Thank you for stopping and waiting for that big, beautiful dog.

I grew up in Wilkes-Barre (saw my old house in this video!) and it used to be a great place for a family. Since gentrification in bigger cities like New York priced out all the people that could previously afford somewhere to live, most moved inward to NEPA and brought some bad elements with them. Almost all of the people I grew up with have moved out to surrounding areas just to get away from the crime. You read the local news sites and it’s all murder and drugs. Sometimes I really miss what that place used to be and the life I lived there.

IF This Was The "Worst" Part Of Wilkes-Barre Then It's "Nicer" Compared To Most Other Cities!

I grew up in Wilkes-Barre but haven’t lived there for decades. I remember it being a great place to live so it’s depressing to see how run down or boarded up so many places are. Things have changed, including combining GAR, Coughlin and Meyers into one school. That’s just mind-boggling to me. Each school had massive amounts of students when I lived there.

Raised in the area in the 1970's. This area looks pretty much the same. On a sunny day it looks much better. Most of these homes are 100-150 years old covered in 70's siding. Not a hood!

people who are WB lifers will say it's not bad at all and crime and bad neighborhoods are everywhere, etc, etc. this town has been spiraling downward for decades and it actually has a decent amount of street crime now. it's also becoming more dilapidated. this place isn't bad compared to north philly or baltimore, but does that mean these neighborhoods are a good place to live? answer, no.

The house at 2:16 is in the process of being remodeled. It's right at the end of the South Street Bridge and it's beautiful.

Wow you saved me from moving here. Very different from the scenic pics shown on Wikipedia and other sites with info about this town.

Should have stopped for a cut or two of Ricci’s pizza!!!

Grew up there , moved away almost 20 years ago. Sad to see how it is now.

Wilkes Barre was a great place to grow up in the 60s and 70s. People used to take care of theor properties. Families were raised where these slums are now. Its very sad to me.

I think you just drove 80 miles and stayed within an eight block radius.

My wife is from Wilkes Barre . You passed the house that she grew up in . All of the different ethnicities and people who lived there. . 40 yrs ago .

Thank you for bringing back memories. I lived on Columbus Ave when I was little.

They started out driving through the old Okarma-Terrace. I lived there back when they had the cinder walls fencing in the patios......great memories, my has it changed.

I use to live about 45 minutes outside of Wilkes barre and at times would have to come into Wilkes Barre to stay the holiday inn on kidder St.The person I lived with was a doctor at the VA.hospital that sat on the hill across from the Wyoming valley mall!

Unfortunately still live here. It's worse than anyone sees or hears. Downright sad what has happened here

Hood!? All you are showing is the slums. Hood means tough or rough and wilkes barre is definitely not that.

Nepa is the most depressing place to live.

Its honestly pretty quiet in WB. Theres a few sketchy neighborhoods but cops started cracking down hard on crime in 2015. Much better than it was 10 years ago. Theres still drug deals some places but I havent heard gunshots at night in over a year. Its still shitty but really not that dangerous.

Unfortunately I live close to this dying city right up the road in Wilkes Barre Twp....although my end of town is ok let's face it...Wilkes Barre is dead as a city...it makes no money to stay above water because of having so many section eight people and other people who don't pay taxes (you know who you are)....plus countless absentee landlords who just wanted to get out of here. Once upon a time Wilkes Barre was a well known part of the industrial revolution ....

My boyhood home. Grew up on Myers CT, off Jackson Street, right down from King's College. Middle class row houses. Middle class then, shabby looking now. Spent Saturday's roaming Public Square after the kiddie matinee at the Paramount or Comerford theaters. Hotel Sterling, Miners National Bank, all gone now. Once great city, but no more.

This place is depressing. I feel bad for people who want to leave, but feel like they have no out. My advice would be to just get in your car and start driving. Di whatever it takes. I cant imagine feeling stuck there. Wow

Born and raised in WB. "King Coal" and heavy industry built her. Once the mines and the factories closed, it was the death knell for her.

I remember I went up there from NYC with my mom for a couple days to kick dope like 6 7 years ago,i drove around sick couldn't find anything and ended going back to brooklyn and coming right back smmfh, it was a nightmare over there,I'm clean 5 years now but still have that memory of it being all Grey and depressing by like birch up the hill from that bowling alley

love the one side street where the wider sidewalks double as driveways 🙄

I lived in Wilkes-Barre 2 years it was ok went from park Ave in south Wilkes-Barre to north main st in north Wilkes-Barre. I actually had a lot of fun out there. Once bad incident was when a riot almost broke out at ali babas (supposed) last night open. I seen the violence first hand

You shoulda showed Sherman Hills, huge projects

I grew up on Hutson st. Went to GAR. Sad how run down the area has become, not that it was great to begin with.. but it certainly wasn’t this bad.

Around Coal street is pretty bad

It’s not that bad it’s cool city if you mind your own Business

What is the name of those street

Why do all these houses look so bombed out and destroyed?

Plains is a much better area and it’s like 15 mins from here. It sucks cause Wilkes barre used to be really nice

It’s nothing compared to big cities… like Philly.

Kinda surreal seeing it on video instead of in person

Thanks for Video of Wilkes Barre , my former hometown " North Main Street " But from what i hear Wilkes Barre is going sour , down hill " Wilkes Barre use too be a nice city.

This is almost all my old paper route actually

I'm from Wilkes-Barre born an raised I seen good an the bad in those streets an the hood but shit it's everywhere you go but I rep w-b all the way no what I mean I bleed 570 baby

Can't wait to never come back

An area turned bad, shootings all the time.

Family member tried to pressure me to move with them to WB. Looks ok but not for me. Thanks for the tour.

Good job driving the wrong way in the beginning

Hello guys...i applied for wilkes university.i need accomodation near to my collage.and whats the job opportunity at WB

i used to live on park, that whole "city" needs to be redone

Spent my first 26 years of life their left in early 2000’s , lived off park ave , there’s no hoods in wb, go to north Philly if you wanna see a real “hood”

I lived all over the world. This place isn't so bad at all. Most people here are afraid to fly or even cross the river lol. Don't go on what they say. There's always a rivalry here west side thinks they're better than wilkesbarre, even tho no flood gate lol. Scranton is run down. Anyone with two good eyes can see that. It's not bad here. Don't do drugs don't owe anyone money mind your business enjoy your life

Great work bro don't look that crazy

Depressing. There are some nicer parts of Wilkes-Barre, downtown and the square are decent plus all the restaurants hotels and shopping by the arena. This dude stuck to the rough side of town.

Put my hood on da map💯💪🏽💪🏽

I went to visit for the weekend a while back I couldn't even find nun to smoke i went to a bowling alley by by the steam mall train tracks shit was dry as hell I couldn't wait go go back to brooklyn shit dumb boring out there. Back then I was withdrawing like a mf so all I have is bad memory but the people seem cool I wanna go visit soon now that I'm on a clean perspective

Occasionally in Plymouth.P.A and Nanticoke drug deals. Otherwise it's boring here!

Giants Despair coming down it would be a nice View for people too

You no so mamy people complain saying that alot of the wrong people are moving but i moved in this town when there were still majority caucasion and the majority of slumlords are caucasion. I see alot of hispanics moving in trying to renovate houses and rent them out . Bringing bussinesses. The problem isbthat the mayor needs to start cracking down on all these slum lords that jist want the rent but dont want to fix anything granted you do ha e your renters that are disgusting and piggish . I simply hate it here. I want to leave but with the rent prices oit of control you cant find a decent place to go too. Alot of these houses really need to get knocked down and rebuilt. If it was done in newark new jersey wherw im from which helped in alot of areas get rid of crime then it can be done here. They just dont want to. This town is depressing

Def not a hood. Its very quiet in most spots js

Would have loved a commentary?

Park Ave area isn't that bad at all

I still live here

Looks like it would be awful living there.

If Bridgeport conneticut and Roanoke va had a baby

It's more old then ghetto. The video makes it look like the hood. You can walk down those streets and be fine.

I live in Wilkes Barre and its not that bad yes it has all hoods but most of these hoods are not really bad yeah they may look sketchy and have Bloods and Crips here but it still ain't bad

Hood?....not really

Unfortunately i have to call this place home😞

Is it true that Domino's Pizza doesn't deliver in Wilkes-Barre?

Do you ever stop at stop signs?

I remember livin on South Hancock Street

I got hella $$$ out there a few years bacc! Shout out to Sherman Hills, OKC, and the whole South Side!!

"hood" the only hood I saw was dude wearing a hoodie. this is clowns land sir, not detroit.

All the people saying Wilkes Barre not bad, nor hood, personally I think are just out of touch with the streets and oblivious to whats going on around them lmao I know first hand, because I was part of the problem years ago lol by the grace of god did a complete 180 in my life, and a complete different person these days. But I can say for certain theres alot of bad shit that goes down in this little city. I remember seeing years ago, there was a national poll done on the worst cities in the country based off homicide, and drug related crimes via per capita. (And it has certainly gotten worse since then) Wilkes Barre ranked like 2 cities below Compton😂 it seems a much smaller scale, because it is. There are far less people in this little area, so it doesnt seem as bad, or the ones that live here are just used to it. But if you look at the crime rates vs the population of people here, it's actually terrible😫😂

I seen some shit in WB but nit really hood..onky places realky like hood spot sherman hills,hutson n that area not even really happening nomore...

Not even the bad section of town lol

I live outside of wilkes-barre now and the city is a mess. That is just one of many ghetto neighborhoods. The entire town is being taken over by inner city trash. They’re bringing crime and inner city problems to a city that doesn’t need them. On top of it the politicians and completely corrupt. The people pay insanely high taxes and the roads are a mess. You can’t drive without hitting a pothole. The long time residents are all either moving back into the mountains or leaving g the state entirely. I’ll be in the perfect leaving the state in the next few years.

Lol just got pizza from right up the street from here gotta love wb

I got robbed at that McDonald's

I’m not saying there isn’t areas all over every state that night not be so “good” but to say it’s a hood is stupid only place in the fucking whole state where I’ll feel uncomfortable is Kensington 💯

i live in the “hood” lol i saw my house here

Wells St is stunning

Looks like he'll to me

Looks like Philly

I went there 2 years ago: never been back, so bad

I live in Wilkes bare and it’s discussing

I love how he always picks the gloomy days it’s really not bad AT ALL

Omg seeing my project in full display. O karma born n raised. Now reside in Harrisburg. Been living here almost one year before that 5 years in state college. But my pa tags read :da barre." There's my childhood home 305 o karma. Heights nigas u know we run the city. Were awesome ! Shout 2 heights south n end iron triangle entire city Metcalf Hudson ....Harrisburg wb we running the Capitol now !!

WB is a sewer of a city - Scranton is the better of the two cities in NEPA

"Hey neighborhood guy i grew-up on south empire street in the mayflower section of wilkes-barre luzerne-county pa from 1981 to 1983 it's a dog 🐶 gone shame that times are changing in the diamond-city just a dog 🐶 gone shame" 🇺🇸🏙️🤓🤵✝️🛐🙏🕊️❤️🤝.