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.
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
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.
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.
Baldwin County is a great place to live and raise family. I was born and raised in Pensacola and its sad what has happened over the last 10 years there.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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
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
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 😂
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
Love Pensacola and there are many areas that are run down. They won't be for long; investors will buy them up and they will sell. Pensacola will be the next Miami one day.
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.
I also live in Pensacola... notice the "poor" parts of town all have nice cars out front. Compare that with say, Kensington Philadelphia or downtown San Fran... yeah... I'll take the poor parts of Pensacola over the poor parts of major cities anyday.
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.
Thanks for showing the REAL Pensacola! All them other RUclipsrs trying to play up Pensacola!
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
Fellow Pensacolian and new subscriber! Trying to shed some light on corruption within our government!
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.
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.
Baldwin County is a great place to live and raise family. I was born and raised in Pensacola and its sad what has happened over the last 10 years there.
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.
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.
The saddest part of these videos is that churches are also being abandoned. Thank you for the video.
Thanks for watching Vicki! At first I wasnt sure if people liked to see them or not. There's SO many out there abandoned or just falling apart
Im not a christian but even for me it´s weird to see ...
The poverty is palpable 😢
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.
Strange how poor folk can afford tall rims on their cars.
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'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.
I'm moving there in a month from Washington state. Hope everything works out for you
Idk your budget but…check out pace, Milton, and Cantonment. Most of the sketchy areas are in west Pensacola.
Honestly if you go across the bay bridge to Gulf Breeze its nicer than Pensacola, but is a different county.
North and northeast part of 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.
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
very nice singer!
It's some nicer areas but they are more expensive. God bless the people living in those hoods, especially the children 🙏🙏
I once lived in there, where did all the palm trees go. kinda strange, no palm trees
Downright prosperous compared to other places in higher elevations of the rust belt.
I absolutely love your channel.
Thank you so very much!
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
Love ❤️ your videos cool 😎 👌 thanks 👍
Thanks so much for watching!
Some of the buildings remind me of Army barracks!
Wow 😮
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.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Time, greed, and secrets. that's what happened.
As always awesome content thanks again WOW looks like a apocalypse
Thank you John!
While I've certainly seen much worse this doesn't look like a very nice place to live. Rather mundane and boring.
It is definitely a boring area if it weren’t for the crime!
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.
What are the bad areas in Pensacola
They are scattered around and between the nice areas.
What struck me most was the nice newer cars. Hell, I work full-time and couldn't afford a car like those....
I always notice that too.
@@carlbentley80 great minds think alike! LOL
1:05 this looks like base housing
I want franchise in Pensacola
I would love to visit this place. Something about it,maybe it needs more flowers and gardening etc. I love a challenge ❤
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 had to hit pause when i seen the red 68 Galaxie
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.
So...
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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
Love Pensacola and there are many areas that are run down. They won't be for long; investors will buy them up and they will sell. Pensacola will be the next Miami one day.
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.
I also live in Pensacola... notice the "poor" parts of town all have nice cars out front. Compare that with say, Kensington Philadelphia or downtown San Fran... yeah... I'll take the poor parts of Pensacola over the poor parts of major cities anyday.
How much is redlining contributing to these areas?
Good grief 😢
Reminds me of a coo coo cal song 🤔
Какое унылое место! Будто это концлагерь
I live in pensacola and they are fixing up a lot of these areas especially the alphabet streets.
Nobody outside. But around the corner Beer store😮😮 it's ghostly in the daytime image nite time. 😮😮😮
Fix the run down areas of blight put new homes business
I've always preferred coke
I've always preferred Pepsi. 😊
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.
Lifr happened sorry i live in florida and this is bot how it looks
Florida happened
I wonder what these communities would look like if American gang culture didn’t exist?
who are the owners of these empty houses?
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Trashee' city ...
The way my jaw dropped