The suburbs are safer and better schools

Very good job ❤❤❤

I was born in Troy in the 1950s. It was a great place to live. My morning paper route took me through the RPI campus; I'd deliver The Times Record to a lot of the fraternity houses. This was before global warming. In winter, I'd cover a couple of miles at 6 in the morning in below freezing temperatures. Brrrrr.

one of the early maps shown in this video... I could easily pick out my hometown based on the railroad lines running through the area. Small down in Indiana.

As an 'old man' who's lived in the Milwaukee Wisconsin area since 1949, what doomed Milwaukee are the following: most of its large factories were built in the 1880 to early 1900's, before electricity was readily available. Those plants were in dire need of some very extensive renovation to be functional and energy efficient. Labor unions, unwilling to negotiate in good faith, drove companies to places like South Carolina and 'the sun belt'. High corporate taxes in 'rust belt states' were another problem. A lot of push back was developing because of the decades of bad air pollution, the dumping a toxic waste into the earth as well as the fresh water sources the plants needed as 'process water' to manufacture their products.The death blow came with the early 1970's with the OPEC oil embargo. The cost of energy for those old, decaying, rotting, 'turn of the century' plants drove operating costs up exponentially. Labor unions were also vehemently opposed to "automation". Manufacturing in the early 1970's was done very much like it had been for literally 'generations'. Everything was slow, manual labor. Quality control was almost unheard of. Automation meant things became less labor-intensive so unions would lose members (meaning a lot of money). The drive to "the sunbelt" where there were tax incentives, the ability to build energy efficient plants for much less than the cost of refurbishing old 'turn of the century plants' was attractive. Corporations could hire non-union labor, equip their plant with the latest automation which made each part precise and it increased the production output. Manufacturers from Milwaukee to Rochester NY simply "walked away", telling the state to do with the land and its decrepit, decaying plants "whatever you wish". As manufacturing fled, all their suppliers, tool makers, etc. simply went out of business. No workers opted to move to the Southeast. Labor unions collapsed. Tax bases were decimated. Baby boomer college graduated flocked to other parts of the country to seek employment. Crime in the rust belt cities has always been a problem. It remains 'worse than ever' today in the post George Floyd era, even though old buildings and old warehouses are being repurposed into loft condo's and old manufacturing areas are being gentrified and repurposed for more 'urban living'. While engineering and service departments still exist within companies that remained in the rust belt, labor-intensive manufacturing has moved to Mexico because of Clinton's NAFTA agreements. Thanks to Obama's "Trans Pacific Partnership", more complex manufacturing requiring a lot of automation moved to China. Given the internet (or you could simply say 'modern communications technology) suppliers are available from anywhere in the world to ship raw material, piece parts, etc. to manufacturers anywhere in the world. The US has become a financial and service industry hub. It you're a finance guy, engineer, IT guy you're okay. America is no longer the manufacturing giant it was post WWII.

Well done and interesting video Thanks for making and sharing it.

17:27 😂

Not in our lifetime 🙃

Dan white is a Democrat not a Republican if you think he's a Republican then you're wrong.

I moved to Texas and 7 years came back….i rather have cold winters plus amazing summers and springs then super hot summers and still kinda cold winters. Dallas was cool but too much growth, construction, lack of character in new suburbs just never overcame me. I misused my trees and old warehouses turned into breweries and cool little downtowns.

The great lakes region will be the most resilient part of the country to climate change.

Y so much teeth suckin mate? 👀

What about Olympian Andy Bloom? What about Pat Riley? What about Mont Pleasant High School?

And the people voted for Reagan and he fucked the shit out of them, enjoy! Still believe in free-trade.

This is ridiculous. Cleveland is booming, people moved out if city to suburbs, but now back to city

Shenectady new york?

I just came back and it's a cool place. Weird but cool IMHO and I would visit again. I wish that I saw this video first so that I wasn't going in blind lol.

I hope passenger service on the rails Makes better business in the future

I prefer New England or Texas, but I lived in Illinois for four years and it wasn’t bad.

I’ve lived in Syracuse, my whole life and it’s a very nice city not super compact like New York City not empty like utica or Cortland and Destiny Mall, formally known as carousel mall is a nice place to visit and has hundreds of things to do

Dan white snapped he couldn’t take the liberal shift in front of him crazy

Just moved here, a year now.. I like Schenectady.

I'd like to add that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was really more "window dressing" than anything else. Namely-even after it became law-if those who had fled North via the Underground Railroad could prove their having resided on free soil for 7 years, then their masters down South would lose all ownership of them. It was actually the Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sanford, who flung America into disarray. Namely, the chief justice of the United States, Roger Taney, wrote for the majority that statutes of limitations did not apply to "the least-favored race," and thus escaped slaves had to live in fear of repatriation until they died. This led to John Brown's ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, which in turn catalyzed the outbreak of the Civil War.

I live close to Ithaca unfortunately. It’s an absolute shithole.

The "rust belt"... One of the reasons it's called that because of the use of salt on the roads in the winter... In just a few winters, your "new" rust free vehicle shows signs of surface rust and small pinholes in structure... In about 5 years, you start seeing holes the size of quarters or bigger... In about 7 years, you have holes that you can stick your fist through... In 8 years, your sub-frames and chassis components are too trotted out to safely function... I worked on cars for a living after going to college and getting certified... The rusted piles of junk were horrible to work on... No one wanted to spend money to fix their cars properly because they were all broke... States like Ohio had no State Vehicle Inspections... I saw tie rods on trucks held together with coat hangers and duct tape... Brake rotors worn so badly there were no pads and the rotors were worn through the vents... I grew up deep in the "rust belt" of Middle Eastern Ohio on the borders of PA and WVA... It was a GOD awful place... There was NO opportunity and so much bigotry... If you weren't a Catholic or an Italian, you weren't getting hired in the mills... (which were the only decent paying jobs) School teachers and administrators ignored those who weren't "their own"... I joined the military... Went to college again... I retired in NC at the age of 55... (Something I NEVER would have been able to do in the "rust belt") When I visit these cities, I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach... Every one of my friends and family members who are still living there struggle... They have health problems from asbestos and polluted air... And I remember how polluted the rivers and lakes were... (The Ohio River caught on fire for crying out loud!) You're not going to attract people because of "fresh water"... The mines and the steel mills took care of that... And the railroads with their "accidents" are continuing the tradition... You want to live there... You can have at it... As far as I'm concerned, if GOD wanted to give the world an enema, He would start there...

Rust belt cities have good bones.

Nice vid! Would've loved to hear more about Olean. How about it being called "Little Chicago" and how Al Capone use to visit there?

Was the low point on my drive to Vermont

RUST BELT IS W

Piece of crap place

A shit hole

In the city of fresno song s

I'd like to know how Dan White was in prison; if he still felt justified, his comments etc. I know he didnt get therapy there.

Olean is located along the Allegany River. Bradford, Pa is a very short drive and it's the home of Zippo Lighters. St. Bonaventure University is so large, it has it's own zip code. St. Bonaventure was the university that famous Matt Gantt attended. He was drafted by Phoenix Suns, 4th round (12th pick, 59th overall), 1972 NBA Draft.

Been watching The Wire so I was curious

This is a great little documentary about Schenectady. I enjoyed it.

The very availability of fresh water could literally drive people back to these cities. We could see the likes of Las Vegas and Phoenix lose 50% or more of its urban population because of the lack of water.

Albany is the new name given to the Dutch city of Beverwijck in the 1660's

Baltimore, the Flemish city..

Come back strong Baltimore, Maryland 💪🏾

Rest in peace Dan White.

It's a cute little town with a New England feel but the first thing that must be done is to build back like it was before but better upon all those parking lots!

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it definingly extends all the way up to cities like Lewiston Maine (including the forgotten mill towns of new england)

Very interesting video,

Hey Baltimore, please build a wall around your city so your pathetic politics don’t infect the rest of the country.

Milwaukee will be a big city again we r already on the right path and we r in Wisconsin the happiest state in USA 😊

Anyone who lived in Schenectady between the late 50s and mid 90s knows who my dad was. I have lived all over the northeast, but Schenectady will always be "home".

Spent several years in the STNY. Great place and even better people. Had great times there.

Tulare county stand up.