BALTIMORE HOODS LOOK CRAZY

[@CharlieBo313]

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[@Amigo387]

Você poderia colocar legendas em português nos seus vídeos,os brasileiros gostam dos seus vídeos

[@takasmaka820]

It looks like war zone

[@iluvmoney6767]

@@takasmaka820 It is where the dregs of society live.

[@joedonzi9552]

Hey Charlie - Great Vid - but corrected title is "What Defund the Police Looks Like" cheers from an ex NYC guy now happily (safely) living on Miami Beach 🙂

[@jasonvegan5761]

I’d say probably don’t touch the camera after you’ve started rolling. Every time you adjusted the camera it sounded like someone running their hands through a box of legos

[@HiddenUsername1]

Baltimore, where somebody can become some body.

[@joesmith9216]

LOL or become....dead by 19.

[@smooth_ops2942]

That hits hard but true sadly....

[@joesmith9216]

oh wait...I think I got what you mean!

[@Brookzplayzmuzic]

Why I laugh so hard at this.

[@GreatBirdOfHope]

A lot of dangerous white people there

[@thekillerdynamo]

It's legitimately difficult to tell which buildings in this video are abandoned and which ones aren't

[@nonjaninja4904]

Somewhere a bald eagle caws triumphantly.

[@timofeyshtokolov8093]

4th world country))

[@JohnC-pt1iw]

Other buildings are barely standing up.

[@mikejohn0088]

Most are not. Welcome home.

[@alouisschafer7212]

which is pretty fucked if you ask me when you cant tell a house is occupied or nah its just a very dark uncanny vibe

[@johnh5960]

Even the cop was walking like a dope fiend

[@LuxuryBeatsMusic]

1:40 nah he bought that chain from the dollar store

[@matthewhernandez8342]

Even the cops in Baltimore are doped up lol

[@jason4353]

Damn

[@kar5431]

Probably a truant officer.

[@ron.247]

@@matthewhernandez8342 😂😂😂

[@connerreid3579]

The most incredible part about these neighborhoods is that you're never more than a mile or two from either skyscrapers or gentrified bubbles with craft coffee shops and breweries on every corner. Really a unique city. Sad to see how closely people can live together while still experiencing such starkly different realities.

[@nev.catalyst7478]

its a difference in mentality, not just a difference in the wallet

[@NoahBodze-pm9ok]

There’s no such thing as gentrification, it’s just white people moving back to the neighborhoods that their grandparents built, but we’re shot out of by the feral subsaharans that live there now. There’s 41 million Black people in the United States and none of them live in a house that was built by anyone that looks like them .

[@NB-yu4lj]

One group has fathers

[@NoahBodze-pm9ok]

DNA is the difference. How do you expect a group with 1/5 of their DNA that comes from untraceable roots? Google “Ghost DNA.” The difference starts at the molecular level.

[@Squintis]

@@nev.catalyst7478perhaps, but the money sure helps. Helps keep the maintenance up to date. Helps with opening a small business. Helps with school and medicine. You know actually the more I think about it, I think it is the money. Hard to have a positive mentality when you don’t have a pot to pee in. Life is just about survival when you’re that broke.

[@tonepoet]

This is the part of Baltimore you don't want to get lost in. Speaking from experience.

[@moontecker]

If you see his past videos to now, you start see how badly the area become.

[@ryanchilcoat2394]

Why what happened to you

[@Jigaboo1929]

@@ryanchilcoat2394 I almost got killed on these back blocks people try to rob u

[@tonepoet]

@@ryanchilcoat2394 Moved from Fairbanks, Alaska to a town about 10 miles from Baltimore. Was going to audition for a band whose rehearsal space was in Baltimore and had directions printed out from Mapquest (this was 2008, didn't have a smart phone, no GPS). Of course, got lost, ended up in these streets and finally stopped at a CVS (not the one in the video). Asked a lady inside how to find the area I looking for. She told me and walked outside with me and pointed to each street and said if I drove down any other way I'd 100% get a bullet in my head.

[@gasexotic8823]

@@Jigaboo1929 damm bro scary shit i live 20 min from city so i know if im in the blue police light areas to get the fuck out but it seems no matter where ive gone in the city i got offered boy or girl which is herion and coke prob cause im white

[@Powerule23]

I'm from a pretty rough section in Brooklyn, NY and I have never seen anything in the US this bad. There are plenty of tough 'hoods in this country, but nothing like Baltimore. It's sad that there is still so much poverty.

[@evanharkey7100]

NYC used to look this bad if not worse

[@Powerule23]

@@evanharkey7100 Nah, I remember the 70’s plus, with all the crime., going forward to today. The only thing I’ve seen worse than this is overseas. Baltimore needs real attention. Perhaps many of the run-down blocks are largely inhabited, but this poverty reflects the US.

[@MrWarrenRB]

Watch his video on Atlanta hoods, it was worse than this

[@blue-yc6iu]

@@Powerule23 Philly and Detroit look just like this

[@johnh5960]

Where you at, Williamsburg 😂

[@paulos9900]

Respect to the people that are still doing their best to maintain the homes... Even just stuff as simple as painting it.

[@rosewoodsteel6656]

Yeah, you've got to respect someone who paints their home.

[@Der_Gewagte]

​@@rosewoodsteel6656Nah Bro, is not only for the owner but for the environment

[@jamesofallthings3684]

How pathetic you have to praise somebody for such a thing. Like clapping for somebody who wipes their ass.

[@jameshughes9329]

You can still paint and decorate a council house. My parents lived in one for 40 years, never rich people infact quite poor, yet the garden, the house was always clean and painted whenever possible. Too easy an excuse for people to.just become trash and live in trash because they don't have any respect for the area or even more so, themselves

[@dimitristripakis7364]

@@jameshughes9329 As a Greek, sadly this is how some people also think here. "It's not mine, why should I fix it ?". Ok, spend years of your life in shite, then. Although here it is by law the owner's responsibility to fix most things, if not all. But honestly, a simple paint every 10 years is not that much, if someone can afford it but does not do it, then I believe they deserve it to live like that.

[@williamgrand9724]

The old buildings give a unique vibe, could be a nice place...

[@GolfingBobby-it1ls]

baltimore does have character. even some of the upper class neighborhoods still aren’t super gentrified looking yet.

[@lgscteam]

Only If the black ice wasn't there

[@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits]

We lived in Southeast Baltimore in Curtis Bay and watched the decline hit so fast. The bird (police helicopter) was flying every night. We used to play a game called name that gun when we'd hear gun fire. The first month we were there someone had their head taken off with a shotgun just a block over. As soon as a murder memorial started to go away another would pop up on the side of the road. One year we even rang in the new year as the first murder of the year about a block from our house on Hazel Street. For some reason though I never felt like we were in danger. Everyone on the block looked out for each other. We didn't interrupt the dealer's business, they knew we were straight laced, kept to ourselves and made sure no one messed with us. Kind of odd but I miss that old house. Half the block burned up a few years after we moved and I don't think they even bothered demolishing the ruined rowhouses.

[@nousername2942]

Man as someone that grew up in bad neighborhoods in the Midwest, what's up with east coast cities and whole streets just burning up like that? Is it cause the buildings are all close together? I see so much more fire damage in videos from up there

[@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits]

@@nousername2942 Rowhouses are built right beside each other like townhouses but it's a whole block. One goes up and it jumps roofs all the way down. Our old house was built in 1910 so it was a dried out old box of matches pretty much. The fire started next to where we lived and consumed half the row before the firetrucks even got there. It's crazy how fast those old houses burn.

[@Tracert-mc1hu]

@@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits There was a church I saw that burned back in 04 or 05 and it was built in the 80's with trusses from a 1900's era building that was demolished. Someone was sweating pipes and lit the insulation on fire, burned the entire roof right off the building before the fire department could make it the 1/8 of a mile there. Luckily no one was injured or killed.

[@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits]

@@Tracert-mc1hu It is crazy how fast fire moves if there's enough fuel. One of my old neighbors took video of the block fire with his phone and sent it to me. It literally took just a minute to go 3 houses each way.

[@trel4504]

Back in 2009 when I was in highschool I had a mentor that was from Baltimore, told me he witnessed a murder right in front of him at a stop light, guy went up and just shot someone in the head. I'm from silver spring md, it's pretty bad but not like this poverty here is off the charts

[@taguinerd]

I find it amazing how The Wire managed to completely capture the reality of the grittiness of the hoods in Baltimore while telling such compelling stories in this setting

[@TanoookiMario377]

And the fact that they filmed it all on site. I learned last week that the actor that played Bubs got approached and offered drugs multiple times while filming the first season.

[@mac11daddy6]

I’ve lived in Md for 24 years. Baltimore is so much worse than The Wire. It’s the only place in America where the homeless and addicts feel entitled to whatever money you have on you. Y’all don’t know anything about this city. F these mfs

[@yell0wberry]

If I were the narrator of this video, I probably would have played the opening theme to the wire

[@AmarilloMusicAB]

The Daily Wire? Ben Shapiro?

[@capitalg7]

the show on hbo "The Wire" @@AmarilloMusicAB

[@jamppamaattori]

The amount of hopelessness and resignation on display is heartbreaking.

[@Hongobogologomo]

These American Ruins.

[@Travis-kw3mo]

Democrat ran cities always end up looking like this

[@jamppamaattori]

@@Travis-kw3mo I encourage you to look into the situation a little more. Your unreasonable conlusion is rather shocking in its simplicity.

[@tc98826]

@@Travis-kw3mo i'd argue theres another stronger common denominator, which there's global evidence for.

[@finalform11]

@@jamppamaattori its too late for people like him man, only way for them to learn is for them to be in a remotly similar sitution or to personally meet someone they see trying, versus seeing random figures in a video and placing racist and prejudice belifs on any race darker than him or any group thats not his. They can then bitch about coal leaving and its affects on republican run states or communities but then become practically braindaid once they see similar issues effects on the otherside with a million more people to deal with in a bigger industry.

[@Solus793]

The new Fallout trailer looks epic.

[@Yourubeuser-0]

Nah you bugging 🥴😭

[@jusadude186]

The waste product of capitalism you mean

[@JordanStearns-p2s]

Lol

[@JordanStearns-p2s]

Lol

[@JordanStearns-p2s]

Lol

[@yeedbottomtext7563]

I like how it’s totally unchanged from The Wire 20 years ago

[@jbizzybrown8847]

totally unchanged from when Edgar Allen Poe ODed in the gutter.

[@robertw377]

My Buddy and I took the wrong exit going to Cal Ripkens last home game years ago and drove through a couple miles of that craziness. People hanging out of windows naked, a car on fire, music blaring, shady as shit people on every corner, burned out houses. I've been through most parts of DC and it doesn't compare. Baltimore is like another planet.

[@santo-rr4uv]

People, don’t forget to vote Democrat again in 2024 so you can continue to live the life of luxury and prosperity. Remember, Joe Biden loves you!!!!!!

[@Blacksheep-Ba-Ba]

That's their culture

[@ProctorSilex]

@@santo-rr4uv That's why we need to vote Republicuck next election so they can do absolutely nothing to undo the destruction! All hail the Uniparty!

[@kfoalbfkdkd5302]

@@santo-rr4uvNigga the party doesnt matter, people do. And you cant change people.

[@bonitobonita9263]

@@santo-rr4uv it’s not that simple. Not everything is black or white, or blue or red.

[@therealmarkzuckerberg]

I’m watching this video after reading that 23 schools in Baltimore had 0 students that passed math☹️

[@yahyahbrice9586]

Source!!!!

[@patrickhaug1157]

Do you really think our educational standards throughout the whole United States will get better, it's been on a decline!. Pretty sure they want us dumb, and other countries are waiting to capitalize in on that!. Especially the ghettos and slums, they don't care about the citizen's and next generations being brought up to get an education. Especially minorities!. They want you to be stuck desperate and in poverty to fund the prisons!. It's a continuous cycle of revenue!. Americans got hustled!. But I dont have to tell you anything you don't already know, it's evident!.

[@Kaiden-9226]

@@yahyahbrice9586 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5rYhIRphMR-o9E

[@215Ghouls]

Damn they know how to count at least?

[@tommystreet1121]

My daughter was blessed to be in a good school but the Baltimore school system is a joke over all

[@MachFiveFalcon]

I've seen videos like this of areas where I don't think anything looks that run down - honestly pretty livable. But this looks like a war zone. It hurts to see so many people struggling like that. I hope cities like Detroit and Baltimore can find ways to revitalize themselves however long it takes.

[@demongraves]

Step 0 is forcing absentee property owners and speculators to deal with the vacants, or they get taken over and handled by the city/state. But there's little money or political will for it.

[@t_sizzler_2032]

Maybe we wouldn't have the issue with homelessness if these empty buildings were repurposed for housing that homeless people could stay in for free.

[@EoCx1]

Imagine if you showed this clip to the families who originally built/lived in these neighborhoods

[@PlutoniumSlums]

Some of them might actually be watching this vid right now

[@3blinds]

​@@PlutoniumSlumsno

[@markkalfahs1047]

...there wouldn't be a dry eye...

[@amg9163]

I think about that too! I can't imagine what they would think if they could see this mess now.

[@joncohen6059]

Most of them live 15 minutes away

[@jphanson]

I love this channel. I admire Charlie’s decision to always let the footage speak for itself.

[@thurstonpowell8687]

Charlie's not wanting to attract attention.

[@gzuskreist1021]

and the footage says "around blax, never relax!"

[@levymoyer8391]

I grew up in the area and this breaks my heart, man. So much beautiful history here and it’s just turned to the ruins of a lost civilization.

[@lademac5791]

Same here. I spent my first 45 years in Baltimore, born in Johns Hopkins Hospital. I am elderly now but I can honestly say that growing up in Baltimore was pretty nice. I caught a glimpse of the Enoch Pratt library at North and Pennsylvania and good memories came flooding back. The Met Theater was directly across the street as was Reads Drugstore, which had a lunch counter. My siblings and I spent many, many summer days between those three places which all had air conditioning! It was safe, we walked freely, our parents did not worry about us. It hurts my heart to see the city like this.

[@eriksmoek674]

Omar always in the game

[@timothyslaughter476]

OMAR was actually the most unrealistic thing in the wire. He would be harbor freight in two days!! Rest of the show was Baltimore light though!!

[@oh_my_science]

4:33 second house from the left. The tree is growing from the second story, its roots & other foliage having engulfed the building interior.

[@kaitospin3944]

Also 4:51 beautiful.

[@holymoly8848]

Right? Some stuff right out of the last of us lmao

[@speedking7224]

Post apocalyptic shit lol

[@Yourubeuser-0]

That’s erie to look at omg

[@patmc8457]

Weed house 🤪

[@tommahnke]

It is a shame to see these beautiful old row homes be let go past the point of no return.

[@r.pres.4121]

The viable solution now is demolition and clearance since those old row houses are too badly deteriorated to repair and reoccupy

[@dmitripogosian5084]

@@r.pres.4121 That what University of Chicago was doing to maintain their patch around in reasonable shape in 70-80s/ When properties around were going decrepit, they were buying them up and demolishing

[@T.Tuxedo]

​@@r.pres.4121 Maybe not..I saw the guys on "This Old House" TV program fix up and restore old row houses and they turned out pretty nice

[@downestfoo5613]

Funny how I live in Boise Idaho and so many people and teens around here try to act hood but they wouldn’t walk around these hoods with the confidence they have around here in the suburbs

[@hazeymystic8867]

Haha yep I see it where I live to. I’m in a small town in Oregon. I moved to Indianapolis for a few years, there’s some rough areas there to and it was definitely a big culture shock for me being born n raised in Oregon. Now I watch these teens around here thinking they’re so tough and think they’re in gangs.. I would just love to drop them off in a place like this. Even east side Indi.. it’s not as dangerous as some other cities but it would still scare the pants off these silly kids here 😆

[@inTruthbyGrace]

it's actually *_not_* funny... it is 100% proof that #thug-life is merely hollywood propaganda designed to subvert American young people and overthrown parental authority in an certain age group, it's certainly NOT a reality of a glamorized people group that actually exists.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

@@hazeymystic8867 lol there's a great Dave Chappelle skit where he drops his white step son off in the hood for tryna act tough. but at the end of the day these kids just want to be cool and their parents/mentors need to educate them on how the real world works or they will eventually learn the hard way.n

[@turkey4957]

yeah bro Im in Oregon and after traveling the country, let me confirm for you, people who act hood in the NW part of the country outside of small pockets of North Portland or Tacoma/Seattle are entirely unaware of how real it gets in this country

[@barrysuss4421]

Thats stupid. Every state has violent crazy people. Just because there are abandoned buildings and poverty where people live doesnt make them tough.

[@virtualnewengland]

This is heartbreaking. Thanks for making and sharing this video. More people need to know the state of our cities in the US.

[@pattyrobinson1458]

Assholes will always be assholes

[@craigober7231]

Why? We already know. The more $ you commit to the problem, the more $ the corrupt black politicians steal, and, the little bit that goes into improvements, the more your wasting time and $. Blacks simply don’t appreciate self reliance, heartfelt assistance and “civility”. Crying shame! Especially for the black elderly and unparented children!

[@jp99575w]

The architecture in many of these historical buildings is incredible, so unique. It's a shame they are in such decay & ruin. Hate to see this, we as a nation bulldoze them down and put up new ugly square boxes. We erase our heritage moving forward & that's shameful.

[@shaggybreeks]

What in the world do you see as redeeming about that architecture? It looks horrible! I'm not talking about the general condition of the neighborhood, I mean the design of those row houses. No wonder the place became a slum! I can't see anything they could do to that hood to improve the basic, built-in squalor. Awful!

[@jp99575w]

@@shaggybreeks It's nostalgia, brick facades, curved arch widows, at TS 2:27 check out those curved walls, things you don't see anymore. Its a slum there's no arguing that but if someone had a vision to purchase these old building and renovate think of how cool it could look, unfortunately I think its past that. At some point a big developer will come in and buy the land for pennies on the dollar, destroy these old buildings & put up square ugly ones with no character or charm I have an appreciation for the old architecture, they don't make them like that anymore, looks like I have 62 thumbs up so I'm not the only one who feels this way. Everyone has a different vision.

[@LostSouls-t2u]

It’s called maintenance which these lazy folks ain’t capable of.

[@kurisupi_html]

@@LostSouls-t2uthese people got a lot more issues to deal with than those of us who are lucky enough to have the time to watch youtube videos and post comments

[@kurisupi_html]

@@jp99575weveryone's got a different vision, yeah. I think I share yours though. old architecture had so much purpose, even on low-income properties. where I live, it's all mid- to high-income subdivisions with no character that fall apart after a couple of years. The walls in my house are cracking and all of the storm drains on my street had to be replaced last year-but my development is only 6 years old. I always wondered what people are thinking when they endeavor to build this stuff.

[@aronkerr]

We have some friends who live in Baltimore and went to visit for a few weeks. It was a cool city. Lots of history and things to see, great food, nice people. The difference from block to block was crazy though. One street would be updated, beautiful townhomes and the next would be an abandoned building with a tree growing out the top. It was definitely a place where you were fine in most places but wouldn't want to wander around a block over.

[@NunyaBizznaz]

Similar to Flint, for the same reasons.

[@timmy513beats]

Cincinnati is just like this lol it’s more block by block than neighborhood by neighborhood

[@canislatrans8285]

Or be out at night.

[@jimbocowman511]

Nicest most murderous place I've ever been.

[@Starvino]

Take the place around University of Maryland Dental school. Fresh building that is safe and clean. Go two blocks away and it looks like a war zone.

[@Niro_sounds]

The overcast really adds to the video

[@LASAGNA_LARRY]

There’s a show “The Expanse” about space, Mars, and science fiction. One character is super tough/buff and the only explanation for his toughness is that he’s from Baltimore. (This is real, lmao).

[@Jonathan_Doe_]

As someone who grew up in a run down part of the U.K., the run down brick built terraced houses look weirdly familiar, most British ones don’t have that many steps up to the front doors though.

[@simonolsen9995]

Yeah. All those houses built for factory workers and their families. And then one by one, all the factories closed.

[@CCMqueretaro]

So like the UK then

[@lhoman8426]

Very similar to where I live in Liverpool

[@yesthen2704]

@@lhoman8426or Middlesbrough

[@Hjd10]

It’s the stone cladding, remember though if you have nothing in the States you’ll be much worse off than the UK.

[@rafterman5072]

I used to live right off Broadway in Fells Point. The side I lived on was younger working-class people, and the neighborhood was pretty nice, with many renovated townhomes. However, like 100 feet away, across the street, was terrible. A couple of areas in Baltimore are even worse than this though. There are whole neighborhoods that are abandoned and look like actual warzones. It is insane how poorly Baltimore is run, and it's sad considering the fact Baltimore is actually really beautiful.

[@garrom5652]

The democrats man

[@NameSpaceVoid]

It's wild how cities like Baltimore and Detroit have been this way for ~50 years. White people collectively moved to the suburbs and the cities crumbled, and they've pretty much looked the same ever since. 50+ years and zero progress. Just burned out and boarded up remains of what came before.

[@mvonwalter6927]

@@garrom5652 The police in Baltimore are run by the state and governor's house. This dates back to the civil war when the municipal government was not trusted to stay on the Union's side.

[@fellspoint9364]

Where did you live rafterman ? How long ago ? Has it really gotten bad ?

[@rafterman5072]

@@fellspoint9364 I lived on Bank Street next to Fells Point about 7 years ago. I know the crime picked up quite a bit during and after the pandemic hit. The inner harbor is also a ghost town now, which is unfortunate.

[@kennithcunningham1785]

Nothing was worse than the South Bronx. It looked like a war zone. New York City rebuilt that neighborhood and you can't even tell what it looked like before. No city in America should look like this anymore. This is crazy.

[@bmw803]

We are more concerned with that Ukrainian fake war that we probably started over our own cities. Yes, most of the residents in that area are responsible for this, but instead of funding wars, how about giving those people opportunity in life.

[@ALGREEN540]

NYC has a lot more going for it than Bmore. It’s the fashion/financial capitol. Billions upon billions of buisness revenue and jobs. Tourism, cuisine, nightlife, television, radio, broadway plays, you name it. All Baltimore has for tourists to come to the city is Chesapeake Bay crabs or Heroin.

[@GORILLA_PIMP]

​@@ALGREEN540 NYC sucks i agree

[@tommycasidy3031]

Don't worry whitey will come to the rescue 😂

[@marbman1587]

@@ALGREEN540 I think they are referring to the South Bronx of the early 70's

[@alysmari3956]

My parents used to walk around the city when they were young(excluding racial areas). Today I wouldn't ride trough these areas in a tank wearing military-grade full body armor.

[@davidtoups4684]

I really like how he just drives around and shows what it's like without adding a bunch of snarkey commentary like some KZbinrs do. They really get on my nerves!

[@Future-Classic-Cars]

Same I cannot stand that guy Mikey Gee ir whatever his name is seems very fake.

[@WayneLorez]

YES. Just record and STFU

[@demongraves]

Makes me feel like I'm avoiding excessive traffic downtown, and using westside back streets to get somewhere ...

[@markbowdoin1671]

Cheeseburger man cheeseburger....if you know you know

[@HelloThere-xs8ss]

It has always seemed so strange to see new cars in these areas.

[@donsolos]

Man it sure is dystopian to see a newer model car next to some of those run down buildings

[@KayFabe87]

Ghetto "priorities".

[@jakechamberlain7619]

In December me and my cousin went through some really, really rough areas of Baltimore. Had I known where he was going I wouldn’t have agreed to go. There were people nodding out, trying to stay awake and keep walking, almost on every street corner. Shit was like real life zombies. We got to this really long street and it was bombed out, ransacked houses everywhere on both sides for as long as you could see. There were these bright blue lights on every single light pole (BPD security cameras) for blocks and blocks. It was literally like The Last of Us in real life.

[@adriennedouke1880]

I grew up in Baltimore. I left some 45 years ago. looks like I made the right decision.

[@bookobsessedguy]

There are areas all over the U.S. especially right jow Post-COVID that are facing similar issues. I'm from Maine for god's sake and i've been to some of the bigger cities or towns like Portland or Augusta, as well as having lived in section 8 housing in Bangor. Id see a lot of the same shit you're seeing in this video there too. Its everywhere. So many homeless camp out at this restaurant i used to work at in downtown Bangor. Even found two drugged out dudes in a storage container outside the restaurant building, trying to sleep. Literally shoves themselves in there

[@lance___]

Nice pfp, love the germs

[@philiplee1119]

it relaxing for anyone else hearing the inside of the car and how it sounds? the steering wheel, tires on the concrete, blinkers. and the exhaust too. driving through hood asmr

[@mohsinkamal2468]

Damn! Things havent changed much since The Wire

[@RazPerignon]

Looks even worse

[@FreeDumb101]

Sheeeeiiiitt!

[@pshdxt]

Avoid bad language guys

[@mica122213]

its way worse

[@steverogers2603]

I think I saw Bubbles in this video.

[@wb2605]

I left Bmore many years ago, what a hopeless place. I went in the military and never looked back. Place sure hasn’t changed much.

[@crazyralph6386]

Good for you! Stay strong.

[@joeygeorge2755]

Thank you for your service

[@charlesgerety1403]

It's sad

[@neogigo]

Hope you’re doing well man, go kick ass in life

[@hubertcumberdale2651]

"I left the violence of Baltimore to be violent against foreign nations in the military".

[@sonnywolfblues]

I drove through this area in 2019.I left New York city en route to Texas and around 2am I was getting tired so I GPS'd the nearest Motel 6 to sleep at.It took me off the highway and right into the middle of this area.I've seen a lot of poverty in the USA but this was really striking...the sinister energy at night with the people walking around...I wouldn't dare get out of my car and walk around here at night...you can feel the potential danger.Seeing so many buildings that are half boarded up and half occupied...unbelievable that one apartment is vacant and boarded up while the neighbor's light is on!!I finally got to my motel 6 which was still in the same neighborhood.I was tired and needed sleep so I decided to get out of my car and go to the office which was locked....you had to interact through a small window.The clerk told me I had to leave a $75 deposit which I didn't like.I looked around and started thinking about my car being left out here and my room was probably going to be scummy so I got back in my car and drove off.I GPS'd another Motel 6 which brought me to a cleaner neighborhood that felt safer and I slept there instead(with no required $75 deposit!!).I'm sure most folks in this area are good people but the poverty level is so astonishing and the potential negative expreriences that can occur from the certain bad people here make this a place to avoid if have no business going there.

[@amg9163]

Did that Motel 6 have it's front desk behind bullet proof glass? The reason I ask is because I had a 1 night stay in NYC near the airport in a hotel that had bullet proof glass ... And rooms *in the basement!* I was first given one of those basement rooms (where the windows were the kind that had no way to open them). Horrible place to spend $150 for a measly 4 hours of sleep.

[@sonnywolfblues]

@@amg9163 They probably were bullet proof glass now that you bring it up.I didn't hang around too long to ask questions though...the vibe in that area had me really thinking about seeking another place.When he said I had to deposit $75 I took it as a sign to leave.

[@vladpintilei6204]

@@sonnywolfblues what was so bad about the deposit? sorry, I don't travel often

[@sonnywolfblues]

@@vladpintilei6204 it implies that if a business has to charge a protection fee against vandalism in their place then it's pretty indicative of the potential bad things that can occur because it reflects the crime and nature of the area.

[@vladpintilei6204]

@@sonnywolfblues ohhh it was for vandalism, that's crazy bruh

[@ongoer9036]

I used to work for a company that did dog waste removal when I started college. I’ll never forget being on these streets and then driving to McLean, VA in the same day. It was a VA based company and I was the only one living in MD. So I got stuck with Baltimore City and county. And yes, people actually pay $$ living in this area for people to come scoop their dogs shit. No idea why or how they could afford the monthly payments for us to come out but they did. As a then 20year old with boyish hair, I got hella looks. I have a lot of really weird stories from ‘servicing’ this area. So glad it wasn’t a long-term job. Days I was stuck here I really wanted to quit. It became a matter of safety. Outsiders aren’t welcomed in this part of Baltimore.

[@MarkT-ci6cr]

Thanks for sharing. Always wondered how places like this get serviced for anything lol.

[@edenjs1503]

The 'crazy' is that you could retitle this 'Visiting the aftermath of a warzone' and people would believe it... It's difficult to comprehend communities in such disrepair in America, and as many have already commented, they're getting worse every year. Stay safe Charlie!

[@chiquita683]

Democrats

[@squareinsquare2078]

@@chiquita683 Banana.

[@fhowland]

It’s the residents.

[@h1tek00]

@@chiquita683 Go ahead and blame democrats. Blame republican company owners for outsourcing everything. Blame the whole government for welfare

[@tylercouture216]

@@fhowland its you

[@trostlefilms]

My grandmother is from Baltimore. She talks about the glory days of the place of long ago, long before the corruption got way rampant

[@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198]

Corruption didn’t kill Baltimore, de-industrialization did. It thrived when capitalism was in a certain period and that period is long over

[@hardwired4548]

@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 And what do you think killed de-industrialization? It was political corruption.

[@bobbuilder3687]

Lazy blacks. Its very simple. Every city with mainly black population

[@dukedase7]

@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198Has nothing to do with Capitalism in terms of thriving. All it was was people not living in poverty... now everyones living in poverty.

[@Alolan.Vulpix.Getting.Railed]

corruption did not kill Baltimore, blacks becoming majority did, to many blacks destroys neighborhoods.

[@Hajduk-Kralj]

Got the train from NYC to DC it stopped in Baltimore, just looking out the window i was worried this my stop 😅

[@PBurns-ng3gw]

Abraham Lincoln had the same exact experience 🤣

[@filip8292]

Where Snoop and Chris at 😂

[@Saturnia2014]

There's a horror survival videogame called The Suffering: Ties that Bind, that takes place in Baltimore. Gotta say, the developers really knew how to capture the Baltimore essence when they developed the game

[@kaj7135]

Good horror game, but still not half as scary as a a group of “normal” black people in Baltimore.

[@Zellie1994]

Looks like a Fallout 3/Silent Hill crossover

[@charlesgerety1403]

Resident Evil

[@Tm0n3y762]

@@kaj7135 huh 🤔

[@TheTeddyGuy28]

I loved that series so much, still do. It was the first thing that came to mind when I first went to Baltimore for work a few years back. What an absolute pit of misery.

[@willytomino]

I drove through baltimore last month. The streets are covered in trash bags. On the sides of the road i saw broken glass bottles, condoms and even needles. Half of the places i went through felt dangerous, had bad feelings everywhere i went. Im so sorry for the community and for the kids who have to grow up there

[@gangisspawn1]

It's the community and kids that continue this lifestyle

[@Destinys-Purpose]

I know right . The kids that have to grow up here is where my empathy is . I know it’s hard sometimes to not become a product of your environment when you grow up like this

[@planetoftheapen1559]

Only the strongest and smartest will survive. Natural selection.

[@Nik-lf4rw]

@@gangisspawn1 they dont know any better im guessing

[@oghash4912]

Heroin still comes thru the port there more than anywhere else on the east coast

[@moontecker]

Charlie not very often mention word crazy in his videos. After seeing his past drive through Baltimore videos, yeah its getting crazy which means VERY BAD. Its gonna continue to be bad with things going on today. Stay safe bro.

[@heartbrokenpain4076]

yupp sad ASL man frfr

[@GabPinto-f6b]

I got hit by a car in Downtown Baltimore once. When I picked my bike off of me the 4 people inside the car were laughing and filming me on their phones. Once they left the scene I flagged down a cop who could care less about what happened to me. So I picked up my bag and finished my last 2 uber eats and just carried on with my life. Honestly if that’s the worse I ever have to go through in Bmore then I’m golden. I still love Baltimore and I still rip and run with my bigger bike now. Shit happens I guess.

[@SeanGuyDude]

Trenton, NJ is extremely similar. I’m there a lot for work and there are entire neighborhoods that looked like they were bombed with broken/boarded windows, melted off siding from fires, and missing pieces of the roof - with people still living in them. Sad.

[@magician234]

I live in the outskirts of Trenton and this is absolutely true.

[@johndoyle5639]

I'm out in Trenton a lot for work too. It's strange how quickly it will go from government offices, to bombed-out buildings, to tons of rowhouses with lots of big families living inside of them. I've started to learn how "safe" a neighborhood is, by guesstimating when the last time the houses were powerwashed.

[@al1665]

CharlieBo's videos is the truth. No narration, just raw life.

[@LuisLopez-ee1uq]

Buenos videos, siempre mostrando la realidad. Saludos desde El Salvador en centro américa

[@rabioramos1796]

Saludos de Honduras 🇭🇳 hermano , yo vivía en Baltimore antes ahí ay una comunidad salvadoreño y hondureño

[@FOLLOWINGTHETRIAL]

I am sure that at one time they were beautiful neighborhoods!! Reminds me of one of my favorite shows 'The Wire'....

[@soulman4292]

The most fucked us part of all those dilapidated row houses is that they are still good housing stock. They could still be perfectly livable homes for people, with relatively modest public investment. They built blocks of row houses like bomb shelters, so it’s not individual buildings, but rather one huge building cut up into smaller pieces. This is why a lot of them are still standing true, and plumb even though their interior floors are gone. We have the money, means, and ability to returns cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Cleveland, and Philadelphia back to their former glory as bustling metropolises, the only thing we lack is the will to do so from governments. Vote, run, and we can all win.

[@r.pres.4121]

Most of those dilapidated row houses are too structurally deteriorated and compromised to save and rehabilitate. The only viable solution is demolition and clearance. That is what Baltimore has been doing the past decade, demolishing all these decrepit derelict row houses.

[@Mr.Durant]

The money yes, the means no. These houses are owned by outside investors.

[@cheese7960]

If you think the issues are as simple as voting then you clearly haven’t seen the wire

No, you cannot return them to their former glory. Those cities were made glorious by people and industries that left these cities many, many years ago and are never coming back. Governments spending billions on these places won't fix things. You need the people and industries back. And the government can bring neither back.

[@soulman4292]

They left because of two things. Racism, and poor public policy in regards to racism. You are dead wrong. In every single city where the government has put even modest resources like tax credits into place, the inner cores are once again starting to thrive. Cleveland is actually a really good example of this. About 30 years ago the city government started incentives for people to move back into the city center and inner ring areas. Through tax breaks, child tax credits, and funding of proper housing development, and public transportation, now while the suburban areas begin to decay due to decades of poor policy decisions, the city is legitimately thriving, and the city with all this new tax money flowing in has invested in better schools, roads, street lights, buses, trains, hell even sidewalks and bridges. It’s now to the point where you can live in the city, work in the city, and you don’t even have to own a car. There is so much new construction, and rehab going on that the building trades have exploded, and union and non union workers alike are making enough to live in neighborhoods with doctors and lawyers. Public policy got these cities into these awful conditions, and public policy can get them out. All it takes is incentivizing people and companies to come back. Cities are once again growing, because it turns out people like having a community, they like having easy access to resources, they like not having to pay for gas, maintenance, and insurance on a personal vehicle. Throughout the rust belt we keep seeing these success stories, and they are success stories of public policy, and good long term planning for the folks that live there. The problem is ultimately pessimism, and the want for short term success over long term solutions and growth.

[@mikeoneil5770]

I was born and raised in Southwest Baltimore City, I moved to the country in 2010, was the best move I ever made in my life…

[@THAELITEVR]

Only places that can even come close to this grit is Camden and Philly

[@vadim9342]

I think this might actually beat them. This feels like a whole new level.

[@RazPerignon]

This looks a bit worse but its silly to even compare

[@billjohnson2081]

Camden is a ghost town, like some post apocalyptic movie. The trash and urban decay in North Philly could definitely give Baltimore a run for its money.

[@greasymuchacho]

Detroit is pretty greasy dude.

[@CrimeThinkBeats]

Philly unfortunately exceeds this level of delapidation in various places, and Philly's areas are large as it's a significantly bigger city than Baltimore. Then you have cities like Chester, Camden that are just as wrecked in places.

[@The11eleven]

Man, I haven’t been to Baltimore since 95, but I definitely don’t remember it being as dilapidated back then. Sad

[@plumskiter]

same here.

[@munz1870]

I wonder if Amazon even delivers packages there.

[@jeanetteshaffer8220]

I didn't even live in the bad part and pizza hut wouldn't deliver.

[@Luke-ye5ul]

This really reminds me of some parts of inner city Bradford in England. Same level of poverty. It's sad, because those abandoned houses I bet were beautiful in their prime.

[@PokrPro21]

I'm asking out of curiosity, since it's England is that a white ghetto or a black/brown/ethnic ghetto? I'm wondering because it is England. I'm also wondering if this is a specific demographic/ethnic condition or a general human condition. If you're answer is "predominantly white" then that's really saying something that there's more at play here to this way of life.

[@generalspidrax9699]

@@PokrPro21 The ghettos in Bradford are mostly Pakistani and Bangladeshi. A lot of northern England is like this now. We do have a lot of poorer areas that are mixed, England is generally less segregated than the US outside of the larger cities.

[@PokrPro21]

@@generalspidrax9699 I was expecting more of a lower class white ghetto. Wow. I heard you guys have a migrant problem with more problems and crime that the native population never had to deal with before but I'm American so I obviously don't know the full story outside of what Paul Joseph Watson posts.

[@surreyscouse2873]

Yup, if you Google the Toxteth area of Liverpool say 1900, the mansion houses and public squares where the merchants lived were STUNNING. Then guess what? Afro Caribbeans moved in and turned the area into a lawless toilet.

[@Art1cM0k3yz]

@@PokrPro21 Don't listen to these idiots, Glasgow in Scotland was once the murder capital of Europe with some of the highest poverty rates, they had "Schemes/council estates" which are the equivalent of your housing projects in America. Full of white males, white ghettos. And there are the same "white ghettos" throughout the whole of england, the most deprived area in england is infact a place called "Jaywick", its a seaside town

[@InVinoVeratas]

Crazy how these are probably the same hoods used in the TV series, "The Wire", and they look no different than a decade ago.

[@willforeverpubg4235]

Don't forget about the "The Corner" series. Watch that last month.

[@davidbricejr.7340]

that what happens when you don't fix the problems they have

[@NoahBodze]

Go back six decades and they’re prosperous. But something else was missing then, too.

[@coled5391]

Real baltimore is worse than the wire

[@jaylewis5035]

@@NoahBodze About 60 years ago the Democrats in charge of the Federal Government at the time had devised a plan that would pay them for having illegitimate children. Before electronic benefits payments there were welfare checks. The checks always hit the mailboxes on the first of each month. Once a month the stores had 18 wheelers pull up overnight and these trucks were filled with Pampers.

[@mattmiller859]

I love how after the 17 second mark you're on my street where i just bought an Invesment property and that same Nissan Truck is always parked like that. 5 Mins away is John Hopkins. This area has huge potential for growth.. Never judge a book by its cover. We literally cut down a whole tree that fell on the night light when u enter this block a week ago. You can tell this video shows before that corner house caught fire at the end.

[@booooo-urns]

Baltimore must have been beautiful at its peak. Love the buildings

[@TheLatinoRedneckCowboy]

It was like looking at your mother's ass.. beautiful

[@MrPolandball]

Just like anything that’s taken over basketball people, it all turns to sh#t eventually

[@4465Vman]

yup fourties fifties early 60's

[@demongraves]

Parts of it still are, parts of it are again. I think there were always rougher patches, just a question of where.

[@JA17SBLVIIIMVP]

Wish they made a The Wire 2 or something. Doesn't even have to be set in Baltimore, can be in Camden or Philly or even New Orleans. Would be pretty sweet.

[@Danlovestrivium]

Or anywhere that blacks live, pretty much.

[@JA17SBLVIIIMVP]

@@Danlovestrivium North Dakota?

[@Danlovestrivium]

@@JA17SBLVIIIMVP Baltimore, can be in Camden or Philly or even New Orleans. But I'll add to your list. Detroit, St Louis, Oakland, the list goes on and on. No other race in America lives like that. Just take a look at their instagram pages and you'll understand what they value and why these places look the way they do. NO ONE would ever want to live around these people if they could help it.

[@60kai_57]

@@Danlovestrivium I know for americans its gonna be maybe hard to understand but as albanian- south european living in paris-saint denis. I can tell u places like this are all over the world truth to be told u not gonna see nowhere western europeans. here its inhabited by us immigrants anywhere from africans-arabs South-eastern- europeans shii looks same givin me last of us vibes just letting u know yall not alone in this places like this are made by failed politics and segregating people instead integrating them

[@Danlovestrivium]

@@60kai_57 The failed policies are not from the place you are moving to. They're from where you're moving from. If your originating countries were like the places you were immigrating to, you'd never leave them. Then you want to go to an advance culture with almost zero ability to contribute to that modern society and wonder why you can't compete? You expect the new place to provide for you and educate you? To give you homes and income? Why? Simply because you moved? There's a reason all of these places look the same. It's because you have people that are not up to speed with the rest of society trying to compete in a society they're not able to. Fix your own place and be successful there before you move to a new place that's well above your abilities, fail, and then blame the people that took you in.

[@donnyfoster1859]

I’m from NJ born and raised, I went to Baltimore 4 years ago to help someone I know get his plumbing/hvac business going… the main unit which is heavy goes in the backyard so he parked in the alleyway…. I’m putting tools back in the truck around noon , end of July of 2020, I turn around had a shotgun and 45 to my head…. They wanted phone, wallet and my keys , I told them everything was in the house thinking they leave me alone…. They escorted me to the back door with shotgun against back of my neck…. By the grace of god the door handle was on the right so door swung open to the left, as I stepped in I sidestepped to the right, slam door in their face as same time as I walked in, ducked, locked the door, crawled into the kitchen…. I saved a grandmother, daughter, 3 little kids that day

[@KayFabe87]

Let me guess: The perps were Nordic-looking dudes with MAGA hats, correct? Oh. Never mind.

[@PopiWa_tv]

How long did it take to make that up?

[@The-Grubber]

Would be cool if it was true, sounds very fake though

[@donnyfoster1859]

@@The-Grubber ya I sat there for half hour making up very small details like door opened to the left, sidestepped to right and jumped in closed the door at same time, ya I made up that whole story in the 2 min it took me to write that in that much detail, I must be real gifted I should write a book

[@The-Grubber]

@donnyfoster1859 how old are you man?

[@peterwaugh4734]

I noticed people would get mad if you said to build more baltimore, but you could said the great fire ruins are many square miles from over 100 years ago. It is better somehow to say not to build more luxury apartments, but you can really enjoy that the university of maryland had a great fire at around the same year, and they did want to rebuild that area.

[@DUDEfreestyle]

The East Coast, Midwest and Southern cities have some of the grimiest looking ghettos I've ever seen. I've been to a couple areas in those regions where you can just feel the despair in the community/neighborhood.

[@Oddgod29]

It’s them 200 year old brick buildings make shit look fucked up

[@nikolaslamb439]

@@Oddgod29 crazy to think that most of the buildings in these neighborhoods are the "originals" from when they were first built in the 1800s

[@merkcityboy834]

Yeah I’m from SC an you ain’t lying in just glad they keep the spotlight off us an just show how shitty the major cities have become..

[@h1tek00]

Urban decay is a lot worse cuz usually the cities are older

[@fixieroy]

Some of the propblem with cities like this is that leins can be placed on property as debts which then spiral into massive numbers on properties. So they just sit vacant and in conditions of disrepair because buying a lot thats is $5,000 also comes with baggage of $500,000K of bad debt that must be paid UP FRONT. Its a systemic issue that allows for poor deprived areas to stay that way. So whre you look at these videos to get your misplaced ideas of cities with minority areas in disrepair- its not as easy as "grab a brook and clean up your city"

[@truthserum6808]

Baltimore, Philadelphia (North Philly), Camden NJ, Newark NJ, Detroit, St Louis, Jackson MS, Cleveland (East), Youngstown OH, Flint MI and Chicago (Southside) are the worst looking hoods in America. Back in the day, NYC (South Bronx & Brownsville-ENY) and Washington DC would be on that list but both cities have fixed up their hoods and experiencing rapid gentrification.💰

[@3089280288]

You forgot Gary, IN

[@madeindade15thave]

New Orleans?

[@nikkitak8360]

I'm in Chicago. The south side is bad but this looks like a third-world country

[@southsidesaiyan8641]

@@nikkitak8360 yea im from south side of Chicago too and even though it can be dangerous it doesn't look that bad compared to hoods of other cities. Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit and Memphis look way worse in comparison.

[@NoahBodze]

All of those cities were entirely built by whites and sacked by migrating blacks. Demographic and census data doesn’t lie. There were almost no one who looks like you above the Mason-Dixon Line until during WWII and as soon as you got north you rioted and destroyed what someone else built. Some things never change.

[@davetod9169]

I worked in South Africa and Nigeria yrs ago. Those houses look like mansions in comparison to African ghettos. Good video.

[@Bryan_Kay]

100% especially around Durban ☠️💀☠️

[@garvielloken4114]

@@Bryan_Kay i was born in Joburg 1981 but grew up in germany. My family had a good relationship and memories with Durban during the 90s. Especially with the Elangeni Hotel and the city itself. Its almost 30 years ago that ive been there and i would like to travel there but i dont know if its still safe. Btw i know about the situation in SA and it looks horrible. Is it safe to go to Durban as a white tourist from germany?

[@tjayog8216]

Cool story. This is America.

[@pyeltd.5457]

@@tjayog8216no is not.

[@dbz9393]

@@tjayog8216 America is South Africa in 50 years time.

[@tammyicious]

I live a mile from the Baltimore City line, I'm in Baltimore County and I never go into the city. Now parts of Baltimore County are experiencing high amounts of crime. I don't plan to stay here once I retire, that's for sure.

[@tc7584]

My ex wife's family owned a liquor store in Baltimore and they didn't speak English only Korean. It was eye opening to see this side of Baltimore IRL as I specifically remember seeing the row houses with boarded up windows and doors but a new satelite dish perched atop the roof for TV. Her parents store had been robbed a few times and I'll never forget that he sold Newport cigarettes by the 1 behind the counter. The Harbor is beautiful and I still think Baltimore has the best seafood I'd ever eaten in my life.

[@ericjohnson4792]

I think it’s rich that foreigners come to America and criticize when evidently where they were from was much worse. Better yet come over here and eat of ppl of color and talk shit. The never of you

[@justanotherguy469]

Why didn't they open up a bookstore instead of a liquor store? Because they knew that they could profit from a liquor store. The only difference between them and a dealer of heroin is, heroin is illegal, but they both do it for profit.

[@ericjohnson4792]

@@justanotherguy469 preach soldier! They’re a bunch of leaches

[@Bucket130]

@@justanotherguy469who tf would buy books there obviously tryna make profit not go bankrupt

[@henlo1910]

Love the korean owned liquor stores in baltimore. You could be toddler and they still wouldn't card you.

[@dalemcnamee2427]

Trees growing out of,and inside, the empty shells of houses isn't all that unusual since their decay provides enough "soil" for trees like Ailanthus Altissima to grow...Sometimes they sprout in roof gutters if there is enough "soil" in them...

[@NormJablonsky]

CharlieBo walkin through the garden, you better watch your back

[@rabioramos1796]

Which garden

[@incremental_failure]

@@rabioramos1796 Where Chris and Snoop hang out.

[@SlickArmor]

I can just picture what it must have been like 100 years ago. Family and community out on the porches of those narrow streets. Just beautiful.

[@Dead2you]

i took a train from DC to NYC over the summer and we went through B More..shit broke my heart man. especially being a huge fan of Cal Ripken/Orioles back in the glory days.

[@2002dialupconnection_]

Imagine how beautiful those brick rowhomes and streets were in its prime. This country is doomed.

[@incremental_failure]

Yup. The place is beautiful, low-rise buildings and brick as well. The people who reside in the areas though...

[@satyakammisra]

Go visit Asian cities - YES US is doomed and never going to catch up. I have visited Saigon, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Chaing Mai, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Dailan, Guangzhou, Mumbai and no where the hoods are this bad except for the slums in Mumbai - but they are prosperous with normal humans living and thriving. This is zombie land

[@incremental_failure]

@@satyakammisra You're picking the worst US has to offer and comparing it to the best of Asia. Compared to most European cities, many of the cities you named are worse - Chinese cities with horrific air quality, India with filth, Dubai being unwalkable, Hong Kong is overcrowded etc. Many US cities are not that nice, that is true but give people the choice of Beijing or any major US city and the choice would be obvious.

[@AlexRokutov]

Today Ukraine looks worse. So, dear Americans, your money goes there. You are honest taxpayers, thank you!🤣🤣🤣

[@incremental_failure]

@@AlexRokutov If you Russian cockroaches wouldn't have destroyed it, none of that money would go to Ukraine.

[@bigdaddypiggy]

I was born in DC in 1971 & grew up in the DMV & spent a good amount of time in & around Baltimore & I remember people used to ask me if Baltimore is as bad as it seems on “The Wire” & I’d tell them “no….it’s worse” 🖤🥶

[@ericjohnson4792]

I was born in Baltimore in 1969 and grew up in the DMV. And DC is now different than Baltimore. You still have neighborhoods that are just as bad as Baltimore. So don’t get brand new because dc back in the 80’s we’re just like Baltimore. I know I was there I remember the show “City Under Siege “ that came on every night at 11p on channel 5. Yeah! As a small kid there were no vacant houses in Baltimore that I remember until the drugs overwhelmed the city and that’s real

[@kingslate1]

Where in B-More is this?

[@mafiagang20]

So true

[@slamjackson2137]

I’m from Philly and B-more has its work cut out for it. Philly got rough spots but so much of Baltimore is just run down and in decay. Lot of cool houses there too, I hope they can get it together. Always sending love to my Baltimore peeps

[@raggaduxjones]

Great video. Here’s a twist; tour some of these super wealthy, exclusive neighborhoods. And just see what develops…..should be an interesting contrast. ❤

[@JesusChrist-qs8sx]

Man it's heartbreaking what's happened to so many of our cities. So many of our leaders have failed us as a country for generations. The very people who are supposed to represent us and protect have allowed this to happen across the country. It's such a tragedy. Thank you for doing these videos

[@ProctorSilex]

I agree yet the people keep voting for it. At some point, the people need to take the blame too.

[@Nice-sm5hr]

@@ProctorSilex Anyone who would actually be worth voting for is kept out of politics by the system. People aren’t to blame. Their best option is just boycotting the vote but that isn’t a good option either

[@Reprodestruxion]

*corporations have failed you

[@Reprodestruxion]

The solution to poverty isn’t wealth , it’s solidarity

[@ProctorSilex]

@@Nice-sm5hr When seemingly decent people do run they usually lose because the few who bother voting nearly always go with the establishment. The people need to stop depending on government to solve all their problems. We need to build community by fixing our own lives and working with others. Then use that community to organize and pressure government to help or get out of our way. Instead, we eat up the politicians' pipe dreams and two minutes hate. We're not powerless. We just give our power to the enemies of humanity.

[@sublyme2157]

Lived in MD for years, my trips to Baltimore were always a mixture of fun and terror. A few tidbits of advice to anyone interested: Never where new shoes. If it looks dangerous, it is dangerous. AIDS flows like wine. If the homeless man asks for money to watch your car, you'd better pay him.

[@bootscooty]

AIDS flows like wine 😮😮 ... Ok

[@trinawashington9148]

Stop fucking lying smh

[@thesoftparade435]

Im from a really small town in eastern NC. Probably like 15+ years ago, my youth group from church went up to Baltimore to volunteer to help at a place called Helping Up Missions. They provided help to the addicted and homeless. Looks like are helping a lot of people now. It was still small when we were there. Quite an experience coming from a town with one stoplight. Wish I had an update on the people that we met there.

[@peachezprogramming]

This is what most of the US will look like once the dollar collapses

[@immanuel5185]

What are you doing to prepare for that?

[@DariusFox-xs9vl]

😂 too late

[@Wavyrioo]

This makes the Bronx look like disney land

[@channingtaintum]

I live in NJ, and actively avoid Camden & Trenton because the majority of areas look like this. Until recently, the crime rate in Camden was _worse_ than Detroit, MI.

[@magician234]

Live in the outskirts of Trenton, and it def looks like this and throughout the city. There was a recent fire at the abandoned high school. Looks even more shitty.

[@RAFAKAUST]

I'm a delivery driver. I can't imagine the anxiety I would have on a daily basis if this was my route. Glad to be delivering in a nice middle class suburb. 👌

[@demongraves]

For an outsider, it's honestly more depressing than anything else. I drive through there all the time.

[@michaeldaniel73]

When I tell people that my family lives in Maryland, they always assume Baltimore… and I’m like “hell nah!!!

[@215Ghouls]

In this part of bmore, if ur white, either you're the most run down junkie ever or u don't stay here. Period.

[@lessthanthreemetal]

I drove through Baltimore for a work trip and I legitimately felt like my life was in danger

[@clared2395]

Can assure you it wasn't

[@austinrussell32044]

I live in MD and I DoorDash multiple days a week. Any time I have to deliver food to Baltimore I drop it off and immediately get out of there... Just the other day a crazy guy was cursing at me while at a red light and tried to open my driver side door (maybe to steal my car? idk)

[@DrummerJacob]

@1:18 what is that pop?

[@mothertoad560]

Omg that looks like a depressing place.. even the tree's have given up on life 🤨

[@BettyFL]

Right. It's very sad.

[@ELGUAPOIV]

Its winter goofy ahh

[@GreoGreo]

It's winter you silly sausage.

[@Alex-Defatte]

That's tremendously sad. It looks like Baltimore was once a really cute and nice place to live.

[@cinnanyan]

You should see what the south side looks like, it's absolutely a cute and nice place over there.

[@r.pres.4121]

This is what happens when deindustrialization and Wall Street greed take over. Baltimore lost most of its industry with its good paying jobs. Now it is abject poverty.

[@qwerty1994ize]

I remember doing lyft full time through these parts for two years straight. Now I’m living downtown VA. Can’t lie, life’s good. Thank God for blessing me 🙏🏿

[@davidsgarage44]

Looks like north philly camden Detroit Chicago etc. Every place same thing happened Industrial was removed no factories no work. All part of guvvvment plans ship industrial overseas then swoop in but all the real estate and build back. It's always the same story the rich get richer the poor get poorer but people are waking up . Will always be locals that buy up as much as they can and wait for the day when the investors and developers come running

[@elheffe2597]

Disgusting that we let this happen to any city, let alone a city within an hour of our nation's capital.

[@DarrylGonzales]

Well, the capital itself is violent too.

[@Syn410]

You can go not even 10 minutes away from the white house and see similar neighborhoods but not as bad as this

[@DeviousZ]

went to DC about 6yrs ago, tbh I would be embarrassed to bring anyone there that is from overseas. Everything surrounding it within a couple mins is straight poverty.

[@billymuellerTikTok]

D.C. is EVEN WORSE - full of villainy, thieves, murderers - and that's just the politicians!!!

[@armmelon327]

@@DeviousZ where? I live in the area and everything surrounding the capital is quite nice

[@originalotrex]

Baltimore was once a proud and prosperous city. A hub of economic activity. Home to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad... a symbol of American ingenuity and prosperity for over 150 years. Those days are long gone, never to return.

[@nousername2942]

America is no longer ingenious and prosperous. If we keep along the path we're on, those days will be long gone for the whole country.

[@r.pres.4121]

It used to be the sixth largest city in the country with roughly one million population in 1950. Now Baltimore is greatly shrunken and diminished with barely 590,000 population.

[@malooch]

So sad. Imagine if these places were cleaned up how nice it would look with that older architecture.

[@IamtheLunchlady]

Parts of this remind me of Camden, NJ. Im from a different part of Jersey, but if you miss a turn trying to go to Philly youd end up in Camden. Its sad to see these once vibrant historical cities reduced to this.

[@midway27272727]

On a positive note, when there is an economic collapse, these folks will have no idea anything has even happened..lol

[@stevejanowiak1982]

At one time these were BEAUTIFUL AND THRIVING neighborhoods. My parents and grandparents grew up here. Raised families. Lived middle class wholesome lives. Took so much pride in their homes and neighborhoods. Now, it’s a disgusting, shithole war zone!!! Pisses me off.

[@thetayz72]

What caused this downfall?

[@armmelon327]

@@thetayz72 manufacturing jobs being sent overseas

[@tomfields3682]

Back in the 60s, housewives used to scrub the marble steps to their rowhouses. Hard to imagine now.

[@taylor-vl1re]

Litter everywhere tells you a lot about a Town, City, or neighborhood.

[@Squintis]

What? That the taxes there can’t afford street cleaners? Or that it’s being funneled somewhere else? You think any other city wouldn’t look like this if it weren’t for the 100s-1000s of workers didn’t keep it clean?

[@KiraYoza]

@@Squintisyes and yes and yes