Dayton is SOUTHwest Ohio, not North West Ohio. Northwest Ohio is Toledo. Southwest is Cincinnati, Dayton, Middletown and Hamilton. The book "Hillbilly Elegy" was based on the author's upbringing in Middletown and is quite similar to the social environment in Appalachian Dayton.
You didn't mention the 15 memorial day tornadoes that fell 2 years ago and destroyed over 20 miles of town. Many more jobs were lost when some factories and grocery stores decided not to rebuild. This only made things worse.
The tornadoes hit about 1/2 mi from my house. I live by Riverside drive and it was sad to see the big plaza on the corner of Seibenthaler and Dixie not rebuild.
@@NickJohnson you wanna see some rough spots in Ohio? Try lima Marion and Akron... I am more than sure toledo and Cleveland have pockets that can compete too. The problems you show are a cancer all over the state
He just passed my apt and YES...XENIA AVE is rough and he didn't show any of the twakk stars out and about lol but what just totally pissed me off is him saying that people don't want to work or that drug addicts are "bad people" .... First off jackass...learn something about addiction b4 u speak ignorance!!!! Addicts are NOT bad people!!! My mind is blown! And dude who made this video....just bcz jobs are available doesn't mean just any one can get that job!!! And the amount of factors you are not factoring in is just blowing my mind!!!! So yes Xenia Ave has its tougher spots but everyone down here is trying to live like everyone else!!! I'm on ssdi and this is what I can afford! We are good people!!! You're making it sound like bcz we live on our own individual budgets that we are terrible monsters!!! What tf is wrong w you???? Also...you passed TWO Community gardens!!!! I don't see those in your wealthy neighborhoods!!! Smh
I love Dayton. You were driving on Xenia Ave. Three blocks away. Was St.Annes hill. Some of most beautiful historical places around. Next time take a look. You need to name the streets you drive on as well!!!
And yes the West Aide is the worst 5 Oaks, Desota Bass area and gettysburg. Even tho Harrison Township area like N.Dixie area is also as Bad like Northland Apartments. But i was a East Sider Clover, Xenia Ave, Smithville, Huffman, Pleasant ave But Northside i think is the Nicer side of all Sides... GEM CITY
I'm from outside of Dayton ohio. He's just showing old ran down homes that are in every city. Dayton has no jobs or nothing to offer the people. Dayton has been the slums since major manufacturing jobs has lefted. However, outside of dayton its really nice. You have kettering, centerville, xenia, fairborn, beavercreek, huber heights and etc. Ohio has alote of good safe retirement communities..
@@bpaige12 Yea it's pretty sad that in a lot of places that's considered a good job yet barley enough to live off of but hey nick says they are just lazy for not wanting to work at the shake shack lol
I dunno what y'all talking about. I lived near UD/downtown area. Downtown, Oakwood, Kettering, Centerville are gorgeous places with amazing homes. I will never forget my drives around when I lived there for a year. Wright Patterson AFB has great jobs from what I've heard and as an engineer I can assure you there's jobs in the aerospace sector. I friggin saw a job to work on ICBMs!! I'd gladly move to those areas later on if I had to, its so cheap to live there and so beautiful. I paid under $900 for a luxury 1bed whereas now near Boston, its ridiculous, a 1bed is $2000. Shame I didn't like the job.
The amount of factory jobs Dayton has lost is just unreal. When i was a kid back in the 70s there was at least 5 -7 GM/Chrysler related plants in the general area and countless other smaller factories that supplied parts to them. They are all gone.
I moved to Dayton last month and I live very close to the first street you showed. I love the affordability of Dayton and there is a lot to do. There's nothing but opportunity in Dayton in my eyes
@@KyronCunninglinguist I've lived in Columbus for 2 decades. Tried to find a home for a reasonable price and they dont exist. If you're interested in real estate Dayton is a place where you can buy a home rent it out and try to get out the rat race. There's a bunch of opportunities in greater city Dayton and I'm extremely happy to be here.
I love Dayton. West Dayton to be exact. It's hard to bring in people when we focus on "why you shouldn't come here" and focus on the positive. There is a lot of positives and opportunities in Dayton.
When I was a child in grade school in the 60's, Dayton won the America's City Beautiful Award. I remember because I worked with teams to clean alley ways and street getting ready for the judging. Our local church which sponsored our area awarded each child participating with a 50 cent piece.
Aww you’re so sweet to her. My maiden name was Eddy. My dad is from the Elyria area tho. Thank you for being a kind man.we need more people like you. 🤗 🙏🏼 ✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
@@tiamarie7443 no we do not we have a system that makes it's super easy to for the incumbent to win by ease of getting funding and all the entrenched lobby groups spending money on adds supporting them .. why do you think we have so many seniors that been in office so long they can't even form a complete sentence without losing track of what they say.
No politicians are in it for the money. They sell favors.They go in wearing overalls and in a year wearing suits driving Caddies have joined the good ole boys club. We need people who can think pass I ,me, and my. For the good all. We have people who are genius but the one sin that destroys all started in heaven "JEALOUSY". When we can grow up and see the truth.back up and acknowledge what God already did to ensure mankind's success we win every time.
Ross Peort used to talk about a "giant sucking sound" as our manufacturing is sucked out of this country. He lost to Clinton. You get what you vote for.
We’re y’all on Grand Ave!! Dayton social worker here..it’s a lot of factors that caused our city to get so bad. The 80s crack epidemic ruined the west side, which use to be beautiful! It never recovered and yea the factory jobs leaving made it even worse. Our youth are killing each other off as well😞it’s heartbreaking. We are all going to have to be more involved with community development and youth development if we want our city to return to what it use to be. Thanks so much fir making these videos!
I live in a suburb of Dayton and there are no easy answers for how bad things are. I do know that neighbors need to start talking to one another again and encouraging their fellow neighbors to make their neighborhood and city a better place. Even if it’s something simple as sweeping up broken glass on your street, things like that encourage others.
@@davidmack4185 it is unfortunate. I've been up that way going to Albany for work but never went there, now I know I'm not missing anything. Sucks that's the way it is. On the other side of the river where I live now two power plants closed down between where the town is within a couple of years of each other. It legit crushed the town to where they don't even have law enforcement anymore and drugs are rampant.
I only hear about start ups, but nobody is talking about the 80+ years of resources sitting on the outskirts of many cities and towns in the country, landfills. I heard that 75% of the contents in a landfill can be recovered and are recyclable, there was a craze on early 2000s when we sent copper, steel, iron overseas to China for their Three Gorges Dam project. Innovation people, if you build it, they will come. We can learn from our grandparents and great grandparents, some folks still can rebuild an engine for 1950s Jeeps, this is when America can start decoupling and working to be self sustainable. This is when politicians should start trusting regular folk to do the change themselves.
People depended on agriculture before all of the industry, manufacturing, and commercialism took over. And this artificiality apparently resulted in these suburban dwellings which are not self sufficient and sustainable. How many areas in the USA are like this? There are a number of serious precautions and concerns regarding recycling. There are a number of hazardous chemicals, hazardous substances, and Radioactive substances in junked things is not unlikely. They used to use radioactive paint on watches and clocks. There used to be radioactive components in fire alarms. A junked machine was found in a demolished building. The man just wanted enough money for a few tacos and a few beers. They found this canister which had been a component in a Hi Tech lab machine. The canister contained a handful of extremely dangerous radioactive material. The people around there thought this stuff was really interesting because it glowed. More than 100,000 people came down with all kinds of radiation sickness and radiation burns! Tragically there is a global call for recycling electronic things as well as most everything along with the worldwide "infamous" need for all plastic recycling. Perhaps there is some way to organize welfare recipients with volunteer opportunities in recycling and community gardening. Perhaps more people will be attracted to agriculture if they start getting some hands on experience. How many areas of the USA would benefit from small homesteading farms with normally 1-5 acres. More and more acres makes it more difficult for taxation, fencing, and being really efficient and dynamic in the utilization of the land. Small Farms can also create wage jobs even if at least minimum wage. Are there any better ideas. What are all the options? Thank you
@@dandavatsdasa8345 that can also be a less hazardous option! The point should be that no one should expect a politician come in to clean the city/town act and magically bring back jobs. Every person should be encourage to give a bit to move the town forward.
The USA would probably benefit from small homesteading farms with normally 1-5 acres. More and more acres makes it more difficult for taxation, fencing, and being really efficient and dynamic in the utilization of the land. Small Farms can also create wage jobs even if at least minimum wage. Insects farming may be an agricultural product that can be conceivably dehydrated and stored. Agricultural products that are more perishable might require more immediate distribution and possibly refrigeration. In a cooler climate mushrooms might be a crop to consider. Small Farms should be able to recycle most of their own sewage and garbage. There are a number of ways to recycle plastic. They are working on plastic alternatives that are more environmentally friendly. Are there any better ideas. What are all the options? Thank you
The problem is politicians have hoodwinked the regular folk to be completely dependent on the federal government. If people could change their perspectives and move their focus from the federal level to the local level of government, you'd see towns like this come back from the dead practically overnight. We just need these depressed cities to stop obeying the hundreds of pages of state/federal regulations that crush their local economies and place 100% of their focus on how to better serve the citizens rather than how to better get federal funding for what are more often than not pointless projects. Utilize resources from landfills? Hell yeah! It's just too bad there's all sorts of legal red tape you have to go through in most districts to do anything like that or anything that could empower the people at the expense of the state's power. Most start-ups are whack, but imagine putting the money generated from a successful tech startup into a community and building up its infrastructure so it could be self-sustaining and not have to rely on the Just-In-Time supply chain or other Orwellian marvels of the modern age. Thanks for adding your feedback, I wish there were more people thinking this deeply about urban planning.
I'd like to buy a mall and turn it into a big reduce, reuse, recycle mall. It could employ every type of skill imaginable. If a perfectly good pair of jeans need a button, or a lamp needing a card. Sometimes things like toys just need a good cleaning.
Grew up in Dayton, the only other two MAJOR things that killed Dayton was the great flood of 1913 which almost completely wiped most cities along the Great Miami River off the map. And the construction of I-75, which was idiotically constructed right through the middle of the city.
yup and a lot of what used to be a river is now land especially over by Dayton Children's hosp Westside had a Jewish settlement but they sold their HUGE houses cheaply and left town.
Lived in Dayton almost all my life I also left not long after the car company shut down I didn't work at the car companies however never quit a job no matter how good you are when two major car companies close down because it becomes impossible to get a job that's exactly what happened I did end up moving I know live in Pittsburgh but when I live there it was on the east side of Dayton 3rd Street 5th Street Philadelphia airway Woodman downtown I'm sorry and if you can tell was a definite joke and I live there for good 30 years of my life and it was all around the same time and I will not come back to live I do not think but it is cheap there and yes every other house is probably condemned or burnt if there are 10 houses on one Street there might be four houses livable true facts
@@michaelsuggs5211 I live in your old area now. It's a joke over here. If I could afford the nicer areas right now. I would be gone in a minute. Philadelphia which turns into Gerlaugh going towards Huffman. There's not that many banned houses, but now can't say that about the streets around me.
I understand completely it was very hard for me to get out I mean but I do live in Pittsburgh now and it is better okay I'm not saying it don't have it's bad areas but I don't think nothing like that hope things work out for you I haven't been back to Dayton for over 10 years now but I do still have a sister and brother live there
I grew up in Dayton Ohio all of my life. I moved away at the age of 36. I go back to see family and friends. It has gotten worse in the last 5yrs I have been gone. Drugs have taken soo many ppl that I grew up with. Really wish it could go back to the way it was in the late 80's early 90's. I fear for all my family and friends that still live there.
Born and raised here in Dayton and its so sad to see how much stuff is gone and abandoned and run down now that used to be so beautiful when I was a child. Your commentary was very interesting..
I bought a house here in Dayton just around the corner from the form Good Sam Hospital in a beautiful neighborhood. In fact, there are a lot of nice little neighborhoods around the former Good Sam Hospital. I paid dirt cheap for a fixer upper and it's all come together and I'm having a blast owning it. My neighbors are wonderful, middle-upper middle class neighborhood. I am confident about the city.
I told you folks that this guy has something against Ohio and he needs to be called on it. In his worst places in Ohio, he picked mostly bigger cities where the things he highlighted for his list are more prevalent. Compare his 10 worst places in Indiana where he admits to living for five years. His list for the worst places in Indiana includes smaller towns where you won’t see as many of the problems that he highlights for these lifts. In Ohio, he lists Dayton and Toledo while he has places like Anderson and South Bend in Indiana. South Bend may have Notre Dame, but they aren’t that big, so they don’t have big city problems. So, yes,, he cherry picks. Especially if it is to put down a city in a state he seems to have a grudge against.
Im thinking Nick is a control freak on the other hand he can't know if some of the things he is chatting about is media "hype". His show is above average though I think.
Good for you. But, in the first place, urban decay is what this channel is geared towards. In the second place, I've never seen anything like this. Most cities have their "better" parts ,and "worse" parts, but I have never seen anything like this. I have never seen places with so many neighborhoods that are available to "cherry pick."
My dad worked at NCR for 35 years. He was in Building 26 and then the World Headquarters in the Microelectronic Division. Everyone moved to Colorado but him at the end.
Hey you passed my house. Living in Dayton was good till 2008 when everything went down. Our town is our home , we been trying to rebuild and everything. And when you said something about the women that died we have body’s in the river almost every week or two. But this is home and we here in Dayton Ohio appreciate your video. Thank you
I lived in Dayton, Ohio most of my life. I’d even say the “run down” parts of it as well. There is crime and drugs just as in any other major city, but there’s just as many good people who happen to live in these low income areas. There are always going to be the good with the bad. But until the community comes together and everyone helps play a part it’s probably not going to get better
I agree that the downtown situation is trying too hard for their own good. I once heard Nan say "One of our townhouses just sold to the tune of 625,000". She said it with pride
Dang, dude, isn't that like a mortgage payment and a half? I remember this one guy who showed up, asked me and my family to watch the three abandoned houses on the left of us, he had just bought all THREE for $5,000 and was willing to pay us all 500$ a month to watch them for squatters or vandals and that ilk.
I live in a little suburb outside of Dayton. Miamisburg. It's a good school area. My best friend was one of the five female victims who was shot and left in an alley in Dayton. I remember way back when we were still teenagers between 16-19 she took me to Dayton, and we went in places that two young girls should never ever go. It was the last time I ever went anywhere with her. I haven't been to Dayton since. And now I'm 38 and I'm all that's left. She never left Dayton, especially when she got into drugs. She was a smart sweet girl and at the end of it, she became a statistic.
Please do an episode of what’s great about Dayton. Air Force museum, Carillon park, arcade, downtown revitalization, and some of the best Suburbs in the state (Bellbrook, Springboro, tipp city, Troy, Beavercreek, Kettering, centerville, Miamisburg). Also, we have some amazing city parks and one of the best paved bike trails in the nation. A positive video would help our struggling inner city, as most of the jobs and money have moved to the surrounding area
I’m actually from Dayton Ohio I live in Dayton Ohio if you not born and raised here you wouldn’t know what it’s like living here, growing up in Dayton you see a lot of things at a young age and being exposed to a lot of things you just have to thug it out and keep your head high if you from Dayton
Living in Dayton I've witnessed kidnappings, been kidnapped, saw murders, found dead bodies, lost so many to violence, held pieces of my murdered loved one's skull in my hand when I found them in her bedroom after the crime scene was released, been shot at as a child, and so many other things that no person should ever be able to experience. Most of which happened before the age of 20. AND I actually had it better than a lot of kids I met from Dayton. A lot of children's parents are involved in gangs, so they witness crazy stuff a lot of people never experience, before they even reach 10. I had a 17-year-old kid try to set me up to get kidnapped a few years ago and sold in to sex slavery, because I found out that his parents were and are kidnapping disabled people and stealing their social security checks and food stamps. They literally own a whole street of houses in Dayton all with about 10 disabled individuals in each, all unable to leave, unable to access their money, and unable to access food. Dayton Life is crazy.
I was born and raised in Dayton, and when you grow up in it you see the beauty in what the good people have been able to do with so little. And the all the growth you see feels major
Trump didn't say "no more immigrants"...he said no more ILLEGAL immigrants. I've lived in the Dayton area my whole life. It's definitely the loss of manufacturing jobs and the loss of NCR world headquarters that has caused the decline of the city.
Thanks Peggy for correcting what Trump really said, You are 100% right. When people like Nick here misquote what was said some simply believe it without questioning or investigating and that is a big problem.
@@jadavis7235 Nick is correct. Please Investigate it: "By 2021, Donald Trump will have reduced legal immigration by 49% since becoming president - without any change in U.S. immigration law, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis. An April presidential proclamation blocked the entry of legal immigrants to the United States in almost all categories. Reducing legal immigration most harms refugees, employers and Americans who want to live with their spouses, parents or children, but it also affects the country’s future labor force and economic growth: “Average annual labor force growth, a key component of the nation’s economic growth, will be approximately 59% lower as a result of the administration’s immigration policies, if the policies"
I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. I actually grew up right off Xenia ave in southeast Dayton on Steele ave. Dayton's problem is a lack of leadership. Dayton has not had a good mayor is over 20 year's. Drugs has ruined that city as well.
Your right but you can have the best leader in the world if you don't have the citizens that care about anything than nothing going to change. Maybe if the city pay in drugs and alcohol something might change
Pretty accurate… was a cop in the Dayton area for 20 years. 10 of them were on the west side. Heroin hit the communities in the worst way. When GM pulled, everything went to shit. It is a great city with great people. I was born and raised locally. But the area is dead or taking its final breath. RIP Dayton!
The guy you interviewed made a good point. One thing about Dayton is it has maintained really nice suburbs in a way that somewhere like Youngstown hasn’t.
I am from Milwaukee,WI. I moved to Dayton for work in 2018. I met a girl she was a nurse and we lived on the east off of smithville rd. After a few months we moved to Centerville. Dayton was no joke. I still have nothing but love for OHIO. The middle class was predicated on🤦♂️. Milwaukee is similar.
Ryan, one of the big issues with overdosing in Dayton is EMTs kept running out of NARCAN -- an approved treatment for opioid overdose. It was unfortunate that first responders just did not have the tools to save people, because there were so many people that needed saved, they kept running out.
I was born and raised here in Dayton. And I was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in '62. It really is sad to see what has happened. I grew up in Old North Dayton and it was really cool for a long time. But after the Turks and Russian moved in, we started with the overdose situation. And it continues still. You should have gone to Gettysburg Ave Starting at Salem Ave and going all the way to Germantown Pike and take a left at the BP Station. Go (Back Toward Downtown). And it's not true that Trump doesn't want immigrants. He just doesn't want illegal immigrants. Big difference!
The Turks have nothing to do with the drug problems, those are all white good for nothing junkies. They only lived in Dayton because of cheap houses and a good central location for trucking. Now most have moved to much nicer and more expensive suburbs after getting on their feet
That’s the TRUTH, Trump wanted legal immigrants, who would work and PAY TAXES. The tax burden on taxpayers for illegals is astronomical AND just plain WRONG. ✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
I grew up in Dayton, Ohio. It didn't always look this way. The city suffers from poor leadership..drugs..crime and unemployment..basically all the big city "negatives." I'm not sure exactly what it will take to bring the city back. Big thriving businesses may help..but you will need ppl who are willing to work. Well...you can't give ppl free money to sit at home..and then all of a sudden stop the money and say now go to work. Productivity..accountability and responsibility is a lifestyle choice.
It's beyond just the people. Many of the people are forced and shop outside of their neighborhood. How to you rebuild in your own area when you can't do the most basic things there because it's become a desert? Government officials and corporate choices have had a far bigger impact.
i am from dayton and I graduated from Colonel White High School in 1988, IF you drive to Niagara st, Its a big empty field now, they tore the school down in 2007. Dayton used to be a thriving city but I saw it detoriating with the crack epidemic in the 80s. I went to Central State University which is in Wilberforce Ohio outside of Xenia OH, about 30 mins east of dayton. I Joined the US Army in 1989 and never look back as far as moving back. I grew up in the five oaks neighborhood area. I used to live in the Apartments on salem ave across from Grace United Methodist church, Then we moved onto Rockwood ave from 1985 to 1988. Dayton has become a humongous slum because the leadership let it detoriate. After all the major industrial plants closed down such as Inland on Third. NCR was bought out, Every body was trying to get jobs at places like WPAFB but so many factories and mid level jobs have left or closed or went out busy. No jobs leave to trashy abandoned vandalized neighborhoods with loads of crime arranging anywhere to stabbings, drugs, and even homocide. We have a tiny downtown compared to columbus , cleveland, and Cincinnati. But most of the office spaces are empty. Our downtown Arcade building was one of the downtown center pieces but now its a decayed building falling apart. Dayton has fallen apart. Most of the people have moved to west carrollton, Centerville, Vandalia, Huber heights, Englewood, RIverside, or just plain left the area all together. The only people that stayed in inner city dayton are really poor or barely making it. I could write a disertation on how dayton used to be in the 60s to 80s until how it is now. It awfully depressing to see how bad it has gotten. We basically fell into same economic slum like detroit. No wonder they call us baby detroit.
Awesome story and I also did my first 4 years at central state as my father and grand father did. We were there since 1840 and owned quite a bit of land on abolitionists row. The newly arrived southerners heated the fact we were already wealthy and they refused to work for us.That did them no good but the Quakers warned us not to deal with white people from the south and we didnt. my grand father worked at WPAFB for 22 years and had a clearance most white men could not even obtain. He designed and installed fighter jet control panels.He retired in the early 1970s and could go visit the base anytime he wanted but would not let me in to see the aliens....lol He said they didnt exist but i knew better.....lol
The industry era was over once white owners sold to other countries so there was no repair that could have been made by then. Drugs and crime are the result of no jobs plain and simple. The smart people left when the jobs left, those who stays had no other options but to fall into poverty. My father remains best friends with Phil Donahue to this day. They went to high school together even though my father was not Catholic. I had been gone since the 80s but my God when i would go back and saw how it declined I could not understand why people stayed in that mess. I still do not understand laying around waiting for a change that aint gonna come. My wife grew up in Trotwood and even she was not impressed about why people stay in that poverty when leaving would improve their life so much for the better.
3:37 I live in a sober living house called the Good Shepherd, we do a lot of service work on the East side of Dayton one major one is cleaning up this side of town litter,trash etc. I know you pointed out lot's of drug use although that is true, there's also a lot of recovery places such as meetings and treatment centers to help this community out.
NCR left because Strickland wouldn't give them a tax abatement so they left. When Obama let GM declare foreclosure bankruptcy instead of reorganization they closed their plant. Then all of the supporting businesses closed. Mayor McLin turned her back on manufacturing and instead tried to make us a technological city. We didn't have the infrastructure for that. Plastic manufacturing increased but that doesn't employ many and its not well paying.
There are two major things wrong here in Dayton. The first was when Clinton signed NAFTA and crippled alot of our manufacturing work. The second was heroin, that was brought on by over prescribing pain pills. Ive lived here my whole life and you could see things with those two "events"
I've lived in Dayton for many years and I can say that one of the problems is that people from Dayton have a chip on their shoulder; Dayton has a negative, hostile vibe.
Dayton has an incredible art district, our downtown is up and coming, we have some incredible metro parks, our historic areas are gorgeous, there’s a lot of good change happening. Every city has their shitty parts. I’ve lived in Dayton damn near my whole life. Is it fucking heaven? Of course not. I grew up in one of the “shitty parts,” he drove through. I love my city, rough parts and all. Dayton does have a great community that is willing to come together and take care of each other. Good example of that is the tornadoes that came through a few years ago. Dayton has its struggles, trust me. But it also has its shining moments. It will always be the Gem City to me. ✌️
The east side of Dayton houses the majority of Turkish people. The Polish are mostly in North Dayton and the south side of Dayton and other areas south like Oakwood are mostly white, and the majority of black people live on the west side of Dayton. I have lived in and around Dayton my whole life. Even in the most run down ghettos of Dayton you will find good hard working people. There are a lot of demonic strongholds and a cultural victim mentality that thrive daily in those run down and poor neighborhoods. We need to put God back in our schools, in our families, and in our communities.
East Dayton and west Dayton are the dump areas. There are pockets of good, you have to go looking for them. Dayton fell victum to the calapse of manufacturing jobs. The good jobs went to the suburbs leaving pockets of people who have given up.
Dayton is very popular in my country. The reason is pretty simple: The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement. God bless America 🇺🇸 ♥️ 🇧🇦
Northwest Dayton has been a miserable place to live for about 50 years. Skip that area and the rest of the Dayton metro plex is a terrific place to raise kids. Centerville and Bellbrook are beautiful communities with the best schools in Ohio. Oakwood just north of Kettering is a great community but highly taxed. Kettering is another great community. All of these areas have top 10 Ohio schools. In Bellbrook there is are fabulous parks and near great bicycle paths. Numerous other great communities not mentioned. Dayton is one of the best areas to live and raise kids in the mid-west.
I agree those are great areas but those are not in the top 10 Ohio schools… oakwood would be the only one within top 10. Stivers school for the arts is interestingly ranked higher than all of the suburbs you listed other than oakwood.
I'm not a Dayton native but I do a lot of community work since I live here now and the way you portrayed Dayton is just wrong. We are strong, we stand together, and we are a passionate community. Talk about that.
You can't blame Trump for this. Btw, my 45 yo son is somewhere in Dayton addicted to fentynol and meth. He's from Montana. He's stuck there, and I'm afraid one day I'm going to get a call that he will be found laying there dead. What a s******e.
I'm Brazilian and I love your channel Nick. It's interesting to see how different is our perspectives of poor places, the video doesn't look bad at all. I believe the streets must be danger though.
He only captured a few minor blighted areas. Trust me, it's far far worse than his video showed. I had a neighbor who was a guard at a drug house somewhere in Dayton for a time. He flat out told me, you don't go there if you are white and they don't know you. There is so many bad areas around Dayton, it dang near needs a documentary to capture them all. It even has a lot of blight in downtown. Bigger buildings, not just small homes. They did recently restore the arcade though which is awesome. If u don't know about the Dayton arcade, it's some interesting history.
My man was right. Especially about Trotwood. Had a mall, all the big shopping businesses but now it's dilapidated, poverty, crime, violence, and a skeleton of the 1980's. I work just outside there. Damn shame what it became the past 10-15 years.
I live in a decent suburb here. If you're going to drive around an entire city and give your opinion on it I wish you would also show the nice parts and not just the bad parts. There are a lot more nice parts than bad parts of the area but the video depicts the city as a terrible trashy area. The points you did make were educational though.
Wow. I wonder how it looked in the 1980s The homes look like they were nice and middle class at one time. I feel bad for people who grew up there and had to leave because of no opportunity. Too bad big tech doesn’t make a claim to it. Maybe that would help it return to some normalcy and bring the crime rate down. It looks like it could return to a livable place. It doesn’t appear to be as bad as Detroit or Gary. But then again maybe it s too late. Sad that Fast food jobs are the only jobs for people to make a living. I remember the only people who worked in fast food were teenagers. Thanks Nick.
@@toniesedrick691 There are plenty of neighborhoods with over 100 year old houses where I live that have been restored. I mean I get it. These old houses need constant maintaining. $$$. I guess there just isn’t enough interest in these older suburban neighborhoods anymore to warrant the initial investment and maintenance required to keep it up. unless it’s in a place where there’s some hope. 😞
The well to do moved to Oakwood, Kettering, Kettering's Hills & Dales, Centerville and Beavercreek. As I have wrote before. The best place to live in Dayton is Old North Dayton. It is where the Children's Hospital/Barney's Medical Center is located.
Interviewing the gentleman near the end was really good. In the beginning, I was thinking, “he’s just driving through some run down streets, every city has those”, but the man you interviewed was interesting. I work in Dayton but live out of the city.
Aside from my other rant, the video is interesting. I recognized some of the places, but couldn't make it the street signs to get my bearings in others. I wish you had said "I'm driving westbound on Xenia Avenue in the Twin Towers area" instead of just calling it "the main drag" which really isn't UNLESS you mean the main drag by Twin Towers. Lol the main drag through the East side would have been East Third most likely, or maybe Linden which if you had taken it East bound from Tals Corner (which would have shown a couple of blocks of large absolutely beautiful historic homes and a couple blocks later would have taken you past the burned down mess of the Hewitt Soap Factory. On Drugs: Dayton sits at the Crossroads of America, the interchange of I-75 and I-70, so a lot of drugs pass through here, and a lot say. The opioid crisis is terrible here and overprescription of opioid pain meds has ruined many many lives. Thanks for driving through and talking about our city.
@@NickJohnson You do not have to redo the whole video. Just edit it.For the record, in my opinion, you have one of if not the best channel on RUclips. The video on corporate welfare was brilliant (I am a Libertarian so it was “right up my alley”). I just wish you could have interviewed for the Cleveland video lol.That being said , don’t take what I said a negative. It was just constructive criticism. I learn a lot from you and Mappy.
I actually moved last year to Dayton from California and bought a home around the corner from where the Good Sam Hospital use to be in the Fairview neighborhood... The neighborhood is quite lovely. I do believe Dayton has potential to become even better. It does need strong civic leadership to help it. I have no regrets moving to Dayton. I actually like the city and it isn't as bad as you guys make it to be. It's got a lot going for it.
OMG Good Samaritan Hospital is gone? I use to live in Dayton...never really liked the weather. I worked at Miami Valley Hospital...is it still there. I loved my job there but that was not enough to keep me there. Moved out west and never went back. Yellow Springs is nice.
I live about 30 minutes from Dayton... We avoid it, just like we avoid Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland.. and most ppl living here, know why, and do the same! FACTS!
idk what you mean. I lived in Cincinnati for 5 years, its a beautiful city - Clifton, Blue ash, Mason are are all amazing places and the city itself is beautiful. Columbus is one of the best cities in America - low crime, amazing education, great sports, excellent restaurants, affordable housing. central and south of Dayton are very affluent and there's no traffic.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I'll stick to my smaller farming communities and villages..you can have the cities and everything that goes along with it!
Drive through east Dayton😂Drexel is a trip. The VA is off the highway. Pretty bad when you shop in a second hand store snd some guy is sitting on a high perch at the front door watching for shoplifters … let that sink in for minute, a second hand store😂😂😝😝
@@twotone3390Second hand what ,henry's maybe/ nope no thrift /goodwill .... I was born in Drexel. knox, and Third bricker plat raised 1982 .Ten years ago they could have seen donald sanders on a perch in front of henry's discount 40 oz. in hand "Got any change"
I've rarely had any reason to go to Dayton, I've always lived closer to Cincinnati. I was driving through there once because I was on the way to a party. It was only 8 at night, and all the gas stations and fast food places were all ready locked up for the night
There are some nicer parts of the city. And you are right about it becoming a refugee city and very diverse as a result with so much international influence, which a lot of younger people from the area take pride in. Drugs are definitely an issue, and most of the wealthier/ middle class families have moved out to the suburbs which are very nice and have very well preforming school districts. Most of the students who live in the city limits attend charter schools which are also very well preforming.
Nick I am glad you are doing Dayton. I'm looking at allllllllll the cities in Ohio and Pennsylvania as a relocation destination. Mainly due to the low cost of living. Not looking for work will be retiring.
Jeff, look up Sandusky, trust me, this is where you'll wanna be. Fits your criteria and it's a retiring man's dream town. Great location to get to any of the bigger cities as well as far as Col, Tol and Cle.
I'm 30, I bought my house for 24k cash, putting my own sweat and probably 20k into it, will be worth at least 100 if not 125 when I'm done. Great area all around I'm telling ya. Can put your retirement money to work easily and build it while you relax and work when ya want to
The City of Dayton was sketchy in areas even was manufacturing was here. GM leaving made it worse but City of Dayton had been good for a very long time. Everyone moved to the suburbs that could. Centerville, Brookville, Englewood, Vandalia, Sprinboro Etc. Those areas are growing and are great with some high end amazing home along with normal homes . Just great areas. So slightly misleading to just talk about areas surrounding downtown. Those areas have struggled since I was a kid in the 70’s. I know because at one time, I lived there before moving to Suburbs. The Downtown area is nice and has rebounded some. A lot of new apartments, condos. Problem is those condos are $400 grand .
Wrong Dayton is in southwest Ohio I'm from northeast Ohio Canton reason why Ohio so run down except Columbus when Presidents carter Reagan sent the steel mill jobs today Mexico and China asaia for real cheap labor this is what happens to the Midwest
Some rust belt city/towns reinvented themselves, some didn't. The guy you spoke with in the video is right about it being about jobs. Good jobs are what uplift an area.
Fort Wayne, Indiana has generally been a positive response to industrial job loss, San Francisco used to have a large blue collar work force, but its location is excellent.
Its Not Jobs.. Dayton has always been High crime per capita. Now its just High Crime Top 10 Murder Capital. Crime causes Poverty. Not necessarily the inverse. Appalachia is the poorest area across america yet the crime rate is 60% lower than the National Average
Because so many manufacturing jobs have gone overseas it has become difficult to hire workers for manufacturing jobs for which there is a limited promotion path. When the job disappears after five years the worker probably hasn't gained skills that would help them get a better job.
I don't think it’s just about Dayton. The whole country has experienced the pitfalls and consequences of ill-equipped leadership from Presidents down to Mayors regarding politics and big business working to squeeze out the little guy. In the 70s, manufacturing jobs were abundant and big and small shops were everywhere. In High School, we took trades where we learned to run machinery and tools of the trades as young as 7th grade. Dad would bring his tools (yup, the ones he purchased to do his job) and teach me how to use them. I learned how to read micrometers when I was 11-12 years old, paper routes, mowing grass and weeding gardens were the opportunities to learn about managing money and finding out how much salt you were worth. Most young people my age at the time looked forward to getting out on our own and cutting our own paths. Mom and Pop stores were on every other corner, small, medium, and large manufacturing shops were everywhere. If you had said “Big Box Store” to someone, they would be thinking about Big N, K-Mart, Woolworths, Sears., certainly not Walmart, Sam’s Club, Menards, or IKEA. Mom and Dad had daytime jobs and Dad would work double shifts a 1/3 of the time. Mom would pick up extra hours at the Brown Derby or Ponderosa. Dad worked with about a thousand other employees building road graders, cranes and rollers in Ohio that were sold all over the world. The rail cars were being loaded every day when we’d pick Dad up from his work. I’d hear Dad tell Mom what he put in the bank, and it was a lot. We’d go grocery shopping, and the cart would be heaping going through the checkout for under a $100, a full-size Ford Ranger 4x4 (F250) would run about $7,000 fully loaded including tax and title in 1977, I know because Dad was pricing to buy that year. America was known for being the land of opportunity. Things started getting tough about the time President Nixon was impeached and oil prices went high shortly afterwards (OPEC). I don't believe things started to get better until the 2nd, maybe 3rd year President Reagan was in office. Then the "oh sh*t" started back with President Bush Sr, (Read my Lips! No New Taxes) NAFTA in 93-94 with President Clinton (Supposed to create more jobs!)., LOL, then 9/11, Housing Bubble in 08..., Taking pride and caring about your property and the community takes heart but it also requires a decent paying job too. The cost of living is outragous and the wages havn't improved all that much. OMG!
hey Nick! yeah kinda depressing. Any chance of some pretty fall towns or haunted ghost town drives for the upcoming season? To break the bleakness? Plus you can tell us some cool stuff as usual. I think you could make these fun. Provincetown is big on AHS this year, what is it really like there? That would be cool. Thank-you for another interesting video!
Michelle not a bad idea - there's some nice stuff coming up. But I get 5x as many views when I drive to bad areas so I'm just giving people what they want (which is sad)
You need to do this series with Louisiana, What happened to Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe, Opelousas (depending on how small you go with population), and New Orleans (depending on how much crime is a factor in these videos).
Louisiana has the industry and resources to be one of the country's most prosperous states, but thanks to generations of corrupt and incompetent government we are close to last in most meaningful quality-of-life categories.
wonder why he’s not going 2 blocks down the road where several luxury apartments were just built and a roaring restaurant/ bar district is that brings millions of dollars of service into the city??
At 0:37 I saw my grandparents old house. So much love and memories in that home. The neighborhood was bad but people did talk to each other and look out for each other. I’m not from Dayton or Ohio, but so many good memories visiting
if you are not from the city of dayton ohio most will never understand how life is in our city born and raised in dayton ohio went to Westwood Jane Addams Mcnary Macfarlane Miami Chapel and the Orignal Patterson High School most people will say this and that about Dayton Ohio
True Dat ! What do you expect her to say .. oh yeah I got some money and I've gave him some favors and cheese is that wrong should I not have done that? She's not indicted Y E T
I live in a North Dayton Suburb and it’s relatively nice here, but the north side of Dayton itself is really blighted. And sadly I think the city is still going downhill
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Dayton is SOUTHwest Ohio, not North West Ohio. Northwest Ohio is Toledo. Southwest is Cincinnati, Dayton, Middletown and Hamilton. The book "Hillbilly Elegy" was based on the author's upbringing in Middletown and is quite similar to the social environment in Appalachian Dayton.
Was looking for the first to point this out. And - in geographic reality - it's technically only West Ohio. Or the Northern tit of the South.
Neither Dayton nor Middletown are part of Appalachian Ohio.
Im from northwest
@@Yeshuamyhope There are a lot of people from Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee that live in Dayton Ohio. That's why it's called Appalachian Ohio.
Hillbilly elegy is not similar to Middletown lol, that’s hilarious.
You didn't mention the 15 memorial day tornadoes that fell 2 years ago and destroyed over 20 miles of town. Many more jobs were lost when some factories and grocery stores decided not to rebuild. This only made things worse.
Good point.
The tornadoes hit about 1/2 mi from my house. I live by Riverside drive and it was sad to see the big plaza on the corner of Seibenthaler and Dixie not rebuild.
Rebuilt
There have been tornados there since forever.....no excuses for that the republicans are doing to you people......it is so sad
that's a lot of tornadoes
When you send jobs overseas for cheap labor, and you don't invest in the infrastructure, towns become second world countries.
It's happening all over
@@NickJohnson you wanna see some rough spots in Ohio? Try lima Marion and Akron... I am more than sure toledo and Cleveland have pockets that can compete too. The problems you show are a cancer all over the state
BTW in lima there are houses with dirt floors because the poor areas are so poor
@@deadturtle007 I lived in Aron back in the 90's have not gone back
DAM RIGHT! SPOT ON...THATS WHY THIS COUNTRY IS SHOT!
Okay, you were on Xenia avenue, and yes it is a crappy area, but far from the worst in the city
Like he decided to show some of the most dilapidated parts…
He just passed my apt and YES...XENIA AVE is rough and he didn't show any of the twakk stars out and about lol but what just totally pissed me off is him saying that people don't want to work or that drug addicts are "bad people" .... First off jackass...learn something about addiction b4 u speak ignorance!!!! Addicts are NOT bad people!!! My mind is blown! And dude who made this video....just bcz jobs are available doesn't mean just any one can get that job!!! And the amount of factors you are not factoring in is just blowing my mind!!!! So yes Xenia Ave has its tougher spots but everyone down here is trying to live like everyone else!!! I'm on ssdi and this is what I can afford! We are good people!!! You're making it sound like bcz we live on our own individual budgets that we are terrible monsters!!! What tf is wrong w you???? Also...you passed TWO Community gardens!!!! I don't see those in your wealthy neighborhoods!!! Smh
@@dawnlochner3105 He started in Dayton View (Lexington Ave.) that is a pretty messed up part of Dayton. I grew up over there.
Naw... He was on the right side of town, as you can see...
Xenia Ave used to have great homes
I love Dayton. You were driving on Xenia Ave. Three blocks away. Was St.Annes hill. Some of most beautiful historical places around. Next time take a look. You need to name the streets you drive on as well!!!
I'm too busy to name streets but it's in 4K just read them when I go by!
Exactly! I don't think this was well done at all.
@@erionnelee1038 miss Lee. You are so right..driving down the street. And not putting names down. Is not hard!
im a Daytonian and i Agree you should Name the street, why would we do a slow mo on a video just to see the street..
And yes the West Aide is the worst 5 Oaks, Desota Bass area and gettysburg. Even tho Harrison Township area like N.Dixie area is also as Bad like Northland Apartments. But i was a East Sider Clover, Xenia Ave, Smithville, Huffman, Pleasant ave But Northside i think is the Nicer side of all Sides... GEM CITY
I'm from outside of Dayton ohio. He's just showing old ran down homes that are in every city. Dayton has no jobs or nothing to offer the people. Dayton has been the slums since major manufacturing jobs has lefted. However, outside of dayton its really nice. You have kettering, centerville, xenia, fairborn, beavercreek, huber heights and etc. Ohio has alote of good safe retirement communities..
So inside Dayton is crap and out side Dayton is nice.
Dayton has has plenty of jobs but the problem is they don't pay much. In Dayton if you get 15 bucks an hour as considered a good job.
@@bpaige12 Yea it's pretty sad that in a lot of places that's considered a good job yet barley enough to live off of but hey nick says they are just lazy for not wanting to work at the shake shack lol
Beavercreek fucking sucks, its not a town at all, it's a convoluted poorly planned suburb. I hate it
I dunno what y'all talking about. I lived near UD/downtown area. Downtown, Oakwood, Kettering, Centerville are gorgeous places with amazing homes. I will never forget my drives around when I lived there for a year. Wright Patterson AFB has great jobs from what I've heard and as an engineer I can assure you there's jobs in the aerospace sector. I friggin saw a job to work on ICBMs!! I'd gladly move to those areas later on if I had to, its so cheap to live there and so beautiful. I paid under $900 for a luxury 1bed whereas now near Boston, its ridiculous, a 1bed is $2000. Shame I didn't like the job.
The amount of factory jobs Dayton has lost is just unreal. When i was a kid back in the 70s there was at least 5 -7 GM/Chrysler related plants in the general area and countless other smaller factories that supplied parts to them. They are all gone.
I moved to Dayton last month and I live very close to the first street you showed. I love the affordability of Dayton and there is a lot to do. There's nothing but opportunity in Dayton in my eyes
Lmfaaaaoooo what
@@TheNeshuh lol idk what was confusing about what I said.
im a daytonian born and raised...may i ask where this "opportunity" you speak of is😂🤷🏼♂️?
@@KyronCunninglinguist I've lived in Columbus for 2 decades. Tried to find a home for a reasonable price and they dont exist. If you're interested in real estate Dayton is a place where you can buy a home rent it out and try to get out the rat race. There's a bunch of opportunities in greater city Dayton and I'm extremely happy to be here.
LOL
I love Dayton. West Dayton to be exact. It's hard to bring in people when we focus on "why you shouldn't come here" and focus on the positive. There is a lot of positives and opportunities in Dayton.
They tax us like we live in a palace
@@brettadams7423 Montgomery County property taxes are a disgrace! Who can afford to own (and maintain) a property “downtown?”
@@Vintage911er I'm half tempted to chainsaw it down and sell the lumber
@@brettadams7423 you sure wouldn't lose any money that way!!
@@brettadams7423 Democrats doing what they do best!
When I was a child in grade school in the 60's, Dayton won the America's City Beautiful Award. I remember because I worked with teams to clean alley ways and street getting ready for the judging. Our local church which sponsored our area awarded each child participating with a 50 cent piece.
@Richard Eddy I agree. I expect with the current health restrictions lifted, folks will soon be out cleaning up areas in need.
Aww you’re so sweet to her. My maiden name was Eddy. My dad is from the Elyria area tho. Thank you for being a kind man.we need more people like you. 🤗
🙏🏼 ✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
if it took teams to do that- it must have been really filthy
Damn boomers 😅
The only thing that will save america is term limits on every politician
Then what's the point of doing anything for 4 years?
We have term limits. It's called an election. The problem is we the voters who don't vote the crooks out.
@@tiamarie7443 no we do not we have a system that makes it's super easy to for the incumbent to win by ease of getting funding and all the entrenched lobby groups spending money on adds supporting them .. why do you think we have so many seniors that been in office so long they can't even form a complete sentence without losing track of what they say.
No politicians are in it for the money. They sell favors.They go in wearing overalls and in a year wearing suits driving Caddies have joined the good ole boys club.
We need people who can think pass I ,me, and my. For the good all. We have people who are genius but the one sin that destroys all started in heaven "JEALOUSY". When we can grow up and see the truth.back up and acknowledge what God already did to ensure mankind's success we win every time.
well said LOL
Ross Peort used to talk about a "giant sucking sound" as our manufacturing is sucked out of this country.
He lost to Clinton.
You get what you vote for.
No a lot of those jobs were mechanised out of existence, but it helps you people to blame foreigners instead.
AMEN.
@@SEAL341 he's not blaming foreigners. He's blaming corporations.
And he was one of these rich 🤑 guys who did some of that sucking too 🤣
Demographics IS Destiny. Jobs are a factor, but not THE Factor.
What's the chance of you getting a "ride along" with some local cops and letting us see these places by night, when the roaches are out.
And a gun. Give him a gun!
Lol
Call East Side ask for Regal he might help on a ride a long
Just don't ride with Price on the west side.... he's dick!
I did a ride along in 2017 with the west side operations at 8pm. - 2am on a saturday night. To say the least it was incredibly eye opening
We’re y’all on Grand Ave!! Dayton social worker here..it’s a lot of factors that caused our city to get so bad. The 80s crack epidemic ruined the west side, which use to be beautiful! It never recovered and yea the factory jobs leaving made it even worse. Our youth are killing each other off as well😞it’s heartbreaking. We are all going to have to be more involved with community development and youth development if we want our city to return to what it use to be. Thanks so much fir making these videos!
I live in a suburb of Dayton and there are no easy answers for how bad things are. I do know that neighbors need to start talking to one another again and encouraging their fellow neighbors to make their neighborhood and city a better place. Even if it’s something simple as sweeping up broken glass on your street, things like that encourage others.
sorry- that might have been me trying to nail speeders with christmas light bulbs- i was only a 10-year-old punk
GM leaving was definitely a catalyst, I am sure a lot of towns that have had a huge business leave town end up like this.
I remember there being a huge GM plant in the South part of Dayton. It closed up sometime during the 2000s and has pretty much been an eyesore.
It really is.
GM was replaced by a parts plant but I'm sure people don't want to work for less than half of GM wages!
@@jgrysiak6566for sure
@@davidmack4185 it is unfortunate. I've been up that way going to Albany for work but never went there, now I know I'm not missing anything.
Sucks that's the way it is.
On the other side of the river where I live now two power plants closed down between where the town is within a couple of years of each other. It legit crushed the town to where they don't even have law enforcement anymore and drugs are rampant.
I only hear about start ups, but nobody is talking about the 80+ years of resources sitting on the outskirts of many cities and towns in the country, landfills. I heard that 75% of the contents in a landfill can be recovered and are recyclable, there was a craze on early 2000s when we sent copper, steel, iron overseas to China for their Three Gorges Dam project. Innovation people, if you build it, they will come. We can learn from our grandparents and great grandparents, some folks still can rebuild an engine for 1950s Jeeps, this is when America can start decoupling and working to be self sustainable. This is when politicians should start trusting regular folk to do the change themselves.
People depended on agriculture before all of the industry, manufacturing, and commercialism took over. And this artificiality apparently resulted in these suburban dwellings which are not self sufficient and sustainable. How many areas in the USA are like this?
There are a number of serious precautions and concerns regarding recycling. There are a number of hazardous chemicals, hazardous substances, and Radioactive substances in junked things is not unlikely. They used to use radioactive paint on watches and clocks. There used to be radioactive components in fire alarms.
A junked machine was found in a demolished building. The man just wanted enough money for a few tacos and a few beers. They found this canister which had been a component in a Hi Tech lab machine. The canister contained a handful of extremely dangerous radioactive material. The people around there thought this stuff was really interesting because it glowed. More than 100,000 people came down with all kinds of radiation sickness and radiation burns!
Tragically there is a global call for recycling electronic things as well as most everything along with the worldwide "infamous" need for all plastic recycling.
Perhaps there is some way to organize welfare recipients with volunteer opportunities in recycling and community gardening. Perhaps more people will be attracted to agriculture if they start getting some hands on experience.
How many areas of the USA would benefit from small homesteading farms with normally 1-5 acres. More and more acres makes it more difficult for taxation, fencing, and being really efficient and dynamic in the utilization of the land. Small Farms can also create wage jobs even if at least minimum wage.
Are there any better ideas.
What are all the options?
Thank you
@@dandavatsdasa8345 that can also be a less hazardous option! The point should be that no one should expect a politician come in to clean the city/town act and magically bring back jobs. Every person should be encourage to give a bit to move the town forward.
The USA would probably benefit from small homesteading farms with normally 1-5 acres. More and more acres makes it more difficult for taxation, fencing, and being really efficient and dynamic in the utilization of the land. Small Farms can also create wage jobs even if at least minimum wage.
Insects farming may be an agricultural product that can be conceivably dehydrated and stored. Agricultural products that are more perishable might require more immediate distribution and possibly refrigeration. In a cooler climate mushrooms might be a crop to consider.
Small Farms should be able to recycle most of their own sewage and garbage. There are a number of ways to recycle plastic. They are working on plastic alternatives that are more environmentally friendly.
Are there any better ideas.
What are all the options?
Thank you
The problem is politicians have hoodwinked the regular folk to be completely dependent on the federal government. If people could change their perspectives and move their focus from the federal level to the local level of government, you'd see towns like this come back from the dead practically overnight. We just need these depressed cities to stop obeying the hundreds of pages of state/federal regulations that crush their local economies and place 100% of their focus on how to better serve the citizens rather than how to better get federal funding for what are more often than not pointless projects. Utilize resources from landfills? Hell yeah! It's just too bad there's all sorts of legal red tape you have to go through in most districts to do anything like that or anything that could empower the people at the expense of the state's power. Most start-ups are whack, but imagine putting the money generated from a successful tech startup into a community and building up its infrastructure so it could be self-sustaining and not have to rely on the Just-In-Time supply chain or other Orwellian marvels of the modern age. Thanks for adding your feedback, I wish there were more people thinking this deeply about urban planning.
I'd like to buy a mall and turn it into a big reduce, reuse, recycle mall. It could employ every type of skill imaginable. If a perfectly good pair of jeans need a button, or a lamp needing a card. Sometimes things like toys just need a good cleaning.
Grew up in Dayton, the only other two MAJOR things that killed Dayton was the great flood of 1913 which almost completely wiped most cities along the Great Miami River off the map. And the construction of I-75, which was idiotically constructed right through the middle of the city.
yup and a lot of what used to be a river is now land especially over by Dayton Children's hosp Westside had a Jewish settlement but they sold their HUGE houses cheaply and left town.
Highways run thru pretty much every city center due to Dwight Eisenhower easy commute plan for the 1956 highway act
Lived in Dayton almost all my life I also left not long after the car company shut down I didn't work at the car companies however never quit a job no matter how good you are when two major car companies close down because it becomes impossible to get a job that's exactly what happened I did end up moving I know live in Pittsburgh but when I live there it was on the east side of Dayton 3rd Street 5th Street Philadelphia airway Woodman downtown I'm sorry and if you can tell was a definite joke and I live there for good 30 years of my life and it was all around the same time and I will not come back to live I do not think but it is cheap there and yes every other house is probably condemned or burnt if there are 10 houses on one Street there might be four houses livable true facts
@@michaelsuggs5211 I live in your old area now. It's a joke over here. If I could afford the nicer areas right now. I would be gone in a minute. Philadelphia which turns into Gerlaugh going towards Huffman. There's not that many banned houses, but now can't say that about the streets around me.
I understand completely it was very hard for me to get out I mean but I do live in Pittsburgh now and it is better okay I'm not saying it don't have it's bad areas but I don't think nothing like that hope things work out for you I haven't been back to Dayton for over 10 years now but I do still have a sister and brother live there
I grew up in Dayton Ohio all of my life. I moved away at the age of 36. I go back to see family and friends. It has gotten worse in the last 5yrs I have been gone. Drugs have taken soo many ppl that I grew up with. Really wish it could go back to the way it was in the late 80's early 90's. I fear for all my family and friends that still live there.
I Concur! I’m also a Daytonian who has been gone since 2015!
Born and raised here in Dayton and its so sad to see how much stuff is gone and abandoned and run down now that used to be so beautiful when I was a child. Your commentary was very interesting..
I grew up in the worst part of Dayton. Five oaks. It was okay in the seventies; it's a war zone now.
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Trump never said "no more immigrants". He said "no more ILLEGAL immigrants". There's a huge difference.
Yeah, cause he said he only wanted white immigrants...
@@jeep19 Can you source that?
It's a meaningless distinction when he calls 12,000 LEGAL Haitians living in Springfield "illegal migrants".
I have lived in Dayton all my life and i am 58. You are cherry picking places. I am happy here!😊
I bought a house here in Dayton just around the corner from the form Good Sam Hospital in a beautiful neighborhood. In fact, there are a lot of nice little neighborhoods around the former Good Sam Hospital. I paid dirt cheap for a fixer upper and it's all come together and I'm having a blast owning it. My neighbors are wonderful, middle-upper middle class neighborhood. I am confident about the city.
I told you folks that this guy has something against Ohio and he needs to be called on it. In his worst places in Ohio, he picked mostly bigger cities where the things he highlighted for his list are more prevalent. Compare his 10 worst places in Indiana where he admits to living for five years. His list for the worst places in Indiana includes smaller towns where you won’t see as many of the problems that he highlights for these lifts. In Ohio, he lists Dayton and Toledo while he has places like Anderson and South Bend in Indiana. South Bend may have Notre Dame, but they aren’t that big, so they don’t have big city problems. So, yes,, he cherry picks. Especially if it is to put down a city in a state he seems to have a grudge against.
Exactly then he said poor city I was floored I was born and raised there he's cherry picking smh it's goofy
Im thinking Nick is a control freak on the other hand he can't know if some of the things he is chatting about is media "hype". His show is above average though I think.
Good for you. But, in the first place, urban decay is what this channel is geared towards. In the second place, I've never seen anything like this. Most cities have their "better" parts ,and "worse" parts, but I have never seen anything like this. I have never seen places with so many neighborhoods that are available to "cherry pick."
Even NCR left Dayton. The loss of manufacturing jobs is a theme of troubled cities. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is still near Dayton.
& Wright State University & University of Dayton; without them Dayton would be a ghost town!
My dad worked at NCR for 35 years. He was in Building 26 and then the World Headquarters in the Microelectronic Division. Everyone moved to Colorado but him at the end.
I was born at WPAFB in the 50s. I grewup in Fairborn, Ohio. I'm still in Ohio, but not that area.
We have Sinclair College too!
@@VictorNoelCoryPaz , lmao
Hey you passed my house. Living in Dayton was good till 2008 when everything went down. Our town is our home , we been trying to rebuild and everything. And when you said something about the women that died we have body’s in the river almost every week or two. But this is home and we here in Dayton Ohio appreciate your video. Thank you
Exactly lol
I lived in Dayton, Ohio most of my life. I’d even say the “run down” parts of it as well. There is crime and drugs just as in any other major city, but there’s just as many good people who happen to live in these low income areas. There are always going to be the good with the bad. But until the community comes together and everyone helps play a part it’s probably not going to get better
Im from Milwaukee but I lived there. It’s like any other American city.
Stop lying
I agree that the downtown situation is trying too hard for their own good. I once heard Nan say "One of our townhouses just sold to the tune of 625,000". She said it with pride
Dang, dude, isn't that like a mortgage payment and a half? I remember this one guy who showed up, asked me and my family to watch the three abandoned houses on the left of us, he had just bought all THREE for $5,000 and was willing to pay us all 500$ a month to watch them for squatters or vandals and that ilk.
I live in a little suburb outside of Dayton. Miamisburg. It's a good school area. My best friend was one of the five female victims who was shot and left in an alley in Dayton. I remember way back when we were still teenagers between 16-19 she took me to Dayton, and we went in places that two young girls should never ever go. It was the last time I ever went anywhere with her. I haven't been to Dayton since. And now I'm 38 and I'm all that's left. She never left Dayton, especially when she got into drugs. She was a smart sweet girl and at the end of it, she became a statistic.
😢
My sincere condolences 💐
I'm from Detroit and totally identify with you guest and Dayton we need to bring the manufacturing jobs back , America
is being hollowed out.
Please do an episode of what’s great about Dayton. Air Force museum, Carillon park, arcade, downtown revitalization, and some of the best Suburbs in the state (Bellbrook, Springboro, tipp city, Troy, Beavercreek, Kettering, centerville, Miamisburg). Also, we have some amazing city parks and one of the best paved bike trails in the nation. A positive video would help our struggling inner city, as most of the jobs and money have moved to the surrounding area
I’m actually from Dayton Ohio I live in Dayton Ohio if you not born and raised here you wouldn’t know what it’s like living here, growing up in Dayton you see a lot of things at a young age and being exposed to a lot of things you just have to thug it out and keep your head high if you from Dayton
Living in Dayton I've witnessed kidnappings, been kidnapped, saw murders, found dead bodies, lost so many to violence, held pieces of my murdered loved one's skull in my hand when I found them in her bedroom after the crime scene was released, been shot at as a child, and so many other things that no person should ever be able to experience. Most of which happened before the age of 20. AND I actually had it better than a lot of kids I met from Dayton. A lot of children's parents are involved in gangs, so they witness crazy stuff a lot of people never experience, before they even reach 10. I had a 17-year-old kid try to set me up to get kidnapped a few years ago and sold in to sex slavery, because I found out that his parents were and are kidnapping disabled people and stealing their social security checks and food stamps. They literally own a whole street of houses in Dayton all with about 10 disabled individuals in each, all unable to leave, unable to access their money, and unable to access food. Dayton Life is crazy.
I was born and raised in Dayton, and when you grow up in it you see the beauty in what the good people have been able to do with so little. And the all the growth you see feels major
Trump didn't say "no more immigrants"...he said no more ILLEGAL immigrants. I've lived in the Dayton area my whole life. It's definitely the loss of manufacturing jobs and the loss of NCR world headquarters that has caused the decline of the city.
Thanks Peggy for correcting what Trump really said, You are 100% right. When people like Nick here misquote what was said some simply believe it without questioning or investigating and that is a big problem.
@@jadavis7235 Nick is correct. Please Investigate it: "By 2021, Donald Trump will have reduced legal immigration by 49% since becoming president - without any change in U.S. immigration law, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis. An April presidential proclamation blocked the entry of legal immigrants to the United States in almost all categories.
Reducing legal immigration most harms refugees, employers and Americans who want to live with their spouses, parents or children, but it also affects the country’s future labor force and economic growth: “Average annual labor force growth, a key component of the nation’s economic growth, will be approximately 59% lower as a result of the administration’s immigration policies, if the policies"
I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio.
I actually grew up right off Xenia ave in southeast Dayton on Steele ave.
Dayton's problem is a lack of leadership.
Dayton has not had a good mayor is over 20 year's.
Drugs has ruined that city as well.
Yeah, and that POC, mayor Whaley is actually now running for governor?! What a JOKE!
✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
Your right but you can have the best leader in the world if you don't have the citizens that care about anything than nothing going to change. Maybe if the city pay in drugs and alcohol something might change
and their hillbilly work ethics
Supergay Cop needs to hit the streets of Dayton and teach some punks some lessons!
Pretty accurate… was a cop in the Dayton area for 20 years. 10 of them were on the west side. Heroin hit the communities in the worst way. When GM pulled, everything went to shit.
It is a great city with great people. I was born and raised locally. But the area is dead or taking its final breath. RIP Dayton!
The Dayton Museum of Art is awesome. Also Dayton Contemporary Dance Co. Is very well known internationally.
The guy you interviewed made a good point. One thing about Dayton is it has maintained really nice suburbs in a way that somewhere like Youngstown hasn’t.
Youngstown is a hot mess. Warren might even be worse. The Mahoning Valley has lost about half its population since 1970.
Boardman is nice, but I might be biased by car culture lmao. But it does feel safer than places like Warren or austintown
I am from Milwaukee,WI. I moved to Dayton for work in 2018. I met a girl she was a nurse and we lived on the east off of smithville rd. After a few months we moved to Centerville. Dayton was no joke. I still have nothing but love for OHIO. The middle class was predicated on🤦♂️. Milwaukee is similar.
No joke, in what way?
Ryan, one of the big issues with overdosing in Dayton is EMTs kept running out of NARCAN -- an approved treatment for opioid overdose. It was unfortunate that first responders just did not have the tools to save people, because there were so many people that needed saved, they kept running out.
maybe they should have just went to the drug store and asked for naloxone
Illegal immigrants isn't the help Dayton needs.
I was born and raised here in Dayton. And I was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in '62. It really is sad to see what has happened. I grew up in Old North Dayton and it was really cool for a long time. But after the Turks and Russian moved in, we started with the overdose situation. And it continues still. You should have gone to Gettysburg Ave Starting at Salem Ave and going all the way to Germantown Pike and take a left at the BP Station. Go (Back Toward Downtown). And it's not true that Trump doesn't want immigrants. He just doesn't want illegal immigrants. Big difference!
Even Good Sam is gone now.
Good Sam like many of the Catholic hospitals have been bought out . It’s incredibly sad . I loved the statue of St Elizabeth Ann Seton in the front .
Hara is toast
The Turks have nothing to do with the drug problems, those are all white good for nothing junkies. They only lived in Dayton because of cheap houses and a good central location for trucking. Now most have moved to much nicer and more expensive suburbs after getting on their feet
That’s the TRUTH, Trump wanted legal immigrants, who would work and PAY TAXES. The tax burden on taxpayers for illegals is astronomical AND just plain WRONG.
✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
Until the real problem is addressed it will never be solved.
Sustainable income employment.
What’s the real problem to you?
dayton isn’t north lol, that’s toledo. it’s west-central or southwest
Lol more like south central
Was about to say the same. I was in Toledo a while. It’s up in the NW. Dayton is down in the SW.
probably got confused going through Athens on the way north to Dayton from Akron ???
@CommunistHunter Mappy must be off.
@@ryroberts1219 i can get someone out of state saying west central
I grew up in Dayton, Ohio. It didn't always look this way. The city suffers from poor leadership..drugs..crime and unemployment..basically all the big city "negatives." I'm not sure exactly what it will take to bring the city back. Big thriving businesses may help..but you will need ppl who are willing to work. Well...you can't give ppl free money to sit at home..and then all of a sudden stop the money and say now go to work. Productivity..accountability and responsibility is a lifestyle choice.
It's beyond just the people. Many of the people are forced and shop outside of their neighborhood. How to you rebuild in your own area when you can't do the most basic things there because it's become a desert? Government officials and corporate choices have had a far bigger impact.
💯 Poor Leadership
i am from dayton and I graduated from Colonel White High School in 1988, IF you drive to Niagara st, Its a big empty field now, they tore the school down in 2007. Dayton used to be a thriving city but I saw it detoriating with the crack epidemic in the 80s. I went to Central State University which is in Wilberforce Ohio outside of Xenia OH, about 30 mins east of dayton. I Joined the US Army in 1989 and never look back as far as moving back. I grew up in the five oaks neighborhood area. I used to live in the Apartments on salem ave across from Grace United Methodist church, Then we moved onto Rockwood ave from 1985 to 1988. Dayton has become a humongous slum because the leadership let it detoriate. After all the major industrial plants closed down such as Inland on Third. NCR was bought out, Every body was trying to get jobs at places like WPAFB but so many factories and mid level jobs have left or closed or went out busy. No jobs leave to trashy abandoned vandalized neighborhoods with loads of crime arranging anywhere to stabbings, drugs, and even homocide. We have a tiny downtown compared to columbus , cleveland, and Cincinnati. But most of the office spaces are empty. Our downtown Arcade building was one of the downtown center pieces but now its a decayed building falling apart. Dayton has fallen apart. Most of the people have moved to west carrollton, Centerville, Vandalia, Huber heights, Englewood, RIverside, or just plain left the area all together. The only people that stayed in inner city dayton are really poor or barely making it. I could write a disertation on how dayton used to be in the 60s to 80s until how it is now. It awfully depressing to see how bad it has gotten. We basically fell into same economic slum like detroit. No wonder they call us baby detroit.
Aww I'm sorry about it. It is sad mark
Awesome story and I also did my first 4 years at central state as my father and grand father did. We were there since 1840 and owned quite a bit of land on abolitionists row. The newly arrived southerners heated the fact we were already wealthy and they refused to work for us.That did them no good but the Quakers warned us not to deal with white people from the south and we didnt. my grand father worked at WPAFB for 22 years and had a clearance most white men could not even obtain. He designed and installed fighter jet control panels.He retired in the early 1970s and could go visit the base anytime he wanted but would not let me in to see the aliens....lol He said they didnt exist but i knew better.....lol
The industry era was over once white owners sold to other countries so there was no repair that could have been made by then. Drugs and crime are the result of no jobs plain and simple. The smart people left when the jobs left, those who stays had no other options but to fall into poverty. My father remains best friends with Phil Donahue to this day. They went to high school together even though my father was not Catholic. I had been gone since the 80s but my God when i would go back and saw how it declined I could not understand why people stayed in that mess. I still do not understand laying around waiting for a change that aint gonna come. My wife grew up in Trotwood and even she was not impressed about why people stay in that poverty when leaving would improve their life so much for the better.
3:37 I live in a sober living house called the Good Shepherd, we do a lot of service work on the East side of Dayton one major one is cleaning up this side of town litter,trash etc.
I know you pointed out lot's of drug use although that is true, there's also a lot of recovery places such as meetings and treatment centers to help this community out.
Finally a RUclips video about Dayton. I have always had this opinion about how boarded up most of the city is. Such depressing place to live.
I was in Toledo up in NW Ohio for a while. Dayton is down in the SW.
As a fellow Ohioan I often question, what the hell happened here?
Ted Strickland chased alot of manufacturing jobs out of state . He raised the taxes on corporations
NCR left because Strickland wouldn't give them a tax abatement so they left. When Obama let GM declare foreclosure bankruptcy instead of reorganization they closed their plant. Then all of the supporting businesses closed. Mayor McLin turned her back on manufacturing and instead tried to make us a technological city. We didn't have the infrastructure for that. Plastic manufacturing increased but that doesn't employ many and its not well paying.
There are two major things wrong here in Dayton. The first was when Clinton signed NAFTA and crippled alot of our manufacturing work. The second was heroin, that was brought on by over prescribing pain pills. Ive lived here my whole life and you could see things with those two "events"
I've lived in Dayton for many years and I can say that one of the problems is that people from Dayton have a chip on their shoulder; Dayton has a negative, hostile vibe.
What is wrong with Dayton???? Urban Decay???? Outsourcing America????? Demorats????? Ugh.......
Dayton has an incredible art district, our downtown is up and coming, we have some incredible metro parks, our historic areas are gorgeous, there’s a lot of good change happening. Every city has their shitty parts. I’ve lived in Dayton damn near my whole life. Is it fucking heaven? Of course not. I grew up in one of the “shitty parts,” he drove through. I love my city, rough parts and all. Dayton does have a great community that is willing to come together and take care of each other. Good example of that is the tornadoes that came through a few years ago. Dayton has its struggles, trust me. But it also has its shining moments. It will always be the Gem City to me. ✌️
Indeed!
Fantastic Metro Parks and a truly excellent brewery scene!
I moved here from Flint, MI. I love it here. There is always something to do. It is a safe place to raise my son.
And the Metro Parks are super cool.
I just moved here from California! LOL! OMG! I like the city. It's NOT that bad. It's a nice city.
The east side of Dayton houses the majority of Turkish people. The Polish are mostly in North Dayton and the south side of Dayton and other areas south like Oakwood are mostly white, and the majority of black people live on the west side of Dayton. I have lived in and around Dayton my whole life. Even in the most run down ghettos of Dayton you will find good hard working people. There are a lot of demonic strongholds and a cultural victim mentality that thrive daily in those run down and poor neighborhoods. We need to put God back in our schools, in our families, and in our communities.
Just FYI
CNC Machinist at a large medical manufacturer in Dayton, 25 years old making $19.80 an hour. I'm fortunate to say the least
Tell yo friends yo
East Dayton and west Dayton are the dump areas. There are pockets of good, you have to go looking for them. Dayton fell victum to the calapse of manufacturing jobs. The good jobs went to the suburbs leaving pockets of people who have given up.
Companies. Over to Mexico and our best buddies China
Dayton is very popular in my country. The reason is pretty simple: The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement.
God bless America 🇺🇸 ♥️ 🇧🇦
I love this series. Keep up the good work Nick Johnson!
Northwest Dayton has been a miserable place to live for about 50 years. Skip that area and the rest of the Dayton metro plex is a terrific place to raise kids. Centerville and Bellbrook are beautiful communities with the best schools in Ohio. Oakwood just north of Kettering is a great community but highly taxed. Kettering is another great community. All of these areas have top 10 Ohio schools. In Bellbrook there is are fabulous parks and near great bicycle paths. Numerous other great communities not mentioned. Dayton is one of the best areas to live and raise kids in the mid-west.
I agree those are great areas but those are not in the top 10 Ohio schools… oakwood would be the only one within top 10. Stivers school for the arts is interestingly ranked higher than all of the suburbs you listed other than oakwood.
Talking about Dayton, runs red light. Talks more about Dayton, runs another red light, LOL. Great video as always though.
Lol can't sit too long at them in those areas
@@Kmclemore Nick Johnson is above the law!
I saw that too!!
@@Kmclemore people are literally not going to do anything to you😂
@@Kmclemore you ain’t kidding! Red lights and stop signs are optional in Dayton!
I'm not a Dayton native but I do a lot of community work since I live here now and the way you portrayed Dayton is just wrong. We are strong, we stand together, and we are a passionate community. Talk about that.
You can't blame Trump for this. Btw, my 45 yo son is somewhere in Dayton addicted to fentynol and meth. He's from Montana. He's stuck there, and I'm afraid one day I'm going to get a call that he will be found laying there dead. What a s******e.
I moved from from NY & love Dayton!!! Majority of the people are great, cost of living is cheap & there are quite a bit of jobs!!!
I'm Brazilian and I love your channel Nick. It's interesting to see how different is our perspectives of poor places, the video doesn't look bad at all. I believe the streets must be danger though.
He only captured a few minor blighted areas. Trust me, it's far far worse than his video showed. I had a neighbor who was a guard at a drug house somewhere in Dayton for a time.
He flat out told me, you don't go there if you are white and they don't know you. There is so many bad areas around Dayton, it dang near needs a documentary to capture them all.
It even has a lot of blight in downtown. Bigger buildings, not just small homes. They did recently restore the arcade though which is awesome. If u don't know about the Dayton arcade, it's some interesting history.
It's nothing like poverty in 3rd world countries@@HeartInLight
@@MrsBlack8998 oh 100 percent nothing like that. There is poverty in the world people in America would be shocked to see.
My man was right. Especially about Trotwood. Had a mall, all the big shopping businesses but now it's dilapidated, poverty, crime, violence, and a skeleton of the 1980's. I work just outside there. Damn shame what it became the past 10-15 years.
This guy is definitely a Republican 😂 I knew it
Even though I'm a democrat, he made a few good points
@@doobofbattle9472 Well you must be thrilled with Biden and his destruction of America.
Republican or Democrat it's bad.
Yes, because he showed reality and told the truth.
I live in a decent suburb here. If you're going to drive around an entire city and give your opinion on it I wish you would also show the nice parts and not just the bad parts. There are a lot more nice parts than bad parts of the area but the video depicts the city as a terrible trashy area. The points you did make were educational though.
I grew up on the Eastside in the late 70's! Still live in the same house! It has got worse over time but still not as bad as some areas
The city proper IS terrible.
Wow. I wonder how it looked in the 1980s The homes look like they were nice and middle class at one time. I feel bad for people who grew up there and had to leave because of no opportunity. Too bad big tech doesn’t make a claim to it. Maybe that would help it return to some normalcy and bring the crime rate down. It looks like it could return to a livable place. It doesn’t appear to be as bad as Detroit or Gary. But then again maybe it s too late. Sad that Fast food jobs are the only jobs for people to make a living. I remember the only people who worked in fast food were teenagers. Thanks Nick.
Not much better.
It didn't look nice in the 70's most of those homes are over 100 years old.
@@toniesedrick691 There are plenty of neighborhoods with over 100 year old houses where I live that have been restored. I mean I get it. These old houses need constant maintaining. $$$. I guess there just isn’t enough interest in these older suburban neighborhoods anymore to warrant the initial investment and maintenance required to keep it up. unless it’s in a place where there’s some hope. 😞
Dayton began to decline in the 1960s. By the 1980’s it was bad. From 1960-1970 the population declined 27%.
The well to do moved to Oakwood, Kettering, Kettering's Hills & Dales, Centerville and Beavercreek. As I have wrote before. The best place to live in Dayton is Old North Dayton. It is where the Children's Hospital/Barney's Medical Center is located.
I lived a block away from the closed gm factory from 2011-2016, and it was super sad. The place is enormous, it must have employed thousands.
It's Fuyao now
Line workers made $30 per hour
Interviewing the gentleman near the end was really good. In the beginning, I was thinking, “he’s just driving through some run down streets, every city has those”, but the man you interviewed was interesting. I work in Dayton but live out of the city.
Aside from my other rant, the video is interesting. I recognized some of the places, but couldn't make it the street signs to get my bearings in others. I wish you had said "I'm driving westbound on Xenia Avenue in the Twin Towers area" instead of just calling it "the main drag" which really isn't UNLESS you mean the main drag by Twin Towers. Lol the main drag through the East side would have been East Third most likely, or maybe Linden which if you had taken it East bound from Tals Corner (which would have shown a couple of blocks of large absolutely beautiful historic homes and a couple blocks later would have taken you past the burned down mess of the Hewitt Soap Factory.
On Drugs: Dayton sits at the Crossroads of America, the interchange of I-75 and I-70, so a lot of drugs pass through here, and a lot say. The opioid crisis is terrible here and overprescription of opioid pain meds has ruined many many lives.
Thanks for driving through and talking about our city.
U are right
You chose a great guy to interview! TY for the entertainment and education, again!!!
Ok!
for major revelation the local newspaper editor, univ chancellor, econ professor
@@NickJohnson I have covered Dayton on my RUclips channel for years
I agree. Ryan has it together.
Seriously Nick. You might want to correct it re do this video. Dayton is in Southwest Ohio . Toledo is in North West Ohio.
The whole video
@@NickJohnson You do not have to redo the whole video. Just edit it.For the record, in my opinion, you have one of if not the best channel on RUclips. The video on corporate welfare was brilliant (I am a Libertarian so it was “right up my alley”). I just wish you could have interviewed for the Cleveland video lol.That being said , don’t take what I said a negative. It was just constructive criticism. I learn a lot from you and Mappy.
It is sad! I am originally from a small town about 60 miles from Dayton. That was the Gem City of Ohio!
You almost made it to South Park, where I live and it is beautiful! Close to Downtown and Miami Valley Hospital
I was born in MVH!
I was thinking at the whole time I was watching.
you know he made it there but cut it out the video
I’m in saint Ann’s hill
“Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation“
I actually moved last year to Dayton from California and bought a home around the corner from where the Good Sam Hospital use to be in the Fairview neighborhood... The neighborhood is quite lovely. I do believe Dayton has potential to become even better. It does need strong civic leadership to help it. I have no regrets moving to Dayton. I actually like the city and it isn't as bad as you guys make it to be. It's got a lot going for it.
I live in the same area as you and have all my life and definitely agree. It’s not nearly as bad as he’s portraying it to be at all lol
OMG Good Samaritan Hospital is gone? I use to live in Dayton...never really liked the weather. I worked at Miami Valley Hospital...is it still there. I loved my job there but that was not enough to keep me there. Moved out west and never went back. Yellow Springs is nice.
@@patsystone8114 yep, they tore it down a few years ago. I had my daughter there in 2014 so it had to be sometime after that
I live about 30 minutes from Dayton... We avoid it, just like we avoid Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland.. and most ppl living here, know why, and do the same! FACTS!
We moved to Cleveland Heights for work things there and University Circle is great but surrounded by Da Hood.
idk what you mean. I lived in Cincinnati for 5 years, its a beautiful city - Clifton, Blue ash, Mason are are all amazing places and the city itself is beautiful. Columbus is one of the best cities in America - low crime, amazing education, great sports, excellent restaurants, affordable housing. central and south of Dayton are very affluent and there's no traffic.
I live in Franklin. It's like 20 minutes from Dayton. I'm on the middletown line almost.
Within the last 10 years over 100,000 people has Columbus. Wtf is u talking about🤷
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I'll stick to my smaller farming communities and villages..you can have the cities and everything that goes along with it!
Drive through east Dayton😂Drexel is a trip. The VA is off the highway. Pretty bad when you shop in a second hand store snd some guy is sitting on a high perch at the front door watching for shoplifters … let that sink in for minute, a second hand store😂😂😝😝
Drexel is on the west side by Trotwood.
Drexel is fine. That's where I live and have for 35yrs.
Plus there ain't no second hand store in Drexel wtf?
@@twotone3390Second hand what ,henry's maybe/ nope no thrift /goodwill ....
I was born in Drexel. knox, and Third bricker plat raised 1982 .Ten years ago they could have seen donald sanders on a perch in front of henry's discount 40 oz. in hand "Got any change"
I lived in Dayton Ohio for over 10 years. I liked Dayton. It has a lot of history.
Dayton’s suburbs are beautiful, safe, and a great place to live
I've rarely had any reason to go to Dayton, I've always lived closer to Cincinnati. I was driving through there once because I was on the way to a party. It was only 8 at night, and all the gas stations and fast food places were all ready locked up for the night
Yeah! Dayton Finally!
My great-uncle was Mayor of Dayton in the 1950s. So happy to see our family house is in the nicer area of Dayton 😁
Kate!
What was your dad's name. I was born in 1956 and grewup in that area. I remember when we would go down town and go shopping at Rikes. I loved it.
There are some nicer parts of the city. And you are right about it becoming a refugee city and very diverse as a result with so much international influence, which a lot of younger people from the area take pride in. Drugs are definitely an issue, and most of the wealthier/ middle class families have moved out to the suburbs which are very nice and have very well preforming school districts. Most of the students who live in the city limits attend charter schools which are also very well preforming.
Nick I am glad you are doing Dayton. I'm looking at allllllllll the cities in Ohio and Pennsylvania as a relocation destination.
Mainly due to the low cost of living. Not looking for work will be retiring.
do you like seeing the sun three times a year? move to ohio
Good luck and congratulations !!!
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Happy for you,
@@UserName-ts3sp *almost three times a year
Jeff, look up Sandusky, trust me, this is where you'll wanna be. Fits your criteria and it's a retiring man's dream town. Great location to get to any of the bigger cities as well as far as Col, Tol and Cle.
I'm 30, I bought my house for 24k cash, putting my own sweat and probably 20k into it, will be worth at least 100 if not 125 when I'm done. Great area all around I'm telling ya. Can put your retirement money to work easily and build it while you relax and work when ya want to
The City of Dayton was sketchy in areas even was manufacturing was here. GM leaving made it worse but City of Dayton had been good for a very long time. Everyone moved to the suburbs that could. Centerville, Brookville, Englewood, Vandalia, Sprinboro Etc. Those areas are growing and are great with some high end amazing home along with normal homes . Just great areas. So slightly misleading to just talk about areas surrounding downtown. Those areas have struggled since I was a kid in the 70’s. I know because at one time, I lived there before moving to Suburbs. The Downtown area is nice and has rebounded some. A lot of new apartments, condos. Problem is those condos are $400 grand .
Great stuff!
It was called white Flight, away from high black crime and violence.
If a president can't improve the situation within one term he doesn't deserve a second one.
how many red lights did you roll thru during this episode?
You saw that too 😆
@@mikeritter2979 Maybe some traffic violation tickets would help clean up Dayton.
I counted 2
Not to mention ignoring the "DO NOT ENTER" sign at 10:21.
Wrong Dayton is in southwest Ohio I'm from northeast Ohio Canton reason why Ohio so run down except Columbus when Presidents carter Reagan sent the steel mill jobs today Mexico and China asaia for real cheap labor this is what happens to the Midwest
Some rust belt city/towns reinvented themselves, some didn't. The guy you spoke with in the video is right about it being about jobs. Good jobs are what uplift an area.
Fort Wayne, Indiana has generally been a positive response to industrial job loss, San Francisco used to have a large blue collar work force, but its location is excellent.
Its Not Jobs.. Dayton has always been High crime per capita. Now its just High Crime Top 10 Murder Capital. Crime causes Poverty. Not necessarily the inverse. Appalachia is the poorest area across america yet the crime rate is 60% lower than the National Average
He was a smart guy
Because so many manufacturing jobs have gone overseas it has become difficult to hire workers for manufacturing jobs for which there is a limited promotion path. When the job disappears after five years the worker probably hasn't gained skills that would help them get a better job.
I've been contemplating the interest in Dayton, your video was the best I've seen in the in and out of the city. Thank you.
I don't think it’s just about Dayton. The whole country has experienced the pitfalls and consequences of ill-equipped leadership from Presidents down to Mayors regarding politics and big business working to squeeze out the little guy. In the 70s, manufacturing jobs were abundant and big and small shops were everywhere. In High School, we took trades where we learned to run machinery and tools of the trades as young as 7th grade. Dad would bring his tools (yup, the ones he purchased to do his job) and teach me how to use them. I learned how to read micrometers when I was 11-12 years old, paper routes, mowing grass and weeding gardens were the opportunities to learn about managing money and finding out how much salt you were worth. Most young people my age at the time looked forward to getting out on our own and cutting our own paths.
Mom and Pop stores were on every other corner, small, medium, and large manufacturing shops were everywhere. If you had said “Big Box Store” to someone, they would be thinking about Big N, K-Mart, Woolworths, Sears., certainly not Walmart, Sam’s Club, Menards, or IKEA. Mom and Dad had daytime jobs and Dad would work double shifts a 1/3 of the time. Mom would pick up extra hours at the Brown Derby or Ponderosa. Dad worked with about a thousand other employees building road graders, cranes and rollers in Ohio that were sold all over the world. The rail cars were being loaded every day when we’d pick Dad up from his work. I’d hear Dad tell Mom what he put in the bank, and it was a lot. We’d go grocery shopping, and the cart would be heaping going through the checkout for under a $100, a full-size Ford Ranger 4x4 (F250) would run about $7,000 fully loaded including tax and title in 1977, I know because Dad was pricing to buy that year.
America was known for being the land of opportunity. Things started getting tough about the time President Nixon was impeached and oil prices went high shortly afterwards (OPEC). I don't believe things started to get better until the 2nd, maybe 3rd year President Reagan was in office. Then the "oh sh*t" started back with President Bush Sr, (Read my Lips! No New Taxes) NAFTA in 93-94 with President Clinton (Supposed to create more jobs!)., LOL, then 9/11, Housing Bubble in 08..., Taking pride and caring about your property and the community takes heart but it also requires a decent paying job too. The cost of living is outragous and the wages havn't improved all that much. OMG!
Wow Doug you're in the wrong business ❤️❤️❤️
The Dayton community is thriving but wanna put your political views on it!
I'm a republican and can see this city is doing fine!
hey Nick! yeah kinda depressing. Any chance of some pretty fall towns or haunted ghost town drives for the upcoming season? To break the bleakness? Plus you can tell us some cool stuff as usual. I think you could make these fun. Provincetown is big on AHS this year, what is it really like there? That would be cool. Thank-you for another interesting video!
Michelle not a bad idea - there's some nice stuff coming up. But I get 5x as many views when I drive to bad areas so I'm just giving people what they want (which is sad)
You need to do this series with Louisiana, What happened to Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe, Opelousas (depending on how small you go with population), and New Orleans (depending on how much crime is a factor in these videos).
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I’m from Alexandria, Louisiana. The military base shut down and Alexandria went down
Louisiana has the industry and resources to be one of the country's most prosperous states, but thanks to generations of corrupt and incompetent government we are close to last in most meaningful quality-of-life categories.
I lived in New Orleans post Katrina and can attest that there are TONS of abandoned homes and neighborhoods there. Its very sad and very scary.
wonder why he’s not going 2 blocks down the road where several luxury apartments were just built and a roaring restaurant/ bar district is that brings millions of dollars of service into the city??
Roaring restaurant/bar district? Where the hell is that at?
At 0:37 I saw my grandparents old house. So much love and memories in that home. The neighborhood was bad but people did talk to each other and look out for each other. I’m not from Dayton or Ohio, but so many good memories visiting
I fix up old houses in Dayton and there is no shortage of work.
Nope
My brother in law went to Sinclair College. He's retired now. But he was a draftsman at Hobart for years.
if you are not from the city of dayton ohio most will never understand how life is in our city born and raised in dayton ohio went to Westwood Jane Addams Mcnary Macfarlane Miami Chapel and the Orignal Patterson High School most people will say this and that about Dayton Ohio
“Mayor Nan” Whaley is on the take. This news came out a couple days ago and pretty much put the kabosh on her plans to become Ohio’s next Governor.
If she was she wasn't indited or charged with anything; other people were. She said that nobody talked to her about bribery.
True Dat !
What do you expect her to say ..
oh yeah I got some money and I've gave him some favors and cheese is that wrong should I not have done that?
She's not indicted Y E T
I live in Dayton and she sucks.
Irregardless of that she’s a joke. Has no business being Governor when she can’t even manage the city.
I live in a North Dayton Suburb and it’s relatively nice here, but the north side of Dayton itself is really blighted. And sadly I think the city is still going downhill
One my fav vid nick, And basically watched most your vids in last year. keep up the great work.