new homeless shelter down the block last year, and I don't even bother walking over to the Seven Eleven anymore because it's so dangerous sometimes. I know this rich/poor divide only going to get worse, but I just don't want to revisit my old house and find out it's all torn apart and shit.
I dead ass watched this video and only saw my house. Thank you for this my guy.
I know the feel my guy, I live in Chicago (not gonna say what neighborhood). But gentrification isn't gonna stop in Chicago anytime soon and its sad.
You must be talking about Harvey lol
@@NoMoreLockedDoorz Nah, that's the end result 🤣🤣
damn bold move with the dox.. u got ur government rite there 😳😳
I have always been sentimental about where I grew up and went to school. It is profound memories.
Thanks for sharing, we went down some of these roads on our visit in 2018
I'm from the Caribbean so I don't know the history but what happened to Detroit? How come there are so many abandoned houses?
Detroit used to have many good jobs in the auto industry. As more and more of that work started being done in Japan and other countries, the Detroit auto makers closed plants and laid off workers.
65 years of Democrats happened. High taxes and Democrats making NAFTA deals so the factories closed up and the jobs went elsewhere and the city is dead now.
*smh* Marc don't listen to those racist doucherags. Detroit has had a majority black population for close to a century. Through the downturns *AND* boom times. Black Detroiters are no less employable than anybody else.The ratio of working black families to nonworking blacks in Detroit, as a reflection of each passing economic cycle, compared to every other ethnic group is about the same. A number of factors caused the auto industry (their main industry and the hub of all of American industry at one time) to start losing money in the 80s. Cheaper Japanese cars, green technology... some say mismanagement and fear of changing to suit the changing market. So the Big 3 hit up GW Bush in '08 for some corporate welfare money to keep the industry from dying. Obama got stuck with making good on GW's promise. They got their money, but 2 of them moved their operations to China and Mexico anyway. Chrysler stayed but they had to lay off huge numbers of workers. They seem to be trying to boost productivity every so often. Remember this ad? czcams.com/video/SKL254Y_jtc/video.html
So with most of the city unemployed, the population dropped from just over 2 million down to around 700 000 in just a few years bc nobody could pay their mortgages and taxes anymore. So many skilled labourers, many of whom were used to earning between $40 000 and $80 000/year were suddenly *homeless.* I've seen vids of these guys out panhandling and trying to sell their construction skills in the street, with handheld cardboard signs. So naturally some of them will do what highly skilled people do when it's freezing and they're starving. They break into abandoned houses and sell whatever they can find. That includes copper wiring, radiators, even the kitchen sink. Then they find another abandoned house and squat there bc the bank just foreclosed on everything they owned, and Michigan winters are harsh enough to kill a person.
It is sad. My grandfather used to take me through the Windsor tunnel for IHOP pancakes when I was little and he was a border guard and things were good all around. I haven't been to the D since the mid 90s. My sister and I were quite sad to hear that even the Pontiac Silverdome is a stripped down wreck, and scheduled for demolition. She saw The Rolling Stones play there in '89. We grew up on the other side of the border, but I still have a bit of a soft spot for our neighbours bc we spent most of our days with their radio and tv programming. (Here dog c'mon dog... me 'n dog want you to go to Telegraph Road... right now... lol that used car ad was such an earworm.)
There was a documentary called Detroipia made around 2014 if you want to know more.
Alex Sandr Sandrov nigga is you stupid?
@ Bigg V: It's coming up on election time. I think Sandrov is a Russian election rigging bot. I'm still smh over how 96% of Detroiters voted for Hillary but Pumpkinhead still won Michigan. czcams.com/video/ZZ-Kwr0VFUE/video.html #notmypresident
That's so sad. It looks like the apocalypse like we see on tv except this is real. Your school looks like it was gorgeous back in the day. You must have so many fond memories that still live inside those walls. Thank you for sharing this. It's also sad to see all those houses broken down and rotting - I think about all the holidays and birthdays and good and bad memories people made in them. Every place has a story.
Charlie speaks!
Cool videos dude. Good stuff. 👍
I'd love for people to get a look at Connecticut's destroyed neighborhoods. They all think we're rich here.
Woe,Detroit looks amazing!
Those look like fallout 4 houses you can't walk in.
So sad his memories are tainted.
This is so sad,but I find this kind of "landscape" beautyful