British Couple Reacts to the 8 Worst Places in the U.S.

[@jlpack62]

Those aren't caravan homes in New Orleans. Those are called shotgun houses. They are site built homes but very narrow with rooms stacked one after the other going back from the front door. These houses got their nickname because it was said that you could shoot a bullet from the front of the house through to the back door without hitting anything.

[@zillatattoo]

yes, the south, makes house that still look like a trailer, lol

[@kristiskinner8542]

@@zillatattoo nope sorry, those are not new builds

[@imweakfordeaky]

Shotgun houses are set up that way to maximize airflow in hot climates, where that style of home is most prevalent - the style is said to be derived from Afro-Haitian traditional building style.

[@teddysmith8725]

@@imweakfordeaky I thought it was due to tax reasons. Like they got taxed based on the width of the front of your house. Not sure though

[@jasonmistretta4295]

@@imweakfordeaky The north has them as well in cities, but we call them "Railroad Houses." The rooms are like railroad cars stacked one after another. My first apartment in Hoboken, NJ was a railroad apartment. My roommate literally had to walk THROUGH my bedroom to get to his bedroom. None of the rooms had doors. It was just a hallway from my roommate's room, through my room, through the living room, through the kitchen, to the bathroom in the back of the house. Weird.

[@ESUSAMEX]

The homes you see 6:25 in New Orleans are "Shotgun Homes." They're built really narrow due to space and the size makes them easier to keep cool without air conditioning. You can open the front door and the backdoor so that the air travels through the entire house.

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

Along with a wave of animals.

[@ronclark9724]

@@edwardmclaughlin719 That is what the two screen doors are for, to keep unwanted animals and insects out...

[@ronclark9724]

Most of these shotgun homes were built before the Second World War... Ranch style homes replaced them after the Second World War almost to the end of the century in the South...

[@disgustedvet9528]

We called them breeze-ways .

[@timmid5476]

My family is from southwest West Virginia. The area he spoke about in West Virginia and Kentucky is where the Hatfield and McCoy fued occurred. The poverty is due to the coal mines shutting down. It's a logistical problem to bring any other businesses in because you'd have to transport the material in and the product out through a substantial part of the Appalachian Mountains. No company wants to deal with it. It's sad because the people there are known as hard workers. But, a country boy can survive!

[@Inkymits]

Yes, you are right, Detroit WAS home of the auto industry. That's how it got the nickname "the motor city". Also, R&B and soul was big there in 60's and 70s. It was home to MoTown( motor town) recodes and the Motown sound .

[@brandonperry9209]

Was the richest city in the world with the highest standard of living. Modern industrial culture basically started here.

[@tofargone16]

and the motown kind ruined it.

[@Cricket2731]

Detroit was once one of the biggest cities in the US--5th largest, I think.

[@bobdobb9017]

Detroit is the most misunderstood metro area in the country. The auto industry and city population never left or got poor, it just moved to the suburbs. My uncle ran for mayor in the 60’s. I really need to make a video on it.

[@brandonperry9209]

@@Cricket2731 was the second largest. Bigger than Chicago. As Bob said I think there's around 5 million in the metro area, but if you ask one of those 5 million that live 10 miles from the city, they still live in Detroit. Big ass metro area too, I'd say 90 square miles of just straight suburb/urban surrounding Detroit

[@smiller987123]

Funny that Millie says New York would be her favorite or the best place to visit. I've visited New York twice and have no desire to ever spend another minute there again.

[@beckycaughel7557]

Me too!

[@stevenj2380]

I understand. There are lots of tourists back, especially since C- V masking restriction, etc. have eased such as on transit and in all restaurants. NYC is worth a visit if one plans well, has a generous budget (for hotel and a good area and lots of uber or taxi rides instead of transit in the evening and at night) and can be at ease in a big city. You cannot be immune against possible violence. It is rare but increased greatly in the last several years since restorative justice polices changed sentencing and Policing.

[@mc2120]

George carlin said it best " the American dream...you have to be asleep to believe it"

[@Joe_Okey]

Bombay Beach, California was one of the inspirations for Sandy Shores, Los Santos in GTA V, and you can really see it in these photos too.

[@MarceloD1976]

The Area's around it is great for off-roading. Super fun

[@Stache987]

I'd hate to be a person flying in from a foreign country with a road trip to "Bombay Beach" expecting a luxurious time. Drive in theaters were cool, in Allentown Pennsylvania area we still had two operating and were said to be near if not original to the concept. Becky's and Shankweiler's (original families too). Most abandoned drive ins have become shopping areas with parking galore much of which is unused outside of holiday shopping.

[@eaglelove00]

Haha I live about 45 min from there and during the Santa Ana winds, we smell the nasty from it. 🤮

[@beesnort3163]

Detroit was a major metropolis and a very rich area but with the industry sending jobs overseas it collapsed and it slowly seeing a comeback. There are areas of Detroit that are still very very wealthy and beautiful.

[@johnalden5821]

Millie remarked on the collection of aluminum cans in the photo of Appalachia. It is a common sideline way to earn some money there to collect the cans for recycling. They run over them in the driveway to compact them down for easier loading and shipping in trucks.

[@yourenotthere]

The New Orleans shotgun houses: We took a tour while we were visiting there and our tour guide said the shotgun house came about because property taxes used to be levied based on how many rooms there were in the house. So, these houses had doors aligned all the way through from the front to the back and the inside doors were usually pocket doors. They'd close the doors to make separate rooms, but when the tax assessor came, they'd open all the inside doors and the whole house would be counted as one room. And yes, the nickname was because you could shoot a shotgun all the way through the house and not hit anything, just like the others have said.

[@ruth2141]

A lot of the New Orleans houses he shows are what they call "shotgun" houses. You said it looked like a caravan home, which I think is what is called a mobile home in the US. But these are permanent, woodframe houses, some more than 100 years old. Each room is the width of the house, no hallways, just one room after another. There are different stories about why they started being built and where the name came from, but some say it's because if you open all the outside and interior doors you can fire a shotgun and the bullet passes through all the doorways and out the back without hitting anything.

[@TheNewRevolution]

I grew up in poverty in Kentucky and had to leave to find economic opportunities. I still have family that live there. It's almost like the land time forgot. Nothing ever changes. It's extremely poor. Visiting I almost feel like I'm visiting another country. The culture is different. I can't imagine what my life would be like had I not left. Poverty is passed down from generation to generation.

[@thy1fallen]

As a fellow Kentuckyen thease may have been coal towns and the coal compenys left leaving them in poor shape and no flood protection and have had a bad flood this year, and to your point parts of the commonwealth of kentucky dont have great access grest education oopportunities

[@marieneu264]

I live in Louisville, KY and I find it heartbreaking that I lived such a different life than so many outside of our large city. It is like an entirely different world when we travel around the state for ballgames or other events.

[@kindredsoul79]

I was totally hoping Bombay Beach would be mentioned. It's not just pollution that is killing everything, it's the extreme saltiness of the water. There are birds that have died and been turned into salt trees basically.

[@catherinelevison3310]

The Pacific Northwest is beautiful. Western Washington state has a rain forest in the Olympic mountains, plus the beautiful Cascade mountain range. Many lakes and rivers. Also the ocean beaches in Washington and Oregon are so pretty. This beauty is extended into Vancouver, British Columbia. Mountains and both BC and WA have these gorgeous islands accessible by ferry boats, called the San Juan islands in the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Another very pretty and fascinating place is Holmes County in Ohio. Very beautiful, tons of pretty Amish countryside. For a great beach try Destin Florida with its white “sugar” sand. The Redwood forest in Northern California has the trees that are so big cars can drive through the center of them. Nearby is Mt. Shasta, very beautiful.

[@j09j19]

You are correct about Detroit. The abundant production of the automobile manufacturers Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler in Detroit, Michigan, gave the city the nickname "The Motor City," sometimes shortened to "Motown," from which the record label Motown got its name because of the abundance of incredible music artists from that area. Detroit has been in decline for decades now because of decreased manufacturing production of cars and other goods.

[@godslayer1415]

uncompetitive vehicles no one wants... sounds familiar.

[@lindadeters8685]

I’ve been to Colorado City twice. Both times we were followed by a police car from the time we entered till we left. The first time I got a speeding ticket for going 27 mph in a 25 mph zone. It was sooo creepy. We saw very few people, but felt lots of eyes on us.

[@chrissellers9091]

I do survey work in and around detroit. There's areas in the city where when you start digging, the first 6 inches is literal trash.

[@bigbabii3133]

I grew up in detroit. I used to go in that candy store as a kid. It's a few doors down from a church. It's getting better but it was difficult growing up there

[@3DJapan]

Unfortunately in Philadelphia (about a half hour from me) there have been over 150 homicides so far this year and many more gun related injuries. The worst on record. My dentist is in the city and it's been getting me concerned every time I have to go there.

[@xarkos]

I'm still just at the start of the video and I'm really glad to see you guys make the point of mentioning that it's all subjective. I've seen videos by other creators that just seem to have a chip on their shoulder and horribly misrepresent the reality within certain areas. There's also the fact that even in the most objectively terrible living conditions, people still often find a way to create their own little piece of happiness as best they can, and in some cases it might be enough that they don't mind the parts that the rest of us consider terrible. Ultimately it will always just be an opinion and based on individual perspective.

[@R777-RLM]

I have relatives in Hilldale UT/Colorado City AZ. My mom was born in a polygamous family. Her dad had 5 wives, including my grandma (who divorced him). She had 11 full, and 31 half, brothers & sisters. At a family reunion, I noticed some girls in long dresses with long sleeves, playing soccer with the boys - it was mid summer and hot. I was a kid then, When I pointed them out to my mom, she said, they're your cousins from some of her brothers and sisters that stayed in polygamy. Then she explained to me what that was. They're not bad people, just confused, scared, and lost.

[@nikkidelgado5843]

Alaska is one of the most beautiful states I visited. If you love an active lifestyle you should definitely visit Alaska.

[@jn3697]

I live close enough to the salton sea sometimes the wind blows that awful smell towards us.

[@ptournas]

This is about large cities and rural areas. I grew up in a small city (population of about 100,000) just north of Boston called Lynn. When I young I learned an old short poem about the city that went: Lynn, Lynn, city of sin You never come out the way you came in You ask for water, but they give you gin The girls say no, but they always give in I didn't realize how far our bad reputation had spread until I lived in Las Vegas for a year and Southern California for a year when I was about 25. People would ask where I was from and when I said Lynn, Massachusetts, around a third of them would recite the poem back to me. I didn't think it was all that bad growing up, but maybe it was. We lived in a housing project for six years and for the first four years or so a police car patrolled the project every hour, 24 hours a day.

[@sassyscrofa1972]

I never knew the poem had four lines. I only ever heard the first two. I grew up in Newbury, a rural area between Rowley & Newburyport. As a kid I was always told that Lynn was a bad evil place full of drugs, crime & death. 💉👮‍♂💀 I'm old now (50) but still have never been to Lynn. When a place gets a rep like that, it sticks. 😬

[@ptournas]

@@sassyscrofa1972 It wasn't nearly as bad as it's reputation back then. It did have it's share of bad people, but even in the housing project I lived in, which was a place many kid's parents told them to never to go, the majority of the kids grew up to become respectable adults. I actually think it's a lot worse now than back then, despite all the improvements they've made attempting to lose that reputation. I don't enjoy going back visit any more. I was told years ago the poem came from sailors who would come to Lynn during the war, when their ships docked in Boston and Charleston, looking for bars and and women. Lynn had lots of bars and women! I think it was World War II, they were talking about, though it might have been World War I.

[@tonieltaylor7755]

It's nice now. I live on the beach. Come back. A lot of work is being done 😏

[@TheEWFX29]

Yeah I'm from New Bedford Ma. All those old mill cities have reputations as rough and a hard area. But compared to some places it isn't that bad. Sometimes its good to be from those areas if you move out. You know the BS and can deal with it better than people who haven't experienced such things can. It gives you a thicker skin and a better eye for BS.

[@willlane2388]

Some areas have suffered because manufacturing has left the nation, leaving behind a region known as the Rust Belt. Huge plants, mills and facilities are abandoned and rusting away along with their corresponding towns.

[@melissav3199]

You would find videos on the FLDS very interesting. There is a tv show called Escaping Polygamy that is good to watch and many documentaries. I visited St. George, Utah and saw FLDS members around town. It was not unusual to see a man out to dinner with 3-4 wives. They are very secretive, a lot of abuse goes on, and yes, men marry their sisters, nieces, and so on.

[@lorisurface2446]

There's also a show called Occults in America. One episode focuses on FLDS and interviews members and former members. It's so hard to believe that some of those women still worship Warren Jeffs.

[@happymom73]

There are only certain neighborhoods or wards in Chicago that are bad. There are also some Chicago suburbs that are bad too, but not all. I happen to live in one of the decent suburbs.

[@jordanhurd1988]

I live near Hildale/Colorado City and it is quite eerily quiet.

[@kevinadams7830]

Yes, Detroit is the motor city. Michigan on general still has a lot of manufacturing factory type jobs but no where near what it once was. Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler were all in Detroit. Now they make everything in Mexico and other countries

[@ronclark9724]

A lot of those abandoned homes had good bones, but unfortunately the poor that live in Detroit slums stole anything that could be sold. Thus these abandoned homes don't have good bones anymore, the wiring and the pipes, not to mention the furnace, are long gone...

[@adamclair7983]

I would say that Slab City is the worst place in the USA. It used to be a military base in the desert in southern california. The military abandoned it and it is now a homeless city where people live for free. It was in the movie Into The Wild and it's a truly a sad and desolate place. This is the place he referred to by the salton sea

[@hutchings003]

There are some pretty messed up places in Maine and Nevada too. Maine is beautiful, but lots of people live in trailers with a big satellite dish, and spend the 4 winter months with their dogs cooped up in their small abode.

[@blindlite5264]

Fun Fact: Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation and look at the gun deaths and that's annually basically.

[@pageribe2399]

He left out that much of country music originated in Appalachia. Listen to "Coal Miner's Daughter," written and performed by Loretta Lynn, who, coincidentally died today, and she paints a pretty good picture of what life was like there when she was growing up. I would include a link but it's my understanding that youtube disapproves.

[@terrycarter1137]

James, as far as business not coming to small town Appalachia, and going to big cities, in small forgotten towns the land is cheap, plenty of abandoned manufacturing factories which can be bought half the price as a one bedroom apartment in a place like New York.

[@revtoyota]

6:30 those are not mobile homes (carivan homes) The houses pictured are called shotgun houses and are in fact actual houses just built thin and long.

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

We heard already

[@FEARNoMore]

Very historic homes from the late 1800's as a matter of fact.

[@mimsley5]

I’ve always wanted to visit the Salton Sea …. because of how strange it is…i believe there is a state park there also…

[@DannyNomad]

I was a law enforcement officer in West Virginia for many years and there absolutely are parts like this. There are affluent parts with nice homes and shopping, but a short drive into the rural areas there is no running water, dirt floors, and rampant drug use. It is bad and has been getting worse for years.

[@zachhoward9099]

Considering West Virginians took up arms generations ago to protest the terrible working conditions of the coal mines I find it insane how no one in that state has taken up arms over the Federal Government essentially abandoning them

[@tazepat001]

Well the nice thing about Bombay Beach is that it's right in between San Diego and LA. So you can see the beach and maybe even Slab City and have two major cities to choose from to visit from there

[@chrissears5482]

Id suggest picking San Diego unless you want to go homeless spotting

[@robertsepulveda2229]

The Salton Sea was great in the 60s and early 70s. Really good saltwater fishing. The salt levels increase and everything died. Just up the road is ‘Slab City’ and ‘Salvation’ Mt. That is a weird place. There KZbin videos on it. Don’t rule out the Salton Sea just yet. It was once connected to the Sea of Cortez and is ten times the size of San Diego Harbor. If they build a canal connecting then the Salton Sea to the Sea of Cortez it will turn that area into a huge commerce/ industrial / shipping area plus sports fishing, Hotels and other such things. Great place to invest because it’s so cheap now.

[@aarondavis8433]

if you saw the one "lost in the pond" video of a holiday celebration where they heard gunshots and panic insued. Chicago is really bad, and now the crime is moving into the nicer areas. It is basically due to horrible governance.

[@Allsizes]

There are native reservations in canada that have been on boil water advisory for 35 years maybe more. Have to boil to drink,eat and bathe

[@danwidner6721]

Pretty sure Detroit is STILL the auto capital of the USA and probably the WORLD. I know that it's still home to the World Headquarters of at least Ford and General Motors (not sure off hand about Chrysler). It's true that a lot of those jobs and factories left over the past few decades, but there are still so many left and Ford and GM have actually renovated some of the old factories and opened new ones. They're still investing in Detroit to this day. It's such a major industry in Michigan that we also have quite a lot of automotive factories on my side of the state (SW Mich). In fact, this area is actually BOOMING (or at least was pre-pandemic) for manufacturing, most of which supply auto makers. One factory in Detroit that I was sent to for work purposes (A Black-owned business BTW) was WAY nicer and cleaner than the one I worked at in my predominantly white, conservative town this side of the state. So don't listen to the naysayers. Detroit and Chicago, from personal experience, are both beautiful cities. There are definitely places you should avoid if you're not from there but that's true of any city. The point is to try to have empathy and understanding. A lot of people don't have many options and ARE truly stuck in a cycle. Visit some of these places, spend some money there. Make friends with someone you might not otherwise talk to. Probably the only way things will actually get better.

[@waynes9275]

northern Wisconsin is also poor in allot of areas. Awesome for nature lovers but not so much for good income.

[@veanell]

New Orleans that he showed are houses within the projects that were built poor by the government and were heavily hit by Katrina. A lot of new Orleans was not rebuilt

[@3DJapan]

There's a cool music video by Royskopp "The drug" that I thought must be filmed in some war destroyed country in Eastern Europe or something. Then I found it was filmed in Detroit.

[@adriannecote5319]

Those shotgun homes were built narrow because at one time taxes were levied based on street frontage. Detroit was Ford all the way and when they started manufacturing out of the country the jobs dried up. Schools were huge with 3000 students and before they closed there were only a few hundred students. So sad.

[@RobbSkates]

You are right. Detroit went downhill when GM left. So sad. I was just to Detroit last week and I was so blown away by how abandoned it actually is.

[@zachhoward9099]

I was there last year for a 4 day summer vacation with my family. We stopped in Ann Arbor for the night before going into Detroit the next day for a Tigers game before heading North to Bay City, leaving the game in what was supposed to be rush hour I was amazed by the wide multi lane interstates cris crossing and running through Detroit that barely had any cars on it, once we got to the outer suburbs the typical bumper to bumper developed but driving through Detroit even on the interstate I was blown away at how built up the interstate was versus how few cars were on it, this was on a weekday too

[@robertcampomizzi7988]

3:52 yes that's right. MoTown Music(yes, you know it) came out Detroit (The Motor City)

[@annfrost3323]

Detroit had the automobile factories for Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler. When manufacturing was moved away including overseas, the plants were abandoned. The empty buildings are still there. Workers took their families and left hundreds maybe thousands of homes and with this, commerce stopped as well. Detroit is an abandoned reminder of the industries that made it rich and famous.

[@jrhaven]

If you want to learn more about Detroit, I would recommend a channel called "Chris Harden". He has an ongoing Detroit series where he drives through every part of Detroit and talks about how it got that way - from white flight to drugs to political corruption. The videos are somewhat long, but still worth watching in my opinion.

[@faithk13]

My dads from southwest Detroit and he said most of the homes were burned down/torn down because they were empty and being used as drug stash houses 🥴 it was incredibly unsafe. It’s definitely getting better throughout the years but still not the best

[@gramalinda750]

You cannot leave out Slab City!! Must look that up; people come from all over the world to visit the community!

[@wareagle8811]

Born and raised in Southeastern Kentucky, he's not wrong. Just fortunate my parents got me out of there when I was young. It's an incredibly beautiful area, but a very forgotten part of the country.

[@spanishdncr71]

Woodbury Commons is in New York. Central Valley, NY and people refer to it as Upstate New York. It’s isn’t too far a drive from New Jersey. Woodbury Commons is a great shopping place. When I first moved to America I used to shop there a lot. Ever since I started shopping online I stopped going there. Every time someone visited me from England I’d take them shopping there. Nobody visits anymore.

[@heatherreilly6595]

huh?

[@yugioht42]

There is really only one thing near the salton sea and that is a Date farm like the fruit. its the only sign of civilization until you hit palm springs which is a paradise. honestly no one ever goes to the salton sea unless you are heading from vegas into LA and that's rare.

[@jdanon203]

Woodbury Commons is in NY. You come close to the NJ border on the way, but you're in NY the whole time.

[@christypriest30]

I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and I can tell you from experience that some of the poorest people in Appalachia don’t want to change how they live! There have been people who have tried to modernize some of the areas in W Virginia but the people who live there don’t want help

[@Stache987]

A very rural nearly abandoned town is Delta Iowa, you see one business hanging by a thread, houses in such disrepair they're caving in and many which haven't seen a coat of paint in 50 years. Sadly the law enforcement isn't large enough to bust the meth labs, and removal of the contaminated houses has such strict procedures it has to sit and rot windowless for decades before the bulldozer takes it down. IMHO persons caught operating a meth lab should be responsible for demolition and also pay the home owner for the lost value.

[@halah34]

I drove through the reservation in South Dakota. To say it was breathtaking in a bad way would be putting it mildly. It really should be a national shame, but it seems like no one knows about it.

[@godslayer1415]

They have half of Oklahoma - ever driven thru that right wing toilet?

[@cornpopsrazor5375]

It is a shame to those that live there......hard to get ahead when you are a filthy drunkie.....and there are lots of reservations just like it......just a lot of excuses.

[@johnalden5821]

I think a lot of people are aware that reservations in general -- and that one in particular -- are really bad. But most of the reservations are in out-of-the-way places, and it's all too easy for the rest of us to avoid them. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. But you are right, it really is a national shame.

[@cornpopsrazor5375]

@@johnalden5821 Not sure what you are talking about. If you are traveling by car and heading west you go through plenty of them on major highways.....out east they are puny in comparison. Of course people want to avoid them .....one trip to the gas station bathroom is enough to make someone not want to stop.

[@johnalden5821]

@@cornpopsrazor5375 I think that, in a roundabout way, you have made my point for me.

[@rhoetusochten4211]

On job recruitment sites, the city where I work has the keyword "despair". I guess things could always be worse.

[@halicarnassus8235]

17:00 anyone who has played GTA V knows that that is the location that the developers used in the game for Trevor's mobile home. The Alamo sea was fashioned after this real place just like Los Santos was Los Angeles

[@teemarie5478]

New Orléans also has some of the most beautiful places as well. I’m from Louisiana and after Karina I remember people being really upset that a lot of people were relocating from New Orleans to Lafayette. I live in a small town near Lafayette. As a whole Lafayette is not a bad place to live. Lil Wayne grew up in the heart of New Orleans, La.in the ghetto! Most people that live there don’t always think they have a bad life, because a bunch don’t. It’s kinda hard to explain. I will say for the people who own there own homes like myself it’s tough dealing with the hurricanes & tornadoes🤧😭 even with insurance they only pay a small portion of the damage.I’ve been in some of the poorest areas of my town & they have way more fun than the people that live fancy homes 😂

[@timwoody3835]

Actually a lot of the rural areas with poverty are prime places to put manufacturing. There is low cost labor and land with business friendly regulations.

[@Liethen]

Big manufacturers prefer urban areas so they have a larger pool of potential workforce. Though a small population is not a deal breaker. If you are placing a smaller factory somewhere you don't need a city to get enough workers. There are lots of smaller places with populations of about 5,000-10,000 that will have multiple factories and food processing plants. What prevents these from proliferating in Appalachia is infrastructure related. No business is going to foot the bill to build said infrastructure, and the entrenched power-players in the area would shoot down any plan to do it as a state or county project. Don't want the competition. Which is a missed opportunity as the region is geographically positioned right between high population areas to sell said good to. With the tribal lands there are issues related to tribal governance that can make it more hassle than it's worth for a rich company. The Mississippi one I don't understand. Being so close to the both good agricultural land and navigable waterways would make me think they would be the processed food powerhouse of the country.

[@clonexx]

Detroit used to be the automotive capital of the US, if not the world. Unfortunately, government policies incentivizing sending manufacturing overseas destroyed Detroit. All of the amazing auto factories were moved to cheap labor countries due to the new government policies and all of the jobs dried up. Detroit used to be an amazing, vibrant city full of life. Now it’s just a shell, thanks to our government.

[@ReneeFrau]

The strangest vibe I got from a town was Salem Massachusetts. Weird vibes.😮

[@lesterstone8595]

🤠Your fellow Brit, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the LDS settlement in his first novel, "Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet" published in 1887, so that kind of madness has been going on in the Utah area for an extremely long time.

[@Joe_Okey]

I totally forgot about that, but you are absolutely right. The LDS church formed a major part of the backstory of the villain in the story.

[@godslayer1415]

I have been baptising the LDS founders into the Church of Satan - since they like to posthumously baptize people into their weirdo spacecraft religion.

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Chicago is great, but mainly if you stick to the city itself where the skyscrapers are. If you go outside of the big city area, it's dangerous.

[@3DJapan]

There was a great HBO series, Big Love, about Mormons in Utah where the men had multiple wives and all lived together and raised their kids together. It was a really good drama.

[@taranbaze1448]

We Mormons don't claim those with multiple wives.

[@3DJapan]

@@taranbaze1448 I'm just saying what they said in the show. It ran for 5 years if you want to check it out.

[@heathertucker4360]

The best places I’ve been are: Angel Fire New Mexico, Austin Texas, and Alabama (not sure which city )..I’m sure there’s more, but these are the ones that came to mind. Love ur channel❤

[@nancy9891]

This is definitely an opinion. I’m from near Chicago and it’s violent on the west side. New Orleans is very poor due to the politics. Mostly the poverty is because of the politicians who believe in keeping their people poor.

[@pageribe2399]

And the politicians there have been pocketing Federal dollars forever, instead of using the money for the intended improvements. New Orleans withstood the winds of Katrina very nicely. (The Mississippi coast received the Category 5 winds, NOT NOLA). Had the necessary improvements & modernization of the levee system been made (and there had been money available to do it over the years), NOLA would weathered Katrina just fine. It was a man-made disaster, alright, but, it didn't happen because of CAGW, it happened because of political corruption.

[@guyinreallife6035]

his list for the worst is the fine. you were asking for top 3? if you ignore the cost of living then its the left coast ;) my top 3 would be the San Francisco Bay area (not the worst parts of the city) the Mid Willamette Valley of Oregon from I-5 west to the coast between south of Portland to north of Salem, and 3rd would be the Seattle area and the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound

[@Geo76er]

I'm from eastern Kentucky. It's not as bad as the video makes it out to be. Sure, there are some poor areas, but there are also some very nice areas.

[@tofargone16]

I agree. but. dont tell too many, they will build a few thousand section 8 gov houses there and call it progress.

[@defftony]

The place I was raised wasn't on this list but I joined the Airforce and left. The internet wasn't what it is today, and I was genuinely shocked to find out that the USA has more differences from 3rd world nations than just infrastructure. Anyone still living in one of these places and able to watch this video is able to leave and should. I'm not sure how sentiment is in other cities, but people not wanting to leave was a major issue. On the other side of things, our Air Force recruiter had the highest rates of people who ship to basic training remaining in the Airforce of all recruitment centers. I had to spend two extra weeks to get fit enough to pass the pushups and sit-ups, but at least I never had to worry about getting jumped or small meals and hand-me-down clothes or sleeping with no heat or real insulation in brutal winters etc.

[@garyedwardgray7549]

I don’t subscribe to reactors. Too many out there. But… I’ve made an exception for you and a few others. One of the most enjoyable reactors to watch. Not sure I’ve seen you do any movie reactions. Those would be fun. Anyway, good job. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@davidterry6155]

Many places like Kentucky and West Virginia that have bad water it has a very strong iron taste

[@newgrl]

If you want to see what Warren Jeffs, who is in prison for life+20 years in Texas, is all about, I believe Netflix UK has "Keep Sweet, Pray, and Obey" available. It's a documentary series covering Jeffs, his father Rulon, and the FLDS, and their downfall in Texas.

[@Collectthefunk]

Millie said no thank you to going to bombay beach. Lmao. Me too girl. I aint ever heard of it before but it looks awful

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Me neither I think I even past it a few times heading to Anaheim. Pfft

[@chrissears5482]

Bombay Beach (Salton Sea) was the main inspiration for the area in Grand Theft Auto 5 where Trevor lives and where you first play as him

[@sandysmietanski688]

The twin cities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale Utah are very scary. I live in Phoenix and many of us here have had a morbid curiosity of the area and people that live there. As a non-member traveling through the area has been known to be very dangerous. Members will follow you around, verbally and physically harass you, run you off the road, and of course you are in danger with the FLDS police force. I do hear it’s gotten better but there is still a very real danger if you want to pass through there. Interesting fact, many large factories,some business centers and industrial buildings are built by FLDS boys who are not paid. The church pockets the profits while they build things like Amazon warehouses. They get a lot of contacts since they don’t pay for labor. You might run across some trucks carrying these boys and young men off to job sites across the southwest.

[@kingcarlos7048]

It's getting better, they finally have a bar in town lol

[@sandysmietanski688]

@@kingcarlos7048 that is genuinely and pleasantly surprising! It is also such a stunningly beautiful area that I would love to visit.

[@jordanhurd1988]

@@sandysmietanski688 just come to St. George, Utah instead. Also very beautiful, is a bigger city, and is close to Hildale, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas.

[@chrisjohnson1599]

I got the first two right, but I forgot how bad New Orleans got after Hurricane Katrina, my guess was Baltimore.

[@JasonJrake]

A lot of the United States “gun violence” is gangs and suicides. When you account for non gun violence and suicide in other countries, we aren’t quite as abnormally violent as the media would have you believe… And there’s still a lot of room for improvement 😅.

[@Kojak024]

And a lot of those gang shootings are concentrated into a handful of cities

[@profd65]

A lot of the United States's gun violence is caused by weak, cowardly men acting like tough guys, and in aggressive ways that they never would if they didn't have a gun underneath their coat, for example: road rage shooting, a guy shooting his wife's ex-husband, a guy shooting a hated neighbor, a guy picking a fight and then when the starts getting his ass kicked he shoots his opponent, etc. And of course, "self defense" is always claimed regardless of how absurd this claim is.

[@ΒΞΔΝ]

True a major gang issue. We are still not even anywhere close to Sout American countries as far as gun violence goes as well. It's the contrast that makes it crazy. When you have the richest country on Earth with these issues it makes it stand out more. Most outside the US do not realize the sheer massive size of the country that allows for these extremes tho.

[@FEARNoMore]

@@ΒΞΔΝ I always thought places in South Africa & Central America had way more gang, cartel, gun violence, human trafficking. I remember seeing many middle class & rich homes in South Africa with huge barb wire gates & walls.

[@ΒΞΔΝ]

@@FEARNoMore You can look it up. Countries like Honduras, Brazil, Venezuela, El Salvador, and Mexico top the list for murder capitals of the world. There is a lot of crime where you mention as well, but not the same in murder rates. Value of life with south American criminals is very low. They flood the gore sites with indiscriminate murder for theft of small items like a cell phone. They will straight up scooter up to a woman and shoot her in the head to take her phone without even trying to ask to give it up in some parts of those countries I mentioned.

[@brijitglapion4577]

Political corruption plays a big part in many of these big cities. I can't speak for Detriot or Chicago but New Orleans, for sure.

[@charleswheeler3689]

I grew up in a upper middle class suburban environment in Silicon Valley in the 70's. I thought everyone lived that way.

[@ouachitawoman]

I live in southeast Arkansas and agree with everything he said about this area.

[@greatwhiteape6945]

Alcohol problem bad with the Eskimos in Alaska.

[@drunkpacman]

Sometimes bigger companies will move into the low wealth areas because there are resources, but they will brinng and contract people to come in to work because the lack of education in the area.

[@christopherwoods6777]

What's odd about the Salton Sea area is it's a goldmine for Lithium. I think it's the 4th largest deposit of it in the world. So, with the electric car market growing faster and faster, I can see it becoming very valuable real estate. I still can't imagine anyone living near it, though.

[@Steph.sMusic]

Yes, both southeast Kentucky and southern West Virginia are in poverty. I been to both places with my church, we've done Mission trips there to help deserving families. It's a sad thing to see with your own eyes that it's a completely different living situation from how we live, being the middle class from the suburbs of Philadelphia. I've worked in mostly trailer homes in both places and they just don't hold up very long, at the most 10 to 12 years, then they have to buy another one. The most I've seen on one lot is four. And it's a shame that ASP (Appalachian Service Project) that would help these people shut down their operation in West Virginia, so now there's no one to help the locals. They are still in operation in Kentucky as far as I know. Red Bird Mission which is the other that operates in south east Kentucky still helps families in their area.

[@iristhundercloud9684]

I’m proudly from Pine Ridge,SD

[@djdawson9206]

Rosebud myself

[@ronclark9724]

Even in the UK many retirees downsize to a caravan, what we call a RV, recreational vehicle in America. I see many caravan parks near beach towns throughout the UK. Likewise in the USA many of the RV parks are near beaches, but many more are located near small and large towns throughout the USA. Many retirees sell their large homes they no longer need for hundreds of thousands of dollars and buy a new or used RV for the price of a new or used car, ten to forty thousand dollars. Many actually live on government land in the USA for no rent and no property taxes, moving as necessary to avoid paying rent and property taxes. For those living on fixed incomes in their senior years, downsizing is a smart thing to do. There are RV communities in the American southwest and in Florida and South Texas. Those living in these RV communities are known as snow birds...

[@mnoneya9050]

Not a fan of Chicago. Been there a few times. Gets worse every time. I started calling it Chiraq because it’s so dangerous.

[@babs3241]

My best places--I'm going to go off the beaten path, except for the first one, which is Boston. I love Boston. I miss living there. I love that you just randomly stumble on founding history (I once forgot it was the anniversary of the Boston Massacre and ran into a really loud practice and heard gunfire... only to discover that it was a re-enactment). Second: Western New York. It's my home, where I grew up. It's an out-of-the-way area with easy access to Niagara Falls and relatively easy access to Toronto. It's pretty rolling hills, waterfalls all over the place, dotted with lakes large and small, and crowned by the beautiful Letchworth Park. That said, it's economically strapped and is the northern edge of Appalachia, with everything that implies. He' s not wrong about the differences between urban and rural poverty. (And he's missing one of the other differences--kids don't have access to *any* of the enrichment programs that urban kids have.) But it's still beautiful and worth a visit. Third: Technically part of 2, but Buffalo is the urban center of Western New York, and it's under-visited. It's got great architecture from its days as a boom city, it's quite friendly in most places, and some neighborhoods are surprisingly beautiful (others not, but that's true of everywhere). They could start a junk food tour of the city that would blow your mind--beef on weck, wings, cream ale, loganberry, sponge candy, Red Hots, frozen custard... its' all good. :D

[@lisawelch8197]

New Orleans houses you were talking about was call shotgun houses.

[@turntodusk]

The Appalachias, besides tourists attractions ofc, really just gives zombie apocalypse vibes.

[@lindacarroll6896]

Watch Lawrence's video when they thought they were in a shooting situation on Navy Pier.

[@iodine63]

Detroit really started its decline in the 60s. During the 50s the suburbs were built up and the houses had more of a draw with new amenities available ( family rooms, mud/laundry rooms, more space for young families. Because of the auto industry the families had the money to spend on these houses and the move. Then in the beginning of the 70s when the bussing of school age children away from the area they lived to desegregate schools, the remainder of middle class moved out. The people left were mainly the poorer families who didn't have the means to move.

[@teerat8451]

The Salton Sea was never going to be able to sustain itself it formed from a levee break. There is an episode of Mystery Of The Abandoned that shows this and the one person still living there.

[@ohslimgoody]

Has the money market but a cramp in your home purchasing plans.

[@lawrencecooper2361]

Surprised he didn't mention Camden NJ, like a miniature Haiti. Same with E. St Louis. Regions of poverty have always existed in the US but the country is big enough that people could "vote with their feet" and move to places of greater economic opportunity. Much of the world lives on the equivalent of one dollar a day. Here poor people somehow own 900 dollar "devices". In the early 70's the decision was made by the American Uniparty, a subsidiary of the globalist elites, to de-industrialize and crush the middle class. Minus gainful employment people fill the void with drugs. Now everything is manufactured in China, even American flags. I don't see things ever turning around

[@XYRENIX]

Omaha, Nebraska. One of the best zoos in the world, home of the college world series, rosenblatt stadium and the big 10 football team and some of the best restaraunts in the country.

[@pacmanc8103]

Omaha 😂

[@chrissears5482]

I mean if you going on vacation and a zoo is a high priority just go to San Diego. Nice weather, nice beaches, can go to Tijuana and get a hooker for 5 dollars, and has the best zoo in the country