I was born and raised in Pensacola. I moved from there about 5 yrs ago. I cannot move back even if l wanted to. Cost of living has increased. Use to you can find a decent house to live for $500 a month. Now it is $1,300 a month. Utilities has skyrocketed. If you ever watch a video for tourists, all you will see is downtown and the beach. Ever since Hurricane Ivan hit Pensacola back in 2004, it was never the same. Crime has increased. 3 years ago there were shootings 7 days in a row. Local politicians never try to bring in new business in Pensacola. They depend on the beach and the Navy. But the video you have seen here is not the whole city. There is still some nice section of Pensacola. But it looks run down and dirty.

Fellow Pensacolian and new subscriber! Trying to shed some light on corruption within our government!

As someone whos lived just on the outside of Pensacola for my whole, ive seen every type of home or rental raise in price drastically each year to where now my house sells for almost 3x as much as we bought it. The poverty is tangible

We’ve been in Pensacola for less than a year. Besides the beaches (which are super touristy though), the downtown and surrounding areas, everything else is run down and neglected. We are currently looking to move to the Huntsville area in AL or to Baldwin county AL (close to here as we are almost at the AL border). Things are super expensive in Florida, even in less nice areas such as Pensacola. You can see a huge difference when you drive less than an hour into Alabama, it’s so much nicer, way less homeless and crime in all of Baldwin county.

The poverty is palpable 😢

The saddest part of these videos is that churches are also being abandoned. Thank you for the video.

Strange how poor folk can afford tall rims on their cars.

I don't know what you mean by "what happened " ... I was stationed there in the late 80s, and recognize all the streets during your driving , everything looks the same. The only thing Pensacola ever had going for it was those beautiful beaches, some of the whitest sand in the world.

Thanks for showing the REAL Pensacola! All them other KZfaqrs trying to play up Pensacola!

I was just watching your Pensacola video from a year ago. There was more people, especially children out playing, people out walking and way more traffic than this video.

Live in Pensacola currently. It’s becoming expensive to live here so those in poverty stay in similar areas shown. But if you have money to live in the “nice areas” you’ll probably never even be around these places.

It's some nicer areas but they are more expensive. God bless the people living in those hoods, especially the children 🙏🙏

I live here and grew up here. I was only gone when I was active duty Navy. Pensacola is beautiful and like all other places, it has some ran down or neglected areas. New Sub here.

Once apon a time when all was so easy and simple.. Turn the corner 😢.. This Ain't Living > Marvin Gaye.. Thank you for your time stay safe in your travels

When that hurricane hit the ghetto of New Orleans in 2005, a lot of those people ended up in Pensacola and Mobile. They brought the crime with them.

Downright prosperous compared to other places in higher elevations of the rust belt.

I absolutely love your channel.

Some of the buildings remind me of Army barracks!

As always awesome content thanks again WOW looks like a apocalypse

Florida is not the postcard image everyone envisions. I lived in Miami 20+ years ago, about 5-10 miles inland. Let me tell you it's ugly out there. There are no palm trees... just filth & a bunch of storage lockers & industry.

I rmbr when I joined the navy all I heard about from older people is how amazing Pensacola is. After getting there I realized they were talking about back in their day and haven’t been in 20+ years

What struck me most was the nice newer cars. Hell, I work full-time and couldn't afford a car like those....

While I've certainly seen much worse this doesn't look like a very nice place to live. Rather mundane and boring.

Love ❤️ your videos cool 😎 👌 thanks 👍

I'm going to move there and start working at International Paper. In which part of the city is it best to rent or buy a house? A family with two school-aged children.

Pensacola has been this way my whole life as far as I’ve known. I’m 35. Downtown is decent now and over by the mall but very run down about 3/4 of the city. I live in Fort Walton which also has run down areas but pretty easy to avoid them and getting easier. Getting really expensive in all these beach towns though. In 5-10 years gonna be Cali level. Trying to buy some real estate 😂

I once lived in there, where did all the palm trees go. kinda strange, no palm trees

I would love to visit this place. Something about it,maybe it needs more flowers and gardening etc. I love a challenge ❤

Thanks for sharing 👍

I want franchise in Pensacola

There are rough sides and beautiful sides. Been here all my life, still love my hometown. With all that being said, it is very congested, some crime and high rent.

Wow 😮

I had to hit pause when i seen the red 68 Galaxie

That's were Roman Reigns is from !

Time, greed, and secrets. that's what happened.

How much is redlining contributing to these areas?

Pensacola is a very beautiful place.Can anyone tell me what area that's in it kind of looks like Trumanon I'm not sure.

Good grief 😢

Yeah, not really much of a middle class here…either you live in poor, run down neighborhoods or you live in nice, but overpriced ones.

I'm a 40-year Pensacola resident. What happened here is what happened to lots of other US cities. It's called late-stage capitalism.

What are the bad areas in Pensacola

Reminds me of a coo coo cal song 🤔

So... When are you gonna cross the Mississippi River?😊

I've always preferred coke

I live in pensacola and they are fixing up a lot of these areas especially the alphabet streets.

Not as bad as many of the northern cities you video in. Looks like big improvements can be made by hauling away the excess rubbish.

Какое унылое место! Будто это концлагерь

1:05 this looks like base housing

Nobody outside. But around the corner Beer store😮😮 it's ghostly in the daytime image nite time. 😮😮😮

Florida is now approaching California with levels of homelessness. The cost of making these areas more habitable with a couple of stores and a bus service would be miniscule compared to both the societal and financial costs of homelessness It's all down to a lack of will on the part of the local, state and central governments

Honestly good, gotta make your houses look ugly cause if they look just a little bit clean they will try to make rent 3x what it should be

Florida happened

Lifr happened sorry i live in florida and this is bot how it looks

I wonder what these communities would look like if American gang culture didn’t exist?

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who are the owners of these empty houses?

Trashee' city ...

The way my jaw dropped