Here's Berkeley, California: Home To The Snobby Liberal Elites
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2022
- Do people in Berkeley even realize how hypocritical they really are?
Berkeley California. Possibly the most complicated city in the country. It’s very pretty and perfectly located. There’s lots of nature. It's really diverse and there’s lots of smart people with new ideas. It's funky and cool.
But there’s two sides to berkeley. Theres also a ton of crime here too. And there’s Tents and rvs and homeless people everywhere. There’s no middle class and a TON of in your face elitism. It certainly isn’t open to new ideas. Which makes it strange since the place was built on acceptance.
I could go on and on but let’s just talk to someone who lives there. I had a very enlightening conversation with a resident of Berkeley who let me know exactly what it’s like to live there and how hypocritical the people are who reside here.
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@@wgb_jd you don't know much about politics bud
@@wgb_jd You live in Berkeley Bill?
@@matthennagersguitarlessons No, I live in Canada now.
@@wgb_jd spot on! 🇦🇺🏳️🌈
@@Ben-jq5oo his father's jeans instead of unloading in his mom, he should've been....
Berkeley CA: The place where people with "Coexist" stickers on their Prius will give eachother the middle finger for driving too slowly.
Also the place where people with Luxry cars will avoid eye contact with people begging for money in the Wholefoods parking lot on their way back to their 1.5 million dollar house with an "Everyone is welcome" sign in the front lawn
This is too good!
@@TheEntireWuTangClan "We just need Love"
Sounds like a South Park episode!
@@07wrxtr1 At least those are signs with positive sentiments. And way more than not the attitude of most of them align with their signs. In comparison, I remember the positive bumper stickers of proud parents and their honor students. Those that are INTIMIDATED by successful people apparently need to ridicule and demean others as their bumper stickers in retaliation read, "My student beat up your honor student." How utterly pathetic and disgraceful this country has become with zero fortitude.
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I enjoy all your videos! I was excited to see you do Berkeley this morning.
Hyperindividualism killed this country. Living under the guise of freedom has only spiraled the folks here into a deeper hole of their own delusion and self worth. Berkeley and other extremes on the conservative side as well are both prime example of that. And the fact we have a single person spear heading the country into a certain direction that it only makes people pick sides even moreso than ever. When in reality, whether liberal or conservative, both sides are equally corrupt living in a flawed system that was built upon industry over a century ago. There has been no focus on maintaining infrastructure. It makes this car centric hellhole an even worse place to live. I don't think there is any going up. We've reached our limit and now simply the tool for private investors overseas. We were doomed from the start.
I was born in the Bay Area and grew up there. This lady described my grandparents perfectly. Baby boomer hippies who grew up with wealth.
Did this lady describe you perfectly? Do you drive a Tesla? Family 2nd home?
The inherited wealth aspect is beyond curious to me, as all my family grew up dirt poor for generations on end.
Isn't that an idiom.. being a true organic hippy and being a wealthy greedy capitalist don't mix very well. Poser gonna pose. 🤣
I grew up in San Francisco for 30 years, born there. This is very accurate, the Bay Area has some well meaning people, but there are a lot of fake “.peace makers”, Berkeley is probably the ground zero of the fakeness.
No! you’re not morally superior to your blue blooded Connecticut cousins regardless of how much yoga, $12 avocado toast, and hippy clothing you consume. We See you!
@@treeguyable Yeah my mom is trying to get me into medical school. Engineering isn't paying what I thought it would.
I was born in the early 80's @ kaiser hospital and, taken home to Berkeley, California. Berkeley is my home town and the mid 80' and 90' were great. I LOVED my childhood and my hometown played a huge part in that. I grew up in a hodge podge so to speak, every child played together. I grew up on the south side and, alot of my relatives owned there homes but we were rich. I played at school and, the parks with some of the more wealthy kids but, some how NEVER felt inadequate or was made to feel inferior. As an adult most of my years have been spent in Oakland,pinole and las Vegas and, i feel being raised in Berkeley helped shape me into a woman who is able to connect with people regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or "class". So in the last year ive taken a job a the university so im in Berkeley on a regular bases which i havent done in say the last 23 years. I must say my heart is broken by the Berkeley i see today. I have NEVER felt outta place or even experienced any type of "racial tension" until NOW. Ive had some HORRIBLE things yelled to me while walking to my car from work 😢. I feel like the people look down and turn up their noses a lot now. I feel even a lot of classicism walking through the city and the students are a whole nother story. I get the " wit are u doing around here look a lot. Its SAD!! My grandfather fought in the Korean war, and then bought his family a home in Berkeley in a wonderful area( right across from the ashby bart station). This is NOT the place he settled in i dont recognize the place. Of course there are so many other issue i could get in to.
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Sounds like the typical progressive place
This is one of the all-time best guests you have had! She speaks the undiluted truth.
She's awesome!
@@NickJohnson Nick - I could talk to her for HOURS!!!! I hope you can do a part II.
Yes, she's speaking the truth. However, please ask your guests to eliminate vocal disfluencies or filler words -- "Um, You know" -- It's very distracting! A educated person does not use these words.
There was quite a bit of BS in there. As if anyone was shocked that she didn't do yoga, or admonished her for playing tennis. lol Come on.
@@wgb_jd I think she was just sounding off. She seemed like she felt her neighborhood was full of snobs
The town looks nice. Universities are big business.
Of course it's nice it's Berkeley
With homelessness lining the streets … real nice
Actually a ton of WANT to be homeless
Brainwashed kids is definitely big business
Berkeley(besides the hills) is a shithole.
Katrine is the best guest Nick has had on this channel so far. Relatable and articulate.
I know top 5 for sure!
I wish he had brought on a guest with a different view so we could see more than one perspective. Her experiences and observations are different from mine.
Love her input on YIMBY-methodology
She got a smile - more than once - out of Nick! Great video!
@@stephendenney7349 All you have to is spend a few hours in Berkeley talking to the locales and the "different view" will be quite apparent.
That would be a good topic. "The snobbiest cities in America."
I did it once ruclips.net/video/m3djonR2pa4/видео.html
Neoliberal cities
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Cary, NC
PALO ALTO, CA IS BY FAR THE MOST ELITIST/SNOBIEST UNIVERSITY CITY ON THE WEST COAST...I grew up & graduated from CAL, moved to Seattle, was accepted for graduate school at the Univ.of Washinton with a diploma, worked in King County, returned to Berkeley, because I was hired by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., Facilities Engineering, Industrial Engineer, lived in PALO ALTO...Yes, I had to take courses at STANFORD U., at night --horrible & dangerous campus for women!
NO RESPECT not even for PALO ALTO PD!
Please don’t call them “elites,” much to their satisfaction. Call them something else, more derogatory and appropriate. Any ideas? Thanks.
Oligarchs
Indoctrinates
I like to call them the predator class
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Hi, Nick.
I grew up in Berkeley and Oakland in the sixties and seventies. I have also lived in New Jersey (near Rutgers University) and Provo, Utah.
Hot news flash: people in identifiable communities often are intolerant of outsiders, be they from a different locale or have a different mindset. They will insist that they are not intolerant of people not like themselves while doing the exact opposite in their daily lives.
People circle around what is valued and important to them, what is sacred to them, and fight fiercely to protect those values. They fear outside ideas because they seem attractive on the surface, but often hold hidden down sides.
Both conservatives and progressives/liberals and radical leftists do this. Neither side has a monopoly on this human shortcoming!
Different groups of people perceive that they have different vital interests to protect, and tragically, these vital interests are often diametrically opposed and pitted against each other.
Berkeley's Free Speech protests of the '60's, Oakland's Black Panther protests and riots of the '70's, and the January 6th Capitol Hill Insurrection have more in common than many people realize!
The vast majority of dysfunctional cities are controlled by anti-God people - mostly Dems.
all those kids who rioted were from Rich Families, and are now CEO's in the very people they claimed to hate's corporations..Polo anyone?
I inherited my mother's house in Berkeley but after some consideration, sadly decided to sell it because Berkeley isn't the funky, friendly place it used to be. I mean...there were a lot of homeless in the '80s, crime too, but it was concentrated in the downtown and mostly just panhandling and petty thievery. The homeless didn't LIVE on the sidewalks.
The rest of Berkeley was still edgy, rebellious and gritty, but it was beautiful too. We used to take walks on the campus as if it was a park, and the parks were great too--especially the Rose Garden with its scenic views of the Bay. But Berkeley was also a blue collar town and affordable. We paid $175 a month for a two bedroom in the mid 1970s. And Berkeley was cool, mellow and, you know, cosmic--the hippie thing, before it went bad and became the weird "me generation" ego trip this video's guest speaks of so eloquently. When I was little, my student babysitter used to do card readings for me and read me stories from "Seth Speaks". Then we'd watch "In Search Of" together and talk about aliens, lol. No lie!
Perhaps the ultimate "old Berkeley" thing was a guy on Essex Street, who, since the 1970s, had a mysterious free communal hot tub in his backyard that, if you played your cards right, you could get the gate code to--but if you were male, you could only visit as the guest of a female. It was an honor system and one transgression got you banned for life. No sex, no booze, no drugs, and no bugging women. Astonishingly, this worked--and well--for decades. I went there myself a few times. It was super heated to keep the chlorine content minimal; I couldn't stay in for long but it was so incredibly peaceful. My friend Dana and I would go late at night on warm evenings. The dude's yard was full of huge redwood trees, like a small forest. You could sit on various little benches there, chatting, or relax in the tub. When other people showed up, they'd nod in a friendly way, maybe talk to each other. Nobody acted creepy that I ever saw. There were even nice showers, and you were politely asked to rinse off before using the tub. Everyone did.
Now, it's a different world. The global elite presence in Berkeley is actually frightening. The mayor's Antifa ties, domestic terrorist and elementary school teacher Yvette Falerca of "BAMN" (By Any Means Necessary), the presence of Soros and his son in town (the son, Alex, is a Berkeley graduate and lives in Berkeley still, last I heard.) Notice how there aren't really violent demonstrations actually IN Berkeley anymore? Ha.
There's a lot of darkness in Berkeley that was never there when I was growing up. Then, it was just disgusting People's Park, occasional creepy government activities on the campus and at Lawrence Lab, and some street people with drug problems. Now the nastiness is festering everywhere just beneath the surface. Berkeley used to be a town full of hard-working ordinary people, bright-eyed young students, pioneering intellectuals and eccentric professors. There were beat era coffeehouses, the best used bookstores outside of NYC and London, jazz musicians, street poets, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday night at the UC Theatre. There were writers, dreamers, yoga teachers, potheads, hot tubs, legendary "Top Dog" hotdogs, and fondue restaurants.
Now... it's tent cities, trash and blight by the bay and multimillion dollar homes in the hills, and angry progressives and professional radical agitators plotting the demise of America as we know it. It's real estate investors, weapons research creepers, yuppies and limousine liberals swanning around the overpriced cheese shops--didja know the word "yuppie" was invented by Alice Kahn, a Berkeley writer? It's the one percent hoarding wealth and power over their pricey dinners at Chez Panisse--didja know that Panisse's owner, Berkeley icon Alice Waters, is buddies with James Alefantis of "Pizzagate" notoriety? You can't make this shit up.
Berkeley has become everything it used to decry and fight against. We've gone from "Subvert The Dominant Paradigm" to leftist authoritarianism worship and "I bought the new Tesla". (20 years ago it was "look at my Mercedes", 10 years ago it was "look at my Prius"...and when I was a kid, it was "look at my VW bus! We're driving it down to Baja to surf this summer!" See the progression?) My late mother went to college at Berkeley in the 1940s because it was a good public university she could afford. She got a decent job and supported her widowed mother. She loved Berkeley, lived there her whole adult life and never wanted to leave. I'm glad she can't see the tent cities and fields full of garbage now. She would cry.
That hot tub owner I mentioned, the one who let strangers use his tub for free, 24/7? After 40 years of simple hippie generosity, he closed up shop. Why? Because mtf trannies attacked him for treating them as biological men and not allowing them unfettered access to his hot tub. That pretty much says it all. The Berkeley my mother and I loved is effectively dead. Thanks for doing this video, man. Nice job.
Wow what a comment! I used to love In Search Of
When does your book come out?
This is the most intense truthful holding back nothing comment I’ve ever read thanks for putting it out there.
You reminded me of so many memories of Berkeley and said it like it is now, so eloquently.
I stopped reading when you said you inherited your parents house
If that ain't peak Berkeley idk what is 🤦
The lady commenting gave a fair representation of Berkeley. I'm 66 and was born in Oakland but have lived in Berkeley most of my life. You drove around the Southside my neighborhood for the last 12 years. It's the most affluent with amazing beautiful homes, some being mansions. College Ave. which is heavily traveled turns into Oakland. I live in an apartment, not a house by the way. You didn't cover the Northside or Hills but attitudes are much the same.
Forget about buying a home in Berkeley for those locals of my kids generation.
As the lady said unless you have inherited money or wealth you can not buy a home. You will be renting, and that's becoming limited to multiple roomates.
In the city where the supposed free speech movement was born, if you don't agree with the narrative you keep your mouth shut.
There isn't enough housing for everyone who wants to live here because it continues have people from the East Coast and other countries like China come and they're also the ones with the money.
Berkeley has THE BEST VIEW of the Bay. It's beautiful and does have the best year round weather.
Additionaly, in the last ten years, "The University" has become a huge business continuing to add thousands more students from other states and other countries because they pay more.
Peoples park which was never pretty, has been an ugly drug den dump for as long as I can remember. Student housing should be built there.
People have become insensitive to the homeless, mostly addicts and the mentally ill.
The increase in crime, worse then ever since the pandemic has been contributed to by the "no accountability" policy of the local judicial system.
Those that can see the obvious, like myself are starting to rethink the way they vote but still feel that they can only express this, in comments behind the anominty of the lap top screen because, you will be vilified by the trolls and the self righteous herd that have nothing better to do but continue their narative.
There was a time where people didn't express who they voted for usually.And generally speaking whoever got elected was given a fair chance to turn things around.Maybe we should go back to those times...yea probably too late!!!
The same " pacifists" that would now like Russia be bombed to ashes.
People often overlook how much influence out of state transplants have contributed to the cultural decline in California. Every city in Cali have absorbed massive rise in liberal transplants. IMO it has contributed to the absurdity of failed progressive policy that has destroyed the cities. As an example from afar, Portland is a great example in how much transplants can take over the culture from locals and completely transform it and not for the better. I recommend checking out his video on Portland with interviews from some native locals that talk about this.
Absolutly!
@@dharmaram7527 Berkeley has always been a hub for liberalism long before any liberal out of state or out of country transplants came, that was part of the attraction for newcomers, UC Berkeley. California in general.
I'm a native Nor Cal girl; born and raised. And boy oh boy have I seen the changes. To me the whole state is turning into one big BerZerley!
Bezerkeley
@@jessecolombatto8184 you mean what I know! :D
@@gardensofthegods Thanks. Your statement rings true throughout CA. Its makes me sad. I wonder if other communities across the country are having the same issues....😏🤔
Rich hippies became the new right?
@@ab8588 or the rich hippies "sold out" lol
I worked at UC Berkeley from '97 until 2011 as a manager of some of the performance venues there. Probably my most memorable "non-event" was when Fox News contacted the university in 2007 about having a Republican Presidential primary debate at our main auditorium. I attended a meeting with probably 15 or 20 people from the chancellor's office, UCPD, University Relations, and a bunch of other departments, and I recall someone from the press office saying something to the effect of, "We can't do that here." When asked why not, they replied, "because this is Berkeley and they're Republicans." I laughed and said, "Oh, I thought this was the place that prides itself on being the birthplace of the free speech movement." The discussion continued, but ultimately it was decided that their space requirements were going to involve shutting down an adjacent building, which we couldn't do because the date they were looking at was in the middle of finals week on the campus. And while I'm pretty liberal myself, I thought it would have been a great experience, although I couldn't help but think that the only reason FoxNews wanted to do it in Berkeley was so they could cover what would have inevitably been an enormous shitshow, if not at the debate itself, then in the surrounding streets where protests would often spontaneously erupt with considerably less instigation.
I find it so odd that liberals have so many characteristics in common with some of the most despicable people in history, yet they try to portray themselves as being so open, inclusive and compassionate. They have the tolerance and open mindedness of dictators like Stalin and Castro, rolled in together with the compassion of the Taliban. And I'm not joking.
Woke bullies turns every state into shit state
You noted that bit about how a good portion of the locals in Berkeley have an entitlement mentality and have no problem making decisions for others...
"And while I'm pretty liberal myself, I thought it would have been a great experience" - You sound like an old-school liberal, the type of person you could sit down with over coffee or a beer and have a civilized, productive discussion. In that sense you remind me of people like Laura Menard, a prominent Berkeley liberal who I have great respect for
in her attempts to deal objectively with issues such as crime and homelessness. Unfortunately, too many people in Berkeley today are either foaming, flaming lefty loonies or those cowed into submission, afraid to say anything that might not be in accordance with the Accepted Narrative.
I saw the title and was kind of afraid of what I'd find. I was pleasantly surprised. It's a good analysis. Thank you.
As James Hetfield once said : " They are into diversity, but only as long as you are diverse like they are."
I remember that interview and didn't understand what he meant until I moved to the Bay Area. I didn't stay long.
The woke NYC crowd is mad about immigrants now. The same pricks harping for 6 years how no one is illegal and wore deport Trump and racists now want the migrants gone.
That's Berkeley: Liberal elitism. ⚖️👎
I grew up in Berkeley in the 50's. Moved out in 1963 to a nearby city when my parents sold their house for $18,000. They had purchased it for $3,200 in the 1930's. That home is worth a $Million today! We are becoming a country of a few rich people and everyone else poor. Ugh!
I moved out of California in 1993. Nothing looked familiar in the video, things have changed sooo much! I wouldn't have even known it was Berkeley if they didn't say so!
Actually there is a split. Homeless people were always here. You being rich is the problem. More of people like you is the problem
@raytree Lol. I'm far from rich! I'm a lot closer to poor!
Were you a resident of Berkeley in the 50's? If not, you shouldn't contradict me!
Very interesting video. I moved here last year as my partner attends UC Berkeley and I am attending CSUEB. I moved here from a low income neighborhood in Sacramento which was quite a difficult adjustment for me. I am grateful that I am able to wake up and experience such a city, it has really opened me up to a lot of different people. I live on southside and honestly, the homeless in Berkeley are some of the most chill people compared to people who are homeless in other cities. Yes, the elitism is brutal, however, you can choose to not participate in their mindset which is a very humbling experience. As my girlfriend and I were both raised in poverty, we are greatly looking forward to the outcomes of our education and hopefully we can create a better future for ourselves.
Partner ...you're probably straight
Berkeley, where free speech was born and where free speech died. 🤦🏽♂️
THis is all so true and I went to Cal 25 years ago. So so true. All of it. There is one thing with being relatively liberal and then there is a mismanagement of accountability. Things for sure need to change here in California
@Big Dick Black It's the weather that is the driving reason for people to be happy in California. In comparison, save Hawaii, weatherize the rest of the USA is a horror show. I've lived or visited extensively all over the USA and the weather outside California makes paying the extra dividend worth it, even with the forest fires.
@Big Dick Black I live in Canada, and visited California. I was stunned that people even call it a first world country to begin with.
Anaheim smells like litteral cowshit. They setup factory farms right next to residential areas. The zoning is completely fucked, and is designed to inflate housing prices too.
Then I went to texas, and the vibe was so much different man. The weather is nice, the people are so fucking chill, and Houston reminded me of a Vancouver suburb.
Diverse community, big emphasis on freedom, responsible gun culture, and actually normal zoning laws and shit.
They aint joking when they say that Texas is the new cali. If I ever get an American citizenship or some work visa, ik the state im moving to lol.
@@CaptainGyro I'm enjoying it here in California. I grew up in Stockton and went to college at SDSU. Worked and retired in the SF Bay Area. I'm now thinking of moving to Orange County or San Diego just because of the better weather they have during the winter months. I don't have any issues that make me feel like I have less freedoms.
Who calls it Cal? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm a lifelong Californian, and high cost of living is trending across the US. That's why people are being displaced in Texas and Florida
@@cheesewithxbread Cal? Even sportscasters who don't live in California know that "Cal" means UC Berkeley.
You do a really great job on all your videos- you report accurately and adding the interviews is great too. I don’t think people appreciate enough how good your videos are- and the huge amount of volume of places that you review is impressive too. Thanks for your output. Keep up the great efforts.
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If you were in Berkeley as a teen or young adult playing proto video games at Silver Ball & ice skating at Iceland , then you’ve lived peak Berkeley & can die happy 🤗
There is no place more out of touch with the normal world than a college/university town/city.
Thats facts.
My buddy used to live in Burnaby, which was near SFU/UBC, and that dude was GONE.
I was talking to him about how Trudeau was overreacting over the Trucker protest, and compeltely escalated the situation, and the dude talked to me like I was lower than him and how im some brainwashed uneducated moron.
I hate the fact I opened up to that dude about my grades, cus he deadass talks to me like im mentally handicapped now bruh.
I honestly dont like these liberal elites.
Berkeley is the personification white of upper middle class progressive liberal leftists.
Who are beyond out of touch with most Americans.
They're snobbish intelligentsia & pseudo intellectuals with a side of Buddhism & dash of Hinduism.
Berkeley produces more smug condescension than any other place on earth.
The Berkeley Hills...$5 million & $10 million dollar homes.
The fire of 1991 clean out many of the oldest multimillion dollar homes.
Berkeley sucks.
I grew up there.
Interesting how this woman doesn't acknowledge her own privilege. For example, how did she and her husband obtain a home in an affluent neighborhood Berkeley? Berkeley is full of these hypocrites.
Yes it is.
I grew up in Morristown, NJ and went to college at UC Berkeley in 1989, left there in the early 90's and been trying to get back ever since. This video really resonates with me due to the Jersey to Berkeley perspective. 32 years later and after living in the Deep South for 26 years and Phoenix for 5-1/2, I had a job opportunity in Tech in North San Jose the end of March 2024.
Wow, has this place changed. The haves and the have nots are way more extreme than back in the 90's. Crime in the Bay Area is off the charts. SF I wouldn't even consider living over there as I used to. I liked the neighboring town of Albany and my friends inherited their homes from family members. I could not afford to live in the area. San Jose rent was $3800 /mo for a 2br, 2ba last week and too risky to move with the 750,000 + tech layoffs in the past year in the Bay Area. 41, 000 of that number so far this year. I stopped short on my move back up there after having boots on the ground and will stay based in Phoenix.
The funniest comment in this video, "the biserkeleys now drive Teslas". in my day there I had my Vintage Beetle and my 84 Fiero out there. I have a VW ID4 EV currently, lol.
I lived in the bay area in the 90s and drove to Berkeley nearly everyday. My husband (ex) was an electrical engineer and made good money. Time goes on, we get divorced, he moves to Seattle and I move to Phoenix where I had lived in the 70s. I traded the bay area for the desert and I want to go back but here I am many years later. I can't afford it.
I appreciate all the hard work that you put into these videos!
Berkeley's my hometown. Most of the footage at the beginning of this video is actually in Oakland, Rockridge, and Temescal to be exact. CA-24 at Telegraph Ave. is in Oakland. You can see the 66th street sign has the Oak Tree on it which is Oakland's logo. You crossed into Berkeley when you crossed Woolsey St. The Smokehouse is on the Berkeley (north) side of the street. The south side of that street is Oakland. Other than this, I agree with this. I love my hometown but damn they can be so one-sided and not open at all to other points of view. To answer your question; yes the elitism has ruined the old Berkeley. I grew up there and was a teenager in the 80s. A lot of that old Berkeley was still there then. It isn't anymore.
I , grew up there in the 60's through 80's Berkeley is My Town 🎼 🪕
Dwight Way
@@user-on7iu3ie4i What about Dwight Way?
The guest speaker is absolutely amazing! I think I felt a tickle of happiness in my black hole of a soul.
Years ago Reebok or some shoe company did an ad about East Coast vs West where LA was all pastel colors and slow motion athletes and NYC was fast motion people running in gritty black and white street scenes, so this lady's NJ take was perfect. I know someone from Berkley - you COULD NOT have described her better.
aaahhh Berkeley .... the place where u see black lives matter signs in the most expensive neighborhoods .... but will not see any black ppl there lol I lived in the bay for 20 years , and Berkeley has more or less been the same.... it's mostly the rich parts that act that way, but natives are getting moved out cus of cost of living like anywhere in the bay so u get these transplants who keep the same ideology ... but don't have that sense of the real bay area as a melting pot , anyone from the bay will tell u that's what makes the bay great, but in bay area terms these new people "faking the funk" lol
Or live in Oakland to be killed by the Black Pznthers?
That's pretty much how all of California is. Except for ag area...I lived in Nor cal 35 years but couldn't stand what became of it. I moved out in Oct 2021 back to realism. Back to east coast...
Wow! Whoever was driving/filming ran 8 or 9 red lights, and not even close on most of them. Great discussion, horrible driving
if you watch his other videos you'll see it all the time
The video must go on.
Great episode with awesome guest, thank you!!
Ok Glenn :)
Absolutely love your guest! She's great!!!
Thanks Nick and Katrina!!!
My grandparents moved to Berkeley (from the Rockridge area of Oakland) in 1932. My mother and aunt attended UC Berkeley, graduating in 1934 and 1936. The family home was located 1/2 block north of the UC campus, near the Pacific School of Religion. As a child, I visited my grandparent's home frequently--we lived in West Contra Costa County (now a cess pit). (My grandparent's house is now owned by UC Berkeley where it is a "center for music.") After my grandparents passed away, I lived in the house for a couple of years ('68-'70) to watch over it, while the family was trying to sell it (It sold in about 1971 for about $100K!!). Yes, I had the joy of living there through the "Peoples Park Riots" --- and I can say there is nothing like going out for a Sunday brunch and discovering that I was living inside a "security line" with National Guard troops positioned every 6 feet along the "perimeter" -- I was assured that with an ID showing residence "inside" that I'd be able to return home later in the day.... I recall many nights being disturbed by a loud explosion -- the UC "west gate" guard shack was regularly "blown up" (it was a plywood structure for the guard to get out of the weather while controlling traffic entering the campus--it was unoccupied after 5PM when traffic restrictions were relaxed -- the explosions tended to be around midnight -- a quarter-stick of dynamite (or a couple cherry bombs) would put it out of service). (There was a storage yard visible through a fence on Hearst Ave where you could see a dozen or so "guard shacks" available as replacements. (They were also distributed on football "game days" to various locations when access to streets near the Memorial Stadium were restricted.) Many of the people who lived in Berkeley were rather "self aware" of their "special nature." (I was never that impressed.) Not long after, my employer transferred me to jobs in the Sacramento Valley (Marysville, Chico, Sacraments) before I returned a decade later to their HQ in San Francisco. I never missed Berkeley, though in my youth there were some good times and places to "hang out." When I returned to the Bay Area, I lived in a distant suburb and rode BART to work in downtown SF. Both Berkeley and San Francisco where once beautiful cities, relatively clean and reasonably "policed." It's been nothing but down hill over the years since. I left the Bay Area more than 10 years ago and now live in a somewhat upscale neighbored in SW Washington.
I lived in Berkeley (actually in Albany, an upscale enclave) from '86 to '93. Living in Berkeley changed me from a liberal to a conservative. Haven't watched this vid yet but here a couple of things I recall:
1. Getting my car broken into - twice - right around the corner from the police state, in broad daylight on a Saturday morning.
2. "People's Park" being too scary and filthy to walk through. There was a small mountain of used clothes there, presumably discards from the better off residents for the "poor" to pick through.
3. If you wanted to get a decent (rent-controlled) apartment, you had to pay an off-the-books "finder's fee" to the renter who was moving out - about $1,000 at the time.
4. Human excrement right off of Telegraph Ave, around the corner from all the trendy shops.
At one time, I used to love the college-town ambience, hanging out in coffee shops and bookstores. However, when I moved to the Eas Bay from San Francisco, I soon realized I'd outgrown the coffee shops and hang-outs. Well there you have it; now I'll watch the rest of the vid.
@@Lifetalk849 good tip.thanks.. I lived on College Ave in Berkeley ..such a dump now
Nothing will ever change because voters will never change.
@@Lifetalk849 Yeah, 30 years ago I would have loved it.
If that changed your beliefs then something is wrong. So now you don't support LGBT rights? You want more military spending? Now you want to lock people up for putting stuff into their own bodies?
I feel sorry for you. Basically you're saying "People were mean to me so that changed my entire ideology and philosophy." 🤦
@@bocajrs7628 That's a lie. And it's the conservatives that are against change. It's the Republicans that support voter suppression.
As a 20 year resident and property owner -- a 2-bedroom condo that seemed overpriced even back then -- that was interesting. I've driven every bit that you drove hundreds, thousands of times, except for driving through campus like that. The beginning and a later stretch are actually in Oakland. There's a whole lot more including the Gourmet Ghetto, the hills, the flats, etc. The furthur west and south towards the bay through the flays the less affluent. Although those more modest properties are very pricey now of course. And while Katrine does describe a common attitude it's not quite so monolithic.
You may or may not know that a few months ago they came in and surrounded People's Park with a wall of shipping containers. Yes, the long-overdue student housing is going to happen, along with low-income housing and a memorial to the park's history.
We have homeless and crime here but it's not nearly as bad as Oakland.
The current pro-Palestinian protests have been peaceful thus far. And actually, while Cal Berkeley led the way in student radicalism, our other institutions have long caught up and in some cases surpassed it, so it doesn't really stand out in terms of politics. A very large percentage of the student population is Asian, and they tend to be focused on their studies and not political activism.
Acceptance if you're not conservative!! Orange man bad!!
I love this style, with the interview and driving around the city in the background
Me too
She seemed to be discussing the city around the UC. However, the UC is a major factor to where there is a constant over demand for student housing as the UC keeps upping enrollment numbers, but without responsibility for the effects on the surrounding area.
More great work,thanks Nick.
I first moved to Berkeley from Melbourne Australia in 1976 and lived firstly in an apartment on Blake St
Loved it then - bought a 66 Mustang convertible ($1600 restored !) and started a business and it was as this lady says but of course
prices to me were all bargains then ! It had everything now with the money pressures those old easy to live days are gone !
Glad I was there for the best times
Whole US is now far more dangerous with the middle class under threat and hard to find - poverty increasing quickly
Are you living in 🇺🇸 now?
I was there in 2017 and had a really strange experience with a shop owner. I walk in this sort of touristy establishment and asked the cashier woman if they carried stickers. I collect stickers of city's/cool places I visit. Anyways, she went on a tirade about Trump and where I could buy a Trump sticker. LOL! I had no clue why she went that direction but I was left with the impression of just how angry and unhappy many of the residents are there. I have no desire to go back.
Certainly indicative of the impression regarding the "vibe" of the place, gained from the speaker's insight. It did seem to be an attractive place, however I couldn't last the better part of one day tolerating the "attitude" of what seems to be the majority of the residents.
she probably has sex dreams about Trump, and wakes up frustrated.
You should do a show on Alabama and Mississippi politics
@@vincentwaclawek6190 why? They haven’t caught the liberal flu so it’s way less interesting
So did you get the Trump sticker?
Fun fact : Berkeley was the first in the nation to become handicap friendly ( ramps on sidewalk corners and wheelchair busses ECT).
Running through those red lights like a champ.
If there were a drinking game based upon his disregard of traffic laws, nobody would have been conscious by the end of the video. Nice interview though.
LOL I noticed that too 😅
It's ok. BPD doesn't issue any traffic tickets anymore. It's perfectly legal to run lights in Berkeley.
you had a really good guest today
My family and I were evicted from our rental duplex in 2019… I bought my first home in the mountains and will never go back to Berkeley. The people really are awful and families/middle class are forced out. More and more will be forced to move and it will be only for the rich and entitled and super poor folk.
This is heartbreaking to read and isses me off. Hope you are doing better.
Good interview on both sides! Very nice video with editing as well. Great work!
The Opt-ed documentary that the NYT did called 'Hypocrisy of Liberal-ran Cities' nails it on the head as well, as a SF Bay Area native I can absolutely agree that their districts have kids in one area walking among the mentally-ill, drug addicts, garbage and feces in the streets/sidewalks, and active crimes, while another area the kids do not have to face any of that.
This woman is a gem. I know old Berkeley…its terrific high school launched my eager, high performing son into a great undergrad university and from there he got an affordable graduate degree..,yes, there was a time.,,
Thanks to you…and her.
I enjoyed listening to her! She could totally have her own radio show. Very interesting indeed!!
i agree!
This lady sounds like she fits in very well in her neighborhood
She is liberal but in a old school way.
Love your videos! Thank you
Great interview as usual, keep up the great videos and interviewees.
Important to note that the vibe in Berkeley varies from neighborhood to neighborhood.
My family moved from Oakland to the "Poets Corner" area of Berkeley two years ago and have found an accepting, culturally and racially diverse community of people. Our apartment is small and expensive, but the community more then makes up for it with most routine destinations within biking or walking distance. I bike to drop off my daughters to school, take the BART to work, and can walk to the grocery store, and dispensary on the weekends. All while its sunny and mid-60s. Not a bad situation.
The places I've encountered the attitudes described in the video have been in the "Gourmet Ghetto" and up towards the hills. This video is clearly trying to communicate a single idea, that although true.....ain't the whole story.
Hey bro, instead of the dispensaries which hella rip people off, hit me up. My small business is failing BAD thanks to COVID and competition like the pot clubs. I'm not far from homelessness despite my rent only being about $750 per month, whereas before COVID we were making over a grand every weekend without fail.....
I agree. I am in Berkeley as well. Most of the elitist snobs here are not originally from Berkeley, but from NY, NJ (like this lady), Chicago, etc. Lots of stereotyping in this video.
Can you please share more about the diversity of this area? I recently visited UC Berkeley and was kind of shocked by the lack of diversity. Only two races seem to be represented even though the campus is near some of the most racially diverse parts of the Bay Area (Oakland and Richmond, in particular).
@@sonar3108 The most diverse area in the country, probably. Like the United Nations. For better and for worse.
@@barb2793 That sounds more like Oakland than Berkeley.
She's so right! I grew up in Berkeley and Richmond, I live in Vallejo now. I remember the "old" Berkeley growing up in the 70's. Now, it's so different and NONE of us can afford to live there anymore. It's only for inherited people who have money and renting there there's no where to live! There's a big homeless community for ppl who were middle class and got pushed out. And yes Berkeley graduates know EVERYTHING.....
They think they know everything but actually don't know anything.
What a trip...I too grew up in Berkeley and live in Vallejo now. Maybe I like Vallejo because it's a little like 1970s Berkeley, but with more space, wider streets...more parking LOL. The old architecture is certainly much the same, just shabbier. I miss the way Berkeley used to be.
Politically Berkeley was probably just as left wing in the seventies and eighties as today, if not more so. And the people who own houses in Berkeley are probably mostly people who bought theses houses before the sharp increase in real estate. The high cost of rent and real estate in the SF Bay Area, in my view, is more because of the rule of supply and demand -- more people want to live in the area but the housing market is limited because of the geography of the area.
What an asset this eloquent, well rounded and well spoken local lady is ! More of them please !
She's super!
Because she still keeps that "Jersey girl" in her!!
I was lucky & lived in North Berkeley in the mid 70s till '90. It was a Very Progressive & Art Loving Place. Went back in '17... It broke my heart to see what the East Bay has become. I still Love Berkeley, & All the Bay. & I Always Will. Love & Light ♡☆. My Heart Will Always Be There. The Best of My Life Is There, where i Worked for The Dead In '82.. As Melozone. The 'Temple Moon Rose' Shirt I Designed for Greek Theater Shows is Vintage now... Where does the time go. Peace To All. Melozone... [Mel McDannell] Avodia
Wow you're an icon!
to Nick... Yea, I live in Illinois now, back from whence i came. I feel soooo Iconic 🪄🤣☮🕉
@@NickJohnson Love u Nick✌
The heart of this channel is really more about California than anything else.
It’s hilarious. I live in Tracy.
If that's a hell hole what would you call Mississippi, Alabama or Louisiana, the states with the highest infant mortality rates, the highest maternity death rates, the highest murder rates, the lowest life expectancy in the US?
Don’t leave out Arkansas
Also a hellhole
at least there people have homes, they stay in the shitty situation because they lived there a long time. IN cali its you own or you are a slave.
Why do you avoid discussing Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC?
@@eastbaykidd8574 because Chicago is an amazing city
You chose a good person to talk. This lady knows everything 👏👏👏.
What a "world class" interview. As always Mr. Johnson is Amazing because he asks open ended questions and then...wait for it... He listens to the answer. Omg. That is why his videos are always worth a listen. Simply the best.
NICK I love your little jabs to the hypocrisy. This guest was really awesome and nice. Thank u for comin on and being very nice and polite
Nick is legit. I love this channel!
lmao This lady is part of the upper class and this interview shows. No one I know in Berkeley would gasp if you didn't do yoga. No one I know has a second apartment they can fly off to.
I know many who do . May be u live in poor neighborhood in Berkeley
@@tessslakimmo7750 You've basically proven my comment. Thanks for your help.
@@norasmith2474 there are many poor neighborhoods under the bridge living off of tax payers money or living rent free by protesting
@@tessslakimmo7750 Those are not neighborhoods, they're encampments. But thank you again for proving my original point.
I was thinking the same thing
Fantastic Channel. I enjoy your videos when it's come across them. 👍
One of your best, a commenter who was lucid.
It sounds to me like Berkeley is a place that has problems. But the problems they have are the kind of problems other cities only wish they had.
Homelessness? Unaffordable housing? Stunted intellect?
@@dimensions20 Not unaffordable for the people who can afford it.
Good job on this guest “expert”. I’m going to appoint her Mayor or Governor even if she doesn’t want the job.
It is NOT just Berkeley, it is all about California ! Arrogance and Obnoxious nature !
Very interesting hearing what she had to say!
There's definitely some pluses Berkeley offers on the surface that makes it a place to be, but obviously the pricing is out of control and the homelessness cluttering the area. The one thing that really bugs me out is of course the ELITISM. Once one lives in the area, it's like it encapsulates that person. I know someone from childhood that went to college there and after living there she's like a totally different person (for all the wrong reasons). Snobby, elitist, really makes you feel inferior if you either don't agree one thing or are short one thing (think $$$)....it's really awkward and depressing to see. I'm still living in CA but for years now I've grown to hate the state and itching to leave, but the family I have tied here is the only reason that keeps me here. Once the ropes are loose though I am bailing.
Omg I absolutely love this lady!!
I'm glad I knew the old Berkeley, the new architecture and colors are humanly disgusting! They sure wrecked the tranquility of nice memories.
Are my comments blocked? I noticed no one comments on how raunchy Berkeley is! Others do not like the forced on them ugly hideous architecture!
It is where I was born in 1964. Thanks Nick, Great guest. Thanks to her too.
This lady is great!
Bruh Berkeley is awesome I live here and it’s the best city ever it has a really good economy
Good
I was born at Alta bates in 1980 , I grew up on ward st utill witch was mainly lower class so basically the low income area ... I don't remembering one white kid that lived on ward st... at 9 years old I understood that I was living on the black side of town ... when I got to Berkeley high I started to understand how diverst Berkeley was , back then most white families didn't allow there kids on our side of town .. my family and moved to Haskell st witch was also considered the black side of town ..alot of crime ,a lot of drug dealing and a world that even white people who lived here didn't trust ... my grand mother owned a house on prince witch she owned since the 70s ... I have so many family members and friends that have family members who loved Berkeley more then any place in the world ... I know over 1000 people that loved Berkeley more then any place in the world... my grandma bought her house the first time she came here ,she loved instantly ... I went to every school here , I played sports on evrey sports program Berkeley had , I went to every summer program at every park my whole childhood ... when I walk outside now , it makes me wanna cry ,... genteracation is real ,its been for over 10 years , I lived here for for 40 year and I feel like a stranger , Im outside everyday and its so many entitled white people walking around here... there rude and they have no respect ... you should see San Pablo park every day now, its not one familiar face around here not Evan at the the recreation center right there ... the recreation workers that worked at San Pablo park or at groove st park was a big part of our upbringing , I looked up to people like patty who became police chief for BPD , mostly all of the inner city kids loved her ... now I'm not comfortable in my own city because the new people around have no idea about the history here ... I can show you over 50 houses that black families owned that sold for Pennys because the drug problem had gotten so bad out here .... alls I'm sayin is that the new Berkeley has no history ,they Have no clue the sacrifice our grandmothers and grandfathers made to raise us here , they need to be called out for the entitlment they walk around here with , when they bought there house , the agent probably sold them on the fact that this was a up and coming neighborhood witch means all the black people has moved out lol... i hate it here now , i hate the fact that in 30 years south berkeley want have 1 black family living ... there little genterfacation plan has finally came to life ... I pray that we can atlases reserve our history before it's to late .... maybe we should do a interview to high light whats really going on ... do you have social media ? instagram ? facebook ? my facebook is turk green
Thanks for your insights,
One cool thing I can say about Berkeley is their Dollar Store had Produce, and everything was a $1, of course this was 10 years ago. Things are probably not $1 there now, and isn't it the birth place of the original Grocery Outlet Bargain Market?
I only had time to watch through minute 16. I live in West Oakland and I work in Berkeley almost every day. This woman's observations are spot on! And her observations are one of the reasons I live in West Oakland...the tough realities of the world aren't hidden or sugar coated here.
Thank you for sharing!🙏👍❤️🥰🙏👍❤️🥰🙏👍❤️🥰
City of Berkely is worst city in the nationwide for higher property taxes , homeless,riots,shoplifters and home prices and no places for shopping and dirty city.
Great interview, Nick. Berkeley still looks like a pleasant place to visit but with pockets of homelessness and urban decay. I'll be interested to see how these ultra-rich California cities will keep restaurants, grocery stores and other basic services running for their out-of-touch residents without adequate housing for working individuals and families. Despite all the noise about an exodus, most of the recent out-migration from California can be attributed to folks that have decent jobs and careers but are priced out of the neighborhoods worth living in. A hollowing out of the middle, if you will. I'd leave too!
Berkeley is part of a four million contiguous urban area which includes housing at many levels of cost. NOTE Housing costs reflects the level of demand. Desirable areas are accordingly expensive.
I think what has been decided as the ultimate goal for CA is to become the Dubai of the US. So all the workers will be stuck in the Central Valley and take the train two hours one way to either LA or SF to service the ultra rich.
The exodus of the middle, the center of the electorate, is why expanding areas of this state are morphing into 3rd world microcosms. There will be no resurgence because those capable of restoring its past vitalilty will have fled.
@@themoviedealers Stacking the electoral deck, i.e. replacing the mostly self-sufficient, productive middle class with groups more accustomed to being dependent upon the government. It's a big win for the democratic party and immigrants ... until its unsustainability causes conditions for immigrants to be no better than what they had left behind.
70% of the homeless ppl in the big cities in California are not from California.
These two whiteys have a very typical but flawed understanding of the Bay Area. Berkeley has wealth disparities just like every big city in America. This is amplified by the tech industry here. But saying Berkeley is full of elitist liberals is so far from the truth. Most people I know who live in Berkeley are poor lower- middle class non white people living in a diverse place with lots of opportunity. This is actually a wonderful place, and it is way more accepting to black, Latinx, Asian, middle eastern, lgbtq+ people than most places in USA. There’s a huge difference between liberals who make 250k+ per year and those who are poor. Often rich “liberals” will vote for conservative measures because of financial incentives, such as voting down corporate tax in Silicon Valley. I voted for the tax because I believe the corporations making the most money here should pay the most taxes. In reality all rich here are far more conservative than liberals, especially when it comes to money. At the end of the day, that’s where the line is drawn. You may vote democrat for the president, but locally if you’re voting for conservative measures than you’re actually a conservative.
This channel is filled with comments of people looking to affirm their bias yet ironically it’s also filled with “oh yeah this is just like my city __________” I wonder if it ever leads them to dig deeper than shitting on homeless and libs.
You are the only intelligent person in this entire comment section that I've come across. Kudos.
great video nick!! way back 1970's i lived there, i like the ladies down to earth comments and her common sense and the video from driving around brought back a lot of memories
Cool Tom!
I love this interview👍👍
She seemed exactly like her neighbors that she talked shit about.
She sounded envious. Strange.
Badmouthing Berkeley residents. Btw I’m a Berkeley homeowner
You sound like you're taking this personally.
this lady is funny. she needs to be on more
can we just point out how bad his driving is? He constantly is running red lights and just sliding through stop signs without even pausing at the sign.
enjoy these newer generation reviews. Great job
Haha these have been going on for more than a year Scott where have you been?
I live in the Bay Area and I give Berkeley a double eye roll 🙄. You can’t burp in that city without someone getting offended that you disrespected a tree’s right to clean air
Stop doing that! 😀
You're blocking that flower from its sunlight..
Not to mention they practice segregation.
It’s so ghetto to go thru red lights. I know it would mean a break in flow, but you could edit out the time at the intersection.
I appreciate this video. I have been to Berkeley a handful of times since family is not too far from there. I didn’t know things have changed so much from what I remember pre-2010sbbut then I’m not surprised either.
Loving the new format Nick
This lady was really interesting to listen to.
Why would any one want to live there?
I have a friend from Berkeley. CA i met 23 years ago at convention in Chicago, Illinois. He loaned me $2,000 when i risk of losing my house. He remains a loyal friend. Her criticism of people Berkeley doesn't apply to everybody.
I usually tune out when my favorite channels let guests do the majority of the talking but man this lady is awesome. Loved hearing what she had to say.