Flint's Westside Has Seen Better Days.

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Flint's Westside has some good neighborhoods, and some not so good neighborhoods. There's plenty of abandonment here just like there is throughout the rest of Flint... but there's a couple of noticeably nice neighborhoods that stand out.
0:00 - 8:15 Hoods
8:15 - 12:00 Abandoned Apartment Complex
12:00 - 21:20 Court Street & Corunna Rd
21:20 - 23:10 Hoods
23:10 - 25:55 Surprisingly Nice Neighborhood
25:55 - 29:50 Ballenger Highway
29:50 - 31:05 Flint Southwestern Classical Academy
31:05 - 33:25 Miller Road
33:25 - 36:19 Powers Catholic High School/Michigan School for the Deaf
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@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

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@johnultimate1161 Жыл бұрын

Another great video. I graduated from Flint Southwestern in 1970. It's nice to see the old neighborhoods again. Your assessment of the Flint area and it's problems are very good. Life in Flint for me was wonderful. Lot's of great things to do with many opportunities. Sad to see it's decline. The very nice neighbor hood on Parkside drive was called 'the rich district' by by me and my friends while we were young. We went to school with many people from there. All good nice people. We had a good mix of cultures at Southwestern. It was a great school to be a part of in the 60's and 70's. Go Colts!

@robertearllee9880 Жыл бұрын

Hello John I graduated from Flint Central in 1970. Southwestern was very nice I remember you all had the driving range. Where I learned to drive, I remember the Buick Skylar and other cars. My parents moved the family to Los Angeles in October of 1970 in which I still reside. But will always be a Flintstone, Now at 71 years old have great memories of Flint.

@johnultimate1161 Жыл бұрын

@@robertearllee9880 Flint in the 60's and 70's, a good place to be. Today, a good place to be from. Thanks for reaching out.

@marckillinger804 Жыл бұрын

Living in the middle of the East Court neighborhood, we (my identical twin and I) walked through the "rich district" almost every day to and from Whittier Junior ("The Voice," underground newspaper) and then Central High Schools (class of '73). We always wondered who lived in those huge homes, we never saw anybody.

@1KingCoop Жыл бұрын

It's like Flint is trying to come back but when they go 1 step forward they get knocked 2 or 3 steps back. This was a great video though, it's always good to see you highlighting parts of Flint & Detroit and giving us details into the history of those places.

@RenfieldFett Жыл бұрын

On the right at 28:45 on Ballenger HWY, you pass by Flint Community Players which has been around in Flint for 94 years and been in that building since 2012! Right between the Unitarian Church and the UHAUL :) As someone who frequents shows and volunteers at the different theatres in Flint, you've gotta appreciate the talent and level of quality Flint puts into its arts. Flint Community Players, Flint Repertory Theatre, The Whiting, Dark Room Production's Parody shows in downtown, Flint Institute of Music, UofM's Theatre Department, and so much more. And thats just touching on theatre, not mentioning all the art in the town! They all offer incredible theatrical experiences, and I think it really is great how Flint constantly offers accessible high quality art to its people 💙

@bethanyhazard2407 Жыл бұрын

I live in Flint and I am glad you are bringing this out in the open

@williamalexander7512 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your video of Flint. I grew up there, whent to 4 high schools, graduated in 73. I left in 94 for Texas. Sunset Village was my ace in hole in late 70s early 80s for work, sad to see what it's become. I had the chance to walk the property and other places in June 22. How depressing. Thanks again. Bill

@danwebb5118 Жыл бұрын

Great video, Chris! 1. Lake effect snow stops before it gets to Grand Rapids. 2. I grew up in, Swartz Creek, but had to leave right after graduating from HS. 3. I think you will find Swartz Creek to be much nicer. Apartment complexes are older, but well kept. A few degreed youngsters are moving in.

@lineygoblue4252 Жыл бұрын

Born and raised in Flint, and lived in the shadow of Hurley Hospital most of my time there. Moved away in '73. Our graduating class at Flint Northern was nearly 700 students. There were 2300 kids attending that one HS. Now its down to one school. Those Sunset Apartments were considered desireable back in my day. Lots of GMI (Kettering) people lived there. My grandfather worked at "Chevy in the Hole" from 1942 until 1966. Floods of memories came from watching your video. Thanks for posting it, but its sad to see how badly Flint has deteriorated.

@PoixxxonIvy Жыл бұрын

Blessed I was able to leave last summer and I'm NEVER looking back! Flint has changed so much even though I'm younger, I remember my parents telling me how it used to be in the 70s-80s. It's so sad to see Flint come to this.

@flintose927 Жыл бұрын

I'm a Flint resident and i love watching your videos

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for watching

@Ruffi0 Жыл бұрын

GM just announced a $570 million investment into Flint today. Also $270 into bay city. No new jobs. But it secures the ones there.

@rockystelone21 Жыл бұрын

Flint will not see any of that money....Truck n Bus is not in flint

@hughjhardon8080 Жыл бұрын

Swartz not Schwartz. Bal-enger not Bowlenger. Just correcting the pronunciations. Great videos, BTW.

@frankwoods4532 Жыл бұрын

Again, very well done. Thank you!

@wallacerose7499 4 ай бұрын

Not well done ! Missed so much of west side !

@rfair83 Жыл бұрын

Hey bro, I appreciate your videos. I’ve been a fan of yours since the pandemic first started.

@cdikkers30 Жыл бұрын

I'm leaning towards Cat for the parking lot critter. As usual, your videos are serving as a good reminder that I need to get out and photograph places like this before they are gone.

@jillwitzman845 Жыл бұрын

The Crim runs by there, (Sunset apartments)Bradley hills! It used to be a beautiful place to live! I lived in this area for 25 years, off Miller rd and Ballenger hwy….

@brianchampion6359 Жыл бұрын

For anyone who has never read Jim Abbott's book "Imperfect," I recommend it highly. Not only is it a great sports memoir, there are also a lot of references to Flint people and places.

@mrvanflint 8 ай бұрын

Great job, Chris! I love Flint and I think your videos have treated her fairly. I lived there for the glory years and the beginning of the downward trend. I appreciate your videos very much!

@tonyascancook Жыл бұрын

West side, Mott Park. This is where I was born, grew up, and worked downtown. You drove through my old neighborhood, my husband's old neighborhood, and the neighborhood of our first home. 😉 Didn't move out until 2004 😮 It was bad then, so much worse now.

@Henry_Jones Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Your Flint series was great!

@aidenbuchler687 Жыл бұрын

My family and I used to go sledding down that hill on Nolen St all the time when I was younger. We also used to go to the nearby Rocket Ship Park.

@anotheryoutubechannel4809 5 ай бұрын

you mean Mott Park???

@gatorgreen4344 10 ай бұрын

Great job thank you

@anthonyholder1431 Жыл бұрын

I live in the 48504 Good job Chis 👍🏾

@j246802 Жыл бұрын

Great videos. Love the style of Detroit Techno in the background with the ruin porn element backed up with real-time location information as you drive and with historical and other information. I drive to relax, like techno, like stats, dry, straightforward sometimes ironic humor - your videos fill these niches well. Appreciate the effort. Keep going. Subbed, liked, sharing around.

@leedog168 Жыл бұрын

High taxes on the few that own livable homes in Flint are another reason not many folks choose to move there. I live in Burton and my taxes are very high as well, and no industries coming to the area to hire people..

@ThePlayer442 Жыл бұрын

Great job again. Haters will be haters.

@kernan3348 Жыл бұрын

Those Apartments you passed at 9:00 often have junkies and dealers in them. They crawl in through unboarded windows on the first floor and driving by you see the foot traffic often. This part of Flint has some of the most contrast in wealth out of most of Flint. Going West a few miles there are some of the nicest homes I've seen in the state.

@roxanneweichinger9318 Жыл бұрын

I was born in Flint, Michigan back in 1963, but only lived there till 1969. Didn’t realize how big Flint is! Thanks for uploading this video, it brings back some memories for me. PS., The Flint River was probably polluted back in the 1960’s, it must be really rancid by now!

@spmince 2 ай бұрын

I was born and raised on the westside of Flint, Court St. and Ballinger area. Went to Zimmerman Jr. HS in the late 60’s and Southwestern in the early 70’s. That area was a really nice area during that time. Started going downhill in the mid 70’s. Moved away in the early 80’s when my son was about to start school. It’s hard to believe how the area as well as the rest of Flint has been totally destroyed.

@GaryBScary Жыл бұрын

City government has been trash for years. The water was just the breaking point. I waited 2 days for a police officer to show up for a home invasion. I moved 4 years ago and now I sleep like a baby.

@K3andK4 Жыл бұрын

I would love more drone shots! Great job!

@DCVizion Жыл бұрын

Good work detective

@craigkimble1467 Жыл бұрын

I don't know why urban blight is so fascinating, I guess it's like watching a train wreck, and having been to Flint in the 1970's it's shocking 😐

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

I only wish there was more footage that showed what these places looked like before all of the blight

@WilliamScott-yl6mo Жыл бұрын

keep filming. sad that our cities look so bad. what went wrong. love your videos

@thalleshoward3962 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video that apartment complex was the bed bug capital of the world. One of my cousins lived there. One of the main reasons they had to shut it down.

@shelbyz1974 Жыл бұрын

Those are some gorgeous homes near that golf course. Wonder if the taxes are cheaper because they are in Flint? Thanks for the tour Chris!

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Actually the taxes are more expensive because they’re in Flint! As soon as you leave the city the tax rates drop. Vise versa, the property values are less than what they should be because they’re in Flint, but the property values rise once you’re outside of the city limits.

@hughjhardon8080 Жыл бұрын

Yes taxes are much cheaper than say Grand Blanc or Flushing.

@NunyaBizznaz 10 ай бұрын

They aren't. I pay $1800 per year to live in a dysfunctional ghetto.

@merr6267 Жыл бұрын

My college house there on the right in the opening scene. Fortunately I didn't get lost on any of my walks home late at night on the way home from Rube's.

@anotheryoutubechannel4809 5 ай бұрын

3:03 my Dad played softball for a team that was sponsored by the Ambassador Bar. White Horse Tavern was another bar sponsoring a team.

@martinlee6783 Жыл бұрын

Great video chris.I graduated from Flint southwestern in 72

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@aidenbuchler687 Жыл бұрын

27:10 That segment of Ballenger between Court and Corunna is so bad that I always stay in the inner lane on my daily commute to work through there

@goldduster318 Жыл бұрын

I attended Kettering University from 2004-2008. This was really the area most of the students spent time in. The area right around the school is much nicer than back then, but the Corunna Rd corridor is way worse than it was at the time. The store at the corner at Glenwood Ave and Court Street was known as "stab n grab" to us, the crime there was outrageous. Never went in but drove past constantly (the bypass road in front of Power HS was not there at the time). The apartments at Bradley and Sunset you covered were alright back then too. The area probably needed more of the "flic" music honestly. Great video, you missed the opportunity to show the Little Caesar's Pizza with Little Caesar on the roof on Ballenger near Corunna. I don't think you'll see that anywhere else. They also have a bulletproof glass pizza turnstyle.

@AlexanderWaylon Жыл бұрын

Seems like just yesterday the Flint series started. Very well put together and like your Detroit series I think it’s very balanced and fair. Doesn’t look like Flint has seen much snow this year so far?

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Thank you, and southeastern Michigan has had back to back very mild winters. Only 2 accumulating snowfalls that I remember last season, and only 2 so far this season. The snow has melted quickly whenever it has... mostly due to a warm front coming through and some rain. The highs have often been in the mid to upper 30's with a few days here and there in the mid 40's. Maybe climate change is real.

@Lorrainecats Жыл бұрын

No, it hasn't

@JONMPG Жыл бұрын

It would be so depressing to live there. You'd see all the abandoned buildings on your commute.

@aidenbuchler687 Жыл бұрын

29:40 You skipped over the Flint Rock there on the intersection. I know you can't get every part but that rock is special. There's always a different painting on it every week and since it was placed there it has accumulated 4 inches (I believe) of paint.

@joycelynorr4067 Жыл бұрын

Secondary school = high school. Grades 9 thru 12. Its not a traditional high school but it is a high school. And Miller Rd. was closed earlier in the year while it was being fixed and repaved. Thats why its so nice. Its brand new. Also have enjoyed this series on Flint and Beecher.

@tombarr949 3 ай бұрын

Just before 8 minutes into this video you went by two Kettering University fraternity houses, the first one was my home for sophomore year onward at General Motors Institute back in the early 80s. Flint had a high unemployment rate back then and the attitudes around the Flint GM plants made setting up new plants in non-auto areas where there wasn't strong union versus company attitudes. It seemed like the news was "Times are bad, layoffs are coming" or "Times are good, it's time to go on strike". The news and weather were quite gloomy. I knew "Chevy in the hole" as "Chevy Happy Valley". I believe there was a monument to the first sit down strike of the UAW. We had a Labor Relations professor, Dicky Dean, who was one of the sitting strikers. He would still stop by fraternity parties well into his 70s.

@dhyde9207 Жыл бұрын

Notice the blue painted line along some of the streets? That designates the Bobby Crim 10 mile road race course. Ran it several years when I live in the Flint area.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Ah. Was wondering about that

@dylankarhoff9455 Жыл бұрын

How dare you not show the rock

@stevepenney2073 Жыл бұрын

yeah....i was looking too

@Lorrainecats Жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. And it's Ballenger rhyming with challenger, not Bahlenger. And it's Swartz Creek, not Schwarz Creek.

@user-wl7dw3cz4f Жыл бұрын

15:20 used to be a very prominent church when i was younger. Very nice people there, though now its totally abandoned

@leedog168 Жыл бұрын

I have to correct you on your lake effect snow... Genesee county eastward gets lake effect snow from lake Hurons moisture. Especially a noreaster

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Grand Rapids snowfall for the year 2022: 116 inches. Flint snowfall for the year 2022. 60 inches.

@KweenJaz Жыл бұрын

im from flint and i moved to NYC in the 90s and never looked back!

@anotheryoutubechannel4809 5 ай бұрын

What's worse now? Both are pits.

@mikemadunic7960 Жыл бұрын

Flint is typical of other rust belt cities. Loss of good paying manufacturing jobs for unskilled laborers (like myself) coupled with white flight to the suburbs. This is killing Milwaukee. The added water in Flint problems certainly didn't help. We had our own water problems in the early 90s with Cryptosporidium. What we're seeing here is crime expanding out of the city into the suburbs. This causes major issues for suburban police departments which tend to be much smaller and can't keep up with the crime.

@mayavenuemisfit814 Жыл бұрын

When comparing Rust Belt cities of comparable size, Erie is probably the best off in terms of diversification of the local economy as well as property upkeep. We've largely been able to avoid the problems that plague Flint, Youngstown, Johnstown, and East St. Louis, thanks in large part due to massive growth of the medical industry as well as the presence of Lake Erie funneling in millions of tourism dollars every summer. Obviously there is some abandonment and urban blight here as 40,000 residents have left the city in the last sixty years, but you really won't find entire neighborhoods in Erie that are abandoned and blighted like you will in Flint or Youngstown.

@Ceolmochridbe02 Жыл бұрын

That's what is rough about that education percentage you bring up - the data doesn't show the true picture of what's happening in Genesee County as a whole. Flint has the University of Michigan - Flint and Kettering, both of which are graduating about 1k people a year with bachelor's degrees. The issue... there aren't many high-paying jobs in Flint outside of medical, so most people leave the county for areas that have jobs. It's a vicious cycle of brain drain.

@g2wbull689 Жыл бұрын

Gotta do Lake Fenton Michigan and Swartz creek too bro

@g2wbull689 Жыл бұрын

Or just Fenton,Michigan

@g2wbull689 Жыл бұрын

Or just Fenton,Michigan

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Fenton one day. Did Swartz creek.

@BlahBler Жыл бұрын

Would you consider covering Clio Mi in a video?

@00lilyvonshtupp Жыл бұрын

Nafta didn't /doesnt help manufacturing or any other farging thing ,in this country. Love your videos ! KEY TAKEAWAYS: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented in 1994 to encourage trade between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. NAFTA reduced or eliminated tariffs on imports and exports between the three participating countries, creating a huge free-trade zone. ****Two side agreements to NAFTA aimed to establish high common standards in workplace safety, labor rights, and environmental protection, to prevent businesses from relocating to other countries to exploit lower wages or looser regulations.******* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was signed on Nov. 30, 2018, and went into full force on July 1, 2020, replaced NAFTA. NAFTA was a controversial agreement: By some measures (trade growth and investment), it improved the U.S. economy; by others (employment, balance of trade), it hurt the economy.

@ashadams4722 Жыл бұрын

Wish that you would have driven through some of the neighborhoods in this video. other then that I loved the flint videos

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

I went through neighborhoods. Check out the upload on my 2nd channel tomorrow if you want to see more neighborhoods.

@cmarkbrown6549 3 ай бұрын

I know it wasn't significant, but maybe you should have mentioned "The Rock" at the corner of 12th & Hammerberg just before Flint Southwestern Academy......

@billcahill4218 Жыл бұрын

At 1:04, the light brown house before the two color house on the left, I lived there 1993-1994. 3:00 Ambassador Bar - got drunk for the first time there one hour after midnight the day I turned 21. 5:54 Asked my wife to marry me while walking in the woods in 1996. This was a golf course if I remember right. 27:21 I spent so much damn money at that Taco Bell in the mid 90s.

@TimEssDub Жыл бұрын

Flint's problem is it never capitalizes on the two universities and community college within its city limits. Their city council never asks "What can we do to keep those with degrees and journeyman cards in the city?" I grew up in the 1980s and 90s in Flint and my mental image was a mayor and city council praying to the altar of GM at a church.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Yup… the economy never diversified. It’s ok to have so many manufacturing jobs through GM… as long as you develop foundations for other industries to thrive as well… but… Flint never did that.

@rockystelone21 Жыл бұрын

Flint city council contains a drunk, ex con and egoistic members. Lets no forget this all started when hoodrow Stanley was in office.

@mayavenuemisfit814 Жыл бұрын

I'll be honest. In my opinion, the water crisis and subsequent fallout is what continues to bog Flint. Had that never happened, I really think Flint would have been in a better position to reinvent itself. Youngstown, on the other hand, is a city that as you mentioned, IS actively capitalizing on the presence of Youngstown State University, yet people are STILL leaving the city hand-over-fist and young people who go to school there leave town as soon as they get their degree. And most Youngstown suburbs not named Canfield are either almost as bad or even just as bad as the city.

@g2wbull689 Жыл бұрын

Gotta do Atwood stadium fam

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Did

@laurafoote214 Жыл бұрын

amazing how these neighborhoods turn like this, sad.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Agree. Just curious, is that one of the Great Lakes from your recent trip in your profile picture?

@laurafoote214 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHarden ....yes! we went to Munising from St. Ignace and took the pictured rocks cruise, it was gorgeous, my first time ever at Lake Superior, the UP is so awesome 🙂

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

@@laurafoote214 It really is. I've done that Pictured Rocks cruise myself. Glad it turned out well!

@tomkuptz6374 Жыл бұрын

It's so sad to see what has become of the west side, because that was once the best side. And if the west side has fallen as far as the east or the north back in the day, then what kind of a state are the east or the north in today? Has the east side returned to wilderness and forests? Is there any kind of community left on the north side? I'm very saddened because this is my hometown. I've been here since crack hit in the 80s.

@shaydog7218 Жыл бұрын

Do one on beecher

@hughjhardon8080 Жыл бұрын

At 17:20 there was a pimp daddy caddy using the left turn lane to pass everybody. That’s a majority of the Flint drivers. No regard for the law. I’m glad you didn’t get hit.

@pedrodelavega6761 Жыл бұрын

So true ,I was a Lyft driver in Flint for 3 yrs and the west side has some of the worst drivers .

@derf1148 Жыл бұрын

The nice area Was called Miller road mansions when I grow up in the seventies that's where we would go tricker treating to get full candy bars

@captwyattal66 Жыл бұрын

I walk those very neighborhoods they are all within 10 blocks of my house the Estate you showed in the nice area is owned by an adult dancer LOL

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

🤣

@Bassbabyy 11 ай бұрын

Your going to do saginaw,lansing.

@ChrisHarden 11 ай бұрын

One day

@wallacerose7499 6 ай бұрын

You missed a significant part of west side ! Kettering university , Atwood Stadium, carriage Town , Hurley Hospital area , Ballenger park & Longfellow Jr H S Area’s ! Equals at least 1/3 of West side ! I’m 3 rd generation , raised on 6 th ave between wolcott &prospect a block & a half from Hurley Hospital 🏥 highest point in flint and genesee co . If you would like a tour let me know.

@anotheryoutubechannel4809 5 ай бұрын

Ice skating at ballenger park! So fun.

@ChristLifeDrew Ай бұрын

In his first video he did

@warrenlehmkuhleii8472 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see my city on YT, but it is pronounced St. John V-en-ie. - An former SJV Viking. Anyways, Mott Park (the first neighborhood this video shows) does have its nice parts, but it is not what it was when I was growing up. A lot of the homes are rental properties now and not the friendly lives across the street sort of renter like what my grandma had when her parents rented in Flint in the 30s, but out of state people who could not care less about the property. There are still people who care, and I hope they hold on, and I hope one day I am able to be the sort of home owner who shows some pride in his home, but for now I am stuck seeing the city I love continue to die. Thanks for showing off my city, I think some of my fellow Flintstones need a reality check if they think that everything is just fine and we are not facing an uphill battle.

@realnicksutton Жыл бұрын

When you film these, are you listening to these songs as well?

@Henry_Jones Жыл бұрын

Flint > Highland Park

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

True

@stephenbrand5661 Жыл бұрын

So many places in America are like that where the urban core is just a tiny portion of the total metro. In Atlanta for example the actual city is a lot less than 10% of the population of the metro area. There are 4 counties in the metro area with over 700,000 people and two that are over 900,000 but the city itself is less than 500,000.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Yup. Atlanta is the prime example of that.

@mayavenuemisfit814 Жыл бұрын

Cincinnati is another good example. When you count the Kentucky suburbs and small portion of Indiana that make up the metropolitan area, Greater Cincinnati is home to about 2.1 million people, yet only about 300,000 of them actually reside in the city limits of Cincinnati proper. Columbus, Indianapolis, and Louisville are great examples of the exact opposite trend. Those cities have expanded their boundaries through takeovers of other municipalities and/or consolidation with the county they are in, thus the urban population still makes up a large percentage of the overall metropolitan population.

@phillipbohl5709 Жыл бұрын

CLASS OF 1970 SOUTH WESTERN.

@stevepenney2073 Жыл бұрын

76 here

@kx4532 Жыл бұрын

That apartment building had burnt down and someone reroofed the shell. Now bums have campfires in there. It's a place holder on some bank ledger.

@bullnukeoldman3794 Жыл бұрын

I see the blue painted lines on the curb side of the streets there. Is there a certain meaning to painting these along the streets?

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Not sure, was curious about that myself. I’ve never seen that before.

@Gravyballs2011 Жыл бұрын

The blue line is the route for the annual 10 mile Bobby Crim road race which takes place every summer.

@ultimatevixn Жыл бұрын

Question? and of the 1million dollar water bill was somehow paid, what pray tell would the city of Flint do with that money? just a question? humor me?

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Getting their freak on along Dort Highway.

@phillipbohl5709 Жыл бұрын

what do the blue lines on the right side of the road mean?

@lineygoblue4252 Жыл бұрын

That marks the route of the Crim 10K Race run every year in August, I believe. It used to attract big name runners from all over the world.

@g2wbull689 Жыл бұрын

Do Fenton, Michigan

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

One day

@DJINSAIN11 Жыл бұрын

Well, you forgot NBA player Charlie Bell... Terry Crews went to and graduated from the original Flint Academy, which was old Flint Northern High School..

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

I didn’t forget anything. Bell and Crews went to Southwestern.

@jerryspencer5453 Жыл бұрын

The Flint Northern High School on the Westside was the new Northern not the old.

@laurapyeatt1672 Жыл бұрын

We don't have ferrets. We have weasels. They're similar but not the same

@joshriver75 Жыл бұрын

What's with the blue line on the edge of some roads?...no parking???

@jerryspencer5453 Жыл бұрын

The blue line shows the path of The Crim Race held in Flint every year.

@merr6267 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I witnessed a drug deal early one morning while out for a run near Sunset Village. Kind of jarring for a white boy from the dirt roads of Ottawa County.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

You probably did.

@alexanderphillips3697 Жыл бұрын

Is there any coming back from this ? Doesn’t seem so

@danielsentertainmentproduc1527 Жыл бұрын

Schedule this week

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

It’s up

@september9113 Жыл бұрын

That Subway that you mentioned passing by "twice" on Miller Road is recently re-opened and operated by Black people which is awesome for the city. I wish you had stopped in and bought some food. I don't agree with everything you say about Flint some of it is a bit sarcastic and not accurate but it was interesting to say the least.

@tonywestvirginia Жыл бұрын

Oh, And the La Azteca Taco House @14.14 has the best Mexican food in the city!

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Would you have agreed with more of what I said if I would have provided video footage of me stopping in and buying some food?

@thomasyoung5013 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHarden there you go with your lil condescending comments

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

@@thomasyoung5013 I’m honestly confused about why it’s a big deal to stop in a subway and buy food. But hey, maybe I’m the only one. Most of what I have said about Flint is facts. Not opinions. But ok. What do I know.

@lazyrrr2411 Жыл бұрын

Until this series i never really understood the gravity of the Flint Water Crisis . . . i had other things to do ! Now i appreciate the outrage of the whole snafu ~ and if their experience doesn't serve well as a Bad Example , then no one has learned anything & all has been lost

@donaldkey8839 Жыл бұрын

Go to the nursing homes there few people there probably could really put you back in the hey day

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Probably!

@donaldbrown4711 Жыл бұрын

What are the highschool graduation rates?

@hughjhardon8080 Жыл бұрын

A few years ago, it was about 30% in Flint.

@erickadeyon2782 Жыл бұрын

Mismanagement of city finances is not why the city is in this condition… but carry on.

@rockystelone21 Жыл бұрын

A majority of it

@user-iy8to7bb9k 10 ай бұрын

You completely skipped over the Glendale Hills neighborhood.

@Eileen49654 Жыл бұрын

Just what Flint needs, someone to find the worse things about it. The water crisis is something Flint may never live down, and still people want to get attention by pointing out everything wrong about the area. Here's some great things about Flint, The 33 acre cultural center, includes a Science center, music hall, planetarium, theater, and more Its is one of the best in the nation U.M. Flint has a huge campus downtown Flint. The Flint Farmers Market ranks one of the top 10 in the nation The Crim race which is a yearly event brings visitors from all over the world Back to the bricks which is a yearly car show is so successful surrounding cities try and copy it What your showing in this video can be found in most large cities U.S.A But there are still great things about Flint

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

… and if you have watched all of my videos instead of just nitpicking, you would have seen that I’ve talked about all of these good things.

@Eileen49654 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHardenMaybe you should add in each video that there are great things about Flint that are shown in other videos, that what you're showing is only part of Flint, not the whole.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

@@Eileen49654 I think most people understand that what I’m doing is a series of videos that show the entire city. The good and the bad. Thanks for watching and for your comments Eileen.

@rockystelone21 Жыл бұрын

Also you lied about the farmers market being in the top ten.....

@kx4532 Жыл бұрын

The city has income tax that chases people out. If you have a choice who wants it?

@bobwallace9814 Жыл бұрын

With as low an average income as it is, can you imagine the real numbers if you took out that one rich neighborhood's numbers? In fact drop that neighborhood from all Flint numbers and Flint turns into a Haiti city. But that's the way they like it. By that, I mean the ones who run the city, county and state of Michigan. They instituted President LBJ's Great Society Program and now 5 generations into it, Flint has been reduced to graduating 200 high schoolers city wide yearly. The city, county and state don't care but encourage it as they now have complete control over the voters, voter harvesting and infamous mail ins. It guarantees the Flint residents have become so dumbed down they will vote for their own increase in misery every election. It is now no longer necessary to fix up anything in the city.

@tammystorey2468 Жыл бұрын

Sir, have you taken into consideration how many people left Flint due to lack of jobs? How about those that died due to the COVID outbreak?

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

I’ve been talking about the Flint area having not enough jobs throughout all of my Flint videos. And covid affected every city in this country so that’s a non-factor when it comes to Flints decline.

@mayavenuemisfit814 Жыл бұрын

The water crisis was a far greater contributor to Flint's continued population decline than the pandemic was. Had that not happened, there's a very good chance that many people who left the city of Flint during that time otherwise may not have.

@josephcarswell24 Жыл бұрын

Saw my gfs house in this vid lol

@DennisW19copyy-lg1du 3 ай бұрын

Flint had the world by the tail with GM there. Billy Durant brought GM to Flint one company at a time. There's not an attractive reason for an industry to move there now. Michigan is geographically isolated for physical distribution. So Flint shot themselves in the foot by not treating GM better. I grew up in Genesee County and the area was a fantastic place to live, however now it's not. I still live in Michigan, but farther north.

@ursus353 Жыл бұрын

I have to say that I am a little disappointed with this video; I have been looking forward to this one as I lived in the 48504 zip code. I was hoping that you would drive on Pierson, Pasadena, and Clio Roads... My old haunting grounds, but I understand, you can't please everyone.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

Check out videos 3 and 4 in my Flint Playlist. Went everywhere in those two videos that you thought I’d go in this one.

@lowellwhite1603 Жыл бұрын

Please pronounce names a bit better. Ballenger has an A it’s not Bollinger. Swartz Creek doesn’t have a C in Swartz and there is no C sound (not Schwartz). Speak like a native. Now pronounce Lake Orion or Schoenherr Ave if you’re from Metro Detroit.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

@lowellwhite1603 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHarden “May the Schwartz (Creek) be with you.”

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

It’s Schwartz “Crick.” Get it straight.

@lowellwhite1603 Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHarden My sister and two nephews live there and pronounce it “creek” but I have heard “crick” used. Many people in the Flint area, both White and Black, have Southern roots and sometimes those dialects pop up with how they pronounce place names.

@ChrisHarden Жыл бұрын

@@lowellwhite1603 I try to pronounce everything correctly. It doesn’t always happen though.