Boca Chica: "Ah, finally, Peace and Quiet" Elon: "Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul to waste"
@@Sorestlor Well, to be fair, if you looking for a "Peace and Quiet" just all the more reason to support going to space. Earth is one of the most noisiest places in the known universe.
3:00 To avoid being injured by shattering windows IN CASE THE ROCKET BLEW UP which would result in an significant pressure wave reaching the village. NO windows were shattered during the test itself.
@@Kev_the_panda There must be an engineerable solution. Solving it could be a useful product for the new residents (SpaceX employees) too, and maybe anyone who lives near loud noise or an airport.
@starseed They'd have to build a bunker for residents to shelter in. Eventually there will be full stack launches there, with Starship second stage on top of Super Heavy booster. If I'm remembering correctly, it will have more than double the thrust of the Saturn V. They'd need to evacuate for a launch anyway. Every time.
The shockwave alone from the launch would not be that cool, constant replacements of windows, construction at night and so many things happen that would not make it pleasing
TheCrimsonCardinal 20x, I like almost everything Elon is doing on the macro but he not only is trying to move these people out but ruined their entire little community. Their way of life gone. That launch pad is right next to their houses. How that was even legal blows my mind. If you were building an airport to land large planes it would have to be miles away wouldn’t it?
Nahh it won't work, being last house standing means you are on your own. The only reason SpaceX is buying up with over the market value was because is still considerably alot of people, at least enough to bring pressure to state government if SpaceX over step their boundary. But since is only you left, and the place has lost its value in being quiet and peaceful, your house worth nothing anymore, you won't want to stay there, nobody will rent or buy it, in the end it will just be left empty. They can do whatever they like at that point without needing to consider much of your comfort since you are not there anyway, logically speaking you won't even have the heart or time to fight against them, may be at first you will because of anger but as time goes on you will take up whatever low ball offer they give you since something is better than none. Don't be greedy or you'll get worst =D
Some people might have an emotional relation to the house, who knows... Old man, lived there the whole time... Or someone who spent his entire life aiming to get there... Or someone who lived there with a parent that no longer is here and it gives them memories... Etc etc
The people hanging on to the houses are genius. SpaceX should have bought the properties before beginning development on the property. Now, the remaining residents could keep getting their houses re-apprased as they spike in value because they are a few hundred feet from SpaceX's private space port!
I’ve lived in Texas for almost 20 yrs and it’s through spaceX that I find out there is a city in Texas called Boca Chica. Now Boca Chica is more popular than most major cities in Texas.
Boca chica isn’t a city, it is a beach in Brownsville called boca chica beach. I see a lot of people mistaking calling it Boca Chica village, but literally the reason that place is called boca chica is because the road connecting it from Brownsville to the beach is called “Boca Chica boulevard”
@@HermanWillems Buy as many houses as you want all across the USA but remember: whatever you do, you CAN'T own anything - we can all suck it so deep I'm telling you.
@@goobiethicc5054 She' the happiest person I know, and I don't see very much happiness here sitting in this VA Hospital bed, knowing I'm battling terminal cancer. So this may not help some of you, but it makes this former Combat Marine of 5 tours, and who shot 7 times in my right side, smile ear to ear. Thank you Jess, and if you are EVER in Las Vegas, please come by the VA. We'd love to have this kind of happiness. Of course after this whole craziness ends. Many blessings for all the help. Semepr Fi. Forever Grateful To Still Be Alive, Captain T, U.S.M.C. PS: The VA said they would contact you on my behalf to arrange for me to get a photo with you. I told them I have to stay alive now. That was their motivation. They KNOW I REFUSE to ever say WHY ME? Only WENT NOT ME. My beautiful wife and previous daughters may disagree, but I'm thankful for the time I've been given. My sister passed of the same cancer when she was 10 and I was 8. It's beyond RUDE to complain about a shortage of life when my sister was not given any. So whatever the plan is for me, IT'S PERFECT. If this was God's test of my faith, so be it. I REFUSE to ever question him and his good will. Thank you for keeping my soul and spirits high as they can during these trying times. Many blessings to you and your loved ones. And hopefully my family and I get that photo soon after this craziness is put to rest. Semper Fidelis.
alot of children commenting on this that wouldn't even own houses, they're getting huge payouts, a main road near my house just got bought out, about 30-50 houses were FORCED to move and got paid way under what they paid for them. spacex is being nice here.
so what does that say about corporations? that they can just buy out anyone and everyone? and if they don't, just launch rockets whenever you want to get the people to leave? those arent made up stories, those are first hand accounts of people who live there.
@@aznfattass its sad yes, and its not the corporations that force them out, its the state they can legally force you out of the house for the minimum amount.
Would have been cheaper to build a new village at the edge of the exclusion zone, complete with solar panels and batteries, water tower etc and move the residents there.
@@thomashong2938 he said, at the edge of the exclusion zone. AFAIK, that's far enough to exclude any liability. I also suspect, two of the unsold houses belong to LabPadre and @BocaChicaMaria1. I guess offering them a deal that includes free access to the area, access to video feeds and/or permission to set up additional cameras of their own might help move things along...
ive only seen the screenshots everyone else has seen, but damn i didnt know it was that close either. hope they get to choose their next "dream home location" to their choosing
My grandpa lives in Brownsville and whenever we go to boca chica beach it only takes like 20 minutes to get to space X not 40. Also there’s a wildlife sanctuary there. A part of it was given to space X. If the launches and debris are big enough to break windows then I can only imagine what it does to the native birds there. But that’s not to say it’s really cool Space X chose to build really close to where I am.
We like many other species will eventually go extinct, in the context of thousands of years it seems relevant in reality it's about as irrelevant as you see their retirement.
who cares if they're progressing the human race, it only benefits people that haven't even been born yet. Only thing that matters is what I get out of it. Isn't that what capitalism is all about anyway?
Eminent Domain means no one really owns their property. The government just has to find an excuse and it can kick you out. I like Space X but hate E.D.
No one really does the Federal government and states own all the land. If you purchase a home you can own the home but control of the land remains in government hands. Your deed merely gives you the right to use the land until you sell it, die and pass it along, or the government decides they need it for something better.
It's basically a law that's meant to curb the antics of some people that block things just because they like the drama they're creating or just because they want to make things difficult for everybody else. It's used very rarely and rather hard to apply (for good reason). Remember that picture from China with the house right in the middle of a freeway? Same thing. In Germany, if you live in an apartment block where each unit is owned by someone else, it's really hard to have a socket to charge your EV installed at your parking spot (even if you paid a few thousand Euros for it), since you have to install a line across communal property. Every other owner has the right to veto it. If that block is reasonably large, you can expect to have at least one drama queen that will veto it, just because they can and enjoy the difficulties they can cause with little effort on their side. Or maybe because they're jealous of you new car, or whatever. Eminent domain is the state's last line of defense against that behaviour. They have to compensate you fairly, but in the end, they can force you for the public good. I think SpaceX has shown they want to compensate fairly (offering triple the estimated value and being ready to go higher if needed), but it appears there are some people being boneheaded. On the other hand if I moved to the US, I'd build my house to German standards. That's much more expensive than the normal US way, but all a hurricane would do is rattle the shutters a bit and mess up the yard. For such a house, $250k is way to little, since it probably cost north of $400k. Unfortunately, that's hard to see from the outside, but I definitely wouldn't want to eat the loss.
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The government should arrange for companies and governments to provide these residents with better places than the original residents. Or reasonable compensation@@realulli
Its kinda sad what the company did to that small town.. Like who the fuck gives them the right? Just seems wrong. Talking about them taking someones house legally is just crazy.
Elon will probably have to offer Mary, the "Boca Chica Gal," at least 10x the value of her home, + the cost of moving to Brownsville or SPI, + media coverage privileges, to get her to move out of that village.
Lets face it - 7 houses remaining - Normal price of circa $100,000, if Elon paid them 10x value each that is only $7 million. A Falcon 9 costs $54 million and starships will cost around 4x that so it is peanuts in the scheme of things.
1:40 This mentioned time span (2014-2018) without activity at the side was neccessary and well communicated for compacting the underground to support the following construction of buildings and infrastructure.
When you launch rockets, you have to have an exclusion zone for safety. At the Cape complex in Florida, NASA has a minimum 3 mile exclusion zone in the case a rocket blows up on launch. The blast wave off of a main stage rocket would potentially level all those houses. Those houses are about 1.5 miles from the intended launch complex. The Russians had a 10 km exclusion zone to the launch pad and blockhouse for control at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. When they had one rocket blow up, one of the scientist noted that the only reason they survived was the face they were inside the blockhouse. If they had been outside, they would have been killed.
So why did they buy the village? Because it is even a bit closer to the equator, which helps in getting rockets into space because of the radial velocity of earth. Also, the weather is more predictable than Florida and the hurricane season rarely reaches Boca Chica. Thank you Simon.
Simply, there are fewer of them and they are likely poorer so it is easier to force them out. Lot more expensive and problematic if they wanted to build in a more populated area.
@@valearl4693 Sure, because all the freeways and highways and train tracks and pipelines and airports and shipping ports and oil fields all over the country were put on land that nobody wanted to keep too. My parents were forced to sell their house in 1975 so an airport could build a shipping hub. This is nothing new. The sad fact is that to get nearly any large project like this going means someone who already lives there is going to be forced to sell.
Because if they chose let's say NY City they would have to expropriate the whole city, which is impossible of course. So they chose the most unpopulated piece of land they could find. Less expropriation, less risk and nuisance for the population.
I'm so glad there's a channel like Primal Space paying attention to this stuff. I love SpaceX and try to keep up with it as best I can but there's just so much going on that doesn't get a ton of publicity that it's hard to stay on top all the time.
That village is full of old retirees all they want is a cozy peace and quiet home not a rocket taking off in front of their doors breaking their windows
@@khaleevafauzi9690 I know and the majority of them already sold off. But there's a few houses that the owners aren't selling and that's what I'm talking about
@@duncanhw "There's a tense in the title that you don't agree with?" no there is a tense in the title isn't accurate period. Agreement is subjective. Factually it isn't true till the last ones sell thus making it clickbait.
1hr away from me and honestly I dont think id give up a home like that either its beautiful and quiet a way to get away from people but then Space X was like "Lemme build a launch site across the rode :)"
@@boimeme. yeah they will be fine. They can't live in an area that serve as spaceport and they are also geting the ability to relocate whereever they want
I live a couple mins away, i saw when one of their launches failed. There's a lot of fishing in that area, lets hope it doesn't affect the environment in the long run .
The rockets land and make artificial reefs. I live in the east coast of FL, makes diving hard due to weird laws. But it's not bad for the environment really. Remember the BP oil spill? Shrimp ended up eating most of that. It's better now, so a small rocket is like spitting in a river
@@tommynorthwood Starship will be bigger than the Saturn V. The blast from the rocket alone will probably level the village. If a Starship does a UVD on the pad , it will have the effect of a small nuke going off. There was a 3 mi exclusion zone for the Saturn V. That should tell you something for Starship. They will diffently hear it in Brownsville.
@Because I'm Retired Arrogance ? If SpaceX didn't exist, we would be still dependent on the Russians to get us to the ISS (which was paid for mostly by our tax money) at $80,000,000.00 per ride on their crummy Soyuz.
On the one hand, I feel for the people whose dreams of peaceful retirement were shattered so abruptly. On the other, I can definitely see myself bearing a rocket launch from time to time if that means my property will double as a front row seat for the greatest space exploration events of our age.
Those houses are muuuuch to close for rocket launches, they'd likely collapse, now further away... imagine being in that town 45 minutes away getting to see rockets soar
Another big reason for the location, it is as near to the aquator as it gets in the US (with Florida) to benefit from earths spin. Having an ocean to the east is also very desired.
Boca Chica is at about 26 degrees north and Cape Canaveral is 28 degrees north, so Boca Chica really doesn’t give much advantage. Also the Gulf of Mexico is practically surrounded by land severely limiting what inclinations are possible. Boca Chica doesn’t offer any advantage over existing launch facilities. It will basically be limited as a development and testing facility. If it becomes a manufacturing facility it has a major advantage over the original site at Long Beach for obvious reasons.
@@bobbilaval6171 From what i know Boca Chica is intented as a Space Port to fly Spaceships to the Moon and Mars. Also some commercial launches are planed that are not limited by the inclination restrictions. That was the plan a few years ago at least, i dont know if that changed.
Herman Pops nobody has to be a weeb to get the joke. If you’re going by the actual definition of weeb which is somebody that’s non Japanese that is obsessed with Japanese culture and they want to be Japanese and don’t accept their own nationality then you’re wrong.
though i admire Elons efforts on space travel. I disagree with making good and innocent people uncomfortable to achieve his goals. What a beautiful and quiet life this would have been for these good people
First of all, I'm a BIG SpaceX fan However, as a Libertarian, I have some problems with the situation. I visit Boca Chica to see the progress SpaceX has made and got to talk to Mary (AKA BocaChicaGal) and a couple of other residents and I formed the opinion that they are getting a raw deal. It sound good that they are offered 3 times the value but the FACT is that none of the residents can REPLACE their homes elsewhere at that price. I know that part of Texas and think SpaceX could have bought another section of property to let the residents build homes on. So why not SpaceX just buy a different property? Because of the proximity to the Gulf is important for safety under the path of launching rockets (why most launch facilitys are on a coast), the eventually dredging for a barge dock for ocean transport of rockets AND the location at Boca Chica provides the best latitude for the physics of launching. Also, the noise of a launch requires great distance from people (launch sound can be lethal which is why the water sprays on launch pads) and the sound caused problems at the Florida sight for area residents.... Better to be in an isolated, undeveloped area (although South Padre city is actually really close across the bay!) The residents could have been happy at a more inland and higher latitude location. Interestingly, the residents I spoke to were enthusiasts of SpaceX's efforts and wanted it to succeed, just sad they were losing the isolated life they cherished.
If they would be happy with an inland location, they shouldn't have any trouble finding an isolated spot. It's Texas, not Hong Kong. That said, yes - it's an unwanted disruption and I have sympathy for them. I just think SpaceX has been reasonable and generous with them.
The state of Texas could easily seize those remaining properties through eminent domain, yet they are trying to avoid bad PR. The homeowners know this, and they're trying to milk SpaceX for as much money as they can, but if they lose through eminent domain, they only get 'fair market value' for their property.
"Honey, I found the PERFECT place for us to retire.! It's on the coast, private beaches, few neighbors and we can afford the house and to live on my deflated pension." uhhhhh.... wtf is that ?
@@jessperez477 You don't get the same house in 95% of US with 240k so no, they didn't get a good deal. Those who accepted the offer will get a worse version of their lives.
@Tmer6 good thing we're talking about Texas and not California.. not sure what the point is. "They could move to Detroit and get a house for 40k." It's just not relevant.
I find it hard to believe that SpaceX would have built a facility so close to that village without understanding that sooner or later it would become an impediment to their work (it would be impossible to make legal rocket launches that close to habitation, a fact SpaceX would have been well aware of) and that they would have to buy them out. As they evidently couldn't find suitable land completely free of habitation, one must suppose that the minimal size of the community - and thus the relative ease in eventually removing them - was a not insignificant factor in their choice of location.
For every (real) launch they county (or other?) would require them to vacate their home. SpaceX would have to put them up in some hotel. So no especially awesome launches
The people that stayed, stayed because of the rockets. Others have stated they were happy to take 3x market value. The 3 people that stayed were huge SpaceX fans. 1 guy is a hippie that took the money & moved on to another adventure in life a little while back. One was an old lady who was a fan but decided to move. The last & only private residence left is Bocachicagal who works for Nasaspaceflight. Her job is literally taking video & pictures of SpaceX's rockets/operations because she loves it so much.
Claudi H Claudi H a 40 min drive is a really slow drive from boca chica to downtown Brownsville. I live near rivera and boca chica is literally like 10-15 min away. Brownsville isss wide city.... before everyone knew about boca chica, brownsville and boca chica residents considered it part of Brownsville because they are so close... my tia used to live there before she sold her house and she even admits it’s part of Brownsville
if it's anything like over here in the UK, building a spaceport like that right next to a village would require planning permission so it's not like the villagers didn't know what they were getting themselves into. I mean hell they practically welcomed SpaceX to the hood, they knew it was to be a launch center, so what did they expect that would happen? SpaceX would be launching Silent Rockets?
Highfield Are you in a hurry to die? Deadly radiations for several months, and if you don’t die on impact you land on a planet that closely resembles hell with toxic soil, huge temperature variations, no magnetosphere, no breathable atmosphere.. I’d rather have a house in Antarctica. Much more hospitable there.
Elon says that'd cost something like $250k, and the people gone en masse would be volunteers so. So if your house costed $80k and SpaceX paid you triple, you'd have your ticket waiting for you pretty much
@@Memoiana You know you can cross the street or get cancer and die? There are several reasons for instant death. I would still want to work there and help establishing a new society. It's still hard work and you have to prepare long time before, but it would be a dream come true for me. So it's more like a hurry to leave, considering how worse humanity gets over time here.
I live in brownsville and i’m pretty close to there. It’s cool because you can drive by their site and one time Elon was there when it was like interview day or something. It’s cool to see a company like SpaceX at a place like Brownsville. The (Rio Grande) Valley is pretty small and neglected so everyone here is happy.
What seems to amaze me is how the State and SpaceX simply overlooked the significance of Bahia Grande / Las Palomas wild life management area. A very critical piece of land to the identity of South Texas. Also Boca Chica Beach... Just across the shipping channel is South Padre Island which is the complete opposite of Boca Chica beach. If you want peace and quiet for a beach in South Texas, you go to Boca chica beach, if you wanna party you go to SPI and now residents are unable to access the beach for extended periods of time. I am Excited about the possibilities that can come from SpaceX but the people of Cameron County have had the wool pulled over their eyes in this whole scenario. Companies like these like to take advantage of the ilinformed by making promises they know they cannot keep.
That would be dope being the last one living there, imaging the size of the parties you could throw. Neighbours can't complain because they're setting rockets off every other day.
Village: But you can't do that! Our village has been so peaceful for so many years and a nice retirement home for elderly people. Elon: Haha, Rocket go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
must be exciting to be close to hopefully the best rocket launches ever, at least taken out of context (prolly tough to beat Apollo 11 launch when context is taken into account)
snuffeldjuret The best rocket launches ever will still be at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.If Starship ever launches for the Moon or Mars,it’ll be from KSC not Boca Chica,which will now only be used to make suborbital launches.
i feel sad for them cus they has live there for a long time,replacing there home would change the way they look at their house except they actually wanna move out from their but they dont have money to do so
They got paid 3 times the amount of the price of the home. Not to mention theres still a bit more than a hand full of ppl holding out to see how much they can actually get out of the efforts the space x program is trying to achieve. The ppl that took the amount 3 timea the normal value can simply find a suburb 45 mins away close the the town with everything they needed before the big move. But ppl like to be stubborn buttholes... Those stubborn buttholes got more money in the long run. Its a game to play if you want to come out on top.
If i had a house and someone, anyone came up to me and said, hey i'll buy your house for three times the price...I would agree no questions asked. Not only did the villagers get triple money, they also got lifetime VIP visiting rights to all Space X launches in the future. Which means they will have front site seats to the future of human spaceflight and the future of humanity!
Its because you just like money...place where i live ,lived my mother,my grandmother,my grand grand father..etc ..all the way to half off 19 century ..and to sell for some money ...NO
Ultimately, with the houses SpeceX have already bought, they can be hell of neighbours. Like, parties all day and night long, loud music and so on and so forth.
@@IGETDOWN07 your definition of "real living" is poor struggle, you wanna live for real then try living in war torn Syria or DRC lmao, a simple mindset leads to a simple life no wonder you're stuck
True... I'm kinda shocked by how greedy Americans are though... If someone bought my house for over 3 times it's (already overestimated value), I would take the deal, and thank the person, at most I would try to get it up to 4 times...
Maxim / Some people don’t care about that much money. That was there dream place to live and it was mentioned in the video that it is a common retirement spot, the majority of people there just want to enjoy a quiet life and realise, unlike you, that money doesn’t make you happy when you are already living the life that you enjoy.
The mistake I think Spacex did was to simply offer monetary compensation. If I were to be in the situation the residents found themselves in I would want to get an equivalent alternative and not just monetary compensation which I would have no way of knowing whether it could buy me an equivalent alternative and then have to go out and have to find that property myself. I think Spacex could have easily hired a real estate company to interview the residents to get an idea of what their idea of an alternative was and then search for such properties and offer them to the residents in exchange for their own together with whatever it costs to relocate. I'm sure there are real estate companies competent enough to do such a thing.
I did not realize how close the starship was to the homes. Wow! It looks like you could walk to the starship in just 10 or 15 minutes. I would never sell my house!
If i had a house and someone, anyone came up to me and said, hey i'll buy your house for three times the price...I would agree no questions asked. Not only did the villagers get triple money, they also got lifetime VIP visiting rights to all Space X launches in the future. Which means they will have front site seats to the future of human spaceflight and the future of humanity!
@@PresidentialWinner Exactly lol. I see the argument but goodness it seems illogical to me haha. People are making a sad story out of it but seem like hitting the jackpot to me! But as the person said above I wouldn't sell unless he came to my house and gave me the check directly lmao.
@@PresidentialWinner I would *probably* agree aswell, but it certainly wouldn't be without any questions asked. Remember, a lot of those people have lived large portions or their entire lives there. Just packing up and moving just like that isn't so easy for everyone. Not to mention the fact that the market value of these houses aren't necessarily all that high, so even 3 times the market value doesen't mean you'll get a particularily nice house somewhere else either.
Come on. They're now located on an A-location. So the how owners want to be paid A-location money for their property (like at least $1,000,000.- or so).
Imagine buying a property to retire and lead a peaceful life and suddenly you have rockets taking of in front of your door.
You just described my dream endgame tbf
@karonic: And when you dont comply, you are thrown out. Lol 😂
id be happy with a 3x offer, although id probably bargain for more and then go buy a better retirement home, sounds good to me.
That would be super cool lmao. It's not like they launch in the middle of the night, so getting to watch all the launches would be cool as hell
JordanWoodland , my thought as well. Imagine those 7 holding out and living within the grounds of space x...would need to rebuild house bunker-style😁
yo dawg I heard you had a quiet villiage here, so I brought my freaking space rockets to make some noise! lol
Gotta love elon man
Epic
@@yodings actually you dont
It will get complicated if you have a noisy town!
Love Elon and SpaceX but this video title is clearly a lie. Down vote it with me please. They did not buy the entire village 😡
Boca Chica: "Ah, finally, Peace and Quiet"
Elon: Let me introduce myself
I like the objectives spacex has but there cant be many towns like that. I would have been really mad.
Boca Chica: "Ah, finally, Peace and Quiet"
Elon: "Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste"
@@Sorestlor Well, to be fair, if you looking for a "Peace and Quiet" just all the more reason to support going to space.
Earth is one of the most noisiest places in the known universe.
@@MouseGoat you sound stupid
@@watevawateva7343 hes/shes not wrong tho
"Why SpaceX ALMOST Bought An Entire Village", there I fixed the title for you...
You would think buying the houses wod be there priority before building the spaceships..
@@xXSinForLifeXx I mean if your windows shatter every week because of a test flight you might reconsider that lucrative offer Elon gave you :p
Why SpaceX Bought Almost An Entire Village. There fixed the title for you
@@Samuel_NL just dont have windows smh
Space X received a 15 million tax break. They should pay up for ruining people's lives, cheap bastards!
The narrator sounds like we're already on Mars watching a documentary on SpaceX from the past.
Especially here 1:56
I mean it's nearly 2 years ago so what your point? He's just clarifying the date
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Future-proofing. Kids will be watching this video in elementary school in 2050.
@@LushhN stfu
Yes
3:00
To avoid being injured by shattering windows IN CASE THE ROCKET BLEW UP which would result in an significant pressure wave reaching the village. NO windows were shattered during the test itself.
SpaceX should just give the residents safe glass and let them stay
starseed96 sound of the rocket explosion or the very busy space port
@@Kev_the_panda There must be an engineerable solution. Solving it could be a useful product for the new residents (SpaceX employees) too, and maybe anyone who lives near loud noise or an airport.
Flextape
@starseed
They'd have to build a bunker for residents to shelter in. Eventually there will be full stack launches there, with Starship second stage on top of Super Heavy booster. If I'm remembering correctly, it will have more than double the thrust of the Saturn V. They'd need to evacuate for a launch anyway. Every time.
I would buy a house there just so i can watch all the launches from my backyard
OH MY GOD WOW
The shockwave alone from the launch would not be that cool, constant replacements of windows, construction at night and so many things happen that would not make it pleasing
Me to
Is this guy a idiot? There not selling homes there buying them out. If you wanna watch the launch watch it from your motor home you live in.
@@billybobimportant3812 there is remaining 7 properties and the property owner can give him so maybe he will get it ok
Everytime the dude says 'Boca Chica', take a chug of your favourite alcoholic beverage.
I’m drunk now.. all your fault 🤣
@@PARlS23 Hell yeah!
🤣
I don’t do that evil crap
I like the way you think
I know that village, i have a good memories to it. They lived in harmony , then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
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this comment deserves way more recognition
*USSR anthem starts playing in the distance*
the fire nation destroyed the air nation, and with the fall of boca chica they can now invade the water nation
S p a c e n a t i o n
Goal: Be the last house standing and charge them 10x market price
TheCrimsonCardinal 20x, I like almost everything Elon is doing on the macro but he not only is trying to move these people out but ruined their entire little community. Their way of life gone. That launch pad is right next to their houses. How that was even legal blows my mind. If you were building an airport to land large planes it would have to be miles away wouldn’t it?
dspitze Money
Nahh it won't work, being last house standing means you are on your own. The only reason SpaceX is buying up with over the market value was because is still considerably alot of people, at least enough to bring pressure to state government if SpaceX over step their boundary. But since is only you left, and the place has lost its value in being quiet and peaceful, your house worth nothing anymore, you won't want to stay there, nobody will rent or buy it, in the end it will just be left empty. They can do whatever they like at that point without needing to consider much of your comfort since you are not there anyway, logically speaking you won't even have the heart or time to fight against them, may be at first you will because of anger but as time goes on you will take up whatever low ball offer they give you since something is better than none. Don't be greedy or you'll get worst =D
@@dspitze no lol, have you even been to Houston texas? The airport is literally in the middle of Houston which houses 3 million people
Heard of Eminent Domain?
Better take the deal xx at the table, rather than getting kicked out with a paycheck of market value
Looking at the condition of some of those houses, I'm sure some of the owners walked away very happy.
@Dill Lend Maybe they like their current houses.
Problem is doubt they can find anything comparable even at $240 grand. Texas has gotten crazy expensive.
@Dill Lend some of them do , they're retirees dude, if a multi billionaire wanted my house , he'd have to pay at least 7x
Some people might have an emotional relation to the house, who knows... Old man, lived there the whole time... Or someone who spent his entire life aiming to get there... Or someone who lived there with a parent that no longer is here and it gives them memories... Etc etc
They didn’t look that bad. Geez
The people hanging on to the houses are genius. SpaceX should have bought the properties before beginning development on the property. Now, the remaining residents could keep getting their houses re-apprased as they spike in value because they are a few hundred feet from SpaceX's private space port!
It’s actually for the martians that will move in
Stop, you're going to start another low IQ cult!
Seems probable
Oh shit you guys figured it out
Yeah. The Martians are being moved from Area 51 to Boca ready to go back to Mars.
You are a nightmare. Like a terrible comedown off the worst drugs.
I’ve lived in Texas for almost 20 yrs and it’s through spaceX that I find out there is a city in Texas called Boca Chica. Now Boca Chica is more popular than most major cities in Texas.
So It is time for you to move there 😁
Ya I been going to Brownsville and didn’t know about Boca Chica lol
I live in the valley and I only heard of this place because of tesla.
Lived all my life in West TX...never heard of boca chica until today lol
Boca chica isn’t a city, it is a beach in Brownsville called boca chica beach. I see a lot of people mistaking calling it Boca Chica village, but literally the reason that place is called boca chica is because the road connecting it from Brownsville to the beach is called “Boca Chica boulevard”
Boca Chica: *Exists*
SpaceX: Hipty Hopty this is now my property
ur name is cool btw
To the people who don't want to give up on their homes: Better Call Saul!
This is exactly what I was thinking as I watched this
Hahah Nice one
Lol
This is all I could think of lol!
then if I represent SpaceX I will call Don Corleone, "I will make them an offer they can refuse" lol
Moral of the story: the government owns everything and we can all suck it
nope corporations. like tesla. reading comprehension/
@@donaldderrick1595 you mean the military-industrial complex yes
USA is so big, if i could take 5x my house from elon and government. I will take it. USA is big you can buy a house everywhere.
@@HermanWillems The problem is that the government's property value estimate isn't the real market value of the property.
@@HermanWillems Buy as many houses as you want all across the USA but remember: whatever you do, you CAN'T own anything - we can all suck it so deep I'm telling you.
The real reason is that Elon wanted to start windsurfing and this is just the perfect spot for it
Shhhh they cant know!
Elon: So what do you think? ruclips.net/video/EmErYWQ5noc/видео.html
@@goobiethicc5054 She' the happiest person I know, and I don't see very much happiness here sitting in this VA Hospital bed, knowing I'm battling terminal cancer. So this may not help some of you, but it makes this former Combat Marine of 5 tours, and who shot 7 times in my right side, smile ear to ear. Thank you Jess, and if you are EVER in Las Vegas, please come by the VA. We'd love to have this kind of happiness. Of course after this whole craziness ends. Many blessings for all the help. Semepr Fi. Forever Grateful To Still Be Alive, Captain T, U.S.M.C.
PS: The VA said they would contact you on my behalf to arrange for me to get a photo with you. I told them I have to stay alive now. That was their motivation. They KNOW I REFUSE to ever say WHY ME? Only WENT NOT ME. My beautiful wife and previous daughters may disagree, but I'm thankful for the time I've been given. My sister passed of the same cancer when she was 10 and I was 8. It's beyond RUDE to complain about a shortage of life when my sister was not given any. So whatever the plan is for me, IT'S PERFECT. If this was God's test of my faith, so be it. I REFUSE to ever question him and his good will. Thank you for keeping my soul and spirits high as they can during these trying times. Many blessings to you and your loved ones. And hopefully my family and I get that photo soon after this craziness is put to rest. Semper Fidelis.
I know the feeling Boca Chica, sounds like a rocket goes off everytime I start my ps4.
Dam.. ps5 out in time for xmas so get saving man!
alot of children commenting on this that wouldn't even own houses, they're getting huge payouts, a main road near my house just got bought out, about 30-50 houses were FORCED to move and got paid way under what they paid for them. spacex is being nice here.
so what does that say about corporations? that they can just buy out anyone and everyone? and if they don't, just launch rockets whenever you want to get the people to leave? those arent made up stories, those are first hand accounts of people who live there.
@@aznfattass yes, they have billions and you don't
You never own anything in the us some people just rent more for longer but it all goes back to the govt
@@aznfattass its sad yes, and its not the corporations that force them out, its the state they can legally force you out of the house for the minimum amount.
Would have been cheaper to build a new village at the edge of the exclusion zone, complete with solar panels and batteries, water tower etc and move the residents there.
And give some a chance for a job working at SpaceX
No,there would still be liability issues having people living that close to rocket launches.Move the residents to Padre Island.
@@thomashong2938 he said, at the edge of the exclusion zone. AFAIK, that's far enough to exclude any liability.
I also suspect, two of the unsold houses belong to LabPadre and @BocaChicaMaria1. I guess offering them a deal that includes free access to the area, access to video feeds and/or permission to set up additional cameras of their own might help move things along...
@@realulli I thought Maria moved a while ago, hence Lab moving the cameras. Because of this, I'm guessing she sold her house.
@@digi3218 OK, might be, i don't really know, I haven't tracked that.
Shit. Until I saw the drone shots I hadn’t realized that the launch site is that close to the actual village. Why did they build it so close?
Dominance
... and intimidation tactic
ive only seen the screenshots everyone else has seen, but damn i didnt know it was that close either. hope they get to choose their next "dream home location" to their choosing
They had planned to buy out the town all along. Such things are considered well in advanced of a location acquisition.
@@hawkdsl Seems like they didn't exactly consider the part where they can't force people out of their property.
My grandpa lives in Brownsville and whenever we go to boca chica beach it only takes like 20 minutes to get to space X not 40. Also there’s a wildlife sanctuary there. A part of it was given to space X. If the launches and debris are big enough to break windows then I can only imagine what it does to the native birds there. But that’s not to say it’s really cool Space X chose to build really close to where I am.
This is my dream I've been working for my whole life !
Space X: well I'm progressing the human race.
We like many other species will eventually go extinct, in the context of thousands of years it seems relevant in reality it's about as irrelevant as you see their retirement.
Private property > your opinions.
@@piknick111 Thats your opinion lol
who cares if they're progressing the human race, it only benefits people that haven't even been born yet. Only thing that matters is what I get out of it. Isn't that what capitalism is all about anyway?
More like contaminating our ecosystem.
Eminent Domain means no one really owns their property. The government just has to find an excuse and it can kick you out. I like Space X but hate E.D.
No one really does the Federal government and states own all the land. If you purchase a home you can own the home but control of the land remains in government hands. Your deed
merely gives you the right to use the land until you sell it, die and pass it along, or the government decides they need it for something better.
It's basically a law that's meant to curb the antics of some people that block things just because they like the drama they're creating or just because they want to make things difficult for everybody else.
It's used very rarely and rather hard to apply (for good reason). Remember that picture from China with the house right in the middle of a freeway? Same thing.
In Germany, if you live in an apartment block where each unit is owned by someone else, it's really hard to have a socket to charge your EV installed at your parking spot (even if you paid a few thousand Euros for it), since you have to install a line across communal property. Every other owner has the right to veto it. If that block is reasonably large, you can expect to have at least one drama queen that will veto it, just because they can and enjoy the difficulties they can cause with little effort on their side. Or maybe because they're jealous of you new car, or whatever.
Eminent domain is the state's last line of defense against that behaviour. They have to compensate you fairly, but in the end, they can force you for the public good. I think SpaceX has shown they want to compensate fairly (offering triple the estimated value and being ready to go higher if needed), but it appears there are some people being boneheaded.
On the other hand if I moved to the US, I'd build my house to German standards. That's much more expensive than the normal US way, but all a hurricane would do is rattle the shutters a bit and mess up the yard. For such a house, $250k is way to little, since it probably cost north of $400k. Unfortunately, that's hard to see from the outside, but I definitely wouldn't want to eat the loss.
If a country as a collective and unite to do useful things, then it will become strong and indestructible，
The government needs efficient execution and wisdom
Don't let the advantages of democracy become trouble
The government should arrange for companies and governments to provide these residents with better places than the original residents. Or reasonable compensation@@realulli
And it exists in all Western world countries. It's just a fact of modern reality.
So they can fly the village to Mars.
Lol
MUCH more desolate and remote
Genius!
But the commute to Brownsville will extend!
U fucking genius Sherlock
Its kinda sad what the company did to that small town..
Like who the fuck gives them the right? Just seems wrong.
Talking about them taking someones house legally is just crazy.
Elon will probably have to offer Mary, the "Boca Chica Gal," at least 10x the value of her home, + the cost of moving to Brownsville or SPI, + media coverage privileges, to get her to move out of that village.
Lets face it - 7 houses remaining - Normal price of circa $100,000, if Elon paid them 10x value each that is only $7 million. A Falcon 9 costs $54 million and starships will cost around 4x that so it is peanuts in the scheme of things.
The government: you can't just buy entire towns, it threatens our sovereignty
Elon: hehe wallet go $$
How original
The government: you can't just buy entire towns, it threatens our sovereignty
Elon: Hippity Hoppity your town is now my property
Rocket go brrr
Disney: lol millennials, back in my day we knew how to buy land without being extorted.
Whitefox a community with only one street isn’t a town, it’s a village
1:40 This mentioned time span (2014-2018) without activity at the side was neccessary and well communicated for compacting the underground to support the following construction of buildings and infrastructure.
The side of what?
@@AtlantaTerry I think he means site
"Far away from Civilization."
That is EXACTLY why it is prime real-estate for anyone testing loud rockets.
That, and how near it is to the Equator.
Yes, and therefore far more valuable than their rubbish offers!
Why does this look like the dharma village in Lost lol 😂
I miss Lost, such a great show (◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。
Lmao 😂😂😂
JACK! WE NEED TO GO BACK!
I heard they are building a zoo. Also. You notice that hill resembles a pyramid?
@@hoppermantis7615 thus?
Village? More like an unincorporated subdivision.
Norman Mattson Yeah i don’t think this place fits any definition lol
And not "entire" either, given there were still 7 properties in the original owners' hands.
thats like 4x more syllables, nobody is going to say that
or just elon scam... can not trust that guy at all..l.
@@awildtomappeared5925 😂🤣😂
When you launch rockets, you have to have an exclusion zone for safety. At the Cape complex in Florida, NASA has a minimum 3 mile exclusion zone in the case a rocket blows up on launch. The blast wave off of a main stage rocket would potentially level all those houses. Those houses are about 1.5 miles from the intended launch complex. The Russians had a 10 km exclusion zone to the launch pad and blockhouse for control at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. When they had one rocket blow up, one of the scientist noted that the only reason they survived was the face they were inside the blockhouse. If they had been outside, they would have been killed.
Yes rockets are very similar to bombs thanks for telling us that
So why did they buy the village? Because it is even a bit closer to the equator, which helps in getting rockets into space because of the radial velocity of earth. Also, the weather is more predictable than Florida and the hurricane season rarely reaches Boca Chica. Thank you Simon.
The narrator sounds just like JerryRigEverything!! 😀😀😀
With deeper voice at level 6 & total loudness in level 7
Who?
@@c31979839 youtuber that is into repairing phones and testing the durability of them
not really
Nahhhhhhhh
0:58 "Why would Space X choose such a poor and desolate part of the country"
OUCH.
Simply, there are fewer of them and they are likely poorer so it is easier to force them out. Lot more expensive and problematic if they wanted to build in a more populated area.
Yeah. Every rural resident's worst nightmare. I was excited about the space project till I saw this. Horrifying.
i actually live in brownsville and go to that beach often and when he said that i was like don’t gotta be so mean lol
@@valearl4693 Sure, because all the freeways and highways and train tracks and pipelines and airports and shipping ports and oil fields all over the country were put on land that nobody wanted to keep too.
My parents were forced to sell their house in 1975 so an airport could build a shipping hub.
This is nothing new. The sad fact is that to get nearly any large project like this going means someone who already lives there is going to be forced to sell.
Because if they chose let's say NY City they would have to expropriate the whole city, which is impossible of course. So they chose the most unpopulated piece of land they could find.
Less expropriation, less risk and nuisance for the population.
I'm so glad there's a channel like Primal Space paying attention to this stuff. I love SpaceX and try to keep up with it as best I can but there's just so much going on that doesn't get a ton of publicity that it's hard to stay on top all the time.
Are you nuts?! That's the 2nd most harmful company, after Twitter (now called X.)
Am I the only weirdo that absolutely wouldn’t mind living right down the street from a launch pad? 😅
That was my thought the whole time I was watching this.
did you literally ignore the fact the rockets were destroying the house's windows? it was making a mess out of their lives
Apparently there's like 7 families that wouldn't give that up for 3 times their home prices
That village is full of old retirees all they want is a cozy peace and quiet home not a rocket taking off in front of their doors breaking their windows
@@khaleevafauzi9690 I know and the majority of them already sold off. But there's a few houses that the owners aren't selling and that's what I'm talking about
One Year Later:
*Why SpaceX Bought The Entire World*
Why space x brout the entire world and were floating in space with only food water and a spacesuit
Change spaceX with China and youre not too far from reality
Be careful on that slope, it's slippery ;)
Why spending money buying earth when you can reclaim Mars for yourself free?
Imagine a loud neighbor moving in but instead of blasting System Of A Down through speakers its a multi-million rocket blasting off.
Title is click bait. It should read:
“SpaceX are trying to buy a village”
Oh they bought it...there is no way those people are staying.. space x just doesn’t wana have the government involved
Love Elon and SpaceX but this video title is clearly a lie. Down vote it with me please. They did not buy the entire village 😡
@@duncanhw "There's a tense in the title that you don't agree with?" no there is a tense in the title isn't accurate period. Agreement is subjective. Factually it isn't true till the last ones sell thus making it clickbait.
it's pretty much done, what a shame
They did buy it. A long time ago.
1hr away from me and honestly I dont think id give up a home like that either its beautiful and quiet a way to get away from people but then Space X was like "Lemme build a launch site across the rode :)"
Old people: Trying to get away from society and find a quiet spot
Elon: "Perfect spot for some rockets. Yall might wanna stay away from windows."
plans of humanity > plans of couple of boomers
@@Artem-vi1cb It wouldnt have hurt to find a different place right?
@@boimeme. yeah they will be fine. They can't live in an area that serve as spaceport and they are also geting the ability to relocate whereever they want
@@Artem-vi1cb exactly
I live a couple mins away, i saw when one of their launches failed. There's a lot of fishing in that area, lets hope it doesn't affect the environment in the long run .
The rockets land and make artificial reefs. I live in the east coast of FL, makes diving hard due to weird laws. But it's not bad for the environment really. Remember the BP oil spill? Shrimp ended up eating most of that. It's better now, so a small rocket is like spitting in a river
@@tommynorthwood that's how the problems start
@@tommynorthwood these aren't NASA rockets. there's no wasted boosters that land in the ocean.
@@tommynorthwood Starship will be bigger than the Saturn V. The blast from the rocket alone will probably level the village. If a Starship does a UVD on the pad , it will have the effect of a small nuke going off. There was a 3 mi exclusion zone for the Saturn V. That should tell you something for Starship. They will diffently hear it in Brownsville.
@Because I'm Retired Arrogance ? If SpaceX didn't exist, we would be still dependent on the Russians to get us to the ISS (which was paid for mostly by our tax money) at $80,000,000.00 per ride on their crummy Soyuz.
I bet you mathew mcconaughey lives in one of those houses ready to take on interstellar travel
Hey mat how does interstellar travel sound?
Mat “ well is sounds alright alright aaaalright”
LOL
ull rite ull rite O rite !
I would love to live there... look out the window and see starships with my own eyes... heaven
On the one hand, I feel for the people whose dreams of peaceful retirement were shattered so abruptly.
On the other, I can definitely see myself bearing a rocket launch from time to time if that means my property will double as a front row seat for the greatest space exploration events of our age.
Those houses are muuuuch to close for rocket launches, they'd likely collapse, now further away... imagine being in that town 45 minutes away getting to see rockets soar
on the other hand i'd like my ear to be intact
@@GodActio The probably can't afford 45 minutes away...
"so abruptly"
Dude, they purchased the land in the early 2010's, broke ground in 2014 and started testing 5 long years later.
Residents had time.
Another big reason for the location, it is as near to the aquator as it gets in the US (with Florida) to benefit from earths spin. Having an ocean to the east is also very desired.
Aquator? Wow
Boca Chica is at about 26 degrees north and Cape Canaveral is 28 degrees north, so Boca Chica really doesn’t give much advantage. Also the Gulf of Mexico is practically surrounded by land severely limiting what inclinations are possible. Boca Chica doesn’t offer any advantage over existing launch facilities. It will basically be limited as a development and testing facility. If it becomes a manufacturing facility it has a major advantage over the original site at Long Beach for obvious reasons.
@@bobbilaval6171 From what i know Boca Chica is intented as a Space Port to fly Spaceships to the Moon and Mars. Also some commercial launches are planed that are not limited by the inclination restrictions. That was the plan a few years ago at least, i dont know if that changed.
@@bobbilaval6171 the advantage isn't as much about against Cape Canaveral, but against other remote locations on mainland USA.
k1dicarus The plan did change.Starship in,Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy out.No commercial launches from Boca Chica.
Because Elon Musk wants to make a “Village Hidden in the Memes”
Love Elon and SpaceX but this video title is clearly a lie. Down vote it with me please. They did not buy the entire village 😡
The hidden meme village
@TonyDracon It's not worth it, you have to be a weeb to get this joke
Herman Pops nobody has to be a weeb to get the joke. If you’re going by the actual definition of weeb which is somebody that’s non Japanese that is obsessed with Japanese culture and they want to be Japanese and don’t accept their own nationality then you’re wrong.
though i admire Elons efforts on space travel. I disagree with making good and innocent people uncomfortable to achieve his goals. What a beautiful and quiet life this would have been for these good people
SpaceX taking "It takes a village" literally.
This channel is so good that I always like each video *_three times_*
Same I like it 4 times.
Watched the Apollo 11 broadcast video like 22 times
@@digi3218 lmao
I like even number. 😇So I like even no. Of time👍🏻
First of all, I'm a BIG SpaceX fan
However, as a Libertarian, I have some problems with the situation. I visit Boca Chica to see the progress SpaceX has made and got to talk to Mary (AKA BocaChicaGal) and a couple of other residents and I formed the opinion that they are getting a raw deal. It sound good that they are offered 3 times the value but the FACT is that none of the residents can REPLACE their homes elsewhere at that price. I know that part of Texas and think SpaceX could have bought another section of property to let the residents build homes on. So why not SpaceX just buy a different property? Because of the proximity to the Gulf is important for safety under the path of launching rockets (why most launch facilitys are on a coast), the eventually dredging for a barge dock for ocean transport of rockets AND the location at Boca Chica provides the best latitude for the physics of launching. Also, the noise of a launch requires great distance from people (launch sound can be lethal which is why the water sprays on launch pads) and the sound caused problems at the Florida sight for area residents.... Better to be in an isolated, undeveloped area (although South Padre city is actually really close across the bay!)
The residents could have been happy at a more inland and higher latitude location.
Interestingly, the residents I spoke to were enthusiasts of SpaceX's efforts and wanted it to succeed, just sad they were losing the isolated life they cherished.
I believe the situation could be easily solved voluntarily, there's no need for nanny state to get involved and steal properties
If they would be happy with an inland location, they shouldn't have any trouble finding an isolated spot. It's Texas, not Hong Kong.
That said, yes - it's an unwanted disruption and I have sympathy for them. I just think SpaceX has been reasonable and generous with them.
The state of Texas could easily seize those remaining properties through eminent domain, yet they are trying to avoid bad PR. The homeowners know this, and they're trying to milk SpaceX for as much money as they can, but if they lose through eminent domain, they only get 'fair market value' for their property.
Or whatever spacex is willing to pay and fair market value would have gone up dramatically the second spacex started offering 3x on all houses
"For years, it has been the vacation dream spot...". Seriously! Only 35 homes and no source of water?
Peace and quiet brotha. Peace and quiet and complete darkness at night and by the sea.
@@adamburling9551 sounds fucking amazing doesn't it
Glad I could find this 10 minutes after it was released. 👍
3 hours is good enough for me
And 4 hours for me
"Honey, I found the PERFECT place for us to retire.! It's on the coast, private beaches, few neighbors and we can afford the house and to live on my deflated pension." uhhhhh.... wtf is that ?
Yeah they paid $80k for the house and moved out with $240,000 or more. That's like 8 years of pension pay, id say they got a good deal.
Except they were using it as an air b&b so not really
@@jessperez477 You don't get the same house in 95% of US with 240k so no, they didn't get a good deal. Those who accepted the offer will get a worse version of their lives.
@@ThePizza28 well the same house really isn't 95% of America in the first place.
@Tmer6 good thing we're talking about Texas and not California.. not sure what the point is. "They could move to Detroit and get a house for 40k." It's just not relevant.
Hopefully they’re *NOT FORCED* to move out of this place.
They wont be. They will get some million dollar pay day to hold out.
An accident can happen, Space X does a test and, unfortunately, the rocket lands on your house. Oups...
They will probably be payed a lot of money
THEY WERE OFFERED 2 TIMES THE VALUE. MOST TOOK IT. THEY HAD NO CHOICE IN THE END... MOST OF THEM WERE NOT HAPPY.
ALSO THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION LAST WEEK
@@hautevoltage it's better than nothing.
BTW, it's haut voltage not haute
I find it hard to believe that SpaceX would have built a facility so close to that village without understanding that sooner or later it would become an impediment to their work (it would be impossible to make legal rocket launches that close to habitation, a fact SpaceX would have been well aware of) and that they would have to buy them out. As they evidently couldn't find suitable land completely free of habitation, one must suppose that the minimal size of the community - and thus the relative ease in eventually removing them - was a not insignificant factor in their choice of location.
Bro i would buy the house just to get an amazing rocket view everyday first hand.
For every (real) launch they county (or other?) would require them to vacate their home. SpaceX would have to put them up in some hotel. So no especially awesome launches
You can drive by the site or get a south (I think) facing hotel room on south padre island
Same
Lol. Right.
And become deaf?
Hands down, the best space channel on RUclips. Awesome job. Keep making such informative content.
Your channel is amazing as well
I live in Brownsville, was born here. Good this city will grow in the future
Would you know Where’s the best closest location I can take my kids to look at the spacex rockets?
Only for white people.
The people that stayed, stayed because of the rockets. Others have stated they were happy to take 3x market value. The 3 people that stayed were huge SpaceX fans. 1 guy is a hippie that took the money & moved on to another adventure in life a little while back. One was an old lady who was a fan but decided to move. The last & only private residence left is Bocachicagal who works for Nasaspaceflight. Her job is literally taking video & pictures of SpaceX's rockets/operations because she loves it so much.
It's not a 40 minute drive, and it's practically still Brownsville, big misconception for people that aren't from here.
Frs
Puro 95666
@@axemarsproduction6623 al children 💯
it's 22,8 miles and a 36 min drive acc. to google maps...
Claudi H Claudi H a 40 min drive is a really slow drive from boca chica to downtown Brownsville. I live near rivera and boca chica is literally like 10-15 min away. Brownsville isss wide city.... before everyone knew about boca chica, brownsville and boca chica residents considered it part of Brownsville because they are so close... my tia used to live there before she sold her house and she even admits it’s part of Brownsville
"buy the neigbors house if they complain about the noise" lmfaoooo
if it's anything like over here in the UK, building a spaceport like that right next to a village would require planning permission so it's not like the villagers didn't know what they were getting themselves into.
I mean hell they practically welcomed SpaceX to the hood, they knew it was to be a launch center, so what did they expect that would happen? SpaceX would be launching Silent Rockets?
Move the 7 to houses close to each other and build a strong glass dome around the houses.
"Mars habitation preview"
Would have sold my house for one of the first tickets to Mars.
Highfield
Are you in a hurry to die? Deadly radiations for several months, and if you don’t die on impact you land on a planet that closely resembles hell with toxic soil, huge temperature variations, no magnetosphere, no breathable atmosphere..
I’d rather have a house in Antarctica. Much more hospitable there.
Elon says that'd cost something like $250k, and the people gone en masse would be volunteers so. So if your house costed $80k and SpaceX paid you triple, you'd have your ticket waiting for you pretty much
@@Memoiana
Someone's gotta do it.
But what you said is def valid, it's going to be dangerous and uncomfortable as hell.
Memoiana have you been there already?
@@Memoiana You know you can cross the street or get cancer and die? There are several reasons for instant death. I would still want to work there and help establishing a new society. It's still hard work and you have to prepare long time before, but it would be a dream come true for me. So it's more like a hurry to leave, considering how worse humanity gets over time here.
Could the bought properties be used for SpaceX employees to stay overnight etc?
I think thats the idea
Elon apparently does this
There's a bunch of RVs near the site and that's where our musky boi lives
'' couldn't increase the scale of their tests without putting the rezidents in danger '' - so maybe if they upgrade them
BC is planned to be a rather large complex.. the town will be destroyed for expansion..
Imagine waking up to a rocket launch at 6 am
I live in brownsville and i’m pretty close to there. It’s cool because you can drive by their site and one time Elon was there when it was like interview day or something. It’s cool to see a company like SpaceX at a place like Brownsville. The (Rio Grande) Valley is pretty small and neglected so everyone here is happy.
Elon musk actually lives in boca chica
What seems to amaze me is how the State and SpaceX simply overlooked the significance of Bahia Grande / Las Palomas wild life management area. A very critical piece of land to the identity of South Texas. Also Boca Chica Beach... Just across the shipping channel is South Padre Island which is the complete opposite of Boca Chica beach. If you want peace and quiet for a beach in South Texas, you go to Boca chica beach, if you wanna party you go to SPI and now residents are unable to access the beach for extended periods of time.
I am Excited about the possibilities that can come from SpaceX but the people of Cameron County have had the wool pulled over their eyes in this whole scenario. Companies like these like to take advantage of the ilinformed by making promises they know they cannot keep.
I totally agree u must b from the valley like me! Lol
Exactly they may ruin our land!
Noooooo this was a perfect village, I was gonna live there when I'm older
That would be dope being the last one living there, imaging the size of the parties you could throw. Neighbours can't complain because they're setting rockets off every other day.
I have a lot of respect for the folks that refuse to get kicked out.
Bokochika sounds like you are playing hide and seek with your 2 year old and surprise him appearing in front of him shouting "BOKOCHIKA"
Sudarshan BocaChica
Here before this explodes
A rocket or this video?
Village: But you can't do that! Our village has been so peaceful for so many years and a nice retirement home for elderly people.
Elon: Haha, Rocket go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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I’m pretty new here but just wanted to say that I love your videos! So interesting and inspiring.
just give the residents a new Santa Monica Beach House , they will accept it in no time .
@@acek2016 how multi billion company can afford anything ? right ?
Ember Wolf 200 they already bought most the homes so they rlly only have to buy a few
They live in Texas. Why would they want to move to a portion of a state that likely believes the exact opposite of everything they believe?
@@carmp3fan who said they need to move there ? if you a house owner you can rent it or sell it .. etc ..........
As a 30+ year resident of Texas I find the thought of moving to California offensive.
Thanks Lab Padre & BocaChicaGal for all your coverage of this awesome time in space flight history. 🤘🏻🚀🤘🏻
Can not forget BocaChicaMaria, who gave us a birds-eye view from her back yard!
@@rturpin1066 i always assumed she was both users haha. I was way off. 🤣
This feels like something out of an anime
"Life was always quiet in this village"
*rocket launches*
"not anymore"
Texans: We're free from government tyranny in this state
Texas: Have you heard of eminent domain?
Ayyyyeee I'm from brownsville
Heeey me too
must be exciting to be close to hopefully the best rocket launches ever, at least taken out of context (prolly tough to beat Apollo 11 launch when context is taken into account)
snuffeldjuret The best rocket launches ever will still be at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.If Starship ever launches for the Moon or Mars,it’ll be from KSC not Boca Chica,which will now only be used to make suborbital launches.
@@thomashong2938 it really doesn't matter as long as I know we have something interesting in our backyard
@@snuffeldjuret I know as a 13 year old that is a nerd and likes space I'm hella excited :)))))
i feel sad for them cus they has live there for a long time,replacing there home would change the way they look at their house except they actually wanna move out from their but they dont have money to do so
Roots are just good for trees. we , human beeing have to go ahead ! Happiness is at the end of the road and fot humanity the road is very very long.
NOXi Z I mean their houses worth about 75k get 225k in exchange which is a pretty good deal.
@@__-ze7sp HO Yes !It's not a scam , it's really a very good deal. I'm Happy for them.
Oh my Lord your grammar...
I lost brain cells trying to read that
That’s honesty tragic for the people forced to leave their homes.
They got paid 3 times the amount of the price of the home. Not to mention theres still a bit more than a hand full of ppl holding out to see how much they can actually get out of the efforts the space x program is trying to achieve. The ppl that took the amount 3 timea the normal value can simply find a suburb 45 mins away close the the town with everything they needed before the big move. But ppl like to be stubborn buttholes... Those stubborn buttholes got more money in the long run. Its a game to play if you want to come out on top.
An entire video on why they bought the land there without mentioning it's on the closest parts of the U.S to the equator.
If i had a house and someone, anyone came up to me and said, hey i'll buy your house for three times the price...I would agree no questions asked. Not only did the villagers get triple money, they also got lifetime VIP visiting rights to all Space X launches in the future. Which means they will have front site seats to the future of human spaceflight and the future of humanity!
Its because you just like money...place where i live ,lived my mother,my grandmother,my grand grand father..etc ..all the way to half off 19 century ..and to sell for some money ...NO
@@dzonikg The place hasn't been there for generations.
It was out in the middle of nowhere.
2:03 @bocachicagal was doing it from the beginning.
Ultimately, with the houses SpeceX have already bought, they can be hell of neighbours. Like, parties all day and night long, loud music and so on and so forth.
I understand them, but I also want our city to grow and have something that the whole world knows us for.
Dream home? Yes most likely
40 minute drive for food alone and water in trucks
How about no thanks
You’re a city boy 😂
Everyday life bub. Hope you get to experience real living.
How about everyone has their own dreams
@@chiefyovany572 lmao imagine *using Internet, using electronic device* then calling someone a city boy
@@IGETDOWN07 your definition of "real living" is poor struggle, you wanna live for real then try living in war torn Syria or DRC lmao, a simple mindset leads to a simple life no wonder you're stuck
Your title is wrong, they did not buy the entire village.
Scott Gust yet hahaha
Future proof title
True... I'm kinda shocked by how greedy Americans are though... If someone bought my house for over 3 times it's (already overestimated value), I would take the deal, and thank the person, at most I would try to get it up to 4 times...
Maxim You can’t judge 300+ million people based on the actions of a few.
Maxim / Some people don’t care about that much money. That was there dream place to live and it was mentioned in the video that it is a common retirement spot, the majority of people there just want to enjoy a quiet life and realise, unlike you, that money doesn’t make you happy when you are already living the life that you enjoy.
The mistake I think Spacex did was to simply offer monetary compensation. If I were to be in the situation the residents found themselves in I would want to get an equivalent alternative and not just monetary compensation which I would have no way of knowing whether it could buy me an equivalent alternative and then have to go out and have to find that property myself.
I think Spacex could have easily hired a real estate company to interview the residents to get an idea of what their idea of an alternative was and then search for such properties and offer them to the residents in exchange for their own together with whatever it costs to relocate.
I'm sure there are real estate companies competent enough to do such a thing.
I did not realize how close the starship was to the homes. Wow! It looks like you could walk to the starship in just 10 or 15 minutes. I would never sell my house!
Hope there's was no injustice done to the villagers
That’s not going to happen.
Oh no, they had to sell their homes and get a crapload of compensation money, whatever will they do?
The Mayor of Avabruck and if they don’t want to move and happy where they are?
@@Robcalitrek1 they'll move eventually. They just haven't been offered enough money yet and/or aren't sick enough with the 24/7 noise yet.
@@MayorofAvabruck It's the principle, you cur. Somebody should throw you out of your house by force and drop you a check.
I can't be angry about the people there it's not easy to just sell your house but I hope they will 😅
I’m sure Space X will give them more than enough money to get them another home...at least I hope 😂
If i had a house and someone, anyone came up to me and said, hey i'll buy your house for three times the price...I would agree no questions asked. Not only did the villagers get triple money, they also got lifetime VIP visiting rights to all Space X launches in the future. Which means they will have front site seats to the future of human spaceflight and the future of humanity!
@@PresidentialWinner Exactly lol. I see the argument but goodness it seems illogical to me haha. People are making a sad story out of it but seem like hitting the jackpot to me! But as the person said above I wouldn't sell unless he came to my house and gave me the check directly lmao.
@@PresidentialWinner I would *probably* agree aswell, but it certainly wouldn't be without any questions asked. Remember, a lot of those people have lived large portions or their entire lives there. Just packing up and moving just like that isn't so easy for everyone. Not to mention the fact that the market value of these houses aren't necessarily all that high, so even 3 times the market value doesen't mean you'll get a particularily nice house somewhere else either.
Come on. They're now located on an A-location. So the how owners want to be paid A-location money for their property (like at least $1,000,000.- or so).
Space x should pay each homeowner $1 million
*Mr. Beast* : Last to leave Boca Chica wins a free trip to Mars.