Is This REALLY The Worst Place To Live In California?
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- Опубликовано: 9 дек 2022
- Clearlake, California is like stepping into an after-school special on the dangers of meth. It’s full of retired crackers and crank labs. All around town, streets are teeming with drugs. It’s kinda like the walking dead if all the zombies were high and wanted to chat.
I’ve read a lot of reviews about a place, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it put quite like that before.
It wasn’t until day 8 on my California road trip till I made it out to the countryside to Clearlake. Up to this point, it had been funky desert towns and a bunch of big cities that are in some level of getting worse. But this was different.
I’d heard about Clearlake a lot. Many people have told me its the worst place to live in California. Since I was in the area, I figured it was time to see it. And boy was the trip worth it.
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Thanks for the list, Nick. I've watched a couple and I'll get to the rest. I lived in the Bay Area (SF, then Berkeley) from '76 to '93. It was just starting to get out of control then. It's funny: when I moved to CA I was calling myself a socialist. By the time I left, I'd become a conservative. Imagine that!
I do miss California; so much natural beauty there. I'm a ferry ride outside of Seattle now - another once great city going down the tunes with a city government unwilling to stop it. I enjoy your vids and your interviews; keep up the good work.
Nick! Visit Clearlake again and I Will host you!
Just like they said in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, it's gon goo for green and sludge for much. Low end & things, If It weren't the people. It was the other people that escaped and went muahahahaha and pressed a ton of shiny buttons. By old California, it's part of the "New" Roads and section housing.
& the chances of failing... are indeed there. What a way to separate everyone without them complaining. That's called the great American Subdue. A form of corruption that takes apart really goood communities, cause they made tooo much money for the others to be kings or queens... (to flush our land of people that thought for themselves).
In other words, to replace procreation with, Mind seering policy for an execution (as they say, they'll lie that way) & everybody looks blind, until you see the movie Terminator from back in the day again. Now those were the peaks of time or space.
I am a 60 year resident of Clearlake. I have seen the good, the bad, and now the resurgence of this wonderful place to live. The Lake isn't polluted, as some say. Clearlake is the #1 Bass Lake in the western States and there are tournaments here every weekend of the Spring and Summer. The lake is still filled with people on the water in the Summer months, and now that the Lake is filling up after the drought, it will be once again a fun place for skiers, jet skiers, fisherman and those just enjoying the Lake Life! Great video Nick!
Right on Gary! Couldn't agree more.
Clearlake the town on the bank of Clear Lake.
I used to go camping in Clear Lake way back in the 80s. Back then I called it 'the poor man's Tahoe.' It still looks way better than most of California. Los Angeles is the worst in every imaginable way one can think of. So glad I escaped from there last year. It's just pure evil how the 'powers' have destroyed this state which used to be one of the most beautiful places. The rest of the country (and the world) needs to be aware and protect their cities and towns if they haven't already been butchered by greed which has decimated everyone and everything it touches. No one ever talks about the true cause of this devastation.
DEMOCRATS
I got out of California in 1980 and moved to San Marcos Texas and have never regretted it didn't leave anything in California nothing I don't know where you went to but all I can say I do miss would be the ocean and and the mountains I was real fond of Forest falls but Mount baldy was the nearest and it was already overcrowded and graffiti all over the boulders on the way up on the drive disgusting I can't imagine how trashed it is now.
@@shanelewis617 And Republicans, they both take the money. The bankers own everybody.
@@bobbybooker2123 DEMOCRATS ARE THE PROBLEM!
@@bobbybooker2123 DEMOCRATS HAVE INFILTRATED EVERYTHING!
INCLUDING THE BANKS!
SEE FTX [BANKMAN] RESEARCH GEORGE SOROS!
I had a good friend who drowned in Clearlake last year. High winds pushed him out in his kayak and he went missing. Friends and family launched a massive search all over the lake and the surrounding area. Found his body 2 days later washed ashore. He was a healthy 26 years old. RIP Dylan, we miss you bro. 😔 Not only is this lake toxic, it’s also dangerous for inexperienced boaters. The winds move quickly through the mountain valleys and right over that lake. Stay away.
My condolences
That’s far too young to go. Sorry for your loss kid.
Sorry for your loss, but realistically, that can happen anywhere. Never go out on the water alone is better advice.
Do kayakers wear life jackets? Could that have helped him?
My sister accidentally drank the water when we were visiting. Thank god she survived the likely poisoning,
I love your videos. I like the fact that you actually interview people from the area you are profiling. I feel your videos present a balanced view as well. It's very refreshing.
OMG Nick!... My family were some of the original settlers of Clearlake!
At one time Clearlake was a nice community! I spent summers there in the sixties with my grandparents, swimming in the lake, no worries of the people or drugs back then... Wow as depressing as it now is, it once was a great place to live and visit.
Thank you Nick. I will share this amongst my family.
Ok Kelly!
Why are the American people so much into drugs?
No wonder the drug cartels exist.
Mine too
“We built this city, we built this city and now it sucks.” Nick Johnson
Not on rock n roll?
Every relevant Democrat wants capitalism as the economical system. Republicans are just blatantly lying about this to keep the gullible from voting Democrat. And no, advocating universal health care, free education or living wages does not mean Democrats want socialism as the economical system. It just means they want to balance out the exploitation unregulated capitalism inevitably leads to.
@@zachmandell1549 certainly on drugs.....
Tent city we built this city on lots of drugs..o yeah
@@MrModel--CAPTURED-ON-FILM certainly on rocks
I have been visiting Clearlake since 1960, and living there for ten years now. It has been a lot worse in the past, and constantly getting better in the past ten years. We do have a high unemployment rate, mainly because of having such a high percentage of retired people and disabled persons who were forced out of living in the super expensive San Francisco bay area. It feels very safe living in Lake County now.
I'm glad to hear to say this. I had a wonderful vacation there about 15 years ago, and have such nice memories of that area. I'd still like to move there some day. The lake didn't look very healthy though. I hope that is improving too.
You should visit the other more obscured places in Cali next, like Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, and Humboldt etc.
Visit Humboldt cali. pleassssse….
There are some still good places. But it is a political disaster. Financial scams by the poltical insdiders and homeless "non profit" scammers where the people working there make 100 k plus. I literally worked in welfare for 30 yrs so I know the shit. Millions and millions are scammed. EBT fraud is out of control. Just have to give more and more.
@@AA-ct7cb PLEASE!
3rd world country
maybe Rohnert Park,CA or Phelan ,CA
Big props to Mr Councilman for actually coming on to talk about the place he represents
Welcome to the 21st century. Homelessness and drug abuse are everywhere! The councilman sees the problem and fighting the good fight. The war on drugs never ends. Looks better than the major cities in CA.
Apparently a pretty wise man, "for a politician". For me it was a big selling point on the more sanguine
aspects of the town.
I know we need to do lots of improvement in this town but we got something that no many places got, we came together when someone is in need, our town is growing and it’s getting better, I wouldn’t change it for nothing, I love this place
I love your dirt roads, reminds me of how our "town?" used to be more pleasant.
My husband are thinking about moving here, but are not so sure there is much for kids here? What are your thoughts?
It looks nice and peaceful to me
I agree with you David 100%. He's making it sound a whole lot worse than it is. It's not as bad as he makes it sound,
If it were I would have never bought a home here. Every place has its good points and bad ones but I wouldn't give this up to go back to the city for nothing in the world. There are a lot of wonderful things here in Lake County too. Why doesn't he talk about that?
I am a born and raised Californian , I’m so concerned I have never seen homelessness this bad , as a child you would see hobos riding the trains but this is crazy , from your video Clearlake looks like a place that I would love to move to , sounds strange but their is so much craziness going on in the Central Valley and Bay Area and so cal to name a few . Thanks for your videos .
Its a housing price is too high
@@user-bz8pq5fw7q GRAMMAR 💀
I’m curious has California always had such a bad homeless problem? I grew up in the Bay Area and moved out in 2015 but I never really saw homeless people and people living out of RVs in places and when I recently traveled to these rural places in NorCal for the first time I was shocked to see it all. Also I did not see homeless like this at all when I traveled back to the Bay Area recently so has this always been a problem for the rest of California or just recently it’s an issue?
@@user-bz8pq5fw7q the housing price isn’t that even that high lol where I live right now are similar to prices in Cali. I can get a 4 bedroom apartment here for 2200/month or a 4 bedroom lakeside home with private dock for 2200/month. Prices are very similar but more worth it imo
It's not that bad at all here at all. The way he is portraying our town is BS
I grew up and lived in SoCal 30+ years and just recently moved to Arlington TX because my job moved out of CA. It is really sad on what CA has become! 😔
My wife grew up in Sacramento and Merced, we met in Grass Valley/Nevada City. We used to drive thru Clear Lake all the time on the way elsewhere. It was nice back then. We are now in Springfield Oregon. Nice to see our old stomping grounds and sad to see what's happened. Thanx Nick!
Still good at Clearlake☺️
I feel like Nick uses a lot more cursing in California videos, and it suits the videos perfectly. I’m trying to figure out how to leave this state as well. Dear God please let me make it to Utah.
I would love to leave too 🙄
You’re Mormon?
I want out of here too.
@@certifiedfinest5065 no. But I’m not worried about that. I visit there often and it’s wonderful.
Don't come to NYS - too expensive, illegals abd crime. People are leaving to go south.
I appreciate your time and efforts with these videos. It's nice to see, though sad at times, the different places around this country. 🙏
I'm from Lake County. My grandparents retired in the early 70s from Sonoma county and my parent followed. It was a great place to vacation and your retirement nest egg could go far. They had events like boat races, places to dance, lots of entertainment. In the 80s surrounding counties started dumping their unwanted out here and the drugs followed. People moved because the area was cheap so we got people from Sacramento and other places in the central valley, people from the northern bay area. They congregated in Clearlake for the most part. I grew up in Kelseyville and now live in Upper Lake. I moved out of state for a bit and then lived in Mendocino County for a while before I moved back. Its dissapointing this video was only about the City of Clearlake. Lake County has a lot more to offer than that. Middletown, Cobb Mountain, Kelseyville, Lakeport, Upper Lake are all pretty nice communities. The lake though is one of the saddest part of Lake Countys story. In the 80s it was still fairly nice, in the mid to lake 90s it started its severe decline but if you're in to bass fishing its one of the must fish spots in North America. They do a lot of tournaments out here. Next time you're out here please try and interview people who grew up out there instead of people who moved here only 5/10 years ago, you'll probably get a deeper perspective on what this part of Northern California is really like.
The lake gets a bad wrap for the few nasty weeks (maybe months😂) a year, most of the year the water is fine. We swim in it all year and fish, no problems don’t drink it 😂
Good report, you got my attention. Born in L.A., moved back in the ninety's. For reasons of to crazy for me. I love country living. Thank you for your report.
ClearlAke is affordable and simple.
Most residents are retired pensioners and in bed by 9:00pm. Hahaha
We’ll keep it as a secret gem of California!
I've only lived here maybe 5 years and I'm embarrassed to tell people that I live in clear lake but I absolutely love it I moved away once and had to get back to the lake I just love the area it's so pretty so fresh the air is so clean thank you so much for the update straightening people out
Nick please visit Paradise, California. Home to the worst fire in California history. We called it The Ridge. It is super unique and amazing. The flumes, the canyons and everything is worthwhile. 👍
Good job Nick keep up the good reporting.
So Sad Nick! I lived in Ukiah as kid between 1966 through 1971. It was such an awesome place to live as a kid. Our family would drive to Clear Lake to swim and have a picnic. The lake was huge and the water was clear, hence the name. However, I remember it was pretty dry way back in the 60's, so I bet it's super dry there now.
I wonder how the lake got so polluted how it got all that mercury in there that’s really wild, unless there were some factories and the runoff went into the lake
Wow.
The lake was polluted even back then lol. people just weren't aware of it
@@texasgina Gold mining in the late 1800s
@Nancy Bump I traveled through many rural places in NorCal in the past few months like shasta county, humboldt county and Mendocino county and saw lots of homeless people everywhere but I thought Ukiah looked relatively nice but there were also lots of homeless in Ukiah. I’m wondering was it always that way there or is it an issue that has occurred in recent years?
Hey Nick. I'm a trans-planted Californian too in NC. Redding and Red Bluff are much like Clearlake also. Same kind of non-California feel to them. And speaking of seceding, do you remember when California proposed to split into North and South California? The proposed borders were interesting to say the least. Love your channel you have a cool personality.
I’m from
Northern CA about to move to Charlotte. I am so ready!
From Red Bluff, but moved out of the state 5 years ago. I go back to visit family all the time. I think Red Bluff has improved infrastructure over the last few years, several businesses have relocated there from people being displaced due to the Paradise fire. Redding seems to just get worse ever year I go there haha.
The effort to create the State of Jefferson really picked up when the Kenyan Alinskyite Terrorist was in the Oval Office, and never let up. People are becoming a part of it as far south as Mariposa. I hope they succeed, because the brainless loony lefties (ye shall know them by their masks) have ruined the state I had called home, and continue to make it worse.
Great information Nick THANKS!!!
Love your video's Nick! Makes me want to travel around the country
Dave you need to go see something neat soon!
Very interesting video about a part of CA that most know very little about. However, I’ve been to many places that are quite different (and more dangerous) at night than they appear on a sunny morning. I’m curious if Clearlake is such a place.
Clearlake is the best place I’ve lived and I amkeeping IT a secret!
Read my comment on the video and you’ll learn the whole truth about Clear Lake. The houses are super low rent & when buying property the taxes are super low.
you don’t wanna come here, it’s way worse now
I'm a nurse in Santa Rosa, CA. We joke about patients we get from Clear Lake, because they are nearly always meth + and meet a certain profile. I have worked in the hospital up there. I liked it! I was raised in the rural South, and Clear Lake felt nice. Friendly, down-to-earth, non-pretentious people. Don't know if I'd want to live there, but no, definitely not the worse place in California.
I was staying in Rohnert Park for about a week to attend a wedding and people from Santa Rosa said it was a low life hick town.I didn't feel that way about the area when I stayed there.
Hahah yep the hospital in Clear Lake is known as "Deadbud".
Your commentary is quite entertaining and hilarious because it is all true 😂
I read about this place before we moved here because my wife wanted to come here. I could feel the energy coming off the ground as we drove up from Williams. And I knew this is where I wanted to be, I love your report. Grew up in Southern California, yeah I don't have the problems here as there were down there
This is wild. My uncle was the sherriff there until he passed in 2005, and another uncle owned a fishing shop right on the lake, i remember spending summers on the lake with my cousins from 95 to around 2005 when all my family moved away.. the lake was huge, and the town was beautiful, we'd walk to the high school and watch football games on weekends..
@Squish was there homeless problem back then or is this an issue of recent times? I’m shocked to see this it’s very sad.
@José Gonzales homelessness has always existed, but never to this extent, the town looked much better back then, the lake was full to the max and everything was lush green, i still have family there
It’s weird. I am from the Netherlands and we are all stuffed together in apartments, flats and pretty small houses. Seeing this, blue skies, space, free standing houses etc. It kinda looks good to us and hard to imagine so much hardship and poverty and drug related problems are happening. Seeing this makes me feel blessed living in my small noisy crappy house.
Yes u arw😮😮😮
California had huge population growth soon after WWII, with developers building huge expanses of small houses on single-family lots. That was fine until the 1960's, but after that such doomed California to problems land use. The Netherlands, which has had high population density for at least two centuries, has multi-story housing as a norm.
The starter homes once the norm in California in the 1950's are now slums for housing big families or becoming subdivided for multiple families. Basically, Dutch-style population density as in California's coastal cities isincompatile with single-family bungalows.
I’ve been a resident of Lake County most of my life. People only focus on the negative here, but this region is naturally beautiful and full of Native American history dating back 21,000 years. The area is volcanic, and tends to make the soils extremely fertile. When it rains those soils run off into our lake which cause algae blooms, but it’s this cycle that gives the area it’s name, Clear Lake. Not because the lake itself is clear, but because the biology of the lake scrubs pollutants from the air. We have the cleanest air in California because of it. There’s surprisingly high end areas to live too. This video really focused on 1 town (the worst one) around the lake.
thanks for the info.
I enjoy your videos Nick!
I grew up here it was a horrible experience. I left as soon as I graduated high school. My mom still lives there so I still go back . Hopefully it changes one day
Hey Stephan im about to buy some property there, anything in specific that makes it terrible? Is it only certain areas of town. Im looking to purchase a property on Olympic Drive
I live in lake county, further out into the country. Let me tell you what this video had me rolling. The pan shot from the fight to the police station was hilarious, because it's not uncommon. The biggest brawls always end up here lol. Seeing this video from a super well traveled RUclipsr was quite something. He hit every nail on the head with his facts. Yes the place can be a dump, but let me tell ya. Get away from the people and town and we have unforgettable views.
Bartlett Springs Road!
You had me looking at this area (it was either you or Geography King) before and when I went on Zillow once, I got an (uneasy) feel for the place. But as a former city councilman myself, I thought Councilman Claffey was very good and the kind of guy I'd want representing me. Kudos to him for not only being in office after having just moved there in 2017 but hopefully doing good things for Clear Lake and Lake County and beyond in the coming years. I was almost going to say, Nick, if you moved here, we'd think about moving there but I'm not a fan at all of trailers and the mercury in the lake isn't good for anybody.
Haha Bill I'd be bored there but it's a neat place for a day trip I suppose
Good job Nick. I liked this video.
We used to go up there in the 80s and early 90s. I Had a friend who bought a friend that bought rental property. I'm so sad to hear it's on hard times. It's such a pretty part of the state. We had a lot of fun rehabilitating property. I lived in San Francisco back then. Clearlake was definitely rural and working class, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad place. My sense was that it was a small, close knit community. We experienced some resentment that people from the city could buy up property and make a buck renting it out to make their own lives better, like the money made went out of town. I think lack of economic opportunity was and still is the main problem.
I moved from Napa to Clearlake 20 years ago since it was the only area I could afford to purchase a home. I like living here. The people are nice. The living is laid back. The weather is nice.
Unlike as when I visit large cities such as San Francisco, I feel safe walking anywhere in this town. Our drinking water comes from Clearlake and I don't know of anybody who has become ill from drinking it although it is recommended that the fish intake from the lake be limited because of the mercury levels. I enjoy the outdoors and there are a LOT of areas where the outdoors can be enjoyed.
I have met a few people in town who have problems with this area - a very few. Most are very happy. The largest body of people who complain seem to come from non-residents who live a different lifestyle and thus feel like a fish out of water when visiting here.
I do plan on moving some day but not because of what happens in this city but rather because of the regs, fees, fines, taxes and such being applied to us from the state of California which far exceed those of most other states. If it do move I will greatly miss the outdoor opportunities that Clear Lake and Lake County offer.
It was nice that you talked to the mayor and it sounds like it’s back on its way up ❤
I was lucky enough to be raised in the Bay Area, Mill Valley & Tiburon in the 40'-60... my 50-year-old daughter, born in Mill Valley has a place on ClearLake edge on the best side for the past 9 years.. she is going to critique it for us... I'm 81 and have lived in Thailand for 40 years. Lucky to be here and see what is happening in the USA!
My Father worked for the nearest big University and like I said lived on a ranch in lake county when it was nice there. He quit because the farmers were polluting Clearlake so badly with DDT , a pesticide, my Father worked as a researcher in Entomology and kept trying to tell them 😭 ! We all ended up in Mississippi 😊❤️ and ✝️🛐 s
Wow you have a lot to say!!
Did you have to take a Religious Proficiency Test to enter Mississippi?
That is such a shame about the lake
Having escaped California after 32 years of this sh1t, always fun looking back over my shoulder via Nick’s videos. 💉🧟♂️ 💩
Where did you move to, if you don't mind me asking ?
LOL
@@tallulahbeaverhausen4382
Nevada. Solid 2A here.
Admittedly, I still spend about a quarter of my time back in San Diego. Still love my home town, but the state overall is eff’ed!
@@ReconMan8654 Thank you for your response. What do you mean by "solid 2A". I'm not familiar with it.
That said, good for you for getting a better life elsewhere !
@@tallulahbeaverhausen4382 2A = 2nd Amendment of U.S. Constitution. 👌
Very entertaining Nick! 🤣 Thank you I just liked and subscribed 👍👍
Yay 👋
What happened to the lake to make it so polluted? I hadn't heard that before. (I don't get around much :-)). Are there any plans to clean it up, or is that even a possibility?
Would love to live there, looks like such a cute little town. Love your channel Nick, thanks for sharing all of your exploring.
@@Greylobster Same here!
Where do you both live now, if I may ask? Tks
Thank you Nick! I'm from the east coast but have been in CA for 11 years. First 6.5 years in the Bay Area (HMB, Campbell, Los Gatos and San Jose) then Ojai for 3 years and now Lake County for 1.5 years. I loved Ojai and HMB, LG and Campbell were all cool. San Jose was fine too. But I can't stand San Francisco and much of the rest of the Bay Area just doesn't suit me. Too crowded, too much traffic, too much concrete and just not fun. But I'm real happy in Lake County. Is it perfect? of course not. There are some yahoos for sure and the meth crowd makes me nervous sometimes. But overall, Lake County is cool, affordable and very scenic. I've even gone fishing on Clear lake and had a good time (though we of course didn't keep the fish.).
The beast keep coming fresh
Leading the politician. I Always enjoy your adventures!
It used to be nice back in the 60’s like everything else.
Yea I bet it was nicer when u don't have to look at reality.
Less people, more jobs, a better economy, no drug crisis like the world knows now, less pollution, a better sense of community, citizens involved in their cities... the list goes on and on...
@@brentbrooks4101 Let me guess snowflake. It's Trump fault??? GTFO with your crybaby crap.
Yes, I agree with you. My late husband used to tell me how great it was back in the 60’s in San Jose.
US senators criticize anti drug solutions of other countries, they put sanctions on countries on the way it tey to solve drugs smuggling, but they fail to see how bad drug problem in their country have become,
Another great video Nick, I have been enjoying the entire California trip but this one hit home for me ....literally 🤣
Hehe
@@ErickaLDC 🙏
Miguel!! You're my new bud
@@NickJohnson Best Bud!🤜🤛
Nice take Nick.
Please visit Nevada City/Grass Valley area. It is very unique!!
Good job, you nailed it.
Hey you bagging on Crescent City. 😂born and raised here, so were my kids and grandkids. A lot has changed in 64 years. And not for the better in a lot of areas!!
You should have watched the "entire" video. I would move there. I'm sure they will detoxify that lake someday.
By the way. You look'n good for a granny.
I left Los Angeles 3 years ago and never looked back I don't miss the high taxes and homeless and fires and earth quakes and high crime
We used to drive through that area toward Fort Bragg from Yuba City. It’s nice but you can tell its very poor. There was a nice park we used to stop out, I forget the city, to use the bathroom. Homelessness is a problem everywhere because people are greedy and make rents too high and out of reach for many. We left California 2 years ago and we are happy in oregon. Very informative video.
Have you done crestline? I love this series, it's so cool that you're getting these interviews in.
I grew up in Concord, CA in the early 2000’s and moved to Texas in 2015 but I have recently visited California after being away for many years and I traveled through mostly all of Norcal for the first time in recent months and saw Clearlake and other cities in the region, i witnessed lots of homeless people in these rural cities and also people living out of RVs in parking lots and such. I am wondering has California has always been like this or is it an issue of recent years? I personally never saw any of this except in San Francisco but is that because I never traveled out of the Bay Area or what? Also I didn’t see homeless in my hometown in the Bay Area so has the always been an issue for the rest of California or just a recent problem?
My sister used to spend summers in Clear Lake, but that was in the early 1970s, was really nice back then!
Love your videos! You almost make a good argument for people moving to Mars😄😄😄😄! Thanks Nick, keep them coming. Stay safe out there✌️
There is no mars
Patti you're the best :)
Nick's narration reminds of the guy on TMZ..😃😀 Your commentaries are without a filter..The world moved forward and these places were left out, like nobody told them about progression...SAD to see people still living in those conditions..Help is on the way..Perception is everything..
Thank you Nick for all of your amazing uploads and interviews. We appreciate you. 👍
Great representation of Clearlake!! The tweeker problem is now on its 3rd generation
A lot of "enthusiastic "Lake County tweakers got themselves into too much trouble or crashed and burned, and are being phased out by fentynal fanciers,a much quiter group ,but still active in stealing stuff whenever possible....
@@johnd.shultz7423 they are losing power 😂
Keep the community alive and supporting, people matter.
This latest mini series of yours, California Road Trip, is excellent Nick.
I just watched your episode about Clear Lake .
I agree with you about N California. It's the best part of the state. I'm from San Francisco but was raised for more than half of my childhood in foster care.
I got placed on a ranch in a small town called Whitmore about 40 miles outside of Redding in the 70s. It was isolated. I was put up there after prop 13 passed. Before prop 13 i was under the jurisdiction of child services but due to budgeting and other political nonsence i became a ward of the court and my social worker was replaced by a probation officer. It was all due to the fact that probation wasn't affected by prop 13 budget cuts as severely as health and human services. So it was basically just a paper shuffle.
I was a particularly hard case at the time because of the abuse i experienced. While still under social services i was placed in a string of mostly group homes and institutions because i was deemed too unfit for placement in an actual foster home, i.e. with parents and foster siblings but it was a goal of the people involved in my care to get me to a point where i could live in foster homes.
The ranch had been created mostly for teen felons but after prop 13 it got opened up to 300s and 601s i.e. abused and neglected kids plus it was also a place where super rich parents could send their kids who were giving them problems to live with the seedy underbelly of their cohort. This was called private placement.
So when i was there it was a mixture of teen felons who committed violent crimes, abused and neglected kids and spoiled rich kids whose parents were worried that they were soon going to end up in jail themselves.
The ranch was originally a lock up facility 7 miles up a dirt road way out in the sticks and if anyone tried to leave , every redneck with a CB radio, was on them like flies on Shinola.
Whitmore was very quaint. One thing i remember doing there was helping to erect the volunterr fire department building. It was basically a life size erector kit. The steel beams were all color coded with numbers and we put them in their propper sequence and fastened them with bolts and nuts that were like 2 inches in diameter as compared to 1/4 inch bolts you might find at the hardware store.
i spent a lot of my childhoid in the Mission Distric in SF , going to the worse schools possible. Getting my butt kicked almost daily because i was a white boy but because i didnt know anything bettet i accepted it. I never met Christians or Conservatives before then and basically i thought the people up there were all a bunch of hicks and couldn't wait to get out of there.
Then i breezed through the program and within a year got to move to Redding and live in my first foster home since i was a toddler .
On holidays i would stay with local christian families from the church the ranch was affiliated with. It was a Christian fundamentalist program and my foster father at the satalite home i was placed in was a preacher.
I was still an urban kid and i loved smoking weed etc so i didnt last too long there but looking back on it i realized it was the best time of my life living in Redding and i really thought the Christians up there were great people .
Sure, SF could be exciting. There were more people living on my block in the mission than in the town of Whitmore. And my neighborhood, the Mission, was more populated than Redding and all the surrounding communities combined, There was always something exciting happening SF but looking back i wish i would have been able to stay in Redding instead of the path of homelessness and drug addiction that i took after i was emancipated.
Im not so captivated by being urban anymore. I stopped voting democrat about 20 years ago although my first foray outside od D politics was to vote for Nader.
Im not a Republican because i just consider them to be the flip side of the coin of the uniparty but i did vote for Trump and mostly vote red now.
I was particularly saddened by your trips to Stockton Modesto etc. I lived with a lot of kids from that area growing up and heard so much about it growing up that i almost felt connected to the area.
Anyway i really appreciate all the documenting of our time and place in America that you do.
Keep up the very excellent work . You're doing a terrific job keeping us all informed about California and the rest of the country.
I watched most of this video and honestly I was expecting something much worse??? Would appreciate any info about Lakeport from actual residents or former ones, thanks
Traveled up there from Santa Rosa for work once a month for a year. It's naturally beautiful. A city on a lake. What's not to love? No jobs. Impoverished. Drugs. Tourism went away when a family style resort closed about 20 years ago.
Napa too has more problems than people think. I’m in Solano County, Clearlake used to be on the Pro Fishing tours. I had coworkers that had property in Clear Lake years ago. They sold in early 2000’s….
Good job Nick keep em coming on northern Cali unexplored.
It’s pretty chill out here
Thanks nick for your videos tours of the country. About knowing your neighbors, back east in New York State we knew all the people on the street, the whole street, where I live now, I know people on my left and right and a couple across the street, but were just not friends that hang out or go places.
"California dreamin" by- The mamas and The papas!!!
still better than india
Thanks for your video. You were born to do this dude.
I grew up in the town of Clearlake. I miss the mountains and the general slow quiet pace. I was able to see the stars! I do NOT miss the smelly dirty lake, ghetto people, drugs, all the theft, and no jobs. Roads need to be fixed, it needs some type of industry (the wineries tried and had some success), and more homes because the fires burnt a lot down. Kids need more attention. The schools are bad, they are neglected, and there is just nothing for them.
That unknown millions that wasn't spent on paving the streets SHOULD be available for the school system there.
perfect way to put it
Your cussin’ out Mappy is my favorite part!
Huge fishing lake, most people just go there for tournaments, lots of rentals, its just a big fishing place, always been a huge tweeker place too. You totally nailed it on this vid and your take.
@9:23, the hair extensions!!!! Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The extensions made me SUBSCRIBED!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I've seen several of your videos but never subscribed... 👍 👍 👍
It's about time!!
Drugs did to Americans the most harm no foes could imagine to do.
And what caused massive drug addiction? Unemployment, cost of living, uncontrolled immigration. In a word, GREED & soulless
sub-humanity.
You don't think China might have a little long-term interest in that scenario?!
@@truther001 lack of moral caused massive drug addiction. You cannot be addicted to anything unless your moral is strong, even if you going through great hardships.
I’ve lived in California all my life, I’ve driven through clear lake many times while going to see my grandparents, i always feel generally safe and at home when I stop through for road-trip breaks with my kids…. Some cities in California like Stockton straight up terrify me… clear lake is tame in comparison … the city I currently live in scares me more than clear lake area 🤷♀️
Which city is that?
@@certifiedfinest5065 just a random one in the Central Valley nothing particularly exiting here but farming and of course a good amount of crime and homelessness.
Hon, maybe it's time to pack up and head to Nebraska...?
@@alohasparkles yeah there’s a lot of abductions right?
Hi Nick, I grew up in Lake County, Clearlake in particular. It used to be known as an affordable place to retire and as such we have double the rate of elderly and disabled compared to the rest of the state. It is a laidback lifestyle here, and I think you must have visited late Summer when it is hot and dry. This is one of the most beautiful places in the Spring when it’s green and lush. What I love about this town is that most people know their neighbors, the cashiers know you by name, and there is no problem with traffic (unless one of the few traffic lights goes out). Many don’t mind the reputation of this town since it keeps others from moving here and we like it that way - quiet and rural. I manage the Welfare to Work program and while we do have generational poverty, it is half the numbers of people on the program that there used to be. People are kind (mostly) and there are growing industries here. I hope you had a chance to see some of the more affluent areas around the lake, your video seems to be focused on the most impoverished Clearlake communities.
When I was growing up we would take week end trips to Lake CO. It used to be a wonderful place, it's sad to see what it's become in the last 25 or so years.
I can tell you hundreds of stranger encounter horror stories of growing up as a girl and teen in clearlake.
Just be careful
Tell us one
Clear lake looks rundown but not so horrible it seems quaint.
New viewer and subscriber. . I like your channel dude. Like you, I kinda like little hole in the wall towns. Plus, I'll never own a home where I live in Simi Valley. unless it's a Mobile home. I'm gonna need to move if I ever want to own one.
Anyway. Thanks for your content.
Ok! ❤️
Yes, I was there at where you are filming.
I have a friend that moved from Hayward, Ca to Clear Lake Oaks just off the 20 highways.
I have seen the problems you see today.
It's a bit bad.
It definitely has its problems, but compared to the deep south, where I lived for 21 years growing up, its a decent place. A person does not have opportunities in the south, poverty is a way of life, very few jobs and a living wage is unheard of, as well as the weather is absolutely shitty. I lived in Clearlake when I first moved to CA. Rent was $800 for an old trailer back in 2009. Lived there for 4 years and saved every dime, then moved to a gated community in Lake county and purchased a home. I would not change a thing. The state of CA has a lot of opportunities if you take advantage of them, and Clearlake is no exception. Would I settle there? Absolutely not. But it is a great place to live as a stepping stone to success if you have to start from the bottom and don't mind the things Nick talked about. Outside of Clearlake in Lake county itself, there are endless things to do if you are an outdoor person and the cost of living is a lot lower than most places that I have visited in the state aside from the desert counties in the southern CA.
Gated community. Thanks. The lake is gorgeous. It’s better than s.f.
Very well done video! I had no idea Clearlake was so scummy. I drove 2000 miles, visited Konocti Harbor where I saw YES play on a dormant Volcano. The Hotel/Concert venue has since gone out of business. Stayed in Kelseyville, found a Wal-Mart & a Jack In the Box. My Motel was the worst place I have ever seen. Turned on the light in the middle of the night and saw a wall of moving bugs.
Have you traveled through Lucerne Valley ? I recall it as a nightmare of blandness and potholes.
I love your narrative
Wow! It’s time to start putting drug users in prison to dry their addicted asses out and become a contributing member of society 🇺🇸
I am a CA native, born in ‘47 in OC, and if I had to move back to CA I would go Clear Lake before SoCal. I didn’t see druggies nodding in the streets. Maybe at home but they aren’t relieving themselves in the street.
You might see a few every once in a while but other than that they don't hang out like that. Did anyone see any in-the-street scenes? You would be very welcome to come here. The people are wonderful
Nick, Very accurate and fair Video of Clearlake. I live 10 miles away from here in Speingvalley. I watch and enjoy a lot of your reports. I noticed this was done a month ago. Since then we have received plenty of rain and the green scenery is returning. The Clearlake city councilman had some good ideas and I wish Miguel was my neighbor. A Suggestion returning and doing future video on updates on many places around our county you seen as they improve. And yes I voted for the same guy as you did. President Trump. Stay tuned more to come from him. Jim Bennett
*Very sad…* *Me and my family, used to camp out there, bring our RV, and go boating, many times, from 2000-2012, in the Summer-time… We would go with Family Friends, and stay around a week or two, go innertubing/wakeboarding/skiing, and camp out.* Haven’t been in 10 years… *I really missed the place, but now I know I shouldn’t go back for awhile…* 😞😔😒
Clearlake is absolutely beautiful. The people here are just not good. But scenically it’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen.
I was in Lakeport a few months ago. It was much more like Napa. I might have been happy to live there. It was a fairly nice town. I didn’t spend much time in Clearlake but Lakeport was reasonable.
Lakeport is what most people would say is the stereotypical old time country town - and it's on the shore of a big lake. It's my first choice of where to live if I had to live in Lake County. The Riviera south of Kelseyville is scenic, but almost all residential, lots of driving narrow winding roads to do or get anything. Clearlake is a big *NO* for me, it's trailer park trash.
Nick, your video shows an overabundance of trailer homes. I wish you would have talked with more residents and merchants and gotten a larger picture of Clearlake's best years and it's later demise. When my folks took our family to Clearlake for vacation in the 1950s, it was a vibrant, thriving contrast to our home in San Francisco. Clearlake Park and Austin's beach in particular had many fun activities. Thank you for making this video and posting it.
Nick! How come you went all the way there and didn't go to Harbin Hot Springs? Now you just have to go back!
That mayor was so passive-aggressive in his email reply, lol.
Do you really expect him to denigrate the town? Some people there make money on tourism, and honestly, it still looks pretty peaceful. There are many beautiful scenic drives near there. Back in the 80s, I drove through some of the most beautiful and scenic roads I have ever been to. And I have been to A LOT of places in this world. Most have seen far more destruction than Clear Lake.
My wife and I drove there one Sunday from sac, and we were perplexed by Clearlake. Part of the drive in was very beautiful-like stuck in the 50s with some sheer cliffs by the lake, but people there were super weird. Kinda felt like purgatory lol
2:14 'Tourist Information 20 Miles Ahead in Lucerne'. That's like something from Bill Bryson's book 'The Lost Continent'.🤣🤣
NIck Johnson Have you been to Oroville CA? It's not far from Clear Lake, but in another County.