I grew up in a town of 100,000 just southeast of Dawson (circa 1972) I live in the suburbs of Atlanta now. After 40 years have to deal with traffic here, I would love to move to a small dirty town like this.
This is my hometown and Its definitely peaceful and everyone for the most part come together as one. We don’t have a lot of restaurants but then you have US as people who support one another so we help each other by supporting the community business. As a child we were able too be just that children go as we pleased. Over the years yes housing has went down tremendously but it’s home. The crime has went up a little more than we have expected but we get through hard times like that together. It’s really not a bad place
The appearance of a place does not mean it's bad but the appearance makes people wonder why , they don't take care of the property they live in. It does not matter if a home is small or old but people should learn to take pride in their homes to make it look clean and cared for. There are many places all over the US that looks uncared for, unkept with trash in the yards , houses that need just some tlc. It makes a big difference on how people feel . If a place looks bad, it's just a normal reaction to think that the place is bad because of it. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. I don't care if one rents or owns it if a place is small or large, but people should take care of the places they live in.
But all that doesn't make good click bait. Social media has made people quick to judge these days. I grew up and live in Georgia and I am constantly had to tell my kid"this isn't ghetto it's country these people have a great life"
This place needs real taking care of... I can't believe people actually live there.. Look at the state of the place... What is the reasons for this place to be in this CONDITION? NO JOBS? LAZINESS?
Ride through the other parts of Dawson- the whole city isn't like this. And at least we dont have the crime rate of a big city. Just peace and quiet and fresh country air!Dawson Strong
You know you are in the deep South when cable dishes are outside the house in the ground of the front yard. God bless these people (seriously). Everybody has a different life story! Much love and much respect from Brooklyn, NY.
You're talking about satellite dishes? They install them like that EVERYWHERE in homes. Less sensible areas closer like in Northeast sometimes get them on the roof but they're easier to adjust when they are in the yard.
Shit if u a black american person in ny, more then likely u got fam that live in certain parts of the south that look like this most BAS live in the rural south …
Gday from Australia. I'd love to go to the south if I went to America. I can just imagine it. Blues music, juke joints, iced tea, pick up trucks and good ol fashioned southern food and hospitality. Thanks for the video.
I'm from Dawson And One Thing You Can Say Is That The Whole Town is Like Family. If One Family Hurt We All Hurt. There Are Some Nice Areas In Our City. This Person Just Rode Through The Areas Where Old Houses Were And Hardly Anyone Stays In Them Areas. We As A Town Love Each Other. Like Pac Say We Might Fight Amongst Each Other But I Bet You Can't No One That's Not From Here Come Here With The Bs. One thing About Our Town Is Small and Ran Down In Some Places BUT THE LOVE FOR OUR CITY IS BEAUTIFUL ALL OVER. WE LOVE DAWSON GA IT'S OUR HOME TOWN AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE FROM DISCO CITY
As he drives by every house I try to put myself in the shoes of the people that had to live there and what it was like. At the best and worst times. I think the overgrowth of the south city's compared to our home town Detroit is what's different and separates us. But we do have that kind of spaced out grassy areas an fields where the grass an trees have over taken the houses. That's what gives it character. Love to see the differences. Stay blessed yall
I was born and raised there. I can tell you that about 98% if those homes are rentals owned by a couple of prominent business men in the city. I noticed he panned away from the nicer homes on those streets or kept riding up and down the same ones in different directions. Anyway, Dawson is on of the best kept secrets in S.W. Ga. when it comes to quiet country living and affordable property. However the poverty level is high. Like most areas jobs have shut down or relocated.
I was looking for someone to comment on that he turned the camera towards the worst looking homes and even sped up a bit going by a few with nice yards that seemed better kept.
@@robb2055 you are so right about that he go somewhere so you can see the bad house are ppl rent not own iw born in Demopolis Ala I no how it is back in the days
It's weird watching this in England because the people living there obviously don't have much money, yet here properties like that - detached and on a good-sized piece of land would cost a fortune.
@@nauticanaughty-ggibson3928 Englads currency has more value than Americas…i used to trade this kid $20 for 20 pounds so he could buy weed and id take the 20 pounds to the bank and exchange it for dollars. 20 pounds would usually come out to $27 or somethin
@@nauticanaughty-ggibson3928 No one can buy a house in England with the dollar it would have to be converted to GBP Einstein and the British Pound is worth more than the American dollar. Furthermore you couldn’t be further from the truth, the real reason why houses like that would cost a fortune in England is because we barley have any land here, meaning that houses will be more expensive due to the lack of land that we have to further expand on. Basic law of scarcity.
@@nauticanaughty-ggibson3928 well yeah people in America dont use English currency youd have to exchange it at a bank. I believe its very similar overseas as well. But that doesnt change the fact that their currency is valued more than Americas. $1 is less than 1 pound understand??
I was born in the sticks of Georgia. We had approximately 85 acres of land. It was peaceful, loving, gracious, god fearing aura! Country living is cool!
that’s because it probably has a 1/10 of a cities population, streets are gonna be clean when they’re empty, also not as many stores to buy and then throw the trash on the ground
I was born in a city like this in Mississipp, I now living in Los Angeles, I miss those peaceful and safe times, A neighborhood where people care about each other is priceless. the average house is over a million dollars I still long for that peace and quit and quantity and quietly of many years ago living back in the south
For all y’all in the comments if you don’t know anything about Dawson then keep quiet I’m from Dawson I grew up there and just to let y’all know you’ll find the most sweetest and nicest ppl there yea it may be old and it may look dead there but it’s peaceful
Love your videos man, I’ve done travelled all around the U.S wit u, makes me feel like I’m there,😂😂 even doe I’m laying in my bed watching this. I love traveling and seeing new things, this is also a way to escape.
Spent my high school days in a town not too far from Dawson, GA . . . . Pelham is along the same line. Small and rural; down home and friendly. The only downside is the crime rate has skyrocketed! Real shame since everyone in these small communities usually know and most times, related to each other.
It is man. My family is from Albany and my grandma lives in Dawson but she's way out there by herself. Lots of places look similar in the south. I've made quite a few trips through the south. Some sketchy places but it's a scenery.
Tenho um filho especial com síndrome de dow ele passa horas vendo seus vídeos eu acho que ele imagina estar dentro do seu carro vendo as ruas .i from Sao Paulo Brasil .
Remind me of my home town in ga,people loved each other stuck together actually I miss those days wish I was financial able to rebuild my city God knows peace is much better than wealth.
I was a librarian at Kinchafoonee Regional Library in Dawson from 1977 to 1980. I knew many fine people in this community. It will remain part of me the rest of my life.
I kinda like how chill it is with a hood in the countryside like that… I’m sure typical hood shit goes down often but at least it seems mostly peaceful and not that run-down or dirty.
I love Georgia. Some of the kindest folks in the world live here. Sure, in this clip, the houses might be run down, but that could very well be because the government wastes money on helping people in other countries when it really should be taking care of its very own citizens. Hardworking American citizens deserve to be helped. How many well paying jobs are in this area? How is the educational system? I have a good idea-and it is dismal. More jobs need to be brought into our very own communities; more after school programs that provide tutoring in math, English, and science need to be provided to us in these communities. Truth is I grew up in an area not too different from this one back in the 1970s. We helped each other as neighbors; I actually miss the feeling of community. People would drive through and roll up their windows, wide-eyed, thinking they were in danger. We were just decent, hardworking folks that didn't have a whole lot of money. Lack of money doesn't mean a person is bad or lazy; it sometimes means they don't have the resources to fix their place up. Charlie, I would like to see you present your research to Congress; our politicians are our employees and they are failing us. They work for us, yet they do nothing for us. If I performed my job the way politicians do their job I would have been fired a long time ago! Thank you so much for exposing poverty in the United States. (P.S. the South isn't dirty; it is quite lovely, and it has the best people in the world). Of course, I am right partial to the South since it is my beloved home. Thank you.
I grew up in Augusta , Georgia . The houses here in the downtown area are similar . I love the style of older houses . Big front porches , big kitchens where family gathers around the kitchen table .
Doesn't look dirty to me....looks likes some neighborhoods here in Kansas...nice roof over there heads...houses could uses some remodeling but they does have a a place call home...Thanks 4 sharing 👌🏾👌🏾💯💯💯
That town will always be a part of me. Terrell county prison for 2 1/2 years. Rode those streets on work detail almost everyday. What you don’t get to see is all the miles of dirt roads in that county. Always will have some good memories of that quiet little town.
My home town. Just had a triple homicide. Back in the day it was known for violence. Home of Otis Redding and Elijah Mohammed founder of the nation of Islam original in Detroit
So many negative comments! I live in a run down trailer. I consider myself blessed because I have a roof over my head. So many people out in this great, (sarcastic), America we live in are homeless and hungry. Now that's a shame!!! All of you people putting down these people should be ashamed of yourselves. Not everyone is materialistic and needs to live in a big fancy house. And not everyone wants to live in the city with all the noise, pollution, and crowded conditions either.
This is absolutely a great country! Problem is far to many people expect everything to be done for them. I’m sure they get plenty of handouts in that neighborhood. Being poor is no excuse to live like shit. Take some pride in oneself, have a little work ethic. Paint the house, clean the porch and yard, it’s quite simple and cheap.
There are parts of cities like that everywhere! I'm poor but most don't have to live like that we make ourselves busy cleaning up! Then there's no time to be finding trouble to get in and yes I know a lot of people are elderly but surely they have some family and can help them even neighbors helping neighbors!
Hey, I just drove through Dawson a couple weeks ago! I was hungry and stopped at a Taco Bell in Albany afterward. I kid you not, I ordered a Crunchwrap Supreme, and literally ALL they gave me was a tortilla with lettuce!! That’s it! 😂
I remember Dawson Georgia when the factories were up and the people had places to work. Restaurants and filling stations. Church. Schools. So many people died there . The Pandemic ravaged the people of this city! They died like flies and they are still dying!
Being from the deep south subconsciously remind you that you are from the deep south everyday.. it's weird that that spirit is so strong. ...when southerners display how we feel about the south it's genuine iono I guess u gotta be from here to feel the type of pride we feel...I don't know if it's the ancestors or what but it's something that knaws at your spirit and soul everyday being from this dirty south.. Southeastern United States is our home indigenous to this land we are ,I mean I can feel it we are not who they say we are the feeling of being born and raised down here will tell you who you and we are.. .Birmingham,al checking in maneeeee!
There stretch of hundreds of towns like this across the deep south states. It's called the "Black Belt region" given its name because of the soil but also coincidentally these towns have high door black population. They are in areas that have a high slave population back in the day, and many didn't have a chance to migrate.
@@KB-ke3fi Not all of Georgia's soil is red clay 😂and lots of blacks never migrated. Do some research. Definition of the Black Belt "The rich, dark soil of this region helped agriculture thrive. Booker T. Washington is credited with popularizing the name of the area that spans 11 states from Texas to Virginia and runs through Georgia as 'The Black Belt.' Political analysts and historians continue to use the term Black Belt to designate some 200 counties in the South from Virginia to Texas that have a history of majority African-American population and cotton production."
I love the country life. My family from Turner county. Ashburn georgia. Blacks on one side of tracks and whites on the other. Same way in most major cities.
@@tashabr801 Yeah, there are articles about "Reverse Migration." A lot of the big industrial Northern and Midwestern cities black people moved to back in the day are in shambled and lacking jobs with poor quality of life. Middle Class blacks are moving by the driveway to Metro ATL, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Raleigh, and to a lesser extent Nashville. Lower cost of living, more bang for your buck when buying property and better job outlook
Looks like a great place to live. I mean that seriously. Take away all the hustle bustle, money chasing, trying to beat out the next person.. Give me this southern comfort. A Peace of mind , a old wooden porch, a cold glass of Arnold Palmer and Gator Nuggets with sweet heat for dipping and I'm Gucci!
Makes me very sad to see this and drop a tear. As these places and people have very high and good potential to better themselves and this place. God Bless 🙏
@@TheOnlyOneStanding8079 I appreciate your input. Being I'm an Indian man myself which is close to Asian , and could say the same . My people would turn it into a new housing project. So just saying these people have potential too, if they really wanted to try hard. But unfortunate it has to be this way :( . But God willing one day , that may change
@@omsh4939 I don't live in India. I'm a Canadian born Indian Punjabi male. Most of my family members over there are pretty decent and well off. But I know what you mean still, being I've been there couple times as a kid before
@@TheOnlyOneStanding8079 once again , I appreciate your realism. Just for clarity purpose , are you from Georgia ? I'm from Toronto Ontario Canada, where places like this are being taken over by decent to super expensive projects, it's almost like Toronto is turning into New York, New York.
People sleep on the small town struggle. All the attention goes towards the slums in and around the big cities. I promise you life is harder out there than it is in the city due to the extreme lack of resources and opportunities that are in cities.
💯I've always said this. I look at slums around ATL like damn yall only a few miles from some real nice areas. You can get a somewhat decent job at some factory or somewhere. You got trade schools and colleges all around. These people literally be living 1 to 2 hrs away from the nearest city that even has 100,000 people
@@PlaylistKing478GA no cap my family from the country some of them folks out there really aint got shit and stranded hell i grew up heart of atlanta opportunities are endless even if yeen got nothing that country shit different i respect the hell out them boys fr
Been to Atlanta, Augusta, and Griffin. Out of the 3 Augusta was the most beautiful. MLK drive in Atlanta looked like our MLK drive in Milwaukee back in the day.
I'm 62 years old , born and raised in Augusta , Georgia . When I was a little girl ,Augusta was a beautiful town . Big trees lined the streets . City employees kept Augusta clean . There were parks for children to play and families have cook outs . Sadly August's government is destroying Augusta . Crime and real estate has sky rocketed . At the rate it's going and if something isn't done the downtown area will become a ghost town .
I wouldn't mind having one of those houses. I'd fix it up as much as possible. Grow my own food in the back yard. Have peace and quiet and honest down to earth neighbors. Way better than what I have now in NYC.
People here have to drive to Alabama or the closest biggest city with job opportunities to work which will probably be a chicken poultry and you have to graduate to get a good job which would probably be a correctional officer. They be scared to make big things happen like moving to the city and start fresh. Some will and never look back
Actual it's like every other city in the United states, I live up North and my city is same way, parts of it beautiful, parts of it is decent, and the other part is tore up from the floor up! I grew up in the ghetto to, so I'm use to seeing neighborhoods looking like that. But what I don't understand is how a country so rich allow any part of their cities to get this bad. Well where I'm from we complain so much that they are renovating our part of the city now and it's starting to look a lot better, plus more businesses are starting to come back to the neighborhood, which is generating more money into the community. I hope that their city council will start cleaning, and building up in that community, because it's sad how a Country so rich would allow a group of people to live so poor. The hate need to stop.
The streets are clean for the most part... don't see trash strewn along the roads... like I have always heard... do what you can... till you can do better...GOD 🙏 bless you all...I haven't always lived where I live now...
The old trees are so beautiful. All the yards are cut. I see nothing but a good ole area that's in walking distance to town. I love old southern towns like these. Folks used to know how to look at & tear down and repair their homes. Is there a Home Depot nearby?
This is my hometown and this is funny because you purposefully drove through the worse part I'm guessing for VIEWS. Dawson is just like any other small town you have some great areas and some bad, your video is not a good representation of my hometown but hey that's the world we live in, people always post NEGATIVE or what's gets the most views. I relocated to a major city and it's the same way here some good parts and some bad, the only difference is entertainment. I'm curious, what were you hoping to accomplish by your false and biase video of my hometown. This reminds me of how for years the media only showed the WORST part of Africa and once people became "woke" they now see the truth.
People didn't become "woke" with Africa. Some African countries became more stable and a little more prosperous over time. You don't need the media to show you what is like. You can Google current images any time. They are still Third World nations full of poverty, crime, diseases, corruption, no education or sanitation. That is the truth.
@@CBatista1234 We have these same ills in the U.S. just not to the extent it exists on the African continent. Take corruption, and I have been to West Africa five times. There a public official might openly ask you for money. Not so here. Such an act would have them facing a judge. Instead we allow the wealthy to donate large sums of money to those who govern us. They then serve their benefactors instead of those who voted them into office. In other words here it's legal corruption. Each time I visited I noticed improvement. The day will come, my thoughts only, when Africa will become one nation whereupon the west will have to give it a place at the table. It won't have much choice since Africa will probably own the table.
That is an awful title. Most of those homes are modest that is true. Some are just abandoned. But if you must live in a $600,000 home in the suburbs you will have to work and suffer and make yourself sick, then die early. The real problem is culture. Many of us are never content and turn to crime. Materialism kills.
It looks just like any rural town. Houses were in order. No grafittis. No trash around and they even have trash containers. The grasses were not mowed but tolerable to some level. It looks quiet also.
Very nice if those houses were painted and little renovated they look nice the streets r clean the most important thing it is not to have hateful neighborhood ...
This neighborhood is not the dirty old south. It is filled with old houses probably built in the latter part of the 19th century or very early 20th century and the owners have passed on or might be in a nursing home and there's no one to see after the houses and land. I did not see one piece of police crime scene tape or the police at a neighborhood disturbance. There was not an area packed with so much filth where a special meeting has to be called for health reasons. If you want to see abandonment, dirt, and filth, then come to Philadelphia where a huge part of the city is like that. Can't no one say Philadelphia is a forgotten city. I live two blocks from a main college campus and four blocks away is an entire vacant housing project with two empty high rise buildings. I'll gladly take one of the houses in Dawson, Georgia and have the necessary repair work done to make it livable or I might even take one as is and go from there. It is sad to see Dawson like that, but I'll make sure I pray for it like I do Philadelphia.
Not likely! A roof, doors or windows are pricey not to mention a new furnace or water heater. Without a community based program no conventional lender will finance repairs or upgrades
As quiet as it kept Dawson is still suffering from the damages caused by hurricane Michael A few years back. I went there in 2018 for my cousin funeral. It was still in a mess. Trees down and all.
This is so sad to be called the forgot ten people that is harsh l pray that God will work a huge miracle and bless these sweet people with a way to move to a better urban area they deserve better than this everyone deserves an opportunity to live in a descent home and to not be looked down on no matter what no ono should be known as the forgotten that is very disturbing to the spirit God Bless this community always 💕 with love ❤️ and care this is Geraldine Walker from Saginaw Michigan
Your prayers have come true! They have every opportunity to better themselves and escape poverty. Now it’s up to them to take advantage of those great opportunities.
It looks peaceful, I love small towns, the neighborhood is not that bad, zi love the old houses. It probably is a wonderful place to raise children…It may need upgrades, But dirty that’s a strong discriminatory word, an attack upon poor people…
Well I just seen several Satellite dishes 📡 on them homes, and trash cans just like mine, so how 'bout everybody get together and always have a painting party. I'll bring my guitar and some tater salad or something 👍🇺🇸 Hey, I'm not kiddin' around here.
You know if people would network together, you could fix these homes up, A non profit rural grant would be good. There plenty of great ideas to do these things. I live in South Carolina, Greenville county in the Piedmont areas, and it country too, but more businesses. Dawson people you can do this network together.
I’m from Albany Ga. Been here all of my life. Dawson’s is about 20 Minutes from Albany. Most People in Dawson work in Albany or Columbus Ga. The people of Dawson are Family oriented and very friendly. These videos can be very misleading.
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What is the point of showing these people homes???
I grew up in a town of 100,000 just southeast of Dawson (circa 1972) I live in the suburbs of Atlanta now. After 40 years have to deal with traffic here, I would love to move to a small dirty town like this.
This is my hometown and Its definitely peaceful and everyone for the most part come together as one. We don’t have a lot of restaurants but then you have US as people who support one another so we help each other by supporting the community business. As a child we were able too be just that children go as we pleased. Over the years yes housing has went down tremendously but it’s home. The crime has went up a little more than we have expected but we get through hard times like that together. It’s really not a bad place
Asi es amiga
The appearance of a place does not mean it's bad but the appearance makes people wonder why , they don't take care of the property they live in. It does not matter if a home is small or old but people should learn to take pride in their homes to make it look clean and cared for. There are many places all over the US that looks uncared for, unkept with trash in the yards , houses that need just some tlc. It makes a big difference on how people feel . If a place looks bad, it's just a normal reaction to think that the place is bad because of it. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. I don't care if one rents or owns it if a place is small or large, but people should take care of the places they live in.
But all that doesn't make good click bait. Social media has made people quick to judge these days. I grew up and live in Georgia and I am constantly had to tell my kid"this isn't ghetto it's country these people have a great life"
This is where I was born. We moved away when I was 13 but it'll always be home for me.
This place needs real taking care of...
I can't believe people actually live there..
Look at the state of the place...
What is the reasons for this place to be in this CONDITION?
NO JOBS?
LAZINESS?
Ride through the other parts of Dawson- the whole city isn't like this. And at least we dont have the crime rate of a big city. Just peace and quiet and fresh country air!Dawson Strong
Asì es...lo que necesitamos es paz
Rose crime is crime whether it's a big or small city🤷
For real!! Sumter County/Americus is #4 worst city in GA.!!!
But yet you still have crime. These neighborhoods exist all across America.
You know you are in the deep South when cable dishes are outside the house in the ground of the front yard. God bless these people (seriously). Everybody has a different life story! Much love and much respect from Brooklyn, NY.
Mine is out in my yard in Michigan lol
This is pretty much every small town in Georgia 😂🤦🏻
You're talking about satellite dishes? They install them like that EVERYWHERE in homes. Less sensible areas closer like in Northeast sometimes get them on the roof but they're easier to adjust when they are in the yard.
Have you never seen middle class neighborhoods in the south?
Much nicer than most of Brooklyn.
Shit if u a black american person in ny, more then likely u got fam that live in certain parts of the south that look like this most BAS live in the rural south …
Gday from Australia. I'd love to go to the south if I went to America. I can just imagine it. Blues music, juke joints, iced tea, pick up trucks and good ol fashioned southern food and hospitality. Thanks for the video.
Everything is hip hop nowadays
Smh lol….Gotta love American Tv
u watching too much tv my guy lmao
@@Metalhead121591 you a lie!
You can still find all that in South easily.
Mannn , Listen . These be the best cities with the realest down to earth people. The thing is these people are happy and content . I love to see it!
Juanita Walker don't be fooled by what u see.we have always kind of people no matter where u live.
What do you mean by “these people”!?
I'm from Dawson And One Thing You Can Say Is That The Whole Town is Like Family. If One Family Hurt We All Hurt. There Are Some Nice Areas In Our City. This Person Just Rode Through The Areas Where Old Houses Were And Hardly Anyone Stays In Them Areas. We As A Town Love Each Other. Like Pac Say We Might Fight Amongst Each Other But I Bet You Can't No One That's Not From Here Come Here With The Bs. One thing About Our Town Is Small and Ran Down In Some Places BUT THE LOVE FOR OUR CITY IS BEAUTIFUL ALL OVER. WE LOVE DAWSON GA IT'S OUR HOME TOWN AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE FROM DISCO CITY
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As he drives by every house I try to put myself in the shoes of the people that had to live there and what it was like. At the best and worst times. I think the overgrowth of the south city's compared to our home town Detroit is what's different and separates us. But we do have that kind of spaced out grassy areas an fields where the grass an trees have over taken the houses. That's what gives it character. Love to see the differences. Stay blessed yall
I was born and raised there. I can tell you that about 98% if those homes are rentals owned by a couple of prominent business men in the city. I noticed he panned away from the nicer homes on those streets or kept riding up and down the same ones in different directions. Anyway, Dawson is on of the best kept secrets in S.W. Ga. when it comes to quiet country living and affordable property. However the poverty level is high. Like most areas jobs have shut down or relocated.
looks like a decent place to live, just some poor families. But I bet they're mostly decent folks. Poor doesn't mean bad.
I was looking for someone to comment on that he turned the camera towards the worst looking homes and even sped up a bit going by a few with nice yards that seemed better kept.
@@robb2055 you are so right about that he go somewhere so you can see the bad house are ppl rent not own iw born in Demopolis Ala I no how it is back in the days
What about people on ssi
You mean they actually collect rent on these homes? They need a whooping! They should at least fix them up. That’s a shame.
It's weird watching this in England because the people living there obviously don't have much money, yet here properties like that - detached and on a good-sized piece of land would cost a fortune.
that's because Englands currency is worthless & has no value in America
@@nauticanaughty-ggibson3928 Englads currency has more value than Americas…i used to trade this kid $20 for 20 pounds so he could buy weed and id take the 20 pounds to the bank and exchange it for dollars. 20 pounds would usually come out to $27 or somethin
@@pavblake8066
No ones buying houses in America with a pound of shillings, understand!
_but you can buy a house in England with the American dollar_ 🏆
@@nauticanaughty-ggibson3928 No one can buy a house in England with the dollar it would have to be converted to GBP Einstein and the British Pound is worth more than the American dollar. Furthermore you couldn’t be further from the truth, the real reason why houses like that would cost a fortune in England is because we barley have any land here, meaning that houses will be more expensive due to the lack of land that we have to further expand on. Basic law of scarcity.
@@nauticanaughty-ggibson3928 well yeah people in America dont use English currency youd have to exchange it at a bank. I believe its very similar overseas as well. But that doesnt change the fact that their currency is valued more than Americas. $1 is less than 1 pound understand??
I was born in the sticks of Georgia. We had approximately 85 acres of land. It was peaceful, loving, gracious, god fearing aura! Country living is cool!
Born in Cuthbert GA 💖
Born In Ashburn, GA...Georgia Peach!
Feeling blessed for what I have right now. Thanks charlie and as always stay safe.
It may be a poor town but it has the cleanest streets iv ever seen on a Charliebo video.
that’s because it probably has a 1/10 of a cities population, streets are gonna be clean when they’re empty, also not as many stores to buy and then throw the trash on the ground
I agree
@@ceeko5484 because you have nobody living in your town dude, if people actually lived there it would look like every other overpopulated city
People live where they can afford so no shame in these houses, it is home to many. Better than being on the streets.
I was born in a city like this in Mississipp, I now living in Los Angeles, I miss those peaceful and safe times, A neighborhood where people care about each other is priceless. the average house is over a million dollars I still long for that peace and quit and quantity and quietly of many years ago living back in the south
For all y’all in the comments if you don’t know anything about Dawson then keep quiet I’m from Dawson I grew up there and just to let y’all know you’ll find the most sweetest and nicest ppl there yea it may be old and it may look dead there but it’s peaceful
chill out, I don't see any disrespectful comments here and I scrolled down pretty far.
Love your videos man, I’ve done travelled all around the U.S wit u, makes me feel like I’m there,😂😂 even doe I’m laying in my bed watching this. I love traveling and seeing new things, this is also a way to escape.
Same here.
Same bro like charlie really bringing people together
Agree with this..... seeing it all from the comfort of home
Same here. Watching these videos is like a road trip or adventure.
Spent my high school days in a town not too far from Dawson, GA . . . . Pelham is along the same line. Small and rural; down home and friendly. The only downside is the crime rate has skyrocketed! Real shame since everyone in these small communities usually know and most times, related to each other.
Georgia a very beautiful southern state!
It is man. My family is from Albany and my grandma lives in Dawson but she's way out there by herself. Lots of places look similar in the south. I've made quite a few trips through the south. Some sketchy places but it's a scenery.
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Yes God it is! I'm from Florida, family from Georgia, and EVERYTIME I visit, I want to stay!
With a shitty past and future
Tenho um filho especial com síndrome de dow ele passa horas vendo seus vídeos eu acho que ele imagina estar dentro do seu carro vendo as ruas .i from Sao Paulo Brasil .
Remind me of my home town in ga,people loved each other stuck together actually I miss those days wish I was financial able to rebuild my city God knows peace is much better than wealth.
It’s clean out there, considering. Peaceful.
Looks like a plantation
You Don’t know what goes on there
@William Bergamo nothing
is this area really slum district??
I think american slum areas are much superior, better than those of korean or japan.
@@슈팅스타-d9t stop tryna compare people struggles ain’t nun good about this place
Birthplace of the great Otis Redding.
I was a librarian at Kinchafoonee Regional Library in Dawson from 1977 to 1980. I knew many fine people in this community. It will remain part of me the rest of my life.
I kinda like how chill it is with a hood in the countryside like that… I’m sure typical hood shit goes down often but at least it seems mostly peaceful and not that run-down or dirty.
It don’t be shit to do in the country tho most ppl be behind on certain stuff and that he all they know
@@803tae6 … actually that’s probably true too! I didn’t think about how boring that could get for younger kids.
@@Scuba_Bro yea plus it ain’t no jobs most ppl from places like this be there they whole life it’s crazy
did we watch the same video? that shit looked run down and dirty as fuck haha
That is so true I'm from Macon County but I moved 2 Connecticut right after high school it's nothing there just like Montezuma,Reynolds,etc
This is my hometown. I now live in Augusta, ga
I love Georgia. Some of the kindest folks in the world live here. Sure, in this clip, the houses might be run down, but that could very well be because the government wastes money on helping people in other countries when it really should be taking care of its very own citizens. Hardworking American citizens deserve to be helped. How many well paying jobs are in this area? How is the educational system? I have a good idea-and it is dismal. More jobs need to be brought into our very own communities; more after school programs that provide tutoring in math, English, and science need to be provided to us in these communities. Truth is I grew up in an area not too different from this one back in the 1970s. We helped each other as neighbors; I actually miss the feeling of community. People would drive through and roll up their windows, wide-eyed, thinking they were in danger. We were just decent, hardworking folks that didn't have a whole lot of money. Lack of money doesn't mean a person is bad or lazy; it sometimes means they don't have the resources to fix their place up. Charlie, I would like to see you present your research to Congress; our politicians are our employees and they are failing us. They work for us, yet they do nothing for us. If I performed my job the way politicians do their job I would have been fired a long time ago! Thank you so much for exposing poverty in the United States. (P.S. the South isn't dirty; it is quite lovely, and it has the best people in the world). Of course, I am right partial to the South since it is my beloved home. Thank you.
These comments though!! Laughing at one's despair is terrible, be grateful you so called made it
TRUE STATEMENT ‼️ WE'RE OUR WORST ENEMY
Preach!!!!
Kind of reminds me where I grew up in North Carolina. I look at how hard I worked a d what I have accomplished till I get old. It is peaceful though.
I grew up in Augusta , Georgia . The houses here in the downtown area are similar . I love the style of older houses . Big front porches , big kitchens where family gathers around the kitchen table .
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@@lt4161 yes
August Ga/ North Augusta SC/ Born and raised Hilton head Island SC😁
This doesn’t even look bad idk what people are making fun of
Doesn't look dirty to me....looks likes some neighborhoods here in Kansas...nice roof over there heads...houses could uses some remodeling but they does have a a place call home...Thanks 4 sharing 👌🏾👌🏾💯💯💯
I never known about this place but something about it I like. I love GA.. I’m a Florida native, My dad is from Moultrie originally.
That town will always be a part of me. Terrell county prison for 2 1/2 years. Rode those streets on work detail almost everyday. What you don’t get to see is all the miles of dirt roads in that county. Always will have some good memories of that quiet little town.
Indentured servitude=modern day SLAVERY
Looks peaceful and not over loaded with bank owned luxuries like RV's, boats and etc..
I would live in that area...
These houses have so much character in them. Like they belong in a novel.
Yeah, a Dickensian novel.
Good description
Thank you for this peaceful trip through your hometown...
I find it very laid back and quiet and peaceful 😍😍
My home town. Just had a triple homicide. Back in the day it was known for violence.
Home of Otis Redding and Elijah Mohammed founder of the nation of Islam original in Detroit
So many negative comments! I live in a run down trailer. I consider myself blessed because I have a roof over my head. So many people out in this great, (sarcastic), America we live in are homeless and hungry. Now that's a shame!!! All of you people putting down these people should be ashamed of yourselves. Not everyone is materialistic and needs to live in a big fancy house. And not everyone wants to live in the city with all the noise, pollution, and crowded conditions either.
This is absolutely a great country! Problem is far to many people expect everything to be done for them. I’m sure they get plenty of handouts in that neighborhood. Being poor is no excuse to live like shit. Take some pride in oneself, have a little work ethic. Paint the house, clean the porch and yard, it’s quite simple and cheap.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
There are parts of cities like that everywhere! I'm poor but most don't have to live like that we make ourselves busy cleaning up! Then there's no time to be finding trouble to get in and yes I know a lot of people are elderly but surely they have some family and can help them even neighbors helping neighbors!
Hey, I just drove through Dawson a couple weeks ago! I was hungry and stopped at a Taco Bell in Albany afterward. I kid you not, I ordered a Crunchwrap Supreme, and literally ALL they gave me was a tortilla with lettuce!! That’s it! 😂
You're welcome!
lucky you didnt get u know what in the shell.
I believe ya 🤣
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It’s not forgotten it’s country the way we like it the way it’s always been.
U mean exploiting poc
@@SKARAMANGA1 ? Huh? Boy you slow?
Looks like a nice community. Clean and peaceful. 🌺
These are the kind of neighbors you can borrow a cup of sugar from.
I remember Dawson Georgia when the factories were up and the people had places to work. Restaurants and filling stations. Church. Schools. So many people died there . The Pandemic ravaged the people of this city! They died like flies and they are still dying!
I hope things get better for Dawson, Georgia.
Being from the deep south subconsciously remind you that you are from the deep south everyday.. it's weird that that spirit is so strong. ...when southerners display how we feel about the south it's genuine iono I guess u gotta be from here to feel the type of pride we feel...I don't know if it's the ancestors or what but it's something that knaws at your spirit and soul everyday being from this dirty south.. Southeastern United States is our home indigenous to this land we are ,I mean I can feel it we are not who they say we are the feeling of being born and raised down here will tell you who you and we are.. .Birmingham,al checking in maneeeee!
There stretch of hundreds of towns like this across the deep south states. It's called the "Black Belt region" given its name because of the soil but also coincidentally these towns have high door black population. They are in areas that have a high slave population back in the day, and many didn't have a chance to migrate.
Georgia soil is red dirt.. and they all had a chance to migrate...so I call BS.
@@KB-ke3fi Not all of Georgia's soil is red clay 😂and lots of blacks never migrated. Do some research.
Definition of the Black Belt
"The rich, dark soil of this region helped agriculture thrive. Booker T. Washington is credited with popularizing the name of the area that spans 11 states from Texas to Virginia and runs through Georgia as 'The Black Belt.'
Political analysts and historians continue to use the term Black Belt to designate some 200 counties in the South from Virginia to Texas that have a history of majority African-American population and cotton production."
I love the country life. My family from Turner county. Ashburn georgia. Blacks on one side of tracks and whites on the other. Same way in most major cities.
All of moving back to the south too.
@@tashabr801 Yeah, there are articles about "Reverse Migration." A lot of the big industrial Northern and Midwestern cities black people moved to back in the day are in shambled and lacking jobs with poor quality of life. Middle Class blacks are moving by the driveway to Metro ATL, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Raleigh, and to a lesser extent Nashville. Lower cost of living, more bang for your buck when buying property and better job outlook
Looks like a great place to live. I mean that seriously. Take away all the hustle bustle, money chasing, trying to beat out the next person.. Give me this southern comfort. A Peace of mind , a old wooden porch, a cold glass of Arnold Palmer and Gator Nuggets with sweet heat for dipping and I'm Gucci!
I rather live there than New York city.
The Home Of Otis Redding. 💯
Yep.
Must be where he left from before heading to the Frisco Bay
I thought he was from Macon?
@@hassanamin2213 no he's from Dawson also waylon flowers is also from dawson remember wayland and madame wayland is buried in dawson
Otis Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia but his family moved when he was two years old.
Makes me very sad to see this and drop a tear. As these places and people have very high and good potential to better themselves and this place. God Bless 🙏
Bro worry about your India. The most racist and bland people ever.
@@TheOnlyOneStanding8079 I appreciate your input. Being I'm an Indian man myself which is close to Asian , and could say the same . My people would turn it into a new housing project. So just saying these people have potential too, if they really wanted to try hard. But unfortunate it has to be this way :( . But God willing one day , that may change
@@omsh4939 I don't live in India. I'm a Canadian born Indian Punjabi male. Most of my family members over there are pretty decent and well off. But I know what you mean still, being I've been there couple times as a kid before
@@harpkang3000 God willing yes but realistically it won't but we pray it will because we have no choice for the matter
@@TheOnlyOneStanding8079 once again , I appreciate your realism. Just for clarity purpose , are you from Georgia ?
I'm from Toronto Ontario Canada, where places like this are being taken over by decent to super expensive projects, it's almost like Toronto is turning into New York, New York.
People sleep on the small town struggle. All the attention goes towards the slums in and around the big cities. I promise you life is harder out there than it is in the city due to the extreme lack of resources and opportunities that are in cities.
💯I've always said this. I look at slums around ATL like damn yall only a few miles from some real nice areas. You can get a somewhat decent job at some factory or somewhere. You got trade schools and colleges all around. These people literally be living 1 to 2 hrs away from the nearest city that even has 100,000 people
@@PlaylistKing478GA no cap my family from the country some of them folks out there really aint got shit and stranded hell i grew up heart of atlanta opportunities are endless even if yeen got nothing that country shit different i respect the hell out them boys fr
Been to Atlanta, Augusta, and Griffin. Out of the 3 Augusta was the most beautiful. MLK drive in Atlanta looked like our MLK drive in Milwaukee back in the day.
Can't forget Macon...by far some of the nicest people I've met are in Macon, GA
I'm 62 years old , born and raised in Augusta , Georgia . When I was a little girl ,Augusta was a beautiful town . Big trees lined the streets . City employees kept Augusta clean . There were parks for children to play and families have cook outs . Sadly August's government is destroying Augusta . Crime and real estate has sky rocketed . At the rate it's going and if something isn't done the downtown area will become a ghost town .
I wouldn't mind having one of those houses. I'd fix it up as much as possible. Grow my own food in the back yard. Have peace and quiet and honest down to earth neighbors. Way better than what I have now in NYC.
Good to see that folks are surviving there! Looks like a peaceful place. Some very modest but smartly kept places. Praise the Lord!
My hometown 🖤❤️🖤❤️ … wouldn’t trade it
Cuthbert Georgia is also a little forgotten town you turn down 82 in Dawson Georgia to get there.
Born in Cuthbert 💖
I used to love going down there to chill and get away from Columbus from time to time. And the ppl are cool
People here have to drive to Alabama or the closest biggest city with job opportunities to work which will probably be a chicken poultry and you have to graduate to get a good job which would probably be a correctional officer. They be scared to make big things happen like moving to the city and start fresh. Some will and never look back
Actual it's like every other city in the United states, I live up North and my city is same way, parts of it beautiful, parts of it is decent, and the other part is tore up from the floor up! I grew up in the ghetto to, so I'm use to seeing neighborhoods looking like that. But what I don't understand is how a country so rich allow any part of their cities to get this bad. Well where I'm from we complain so much that they are renovating our part of the city now and it's starting to look a lot better, plus more businesses are starting to come back to the neighborhood, which is generating more money into the community. I hope that their city council will start cleaning, and building up in that community, because it's sad how a Country so rich would allow a group of people to live so poor. The hate need to stop.
The streets are clean for the most part... don't see trash strewn along the roads... like I have always heard... do what you can... till you can do better...GOD 🙏 bless you all...I haven't always lived where I live now...
This is peace and here I think neighbours care for each other...
Can't blame this on Democrats
The old trees are so beautiful. All the yards are cut. I see nothing but a good ole area that's in walking distance to town. I love old southern towns like these. Folks used to know how to look at & tear down and repair their homes. Is there a Home Depot nearby?
The more things change it loses parts of places and everybody forgets most of us are barely getting by.
You passed by the root lady house lol. Even tho I’m from Albany I know Dawson all too well!
Lol we say root lady in SC too. Charleston to be exact
Ain't shit going on there
What is root lady? What does that expression mean?
@@kcunlimitedeats somebody that use plants as medicine or be putting voodoo on people. We use it in both ways
😂 Rootworkers run deep in these smaller towns and cities throughout the South
There are quite a few towns across the U.S. with dirt roads, streets, even driveways...
These are the best neighborhoods with the most peaceful people to live with right here you can tell by how clean the streets and yards are
This is my hometown and this is funny because you purposefully drove through the worse part I'm guessing for VIEWS. Dawson is just like any other small town you have some great areas and some bad, your video is not a good representation of my hometown but hey that's the world we live in, people always post NEGATIVE or what's gets the most views. I relocated to a major city and it's the same way here some good parts and some bad, the only difference is entertainment. I'm curious, what were you hoping to accomplish by your false and biase video of my hometown. This reminds me of how for years the media only showed the WORST part of Africa and once people became "woke" they now see the truth.
People didn't become "woke" with Africa. Some African countries became more stable and a little more prosperous over time. You don't need the media to show you what is like. You can Google current images any time. They are still Third World nations full of poverty, crime, diseases, corruption, no education or sanitation. That is the truth.
i know it hurt to open the door n see GDs dont it
Telling like it is, I feel as you do.
@@paulbrooks2024 I know it hurt to see them GDs when you open the door
@@CBatista1234 We have these same ills in the U.S. just not to the extent it exists on the African continent. Take corruption, and I have been to West Africa five times. There a public official might openly ask you for money. Not so here. Such an act would have them facing a judge. Instead we allow the wealthy to donate large sums of money to those who govern us. They then serve their benefactors instead of those who voted them into office. In other words here it's legal corruption. Each time I visited I noticed improvement. The day will come, my thoughts only, when Africa will become one nation whereupon the west will have to give it a place at the table. It won't have much choice since Africa will probably own the table.
I liked that basketball hoop in the middle of the road
That is an awful title. Most of those homes are modest that is true. Some are just abandoned. But if you must live in a $600,000 home in the suburbs you will have to work and suffer and make yourself sick, then die early. The real problem is culture. Many of us are never content and turn to crime. Materialism kills.
dirty as in old timey. it’s a slang term not to be taken negatively
@@blzr5508 thanks, I did not know this!
You edited out all the big houses you rode by just to sho these lil house? 😂
I wish more businesses come to Dawson and Better Homes
Em todos os lugares do mundo tem bairros pobres, pessoas humildes, como vc mostra os EUA não fica atrás
Que bom uma brasileira comentando num canal americano. 👏👏👏😀😀
It looks just like any rural town. Houses were in order. No grafittis. No trash around and they even have trash containers. The grasses were not mowed but tolerable to some level. It looks quiet also.
Very nice if those houses were painted and little renovated they look nice the streets r clean the most important thing it is not to have hateful neighborhood ...
Whats better the projects or the little homes with yard space?. There R places like this in honolulu Hawaii.
This neighborhood is not the dirty old south. It is filled with old houses probably built in the latter part of the 19th century or very early 20th century and the owners have passed on or might be in a nursing home and there's no one to see after the houses and land. I did not see one piece of police crime scene tape or the police at a neighborhood disturbance. There was not an area packed with so much filth where a special meeting has to be called for health reasons.
If you want to see abandonment, dirt, and filth, then come to Philadelphia where a huge part of the city is like that. Can't no one say Philadelphia is a forgotten city. I live two blocks from a main college campus and four blocks away is an entire vacant housing project with two empty high rise buildings. I'll gladly take one of the houses in Dawson, Georgia and have the necessary repair work done to make it livable or I might even take one as is and go from there.
It is sad to see Dawson like that, but I'll make sure I pray for it like I do Philadelphia.
This place is beautiful 😍
I did a video in Dawson, its absolutely desolate out there. Check out Albany for sure.
It ain’t as bad as it seems
This is straight up middle class America circa 2025.
Yes for sure
Damn straight exactly why I’m moving to Mexico again live in NC and it’s trashhh
I wish
The hoops basket in the middle of the street crack me up.
You see that in every hood loool
@@jacksonvillejohn9462 yup and the hydrant pool
Some of the homes on the outside could use major upgrades. The house values would increase dramatically.
Unfortunately the only thing that will happen here is someone shows interest in the area, this town would be cleared and these folks will be homeless.
Those rich landlords are probably to cheap for that!! Just saying...
Not likely! A roof, doors or windows are pricey not to mention a new furnace or water heater. Without a community based program no conventional lender will finance repairs or upgrades
As quiet as it kept Dawson is still suffering from the damages caused by hurricane Michael A few years back. I went there in 2018 for my cousin funeral. It was still in a mess. Trees down and all.
Definitely! Most of the damaged homes that are shown were damaged in Michael
Definitely not the damage it’s just ran down like that tbh , cricket politicians, lack of jobs , is why it’s like that , fr you should vist
I'm from there. A lot of my family is from there. It is pretty much fun down but the hurricane added to the problem.
Michael Leary are you related to willie b. Leary?
@@bettyerembert7058 Name sounds very familiar. I can ask my dad. If they're from that area or anywhere in New Jersey it's very possible that I am.
Love watching things that I can’t afford 💫
Looks like the year 1900 in colour!!😯
This is so sad to be called the forgot ten people that is harsh l pray that God will work a huge miracle and bless these sweet people with a way to move to a better urban area they deserve better than this everyone deserves an opportunity to live in a descent home and to not be looked down on no matter what no ono should be known as the forgotten that is very disturbing to the spirit God Bless this community always 💕 with love ❤️ and care this is Geraldine Walker from Saginaw Michigan
Your prayers have come true! They have every opportunity to better themselves and escape poverty. Now it’s up to them to take advantage of those great opportunities.
Dawson Georgia wow that is my town. I love it!!!!!
Streets are very clean. The trash cans are quite noticeable near the roadside.
Bro be everywhere i saw his albany gs video as well.. Salute 👍☝💯✊
It looks peaceful, I love small towns, the neighborhood is not that bad, zi love the old houses. It probably is a wonderful place to raise children…It may need upgrades, But dirty that’s a strong discriminatory word, an attack upon poor people…
Lindo lugar amei!💓💓
Hello from down under Australia 🦘🦘 streets looking clean great video bro keep it up 👍👌🍻
i pass through that town going to Albany
Bro @2:47 hit you with the "Wassup Mane?" I love the south so much!!!! 😁
Well I just seen several Satellite dishes 📡 on them homes, and trash cans just like mine, so how 'bout everybody get together and always have a painting party. I'll bring my guitar and some tater salad or something 👍🇺🇸 Hey, I'm not kiddin' around here.
You're Who The World Needs More Of!! 💞🤗🎸
Requires responsibility and work ethic.
You know if people would network together, you could fix these homes up, A non profit rural grant would be good. There plenty of great ideas to do these things. I live in South Carolina, Greenville county in the Piedmont areas, and it country too, but more businesses. Dawson people you can do this network together.
I’m from Albany Ga. Been here all of my life. Dawson’s is about 20 Minutes from Albany. Most People in Dawson work in Albany or Columbus Ga. The people of Dawson are Family oriented and very friendly. These videos can be very misleading.
You only rode through the hoods of Dawson, all of the city do not look like this 🙄
Hey, CharlieBo313 where did you grow up? And can we see a video of your neighborhood also.