+barcode0954 factories aren't what make regions valuable. You can relocate a factory anywhere within weeks with little cost. He's talking about natural in the ground resources worth trillions man. That's trillions with a T.
Prymer 55 in that case the word valuable and what that means towards these 3 cities are pretty subjective. Because Detroit is one of Americas most impactful cities...
barcode0954 oh you mean cultural wise? Yeah I'm with you. A lot of Americas history is in Detroit. Basically the start of the industrial revolution after ford created production lines. I was just going on the lines of what the other guy meant
+bca0003 what are you talking about we tax payers spend billions on the best health care on the planet,all the food they can eat,,,,,,cigarettes,,beer cable tv..don't have to work,,,,,and you think we should fix up there neighbor hoods ,,,,get real
Baltimore a very unique look to it. The way the buildings are all moderately tall giving it that New York City neighborhood feel but completely attached to one another and decayed giving it an almost 3rd world country look on top of it's Harlem look.. No other city has that exact vibe to it. I feel like it makes it feel a bit more intimidating to be in.
and these were know where near some of the worst blocks in the city. I'm from Baltimore and there are way worse looking blocks. It's a shame the way the city has become. Because when you get downtown around the harbour it's beautiful
+Mark Brown Yeah, I've actually driven through the city, briefly. I wasn't necessarily going by just this video alone. It's simply something I noticed a long while ago about Baltimore. And yeah, sadly that's the case with so many cities. Detroit was once an incredible city, booming with business. Now it's down to less than half of it's original population with nothing. New Orleans also got way worse after the Hurricane.
+Nick Wright That's an interesting observation on your part, Nick, about Baltimore. I dwelt amongst many of those streets as a child -- I had poor relatives who lived there including my paternal grandparents (lovely people). Most of those row houses are 19th century. I discovered whilst doing research on my Baltimore ancestors that there was a lot of textile and flour mills in the city and much other industry so they needed lots of blue collar workers so they built all these lower class row or "terraced" houses (much like those in once poor areas of London). It breaks my heart to watch this video of decaying Baltimore. It was a wonderful place to grow up; I will always love Baltimore no matter what.
As a person who was born, raised, and lived in west Baltimore in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, it is sad to see the blight that has stricken so much of my home town, as well as similar urban areas. However, what's more sad is the loss of so much industry and jobs that once employed the working class people, both black and white, who worked hard, lived, and raised families in these now vacant homes for generations.
John L. Oliver i love st louis my home to man. Growing up as a white man in st louis i never felt out of place. Great people. Always got respect for these places just sad to see the decay
I always love the city of Baltimore even though I’m from DC but grew up across the street in PG county Suitland,MD I love the uniqueness of Baltimore salute
+Mr Ricandelphia You serious? Detroit's been the murder capital on and off every year since the mid 70s, and the years when it hasn't been 1st in murder, it's been second. I live here and see it every day.
we are BANKRUPTC where do you think the money is going to come from. Right now if we increase taxes to a flat 25% TO ALL WORKING or MONEY MADE OR GIVEN IN THE USA we would spend the next 30 years or more paying off the Debt. That would mean NO Refunds for anyone.
you're ignorant dumbass really just judged an entire country off of a couple hundred pics of the worse of the worst??? I bet you're pretty racist too bro...
Detroit and Baltimore obviously suffered the worst. only thing to do is keep these cities downtowns in line. Baltimore's downtown and riverfront is very nice. Detroit's riverfront and core city is currently in rehab.
I love the music. Thank you for putting this together. It is so heartbreaking to see this country, communities dying as a whole, like this. It like a enormous set for a Apocalypse or zombies movie. But the people left behind in these areas really are the walking dead.
Most of the New Orleans pictures were taken 1-3 years after hurricane Katrina. I can tell by the waterline on the houses with the painted numbers on them. Also some of those project buildings have been demolished since 2009
On of the comments said they are totally opposed to gentrification (as am i) but because he thinks that it would run out all the different people of various ethnicity and a good city needs a diverse race of people. Unfortunately where he misses the mark is STL is very diverse (especially w all the Bosnians of the South Side) but everyone hates everyone. Diversity isnt much good when theres just as much racism as there is different types of people...
It's a good thing he didnt have to venture too far from interstate 70 for help or he would have been treckin the rest the way on foot BUT on the upside, the good people of STL arent completely inconsiderate, he wouldn't even have to worry about getting all worn out from walking w all that pesky luggage! We'll take it from here Mr. Griswald, come see us again real soon!
When globalisation shifted many industries to low cost countries, city dwellers had to move out due to unemployment. As the cities hollowed out, urban decay sets in. It's a vicious cycle. Industralists, despite paying taxes lower than the average middle income families, moved out to countries where they are charged trivial tax rates. So the main culprits are greedy industrialists.
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this is the exact reason. I live in DC and Baltimore is only an hour and 20 mins away or so and I can tell you 15 years ago it wasn't the greatest city but now it is literallly the slummiest city in the US. Entire Neighborhoods are just abandon its sad to so. This is what happens not from blacks but from companies shipping jobs to China and politicians and unions not doing shit.
ACTUAL CRIME RATE PER 100,000 (doesnt matter if one city has bigger population or not) HIGHEST MURDER RATE St.Louis- 59.8 population about - 300,000 Baltimore- 57.8 population- about 600,000 Detroit - 43.1 population - about 700,000 New Orleans - 41.1 - population -about 400,00
I don't understand the point of this video. It shows rundown and abandoned buildings. This is the same thing with the vast majority of major U.S. cities, be it a small city of 50,000 all the way up to the ones listed. The American industrial base has been gutted for years and this is what results. Rundown abandoned buildings......
IM FROM A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY IN CENTRAL AMERICA! ESCAPED A WAR IN MY COUNTRY THAT LASTED FOE 12 YEARS! THE GOVERNMENT DONT GIVE FOOD STAMPS OR NOTHING! THE WORLD IS GHETTO!
IMO, Baltimore is visually the worst because the buildings are side-on-side, right up to the sidewalk, on both sides of narrow streets. There is little to no greenery or open space. In addition, many blocks have the acrid smell of burnt out tenements. I've been to all of these places except New Orleans. Baltimore's ghetto has the claustrophobic feel of the South Bx. and Alphabet City (NYC) in the 1970s. If New York's ghettos could be revived, there's no reason the others can't come back. (What's with all the racist comments?)
Dense urban areas are in my opinion far nicer looking than neighborhoods with huge tracts of wasted green space all over like the suburbs. Most people would rather not mow a lawn they never use every sunday. Personally, I wish my city had more dense urban neighborhoods I could move into. Visually looking at places like that you get the impression whoever was designing it knew the area was in high demand and every square inch mattered, no use in wasting space with buffer zones of pointless lawns, it just makes you walk that much farther when you're going to the grocery store.
GoodChap has a point. I, personally, have no desire to mow a lawn, which is just as well; there are no lawns to mow where I live in NYC! While no longer decayed (used to be in '70s-'90s), my neighborhood was full to overflowing with immigrants from the 1840s up until WWI. It held 10x what was originally intended, and then the landlords moved themselves uptown, built horrendous tenements, and packed them as full as possible. The tenants took on boarders and lodgers until the population of the LES was denser than the slums of Calcutta. My great-great grandparents raised 13 children in two rooms, 5th floor. 10 lived to adulthood, eight married, had kids of their own. Everyone still lives in NY Metro area, but I'm the only one returned to the "ghetto!" One big difference now is that I have a studio to myself, indoor plumbing, electric, etc. When my grand nieces and nephews visit, there's a great park two blocks away. I'm on the top, 4th floor, and there's still no elevator! No place is perfect!
Right. White flight meant millions of dollars vacating the cities. Stores then closed, services of every kind, gone. We were a minority numerically, so losing Whites really hurt cities. They didn't decay right away. The loss of jobs and rise in mafia activity killed these cities. Mafia brought in drugs. Black youth sold them as opportunity waned for 3 decades and counting. Crime goes up with poverty no matter the race. Why do you think Russians and Eastern Europeans are running guns and prostitution? No dang opportunity. They don't want to farm.
@@praggypopsqa4652 That's absolutely true. The problem is lack of economic opportunity. For black people as a group we lack business ownership which will solve these problems. Look at the 5 points in New York You had Irish gangs, Italian gangs, Jews gangs, and Asian gangs, all due to crushing poverty and looking for a way out.
currently live in STL. moved here recently from Orlando and wow was it a wake-up call. I was used to a newer city with little chance for so much decay, but STL seems like a true shell of its former self....i don't think that's the end for any of the cities though, they have a haunting yet beautiful past and I hope they'll rise again.
Ivan C. and you proud of that shit ya heard me cus your city rank 4th thats sum to be proud of kids gettin hit by bullets houses gettin shot up ... u proud of tht huh ??? well im gone continue to be great over here keep getting educated and higher pay ... oh and living till im 96 seeing a whole lot while u dont care bout life get cut down at 22 ... smgdh ... if yaw so gutta go to iraq and shoot
+Alfred Baxter Gary, Indiana is horrible no doubt. I never thought I'd see the day where a city can look almost as bad if not just as bad as Detroit yet Gary (despite being a lot lower in population) looks just as depressed, dilapidated, and as downtrodden as Detroit. I can understand Baltimore, St. Louis, and New Orleans being included on this list. From what I've seen of those cities, they are the next most broken down, busted, ghetto looking cities in the U.S. after Detroit. I've also seen what Newark and Birmingham look like and those cities look like they are in terrible shape as well. One other smaller city I've seen that nobody mentioned yet is Youngstown, Ohio. Gary and Youngstown both relied heavily on the steel industry to dominate their job market, and when those steel industry jobs were taken out of those cities they both just went to hell and never came back from it. No matter how you look at it, it's really sad and heartbreaking to see these once great cities crumble and fall apart the way they have over the decades.
the sad thing is, as you can see, these fine brick buildings were once nice, when they were built. These were not shacks in St. Louis. St. Louis is known for its red brick buildings. At least the frames and structures of a lot of them are sound, and can be remodelled. Actually a lot of that is going on in St. Louis. Much more needs to be done, but at least they have started, instead of just wringing their hands and blaming someone else. It llooks like Detroit and New Orleans will just be left like that. No excuse, in the wealthiest nation on the planet. WTF?? Fix it all back up!!
+Michael Craig I agree with your statement Michael. One reason St.Louis is known for it's brick homes is because at the turn of the century we had some of the best brick factories around due to our great Missouri clay mud. I'm born and raised from St.Louis. My sister still lives there. My husband about fifteen years ago did a lot of the floors in the Soulard neighborhood. A lot of the homes have been redone from top to bottom and the area looks great. I do think that years ago when desegregation started is what did in a lot of south St.Louis. White people moved away, now it's drugs, crime, murders. The city has such a bad reputation.
+Pamela Blake but now people are moving back. The population has started to move up again, since 2000. It was at an all time high in 1945, 4th largest city in the US, 600,000 people. It went all the way down to 250,000 in 2000. It is starting to go up, and it is working folks, loft apartments, row houses fixed up, some new houses, etc..
+Cody Kennedy (AESTRODON) It respectfully disagree with you. Blacks have not created this problem. These neighborhoods went downhill when industry left town -- and corporations with their globalist mentality did this. They put profit before everything -- and they are not Americans, either. They are "Internationalists" and mostly Zionists.
I come from Japan and I feel most relaxed in an area that has a good balance of newer immigrants and locals who were born here.It's strange but even some of the rougher parts of SoCal don't look abandoned like that.
In the case of St. Louis, most of the buildings shown are located in North City, the poor region of the city where the buildings become abandoned, taken over by the city, then sold to rich developers such as Paul McKee who don't spend money to maintain the structures, causing them to end up dilapidated. This is caused by economic stagnation in the downtown area, caused the bankruptcy or relocation of large companies such as, McDonnell Douglas, TWA, and ATT as a result of the poor policies of a weak and fragmented government that focuses more on the surrounding suburban counties.
+Roni P And Kensington has a WHITE plurality! And yet from the videos I've seen it's now just as much "ghetto" as the worst black neighborhoods. Clearly, somebody's doing an experiment to see if working class whites can be turned into "underclass". You can't blame the devastation of Kensington on systemic (actually, social) racism alone. kensingtonphiladelphia.wordpress.com/basic-demographics/
Keep voting in Democrats and you will see more cities like this. People.....wake up and start voting in some folks who can fix shit rather than line their pockets.
+Jesse Black That's fucking hilarious. Republicans are responsible for all of these problems. Keep up the corporate subsidies and keep shafting poor people.
It's not the democrats or the republicans. It's the politicians themselves as people and their own custom policies that turn cities into nightmares. I'm a republican myself, and you're seeming like a real asshat.
Baltimore smh, I dont understand how they renovate 2 houses on a block, that might have 20 houses. And they leave the other 18 to look like shit. I see it all the time when I travel down there
That was just the Boston man living in WPB who said he would not visit Costa Rica for fear of the poverty therein. And I was with him in the gym and I told him: "Just let s go across the I 95 to Tamarind and you ll be scared of what you see in your US !!
Funny thing being from New Orleans, most of these pics were after Katrina but it looked no different than before the storm to us. It always had so many abandoned and run down buildings, hell the hurricane made it look better to be honest.
When I was a boy, buildings like these had tenants of a sort. The rent wasn't much, but the buildings were occupied. The permanent vacancies, meaning that nobody was willing to rent or buy the buildings at any price, began in the 1970s. The Great Recession and its foreclosures merely added more houses to the mix. These cities all looked terrible 15-25 years ago. New Orleans never recovered from Katrina. I like your music.
This is not the America my grandfather fought for in WW2. The two parties we vote for don't do anything to fix this place and make it amazing. We need a third party now.
I used to live up in that area of St. Louis until somebody got shot in the alley behind our house, my Korean aunt got robbed at the bus stop, my bike got stolen, I got jumped by 4 dudes at a playground, somebody hit our car and drove away, our neighbors house got robbed, 2 houses down they were cookin meth and there's a lot of homeless people and right around the corner Saint Louis University students were being robbed and stabbed. Yeah, Saint Louis kinda sucks.
It may look like St. Louis isn't that bad... but there's a lot more. Like if you go to Normandy, East St. Louis, Jennings, or even downtown it gets even worse
Detroit is one of those cities where if you ain't from there then it seams almost impossibly dangerous to live in. I admit I got a bit desensitized when I moved to St Louis. When I came back to my home town I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. I'm not gonna lie St Louis is hard. But if you put it up against Detroit? St Louis is Disneyland. There was a few times I felt as if I was in Danger in STL. But Detroit? God damn. See St Louis has bad areas but they're also good ones. Detroit is like 95% bad. St Louis has nothing on the D
I think a lot of it has to do with the population of Detroit, It’s much larger and intimidating. That east side of Detroit looks like north Stl on steroids lol. I always wondered why my friend from Detroit was not scared when he would hang out on the north side of Stl, I went to Detroit and I understood why lol
St. Louis has some very depressed spots, mostly on the north side. However, if you think this is a complete representation of STL, you're sorely mistaken.
Looking at Baltimore and thinking about how it must have looked. It reminds me of being a kid in the 1970s, watching Sesame Street and how those houses must have all had families and small communities just like on the set of Sesame Street.
American inner cities should be handed over to legal European immigrants, with in 3 years these cities would then be great again. The African Americans have failed. Let others have these cities. #NoMoreExcuses
If you look at the list of the worst countries in the world to live in - based on a combination of economic, health, and political conditions - you'll find that Africa is home to pretty much all of them.
I am German and want to move to the us but those pictures are very sad and shocking in Germany there aren't even 1% as Many murders than in one us city Could u name me some safe places pls.
Maximln Musttermann I was in your country five years ago. I was in a small town near the Koblenz area and know exactly what you're getting at. I took many pictures of my time in Germany and when I returned home and showed people the photos; they couldn't get over at how clean the town was. There was no non-Caucasians living in the town and there was not one house or building resembling anything in the way of a ghetto or crack-house. Everything was maintained beautifully.
This is very sad these homes has so much potential but nobody ain't doing nothing about it and it's sad.Im from Savannah Georgia and we don't play about abandon homes we either tear them down or re model it also make it affordable. I pray they make a change one day
0:40 some of the houses have the window frames, sashes and muntins painted blue to ward off wicked spirits. The homeowners should have carried a CCW gun instead, because only a well-handled gun will ward off wicked people bent on invading your home!.
Check out the stuffed animal house at 6:01 I hear people think they are saving Detroit by hanging stuffed animals on a house and calling it art. I call it a ridiculous waste of time.
I grew up in St. Louis and for all the poverty, there seems to be a lot of good people there. I moved away years ago with a 4 year old son, a car, a tool box and some clothes. Now I look around and don't have to look far to see 2 million dollar homes
I like my Baltimore. Its mostly good and we know how to get along. Its just that 10% and mostly youth. We do things a little different in Baltimore. We like what we like.
I wish I could move as far away from New Orleans as I can, but my girlfriend insists on staying here, since this area is her home. The things we do and put up with for love, right?
The overall process of decay in America began in the 1960s and 70s, continued through the 80s, then basically paused for a while for about 15 years (90s and first half of the 2000s). Then the late 2000s came, and here we are. Decay has resumed. Crime has stopped falling in America for the first time since the early 90s. Uh-oh.
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But we can spend 2 billion dollars a week rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Detroit isn't valuable? Think again.... where do you think our cars are being manufactured at?
+barcode0954 factories aren't what make regions valuable. You can relocate a factory anywhere within weeks with little cost. He's talking about natural in the ground resources worth trillions man. That's trillions with a T.
Prymer 55 in that case the word valuable and what that means towards these 3 cities are pretty subjective. Because Detroit is one of Americas most impactful cities...
barcode0954 oh you mean cultural wise? Yeah I'm with you. A lot of Americas history is in Detroit. Basically the start of the industrial revolution after ford created production lines. I was just going on the lines of what the other guy meant
+bca0003 what are you talking about we tax payers spend billions on the best health care on the planet,all the food they can eat,,,,,,cigarettes,,beer cable tv..don't have to work,,,,,and you think we should fix up there neighbor hoods ,,,,get real
Baltimore a very unique look to it. The way the buildings are all moderately tall giving it that New York City neighborhood feel but completely attached to one another and decayed giving it an almost 3rd world country look on top of it's Harlem look.. No other city has that exact vibe to it. I feel like it makes it feel a bit more intimidating to be in.
and these were know where near some of the worst blocks in the city. I'm from Baltimore and there are way worse looking blocks. It's a shame the way the city has become. Because when you get downtown around the harbour it's beautiful
+Mark Brown Yeah, I've actually driven through the city, briefly. I wasn't necessarily going by just this video alone. It's simply something I noticed a long while ago about Baltimore. And yeah, sadly that's the case with so many cities. Detroit was once an incredible city, booming with business. Now it's down to less than half of it's original population with nothing. New Orleans also got way worse after the Hurricane.
+Nick Wright yea we lost 300,000 people as well
+Nick Wright That's an interesting observation on your part, Nick, about Baltimore. I dwelt amongst many of those streets as a child -- I had poor relatives who lived there including my paternal grandparents (lovely people). Most of those row houses are 19th century. I discovered whilst doing research on my Baltimore ancestors that there was a lot of textile and flour mills in the city and much other industry so they needed lots of blue collar workers so they built all these lower class row or "terraced" houses (much like those in once poor areas of London). It breaks my heart to watch this video of decaying Baltimore. It was a wonderful place to grow up; I will always love Baltimore no matter what.
I think St.Louis actually looks fairly similar
A lot of these were beautiful homes at one time. I love the architecture and design of so many of these buildings. Quite sad, really.
These cities make Compton look like Disneyland.
Compton overrated.. Try Camden NJ
Compton was relli fucked in the 80s. Ny n Chicago mop that shit in the crack era tho lol. Compton is Disneyland. Bunch of nice bungalows
Detroits fukd to relli. Lol, prob the worst overall from these
Over 3x more violent crime as NO. Burglary rates r ridiculous
Compton ain't dangerous no more i will call that place safe
As a person who was born, raised, and lived in west Baltimore in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, it is sad to see the blight that has stricken so much of my home town, as well as similar urban areas. However, what's more sad is the loss of so much industry and jobs that once employed the working class people, both black and white, who worked hard, lived, and raised families in these now vacant homes for generations.
I still love my home town Baltimore, could be a better city, but I still love Baltimore.
John L. Oliver i love st louis my home to man. Growing up as a white man in st louis i never felt out of place. Great people. Always got respect for these places just sad to see the decay
Aye baltimore where we from 🔥
Lor scoota my nicca baltimore💯💯💯
I always love the city of Baltimore even though I’m from DC but grew up across the street in PG county Suitland,MD I love the uniqueness of Baltimore salute
@ I also was raised in DC & PG county and Baltimore is another world. I met a lot of solid people from Baltimore though.
Baltimore in St. Louis look rundown but can be saved.
Detroit looks like a nuclear bomb hit it!!
Yea Detroit is a modern day ghost town, shit is dead .. it ain even that dangerous, no ppl=no crime
+Mr Ricandelphia You serious? Detroit's been the murder capital on and off every year since the mid 70s, and the years when it hasn't been 1st in murder, it's been second. I live here and see it every day.
+Ray Norton Right! Detroit and St Louis have remained dangerous for years
mike jones don't disrespect bodymore
dontay angelo BC detroit ain't poor like you guys can't even afford 5$ houses
Welcome to America, the richest and most powerful country in the world.
+andrew brehaut Moronic comment.
yes but this President thinks it should all be free. I don't understand it because freedom isn't free
+andrew brehaut Imagine where we could be if we didn't have to expend the resources we do on Africans?
we are BANKRUPTC where do you think the money is going to come from. Right now if we increase taxes to a flat 25% TO ALL WORKING or MONEY MADE OR GIVEN IN THE USA we would spend the next 30 years or more paying off the Debt. That would mean NO Refunds for anyone.
you're ignorant dumbass really just judged an entire country off of a couple hundred pics of the worse of the worst??? I bet you're pretty racist too bro...
Never knew Baltimore had gone down so far.
They only showed the bad parts of Baltimore
Detroit and Baltimore obviously suffered the worst. only thing to do is keep these cities downtowns in line. Baltimore's downtown and riverfront is very nice. Detroit's riverfront and core city is currently in rehab.
New Orleans is worst then Baltimore
Baltimore worst dan any of doze
@@mrpaperchaser8154 that's kind of hard to say because both are dangerous and I'm from New Orleans.
I love the music. Thank you for putting this together. It is so heartbreaking to see this country, communities dying as a whole, like this. It like a enormous set for a Apocalypse or zombies movie. But the people left behind in these areas really are the walking dead.
With the music it almost looks like art, S/o to the op for these vids man
Most of the New Orleans pictures were taken 1-3 years after hurricane Katrina. I can tell by the waterline on the houses with the painted numbers on them. Also some of those project buildings have been demolished since 2009
the amount of racism on these comments is astonishing. I'm from st.louis, we need to stand together and rebuild our community. it's falling apart.
It's better than it was.
On of the comments said they are totally opposed to gentrification (as am i) but because he thinks that it would run out all the different people of various ethnicity and a good city needs a diverse race of people. Unfortunately where he misses the mark is STL is very diverse (especially w all the Bosnians of the South Side) but everyone hates everyone. Diversity isnt much good when theres just as much racism as there is different types of people...
I think St. Louis looked better in National Lampoon's Vacation when Clark was asking for directions.
It's a good thing he didnt have to venture too far from interstate 70 for help or he would have been treckin the rest the way on foot BUT on the upside, the good people of STL arent completely inconsiderate, he wouldn't even have to worry about getting all worn out from walking w all that pesky luggage! We'll take it from here Mr. Griswald, come see us again real soon!
When globalisation shifted many industries to low cost countries, city dwellers had to move out due to unemployment. As the cities hollowed out, urban decay sets in. It's a vicious cycle. Industralists, despite paying taxes lower than the average middle income families, moved out to countries where they are charged trivial tax rates. So the main culprits are greedy industrialists.
damn Baltimore, Philly And Detroit Are one of roughest cities in America
NorthTV St Louis always is in top 10 dangerous city's in America
try mia dade county 305 is wort
@@alejandroga366 Miami is disney land
im in miami as we speak. Its sunny palm trees. Aint got shit on baltimore
NorthTV facts
Come stay with us a weekend in North St. Louid city! Everyone is hospitable and theres so much nightlife!
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And having travelled all over the country, I can tell you that Detroit is clearly the worst of these 4 cities. Not even close
Terrible stuff. Thank you politicians for sending all of our union jobs overseas....this is their fault.
Thank the dumb asses who elected them and let them do it.
The people dont elect the president
Ernest Clark
The sky is green with red polka dots on Monday
Are you a troll or are you serious because i dont understand you
this is the exact reason. I live in DC and Baltimore is only an hour and 20 mins away or so and I can tell you 15 years ago it wasn't the greatest city but now it is literallly the slummiest city in the US. Entire Neighborhoods are just abandon its sad to so. This is what happens not from blacks but from companies shipping jobs to China and politicians and unions not doing shit.
ACTUAL CRIME RATE PER 100,000 (doesnt matter if one city has bigger population or not)
HIGHEST MURDER RATE
St.Louis- 59.8 population about - 300,000
Baltimore- 57.8 population- about 600,000
Detroit - 43.1 population - about 700,000
New Orleans - 41.1 - population -about 400,00
I don't understand the point of this video. It shows rundown and abandoned buildings. This is the same thing with the vast majority of major U.S. cities, be it a small city of 50,000 all the way up to the ones listed. The American industrial base has been gutted for years and this is what results. Rundown abandoned buildings......
Hi, nice vid. Can you tell me the name of the track that plays when the slums of Detroit is shown? Thank you.
Big Sean - Higher
Got it.
IM FROM A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY IN CENTRAL AMERICA! ESCAPED A WAR IN MY COUNTRY THAT LASTED FOE 12 YEARS! THE GOVERNMENT DONT GIVE FOOD STAMPS OR NOTHING! THE WORLD IS GHETTO!
Cafu Manzel, its sad :(
SFC SFC my nigga preach dem latino hoods horrible. Im Salvadoran.
IMO, Baltimore is visually the worst because the buildings are side-on-side, right up to the sidewalk, on both sides of narrow streets. There is little to no greenery or open space. In addition, many blocks have the acrid smell of burnt out tenements. I've been to all of these places except New Orleans. Baltimore's ghetto has the claustrophobic feel of the South Bx. and Alphabet City (NYC) in the 1970s. If New York's ghettos could be revived, there's no reason the others can't come back. (What's with all the racist comments?)
Dense urban areas are in my opinion far nicer looking than neighborhoods with huge tracts of wasted green space all over like the suburbs. Most people would rather not mow a lawn they never use every sunday. Personally, I wish my city had more dense urban neighborhoods I could move into. Visually looking at places like that you get the impression whoever was designing it knew the area was in high demand and every square inch mattered, no use in wasting space with buffer zones of pointless lawns, it just makes you walk that much farther when you're going to the grocery store.
No, but your implication *is* racist.
GoodChap has a point. I, personally, have no desire to mow a lawn, which is just as well; there are no lawns to mow where I live in NYC! While no longer decayed (used to be in '70s-'90s), my neighborhood was full to overflowing with immigrants from the 1840s up until WWI. It held 10x what was originally intended, and then the landlords moved themselves uptown, built horrendous tenements, and packed them as full as possible. The tenants took on boarders and lodgers until the population of the LES was denser than the slums of Calcutta. My great-great grandparents raised 13 children in two rooms, 5th floor. 10 lived to adulthood, eight married, had kids of their own. Everyone still lives in NY Metro area, but I'm the only one returned to the "ghetto!" One big difference now is that I have a studio to myself, indoor plumbing, electric, etc. When my grand nieces and nephews visit, there's a great park two blocks away. I'm on the top, 4th floor, and there's still no elevator! No place is perfect!
Right. White flight meant millions of dollars vacating the cities. Stores then closed, services of every kind, gone. We were a minority numerically, so losing Whites really hurt cities. They didn't decay right away.
The loss of jobs and rise in mafia activity killed these cities. Mafia brought in drugs. Black youth sold them as opportunity waned for 3 decades and counting. Crime goes up with poverty no matter the race.
Why do you think Russians and Eastern Europeans are running guns and prostitution? No dang opportunity. They don't want to farm.
@@praggypopsqa4652 That's absolutely true. The problem is lack of economic opportunity. For black people as a group we lack business ownership which will solve these problems. Look at the 5 points in New York You had Irish gangs, Italian gangs, Jews gangs, and Asian gangs, all due to crushing poverty and looking for a way out.
I live in New Orleans and they didn't even show New Orleans
east that's something horrible
TY Galloway But TY who in the fuck would go in there? I'm from the west bank. There really wasn't anything over there I wanted to see.
Wigg ED yeah man desire and lower 9th are some pretty bad places
currently live in STL. moved here recently from Orlando and wow was it a wake-up call. I was used to a newer city with little chance for so much decay, but STL seems like a true shell of its former self....i don't think that's the end for any of the cities though, they have a haunting yet beautiful past and I hope they'll rise again.
Detroit & Baltimore are 2/3rds of the Rustbelt District...
I'm assuming the New Orleans clip was after hurricane katrina
no. It looked worse before Katrina. Nola my hometown is ranked 4th most violent city in america of 2016 YA HERD ME
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Ivan C. and you proud of that shit ya heard me cus your city rank 4th thats sum to be proud of kids gettin hit by bullets houses gettin shot up ... u proud of tht huh ??? well im gone continue to be great over here keep getting educated and higher pay ... oh and living till im 96 seeing a whole lot while u dont care bout life get cut down at 22 ... smgdh ... if yaw so gutta go to iraq and shoot
they should of had camden nj on this
or Trenton nj
trenton is crazyso as newwark
Alfred Baxter you can add Orange nj and Jersey city
yes gary is crazy man
+Alfred Baxter Gary, Indiana is horrible no doubt. I never thought I'd see the day where a city can look almost as bad if not just as bad as Detroit yet Gary (despite being a lot lower in population) looks just as depressed, dilapidated, and as downtrodden as Detroit. I can understand Baltimore, St. Louis, and New Orleans being included on this list. From what I've seen of those cities, they are the next most broken down, busted, ghetto looking cities in the U.S. after Detroit. I've also seen what Newark and Birmingham look like and those cities look like they are in terrible shape as well. One other smaller city I've seen that nobody mentioned yet is Youngstown, Ohio. Gary and Youngstown both relied heavily on the steel industry to dominate their job market, and when those steel industry jobs were taken out of those cities they both just went to hell and never came back from it. No matter how you look at it, it's really sad and heartbreaking to see these once great cities crumble and fall apart the way they have over the decades.
the sad thing is, as you can see, these fine brick buildings were once nice, when they were built. These were not shacks in St. Louis. St. Louis is known for its red brick buildings. At least the frames and structures of a lot of them are sound, and can be remodelled. Actually a lot of that is going on in St. Louis. Much more needs to be done, but at least they have started, instead of just wringing their hands and blaming someone else. It llooks like Detroit and New Orleans will just be left like that. No excuse, in the wealthiest nation on the planet. WTF?? Fix it all back up!!
+Michael Craig I agree with your statement Michael. One reason St.Louis is known for it's brick homes is because at the turn of the century we had some of the best brick factories around due to our great Missouri clay mud. I'm born and raised from St.Louis. My sister still lives there. My husband about fifteen years ago did a lot of the floors in the Soulard neighborhood. A lot of the homes have been redone from top to bottom and the area looks great. I do think that years ago when desegregation started is what did in a lot of south St.Louis. White people moved away, now it's drugs, crime, murders. The city has such a bad reputation.
+Pamela Blake but now people are moving back. The population has started to move up again, since 2000. It was at an all time high in 1945, 4th largest city in the US, 600,000 people. It went all the way down to 250,000 in 2000. It is starting to go up, and it is working folks, loft apartments, row houses fixed up, some new houses, etc..
I’m from St. Louis
What beat is that on the detroit section? That shit was fire! Please shoot that or let me know yo!
@awarrenty Big Sean - Higher
@@navioraa1807 Thank you Navi Oraa, bout to search and catalogue this asap! Super cool and take care!
all mostly black areas. no more "diversifying" white areas please?
+Cody Kennedy (AESTRODON) It respectfully disagree with you. Blacks have not created this problem. These neighborhoods went downhill when industry left town -- and corporations with their globalist mentality did this. They put profit before everything -- and they are not Americans, either. They are "Internationalists" and mostly Zionists.
Don't forget that Hurricane Katrina wiped out entire neighborhoods in NOLA and that was not the fault of Black people
That simply is not reality, Love and Be Wise.
Aaron… Deep impression vid, thanks. Could you tell me the music for St. Louis and Baltimore?
+rossriver75 St. Louis: Verbally Diseased - The Great Chicago Fire. Baltimore: Chief Keef - Citgo
+AaronG1221 Thanks for posting the songs used in this video! Both are amazing tracks despite the sadness shown of my hometown of STL...
I have been to Detroit and I tell you that's one scary place .
Does anyone know the name of the song from 5:45-7:30?
Aaron Diamond i get(from shazam) Higher (Instrumental) -
Syndicate sound labs....
My hometown Washington, D.C. used have a lot of urban decay, but then it was heavily gentrified starting around 2007
the dope game of the 80s and 90s gutted these cities.. . everybody is in jail, dead or in group homes as burnouts
1. Detroit
2. Baltimore
3. New Orleans
4. St. Louis
RPM THE GOAT damn right
21223 all day 🔥
313 brutha. 6 mile
1. Baltimore
2. Detroit
3. St. Louis
4. New Orleans
Drew Rowley 973 true his all wrong
For New Orleans This had to be after hurricane Katrina..
+SweetLovingHeart im sayin its all clean now even the projects
what is the name of the song they playing when they are showing baltimore???
whats the instrumen tal at new orleans
I come from Japan and I feel most relaxed in an area that has a good balance of newer immigrants and locals who were born here.It's strange but even some of the rougher parts of SoCal don't look abandoned like that.
The common thread is that these cities are all majority black residents. See the connection
truth
saddly
democrat voting cities
What means the symbol (white cross in red camp) outside the house in the door?
Why are those entire districts abandonned ? Is it only cause of the crises? (I'm French)
In the case of St. Louis, most of the buildings shown are located in North City, the poor region of the city where the buildings become abandoned, taken over by the city, then sold to rich developers such as Paul McKee who don't spend money to maintain the structures, causing them to end up dilapidated. This is caused by economic stagnation in the downtown area, caused the bankruptcy or relocation of large companies such as, McDonnell Douglas, TWA, and ATT as a result of the poor policies of a weak and fragmented government that focuses more on the surrounding suburban counties.
+Tyler F (Pwnista) Thank you for pointing out the truth. Well said.
You should show the bad areas of Atlanta, Memphis and Philly.
+PfctvsPontivsPilatvs AKA: Black areas.
Ex. act. ly! ;^)
Yes, West Philly is seriously a bad area. So much so that the locals are moving out to the inmost burbs that are not filthy rich.
North Philly is waaay worst. Kensington is the largest drug market on the East Coast.
+Roni P And Kensington has a WHITE plurality! And yet from the videos I've seen it's now just as much "ghetto" as the worst black neighborhoods. Clearly, somebody's doing an experiment to see if working class whites can be turned into "underclass". You can't blame the devastation of Kensington on systemic (actually, social) racism alone. kensingtonphiladelphia.wordpress.com/basic-demographics/
It's kind of beautiful, the pictures with the music and all.
the song of baltimore pics??? name?
plan to shoot a budget zombie apocalypse movie? for affordable decorations, watch this vid...
Now everybody lives in the suburbs.
Chubby Kid not true
Keep voting in Democrats and you will see more cities like this. People.....wake up and start voting in some folks who can fix shit rather than line their pockets.
AMEN!
+Jesse Black Sorry Jesse but you can't just blame Democrats. It goes deeper than that. See above.
+Jesse Black That's fucking hilarious. Republicans are responsible for all of these problems. Keep up the corporate subsidies and keep shafting poor people.
Lol phrozen..ever since democrats held office in Detroit, it's gone downhill ever since.
It's not the democrats or the republicans. It's the politicians themselves as people and their own custom policies that turn cities into nightmares. I'm a republican myself, and you're seeming like a real asshat.
what are the track names for this man
all track titles in description at the bottom
Baltimore smh, I dont understand how they renovate 2 houses on a block, that might have 20 houses. And they leave the other 18 to look like shit. I see it all the time when I travel down there
That was just the Boston man living in WPB who said he would not visit Costa Rica for fear of the poverty therein. And I was with him in the gym and I told him: "Just let s go across the I 95 to Tamarind and you ll be scared of what you see in your US !!
Funny thing being from New Orleans, most of these pics were after Katrina but it looked no different than before the storm to us. It always had so many abandoned and run down buildings, hell the hurricane made it look better to be honest.
Baltimore is the closest city on this list to New Orleans. niggas are very similar but except in New Orleans we don't gang bang.
When I was a boy, buildings like these had tenants of a sort. The rent wasn't much, but the buildings were occupied. The permanent vacancies, meaning that nobody was willing to rent or buy the buildings at any price, began in the 1970s. The Great Recession and its foreclosures merely added more houses to the mix. These cities all looked terrible 15-25 years ago.
New Orleans never recovered from Katrina.
I like your music.
i would rather live in Baltimore than any other the other 3 tho ... thats a fact
Mr Ricandelphia I'm from Baltimore and I can agree
Yes because you don't want to go to New Orleans
Mr Paperchaser it ain’t no joke lol
I’m from the ghetto in St. Louis
that's a hard choose because all of these were murder capitals at different points in time.
is the wire true at all?
Notice they used Chief Keef beat citgo nice 👍 selection
My nigga u need to be a dj I been slappin this for years
Why aren't philly. new york, and boston having these problems?
Millionaire developers buy up the properties and then... they do nothing. Grass is not cut. Properties are not maintained. The buildings fall apart.
St. Louis is shocking. I lived there for 2 months and dipped.
This is not the America my grandfather fought for in WW2. The two parties we vote for don't do anything to fix this place and make it amazing. We need a third party now.
Democrats fight day and night to remove the past
Do you even live here? Really just the Westbank and New Orleans, do your research please!
Name music namber 2 ?
It’s abandoned blocks 🤦🏾♂️
Isn't this where American young men should be living instead of being dead because of the useless wars in the Middle East?
The white men who r racist
St. Louis has changed a lot since I worked there over thirty-two years ago.
The crazy part about Baltimore is that you only a 40 minute Drive from Standing in front of the White House
And the difference here is New Orleans, those people actually live there ... those other cities, the houses are abandoned.
I used to live up in that area of St. Louis until somebody got shot in the alley behind our house, my Korean aunt got robbed at the bus stop, my bike got stolen, I got jumped by 4 dudes at a playground, somebody hit our car and drove away, our neighbors house got robbed, 2 houses down they were cookin meth and there's a lot of homeless people and right around the corner Saint Louis University students were being robbed and stabbed. Yeah, Saint Louis kinda sucks.
It may look like St. Louis isn't that bad... but there's a lot more. Like if you go to Normandy, East St. Louis, Jennings, or even downtown it gets even worse
Detroit is one of those cities where if you ain't from there then it seams almost impossibly dangerous to live in. I admit I got a bit desensitized when I moved to St Louis. When I came back to my home town I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. I'm not gonna lie St Louis is hard. But if you put it up against Detroit? St Louis is Disneyland. There was a few times I felt as if I was in Danger in STL. But Detroit? God damn. See St Louis has bad areas but they're also good ones. Detroit is like 95% bad. St Louis has nothing on the D
I think a lot of it has to do with the population of Detroit, It’s much larger and intimidating. That east side of Detroit looks like north Stl on steroids lol. I always wondered why my friend from Detroit was not scared when he would hang out on the north side of Stl, I went to Detroit and I understood why lol
I'm in New Orleans uptown already :/
On 4-02 minute of the house was Temporarily constructions?... and after all people are live decades in them.
St. Louis has some very depressed spots, mostly on the north side. However, if you think this is a complete representation of STL, you're sorely mistaken.
I dont think showed Walnut Park in St.Louis
Why do videos like this always have trolls in the comment section?
Looking at Baltimore and thinking about how it must have looked. It reminds me of being a kid in the 1970s, watching Sesame Street and how those houses must have all had families and small communities just like on the set of Sesame Street.
Detroit 1. St Louis 2. Baltimore 3. Flint 4. Gary Indiana 5..The end.. Saginaw MI #6 or East St louis
Did you actually read what I said? Or do you not understand what I meant by if they were raised the same?
new orleans my home out that 7
American inner cities should be handed over to legal European immigrants, with in 3 years these cities would then be great again. The African Americans have failed. Let others have these cities. #NoMoreExcuses
Haha why would the Europeans want to leave their nice safe good looking neighbourhoods to live in Americas failed dream
If you look at the list of the worst countries in the world to live in - based on a combination of economic, health, and political conditions - you'll find that Africa is home to pretty much all of them.
I am German and want to move to the us but those pictures are very sad and shocking in Germany there aren't even 1% as Many murders than in one us city
Could u name me some safe places pls.
Maximln Musttermann
I was in your country five years ago. I was in a small town near the Koblenz area and know exactly what you're getting at.
I took many pictures of my time in Germany and when I returned home and showed people the photos; they couldn't get over at how clean the town was.
There was no non-Caucasians living in the town and there was not one house or building resembling anything in the way of a ghetto or crack-house.
Everything was maintained beautifully.
Sorry for my late reply, you are completely right I meant exactly the same!
there pictures are from the 90's ..
This is very sad these homes has so much potential but nobody ain't doing nothing about it and it's sad.Im from Savannah Georgia and we don't play about abandon homes we either tear them down or re model it also make it affordable. I pray they make a change one day
u send these clips to trump?
0:40 some of the houses have the window frames, sashes and muntins painted blue to ward off wicked spirits. The homeowners should have carried a CCW gun instead, because only a well-handled gun will ward off wicked people bent on invading your home!.
The probably crips
wowww ! ! that is in the USA . thanks for upload it s undescribable !! interesting videooo :p
Check out the stuffed animal house at 6:01 I hear people think they are saving Detroit by hanging stuffed animals on a house and calling it art. I call it a ridiculous waste of time.
I grew up in St. Louis and for all the poverty, there seems to be a lot of good people there. I moved away years ago with a 4 year old son, a car, a tool box and some clothes. Now I look around and don't have to look far to see 2 million dollar homes
Most of them buildings in stl are gone or rebuild
Detroit, St Louis, New Orlean. All French style name cities.
I'm from Baltimore. I been tryin to tell people that this is a national problem not just a Baltimore problem.
I’m from the ghetto in St. Louis so I’m used to it kinda crazy tho lot of people get jumped or some other crazy stuff but I still love st Louis
I like my Baltimore. Its mostly good and we know how to get along. Its just that 10% and mostly youth. We do things a little different in Baltimore. We like what we like.
I wish I could move as far away from New Orleans as I can, but my girlfriend insists on staying here, since this area is her home. The things we do and put up with for love, right?
new Orleans hoods been like that Katrina just made it worst
isn't New Orleans a little misleading? After Katrina, the slums looked worse than they actually were.
New Orleans is ranked 4th most violent city in the world of 2016
The overall process of decay in America began in the 1960s and 70s, continued through the 80s, then basically paused for a while for about 15 years (90s and first half of the 2000s). Then the late 2000s came, and here we are. Decay has resumed. Crime has stopped falling in America for the first time since the early 90s.
Uh-oh.
Those St. Louis homes look like they used to be beautiful. What a shame!
they were nice huge too
The beats sick.
how come there aint no drug dealers on dem pictures