Here's What The Most Redneck City In Florida Looks Like

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2022
  • You know the saying, the further north you go, the more southern it gets. There’s something very special about how the folks up here are. This is Merica, boy.
    Now we’ve all heard about Florida rednecks. They’re all over this place. You could probably ask 10 people where the biggest concentration of rednecks are in this big ole state, and you’d get 10 different answers. A lot of people say Cross City and Chiefland have a lot of redneck culture. So I went there. From what I could tell, those places are definitely some shade of neck, but I wasn’t as impressed as I was when I wound up in the most unlikely of places. In early May, I visited Florida’s panhandle. And not just any part of Florida’s panhandle. I wanted to go where I had heard it’s as redneck as they come. The place I picked was little Holmes County, population 19,927. It’s a teeny little spot that’s wedged way up against Alabama. Actually, most people say Holmes County is an EXTENSION of Alabama. That’s why they call this part of the state LA, or lower Alabama.
    As I would see, Holmes County is redneck in many ways, there’s no denying that. But it was also full of surprises. And after talking to folks here and looking around for a day, it was clear - this part of the state is some of the last true Old Florida we have. And that, folks, is NOT good.
    It's too bad more of Florida doesn't look like this anymore.
    #florida #moving
    Email me: Robikmarketing1@gmail.com
    I have a Patreon if you love it so much! Here's the link to donate to the channel: www.patreon.com/NickJohnsonYo...
    You can buy my music here:
    iTunes: / state-songs-an-album
    More places to get my music:
    -Google Play: play.google.com/store/music/a...
    -Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/albums/B08D3...
    This channel is about America!
    The best video on this topic!

Комментарии • 2,1 тыс.

  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  Год назад +54

    Here's my entire Florida playlist: Everything About Florida Cities
    ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6yox4qW3D-Zm5Zen1mSmFWTi

    • @robertmoore2049
      @robertmoore2049 Год назад +3

      Thank you for all the videos you’ve done, Nick, in the state I live in since 1984 when I joined the Navy and they sent me here in Northeast Florida. I’m so glad and grateful I found your channel. You’ve come a long way, my friend! The best is yet to come!

    • @boricuayehudim427
      @boricuayehudim427 Год назад +5

      TRUMP 2024 Yes Indeed ☝🏾 She's right ☺️During the elections they predicted the "Puerto Rican's" in south Florida were going to all vote Democrat then ✨BOOM✨ a shocker for y'all up there on the Mainland ☝🏾 THEY VOTED FOR TRUMP ☝🏾Our Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner in Congress is Republican ☝🏾 Puerto Rico also has it's versión of "Red Neck Mountain Hillbilly I'm one of them 😂🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇵🇷🇵🇷

    • @Battleneter
      @Battleneter Год назад +5

      lol those Donald Trump signs make me want to throw up.

    • @AdakStillStands
      @AdakStillStands Год назад

      6 minutes in...a 30 minute commercial! Arrgghhh!

    • @anthonycelano165
      @anthonycelano165 Год назад +6

      @@Battleneter Because Biden is doing such a great job.

  • @GilbertNichols
    @GilbertNichols Год назад +267

    The best explanation of the term redneck was from the early pioneer years when European immigrant farmers plowing in the hot southern sun. They got sunstroke or worse and got help from an unlikely source: the Cherokee Indians. Cherokee Indians were agricultural people and they suggested to the white farmers to put the red clay on their necks when they were working in the hot sun. The red clay protects them from sun, keeping them cool. After they washed their necks of red clay every day, they discovered their skin was stained red. Thus, they were called rednecks.

    • @SofaMuncher
      @SofaMuncher Год назад +21

      Interesting piece of history!

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад +2

      miners didn't like cancer on their neck.

    • @yelizaveta1278
      @yelizaveta1278 Год назад +1

      @@donHooligan well, not totally applicable, considering they were in mine shafts , not much sunlight there. (Cancer etc. nonetheless)

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan Год назад +2

      @@yelizaveta1278
      except that's where the term came from.
      redneck or a ridge-runner
      gots to make money, somehow.

    • @stephenmitchell4393
      @stephenmitchell4393 Год назад +7

      Carthage and the Greeks worked the Mississippi River system thousands of yrs before European re appeared in America,
      Red oaker was applied to everyone, the term redskin evolved from them,

  • @peterlawrence3152
    @peterlawrence3152 Год назад +214

    I would like to live there. Looks real nice. Country folk are the best, solid and reliable like an old F150. Greetings from Edinburgh Scotland.

    • @cadenmixer
      @cadenmixer Год назад +14

      Also meth

    • @vannjunkin8041
      @vannjunkin8041 Год назад +6

      Tell em boss.. 👏🙌 Greetings from the States 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Peter.

    • @JesusChrist2000BC
      @JesusChrist2000BC Год назад +11

      I mean there's a metric $h1+ ton of meth here. People are nice as long as they can get their fix or pay their bills. Once that goes good luck.

    • @vannjunkin8041
      @vannjunkin8041 Год назад +5

      @@JesusChrist2000BC stuff is everywhere

    • @angelcalihua4779
      @angelcalihua4779 Год назад +1

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @RichardVaught
    @RichardVaught Год назад +120

    I grew up in that area. I always found the condescension that we got rather humorous. Sure, its a small community, and rather poor. Washington County(next door to Holmes County), though, has a balanced budget with a surplus, highly rated schools, low crime rates, low cost of living, low pollution, good people, and reasonable land prices. If it weren't for the economic depression of the area it would be great. I mean, sure, we don't have skyscrapers and 6 figure salaries, but we don't worry about getting carjacked, mugged, or pushed in front of a subway car either. The beer is cold, people still know how to cook, and people still look out for each other. If you ask me, that's worth a lot more than money.

    • @jak9483
      @jak9483 Год назад +2

      If there are a lot of drugs there does that mean there is a higher crime rate?

    • @RichardVaught
      @RichardVaught Год назад +2

      @@jak9483 Not really. The population is too sparse for high crime rates.

    • @optimaldefiance4605
      @optimaldefiance4605 Год назад +5

      Well said! The funny part was how eloquent and sensical it sounded. I couldn't have said it better.
      Is it selfish of me to say that i am kinda glad places like this exist and that their economy has NOT grown to proportions that might entice and otherwise corrupt officials and possibly be the end of small towns all over the USA????

    • @MichaelShinosky
      @MichaelShinosky Год назад +3

      @@optimaldefiance4605 What type of liberal speak is "is it selfish".....grow a pair.

    • @miketate9199
      @miketate9199 Год назад +1

      @@jak9483 no because there aren’t that many black peoples. Let’s just be honest about the situation

  • @dlbracer56
    @dlbracer56 Год назад +69

    The further SOUTH you go in Florida it turns into New Jersey, New York, Cuba and Porta Rico with all the worst they brought from where they left. Yes, I'm a NORTHERNER too, in the panhandle.

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Год назад +5

      As a Northerner I agree. My bf is Southern and wants to move back to Florida. I'm very conservative though, so If we move there , hopefully I'll be welcome lol

    • @ErinBunny24
      @ErinBunny24 Год назад +15

      @@lucianaromulus1408 just don't shove your political views down people's throat and you should be fine.

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Год назад +4

      @@ErinBunny24 I definitely don't, I don't even do that to liberals lol

    • @rrampage36
      @rrampage36 Год назад

      RIGHT...where as YOU are just an example of the old home grown bottom of the barrel of what America used to be......🥾💩🗑

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Год назад +1

      @@patticakes74 definitely have an accent 😅Bf is Southern, so definitely can't live where the Snow Birds go lol I think I'm one of the few Northerners he likes. I'm conservative minded and keep to myself, hopefully that'll be enough.

  • @neljohn6910
    @neljohn6910 Год назад +847

    It's really sad how the media, pop culture, and the rest of America look down on this people like they are some sort of trash. I'm a Filipino and I've seen so many good, down to earth, extremely polite, humorous (with no filters so they kinda sound offensive to some people), and God-fearing people from the country/redneck places. The amount of hate, negative media, and evident adverse bias they get are so heartbreaking to be honest. If you live outside the United States, you'd definitely develop a negative perception about these people due to how they are portrayed in the media.

    • @ladyaly864
      @ladyaly864 Год назад +25

      @@housemousell The word "Redneck and Bumkin" is learned WORLDWIDE from country songs, specially from the 50s and 60s...I learned it from Hee-Haw and Green Acres and Andy Griffin and Petticoat Junction, ect...So, I don't see it as derogatory at all...I love me, my "Rednecks" and am very proud of the Southern simplicity of life...Don't take it soo hard, it's not a Richard...Well, bless your heart, sweetie...Lite-n-up a little...Ps...I'm related to Desi Arnaz...Been and was raised in Florida since 1957...We're laid back and not hostile...Welcoming, but not pushovers...If ya know what I mean...Madison, Florida resident, owner since 1991...Don't owe a penny to the bank, on either property...Get the picture?...You have yourself a good life, now...Blessings...

    • @henryhorner3182
      @henryhorner3182 Год назад +1

      You never ever expect honesty from the main stream media. Lying by omission, or deliberate falsehoods is what the media is all about.

    • @wil7228
      @wil7228 Год назад +19

      It's spelled God 🙏 not god ! pinoy boy.

    • @wil7228
      @wil7228 Год назад +1

      Yuup

    • @neljohn6910
      @neljohn6910 Год назад +44

      @@wil7228 I'm a Roman Catholic and I know that the word god should be spelled with a capital letter G when it is being used as a proper noun or when such word is referring to the one God. You are acting like you type in your phone or computer so perfectly that you don't commit any mistake - big or small - when writing anything.

  • @dannyduncan8154
    @dannyduncan8154 Год назад +289

    There’s plenty of old Florida left it’s called the entire middle of the state

    • @Brandon-bc1fz
      @Brandon-bc1fz Год назад +11

      Seriously I grew up in a place called old Town for many years. Lots of my family still lives in Gainesville.

    • @boi5599
      @boi5599 Год назад +21

      Zephyrhills and Dade City lol

    • @irishis3
      @irishis3 Год назад +24

      Sssshhhh. Don't tell. Keep it to yourself

    • @EricHurwitz
      @EricHurwitz Год назад +4

      @@Brandon-bc1fz the attraction called old town? i rememeber that im still in orlando after all thse years.

    • @reeree4735
      @reeree4735 Год назад +2

      Lol....yes.

  • @zoysiaguy3757
    @zoysiaguy3757 Год назад +110

    That's how my current town in south Florida use to look 20 years ago.. all cow pastures and farm land and dirt roads.. now I've watched all the trees fall and get replaced with concrete and pple everywhere.. not saying I don't like it here anymore just miss how simple it use to be.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Год назад +6

      Just wait - it gets better. This is day one of 18

    • @MaxItUpwithMarta
      @MaxItUpwithMarta Год назад +15

      i will say it, i do not like all the building and density in miami, florida

    • @michellehall5373
      @michellehall5373 Год назад +6

      They call it progress. Development. Really, it's just clear cut, pave, & top with barkdust. Huge crowded cities w/skyscrapers were built & still exist to make the rich richer. Not for people to enjoy their lives.

    • @robertjohnson2399
      @robertjohnson2399 Год назад +1

      You must live in Martin county too

    • @pdb2k154
      @pdb2k154 Год назад +1

      @@robertjohnson2399 Martin county and the rest of southeast Florida hasn’t looked like that in 40 plus years…. Very little rural areas left outside of fort pierce which is a dump

  • @haroldharris9832
    @haroldharris9832 Год назад +24

    Actually, that area of Florida is very special. People can live way out in the country with complete privacy when they want, and at the same time they are only a one hour drive from some of the most beautiful beaches in America. One day they could fish or hunt in deep woods, and the next day be deep sea fishing, or playing on the white sand and crystal clear water beaches of Panana City/Destin Florida. Hard to find many place with such enormous changes in life styles with just a 60 minute drive. Most Americans living in big cities drive an hour just to get around their town, and nothing changes.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Год назад +2

      Yep Harold

    • @IhaytFukkingsocialmedia
      @IhaytFukkingsocialmedia Год назад +1

      driving an hour one way even still, is WAY too much driving for a comfortable experience, it defeats the purpose! there ARE local springs though and many ppl have pools. where i live i have sooo many beaches near me. fort de soto is amazing, and bikeable.i will keep paying my pricey rent and buy an expensive lot one day.

    • @IhaytFukkingsocialmedia
      @IhaytFukkingsocialmedia Год назад

      "60 minute drive" triggers me i swear. and where is "deep sea fishing"? in the gulf you mean

  • @GEnghis559
    @GEnghis559 Год назад +104

    I’m from Florida and there’s a saying that “the farther north you go in Florida, the southern it gets”

    • @Shannonbarnesdr1
      @Shannonbarnesdr1 Год назад +7

      yep, i love florida, i used to live there, and im moving back home to the sunshine state this fall, i have lived in jupiter, palm beach gardens, and port st lucie, i loved it, i have lived in many places and florida i have always been happiest, most active and healthy, as im able to breathe there, while it does get hot and humid, its not near as bad when you are more towards the east coast, vs. say, the middle of the state or in the panhandle areas, i cant wait im so excited to get back to my heart - home.

    • @p0st-nutclarity
      @p0st-nutclarity Год назад +2

      What happens the farther south you go?

    • @Jbo2000
      @Jbo2000 Год назад +7

      @@p0st-nutclarity it gets more northern

    • @iPeeOnBabies
      @iPeeOnBabies Год назад +18

      That is literally the first line of the video. Please donate your extra chromosomes to someone in need :)

    • @carsonoxendine3225
      @carsonoxendine3225 Год назад +11

      @@p0st-nutclarity it turns into little New York/little Haiti/ little cuba/little New Jersey. And is congested and crowded.

  • @marishka3597
    @marishka3597 Год назад +126

    This is a very beautiful place, green, calm and quiet. It's nice to come back here after a long day.

    • @mattbrown5511
      @mattbrown5511 Год назад +4

      Like the little town in a low population county where I live in in Mississippi.

    • @marishka3597
      @marishka3597 Год назад +7

      @@mattbrown5511 I think it's easy to imagine yourself happy in such places. Neighbors who want the same peace and quiet, a lot of space for outdoor games for children and adults. A vegetable garden in the backyard....

    • @cathyhickson7098
      @cathyhickson7098 Год назад

      So all the tires and garbage and junk in the yards wouldn't deter you?

    • @yelizaveta1278
      @yelizaveta1278 Год назад +5

      @@cathyhickson7098If others property is so distracting , just go to basic subdivision with an HOA.. fixed

    • @vladsaiidov8512
      @vladsaiidov8512 Год назад

      Key word is green

  • @watergirl237
    @watergirl237 Год назад +46

    I live in Grant Florida.. It's an old fishing town on the East Coast nestled in between Vero Beach and Melbourne.. We're growing now because of the influx of Americans who don't like the government and want to come to Florida but we're a traditional old fishing town. Most of the traditional cracker homes have been bulldozed Over and the old art Deco motels on US1 are now being bought up and probably going to be made into condos. We're a tigh community and we still have the best seafood festival in Florida in the beginning of a March every year. I think most people would call us rednecks because the back of your neck gets sunburned when you're bent over working all day.... we come from families of fishermen who definitely had red necks.

    • @FloridaManChowder
      @FloridaManChowder Год назад +5

      I moved to Melbourne from Denver Colorado and love this area.

    • @alaska-bornfloridaman
      @alaska-bornfloridaman Год назад +3

      I'm right across Babcock from you in PB. Go to the seafood festival every year.

    • @watergirl237
      @watergirl237 Год назад +2

      @@alaska-bornfloridaman I live near near the river, on property that my in-law's family cleared, generations ago. I moved to this area about 18 years ago when the Target was a cow field and we were hit by 3 hurricanes back-to-back. I love this area, I love the history. Unfortunately, lately it takes forever to get anywhere, these days with the growing population... but I'll never leave this area.

    • @alaska-bornfloridaman
      @alaska-bornfloridaman Год назад +2

      @@watergirl237
      Yes, I remember the 2004 hurricanes very well. I made lots of money after them. (I have a screen/pool enclosure business).
      And yes, the traffic is getting ridiculous, and every empty lot in Palm Bay has been cleared and a house built on it. I'm never leaving my house here, but we bought 6 acres near Pigeon Forge Tennessee, in the Smoky mountains. I want to spend summers there.

    • @yelizaveta1278
      @yelizaveta1278 Год назад +2

      @@FloridaManChowderDenver is pretty groovy...its just expensive as hell there!

  • @EricPS
    @EricPS Год назад +94

    Wow, the simple pleasures of living out in the country. I really do envy that type of lifestyle. My mom lived out in the countryside of Ohio during a lot of her childhood and she told me a lot of the good times she had. I think that's where I got a lot of my work ethic values from. She was a good mom to have.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Год назад +4

      Aww mom ❤️❤️

    • @cathyhickson7098
      @cathyhickson7098 Год назад +5

      Please don't confuse living in the country or a rural area with a "redneck" area. There's a lot to be said for living in the country but there's not enough money in this world to make me live in a place like Holmes co.

    • @slackjawedyokel1
      @slackjawedyokel1 Год назад +6

      @@cathyhickson7098 and pretty good guess , the majority of residents are glad of that fact.

    • @alfblue4734
      @alfblue4734 4 месяца назад

      we all want what we dont have. i grew up deep south, it aint all that u might imagine it to be, very dull and boring most times. But then again, we also tend to only remember the good things from our past.

  • @lizwebster1521
    @lizwebster1521 Год назад +23

    God bless you for showing Florida in the pan. I loved this. I live in St. Petersburg and it is so crowded. I love looking at the green. Down to earth people. I am moving to Washington County. I just want peace and quiet. I want to go to Piggly Wiggly not Walmart. I want to support the local businesses.
    What other people do is none of my business. It makes life easier that way. I am a hermit at heart. The people in the panhandle are wonderful hard working people. Loving it!

  • @watsjd1
    @watsjd1 Год назад +130

    I grew up in the panhandle in Walton County to the east of Holmes County. South Alabama, South Georgia, and Northwest Florida have been an economically depressed region for decades. With agricultural profit margins collapsing and small factories closing, the only industry left is tourism along the beaches. Further inland, there's no jobs for a large segment of the population. People who want a career must move somewhere or join the military as I did.

    • @YoutubeChanneI
      @YoutubeChanneI Год назад +10

      Former Walton county resident myself. The mossy head area/ some parts of defuniak springs are in horrible condition and have high crime. While Miramar Beach is a home to very wealthy ppl. Not really many ways to make a living there unless you have a med degree.

    • @watsjd1
      @watsjd1 Год назад +4

      @@RUclipsChanneI Haven't been to Mossy Head in a long time. Sorry to hear of it's condition. I am surprised because I always thought Mossy Head would see much development being centrally located between DFS, Crestview, Niceville/Eglin, with an I-10 exit on which to build businesses. Somebody really dropped the ball on that one.

    • @YoutubeChanneI
      @YoutubeChanneI Год назад +2

      @@watsjd1 Indeed

    • @benbernal6455
      @benbernal6455 Год назад

      Blame your politicians they take advantage from this low educated people, sadly a reality of most red states.

    • @adamduckworth3335
      @adamduckworth3335 Год назад +10

      Former Okaloosa County resident - born in Pensacola but lived most of my life in Crestview, Laurel Hill, or Mossy Head. Couldn't find a decent job to save my life and moved to Orlando six years ago. Not planning on moving back to the Panhandle any time soon.

  • @DCJNewsMedia
    @DCJNewsMedia Год назад +21

    I was a Deputy Sheriff here in 1989...
    We still had a lot of moonshine stills throughout the county....
    We had a few creeks and streams with Gators....
    A lot of agriculture, cattle and horses.
    Most folks had a garden, and lived the way folks lived in the 1920s..
    Coming here from the DFW Metroplex was a good change for rush hour 24/7 ,to we'll do it tomorrow no rush.
    Great video...
    Sam's is the place to go to find anyone or anything else you want or need..

  • @mikeellis7286
    @mikeellis7286 Год назад +27

    Grew up in Crestview with my Grandparents during the 60s, before the highways were put through town. My Grandmother was born in Bonifay 1914 & my Grandfather was born in Chipley 1910. My old fishing buddy lived for 99 years in Florida, and that was without an AC. Some of my best memories.

    • @2olvets443
      @2olvets443 Год назад

      Mike I was born in Chrestview with lots of kin there. My family is all over that area in from Holmes, Walton, Bay, Okaloosa etc. Ancestors were all the way to Orlando which they founded before it was Orlando and was Jernigan town. Kin to me are Langley, Jernigan, Peacock.

    • @mikeellis7286
      @mikeellis7286 Год назад +3

      @@2olvets443 my Grandparents lived on Bay St behind Shaws moving & storage. Mc & Nettie Williams. I was born in Crestview 1960, back when it had 2 main roads thru town. My Grandmother worked at the drive in years ago and I remember once you passed it you were in the woods all the way to Ft. Walton. Miss them days.

    • @2olvets443
      @2olvets443 Год назад +1

      @@mikeellis7286 I was born in 59. Lived in Baker. Then later in Ft. Walton, and PC here and there. My great grandmother lived in Baker, grandparents in PC. A great aunt worked for county and a cousin was the county engineer. His last name is Cosson (think that is how it is spelled)
      My father was a yankee stationed at Ruker. They divorced when I was young so I was back and forth from FL to. PA.
      Even with that I’m true to my southern county people over them damn yanks. Live in VA for many years now in the mountains and love it.

    • @mikeellis7286
      @mikeellis7286 Год назад

      @@2olvets443 knew some Pervis brothers from Baker, they did plaster work years back. Use to go canoeing down the river their in Baker many years ago. We stayed down at turkey hen swimming on the other side of Crestview on Eglin property. I live on the other side of Montgomery now, haven't been to Crestview for years. It was jamb packed the last time I went.

    • @2olvets443
      @2olvets443 Год назад +1

      @@mikeellis7286 last time I was in Fl was late 80’s early 90’s. 80’s for Chrestview and 90’s for FW an PC. Grand mother passed in 90 and I went to the bay, block away from her home, and the water was not what it was.
      Rode thru PCB on our way to Daytona (bike toberfest) in 07 or 8. Ate lunch there on the beach and could not believe how “citified” it had become. What once was the redneck riviera was now like all other big city beaches.
      We drove to Mexico Beach for our overnight stop, much better to our liking.

  • @TompComp
    @TompComp Год назад +178

    Nick, I'm so glad you mentioned how rent in Panama City (Bay County) went from $500 to $1500 after Hurricane Michael. People need to hear it!

    • @vedababe123
      @vedababe123 Год назад +12

      Same with Defuniak Springs and Freeport

    • @mnewman7775
      @mnewman7775 Год назад +12

      Rent in SW FL doubled, had to leave. Hedge funds buying everything

    • @TompComp
      @TompComp Год назад +3

      @@mnewman7775 in times of storms they talk of price gouging - water bottles and gasoline - but nothing was done about tripling rent during a FEMA declared disaster.

    • @chriswhynder8311
      @chriswhynder8311 Год назад +1

      why did the rent go up?

    • @TompComp
      @TompComp Год назад +10

      @@chriswhynder8311 Because everybody's living quarters were destroyed, so there was a housing shortage. Some people had jobs but nowhere to live. Some people had somewhere to live but their job was destroyed. Some people lost both. You could say supply and demand made rent go up, but nothing is supposed to go up in a declared disaster zone. But they did it. They put notices on renter's doors saying pay the new rate (double or triple) or leave (basically). These people either had no job or their salary did not increase to meet the higher rent demands. Every time a new space became available it was rented out within the hour. Those that couldn't find a place had to leave the area. We lost about 40% of our population (confirmed by the school attendance numbers for 2019.) Because of Category 5 Hurricane Michael 10/10/2018.

  • @TaipanTex
    @TaipanTex Год назад +111

    Loved watching this one. I prefer traveling around "small town America" to travelling to the big cities.

    • @Jay-kc1ql
      @Jay-kc1ql Год назад +8

      I completely agree William. Small towns offer authenticity vs cities which tend to be homogenous from one to the next.

    • @bdw7254
      @bdw7254 Год назад +7

      Yeah I catch crap because I fly to the middle of nowhere a lot and I love a small town. It can be dangerous because I’m a young black woman and I’m aware that it can be dangerous. However I have noticed that as long as I’m friendly and I’m my bubbly smiley self they are taken by surprise and people generally like me. I always say I’m from Florida and they say oh that makes sense lol

    • @Jay-kc1ql
      @Jay-kc1ql Год назад +1

      @@bdw7254 lol! Great comeback. You just travel alone to small towns?

    • @franktrautman2092
      @franktrautman2092 Год назад

      Hey BD, I would like to hang out with you and travel around call me!

    • @bluetickch2166
      @bluetickch2166 Год назад

      Why not both? Always good to see what's going on around the entire state , but I would also rather live in a small town other than a city.

  • @user-ch4dl7je9v
    @user-ch4dl7je9v Год назад +55

    Sounds like a good place to live.
    Reasonable and level headed people.
    After living in NYC most of my life I'm planning on going somewhere that isn't bat shit insane.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Год назад +6

      For reals

    • @isay207
      @isay207 Год назад +4

      Montana's much like this great people spectacular scenery

    • @yearight6294
      @yearight6294 Год назад +9

      stay out of florida

    • @yelizaveta1278
      @yelizaveta1278 Год назад +1

      @@yearight6294 He prob won't be heading where you are, bud.

    • @dannybahar5423
      @dannybahar5423 Год назад +3

      Friendly advice don't move to south Florida too many yuppies

  • @jimbrauer1855
    @jimbrauer1855 Год назад +92

    I moved to the panhandle a year ago from the Chicago area. For the first 6 months I felt like I was in the witness protection program.

    • @carltonpadgett6848
      @carltonpadgett6848 Год назад +11

      Hey that’s funny, when I was a little kid when moved from Chicago to Pensacola fl, it was like going 20yrs in time.

    • @orawancarlile6192
      @orawancarlile6192 Год назад +1

      😂😂😂❤️❤️

    • @e.tezani3877
      @e.tezani3877 Год назад +5

      I moved from the bay area to Carson city NV 2 years ago and I felt like I was hiding from the law..

    • @jasonadamik2206
      @jasonadamik2206 Год назад +2

      😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂👏👏👏

    • @tooldread1
      @tooldread1 Год назад +14

      @@carltonpadgett6848 I'll take pcola over chicago anyday. Chicago is hell on earth

  • @Mountainrock70
    @Mountainrock70 Год назад +91

    Let me tell you something Mr. Nick, I’d take this area over anywhere else in Florida!

    • @manfredmann2766
      @manfredmann2766 Год назад +8

      Me too, I remember way back when I was a kid in the late seventies, even the places like Marathon, FL had that vibe, which is now nonexistent.

    • @davel7014
      @davel7014 Год назад +5

      Same here!

    • @neduari970
      @neduari970 Год назад

      Then move there

    • @Mountainrock70
      @Mountainrock70 Год назад +1

      @@neduari970 Nope

  • @lmshanyfelt
    @lmshanyfelt Год назад +125

    I've been to a bar like Sam's in another neck town in Florida. The highlight was listening to a man hitting on a woman by bragging about owning his own pig.

  • @kiahsmith1993
    @kiahsmith1993 Год назад +18

    My home is actually in this video of Holmes county and Ricky is like one of my own children.. I was actually surprised at how outspoken he was he’s normally shy..he could have told you a recent story about how we handle our differences in this part of the country 🤣🤣 loved the video❤️❤️

    • @gogators5762
      @gogators5762 Год назад

      Least your son was honest and proud of where he's from! I woulda told him the samething so nobody watching the video would want to move to my quiet country town!!!! Handle your own problems without LE involved. I already know!!!

    • @lastmincustomer
      @lastmincustomer 3 месяца назад

      does he have instagram i think hes cute

  • @JonOwensMusic
    @JonOwensMusic Год назад +2

    Dude I've watched your videos for a while because I love learning about other places, and to see you cover my home county is so cool! Hope you enjoyed it, and thank you for shedding a positive light on our hometown!!

  • @samkangal8428
    @samkangal8428 Год назад +29

    I love 'Redneck culture'.
    Greetings from a german Country boy .

  • @vivekkaushik9508
    @vivekkaushik9508 Год назад +121

    This is like a documentary on America. I don't even live in US but I get to learn so much just in case if I ever decided to move to US it'd be extremely helpful.

    • @ronswift5080
      @ronswift5080 Год назад +15

      It's a great place to live. Just try and avoid living in the cities. Too much crime right now.

    • @lavaregion6968
      @lavaregion6968 Год назад +6

      @@ronswift5080 that's not true. Crime is up but it's still not bad at all

    • @zzli1295
      @zzli1295 Год назад

      what makes you think that people would welcome you to move here? Remember they hate immigrants right now.

    • @minefield11
      @minefield11 Год назад +3

      live anywhere but the 'burbs, they'll make anyone miserable

    • @Mountainrock70
      @Mountainrock70 Год назад +12

      @@lavaregion6968 well its no Somalia, but let’s face it. Many US cities have become horrible.

  • @bryceherring946
    @bryceherring946 Год назад +9

    Love Florida and seeing these old school, original small towns that exist along the panhandle, great video Nick!

  • @stevenisfatmf
    @stevenisfatmf Год назад +10

    I love Florida panhandle. It's one of my favorite parts of the country and where I decided to put my roots permanently

  • @isabellel7677
    @isabellel7677 Год назад +81

    Born and raised in Florida. The influx of people and businesses have destroyed a lot of the beauty of our state.

    • @ianloeb1672
      @ianloeb1672 Год назад +12

      Not to mention the interstate and freeways destroyed the Everglades

    • @Jay-kc1ql
      @Jay-kc1ql Год назад +13

      That really is a shame Isabelle. It’s happening here in NC as well. Most of my neighbors are from the northeast as they are moving here in droves and bringing their big money and big city problems with them.

    • @kathleenmckeithen118
      @kathleenmckeithen118 Год назад +9

      @@Jay-kc1ql Not to mention their big city politics. That's what scares me.

    • @christopherblackwell2024
      @christopherblackwell2024 Год назад +1

      @@kathleenmckeithen118 big city politics? Can you expound on that?

    • @PNW_Sportbike_Life
      @PNW_Sportbike_Life Год назад

      @@christopherblackwell2024 liberals. They’re all concentrated in city centers. Ever looked at an electoral map?

  • @Eleven-Seven
    @Eleven-Seven Год назад +18

    This is my hometown! I don't have much love for it having grown up there, I get along with the people just fine and they are definitely as stereotypical as they come, but it's an hour out from any kind of place you could go out and as easy as you could feel content with the simple lifestyle, it's just as easy to feel stuck there. I moved to Pensacola and it's much more my speed, it's not so big as to lose the small town feel but there's actually some activities around town on any given night and a lot of good places to eat good food. Thanks for putting a spotlight on Holmes County, it's not somewhere I figured anyone would choose to go 😂 but I'm glad you liked it

    • @jamesgibson5876
      @jamesgibson5876 Год назад +1

      I think maybe ..you have a spot in your heart for it ..and as you age ..your going to appreciate it more ..

    • @davejones5745
      @davejones5745 Год назад +4

      Or, he's glad to be somewhere else. I'm from a small town and I couldn't wait to get out. Moved to a city and have never looked back.

    • @haroldharris9832
      @haroldharris9832 Год назад +1

      Being an hour out... an hour drive to get to places to go out is normal in big citues. Here people drive an jour yo work, to a certain mall, to go to dinner

  • @chester5324
    @chester5324 Год назад +26

    I haven't been to Florida in over a decade but this is exactly how I remember Florida. Happy to see parts of Florida still conservative.

  • @barbarahealy8294
    @barbarahealy8294 Год назад +15

    I visited from Ireland back in late 90s early 2000s to a place called Starke Florida and Waldo I absolutely loved it, met some amazing hard working down to earth people who are still my friends to this day and I cant wait to go back and visit next year, also took a trip to Gainsville and saint Augustine, and a trip to Lakeland I much prefer places like that than somewhere like Miami

    • @tonpetitami
      @tonpetitami Год назад +4

      Change your color from white and I guarantee you'll have a very different experience

    • @Bully904
      @Bully904 11 месяцев назад

      @@tonpetitami it’s blacks in both of those towns he mentioned. Either way he’ll be fine. Shit ain’t like it used to be. I’m from Northeast Florida.

  • @geraldocjunior
    @geraldocjunior Год назад +23

    I lived nearby in Pensacola in 2010/11 as an exchange student from Brazil. I loved the area and the people and miss it to the day.

    • @ca9777
      @ca9777 Год назад

      I’m surprised you didn’t go to Miami. Thousands of your fellow countrymen there.

    • @geraldocjunior
      @geraldocjunior Год назад +4

      If I wanted to stay around fellow Brazilians I would've stayed in Brazil ;)

  • @wfukfm
    @wfukfm Год назад +13

    Panhandle = Redneck Riviera - featuring Crestucky (Crestview) , Flo~Ala(Florala ) and many more.

  • @hdgboy
    @hdgboy Год назад +1

    Nick. You’re unique. Love your song. Hilarious but with some truth. Really enjoy your unbiased and interesting views. Take care.

  • @chargermopar
    @chargermopar Год назад +53

    As someone who lives in Miami, I can remember when we had some of that down here. A friend of mine moved to Calhoun County a few years back and that is also a "redneck" area. Around here I have the most rural looking home in my subdivision. When I sell and move from here it will be to a rural area. The expense and code enforcement hassles make the city life unbearable.

    • @kikiob3628
      @kikiob3628 Год назад +6

      So does the traffic!

    • @xDJxGNOMx
      @xDJxGNOMx Год назад +1

      I'm from germany, bavaria (we have lots of rural areas here that have the same vibe). I have a question, what do you think was most responsible for Miami to change from this community like feeling to the way it is today? I can't really grasp the scale of how and when this all changed especially because in older tv series, shows and movies from the 80s and 90s it's still depicted the way we've seen in the video. Nowadays appearently suburbs have taken over and people start to hate it. How and when did this all happen?

    • @chargermopar
      @chargermopar Год назад +1

      @@xDJxGNOMx The Federal Resrve's inflation of the 1970's brought a bunch of Saudi money here and it was followed by drug money in the late 70's-80's. The Cuban boatlift flooded this place with thousands of hispanics who also attracted the central americans, and the corrupt cultures took deep root. Hurricane Andrew put the brakes on some of it but the Fed's late 90's bubble as well as two more bubbles have totally destroyed the Miami of the past.

    • @xDJxGNOMx
      @xDJxGNOMx Год назад +1

      @@chargermopar Interesting. So it's really a stark contrast because of these problems compared to the 70s right? We did have some migrational problems over the decades here in germany too. More recently also with the boatlifters from North Africa. Do you think there's still places that embody the freedom and community feeling of the old USA or is that pretty much gone for the most part?

    • @alexbarnett8541
      @alexbarnett8541 Год назад +3

      We just moved from a cluster F'd development in the Tampon Bay area to Wauchula. I wanted to get away from all the traffic, people and rules. It's an hour from anything except Seabring. Big wealth disparity also, so you'll feel rich if you are just comfortably middle class. We have a few acres on the peace river next to the Bloody Bucket bridge. Love it! Other people had the same idea so property values are starting to climb. $500k will still get you a nice house with a lot of land.

  • @russc788
    @russc788 Год назад +46

    As much as I want to visit the amazing places of the world, I think visiting a small quiet place like this would be interesting also.

    • @rash15
      @rash15 Год назад

      People give you funny looks

    • @russc788
      @russc788 Год назад

      @@rash15 Yeah I wouldn't want to feel unwelcome.

  • @dianealden9293
    @dianealden9293 Год назад +7

    We lived in Milton when my husband was in flight training at Whiting Field many many years ago. I recall small country store we went into around 8 at night. A bunch of cured hams hanging from hooks, goober peas, boiled pea nuts - beef jer KY and a cooler witb c old drinks. Very very cool.

  • @hilarybramley7529
    @hilarybramley7529 10 месяцев назад

    The more I watch your chanel, the more I learn........I'm starting to get onto your wavelength. Thankyou

  • @ces16511
    @ces16511 Год назад +7

    Enjoyed the video. I live in a redneck area near Crestview FL. The worm fiddling festival is in a town called Caryville which is in Washington County right next to Holmes.

  • @knighttimestorieslv
    @knighttimestorieslv Год назад +15

    The second I saw Sam's Place, I thought to myself, "I've definitely seen that bar in a movie." 😄

  • @barbaratatton3855
    @barbaratatton3855 Год назад +5

    Pretty country. Looks peaceful and warm and not too big or crowded. Very nice footage. 😊

  • @lulun4496
    @lulun4496 Год назад +2

    I moved to Freeport Florida from Miami for 5 yrs and I loved it. The nicest and hardest working “redneck” you’ll ever meet. We still go to the beaches once a year to see friends that we left behind. Hopefully, I will be able to retire in the area.

  • @kade_kam_dad
    @kade_kam_dad Год назад +3

    Great unbiased informative video as always buddy. Love the channel and all you do. Thanks 💪🏽😁

  • @tessk7950
    @tessk7950 Год назад +11

    Good video…. Nice to see how other people lives in different parts of the country … seems like a quiet little town

  • @johnnyninetytwo
    @johnnyninetytwo Год назад +2

    I love how a lot of Florida is still like this even some spots in south Florida are still like this. You gotta be from down here to love it

  • @TheDAT573
    @TheDAT573 Год назад +29

    Great people, living their life, not bothering anyone, just want to be left alone.

  • @jenniferglenn14
    @jenniferglenn14 Год назад +3

    Grew up in the Redlands, west of Homestead and am looking forward to watching your Florida series. I moved to Orlando for college and now live in volusia county in a low density area, and I really like it here. I love Florida, Home of the Florida man so that’s saying something lol

  • @outbackeddie
    @outbackeddie Год назад +18

    I've always wanted to live in an "Andy of Mayberry" type of town. This little town in Florida looks like it comes pretty close.

    • @allenbellot6217
      @allenbellot6217 Год назад +1

      In the 70's and 80's it would have been right on par with Mayberry.

  • @bighilltom
    @bighilltom 6 месяцев назад +1

    snappy nick-songs, great interviews
    and that mullet!
    catchin up on some these i missed, so good thanks nick

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  6 месяцев назад +1

      You gotta lot of catching up to do!

  • @mfs2778
    @mfs2778 Год назад

    Love your vids. Honest, true to life, no BS need apply!👍

  • @frankduffy7471
    @frankduffy7471 Год назад +3

    I am from Florida (Miami Beach/Dade County) and I really miss it! I love most Rural Florida and you have captured some of that - You we all the way to the Right, which is cool! I once owned 5 acres in PInetta (Madison) county, not so Redneck but very rural non the less!

  • @InterstateRaziTV
    @InterstateRaziTV Год назад +9

    OG Nick Johnson Moment: This video is brought to you by Miiiiike's Barbecue on Route 32 in Tallahassee. Great Video Nick!

  • @kenmusicman7061
    @kenmusicman7061 Год назад +1

    Awesome, I love your video.I should send it to my brother who lives and loves Lakeland.He calls it paradise.👍🌅👍

  • @dorotheahaase7438
    @dorotheahaase7438 Год назад

    Love watching you!I live in Panama City. Born and raised here! Thanks for your stories!

  • @meanjean9676
    @meanjean9676 Год назад +3

    Nothing excites me more than leaving Tampa Bay and heading to the panhandle for the weekend! Now and then you need a reminder of who you are😉

  • @MrSupernova111
    @MrSupernova111 Год назад +3

    Very interesting take on this part of the US! Thanks!

  • @timddog5141
    @timddog5141 Год назад +1

    Thank you making this video. I like this area. I may check it in the future.

  • @bennyfranklin
    @bennyfranklin Год назад

    Great song bro. Really getting in my head now. My daughter is looking at me crazy. I lived in Gainesville for 2 years until 1998. It was very red neck as a buddy of mine Robert spray painted a brand new fire f350 camo in the back yard with only 105mi on it. Brand new! These boys are all in. Great videos ! We like the tours and the input from locals. Again, great song man. Haha. Cheers.

  • @amandapanda75
    @amandapanda75 Год назад +4

    Love the musically interventions! So talented!😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @vnlaice4778
    @vnlaice4778 Год назад +3

    Mulberry, winter haven, frost proof, Arcadia, Zephyr hills, and Plant city are some red neck spots and easy to get to from Tampa!! They make great for weekend sight seeing 🤠

  • @PorkStufff
    @PorkStufff Год назад +2

    Heck yeah Nick! I've been looking to move to Chipley, it's a perfect spot for me. PCB to get my wiggles out, Tallahassee for city things and Lofty Pursuits candy, and of course Dothan Alabama for the beautiful women. I remember when most of Florida above Tampa was like that. Love love love it out there.

  • @thunderbritches67
    @thunderbritches67 Год назад +2

    I lived in darlington Fl when you pull up to the pumps at the gas station you need to watch out for the chickens.Loved it there.

  • @skyblu0w0
    @skyblu0w0 Год назад +6

    I’m from Citrus County, love it here. But gonna take a drive up there and check Holmes county and definitely Sam’s place before it gets sucked up by progress.

  • @stephendacey8761
    @stephendacey8761 Год назад +28

    Nice video Nick, and both guests were good, especially the nurse who lived there since 1973. I live in the Boston area and it is just the opposite of there, and extremely liberal. I thought the bar was cool, and I have a lot of respect for these people who seem very down to earth, and friendly. If your car broke down in Boston, I doubt many people would help out b/c everybody is so busy, and it's a fast pace lifestyle. But, I would like to visit, but the heat and humidity, along with the bugs and reptiles might be too much for me to live there. I like the change of seasons, also.

    • @sunnydaze2359
      @sunnydaze2359 Год назад +2

      I live in Southwest Florida about one hour south of Sarasota . I’ve been here for almost 30 years & even though it is more expensive to live in this area it is well worth it. If you don’t like the cold weather do not move to Northern Florida because it’s not that much warmer than where I moved from New Jersey . As for bugs if you keep your house clean you will not see them. We have air-conditioned cars houses stores etc. so the heat never bothered me! Unless of course you have to work outdoors.

    • @sunnydaze2359
      @sunnydaze2359 Год назад

      PS. We do have two seasons here summer and spring . 😊

    • @stephendacey8761
      @stephendacey8761 Год назад +3

      @@Rollercoaster555 Yes, I am from Boston (bean town), and I'm thinking of moving b/c I think the state is going downhill.

    • @Noone9227
      @Noone9227 Год назад

      People wouldn’t help you if your car broke down in Boston because they would think it’s a scam.

  • @DatGuy960
    @DatGuy960 Год назад +1

    I moved here in '16 and picked this place for the exact reason your video extols....country living, country folks and country lifestyle. While I miss my Family up north, it's a lot cheaper and peaceful here, for sure.

  • @nickthebrick4563
    @nickthebrick4563 Год назад +1

    Wow this is crazy seeing a video about my town blow up.. Bonifay is where I’m born & raised. I even delivered the bonifay route with fedex on the rural areas. I know every damn road top to bottom there.

  • @mustlovepretzels
    @mustlovepretzels Год назад +13

    At 24:26: that guy walking out of the store had no shirt on. No shirt, still gets service. I like that. Cheers!

    • @jeep19
      @jeep19 Год назад +3

      Damn, he was a hottie 🔥

    • @kellywilson6240
      @kellywilson6240 Год назад

      We dotn care down here as long as your money is good! We put the signs up because corporations have to but no one pays it attention lol

  • @jonathansansone8025
    @jonathansansone8025 Год назад +3

    I love the panhandle, I been living in Jupiter for well over 20 years and my boys are at Fsu and I love taking the backroads there.
    I would move to Tallahassee

    • @markwilliams4525
      @markwilliams4525 Год назад

      I guess it depends on what you like, me personally I don't like Tallahassee

  • @michaelrice3538
    @michaelrice3538 Год назад

    Nice video, Nick. You've carved out a nice little niche for yourself with your "Here's America" theme.

  • @dosin784
    @dosin784 Год назад +2

    Thanks for visiting our county and town. Hope u enjoyed it

  • @BB-kt5eb
    @BB-kt5eb Год назад +8

    There are many pockets of old Florida throughout the central part of the state in towns like Ocala and even further south in areas just outside of Fort Myers. The accent sounds more like southern Georgia than anything else.

  • @GoldGauntletComix
    @GoldGauntletComix Год назад +9

    This makes me miss home!! I lived rural and worked my families dairy farm. This made me feel great!

    • @naturelover2292
      @naturelover2292 Год назад +1

      I love seeing dairy farms not sure what happened to the Dairy farm that use to be near I-4 in Tampa.

    • @GoldGauntletComix
      @GoldGauntletComix Год назад +1

      @@naturelover2292 That's a really good question. I'll ask my dad, his friend runs a 5000 head dairy up there somewhere (I'm probably 100s of miles off lol) he would know

    • @naturelover2292
      @naturelover2292 Год назад +1

      @@GoldGauntletComix ok Thanks ☺️

    • @GoldGauntletComix
      @GoldGauntletComix Год назад

      @@naturelover2292 I haven't had a chance to ask him up. Every time we talk we are busy catching up. But I will fimd out. Thanks for patients. I almost want to say Nickerson. Farms.but not sure.

  • @willasage23240
    @willasage23240 Год назад

    I love watching your videos, they are so entertaining!

  • @unclephil_4072
    @unclephil_4072 Год назад +1

    Great video brother. I live in central Florida but very familiar with the panhandle. I feel like you got it.

  • @Kupcho58
    @Kupcho58 Год назад +4

    I was born and raised here in Pinellas County.
    You wouldn't believe it, but there was a time when it was pretty damn nice here.
    Growing up here was great; I had an abundance of dirt roads to follow that were lined with pine or oak forests, streams, swamps and open fields to explore with my buddies.
    Then somebody dropped an interstate down the middle of the state and screwed us big time.
    In a way, I suppose that I lucked out (if that's the right term), after I graduated, I took a job with the State Road Dept (1976).
    We worked outdoors (usually) anywhere there were State roads or other properties in Pinellas.
    So I got to see it before they paved it.
    I got to watch, over time, how all those open places were slowly destroyed.
    Progress they say.
    Bahh I say! (I'd use stronger language here, but don't want to rile the comment police)
    I'd give anything to have my old home back.
    All we have now are tourist attractions, motels, strip malls and blight.
    We use to have beach parties.
    Now, you can't even SEE the Gulf of Mexico unless you get a room at one of the overpriced, sub standard motels that line the beaches.
    The road in front of my house was a dirt road.
    There was a small citrus grove just North of my block where we kids could go, grab a few oranges and play around the trees.
    I use to know my neighbors...ALL of them.
    We would have neighborhood cookouts and block parties.
    We never had to lock our doors.
    Other than the normal school drama, I never felt unsafe or threatened as a kid.
    Every one of my neighbors knew me too.
    They watched out for me and even policed me when I got out of line.
    I could trust them and depend on them to have my back.
    But now I have a dope dealer plying his goods down the alley and a crack house behind me.
    TREASURE your open spaces folks.
    They aren't making it anymore.
    And they want to come to YOUR town and do what they did to mine.
    All in the pursuit of a dollar bill.

  • @edlubitz2968
    @edlubitz2968 Год назад +9

    Ive seen some place like this in Texas, nice through the day, as a trucker I always wanted to be parked in a busy truck stop by the time it got dark

  • @RawOlympia
    @RawOlympia Год назад

    I hope Paul Simon hears this song 2:05 plus nice interview. You are wonderful

  • @ColesonKavouras
    @ColesonKavouras Год назад +1

    Grew up in Panama City Beach and Vortex Springs in Holmes County is one of the favorite hangout spots of all my friends and I

  • @chaundrawhitehead
    @chaundrawhitehead Год назад +18

    As a Black person from North Florida, when traveling, this is the type of town I would not feel safe to stop in.

  • @MT-sl7ru
    @MT-sl7ru Год назад +3

    I'm in Tampa and EVERYBODY has chickens, roosters and peacocks. I'm 2 miles from downtown and I get woken up every morning 😂 no HOA in my neighborhood, keeping it American!

  • @daryljohnson3945
    @daryljohnson3945 Год назад

    Thanks for your content, this video reminds me of Collinwood Tennessee, but we have hills.

  • @kevintessier3368
    @kevintessier3368 Год назад

    Thanks!
    Hey Bud
    Don't forget the good ole boy with the Mullet Hairdo drinking a can of Red ,white and blue beer on his porch, with the washing machine on the porch,banged up pick up in the dirt driveway. Y'all
    Good job Nick 👍👍👍 you keep me smiling 😊 I LMFAO.

  • @gaybear5328
    @gaybear5328 Год назад +3

    I can’t wait to move back down south. Grow up in Rockingham NC and miss it so much! few more years!!! See YA Seattle

    • @robertmoore2049
      @robertmoore2049 Год назад +1

      You are smart to do so. I hope you can leave and go back home to stay real soon. You’ll probably be a lot safer and happier there.

    • @mariowalker9048
      @mariowalker9048 Год назад

      I live 5 minutes from Rockingham. I ready to leave Richmond County

  • @bryanmickle830
    @bryanmickle830 Год назад +5

    I grew up in Bonifay. This is not the first time a video of the area has been done. If you want to step back in time and over a town search for the documentary on called Vernon Florida. That is more like what it was when I grew up in the area. There was Padgett Drugs store on the main street and Evans was across the street where you could buy your clothing. It has changed with many of the building on main street now closed and some of them falling down.

  • @trinidadinternational
    @trinidadinternational Год назад +1

    Loved the video! Hilarious and informative!

  • @cayennenaturetrails8953
    @cayennenaturetrails8953 7 месяцев назад

    Bonifay is where I plan to visit 2 weeks from now! Thanks for the Positive Review! :)

  • @morecm3322
    @morecm3322 Год назад

    I admire people who live simple healthy lives. Money is not everything. Family,church,community,caring neighbors,but the ability to see the stars at night touched my heart. I hope it stays quaint and wholesome. God bless America.

  • @FunkyDPL
    @FunkyDPL Год назад +5

    OK Nick, you went from ragging on my home state (Ohio), to ragging on a place not far from my current location!
    Just kidding you, well done. I have lived near Eglin AFB for the last 10 years (after having lived in several other places) and can tell you it's a great place to be. I always call this the sane part of the state.
    At the start of the video, you crossed the state line into Nassau Country, which is home to a lot of redneck country, especially around Callahan, which I have long considered to be Florida's redneck capital. However this may have changed with the grown of nearby Jacksonville.
    It is a little amazing that Bonifay is less than an hour away from Destin, which is worlds away in so many other areas.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Год назад

      You're right. But Ohio is still blah

  • @cjlars1399
    @cjlars1399 Год назад +6

    Thanks! Love what you do!

  • @lianabeck2578
    @lianabeck2578 Год назад +1

    So cool! I just moved to Bonifay! Exactly right , to get away from it all. Peaceful and pleasant, and we can do whatever we want😎

  • @rolfjohnsen8106
    @rolfjohnsen8106 14 дней назад

    Nothing beats living in Bratt, Fl! Great friendly people, everyone minds their own business. Nice creeks and everyone enjoys sitting around a fire

  • @heather957
    @heather957 Год назад +11

    Nick, keep the Florida videos coming! : D

  • @franwood9578
    @franwood9578 Год назад +6

    We have bars here in UK where builders go for a pint after work, it's a community, they're great, hard working men.

  • @carolerogers6327
    @carolerogers6327 Год назад

    This is great My entire family is from Holmes county. We used to have a family reunion there every summer.

  • @robertnunn4246
    @robertnunn4246 Год назад +2

    I’ve lived in Holmes co for 23 now . Moved from South Florida . I love it here ! When I travel around to other places people ask me what it’s like here I say “ it sucks it’s the worst place in Florida don’t ever move there “. 😅😂😅🤣😂😅. Jus’ doing my part to keep Holmes co “ Country”

  • @scottthomas3792
    @scottthomas3792 Год назад +3

    Reminds me of 1970s small town central Florida...lots of rural places at that time...

  • @justrae1721
    @justrae1721 Год назад +22

    I hope that first young man goes far in life, I hope he travels the world, and doesn’t get caught up in the environment he’s in

    • @jamesmack3314
      @jamesmack3314 Год назад +3

      Seemed like a cool guy

    • @filrabat1965
      @filrabat1965 Год назад +3

      Fortunately, there is the Internet, so he grew up realizing that he's not alone. Pre-Inernet, he would have felt isolated, if not disspirited.

    • @rickysims643
      @rickysims643 5 месяцев назад

      Thank you man I appreciate that

  • @kristinauman4948
    @kristinauman4948 Год назад +1

    I grew up in south Florida but live in North Central Florida now. We absolutely love it, people are amazing in High Springs. Reminds me of being a kid in S.W. Florida. It’s definitely a live and let live area, lots of diversity because we are close to University of Florida.