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to imagine that people used to live in those houses once. kids were playing around them, families having barbecues in the back yard, the future was bright. i guess no one ever thought that it would all end up like a war zone..

Damn. I feel so sorry for the kids who have to grow up in these environments. It just reminds me to be greatful for all the things I have, knowing that not all kids are lucky.

I was raised in Detroit, its always been a rough city. But it didn't look anything like this growing up, this is so sad to see, im glad my mother moved me down south when I was in HS.

I've never been to Detroit..... and I was just imagining the once beautiful, safe, sprawling neighborhoods and homes....that once -upon-a-time stood on those decaying, crumbling, crime ridden, and just sad to look at homes. When the video started and he drove past those kids playing....my heart just felt so sad for them living in those horrible conditions. I pray all those kids living in Detroit graduate from high school....and get into a wonderful university or college as far away from Detroit.....and never look back.

It’s almost like we dropped bombs on ourselves.

I've seen this street on Fallout 4

What a damn shame! I grew up on Detroit's east side from the 1950's through the 1970's. Very familiar with all these areas. Detroit was a great city at that time. I'm heartbroken for what it has become.

I work up there and from what I hear, the taxes are ridiculous. I'm assuming even if you wanted to fix one up it'd be nearly impossible to afford to live there. It's a shame we can give billions to other countries for the exact same thing that's happening in our own. I cant understand the litter and trash everywhere. Some of the piles I've drove by look like they've been there for months or longer.

Not even the homeless squatters seek refuge in that God forsaken place.

All of those big nice homes gone to waste.

Back in the early 1950s Detroit was a terrific place to live. I spent 6 weeks with my parents there during a time when work was hard for my father to find in MA. So, he found work there. Detroit was building all new schools, etc. Homes were really kept up, and people were proud to live there.

With all the vacant lots, along with some of the salvageable homes, you could build up alot of urban homesteads and mini farms.

Even the sun don't wanna look at Detroit

Finding some copper in one of these homes would be like finding a balloon in a needle factory

I lived on a street like this on Alter Rd, age birth to 3 years old. I always thank God and my dad for getting us out of there in 1967 after the big riot.

I grew up around here just east of where the video begins. Hasse and Davison , there's nothing left, the houses are burnt down. It looks like a jungle you can't see sidewalks or the alley. When I grew up it was beautiful, you could play in the alley or the street. How times have changed. so sad

It would be cool to see this same video, but from back in the day.

imagine this neighborhood in the 50s...

Believe me there are many of us that remember and have photos of these cities being beautiful once. This is what happens when there are NO Jobs. They sold us all out decades ago.

Thats Michigan as a whole. Go to the UP and see lots of abandoned houses, towns, factories. Michigan doesn't care about blight like other states. They just let it rot. I live 500 miles north(still in Michigan but past the mackinac bridge) and my neighborhood looks about the same. Trash everywhere, old buildings caving in, spray paint, potholes, bullet holes in signs.

Wow, so sad and completely ruined. A lot of these were such nice homes once upon a time, with whole families who lived and grew up in these places and now they're just ghosts about to be gone. Great video

All your jobs that were once American - shipped to China, Mexico, Indonesia, India.. et al. Voting for political parties that did NOT put America first is why we have this video.

I appreciate your video and is sad to see the disaster, I can't help it, even if i don't want to think about the alcohol and drugs it still runs through my mind of what they leave behind..

Crazy to see how desolate Detroit has become when at a time is was one of the biggest thriving metropolis

People used to make great effort to move to Detroit. Look at it 70 years later.

That was once a beautiful city!

I googled Pelkey and Greiner (@6:12) and the intersection looks MUCH cleaner. Do they edit that out somehow or....🤷

I’d like to imagine that at one point in time, these areas were striving and full of life. Those homes were once filled with laughter and love. Shits sad

I wish they'd make neighbourhoods like this again. Cookie cutter mcmansion-ville is getting old.

My old neighborhood is in shambles now! During the 60s this was a resilient blue collar neighborhood!!!!! God Almighty!!!

The tree aspect. When these places were in their prime, the trees were kept. Great documentary. Each abandoned house was once a family story. There's a double garage at one point, right on the street now overgrown with vines. In its day though, whoever owned it definitely had some fun with that.

itd be interesting if you drove around the neighborhoods near hamtramck. the houses are all run down and they're squeezed in together so tight you can't even walk between two houses sideways, it's the weirdest thing ive ever seen as a non urbanite

you can fix these houses up all you want they will just be destroyed again by the bad element i feel sorry for the good hard working folks who have to live next to all this mess.

I don't know why but your videos in a weird way are therapeutic. Probably due to my nostalgic feelings towards that city. In a future video please drive up Beland street right across from Mt Olivet Cemetery. I lived there as a kid in the 80's between Sauer & Clough St.

My daughters father is from here and currently still lives there , my daughter and I are from Florida and I see now she will not be moving to Detroit ,this changed it ALOT

Such beautiful little homes and neighborhoods :o( I live in Canada and I see the odd abandoned house, but nothing like this, whole blocks of abandoned houses. So sad :o( Please stay safe Charlie

Whats most weird for me is a sequence of abandoned houses and then a single clean and nice house with car like you are the only person living in the whole block

You are an eastsider. Right? Go over to Grand River and Schoolcraft. Pretty bleak there too. Then do tours through Palmer Park, Indian Village, and Rosedale Park North.

I'm so fascinated by this, thank you ❣️

Some of the houses looked like they would've been good in the times they were first built

2:41 probably Jeff Bezos scoping out the area to put a new distribution center.

I see in other videos with the downtown section of Detroit being rebuilt but is the city going to clean up the sections you are driving it just curious

It nice to see a neighborhood on its way to being revitalized.It only proves to show that if you just give folks a little help what they are willing to do on there own.

When my dad saved enough he moved us from the projects of Cincinnati to a neighborhood in Detroit just like these. Those homes were beautiful. If you haven't seen pictures from the 70s then you have no way of knowing. Once that neighborhood took on more welfare hood types and went down he moved us to another neighborhood, 7 Mile. Another beauty. And in 10yrs it went down too. Now, most of Detroit looks like this. At 18 I broke the hell out and didn't look back.

imagine criticizing other countries for their problems of poverty when home is like this

A big eye opener for your viewers thinking of moving there. At least they know what they're in for. Thanks for your video.

I’m Not From Detroit But Gosh It Looks So Depressing In That Area Smh Oh How Blessed I Am To Live In A Good Area In HOUSTON TEXAS I Also Know The Feeling To Live In A Bad Area Oh Has God Brought Me A Long Way🙌🏾💗

I looked up the street names... I was born at st. john's hospital. mom and dad and grandparents lived there in the area you're driving around. went to school with family member of randazzo's fruit market... Used to be pretty nice place to live. Later we moved up Schoehnerr Rd. into Warren. Sad to watch the death of Detroit...

Id hate to be that Amazon prime driver rolling thru that craphole @2:42

There's a huge housing shortage, sad to see these gorgeous homes that have been left to fall apart

Would love to know what it looked 50 years ago and the demographic then.

Is it just me or at 7:34 to 7:35 you cocked a gun , I mean I don’t blame you though🤣🤣

This is what happens when billionaires sell out the middle class of a nation.

How does one stay safe when exploring these areas. Asking as someone who has never been to such areas and wants to go.

The real shame of all this is that before "white flight" in the 1950's and 60's these were all beautiful well kept up neighborhoods... Gee,I wonder what happened?

I wonder how some of those streets looked like in their heyday.

I LOVE sound car🎶🚗

"Now you can tear a building down, but you can't erase a memory" - Corey Glover

Some big lots there. My mind runs rampant thinking what you could do with all that space if it wasn’t such a dangerous place.

Give a HOOT! Don't POLLUTE! 🦉

I can remember going to to my dad's favorite bar on Friday nights to cash his check , it was on 7 mile and John R. That was in the 60s , now I live on the Arizona, Mexico border in Rio Rico Arizona, two worlds apart...

We rebuilt Germany, Japan and the rest of Europe but we can' rebuild our cities.

Looking to buy one of these homes. How much is the asking price for one of these lots?

It’s nice to see some of the houses getting fixed up!

You were the first, and still the best! Thank you CharlieBo313 !!!

And just to think there was a time when those houses were new and people were super happy to live there , this is 100% the result of the political party in charge of that area , when the politicians blame someone else and play the victim agenda .

While attending the University of Detroit Mercy, I volunteered at the Coalition for Temporary Shelter (COTS). It was run out of an old eight story motel, that was called the Imperial. It was very fancy in its day. My group had to do a presentation on our experience. We found photos and articles of the place in its heyday. Had a newspaper ad for the motel from the 1920s showing its opulence.

There's your answer to all the homelessness !!.

The war zone has a shiny new Popeye's though!

Um cenário dificil a imaginar ha alguns anos atrás, a situação dificil que estas familias devem de estar a atravessar, espero que o futuro lhes traga uma vida melhor

Damn that is insane, can’t believe there is also trash everywhere

The good news is evil always loses. The problem is how long will it take & how many lives will be lost.

With a little imagination, one may envision how charming these neighbors used to be.

My grandparents street had every home full of people in the 60s. Now they was less than 10 homes left

This looked like a nice, prosperous neighborhood once upon a time. All went downhill when Detroit lost it's claim of being the world car capital.

Auto factories closed, took a lot of money away from Detroit.

Honestly, if I was a reasonably wealthy American, I'd buy a couple of these houses as an investment. Those ruined properties are so unbelievably cheap that it's pretty much impossible for them to get any cheaper, so you might get yourself a nice profit in a decade or two, or at worst you will end up with a modest loss. It's almost free real estate.

CharlieBo is THE MAN,, treks through these urban wastelands as a Man Of The People so he always makes it through... Seriously you are my Hero my friend...

I left Detroit 50 years ago, it's strange to see the way it looks today.

How much is your tire bill?

It isn't a WAR ZONE ... It's a TRADE WAR ZONE. And we know who the war was with.

That's crazy, it's like mfs just got up and left , it's crazy to think at one time all of these homes were occupied 🤷‍♂️

Some of those houses look like they were really beautiful at one time. Such a shame

how about the owners of these empty buildings? in my hometown in Germany theres no chance to get a place to build a house. In detroit there is so much place but no people lol

In my head I see it all cleaned up and looking good. Beautiful homes with big lots.

When you live in country like I'am living at moment (Croatia), who has been in war like 30 years ago, can't imagine seeing neigborhoods like this one 30 years after. So unsafe and destroyed. Crazy!! What country you have pretty much don't care about it. Sad.

I bet these houses were beautiful at first

They will be doing home removal for years!

What is it like to live in neighborhoods like this today? There were a few homes that offered a little glimpse of what Detroit was and maybe could be. They were always followed by seemingly endless boarded up, burned out hulks surrounded by mounds of trash and debris. We ask the people who live there to "pull themselves up." How hard is that really? Could you do it? I didn't grow up in Detroit but in another rust belt city. The same thing happened. Industry collapsed and the jobs evaporated. The home that was my family's from about 1910, in a solidly middle-class neighborhood, was torn down, the lot plowed over. It breaks my heart to see my old street. You can blame politicians or big companies. There's plenty of blame for them. But we did it to ourselves, too. What did we do to stop it? Who bought the foreign cars? The phones from China? The clothes from India? The shoes from Vietnam? We did. By doing that, WE exported those jobs that kept cities like Detroit thriving. There's a saying: Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind. We have the crop we planted. If we want to make it better, we need to make better choices. And demand our leaders make better choices. And we need to stop thinking of ourselves and start thinking of our children and their children and their children and on.

It is hard to believe that at one time Detroit was one of the richest cities in the US. Unbelievable.

Is this America 2021 or Germany 1945?

Charlie can you show us the nice parts of Detroit soon because I’ve just gone through the comments and one of the subscribers as mentioned about four areas of Detroit That’s really nice 🙏🏻🤗

Wonder what by neighborhood will be like 80 years from now. You can tell this was a really beautiful place to live way back in the day. Crazy how it all went downhill

Such nice buildings, I can imagine how they looked like in times of their glory. So much destruction, abandonment, no hope for the future.

Hey Charlie, when you gonna visit some Appalachia towns that look like this. I think it would be interesting to show people that it's not the culture of the people (which is what I think a lot of people assume), it's the fact that desperation has set in because The jobs and wages aren't there like they used to be.

This looks so scary that they won't put it in horrors

Для полноты пейзажа не хватает валяющихся на улице трупов.

For once I would like to see the flip side of this Detroit is a huge city. That's meant to hold two million people. Detroit East and West really have some very beautiful neighborhood as well. Beautiful streets that no houses are spaced out, or torn down or burned a sight for sore eyes or abandoned. I know I was a transportation driver for 20 years. And I also was a numerator for the sensors Bureau. Sure you have bad neighborhoods but you also have the beautiful streets and neighborhoods. Let's see some of that for a change.

I had to laugh, your video came on & I wasn't paying attention till I heard you turn signal. Wow, that's one of CharileBo's videos. I watch you a LOT. Thank you for documenting the things you do and keepin it real.