The 10 Worst Neighborhoods in America Are Terrifying

What’s your hood look like? Cause these are horrific.
Can you walk your dog at 5pm? Do your neighbors all have jobs? Can you leave your Amazon crap out front while you’re on vacation?
Or is it bad like this?? Where you hear gunshots during breakfast. Where your neighbors are on crack. Where your teenager gets carjacked on the way to her friends house. This my friends, is what we’re going to talk about today.
Bad neighborhoods like this are sadly becoming a growing problem in many of our American cities. It’s neighborhoods like this that have people fleeing big cities for good. There are many reasons we have such terrible hoods - drug use, gangs, generational poverty, lazy people making excuses - but there are lots of good hard working people in bad hoods, too. Which is sad. Cause they’re stuck there.
A lot of the reason we have bad neighborhoods like this is because of decisions made at the higher level of government. But that’s another video entirely.
In this video we’re going to take a cruise through some of the worst neighborhoods in the country and talk about why they are that bad.
Well, that’s because we only measured neighborhoods with 10,000 or more people. So your little ghetto hood didn’t make the cut because you’re too small. And to be honest, there are going to be neighborhoods worse than the ones I’m gonna highlight. Many don’t report crime correctly. What we’ll talk about are just the worst parts of the worst cities. It’s not exact. But it’s close.
Now, to measure these bad neighborhoods we used data. I threw in all 800 neighborhoods with more than 10,000 people into my magic sorting sheet and told it to rank them based on four important metrics - a variety of crime rates, poverty levels, unemployment rates and cost of housing. I think you’ll see it was pretty accurate. So get out your bullet proof helmets and get ready to duck. We’re heading into some of the worst neighborhoods in America.
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[@NightRidah777]

As a black dude who grew up in a rough black community and got out, I don't see it ever changing. It just seems like there was a mindset in the community that was inpossible to change. And it's definitely wasn't color related as black immigrants came in and did very well.The people who grew up there just had no motivation and had access to welfare

[@jonkore2024]

As a white dude growing up in a very rough neighborhood next to the steel mills in Cleveland I agree

[@dennispodiapolski9763]

@@kikifisselstein7322 tf do u mean by that?

[@daleestep9518]

@@dennispodiapolski9763 he means the majority of the minority are completely worthless despite the fact that they're handed opportunities and or have some of the most valuable resources on this planet and continuously destroy each other and their communities and anyone else's that they move into

[@alexistriana9795]

@@dennispodiapolski9763 he's bringing up the fact that there is no african descent dominated first world country, and in africa they just enslave each other to the mines and in constant war for power and money. Tribe vs tribe, block vs block, gang vs gang, all over the world. Yes there is always the exception to the question, but mob mentality overrules the few that make it out of that mindset. This new generation needs to change this, but i guess not since you can see who they idolize from their communities. Sad truth of statistics and logic.

[@dennispodiapolski9763]

@@alexistriana9795 your right I guess, but if u think about it really hard, who’s fualt is it that there’s no prominent dominantly Black Country in the world? There were kingdoms in central/South Africa and the Middle East before Europeans started colonizing them. Imagine what would have been if they just let them be

[@Susitamarie]

It’s so sad. When your born into poverty and you see your parents work hard and have nothing you look at the gangs who have more and end up looking up to them instead. It’s very sad.

[@alrightletsgo470]

If you’re a moron yes

[@WorkingProgress17]

I think what's even sadder is when parents and grandparents work hard so that their children can get out of the ghetto and how there is an excessive amount of assistance that makes it possible to do just that and they don't do anything to improve their circumstances.

[@raymondchacon5606]

People think backwards sometimes

[@The1ByTheSea]

it is sad that these places exist in America today ,right next to wealth neighborhoods .

[@turtleanton6539]

Indeed😮😅😮

[@TheShrededward]

I love how there is a "dip" sign in the road. I live in Japan where they would just fix the road. In America, they just put up signs advertising that the roads are crap.

[@bradklingensmith]

The signs are there more because of lawyers and lawsuits.

[@freezingcathedral]

the "dip" signs are talking about the people that live in these areas that don't actively hunt gang members.

[@tlockerk]

Lots of older or neglected neighborhoods have no floodwater management underground gutter system; so these 'dips' are how water exits the street.

[@MUSHROOMRAT750]

Lol acting like there isn’t major slums in Japan 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheShrededward]

@@MUSHROOMRAT750 Wake me when you can name one.

[@candybanks8717]

They don't want poverty to go away for the same reason pharmaceutical companies don't want disease cures; that's the money maker. The power.

[@danamichelle1290]

Absolutely. You're rich? Pay cash for a car. Poor? Slap an interest rate on top of the payment. Got $30 to last till payday? Gotta buy (for example) one roll of paper towels vs the more economical 8-pack... that's the very tip of the iceberg though.

[@kmc1steelers998]

Such a sad world we are in

[@user-km2sb5sb4o]

I'm not getting how poverty is "the money-maker."

[@turtleanton6539]

Ofc😊

[@turtleanton6539]

​@@user-km2sb5sb4opayday loans. Drugs. Cigs. Alcohol. Gsmbling

[@madmerlot841]

I feel bad for the Google Street View drivers driving through these hoods.

[@NickJohnson]

Me too!!

[@sevzas]

If you misbehave in view of the Google street view car you'll wind up on Google maps. Seems like a good reason to stay away from those cars.

[@TonyWilliams27]

Just hoping they don’t get shot or robbed while driving with Google Streets View!

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

I did just that a few years ago when working at a company that was going to send a consultant to a customer in Detroit. That was a dismal "drive"!

[@3peckeredgoat735]

I grew up in a terrible neighborhood outside of Chicago but I worked hard and now I live in a great neighborhood .

[@bensavage6389]

trust me Toby, you are bringing their neighborhood down

[@michaelsaier92]

We were very poor when I was growing up. Gas, water, electricity cut off at one time or another. House was in foreclosure. We were on food stamps.... once for 9 month. Not like these 4th generation lifers. We were taught that if you worked hard and stayed out of trouble you could do better for your family than your parents could do for you. I took a job sweeping floors in an auto repair shop at around 17 or 18 years old for $4.00 an hour then worked my way up to brakes, chassis then heavier work including engine repairs and complex diagnosis. 36 years later I own the shop. You can get there from her. That's a fact. Work hard, be honest and clean up after yourself. I'm glad you made it 3peckeredgoat

[@elliotmann8882]

This is just too depressing to watch. I'm just glad I don't live anywhere in those areas of the country.

[@Vikingsmoke]

Amen to that everyday is a blessing🙏

[@michaelantone7465]

Unfortunately, I'm stuck I'm Memphis, but looking to move soon.

[@chrism8180]

Coming to a town near you

[@Vikingsmoke]

@@chrism8180 Nope probably not I live in a very small Town in a Red State. You steal a stick of gum they will lock your up.

[@chrism8180]

@@Vikingsmoke don't be so sure, it goes red to blue and back again

[@antonleimbach648]

When the factories were shipped overseas the good Union jobs went with them. Corporate America was rewarded with lower taxes for moving and they also got a workforce in China, India, and the rest who have zero rights and no Unions. That’s how the Labor Movement was destroyed. Nearly one quarter of hourly and salaried jobs used to be Unionized in the 1950’s and 1960’s. That’s also when our standard of living was the highest in the world. Many of those neighborhoods used to be filled with working families. Flint Michigan used to be one of the best places to live in the U.S.A

[@apriljasso9731]

Saginaw too ❤️❤️

[@chrism8180]

Unions, another one of the mobs money coffers

[@chryslerfordgm]

I see unions as the real reason companies moved their factories

[@RawOlympia]

It was a horrific time, watching all the jobs go, and all the junk wash in from overseas, made by slaves.

[@inexpertxennial6067]

Blame Walmart too. Cheap prices because consumers didn't want to pay for higher priced items. Companies would had stayed if people demanded it to being made in America

[@gentz8310]

USA becomes Bangladesh but with one big difference, in Bangladesh are no NO-GO areas and life is much safer.

[@Tommy88-]

?

[@tondalayakapoofnick2681]

There are no go areas here too. Dearborn for example is exclusively radical Muslims.

[@apriljasso9731]

I agree with the Chicago cop: at this point there’s probably nothing you can do except let it burn. I’ve waited 20 years to see my hometown clear up and it’s getting there…slowly… but only because the crackheads died, the empty houses have burned and the drug dealers ran out of clients and/or got old and fat. It’s getting better…things do fizzle out but they have to burn first. Unpopular opinion but hey.

[@davel7014]

Same here. These people are making their own hell. Until they change, the area will never change.

[@michaelpowell7120]

Let it burn

[@StregaLeia77]

Fire it up

[@TheMDM1956]

@@StregaLeia77 . let them all burn...

[@aurinkobay7118]

What the cop said is probably the most logical thing I have heard in a long time

[@HagakureJunkie]

Prime examples of what happens when you get rid of strong families. 87% of incarcerated male prisoners come from single mother households, women can't raise men on their own and the more they try, the worse it gets. Lost boys struggling for an identity seek out strong male role models in the form of gangs.

[@DYLAN102001]

No your just a misogynist homophobic incel who hates women. Single women are strong, empowered and can do anything. How dare you suggest women can't raise boys. They would be able to if it wasn't for the oppressive patriarchy! If you can't tell I'm being sarcastic.

[@lynnsmith4]

And the black family who used to be the most loyal to one another than any other group, torn apart by Democrat policies.

[@bs4real]

Wtf??? Women raise strong men all the time! It's obvious what's wrong with you!

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

Lyndon B Johnson great America…..smh

[@madmerlot841]

Middle class factory jobs used to be in these major cities. Automation took away some of those jobs, high labor costs took away more jobs, and international trade treaties took away most of the rest of the jobs.

[@turcoboshnak]

All those things happened in Europe too but over there governments take care of its citizens

[@madmerlot841]

​@@radattk3145 And giving China MFN status finished off most of the survivors.

[@bayousmackerdixford3389]

Yep yep.....Pravda@@ spot on you hit it right

[@tomorrowhowever7488]

@bobcat baldfat drunkbeater When those manufacturing jobs paid minimum wage, the workers lived in slums.

[@tomorrowhowever7488]

@bobcat baldfat drunkbeater Factory jobs paid more than minimum wage when our parents were working.

[@Mraidsan]

“When you hear gun shots at breakfast…when your neighbor’s on crack…” That’s fucking hilarious

[@wideawake4981]

Refreshing honesty from that Chicago cop!

[@TonyWilliams27]

I’m a educated Black! If I was born in Chicago! That’s one part of the neighborhood I wouldn’t walk down by or drive different parts around! The South side of Chicago needs major improvement!

[@johndoe-ss9bz]

Boots on the Ground, cops on foot patrol knowing the neighborhood residents. it works in England, and European cities. It works in Asian Cities. China has a cop standing on every corner. DRIVE BY POLICING is a failure in US policing policies.

[@calilovebug3897]

Even in the poor and dangerous areas, you still see lots of new expensive cars. People are collecting welfare and working under the table for cash. That's my guess. No one is starving to death there. Being a violent criminal is a choice.

[@wyattearpswoman838]

Sadly our old neighbors (subsidized rent) did this - collecting bennies while working under table etc.but had 6 vehicles - one of which was my old bmw that we gave them. They had two vehicles, plus the bmw, then bought three more. Mind you, they had 5 kids and lived in a two bedroom duplex. Priorities were definitely off I'd say. The other side of the duplex was a revolving door of misfits that tried to flood, burn down, and destroy the place when evicted. Poor landlord sold to out of state investor. We were blessed to sell our home and move out of state.

[@jimmyr54701]

@@wyattearpswoman838 Sounds like here in Cleveland.

[@nevermind9548]

I really don't want to "thumbs up" this very sad video...but we know what we all mean....thanks again for keeping me company, Mr. Nick!

[@NickJohnson]

Ok!

[@ujayet]

You thumps up a video for video..how a video was put together not the content about u agree or disagree.. is the video well edit,, is the sound loud and clear?, is the narrator clear when speaking, was it well shot?..well put together overall,.. then that's where you thumbs up a video.

[@nevermind9548]

@@ujayet hello. No...when I give a "like"...it's for the content. It can be edited poorly....I'm LISTENING to what's going on, too. Thanks again to Mr. Nick for committing himself to showing us the REAL life out in America....that's a lot of dang traveling!

[@petezee6645]

Sounds legit. Gunfire in the afternoon by kids parks. Car jacking outside the local grocery store at 5pm. Just another lovely day in NE Portland

[@hstone39]

I saw news reports that Portland is getting really bad out there.

[@supposeso8230]

Got the chance to drive through Portland in 2019. Road trip from Pa. Cannot imagine what you guys have been through. Shame on all of you city councils, mayor, etc....beautiful town

[@thomasgrabkowski8283]

Portland isn’t as bad as these cities

[@RawOlympia]

music to demonratz ears

[@dallasswafford148]

@@thomasgrabkowski8283 I live in Portland but travel the country often. Trust me, Portland is that bad and worse than a lot of these cities. SE Portland is probably worse than NE.

[@dogie1070]

But look! No homeless! I see no tents on the sidewalks!

[@pewpew9193]

Where I live, hearing gunshots at breakfast just means me or one of my neighbors is getting in some target practice before work & is 100% normal. Would be very rare that hearing a gunshot was an artifact of criminal activity.

[@movingonward]

I want to move to your neighborhood!

[@tallwalls76]

@@movingonward. No you don’t.

[@maril1379]

First thing to get out of poverty-stop having so many kids. It's ridulous. Years ago the phrases "baby mama and daddies' never existed. What about personal responsibility?

[@ronaldleskojr5579]

Truth !

[@John-xq5mv]

I like that you went out of your way to get interviews with people actually there.

[@simon5005]

And it's going to get much worse...........but this country will do nothing about it, just let it slowly rot away. Glad I'm old and have lived my life. And it was fabulous!

[@richardeidemiller6739]

I agree. I wouldn't want to be just starting out my life today. Its very bleak and don't think its going to turn around any time soon if at all. Vicki

[@richardeidemiller6739]

@Alice Kae Nope, never considered that because that would mean I would have to blame the generation before me and they can blame the generation before them and on and on. Big part of the problem right there. I am not part of the elite and have worked since age 16 thus paying into a broken welfare system since that time. Ever hear the song in the ghetto? 1970 nothing has changed and in fact gotten worse. I was a child when that song came out, who was to blame then? Since you are not leaving this to your children you must have an answer to the problem that no one has solved since the first ghetto came to be long before you or I existed. As far as insatiable greed tell that to the politicians and the ultra rich 2 categories I don't fit in. Like you my life hasn't been all that fabulous either but I take responsibility for my own poor decisions that didn't help an already poor situation. When I knew better and stopped the blame game my life improved drastically. I also didn't bring children into the world I couldn't afford or care for properly thus never passing this misery on to them. Vicki

[@KathleenMeyers-yb4rd]

Maybe take the law into your hands and rid your cities of the lawlessness... As did towns back in the day.. Pure laziness and fear that you people don't

[@Gender.Fluid.Batman]

My hood is so bad that even my dog packs a gun.

[@AlBundyPolkHigh.]

I grew up in Memphis and what is sad is both of those neighborhoods were great up until about 25 or 30 years ago. Memphis loses a good area every couple years and eventually like now there's almost no good parts left. Even the suburbs have gotten dangerous in recent years.

[@michaelantone7465]

To quote Ed McMahon, "You are correct, sir!!!"

[@valadina4477]

Nick, you did an amazing job and thank you for not being afraid to have the "HARD" and "UNCOMFORTABLE" conversations that people are afraid to have bc no one wants to talk about it which are the realities of what is going on in our neighborhoods, in everyone's neighborhoods

[@eyestoenvy]

You needed me in this one for the NYC (South Bronx) perspective. Having witnessed the transition from hell on earth to the Giuliani law and order era, to the Bloomberg renaissance, and now onwards back in the opposite direction down the toilet at three times the pace with mayor De Blasio, I can attest as to what works and what does not. What GOOD leadership is and can do vs utter ineptitude & greed. I'll say this, the actions taken by those in leadership positions throughout most of our cities nationwide as of late are clearly those of sabotage. Sabotage by way of those who sold their office and dignity to someone (or something) willing to meet their price. God help us.

[@debbieb5861]

Interestingly enough, my hometown had a very bad neighborhood where cops refused to go into unless it was serious crimes and no way food delivery would go. Then we had a big influx of Mexican immigrants who, not knowing the area at all, moved into that neighborhood in droves as it was very cheap housing. That neighborhood quickly became cleaned up and crime rates plummeted greatly and it's now a very nice area! All I think about in this video is what happened to my hometown's worse area (now one of the best) and I'm forever grateful to those ppl for all the hard work and diligence in cleaning it up all on their own!! (Northern VA, DC metro area)

[@debbieb5861]

Note: I know my hometown isn't like very bad areas and wouldn't be comparable to these mentioned here. I'm just saying it came to my mind as a very happy outcome for my hometown.

[@patrisio3]

If the family unit stayed intake and high moral standards & education were stressed, imagine how nice many of these neighborhoods would look. Having gone to numerous countries around the world, it just looks strange to see poverty stricken areas in the U.S. that have yards, trees, automobiles, and houses that looked like they were in very good condition at one point versus poverty stricken areas in other countries with crowded shacks, no yards/grass, no trees, only small motorbikes and bicycles, no running water, scattered electricity, open sewer ditches, trash everywhere, etc.

[@RawOlympia]

jobs went overseas, it all died

[@RawOlympia]

@@rafaeltorre1643 Heartbreaking!

[@wyattearpswoman838]

@@RawOlympia That is not the only reason. There are many factors.

[@RawOlympia]

@@wyattearpswoman838 What "other factors"? Anything specific?

[@robertsmith5970]

I am not American either and the same as you see the large handsome old houses and tree lined roads and find it difficult to think they can be so bad.

[@LeahBrooksJeremiahGardens]

Great interview with Ricardo! We need more conversations like this.

[@Ezekiel903]

in Europe we suffered of poverty and wars, but we never suffered such a high crime rate, even today, we don't let decay our infrastructure or entire city's, because we are a community, every German, Italian or French, every country in Europe is more a community, the US is a failed experiment, a mixture of different culture, and when something happens, you don't hold together!

[@MikeJones-su3cj]

But horrifically, Western European govts are letting tens of millions of migrants into your countries to ruin them. These "leaders" should be ARRESTED FOR HIGH TREASON and dealt with like the mobs dealt with Mussolini.

[@johnanthonyp]

I think that's a bit of an idyllic and rose tinted comment. There are plenty of problems in France, Holland, Germany and even Sweden now. I understand there's a correlation with Merkel opening the borders to non-EU citizens. Indeed, I read reliable sources that Stockholm has an extraordinary homicide rate compared to their past. It may even be the murder capitol of Europe per capita now but it's kept quiet.

[@pavelow235]

Hmmm, I'd take isolated poverty and a few bad neighborhoods here and there over a REGIONAL WAR......Hello, do you remember Napolean and Hitler?

[@UserName-ts3sp]

yeah there's something to be said about diversity. it has its benefits, id say it's more often than not a good thing, but it can easily end up with race war and what not

[@danieldolce5734]

This failed experiment saved the peoples of Europe during WW2.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

sad how it seems that very little is taking place to try and change this cycle...

[@CheapCharlieChronicles]

There are a lot cheaper homes than $30,000 in Detroit. The city routinely auctions off decayed homes for $1,000. Many of those properties don’t even get one bid.

[@pavelow235]

Baltimore is bringing back the $1 dollar homes, except baltimore CREATES abandoned homes FASTER then they can tear them down!

[@Undercoverbrotherfromanother]

Very true.

[@Detroittruckdoctor55]

Im from the metro area good luck getting rid of the asbestos

[@bobhurt6577]

Would you want to live in that craphole???

[@Detroittruckdoctor55]

@@bobhurt6577 well the taxes are so high in detroit car insurance is high water is expensive, even the poor are fleeing. Hipsters are trying to gentrify the place

[@coastalhomephotographyllc2858]

Hey Nick, Great job to give us folks who are considering relocation an overall sense of what's out there. This "interview style" video was a good way to hear both your spin as well as the perspective of other folks. You're fun to watch and we enjoy your talented sense of humor. When you get back to Sarasota one of these days, please feel free to be our guest! Thanks from Glenn & Alma Johnson

[@rita4missions]

I used to live in Germantown, Philadelphia while my husband was going to medical school in the 80"s. We couldn't afford anything better. It was such a run down neighborhood and dangerous place to live, but I have to say that there were many good Christian families and people that tried to raise their family and I became part of them. I had the opportunity to do lots of good work there with children and families. I have to agree that Philly is a very segregated place, and I was one of the rare fly on the wall being a white woman married to a black man. We eventually left the place but I learned so much about people and became more empathetic toward human beings in general.People are people, it's just that people do not have a way out to a better life. It was a bitter and sweet time being there and I thank God for protecting me and my family while living there and at the same time for had given me that experience. God bless you all

[@chriskelley5431]

Absolutely disgusting great job deleting yourself and your fathers seed.

[@davazz9586]

I hear Kensington is a really nice place

[@rita4missions]

@@chriskelley5431 what are you talking about?

[@wyattearpswoman838]

But people DO have a way out to a better life. We can't perpetuate this mentality of abject hopelessness. How does this help us? You said your husband was in medical school - did his parents pay for his schooling? Did he get any help/grants/scholarships or work through school? Either way, there are opportunities if we take initiative and work hard. We need to redevelop a culture of hard work and determination, not to mention one of caring about our fellow human beings - not tearing each other down - robbing, stealing, killing etc. We also need to take personal responsibility for the choices we make. Blaming others and depending on others to fix things is holding us back as a society.

[@dgb921]

Phila phila

[@justdont2019]

I find your videos informative and entertaining, Nick. Keep up the good work.

[@MX-CO]

Minnesota Is clean Safe and nice! The only downside is the Cold and Minneapolis/St Paul, the rest of the state is very Nice!

[@michaelantone7465]

Thanks for the updated information. Yep, I still live in Memphis, been here since 1953. It has gone to hell in a handbag the last 20 years or so. I live in Midtown, in a neighborhood previously considered a nice neighborhood. Two months ago, we had a violent home invasion/robbery, where a college grad student was murdered and his girlfriend was a shot- just to steal Playstation. On November 11 (about five houses South), a man was robbed on the street 8:30 am, by gun-wielding gang members. A few minutes later, they robbed someone a block East. Guess what-I live in the middle of the block between both locations, and usually walk a loop in the morning that includes both places. I bought some pepper spray to carry, and I carry a "bait" wallet with useless plastic cards (that look like credit cards) and some $1 bills. You guessed it, been looking at homes for sale in a couple of small towns kinda close. I'm not ready to die on the street. It's definitely gotten really bad here. 😡

[@jpjp3873]

Definitely make that move. Life should be enjoyed. Pepper spray is great, but not against a deadly weapon. You should carry a gun......maybe get a little training too!👍

[@NickJohnson]

Damn what? I'll be there on Monday.

[@og6340]

Move to the Mississippi suburbs they don’t play that bs in Desoto county Mississippi. Asking a Memphis crook to come to Mississippi is like asking a vampire to come out at noon on a great sunny day lol 😂

[@monicamcdonald3168]

What is your house worth though with all the crime I wonder?

[@michaelantone7465]

@@monicamcdonald3168 That's a good question. Real estate prices are still high, though.

[@coryjohnson2486]

This dude’s channel is AWESOME, and his commentary is hilarious 😂

[@danielabatabogdanov8586]

That intro wow .. you are a legend. So tragic yet i can hear your deeper point through the sarcasm without always revealing it making it qua more relaxing to watch.

[@mrt.8662]

In my neighborhood everyone open carry and so far this year only 1 person has been killed. (22,000 residents) Guns are not the problem, drugs and education is the cause of the problems

[@Nice-qi5cf]

Unaccountability is the problem, psychopaths, Sociopaths, narcissists, pimping, birthrates/ages, parents first attitudes and addicts. Plain ol' Victim- Hood.

[@TandAwanderings]

Tell all of the families of people killed by guns that they are not the problem, I'm sure they would disagree. The number of people legally carrying has nothing to do with why your hood is safe. Do you really think these criminals care if someone is carrying or not? They kill each other by the thousands every year and all of their criminal buddies have guns also. They don't care about life yours or theirs. Just look at places like Memphis, Little Rock, New Orleans etc..where you can legally carry but are crime filled hell holes. Compare that to somewhere like Boston which has some of the strictest gun laws in the country but is a very safe city. Crime has more to do with who lives near you than what the gun laws are or how many people are carrying.

[@bossmoney5557]

@@Nice-qi5cf 💯‼️

[@maninthehills7134]

Single moms with 4 kids by 5 dudes. Yes, promiscuous men are a problem too, but women get default custody, so single moms are culpable, not single dads.

[@apriljasso9731]

@@Nice-qi5cf sociopaths and psychopaths left neighborhoods like those long ago. Most genuine sociopaths and psychopaths are very driven, successful and have no emotional ties to any group or area. Junkies are a slave to drugs. They’re rarely lucky enough to be sociopaths. Sociopaths run banks.

[@goldduster318]

It won't get fixed unless the people in the community do something. It takes essentially no money at all to pick up trash, mow the grass, trim the trees, have a neighborhood watch. I lived in a poor small town as a kid (one who was famously on Nick's "Worst Cities in Pennsylvania" list), and at least people cared a little bit. I can't even remember seeing people in any of these tour videos actually out in any numbers improving anything. If you don't want it, it'll never come. It's also incredible, watch some videos from former soviet countries and look how they have basically nothing and yet it's way safer than anywhere here.

[@bayousmackerdixford3389]

👀👀👀

[@patriotpie850]

What do ALL of these places have in common, apart from 1? They are ALL ran by a Democratic Mayor! Stockton, CA elected a Republican in November 2020.

[@stacycarlton2056]

@@patriotpie850 😅 and the city still has high homicides rates a year later republicans just lock up criminals for longer meaning that the kids. Of those criminals grow up in an even more unstable environment than they had before

[@AlonsoRules]

@@patriotpie850 Stockton swings too. That can't really be counted. All the others are Democrat utopias.

[@freezingcathedral]

yep. the people need to just erase street gangs. say enough is enough and start hanging them from lamp posts.

[@LogicalSigma]

Thank you for your videos, Nick. Very eye opening.

[@JUAN75001]

Excellent work again Nick !

[@Roccofan]

38:24 Nick is being very diplomatic. I’ll ask the question directly: Who’s holding a whip and stopping those people from starting a business? What overseer is keeping women from not becoming single mothers and increasing their likelihood of being poor? Which group is going into black schools and drawing a red line that prevents fathers from helping their kids study for the math test that’s coming up next Tuesday?

[@jamesrobert4106]

They prefer blaming others. Accountability is not in the scum dictionary.

[@Joshua-re8gd]

Anytime anyone tries to open a business in these districts, complaints come out about gentrifying. Seems these hoods don’t want jobs or prosperity, just sail crack and get high on smack while living in a shack.

[@milascave2]

Joshua: The thing about gentrification is that it does make neighborhoods nicer. But the people who lived there don't benefit. Because they get kicked out.

[@loucious22]

@@milascave2 only if they remain unemployed. Get a job at the businesses moving in and you'll benefit.

[@Joshua-re8gd]

@@milascave2 After watching the interviews, I had a change in opinion, and came to the same conclusion as you. As long as politicians hold to their promises of change, which they never do, nothing will ever change.

[@maninthehills7134]

Crack and smack in a shack is wack

[@UserName-ts3sp]

@@milascave2 it pushes them out into the suburbs. i think the us is slowly becoming more like europe... where the rich live in the town center and the cities are surrounded by slums

[@cammieburkhardt1107]

Sir thankyou for making these videos🙌🏽

[@188tbone]

Very good interviews, I enjoyed them not to mention eye opening. Good work.

[@keithcrowder7768]

Just signed. Up to the channel listening to some of these comments being made are so right on. Nick I really appreciate a person such as yourself who is going out there showing us the real deal and shouts out to people who you've interviewed that have the real insight on what's going on in these neighborhoods.

[@wyattearpswoman838]

I pray for folks living in these environments.

[@AlBundyPolkHigh.]

My quick take from experience since I lived in two of those parts of Memphis that are now terrible. They start out with nice middle class houses and start building too many apartments in the area. When the apartments have too many vacancies they allow section 8 housing people to move in with their government vouchers. The next thing you know the nice apartments have turned into projects crime gets bad and all the people move out of the houses and within a couple years the whole neighborhood is gone. The last apartment I lived in there I was the only one working in the whole complex it looked like.

[@AlBundyPolkHigh.]

@@LongWalkingZombie hopefully you won't have that problem I would maybe ask them up front if they take government vouchers which does mean if there's a lot of vacancies they could let project people move in there and the government would pay their rent. Also with all those businesses there probably won't have any problems keeping the apartments full of rent paying tenants.

[@wyattearpswoman838]

@@AlBundyPolkHigh. I agree. The last neighborhood we lived in before leaving Ohio started filling up with subsidized tenants and the decline happened pretty quickly I have to admit.

[@rambojambone4586]

Mutual combatants. Police need to give shooters their rights.

[@billywird]

That is something that my Dad made comments about as he worked for Montgomery Ward here in Jacksonville Fl and made service calls on appliances and furniture and stuff, and he commented about how the residents in the housing projects had an attitude about the upkeep of the place because it wasn't theirs they did not see the necessity of keeping the place clean. And they were constantly complaining about how things did not work right as far as plumbing and electricity and whatever. My Dad said that when these housing projects were first opened they were new and clean and everything worked, and as time went on they became rundown and trashy.

[@AlBundyPolkHigh.]

@@billywird Your dad was exactly right. My dad did pest control and said he would go into some of these brand new projects that were nicer than what we lived in. Five years later it was a rundown dump because everything was torn up.

[@KCFromTheIE]

Great Vid Nick! I learn so much every vid! Keep up the great work!

[@swedeinla]

I love your videos Nick......You are doing the job that news reporters should do in a perfect world. All the props to you for revealing the truth about the country, Good and Bad.

[@howellwong11]

In Turkey, my 10 year old daughter can play out in the streets at 10 PM and I wouldn't have to worry about her safety. Try that in the USA and yet the average American thinks that Turkey is a dangerous place.

[@coupleofbeers31]

Even in the rich neighborhoods kids aren't safe alone here in the US. Criminals are everywhere.

[@gentz8310]

USA is more dangerous than a Favela in Brazil. In which countries you can be killed easily walking the street? Syria,Iraq,USA, name it

[@maninthehills7134]

The average American thinks Islam is dangerous, not Turkey itself

[@coupleofbeers31]

@@gentz8310 Republican states are the worst.

[@coupleofbeers31]

@@gentz8310 The US is a third world country in disguise. It's like standing next to a beautiful woman who hasn't taken a shower in a month.

[@pavelow235]

What’s your hood look like? Safe, no trash, and mowed lawns. Can you walk your dog at 5pm? Yes, at 10 pm or 1 AM and no fears Do your neighbors all have jobs? Far as I know, yes, not any foreclosures on my block Can you leave your Amazon crap out front while you’re on vacation? Yes, packages never been stolen, even left the garage door open for 6 hours(which faces the street), nothing stolen.

[@michaelantone7465]

Gosh, where the hell do you live? I'm packing now!!!!

[@daveh8447]

Thank you Nick I always enjoy your content. Happy holidays my friend

[@kazsherris34]

Very interesting video with some really good contributors. All had some really valuable contributions.

[@buckspa]

I really like how you have maps which show where these neighborhoods are, as well as talking with people on the ground in those communities.

[@HealthyLife4Me]

I know it’s a Black area…I’m Black, so I get to talk crap 🤣🤣I knew it…Shitcago

[@spencerbergquist781]

Another great video Nick. You always find great people to interview.

[@cathybradley9067]

Another great show! Keep them coming Nick...

[@jenniferliggett6385]

I think what the commentator about Memphis about "it is a shithole with a heart of gold" also applies to Baltimore. It is like its residents are apologetic for its reputation by being extra nice to one another, but the crime levels would dissuade most people from moving there. People only move there for employment, because there are jobs that they can't fill because of the issues within the city. I have met some of the nicest people when out and about in Baltimore; it would surprise most people. I even have walked through some of the worst neighborhoods and had people be genuinely pleasant. I was once stalked while waiting for a bus by someone in a car, and someone had witnessed it and came up to me to ask if I was ok and to offer to watch out for me until I got on the bus. There is decency there, just too much crazy stuff going on.

[@martinjarvis8312]

I have lived a sheltered life in the UK and I never thought that there were places like this in the US you have opened my eyes Nick.

[@christopher9152]

Much of the country is as bad or worse (especially the murder rate) than the so-called "Third World."

[@jamesrobert4106]

We have one called London. Funnily enough, the cause is the same.

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

@@jamesrobert4106cause?

[@cakesinthecity]

You and Peter Santerelli are my favorite youtubers, thanks for all you do!

[@melonfan74]

Great informative video!

[@Jonjims1532]

I went grocery shopping at my local piggly wiggly the other day. An hour later someone was shot at that piggly wiggly. I'm in the nicer part of town.

[@Charlie-gv3zt]

Maryland or Michigan?

[@pavelow235]

never been inside a Piggly wiggly, I've heard they were the first grocery store where you bring your items from the shelf to check out....over 100 years ago.

[@brandiphillips5775]

There aren't Piggly Wigglys in nice neighborhoods.

[@Jonjims1532]

@@brandiphillips5775 hence why I said the "nicer" part of town. Lol

[@theblacksheep5226]

In the Milwaukee area plenty of Piggly Wiggly stores in nice hoods.

[@COOLDAD55]

I just want to take a weed eater into these neighborhoods and clean up the sidewalks and empty lots.

[@Claire-77]

I know what you mean, I wanted to start weeding and cleaning up.

[@gambit_toys6554]

Nice interview!

[@angelstrehlen]

I love your channel...so real! it's better than Google street view, except with insightful commentary.

[@BatMan-yb7hs]

Just wait till the Greater Depression hits us.

[@TonyWilliams27]

I don’t wish for this to happen soon!

[@12NFLtitles]

@@TonyWilliams27 it's just a matter of time.

[@MelissaMisinco]

The pandemic is this generations Great Depression. The depression is the government gaining more control.

[@nascarsam6161]

Hey Nick, can you post a link with the 800 neighborhoods you measured and each ones population?

[@NickJohnson]

Yes

[@glendajune9140]

Loved this video Nick. I really learned a lot. So grateful I grew up with great parents, community,& opportunities provided. I don’t know where the future of this country is heading. Something has to change drastically. Thanks for the different perspectives. They were all very compelling.💯👏🏾🤔💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸

[@saltydog4443]

Another great video Please keep them coming.

[@charlesjusinski5234]

I'm 70yrs old,,I live in Pennsylvania now,,I was born and raised in,,Newark, N.J.,,,I made it through the Newark, RIOTS,,There was nothing but Burning down the whole city,,Looting,,An older brother was waiting for a bus to go home after work,,Rioters Surrounded him and almost killed my brother,,Last thing he remembered was,,His Face Slammed into a FIRE HYDRANT,,And woke up in the Hospital,,His Face was Severely Smashed,,,Cheek bones Smashed in too,,He just was in the wrong place as the Riot was Starting to Destroy Newark,,I thank God he lived,,Never was the same after it,,Just was a lone White boy minding his business,,,I know what it's like to live in a bad Hood,,,I know they rebuilt Newark since then,,They say it's better now,,But I say,,Its the DOWNTOWN AREA REBUILT,,AND LOOKING GOOD ,,,,GO INTO THE OTHER AREAS in the back streets ,,NO! Those streets are Bad,,The Deep parts in the Hood,,I was Down Neck,,,Ironwood section,,07105,,YEAH GO EAST SIDE H.S.,,What I would like to do,,is You have me on your program,,,I miss my old Hood,,I haven't been there since the 80s when my Mother passed away,,I want to put Flowers on her Grave,,,,and my Father,,he is with her,,,Ok,,PEACE,,LOVE AND TRANQUILITY TO ALL MY OLD AND NEW FRIENDS THERE IN NEWARK,N.J. PEACE,,CHUCKS J.

[@188tbone]

I would like to add this, for anyone who wants to be in business the motivation comes from YOUR heart. Don't look for help from the gov't or your banker if yo go into a bank and say I need money I want to start some kind of business they will look at you like you already failed. You must go out and start it up and work like hell! I have been in my own business for 50 years and NO ONE helped me.

[@wordawakeningny]

Thanks for the videos Johnson. Have a great Thanksgiving.

[@PG-is9vr]

Many thanks for bringing this topic to the fore. We have neglected our neighborhoods for far too long. Happy Holidays!

[@martinhaub2602]

Sad to see places like this in a rich, powerful country. Embarrassing, too.

[@paulw176]

I love cruising around with Nick! Can we stop for McD's??

[@NickJohnson]

Chicken nuggets all day Paul

[@paulw176]

@@NickJohnson YAY and I gotta use the restroom!

[@choxxxieful]

Great discussion.

[@mireederrick1977]

Another Great Video🔥🔥🔥

[@lalaland3378]

The neighborhood you drove through in Detroit is not even the Warrendale neighborhood and that neighborhood is farthest from the worst. It’s right next to Dearborn

[@abletonreason]

Lived in Memphis from 2005-2014 and totally agree with the lady you interviewed. I absolutely loved the people there, grew so so much as a musician there and heck.. I even met my wife and mother of my two smart beautiful children there. Great food goes without saying and the local music scene is a sight to behold. It’s a city that values its musicians! However… in my time there I’ve had my car broken into three times, ac unit pushed in and house burglarized, and came close to a physical fight with vagrants twice. That’s kind of a lot haha! I moved to south Philadelphia afterwards and haven’t had one thing happen thank God. Memphis is more than just diet NOLA, it’s an experience! Don’t let the reputation get you down, you’ll have a blast, and not from a gunshot as long as you don’t act a fool! Come on down mayne..

[@lionofgod1353]

I love the extra long videos makes work go by a lot faster :)

[@lilerniegroove1]

Sad, but reality, unfortunately. A+ video! 🥺👀🤷🏻‍♂️

[@sinebar]

Most package thefts are in the nice neighborhoods. Porch pirates don't generally target the hood. On my street we kind of watch out for each other. If one of us are expecting a package when we won't be home we'll arrange for someone to pick it up or place it in the back. You have to now days with so many people out or work or just too lazy to get a job.

[@owenbackus8876]

True

[@billywird]

Back when I was a RPS P&D Contractor I had no compunction about leaving a residential package at a residence. But these days it is different.

[@Che1980s]

what part of the country isn't a wreck

[@robkeysnj]

That's cool that you teamed up with Jose from Southern Life on this episode!!

[@northsouth8884]

Great content dude

[@mtz123ish]

Enjoy your insight and how your videos have evolved. Especially the into/outro music!

[@johnanthonyp]

I know it doesn't reflect what goes on there and it's no competition anybody would want but I have to say, on an aesthetic basis, some of these neighbourhoods look half way decent compared to their equivalent run down and deprived areas in the UK. Take care, keep safe and I hope your new infrastructure plan gives some of these places and their inhabitants a better break.

[@cdcurry1203]

I have never seen a run down neighborhood in the UK (on TV or YT bc I have never been there) Maybe you could do videos like this in the UK or if you know anyone who already does let me know and I'll watch those videos. I hope I get to visit one day. Stay safe and happy days to you sir

[@RawOlympia]

It's horrific and feels done by design. Saw a documentary about how sweet places in UK were bulldozed to make way for cement socialist style housing in the 1960s that is now falling apart and in post apocalypse type flicks. I saw a heartbreaking poem in England once, When I step out the door, I see Britain no more.Heartbreaking to see footage of the most fantastic architecture, detailed doors showing the fall of Rome in bas relief in crumbling auditoriums in Detroit, lost talent, lost art forms. May God help us, Johm Smith.

[@manrajsingh3198]

John I live near London, I have travelled all over the UK and have never seen a place anywhere near as bad as the places in this video. This is literally third world levels.

[@manrajsingh3198]

@@leesmusic1 I am talking about places like Detroit, Baltimore and St Louis. These places are literally shitholes. No UK towns have street after street of abandoned houses.

[@PL7802]

How many gun murders do you get in your UK run down areas, what's opioid addiction like there. I hear everyone gets health insurance and school attendance is mandatory till aged 18. Is that true? I know esthetics are subjective so not really a measure of how well somewhere is doing, do you have communities of people living in vans and cars in the UK? Are crack and meth common at all?

[@SarahSlurpie]

this channel is amazeballs and underrated

[@craigwillowood5605]

I appreciate the interviews and the input from other people. I like your question: "What would you do, if you were in charge?"

[@pavelow235]

But but but, the economy is GREAT, everybody is a millionaire now.....says Biden

[@luckylulu7777]

We need to get him OUT

[@LSU01]

@@luckylulu7777 Let's Go Brandon!

[@christopheryanoski6899]

He needs gone along with his little bimbo Kamala.

[@youcrazycat1]

Republicans never like to talk about the shifty Republican rural towns in Appalachia and all over the country. A bit one sided?

[@LSU01]

@@youcrazycat1 How about the shitty Democratic small towns in Ca. that keep voting in the sames losers ! Ca is constant though they vote Democratic losers in their big cities and small towns too!

[@chrislynn7316]

Thanks Nick for this important work! Our MSMs barely talk about this. It’s true - it’s Americans in general who are forgotten. In California the benefits sway toward minorities; but I’m learning it’s different in many other parts of the USA

[@owenferguson7893]

That's interesting . you assumed from watching fox news that benefits mostly gose towards minorities. Do you mean rich minorities as well .and poor none minorities Don't get any thing.. Or as the media discibe Poor white. None college educated

[@leslie0965]

great videos nick

[@gregorymark5493]

Thanks Nick.

[@Endymion766]

Poverty is not the problem. i grew up in poverty and we had nearly zero crime. It's a lack of fathers that is the problem. We also had nearly zero children born outside of wedlock. Single mothers are bringing us a generation of nihilists that don't care about anything. It's just the way it is.

[@DETACON2005]

I was born and raised in Nicetown and Tioga. Watched the changes over the years and to be quite honestly......nothing has changed. You can literally find the same graffiti on the walls of buildings from 40years ago. The parks like Hunting Park and Nicetown park are the same run down parks from the 80s

[@christopheryanoski6899]

Back then rusto and krylon like much everything else was made to last. Lol.

[@rachelraja1032]

im glad you are not misjudging the people from these videos. life for those of us who struggled, and still struggle is not easy. i was was born in Allentown PA ,Lincoln Elementary district and that was a rough start. when i turned 6 years old, we lived on Lorenz St. in the Beard School district of Detroit in the 1980s. its so sad to see such decay now in the videos. in my heart, Detroit was my favorite home but when GMC closed, Pontiac, and many other jobs left. Detroit just shut down even worse. Not all poor people are lazy and dont want to work and my family was never privileged and we never lived in the "nice" neighborhoods. We were working impoverished. there sometimes is simply no way out of these hard times. Now, as a whole, im witnessing many more places in the US becoming like Detroit. its sad. Buffalo NY(we lived in Jamestown NY to!)is another city i care about that needs a come back. the US as a whole,needs a come back.I now live GA hoping for a better life. Atlanta is wonderful but...needs a come back.its starts from the top, we need to fight for change! thanks for all your videos🙏😁

[@NickJohnson]

Ok!

[@NickJohnson]

Atl sux

[@rachelraja1032]

@@NickJohnson hey Nick, what do you think about WV? why is that state overlooked for progress? there is so much natural beauty you'd think even small tech,manufacturers etc. would come there to grow the place since its almost like an undiscovered land now. I do see people are leaving sadly. could you do another video about West Virginia? i would like to see that state pick up big time. thanks and have an awesome day.

[@user-od3tb3ob2j]

great song man! Miami vice vibe ;)

[@jeffsea6490]

Corrupt and greedy leaders are the cause and reason for the poverty and crime in all these areas you've discussed here. Excellent narrative and interviews ! Thanks for sharing Nick n Sage 👍🇺🇲

[@jpjp3873]

I'd agree that they are A cause. However, people need to take responsibility for themselves. Poor does not equal criminal.

[@loriannrichardson7644]

@@jpjp3873 I've never stolen anything, but I can imagine a mother/father stealing to feed their children, or anyone stealing to eat, or being in the cold and breaking into a building for warmth.

[@jpjp3873]

@@loriannrichardson7644 Maybe. But what about a Louis Vuitton or coach store? There are many programs and charities to feed the poor. Stealing seems very immoral.

[@brucedick1506]

just got off the phone with the democrat party , they said they'll fix it after the next election . just remenber to vote democrat like you have been doing for the last 30 years.

[@WorkingProgress17]

@@loriannrichardson7644 Usually the people who steal for their children are those who refuse to work.