I used to be a home health nurse here and had a lot of patients on the west side. The worst places are the apartments and motels. I went into a lot of creepy apartments and motels. The bed bugs scared me more than the people.

I'm originally from Canton, Ohio.. I love the DIVERSITY in Columbus, Ohio, no matter which neighborhood or suburban area. I couldn't wait to relocate here after retiring from public service after 36+ years... I volunteer at the Church 4 ALL People (Parsons & Whittier)...

Columbus is 240 sq.area miles. There are over 400 neighborhoods in Columbus. You have NO IDEA there are SO many areas where it goes 24/7

Nice to see and hear what's life looks like in this part of US. Thanks for video. Best wishes from Serbia/Europe.

Head back to old Sullivant Ave on the west side. It's pretty bad still... Lots of Franklinton (known to us as the Bottoms), has been ravamped and property values down there in some spots, you can't get away from the low $300Ks. Thanks for checking out our city! 😊

Franklinton was "The Bottoms" I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. It looked about the same back then, anything below Brehl avenue to the river , has been underwater to at least the second floor twice since 1913. I remember 1959 they took my grandmother out of her apartment on the second floor , she walked out on the porch roof and climbed into a boat.

Thank You so much for the tour, , , , born & raised there!!

We lived 2 blocks from the Broad Street exit right there, lol Thanks guys! Been wanting to go visit friends and this really helped :) Safe travels

A lot of the crime in Columbus is located in the Linden areas. That is according to a friend of mine who lives in Columbus.

Thanks to you I'm able to say I did a tour of Columbus, never having left London, UK. Cheers for posting!

The thing is when you try to fix up your house and everything your at risk of being robbed or harassed lol

I liked listening to your thoughts on Columbus, I was born and raised here. I HAD to learn every road and freeway because my dad owned a towing business for about 35 years his business was on north 4th st and east 18th ave (Osu campus area). But I gotta say hilltop is the worst area in Columbus you almost was there at 5:00 if you would of went under that bridge, and Sullivant ave is entertaining if you want some content lol. But I would definitely visit in the summer you will see waaaay more.

It’s really interesting listening to you talk though. Like your opinions but also other things like when you were talking about coming from Cuba and getting furniture.

Nice video ,I live in Rockford ,IL looks about the same in the hood

The west side is a mixture of all Blacks ,Latino and White ppl . There are lots of ppl from Michigan probably due to the economy more jobs here as I've met many who say theres no jobs in Michigan. I've been here in Columbus since the early 90's from NE Ohio and I would rather be here. It's a growing city with lots of opportunity for growth it's up to you. I prefer living on the East side.

My mom and two others were murder in her home. Last year. On hawks and west broad. Your video started literally a block away. Watching her apartment on the left brought back so many memories. But the last memory breaks my heart. Someone killed my mommie. Rih mommie. West side is past dangerous its disgusting.

No disrespect respect but you never went in the hood on this video!

Right near the Florentine, that's a rough area. My mom had a medical episode not far from there, she crashed near a bad area, don't know exactly, but 2 gentlemen helped her, thankfully she was ok, but she totaled my grandpa's van that she had shortly. She was devastated that the vehicle got totaled, but she made it in one piece.

Hilltop be crazy. But I'm in the bottoms currently, you passed my street 2mins in the video.

I lived in Columbus Ohio since 95 I’m 35 now in I love it crimes everywhere in the city but it it won’t bother you if you not bothering it and at the beginning of the video that was a diverse hood it’s like that everywhere

Columbus is the exception to Ohio cities. Growing and expanding while most other Ohio cities are dying.

Just cause you see old houses doesn't mean its a bad neighborhood.

I love and enjoy your KZfaq channel and videos when you travel these great places and drive through neighborhoods. But my question to you is why are you more focused on the urban areas instead of the surrounding cities like good area so something? I don't mean this to offend you just out of curiosity.

It’s so crazy to hear how someone who isn’t from here would see it! It’s interesting to learn honestly. I have lived here my whole life. White and black hoods and everyone mixed together. A lot of bad and a lot of good has happened in these streets in my 31 years!

I absolutely love Columbus. I live about an hour away from there but I have a lot of good memories in the city. All kinds of fun things to do there!

Columbus one of the cleanest hoods hoods. And I'm am from the north east of Ohio. Thinking about moving down there.

I lived in the old Shannon Way Apartments behind Westland Mall in the mid 80’s. It was a fantastic place. I then moved to Dublin in 1986 and that was the last place I ever lived in Columbus area. Even went back from 2014 to 2020

I watch you guys all the time I never knew you guys did a video in Columbus! That's wassup!!!

I work in this area daily for the past 8 years. It’s hard to believe that franklinton is the worst in Columbus 🙄

Ya'll shoulda went through Hilltop. The neighborhood is so bad that cops don't respond to calls there after midnight.

I heard you when you said a Gold finger on every ring 💍😂 but I knew what you meant 😜🤣😅

You went to the west side during the day time. Should have went to Linden or Windsor Terrace Baby Green Bryor Livingston AveCleveland Ave from Morse rd to 17th. Lincoln Park South.

I've lived around Columbus my whole life. You were in Franklinton ( the bottoms ) but you stayed to close to Broad Street. All I gotta say is, head down Sullivant Avenue, Hilltop and the Bottoms. Lots of drugs, prostitution, gangs. They have shootings and overdoses on the regular in those area. Especially Wedgewood Apartments in the Hilltop. Linden is also really bad. And all the Michigan stuff you saw isn't people from Michigan. A lot of people in the hoods root for the football team. It's a cultural thing.

I was born n raised in cols, in the bottoms, I'm watching your video and the area you're in broad st n central isn't the hood, growing up 60's-80's try my old neighborhood Sullivant and s Yale, that's the hood, it was back then and it's worse now. I took my 4 kids there in 2003, as I turned south on Yale Ave all I heard was power locks on doors from my kids lol. They said wow mom this has changed a bunch huh, as I pull up to my old house ( corner of Yale n bellows, the duplex on east side of yale) I said no still looks the same even has same ol paint on the house,in 2011 same area turning same way but went west on bellows came around the curve n was met by men and guns..... it's sad to see all the drugs, guns n hooked down there, altho the hood growing up there were didn't have all the drugs guns n hookers out there, we used our fist n all the ppl smoked weed back then. Thanks 4 sharing, I can pick out old stores n this n that ones house... east of Central is the bottoms west of Central is the hilltop. So broad n Central is hilltop. Higher class folks lived that way!!😮😊

I've lived in Columbus for 22yrs. It has changed from being able to feel safe walking/riding bus, to being afraid for your life just going out to grocery or doctor! Such violence here now. GUN VIOLENCE!! 😢

45:25 Those should just be sensors for the light to know when to change. Pretty sure you maybe figured that out by now

maybe the Michigan plates are there because Michigan has different need for your car to pass inspection, or cheaper insurance there ? just asking if that's the reason

If you ever do another video in Columbus go to the hilltop, the east side, and linden because they are all pretty bad.

One more, Sullivant avenue over by Wedgewood on the west side that's where the homeless are. Lot's of them.

You missed the Hilltop area and if it was nighttime in the summer you would have seen more 😮

Columbus isn’t that bad. Being from Cincinnati, We used to love to go to Columbus to get out of Cincinnati lol. Most of these cities aren’t like they were in the 90s. Most of the hoods are gentrified now and the urban ghettos we used to know no longer exist for the most part.

It’s quiet cuz you in franklinton at 1 in the afternoon. it don’t open up til 10 pm usually

Dang I grew up here at Central and Broad.... Man I have memories on all these streets. (The Bottoms)

In Columbus there's about one Michigan fan for about every 8 to 10 Ohio State fans. BTW, it's Ohio *State*, not just Ohio. Because there's also Ohio University down in Athens. Big party school.

Glad you’re liking Ohio! People have no idea how nice it is here. It has it’s problems and bad areas but overall I love my state. Come up to Cleveland, Akron and Canton area. Canton would be first then Akron then Cleveland.

I was born in Columbus and have lived all my 36 years here…on every side of town at some point 😂. A good portion was right here in Franklinton…also known as The Bottoms. It used to look a lot worse! But bc it’s so close to downtown the city wants it to “look” more appealing. So people that aren’t living at poverty level have been buying up houses left and right and remodeling them (which is great) but most of the drugs or “traps” have been pushed further up broad, also known as The Hilltop. Drugs are soo bad here…but then again drugs are bad on EVERY side of town here! Drive through here when it’s warm outside, deff will be a lot more people out. Regardless idk if I would want to live anywhere else…the quiet alone would be a lil scary 😂

yeah asking google to take you anywhere is never a good move and you were right on Livinston too.. if you knew about that particular street you'd know exactly where to go

Columbus is a great city to live in. It's mostly clean and it feels welcoming. Best city in Ohio!

One of the worst for just nasty neighborhoods in the 50s and 60s was called Flytown , it was just north of the downtown market area and west of the fish markets. It is now called Victorian Village

I grew up in Columbus,the worst is east Livingston ave.east Main St just from down town.i hated delivering to those places.especially at night.....Go Bucks

I’m from Columbus, OH you started in 2 of the most neglected areas Westside and Parsons ave. Infinity 99 is a good hairs store🤷🏾‍♂️. Honestly I lived about 12 miles east of downtown

that peking wok restaurant you pull up to at 11:06, they actually just recently found a dead body in the dumpster in the back less than a week ago….

Oh my gosh dude I'm driven those streets. I actually carried mail about 30 years on the west side as a carrier. We were told that in in Bexley area it's bad there's a section called Uzi alley you were not allowed there after 4:00. Where you're driving yeah bad at night

Real hoods not captured, just old places.

I live on the Hilltop area of Columbus, Ohio. It's not boring!

U drove past my house in the beginning I lived for 5 years and hardly heard, seen anything I lived in Columbus my whole life mainly on the westside and it's not has bad has many people make it out to be fr

It doesn't cost 400k for a house in a nice neighborhood in a suburb. Even a nice suburb. The suburbs are really nice, nicer in the north half of the city mostly.

College towns always have diverse neighborhoods even in the south

You said your uncle had "GOLD FINGERS ON EVERY RING". your slip up was on the second time you said it . I just found it funny.

You might as well come up here to Cleveland next.

You got to hang out at night in literally any neighborhood close to downtown, get out the car and post up with someone from there for a while in July or August when its hot and everyone is out...its different from other hoods but shit pops off quik, lol hang out on New Years and enjoy listening to the shots going off from every side of town

Try in the summer tho when it's a lot warmer and people are outside more

You've got a stable economy because of Ohio State along either it being the state Capital.

Livingston and my daughters old hospital lol If you took a right and went down about 2 miles you would've probably seen the wall of shame and the corner store where the walkers and dealers be at

I lived on the hilltop a long time. And a lot of my people still live there. It’s really bad people dying every single day everyone’s killing eachother … Prostituting EVERYWHERE drugs EVERYWHERE . Thankfully I moved out of there but it’s just getting worse. If you would’ve kept going straight instead of turning at the very Begining you would’ve hit the hood hood . Lol

Anywhere a metro phone store is crime is inching its way in

I only visited Circleville and near the Columbus airport. Man, I'm glad I didn't see these areas.

bro ended up on the southside...really gotta go to the hilltop if you wanna see grimy

Hilltops, bottoms, linden area, East side, etc…

I grew up there and graduated from OSU. If I hadn't gotten a scholarship to a NE prep school for 3 yrs, I would not have been able to handle OSU. Cols schools are very bad. Many bad houses but overall survivable compared to Dayton's west side OMG or Cleveland. I was a gas station attendant's son who got a full ride in prep school travel and all, then got a bachelor of science degree in aero engineering and an ms in aero science. Became an aero engineer for the usaf. I couldn't afford to retire before age 65, because ss didn't give me enough to retire on. So I camped in the woods in Maine Tampa Dayton Columbus and others until I was too weak from age to go on. I collect a good SS check had to wait until I'm at death's door stoop. --don blankenship federal aerospace engineer par excellence (ret'd). Oh yeah, and there are aliens

Where is everybody? It's 1 PM and I dont see anyone walking around.Except for that one girl at 1:56 dancing on the corner of that intersection. Light traffic. At the start of the video it looks/feels like a ghost town.

Columbus hoods were way worst back from 2000-2010. Crime was much higher, but there was less murders. More gangs tho.

I'm from Columbus, Ohio The infamous Uzi Alley (Greenbriar) not Green Bryor 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣🤣to be exact born & raised... I currently reside in Birmingham, Alabama but u missed the real hoods... the westside is really not that dangerous... just dirty 4real... it really goes down on the east, southeast, & Northsides

I lived in Columbus for 25 years. Columbus has ALWAYS been good to me. I moved there October 1995, and earned a GREAT career exactly 1 month (Nov 1995) after moving there from Detroit. I raised my 3 children there without any family support (because we had no family there), and 2 of my children still live there. Columbus grows and flourishes continuously. I always tell people, if you cannot make it in Columbus Ohio you cannot make it anywhere. Out of the 25 years I was there, I built my own business for 17 years. I now reside in North Carolina. If you decide to move there I pray you find Columbus as fruitful as I did. Cool resourceful City.😎

I don't expect Columbus to be all that bad simply because it's the State Capital of Ohio. Therefore mostly everything will be up to par. Come visit Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, or Toledo. You'll see the difference.

Worthington ohio here 🤞🔥⛽️

Go under 70w and up the hill to the hilltop

Rape,theft rates including car theft rates are overtly higher in Columbus Ohio

Each side of Columbus has bad neighborhoods for their own separate reasons fr. You def should’ve checked out some of the other neighborhoods while you was out here. And imo the closer to downtown the worse the neighborhoods are lol..idk why but they are.

Columbus is a good city, but like all cities in the USA, it has problems. The problems could be fixed, but it can't happen with a high unemployment rate, less tax money coming in to make the very expensive infrastructure replacement and maintenance. The crushing real estate prices. NO REAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION is a problem. It saddens me to hear over and over again about teens found shot in Columbus. FUN FACT: The building on the right, (at 25:47) the one just before the green building is where possibly once stood the B&T Metals building. They built parts for the WWII Atomic bombs there, and this was of course a secret. Even the workers didn't know what they were making these parts specifically for. When that building was razed, it was found to be contaminated and had to be cleaned up.

I lived on the corner of Whitehead and Harris on my camera I got drug deals, murder etc Mound streets pretty bad whitethorne, Belvidere all this around the same area where I grew up really bad now. I loved growing up in Columbus. Lots of sports in the day. All drugs in parts now. Awesome video

Try coming back out here at night time. Like around 2 am.

Wow! Haven't in that hood for 14 years. Children's hospital is close by

East main st going towards Livingston ave is hood af also S parsons ave. Hilltop/bottoms

I left Columbus as a kid. It wasn't til I grew up lived in several states did I realize that I grew up in the hood! Cleveland Ave is my hood! Its the only Columbus I know well!

Its 1 In the Afternoon, People don't start coming out till like 5.

Should of drove through the Hilltop and north/south Linden. Worst areas in the city. And don’t move here, too many outsiders moving here making the cost of living skyrocket

Born and raised in the hilltop and bottoms.

Every time he said people hanging out they was at the bus stops!!!! 😂

Damn I lived n the bottoms my whole life n just moved months ago. Josies pizza is what I grew up on

Funny watching you drive by my house

Lol my guy in the bottoms

I've never seen a white hood until I went to Columbus. Here in Cincinnati, all the "hoods" & ghetto areas are predominately black neighborhoods. If it's predominantly white, it's typically the suburbs (or a trailer park 😆)

I was waitin for him to get out south 😂😂

Go to wedge wood on hilltop

You was so close to the hood but didn't go...you gotta go closer to SULLIVANT AVE...then go check out Wedgewood...THE WORST westside hoods

I live right down the street in downtown Columbus. I frequent that Family Dollar often. It’s not really “bad” just drug infested and ran down but it’s not the worst…should’ve taken them up north Columbus. Worse by far lol

I wish Phillips coney island hotdogs was still there....come back to me Phillips coney island....( once there were two on W. Broad there...and one on N. High st. In the short north....)

I remember uzi alley. Cops wouldn't go down there. They tore all that down though years ago.

And Cleveland avenue that you're looking for you can hit it from where you're at pretty quick but then you got to keep heading north a little bit once you start passing Mount Vernon and s***should be quite entertaining till it softens up again about Morse road