THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY. THANKS FOR SHARING. WE NEED TO HEAR MORE OF THESE KINDS OF STORIES. 😊

You're lucky man, perhaps.

Amen!

Yep, can’t judge. Just because you live in a poor area doesn’t mean you’re bad.

That's great! I'm about to travel solo through Philly soon and I'm pretty nervous. This makes me feel better : )

My house

And the amazing part is that others don’t catch on. Being poor, or uneducated doesn’t mean you can’t take pride in where you live. Just pick up your own trash, right? Gentrifying? Drop the label and just clean up.

@@rjlovell1 💯

@@rjlovell1very true

@@rjlovell1 I'll never understand the litter. Hell, get the a burn barrel and a bottle of Thunderbird if that us what it takes.

Also because ruins have their own type of beauty. As long as you don't have to live there.

Aww ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@@NickJohnson Comment is condescending and in poor taste

Respect bro ✊

Thank you for sharing your perspective to help others better understand. You changed my view.

Wow you about said it all. Everything. This comment should be framed. Who would have thought when we were dreaming about how it will be while up in the highest branches of the tree I could get.. never ever thought it could get so bad and at the same time always hearing from the politicians “ we live in the greatest country in the world blah blah .. I was a fool to believe that. Every year it kept getting worse while the policies made it easier for the wealthy and much much harder for the regular Joe..now what? It’s so scary..

Yea, at one point probably back in the 50's they were nice family neighborhoods i bet.

Yes. Some of these homes appear to be huge too. I can definitely imagine them in their heyday.

@@lcam9241 exactly

Before white flight

@@midaughtry1995 so even if that's the case, why do the properties decline this much? I've heard the argument that the government deserts the area as well as in roads are not maintained, etc. But I wonder what's really the root of this?

Money stinks greed! Everyone has addictions weather it’s drink drugs money none make you happy! I’ve been to Africa where the kids are the happiest kids n they don’t have much at all just the simple things n they don’t know any different.

This world is unfair...

I can relate. I was part of a volunteer service that brought food out to homeless, addicts, mentally ill people - and the "worst" places to go (junkies, vs "just" homeless) were much nicer and more polite persons than the "better off" homeless people who actually sometimes earned better than I did as a student back then - because they had charm and were good at making passers by give them money.

I rest my case. FAMILIES IN THE GHETTO> Who decided it was a great idea to have FAMILIES in GHETTOS! STOP MAKING DAMN BABIES into poverty! Problem solves itself! You don't go making more kids when you can't fee yourself and are on drugs! We need a sterilization program! Look at third world countries! India, China, on and on. FILTHY WATER. FILTHY Conditions. Living like animals.

Those elitist, miserable people are paying the taxes, taking care of their houses and contributing something to society. Being a good person involves more than whether they have a personality which you like.

The world has changed Carrie

@@NickJohnson and not for the better.

How could you simply put this down to a generational thing? Surely the generations that were taught to work hard and be honest would pass that down no? You're clearly quite uninformed of the litany of socio-economic factors that cause these types of areas to appear. Particularly in America a lot of largely black/immigrant communities in the inner city were neglected and half demolished because of the post war suburbanisation and car dependency that basically moved the vast majority of middle and upper class families to the suburbs. So you're left with large communities of extremely poor people who were still being legally discriminated against due to their race. Throw this in with the failed war on drugs that Nixon coined in the 70s, which only increased crime, incarceration, addiction and violence in the poorest areas of not only America, but across the globe. In the UK, large housing schemes built just to house the poorest people with very little support, mix that with the increase in drug related social problems through the 70s and 80s and you have the situation we have now. Same happened in Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, etc. When you don't really know what you're talking about it can just seem like a generational thing, but society doesn't just change for no reason.

Which ghetto places do you no in England

From what I can see there’s no comparison to this am not saying there’s not but this is something else

They all were at one point. Especially in Detroit. But when people just up and move and nobody else moves in or those that do are renters who sometime lower the property value... these are the results.

Actually its the results of ur people moving in, no offense

@Brenden Davis well if you are a boot starp theorists, this may be your answer. But it's deeper than that, much deeper.

My family from North said it used to be where all the rich people lived.....over on state street

That's because they all WERE at one point in time.

not to mention state funded homewrecking where they punish you for being married rather than a single parent

Itll trickle down I hear. Us poor people just gotta wait our turn and cut our corporate overlords some slack.

Well it was a GREAT idea if your intention was to make the Wealthy even wealthier. That was the REAL intention of "Reaganomics", or trickle down Economics. Trickle Down Economics was and is a joke and its proponents knew it all along.

Don't need hindsight to see that cheaper labor abroad is bad for the US. Unemployment for cheaper labor and subpar products. Money for their pockets is all they care about. Sad.

"What do you mean? It worked out great" - CEOs and Hedge fund managers.

Yeah, it's like watching post-apocalyptic wasteland...

Its the broken window theory, and it works

These individuals in the ghetto litter like it's their job.

Very well said. You drew both a beautiful and sad picture.

That were just my thoughts on some of the homes shown. You could see they were once loved and well kept 😢

truth

Yeah it’s so easy to forget ❤️

I was thinking the same thing. If the people who had those homes built could see what has happened to that home and neighborhood, they would be, I'm sure, just devastated.

That's due to the city being built for 3x the population it has now. They were so sure it was going to expand they built it for tomorrow X3. Not only did it not it's population went down

I am a Detroit native...I was born and raised in the Eastside of Detroit. The homes are beautiful or should I say what's left alot of the Detroit neighborhood has been regentrified since. most of the homes were BLACK OWNED. A home back in the 90s or early 2000s would rent between $600 to $800 a month..4 to 5 bedroom homes. I miss the nostalgia of my city.

They were! I've seen and was born in Michigan. Beautiful in the day.

Jesse...I was born in Detroit & lived there as a child, several family members there, too. A lot of the bigger homes with the double porches are stacked Duplexes...they are lovely homes & some have been rehabbed beautifully. There are ghetto areas there, absolutely, but overall, Detroit IS improving....its definitely NOT Camden, Philly or even Chicago these days...

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So true.

Tu Pac lyrics stated best “ got money for war can’t feed the poor “

Exactly

It's kind of obvious now that the government wants people to be poor, sad, and unhealthy

The UK is the same.

Dirty south: Keep it movin chester! We watching you.

Yep. Don't stop at stop lights either

Yes I noticed he did that and the other car just went around him

A buddy of mine got pulled over by a cop, who asked him why the F he stopped at stoplights, and told him he needed to get the F out of the neighborhood.

@@RCAvhstape Same thing happened to my dad in the 70's. Cop pulled him over and told him to scoot if he didn't have any business being there.

Funny I see no one walking along the road. Gives me the Cream of a place that's dying

I agree with both of you! We are Americans! Every neighborhood should be representing us. No one should be living in poverty! I feel that these sports teams need to go and clean up the communities they are in. On the off season, athletes tend to get in trouble; give them something to do! In Las Vegas, the casinos need to be cleaning the communities they are in! Mayor Carolyn, you get a huge fail with how Vegas proper looks for those who live there! I wish every politician could stay two days in poverty, they would get it and things would be different. I know that sounds naive but if empathy can help, they all need to do it. Mandatory! Now!

You know I'm sure there's just a lot of poor people that just needs a helping hand with all the money we send to foreign countries why can't we help the poor people out it worked all their lives they're tired give a helping hand

@@sdpickens33 the poor will be always with us. Those are the words of Jesus

You are correct..they always fault the people who live here

No you’re wrong BLM is what made the cities the cities

@@313barrygmail huh????

Midwest too

@@Suga29838 it is their fault,burning down buildings,smashing windows,spray painting and dumping trash on the streets,being poor is no excuse allowing your area to be trashed by others,action should have been put on the local government to keep the streets and empty buildings and grass verges cut and in some sort of order.

You understood you had to get out of there, not only the neighborhood but the whole country!

@@enjoyenglish1721 YOUR COMMENT IS SPOT ON! I had no other choice!

Your backstory makes you sound like Gary from The Corner

@@mrttripz3236 Sorry, I don't know who that person "Gary" is. Would he be a friend of yours?

A lot of the Philippines is beautiful, but there are some extremely slummy areas there, too. Far worse than anything I’ve seen in the U.S.

Right.. Ten times right

Exactly. One my friends grandad use to always tell us even if you don’t have a lot treat your stuff right.

Totally agree and i was just saying this to my business affiliate as we've been looking at homes to buy and invest in, economics has nothing to do with living like filthy pigs and sadly that's how many we've experienced present their property's to potential buyers while demanding outlandish prices. I won't repeat what we have encountered or run into, as it's too digusting and repulsive quite frankly but this has to do with no a financial or economic class, but the kind of class one conducts themselves with and I completely & entirely agree!!!! Just because one doesn't have loads of money, doesn't mean you can let your property go and live like dirty rats, it reflects on you and your lack of caring or effort, being mindful of a clean & sanitary environment, manners, being grateful, and these people presenting these filthy infested homes actually wonder how come they're not selling and that same pile of pitbull #2 will still be at every inch not picked up and the same wreck as it was a month ago when we inspected the property or viewed it. It take all but two minutes to sweep up the hundreds of cigarettes by the door, this is about laziness which I guess reflects their ill will & lack of ambitions but I still think rich or poor, care about what you have in life and keep it as nice as you can. Be grateful!!!! It doesn't require you be well off to do your chores!! Maybe it is all a packaged mind-set now. Which is why i am moving where it's nicer and people own their homes and take care of things, that positivity spreads just as negativity does. Seeing slums all around you is not motivating, let's face it. Or maybe it is?

Its the condition of the heart. No community spirit. No respect. No love. Love comes from something to believe in. Like Jesus. No hope

@Puppy Lover Yep. Me too

haha, so true

I wondered if that was why that happened! I would have floored it and got the heck out of Dodge!

Sactown all way

i wonder if he flagged the other car to go around. then again, these places are basically the wild west, so who knows.

@Steven Darkins my son got stranded in jackson mississippi for about a week or more and he made friends with a homeless black guy who told him which areas to avoid there. They also found a couple abandoned cars in some run down empty building lol

I think the same thing!

@Sightless Sniper yup, 100% correct here..sad..

@red diamond71 I guess that you are the only one that doesn't know.

@@stephensjurset6832 He is mad his neighborhood was one featured in the video so he tries to play"bully"

@Sightless Sniper People made them that way.

Non-resident property owners and landlords should be fined higher property taxes for dilapidated properties. Resident home owners should be offered low interest loans or grants to bring property to community standards. It's baloney cities allow blighted, depressed neighborhoods, which always encourage high crime.

That’s what I was so shocked by! A lot of those houses were phenomenal!

@@shaybelle8495 absolutely. I couldn't believe some of the homes shown were abandoned.

some of the houses just look so sad. I cried along with them.

Man on our legs man, we rob some dummies like you we make from them some stacks on the table like this 💸💸💸💸💸💸

Gets to a point the value of the home is so low the repairs cost more than the house value, however house proud you are you just stop throwing good money after bad and eventually you abandon the property.

That's what I see and feel when he drives through these neighborhoods, how they once we're. So sad

Just goes to show how dreams can become nightmares.

@@fahgedaboudit Haha

my town is over 800 years old, my fathers family lives here for over 400 years, his birth house is from the 17th century, still owned by family members... they survived the 30 years war, 7 years war, Napoleonic wars, WW1 and WW2.... the USA looks at some places like the wars i listed happened just a few months ago, all at the same time!

Detroit's corrupt government and the bailouts really screwed them

Or stopping scum living in them. Look at the demographic between 50s / 60s and current. We know why it has turned into a festering third world dump.

Paint your house all you want. That won't change the fact that it's in Detroit.

@@mattcosner8681 True, it won’t work miracles. You really need to have all or most neighbors in a neighborhood doing the same, and doing it before many houses are abandoned, or it likely won’t work. So many abandoned places have such potential to return to prior glory, but you aren’t going to put a lot of money into rehabbing one building if the rest of the neighborhood is in shambles. You might even make your rehabbed home a target, if it appears to be the only place worth robbing. On the brighter side, it is amazing how the urge to rehab is contagious, when others see that someone cares about making their home nice again. I haven’t done much rehabbing, but what little I have had done has sometimes resulted in a neighbor coming to me and asking who I hired to do the work, as they are interested in improving their home. It can happen.

This is NOTHING compared to Minneapolis and St. Paul in May of 2020. 180 buildings were looted and burned with another 1500 damaged! People harassed firemen trying to put out fires and then they would not respond to fires. Total lack of leadership from Liberal Democrat MN Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Frey and St. Paul Mayor Carter!?! They along with the Lt. Gov. should be in jail for not doing their job to protect the cities!!

I grew up in Cincinnati and it is horrible. I am blessed to have left the shithole.

Some also watch to gloat.

Very fortunate

So true.

@@Michael-hy2ud whatever it was that got you out, you need to keep moving. its spreading. so if youve found a way to avoid shitholiness, use it like hell.

Socially speaking, poverty does define them. Is just that sometimes people get to a place where they just accepted as it is and learn to live with it.

The poorest places are in the red states. The entire state.

Soul reason I'm for free education. Give people same chances, regarding their background. A level playing field to start your life. Let not your parents define your future. Only Scandinavia understands this.

"Them?" WTF.

"Poverty" has become a euphemism for certain things we're not allowed to talk about. I've been broke in my life, but I've never been like that.

Your very right..

I thought the same thing

Sad in some aspects. But moving is part of human history. People go where the opportunities are.

Lots of banging after kiddos went to sleep...

@@TerryAnnOnline In the United States, more so than elsewhere, the norm is to move. My parents come from Europe and I can walk to the house where my mother was born, where my great grandparents lived, etc. You feel a connection even though new houses go up the old ones remain or are renovated. It's the same with the "city" areas. There is so much (ancient) history and little change that one feels a connection when walking the same cobblestone streets that one's ancestors walked. In the states, everything is flipped constantly. Neighborhoods change so fast one doesn't recognize them after a decade or two. Point is, in Europe, people stay where they are so even neighbors become like family after a few generations. In comparison, America is cold and impersonal. We follow the money and chase "standard of living" but never have quality of life. In America these two are thought of as the same, but they are not.

I would say 80% are beyond repair do to water damage.The framing and sub floors are just rotten to the core.

As a sometimes junker I wanted to haul stuff away to fix up 👩‍🔧🇺🇲🇷🇺

So they can be destroyed again the next day.... cool

I feel your desire but thats not going to change the systemic reasons why these and other areas have fell into this level. Of chaos and poverty.

Family breakdown plays it’s role.

Nothing is free and I'm not an opponent of capitalism but in the USA we don't understand that sometimes a low tax rate actually costs us more. We love to shop at places like Sam's Club and Costco yet fail to see that some things are better paid collectively.

@@rhondahope4135what higher taxes isn’t going to help

@@Bell_plejdo568pit does in places like Sweden and Norway

@@Bell_plejdo568p they absolutely have in many countries. higher taxes on the rich sounds good to me.

Did the Buddha said that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

@@tungsongkhai4880what the hell are you on about ?

Too right 🤣

No that’s good, we need less liquor stores in the hood.

Lmao 🤣

There are no legit prison rehab/ ex-con selling schemes; they are SCAMS. I hope he was bettered by this demonstration but, yeah, it’s been dangerous &/or foolish for most who fell for it.

You are an Angel .❤😊❤❤❤

And now you are a mark... gratz

Yr comment made me think. Thank you. Bless you and the gentlemen you helped.

Bless your heart. That was the best thing you could have done for him, he got some dignity back and no matter what the repubs insist I would bet that he didn't return a week or a month later asking for more did he? The repubs are the party of mean. Most of today's problems can be traced back to one person, one year, and one policy. Reagan, 1981, and trickle down economics, which never works because the wealthy who benefit from tax cuts will never let anything trickle down my God that would be socialism a hand out and that's the last thing poor people need. They need to work even if it's for slave wages and that is the problem. Most people living in poverty have jobs but the jobs don't pay enough to survive. Well they say then they need to get educated well fine but somebody still has to clean up the messes left behind by others and there's no reason those essential jobs can't pay a living wage. I'm not saying enough to support a family but certainly enough to support one person. But the owners of this country prefer to pay their labor poverty wages and let the government pick up the slack. So tell me who are the real welfare bums?

The Federal Reserve is the main culprit behind this.

Plandemic

😂 msm is is a huge arm of criminal politicians and corrupted government.

That's what them pos democrat liberal do 💯💯💯

Democrats social engineering thumbs

agreed

There are also no more widows’ pensions. There were no pensions for widows of color then and very little now. There are plenty of missed meals, poverty wages and kids left alone in an unsafe world. Cleaning has a low priority, especially when there are drive bys and people have to sit on the floor to avoid being shot. Your childhood was idyllic. Theirs’ causes undiagnosed PTSD and a live unworthy of living.

addiction

@@aGradeDubstep exactly. When you are an addict you don't care about anything else.

@@angrycannibal6625 Interesting post, Thank you. I can't relate to it personally (never experienced it), but I have seen pensions go the way of dinosaurs. Your post rings true.

That’s deep!

When I grew up in N. Philly, I didn't know we were poor. And some of the scary situations I was put in just seemed normal to me as a child. The thing that struck me most in this video is all the nice cars. Back when I grew up there, few had a car, and nobody who had one would park it on the street, or it would be gone by the next morning.

I’m Close to philly and yeah it’s just the norm when your from this

I am so blessed

When you grow up in it not only are you accepted, it's normal.

Yeah, I’m half British and I’ve visited England several times…. trust me, brother, England and America are two different planets. America is a genuinely toxic culture. I guess we got it from those Nasty ones that set up shop here in the first place! (Capitalism +Religion Kills)

As an American I’d love to see that. That sounds miserable tbh 🥲

Start in Bradford.

@@jamesrobert4106 As it happens, I live in Leeds now and am from Ossett originally. Up until the mid-noughties, some villages near Wakefield (e.g. Fitzwilliam, South Elmsall) had roads that were virtually all abandoned. Those houses have long since been demolished though.

Same in France, our ghettos are big deserts of concrete, few trees, no gardens, big buildings full of misery. And in the vids , even the cars I see look pretty fine too^^ seems that they are not doing this bad in USA, they are just f*cking lazzy and dumb, just have to take a little bit care of their beautifull neighborhoud. Americans ghetto look like middle class European suburbs😅( with more blcks and garbages tbh)

Timothy MacDonnell: I mentioned in another comment that Camden NJ won the award for Most Beautiful City In America in 1948. By the time I was growing up in the 1970s it had already become what it looks like now. It was a combination of two huge employers (RCA and Campbell's Soup) closing down, and the race riots of the 1960s.

This is the worst example of media depiction I have ever seen. But so expected by a Millennial

ya u talking about b more tim?

Signs of better times

Well, here in the Netherlands we have tons of brick streets

I think it's the best hope for these sorts of places. Then in many years or something, they can be completely redeveloped into something new and better.

@@JoePCool14 I've lived in Chicago for the past 37 years and Gary In . is a hell hole since than . There is no hope to idiots who run those places down . You can be poor but you can be clean .

@@WS-zs1ss I thought they were making a revival in places like Chicago and Detroit…?

@@tannerthepanman9202 Gary is not in Chicago . It's a hillbilly hellhole in Indiana .

@@JoePCool14 No! The people had to change or lt'll be the same thing!

😂😂😂

Makes me feel way better about my neighborhood. 😆

Amen ! I am in the eastern panhandle here in West Virginia ( born and raised in these beautiful blue ridge mountains) the rich have started their moves out here ( 50 miles from the sewer of D.C.) The homes here are now so high. We gave yes gave our oldest son our house ( we could have sold it for $300,000 ) my hubby and I said no the home will stay in the family) the crime here in Charles Town isn't bad. I sure hate all the farmland being sold, Apple and peach orchards all gone for cookie cutter houses.

@@tammywines7343 dad sold his part of the land in West Virginia moved to Florida, next to his part was my uncle's, his part went to pay for the old people's home he was put in, the man who bought my dad's property said they sold it cheap, wish he could have bought it I agreed then it would of stayed in one person's family. When I said I was going to look at my uncle's land, he told me to warn me I would be shocked , it would not be anything at all like it was, my uncle's part was a wildlife sanctuary, - they had cut down the trees, most all of them , land divided and left by my great great ( and another great?) Grandma, taxes took the land except what part my dad sold.

Thank you. What an astute and very true statement. Can't judge a man without walking a mile in his shoes.

l like the way you said that,truth is !

I always wondered,what do they get out of that! I guess we are short on hate,in their eyes!

No, Nanakanisurra. These neighborhoods have been like this since the 1950's.

@@muthah3013 Wow, that's even more depressing.

Yes before they became BLK

@@Nanakanisurra These people are renters. People who own the properties and take rents, do not do their moral duty to fix and maintain the properties. It is their responsibility, is it not?

@@muthah3013 Good point.

And judge democrats, liberals, the welfare state, big gov't, the lazy residents who do not want to lift themselves up, yada, yada yada.... the term about four fingers pointing back when you point at others is appropriate here

I agree. I admit I make very harsh but frank comments about these ghettos. But I do want it to get better but it wont.. and it never will. We all want these ghettos to become a safe and flourishing neighborhoods but there are a select few too many that prevent this from happening.

@@shyphyre Republicans made the policies that made these circumstances. Please look up how Ronald Reagan cut grants for programs that helped children and single mothers join the work force. This has little to do with Democrats. Most state legislatures are controlled by republicans and they hate the poor and minorities.

@@evanswatson2989 I lived through the Reagan era and remember those budget cuts the Republicans made. I never cared for him or his party. The GOP still denies responsibility for destroying poor neighborhoods

@@shyphyre One of the biggest problems in these neighborhoods in the breakdown of the family unit. And you can thank the Democrat party for the that. They incentivized women on welfare not to have a father in the home. If they did they would receive less money. Both parties have legislated harmful laws to these communities. Pointing your finger at just one is evidence that you don't understand the whole picture.

yeah criminals aren't typically early risers.

Crack heads dont sleep. They troll all nite. He found an abandoned part of the city at 6a.m. and narrated him a story. This was some detroit hater-aid $hit.

More like they just went to bed!

Import the 3rd world you get the 3rd world

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I know Sarah!!

That's exactly what I wrote these old neighborhoods have rich history. Newly built neighborhoods will look old after 100 year's or less.

Yes, me too. I see all the old cars, the kids running around, occasional leaking fire hydrant in summer...thankfully my home town is thousands of years old and still thriving.

I do that too

I saw it the same way as Sarah.

I'd be curious know what would happen if the homeless actually moved in and lived side by side with those people there. I imagine the homeless wouldn't stand a chance.

That’s funny, the homeless would say thanx but no thanx, I’ll stay at the underpass, lot safer.

Exactly what I was thinking. Tear down and hire and train the locals to build tiny homes for the homeless and affordable housing and grocery stores, pharmacy, training schools. Get the gangs out - hire massive security forces. How can we afford to waste so much money on immigration and refugees when we don't even bother with our own?

Apparently many homeless perfer to be outdoors if they can network for drugs it is a consequence of addiction and there are even more drugs coming over the southern border as we sit here watching this. 99% due to alcoholism and drug addiciton just as it has for a long time with alcoholism.

@@valfletcher9285 Drop the border crossers off there and they will beg for a bus back to Mexico.

No he exploits places where there's no people out and about so he doesn't get hurt 😒😒😒

Hey Phil, I wouldn't call this exploitation. The people who live in these areas are exploiting everything from minors to government programs. You could always provide us with a tour of those really dangerous areas. How about it, tough guy?

@@michaelc.682 In my experience, after a few years of walking through open air drug markets in extremely neglected and poverty stricken neighborhoods (Mostly, but not always, in Miami): Overtown, Pork n’ Beans housing projects (Liberty City), the Triangle a bit in Opa-Locka, and so on, it’s my opinion that there aren’t really any places in America anymore that are unsafe to walk through during daylight hours (provided that you dress appropriately and know how to carry yourself). The drug gangs do a very decent job making sure that their customers don’t get attacked or accosted. It can be intimidating the first several times you do it, but eventually it becomes routine. And once you’re known in the neighborhood as someone who’s just coming on a regular basis to spend a little money, everyone pretty much is fine with you. I mean, I was there often enough that people knew me and sometimes would give me extra bags for taking the trouble to come to their spot consistently without causing problems for them (asking for shorts, drawing attention, whatever). I’ve driven through them and walked through them, even hung out in them for a while making small talk with the people there. Nobody cares. It’s not like people are just there constantly shooting at each other in the streets, in broad daylight. And if they are, they’re not trying to drop some random white boy. REALLY bad for business. Maybe I’m just lucky, but it seems like if you develop even the smallest amount of street smarts, don’t make a fool of yourself out in the drug zone, and mind your own business, nobody’s going to hassle you. Except the police- I had more trouble with them than any of the residents. They know why you’re there, too... All that being said, I quit doing dope about 4 years ago, and I’m very happy that I don’t have to visit these places on a semi-daily basis anymore.

For sure. If he goes down a road with a culdesac he wont post anymore videos he will be the video.

@@Yourmomgoestocolledge and I don't blame him. That's smart on his part.

My house from 1935 it doesn’t look like that it just them not keeping it not fixing the roof

I'm originally from DC, now living in Maryland. DC has an area in South East off south capital street. It's a little run down but its almost plush compared to Kensington street in Philly. Never seen so much homelessness, trash, and people sleeping on the streets. I've been to Philly about 20 years ago but I didn't see it in that kind of condition.

There's a lot of boarded up run down houses, some with collapsed roofs. Government won't tear em down, it'll cost too much and they don't have dumping grounds big enough.

Dead mall videos are also interesting for similar reasons

Yeah no. When I watch these I think of the countless drug house trap house malnourished bums and killings robbing a etc that happened in these neighborhoods. This isn’t a rich neighborhood uphills it’s a garbage dump of a hood. Nothinh much positive happened here .

lol. that is funny.

Thanks for sharing. That’s a tragic and really sad story. I’m so glad for you that it’s only Part of your story you’re not done telling yet. You sound like a good dad. Have a happy life, a great purposeful life. ❤️

The military give us underprivileged kids a way out of bad situations. Glad all went well for you. Sad story but inspiring at the same time. 💪🏽😎

I went and stayed there for an entire week, for a school service trip

"My brother and I ended up in foster care".

I spotted the lovelt houses straight away. Even if poor can still have a standard for ones home. Stop the Govetnment from sending money to other countries and face these issues for their own people.

I noticed that comment also , maybe they are just poor in spirit ,

Having been raised in the Deep South, in areas where there was plenty of poverty, both family and religious ties are still extremely strong there. Both of those are strong defenses against despair - not enough to save people at times, but enough to give them hope.

@@dannyc.jewell8788 ?

What you own doesn't define who you are. Some of the brightest, shining faces, eyes full of love, I found in a small rural village in India, and they owned next to nothing. In my experience, if you have basic needs met, and connect yourself to God, this is the source of happiness. Everything else is superfluous.

Well keep in mind that people have to change first….you could build all new houses where those dilapidated buildings are but within a very short time MOST of those homes will be destroyed, until people can learn to appreciate & take care of what they do have then given them new homes etc is gonna be a waste of time & money.

@@frank-xp6pj It's a sad fact that many don't want to know about, but slums/ghettos are created from within. Yes, politicians and corporations are not exonerated, but the problem mostly comes from the people who call these areas home

😢 I've watched Kensington videos on KZfaq and I know this was 2 years back I'm curious if they are taken. In a small area and know where to go or if it's really gotten that much worse than then or ??? Glad you are a survivor and hope you are doing the best in life you can

@@frank-xp6pj Agree.

@@brianew True. Do normal people leave old tires and garbage piled high in their front yards?

good luck to ya'll 🖤

I know. Americans do not have a realistic perspective on true poverty. The homeless in America are still wealthier than the most impoverished of some other countries around the world. I think the expectations are a bit too high. We all need to be very grateful for what we do have. The entitlement mentality of our culture is a big problem.

Guess I better move to Argentina then. 😄

@@williammunson2508 not sure you got the point...

It surprised me that the first comment I see is a fellow Argentinian. Also remember that the houses in our villas are mostly improvised with scrap metal, wire and wood planks, in the US you get houses of 1 or even 2 stories that are just deteriorated. I'm talking about the NON homeless of course.

Damm Ed. My guess is the cop knew the guy your Dad was beating and would of thanked your Dad if he wasn't blocking traffic.

In the 1940s? Wow. Sounds like Camden went downhill a long time ago.

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@@romaskincare9138 Camden used to be an economic powerhouse back in the day.

OMG. That took me out.

"God only knows what could have happened to me that day. " Apparently, someone could've helped you change a flat tire, which is exactly what happened. This notion of ghetto's being totally lawless and just pure suicide to enter is frankly very misplaced. Most people in ghetto neighborhoods don't give two shits about you, and if you stay out of their business, they stay out of yours.

Wow, you must have panicked at first. I feel for you about dealing with an unexpected tire problem. I do believe that many people are good and that you encountered a person who probably felt very good about himself to help someone. This is love. Thanks for sharing.

You must be an attractive woman, am I wrong? Those are always helped. If you were a guy then totally a different story.

wait, were you babysitting at the time and had to drive into the city to rescue your friend. Are you in fact Elizabeth Shue?

For every good story you guys tell, there’s two dozen that don’t get told, where things turned out exactly how you might expect

Tianamen Square Massacre - June 1989

@@MrFuggleGuggle Yea a tragic massacre that took place in China, and?

@@someguy1865 look dude these are just bad neighborhoods but does not reflect all of America most cities have crime but it’s not like every city the majority are criminals living here the majority are actually not criminals

@@miracleman8022 Exactly, that's why I inserted the word "almost". But overall most cities in fact used to be great places.

Yes because, especially in the North East, rich people would live in cities.

The home owners certainly weren't the poor people.

@@ceegabe1555 most of the rowhomes were always working class neighborhoods, but some time ago working class had decent standards because there was still an industrial presence in these cities

You can. Just need to vote every democrat out of office there.

I totally agree! My own hometown is only a shadow of what it once was. I'm just glad I was raised there as a child before it all went south!

@@michaeljwarren neither party actually cares about the poorer people, they say they care but they're just lying to get our votes.

Good Lord! A cop told you not to stop at red lights!? I would have messed my pants right there!

@@kanejakejimmy Yes, car jackings and robberies he said because there is a casino right there. People get followed home from the casino and robbed so he told me not to fully stop.

Are you white?

@@Irodmel are you?

I’m from Chester and when I was younger, it was a great place to grow up. Political corruption, bad business decisions has turned the city into what it is today. The street you drove down, 3rd St, used to be filled with churches, beautiful homes and children playing in the streets. The three viable businesses that could provide income for the city are considered as Philadelphia businesses and do not hire the residents that live there nor do they provide income to the city. All monies go to Philadelphia.

I’m a mail carrier, 25 years , I’ve delivered in the finest neighborhoods to the ghettos , public housing complex to college campuses , rural and city . I’m in the south so I haven’t dealt with some of the bitter winters the north has just the suffocating blazing heat . I salute my fellow carrier’s that deal with the extremes of these areas .

I was a letter carrier and for 11 years worked in inner-city Milwaukee. It's not so bad, actually because they know the feds come down on folks who mess with gov. employees, and most people dont' mess with carriers because we brought the checks...not pleasant, tho, for sure

Most are wise enough to know a federal felony and want nothing to do with that. Postal carriers really have zero issues in these areas.

From my experience these people generally don't harm anybody that might benefit them, cable TV installer, mailman bringing the welfare check, gas delivery, etc, but come to turn off the elec, turn off the cable, tow the car behind on payments, that's another story.

They want their mail though, I'm sure he's left a lone.

Yes, southern Albuquerque is really really dangerous and full of ghettos. It is one of the highest ranking areas in the country for car theft and its murder rate is climbing. Some parts of southern Albuquerque look worse than like 70% of the ghettos on here.

Not surprised about New Mexico. West Virginia… eh… not surprised either…

You need to visit the Black Belt and Wiregrass of Alabama. Awful. Deserted. Horrible schools.

West Virginia is one big ghetto on a mountain

Yeah

@Autism Family what part of Camden?

@@rowdyboys951 Yes. ...joking aside the worst part was central Camden east of Church's Chicken (with bullet holes in the windows, lol) in the Whitman Park area. Louis street is like something out of a post apocalyptic movie scene, that's where I was almost jumped.

I never actually stopped in Camden for anything, I did however drive through it while driving on the highway in the opposite direction as Philadelphia, on the way to Cherry Hill, and let me tell you it looked really run down.

What state is this in?

@Anthony Coz I wish I had a magic wand.😔

Would you really move into one of those places? I don’t recall seeing bars on the windows. What state do you live?

Yes agree all poor areas have trash lying around and old furniture dumped! Its same in UK

I completely agree! No sense of pride! I know there are some that have just given up due to depression or mental illness or something that doesn't allow them to function on a daily basis, and then there's drugs and they just don't care! But I've always said the same thing! Instead of them rotting to the grown let someone have a chance to make something for themselves! I've always said that their are way too many abandoned houses for homelessness! Especially our veterans!! Let them have at the least a roof over their head! I'm sure there are plenty that would be willing to do the fixing on their own just to be able to have somewhere to call home! And a descent size house could provide shelter to several people at a time! I dunno it's a sad situation! America has raised a generation of entitlement or expect! And they really believe they are owed just whatever it is they want without having to work for it! Oooooh what I could do with a house of my own! I had it once, but life happens! Bad marriage and bad health have meant I had to lose alot! But I know what it is to have pride in the things I've either worked for or have been blessed to receive!!

@@pam164 Really? I live in Maidstone near the River Len and there's nothing like that here.

@@chaosdemonwolf1 Your lucky then. Even when i have been down Lakes there is trash lying around its everywhere? People always go on about England being a dustbin now.