I used to be a home health nurse here and had a lot of patients on the west side. The worst places are the apartments and motels. I went into a lot of creepy apartments and motels. The bed bugs scared me more than the people.
yes!! it sucks bc in clintonville closer to campus the area is really nice and generally very safe, but you literally have to lock up everything bc kids from linden come over and toss people's cars like all the time!
Franklinton was "The Bottoms" I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. It looked about the same back then, anything below Brehl avenue to the river , has been underwater to at least the second floor twice since 1913. I remember 1959 they took my grandmother out of her apartment on the second floor , she walked out on the porch roof and climbed into a boat.
I liked listening to your thoughts on Columbus, I was born and raised here. I HAD to learn every road and freeway because my dad owned a towing business for about 35 years his business was on north 4th st and east 18th ave (Osu campus area). But I gotta say hilltop is the worst area in Columbus you almost was there at 5:00 if you would of went under that bridge, and Sullivant ave is entertaining if you want some content lol. But I would definitely visit in the summer you will see waaaay more.
I feel like linden has become the most dangerous spot in town. Having in both franklinton, and linden, I can say a lot more gang activity goes on in hilltop, although linden has more random, violent activity. Hilltop is just about 2 miles west of Franklinton, but the area in the middle seems to be the worst spot in that part of town.
And yet cities like Miami St Louis Boston San Francisco DC Cleveland have smaller inner cities but are way ahead of Columbus in being cosmopolitan and happening with Cleveland having the largest metropolitan area in Ohio by population and geographic land area
Head back to old Sullivant Ave on the west side. It's pretty bad still... Lots of Franklinton (known to us as the Bottoms), has been ravamped and property values down there in some spots, you can't get away from the low $300Ks. Thanks for checking out our city! 😊
@@kingbeeris8814 We have old rich neighborhoods in Detroit where NFL, NBA, recording artists, Doctors, lawyers, Mayor and regular people live. TYPICAL PRIVILEGED RACIST ANSWERS
I'm originally from Canton, Ohio.. I love the DIVERSITY in Columbus, Ohio, no matter which neighborhood or suburban area. I couldn't wait to relocate here after retiring from public service after 36+ years... I volunteer at the Church 4 ALL People (Parsons & Whittier)...
The west side is a mixture of all Blacks ,Latino and White ppl . There are lots of ppl from Michigan probably due to the economy more jobs here as I've met many who say theres no jobs in Michigan. I've been here in Columbus since the early 90's from NE Ohio and I would rather be here. It's a growing city with lots of opportunity for growth it's up to you. I prefer living on the East side.
It’s really interesting listening to you talk though. Like your opinions but also other things like when you were talking about coming from Cuba and getting furniture.
Right near the Florentine, that's a rough area. My mom had a medical episode not far from there, she crashed near a bad area, don't know exactly, but 2 gentlemen helped her, thankfully she was ok, but she totaled my grandpa's van that she had shortly. She was devastated that the vehicle got totaled, but she made it in one piece.
I grew up in that neighborhood. Although it's got its crime issues, there are a few areas that are much worse. Sullivant Ave and Cleveland Ave in the Linden area are much more dangerous.
I've lived in Columbus for 22yrs. It has changed from being able to feel safe walking/riding bus, to being afraid for your life just going out to grocery or doctor! Such violence here now. GUN VIOLENCE!! 😢
@@Leroy-wm4ib I'm not sure what Gloria was referring to, maybe it's the DOJ stat that shows 94% of blacks killed were killed by another black person... but that's just my guess....I live in Southern Ohio, in a very rural area....in the 2000 census it showed in my county, Adams, we had only 88 blacks in the entire county, & it's a BIG county land wise....mostly religious, hillbilly white ppl.....I don't fit in here as i HATE trump....Harris/Walz 2024....tRump for prison 2025
@@jumb0shr1mp6pay attention to ppl who say they love Columbus they never live inside the city limits which is what we see here Columbus is small and looks like crap all the nice suburbs was added on within the last 20 years no its not always grey but this gives u a real example of how the city actually looks...ppl dont love Columbus they love the outskirts
You went to the west side during the day time. Should have went to Linden or Windsor Terrace Baby Green Bryor Livingston AveCleveland Ave from Morse rd to 17th. Lincoln Park South.
@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS yeah the main drag of the bottoms (franklinton) isn't that bad. You were right when you said you thought the south end was worse, comparably it is. Up off Morse Rd and North Linden like the other commentor mentioned it gets pretty rough.
I mow a lot of jobs in Hilltop and it's nasty too but it's like...junkies, hookers, more junkies. Good place to get your car broken into but not necessarily get shot.
I've lived around Columbus my whole life. You were in Franklinton ( the bottoms ) but you stayed to close to Broad Street. All I gotta say is, head down Sullivant Avenue, Hilltop and the Bottoms. Lots of drugs, prostitution, gangs. They have shootings and overdoses on the regular in those area. Especially Wedgewood Apartments in the Hilltop. Linden is also really bad. And all the Michigan stuff you saw isn't people from Michigan. A lot of people in the hoods root for the football team. It's a cultural thing.
@@ronaldmaxwell6668bro the hilltop is a giant hood lol it has bad parts and nice parts. The west side in general though isn’t really what we consider the bad side of town.
I had a powerlifting meet at Pinnacle Performance down there in franklinton, had some friends drive down Sullivant to a gas station and they said it pretty sketchy (the gym was like 2 blocks away and we had no problems there thankfully)
Columbus isn’t that bad. Being from Cincinnati, We used to love to go to Columbus to get out of Cincinnati lol. Most of these cities aren’t like they were in the 90s. Most of the hoods are gentrified now and the urban ghettos we used to know no longer exist for the most part.
I lived in both. Columbus was more gangbanging but Cincinatti was just claiming neighborhoods and exits. Both of them was off the chain back in the day
It’s so crazy to hear how someone who isn’t from here would see it! It’s interesting to learn honestly. I have lived here my whole life. White and black hoods and everyone mixed together. A lot of bad and a lot of good has happened in these streets in my 31 years!
I lived in Columbus Ohio since 95 I’m 35 now in I love it crimes everywhere in the city but it it won’t bother you if you not bothering it and at the beginning of the video that was a diverse hood it’s like that everywhere
I lived in the old Shannon Way Apartments behind Westland Mall in the mid 80’s. It was a fantastic place. I then moved to Dublin in 1986 and that was the last place I ever lived in Columbus area. Even went back from 2014 to 2020
You guys should have went to Sullivant Ave while in Franklinton then made your way up to the Hilltop. I grew up in the Hilltop.. ill come up and give you a tour and show you.
I'm from Columbus, Ohio The infamous Uzi Alley (Greenbriar) not Green Bryor 🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣to be exact born & raised... I currently reside in Birmingham, Alabama but u missed the real hoods... the westside is really not that dangerous... just dirty 4real... it really goes down on the east, southeast, & Northsides
I was born n raised in cols, in the bottoms, I'm watching your video and the area you're in broad st n central isn't the hood, growing up 60's-80's try my old neighborhood Sullivant and s Yale, that's the hood, it was back then and it's worse now. I took my 4 kids there in 2003, as I turned south on Yale Ave all I heard was power locks on doors from my kids lol. They said wow mom this has changed a bunch huh, as I pull up to my old house ( corner of Yale n bellows, the duplex on east side of yale) I said no still looks the same even has same ol paint on the house,in 2011 same area turning same way but went west on bellows came around the curve n was met by men and guns..... it's sad to see all the drugs, guns n hooked down there, altho the hood growing up there were didn't have all the drugs guns n hookers out there, we used our fist n all the ppl smoked weed back then. Thanks 4 sharing, I can pick out old stores n this n that ones house... east of Central is the bottoms west of Central is the hilltop. So broad n Central is hilltop. Higher class folks lived that way!!😮😊
My mom and two others were murder in her home. Last year. On hawks and west broad. Your video started literally a block away. Watching her apartment on the left brought back so many memories. But the last memory breaks my heart. Someone killed my mommie. Rih mommie. West side is past dangerous its disgusting.
I was born in Columbus and have lived all my 36 years here…on every side of town at some point 😂. A good portion was right here in Franklinton…also known as The Bottoms. It used to look a lot worse! But bc it’s so close to downtown the city wants it to “look” more appealing. So people that aren’t living at poverty level have been buying up houses left and right and remodeling them (which is great) but most of the drugs or “traps” have been pushed further up broad, also known as The Hilltop. Drugs are soo bad here…but then again drugs are bad on EVERY side of town here! Drive through here when it’s warm outside, deff will be a lot more people out. Regardless idk if I would want to live anywhere else…the quiet alone would be a lil scary 😂
Oh my gosh dude I'm driven those streets. I actually carried mail about 30 years on the west side as a carrier. We were told that in in Bexley area it's bad there's a section called Uzi alley you were not allowed there after 4:00. Where you're driving yeah bad at night
In Columbus there's about one Michigan fan for about every 8 to 10 Ohio State fans. BTW, it's Ohio *State*, not just Ohio. Because there's also Ohio University down in Athens. Big party school.
U drove past my house in the beginning I lived for 5 years and hardly heard, seen anything I lived in Columbus my whole life mainly on the westside and it's not has bad has many people make it out to be fr
It doesn't cost 400k for a house in a nice neighborhood in a suburb. Even a nice suburb. The suburbs are really nice, nicer in the north half of the city mostly.
Bottoms , unless you are from Columbus or the Westside the bottoms close to downtown totally different from when I lived there. Crime is every where not limited to the Westside of Columbus.
Each side of Columbus has bad neighborhoods for their own separate reasons fr. You def should’ve checked out some of the other neighborhoods while you was out here. And imo the closer to downtown the worse the neighborhoods are lol..idk why but they are.
I lived on the hilltop a long time. And a lot of my people still live there. It’s really bad people dying every single day everyone’s killing eachother … Prostituting EVERYWHERE drugs EVERYWHERE . Thankfully I moved out of there but it’s just getting worse. If you would’ve kept going straight instead of turning at the very Begining you would’ve hit the hood hood . Lol
Who's killing each other in the hilltop on purpose for real I'm not talking about pulling out some straps to make a bunch of noise and someone accidentally got hit or someone overdosed I mean who's really killing s*** in the hilltop I'm sorry but it's facts in Columbus the west side is soft and here's a good example of how soft the west side is I dare somebody from another Hood to go out and just set up shop and start selling dope it's a free for all cuz there ain't nobody about to do s*** about it anybody that is actually about killing s*** is being quiet on the west side it's us from the North linden area and the east side and I've been taking that s*** over since the late eighties they've been at the top of the food chain and anything getting sold on the west side it's the only neighborhood in Columbus where you can go in and take somebody's clientele and post up shop right out there in front of them all and they won't do nothing about it
Should of drove through the Hilltop and north/south Linden. Worst areas in the city. And don’t move here, too many outsiders moving here making the cost of living skyrocket
One of the worst for just nasty neighborhoods in the 50s and 60s was called Flytown , it was just north of the downtown market area and west of the fish markets. It is now called Victorian Village
When we came over here in the early 1900s those of us who settled in Ohio stayed in fly town and when all of us Italians flew into fly Town it flew up overnight and that's why it got its name that was actually a nickname it's always been called Italian village until now I think you might be right about Victorian village but it was Italian village before but all the Italians called it fly town
Fly- town is no longer there due to it being bulldozed to put in interstate 670. There are two big condo's sitting right on Vine and Goodale, plus a strip mall where the entrance to Fly town used to be.
Glad you’re liking Ohio! People have no idea how nice it is here. It has it’s problems and bad areas but overall I love my state. Come up to Cleveland, Akron and Canton area. Canton would be first then Akron then Cleveland.
yeah asking google to take you anywhere is never a good move and you were right on Livinston too.. if you knew about that particular street you'd know exactly where to go
I can't believe how straight and flat the roads are in Columbus, Oh. Where I live it's full of rolling hills and vallies. They must have a lot of flooding.
I lived in Columbus for 25 years. Columbus has ALWAYS been good to me. I moved there October 1995, and earned a GREAT career exactly 1 month (Nov 1995) after moving there from Detroit. I raised my 3 children there without any family support (because we had no family there), and 2 of my children still live there. Columbus grows and flourishes continuously. I always tell people, if you cannot make it in Columbus Ohio you cannot make it anywhere. Out of the 25 years I was there, I built my own business for 17 years. I now reside in North Carolina. If you decide to move there I pray you find Columbus as fruitful as I did. Cool resourceful City.😎
I don't expect Columbus to be all that bad simply because it's the State Capital of Ohio. Therefore mostly everything will be up to par. Come visit Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, or Toledo. You'll see the difference.
I love and enjoy your RUclips channel and videos when you travel these great places and drive through neighborhoods. But my question to you is why are you more focused on the urban areas instead of the surrounding cities like good area so something? I don't mean this to offend you just out of curiosity.
2 years late, but I moved from north Georgia to columbus ohio, and your naming everything that made ne question and change my political stance.. this city has shown me what happens when you have diversity and invest in impoverished communities. Between Rogue fitness's massive plants, and the north linden community center, these "bad neighborhoods" have started to slowly get better and better with more resources. Though, I've never once, even when I 1st got up here, made a wrong turn and felt like I was in trouble, like I had in Atlanta or even marietta.. the north is just an all around better place to be. I dont miss the south at all.
About two miles west. The Hilltop. It's not good. Also 4:42 mark, popeyes on the right, Happys on the left. Happys used to be a Burger King. Back in 1992, my best friend was murdered in the BK parking lot walking to the Bus.
Where is everybody? It's 1 PM and I dont see anyone walking around.Except for that one girl at 1:56 dancing on the corner of that intersection. Light traffic. At the start of the video it looks/feels like a ghost town.
maybe the Michigan plates are there because Michigan has different need for your car to pass inspection, or cheaper insurance there ? just asking if that's the reason
Columbus is a good city, but like all cities in the USA, it has problems. The problems could be fixed, but it can't happen with a high unemployment rate, less tax money coming in to make the very expensive infrastructure replacement and maintenance. The crushing real estate prices. NO REAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION is a problem. It saddens me to hear over and over again about teens found shot in Columbus. FUN FACT: The building on the right, (at 25:47) the one just before the green building is where possibly once stood the B&T Metals building. They built parts for the WWII Atomic bombs there, and this was of course a secret. Even the workers didn't know what they were making these parts specifically for. When that building was razed, it was found to be contaminated and had to be cleaned up.
So every big city has some bad areas. Columbus isn't that bad at all and yet you'll hear people say it's so hood lol First off you should be happy your city for its size is fairly safe! Go to east Cleveland, Philly, Memphis or Baltimore. I've been to Hill Top and never felt uneasy.
I grew up there and graduated from OSU. If I hadn't gotten a scholarship to a NE prep school for 3 yrs, I would not have been able to handle OSU. Cols schools are very bad. Many bad houses but overall survivable compared to Dayton's west side OMG or Cleveland. I was a gas station attendant's son who got a full ride in prep school travel and all, then got a bachelor of science degree in aero engineering and an ms in aero science. Became an aero engineer for the usaf. I couldn't afford to retire before age 65, because ss didn't give me enough to retire on. So I camped in the woods in Maine Tampa Dayton Columbus and others until I was too weak from age to go on. I collect a good SS check had to wait until I'm at death's door stoop. --don blankenship federal aerospace engineer par excellence (ret'd). Oh yeah, and there are aliens
I’m from Columbus, OH you started in 2 of the most neglected areas Westside and Parsons ave. Infinity 99 is a good hairs store🤷🏾♂️. Honestly I lived about 12 miles east of downtown
That's wild...I lived in this neighborhood for 16 yrs and it's bad....but, about 15 yrs ago, me and my twin brother had to go to ....Rockford IL to pick up a car that some guy quit making payments on, from our friends car lot!😅😂😅
Im Too scared to drive between children's hospital and bexley 😂. Especially at night...always have car doors locked and gas up before dark. I GREW UP ON THE SOUTH END and praise God i made it to age 59 .. i moved to Reynoldsburg when I got married in the 90s and even the burg is declined, crime is everywhere in this country! I moved further east of Reynoldsburg and there is very little crime..car break ins and such...no murders,shootings, ect. But like everywhere else, its bound to catch up. It's a Peaceful town, where neighbors look out for one another and they all have guns 😂 we don't.... but they *ALL DO AND THEY TARGET PRACTICE IN THE BACK YARD 😂 (there is a farm field behind us)... Columbus has gotten bad,and lots of people moving here from other states..why? I can't figure *WHY they'd want to move here😂 but look it up...its a hot housing market...and I notice A *LOT OF PLATES FROM CHI TOWN AND NEW YORK...JUST SAYING! Im So GLAD we moved when we did. Where I live...the only thing I have to look for is coyotes, raccoons, skunks and farm equipment. There is hardly apartments and affordable housing..so I'm not concerned with riff raff destroying my country heaven, besides.. they *don't play out here😂. House prices SHOT *WAYYYY UP SINCE WE BOUGHT OUR HOME DURING THE START OF THE PANDEMIC ,so I'm not worried about the type of crime columbus has. Yall stay safe ..you and your families be blessed!
I live right down the street in downtown Columbus. I frequent that Family Dollar often. It’s not really “bad” just drug infested and ran down but it’s not the worst…should’ve taken them up north Columbus. Worse by far lol
I left Columbus as a kid. It wasn't til I grew up lived in several states did I realize that I grew up in the hood! Cleveland Ave is my hood! Its the only Columbus I know well!
You got to hang out at night in literally any neighborhood close to downtown, get out the car and post up with someone from there for a while in July or August when its hot and everyone is out...its different from other hoods but shit pops off quik, lol hang out on New Years and enjoy listening to the shots going off from every side of town
I grew up in Columbus. Know that area well. You probably won't find trouble there unless it's warm dark night and you obviously don't belong there. Lived in Miami Florida also. No comparison. Miami is much more dangerous. Too many crimes of opportunity in Miami. Also how many bars over windows did you see in Columbus?
I used to be a home health nurse here and had a lot of patients on the west side. The worst places are the apartments and motels. I went into a lot of creepy apartments and motels. The bed bugs scared me more than the people.
A lot of the crime in Columbus is located in the Linden areas. That is according to a friend of mine who lives in Columbus.
Hilltop Bottoms and Linden are the ghettos in columbus.
Whitehall and South Orchards is where is you experience some violence with lots of thiefs.
I live in linden this is true
Reported crime that is
yes!! it sucks bc in clintonville closer to campus the area is really nice and generally very safe, but you literally have to lock up everything bc kids from linden come over and toss people's cars like all the time!
Franklinton was "The Bottoms" I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. It looked about the same back then, anything below Brehl avenue to the river , has been underwater to at least the second floor twice since 1913. I remember 1959 they took my grandmother out of her apartment on the second floor , she walked out on the porch roof and climbed into a boat.
I liked listening to your thoughts on Columbus, I was born and raised here. I HAD to learn every road and freeway because my dad owned a towing business for about 35 years his business was on north 4th st and east 18th ave (Osu campus area). But I gotta say hilltop is the worst area in Columbus you almost was there at 5:00 if you would of went under that bridge, and Sullivant ave is entertaining if you want some content lol. But I would definitely visit in the summer you will see waaaay more.
Hilltop and Franklinton are not the same
Hilltop isn’t the worst part of Columbus. It’s the western section FRANKLINTON.
It’s statistically the poorest and it’s the most dangerous.
I feel like linden has become the most dangerous spot in town. Having in both franklinton, and linden, I can say a lot more gang activity goes on in hilltop, although linden has more random, violent activity. Hilltop is just about 2 miles west of Franklinton, but the area in the middle seems to be the worst spot in that part of town.
@@johnhuber3921 Hilltop is just very big, so crime only happens in certain pockets of it
I got towed by your dad’s towing company several times as a teen when I would go go to the Ohio State Fair. Many moons ago!
Columbus is 240 sq.area miles. There are over 400 neighborhoods in Columbus. You have NO IDEA there are SO many areas where it goes 24/7
And yet cities like Miami St Louis Boston San Francisco DC Cleveland have smaller inner cities but are way ahead of Columbus in being cosmopolitan and happening with Cleveland having the largest metropolitan area in Ohio by population and geographic land area
@@BIFC216Cleveland doesn’t have the most metropolitan area it’s Cincinnati
@@AntwaunTubbs wtf i just tell you and you think them census numbers are accurate there not 😂
@@BIFC216 na I be in both cities Cleveland is just Ohio Cincinnati is KY and Indy
Thanks to you I'm able to say I did a tour of Columbus, never having left London, UK. Cheers for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it
The Bottoms is definitely interesting. But I’m sure London is too!
London? Always wanted to visit there! Britain is a lot safer than the states for sure.
@rieriec: I’ve been to Britain a few times. Britain can be incredibly dangerous. Knife crime is through the roof, especially in London.
I hope yo saw more of Columbus than this
Nice to see and hear what's life looks like in this part of US. Thanks for video. Best wishes from Serbia/Europe.
The thing is when you try to fix up your house and everything your at risk of being robbed or harassed lol
Doesn't happen unless you're causing trouble.. what part of the city do you live in?
@@drew123994 grew up in the bottoms and hilltop and also lived on the south side so I seen it happen multiple times
Head back to old Sullivant Ave on the west side. It's pretty bad still... Lots of Franklinton (known to us as the Bottoms), has been ravamped and property values down there in some spots, you can't get away from the low $300Ks. Thanks for checking out our city! 😊
We lived 2 blocks from the Broad Street exit right there, lol
Thanks guys! Been wanting to go visit friends and this really helped :)
Safe travels
Columbus is the exception to Ohio cities. Growing and expanding while most other Ohio cities are dying.
To many "stroads"
Stop the cap Columbus is trash
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Just cause you see old houses doesn't mean its a bad neighborhood.
You keep thinking that buddy 😂
@@kingbeeris8814 We have old rich neighborhoods in Detroit where NFL, NBA, recording artists, Doctors, lawyers, Mayor and regular people live. TYPICAL PRIVILEGED RACIST ANSWERS
i actually walk in this area and yes its bad random stuff just happens in Columbus
I'm originally from Canton, Ohio..
I love the DIVERSITY in Columbus, Ohio, no matter which neighborhood or suburban area. I couldn't wait to relocate here after retiring from public service after 36+ years... I volunteer at the Church 4 ALL People (Parsons & Whittier)...
The west side is a mixture of all Blacks ,Latino and White ppl . There are lots of ppl from Michigan probably due to the economy more jobs here as I've met many who say theres no jobs in Michigan. I've been here in Columbus since the early 90's from NE
Ohio and I would rather be here. It's a growing city with lots of opportunity for growth it's up to you. I prefer living on the East side.
I'm from Michigan and live east myself. 😂😂
It’s really interesting listening to you talk though. Like your opinions but also other things like when you were talking about coming from Cuba and getting furniture.
Right near the Florentine, that's a rough area. My mom had a medical episode not far from there, she crashed near a bad area, don't know exactly, but 2 gentlemen helped her, thankfully she was ok, but she totaled my grandpa's van that she had shortly. She was devastated that the vehicle got totaled, but she made it in one piece.
I grew up in that neighborhood. Although it's got its crime issues, there are a few areas that are much worse. Sullivant Ave and Cleveland Ave in the Linden area are much more dangerous.
I've lived in Columbus for 22yrs. It has changed from being able to feel safe walking/riding bus, to being afraid for your life just going out to grocery or doctor! Such violence here now. GUN VIOLENCE!! 😢
To be correct, it is black violence.
@@glorialotz3333How is it black violence when the city is a diverse city period. The stats says otherwise. Please explain thank you.
You had better look at those statistics again.@@Leroy-wm4ib
@@Leroy-wm4ib I'm not sure what Gloria was referring to, maybe it's the DOJ stat that shows 94% of blacks killed were killed by another black person... but that's just my guess....I live in Southern Ohio, in a very rural area....in the 2000 census it showed in my county, Adams, we had only 88 blacks in the entire county, & it's a BIG county land wise....mostly religious, hillbilly white ppl.....I don't fit in here as i HATE trump....Harris/Walz 2024....tRump for prison 2025
@@glorialotz3333it’s people in general being violent. racist
I absolutely love Columbus. I live about an hour away from there but
I have a lot of good memories in the city. All kinds of fun things to do there!
Is it cloudy and gloomy like this video MOST of the time tho?
@@jumb0shr1mp6pay attention to ppl who say they love Columbus they never live inside the city limits which is what we see here Columbus is small and looks like crap all the nice suburbs was added on within the last 20 years no its not always grey but this gives u a real example of how the city actually looks...ppl dont love Columbus they love the outskirts
You went to the west side during the day time. Should have went to Linden or Windsor Terrace Baby Green Bryor Livingston AveCleveland Ave from Morse rd to 17th. Lincoln Park South.
So i missed the real hood?
I lived in Lincoln Park and Green Briar. My Uncle was murdered at Uzi Alley.
@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS yeah the main drag of the bottoms (franklinton) isn't that bad. You were right when you said you thought the south end was worse, comparably it is. Up off Morse Rd and North Linden like the other commentor mentioned it gets pretty rough.
I mow a lot of jobs in Hilltop and it's nasty too but it's like...junkies, hookers, more junkies. Good place to get your car broken into but not necessarily get shot.
I'm from Lincoln park projects
I've lived around Columbus my whole life. You were in Franklinton ( the bottoms ) but you stayed to close to Broad Street. All I gotta say is, head down Sullivant Avenue, Hilltop and the Bottoms. Lots of drugs, prostitution, gangs. They have shootings and overdoses on the regular in those area. Especially Wedgewood Apartments in the Hilltop. Linden is also really bad. And all the Michigan stuff you saw isn't people from Michigan. A lot of people in the hoods root for the football team. It's a cultural thing.
Interesting
Youre lying about hill top this place is not ghetto
@@ronaldmaxwell6668bro the hilltop is a giant hood lol it has bad parts and nice parts. The west side in general though isn’t really what we consider the bad side of town.
I had a powerlifting meet at Pinnacle Performance down there in franklinton, had some friends drive down Sullivant to a gas station and they said it pretty sketchy (the gym was like 2 blocks away and we had no problems there thankfully)
@@equinoxnemesis6170eastside the grimiest
Columbus isn’t that bad. Being from Cincinnati, We used to love to go to Columbus to get out of Cincinnati lol. Most of these cities aren’t like they were in the 90s. Most of the hoods are gentrified now and the urban ghettos we used to know no longer exist for the most part.
Columbus looked nicer that was all it about the same on crime
Not in Columbus check out linden next time you come.. make sure you turn your car off at the gas station too btw
I lived in both. Columbus was more gangbanging but Cincinatti was just claiming neighborhoods and exits. Both of them was off the chain back in the day
@@ColdWheel yea I agree Cincinnati it’s all about what neighborhood you from lol.
Yeah Cincinnati look like our entire west side y'all nicest area is downtown and OTR that shit crazy
It’s so crazy to hear how someone who isn’t from here would see it! It’s interesting to learn honestly. I have lived here my whole life. White and black hoods and everyone mixed together. A lot of bad and a lot of good has happened in these streets in my 31 years!
Also this was not a hot summer day lol, because a lot more people would be outside.
Thanks
It looks so gloomy and cloudy.
Man I just moved from Columbus Linden area! To Myrtle Beach.. and smooth roads ocean waves! It still hood tho!
No disrespect respect but you never went in the hood on this video!
😅😂😂
Thats definitely not the worst lol...Also remember looks can be deceiving
He sure didn’t, but was close to a couple.. Like South Park.
@@maNpaNDOYE cops wouldn't enter when I was going there. They would slow roll on the perimeter but never came in.
I lived in Columbus Ohio since 95 I’m 35 now in I love it crimes everywhere in the city but it it won’t bother you if you not bothering it and at the beginning of the video that was a diverse hood it’s like that everywhere
Hilltop be crazy. But I'm in the bottoms currently, you passed my street 2mins in the video.
If you ever do another video in Columbus go to the hilltop, the east side, and linden because they are all pretty bad.
I lived in the old Shannon Way Apartments behind Westland Mall in the mid 80’s. It was a fantastic place. I then moved to Dublin in 1986 and that was the last place I ever lived in Columbus area. Even went back from 2014 to 2020
I did 2. .back in the 90s.
Sad to see what it's become
Grew up at in Hilliard in the late 60's to mid 70's
You guys should have went to Sullivant Ave while in Franklinton then made your way up to the Hilltop. I grew up in the Hilltop.. ill come up and give you a tour and show you.
Columbus one of the cleanest hoods hoods. And I'm am from the north east of Ohio. Thinking about moving down there.
I'm from Columbus, Ohio The infamous Uzi Alley (Greenbriar) not Green Bryor 🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣to be exact born & raised... I currently reside in Birmingham, Alabama but u missed the real hoods... the westside is really not that dangerous... just dirty 4real... it really goes down on the east, southeast, & Northsides
Oozi alley
What uppp Ashley!!!! How u been??
Tell em, Brittany Hills here & the west side is a whole other planet 🌎 lol
Ms. Mystique 💯💯 Shout Out Brittany Hills 💪🏾💪🏾 Free Poppa Joe 💪🏾💪🏾🎯
Lol that shit dont exist no mo
I was born n raised in cols, in the bottoms, I'm watching your video and the area you're in broad st n central isn't the hood, growing up 60's-80's try my old neighborhood Sullivant and s Yale, that's the hood, it was back then and it's worse now. I took my 4 kids there in 2003, as I turned south on Yale Ave all I heard was power locks on doors from my kids lol. They said wow mom this has changed a bunch huh, as I pull up to my old house ( corner of Yale n bellows, the duplex on east side of yale) I said no still looks the same even has same ol paint on the house,in 2011 same area turning same way but went west on bellows came around the curve n was met by men and guns..... it's sad to see all the drugs, guns n hooked down there, altho the hood growing up there were didn't have all the drugs guns n hookers out there, we used our fist n all the ppl smoked weed back then. Thanks 4 sharing, I can pick out old stores n this n that ones house... east of Central is the bottoms west of Central is the hilltop. So broad n Central is hilltop. Higher class folks lived that way!!😮😊
I work in this area daily for the past 8 years. It’s hard to believe that franklinton is the worst in Columbus 🙄
You get used to bad living
Real hoods not captured, just old places.
It’s quiet cuz you in franklinton at 1 in the afternoon. it don’t open up til 10 pm usually
I watch you guys all the time I never knew you guys did a video in Columbus! That's wassup!!!
We travel!
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I see, what made you guys come to Columbus??
My mom and two others were murder in her home. Last year. On hawks and west broad. Your video started literally a block away. Watching her apartment on the left brought back so many memories. But the last memory breaks my heart. Someone killed my mommie. Rih mommie. West side is past dangerous its disgusting.
My condolences
One more, Sullivant avenue over by Wedgewood on the west side that's where the homeless are. Lot's of them.
Anywhere a metro phone store is crime is inching its way in
😅🤣
I was born in Columbus and have lived all my 36 years here…on every side of town at some point 😂. A good portion was right here in Franklinton…also known as The Bottoms. It used to look a lot worse! But bc it’s so close to downtown the city wants it to “look” more appealing. So people that aren’t living at poverty level have been buying up houses left and right and remodeling them (which is great) but most of the drugs or “traps” have been pushed further up broad, also known as The Hilltop. Drugs are soo bad here…but then again drugs are bad on EVERY side of town here! Drive through here when it’s warm outside, deff will be a lot more people out. Regardless idk if I would want to live anywhere else…the quiet alone would be a lil scary 😂
Hilltops, bottoms, linden area, East side, etc…
Oh my gosh dude I'm driven those streets. I actually carried mail about 30 years on the west side as a carrier. We were told that in in Bexley area it's bad there's a section called Uzi alley you were not allowed there after 4:00. Where you're driving yeah bad at night
seams like the city has improved tho?
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS absolutely not we just topped our record high murders
@@uno4114 so did every city in USA
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS in the past year Columbus homicide rate has went up 63% Chicago’s has risen 34%
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS from 2017 to now there has been over 300 unsolved murders
College towns always have diverse neighborhoods even in the south
Umm.. some parts yeah not all
In Columbus there's about one Michigan fan for about every 8 to 10 Ohio State fans.
BTW, it's Ohio *State*, not just Ohio. Because there's also Ohio University down in Athens. Big party school.
You missed the Hilltop area and if it was nighttime in the summer you would have seen more 😮
U drove past my house in the beginning I lived for 5 years and hardly heard, seen anything I lived in Columbus my whole life mainly on the westside and it's not has bad has many people make it out to be fr
Columbus is simple. Mind your business and people tend to leave you alone. You can live anywhere and be safe if you just mind your business.
You've got a stable economy because of Ohio State along either it being the state Capital.
Ohio State, state government, and banks and insurance companies.
Not to mention all the HQs that are here along with it being a distribution hub.
It doesn't cost 400k for a house in a nice neighborhood in a suburb. Even a nice suburb. The suburbs are really nice, nicer in the north half of the city mostly.
Bottoms , unless you are from Columbus or the Westside the bottoms close to downtown totally different from when I lived there. Crime is every where not limited to the Westside of Columbus.
He was on Glenwood , he said it is the worst street in Columbus. Not even close.
Columbus is a great city to live in. It's mostly clean and it feels welcoming. Best city in Ohio!
Cincinnati is the best city in Ohio
You said your uncle had "GOLD FINGERS ON EVERY RING". your slip up was on the second time you said it . I just found it funny.
Each side of Columbus has bad neighborhoods for their own separate reasons fr. You def should’ve checked out some of the other neighborhoods while you was out here. And imo the closer to downtown the worse the neighborhoods are lol..idk why but they are.
I lived on the hilltop a long time. And a lot of my people still live there. It’s really bad people dying every single day everyone’s killing eachother … Prostituting EVERYWHERE drugs EVERYWHERE . Thankfully I moved out of there but it’s just getting worse. If you would’ve kept going straight instead of turning at the very Begining you would’ve hit the hood hood . Lol
Who's killing each other in the hilltop on purpose for real I'm not talking about pulling out some straps to make a bunch of noise and someone accidentally got hit or someone overdosed I mean who's really killing s*** in the hilltop I'm sorry but it's facts in Columbus the west side is soft and here's a good example of how soft the west side is I dare somebody from another Hood to go out and just set up shop and start selling dope it's a free for all cuz there ain't nobody about to do s*** about it anybody that is actually about killing s*** is being quiet on the west side it's us from the North linden area and the east side and I've been taking that s*** over since the late eighties they've been at the top of the food chain and anything getting sold on the west side it's the only neighborhood in Columbus where you can go in and take somebody's clientele and post up shop right out there in front of them all and they won't do nothing about it
Rape,theft rates including car theft rates are overtly higher in Columbus Ohio
Should of drove through the Hilltop and north/south Linden. Worst areas in the city. And don’t move here, too many outsiders moving here making the cost of living skyrocket
Not a chance ima leave my 🌴 for ❄️🤣🤣🤣
I live in Raleigh NC to many New Yorkers moving here,they ruining this city.White and Black people here are tired of it.
@@gregorycyr9272 this is a free counntry
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Yo I don't have a problem with it.I was just saying what some natives feel.i am a New Yorker Italian.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS They do ruin it in a way.Hell I have ruined it.😏
One of the worst for just nasty neighborhoods in the 50s and 60s was called Flytown , it was just north of the downtown market area and west of the fish markets. It is now called Victorian Village
My family was from there
When we came over here in the early 1900s those of us who settled in Ohio stayed in fly town and when all of us Italians flew into fly Town it flew up overnight and that's why it got its name that was actually a nickname it's always been called Italian village until now I think you might be right about Victorian village but it was Italian village before but all the Italians called it fly town
And is now one of the most expensive neighborhoods inside of 270
Fly- town is no longer there due to it being bulldozed to put in interstate 670.
There are two big condo's sitting right on Vine and Goodale, plus a strip mall where the entrance to Fly town used to be.
The short north
Dang I grew up here at Central and Broad.... Man I have memories on all these streets. (The Bottoms)
Glad you’re liking Ohio! People have no idea how nice it is here. It has it’s problems and bad areas but overall I love my state. Come up to Cleveland, Akron and Canton area. Canton would be first then Akron then Cleveland.
yeah asking google to take you anywhere is never a good move and you were right on Livinston too.. if you knew about that particular street you'd know exactly where to go
Thank You so much for the tour, , , , born & raised there!!
I can't believe how straight and flat the roads are in Columbus, Oh. Where I live it's full of rolling hills and vallies. They must have a lot of flooding.
Flood has nothing to do with flat, more to do with soil composition. Some dirt’s instantly absorb water
I live on the Hilltop area of Columbus, Ohio. It's not boring!
Ya'll shoulda went through Hilltop. The neighborhood is so bad that cops don't respond to calls there after midnight.
Stop the cap 😂
@@williamstevens1463 I wish I was capping, sadly it’s actually like that. I went through there last year and my car got shot with a BB gun
@@williamstevens1463 hes not lying
I heard you when you said a
Gold finger on every ring 💍😂 but I knew what you meant 😜🤣😅
I lived in Columbus for 25 years. Columbus has ALWAYS been good to me. I moved there October 1995, and earned a GREAT career exactly 1 month (Nov 1995) after moving there from Detroit. I raised my 3 children there without any family support (because we had no family there), and 2 of my children still live there. Columbus grows and flourishes continuously. I always tell people, if you cannot make it in Columbus Ohio you cannot make it anywhere. Out of the 25 years I was there, I built my own business for 17 years. I now reside in North Carolina. If you decide to move there I pray you find Columbus as fruitful as I did. Cool resourceful City.😎
Must have lived in the suburbs then cause you sure didn't get it in the city.
I don't expect Columbus to be all that bad simply because it's the State Capital of Ohio. Therefore mostly everything will be up to par. Come visit Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, or Toledo. You'll see the difference.
Trynna down play Columbus like we friendly 😂 come out here and see for yourself it ain't sweet
@@kingbeeris8814it’s the sweetest of the big cities in Ohio by far😂
Columbus hoods were way worst back from 2000-2010. Crime was much higher, but there was less murders. More gangs tho.
I love and enjoy your RUclips channel and videos when you travel these great places and drive through neighborhoods. But my question to you is why are you more focused on the urban areas instead of the surrounding cities like good area so something? I don't mean this to offend you just out of curiosity.
You past my old stomping grounds as you was going up on Parsons Ave. Across the street from where I used to live there's a P.O. ( W. Ennis Ave). Etc
2 years late, but I moved from north Georgia to columbus ohio, and your naming everything that made ne question and change my political stance.. this city has shown me what happens when you have diversity and invest in impoverished communities. Between Rogue fitness's massive plants, and the north linden community center, these "bad neighborhoods" have started to slowly get better and better with more resources. Though, I've never once, even when I 1st got up here, made a wrong turn and felt like I was in trouble, like I had in Atlanta or even marietta.. the north is just an all around better place to be. I dont miss the south at all.
About two miles west. The Hilltop. It's not good. Also 4:42 mark, popeyes on the right, Happys on the left. Happys used to be a Burger King. Back in 1992, my best friend was murdered in the BK parking lot walking to the Bus.
45:25 Those should just be sensors for the light to know when to change. Pretty sure you maybe figured that out by now
Where is everybody? It's 1 PM and I dont see anyone walking around.Except for that one girl at 1:56 dancing on the corner of that intersection. Light traffic. At the start of the video it looks/feels like a ghost town.
maybe the Michigan plates are there because Michigan has different need for your car to pass inspection, or cheaper insurance there ? just asking if that's the reason
Its just alot of michigan people here ppl dont talk bout how big the wolverine fanbase is here
Columbus is a good city, but like all cities in the USA, it has problems. The problems could be fixed, but it can't happen with a high unemployment rate, less tax money coming in to make the very expensive infrastructure replacement and maintenance. The crushing real estate prices. NO REAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION is a problem. It saddens me to hear over and over again about teens found shot in Columbus. FUN FACT: The building on the right, (at 25:47) the one just before the green building is where possibly once stood the B&T Metals building. They built parts for the WWII Atomic bombs there, and this was of course a secret. Even the workers didn't know what they were making these parts specifically for. When that building was razed, it was found to be contaminated and had to be cleaned up.
So every big city has some bad areas. Columbus isn't that bad at all and yet you'll hear people say it's so hood lol First off you should be happy your city for its size is fairly safe! Go to east Cleveland, Philly, Memphis or Baltimore. I've been to Hill Top and never felt uneasy.
Damn I lived n the bottoms my whole life n just moved months ago. Josies pizza is what I grew up on
That's the spot!! Ive not been thru cbus for a couple years now but I'm moving back soon so I hope they are still open !! Lol
Go under 70w and up the hill to the hilltop
I grew up there and graduated from OSU. If I hadn't gotten a scholarship to a NE prep school for 3 yrs, I would not have been able to handle OSU. Cols schools are very bad. Many bad houses but overall survivable compared to Dayton's west side OMG or Cleveland. I was a gas station attendant's son who got a full ride in prep school travel and all, then got a bachelor of science degree in aero engineering and an ms in aero science. Became an aero engineer for the usaf. I couldn't afford to retire before age 65, because ss didn't give me enough to retire on. So I camped in the woods in Maine Tampa Dayton Columbus and others until I was too weak from age to go on. I collect a good SS check had to wait until I'm at death's door stoop. --don blankenship federal aerospace engineer par excellence (ret'd). Oh yeah, and there are aliens
The worst part of Columbus is the Linden area… not franklinton. The east & north east side has always been theeee worst part of this city.
Ea💰tside uzi alley alley gang
Nah I disagree lol😂
Tommy's diner is an awesome place to eat !! It's one of the best diners in Columbus !!! WAY TO GO TOMMY'S DINER!!!!
Facts and tee Jays
I’m from Columbus, OH you started in 2 of the most neglected areas Westside and Parsons ave. Infinity 99 is a good hairs store🤷🏾♂️. Honestly I lived about 12 miles east of downtown
I remember uzi alley. Cops wouldn't go down there. They tore all that down though years ago.
Where was uzi alley?
Born and raised in the hilltop and bottoms.
Nice video ,I live in Rockford ,IL looks about the same in the hood
That's wild...I lived in this neighborhood for 16 yrs and it's bad....but, about 15 yrs ago, me and my twin brother had to go to ....Rockford IL to pick up a car that some guy quit making payments on, from our friends car lot!😅😂😅
Im Too scared to drive between children's hospital and bexley 😂. Especially at night...always have car doors locked and gas up before dark.
I GREW UP ON THE SOUTH END and praise God i made it to age 59 ..
i moved to Reynoldsburg when I got married in the 90s and even the burg is declined, crime is everywhere in this country!
I moved further east of Reynoldsburg and there is very little crime..car break ins and such...no murders,shootings, ect.
But like everywhere else, its bound to catch up.
It's a Peaceful town, where neighbors look out for one another and they all have guns 😂 we don't....
but they *ALL DO AND THEY TARGET PRACTICE IN THE BACK YARD 😂 (there is a farm field behind us)...
Columbus has gotten bad,and lots of people moving here from other states..why? I can't figure *WHY they'd want to move here😂 but look it up...its a hot housing market...and I notice A *LOT OF PLATES FROM CHI TOWN AND NEW YORK...JUST SAYING!
Im So GLAD we moved when we did.
Where I live...the only thing I have to look for is coyotes, raccoons, skunks and farm equipment.
There is hardly apartments and affordable housing..so I'm not concerned with riff raff destroying my country heaven, besides.. they *don't play out here😂.
House prices SHOT *WAYYYY UP SINCE WE BOUGHT OUR HOME DURING THE START OF THE PANDEMIC ,so I'm not worried about the type of crime columbus has.
Yall stay safe ..you and your families be blessed!
I live right down the street in downtown Columbus. I frequent that Family Dollar often. It’s not really “bad” just drug infested and ran down but it’s not the worst…should’ve taken them up north Columbus. Worse by far lol
You might as well come up here to Cleveland next.
yes st clair or kinsmen area wud look no different then the west side of Columbus 😂
Every time he said people hanging out they was at the bus stops!!!! 😂
People from Michigan = hood in Ohio 😅🤷
After watching your video, it seemed like you were avoiding the dangerous areas.
What I was thinking he only went to the bottoms 😂
I left Columbus as a kid. It wasn't til I grew up lived in several states did I realize that I grew up in the hood! Cleveland Ave is my hood! Its the only Columbus I know well!
You got to hang out at night in literally any neighborhood close to downtown, get out the car and post up with someone from there for a while in July or August when its hot and everyone is out...its different from other hoods but shit pops off quik, lol hang out on New Years and enjoy listening to the shots going off from every side of town
bro ended up on the southside...really gotta go to the hilltop if you wanna see grimy
that peking wok restaurant you pull up to at 11:06, they actually just recently found a dead body in the dumpster in the back less than a week ago….
“A gold finger on every ring”. Lol
You was so close to the hood but didn't go...you gotta go closer to SULLIVANT AVE...then go check out Wedgewood...THE WORST westside hoods
I grew up in Columbus. Know that area well. You probably won't find trouble there unless it's warm dark night and you obviously don't belong there. Lived in Miami Florida also. No comparison. Miami is much more dangerous. Too many crimes of opportunity in Miami. Also how many bars over windows did you see in Columbus?
Yes Tim Hortons is Canadian 😅