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The biggest crooks / criminals in Denver, do business in the State Capital.

Hi Chris, I've lived in Denver my whole life and everything you mentioned is true. The cost of living is out of control. Everything is going up except the paycheck. A lot of the tents are gone but there's still more than I"d like to see. Thank you for doing such a great job putting this together.😀😃😄👍👍👍

Build back better," You will own nothing and be happy" !

Hickenlooper started the decline of Denver.

I visited Denver back in 2021 and I wasn't a huge fan of the city. Luckily, my friend who lives outside of the city picked me up and we got to spend the day just driving around through the mountains so I didn't really deal with the city much other than when I had to go back to the hotel. I did have a lovely encounter with a vile acting homeless woman on Amtrak but she got escorted off the train in handcuffs at the next stop out of Denver for talking vile to everyone on the train including a conductor who wasn't putting up with it. Then she had the audacity to justify her behavior by claiming she was a "transient" and had a rough day.

Really nice comprehensive video along with great drone shots Chris!👍

No cancellation from me, Chris. I totally agree with you. I left my lifetime home in San Diego because it was turning into a third world shithole.

I am a Denver native, born in 1957..As a teen my family would go to our dentist in down town ..Civic center park is right there along with the state capitol..There is an art museum there as well....That was then and this is now and I have not been anywhere near the area since..It is a damn shame that things have become so bad....It has been years since I was anywhere near down town and I don't see myself going there any time soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Used to live there. 2000-2015. Had to leave. Cost of living was insane and it was no longer safe

I have driven in Capitol Hill because of my Lyft job at night. Yes, it is extremely sketchy and dangerous. Rino, 5 Points, & Downtown get pretty bad as well.

I used to live in some crappy neighborhoods in Brooklyn, including East New York, but I never felt as creeped out walking around as when I lived in Denver, even in the day time!

So their complaints were homeless people, crime, and lack of affordable housing...so they decided to move to Los Angeles? Make that make sense please.

I went to downtown Denver to visit a bank. I smelled human feces for blocks. It was disgusting

Good vlog Chris enjoyed been in Denver for.25 yrs and yes things have changed and not for the better. Rich get richer poor get poorer and crimes go up. Vicious circle of life here in Denver. Im from Aurora and just yesterday having dinner with the wife and gun shots out of nowhere...

Live In Denver.. the park by the capitol was absolutely overrun during Covid. Literally the entire park was crammed with tents. I have witnessed a shooting there, right on Colfax and Broadway.. and it’s also the only area in which I’ve ever been threatened after 12 years in the city. Pretty sure I have some clips of it during its peak and a maybe one of it being cleared out while I was driving to work one morning. I’ll also still see the occasional encampment pop up within a block or two of my place, approx 1 mile south of the capitol. I run a high end pipe shop and I’ll get people coming in looking for meth pipes on a daily basis. I’m also frequently offered drugs on my two block walk to work.

Thank you governor For everything you have done for Denver. Raise the taxes raise the crime rate raise the homeless rate. And deteriorate Denver worse than it has ever been. It's nice to have people wash your windshield at every stoplight and off-ramp. It was nice to take away business and put in bicycle Lanes. Lived here over 50 years, paid off my house but now I can't afford the property taxes. Many older people are losing their houses. You've done a bang-up job!

I lived here all my 59 yrs and it has been getting bad for the past few years due to the fentanyl... So sad to see my City go down 😢.

Like 10-15 years back, I was hearing Denver was one of the best cities in the country.

I have never noticed a large number of homeless Mexican immigrants because they work and share houses.

The homeless camps are now at Speer and Zuni next to the old motel.

I've lived in Denver my entire life as well and it's been disgusting for about 20 years now! Wow since the Democrats took back control of the Governorship! What do ya know!

Chris! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+⭐️ outstanding! hope for more to come! 🇺🇸 one of my fav youtubers

Colorado for Trump and Vance 🇺🇸

I make about $150k a year and locked in my home and rate back in 2020. If I were to buy my house now, it would be another $2k a month added to my mortgage!

I wish the people that make these videos would understand Fed policy is what has caused inflation to skyrocket. A decade of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) combined with the printing of trillions in stimulus are the causes for rampant inflation.

I always look forward to your videos. I really liked this video!😊❤

I miss the Denver Boulder metro area of 2000. It was such a cool time to be in such a cool place! But alas, everything must end I suppose 😢

I lived in Capitol Hill in the early nineties. My car was broken into weekly. Everyone always remembers the past as so much better than it was. If anything it’s that only people who earn a lot can afford to live there so now it’s the homeless and the college educated. When I lived there an asst manager at a restaurant could afford the area

I moved here 30 yrs ago and Ive been downtown Denver probably 6 times…. Although some parts of Aurora is pretty bad too

I have grown up in Denver since I was a year old. My dad was born and raised here and met my mom in college at Arizona State, so they moved here after they had me. Up until around 15 years ago, I would never say one bad thing about living in Denver. I loved everything about it especially the people and how friendly most were. Not saying there were not your common assholes, but not many. I remember running out of gas one night and the gas station being closed and all you were able to use was a credit card which I didn't have I just had cash. I had some man come along and put $25 in my tank. I tried to give him the $10 I had and he said no this is Colorado we help each other out, You don't get that anymore. Either most of the natives left when everyone started moving out here from every which way that also brought their shitty attitudes and crime, but even more because the cost of living especially the property prices nearly tripled in the housing markets and rent over the course of 15 years. This along with our wages not increasing enough, if even much at all to even this out. This is the biggest reason the homeless pop. has become out of control and the cut to literally almost nothing of the Budget for shelters and low income housing. Look up emergency housing options in Denver and Aurora and you will see the lack of this, with over 8 different shelters in these areas closing there doors due to lack of funding despite the 110,000,000 given to Denver since 2022 for homeless and 100,000,000 being unaccounted for when they did a audit earlier this year. So yeah there is that. Some homeless did move because of the pot along with all the jerk offs that think they are better then everyone else but unfortunately more then half were created due to good old American greed. Really a sad thing if you ask me. Funny fact Denver is run by Democrats? The party that supposedly fights for the little man. Crazy.!!

30:05, another person moving outta Denver. Grew up in Leadville and lived in Littleton for 20 years. The Denver metro area was a nicer place to live until all the out-siders started moving here. That's when the quality of life in Colorado started going downhill. This brings tears to my eyes...

The capital did not attract rich people It's much more likely that it created rich people.

Capital hill was not a good neighborhood even back in the day

Thats the cleanest Ive seen downtown in awhile. They swept a few encampments last week from what i heard.

The doors on Colfax at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception are not covered in gold-- they are bronze. Denver has beautiful lighting. Denver has too many Democrats.

I saw the writing on the wall in 2021, left Denver and moved to a red state where homelessness is illegal. I’m very lucky.

I wish we had done as good of a job here in Detroit in preserving old mansions as they seem to have done in Denver.

It’s a lot better now. I left for a year and have been back for about a month. Don’t let these people make you second guess your assertions, I’ve seen a lot of shooting downtown. I’m right off Broadway in the heart of DT and the past three years were hectic.

If you travel to New York City, would you split up by five separate series for each borough.

That’s how Colfax and Broadway corner look ALL the time. They sprawl out together, get high in the open. It’s consistent. They come move them out and by the next day they are there. Now it’s also turned into a migrant hang out. They might be of the get high persuasion. Aurora is super bad with the mothers and children, some new norms begging on every corner while their husband sits in a car nearby. For me it’s the Addicts and Migrants that’s made this place crazy. I’m originally from Detroit. East side. This doesn’t compare. There we are just poor. Working and getting by with jobs mostly in the suburbs.❤

Definitely strange in the crime cause the neighborhoods look good for the most part.

Its easy to form a narrative when the subject you are speaking on cant really articulate an argument to your points using your syntax. Luckily, i can. Been houseless for well over a decade around the denver metro. Most would think the people you like to blame are not services friendly, but the reality is the services are not people friendly. I would like to see how your perspective would change by comprehending a CAFR from any of these municipalities. The corruption and misappropriation of funds are the greater story. For instance, i was approved for a brain injury waiver after years of evaluation and chasing these programs and services down. I was never notified and had to uncover the local government fraud for accepting funds for these sort of programs but not having the systems set up to administer them. If folks took care of the young, elderly and sick instead of using them for a scapegoat to rake in more funds, maybe community will be revived. Not everyone wants a handout. Sometimes folks just need a hand up instead of getting further exploited for the optics or your feelings. A lot of suffering you are choosing to overlook because it isnt pretty enough for you or doesnt fit your political paradigm. You are no better than the politicians playing games woth peoples' lives while you are likely just another agent of the problem reaction solution

Well that turned out well for you all? Didnt it! NOT

I love your "Ghetto" music!!

Lives here 16 years and it’s just bad it’s not how it used to it’s Denverzuela it’s so much migrants

Update, a homeless person punched my car today while he was standing in the street. I was driving a Lyft passenger in Cap Hill.

If you removed the bums from denver, would it still be dangerous?

100 bus loads of imagination dreamers will help

ive watched denver change drastically from 2016-present. i used to feel so safe in this city, now i always carry a blade with me. the homeless situation is out of control now, crackheads everywhere, migrants swarm your cars now tryin to clean your windows, and get annoyed if you ask them not to, denver is now #2 in auto theft in the country. i25 traffic has gotten ridiculous, always 5 car pile ups cause everyone drives like a lunatic now. ive worked in south denver (sante fe & lipan) for the last 2 years.. just in the last 2 years it has changed drastically. im constantly kicking crackheads out of our dumpsters behind place of business, broad day last summer we had a dude walking down the street with a butcher knife stabbing peoples cars, our business got broken into 3 times .. the last time the cops never even bothered to show up despite alarms going off for hours. just last week i was walking down broadway / euclid at 1pm on a saturday and i just see people smoking meth openly on the sidewalk. mom & pop stores continue to close because they can't afford to stay afloat cause of what property rent is here/ inflation/ never ending spending of money for dumb things besides helping the poor/ middle class. i used to never have to wait to get into bars/ restaurants , now its a shock if you don't have to wait. there is never a place to park anymore, unless you want to spend $20. its infuriating watching denvers pos mayor mike johnston spend 40M on migrants just in the last year, and now want an additional 120-180M for the "migrant crisis" all while he cuts dmv jobs to make them ONLINE and parks and recs job while asking for other city programs to cut their budget by 15% !! he states that more working cuts is on the way. its insane to watch mike johnston fire law abiding citizens to "help people that walked 3,000 miles to get there" then he claims that no one is being laidoff their hours are just being reduced from 35/week to 0... sure seems like a layoff to me!!! . my rent goes up every year, but now mike johnston gives free room board and food to illegals. converts hotels into shelters, but i can barely afford my rent. its sad watching this amazing place go to sh!t since the first time i was out here in 2014. i have to pay $200/ year for my car registration, but now the dmv is online... everywhere you go, you see half the cars without license plates, or their registration is years out of date, traffic is absurd and so are the express lane fees. tell me why i gotta pay for a toll road, when the mayor wants to give 200M to migrants. its quite annoying to constantly see the law abiding citizen get screwed, but lawlessness thrives. these politcians are absolute crooks. all i want to do is buy a house out here and its physically impossible now a days. i pay $400/ month for health insurance, and have to wait 5 months to get an MRI,, but migrants get attended to right away. i was diagnosed with epilepsy last year when i had a seizure while driving, despite seeing doctors for 3 years prior presenting literally the top 5 symptoms of seizures and i was brushed off all because i wasn't vaccinated. they told me to take more vitamin D. another friend of mine started having seizures recently and its been almost 3 weeks, he hasn't even been able to see a doctor in person yet. but we will treat all migrants...thanks johnston & polis. you sure are looking out for your citizens that love this state and pay your salary. bunch of typical liberal @$$holes. and to clarify, i am not republican. i vote for common sense, cheaper taxes, and power to the people, whoever that may be.

I live in St Louis and work downtown and yeah the poop in the streets is an issue as well.

I lived in Boulder/Denver for almost 20 years from 99-2016. Sad to see Denver going to complete shit. I lived at 18th and washington, not too far from where this video was filmed.

Most of what you said is onpoint except the make-up of the migrants. The vast majority are Venezuelans versus in previous years it was mostly people from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc......

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was opened in 1912, not 1921. Dude your weird wrong facts plus your rant on how legal weed is bad because illegal weed is laced with fentanyl, which it is not, makes me just completely want to stop watching this bullshit.

In this video danger is just so exaggerated.

I lived in 5 different spots of Capitol here. The first being Colfax and Sherman street right by Civic Center park. Fun times 😂

Looks fine to me. Don't live in the big city if you're gonna get all butt hurt about bums.

Every community has their own Rec Centers.

Denver is most famous for the best breakfast ever: The Denver Omelette which ironically is a French word meaning folded eggs, It is really delicious. 3 🥚🥚🥚 eggs, bell pepper, onions and ham. Cheese (le fromage) is OPTIONAL but I say go for it Chris

Capitol hill or Crackitol Hill has always been sketchy as all hell! I got mugged up there right across the street from the Capitol building! Cops were half a block away! Too many crack heads there is the problem.

5th generation, you drove by a ton of our work including the capitol. 60 and 70s were the sweet spot but our grandparents in that era were mostly church goers. Now, the poor are dopers the well off are drunks. We’ve always worked in Denver but lived outside of it. What we need is stricter laws, we didn’t jack around in the 80 because the cops would beat your ass therefore people minded their manners. Ultimately, the liberals have destroyed grandpa’s town. The trick is 1876 style, pack a piece,lol. It will probably only get worse. Good time to be old.

Can’t wait to move here and vote red

Poor people, drug addicted and mentally ill have to live somewhere in America. So, they migrate to bigger cities that often have soup kitchens etc. There is no big city in America ignoring the issue of homelessness. Re: crime, Denver is not immune from the fentanyl crisis. Your "trust me" editorializing sticks with the standard right wing-chatter.

(It's every city in America)........ i just go blank when i hear it. No its not

It's disgusting for sure!

So, people are heading to Indiana from Chicago? What's going to support that--in the future? Where are the economics?

What are the reasons for this explosion of homeless? It was not like this 30 years ago. Did the bums get lazy and start pooping? Its funny you yourself says it's not that bad.

This is a joke. Head to Oakland and see how dangerous you think Denver is 😂

My old stomping grounds 😅😢

Start at the State Capitol ?

Stay TF away from Denver. It's scary and it snows like crazy.

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I'm not sure how true all of this is, I moved here 6 months ago and haven't seen any shit happen yet

Detroit is broke and has no resources for the homeless (lightbulb: moth)

stop sending the buses to denver, SEND THE BUSSES TO MAYOR MIKE JOHNSTON'S HOME ADDRESS, kamala harris home address, joe biden home address, send them to these politicans HOME ADDRESSES.

Born and raised in denver metro area and I don't go outside other than to run errands and do my business. People will run over you and drive away. People will steal your dog. Carry a rock in the Rocky mountains. It might come in handy

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