What Happened to Oakland California?

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  • @mineralt
    @mineralt 9 месяцев назад +1000

    Lived in Oakland 2001 to 2012. I had to get out. It’s not that it has a bad local government, it really DOESN’T HAVE a local government. The elected people are paralyzed by fear of offending various “protected classes”, so it is a train wreck. Glad I left.

    • @BORN-to-Run
      @BORN-to-Run 9 месяцев назад +5

      Where did you go?

    • @its-all-good
      @its-all-good 9 месяцев назад +54

      @@BORN-to-Run She probably feels safer in deep Mississippi which I, as a black man from Oakland who lives here now, cant blame her to be honest 🥲

    • @SFbayArea94121
      @SFbayArea94121 9 месяцев назад +67

      Exactly. BLACKS

    • @UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart
      @UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart 9 месяцев назад +18

      Ah - the classic "glad I left comment"

    • @suckafree6195
      @suckafree6195 9 месяцев назад

      Black people are untouchable so the ones that are bad get away with anything. Watch how the murder each other. oh but It's because of racism... right?

  • @hendrsb33
    @hendrsb33 9 месяцев назад +303

    I was raised in Oakland, grew up in the Maxwell Park neighborhood. I left California for the Northwest in the 1992, returned for a number of years and now I'm in Arizona, likely permanently. It hurts to see the Bay Area as it is now. My best memories remain there and I still love the city but... it's just not the same place anymore. I visited my old haunts in Oakland a few months ago and the homeless situation is unreal, many areas look run-down and poorly maintained. To think, I ran around that city on bike, bus, and BART as a teen and felt relatively safe... now I wouldn't even bother driving the streets. I miss the old Oakland. Loved reading the comments... Cheers, All.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat 9 месяцев назад +19

      Been in the SJ-SF for 30+ years. Oaktown was really the only place I was on highest alert. Freaky, run down, angry, ghetto-bangin', testosterone-slingin' individuals all over the place. Unfortunate? Yes. Resolvable? No. Not without a citywide nuke. 💪😎✌️

    • @thedude6810
      @thedude6810 9 месяцев назад +12

      Old Bay Area was great. Pretty much before 2000ish it was a great place.

    • @mjwbulich
      @mjwbulich 9 месяцев назад +15

      Oakland was much much worse in the early 1990s than it is now. You might perceive things as worse now because of the high visibility of the homeless. I promise you that if you look at the violent crime rate now versus then you'll be shocked. The Oakland you and I ran around in as kids was a nightmare.

    • @abalu5547
      @abalu5547 9 месяцев назад +8

      There's a difference between the poor neighborhoods /the rich neighborhoods

    • @willisswenson3843
      @willisswenson3843 9 месяцев назад

      The million dollar question. Did you go to the NW and vote Democrat? You are now in Arizona, do you vote Democrat? If the answer is ‘yes, I vote Democrat’, YOU are the F’ing problem, because you are spreading the cancer. If you vote Democrat, where will you run to when Arizona has been destroyed by the democrats?

  • @howiescott5865
    @howiescott5865 9 месяцев назад +44

    I grew up in Oakland during the 50's and 60's. Back in those days we slept with our doors unlocked. Since then, I've been to about 50 countries around the world. I've been to the worst impoverished slums on Earth, sadly, parts of Oakland today make the list. What I've last seen of Oakland a year ago would have been unimaginable when I left 25 years ago.

  • @blahblah55237
    @blahblah55237 9 месяцев назад +125

    I knew a former Oakland cop who said that he if saw a drunk driver, he would not bother pulling the drunk driver over because OPD is so understaffed that his colleagues can't have him tied up in a DUI stop for hours. And given that OPD has been under a federal monitor for decades and a community that hates them, most cops will just lateral to another agency once they gain enough experience and commendations. It's very similar to the Oakland A's - investing time and money into rookie cops only to have the rookie go to another team once their value goes up.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +11

      Rookie cops leave SFPD as well once they gain experience.

    • @sdeye7480
      @sdeye7480 8 месяцев назад +5

      That’s bullshit. He got lucky. I got a DUI in 2010

    • @Xilladan093
      @Xilladan093 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@sdeye7480 nice sample size

    • @Xilladan093
      @Xilladan093 7 месяцев назад

      @@sdeye7480 sarcasm

    • @Xilladan093
      @Xilladan093 7 месяцев назад

      @@sdeye7480 clown

  • @michaelbenardo5695
    @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +214

    I am a native San Franciscan, will be 68 in a few days, but spent my teen years growing up in Oakland. You left out a very important part of Oakland's decline. That being the flight of jobs to far away suburbs after employment discrimination was made illegal, coupled with "White Flight" after housing segregation was made illegal. Yes, that happened all across the country, but Oakland was severely wounded by these two phenomenon and never really recovered. By the 80s, there were entire neighborhoods where almost none of the young men had ever had a legitimate job, mostly because there WERE no jobs to be had. Many had never ventured out of Oakland - Berkeley - San Francisco and had no idea where places like Orinda, Reem, Lafayette, Dublin, etc. were, and had no idea how to get there. Many didn't have cars, and those localities were poorly, at best, served by inter-urban transit. When you can't find a job as a young person, you don't acquire experience, and if you don't have any experience by the time you are in your late 20s, you are pretty much unemployable for all but the worse jobs, jobs that simply don't pay enough to allow you to afford even the most basic housing. Hence, the lure of illegal activities.

    • @muzikizfun
      @muzikizfun 9 месяцев назад +1

      Get your head out of the sand. It was the voters who sanctioned one party rule that doomed Oakland and is now almost destroyed San Francisco. The jobs moved out because it wasn't worth keeping them in high crime areas governed by anarchists and hoodlums. Sodom and Gamora would be better names for Oakland and San Francisco!

    • @Halcon_Sierreno
      @Halcon_Sierreno 9 месяцев назад

      You're not native.

    • @solido888
      @solido888 9 месяцев назад +26

      Thank you. Too many people want to reduce the issues in our country to oversimplified, good vs evil, us v them, narratives. In reality, it is much more complex and nuanced, as you have shown.

    • @lestranged
      @lestranged 8 месяцев назад +9

      I lived in the bay area my whole life and I never heard of "Reem". Where is that? What is that?

    • @HanginInSF
      @HanginInSF 8 месяцев назад +12

      Had no idea how to get to Orinda? Really? Its like 7 miles away. Oh and there's no jobs in Orinda, its a bedroom community of Bay Area professionals forced to drive through the Caldecott tunnel every day because Oakland is a shit hole.

  • @brose2323
    @brose2323 9 месяцев назад +82

    I'm a trucker who used to do west coast. I had to spend the night parked on the street in
    Oakland. All night I reminded myself that I did a year in Afghanistan . But in Afghanistan I had an M4.

    • @pigdroppings
      @pigdroppings 4 месяца назад +13

      Oakland 1940....95% white...growing town
      Oakland 2022....33% white....dying town

    • @ronkistner2672
      @ronkistner2672 4 месяца назад +1

      you still need it

    • @nicholasbrowning4558
      @nicholasbrowning4558 4 месяца назад +5

      ​@@pigdroppingsSurprised you did not get your truth censured

    • @mkay1957
      @mkay1957 3 месяца назад

      @@pigdroppings And almost all of the white people now residing in Oakland are woke, uptight, angry leftists.

    • @Chertoff88
      @Chertoff88 3 месяца назад

      Best comment hands down

  • @michaelmacpherson-wm6mh
    @michaelmacpherson-wm6mh 9 месяцев назад +140

    I was born in Oakland, a block away from the Hells Angels clubhouse. my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents all lived there. my parents bought a house when I was 6 months old. I don't know why they bought one 20 miles away, but I am sure glad they did.
    Oakland has been a mess for years, a friend of the family was murdered in a robbery around 1965.

    • @rickharnish6757
      @rickharnish6757 9 месяцев назад +6

      E. 14th Street? I live in Oakland 81-82 and played football at Laney College. Live at 30th and Telegraph.

    • @michaelmacpherson-wm6mh
      @michaelmacpherson-wm6mh 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@rickharnish6757 I believe it was on Foothill at one time. we lived on 39th. I went out there in the 80's to see our old house and our grandparents place across the street and it was in a different place than it is now

    • @415_Stand-up
      @415_Stand-up 9 месяцев назад

      Bruh still stuck in the 60's bruh go touch some grass

    • @415_Stand-up
      @415_Stand-up 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@michaelmacpherson-wm6mhput down the pipe and walk away

    • @KD-nk3ht
      @KD-nk3ht 9 месяцев назад +1

      What thay murdutt his ass fuh?

  • @leizylromero
    @leizylromero 9 месяцев назад +56

    Oakland has a lot of potential. Unfortunately there’s too many opportunists acting like community leaders and too many haters knocking shit down. You can’t have anything nice bc someone will either scam you out of it or destroy it.

    • @mcconn746
      @mcconn746 8 месяцев назад +4

      There would be less scams by community leaders if the media did their job. Politicians are expected to be corrupt. It does not work if the media is also corrupt.
      That will happen if the DA does not prosecute the bad guys. Most crimes are done by a small number of people. I don't think someone should be locked up for a nonviolent first crime but if they do not learn, we need to be protected from them. I wish you well.

    • @7clovers008
      @7clovers008 8 месяцев назад +3

      Oakland is not what it once was... It's a Toilet now.. I should have never came back here.

  • @salvadorquirarte4133
    @salvadorquirarte4133 9 месяцев назад +53

    Driving in Oakland has gotten out of control, in some cases it’s like mad max

    • @michaelb41
      @michaelb41 9 месяцев назад +2

      You meant Mad Max?

    • @salvadorquirarte4133
      @salvadorquirarte4133 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaelb41 yes lol

    • @IsmaelChamu
      @IsmaelChamu 9 месяцев назад +3

      No it's not. You clearly don't drive through Oakland. I find it funny how many ppl sensationalize crime when crime at a macro level has been going down. I promise you unless you're wandering the streets of East Oakland on 182nd at 3AM you're fine.

    • @SixTenVisuals
      @SixTenVisuals 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@IsmaelChamu ain't no 182nd. He's talkin the Town, not NYC

    • @howiescott5865
      @howiescott5865 9 месяцев назад +2

      Makes the movie look like a cartoon.

  • @sawyertuide7636
    @sawyertuide7636 9 месяцев назад +28

    As a Haywarder (10 miles south from Oakland), I can tell you that some areas of the city look really rough. From rusted buildings to human shit on the streets.
    And if you try to leave, try not to get struck by a stray bullet on 880 or 580. It’s a beautiful city but it also deserved its reputation for being ghetto and chaotic.

    • @user-wg4ie9pb3x
      @user-wg4ie9pb3x 2 месяца назад

      Completely agree. Also, I'm sorry you live in Hayward.

  • @lindadunkerson7099
    @lindadunkerson7099 9 месяцев назад +16

    The City government allowed crime to over take the town an let go of all it's revenue. Bring in the National Guards an have them an city employees to clean an clear it up. No more outsiders buying up all land an raising rent an mortgages 3 times for a port city.

  • @higgs923
    @higgs923 9 месяцев назад +23

    Thank you! I'm sufficiently old to recall living in Navy dependent housing at Hunter's Point and taking the Oakland ferry to go shopping in the huge department stores there. This was in 1951.

    • @sasha-mf2oj
      @sasha-mf2oj 9 месяцев назад +3

      We lived there too. I was about 2-3 then. Harbor homes. That drunk man drove his car a into the shore line rocks. Hunter's Point came next, then my parents purchased their first home. Wow the memories. 😁

  • @hansfranklin5070
    @hansfranklin5070 9 месяцев назад +78

    I worked in Oakland in 2006 -2007! The murder rate statistic was one and a half a day, ranking 10th most dangerous metropolitan in the country, only behind Richmond, just north, that ranked 4th! Recently professional sports championships resulted in looting and burning of many businesses along E.14th, International Blvd. On a recent visit, my cousin picked me up at the airport. We stopped at a nearby restaurant for a late dinner around 9:00 - 9:30! We had to hurry because they were closing at 10! When I asked why, the answer was because you risked getting robbed if you stayed open any later! My sisters mother-in-law was robbed at gun point riding BART. My nephew's teacher was beat to near death and couldn't get police or paramedics to respond to a 911 call. He was eventually transported to the nearest hospital by taxi! A friend was a construction manager. They were required to hire a certain % of local residents by law! Workers were late, drunk, high, under qualified and unproductive!

    • @thebeastwithin6978
      @thebeastwithin6978 9 месяцев назад

      How do you kill half a man?

    • @hansfranklin5070
      @hansfranklin5070 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@thebeastwithin6978 it was the statistical rate of murder based on a 24 hr period!

    • @protondecay69
      @protondecay69 9 месяцев назад

      Oakland murder rate in 2006 was 148 and in 2007 it was 127. You really should work on your math.

    • @marlenemetcalf8498
      @marlenemetcalf8498 9 месяцев назад

      Oakland had 500+ murders a year all thru 1970s, 1980s, 1990's until slowed in 1995. At times it was the worst city statistic in the United States. Worse than Rip de Janeiro's drug gang murders by ten times. 500 murders per 500,000 pop is 1 murder per 1000. That's huge. I remember I was working for the railroad in West Oak on 7th St big yard, and the 1 st homicide of the year 1979 happened at 12:45 am at Esther's Orbit Room, a nightclub just across 7 th St from our railroad yard office. And the next year, 500++. And the next year, 500++.....

    • @leeswetnika3325
      @leeswetnika3325 6 месяцев назад

      @@marlenemetcalf8498 Esther's Orbit Room, oh yeah. Ribs chicken and white bread.

  • @marcuscole4394
    @marcuscole4394 7 месяцев назад +16

    I lived in Oakland for 10 years in the 1990s. The first five on High Street just above MacAuther Blvd nea St. Lawrence O'Tool. The second 5 years on 64th Ave just above MacAurther near Mills College. I loved the weather, it was just about perfect. I liked the hills and the parks off Skyline Blvd and liked going to A's games. The crime was tough to handle, but I really loved my neighbors, good people. I was always rooting for Oakland, still am.

    • @daryllect6659
      @daryllect6659 6 месяцев назад +1

      My friend Alan Erickson lived on 64th above the cemetery. Did you know that John Lee Hooker lived off 64th?

  • @Robert-eg2oy
    @Robert-eg2oy 9 месяцев назад +76

    Oakland has been a violent cesspool for years, the mayor just recently asked for the National Guard for help. Huey Newton was murdered in Oakland, if he couldn’t survive The Cesspool, you-all in trouble.

    • @ivandragomiloff2356
      @ivandragomiloff2356 9 месяцев назад

      So they defunded the police, blamed the police for all their problems, threw heaps of hate on them…and now they are begging the state to bring in soldiers of the national guard 😂
      These woke politicians that inhabit Oakland are the most moronic hypocrites out there. Oakland deserves all the problems it has.

    • @DemPilafian
      @DemPilafian 9 месяцев назад +6

      Newton was killed in the 1980s.
      Give it a rest troll.

    • @ivandragomiloff2356
      @ivandragomiloff2356 9 месяцев назад

      @@DemPilafian So your saying Oakland has always been a cesspool for crime and murder. Since the murder happened in the 1980s.

    • @415_Stand-up
      @415_Stand-up 9 месяцев назад +2

      Lol the national guard 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ejc6394
      @ejc6394 9 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@DemPilafianhe never said he wasn't. Troll

  • @pvrhall
    @pvrhall 9 месяцев назад +54

    I'm Oakland born and raised since 2001. I've lived in the city's low income neighborhoods and have seen gentrification with my own eyes, I went to Oakland public/charter schools, I'm a pupil of one of the longest running non-profit organizations in Oakland, my church is in Oakland, and was also an intern for one of Oakland's sports teams one summer when I was in college.
    I'm very proud to say that Oakland is my hometown but it disappoints me very much to see the current state of the city with the dysfunctional leadership in city hall, the rise in homelessness and crime, the decline in the city's education system, and the sports teams that have left or are planning to leave.
    I also say that the cost of living does not match with the value for what Oakland has to offer as a city at the moment. I estimate this to if a city has decent parks and recreation, low crime, entertainment, a properly ran education system, and the cleanliness to the standards of a large city. Right now, Oakland is lacking in most of these areas if not all. I'm not saying that it needs to be perfect but at least to the level where everyone is content.
    These areas being below standard with the lack of proper leadership within our city demonstrates why Oakland can't have nice things. I'm hoping that these changes can be made for the sake of future Oaklanders and for calling Oakland my hometown.
    "Even though Oakland will always be the bridesmaid to San Francisco doesn't mean we should give up on trying to catch the bouquet at the reception." -My Quote

    • @fourthgirl
      @fourthgirl 9 месяцев назад +6

      I am 60 years old and was born and raised in Oakland. After 4 years of living in Redding, I divorced my husband and moved back home to East Oakland. My kids got to experience growing up in a neighborhood where the neighbors knew each other. They also paid attention to local politics and would attend town meetings. Yes, in the flats of ESO my kids born in 1989, 91 and 92 got to know this. But the reality of the shortcomings where already evident. The neighborhood schools were not up to par, so my kids attended school across town in Trestle Glen. The local little league was plagued with too few parent volunteers and coaches. The lack of youth based programs is appalling. What happened to this city that was on an upswing in the 90's? Lack of leadership and an in-balance of redevelopment in the city. We have the oldest people serving as councilmembers and running for Mayor that lack any experience in commercial real estate, business development and urban planning. We also have a police force that cannot get out of its own way of causing problems. Younger residents of Oakland need to become more involved in the development of this city. We Boomers cannot continue to try and plan for something that we will not be here to see completed. As much as I love baseball and the Athletics, let them go to the desert. We have bigger problems and more can be done with that very expensive and expansive property known as the Coliseum Complex. I personally want to see a return of Below Market Housing for purchase by first time homebuyers and a decent transit hub.

    • @englishsteel-nz6im
      @englishsteel-nz6im 9 месяцев назад +5

      Your best comment in here is "doesn't have to be perfect but at least to the level where everyone is content".... right... that should be the goal with governing anything.
      I don't live in Oakland... San Leandro just south of it. The thing that's saddest is the potential Oakland has with what it does have to offer is very high and even with all of the negatives it's still got some area's that are great to visit and hang out at and some good neighborhoods. The homelessness and crime is unacceptable and what's stopping further development.
      Let me say something tho as a fellow Bay Arean.... at the moment Oakland >>>> SF. SF has been driven into the toilet lol which is even more sad because at one point for a decade or two it was likely the best city in America.

    • @irishledden4924
      @irishledden4924 9 месяцев назад

      Saying you re proud of oakland is like saying you are proud of being sexually challenged (gay).

    • @sirchi8731
      @sirchi8731 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@englishsteel-nz6imI agree it's the best comment

    • @snakedog77
      @snakedog77 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@fourthgirl West Oakland guy here. I loved Oakland until the crack era hit. That drug has destroyed our city. And it still has not recovered. The seventies were very good to me. West Oakland alone with East Oakland was segregated but they were both nice areas. Crack was the pandoras box for our black communities. I no longer live in Oakland, and I will never move back. But I will always be proud of growing up and living in West Oakland. Lived in the projects, but now I own a home and is retired. Growing up poor more made me a better and more humble person.

  • @DaleDenton
    @DaleDenton 9 месяцев назад +79

    I've partied, hung out and driven around in Oakland a lot over the years living in the Bay Area. One thing I can say for sure is that the cops don't go to certain parts of Oakland, and there's almost no such thing as a parking ticket. It's a lawless land.

    • @mikemiller659
      @mikemiller659 9 месяцев назад +15

      Or ANY ticket..I have lived in East Oakland for 14 years now. Almost No one stops for stop signs or had tags on their cars or probably carry insurance.The new Alameda DA pam price refuses to prosecute blk offenders and is going to get recalled. I hope. and the new mayor is asking for a raise in her pay. meanwhile oakland is the capitol of crime

    • @muzikizfun
      @muzikizfun 9 месяцев назад +4

      Here let me help you with the correct definition. It's called anarchy.

    • @Halcon_Sierreno
      @Halcon_Sierreno 9 месяцев назад

      Are drugs free?

    • @muzikizfun
      @muzikizfun 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Halcon_Sierreno only till they get you hooked.

    • @Halcon_Sierreno
      @Halcon_Sierreno 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@muzikizfun So just don't get hooked and you get unlimited drugs.

  • @noazucar519
    @noazucar519 8 месяцев назад +9

    No one who runs for any office in Oakland is able to do anything because they'll always get accused of being racist whenever they try something to fix the problem. It's honestly so sad because Oakland has great weather and sits on top of beautiful, fertile land.

  • @donphillips5957
    @donphillips5957 9 месяцев назад +25

    A couple years ago I was in Emmeryville, just north of Oakland. Wildfires just north of the city had set a grey haze so thick the sun was an angry red looking back toward Oakland and the dilapidated neighborhood right there looked like a Mad Max dystopian scene.

    • @blahblah55237
      @blahblah55237 8 месяцев назад +3

      I lived in Emeryville when the sun was blocked out too - agreed it looked liked the end of the world.

    • @Aieshoo
      @Aieshoo 24 дня назад

      Was this in 2019?

    • @gabeflannery9750
      @gabeflannery9750 9 дней назад

      Yeah the wildfires were rough that year, they happened to be in Contra Costa county, which is the next county over from Alameda county, which Oakland is in

  • @neckenwiler
    @neckenwiler 9 месяцев назад +37

    You left out the destruction of many neighborhoods in the mid-twentieth century for the interstate system. Oakland got completely decimated, and those freeways are scars on the urban landscape today, dividing neighborhoods.

    • @tokyowarfare6729
      @tokyowarfare6729 29 дней назад

      BS, Violence started to go out of control late 60s with a peak in 90s and going back to those numbers.

  • @maxplanck1423
    @maxplanck1423 9 месяцев назад +7

    As a frequent visitor to the Bay Area, I’ve found that Oakland suffers from being in the shadow of its more glamorous and coveted sibling SF that sends its dirty work across the bay for disposal.

  • @ralphfinklea7855
    @ralphfinklea7855 5 месяцев назад +5

    I used to go to downtown Oakland around 1977 while in the Navy. The subway was there and good book stores open all the time, seemed very safe walking the streets. One day I walked out of the subway downtown and a St Patrick's day parade was passing by with Ms. America riding in a convertible. I guess those were the good ole days.

  • @ladilee18
    @ladilee18 9 месяцев назад +4

    im 31, born and raised here. still here. youve taught me a few things about my hometown, thankyou!

  • @carmenultra1
    @carmenultra1 8 месяцев назад +18

    I love Oakland with all my entire being. I’m a 38 year old black female and been was born and raised here. It’s so so heartbreaking how my city isn’t the same anymore.

    • @etyjack4226
      @etyjack4226 7 месяцев назад

      Please, what is your advice to anyone who wants to relocate to Oakland?

    • @SkankHunt42isback
      @SkankHunt42isback 7 месяцев назад +10

      It's because of your people

    • @3ofus135
      @3ofus135 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@etyjack4226 Don't

    • @cristhianyadhir5888
      @cristhianyadhir5888 4 месяца назад +2

      Its because of your kind

    • @TheCommentSpy769
      @TheCommentSpy769 2 месяца назад

      ​@@cristhianyadhir5888it's because of your meth head kind

  • @machinesofgod
    @machinesofgod 9 месяцев назад +34

    I grew up going to Raiders games in the early 2000s. I vividly remember coming across a man who said his home in Oakland was in a quiet neighborhood until the 1980s when people got addicted to crack and it went downhill from there.

    • @snakedog77
      @snakedog77 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yep

    • @richardmorris7063
      @richardmorris7063 9 месяцев назад +3

      The meth & fentynol are more addicted. And there's little or no punishment to do it in plain site.

    • @howiescott5865
      @howiescott5865 9 месяцев назад

      That's disgusting and that's one of the reasons why I left. @@richardmorris7063

  • @ronaldvantine4488
    @ronaldvantine4488 9 месяцев назад +19

    If you give a criminal one inch they'll take a mile.

  • @KongSunWu
    @KongSunWu 6 месяцев назад +5

    About 7 years ago I went to a conference in downtown Oakland. I live in the south bay. Before the conference, during lunch and after the conference I walked downtown. You can feel the grandeur of the place.
    I went to college in the 1970s and had some older friends (they were in their 30s).
    They had a small house in the Oakland hills, 1920s/1930s vintage. It was my dream house. As a side note my friend was 1/2 black (very lite skinned) while walking in his neighborhood he got jumped by 2 black guys and beaten, not robbed.
    I agree with what others have said. The main cause of the decay is the lack of jobs along with bad government.
    It i so sad to see what Oakland is as compared to what it was and still could be

  • @bonesport529
    @bonesport529 9 месяцев назад +21

    As a kid growing up in the 60's in Alameda, it was great, but I remember nobody wanted to go to Oakland and it's only gotten worse

  • @kreepyits-o7761
    @kreepyits-o7761 9 месяцев назад +23

    What happened to Oakland " people happened " the virus of stupidity thats spreading throughout California leaving it to die

  • @MrRockydee07
    @MrRockydee07 9 месяцев назад +31

    We think the people who actually cared are gone .... RIP

    • @douglaconti7113
      @douglaconti7113 9 месяцев назад +5

      I am. Florida now

    • @michaelb41
      @michaelb41 9 месяцев назад +2

      When will someone stand up in Government and say "Enough?"

    • @inyomoufizaWabbit
      @inyomoufizaWabbit 9 месяцев назад +3

      These places are doomed, even the uber wealthy tech people are doomed due to their fantasy based lifestyle.

  • @relyk4277
    @relyk4277 9 месяцев назад +44

    I was born and raised in Oakland and I love the place. I must admit I live in the suburbs now and life is a little easier- the streets here are clean, I don't have to worry about my car windows getting smashed.
    But I can't rude my bike everywhere. I can't randomly find an incredible jazz band playing at a small bar for no cover on a Tuesday. I can't see a clasic movie at a true movie palace. The weather just isn't as nice.
    Oakland is a special place. I trust it will enter another golden age.

    • @enriksouls6636
      @enriksouls6636 9 месяцев назад +13

      Ain’t no jazz on random Tuesdays In Oakland period. Not in decades. The place is the take of two extremes, gentrification and homelessness.

    • @kabysummit5801
      @kabysummit5801 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@enriksouls6636nearby Berkeley works

    • @HollyMoore-wo2mh
      @HollyMoore-wo2mh 9 месяцев назад +6

      It MIGHT enter another golden age but LONG after both of us are gone.

    • @Jianju69
      @Jianju69 9 месяцев назад +5

      I will happily sacrifice little jazz concerts for the peace of mind that my rig won't be vandalized.

    • @enriksouls6636
      @enriksouls6636 9 месяцев назад

      @@kabysummit5801 care to elaborate??? cuz I doubt it.

  • @JR12991
    @JR12991 9 месяцев назад +46

    We all know,it’s not Oakland it’s the people that live there. People always blame a City when it’s really the messy people that live there.PERIOD!👏🏽Messy people,means messy locations…

    • @jaywright4671
      @jaywright4671 9 месяцев назад

      It's not the people, it's the city officials and the state, you under fund a city and you blame the people for not having resources, you must be a racist, because everyone knows Oakland is a minority city, so it's easy to blame the people.

    • @sharongoodsell9341
      @sharongoodsell9341 9 месяцев назад +7

      Exactly Generation's are so different, they don't care ? 🇦🇺

    • @kellygnorman6580
      @kellygnorman6580 9 месяцев назад

      Okay but how do you think people get that way in the first place? We’re all products of our environment

    • @linwoodavenue4300
      @linwoodavenue4300 9 месяцев назад +2

      Obviously we’re talking about the people who live there. Did you think we were blaming the buildings for all the crime?

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 9 месяцев назад

      @JR12991
      The people are the city, professor.

  • @snakedog77
    @snakedog77 9 месяцев назад +62

    Born and raised in a segregated West Oakland in the fifties. The area had stores, movie theater and clubs. Attended Willow Manor, Lowell Jr, High and McClymonds High School. All the schools were very segregated, but we did not care it worked out for us. Oakland was pretty nice until crack was introduced to the city in the eighties. Crack, guns, poverty and horrible mayors and city councils have been truly bad for Oakland. Most of the blue-collar jobs left. The sports teams became horrible, and the fans stop supporting them. Sanctuary city and state has not helped at all. Now you have a large influx of poor people from 3rd world countries. And I am not placing all the blame on them. A large amount of San Franciscan natives have poured into Oakland. Oakland has gotten the good, bad and ugly from San Francisco. Parts of Oakland are a filthy cesspool, like San Francisco. I do not feel safe anymore in Oakland. I am so glad I moved away years ago.

    • @salvadorperez9147
      @salvadorperez9147 9 месяцев назад +12

      The Liberals came.

    • @snakedog77
      @snakedog77 9 месяцев назад +18

      @@salvadorperez9147 Its not just a liberal, conservative problem. It's a human problem.

    • @daryllect6659
      @daryllect6659 9 месяцев назад +7

      Born/raised "Deep East"" in the 50's 60's. Graduated Castlemont in '63. Knew some Panthers. Knew some Angels. Knew some Dragons. I survived. So did a lot of us.

    • @Yntstax
      @Yntstax 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@salvadorperez9147 how can you blame them when they have the richest states red states are the most poorest

    • @dr.winstonsmith
      @dr.winstonsmith 9 месяцев назад

      @@YntstaxHighest income inequality and cost of living. That’s why so many are fleeing blue states for red states.

  • @NYRfan85
    @NYRfan85 9 месяцев назад +18

    Oakland is about to become the first city to lose a team in all of the 'big four' major league sports, so clearly something is wrong. They have lost the Seals (NHL), Raiders (NFL), and Warriors (NBA), and the A's are soon to join them. It's sad that a once great sports city is going to be left with no major league teams.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 7 месяцев назад +1

      I’m ok with losing the teams. Oakland paid a lot of money to bring the Raiders back only to have them leave again. I am opposed to paying any public money for professional teams. I was an A’s fan, but they are now owned by real estate developers, not baseball people, who have ruined the team. I want them to go away if they aren’t going to be sold to someone who wants to run a baseball team.
      The Warriors just went across the Bay to SF. They aren’t really gone because they were a Bay Area team, not an Oakland team, and they still are.

  • @AwokenEntertainment
    @AwokenEntertainment 8 месяцев назад +7

    it's so sad to see the recent decline of California's Bay Area.. :/

  • @jameshaxby5434
    @jameshaxby5434 9 месяцев назад +25

    According to most Bay area locals, Oakland has come up in the world, while San Francisco has really hit the skids. My Dad was a traveling salesman, and in recent years he always stayed in Oakland, cause he felt safer there than in SF. I have also heard that many celebrities now live in the hills around Oakland.

    • @eneveasi
      @eneveasi 9 месяцев назад +8

      Oakland hills are a different place entirely compared to other parts. Some of Oakland is totally fine, just like some of SF is totally fine. Both are really bad when they are bad.

    • @jameswesterman9283
      @jameswesterman9283 9 месяцев назад +4

      I just came from Oakland and San Francisco and my experience was the exact opposite. I went down the tenderloin area of San Francisco and all through the town and didn't think it looked as bad as some cities while I'm over at Oakland it was a complete dump and we felt very unsafe.

    • @howiescott5865
      @howiescott5865 9 месяцев назад

      I grew up in Crocker Highlands, still a nice place to live but to shop down the street on Lakeshore... that's risky... verrry risky. even during a crowded busy weekend day.@@eneveasi

    • @UnseenAsyluM209
      @UnseenAsyluM209 8 месяцев назад

      Oakland is a shit hole now

    • @jhtv5757
      @jhtv5757 8 месяцев назад +5

      Yea most the comments here are probably out of towners or haven't lived in the Bay for 10-20 years. Oakland is mad different than what it used to be even 10 years ago

  • @russelltate1394
    @russelltate1394 9 месяцев назад +26

    LMAO What happened? It's preety obvious. It's now controlled by gangsters and is a Gangsters Paradise

    • @ACL617
      @ACL617 9 месяцев назад +2

      And still expensive to live there. Ridiculous

  • @eggsandtoast741
    @eggsandtoast741 8 месяцев назад +5

    Oakland is being held hostage by its local regulations. This is why the A’s left. They were willing to pour hundreds of millions into revitalizing the city, but the city held their project for ransom. SF is currently in the same death spiral.

    • @randallwong7196
      @randallwong7196 23 дня назад

      I'm putting most of the blame on the ownership, not the city, for this one.

  • @LesterMoore
    @LesterMoore 9 месяцев назад +39

    What happened to Oakland is the same dsmn thing thst happened to: Detroit, South Chicago, Baltimore, South, Southwest and West Philadelphia, Milwaukee, South Central Los Angeles and the Northeastern and Southeast part of San Francisco.
    Not employed, not educated, slothful and criminal intentioned. 😟

    • @its-all-good
      @its-all-good 9 месяцев назад +11

      All by choice.
      I am black, born and raised in East Oakland (the worse part of DEEP EAST) where the services for poor people like me growing up are and have been in place to get out of it. Even today, our local junior colleges are literally free. There is no excuse with the exception of having to dodge these low-lifes who have no regard for other people as City Hall / the legal system have gone far to easy on criminals. I grew up in the crack era, where people were actually put and kept in jail for robbing and stealing.

    • @franciscody9622
      @franciscody9622 9 месяцев назад

      All run by Democrat mayors.

    • @rickharnish6757
      @rickharnish6757 9 месяцев назад

      All those cities are in blue states. Democraps don't care.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад

      Pretty hard to be employed when there seems to be no jobs.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад

      @@its-all-good I agree about the legal system and local colleges, but you can't ignore the flight of good paying jobs to all-White suburbs and think that it doesn't play a big part.

  • @mchent9357
    @mchent9357 9 месяцев назад +64

    Does anyone still remember all the nice stores ( JC Penny, Liberty House, Smith, Sears, Capwell, etc.) in the 60's & 70's? They are all gone or moved out of Oakland because the city could not handle prosperity, and poorly managed the city. No one else to blame but the state & city officials.

    • @chromebomb
      @chromebomb 9 месяцев назад

      no one under 50 remembers the 70's you guys ruined CA with your prop 13 and not allowing dense housing. its your fault things are so bad

    • @defiant4759
      @defiant4759 9 месяцев назад +5

      I remember Montgomery Wards at 2825 East 14th St.

    • @rickharnish6757
      @rickharnish6757 9 месяцев назад +4

      Sears, at Telegraph and Broadway

    • @sharongoodsell9341
      @sharongoodsell9341 9 месяцев назад

      I live in the seventies 👍🇦🇺 Generation's Have changed

    • @415_Stand-up
      @415_Stand-up 9 месяцев назад +7

      No one else to blame but democrats THERE I FIXED IT FOR YA 😉😉

  • @ap1reviewsadventures96
    @ap1reviewsadventures96 9 месяцев назад +10

    Grab a deep dish and go back to your vehicle with broken out windows. Sounds great!

  • @GH-oi2jf
    @GH-oi2jf 5 месяцев назад +2

    One thing that happened was a switch to ranked choice voting. There is no better argument against it than the fact that it allowed the election of our current Mayor, Thao.

  • @MinhNgo-yf4qm
    @MinhNgo-yf4qm 5 месяцев назад +3

    It's a shit-hole bc whenever someone wants to build new homes or shopping centers, the locals cry out "gentrification". Fine, keep your run-down house that was built 100 years ago that you can't afford to maintain.

  • @alonsoescoto1410
    @alonsoescoto1410 9 месяцев назад +4

    Oakland looks like a post apocalypse

  • @bradbailey1893
    @bradbailey1893 9 месяцев назад +40

    Oakland has a long history of dysfunction: excuses, blame, no accountability, nihilistic attitudes. Combine that with high crime, political enablement, bad policies, self destructive attitudes. It’s a shame. So much potential. As a Black building manager recently told me, “If I call the police when crimes are being committed, my condo owners get upset because they’re anti-police and woke.”

    • @richardmorris7063
      @richardmorris7063 9 месяцев назад

      A lot like Detroit was,the wrong people got elected and they brought in their good old boys. I get it ,it happened down South with us whites too. A good politician is rare.

    • @mikemiller659
      @mikemiller659 9 месяцев назад +3

      let those condo owners deal with the crime when it Kicks there door Open

    • @BabyBugBug
      @BabyBugBug 9 месяцев назад

      I literally just watched a video about how the East Oakland Home Depot is blaring classical music to keep vagrants and homeless squatters away. The moral? ANYTHING classy keeps the garbage out. And I watched all the white people saying how much they disagreed with Home Depot for the “nuisance” the “noise” was! Absolutely ZERO STANDARDS full of garbage woke people. The city has become what it has voted for, and they whine about it. You can’t make this up!

    • @terrywhitfield2459
      @terrywhitfield2459 8 месяцев назад +1

      A Black manager would know what woke means and not use it in that manner.

  • @elz6313
    @elz6313 9 месяцев назад +8

    I’ve been in LA for 15 days and am realizing how bad it really is in the Bay Area. There is plenty homeless in so-cal but the mental illness and drug addiction is not as bad.

  • @zesvinster1
    @zesvinster1 9 месяцев назад +7

    Just call it the new wasteland...probably a good area to film a true mad max reality show...but with no actors...just current residents 😂😂😂

  • @lescobrandon9693
    @lescobrandon9693 9 месяцев назад +45

    What happened? 80 years of one party rule.

    • @HollyMoore-wo2mh
      @HollyMoore-wo2mh 9 месяцев назад +13

      They will NEVER understand that either. The same thing has happened to Detroit and Chicago.

    • @kxkxkxkx
      @kxkxkxkx 9 месяцев назад +10

      That being the Communist party 🚩

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад

      It was a republican city when it started declining.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@kxkxkxkx Oakland was never a "Communist" city. Berkeley fits that description, and is doing much better than Oakland. Oakland was a republican city when it started declining.

    • @dennisv8934
      @dennisv8934 9 месяцев назад +7

      @@michaelbenardo5695 And Democrats finished the job, like they're doing in S.F., L.A., and elsewhere. One-party oligarchy is never good, and Californians still haven't figured this out.

  • @vincentlussier8264
    @vincentlussier8264 9 месяцев назад +7

    And doesn't Oakland have a chapter of the notorious Hells Angels? Could there be a big drug market there perhaps?

  • @CityyByTheBay
    @CityyByTheBay 3 месяца назад +2

    Im sorry, but I will have you know, Oakland is a beautiful city. We have the Cathedral Building, we have Lake Merritt, we have the Oakland California Temple, we even have a former presidential yacht, the USS Potomac, we have the Tribune Tower. I will agree that we have high crime and we are losing a lot of our sports teams (Raiders, A's, etc), but as a proud resident of Oakland, its still a beautiful city, full of culture and diversity. It's not perfect, but it's good. Now I am not saying a don't agree with your video, but I also wanted to point out some of the highlights and pros of the city.

  • @adamsmith583
    @adamsmith583 9 месяцев назад

    Thanks for new video!

  • @harryniedecken5321
    @harryniedecken5321 9 месяцев назад +4

    This is what imported products do to a manufacturing area , basically destroy it.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +1

      Finally, another smart person. Maddening that so many nowadays just refuse to accept this and run to by yet another Datsun or Toyota instead of an American car, and insist on using self checkout at the grocery store.

  • @SamKim2
    @SamKim2 9 месяцев назад +6

    when your city has a greater share of the 13%..

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +1

      Berkeley used to have a significant share of that 13% you hate, yet never experienced the crime that Oakland has.

    • @SamKim2
      @SamKim2 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaelbenardo5695 so it’s a political issue then.. let’s go brandon! Trump 2024 🇺🇸

  • @user-no1vb3vb9f
    @user-no1vb3vb9f 5 дней назад

    Born and raised in Oakland brings a tear to my eyes to see certain areas has gone down

  • @terrygotwhatheheaskedforfo7789
    @terrygotwhatheheaskedforfo7789 4 месяца назад +2

    I was born in Oakland in 1947. And Haven't been back since unless I have to

  • @TheMilpitasguy
    @TheMilpitasguy 9 месяцев назад +14

    Blue collar town = Oakland / white collar town = SF -- and the drugs / gangs hastened Oakland's (Cokeland's) decline. Oakland Raiders always attracted a rough crowd. The finesse of the SF 49'ers stood in sharp contrast.

    • @moogs
      @moogs 9 месяцев назад +1

      “Finesse” of the 9ers…. Lmao

    • @MrHobo71
      @MrHobo71 9 месяцев назад

      the crime in sf is just as bad

    • @oakblaze433
      @oakblaze433 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrHobo71Not really. Recent years SF crime rate is 54 per 1000. Oakland is 70 per 1000. Via FBI crime data. And most of SF's crime is concentrated in the downtown area while Oakland's crime is basically everywhere but the hills.

    • @MrHobo71
      @MrHobo71 9 месяцев назад

      @@oakblaze433 It's about the same. Most of Oakland is pretty safe, most of the time.

    • @SixTenVisuals
      @SixTenVisuals 9 месяцев назад

      Both of yall wrong. Crime has reached the Oakland hills. Most of Oakland is NOT pretty safe most of the time. @TheMilpitasguy...you can't compare the todays Levi's crowd to the old 'Stick crowd. Rams fans used to get stabbed in the parking lot and beatup in the stadium. Same for Dodger fans when Giants still played at the Stick.

  • @joesphreiley7757
    @joesphreiley7757 9 месяцев назад +8

    Glad to see many businesses moved out of Oakland to a safer location.

  • @edgein3299
    @edgein3299 9 месяцев назад +7

    Keep voting the same, expect the same results

  • @markayers8949
    @markayers8949 7 месяцев назад +2

    Affirmative Action

  • @endoraismygma
    @endoraismygma 9 месяцев назад +19

    It really is a shame that's it's gotten even worse over the years. The one thing I dreaded about being stationed (at NAS Moffett Field) was that we had to go to Oaknoll Naval Hospital for major things. My son was born there in 92 and even then, we dreaded making the trip. Seems drastic, but maybe they should relocate people and start over after cleaning things up. A real shame and hard to believe it's surrounded by such affluence yet remains in such poor condition. It's like the Wild West.

    • @sidali2590
      @sidali2590 9 месяцев назад +3

      Agree

    • @howiescott5865
      @howiescott5865 9 месяцев назад +3

      It's not at all like the Wild West... it IS the Wild West. The police don't respond... justice lies only in the hands holding a .45. Are you still in the area? Moffett and Oak Knoll were gone a long l-o-n-g time ago.

  • @comfeefort
    @comfeefort 9 месяцев назад +5

    Too bad, if Managed with foresight, the two cities could have been an amazing Sister City Metropolis

  • @chun-mailiu4329
    @chun-mailiu4329 4 месяца назад +1

    My daughter and her family moved to Oakland recently, so we got to visit a few places (e.g. Woodminster Cascaes in Joaquin-Miller Park) that clearly remind us about the city's glorious past ..... I presume the force of de-industrialization seem so overwhelming, and the story of urban decay gets retold time after time.

  • @robinshepard4571
    @robinshepard4571 9 месяцев назад +4

    My family said it was beautiful ❤️
    Very clean town and very respectable and it was a delight to live in the San Francisco Bay area.

  • @Milka_1901
    @Milka_1901 9 месяцев назад +3

    "Diversity is our Strength" - that was and is the problem.

  • @ldfreitas9437
    @ldfreitas9437 9 месяцев назад +8

    I remember going up to San Francisco and Oakland as a little kid. I didn't like it when my parents drove up to Oakland, but loved going up to San Francisco. Why? There's nothing there there! I figured out what Gertrude Stein said before I ever heard of what she said. I'm 69.

  • @Gumby56
    @Gumby56 9 месяцев назад +8

    What happened to Oakland, Democraps.

  • @motorlibro
    @motorlibro 8 месяцев назад +1

    Oakland native here. Sonny Barger said that Oakland is an East Coast city on the West Coast. That's an interesting perspective if your view is that industrial decline typifies an East Coast City. And yes, there was an Angels clubhouse down the street from me when I was a kid, I used to buy firecrackers from them

  • @robotsongs
    @robotsongs 8 месяцев назад +4

    How you failed to mention the closing of the Oakland shipyard and the surrounding collapse of government-provider supply economy is mind boggling. This is one of - if not the - biggest component for the downfall of Oakland, a loss for which it's never recovered.
    Come on, man. Do your research.

  • @1935rmb
    @1935rmb 9 месяцев назад +7

    Grew up in Oakland 1939 - 1963. . Left in 1963 for Dublin, Ca. The Oakland schools were too unsafe for my kids. Live now in Nevada.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +2

      Unsafe in 63? 73 maybe, but in 63, Oakland was prosperous.

  • @CS-qy4qy
    @CS-qy4qy 9 месяцев назад +5

    You Get What You Vote For!
    After seeing Oakland, I will never vote for a Democrat again.

  • @David-yw2lv
    @David-yw2lv 4 месяца назад +2

    In another video about the blight of downtown Oakland,I commented that had a lot to do with the Raiders leaving a second time,I also predicted the Warriors & Athletics would follow them.Tbe Warriors moved back to San Francisco in 2019,the A's are following the Raiders to Vegas.

  • @user-el7tc9jj9i
    @user-el7tc9jj9i 4 месяца назад +1

    There is no personal accountability ethic in Oakland- every criminal is a victim, every victim is a villain if they complain. Large areas look like war torn cities- no viable streets, open garbage pits, unregulated food vending amid the open garbage pits, and no police presence. Ruins the adjoining cities, too, with criminals stealing cars, robbing people, robbing businesses in Berkeley, Albany, Piedmont, etc, then sliming back into Oakland to sell their goods, dump stolen cars, and buy more guns to do it again. Put it under state management.

  • @Gary-zq3pz
    @Gary-zq3pz 9 месяцев назад +49

    Another triumph for Progressive politics, a vision for the future of America.

  • @melissareece8656
    @melissareece8656 9 месяцев назад +11

    Fun Fact: My daughter was living in Oakland and working in Frisco. She moved to Medellin, Columbia in 2021. Says she feels wayyyyy safer now...and she's a gringa.

    • @jim2376
      @jim2376 9 месяцев назад +3

      I got outta Dodge and now live in Costa Rica. Don't miss the USA at all. Pura vida.

    • @briancastro8973
      @briancastro8973 7 месяцев назад +1

      Oakland, CA to Frisco, TX is a very very long commute!

    • @melissareece8656
      @melissareece8656 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@briancastro8973 San Francisco...not Frisco, TX

    • @Tepaneca
      @Tepaneca 2 месяца назад

      Most Latin America is safe as long as you’re not involved in bs. Honduras and Brazil is definitely to be avoided though

  • @Richxwolf
    @Richxwolf Месяц назад

    Was born in okland for till i was 6. My mom had to leave and moved to hayward in the 2000s. She just wanted outta there and im glad we did.

  • @frankcates3322
    @frankcates3322 9 месяцев назад +5

    What happened to Oakland California? DEMOCRAT voters and DEMOCRAT "leadership".

  • @fattymatty5380
    @fattymatty5380 9 месяцев назад +18

    Who has run Oakland for the last 30 years? You’re welcome

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +3

      Oakland was a republican city when it started declining. You're welcome.

    • @SixTenVisuals
      @SixTenVisuals 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaelbenardo5695 when did it start declining?

    • @PeterDivine
      @PeterDivine 8 месяцев назад

      @@michaelbenardo5695 Eat shit, if your party can't course-correct with thirty goddamn years of uniparty rule and support you have no right to blame the other side.
      That's like if I get a house with a broken window and then I blame the previous owner because I let it become a den for meth addicts for three decades.

    • @tonylvez
      @tonylvez 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@SixTenVisualswhen all the jobs good jobs left people started to become poor. Shocking right?

  • @philipbanks2462
    @philipbanks2462 9 месяцев назад +29

    Oakland has struggled with growth compared to other California cities with similar population (Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield) bc those 3 cities mentions all have over double the land area of Oakland. By the time the 80's and 90's snd early 2000's suburban boom happened Oakland was already out of space to build new homes. So, similar to San Francisco there's no more space to build making the housing stock that is available highly unaffordable.

    • @41510ciscokid
      @41510ciscokid 9 месяцев назад +16

      Oakland has tons of old abandoned buildings that can be rebuilt for affordable but no one cares

    • @kayak1613
      @kayak1613 9 месяцев назад +12

      Not true. Modern cities these days are putting in high density housing. I live in Bend Oregon. The new developments going in house 1600 people per acre of land. They are tearing down all buildings but they are putting in seven story apartments. And please don’t misunderstand me, I don’t think that’s a good thing.

    • @dmutant2635
      @dmutant2635 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@kayak1613 Same with Oakland. They're counting on the the tax revenue
      that will come with the new housing. I could stand on a corner in the Lower Bottom and look two blocks in any direction and see new condo's going up....and new homeless camps.

    • @415_Stand-up
      @415_Stand-up 9 месяцев назад

      It's a different struggle in Oakland there are no jobs and high rents in those cities you mentioned only problem there is dope fiends you can't compare the 2 dummy

    • @415_Stand-up
      @415_Stand-up 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@dmutant2635 those new condos go for $3,500 a month

  • @shiggityx2
    @shiggityx2 7 месяцев назад +2

    The airport is the best thing Oakland has to offer.

  • @MiaCollinsNeighborhood
    @MiaCollinsNeighborhood 9 месяцев назад

    You made me cry. Please comfort me.

  • @larroyo1973
    @larroyo1973 9 месяцев назад +3

    Oakland is San Francisco's Newark (NJ) A metropolis in its own right, but overshadowed by its larger neighbor.

  • @johnmcintosh7784
    @johnmcintosh7784 9 месяцев назад +3

    This clip seems to imply that a growing population is what determines its sucsess. Any region with too many people is bound to collapse.

  • @porkypine2
    @porkypine2 4 месяца назад +1

    I lived on 82nd when I was a little kid in the 60s and later on 74th & McArthur in the 70s. We left east Oakland because of a gangster named FELIX who started the crack wars. We got tired of hitting the floor trying to escape stray bullets when the Uzis went off every time they shot up McArthur during their gang wars. The drug wars ruined East Oakland. The only people still living there can't afford to escape. Businesses are all closed now. No jobs that pay enough for the people living there. Sad.

  • @mboiko
    @mboiko 9 месяцев назад +14

    Oakland: "Vote Democrat and Defund the Police"
    How's that working out for ya...You got exactly what you voted for.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад +1

      Never believed in defunding the police, (Oakland needs MORE police), but Oakland started declining in the late 60s, if not before then.

    • @mboiko
      @mboiko 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@michaelbenardo5695 The point is, plenty of Democrats foolishly believed in defunding the police...aiding in Oaklands slow decline over many decades.

  • @suzyq8021
    @suzyq8021 9 месяцев назад +3

    Oakland has always been a dangerous mess.

  • @Themaneman464
    @Themaneman464 9 месяцев назад +5

    I only wish you made these longer. Great video!

    • @bryantsteury8910
      @bryantsteury8910 9 месяцев назад

      Same. I’d pay to watch a full length doc from FP. LOVE these videos

    • @well-blazeredman6187
      @well-blazeredman6187 9 месяцев назад

      My preference for RUclips video length is about fifteen minutes.

  • @ericlewis3004
    @ericlewis3004 16 дней назад

    Great Video!

  • @danielbarrios1653
    @danielbarrios1653 9 месяцев назад +2

    Born and raised in giggle town, can't believe how bad Oakland has gotten, live in San Francisco now, but getting ready to leave California for good

  • @michaelb41
    @michaelb41 9 месяцев назад +4

    I love Oakland. As it broke down the people who built it must have been sick. It's a sad sad situation. And it's gettin' more and more absurd.

  • @cdmorrissy3692
    @cdmorrissy3692 9 месяцев назад +3

    I've spent time in Oakland over decades and it was always kind of a crappy place; it's just devolved into a (much) MORE crappy place....

  • @jackjohnsen8506
    @jackjohnsen8506 8 месяцев назад

    I retired in 2006, and got a part time job moving large trucks for Enterprise corporation. I went to oakland one time, and felt so under threat, that I never went back.....

  • @bpark222
    @bpark222 9 месяцев назад +19

    I never have lived there but i have visited many times either to see friends in sf or surrounding areas. The couple of times i flew and took bart under the bay, it looked like the mist run doen place i have ever seen, and i grew up in north long beach/bellflower/compton area and it looked way worse than anywhere here. And i finally actually visited the city for sone, lets say nefarious reasons, man, what a dump. The city leaders 5:38 / government whoever really let this place go.

  • @elaishh3533
    @elaishh3533 9 месяцев назад +20

    What happened is it got exactly what they voted for. Hold those responsible for their failed policies.

  • @DemocracyofLight
    @DemocracyofLight 9 месяцев назад +14

    Money became more important than people in the entire Bay Area in general. Period.

    • @KonaLife
      @KonaLife 9 месяцев назад

      It’s like that everywhere, my friend. Welcome to capitalism.

    • @DemocracyofLight
      @DemocracyofLight 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@MiMiiViVi precisely

    • @ionnoe3209
      @ionnoe3209 6 месяцев назад

      Materialistic

  • @Spike-qt7tx
    @Spike-qt7tx 9 месяцев назад +2

    Oakland was really bad in the 80s. They have two police departments, city and housing. About 25 percent of housing authority police went to jail, it was on 60 minutes

  • @pd4252
    @pd4252 3 месяца назад

    It was born that way. The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake ruined 1000's of buildings, Many of them are still standing - empty - waiting for the next earthquake to flatten those buildings.

  • @rogerdale5451
    @rogerdale5451 9 месяцев назад +7

    What happened? WWII and Mississippi moved in- That's what.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 9 месяцев назад

      Industry and good jobs moved out or were destroyed by those we defeated in the war. That's what happened. Quit being prejudice.

  • @patriciareilly530
    @patriciareilly530 9 месяцев назад +4

    Who else still has their I. Magnin charge card?

  • @steve1711
    @steve1711 9 месяцев назад +2

    Last time I went to the US - New York and Chicago was 30 years ago. It was really good. Now it is a complete shit heap. I have to go to the States again - Boston, and am worried about my safety and the crap food they produce. And this is someone who has felt safe in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

  • @johnnyfreedom3437
    @johnnyfreedom3437 9 месяцев назад +2

    A neighborhood kid that I knew got married and move to Oakland. While he was at work and she was in the backyard suntanning thieves came in the front door and stole their TV and computer! She said she never heard a thing! They moved out of Oakland