I’ve been waiting for this video and now it’s here. I can see why people are leaving California but at the same time. A-lot of people from California are moving to my northwestern state and making more unaffordable than ever.
@@Shady22 as a Los Angeles native, Oregon is tempting but honestly I wish the state wasn’t so greedy. I just want to live and not worry about going back into homelessness.
Dude!!! Vancouver Washington is so bad now... It's been going on since 2016 I believe. Roads are shit literal single family homes surrounded by town homes that have no yards. It's sad to see this once little surban area going a city. This town cannot withhold this many ppl
I don't know if it was a conscious decision, but I really like that you left the loud noise of the traffic in. It's a pretty sad but fitting description of living in a city.
Born and raised in the Bay and lived in LA for 25 years before escaping. When people romanticize LA or California in general, I always say, "You're picturing Beverly Hills 90210 as your life. Your life will ACTUALLY be more like Boys in the Hood or Friday." LA is what I called "hard living". We live like New Yorkers EXCEPT you don't get New York - you just get Kardashians.
"The government doesn't do enough where it needs to and does too much where it shouldn't" is 100% correct. Just paying more taxes or voting for someone "new" doesn't fix the problem because the government itself is broken.
Vote for me! I'm running on what i call the clean slate paradigm. Government funding for all programs will be cut until i get a 10 page essay on why you should keep your funding in mla format. This includes the CIA, planned parenthood, Afghanistan warlords, Russia and Ukraine.
There always seems to be this stigma that the US is the go to place, and that California and LA are the romanticized wonderlands of vast wealth, influence and culture. But typically when I see LA, I tend to see a world where celebrities live upstairs in luxury and everyone else fights for the breadcrumbs downstairs, in rundown subways and through the filth of city streets, flickering lights and waste dumps...to me it hits less like a dream land but more like a harsh reality of what it is to be a person trying to make a living in a world that cares more about money than talent or hard work. Maybe it seems a bit pessimistic, not every place holds the sentiment and a lot of people probably enjoy LA. I just don't tend to see the allure.
As a Californian who moved states last year, I agree with you completely. Here in my new state people act as if leaving California was a bad move, but honestly my mental state improved a ton once I got out of there. You can barely afford to live there unless you are rich. My mom was middle class and we were living practically pay check to pay check trying to pay the mortgage on a home.
A lot of people compare the homeless situation to “slums” in other countries. Nah man, slums are actual neighborhoods, with cultural relevance, small businesses, food, sanitation services, churches, shopping, and local village medics. It’s a legit community. Completely different from this, where you are literally shunned from society. This is way worse. You’re literally on your own.
I'm here right now, leaving Monday though it's going to take me awhile to like people again, I will always be cautious and try not to help people out too much in the future because of LA. I only want to help good spirited people
@@DG-wr6cl I support your view with my own experience. When homeless you at least know you can trust the people around you to want the same thing you do and you can pretty much know what they will do. There is a real honesty and strength amongst one another. It's crazy man.. there is more stability and trust amongst criminals (theft and trespassing) than the dream America citizen
Thank you for saying this, many from other countries down play the misery & hopelessness because there’s palm trees & houses but NO LOVE OR COMPASSION OR COMMUNITY
@poleup No... leave my New York out of it. LA is the place people go to become "stars" NY is if you want to make something out of yourself which is very different
Man, everyone sounds so defeated... I traveled to LA once in 2015 and while the city is blessed with an all-year Mediterranean climate, everyone was so unhappy and barely getting by.
That climate does NOT do oneself good if you're in a bad place mentally. People need real seasons. Real seasons at least suggest time or movement or progress...all LA can offer is artificial "seasons" to compensate. At least NorCal drops fog into the equation once in awhile..but the changing climate is slowly doing away with that too.
If you want to live in a Mediterranean climaterio so much why don't you moce to the real poace like Spain, Italy, or Greece!? I'm pretty sure one of them has a cheap cost of living in comparison to LA ex: Greece
@@ericaperez8520 I live in Greece and we're kinda in the same position as LA: great weather, but bad mental state cause even though Greece is generally cheap, we still cannot afford anything.
As someone who is originally from OC/LA area and also a veteran I can’t even afford to buy a single family home making 100k a year by myself with zero debt and a 700 credit score. It’s absolutely crazy, I moved from California to Mexico City about 2 years ago and it’s been an absolute blessing being able to truly enjoy my life with real friendships and not be in house debt. I’m 26 right now and of course with the lower cost of living here in Mexico City I’ve been able to invest and save more money. No one wants to be poor and it’s sad to see so many people that created culture in California are getting kicked out of their own homes. There should be regulations on foreign property investors and idk maybe incentives for locals to buy properties, I don’t have the answers but it is truly sad to see so much culture is being eradicated by technology, consumerism, and GREEEEEDD.
How can you not afford a home with 100k a year? That doesn't add up at all. LA actually has very cheap property prices when compared to other global cities like New York, London, Paris etc. The median home price in LA is around 800k, so 8x your annual income. For comparison, in Munich the median home price is around 1500k (almost double!) while wages are substancially lower (around 40% lower). You should easily be able to afford a home with 100k while a 26 year old can't afford a home in Western countries.
@@EseLyx Yes but unless you’re paying CASH out right! And I’m happy that it’s EASY for YOU to afford a house in LA. For the rest of us supporting our family it’s not EASY
There’s regulations alright but not on those pesky foreign investors, it’s mostly on local small companies being driven out, why? Because California politicians are real cozy with those foreign investors.
When i was a kid, my dad took me to LA for a weekend to show me how wonderful the city was. But i'll never forget when we drove past Beverly Hills, and the sign had, on the other side of the street, a homeless man crying in pain. This dichotomy made me realise this city is just not for me.
This city has the richest and the poorest people in the world living on top of each other. That was one of the most unsettling things to me when I first moved here
Was born and raised in LA until i was 21 before moving to WA state. I’m 30 now and it’s been one of the best decisions i’ve made. California is borderline unlivable, not just financially but spiritually and mentally.
U said that beautifully. Arm pit city. Sorry, just things have changed ALOT, humanity in LA is individual, lonely, no since of community. The weather is great, people frost then weather. LoL
@@chunkymilk1288 Bellevue and the rest of the east side are pretty insular compared to other parts. Not the same suffering. This place is isolating and a lot of other things.
I’m a truck driver, and I gotta say, that little bit about “time” and spending it with the ones you love really hit home for me. Went to art school, college debt, eventually had to drive truck. A helluva lot more fun when my wife goes with me.
Well, a lot of people don’t understand that “art” students also have to do everything all the other students have to do. Research papers, tests and quizzes all while also having actual talent. So I did work hard. I don’t want to replay my life. I’m happy where I’m at and I’m not going to to go ahead get a degree like STEM because it’s not something I’m interested in. Fuck you, and fuck your comment. Cheers mate. 🤙
@Ash Hegde oh just fuck off, unless you know someone and have some networking in the computer science/engineering industry you're not exactly getting a high payed job either STEM fields like engineering are the most saturated fields of education many do not find work after studying. Besides, choosing a career to simply make money working a job you don't like is just putting a band aid over the solution, the only people who benefit from calling STEMs 'real' degrees are the employers of stem professions
Yea…I don’t know man. I certainly enjoyed my time getting it, made and continue to make some pretty neat stuff…not sure if I’d do it again if I knew what I know now…kinda hard to say. Every decision I made got me to where I am now. May not have met my wife if I hadn’t so really, it’s sort of a toss up.
@@travishelmkamp that's a great answer and no regrets. Just wondered as i could have gone to art school but ended up in construction kicking pipes for a living and just doodle on my spare time and always wanted to buy a tattoo kit as I have alot of fat friends with enough skinn and no shame amd time to waste now
as a former high school teacher, I think this film should be shown to students. People have to experience the importance of community before they become adukts. People have to see the absence of community before they realize something is missing.
What then brain dead kids need is the Bible in school, not transgenders and drag queen trying to confuse them on what is normal, but y'all push evolution on them. Pitiful, pitiful!
@@patricksleep9787 Do you disagree w my post? Do you have no comment on what I wrote, just a petty remark? Interesting. Here’s some information for you, Patrick: A typo is different from a misspelling or incorrect usage. I did not think adult was spelled ADUKT. Yes, I should edit, often i dont. Caps and alrostrophes too, blah. This isnt an essay to be handed in. However Patrick, your usage of “your” is incorrect; it’s “you’re”… and probably you don’t know the difference. PS I highly doubt if you are over 21. Yawn.
I felt an intense anxiety listening to these people's stories. The absence of a face (for every business) while talking to the people affected by it really highlights the problem in LA. Varied, unique, breathing people offering their mind while these faceless brands (offering focused, calculated, mechanisms) loom in the background gives a haunting look into the future roadmap for that city. Bigger companies, less communities, giant rat trap, divisive bubbles. The more faceless figures that appear, the less cohesive the community. How can you hold someone accountable, socially, who doesn't exist socially? facebook/twitter/social media isn't a social interaction between communities and corporations, it's a veil/advertisement/tool they use to blend in with the crowd and feign ignorance when people ask how they're benefitting the rest of the city. I'd use the image of wolves among sheep, but it's more like a feeder covered in barbed wire that the sheep have to sacrifice comfort for survival... As it slowly bleeds them to death.
It’s like this in ever big city not just LA or California people like to put an emphasis on this place for whatever reason but it’s literally happening everywhere
What that guy said about LA and new LA is so true. I’m an LA native who recently moved back after 12 years away (to help out family) and this new LA is shocking and soulless. Beverly Hills and that whole side has always been soulless, but it’s spreading out to other areas where community has been strong. It’s depressing.
This is fucking insane. When he confronted about being a filmmaker in the industry I was in l.a about three weeks ago my boy and I are both tatted up so for some reason one way or another, everyone would approach us to ask what we do and ask to connect. Everyone there is like a Npc in Skyrim it’s crazy
@@darkknight3251 most people there are not looking to make friends, they are looking to "connect" hoping that eventually they will make connections with someone who can finally get them the successful art/music/acting/etc. Career that they went to LA to get but failed. It's literally just everyone trying to network and hopefully find a way up into the hills instead of the slums.
"Along the coast, and through the valley, is a river of headlights, that flows with the energy of 10 million souls. Each one trapped in a box, racing towards their next paycheck." gave me goosebumps. sad reality
It hits even harder knowing for a damn fact, if I didn’t have parents or family to turn to in tough times, I would very well be homeless and struggling all the same. Nobody is exempt from the consequences of finding rock bottom. A paycheck is not worth insanity, or utter loneliness. Strife isn’t equivalent to sleep deprivation or drug dependence, but how much can one man bear in frankly, the pursuits of others who possess themselves, no regard for what lies below them?
You are so off base it’s unbelievable. Tho I strongly think you don’t deserve the energy of a response its gotta be said. Ulysses S Grant, future Union General in the civil war said of his experience during the Mexican-American conflict “never has there been a more unjust act of aggression from a stronger nation toward a weaker nation.” In reference to the United States annexing more than half of the fledgling young Mexican states territory. Before going any further, fuck you, absolutely disgraceful, ludicrously incorrect take from an uncultured, mentally deficient fool and you should be ashamed for desecrating your ancestors bloodline. As someone who lives and has lived in multiple states that were formed from the conquered territory I can speak from personal experience as well as empirical data from the US census bureau that none of your comment reflected a single fragment of truth. Culturally some of the most integrated and integral citizens of the U.S.A. Shared heritage of a former colony turned independent, majority Christian nations that hold near identical values. Coworkers of mine fleeing war torn countries in Latin America who are learning English on the job because they weren’t expecting the conflict to bleed into their neighborhoods. Many children of immigrants born in the U.S.A. are more patriotic and understanding of what makes our country great over people like yourself, by orders of magnitude and are more American by far than you.
@@deqtletedsighxdnout4817 I know that you are referring to white people but “authentic” Caucasians aren’t white my friend. Just say white people? I don’t understand why you will say brown and not white lol.
LA is tough - I lived in Hollywood and Echo Park for several years - there are some wonderful things, but you pay a lot to live by some very sad homeless encampments - there are so many people in serious need of mental health wandering the streets and on public transportation. You feel helpless to aid them. I moved to NYC last year - I’m much happier.
Depends where you live some places are literally like the way Hollywood portrays especially where Hollywood would be located I'm assuming is a really high income area. People are realizing going to a poor area of LA isn't going to look like in the movies its gonna look like every poor area anywhere else.
I mean; duality. A rich actor will never experience what a rundown veteran on the streets ever will. Even when "playing" a character. They never will be in the same situation. Ever.
LA wasn't a dsytopic overpopulated mess of corporate dictatorship 20 years ago. It wasn't until mass immigration from India and Mexico coupled with the massive police state they built that made things go to shit.
This doc is about 200% more cyberpunk than the recent game release. And it's about reality. I've lived in CA my whole life, visited metro areas in nor and so cal. Cyberpunk is straight up happening now, folks. It's not speculative fiction. It's not even fiction at all, just an exaggeration of current actual reality, held up in a magnification mirror. It wasn't when it was made, it was a warning. A warning that the powers that be did not heed, but instead, saw as a blueprint to self enrichment.
I live right next to Oakland and it's crazy how bad crime and homelessness is but I have just grown numb to it. But when I leave California I realize that it shouldn't be the norm
Hearing about the Armenians of LA reminds me a ton of the Lithuanians of Chicago. Both are an ethnic group that have had to endure hardships and came together in America due to those areas being lands of opportunities. Now with these areas decaying many move to the suburbs
Went to LA for the first time in September and it is a miserable place. Very unsettling seeing mansions in Beverly Hills with full streets if homeless tents a block away.
I came to Los Angeles 53 years ago by accident. My father's boss was killed in an airplane crash, the business closed and my father found a job in Los Angeles. This is a weird place. It is a place where the focus is on beauty, fame and wealth. For the most part, nothing else matters. It is very hard to maintain friendships here because this is so much focus on status. If you aren't rich, you better fake it. A 2 bedroom home in a dangerous neighborhood costs a million dollars. Many people drive cars that cost more than their annual salary. It's very common to meet condescending, unfriendly people. Keeping up with Kardashians is not a TV show here, it is a lifestyle. BTW, most people are living far beyond their means and are actually broke, living on credit. As a single person, it costs me around $5000 a month to live a fairly frugal life here. There are a zillion things to do in the city and great dining; however, the traffic here makes it near impossible to get to the cool things to do.
$5,000 a month to live a frugal life here? I pay $1350 for my apt in Wilshire Center. Utilities are also included. My phone bill is around $60 a month. $70 for internet, $150-$200 a month for food, then the rest of my income is for me to do what I wish. I choose not to drive so there’s no expense there. My point is that it’s very possible to live well here if you’re willing to make small sacrifices. I’m living better here than I was in my native NYC. I think the term “living well” has a very different meaning to some people.
@@candisham1978 if you a single person that number works fine. I have a family and 5000 grand a month is tight for an apartment in not a crime ridden neighborhood with 2 plus bedrooms you are looking at 2500 plus easily.
@gimple With a family? That's frugal. Just feeding, dressing and schooling 1 kid is close to a grand. Rent is at least a grand (lucky if you find that). Feeding yourself is at least 200 a month. Transportation is at least 150 without a car. With a car, at least 250 for gas a month, maybe you get a used car, pay 5k to avoid monthly payments and have a reliable whip. We're already close to 3k and I'm being extra tight with my figures but it's not real world.
I work in the film industry, but I only made it a year in LA before I had enough. Even though that city had the most 'opportunity' for me I couldn't see myself living my life there. The hours spent in traffic, money spent on parking tickets, uneasy feeling of crime all around you, and the annoying people who live there. It is honestly a sick society where everything is more expensive than it is actually worth. It is true that there are a lot of fantastic creative people who live there too, but in my experience they are few and far between the opportunists and grifters who lurk in every corner of the industry there. It is all sickening to live in the epitome of urban sprawl and F tier urban planning. I was literally so sick of it that I moved to Canada.
I stumbled into the first part of this series accidently one night while scrolling through RUclips. As someone who lives and works on a farm and has never lived in a city, seeing what life is like somewhere like LA was so strange and confronting. Then after a few months I started to see simmilar things appearing in my home town, this radical shift from a farming and mining community to a weird, wanky place full of hipsters and Tesla's who moved out from the city as they can no longer afford to live there. Because of this, people who I grew up with are priced out of their home town, forced to move back in with parents or to other places, with no hope of being able to afford to have something of their own. I'd love to come and visit LA one day, to see really truly how different it is to my home, because I still don't believe that it's real, that a place that seems so cruel, and miserable and full of nothing but false dreams and materialistic desire could somehow lure 20+ million people to it. Heck even the thought of having more people in one city than my entire country has in it freaks me out. I think this documentary has done an excellent job at highlighting not only the issues that LA has, but that modern human society has. I feel like more people need to see both part 1 and 2 of this series as it really would wake alot of people up. From all of us down in Australia, all of us who are affected by this crazy property price increase, and all of us who might never have seen this side of the human story, i thank you. The work you put into this has changed many people's lives, hopefully for the better. I look forward to the next part
Wish we would be able to build more housing in cities to make it more affordable so people wouldn’t have to move out or be on the street. But the people who already own single family homes and love their cars seem to be the ones who control city council and zoning and often fight any new housing, given that a lot of their net worth is tied up in property values.
Grew up in farmland and I literally left LA/California to return to farmland after moving there to chase a career a decade ago. Seeing the decay and decadence in person really changed me.
I genuinely think that glink is one of the most underrated channels on this entire website with these well made and insightful documentaries.Can’t wait for whatever you do next
Although I agree Glink is wonderful and deserves even more recognition, but it feels curious how words lose their meaning nowadays. If this is the one of the most underrated, then what about smaller creators and creations? I guess I'm picking on words here, but I think there are other way to speak about things not going into such maximas
@@deqtletedsighxdnout4817 why do you think they get those jobs? Considering they can’t communicate, have connections? Why are the owners hiring them and not others?
As a LA native who's lived on crenshaw my entire life the community is really shifting. It's way different from what it used be hell 5-6 years ago. Little markets getting shut down and being replaced with 8 story apartments for ridiculous prices. Traffic becoming worse and parking being hell even on a somewhat quite street. It's becoming impossible to live here. I know people from other states don't want to here this but native Californians are going to move out in even bigger numbers. It's just not sustainable or even fun to live here anymore.
I’m 2nd generation Californian raised 20mins outside of Los Angeles. You see all these people on the streets and in shelters, now account for the people living in their cars, with friends & family, couch surfing and the ones literally one bad day from losing their homes….. it’s so sad 😢
Human depopulation kicked into gear 2008 now in full swing it has become the norm. It’s easier to accept that not all of us will continue living beyond what we could have dreamed more positive possibly outcome for ourselves spiritually…. Why worry about what we have no control over?!
The homeless are not a community, but a collection of individuals. Wow, that is some obvious thinking that is also really impactful. Everything from 11:00 with that person was brilliant. Unfortunately, people making decisions aren't going to take advice from a person they understand to be beneath them. I'm barely into this video, but I'm enjoying it so far. You have some good prose. Great work.
It is insightful. But I have to ask. How do you create one solution for multiple individuals' problems? Part of me feels like there is nothing that can be done. If you give money you may be enabling a drug user. If you give them shelter they may destroy it (even Gembob acknowledges this). There's been many smart and wealthy people who want to solve this problem but it only seems to make it worse. So as a normal person I recognize that I can't help anyone in these circumstances because what they need is something I can't provide.
@@andresabantoenns9697 not really no. I'm not saying society doesn't exist, just that being homeless isn't the focal point of who a person is or how they interact with the world any more so than owning a house is. Jeff Bezos and I own a house, but are we in a community? This is the "we are not the same" meme. Society exists, but arbitrarily classifying people and distributing resources based on that classification isn't sensible. Basically we should be trying to fulfill needs, not eliminate a "community."
@@jacobjohnson2714 it's simple. As an individual you probably can't provide for another person anymore than you could walk with your own weight plus the weight of another person. However collectively if we each carry a little, the weight on any one person is negligible. What I'm saying is, we need to chop the homeless into small enough pieces that they fit into everyone's pocket.
@@justcommenting4981 touche, i was being obtuse Yeah perhaps its not best if government tries to find a one-policy-fits-all, and if they are trying to treat a community, theyll have to build it themselves first
I live near LA and can 100% confirm there are a lot of aspiring actors/actresses and models there. Especially as a photographer or film maker the "looking to connect" networking culture is real. Not saying it's inherently a bad thing, it's just what you can expect.
*the are a lot of aspiring narcissts, sociopaths and psychopaths there. Especially as a Narcisst and Psychopath, the thirst for attention and big money is real.
As someone who was born and raised in a suburb of LA and lived there until 2 years ago, you got some of the facts which is more than most people get. So bravo! Maybe one of these days I’ll sit down and record my own ideas of why LA is dead/dying and why there’s nothing left there for anyone anymore. The problem isn’t America as a whole as many people like to think, but more regional and cultural to CA. It’s all greed.
I agree kit, there’s a lot going on here. I was raised here also (live in North Hollywood). NoHo is the perfect example of the madness (especially over the last 3years), it’s literally INSANE and sad to watch my community unravel the way it does. I too, like many other LA natives, am looking to move out of state (maybe Montana or Idaho, we’ll see…) Best of luck to everyone on their journey 💕
Only the fact is that there are 30 million more people in the US than homes. That's a national problem, not a CA problem. Also, where are us LA natives supposed to go? Who wants us?
It’s definitely an American issue in several American cities that have the same sprawling concrete and car centric culture that L.A. has. It’s all around the country.
@@HelghastStalker to generalize an entire population off of your perceptions is quite arbitrary, but yet again you probably don’t even know what those words mean. Lmao!
I love what that woman said, there’s so many with mental health issues because we think we don’t have time for each other. People are more invested in ego and self than they are with helping others, even if helping someone comes in the form of something as simple as a real conversation. I’m sad I live here.
man, no time for each other; that’s now part of my many mantras to summarize what i’ve learned and continue to learn about the state of America and its States
and there are people who consciously welcome this _dystopia_ with open arms to satisfy their cyberpunk dreams or simply out of egoism, wich is even the most sadistic.
@@ferretman6790 Most Republican politicians are also just neoliberals under a conservative blanket though. Both in Europe and America, there isn't really a big movement for national sovereignty, nationalism and true progressivism. Both sides of the cultural war are populists who just horny themselves instead of actually serving the people.
@@tormentpoetsoul Yeah, but I guess in a way, it was _their_ hell - home. It’s what they grew up in, the environment they’re used to, the communities they’ve known, the people they’re close with, etc. Definitely Hell, but a different kind that they knew was theirs that was molded to their lives. Nowadays it’s molded to a class system of wealth and corruption where crime is shrugged at, homelessness is ignored, drugs overflow the streets, gangs may not be as big as they were in the 80s and 90s but the crime has become more senseless and random, and politicians would rather pander to the appearance of being a good person while their city decays rapidly. In the 70s and 80s, LA was a dream for young starry-eyed people to visit and potentially move to - average everyday people. Had such amazing potential, and there was still a lot of hope for the place. Even in the 90s with all the gang wars and violence, LA still had that weird appeal towards people. Everyone simply thought it just needed the right folks in charge to get it cleaned up, but 20 years later after the turn of the new century … it’s far too late now. The first 20 years was spent saving face and pretending to fix shit, full of numerous empty promises to give hope, then the next 20 years devolved to “fuck it, let’s just remold the city to cater to the degeneracy and violence” to pocket more money for a dead dream they know can’t be sold outside of corporations anymore.
@@TwoBs your reply is well thought out and quite eloquent. And for the most part I agree with you. My only argument is that the local governing politicians of the 80,s and 90,s had the same intentions the current politicians have. The true variable that has impacted Los Angeles however is the tech industry. We basically replaced the crack epidemic destroying peoples lives and property value.. To large tech corporations building whole new communities and impacting property development, and eventually population growth…. The population growth has been mostly steady over the last 20 years.. but their is an anticipation the population is going to explode here over the next 20 years. And the tech industry as a whole is the biggest reason why that is happening. The 10 most powerful companies in the United States have decided that Los Angeles is theirs.
I feel like the perfect title for this would be "The True Cost of Living In LA | The Downfall of the American Dream". Great video, have been waiting for months.
@@GlinkBetweenWorlds i think making it more obvious this is part 2 might help as well cause the first part blew up but it's been 7 days and this vid has just cressed 100k, deserves so much more veiws.
"Homeless" and "Veteran"? Goes to show what this country thinks about it's people. How can this happen in a "first world" country? I fear things are getting much worse before getting better.
It’s already bad, it’s going to get worse. More people are going to become Gembob, not less. 5$ for gas. I work on cars for a living. This isn’t going well.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 that’s fucking bullshit man. How are real estate bastards sitting on millions when folks who actually provide goods and services are struggling to make it?? Something in the milk ain’t clean.
@@Bioshocking12 and the folks that literally risked their lives to secure the markets which allowed those blood suckers to amass their wealth. There’s no capitalism without violence. Only at the end of a gun can you rationalize the exorbitant inequality and injustice of Neoliberal society.
@@isidoreaerys8745 Eh none of what you said really contains any substance. Just appeal to emotions. You can't just blame all the problems of LA on just one thing. The problem range from poor law enforcement to corruption on every level whether it's corporate or government. Not to mention the inflation problems that everyone around the world is facing and will have a hard time dealing with it.
Man that part about stopping to talk to someone being not a waste of time but an oppurtunity for a collective conscious to experience itself speaks so true to me. When I was around 15 16 I would always stop and talk to homeless people and I really really felt that, those conversations taught me more than 7 hours of school. But yeah I thought that was a great catch man. Awesome doc, subbed.
I'm a 5th Generation Angelino and this video made me literally cry. Los Angeles has turned into the biggest-richest Ghetto in the world. This video is so spot on and L.A. is without a doubt failing in everyway. The fact that they keep building and ignore the pains of SoCal is obvious and sickening. Growing up on the West Side and knowing most everyone in the neighborhoods it was a whole different world, a different Los Angeles. Now it's a overcrowded, under managed mess. God Bless the producers of this video. Remember....Be the solution not the problem! GOD IS GOOD!
You recorded so many times near my house. You were like a couple blocks away from my mom and dad’s house multiple times. Makes me realize how small but big LA is at the same time
Really shows the places you can go and can't go are decreasing and increasing respectively. Unless he was just filming places hes familiar with in which case I'm talking out of my ass lol
@@alastor8091 As a person living in Greece I cannot imagine not living 2 minutes from the beach and 10 minutes from the city centre, horrifying images seriously. Beautiful mountains and villages and lakes within 1-2 hours distance too
@@outis99 i live 5 minutes from the beach, 20 minutes from the city center, and 2 or 3 hours from the mountains. I've got enough wild woods around me that I can walk a mile in the trees and shoot my guns without disturbing anyone. Why do people live in cities if they've got the option to not?
@@alastor8091 The beach and the mountains in LA are only about an hours drive away from each other. LA has plenty of nature. Don't judge a place you've never been to.
This is insane the amount of effort you put into showing the problems of LA and why its too late for fixing. Your film should be forced fed to politicians to show the problems of “Their” modern cities. As a person from Las Vegas I see too many people coming to Vegas and not being able to live anymore because of the rising of property value. Thank you for shining light on this major problem that still persist in modern America.
This is New York too. But after having had family there since the 1850's, and knowing what has happened during that period, I've concluded, at the age of 67, that there was never was a "good" period. Maybe cities are just flawed; maybe humans themselves are flawed. But sometimes little pieces of hope come through.
Fucking crazy to see you making stuff like this. Especially considering I remember when we were both children spending way too much time on ArenaJunkies.
Went to LA for the first time last November and was absolutely SHOCKED by the stark nakedness of the poverty and suffering. Everywhere, you see misery. Many of the locals treat them as if they don’t exist at all, or like something even lower than the dregs of humanity. It’s sickening.
Yeah I met some absolutely wonderful blessings of people in Cali sleeping homeless around for a few weeks. Overall though, people there were the most conceded, stuck up, passive aggressive assholes I've ever met. I figured I'll run into at least one prick on occasion about anywhere ya go. In Cali though it was almost everyone everywhere, even dudes at work! Like every damn person hated their lives. Wildest shit I've ever experienced. I wasn't even broke or dirty or anything lol. I got a hotel every few days to get showered up. Had like $5k under the arches of both my feet. I know that ain't really shit in those places but I clearly wasn't one of the dudes chilling in nothing but boxers shitting in the street. I was just sleeping outside cause I didn't know how long I wanted to check the place out and figured I'd save cash just sleeping in the skatepark or next to Wal-Mart and shit. It was still a great trip! Beautiful scenery everywhere! Beautiful people! Random art pieces just everywhere. People though were the worst by far. Been to or through the continental states and around Italy. Never had another experience close to how the people in Cali acted. Like everyone's a highschooler. No adults allowed. Everyone's your enemy until proven different. Couldn't ever imagine living there. Midwest for life!
If you're looking for empathy and care for the homeless and impoverished, a "California Bad" video, and the audience it attracts, isn't the place to find it
Great job on this. Really captures the disconnection that I've experienced living in LA the last few years. Incredibly rich in material things, and absolutely poor in community, family, love and all the things that really matter.
The "you ok?" From pink sweater green hair shows more compassion than the entirety of the LA population. I can't believe I ever wanted to live in that horrible place.
I live in LA and when I posted publicly about my dog going missing, I had 39 complete strangers leave their homes and start searching for her on foot. One of them found her and brought her home to me. The location that people live in does not define their level of compassion.
Wow thank you so much Glink for the care and compassion you've shown these people, GemBob and Bryan seem like wonderful people who deserve so much more than this greedy awful world has thrown at them. God bless you sir and the good work you're doing and I pray for these people every night since you've made your first homeless video.
Deserve? Deserve more than the free hand outs they continue to take? Gem-Bob is able bodied as fuck. Tell me why he can’t work? He’s a lazy ass philosopher and people like you keep him in business.
@@hull_k0gan641 I'll go one better...this is a fake piece and "Gembob" probably isn't even homeless. I'm from L.A., I've dealt with a lot of L.A. homeless and fell on some hard times myself....no way in hell that Gembob has perfectly dyed hair like that and is as "normal" and clean as he is and still homeless. No fuckin way. Shit is a fake slam piece on L.A. done out of fake sympathy. And I don't even believe that bs story about scoring a free house that Bryan or whatever the other guys name is. This is all a BS piece to blow up to people from outside of L.A. to buy a fairytale and clutch pearls and say "oh wow, L.A. is so bad! Glad I don't live there! Look at all the freaks!" This documentarian is too scared to interact with the REAL L.A. homeless or L.A. hustlers. A fluff piece, this is crap.
If you open your eyes; this is just a node. The entirety of the industrial society looks and feels like this. Empty, soulless. Great production and narrative. Very artful, poetic and soulful/philosophical. Spot on analysis!
My daughter and I were living in a hotel and had no place to stay none of my friends and family would let us stay with them. Huge wake up call. I had a family member that literally had a spare bedroom
Be thankful you had money or help for the hotel….many are in cars, on curbs, shelters, & abandoned unlivable homes with children……and it’s no love, sympathy, compassion or help for men
Shame to your family for not taking you in. This is why others go homeless,on the streets. Then they wondering why so many humumaity living in tents n on crubs
I really hope you and your daughter found a place and a solution.. sending good vibes and positive your way, I hope everything gets better for you and that you figure it out..
it's mind-boggling to observe and compare the interactions between the homeless and the "regular" residents of Los Angeles. The badass leader of the veterans may be eccentric, but he gives off way more genuine intentions compared to the girl at the beginning of the video, who asks if the journalist was a part of the "film industry."
@@funkymunky think of the time and energy you wasted making that comment. Take that energy and apply it towards something constructive with your life ✌️
@@funkymunky he took his time and money into making a 50-minute commentative piece on an area he no longer lives in while bringing in plenty perspectives from other people, all as an independent and with professional quality. I don't know about you but it's pretty exeptional to me. Even if it isn't exeptional, it doesn't mean it isn't good. If a bunch of journalists all make grade A documentaries this may make them unexeptional in a sense but it doesn't bring down the quality of their work.
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This is truly a masterpiece (I love the Vanilla Sky "Open Your Eyes" overlay) and such an important conversation that affects so many people yet no one is talking about. Thank you for all your hard work and compassion, it really shows in the final product.
in recent years I realized how cities are literally designed to destroy your soul. I lived in Paris in my late 20s and now in London in my late 30s and I see how in my 20s I was very blind to some of these issues and quite enjoyed the city life whereas 10 years later I felt like I was in some horrible matrix. I`m now moving to the countryside 😄
Im glad i live in finland, we dont really have "big" cities, even though i live in the capital city, theres not too many people and a lot of nature. It makes a huge difference!
I personally find that pink dude a moron. All he does is bitching about it. If you can handle those mentally ill people, take one with you. Be compassionate.
2:27-2:38 made me shudder. Not only as a young person trying to kickstart my career and make as many business connections as possible, but it also refreshed my memory of what I hated about LA when living there this past fall... so many people there are aspiring actors/producers/influencers desperately trying to make it in an expensive, competitive, lonely city. It leads to disingenuous and/or selfish behavior. At the beginning of Glink's first video, I think this is partially what that Egyptian guy is referring to about the livability of LA.
If you're focusing on building your business in 2023 you are as lost as lost gets. The Davos WEF has other plans for you. I hope you know how to forage for food. If you don't you may want to learn immediately.
Once big tech moves in, the entire area changes. Housing goes up, strip malls start to appear, the local community is forever altered and the whole area is really geared for people under 30 (the average tech worker). Families can't survive here, they move further out to the suburbs. This is what happened in the bay area, then I moved to a small beach town in SoCal and the same thing happened here. As soon as big tech moved in, the town got flooded with apartment complexes full of tech workers, the housing went up and the people essentially got priced out of their own home town. Big tech will keep doing that. They love to move into a cheap area and essentially gentrify it for the worse because the locals will get priced out and their standard and style of living will change forever.
"The government doesn't do enough where it needs to and does too much where it shouldn't" You are perfectly on point with that. The amount of stupid propositions being brought up every voting cycle is ridiculous- anything from prop 16 to prop 47... but when it comes to getting rid of zoning regulations and affordable housing, their hypocrisy speaks louder than most. Even NYtimes made a video on "Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How"
I remember a live steam when you were working on this months ago. Wondered what happened but now I see. You’ve been busy glink! Been here since early on and I have faith in you. Keep it up!!
My mate lived in LA for two years doing makeup on film stars. She has lived in a few countries, she has never wanted to go back and has no good things to say about it. She said it was too hot and too superficial. She also retrained as an ecologist
My dad lived his whole life there and was still trying to be an actor by the time I was in my late 20s. But he really just ended up being a limo driver, eventually dying of a heroin overdose. His youth in LA was just drug-addled lunacy. Yet he remembers an idyllic childhood. Eventually his neighborhood was taken over by gangs Even his rich friend took advantage of his family's wealth to be a junkie. He eventually kicked it though. I didn't live my whole life there, just a few years in Orange county. I'd never live in LA. The only LA thing I am grateful for is David Lynch.
Honestly every major city on the west coast is the same deal. Living in seattle there is still a lot of issues and same in pretty much most major cities. Ive known about them but thank you for documenting these issues and showing people the harsh reality of the american dream and that when you see a homeless person, its not unreasonable to think "that could be me". Great job overall
yeah every city in the west coast is like this because of californians fleeing the hell they created and starting the entire process all over again....washington would still be a good place to live if we got rid of all the cali people who transplanted their stupid asses here over the last 30 years or so.
@Jip Jackson So angry. Can you not assume that we are jip Jackson. That we all have the exact same ability as you. No I don't think you can. If you can do it everyone can do it right? Doesn't work that way. You truly won't understand this concept. They are different with their own reasons
That story of that family that made good money buying that house and allowed him to live in it while paying it off to them was heart warming. We should all strive to be like that family
@davidf2118 you ok buddy? Ever do anything for anyone else? It feels good sometimes. You should try it. Maybe you're from California where losers like yourself fall back on conservatism as a crutch to be a selfish prick. But here in texas we help our neighbors, serve our country, and are kind to each other. That's real conservatism loser
Like part 1, Gembob really made this video as well for me. As a fellow veteran, the potential of becoming homeless is way too real for us. And for the 6 months I lived in LA, it really felt like a hell hole covered up in designer clothes and toxic positive affirmations. So glad I left! Promised Land can definitely expand to cover places like New York City and San Francisco (practically any major American city at this point lol). Keep up the great work!
LA is so bad. NYC is not like that from my experience. LA is so demonic, fake and just an overall nasty place. They are going to be in for a rude awakening before the end of this decade. Their little bubble is going to be shattered by reality and they are not even ready for it.
@@ajl2232 I visited NYC and enjoyed every minute of it! My wife’s a Brooklyn/Bedstuy native so it’s truly all love out there. If anything, it’s the gentrification that tearing the city apart. One of the examples of its effects is unnecessary beautification rules NYC established because a bunch of Karens think the sidewalks needed some sprucing up. There’s also the typical getting priced out of Brownstones. And also how local eateries are getting shut down for gluten free type spots or restaurant chains you can find literally anywhere in America. Imagine losing places that serve bomb Bacon, Egg, and Cheese or even NY Style Pizza for some juice bar smh. I see patterns that affected my hometown of Oakland taking place there and it’s truly heartbreaking. Every city has its unique detriments to document in the Promised Land saga. However, gentrification is the overlapping theme.
Gembob is where he is because he has alot of frantic energy thats not directed towards anything. Its that personality that doesn't stop moving, it goes and goes and goes.... but has no purpose. I'm a veteran and the key is to maintain goals. Stay grounded no matter what happens. Even if you end up homeless, what is it that you were doing? Continue to do just that. Keep your routine. I had a homeless coworker who was living in her car. She still showed up work. I found out a classmate was living out of her car at the campus. She still showed up to class and graduated. She was an exercise science major. I have a coworker now who got kicked out of her apartment. She now sleeps at her mother's and has all her crap stuffed in her tiny car. Shows up to work early, changes her clothes and does her makeup here.
Why is it that I see so many homeless vets?? I'm a nurse and im flabbergasted about the amount of vets who come in the hospital with wounds and alcoholism that are homeless. What is the driving factor??
@@perlitalaguna6622 valid points. And before I proceed as a fellow veteran, thank you for your service. Now this is why something like TAPS (Transition Assistance Program) is not only important but also should be longer than a week. In fact 1-3 months as suggested by some personnel that work at the Airmen Resource and Family Center (AFRC). Gembob is from a generation where they are so institutionalized by being given orders and having majority of their working life figured out for them. This comes to a point that once you hang up your uniform for good, it’s like now what?? Imagine that scene from Castaway where Tom Hank’s character was in the middle of a small town intersection trying to figure out his next route in life, poetic right? Couple that paradox of choice with countless mental health degradation from having to maintain bearing as well as the military’s prioritization of mental health around that time. Troops exiting were truly set up for failure for his generation. I’m glad I had a bit more of an advantage but heck I was frantically researching things and making calls back to back to mitigate any chance of me ending up homeless. Luckily I’m 100% disabled and compensated as such so I can work a part time cake job cause I can or be a full time student. Bless him and the other homeless vets out there, I hope they find their way.
As a veteran that was homeless on the streets of Fort Worth Texas, I can attest to what Jimbob was saying. The government is in fact helping too much in one place and not enough in others for homeless veterans.
As a psychologist, I always say fix the mind first. It's the only thing that matters. What's the point of housing if they're still depressed because no one helped them deal with their actual problems? Humans used to be fine mentally, living in tents and killing for their next meal, but they had a community that cared about their well being past numbers.
@@blacklightredlight2945 I couldn't agree with you more. Some people are so broken mentally they can't take care of themselves so how could they keep up with an apartment, bills,etc?
@@blacklightredlight2945 you need a combination of mental health and housing. Mental health alone isn't going to do shit when your pills get stolen or you can't take them on time. Mental health can't really make a whole lot of impact when you are in on the streets
46:31 Bryan’s story of his church coming together and paying his family’s rent was incredible (hard to imagine this happening outside of a faith community)
I lived in California for all of my life up until July of last year when I moved to the south. Honestly when you live there you think everywhere else sucks because California is the "best" state, until you leave and realize how nice it is to see greenery, to see trees, and have a yard (a hard commodity to come by in CA without millions). Also the urban, dry landscape is depressing and isolating unless you are willing to give up your individuality to fit in with others. People here in my new state ask me "why did you move HERE?" as if California is a dream place to live, but it's not. Maybe if you are really basic and want to be an influencer, but otherwise you're screwed there.
This was a documentary I didn't want to finish. It put me through a emotional rollercoaster but the positive notes at the end left me somewhat hopeful of building, or finding, that sense of community that has been lost in many places
Riveting work. This descent into LA has been one hell of a ride, the stories, and the people you talked to and connected with. Felt like I was there. This is what the platform has the potential to create. Been loving your shit for a while now, so happy to see you wrapped up this trip so nicely. Can’t wait for what’s next.
The man that was talking about people not just needing a home and handling things on a case-by-case basis speaks the truth, some people just don’t know how to stay within the parameters of societal rules.I thought that was so insightful and true what he said.
Bro, one time I was stuck in traffic in one of these LA highways, the 110. And I was in this kind of meditation. And I realized that millions of cars had driven here before and millions of cars will drive here even after I die. It actually felt nice because it made me feel less important and less pressure.
Reminds me of a time I was sitting across from a family in Zurich, Switzerland waiting in the airport to catch my connecting flight back to LAX. They were going on vacation to LA and Hollywood and I overheard their conversation of the things they were going to do and places they were going to see. They pictured Hollywood as streets paved with gold and movie stars on every corner. I thought to myself that they are instead going to find streets paved with tents and urine along with homeless on every corner. California in general doesn't live up to its reputation. I also recall a time maybe 8 years ago I lived in an apartment complex in Huntington Beach and I would see these cars of new tenants all with out of state license plates. They all left after about a year. I asked one my neighbors who was moving why they were leaving. The answer was always the same, there is nothing in California that is worth the price you pay in taxes and general cost of living that you cannot get in another state at a fraction of the cost. California is a trap. Even millionaire Hollywood types are leaving it now.
I’m in Philadelphia, days away from being homeless again, I have a child under 5 who will suffer along with me. The shelters are full and fucking awful anyway. It’s damn near impossible to overcome this stuff when you have zero family support, no education and no money.
I feel for you, I'm poor. It's not easy. No education,cuz I had a leaning disability,from grade school,all to high school. I struggled many years of pain, I did try hard to do my best with learning. I did graduate with a diploma of c-, D. Reading, also I'm dislexex. This i new I could not get a college degree. I do work a landscape designer, labor. Work with my hands, body. I earn money to survive, but money does not go very far when things cost way to much. Yes, no. .. Money , it's the new fashion. I'm sorry for you. Cuz, things like this can cause humumaity to have depression, anxiety. When you have a child that needs you. Please try very hard to keep positive hopefully things will get better for you and your child. It's hard to go work and make a living in 2023.
Wow, you are an excellent documentary maker. So thought provoking, eye opening and most of all reminds one of their values and what we often lose sight of. Thank you. I'm very happy to have found your channel. And grateful.
Living in a 3rd world country, seeing this whole chaos happening in a state like LA is like seeing a sneak peek of a dystopian, post apocalyptic future that is very likely to happen to us, its like literally a foresight to me
Honestly as long as the current world order exists, it’s unlikely this dynamic will trickle down to the third world since their mechanisms of control are still relatively honest compared to the horrifying mind fuckery of the West. Baton vs Brainwashing
For real, its really funny to me how my best friend spends his days working his ass off and at the ends haves nothing but LESS money, yet here in my country in my country everything is relatively simple (not bad, simple), sure, my house may not be pretty but hell if i prefer that to be living meal to meal, sure my internet may not be the fastest but its cheap even when i live in a town of 10K people. I may not have the best medicine on the planet, but i can litterally get healed for basically nothing (already happened btw) Sure, some things are bad and expensive, but we all are relatively happy here, and even if its a "shitty 3-world country" you still see people with somehow more money that they can use that rised from having nothing, fuck, i managed to get into WebDev and over the year save enough to get a 3070 (tho at the very start, not now, GPU prices are insane now) and a good pc by simply working because just gas dont cost me half of my wage to simply move around (gas). And the funny part is that while its clearly happening almost world wide (speaking of "LA/US dystopian nightmare) its clearly happening way faster in US while other first world countries are relatively fine (mostly EU, but not JUST there) Duno man, at first i wanted to move to US to work and get more money, glad i come to my senses.
i'd love it if someone made a documentary like this about london. its kind of a stretch but maybe with a million subs and a fully stocked patreon under your belt you might consider taking a hop across the pond to see the godless soulless hellhole that is our nation's capital?
Im Filipino studying Anthropological Science as a Hobby and your content really helped me care more and think about what might be solutions to fix this, rather than not paying attention just because I was born far more fortunate than others. It really paints a future on how socities can prosper and die fast out of nowhere. Ill be using your videos as an archive for future people to use and reflect upon
L.A is becoming like this because city officials are prioritizing big business over individuals. (And this region has a history of doing this) The urban sprawl created by freeway culture set a foundation for what’s happening today. (LA invented the freeway and tore down many train lines in the 1960’s because auto industries wanted to sell more cars. People were forced into the car where before trains connected the L.A. region just like America’s Northeast region)
@2-Stroke Bloke that has to do with the politicians. nothing to do with the vets. also you have no idea why those guys joined let alone what their situation is or what they did where. for a lot of people there aren’t many options or it’s not a choice.
@@heavenesone EXACTLY. I have friends who enlist who need the military benefits to help pay for school or need healthcare because they come from a low income situation. Some of those friends even enlist so they can find their purpose in life and they do so by doing something bigger than themselves in serving their country. Can you fucking imagine some dude enlisting to literally risk his life for the self-interests of a politician who couldn’t give a flying fuck who they are? Like you said, you never know someone’s situation.
Love your analysis of the continuing trend toward singularity of lifestyle under big tech. Terrifying. Family is a unit that’s barely existing, and everything is temporary. Everything bound to numbers, the worst.
Glink, I started watching you back when you played hearthstone and I just wanted to say, your journey as a content creator is so inspiring and you have come so far. This video essay was amazing and really touching, thank you for making this. I can't wait to see what you make in the future.
About the segment of more people getting into yoga and meditation, I saw something about western values being about making money and staying busy, climbing the ladder. Eastern values are just about existing. You don't need to be busy all the time, just existing and doing whatever makes you happy is enough. I think that especially in a city like L.A., people need that now more than ever. We all always feel this rush to be productive, monetize every hobby, climbing the social ladder. Even where I live in the more sleepy Midwest, I feel this pressure. But wouldn't it be nice if we could just focus on finding what makes us happy, just knowing that existing and being human is enough? I like that.
im not the first person to say this sorta thing but, the trick is that we aren't going anywhere. thats the big secret. the worries is we have to be over there.
@@st2udent_650 OC seems like they are just trying to ascribe mysticism to a culture because they think it’s exotic. Like the concept of the Bible savage but for East Asians.
great vid. I moved out of LA over this last new year after living in hollywood for 3.5yrs for school. You'd think that my reasoning for it would be the fact that the city took my money, my time, a piece of my sanity, and a portion of my bodily function, but honestly? It was just the constant ruthless hostility of complete strangers... _that,_ and the fact that there was 💩 all over the sidewalks constantly.
Wow your comment is intense seems like you need to be in fight or flight mode and also watch your step at the same time... stressful🤯 glad you made it out
Very well made documentary. Being born and raised in the "hood" of LA, I can agree with what was said throughout the documentary. I would always tell people that their time in LA will be dictated by the amount of money they make. If you make $15/hour (soon to be $16.03) or any job that isn't at a good paying salary as a single adult, then you're not going to survive. It is a hellhole to some, to others it may not. I do love that there is stuff to do but I dislike that it's shown in this doc through tourist trap areas. There's stuff to do everywhere! LA is rapidly changing but what bothers me are the people that complain about the politicians yet keep voting the ones that keep playing them. There's more to go on but I'm trying to make this short. To close off, my suggestion or an idea would be to make a documentary like this but in a majority "Red" city in a red state. Kinda want to see the comparing and contrasting. Edit #1: Reading some of the replies, I just want you to know that I have no hatred towards LA. I like it as I have family there and I can respect that some want to stay there. I can acknowledge the criticism against it though. I am currently in Georgia for university so I have time to explore the “rural south”. To all the Right-Wingers, actually try experiencing LA. All Fox-News is going show is the bad/negative tropes of LA so of course your perception will be this dystopian nightmare. LA has some positive attributes as well. To all the Left-wingers, actually visit the south. It’s not as bad as the media tells you it is.
@@miscellaneoushistory9924 the only third world experiences in the USA are the big cities, I've since moved out of the big cities due to my occupation and into the rural areas and I have ZERO regrets. The big cities are NOT human or natural and will drive any sane man crazy.
Its a little hard to find "Red" cities, since conservatives usually pupulate the rural areas. I'm sure there are "Red" cities, but I highly doubt they would be as populous as the "Blue" cities.
Terrificly profound and thoughtful film!! I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and LA/Hollywood. I haven't lived there for almost 20 years now, but when I went back to take care of some business about 10 years ago I couldn't believe all of the people rushing around to seemingly go nowhere. The realization that really hit me was that I had been one of those people too!! Even though it was the proverbial "infant" of what LA has now become, I do miss growing up in the Valley and Hollywood the way it was back in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s. I live in Mexico now and though I am a US Citizen, born and raised, I imagine I would feel like a real Foriegner in LA now..
This has been a terrific ride. A difficult subject handled with delicacy and craft. Absolutely wonderful filmmaking! Time is indeed valuable and that last hour was well spent. Greets from Ireland.
This casual point and shoot style of documentary is so refreshing and it gives a more personal realistic depiction of the story you're trying to tell great job glink :)
Yeah my personal gripe with lots of documentaries is all the montage shots while they're travelling somewhere, stuff like that will eat up like 15 mins out of an hour.
I’ve been waiting for this video and now it’s here. I can see why people are leaving California but at the same time. A-lot of people from California are moving to my northwestern state and making more unaffordable than ever.
Eyo Oregon?
@@Shady22 as a Los Angeles native, Oregon is tempting but honestly I wish the state wasn’t so greedy. I just want to live and not worry about going back into homelessness.
@@Vinity16 yeah I can feel ya there, lots of expensive taxes and whatnot. Not to mention lots of the western cities do have growing homeless problem…
Oregon is the fucking Devil when it comes to government. But it’s so beautiful
Dude!!! Vancouver Washington is so bad now... It's been going on since 2016 I believe. Roads are shit literal single family homes surrounded by town homes that have no yards. It's sad to see this once little surban area going a city. This town cannot withhold this many ppl
LA is just cyberpunk but worse
At least cyberpunk has dense walkable cities and cool tech going for it. LA is just a sprawling hell hole filled with miserable narcissistic people.
The entire world seems to be turning into Cyberpunk without all the neon, if not, it already is
Hells kitchen 🤣
to be fair, modern life is cyberpunk just worse
Punks maybe
I don't know if it was a conscious decision, but I really like that you left the loud noise of the traffic in. It's a pretty sad but fitting description of living in a city.
Both unintentional in some clips and intentional in others
cities are not loud, cars are loud.
@@Dispo030 the ocean isn't wet, the water is
I stayed in LA for a week. Couldn't get a wink of sleep for the life of me because of the constant sound of traffic outside. This is pretty accurate.
@@philthephilosopher9235 I can’t sleep without it 😭 growing up in LA just weird
Born and raised in the Bay and lived in LA for 25 years before escaping. When people romanticize LA or California in general, I always say, "You're picturing Beverly Hills 90210 as your life. Your life will ACTUALLY be more like Boys in the Hood or Friday." LA is what I called "hard living". We live like New Yorkers EXCEPT you don't get New York - you just get Kardashians.
A humorous comment shot through with bitter truth.
What "Friday" are you referring to? Friday the 13th?
@@zephyrprime ice Cube’s Friday but depending on the day you could get Friday the 13th blended in there, no problem!
Like Don Draper (Jon Hamm) said on Mad Men..”LA isn’t like the movies..it’s like Detroit with palm trees”
Facts. And no subway.. and crazyyyy gas prices
"The government doesn't do enough where it needs to and does too much where it shouldn't" is 100% correct. Just paying more taxes or voting for someone "new" doesn't fix the problem because the government itself is broken.
So long as you keep voting democrat it will never change.
@@Byronic19134 it does not matter who you vote for
Vote for me! I'm running on what i call the clean slate paradigm. Government funding for all programs will be cut until i get a 10 page essay on why you should keep your funding in mla format.
This includes the CIA, planned parenthood, Afghanistan warlords, Russia and Ukraine.
World is made of broken things"
The rich and powerful snobs rule the world
There always seems to be this stigma that the US is the go to place, and that California and LA are the romanticized wonderlands of vast wealth, influence and culture. But typically when I see LA, I tend to see a world where celebrities live upstairs in luxury and everyone else fights for the breadcrumbs downstairs, in rundown subways and through the filth of city streets, flickering lights and waste dumps...to me it hits less like a dream land but more like a harsh reality of what it is to be a person trying to make a living in a world that cares more about money than talent or hard work. Maybe it seems a bit pessimistic, not every place holds the sentiment and a lot of people probably enjoy LA. I just don't tend to see the allure.
It pains me. It’s a failed city for the working class. The wealthy are having the time of their lives.
As a Californian who moved states last year, I agree with you completely. Here in my new state people act as if leaving California was a bad move, but honestly my mental state improved a ton once I got out of there. You can barely afford to live there unless you are rich. My mom was middle class and we were living practically pay check to pay check trying to pay the mortgage on a home.
CA was the place to go in the 50s and 60s. No more.
California has the worst infrastructure in the country but, has the most taxpayers.
Not just LA. Many cities the world over are becoming more and more like the situation in LA. Less community, more inequality and more crime.
A lot of people compare the homeless situation to “slums” in other countries. Nah man, slums are actual neighborhoods, with cultural relevance, small businesses, food, sanitation services, churches, shopping, and local village medics. It’s a legit community. Completely different from this, where you are literally shunned from society. This is way worse. You’re literally on your own.
I'm here right now, leaving Monday though it's going to take me awhile to like people again, I will always be cautious and try not to help people out too much in the future because of LA. I only want to help good spirited people
Yup,and nobody will help you or even cares.
@@DG-wr6cl I support your view with my own experience. When homeless you at least know you can trust the people around you to want the same thing you do and you can pretty much know what they will do. There is a real honesty and strength amongst one another. It's crazy man.. there is more stability and trust amongst criminals (theft and trespassing) than the dream America citizen
@Ash Hegde you live there? I guarantee they still have a sense of community regardless of their living conditions.
Thank you for saying this, many from other countries down play the misery & hopelessness because there’s palm trees & houses but NO LOVE OR COMPASSION OR COMMUNITY
Never understood why people think moving to LA is going to magically make your problems go away and you’ll become famous.
Lol
Because that's what they say you could be a star
@@gregoryg1303 i think thats new york
@poleup No... leave my New York out of it. LA is the place people go to become "stars" NY is if you want to make something out of yourself which is very different
What ends up happening is that they move to LA and become a PORN star. So many men and women don't "make it" and turn to adult films.
Man, everyone sounds so defeated... I traveled to LA once in 2015 and while the city is blessed with an all-year Mediterranean climate, everyone was so unhappy and barely getting by.
That climate does NOT do oneself good if you're in a bad place mentally. People need real seasons. Real seasons at least suggest time or movement or progress...all LA can offer is artificial "seasons" to compensate.
At least NorCal drops fog into the equation once in awhile..but the changing climate is slowly doing away with that too.
The lack of rain there makes the urine stench in L.A. really come through heavily.
If you want to live in a Mediterranean climaterio so much why don't you moce to the real poace like Spain, Italy, or Greece!? I'm pretty sure one of them has a cheap cost of living in comparison to LA ex: Greece
@@ericaperez8520 I live in Greece and we're kinda in the same position as LA: great weather, but bad mental state cause even though Greece is generally cheap, we still cannot afford anything.
@@altrogeruvah Oh really, I didn't know that.
As someone who is originally from OC/LA area and also a veteran I can’t even afford to buy a single family home making 100k a year by myself with zero debt and a 700 credit score. It’s absolutely crazy, I moved from California to Mexico City about 2 years ago and it’s been an absolute blessing being able to truly enjoy my life with real friendships and not be in house debt. I’m 26 right now and of course with the lower cost of living here in Mexico City I’ve been able to invest and save more money. No one wants to be poor and it’s sad to see so many people that created culture in California are getting kicked out of their own homes. There should be regulations on foreign property investors and idk maybe incentives for locals to buy properties, I don’t have the answers but it is truly sad to see so much culture is being eradicated by technology, consumerism, and GREEEEEDD.
How can you not afford a home with 100k a year? That doesn't add up at all. LA actually has very cheap property prices when compared to other global cities like New York, London, Paris etc.
The median home price in LA is around 800k, so 8x your annual income. For comparison, in Munich the median home price is around 1500k (almost double!) while wages are substancially lower (around 40% lower). You should easily be able to afford a home with 100k while a 26 year old can't afford a home in Western countries.
I totally agree with you. It’s insane -the greed in this country
@@EseLyx Yes but unless you’re paying CASH out right!
And I’m happy that it’s EASY for YOU to afford a house in LA. For the rest of us supporting our family it’s not EASY
@@EseLyx he can easily afford the home with a spare 3k to spend on bills, insurance, groceries, transportation after getting a 30-year mortgage.
There’s regulations alright but not on those pesky foreign investors, it’s mostly on local small companies being driven out, why? Because California politicians are real cozy with those foreign investors.
When i was a kid, my dad took me to LA for a weekend to show me how wonderful the city was. But i'll never forget when we drove past Beverly Hills, and the sign had, on the other side of the street, a homeless man crying in pain. This dichotomy made me realise this city is just not for me.
This city has the richest and the poorest people in the world living on top of each other. That was one of the most unsettling things to me when I first moved here
this is literally every American city why its all fixated on LA is beyond me.
@@brasp no, LA is a different beast, trust me.
@@REDDAWNproject a homeless man in Beverly hills 🤔 naw you def trippin, the rich don't see that
@@ifiwantyoutofeel he wasn't "in" BH, he was just outside.
Was born and raised in LA until i was 21 before moving to WA state. I’m 30 now and it’s been one of the best decisions i’ve made. California is borderline unlivable, not just financially but spiritually and mentally.
you californians are the reason Washington is turning into a dump, do us all a favor and get out
U said that beautifully. Arm pit city. Sorry, just things have changed ALOT, humanity in LA is individual, lonely, no since of community. The weather is great, people frost then weather. LoL
Washington state sucks too, not enough people have experienced it to know though.
@@pointlessNYC Washington is pretty nice - someone from Bellevue
@@chunkymilk1288 Bellevue and the rest of the east side are pretty insular compared to other parts. Not the same suffering. This place is isolating and a lot of other things.
I’m a truck driver, and I gotta say, that little bit about “time” and spending it with the ones you love really hit home for me. Went to art school, college debt, eventually had to drive truck. A helluva lot more fun when my wife goes with me.
Well, a lot of people don’t understand that “art” students also have to do everything all the other students have to do. Research papers, tests and quizzes all while also having actual talent. So I did work hard. I don’t want to replay my life. I’m happy where I’m at and I’m not going to to go ahead get a degree like STEM because it’s not something I’m interested in. Fuck you, and fuck your comment. Cheers mate. 🤙
@Ash Hegde oh just fuck off, unless you know someone and have some networking in the computer science/engineering industry you're not exactly getting a high payed job either STEM fields like engineering are the most saturated fields of education many do not find work after studying. Besides, choosing a career to simply make money working a job you don't like is just putting a band aid over the solution, the only people who benefit from calling STEMs 'real' degrees are the employers of stem professions
Not to be that GUY. But do you regret ypure art degree? It sound like it was a huge waste of time just to drive a truck in the end
Yea…I don’t know man. I certainly enjoyed my time getting it, made and continue to make some pretty neat stuff…not sure if I’d do it again if I knew what I know now…kinda hard to say. Every decision I made got me to where I am now. May not have met my wife if I hadn’t so really, it’s sort of a toss up.
@@travishelmkamp that's a great answer and no regrets. Just wondered as i could have gone to art school but ended up in construction kicking pipes for a living and just doodle on my spare time and always wanted to buy a tattoo kit as I have alot of fat friends with enough skinn and no shame amd time to waste now
as a former high school teacher, I think this film should be shown to students. People have to experience the importance of community before they become adukts. People have to see the absence of community before they realize something is missing.
What then brain dead kids need is the Bible in school, not transgenders and drag queen trying to confuse them on what is normal, but y'all push evolution on them. Pitiful, pitiful!
You’re a high school teacher yet misspelled adult*
@@patricksleep9787 Do you disagree w my post? Do you have no comment on what I wrote, just a petty remark? Interesting. Here’s some information for you, Patrick: A typo is different from a misspelling or incorrect usage. I did not think adult was spelled ADUKT. Yes, I should edit, often i dont. Caps and alrostrophes too, blah. This isnt an essay to be handed in. However Patrick, your usage of “your” is incorrect; it’s “you’re”… and probably you don’t know the difference. PS I highly doubt if you are over 21. Yawn.
I have always been skeptical about people moving west since I read The Grapes of Wrath. That book is more important than ever.
This is irrelevant to public school system
I felt an intense anxiety listening to these people's stories. The absence of a face (for every business) while talking to the people affected by it really highlights the problem in LA. Varied, unique, breathing people offering their mind while these faceless brands (offering focused, calculated, mechanisms) loom in the background gives a haunting look into the future roadmap for that city. Bigger companies, less communities, giant rat trap, divisive bubbles. The more faceless figures that appear, the less cohesive the community. How can you hold someone accountable, socially, who doesn't exist socially? facebook/twitter/social media isn't a social interaction between communities and corporations, it's a veil/advertisement/tool they use to blend in with the crowd and feign ignorance when people ask how they're benefitting the rest of the city. I'd use the image of wolves among sheep, but it's more like a feeder covered in barbed wire that the sheep have to sacrifice comfort for survival... As it slowly bleeds them to death.
It’s like this in ever big city not just LA or California people like to put an emphasis on this place for whatever reason but it’s literally happening everywhere
Lucid description. 👍
IBeepini - Apt description wonderfully crafted.
Now apply this to immigration
Welcome to low trust society
What that guy said about LA and new LA is so true. I’m an LA native who recently moved back after 12 years away (to help out family) and this new LA is shocking and soulless. Beverly Hills and that whole side has always been soulless, but it’s spreading out to other areas where community has been strong. It’s depressing.
This is fucking insane. When he confronted about being a filmmaker in the industry I was in l.a about three weeks ago my boy and I are both tatted up so for some reason one way or another, everyone would approach us to ask what we do and ask to connect. Everyone there is like a Npc in Skyrim it’s crazy
😂😂😂
Thats scary
Connect
Never heard that saying before
I wished you had more to say I'm interested about them being like an npc.
@@darkknight3251 most people there are not looking to make friends, they are looking to "connect" hoping that eventually they will make connections with someone who can finally get them the successful art/music/acting/etc. Career that they went to LA to get but failed. It's literally just everyone trying to network and hopefully find a way up into the hills instead of the slums.
"Along the coast, and through the valley, is a river of headlights, that flows with the energy of 10 million souls. Each one trapped in a box, racing towards their next paycheck." gave me goosebumps. sad reality
Also living in fear of being on the street.
It hits even harder knowing for a damn fact, if I didn’t have parents or family to turn to in tough times, I would very well be homeless and struggling all the same. Nobody is exempt from the consequences of finding rock bottom. A paycheck is not worth insanity, or utter loneliness. Strife isn’t equivalent to sleep deprivation or drug dependence, but how much can one man bear in frankly, the pursuits of others who possess themselves, no regard for what lies below them?
eh, better than being crammed like sardines in a subway, seriously.
time stamp/????
Poetry, right there. Hits the soul and true.
GemBob is aptly named because that man's a gem. Another terrific, hard-hitting video that this ridiculous website is unworthy of. Great stuff, mate.
GemBob here. Thank you for the compliment.
Reminds me of Marc Maron
@@jamesbrookhyser7608 I hope you are well my brother.
You are so off base it’s unbelievable. Tho I strongly think you don’t deserve the energy of a response its gotta be said.
Ulysses S Grant, future Union General in the civil war said of his experience during the Mexican-American conflict “never has there been a more unjust act of aggression from a stronger nation toward a weaker nation.” In reference to the United States annexing more than half of the fledgling young Mexican states territory. Before going any further, fuck you, absolutely disgraceful, ludicrously incorrect take from an uncultured, mentally deficient fool and you should be ashamed for desecrating your ancestors bloodline.
As someone who lives and has lived in multiple states that were formed from the conquered territory I can speak from personal experience as well as empirical data from the US census bureau that none of your comment reflected a single fragment of truth.
Culturally some of the most integrated and integral citizens of the U.S.A. Shared heritage of a former colony turned independent, majority Christian nations that hold near identical values. Coworkers of mine fleeing war torn countries in Latin America who are learning English on the job because they weren’t expecting the conflict to bleed into their neighborhoods. Many children of immigrants born in the U.S.A. are more patriotic and understanding of what makes our country great over people like yourself, by orders of magnitude and are more American by far than you.
@@deqtletedsighxdnout4817 I know that you are referring to white people but “authentic” Caucasians aren’t white my friend. Just say white people? I don’t understand why you will say brown and not white lol.
LA is tough - I lived in Hollywood and Echo Park for several years - there are some wonderful things, but you pay a lot to live by some very sad homeless encampments - there are so many people in serious need of mental health wandering the streets and on public transportation. You feel helpless to aid them. I moved to NYC last year - I’m much happier.
I’m 20 born n raised in LA. This man portrayed it more accurately in the first minute than people have done in Hollywood for the past 60 years.
LA wasn't exactly the same 60 years ago, or even 10 years ago. And movies are not generally documentaries anyway. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
You're like thought
Depends where you live some places are literally like the way Hollywood portrays especially where Hollywood would be located I'm assuming is a really high income area. People are realizing going to a poor area of LA isn't going to look like in the movies its gonna look like every poor area anywhere else.
I mean; duality. A rich actor will never experience what a rundown veteran on the streets ever will.
Even when "playing" a character. They never will be in the same situation. Ever.
LA wasn't a dsytopic overpopulated mess of corporate dictatorship 20 years ago. It wasn't until mass immigration from India and Mexico coupled with the massive police state they built that made things go to shit.
I’m sick of people telling me to move from the uk to LA.
LA? Fuck no but my inner English man is screaming at me to move to New Hampshire.
Change beans on toast for LA? Frick no
Nice to see you here lol. I concur
It's a genuine hell-hole
Bro those people are nutters! Forget about em!
This doc is about 200% more cyberpunk than the recent game release. And it's about reality.
I've lived in CA my whole life, visited metro areas in nor and so cal. Cyberpunk is straight up happening now, folks. It's not speculative fiction. It's not even fiction at all, just an exaggeration of current actual reality, held up in a magnification mirror. It wasn't when it was made, it was a warning. A warning that the powers that be did not heed, but instead, saw as a blueprint to self enrichment.
Deus Ex has a lot of similarities to this
Reminded of the movie “Elysium” literally how it’s looking
I live right next to Oakland and it's crazy how bad crime and homelessness is but I have just grown numb to it. But when I leave California I realize that it shouldn't be the norm
Cyberpunk, but without all the cool tech. just ruthless capitalism, and the planet being on fire
@@mcartier8812 I think a lot of places worldwide are starting to look 👀 that way…. I often think of that movie 😀
“The government doesn’t do enough where they should, and does too much where they shouldn’t”. Great line Gembob
You sent these men to Iraq. You did nothing to stop it. Now they're homeless...
Hearing about the Armenians of LA reminds me a ton of the Lithuanians of Chicago. Both are an ethnic group that have had to endure hardships and came together in America due to those areas being lands of opportunities. Now with these areas decaying many move to the suburbs
We have a really strong Armenian community in Michigan. Also we have the most Muslim city outside of the Middle East.
@@Sue_Me_Too no wonder Michigan is such a shithole
@@Sue_Me_Too no you don't ever heard of Bangladesh ?
@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 nope. Sounds middle eastern
@@Sue_Me_Too it borders India, south Asian people group, you should know basic geography?
Went to LA for the first time in September and it is a miserable place. Very unsettling seeing mansions in Beverly Hills with full streets if homeless tents a block away.
In OC, some condos have exceeded over a million dollars. Idk how I’m supposed to live here
I came to Los Angeles 53 years ago by accident. My father's boss was killed in an airplane crash, the business closed and my father found a job in Los Angeles. This is a weird place. It is a place where the focus is on beauty, fame and wealth. For the most part, nothing else matters. It is very hard to maintain friendships here because this is so much focus on status. If you aren't rich, you better fake it. A 2 bedroom home in a dangerous neighborhood costs a million dollars. Many people drive cars that cost more than their annual salary. It's very common to meet condescending, unfriendly people. Keeping up with Kardashians is not a TV show here, it is a lifestyle. BTW, most people are living far beyond their means and are actually broke, living on credit. As a single person, it costs me around $5000 a month to live a fairly frugal life here. There are a zillion things to do in the city and great dining; however, the traffic here makes it near impossible to get to the cool things to do.
$5,000 a month to live a frugal life here? I pay $1350 for my apt in Wilshire Center. Utilities are also included. My phone bill is around $60 a month. $70 for internet, $150-$200 a month for food, then the rest of my income is for me to do what I wish. I choose not to drive so there’s no expense there. My point is that it’s very possible to live well here if you’re willing to make small sacrifices. I’m living better here than I was in my native NYC. I think the term “living well” has a very different meaning to some people.
@@candisham1978 if you a single person that number works fine. I have a family and 5000 grand a month is tight for an apartment in not a crime ridden neighborhood with 2 plus bedrooms you are looking at 2500 plus easily.
@@candisham1978 house mortgage is 2000. Rent 1350. Don't see a problem w this ?
@@candisham1978 small sacrifice meanings stay single, no kids, work 100 hrs per week, no family, no friends, no life
@gimple With a family? That's frugal. Just feeding, dressing and schooling 1 kid is close to a grand. Rent is at least a grand (lucky if you find that). Feeding yourself is at least 200 a month. Transportation is at least 150 without a car. With a car, at least 250 for gas a month, maybe you get a used car, pay 5k to avoid monthly payments and have a reliable whip. We're already close to 3k and I'm being extra tight with my figures but it's not real world.
I work in the film industry, but I only made it a year in LA before I had enough. Even though that city had the most 'opportunity' for me I couldn't see myself living my life there. The hours spent in traffic, money spent on parking tickets, uneasy feeling of crime all around you, and the annoying people who live there. It is honestly a sick society where everything is more expensive than it is actually worth. It is true that there are a lot of fantastic creative people who live there too, but in my experience they are few and far between the opportunists and grifters who lurk in every corner of the industry there. It is all sickening to live in the epitome of urban sprawl and F tier urban planning.
I was literally so sick of it that I moved to Canada.
I stumbled into the first part of this series accidently one night while scrolling through RUclips. As someone who lives and works on a farm and has never lived in a city, seeing what life is like somewhere like LA was so strange and confronting. Then after a few months I started to see simmilar things appearing in my home town, this radical shift from a farming and mining community to a weird, wanky place full of hipsters and Tesla's who moved out from the city as they can no longer afford to live there. Because of this, people who I grew up with are priced out of their home town, forced to move back in with parents or to other places, with no hope of being able to afford to have something of their own. I'd love to come and visit LA one day, to see really truly how different it is to my home, because I still don't believe that it's real, that a place that seems so cruel, and miserable and full of nothing but false dreams and materialistic desire could somehow lure 20+ million people to it. Heck even the thought of having more people in one city than my entire country has in it freaks me out. I think this documentary has done an excellent job at highlighting not only the issues that LA has, but that modern human society has. I feel like more people need to see both part 1 and 2 of this series as it really would wake alot of people up.
From all of us down in Australia, all of us who are affected by this crazy property price increase, and all of us who might never have seen this side of the human story, i thank you. The work you put into this has changed many people's lives, hopefully for the better. I look forward to the next part
'its tHe wEaThEr"
I live in rural east texas. Living in the city looks like its stressful so I hope I only go to a city for little vacations.
Wish we would be able to build more housing in cities to make it more affordable so people wouldn’t have to move out or be on the street. But the people who already own single family homes and love their cars seem to be the ones who control city council and zoning and often fight any new housing, given that a lot of their net worth is tied up in property values.
Grew up in farmland and I literally left LA/California to return to farmland after moving there to chase a career a decade ago. Seeing the decay and decadence in person really changed me.
It’s the feeling of always being on the “ in “
Because supposedly other places are boring to live
I genuinely think that glink is one of the most underrated channels on this entire website with these well made and insightful documentaries.Can’t wait for whatever you do next
Although I agree Glink is wonderful and deserves even more recognition, but it feels curious how words lose their meaning nowadays. If this is the one of the most underrated, then what about smaller creators and creations? I guess I'm picking on words here, but I think there are other way to speak about things not going into such maximas
@@aryanprivilege9651 tell me more
@@deqtletedsighxdnout4817 why do you think they get those jobs? Considering they can’t communicate, have connections? Why are the owners hiring them and not others?
@@deqtletedsighxdnout4817 I read the first sentence and concluded you are a troll.
while i agree his channel deserves more views, being close to half a million subscribers is not at all underrated
As a LA native who's lived on crenshaw my entire life the community is really shifting. It's way different from what it used be hell 5-6 years ago. Little markets getting shut down and being replaced with 8 story apartments for ridiculous prices. Traffic becoming worse and parking being hell even on a somewhat quite street. It's becoming impossible to live here. I know people from other states don't want to here this but native Californians are going to move out in even bigger numbers. It's just not sustainable or even fun to live here anymore.
Just leave the Cali culture and politics behind.
the same here is happening in Australia house's or markets being knocked down and being replaced by 8 story apartments for ridiculous prices.
Have you considered moving to another state?
@@dlazo32696 not really possible with rent and just trying to live. Just can't up and leave
@@angelderp6689 Save up bro. I’m not saying it’s that simple... why don’t you go to Arizona or Nevada? Definitely cheaper than California!
I’m 2nd generation Californian raised 20mins outside of Los Angeles. You see all these people on the streets and in shelters, now account for the people living in their cars, with friends & family, couch surfing and the ones literally one bad day from losing their homes….. it’s so sad 😢
Human depopulation kicked into gear 2008 now in full swing it has become the norm. It’s easier to accept that not all of us will continue living beyond what we could have dreamed more positive possibly outcome for ourselves spiritually…. Why worry about what we have no control over?!
The homeless are not a community, but a collection of individuals. Wow, that is some obvious thinking that is also really impactful. Everything from 11:00 with that person was brilliant. Unfortunately, people making decisions aren't going to take advice from a person they understand to be beneath them. I'm barely into this video, but I'm enjoying it so far. You have some good prose. Great work.
It is insightful.
But I have to ask.
How do you create one solution for multiple individuals' problems?
Part of me feels like there is nothing that can be done.
If you give money you may be enabling a drug user.
If you give them shelter they may destroy it (even Gembob acknowledges this).
There's been many smart and wealthy people who want to solve this problem but it only seems to make it worse.
So as a normal person I recognize that I can't help anyone in these circumstances because what they need is something I can't provide.
How thatcherite
@@andresabantoenns9697 not really no. I'm not saying society doesn't exist, just that being homeless isn't the focal point of who a person is or how they interact with the world any more so than owning a house is. Jeff Bezos and I own a house, but are we in a community? This is the "we are not the same" meme. Society exists, but arbitrarily classifying people and distributing resources based on that classification isn't sensible. Basically we should be trying to fulfill needs, not eliminate a "community."
@@jacobjohnson2714 it's simple. As an individual you probably can't provide for another person anymore than you could walk with your own weight plus the weight of another person. However collectively if we each carry a little, the weight on any one person is negligible. What I'm saying is, we need to chop the homeless into small enough pieces that they fit into everyone's pocket.
@@justcommenting4981 touche, i was being obtuse
Yeah perhaps its not best if government tries to find a one-policy-fits-all, and if they are trying to treat a community, theyll have to build it themselves first
I live near LA and can 100% confirm there are a lot of aspiring actors/actresses and models there. Especially as a photographer or film maker the "looking to connect" networking culture is real. Not saying it's inherently a bad thing, it's just what you can expect.
*the are a lot of aspiring narcissts, sociopaths and psychopaths there.
Especially as a Narcisst and Psychopath, the thirst for attention and big money is real.
As someone who was born and raised in a suburb of LA and lived there until 2 years ago, you got some of the facts which is more than most people get. So bravo!
Maybe one of these days I’ll sit down and record my own ideas of why LA is dead/dying and why there’s nothing left there for anyone anymore. The problem isn’t America as a whole as many people like to think, but more regional and cultural to CA. It’s all greed.
I grew up in Inglewood kit I’d love to hear your thoughts sounds interesting!
I agree kit, there’s a lot going on here. I was raised here also (live in North Hollywood). NoHo is the perfect example of the madness (especially over the last 3years), it’s literally INSANE and sad to watch my community unravel the way it does. I too, like many other LA natives, am looking to move out of state (maybe Montana or Idaho, we’ll see…)
Best of luck to everyone on their journey 💕
Only the fact is that there are 30 million more people in the US than homes. That's a national problem, not a CA problem. Also, where are us LA natives supposed to go? Who wants us?
It’s definitely an American issue in several American cities that have the same sprawling concrete and car centric culture that L.A. has. It’s all around the country.
@@HelghastStalker to generalize an entire population off of your perceptions is quite arbitrary, but yet again you probably don’t even know what those words mean. Lmao!
I love what that woman said, there’s so many with mental health issues because we think we don’t have time for each other. People are more invested in ego and self than they are with helping others, even if helping someone comes in the form of something as simple as a real conversation. I’m sad I live here.
You're stupid. That bitch is a mental case
man, no time for each other; that’s now part of my many mantras to summarize what i’ve learned and continue to learn about the state of America and its States
"the government doesn't do enough where it needs to and does too much where it shouldn't"
fuck man, gembob pretty much hit the nail on the head
He’s truly prophetic
There we agree on one thing.
Govt is on avg bad at running things yet college kids still consider themselves “communists”
Government is now corporate owned. They try to run it like a business but society is not a for profit entity
and there are people who consciously welcome this _dystopia_ with open arms to satisfy their cyberpunk dreams or simply out of egoism, wich is even the most sadistic.
Very well said 👁
“I wish I live in a dystopia just so I can experience the Uwu feelings of cyberpunk from the movies 🥺”
And those people are called “The Democrats”
@@ferretman6790 Most Republican politicians are also just neoliberals under a conservative blanket though.
Both in Europe and America, there isn't really a big movement for national sovereignty, nationalism and true progressivism. Both sides of the cultural war are populists who just horny themselves instead of actually serving the people.
@@ferretman6790 I don't think Democrats support extreme laissez-fiare capitalism
Bryan seems like a good guy, it sucks seeing people who been in L.A they whole life see it become a hellhole
It’s kinda always been the hole for hell it’s just changing the type of hell I suppose
@@tormentpoetsoul This.
@@tormentpoetsoul Yeah, but I guess in a way, it was _their_ hell - home. It’s what they grew up in, the environment they’re used to, the communities they’ve known, the people they’re close with, etc. Definitely Hell, but a different kind that they knew was theirs that was molded to their lives.
Nowadays it’s molded to a class system of wealth and corruption where crime is shrugged at, homelessness is ignored, drugs overflow the streets, gangs may not be as big as they were in the 80s and 90s but the crime has become more senseless and random, and politicians would rather pander to the appearance of being a good person while their city decays rapidly.
In the 70s and 80s, LA was a dream for young starry-eyed people to visit and potentially move to - average everyday people. Had such amazing potential, and there was still a lot of hope for the place. Even in the 90s with all the gang wars and violence, LA still had that weird appeal towards people. Everyone simply thought it just needed the right folks in charge to get it cleaned up, but 20 years later after the turn of the new century … it’s far too late now. The first 20 years was spent saving face and pretending to fix shit, full of numerous empty promises to give hope, then the next 20 years devolved to “fuck it, let’s just remold the city to cater to the degeneracy and violence” to pocket more money for a dead dream they know can’t be sold outside of corporations anymore.
@@TwoBs your reply is well thought out and quite eloquent. And for the most part I agree with you. My only argument is that the local governing politicians of the 80,s and 90,s had the same intentions the current politicians have. The true variable that has impacted Los Angeles however is the tech industry. We basically replaced the crack epidemic destroying peoples lives and property value.. To large tech corporations building whole new communities and impacting property development, and eventually population growth…. The population growth has been mostly steady over the last 20 years.. but their is an anticipation the population is going to explode here over the next 20 years. And the tech industry as a whole is the biggest reason why that is happening. The 10 most powerful companies in the United States have decided that Los Angeles is theirs.
Yup, and you leave having to realize there's nothing you can do.
Been in LA for almost 13 years and I am so done! This film speaks to many of the reasons why I am exiting to another country.
Nope. You can check out any time, but you can never leave, Toni Baloney.
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@@heatherdavishasaids Sir, you're having a stroke. Relax.
I feel like the perfect title for this would be "The True Cost of Living In LA | The Downfall of the American Dream". Great video, have been waiting for months.
Ayyyy
Trying it out right now thanks
Watch the film FALLING DOWN. Tells the truth about LA and that movie came out in 1993.
@@GlinkBetweenWorlds i think making it more obvious this is part 2 might help as well cause the first part blew up but it's been 7 days and this vid has just cressed 100k, deserves so much more veiws.
But the American dream is not a set idea, it's whatever you percieve it to be. That's the entire point
"Homeless" and "Veteran"? Goes to show what this country thinks about it's people. How can this happen in a "first world" country? I fear things are getting much worse before getting better.
It’s already bad, it’s going to get worse. More people are going to become Gembob, not less. 5$ for gas. I work on cars for a living. This isn’t going well.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 that’s fucking bullshit man. How are real estate bastards sitting on millions when folks who actually provide goods and services are struggling to make it?? Something in the milk ain’t clean.
@@Bioshocking12 and the folks that literally risked their lives to secure the markets which allowed those blood suckers to amass their wealth.
There’s no capitalism without violence. Only at the end of a gun can you rationalize the exorbitant inequality and injustice of Neoliberal society.
@@isidoreaerys8745 Eh none of what you said really contains any substance. Just appeal to emotions. You can't just blame all the problems of LA on just one thing. The problem range from poor law enforcement to corruption on every level whether it's corporate or government. Not to mention the inflation problems that everyone around the world is facing and will have a hard time dealing with it.
HELLO THINGS WONT GET BETTER THIS IS JUST THE START? GOV AND BANKS WONT YOU AND ME DEAD
Man that part about stopping to talk to someone being not a waste of time but an oppurtunity for a collective conscious to experience itself speaks so true to me. When I was around 15 16 I would always stop and talk to homeless people and I really really felt that, those conversations taught me more than 7 hours of school. But yeah I thought that was a great catch man. Awesome doc, subbed.
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I'm a 5th Generation Angelino and this video made me literally cry. Los Angeles has turned into the biggest-richest Ghetto in the world. This video is so spot on and L.A. is without a doubt failing in everyway. The fact that they keep building and ignore the pains of SoCal is obvious and sickening. Growing up on the West Side and knowing most everyone in the neighborhoods it was a whole different world, a different Los Angeles. Now it's a overcrowded, under managed mess. God Bless the producers of this video. Remember....Be the solution not the problem! GOD IS GOOD!
You recorded so many times near my house. You were like a couple blocks away from my mom and dad’s house multiple times. Makes me realize how small but big LA is at the same time
Really shows the places you can go and can't go are decreasing and increasing respectively. Unless he was just filming places hes familiar with in which case I'm talking out of my ass lol
How can you stand to live there? Just seeing that bird's eye shot of the city and how massive it is made me sick on a weird level.
@@alastor8091 As a person living in Greece I cannot imagine not living 2 minutes from the beach and 10 minutes from the city centre, horrifying images seriously. Beautiful mountains and villages and lakes within 1-2 hours distance too
@@outis99 i live 5 minutes from the beach, 20 minutes from the city center, and 2 or 3 hours from the mountains. I've got enough wild woods around me that I can walk a mile in the trees and shoot my guns without disturbing anyone. Why do people live in cities if they've got the option to not?
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The beach and the mountains in LA are only about an hours drive away from each other. LA has plenty of nature. Don't judge a place you've never been to.
This is insane the amount of effort you put into showing the problems of LA and why its too late for fixing. Your film should be forced fed to politicians to show the problems of “Their” modern cities. As a person from Las Vegas I see too many people coming to Vegas and not being able to live anymore because of the rising of property value. Thank you for shining light on this major problem that still persist in modern America.
When you say Their you really mean leftists
@@Byronic19134 No. More like corrupt politicians and wealthy elites. These people are psychopaths.
You don't think they already know? They know what's going on, but just don't care.
@@Byronic19134 Ah gotta love the out of touch American who think they are the main character of Politics. Smells like ignorance
@@Byronic19134 R’s don’t care about you either child
I love that line, “if you can hold onto your soul, you have everything to gain”
That literally fits LA life SOOO perfectly
Idk seems like the more successful people in LA are willing to sell out and sell their soul (metaphorically).
@@bickyboo7789 well thats exactly what the comment was about
@@bickyboo7789 if you don't hold on to your soul, you'd be more willing to sell it
This is New York too. But after having had family there since the 1850's, and knowing what has happened during that period, I've concluded, at the age of 67, that there was never was a "good" period. Maybe cities are just flawed; maybe humans themselves are flawed. But sometimes little pieces of hope come through.
At least LA warmer than New York and at least has more opened doors.
Fucking crazy to see you making stuff like this. Especially considering I remember when we were both children spending way too much time on ArenaJunkies.
I remember you both from AJ and early Cata PvP Videos. Truely the weirdest timeline. Glad Glink has moved and and makes truly great videos nowadays.
@@diabloprimordial5735 😂😂😂😂
@@diabloprimordial5735 😭😭😂wtf
@@diabloprimordial5735 bro this has gotta be satire
@@diabloprimordial5735 30 nukes and 30,000 artillery pointed at South Korea, by other Koreans, and you're worried about black people. 😂
Went to LA for the first time last November and was absolutely SHOCKED by the stark nakedness of the poverty and suffering. Everywhere, you see misery.
Many of the locals treat them as if they don’t exist at all, or like something even lower than the dregs of humanity. It’s sickening.
Yeah I met some absolutely wonderful blessings of people in Cali sleeping homeless around for a few weeks.
Overall though, people there were the most conceded, stuck up, passive aggressive assholes I've ever met. I figured I'll run into at least one prick on occasion about anywhere ya go. In Cali though it was almost everyone everywhere, even dudes at work! Like every damn person hated their lives.
Wildest shit I've ever experienced.
I wasn't even broke or dirty or anything lol. I got a hotel every few days to get showered up. Had like $5k under the arches of both my feet. I know that ain't really shit in those places but I clearly wasn't one of the dudes chilling in nothing but boxers shitting in the street.
I was just sleeping outside cause I didn't know how long I wanted to check the place out and figured I'd save cash just sleeping in the skatepark or next to Wal-Mart and shit.
It was still a great trip! Beautiful scenery everywhere! Beautiful people! Random art pieces just everywhere. People though were the worst by far.
Been to or through the continental states and around Italy. Never had another experience close to how the people in Cali acted.
Like everyone's a highschooler. No adults allowed. Everyone's your enemy until proven different. Couldn't ever imagine living there.
Midwest for life!
@@SirTorcharite I love the Midwest. Genuineness and friendliest ftw
Yeah!! We ALL know What the problems are !! We need SOLUTIONS ! ! ! It's pointless coming on here just to say how shocked you were .
If you're looking for empathy and care for the homeless and impoverished, a "California Bad" video, and the audience it attracts, isn't the place to find it
@@rsohlich1 as a midwesterner I’m so happy to see this
Great job on this. Really captures the disconnection that I've experienced living in LA the last few years. Incredibly rich in material things, and absolutely poor in community, family, love and all the things that really matter.
It is basically a larger version of a Tin Can Alley.
The "you ok?" From pink sweater green hair shows more compassion than the entirety of the LA population. I can't believe I ever wanted to live in that horrible place.
I live in LA and when I posted publicly about my dog going missing, I had 39 complete strangers leave their homes and start searching for her on foot. One of them found her and brought her home to me. The location that people live in does not define their level of compassion.
It's not LA that's bad it's the government and it's coming to your town next. Watch and see
@@lalalalaaAa123 people make the place
@@lalalalaaAa123 You must live in a white area ir afluent area.
@Pointless Rat Race "Lower" neighborhood? care to elaborate?
I was on the verge of tears when that guy was talking about how he got his house. Very moving.
This is journalism. Great work
Wow thank you so much Glink for the care and compassion you've shown these people, GemBob and Bryan seem like wonderful people who deserve so much more than this greedy awful world has thrown at them. God bless you sir and the good work you're doing and I pray for these people every night since you've made your first homeless video.
Deserve? Deserve more than the free hand outs they continue to take? Gem-Bob is able bodied as fuck. Tell me why he can’t work? He’s a lazy ass philosopher and people like you keep him in business.
@@hull_k0gan641 damn, Ronald Reagan, how did your ass get up from the dead and start a youtube account?
@@hull_k0gan641 ^ nice bait lol
@@hull_k0gan641 I'll go one better...this is a fake piece and "Gembob" probably isn't even homeless. I'm from L.A., I've dealt with a lot of L.A. homeless and fell on some hard times myself....no way in hell that Gembob has perfectly dyed hair like that and is as "normal" and clean as he is and still homeless. No fuckin way. Shit is a fake slam piece on L.A. done out of fake sympathy. And I don't even believe that bs story about scoring a free house that Bryan or whatever the other guys name is. This is all a BS piece to blow up to people from outside of L.A. to buy a fairytale and clutch pearls and say "oh wow, L.A. is so bad! Glad I don't live there! Look at all the freaks!" This documentarian is too scared to interact with the REAL L.A. homeless or L.A. hustlers. A fluff piece, this is crap.
just buy a house
If you open your eyes; this is just a node. The entirety of the industrial society looks and feels like this. Empty, soulless. Great production and narrative. Very artful, poetic and soulful/philosophical. Spot on analysis!
My daughter and I were living in a hotel and had no place to stay none of my friends and family would let us stay with them. Huge wake up call. I had a family member that literally had a spare bedroom
that's horrible :( I hope you and your daughter are doing well ❤️
Be thankful you had money or help for the hotel….many are in cars, on curbs, shelters, & abandoned unlivable homes with children……and it’s no love, sympathy, compassion or help for men
Sorry to hear that. Hope you and your daughter are in a better state today. 🙏🏼
Shame to your family for not taking you in. This is why others go homeless,on the streets. Then they wondering why so many humumaity living in tents n on crubs
I really hope you and your daughter found a place and a solution.. sending good vibes and positive your way, I hope everything gets better for you and that you figure it out..
Glink uploading is always great, but this is probably the most eager I've been to watch one. Thanks as always for what you do!
I’m in nyc and shit is fucked here too no sense of community or spiritual sense it’s everyone out for themselves
it's mind-boggling to observe and compare the interactions between the homeless and the "regular" residents of Los Angeles. The badass leader of the veterans may be eccentric, but he gives off way more genuine intentions compared to the girl at the beginning of the video, who asks if the journalist was a part of the "film industry."
Your journalism is exceptional. Modern journalists should take notes.
Oh, shut up. It’s nothing exceptional.
@@funkymunky think of the time and energy you wasted making that comment. Take that energy and apply it towards something constructive with your life ✌️
@@ryanleclaire3948 It took all of five seconds. Like the stain on your mattress.
@@funkymunky he took his time and money into making a 50-minute commentative piece on an area he no longer lives in while bringing in plenty perspectives from other people, all as an independent and with professional quality. I don't know about you but it's pretty exeptional to me. Even if it isn't exeptional, it doesn't mean it isn't good. If a bunch of journalists all make grade A documentaries this may make them unexeptional in a sense but it doesn't bring down the quality of their work.
@@funkymunky need some salt added to your wound?
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Great Doc. Song playlist isnt working doe.
This is truly a masterpiece (I love the Vanilla Sky "Open Your Eyes" overlay) and such an important conversation that affects so many people yet no one is talking about. Thank you for all your hard work and compassion, it really shows in the final product.
in recent years I realized how cities are literally designed to destroy your soul. I lived in Paris in my late 20s and now in London in my late 30s and I see how in my 20s I was very blind to some of these issues and quite enjoyed the city life whereas 10 years later I felt like I was in some horrible matrix. I`m now moving to the countryside 😄
All big cities are like that.
I live on a mountain in Thailand. Fuck AmeriKKKa and the You-Kay..
If you live in the countryside for 2 years you can't enter a city again without freaking out.
Im glad i live in finland, we dont really have "big" cities, even though i live in the capital city, theres not too many people and a lot of nature. It makes a huge difference!
Yeah you sound lame as fuck
"Capitalizing off the spiritual needs of a materialist society" wow, well said.
A way to solve the problem is to nuke all suburbs, because suburbs oppress people and destroy dreams.
“The government doesn’t do enough where it needs to and does too much where it shouldnt” I could NOT agree more this is a perfect explanation
That's the problem everywhere in this country
I personally find that pink dude a moron. All he does is bitching about it. If you can handle those mentally ill people, take one with you. Be compassionate.
And in every county, im french, paying more and pore taxes incomes and life getting worse
2:27-2:38 made me shudder. Not only as a young person trying to kickstart my career and make as many business connections as possible, but it also refreshed my memory of what I hated about LA when living there this past fall... so many people there are aspiring actors/producers/influencers desperately trying to make it in an expensive, competitive, lonely city. It leads to disingenuous and/or selfish behavior. At the beginning of Glink's first video, I think this is partially what that Egyptian guy is referring to about the livability of LA.
If you're focusing on building your business in 2023 you are as lost as lost gets. The Davos WEF has other plans for you. I hope you know how to forage for food. If you don't you may want to learn immediately.
Once big tech moves in, the entire area changes. Housing goes up, strip malls start to appear, the local community is forever altered and the whole area is really geared for people under 30 (the average tech worker). Families can't survive here, they move further out to the suburbs. This is what happened in the bay area, then I moved to a small beach town in SoCal and the same thing happened here. As soon as big tech moved in, the town got flooded with apartment complexes full of tech workers, the housing went up and the people essentially got priced out of their own home town. Big tech will keep doing that. They love to move into a cheap area and essentially gentrify it for the worse because the locals will get priced out and their standard and style of living will change forever.
"The government doesn't do enough where it needs to and does too much where it shouldn't"
You are perfectly on point with that. The amount of stupid propositions being brought up every voting cycle is ridiculous- anything from prop 16 to prop 47... but when it comes to getting rid of zoning regulations and affordable housing, their hypocrisy speaks louder than most. Even NYtimes made a video on "Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How"
both of these props were incredibly important though
I remember a live steam when you were working on this months ago. Wondered what happened but now I see. You’ve been busy glink! Been here since early on and I have faith in you. Keep it up!!
You a real one
My mate lived in LA for two years doing makeup on film stars. She has lived in a few countries, she has never wanted to go back and has no good things to say about it. She said it was too hot and too superficial. She also retrained as an ecologist
My dad lived his whole life there and was still trying to be an actor by the time I was in my late 20s. But he really just ended up being a limo driver, eventually dying of a heroin overdose. His youth in LA was just drug-addled lunacy. Yet he remembers an idyllic childhood. Eventually his neighborhood was taken over by gangs Even his rich friend took advantage of his family's wealth to be a junkie. He eventually kicked it though. I didn't live my whole life there, just a few years in Orange county. I'd never live in LA. The only LA thing I am grateful for is David Lynch.
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Right. I have sympathy for these people but I wonder how many bridges they've burned.
What makes you grateful for David Lynch? A genuine, honest question....
I'm a trucker from the Midwest. Everytime I go to California it's the most disturbing experience I've had.
Can you describe your experience
Honestly every major city on the west coast is the same deal. Living in seattle there is still a lot of issues and same in pretty much most major cities. Ive known about them but thank you for documenting these issues and showing people the harsh reality of the american dream and that when you see a homeless person, its not unreasonable to think "that could be me". Great job overall
yeah every city in the west coast is like this because of californians fleeing the hell they created and starting the entire process all over again....washington would still be a good place to live if we got rid of all the cali people who transplanted their stupid asses here over the last 30 years or so.
@Jip Jackson preach brother, preach. lol
@Jip Jackson So angry. Can you not assume that we are jip Jackson. That we all have the exact same ability as you. No I don't think you can. If you can do it everyone can do it right? Doesn't work that way. You truly won't understand this concept. They are different with their own reasons
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Yepppp! My Job has put me in San Diego, and it’s a mini-LA here. Give it a decade or two, the two SoCal cities will be practically indistinguishable
That story of that family that made good money buying that house and allowed him to live in it while paying it off to them was heart warming. We should all strive to be like that family
Wouldn’t it be a beautiful world x
@davidf2118 you ok buddy? Ever do anything for anyone else? It feels good sometimes. You should try it. Maybe you're from California where losers like yourself fall back on conservatism as a crutch to be a selfish prick. But here in texas we help our neighbors, serve our country, and are kind to each other. That's real conservatism loser
Some of the only actual journalism still being done in the world. Keep it up, man.
This is more anthropology than anything else
Like part 1, Gembob really made this video as well for me. As a fellow veteran, the potential of becoming homeless is way too real for us. And for the 6 months I lived in LA, it really felt like a hell hole covered up in designer clothes and toxic positive affirmations. So glad I left! Promised Land can definitely expand to cover places like New York City and San Francisco (practically any major American city at this point lol). Keep up the great work!
LA is so bad. NYC is not like that from my experience. LA is so demonic, fake and just an overall nasty place. They are going to be in for a rude awakening before the end of this decade. Their little bubble is going to be shattered by reality and they are not even ready for it.
@@ajl2232 I visited NYC and enjoyed every minute of it! My wife’s a Brooklyn/Bedstuy native so it’s truly all love out there. If anything, it’s the gentrification that tearing the city apart. One of the examples of its effects is unnecessary beautification rules NYC established because a bunch of Karens think the sidewalks needed some sprucing up. There’s also the typical getting priced out of Brownstones. And also how local eateries are getting shut down for gluten free type spots or restaurant chains you can find literally anywhere in America. Imagine losing places that serve bomb Bacon, Egg, and Cheese or even NY Style Pizza for some juice bar smh. I see patterns that affected my hometown of Oakland taking place there and it’s truly heartbreaking. Every city has its unique detriments to document in the Promised Land saga. However, gentrification is the overlapping theme.
Gembob is where he is because he has alot of frantic energy thats not directed towards anything. Its that personality that doesn't stop moving, it goes and goes and goes.... but has no purpose.
I'm a veteran and the key is to maintain goals. Stay grounded no matter what happens. Even if you end up homeless, what is it that you were doing? Continue to do just that. Keep your routine. I had a homeless coworker who was living in her car. She still showed up work. I found out a classmate was living out of her car at the campus. She still showed up to class and graduated. She was an exercise science major. I have a coworker now who got kicked out of her apartment. She now sleeps at her mother's and has all her crap stuffed in her tiny car. Shows up to work early, changes her clothes and does her makeup here.
Why is it that I see so many homeless vets?? I'm a nurse and im flabbergasted about the amount of vets who come in the hospital with wounds and alcoholism that are homeless. What is the driving factor??
@@perlitalaguna6622 valid points. And before I proceed as a fellow veteran, thank you for your service. Now this is why something like TAPS (Transition Assistance Program) is not only important but also should be longer than a week. In fact 1-3 months as suggested by some personnel that work at the Airmen Resource and Family Center (AFRC). Gembob is from a generation where they are so institutionalized by being given orders and having majority of their working life figured out for them. This comes to a point that once you hang up your uniform for good, it’s like now what?? Imagine that scene from Castaway where Tom Hank’s character was in the middle of a small town intersection trying to figure out his next route in life, poetic right? Couple that paradox of choice with countless mental health degradation from having to maintain bearing as well as the military’s prioritization of mental health around that time. Troops exiting were truly set up for failure for his generation. I’m glad I had a bit more of an advantage but heck I was frantically researching things and making calls back to back to mitigate any chance of me ending up homeless. Luckily I’m 100% disabled and compensated as such so I can work a part time cake job cause I can or be a full time student. Bless him and the other homeless vets out there, I hope they find their way.
As a veteran that was homeless on the streets of Fort Worth Texas, I can attest to what Jimbob was saying. The government is in fact helping too much in one place and not enough in others for homeless veterans.
As a psychologist, I always say fix the mind first. It's the only thing that matters. What's the point of housing if they're still depressed because no one helped them deal with their actual problems?
Humans used to be fine mentally, living in tents and killing for their next meal, but they had a community that cared about their well being past numbers.
@@blacklightredlight2945 I couldn't agree with you more. Some people are so broken mentally they can't take care of themselves so how could they keep up with an apartment, bills,etc?
Breaks my heart that the damn government uses and then spits out our vets with no help damn
@@blacklightredlight2945 you need a combination of mental health and housing. Mental health alone isn't going to do shit when your pills get stolen or you can't take them on time. Mental health can't really make a whole lot of impact when you are in on the streets
46:31 Bryan’s story of his church coming together and paying his family’s rent was incredible (hard to imagine this happening outside of a faith community)
I lived in California for all of my life up until July of last year when I moved to the south. Honestly when you live there you think everywhere else sucks because California is the "best" state, until you leave and realize how nice it is to see greenery, to see trees, and have a yard (a hard commodity to come by in CA without millions). Also the urban, dry landscape is depressing and isolating unless you are willing to give up your individuality to fit in with others. People here in my new state ask me "why did you move HERE?" as if California is a dream place to live, but it's not. Maybe if you are really basic and want to be an influencer, but otherwise you're screwed there.
They probably ask that because they hate californians
This was a documentary I didn't want to finish. It put me through a emotional rollercoaster but the positive notes at the end left me somewhat hopeful of building, or finding, that sense of community that has been lost in many places
Riveting work. This descent into LA has been one hell of a ride, the stories, and the people you talked to and connected with. Felt like I was there. This is what the platform has the potential to create. Been loving your shit for a while now, so happy to see you wrapped up this trip so nicely. Can’t wait for what’s next.
The man that was talking about people not just needing a home and handling things on a case-by-case basis speaks the truth, some people just don’t know how to stay within the parameters of societal rules.I thought that was so insightful and true what he said.
Bro, one time I was stuck in traffic in one of these LA highways, the 110. And I was in this kind of meditation. And I realized that millions of cars had driven here before and millions of cars will drive here even after I die. It actually felt nice because it made me feel less important and less pressure.
Did other traffics drivers put you in that meditation mode? LOL
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Reminds me of a time I was sitting across from a family in Zurich, Switzerland waiting in the airport to catch my connecting flight back to LAX. They were going on vacation to LA and Hollywood and I overheard their conversation of the things they were going to do and places they were going to see. They pictured Hollywood as streets paved with gold and movie stars on every corner. I thought to myself that they are instead going to find streets paved with tents and urine along with homeless on every corner. California in general doesn't live up to its reputation. I also recall a time maybe 8 years ago I lived in an apartment complex in Huntington Beach and I would see these cars of new tenants all with out of state license plates. They all left after about a year. I asked one my neighbors who was moving why they were leaving. The answer was always the same, there is nothing in California that is worth the price you pay in taxes and general cost of living that you cannot get in another state at a fraction of the cost. California is a trap. Even millionaire Hollywood types are leaving it now.
I’m in Philadelphia, days away from being homeless again, I have a child under 5 who will suffer along with me. The shelters are full and fucking awful anyway. It’s damn near impossible to overcome this stuff when you have zero family support, no education and no money.
I'm sorry you have to go through this. Keep your head up brother. You will come out of this. You're in my prayers.
Finding a church to hang around might help. Christian's are usually pretty helpful like that, despite what reddit/Twitter would have you believe
@@martymcfly88mph35 I appreciate that! Actually staying on a farm in Maryland temporarily so def very grateful.
and yet lot's people in your situation, vote against their own interests.
I feel for you, I'm poor. It's not easy. No education,cuz I had a leaning disability,from grade school,all to high school. I struggled many years of pain, I did try hard to do my best with learning. I did graduate with a diploma of c-, D. Reading, also I'm dislexex. This i new I could not get a college degree. I do work a landscape designer, labor. Work with my hands, body. I earn money to survive, but money does not go very far when things cost way to much. Yes, no. ..
Money , it's the new fashion. I'm sorry for you. Cuz, things like this can cause humumaity to have depression, anxiety. When you have a child that needs you. Please try very hard to keep positive hopefully things will get better for you and your child. It's hard to go work and make a living in 2023.
Wow, you are an excellent documentary maker. So thought provoking, eye opening and most of all reminds one of their values and what we often lose sight of. Thank you. I'm very happy to have found your channel. And grateful.
Living in a 3rd world country, seeing this whole chaos happening in a state like LA is like seeing a sneak peek of a dystopian, post apocalyptic future that is very likely to happen to us, its like literally a foresight to me
Honestly as long as the current world order exists, it’s unlikely this dynamic will trickle down to the third world since their mechanisms of control are still relatively honest compared to the horrifying mind fuckery of the West. Baton vs Brainwashing
@@DG-wr6cl America*. Don't bring other western countries into this mess.
you could've just watched Elysium to get that foresight 😂
For real, its really funny to me how my best friend spends his days working his ass off and at the ends haves nothing but LESS money, yet here in my country in my country everything is relatively simple (not bad, simple), sure, my house may not be pretty but hell if i prefer that to be living meal to meal, sure my internet may not be the fastest but its cheap even when i live in a town of 10K people. I may not have the best medicine on the planet, but i can litterally get healed for basically nothing (already happened btw)
Sure, some things are bad and expensive, but we all are relatively happy here, and even if its a "shitty 3-world country" you still see people with somehow more money that they can use that rised from having nothing, fuck, i managed to get into WebDev and over the year save enough to get a 3070 (tho at the very start, not now, GPU prices are insane now) and a good pc by simply working because just gas dont cost me half of my wage to simply move around (gas).
And the funny part is that while its clearly happening almost world wide (speaking of "LA/US dystopian nightmare) its clearly happening way faster in US while other first world countries are relatively fine (mostly EU, but not JUST there)
Duno man, at first i wanted to move to US to work and get more money, glad i come to my senses.
@@cognito8325 Australia, France, and England have a higher homelessness rate than California.
i'd love it if someone made a documentary like this about london. its kind of a stretch but maybe with a million subs and a fully stocked patreon under your belt you might consider taking a hop across the pond to see the godless soulless hellhole that is our nation's capital?
haha bet you voted Brexit and have a problem with Immigrants. thats why you believe its a godless soulless hellhole..
London isn’t as bad (yet) but I worry that England does often take after America
We are nowhere near as bad as this continent... although we are giving it a hell of a go
Im Filipino studying Anthropological Science as a Hobby and your content really helped me care more and think about what might be solutions to fix this, rather than not paying attention just because I was born far more fortunate than others. It really paints a future on how socities can prosper and die fast out of nowhere. Ill be using your videos as an archive for future people to use and reflect upon
L.A is becoming like this because city officials are prioritizing big business over individuals.
(And this region has a history of doing this)
The urban sprawl created by freeway culture set a foundation for what’s happening today.
(LA invented the freeway and tore down many train lines in the 1960’s because auto industries wanted to sell more cars. People were forced into the car where before trains connected the L.A. region just like America’s Northeast region)
auto industries ripping streetcars in LA; that’s cruel even though i’ve watched video after video after it!
sitting in the comfort of my home watching this knowing those veterans sacrificed so much for us and to see them like that just hurts my soul
@2-Stroke Bloke that has to do with the politicians. nothing to do with the vets. also you have no idea why those guys joined let alone what their situation is or what they did where. for a lot of people there aren’t many options or it’s not a choice.
@@heavenesone EXACTLY. I have friends who enlist who need the military benefits to help pay for school or need healthcare because they come from a low income situation. Some of those friends even enlist so they can find their purpose in life and they do so by doing something bigger than themselves in serving their country. Can you fucking imagine some dude enlisting to literally risk his life for the self-interests of a politician who couldn’t give a flying fuck who they are? Like you said, you never know someone’s situation.
@@drmmerboi687yeah except in times of peace 90% of service members don’t risk their lives at all.
Love your analysis of the continuing trend toward singularity of lifestyle under big tech. Terrifying. Family is a unit that’s barely existing, and everything is temporary. Everything bound to numbers, the worst.
There is light at the end of the tunnel
@@GlinkBetweenWorlds hoping so
"What do you consider to be valuable?"
"Nothing you can buy here."
No truer words were ever spoken.
Glink, I started watching you back when you played hearthstone and I just wanted to say, your journey as a content creator is so inspiring and you have come so far. This video essay was amazing and really touching, thank you for making this. I can't wait to see what you make in the future.
This whole time I thought GTAV NPCs were lifeless characters when in reality they were modeled after the actual people living in LA
About the segment of more people getting into yoga and meditation, I saw something about western values being about making money and staying busy, climbing the ladder. Eastern values are just about existing. You don't need to be busy all the time, just existing and doing whatever makes you happy is enough. I think that especially in a city like L.A., people need that now more than ever. We all always feel this rush to be productive, monetize every hobby, climbing the social ladder. Even where I live in the more sleepy Midwest, I feel this pressure. But wouldn't it be nice if we could just focus on finding what makes us happy, just knowing that existing and being human is enough? I like that.
im not the first person to say this sorta thing but, the trick is that we aren't going anywhere. thats the big secret. the worries is we have to be over there.
Tell that to the overworked and suicidal South Korean and Japanese populations lol
@@kirbycathy Chinese as well.
Yeah eastern mysticism ain’t gonna get us outta this one
@@st2udent_650 OC seems like they are just trying to ascribe mysticism to a culture because they think it’s exotic. Like the concept of the Bible savage but for East Asians.
great vid.
I moved out of LA over this last new year after living in hollywood for 3.5yrs for school.
You'd think that my reasoning for it would be the fact that the city took my money, my time, a piece of my sanity, and a portion of my bodily function, but honestly? It was just the constant ruthless hostility of complete strangers...
_that,_ and the fact that there was 💩 all over the sidewalks constantly.
Wow your comment is intense seems like you need to be in fight or flight mode and also watch your step at the same time... stressful🤯 glad you made it out
Very well made documentary. Being born and raised in the "hood" of LA, I can agree with what was said throughout the documentary. I would always tell people that their time in LA will be dictated by the amount of money they make. If you make $15/hour (soon to be $16.03) or any job that isn't at a good paying salary as a single adult, then you're not going to survive. It is a hellhole to some, to others it may not. I do love that there is stuff to do but I dislike that it's shown in this doc through tourist trap areas. There's stuff to do everywhere! LA is rapidly changing but what bothers me are the people that complain about the politicians yet keep voting the ones that keep playing them. There's more to go on but I'm trying to make this short.
To close off, my suggestion or an idea would be to make a documentary like this but in a majority "Red" city in a red state. Kinda want to see the comparing and contrasting.
Edit #1: Reading some of the replies, I just want you to know that I have no hatred towards LA. I like it as I have family there and I can respect that some want to stay there. I can acknowledge the criticism against it though. I am currently in Georgia for university so I have time to explore the “rural south”. To all the Right-Wingers, actually try experiencing LA. All Fox-News is going show is the bad/negative tropes of LA so of course your perception will be this dystopian nightmare. LA has some positive attributes as well. To all the Left-wingers, actually visit the south. It’s not as bad as the media tells you it is.
Red cities can be violent too, especially when it comes to gun violence, the Deep South is literally third world tier
@@miscellaneoushistory9924 😂😂 ok lier
@@miscellaneoushistory9924 the only third world experiences in the USA are the big cities, I've since moved out of the big cities due to my occupation and into the rural areas and I have ZERO regrets. The big cities are NOT human or natural and will drive any sane man crazy.
Its a little hard to find "Red" cities, since conservatives usually pupulate the rural areas. I'm sure there are "Red" cities, but I highly doubt they would be as populous as the "Blue" cities.
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I’m pretty sure you’ve never been to a trailer park in the Midwest or South.
Terrificly profound and thoughtful film!! I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and LA/Hollywood. I haven't lived there for almost 20 years now, but when I went back to take care of some business about 10 years ago I couldn't believe all of the people rushing around to seemingly go nowhere. The realization that really hit me was that I had been one of those people too!! Even though it was the proverbial "infant" of what LA has now become, I do miss growing up in the Valley and Hollywood the way it was back in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s. I live in Mexico now and though I am a US Citizen, born and raised, I imagine I would feel like a real Foriegner in LA now..
This has been a terrific ride. A difficult subject handled with delicacy and craft. Absolutely wonderful filmmaking! Time is indeed valuable and that last hour was well spent. Greets from Ireland.
This casual point and shoot style of documentary is so refreshing and it gives a more personal realistic depiction of the story you're trying to tell great job glink :)
Yeah my personal gripe with lots of documentaries is all the montage shots while they're travelling somewhere, stuff like that will eat up like 15 mins out of an hour.
THE BEST content creator on TheirTube! I've been on here daily since 2007 and I've seen a lot of videos, but your stuff is no. 1 for me. Easily.