Public transportation is the difference. Chicago, NYC, Philly, Jersey City, Boston, etc, have great public transportation. All the others are car oriented.
Yeah, and they allow all of the crime to easily flow into the suburbs. People who own cars won't put up with it, and leave. That's why all of those cities are rampant with crime.
I’m in north Fort Worth after living in the south Dallas county area most of my life. I gotta get out of here, I’m sick of so many people and the traffic!
Virginia Beach was a small town with fewer than 6,000 people in the early 1960s. Later in the decade it consolidated with Princess Anne County (200+ sq.mi.) to prevent County land from being annexed by the adjacent city of Norfolk. So VB is not a real city at all, but basically just a surburb of Norfolk.
@@trapmuzik6708 I kind of laughed about the tourist population. I thought, why? It's due to the rest of Duval county. And population is not surpising given how many retirees move south.
VA Beach, Norfolk. Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Portsmouth are all considered Independent Cities within Virginia. They are basically counties without the name.
Please do me a favor and physically look at a map of Tucson. Their city limits go almost 20 mi away from the city center on the east side. However you don't really hit the city until you're about 7 mi from downtown. Meaning you drive through 13 mi of empty desert, inside Tucson City limits before you ever reach any urbanized area. This skews your number
Yeah this is the dumbest video. These are all cities that are just as dense as others, but have official boundaries that include a lot more surrounding land.
@@brandonmccoy8434 amen. I can understand why Tucson did it though. They're probably just trying to prevent other towns from surrounding it kind of like Chicago is surrounded
I drove through Tucson about a month ago, I swear I was 20 miles out of the city in the desert when I pulled off the highway to fix something in my van… and there was a sign that said “Tucson City Limit” … it was wild
Tucson, Arizona New Orleans, Louisiana Memphis, Tennessee Tulsa, Oklahoma Virginia Beach, Virginia Kansas City, Missouri Nashville, Tennessee Jacksonville, Florida Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Anchorage, Alaska
Nothing will change until we realize red and blue are the same. These politicians are laughing all the way to the bank. Mean while we're out here arguing about which side is worse.
The other way around. People moved from the city to unincorporated areas located outside the city. The cities later incorporated those suburban neighborhoods. No one wants to live in a sterile urban wasteland.
Context for New Orleans: city land area 169 sq miles but at LEAST 100 square miles are uninhabitable swaps to the east and west of the city. And it’s not hurricanes so much that keep people out, it’s the insurance premiums (if you can even get insurance) along with the stated issue of crime. Katrina was a lost opportunity to re-imagine the city, with denser living areas and mass transit. Oh well.
Fascinating video! It really highlights the importance of considering location in retirement planning. Empty cities could offer unexpected opportunities. Thanks for sharing!
I knew Anchorage would be #1 on this list. It really doesn’t feel like it’s as big as it is. I live nearly 400 miles to the North, in Fairbanks, and every time I travel down, I’m always amazed at how well traffic flows around there.
Jacksonville FL is Florida's largest "city" by land mass, size not pop. I think Miami 🌆 has the most residents. Orlando, Orlando.gov 2020s is approx 800000. Maybe 850000. It seems larger than it really is.
Kansas City has annexed quite a lot of land over the past several decades, especially north of the Missouri River. Much of that space is semi-rural, and includes a lot of empty land around the airport. Many first-time visitors to KC who fly into KCI remark on how, when coming in for the landing, the plane flies over crop land and fields of grazing cattle, not over built-up urban areas like in many other cities of similar size.
Encouraging people to move to other states from California. Not over inflated home prices, high gas prices, and homeless everywhere ? I won't even mention the government in California and the ridiculous state laws. Which Californians bring with them and want to impose on other states. Stay, Please stay in California.
@@LayzeeGiantyou assume I’m liberal and not conservative…I’m good…I like living in CA…your state sucks in many ways equal or worse then California 💁🏽♂️
I agree but I have driven around in some of these cities and it’s shocking to see empty downtowns. I’m from Philadelphia and have frequented New Jersey and New York on a regular basis. My environment is used to seeing hustle and bustle….Then visiting some of the empty cities and seeing nobody walking the sidewalks and almost no car traffic is an eye opener for me. Many people in the Northeast never see that kind of scenario in a major city
@@oladeebiazazi4538 Well, what most people don't realize is that all of America used to be dense walkable cities. It's just that most of them got bulldozed and retrofitted for cars in the late 1960s.
@oladeebiazazi4538 ...that is also why America as a whole is car dependent... European cities combine a robust public transit system (busses, subways, trams) with strong walkable environment which makes it possible to travel between cities by train/plane.... and then still be able to get around within those cities... even if one were to travel to most cities in America by train/plane they would still need access to a car to get around and function within that city... so rather than travel by train or plane to a destination city it is often more convenient to drive there so one has their car available... this causes a circular effect stifling the development of high speed rail between cities and the development of strong public transit within cities...
Detroit, Chicago, STL, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, etc. most all not be a part of the Midwest because they have more city feels. I think you meant the South
@@bluecyclone7077 Actually, I was thinking of Kansas City, Tulsa, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and so on. I agree that the cities you named are denser "eastern type" cities.
Oklahoma City also, due to water rights. OKC actually feels as dense as elsewhere in its urban area but due to state refs it has to incorporate water shed in order to control it. 485 square miles is the real density; which is still large but gives prospective.
We replaced cities with highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring low-rise housing development strip mall highway identical housing development identical housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot strip mall highway…
I'm surprised Rochester NY isn't on this list. I was there 10 years ago for a wedding. And for one thing, I was shocked how big the downtown area is, many tall buildings and such, i wasn't expecting that. After exploring the downtown area, it was very clear that just about half of that city was empty. It was very weird and eerie, kinda like Detroit
As a resident of Broken Arrow (part of the greater Tulsa area), I can tell you that listing Tulsa and OKC as empty is a little misleading. Both metro areas are huge and growing rapidly. That includes cities in Tulsa county and Oklahoma county.
In Canada, Timmins Ontario in northern Ontario is 1240 square miles with population of about 45,000. Toronto, has size of only 240 square miles, so Timmins is huge by any standard. The reason, when mining created a boom in the larger Timmins area, these sparsely populated hamlets on the outside of town, where then incorporated into a newly created "Greater" Timmins.
The introductory example of Kansas City is foolish as hell. 1,600 people per square mile isn’t a detractor for any city IMO. I prefer not to live stacked on top of my neighbors.
@@bluecyclone7077 Your aggressive and naive, zero sum logic does not compute as an avid horticulturist and earth lover. Humans have lived sparsely as agrarians or gatherers since we’ve existed; many thousands of years with minimal environment impact. I grew up in a small, walkable, convenient, and socially connected, not suburban town. I was able to achieve a superior education; top 5% of the populous. Massive cities, in fact, created these modern urban sprawl problems. Don’t fret though, bruv, before you troll. Per your other divisive comments to others, I live in a growing metro and am happy; even better if I could retire away from the masses.
Interesting video, but I think some context is missing here. It's important to note that cities like New Orleans, Nashville, Virginia Beach, and Jacksonville have merged with their county governments, which significantly impacts their population density as their city limits encompass their respective counties. They function more like counties rather than traditional cities seen in the Northeast US, which can give the impression of emptiness when looking at population statistics. It's a unique aspect of Southern urban planning that aims to streamline services for the community while reducing bureaucracy. The absence of township-level government and the presence of one large school district for an entire county, as opposed to several smaller ones, further validate this approach (a cool outlier is San Antonio which is served by 14 independent school districts vs Chicago served by only 1). Also...China has taken a similar approach with planning its new mega cities like Chongqing.
Yes ,,just like australia,, our cities are empty in lockdown, because we mainly live in houses 5o miles out in suburbia,, also its colder than concrete cities plus we get harrassed for appearoing homeless ,, so cities get ghosted
New Orleans is in a parish not a county. Please refer to the correct nomenclature. It's not only incorrect to refer it from a governmental stand point but a cultural as well.
@@joeywilson3 I appreciate the correction and apologize for the oversight in my terminology. I used "counties" as a general term for secondary levels of local government. As Virginia Beach is technically an "independent city" which is unique to that state rather than a consolidated-city-county. I didn't feel it was necessary to delve into such detail on this platform, but I understand and respect the importance of accuracy in discussions like these.
@@teasy2518County, borough, parish, district, municipality, it doesn’t matter how you slice it. I understood what you meant, and was very intrigued by your comment.
That doesn’t sound like a good plan and southern cities aren’t the only ones that absorbed counties. They are like that because they ARE empty. It’s just the way they built the city
@@Pveal79--- He's obviously referring to Atlanta's city population, not the metro. And Atlanta has a population density of 3685.45 per square mile. That's nothing to write home about. You can look it up for yourself.
@@Pveal79 --- Don't get your panties in a bunch. Now, take a breath. Btw, did you know that when you pose a question, you end it with a question mark? You can look it up.
I wouldn’t live in some densely populated urban core like Chicago or New York, those people are packed in there living on top of each other like animals.
Most ppl don't live in Nunavut that's the stupidest reply I've ever seen.. This whole thing is about cities not states or small villages nobody would live in but a m o r o n. Anchorage has WalMart it's still expensive though
Some cities are hemmed in by legal boundaries which count only the cramped city center population. KC and Oklahoma City and Jacksonville have enormous land areas which in Chicago or St Louis have small areas. Area of developed area should be compared to population and then things equalize significantly.
Yeppers, Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida by square mileage. Suffolk is the largest city in the state of Virginia by square mileage.
The video lists Nashville and Jacksonville as having very low population densities but completely fails to mention that both of these cities have a large total land area because they are city/county consolidated.
While exploring vacant big cities, it's wise to consider retirement planning. Look for areas with vibrant communities, healthcare, and amenities for your future.
It really is, but fear mongering propaganda in this new age of mainstream ignorance and a radicalized maga crowd will always paint it as some sort of warzone.
Empty cities today are former industrial centers, whose populations left when the jobs dried up. Busy cities today are centers for the still vibrant service economy, be it financial, insurance or technology, where jobs are still available.
But it's one of the only cities that is still distinctive. Most places have become highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring low-rise housing development strip mall highway identical housing development identical housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot strip mall highway…
We need a national policy to reward businesses to move to areas with lower housing costs and less density. People retired or on disability in subsidized housing should be given incentives to move to cheaper areas, like paying relocation. Low income workers in subsidized housing could be matched with job offers in multiple areas and be offered relocation assistance in hopes that eventually they won't require subsidies or can buy a manufactured home on its own lot or in an owner cooperative trailer park. People aren't having children because they have to live in high cost areas. Rural and small town people have 50% more children, especially in the more prosperous areas.
Low density means fewer job opportunities. OK I get what you are saying, encourage businesses to move there and then the job opportunities will be there. And it can work somewhat. But the two things that will make a business want to relocate to your area are tax incentives and solid infrastructure. And those two things don't work together. In fact they generally work against each other. I'm not saying you can't get it to work because I've seen it done. But EVENTUALLY people will moved to where the jobs are and you have the same problem all over again. And businesses that aren't something like ranching or farming or logging work better in built up areas instead of rural areas most of the time for a number of logistical reasons. Go to far down this road and you end up with central planning committees and that's not a very workable situation either. Truth is we would have far better luck putting an end to corporate investors turning residential property into a commodity instead of a basic necessity. Almost all of the housing crisis and issue with finding affordable housing is being driven by large corporate real estate buying up a high percentage of the available residential property on the market. Take that out of the market or at least limit it in some way and you will find that housing prices won't be so insane.
Yep, Alaska is a pretty weird place. Average apartment is 3 bedroom two bath with 2600 square feet. Compare that with NYC with average apartment being two bedroom, one bath with 900 square feet. I suppose that people have to find a place for the sled dogs. No pets allowed is not going to happen in AK.
Well yeah that's a big part of this. Another big part of this is how few permanent residents actually live downtown in major cities in the US. In both Houston and Atlanta where I've lived for decades the downtown areas are devoid of much residential property. Atlanta has almost nobody living in downtown and it's not until you get into Midtown, Grant Park, VA Highlands or Techwood that you see any actual residents. Houston is the same way. People live in Montrose and Midtown and Galleria but there aren't any people living downtown. And the two cities are a perfect example of the different approaches to city growth and city jurisdiction where Houston city limits expand all the way out past the inner loop and pretty much to Beltway 8 Atlanta doesn't even cover all of the land inside of the 285 Perimeter. Instead you have towns like Chamblee, and Sandy Springs and Decatur carved out of that land. I honestly don't think either approach is the end all be all of solving local governance. Nor is the practice of combining a county government with a city government like they did in Virginia Beach or in some of the other locations mentioned here. There's always pitfalls and problems with any approach.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Yes, and it would be a more interesting list to really pull apart which big cities have more people living downtown and/or in the inner city versus which ones are more under or depopulated. But just doing populatoin density doesn't accomplish that because it's random how much of the suburbs are incorporated within city boundaries, as you correctly stated with respect to Atlanta and Houston. I've lived in the SF Bay Area, LA and DC, and SF and DC are both small cities with almost no incorporated suburban areas that often feel just as big if not bigger than LA, which is a big city, but also a city that is mostly composed of suburban areas.
Kansas City stats vary on whether you are talking about the 'city of Kansas City MO' or the KC metro. The metro is in two states, multiple counties (14) and dozens of small cities that are set up next to each other. There are some shared services, but you can cross a street and be in a totally different city - with it's own police department and school system. The metro has a population of around 2.5 million, but yeah, we are spread out. A lot.
Depends. For city services it is better to be dense but it can extend its tax base by being more spread out. I think the best case is to be a less dense city that is becoming more dense due to growing population. Oklahoma City is one of the best examples of this.
So, Tucson is less dense than other cities. That does not mean that the city is, as your title implies, empty. It means they have more room to spread out and they are not crammed into smaller land areas that other cities have. And, Arizona is a large state, in terms of land area.
Interesting how urban sprawl is becoming less of a thing. Very professional video. Well done. No 'and' between hundred and thousand when saying numbers.
Jacksonville, Virginia Beach, and Anchorage have a consolidated political structure. The city and county (Anchorage was a city/borough merger) that the city resided in were merged into one political unit.
The thing is, so many cities have reduced dramatically in population -- consider St. Louis, for example -- while their suburbs have grown dramatically. So, looking at the limited CITY statistics does not speak to the economy and vibrancy of the entire metro area. Sorry for stating the obvious!
This video misses the elephant in the room: zoning. Majority of urban and suburban areas have zoning laws for single-family homes. That restriction is detrimental to significantly decreasing the population density for a major city, as single-family homes typically acquire large acres of land to be utilized for such.
Yep. Most analyses miss this and choose to focus on, from one side, greed, cApItaLiSm, and gentrification and, from the other, freedumb, my sprawl hellscape is "full", and "we just need to add another lane!"
The population density in VA Beach is concentrated in the northern half of the city much of the southern half has been preserved for agriculture and protected wetlands, city council voted for there to be no urbanization past a certain point so it’s more dense than the numbers say
BTW Jersey City NY has a population density of 19,835.1 per square mile. One of the most densely populated places in America. 286,670 people in 14.7 sq miles.
As a UK citizen who has relations living in Arizona, and has visited, I can honestly say it feels quite empty. Mind you the streets could be empty because it's ridiculously hot.
I have lived in two of the cities on this list, Jacksonville and Tucson each one for about 20 years. Jacksonville has a large city size due to the consolidation of City and county government in 1968 I believe. That has been pointed out in other comments. Tucson, has a large city size with vastly open areas due to water rights. Out in the desert, you need to be able to have as much access to water sources as possible to sustain any kind of population growth.
After looking at the video and the comments, we know for certain that no effort was made in actually "talking about the problem," if there really was a problem. The producer deserves no money from this video.
the new orleans count is wrong. because there is so much water and marsh i within city limit its actually very densely populated even post katrina because the geography makes sprawl near impossible
That is why Jacksonville has a larger population than Miami or Tampa. The city merged with the county for some reason. The urban area population is a lot smaller.
This brings up the important question though of why would you want to live in a city with a higher population density? I'm a city guy, but it's the amenities and things to do I like, not living on top of each other like caged rats. As long as there's late night international cuisine and a somewhat vibrant arts scene, I'm good living in a city like Charlotte/Raleigh as opposed to a city like LA.
I would certainly make an argument for Lexington to be on this list. Its land area is actually larger than Tucson, and they have about 200,000 less residents. In 1974, Lexington annexed Fayette County, almost all of which is farmland or otherwise vacant land that will likely never be built on, since much of it is protected or considered to be of "statewide importance" by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Honestly, I'm surprised Louisville didn't, but then I remembered why Louisville's population has gone down. Some of the suburbs, like Shively, Prospect, Middletown & St Matthews aren't a part of Louisville anymore
This video is kind of a waste of time because the author does not really tell you why these cities feel empty. It's because these are not cities at all compared to the Eastern Legacy cities such as Chicago and NYC. Most cities in this video are nothing more than giant single family home Suburban townships with massive square mileage and a massive commercial core with skyscrapers. The glorified suburbs with skyscrapers.
I’ve been to Anchorage! I was part of a team that did missions work in Wasila, and while we mainly stayed around that area, during the second day of our time there, we went to Anchorage and shopped around. I had no idea it had so much land, or that it was so sparsely populated, although now that I think about it, I remember not seeing many people there while we shopped.
'im can confirm on Tulsa. Coming from slightly outside the Metro Atlanta area, Downtown Tulsa on a Friday afternoon seemed eerily vacant. Almost replicates the scene in "The Devil's Advocate" when that twisty faced woman beckons Kevin to go see "Pops"... up that "still" One Way. 🤔🤫🤐
The NJ average density is extraordinarily misleading. Northwestern NJ is extremely rural. A huge chunk of Southern NJ has the Pine Barrens (about 1.1 million acres) plus many huge industrial farms. Northeastern NJ is the largest and most densely populated REGION in the U$A. Population density varies from 0 to more than 60,000 people per square mile.
There’s a common misconception that empty cities are somehow safer than crowded ones, oh boy is that inaccurate. Most of the cities on this list are downright dangerous!
These cities aren’t empty. They simply have a higher percentage of single housing structures. To me, empty would mean unoccupied structures. I think the video mentioned urban sprawl once, which would be more apt title, but wouldn’t garner the views.
Unless I'm crazy, one of your pictures of Memphis is actually of Nashville, off the Cumberland River, the picture with the "Batman Building", which is well known in Nashville.
Toledo is the second largest city in Ohio in land area but #4 in population. People don’t want to live in big cities anymore because it’s not 1950 anymore.
Maybe not in Ohio. Certain cities yeah. They want NEW sht. with some of the classic urban look…and they don’t want to have to pay for 3500 for a “luxury” apt. to do so.
These places in America can't even be called cities. We replaced cities with highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring low-rise housing development strip mall highway identical housing development identical housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot strip mall highway…
Anything in the sunbelt has the same story : The interstates came and they basically turned their down towns into ghost towns and then neglected their cities. Cities are organic places and they need people living in the actual polis to thrive. Most of the stuff in the Sunbelt is like...I don't even know how to describe it. It's almost like they setup a sort of half assed downtown area to act as a movie set for daytime activities and then everyone just disperses after business hours. That isn't a real city. It's a prop. This makes sense, too. Most of the cities on this list have State governments that are actively hostile to building thriving cities. Not just neglectful, but actively, acutely hostile to their cities thriving.
Public transportation is the difference. Chicago, NYC, Philly, Jersey City, Boston, etc, have great public transportation. All the others are car oriented.
Cleveland is like that too
Phoenix doesn't and it's still exploding.
Yeah, and they allow all of the crime to easily flow into the suburbs. People who own cars won't put up with it, and leave. That's why all of those cities are rampant with crime.
" great public transportation " hahaha... yeah, o.k.
Great public transportation lol is that why so many people are leaving those cities permanently?
City's are empty, but why is it rent are still high?
not a lot of housing supply, usually due to poor land use
@DJHASDIMONDS lies. These big corps, like black rock are buying up all of these properties
Because every aspect of building and maintaining a property has gone up
Good question
High tax and maintenance costs
"empty cities" ... clickbait tiltle
Yep. Some people don't have good content then turn to clickbait.
It is misleading. He deserved my dislike.
The stats don't matter until you drive in its rush hour.
The lack of density is precisely the reason people are driving further, causing traffic
Car centric planning is the problem
@@yankee8570 not really. NYC has the best transit and most traffic. so ur theory dosent hold up
@@jamespyle777 Surburbanites love to complain about traffic in cities but suburbanites CAUSE traffic in cities. Lol
After living in the DFW area the last few years I could go for empty!
I’m in north Fort Worth after living in the south Dallas county area most of my life. I gotta get out of here, I’m sick of so many people and the traffic!
@valerief1231 I'm from North Fort Worth, and I'll tell you, don't move to the Tampa Bay area. It's ridiculous.
Dallas is like the 19th most densely populated metro area in the country. Do you just hate being around other humans?
@chrisbartolini1508 Are you assuming that I hate (strong word) to be around other humans or are you seriously asking such a ridiculous question?
@@beenadickarnold5666 I mean if Dallas of all places is too much for you, don’t know what to tell you.
Does a segment on Memphis while showing a drone shot of what's clearly the Nashville skyline with the iconic Batman Building 🤔
I was about to point out the same thing. This video was sloppy.
The segment on Memphis also includes an aerial shot of Knoxville, which is almost 400 miles away! This is almost certainly an AI-generated video.
Shots before the Nashville Skyline were also of Nashville. There was a clear aerial shot of the Vanderbilt/VA Hospital area.
Batman lives in Gotham #fail
4:38 The pyramid and the Mississippi river look weird. 😀
Hard to take this video seriously when the video footage for the first 15 seconds of the Memphis segment is actually Nashville
Memphisvillie?
*ducks* 😂
This is a Russian propaganda outlet.
Not true
This video uses the skyline of Nashville when talking about Memphis. This is a very poorly researched and deceptively titled video.
He’s a Moron.
Virginia Beach was a small town with fewer than 6,000 people in the early 1960s. Later in the decade it consolidated with Princess Anne County (200+ sq.mi.) to prevent County land from being annexed by the adjacent city of Norfolk. So VB is not a real city at all, but basically just a surburb of Norfolk.
It's a sprawl. Like Norfolk, it's basically the Navy's dumping ground for service folks, but with more space for farms, golf courses and megachurches.
Jax fl is just like that it's misleading bc they merged w Duval county
@@ExiledMSH It is rather startling how quiet Virginia Beach becomes just south of Rudee Inlet.
@@trapmuzik6708 I kind of laughed about the tourist population. I thought, why? It's due to the rest of Duval county. And population is not surpising given how many retirees move south.
VA Beach, Norfolk. Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Portsmouth are all considered Independent Cities within Virginia. They are basically counties without the name.
Please do me a favor and physically look at a map of Tucson. Their city limits go almost 20 mi away from the city center on the east side. However you don't really hit the city until you're about 7 mi from downtown. Meaning you drive through 13 mi of empty desert, inside Tucson City limits before you ever reach any urbanized area. This skews your number
If the maker of this video drivers from phoenix to Tucson I'm sure he wouldn't put Tucson on this list.
There is no such thing as a crowded American city; they're ALL sprawled car-centric undesirable places to live.
Yeah this is the dumbest video. These are all cities that are just as dense as others, but have official boundaries that include a lot more surrounding land.
@@brandonmccoy8434 amen. I can understand why Tucson did it though. They're probably just trying to prevent other towns from surrounding it kind of like Chicago is surrounded
@@brandonmccoy8434 yea this video acts as if it’s never heard of the concept of a consolidated city/county
I drove through Tucson about a month ago, I swear I was 20 miles out of the city in the desert when I pulled off the highway to fix something in my van… and there was a sign that said “Tucson City Limit” … it was wild
Tucson, Arizona
New Orleans, Louisiana
Memphis, Tennessee
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Kansas City, Missouri
Nashville, Tennessee
Jacksonville, Florida
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Anchorage, Alaska
And it all red states 🤔 no suprise no one want to live there though
@@akuakesewaa9715Red states are attracting residents. It's blue states that have people leaving it
@@KristNi almost all of those cities listed are in red states, what?
@@WBCakaWBrickCraft I was talking about cities. But, voting Blue for a city in a red state isn't much difference
Nothing will change until we realize red and blue are the same. These politicians are laughing all the way to the bank. Mean while we're out here arguing about which side is worse.
A lot of American cities went on massive land grabs in the 60's and 70's
Big 3 incentivized. Big city long distances. No public transit. Forced into cars. That simple.
@@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart more money for mister GMC!
The other way around. People moved from the city to unincorporated areas located outside the city. The cities later incorporated those suburban neighborhoods. No one wants to live in a sterile urban wasteland.
That KC/Chicago comparison at the beginning hits different when you're from both KC and Chicago.
Tornados or Snow?
@@AMPProfsnownado
@@RyanKusuma ommmm
Most of the KC population live outside the city proper
@@mrmarkymark77 as does Chicago. The metro area of Chicago he like 10 million people
Context for New Orleans: city land area 169 sq miles but at LEAST 100 square miles are uninhabitable swaps to the east and west of the city. And it’s not hurricanes so much that keep people out, it’s the insurance premiums (if you can even get insurance) along with the stated issue of crime. Katrina was a lost opportunity to re-imagine the city, with denser living areas and mass transit. Oh well.
Bingo!!
Fascinating video! It really highlights the importance of considering location in retirement planning. Empty cities could offer unexpected opportunities. Thanks for sharing!
I knew Anchorage would be #1 on this list. It really doesn’t feel like it’s as big as it is. I live nearly 400 miles to the North, in Fairbanks, and every time I travel down, I’m always amazed at how well traffic flows around there.
I had no idea KCMO was so big. I was born & raised in Chicago, didn’t know it was so big compared with Chicago.
Jacksonville FL is Florida's largest "city" by land mass, size not pop. I think Miami 🌆 has the most residents. Orlando, Orlando.gov 2020s is approx 800000. Maybe 850000. It seems larger than it really is.
Kansas City has annexed quite a lot of land over the past several decades, especially north of the Missouri River. Much of that space is semi-rural, and includes a lot of empty land around the airport. Many first-time visitors to KC who fly into KCI remark on how, when coming in for the landing, the plane flies over crop land and fields of grazing cattle, not over built-up urban areas like in many other cities of similar size.
Love how you show the Nashville skyline during the Memphis segment 😂😂
I live in Los Angeles and what’s hilarious
To me seeing ads from different states encouraging Californians to move there…😂
Encouraging people to move to other states from California. Not over inflated home prices, high gas prices, and homeless everywhere ? I won't even mention the government in California and the ridiculous state laws. Which Californians bring with them and want to impose on other states. Stay, Please stay in California.
Please, stay where you are. We don’t need your politics anywhere else.
@@LayzeeGiantyou assume I’m liberal and not conservative…I’m good…I like living in CA…your state sucks in many ways equal or worse then California 💁🏽♂️
@@ThunderKat2012 Keep believing that, it helps us prosper.
@@LayzeeGiant yall underwater right now or nah? 😆 yeah I thought so…
"Empty" and "Nobody" perhaps a bit overstated... Interesting however
I agree but I have driven around in some of these cities and it’s shocking to see empty downtowns. I’m from Philadelphia and have frequented New Jersey and New York on a regular basis. My environment is used to seeing hustle and bustle….Then visiting some of the empty cities and seeing nobody walking the sidewalks and almost no car traffic is an eye opener for me. Many people in the Northeast never see that kind of scenario in a major city
Most US cities lost their verve with the loss of manufacturing jobs. Big chain stores killed America's downtowns. Woke was the nail in the coffin.
Dude, western and even many midwestern cities are spread out with a more suburban feel. That's just how they are. It's not a defect.
Yea but the lack of infrastructure makes those area more car dependent which sucks
@@oladeebiazazi4538 Well, what most people don't realize is that all of America used to be dense walkable cities. It's just that most of them got bulldozed and retrofitted for cars in the late 1960s.
@oladeebiazazi4538 ...that is also why America as a whole is car dependent... European cities combine a robust public transit system (busses, subways, trams) with strong walkable environment which makes it possible to travel between cities by train/plane.... and then still be able to get around within those cities... even if one were to travel to most cities in America by train/plane they would still need access to a car to get around and function within that city... so rather than travel by train or plane to a destination city it is often more convenient to drive there so one has their car available... this causes a circular effect stifling the development of high speed rail between cities and the development of strong public transit within cities...
Detroit, Chicago, STL, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, etc. most all not be a part of the Midwest because they have more city feels. I think you meant the South
@@bluecyclone7077 Actually, I was thinking of Kansas City, Tulsa, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and so on. I agree that the cities you named are denser "eastern type" cities.
Kansas City annexed over half of its current land. The original side was a 3rd of its current. That's why it's not that dense.
So did Philly it’s not an excuse that’s just the way they planned it
Oklahoma City also, due to water rights. OKC actually feels as dense as elsewhere in its urban area but due to state refs it has to incorporate water shed in order to control it. 485 square miles is the real density; which is still large but gives prospective.
4:18 I think that actually might be Nashville and not Memphis. Does Memphis also have a building with two spires like that?
The emptying of the big cities really began at the same time the interstate highways were being completed. That’s no unrelated coincidence.
Of course. Nobody wants to live in a city where you need to depend on a car for transportation.
@@thebabbler8867if you live in a suburban area off a highway, I hate to break it to you, but you do in fact live in the city.
We replaced cities with highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring low-rise housing development strip mall highway identical housing development identical housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot strip mall highway…
Yeah it's the Urban sprawl
I'm surprised Rochester NY isn't on this list. I was there 10 years ago for a wedding. And for one thing, I was shocked how big the downtown area is, many tall buildings and such, i wasn't expecting that. After exploring the downtown area, it was very clear that just about half of that city was empty. It was very weird and eerie, kinda like Detroit
Kodak.
A lot of the cities in the rust belt are hella empty too, with the exception of Chicago and Philadelphia.
Kansas City , MO. Downtown never has had a residential population all businesses.
As a resident of Broken Arrow (part of the greater Tulsa area), I can tell you that listing Tulsa and OKC as empty is a little misleading. Both metro areas are huge and growing rapidly. That includes cities in Tulsa county and Oklahoma county.
In Canada, Timmins Ontario in northern Ontario is 1240 square miles with population of about 45,000. Toronto, has size of only 240 square miles, so Timmins is huge by any standard. The reason, when mining created a boom in the larger Timmins area, these sparsely populated hamlets on the outside of town, where then incorporated into a newly created "Greater" Timmins.
45000 to many siberia sounds a little bit better
As someone who lived in Memphis for 14 years, *those reasons are 100% correct*
The introductory example of Kansas City is foolish as hell. 1,600 people per square mile isn’t a detractor for any city IMO. I prefer not to live stacked on top of my neighbors.
Then you hate the environment because sprawl is killing it
@@bluecyclone7077 Your aggressive and naive, zero sum logic does not compute as an avid horticulturist and earth lover. Humans have lived sparsely as agrarians or gatherers since we’ve existed; many thousands of years with minimal environment impact.
I grew up in a small, walkable, convenient, and socially connected, not suburban town. I was able to achieve a superior education; top 5% of the populous. Massive cities, in fact, created these modern urban sprawl problems.
Don’t fret though, bruv, before you troll. Per your other divisive comments to others, I live in a growing metro and am happy; even better if I could retire away from the masses.
Interesting video, but I think some context is missing here. It's important to note that cities like New Orleans, Nashville, Virginia Beach, and Jacksonville have merged with their county governments, which significantly impacts their population density as their city limits encompass their respective counties. They function more like counties rather than traditional cities seen in the Northeast US, which can give the impression of emptiness when looking at population statistics. It's a unique aspect of Southern urban planning that aims to streamline services for the community while reducing bureaucracy. The absence of township-level government and the presence of one large school district for an entire county, as opposed to several smaller ones, further validate this approach (a cool outlier is San Antonio which is served by 14 independent school districts vs Chicago served by only 1). Also...China has taken a similar approach with planning its new mega cities like Chongqing.
Yes ,,just like australia,, our cities are empty in lockdown, because we mainly live in houses 5o miles out in suburbia,,
also its colder than concrete cities
plus we get harrassed for appearoing homeless ,,
so cities get ghosted
New Orleans is in a parish not a county. Please refer to the correct nomenclature. It's not only incorrect to refer it from a governmental stand point but a cultural as well.
@@joeywilson3 I appreciate the correction and apologize for the oversight in my terminology. I used "counties" as a general term for secondary levels of local government. As Virginia Beach is technically an "independent city" which is unique to that state rather than a consolidated-city-county. I didn't feel it was necessary to delve into such detail on this platform, but I understand and respect the importance of accuracy in discussions like these.
@@teasy2518County, borough, parish, district, municipality, it doesn’t matter how you slice it. I understood what you meant, and was very intrigued by your comment.
That doesn’t sound like a good plan and southern cities aren’t the only ones that absorbed counties. They are like that because they ARE empty. It’s just the way they built the city
What blows my mind is that Fresno CA has a higher population than Atlanta GA. 540k vs. 500k
Those numbers are wrong. I live in Atlanta. There's like 6 million ppl here in the metro area
@@Pveal79--- He's obviously referring to Atlanta's city population, not the metro. And Atlanta has a population density of 3685.45 per square mile. That's nothing to write home about. You can look it up for yourself.
@RooseveltAliWashingtonX and what was the point you trying to make rescueman. You think I don't know that
@@Pveal79 --- Don't get your panties in a bunch. Now, take a breath.
Btw, did you know that when you pose a question, you end it with a question mark? You can look it up.
the city genius. not the metro@@Pveal79
New Orleans also has about 1/3 of it's land area being bayou/swamp
I wouldn’t live in some densely populated urban core like Chicago or New York, those people are packed in there living on top of each other like animals.
No. You just don't need a car.
dude, Alaska doesn't count
the cost of living there is insane
I live in Hawaii and it's expensive. I heard and read Alaska is even more expensive! I believe you !
Check out the grocery prices in Nunavut, very expensive...
Jones Act victims.
Most ppl don't live in Nunavut that's the stupidest reply I've ever seen.. This whole thing is about cities not states or small villages nobody would live in but a m o r o n. Anchorage has WalMart it's still expensive though
Does Alaska not pay you to live there?
Seven of these cities are featured in the homicide show 48 Hours
New Orleans is too crowded.
I know right,? What is he talking about
Jacksonville is 845 square miles and the population is 980,000. It's dense because it's the largest city in the contiguous US.
Some cities are hemmed in by legal boundaries which count only the cramped city center population. KC and Oklahoma City and Jacksonville have enormous land areas which in Chicago or St Louis have small areas. Area of developed area should be compared to population and then things equalize significantly.
Yeppers, Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida by square mileage. Suffolk is the largest city in the state of Virginia by square mileage.
That's true I live in Oklahoma City and it is huge but we only have a population of 1.4 million
The video lists Nashville and Jacksonville as having very low population densities but completely fails to mention that both of these cities have a large total land area because they are city/county consolidated.
While exploring vacant big cities, it's wise to consider retirement planning. Look for areas with vibrant communities, healthcare, and amenities for your future.
Downtown St. Louis... 100 million dollar skyscraper office bldg offered at 4 million with no takers.
Chicago is such a great and beautiful city.
Til bullets
For sure
@@AMPProfthat’s everywhere in America these days.
It really is, but fear mongering propaganda in this new age of mainstream ignorance and a radicalized maga crowd will always paint it as some sort of warzone.
😂😂😂 maybe in the 80s
Empty cities today are former industrial centers, whose populations left when the jobs dried up. Busy cities today are centers for the still vibrant service economy, be it financial, insurance or technology, where jobs are still available.
Incredibly sloppy clickbait video here
farts are real
I'm originally from New Orleans and to be honest, I hope that dump of a city goes further up the list.
But it's one of the only cities that is still distinctive. Most places have become highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring low-rise housing development strip mall highway identical housing development identical housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot strip mall highway…
Why? Great culture but not too friendly.
It's one of my favorite American cities outside of San Francisco
We need a national policy to reward businesses to move to areas with lower housing costs and less density. People retired or on disability in subsidized housing should be given incentives to move to cheaper areas, like paying relocation. Low income workers in subsidized housing could be matched with job offers in multiple areas and be offered relocation assistance in hopes that eventually they won't require subsidies or can buy a manufactured home on its own lot or in an owner cooperative trailer park. People aren't having children because they have to live in high cost areas. Rural and small town people have 50% more children, especially in the more prosperous areas.
Low density means fewer job opportunities. OK I get what you are saying, encourage businesses to move there and then the job opportunities will be there. And it can work somewhat. But the two things that will make a business want to relocate to your area are tax incentives and solid infrastructure. And those two things don't work together. In fact they generally work against each other. I'm not saying you can't get it to work because I've seen it done. But EVENTUALLY people will moved to where the jobs are and you have the same problem all over again. And businesses that aren't something like ranching or farming or logging work better in built up areas instead of rural areas most of the time for a number of logistical reasons. Go to far down this road and you end up with central planning committees and that's not a very workable situation either.
Truth is we would have far better luck putting an end to corporate investors turning residential property into a commodity instead of a basic necessity. Almost all of the housing crisis and issue with finding affordable housing is being driven by large corporate real estate buying up a high percentage of the available residential property on the market. Take that out of the market or at least limit it in some way and you will find that housing prices won't be so insane.
My wife and I spent a weekend in New Orleans so we could go to the WW2 Museum, we hated it because of the people, very rude.
Virginia Beach is not surprising since a lot of the square miles are water.
Yep, Alaska is a pretty weird place. Average apartment is 3 bedroom two bath with 2600 square feet. Compare that with NYC with average apartment being two bedroom, one bath with 900 square feet.
I suppose that people have to find a place for the sled dogs. No pets allowed is not going to happen in AK.
This list is too influenced by the randomness of how much open land has been annexed into the various cities.
Well yeah that's a big part of this. Another big part of this is how few permanent residents actually live downtown in major cities in the US. In both Houston and Atlanta where I've lived for decades the downtown areas are devoid of much residential property. Atlanta has almost nobody living in downtown and it's not until you get into Midtown, Grant Park, VA Highlands or Techwood that you see any actual residents. Houston is the same way. People live in Montrose and Midtown and Galleria but there aren't any people living downtown.
And the two cities are a perfect example of the different approaches to city growth and city jurisdiction where Houston city limits expand all the way out past the inner loop and pretty much to Beltway 8 Atlanta doesn't even cover all of the land inside of the 285 Perimeter. Instead you have towns like Chamblee, and Sandy Springs and Decatur carved out of that land.
I honestly don't think either approach is the end all be all of solving local governance. Nor is the practice of combining a county government with a city government like they did in Virginia Beach or in some of the other locations mentioned here. There's always pitfalls and problems with any approach.
@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Yes, and it would be a more interesting list to really pull apart which big cities have more people living downtown and/or in the inner city versus which ones are more under or depopulated. But just doing populatoin density doesn't accomplish that because it's random how much of the suburbs are incorporated within city boundaries, as you correctly stated with respect to Atlanta and Houston. I've lived in the SF Bay Area, LA and DC, and SF and DC are both small cities with almost no incorporated suburban areas that often feel just as big if not bigger than LA, which is a big city, but also a city that is mostly composed of suburban areas.
NYC built up, L.A. built out, explains the density difference.
Kansas City stats vary on whether you are talking about the 'city of Kansas City MO' or the KC metro. The metro is in two states, multiple counties (14) and dozens of small cities that are set up next to each other. There are some shared services, but you can cross a street and be in a totally different city - with it's own police department and school system. The metro has a population of around 2.5 million, but yeah, we are spread out. A lot.
Talking about crime in KC. They had a shooting at the Chiefs parade. I still want to check out KC. It's on my list. I want to catch a royals game.
Introverts are taking note. Sounds like a dream!
Tulsa and OKC is racist against Blacks, especially Tulsa. OKC isn't really but Tulsa is very racist
So, is low population density good or bad? This video could have been much better.
Depends. For city services it is better to be dense but it can extend its tax base by being more spread out. I think the best case is to be a less dense city that is becoming more dense due to growing population. Oklahoma City is one of the best examples of this.
So, Tucson is less dense than other cities. That does not mean that the city is, as your title implies, empty. It means they have more room to spread out and they are not crammed into smaller land areas that other cities have. And, Arizona is a large state, in terms of land area.
Interesting how urban sprawl is becoming less of a thing. Very professional video. Well done. No 'and' between hundred and thousand when saying numbers.
I noticed you used single quotes. Is this standard? 🤔
@@EmilyTienne Probably not. Laziness on my part.
The ones on this list are built almost exclusively for roadway transport. Roads and parking take up a lot of space relative to what's there.
There are some sloppy mistakes in the video with the number in the graphic being different from the narrative.
Nashville had no downtown housing until recent years. Now downtown is being built like crazy. Every other new highrise is now for housing.
Jacksonville, Virginia Beach, and Anchorage have a consolidated political structure. The city and county (Anchorage was a city/borough merger) that the city resided in were merged into one political unit.
The thing is, so many cities have reduced dramatically in population -- consider St. Louis, for example -- while their suburbs have grown dramatically. So, looking at the limited CITY statistics does not speak to the economy and vibrancy of the entire metro area. Sorry for stating the obvious!
This video misses the elephant in the room: zoning. Majority of urban and suburban areas have zoning laws for single-family homes. That restriction is detrimental to significantly decreasing the population density for a major city, as single-family homes typically acquire large acres of land to be utilized for such.
Yep. Most analyses miss this and choose to focus on, from one side, greed, cApItaLiSm, and gentrification and, from the other, freedumb, my sprawl hellscape is "full", and "we just need to add another lane!"
The population density in VA Beach is concentrated in the northern half of the city much of the southern half has been preserved for agriculture and protected wetlands, city council voted for there to be no urbanization past a certain point so it’s more dense than the numbers say
BTW Jersey City NY has a population density of 19,835.1 per square mile. One of the most densely populated places in America. 286,670 people in 14.7 sq miles.
Is it real? Or in Paper only???
NJ not NY. it’s literally in the name lol
As a UK citizen who has relations living in Arizona, and has visited, I can honestly say it feels quite empty. Mind you the streets could be empty because it's ridiculously hot.
I have lived in two of the cities on this list, Jacksonville and Tucson each one for about 20 years. Jacksonville has a large city size due to the consolidation of City and county government in 1968 I believe. That has been pointed out in other comments. Tucson, has a large city size with vastly open areas due to water rights. Out in the desert, you need to be able to have as much access to water sources as possible to sustain any kind of population growth.
People know that the New Madrid earthquake fault is very likely to erupt, and level the city of Memphis 😮 I'd be getting out of there also.😊
After looking at the video and the comments, we know for certain that no effort was made in actually "talking about the problem," if there really was a problem.
The producer deserves no money from this video.
the new orleans count is wrong. because there is so much water and marsh i
within city limit its actually very densely populated even post katrina because the geography makes sprawl near impossible
Who goes to Jacksonville for vacation?
Golf TPC Sawgrass!
My sister, family lived in J ville area; Ponte Vedra Beach area. 2010-2017. Nice community but the metro city was nothing to get worked up over.
All these places are so boring, it’s like you living in just one gigantic suburb instead of real city
great video
Density being low is easily explained by most of these “cities” having huge boundaries closer to the size of an entire county.
That is why Jacksonville has a larger population than Miami or Tampa. The city merged with the county for some reason. The urban area population is a lot smaller.
Be interesting to know amount of good/well rated hospitals in these cities.
This brings up the important question though of why would you want to live in a city with a higher population density? I'm a city guy, but it's the amenities and things to do I like, not living on top of each other like caged rats. As long as there's late night international cuisine and a somewhat vibrant arts scene, I'm good living in a city like Charlotte/Raleigh as opposed to a city like LA.
Doing a little bit of research, how come Lexington, KY did not make this list?
I would certainly make an argument for Lexington to be on this list. Its land area is actually larger than Tucson, and they have about 200,000 less residents.
In 1974, Lexington annexed Fayette County, almost all of which is farmland or otherwise vacant land that will likely never be built on, since much of it is protected or considered to be of "statewide importance" by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Honestly, I'm surprised Louisville didn't, but then I remembered why Louisville's population has gone down. Some of the suburbs, like Shively, Prospect, Middletown & St Matthews aren't a part of Louisville anymore
This video is kind of a waste of time because the author does not really tell you why these cities feel empty.
It's because these are not cities at all compared to the Eastern Legacy cities such as Chicago and NYC.
Most cities in this video are nothing more than giant single family home Suburban townships with massive square mileage and a massive commercial core with skyscrapers.
The glorified suburbs with skyscrapers.
Exactly, and they lack a solid rapid transportation system like New York and Chicago.
Most sunbelt cities.
I’ve been to Anchorage! I was part of a team that did missions work in Wasila, and while we mainly stayed around that area, during the second day of our time there, we went to Anchorage and shopped around. I had no idea it had so much land, or that it was so sparsely populated, although now that I think about it, I remember not seeing many people there while we shopped.
New Orleans 169 square miles, how much of that is water, swamps and areas where you cannot build structures. Those numbers are very misleading.
'im can confirm on Tulsa. Coming from slightly outside the Metro Atlanta area, Downtown Tulsa on a Friday afternoon seemed eerily vacant. Almost replicates the scene in "The Devil's Advocate" when that twisty faced woman beckons Kevin to go see "Pops"... up that "still" One Way. 🤔🤫🤐
The NJ average density is extraordinarily misleading.
Northwestern NJ is extremely rural.
A huge chunk of Southern NJ has the Pine Barrens (about 1.1 million acres) plus many huge industrial farms.
Northeastern NJ is the largest and most densely populated REGION in the U$A.
Population density varies from 0 to more than 60,000 people per square mile.
There’s a common misconception that empty cities are somehow safer than crowded ones, oh boy is that inaccurate. Most of the cities on this list are downright dangerous!
Gee you mean more people equals more crime,thanks Shirlock
@@Steve-q6l4v if anything that’s the opposite of what he said jackass
I think, not these cities are "empty", but the other ones are way too crowded :D
Why is New Mexico not on this list?
These cities aren’t empty. They simply have a higher percentage of single housing structures. To me, empty would mean unoccupied structures. I think the video mentioned urban sprawl once, which would be more apt title, but wouldn’t garner the views.
Unless I'm crazy, one of your pictures of Memphis is actually of Nashville, off the Cumberland River, the picture with the "Batman Building", which is well known in Nashville.
First few pictures are Nashville not Memphis.
16:02 - 16:11
I remember believing the LIE.
Go ahead and tell me The Sun is MILLIONS of MILES away. lol... While it's nestled comfy in those CLOUDS!
I guess 500,000 = nobody and empty 😮
Only to dumbasses.
Density
That’s small population wise for a sprawling metro area.
Toledo is the second largest city in Ohio in land area but #4 in population. People don’t want to live in big cities anymore because it’s not 1950 anymore.
Maybe not in Ohio. Certain cities yeah. They want NEW sht. with some of the classic urban look…and they don’t want to have to pay for 3500 for a “luxury” apt. to do so.
people just don’t wanna live in american cities bc they’re built like shit
@@757CitiesReppayou are aware that Columbus is currently the fastest-growing city in America, and that it's in Ohio, correct?
@@mayavenuemisfit814 yeah, I know…”NEW sht” …
Small America is still getting smaller. People DO want to live in big cities that’s why they move their ass into the metro area
These places in America can't even be called cities. We replaced cities with highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot boring low-rise housing development strip mall highway identical housing development identical housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot highway parking lot strip mall strip mall parking lot identical low-rise housing development strip mall highway housing development housing development housing development parking lot strip mall highway…
I watch RUclips videos all day and night and you did a nice job here.
How you get money to countine life of you watch RUclips full day sir
🤦🏾♂️ naw this has to be old news! Kansas City, Missouri 816 is getting beyond FULLLL! It’s starting to get over crowded 💯
Tulsa has a vibrant city area.
Really I haven't been to Tulsa in several years I live in Oklahoma City
"NOBODY" in CAPS and "empty" are BS. knock off hyperbole if no valuable. won't sub or like or watch sloppy crap like that.
Anything in the sunbelt has the same story : The interstates came and they basically turned their down towns into ghost towns and then neglected their cities. Cities are organic places and they need people living in the actual polis to thrive. Most of the stuff in the Sunbelt is like...I don't even know how to describe it. It's almost like they setup a sort of half assed downtown area to act as a movie set for daytime activities and then everyone just disperses after business hours. That isn't a real city. It's a prop. This makes sense, too. Most of the cities on this list have State governments that are actively hostile to building thriving cities. Not just neglectful, but actively, acutely hostile to their cities thriving.