Based on the comments you need to find a new job. You swung and missed trying your best to disparage a community that, apparently has strong support. Maybe consult for TMZ? They love your type of "reporting"
Do you have a video on Southie (South Boston) or Dorchester which is also a White low income blue collar community near Boston (this community was in "The Fighter" movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams about Irish American boxer Mickey Ward). Boxers don't come from expensive nice neighborhoods like Martha's Vineyard or Dana Pointe.
I m a middle-aged white guy with penchant for walking. I walk through these neighborhoods daily and have never had a problem. If you are afraid you need to get out more.
@@4mabus I don't care where people come from or who they are what bothers me is that 95% maybe more of the entire city can't even pick up the Frito bags in front of their house the place is covered in garbage and when I go to Irvine it's not covered in garbage and I do not know why this is but I believe it's the inhabitants of the city and like I said it doesn't matter where you come from some people are fine with garbage in their front yard and some people aren't
@@kevina5009 nah. It is accurate. Santa ana or anaheim would be as good as westlake or usc neighborhoods. Of course, it is a lot better than south LA or skid row in downyown.
I lived Orange County for 36 years, worked in Santa Ana for 32 years. I even lived in Santa Ana for couple years and walked down many of those streets in the video, but I never encountered any problems on the streets. Interestingly, compared to other poor cities in the US, Santa Ana looks pretty darn good.
My family moved to Fountain Valley in 1971 where I started school. I remember Santa Ana looking at the video it looks lot nicer than it did in the 1970's and 80's. Most had bars on the windows back then that is a good sign when you see many homes with bars there is a problem with crime.
The worst part of Santa Ana is on 1St street off of the 5 and 55 freeway; there are a lot of homeless drug addicts. Most of the Latino neighborhoods are pretty quiet; there isn’t that much gang activity like there was in 70’s or 80’s. Most Latinos just just go to work and go home to their family.
Don't think this video is an accurate reflection of "the worst parts" Need to look along railroad tracks and along the sides of major freeways. Some of this footage and connected commentary is a bit biased. In part this looks tame because this footage appears to have been taken while things were still locked down because of the COVID pandemic. as Alvaro Torres said, 1st St. between 5 & 55 but even heading past Main St through Bristol over to Harbor. also Main St from the 22 South to MacArthur which he only covered part of. This video seemed to suggest that the neighborhoods of Santa Ana were poor and unsafe because it was "Hispanic" but the unhoused and the addicted I encountered here were about equally white. In fact, in my approximation, addicts of opioids such as meth tended to be white more than Latino. They had the grand sense of entitlement and abusive obnoxious narcissism more often too. They even were the more belligerent of the bunch. Generally speaking, Latinos were less belligerent than Blacks or Whites. For the most part, this video does a disservice by capitalizing on tactics of uncertainty, fear and prejudice. Orange County needs policies to help the poor. Costs of housing and healthcare are out of control and many oppose the will to fix these issues. Zoning restrictions enable the NIMBYs and those who've historically benefitted from discriminatory policies to keep stuck the insecure who actually have a right to live in Orange County. Housing developers are abusing their control. Oversight of the bureaucrats and politicians and auditing of the corruption by the corporations profiting from funding allocations devoted to addressing the problem. Policies and contracts are designed in such ways as are certain to fail while for-profit companies grift and their executives pocket taxpayer money only investing to expand continuously their empire. Of the people who genuinely want to help, many are oblivious to the severity of the problem and the great areas of need. Basic needs are steeper cost for the housing insecure however we're too focused on rewarding the wealthy and the bankers. Regulations on the rich are too loose compared to regulations on the poor's access to assistance. Efficient and Expedient and Comprehensive transportation to provide opportunities for upward mobility. Showers & Laundry. We can't assume the unhoused are lazy and leave so many obstacles in their ways while we take so much for granted in a wealthy nation with a disappearing middle class and eradication of the lowest rungs of opportunity.
I would say the big problems are if you are Hispanic and maybe Asian, living in the varrio, esp in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, it gets worse if you are fully banged out, shaved head, or a hat repping where they from, lookin like they for real bang, then definitely may get hit up, likely no hop outs, drive bys, but I heard stories from back then... like one of my friends grew up in Santa Ana, and he had to avoid many certain dangerous active streets walking to school and back home, cuz it was straight hood, so one time when he was a kid or a teenager walking to or from school, and wearing a backpack, a pickup or SUV pulled up on him, stopped on the street, and demanded his backpack, he said no, and they pulled out a sawed off shotgun on him, aimed it and he gave up his backpack, he told me he pretty much had in there was just chips, papers, school stuff, and that his backpack wasn't worth getting blown away for by a sawed off shotty... Heard the robbery stories, where they shot the clerk dead, and I believe the shooter ended up getting life. Heard gang bangers actually shot down a police helicopter... but most of these stories are from back then, and these days, I think there's like over 15-30+ gangs, you'll see them mark up their varrio in Old English, finger fonts and whatnot, crossing out, even writing "CK" up on the wall, doesn't feel too comfy driving thru, it does often get covered up in a week or so unless it's in a hard-to-reach or unseen place behind a business back parking lot or something, they have dedicated city worker that paint the walls. Definitely don't wanna go to a park in SA lookin banged out, and being unfamiliar with the locals there, as you may get pressed, but I'm talking about a straight bald head pelon cholo G'd up, cuz it does happen in SA IMO quite a bit of homeless people, and for some reason, from what I seen a lot of them are White crazy homeless addicts, ever seen homeless people yell, shout, talk to their invisible friends? Even seen people tripping on invisible enemies, I seen it... Downtown Santa Ana, I saw a homeless woman just grabbing weeds, pulling it in an alley, and speaking gibberish, couldn't really understand her, her mind was that gone But it's all up to you how one would view SA, if you grew up hood and familiar with it, or an average joe, or a paisa, etc., cuz IMO when u see them G finger throw up fonts, Old English gang fonts on the wall and all sorts, loads of covered up paint on the wall, with shoes hangin on the electric wires, dogs barkin, it just hits kinda different... like I ain't supposed to be here, in this hood if I ain't know nobody here if you know what I mean... somebody might drive through or walk up, might get checked of where you from... but that's just how I feel
Yeah I go to UC Irvine and my family lives in Santa Ana. I go there all the time and Santa Ana is a Mexican city through and through. Race always plays a part in what people see as "undesirable" with this beautiful city sitting at the epicenter of white undesirability in SoCal.
Seems like a tired perspective by someone's older relative. I'm glad to read all the comments noting that this is a lovely regular working class neighborhood. The housing tract I grew up in was once all white and is now one of the most diverse suburban neighborhoods in the country. I live in LA now and always love visiting places in OC like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anaheim and Orange.
I've lived in Orange County for 50 years. I've spent time photographing Santa Ana for a while. What I saw in that video was clean streets, tidy and well kept houses, almost all that had been upgraded or remodeled over the years. You drove through neighborhoods where people obviously took care of their property. Downtown Santa Ana, and especially historic downtown, is filled with art, restaurants, bar and shops and lots of rehabilitated historic buildings. It's very walkable and vibrant. There is an online map of all the fantastic murals in the city. There is a Tennis Center, a Performing Arts Center and even a Lawn Bowling Center. And an Artist Village downtown. You don't state what your criteria for "Worst" is. "Worst" in what way? If it's based on crime rates then Santa Ana (and Anaheim) definitely has a higher violent and property crime rate than most of Orange County but Orange County cities have extremely low violent crime and property crime rates overall compared to the rest of California and the US.
@@NickJohnson Exactly,But your definition of run down is personal.Maybe you should have did your mini doc on the chronically homeless community there,drugs, methamphetamine addicts etc.Instead of just drive through the business districts and neighborhoods that wasn't bad looking at all.
This is a joke right? On one hand I do understand where you're coming from because I live in Orange County my entire life and I do know there are parts of Santa Ana that are a bit shady but your actual video recording does not describe in any shape or form any of the points from your narrative. The only thing your video shows was well kept homes for the most part clean city streets and normal people doing normal things that you would see in any other American city. If having a high Hispanic population coincides with violence and danger well you just proved the exact opposite. I know the area well and things have gotten better in the area not worse your video proves that. I will give you an a+ for video quality and an f- for content. Not that any type of critic I just call it as I see it. If you want to see a hood go to Hawaiian gardens.
Right Tony! Soo true.. though I don’t vote Democrat. Of course we all wish we could live on balboa peninsula or Newport by the beach , but it doesn’t look that bad...
I just want to apologize to the author of this video . I didn't mean to be so Harsh or condescending. I just felt there was a form racial profiling in the commentary , associating violence and danger with certain people and where they live. Neighborhoods in Santa Ana have come a long way in a positive way from what they were 10-20 years ago. It's fair to say that residents working together In the community have helped the city become a little safer of an environment. Santa Ana is rich in history and culture is a very interesting City to learn about. Now I need to apologize for rambling. Lol. All apologies aside I still feel your video did not jive with the commentary.
I'm 72 years old and I've seen a lot of bad neighborhoods over the years. I was surprised that based on the narrator's preparation, how nice all these neighborhoods looked. All the houses seemed well maintained. The yards were obviously cared for, no overgrown weeds, no trash strewn about the streets or sidewalks. No junker cars cluttering the driveways or streets. And I saw only one wall with graffiti along the entire route! If this is the worst of Orange County, then this must be a nice county to live.
I've been in Westminster and Irvine all my life of almost 50 years. Santa Ana is just about the worst in OC, and Anaheim is also bad in areas, so @NickJohnson is correct, IMO. Just look at a plot of crimes in OC, and you'll see all the rapes, murders, and robberies concentrated mainly in Santa Ana and inland. But it's still better than nearby South LA, like Compton and inland Long Beach. The buffer between Santa Ana and Long Beach actually has the least crime -- Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, and a corner of Westminster. Fountain Valley is nice, and most of Costa Mesa. And then of course Mission Viejo, Laguna, and South OC are safe. This was filmed 3 years ago. 2 years ago up until now, you'd see plenty of tranc zombies wandering around, hunched over. Anaheim, too, by the stadium. They have camps of homeless drug addicts. Before 3 years ago, as early as 2010, you'd only see this in LA, and a little bit in OC around the Santa Ana river since maybe 2015. The river has been cleaned up for a couple years now. I've seen crimes take place in Santa Ana where it might look nice. I saw a black kid swipe a purse from an old Asian woman. There are prostitutes pacing up and down Harbor. Also on Harbor, 10 years ago, my coworker's friend got shot dead in a cafe for saying the wrong thing (trying to be polite even) to a gangster's GF.
It’s obvious he doesn’t know OC at all. It’s diverse SA has old Victorian homes worth Multi Millions, he did not show that area of SANTA ANA. It’s majestic
I worked as a street vendor in Santa Ana and met so many humble and generous people. You can just feel it their presence. It was such an amazing and unbelievable experience. From the bottom of my heart thank you again.
Wish my town had more street vendors. Nothing like a fresh fruit cup after work. And the fresh flowers and oranges are great to get at reasonable prices.
I’m sorry that my city scared you. I love it here. Born and raised in this beautiful city full of culture. It’s a shame that you only drove during the day and also during the pandemic. Come visit downtown in the evening after this is all over. It’ll give you a different perspective. I’m not being sarcastic either. I love the nightlife here and always feel safe walking around. Now don’t get me wrong, if you’re up to no good and looking to cause trouble, then trouble you will find. But for the avg folk...it’s all love around here.
Same, raised in Santa Ana and my parents still live there in the same house. At 50, I’ve lived all over the country and every time I go home to visit the folks, I’m thankful of the neighborhood I grew up in.
“Worse parts of OC” *shows Santa Ana* bruh, I love my city, yeah it has its gangs and it’s shady parts but if you ain’t out here looking for trouble youre chillin.
White people logic.... they will stick their hands in a alligators mouth but dont drive through Santaana. They won't live in a neighborhood with people but prefer living in the hills with mountain lions and coyotes. They are moving to Texas where the neighbors have tigers and tornados but dont buy a house in Santaana🤔
This guy should have went to minnie street or down chestnut, Townsend, Salvador park, down center where alley boys reside. There many areas he didn't show
Growing up I used to think these places were “bad” neighborhoods but then I experienced the worst parts of Oakland and Philly. Living in the Orange curtain really blinds you to what a real “bad” neighborhood is like. This place is normal compared to the rest of the US.
Right, I used to think Santa Ana was so ghetto but when I took a trip to LA it changed my perspective, truly lucky we get to live in a nice place that some people wish they’d lived in.
That’s cuz y’all in the good parts of Santa Ana, Sana’a worst hoods get you a 1/11 chance of being a victim to a crime, most of y’all haven’t ever been to McFadden street, Laurelhurst, or fair haven, pico Lowell, edinger/bristol, pretty much bru some of Santa Ana’s bad parts are the worst in the country, jus look at statistics
lmao he didn’t even go thru the biggest hoods of santa ana. he literally passed by the areas with the most money flowing thru. come by Townsend, or Memorial Park. then we’ll see
Your word selection says alot about your perspective, cities like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anahiem & Orange are the cultural centers of Orange County. I am born and raised in Santa Ana, and I love the city I live in.
I grew up in Orange County. Santa Ana was the first 8 years of my life and I would never live there again. I went to bed hearing automatic fire arms as a child. We had a drive by shooting at our house before I born for no reason. And I got bad looks for not being Hispanic. The only positives I remember were the food and parties/fiestas, and the closeness of the houses made it easy to have friends as a child. The gang/illegal alien presence is VERY strong. Overall bad influences are at every corner.
Let's keep it real. Santa Ana (or most of it) is shitty, but it's Orange County shitty. Which means it's a damn sight safer than comparable cities in LA. But as Democrats encroach on Santa Ana, expect it to get worse. Much worse.
@Jorge Do you consider the cities you mentioned "cultural centers" because of their minority populations or because of their history? It almost sounds like you're saying only minorities can contribute anything of cultural significance.
California cities with a higher violent crime rate than Santa Ana are Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland , Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco and Stockton (which has the highest violent crime rate in CA).To put things in to perspective, Santa Ana has about 1/3 the violent crime rate of Stockton.
@@Elvengem Not all areas of Sacramento are crime ridden, so if you choose to live there, just research the neighborhoods and avoid the high crime neighborhoods.
I’ve lived here for 25 years and just recently the last 3 years been in downtown fullerton area. I loved Santa Ana because it felt like home to many Mexicans and everyone in my neighborhood was friendly, but I grew up poor and these areas are actually the decent parts of Santa Ana. I’d choose Santa Ana over LA any day. This is a low income area and just because we don’t have the funds or live in a boujee place, doesn’t make it bad. We do with what we can and just because some people decide to be in gangs, it doesn’t mean everyone in Santa Ana thinks the same. At least Santa Ana doesn’t have urine smells, homeless in every corner, trash liter like other states in other counties. Santa Ana is slowly building it’s way back up with a lot of fun bars and restaurants opening up in the downtown area. Try them, on Broadway street.
Lived in Santa Ana for a few years. Definitely not a bad place to live compared to places around the country. People there are hard working with families and a sense of community and purpose. I loved the vibe. I miss driving down Bristol.
I actually thought Santa Ana looked pretty good for a bad area. I expected lots of trailer parks with dumped and wrecked cars lining the streets and boarded up houses, what I saw were nice well kept houses and gardens and the main street was nice and clean with no homeless lying around. Only saw a glimpse of one trailer park and even it didn't look too bad. A nice typical suburban cityscape, they hide their "BAD" very well.
Gee, Nick, the neighborhood is older but most houses looked really well kept. I'd say a pretty nice neighborhood compared to some places in Oakland or L.A. If those houses were in Carmel or Palo Alto I'd say it was a beautiful neighborhood. The downtown seemed typical (and not that bad either) compared to other big cities.
@andydguitar This guys doesn't know anything about Santa Ana. He didn't go threw all the many ghettos in Santa Ana. There are areas like Santa Nita is a part oh f Santa Ana very poor. The section look like Huntington Park in East LA. If he drive threw area like Bristol & McFadden ave,5th ih s ghetto from Eastside all the way to the westside . Then you'd see the truth .
Dont let if fool you the problem is the gangs theres helicopters at night and lotta shooting yeah he didnt his alot of the poor neighborhoods but I get he was going thru from some statistics thanks for showing santa ana tho theres alot of culture there I got shot and stabbed there by the age of 16 so I definitely know it can be bad
The real irony is here that if you drive just a few miles away to main St. and Flower you'll run into a little neighborhood that has multi-million dollar homes in it.
I see small, comfortable well-kept homes and nice lawns. No trash or graffiti. I have to ask if his perception of "worst" translates to people of color people moving there (let's just call it what it is - "white flight" - and now it's 80% Latino. If the majority was still white, in his view would this still qualify Santa Ana as a "bad" neighborhood? He said in 2011 Forbes rated it one of the safest large American cities, but "crime has picked up", but is now "about average" for American cities. This is his first video that I ever down voted.
I think he was afraid of going into the real hoods. Because he assumes the worst of us. Just proves that even though you may sound knowledgeable with your extended vocabulary you can still be ignorant in so many other ways.
I live in Huntington Beach. I drive my 2019 Range Rover often through those same streets you filmed visiting my Vietnamese friends. I’ve never had any issues in these WORKING CLASS neighborhoods. Can it be my 6/2 athletic build, half French (white) half Pac Islander physical features or is it the fact that I show respect to the people living in those areas the reason I’ve never had issue? I believe it’s how you treat people that determines your experiences in Santa Ana…..
Car thieves don’t like European cars. They like to steal 90s Japanese Honda Cars like Civic Hatches and Integras. Park your 2019 Range Rover outside, you’d see it again flawless the next day whereas a 1992 Honda civic hatch and it’s gone in a heartbeat.
Shit I live in the city of Orange, I couldn’t believe it when people that lived there claimed it was the “hood”. Hardly any existing crime in the neighborhood I live in and I’ve been here for 6 years and it’s a beautiful neighborhood
This area does not look ghetto, at worst, every other house looks they have not remodeled in about 20 years. Ghetto for Orange County is a house that is not a custom made house with atleast one expensive car in the driveway
You did a great job making it look dangerous with the filter and background sound, but honestly to me it looks very clean, just an average US city; if this is bad to you I recommend you not to put a foot in east Los Angeles, Oakland, Tenderloin SF, Detroit or South Beach Fl. ..hmm…. I’m not really able to decode the meaning of this vid, but I’m suspecting.
He didn't even drive thru the worst parts of Santa Ana go to Raitt and Mcfadden, Standard and Edinger , El Savador Park, Harbor and 1st all those areas are more active then where u went thru
Totally agree. In fact where he went there wasn't even gang guard on the houses. It was actually one of the better kept neighborhoods in SA. Well, for those of us who live in OC, we know where to avoid. 😁
Right at edinger from other side that goes to fountain valley becoming pretty nice because I use to know someone kid own a house down there and backyard was big asf fit a lot of people at the time I was there was a party of something sadly the lady just pass away and the house is either rented out or already sold
I had a business at Edinger and Standard for decades. I even lived on Minnie St until a certain point. I knew many people in the area and still good friends with a few who live in the 'red circle'. We still do children community events like dia de los ninos, walk the neighborhood and give out invites. We do get word to any gangs what we're doing and never a problem. Yes, there's crime but I never thought it the worst part of the county either.
I'm from England, this reminded me I haven't been back to California since I was 15 years old. God looking at this just pinged so many emotional memories for me, the beautiful wide streets, detatched houses, no traffic at all. This reminds me of ET and Back to the future looking at all these neighbourhoods. And as you were driving around, wow it's cold and nearly december here, but I could taste the sweet taste of the heat in the Californian air. The musk of all those trees lining the streets. The beautiful warmth basking everything around you. Jesus christ I know California is going through a rough patch right now, but it's a beautiful place. The sounds, the positivity, the food, the people. Driving around and getting whatever you want, the feeling of freedom and protection. It's a kind of Magic to drive and walk through California. So few people, some much to do, that air in your lungs, desert mixed with smog and pine and heat. What a fucking state.
This video made my day. I used to stay at the end of the video. Bring back a lot of memories 😢left when I was 15 now I’m 34 😭I keep having dreams going down 1st thru la cuatro. Miss my hometown. I stay in Michigan now 🤦♂️
This video is problematic and tone deaf. It equates working class with “worst parts”. It is borderline elitism. There are actual neglect/dilapidated neighborhoods, or, as you would say, “worst parts” in Santa Ana and other parts of Orange County. Why didn’t you go to those? Then again, someone else might say the “worst parts” are those neighborhoods in Irvine and elsewhere with all those cookie cutter neighborhoods. All looking the same. All beige and boring with no character or personality. Truly awful.
Totally agree. I grew up in Santa Ana in the 70s and 80s. The track home cookie cutter housing development push south into Irvine is hideous. I went to Foothill High School and Santa Ana High School. I remember huge areas of agriculture between Santa Ana and Irvine. Now it’s all one big housing development for miles and miles. Hell, I remember going to concerts at Irvine Meadows. It seemed like the middle of no where. My parents still live in their modest home in Santa Ana in a beautiful neighborhood that has very nice size manicured lawns. The older homes have way more lot square footage and space between neighbors than the fancy cookie cutters piled on top of each other to the south of it. No character, no uniqueness.
I lived in south county most my life, then spent 2 years in Vegas, i used to think Santa Ana was hard… there’s not one hard part of Orange County no matter how hard they try. You just can’t match the danger of other metro areas to the safe orange curtained Orange County, it really isn’t real life, which is why I’m moving back
@@lukesmith981 i would check out Kingsburg. Beautiful place. Not far from anything. it has nice breeze too during the summer. Homes are going up in price so dont hesitate if you find something you like
Those fully remodeled 1920's Spanish style homes with lush lawns you speak of start at $1,000,000+ now. They are charming indeed tho. You may not be able to afford one put you can stay in one, there is currently an airb&b listing of one in santa ana's higher-end neighborhoods
everyone talks negatively about california yet thousands come here all over the country just to live here despite the rising housing prices, people can bash over california all they want but the number of people coming here everyday don't lie to how great it is being here.
Born and raised, 56 years. Growing up in Santa Ana I would agree on the rapid rise of Hispanic families however all the folks I’ve encountered are hard working, honest individuals. Crime exist everywhere and trouble will find you if you go looking for it. Have not experienced any of that and I feel more than safe walking in my neighborhood.
I've lived in Santa Ana since the 80s, this video actually makes me see how nice Santa Ana actually looks. As any other booming city, we have overpopulation (which affects parking and how city services respond etc) but we are also seeing the prices of houses have an exponential growth. People want to live in Santa Ana. Something worth mentioning is the homeless population being attributed to the other cities in the County not taking responsibility for their own. Just because the city is comprised of a lower socioeconomic group, does not mean that the rest of the County should just dump their homeless to our city. When I had the decision to either buy a house in Santa Ana or move, I chose to stay here. If Santa Ana scares you, then you need to go out more often.
Pfft. Anyone who describes Anaheim as “dangerous” needs to get out of the house more often. It’s only “dangerous” if you grew up in Orange or Yorba Linda.
I grew up in Huntington beach been all over Anaheim, Santa Ana, Long Beach and LA at all times of the day and night. It's only dangerous if you cant handle yourself and your scared of your shadow. I once got beaten up in one of the richest neighborhoods in Orange County , Balboa Island. So it dont matter what neighborhood your in rich or poor there are thugs everywhere . ya just dont see them in the richer neighborhoods but they are there.
I really enjoyed this video, as I lived in Santa Ana most of the 90's. I'm going to disagree with you about S.A. getting worse, its getting better.I lived about five years off of McFadden close to Harbor which is not bad at all.When a house would go up for sale,every one was bought by Asian folks. Mostly Vietnamese, but also Philipino or Korean. These people would not buy in a dangerous place. I live in Rosarito Beach in Baja the last five years. It was good to see S.A again.
My cousin's house is on McFadden and Harbor. We use to walk to Cameron's and McDonald's all the time when we were younger. Til this day, I still go the Walmart and Northgate on that corner. Whenever I'm in the mood for real Mexican food....it'll always be Santana, hands down!
Love Santa Ana, come eat there one day, and meet the students from SAC, then you’ll see it’s hard working people with amazing talents, and that’s exactly what the OC is all about.....
Honestly I was born in Anaheim Hills lived in Brea and Huntington Beach moved to Houston TX and I’ll be honest Santa Ana is a Godsend compared to the neighborhoods in Houston TX been to St Louis and Tulsa, OK mostly white areas that are in dire economic shape and not so safe, not to mention Birmingham Alabama the narratator needs to get out more he’ll appreciate OC the good and not so affluent because or once you step into black neighborhoods or distressed white suburbs of let’s say Detroit or different parts of America you’ll clearly see Mexicans in a whole new light but nevertheless keep at it. I seriously carry concealed anytime I travel anywhere deep in America and only where my Texas LTC license is accepted!
Best Mexican food North of the frontera: El Toro Carneceria - worth dying for. Next door, they'll give you a bag of limes and a bag of salt for your Tequila order.
The streets look clean and well maintained, same with the sidewalks. I would not mind walking during the day over there and have some genuine Mexican food in one of those restaurants.
@@musoehcrwas born in Santa Ana left when I was a year old or so I would love to visit where I was born my parents are from El Salvador and migrated to Santa ana
Lived here all my life he is exaggerating the danger of Santa Ana... sure there's some crime in Santa Ana also in Anaheim but it's generally safe especially in the day you just have to be aware of your surroundings don't make yourself a target
What’s sad is the poor people who own this homes bought their house at around 200-300k and now they tripled in value Theirs no way the people that live here would be able to afford it in current prices as many bought their homes 20/30 years ago
@@JesusChrist2000BC haven’t been to Portland since 2016 but I don’t disagree I’m sure it gotten worse but you have Denver homes there because the inflated fake market they have there soy boys and leftist women want new upgraded homes
I grew up in the ghetto part of Santa Ana. I’m talking low income housing, gangs, Minnie street. It was pretty bad, but since then 10 years have passed. It really has gotten better. Now I live border line SantaAna in a luxury apartment. We are working hard now to own our own home IN SANTA ANA. I also work in a school in the floral park neighborhood which is likewise very beautiful. Santa Ana is a beautiful city and I appreciate it’s rich history and culture. I would like to stay here and although I agree that what you highlighted is a poor area, what I’m arguing is that it truly has gotten better. Trust me 😅
It’s ghetto ghetto worse every year. I grew up there. There’s more graffiti more gun shots at night. More homeless. People pooping in public. Sometimes it looks like a bird world country.
I've lived in Santa Ana most of my life and it saddens me that it's considered a bad place. I love living here and have never really had as many negative experiences compared to when I lived in Anaheim for 6 months. I saw people get stabbed to death in my gated complex, but I never saw anything like that in SA.
I actually almost got stabbed by a homeless guy in santa ana sense I had to go to work there at a landscape company called Landcare it would start at 7 in the morning so around 5 I'd take the bus there and as I was walking there I saw a homeless man looked kinda scary I ran from him and saw he had a knife , I met up with my landscaper friends there and they scared him away , but def dangerious in the morning also when I eventually got my car I would park at the same job and area my friends were this time a bit earlier sense I wanted some sleep some homeless guy tried breaking into my car had to honk the horn to scare him off , so in the morning def santa ana is dangerious
I grew up in the neighborhood shown in this video. In the late 70's and early 80's it looked much worse. The 1100 sq ft home I grew up is now worth $600K. You don't let that kind of asset fall into disrepair. They are proud of their homes, and it shows.
@@anandhbabu18 Santa has its methamphetamine issues and chronic homeless community.But as you can see where do is driving thru it basically look like that.His definition of bad is personal.
It almost seems like if the neighborhood is not his skin complexion, it’s a bad neighborhood. It may be more culture shock for him and he attributes that to bad neighborhood. As this neighborhood was pretty clean, especially for a larger populated city.
Before it was a white suburb, it was basically farmland with pockets of indigenous/Spanish/Mexican owners. The entirety of OC used to be strawberry and citrus fields. Santa Ana was pretty much the hub because it’s where the courthouse and stuff were. It wasn’t until after WWII when the suburbanization kicked up, though even towards the 1990s there was still tons of empty land.
Thank you!! Yes!! And if these other dumb rich cities would keep their transients in their own city.... Santa Ana would not be so bad... but no they come and drop them off here.
@My Earth Exactly! I live in this *ghetto gangster city" and I pay $1,300/month for a one bedroom apartment. And that's cheap compared to others areas. Living in santa ana is actually pricey.
@Fungus Amongus Yeah it sucks being labeled the "ghetto" of orange county. When in reality, SA is considered OC's downtown. This video doesn't talk about "Floral Park" the homes there average at $1 million. He didn't talk about "French Park" some beautiful original Victorian houses. We have million dollar flats by the train station. Why would people pay millions to live with gangsters? He never even went through downtown. Which I believe he says he was in the video. He just chose a alleyway and a "bad" neighborhood and based everything from that. It's even funnier that there's neighborhoods that are even worse then what he showcased. Absolutely no research at all. This guy gets a 4/10
The easiest way I can put it is that Santa Ana is a stronghold in Orange County for the working class. It's funny because I feel like all the hispanic families such as mine never really got in tune with getting involved with the community or invloved in school activity. All our parents know is work. I'm sure the district knows this. Regardless somehow it feels like home misguided youth is why i feel our beautiful city ended up in a video like this. Growing up alot of young people my age were prideful but full of wasted potential with no one to tell them. Santa Ana will always be my home.
i did see one.. When he was driving down what looked like an alleyway. But was a street. I guess. Looked like i definitely saw one on a fence. Which still isnt bad.
They've must have been saving some of that spraypaint for N. Main St.--saw a Bank of America there covered with bubble letter graffiti, almost as bad as some of the overpasses on the 710.
Baton Rouge has extremes in both directions. The worst parts of Baton Rouge are slightly worse than the worst parts of New Orleans. There's just more of it in New Orleans.
@@NickJohnson Hi Nick! One day you ought to drive through New Orleans...it is a very interesting and historical city...The old Garden District uptown is gorgeous! Well, it would have more national interest than Baton Rouge would have. The 2 cities are not far apart geographically but are very different. Shreveport, LA does not even seem remotely like either one of them. Louisiana has many regions and culturally diverse areas. Nick, I love your videos.
Is this an attempt at satire? I see well maintained homes, well maintained lawns, clean streets, well maintained landscaping and lots of trees. Looking at the cars, while not the latest models, I see well maintained vehicles, and in good shape for being 10-15 years old. I didn’t hear one police siren or a helicopter during the filming of this video. Very dramatic.
Foreal bro,lmao. I’m from the east coast, just moved to Buena Park and drive around there alot. This dude has clearly never been to bad neighborhoods if he thinks Santa Ana is bad.
That’s the point. Orange County is so nice they call it the “bubble” it’s one of the safer areas in the country and this is what it’s lowest income area looks like
As a long past X-Californian. I'm sorry, this looks like a basic middle class working neighborhood. Where are the "for sale" signs, where are the barred windows, street corner hang-outs? I wouldn't live in CA on my worst day again but really???
13:29 I used to live in the two story house behind Kitchen Floors on the side of McFadden and in the cul de sac. It was with a very nice family, who I rented a room from for a year. I never had any problems with the family or anyone in the neighborhood around us. It was the first time living away from my family and it was a time in my life that made me feel happy and thankful. I am proud to have lived in the Santa Ana community and are grateful for all the hardworking people who make it what it is today.
He said people might earn around 24,000 dollars a year. My dad who's a hispanic earns 87,000 a year and i live in this city. And im also 11 years old if you want to live somewhere decent come to Santa ana.
All I saw when watching this video where nice neighborhood, not poor neighborhood. I have lived in this city for over 50 yrs. IDK how you can drive down Santa Ana's streets and neighbors and refer to them as poor.
A Los Angeles native, my father moved my mother and I to OC in 1965 following the Watts Riots. I grew up in Fullerton, and served as a cop while in college. I went back to LA to finish my education and immediately came back after attempting to work there. LA was crappy even in the 1980's. Bottom line: With the exception of the cities of Beverly Hills, San Marino and Burbank, the worst parts of OC beat out the best out the best parts of LA County hands down! I can walk down the street in Santa Ana, Westminster or Garbage Grove and feel completely safe. However, once in a while I need to chase out nutcase homeless at night lounging around my office in Newport Beach. I carry a frying pan with me to show them I mean business instead of a nightstick. Thankfully, I have never had to use the frying pan in anger or self defense.
Anyone else from Australia here? 🇦🇺 The residential streets were giving me Western Sydney vibes 😂 Looked pretty clean and tidy though compared to some of our worst suburbs.
I travel some. This representation is incorrect for the most part with a twist of culturally deficiency. This city is the center of OC, work, freeways, best food. Houses are not cheap... The only problem, not enough social and economic power, until recently... Homeless not worse than what I've seen in LA, Washington, San Diego, Boston, Seattle and small cities.
This is right at the edge of my service territory, during bad weather have been over there many times. Most of the people you meet here are much nicer, more helpful, pleasant and understanding to deal with than the richer areas of the O.C., especially the new parts of Yorba Linda. Be safe.
Ft. Worth has hoods. that 1 spot was rated highest death rate capitol crime for a couple years a few miles from the old toys r us near ridgemar mall opposite side of the 30 by the 7 eleven. then also the eastside, stop6
Santa Ana is home to a lot of Americans were not white, but we are Americans. We are also proud of our Mexican heritage and our fellow hard-working immigrants in our city. With out them Santa Ana wouldn't be what it is today.
This is the nice part of “Santana” lol. West Anacrime, Stanton, La Habra, and some of Buena Park got more of a hood vibe but all is like Heaven compared to Long Beach and LA
Am I missing something? These places look like normal, comfortable suburbia. The houses and yards are well kept, there’s zero evidence of neglect from what I saw; no derelict cars, no rubbish strewn about the place.
I grew up in Orange county, I've worked in and visited Santa Ana hundreds of times. Santa Ana and its residents are awesome and the beating cultural heart of orange county. Even post covid Santa Ana has a vibrant downtown. I was just up there today for lunch at my favorite roadside taqueria.
I have lived in Santa Ana all my life and what you did in this video is talk crap about our city it's not a bad place i see alot of nationalities coming to visit S.A.these people are hard working and keep there homes well maintained.
Santa Ana is a bad place indeed. He isn't talking poorly about it. It's the mere truth. The houses are not well kept once you take a closer look. Everytime I pass by there it looks like mere trash, mattresses are left outside, packed cars in one house etc...its a horrible looking place.
@@NickJohnson all you have to say is OKAY you're just a hustler trying to make some coin with some cheap easy jabs at a really beautiful city full of a diverse array of people. Santa Ana has some beautiful history and to say "OK" to someone's vehement reply calling you out on trying to paint a city a bad way for some silly youtube views shows you have no desire to learn about other cultures and have respect for those that don't look like you. Shame on you.
So I saw a Working class Hispanic neighborhoods. I saw no trash, no homeless encampments, no open air drug markets, no prostitutes. Not saying some of these may exist there, but it looked pretty good. BTW, I grew up there.
OC is strange, good right next to bad. All over the place. There are rough neighborhoods in Anaheim, Garden Grove, Fullerton, etc. But none of them are as bad as Los Angeles.
Where would you recommend an apartment for a couple to move to in oc? My bf and I were originally considering Anaheim or Fullerton, but in the comments I’ve seen Anaheim nicknamed anacrime which is pretty discouraging. I want to find an apartment that’s in a non rundown area and my budget is 2k a month for a 1b and I research crime stats but it’s not the only factor. It would be nice to find an apartment that’s in more of a suburb area. Any advice is appreciated!
Having grown up in OC, I once agreed with you about Santa Ana. However, I moved to the Bay Area and saw what true poverty and crime look like. Once I got this perspective, I never viewed Santa Ana the same way. It is much nicer than other parts of LA or SF.
Same. I went to SF for the first time to visit my sister who was attending the University of San Francisco at the time. I made the mistake of unknowingly walking into what I would later find out was Tenderloin neighborhood! I even spent the night in a motel close there 😨😨😨 omg never again. I was not able to sleep and couldn't wait for it to be morning so I could return back to my Santa Ana neighborhood.
I’ve lived in Santa Ana off and on in the good parts and in the bad parts since the early 80s when I was a teenager. Nothing much has changed except for a more liberal government that allows for more crime to go unpunished. But the people that live in those houses and who work there are actually pretty CONSERVATIVE family oriented people who know more about loyalty to one another than most. If you’re going to measure the neighborhood by what it looks like or the type of rims people have on their cars, which is implied, that’s one standard. But the real way to measure the streets you drove is by how well the families that live there care for one another. Measure the degree of that against the clinical more shallow type of familia you might encounter in “nicer” areas and Santa Ana wins hands down. Never had a problem with anyone in Santa Ana. As long as you give people respect, look them in the eye and are sincere, don’t be too aloof, even the most hard gangbangers are going to leave you alone.
I always do! I detest litter! I'm a Nazi about it. A guy threw his paper cup out his window and when I was done with him he picked it up, apologized and said he'd never do it again!!
What is this? I see a nice, clean, well-kept older community here. You said "densely populated" early on... well, densely populated is a good thing. That's what you want in a city. That gives you street life and walkability. If you don't want that, go to a sterile, new suburb with endless tract houses and huge garages carefully arranged in cul-de-sacs. It's evident here that Santa Ana actually has a historic downtown, which is rare in Southern California jurisdictions. And it looks walkable and attractive... it looks like there is rejuvenation going on. But I'm originally from Detroit, so I have a different paradigm as to what is "the hood." Where are the bombed-out buildings, and the vast acres of weed-infested vacant lots? Where are the structures stripped of metal plumbing and HVAC ducting for scrap? Where are the piles of garbage? There's not much graffiti or tagging evident in this video either. I see mowed lawns, trimmed shrubbery, fresh paint. Quaint homes from the 1920s-1950s era. Even the alleys here are pretty clean. Wait, I see a couple (probably homeless) people with carts later in the video, and there's a discount store and a donut shop... whoa... but don't all communities have those things? (Shrug) Sorry... these so-called "hoods" are not bad by any stretch of the imagination. You must come from a really bland, sheltered suburban background. I think I want to move to Santa Ana.
Nick Johnson wrong!! It has problems but not like Los Angeles or San Bernardino. It can get worse, if the people in Santa don’t fight to keep the drugs and homeless problems out of their communities.
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Based on the comments you need to find a new job. You swung and missed trying your best to disparage a community that, apparently has strong support. Maybe consult for TMZ? They love your type of "reporting"
Do you have a video on Southie (South Boston) or Dorchester which is also a White low income blue collar community near Boston (this community was in "The Fighter" movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams about Irish American boxer Mickey Ward). Boxers don't come from expensive nice neighborhoods like Martha's Vineyard or Dana Pointe.
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I m a middle-aged white guy with penchant for walking. I walk through these neighborhoods daily and have never had a problem. If you are afraid you need to get out more.
Who said I was afraid
White people in Santa Ana are awesome great people. Best neighbors too.
Well I guess I wouldn't mind taking a walk either through Santa Ana but it's probably going to be through Floral Park and that's about it
@@steveturner5519 santa ana welcomes everybody regardless of skin color republicans and democrats too. NO FAR RIGHT NAZIS ALLOWED.
@@4mabus I don't care where people come from or who they are what bothers me is that 95% maybe more of the entire city can't even pick up the Frito bags in front of their house the place is covered in garbage and when I go to Irvine it's not covered in garbage and I do not know why this is but I believe it's the inhabitants of the city and like I said it doesn't matter where you come from some people are fine with garbage in their front yard and some people aren't
The worst parts of OC are still better than the best parts of South LA.
Definitely agree
What
True. The worst part of oc would be considered a safe middle class neighborhood if it were in LA.
@@sinnopal1 nah bruh that’s not accurate at all
@@kevina5009 nah. It is accurate. Santa ana or anaheim would be as good as westlake or usc neighborhoods. Of course, it is a lot better than south LA or skid row in downyown.
I lived Orange County for 36 years, worked in Santa Ana for 32 years. I even lived in Santa Ana for couple years and walked down many of those streets in the video, but I never encountered any problems on the streets. Interestingly, compared to other poor cities in the US, Santa Ana looks pretty darn good.
My family moved to Fountain Valley in 1971 where I started school. I remember Santa Ana looking at the video it looks lot nicer than it did in the 1970's and 80's. Most had bars on the windows back then that is a good sign when you see many homes with bars there is a problem with crime.
The worst part of Santa Ana is on 1St street off of the 5 and 55 freeway; there are a lot of homeless drug addicts. Most of the Latino neighborhoods are pretty quiet; there isn’t that much gang activity like there was in 70’s or 80’s. Most Latinos just just go to work and go home to their family.
Don't think this video is an accurate reflection of "the worst parts"
Need to look along railroad tracks and along the sides of major freeways.
Some of this footage and connected commentary is a bit biased.
In part this looks tame because this footage appears to have been taken while things were still locked down because of the COVID pandemic.
as Alvaro Torres said, 1st St. between 5 & 55 but even heading past Main St through Bristol over to Harbor. also Main St from the 22 South to MacArthur which he only covered part of.
This video seemed to suggest that the neighborhoods of Santa Ana were poor and unsafe because it was "Hispanic" but the unhoused and the addicted I encountered here were about equally white. In fact, in my approximation, addicts of opioids such as meth tended to be white more than Latino. They had the grand sense of entitlement and abusive obnoxious narcissism more often too. They even were the more belligerent of the bunch. Generally speaking, Latinos were less belligerent than Blacks or Whites.
For the most part, this video does a disservice by capitalizing on tactics of uncertainty, fear and prejudice. Orange County needs policies to help the poor. Costs of housing and healthcare are out of control and many oppose the will to fix these issues. Zoning restrictions enable the NIMBYs and those who've historically benefitted from discriminatory policies to keep stuck the insecure who actually have a right to live in Orange County. Housing developers are abusing their control. Oversight of the bureaucrats and politicians and auditing of the corruption by the corporations profiting from funding allocations devoted to addressing the problem. Policies and contracts are designed in such ways as are certain to fail while for-profit companies grift and their executives pocket taxpayer money only investing to expand continuously their empire. Of the people who genuinely want to help, many are oblivious to the severity of the problem and the great areas of need.
Basic needs are steeper cost for the housing insecure however we're too focused on rewarding the wealthy and the bankers. Regulations on the rich are too loose compared to regulations on the poor's access to assistance. Efficient and Expedient and Comprehensive transportation to provide opportunities for upward mobility. Showers & Laundry. We can't assume the unhoused are lazy and leave so many obstacles in their ways while we take so much for granted in a wealthy nation with a disappearing middle class and eradication of the lowest rungs of opportunity.
I would say the big problems are if you are Hispanic and maybe Asian, living in the varrio, esp in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, it gets worse if you are fully banged out, shaved head, or a hat repping where they from, lookin like they for real bang, then definitely may get hit up, likely no hop outs, drive bys, but I heard stories from back then... like one of my friends grew up in Santa Ana, and he had to avoid many certain dangerous active streets walking to school and back home, cuz it was straight hood, so one time when he was a kid or a teenager walking to or from school, and wearing a backpack, a pickup or SUV pulled up on him, stopped on the street, and demanded his backpack, he said no, and they pulled out a sawed off shotgun on him, aimed it and he gave up his backpack, he told me he pretty much had in there was just chips, papers, school stuff, and that his backpack wasn't worth getting blown away for by a sawed off shotty...
Heard the robbery stories, where they shot the clerk dead, and I believe the shooter ended up getting life. Heard gang bangers actually shot down a police helicopter... but most of these stories are from back then, and these days, I think there's like over 15-30+ gangs, you'll see them mark up their varrio in Old English, finger fonts and whatnot, crossing out, even writing "CK" up on the wall, doesn't feel too comfy driving thru, it does often get covered up in a week or so unless it's in a hard-to-reach or unseen place behind a business back parking lot or something, they have dedicated city worker that paint the walls. Definitely don't wanna go to a park in SA lookin banged out, and being unfamiliar with the locals there, as you may get pressed, but I'm talking about a straight bald head pelon cholo G'd up, cuz it does happen in SA
IMO quite a bit of homeless people, and for some reason, from what I seen a lot of them are White crazy homeless addicts, ever seen homeless people yell, shout, talk to their invisible friends? Even seen people tripping on invisible enemies, I seen it... Downtown Santa Ana, I saw a homeless woman just grabbing weeds, pulling it in an alley, and speaking gibberish, couldn't really understand her, her mind was that gone
But it's all up to you how one would view SA, if you grew up hood and familiar with it, or an average joe, or a paisa, etc., cuz IMO when u see them G finger throw up fonts, Old English gang fonts on the wall and all sorts, loads of covered up paint on the wall, with shoes hangin on the electric wires, dogs barkin, it just hits kinda different... like I ain't supposed to be here, in this hood if I ain't know nobody here if you know what I mean... somebody might drive through or walk up, might get checked of where you from... but that's just how I feel
Still waiting for you to show me the worst parts of Orange County I didn’t see them in this video
Your car would have the word "gringo" keyed into it within a week of moving there.
T. An OC native
That's cuz there aren't none lol. Anaheim on beach is a little sketch but I've lived here my whole life
Bruh this guy is LITRALLY sped
@@dustinwroten353 untrue lol quit thinking non white = bad
come out at night, white liberal
This is a working class neighborhood to me....looks normal.
The video hella misleading bruh
working class is where the hood is lol looks normal but theres over 10 ppl living in those houses
You have no idea...
Yeah I go to UC Irvine and my family lives in Santa Ana. I go there all the time and Santa Ana is a Mexican city through and through. Race always plays a part in what people see as "undesirable" with this beautiful city sitting at the epicenter of white undesirability in SoCal.
Literally has nothin to do with race and everything to do with danger and crime. But keep race baiting cuz it’s easier.
Seems like a tired perspective by someone's older relative. I'm glad to read all the comments noting that this is a lovely regular working class neighborhood. The housing tract I grew up in was once all white and is now one of the most diverse suburban neighborhoods in the country. I live in LA now and always love visiting places in OC like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anaheim and Orange.
This was based on crime stats. Those are just the ones reported.
I've lived in Orange County for 50 years. I've spent time photographing Santa Ana for a while. What I saw in that video was clean streets, tidy and well kept houses, almost all that had been upgraded or remodeled over the years. You drove through neighborhoods where people obviously took care of their property. Downtown Santa Ana, and especially historic downtown, is filled with art, restaurants, bar and shops and lots of rehabilitated historic buildings. It's very walkable and vibrant. There is an online map of all the fantastic murals in the city. There is a Tennis Center, a Performing Arts Center and even a Lawn Bowling Center. And an Artist Village downtown. You don't state what your criteria for "Worst" is. "Worst" in what way? If it's based on crime rates then Santa Ana (and Anaheim) definitely has a higher violent and property crime rate than most of Orange County but Orange County cities have extremely low violent crime and property crime rates overall compared to the rest of California and the US.
crime poverty and rundown.
@@NickJohnson then why did you wrote worst cities of orange county. I grew up in Santa Ana My whole life and there are less crimes now than before.
@@NickJohnson Exactly,But your definition of run down is personal.Maybe you should have did your mini doc on the chronically homeless community there,drugs, methamphetamine addicts etc.Instead of just drive through the business districts and neighborhoods that wasn't bad looking at all.
@@NickJohnson You must have a terrifying experience in that part of orange county?
@@NickJohnson lol this guys is a buffoon 🤡
This is a joke right? On one hand I do understand where you're coming from because I live in Orange County my entire life and I do know there are parts of Santa Ana that are a bit shady but your actual video recording does not describe in any shape or form any of the points from your narrative. The only thing your video shows was well kept homes for the most part clean city streets and normal people doing normal things that you would see in any other American city. If having a high Hispanic population coincides with violence and danger well you just proved the exact opposite. I know the area well and things have gotten better in the area not worse your video proves that. I will give you an a+ for video quality and an f- for content. Not that any type of critic I just call it as I see it. If you want to see a hood go to Hawaiian gardens.
Fair I suppose but Hawaiian gardens isn't in OC
Right Tony! Soo true.. though I don’t vote Democrat. Of course we all wish we could live on balboa peninsula or Newport by the beach , but it doesn’t look that bad...
I just want to apologize to the author of this video . I didn't mean to be so Harsh or condescending.
I just felt there was a form racial profiling in the commentary , associating violence and danger with certain people and where they live. Neighborhoods in Santa Ana have come a long way in a positive way from what they were 10-20 years ago.
It's fair to say that residents working together In the community have helped the city become a little safer of an environment.
Santa Ana is rich in history and culture is a very interesting City to learn about.
Now I need to apologize for rambling. Lol. All apologies aside I still feel your video did not jive with the commentary.
@@juliarobertchewza Balboa peninsula is beautiful. Though I don't vote Republican. (I just had to throw that in there) 😃
When we enter Hispanic neighborhoods, my husband is like it's ok. If it's a black neighborhood, my husband would be like let's get out of here.
I'm 72 years old and I've seen a lot of bad neighborhoods over the years. I was surprised that based on the narrator's preparation, how nice all these neighborhoods looked. All the houses seemed well maintained. The yards were obviously cared for, no overgrown weeds, no trash strewn about the streets or sidewalks. No junker cars cluttering the driveways or streets. And I saw only one wall with graffiti along the entire route! If this is the worst of Orange County, then this must be a nice county to live.
Yes Ricardo
I’ve been in this area 35 years. LA is the real SHIT HOLE
@@NickJohnson There are parts that are a shit hole. This neighbourhood is basic lower middle and clean.
It's a great place to live
I've been in Westminster and Irvine all my life of almost 50 years. Santa Ana is just about the worst in OC, and Anaheim is also bad in areas, so @NickJohnson is correct, IMO. Just look at a plot of crimes in OC, and you'll see all the rapes, murders, and robberies concentrated mainly in Santa Ana and inland. But it's still better than nearby South LA, like Compton and inland Long Beach. The buffer between Santa Ana and Long Beach actually has the least crime -- Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, and a corner of Westminster. Fountain Valley is nice, and most of Costa Mesa. And then of course Mission Viejo, Laguna, and South OC are safe. This was filmed 3 years ago. 2 years ago up until now, you'd see plenty of tranc zombies wandering around, hunched over. Anaheim, too, by the stadium. They have camps of homeless drug addicts. Before 3 years ago, as early as 2010, you'd only see this in LA, and a little bit in OC around the Santa Ana river since maybe 2015. The river has been cleaned up for a couple years now. I've seen crimes take place in Santa Ana where it might look nice. I saw a black kid swipe a purse from an old Asian woman. There are prostitutes pacing up and down Harbor. Also on Harbor, 10 years ago, my coworker's friend got shot dead in a cafe for saying the wrong thing (trying to be polite even) to a gangster's GF.
The home prices you have mentioned are not accurate 350k range is not true. These homes are listed at about $500k right now.
Fr I live by mater dei HS houses be like 650k+
700K where I live (northwest santa ana)
700k+ in Garden Grove where I live. Good luck finding even a crappy condo for anything below 500k.
This person clearly doesn't know what he is talking about... He's only feeding into his prejudice. This video is so pointless.
Exactly can’t even get an apartment for 350k
Lol it’s funny how this guy is basically painting Santa Ana as a “dangerous” place, and then proceeds to run a red light at the end of the video. 😂
🤣😂🙌🏻
Glad someone else saw and thought this.
He’s a trumper just trying “own the libs” but he is failing miserably here
oh lol that is funny! Good observation
It’s obvious he doesn’t know OC at all. It’s diverse SA has old Victorian homes worth Multi Millions, he did not show that area of SANTA ANA. It’s majestic
I worked as a street vendor in Santa Ana and met so many humble and generous people. You can just feel it their presence. It was such an amazing and unbelievable experience. From the bottom of my heart thank you again.
Wish my town had more street vendors. Nothing like a fresh fruit cup after work. And the fresh flowers and oranges are great to get at reasonable prices.
I’m sorry that my city scared you. I love it here. Born and raised in this beautiful city full of culture. It’s a shame that you only drove during the day and also during the pandemic. Come visit downtown in the evening after this is all over. It’ll give you a different perspective. I’m not being sarcastic either. I love the nightlife here and always feel safe walking around. Now don’t get me wrong, if you’re up to no good and looking to cause trouble, then trouble you will find. But for the avg folk...it’s all love around here.
Good
Yupp.. born and raised in S*A 🔥
Same, raised in Santa Ana and my parents still live there in the same house. At 50, I’ve lived all over the country and every time I go home to visit the folks, I’m thankful of the neighborhood I grew up in.
I love California, I've seen worse neighborhoods in Oklahoma city.
Not to mention Georgia....abandoned cars homes.
Lol the fact that he was scared driving by lolol im like who is going to attack you the paletero!?
“Worse parts of OC”
*shows Santa Ana* bruh, I love my city, yeah it has its gangs and it’s shady parts but if you ain’t out here looking for trouble youre chillin.
Facts
He should show the motels of beach blvd instead. That is the area I hate. And driving through there is ok but going inside the motels is scary
I'm still waiting to see whats supposed to be so bad about this part of Cali. It looks as good as anywhere else to me.
Nah trust me it’s pretty bad
@@CarnageZ. this foo showed the good parts of Santa Ana and passed it off as ghetto 😂😂
@@diegohernandez9662 I mean there places even nicer the houses by the cube
@@diegohernandez9662 and he went to Main Street, the BEST part of Santa Ana, before it leads right into Orange and that area is pretty much urban.
It's very expensive to live there so the bad people got to keep it moving.
I don't see anything scary about this city 😂
White people logic.... they will stick their hands in a alligators mouth but dont drive through Santaana.
They won't live in a neighborhood with people but prefer living in the hills with mountain lions and coyotes.
They are moving to Texas where the neighbors have tigers and tornados but dont buy a house in Santaana🤔
I'm white and I say he's a wussy lol
He didn’t go to the hoods.😂😂 he went to some of the middle class house which is pretty much the only safe places in Santa Ana
This guy should have went to minnie street or down chestnut, Townsend, Salvador park, down center where alley boys reside. There many areas he didn't show
Ik huh giving my city a bad name tbh go to nyc ur more likely To get robbed there
Growing up I used to think these places were “bad” neighborhoods but then I experienced the worst parts of Oakland and Philly. Living in the Orange curtain really blinds you to what a real “bad” neighborhood is like. This place is normal compared to the rest of the US.
Right, I used to think Santa Ana was so ghetto but when I took a trip to LA it changed my perspective, truly lucky we get to live in a nice place that some people wish they’d lived in.
That’s cuz y’all in the good parts of Santa Ana, Sana’a worst hoods get you a 1/11 chance of being a victim to a crime, most of y’all haven’t ever been to McFadden street, Laurelhurst, or fair haven, pico Lowell, edinger/bristol, pretty much bru some of Santa Ana’s bad parts are the worst in the country, jus look at statistics
I have a homies from San barnadino and he said Santa Ana is similar to SB, just that SB is more ran down but gang affiliation still bad
@@ShawnShawny-j6rand that's a fact
this is like a beverly hills compared to other bad areas in the country
He didn’t even drive through the hoods he drove though their nice parts, most their hoods are at apartment complexes
Compared to the hoods back east its a cake walk
@@herbertthewaterrat ye my bad CA actually has the money to gentrify their areas
lmao he didn’t even go thru the biggest hoods of santa ana. he literally passed by the areas with the most money flowing thru. come by Townsend, or Memorial Park. then we’ll see
Poorer? Yes. Scary? No. Now South Central LA *is* scary.
Your word selection says alot about your perspective, cities like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anahiem & Orange are the cultural centers of Orange County. I am born and raised in Santa Ana, and I love the city I live in.
I grew up in Orange County. Santa Ana was the first 8 years of my life and I would never live there again. I went to bed hearing automatic fire arms as a child. We had a drive by shooting at our house before I born for no reason. And I got bad looks for not being Hispanic. The only positives I remember were the food and parties/fiestas, and the closeness of the houses made it easy to have friends as a child. The gang/illegal alien presence is VERY strong. Overall bad influences are at every corner.
@@isaiahdaily123 I am curious which part of Santa Ana has been dangerous? I myself have lived in Santa Ana for a long time.
Let's keep it real. Santa Ana (or most of it) is shitty, but it's Orange County shitty.
Which means it's a damn sight safer than comparable cities in LA. But as Democrats encroach on Santa Ana, expect it to get worse. Much worse.
@Jorge Do you consider the cities you mentioned "cultural centers" because of their minority populations or because of their history?
It almost sounds like you're saying only minorities can contribute anything of cultural significance.
@@WorkHardBeNice not much cultural representation in Cookie Cutter South OC where everyone has the same home
Looks like a community that is proud of their homes. I've driven through many times and it's not a bad place.
I am so glad i live in santa ana.May not be the most modern looking city but it sure is the most home feeling city.
California cities with a higher violent crime rate than Santa Ana are Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland , Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco and Stockton (which has the highest violent crime rate in CA).To put things in to perspective, Santa Ana has about 1/3 the violent crime rate of Stockton.
It's bad for the OC
@@NickJohnson Precisely! 🤘
i had thought about moving to Sacramento. Where would be safe in Cali?
@@Elvengem Not all areas of Sacramento are crime ridden, so if you choose to live there, just research the neighborhoods and avoid the high crime neighborhoods.
And most of the crime is from the exploding homeless population
“The Hispanic population is OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH” not the greatest Choice of words lmao
Put in as matter-of-factly speaking. Let’s erase all reality and live in a LaLa Land
As a Mexican I don’t mind the choice of words. He’s correct btw. It went from barely Any Mexicans to majority Mexicans.
Yeah, that phrasing makes it sound like it shouldn’t be that high or it is a problem.
But he’s right though
California is 43% Hispanic. That should not even be a ? Downey is nice it's close to 80% Hispanic, whittier to
I’ve lived here for 25 years and just recently the last 3 years been in downtown fullerton area. I loved Santa Ana because it felt like home to many Mexicans and everyone in my neighborhood was friendly, but I grew up poor and these areas are actually the decent parts of Santa Ana. I’d choose Santa Ana over LA any day. This is a low income area and just because we don’t have the funds or live in a boujee place, doesn’t make it bad. We do with what we can and just because some people decide to be in gangs, it doesn’t mean everyone in Santa Ana thinks the same. At least Santa Ana doesn’t have urine smells, homeless in every corner, trash liter like other states in other counties. Santa Ana is slowly building it’s way back up with a lot of fun bars and restaurants opening up in the downtown area. Try them, on Broadway street.
Lived in Santa Ana for a few years. Definitely not a bad place to live compared to places around the country. People there are hard working with families and a sense of community and purpose. I loved the vibe. I miss driving down Bristol.
I actually thought Santa Ana looked pretty good for a bad area. I expected lots of trailer parks with dumped and wrecked cars lining the streets and boarded up houses, what I saw were nice well kept houses and gardens and the main street was nice and clean with no homeless lying around. Only saw a glimpse of one trailer park and even it didn't look too bad. A nice typical suburban cityscape, they hide their "BAD" very well.
this guy isnt even driving threw the bad side of santa ana 😂
Looks pretty brown I mean BAD to me. Right nick?
Gee, Nick, the neighborhood is older but most houses looked really well kept. I'd say a pretty nice neighborhood compared to some places in Oakland or L.A. If those houses were in Carmel or Palo Alto I'd say it was a beautiful neighborhood. The downtown seemed typical (and not that bad either) compared to other big cities.
The downtown is nice. It contains the center of government for Orange County
It's bad for OC but average I guess for all big US cities
@@NickJohnson It is not bad for OC, get out and live a little.
@andydguitar This guys doesn't know anything about Santa Ana. He didn't go threw all the many ghettos in Santa Ana. There are areas like Santa Nita is a part oh f Santa Ana very poor. The section look like Huntington Park in East LA. If he drive threw area like Bristol & McFadden ave,5th ih s ghetto from Eastside all the way to the westside . Then you'd see the truth .
Dont let if fool you the problem is the gangs theres helicopters at night and lotta shooting yeah he didnt his alot of the poor neighborhoods but I get he was going thru from some statistics thanks for showing santa ana tho theres alot of culture there I got shot and stabbed there by the age of 16 so I definitely know it can be bad
The real irony is here that if you drive just a few miles away to main St. and Flower you'll run into a little neighborhood that has multi-million dollar homes in it.
He drives past OCSA which is like an upper middle class, prestigious high school
I see small, comfortable well-kept homes and nice lawns. No trash or graffiti. I have to ask if his perception of "worst" translates to people of color people moving there (let's just call it what it is - "white flight" - and now it's 80% Latino. If the majority was still white, in his view would this still qualify Santa Ana as a "bad" neighborhood? He said in 2011 Forbes rated it one of the safest large American cities, but "crime has picked up", but is now "about average" for American cities. This is his first video that I ever down voted.
The title explains it
Nick was trying desperately to spin the narrative.
@TruthSeeker oh so you’re saying you believe in racial inequality and white privilege?
Exactly
You missed the real hoods, you drove thru “middle class” Santana !
nah middle class santa ana is near the 55
I'm from Santa Ana and most of it is pretty bad
I think he was afraid of going into the real hoods. Because he assumes the worst of us. Just proves that even though you may sound knowledgeable with your extended vocabulary you can still be ignorant in so many other ways.
He should see the Townsend area and warner
Should’ve gone through Jackson and 5th street
I live in Huntington Beach. I drive my 2019 Range Rover often through those same streets you filmed visiting my Vietnamese friends. I’ve never had any issues in these WORKING CLASS neighborhoods. Can it be my 6/2 athletic build, half French (white) half Pac Islander physical features or is it the fact that I show respect to the people living in those areas the reason I’ve never had issue? I believe it’s how you treat people that determines your experiences in Santa Ana…..
Car thieves don’t like European cars. They like to steal 90s Japanese Honda Cars like Civic Hatches and Integras.
Park your 2019 Range Rover outside, you’d see it again flawless the next day whereas a 1992 Honda civic hatch and it’s gone in a heartbeat.
As someone that grew up in east LA, Orange County is Disneyland when compared. Even Santa Ana and Anaheim ain’t bad like everyone claims.
Well yeah when you compare it to east LA than yeah. LA is huge. Santa Ana is tiny.
Exactly.
Just moved to East Anaheim, and LOVE it. Moved to a cul de sac neighborhood of large ranch houses that are well maintained and feel very very safe.
Shit I live in the city of Orange, I couldn’t believe it when people that lived there claimed it was the “hood”. Hardly any existing crime in the neighborhood I live in and I’ve been here for 6 years and it’s a beautiful neighborhood
@@1javixD Santa Ana ain’t even dangerous, lot of y’all who live in gated communities be tripping over nothing, grow some heuvos.
This area does not look ghetto, at worst, every other house looks they have not remodeled in about 20 years. Ghetto for Orange County is a house that is not a custom made house with atleast one expensive car in the driveway
it’s gentrified in OC foos still gettin shot tho from Fullerton down to Santa Ana don’t get it twisted lol
This guy didn’t go to the bad parts of Santa Ana.
This video is misleading he showed middle class houses that are most likely owned by Asians or white people.
Yea he aint in no Bristol or Beach blv at night time he playing it safe😂
You did a great job making it look dangerous with the filter and background sound, but honestly to me it looks very clean, just an average US city; if this is bad to you I recommend you not to put a foot in east Los Angeles, Oakland, Tenderloin SF, Detroit or South Beach Fl. ..hmm…. I’m not really able to decode the meaning of this vid, but I’m suspecting.
east la really isn’t that bad either, been there countless times
He didn't even drive thru the worst parts of Santa Ana go to Raitt and Mcfadden, Standard and Edinger , El Savador Park, Harbor and 1st all those areas are more active then where u went thru
This is the worst crime wise
Totally agree. In fact where he went there wasn't even gang guard on the houses. It was actually one of the better kept neighborhoods in SA. Well, for those of us who live in OC, we know where to avoid. 😁
Right at edinger from other side that goes to fountain valley becoming pretty nice because I use to know someone kid own a house down there and backyard was big asf fit a lot of people at the time I was there was a party of something sadly the lady just pass away and the house is either rented out or already sold
I grew up on harbor and 1st back In the 90s haha
I had a business at Edinger and Standard for decades. I even lived on Minnie St until a certain point. I knew many people in the area and still good friends with a few who live in the 'red circle'. We still do children community events like dia de los ninos, walk the neighborhood and give out invites. We do get word to any gangs what we're doing and never a problem. Yes, there's crime but I never thought it the worst part of the county either.
I'm from England, this reminded me I haven't been back to California since I was 15 years old. God looking at this just pinged so many emotional memories for me, the beautiful wide streets, detatched houses, no traffic at all. This reminds me of ET and Back to the future looking at all these neighbourhoods. And as you were driving around, wow it's cold and nearly december here, but I could taste the sweet taste of the heat in the Californian air. The musk of all those trees lining the streets. The beautiful warmth basking everything around you. Jesus christ I know California is going through a rough patch right now, but it's a beautiful place. The sounds, the positivity, the food, the people. Driving around and getting whatever you want, the feeling of freedom and protection. It's a kind of Magic to drive and walk through California. So few people, some much to do, that air in your lungs, desert mixed with smog and pine and heat. What a fucking state.
Lol it's changed bro
you could write a book. You have a Poetic style.
@@NickJohnson I like your videos alot. Drawing attention to the deprivation in some parts of the US is important.
You said it. California is magical.
idk about the people imo ppl here suck
This video made my day. I used to stay at the end of the video. Bring back a lot of memories 😢left when I was 15 now I’m 34 😭I keep having dreams going down 1st thru la cuatro. Miss my hometown. I stay in Michigan now 🤦♂️
This video is problematic and tone deaf. It equates working class with “worst parts”. It is borderline elitism. There are actual neglect/dilapidated neighborhoods, or, as you would say, “worst parts” in Santa Ana and other parts of Orange County. Why didn’t you go to those? Then again, someone else might say the “worst parts” are those neighborhoods in Irvine and elsewhere with all those cookie cutter neighborhoods. All looking the same. All beige and boring with no character or personality. Truly awful.
That's an opinion
@@NickJohnson it’s irresponsible
Totally agree. I grew up in Santa Ana in the 70s and 80s. The track home cookie cutter housing development push south into Irvine is hideous. I went to Foothill High School and Santa Ana High School. I remember huge areas of agriculture between Santa Ana and Irvine. Now it’s all one big housing development for miles and miles. Hell, I remember going to concerts at Irvine Meadows. It seemed like the middle of no where. My parents still live in their modest home in Santa Ana in a beautiful neighborhood that has very nice size manicured lawns. The older homes have way more lot square footage and space between neighbors than the fancy cookie cutters piled on top of each other to the south of it. No character, no uniqueness.
Thank you! This video was trash. All it did for me was give me nostalgia about the neighborhood where i grew up.
Thank you. I am not crazy of production homes. These are unique and I bet the neighbor's homes don't look exactly the same. Lo
I go quite often to Santa Ana. Feels much safer than LA.
Oh yeah totally safer than LA. It’s ghetto and dirty but not quite as LA.
@lidia Davidson Sure thing, numb nuts.....
Man that camp homeless encampment area was off the chain
I’ve noticed a lot more homeless in Santa Ana. It makes me sad to see but living in OC, it’s not that bad. Every city has its good and bad.
Preach! I always feel a sigh of relief when I'm traveling down the 5 freeway and see Santa Ana on the billboards after a night out in LA
I lived in south county most my life, then spent 2 years in Vegas, i used to think Santa Ana was hard… there’s not one hard part of Orange County no matter how hard they try. You just can’t match the danger of other metro areas to the safe orange curtained Orange County, it really isn’t real life, which is why I’m moving back
Santa Ana’s ghetto is paradise compared to the Central Valley
Nah bruh not at all
Yup lol, just moved from Long Beach to Fresno and it was the biggest mistake! Thinking about moving to Clovis just a door over.
@@lukesmith981 i would check out Kingsburg. Beautiful place. Not far from anything. it has nice breeze too during the summer. Homes are going up in price so dont hesitate if you find something you like
Yup
@@lukesmith981 West Side Fresno. You'll swear you're in a 4th world country!
I’d love to be able to afford one of those cute little Spanish style homes with mature landscapes! I don’t see scary, just middle class??!?
Omg no. Go to Costa Mesa. Neighbors are rude and not friendly. All you hear is sirens at night and gun shots.
Its not scary! this is just a false advertisement,
@@1javixD haha Costa Mesa
Those fully remodeled 1920's Spanish style homes with lush lawns you speak of start at $1,000,000+ now. They are charming indeed tho. You may not be able to afford one put you can stay in one, there is currently an airb&b listing of one in santa ana's higher-end neighborhoods
As someone who’s middle class I’m not buying a home in Santa Ana 🤣🤣🤣
I was raised on a street called Santa Ana. But that’s in Fresno. Do a video on bad hoods and come be my guest. I’ll show you what is really awful
Still looks better than poor areas in AL, SC, MS KY, WV
True
probably because it is
Violent all over ca though. Big city but u still feel lonely.
everyone talks negatively about california yet thousands come here all over the country just to live here despite the rising housing prices, people can bash over california all they want but the number of people coming here everyday don't lie to how great it is being here.
@@synecdoche8783 I love California myself but I just don’t like bullshit laws other than I wouldn’t leave
So blessed in comparison to other parts of the world.
Born and raised, 56 years. Growing up in Santa Ana I would agree on the rapid rise of Hispanic families however all the folks I’ve encountered are hard working, honest individuals. Crime exist everywhere and trouble will find you if you go looking for it. Have not experienced any of that and I feel more than safe walking in my neighborhood.
It looks clean and orderly, though aged. It looks much better than many other cities.
Exactly,dude I don't get this mini doc he doing.He acting like he driving thru area that looks like skid row.
I've lived in Santa Ana since the 80s, this video actually makes me see how nice Santa Ana actually looks. As any other booming city, we have overpopulation (which affects parking and how city services respond etc) but we are also seeing the prices of houses have an exponential growth. People want to live in Santa Ana. Something worth mentioning is the homeless population being attributed to the other cities in the County not taking responsibility for their own. Just because the city is comprised of a lower socioeconomic group, does not mean that the rest of the County should just dump their homeless to our city. When I had the decision to either buy a house in Santa Ana or move, I chose to stay here. If Santa Ana scares you, then you need to go out more often.
I was raised in Santa Ana and I grew up just fine! Saying that they are poorest residence is not ok. Most of us grew happy here!
F*** Santa Ana it’s too ghetto
Newport and Costa Mesa > Santa Ana
I grew up happy in Santa Ana in the 1980s 😁
Pfft. Anyone who describes Anaheim as “dangerous” needs to get out of the house more often. It’s only “dangerous” if you grew up in Orange or Yorba Linda.
I grew up in Huntington beach been all over Anaheim, Santa Ana, Long Beach and LA at all times of the day and night. It's only dangerous if you cant handle yourself and your scared of your shadow. I once got beaten up in one of the richest neighborhoods in Orange County , Balboa Island. So it dont matter what neighborhood your in rich or poor there are thugs everywhere . ya just dont see them in the richer neighborhoods but they are there.
I really enjoyed this video, as I lived in Santa Ana most of the 90's. I'm going to disagree with you about S.A. getting worse, its getting better.I lived about five years off of McFadden close to Harbor which is not bad at all.When a house would go up for sale,every one was bought by Asian folks. Mostly Vietnamese, but also Philipino or Korean. These people would not buy in a dangerous place. I live in Rosarito Beach in Baja the last five years. It was good to see S.A again.
Totally agree! Maybe they need to revamp statistics. Hispanics and Latinos are hard honest working people.
My cousin's house is on McFadden and Harbor. We use to walk to Cameron's and McDonald's all the time when we were younger. Til this day, I still go the Walmart and Northgate on that corner. Whenever I'm in the mood for real Mexican food....it'll always be Santana, hands down!
Such a pleasure to know what I could perhaps get into before I go. Nick thanks so much. All, let’s get him to 1 mill subbs! Spread the word
You apparently don’t know Santa Ana that well you might want to Google floral Park in Santa Ana where most homes are in the million range and up.🤔
Read the title
@@NickJohnson yes one sided
Yes “you drove to the worst part” of oc and this is “what you saw”
Love Santa Ana, come eat there one day, and meet the students from SAC, then you’ll see it’s hard working people with amazing talents, and that’s exactly what the OC is all about.....
Couldn’t agree with you anymore!
Honestly I was born in Anaheim Hills lived in Brea and Huntington Beach moved to Houston TX and I’ll be honest Santa Ana is a Godsend compared to the neighborhoods in Houston TX been to St Louis and Tulsa, OK mostly white areas that are in dire economic shape and not so safe, not to mention Birmingham Alabama the narratator needs to get out more he’ll appreciate OC the good and not so affluent because or once you step into black neighborhoods or distressed white suburbs of let’s say Detroit or different parts of America you’ll clearly see Mexicans in a whole new light but nevertheless keep at it. I seriously carry concealed anytime I travel anywhere deep in America and only where my Texas LTC license is accepted!
Best Mexican food North of the frontera: El Toro Carneceria - worth dying for. Next door, they'll give you a bag of limes and a bag of salt for your Tequila order.
Taco Bell is better
@@GHOST_M3RK yea it's better if you don't care for food quality and want to try fake tacos
@@J8den nah Taco Bell just better in general
The streets look clean and well maintained, same with the sidewalks. I would not mind walking during the day over there and have some genuine Mexican food in one of those restaurants.
Exactly.
AVILA'S EL RANCHITO, Santa Ana - 2201 E 1st St it's my childhood family celebration go to..
We’re a proud and hard working people no matter how much we make we always strive to be great
el vaquero has really good quesabirria try it out sometime
@@musoehcrwas born in Santa Ana left when I was a year old or so I would love to visit where I was born my parents are from El Salvador and migrated to Santa ana
Lived here all my life he is exaggerating the danger of Santa Ana... sure there's some crime in Santa Ana also in Anaheim but it's generally safe especially in the day you just have to be aware of your surroundings don't make yourself a target
The sad part is that the average price of a house in Santa Ana is 700 thousand dollars. Good luck finding a house under 300 thousand dollars
right. He's not going to find a house under 400K in Santa Ana. Maybe 2BR condo.
Exactly,Dude is extremely naive.
Yup a 5 bed 5 bath is for sale which I love to buy but cost 2.1m in Santa Ana but nicer neighborhood that was freshly built
What’s sad is the poor people who own this homes bought their house at around 200-300k and now they tripled in value
Theirs no way the people that live here would be able to afford it in current prices as many bought their homes 20/30 years ago
Looks nice to me but i live in Detroit now.
Worst place I ever saw lol empty buildings Detroit or Chicago take the cake for ugliest city
@@albertoacosta6788 Portland is far more than Detroit nowadays.
@@JesusChrist2000BC haven’t been to Portland since 2016 but I don’t disagree I’m sure it gotten worse but you have Denver homes there because the inflated fake market they have there soy boys and leftist women want new upgraded homes
@@albertoacosta6788 downtowns are not that ugly and those are the city so
Leave it to a white guy accustomed to wasp areas to label something different bad. There’s worse parts of the OC that aren’t Santa Ana.
Dude those aren’t the worst neighborhoods, you need to get out more. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 but hey I’m glad you survived 😂😂
"It's getting worse.." haha. Not if you ask a local. It's getting better.
Yes they love it
I grew up in the ghetto part of Santa Ana. I’m talking low income housing, gangs, Minnie street. It was pretty bad, but since then 10 years have passed. It really has gotten better. Now I live border line SantaAna in a luxury apartment. We are working hard now to own our own home IN SANTA ANA. I also work in a school in the floral park neighborhood which is likewise very beautiful. Santa Ana is a beautiful city and I appreciate it’s rich history and culture. I would like to stay here and although I agree that what you highlighted is a poor area, what I’m arguing is that it truly has gotten better. Trust me 😅
Yeah since they started taxing legal marijuana. Until then it was getting progressively worse.
lmao ong
It’s ghetto ghetto worse every year. I grew up there. There’s more graffiti more gun shots at night. More homeless. People pooping in public. Sometimes it looks like a bird world country.
I was raised in OC from 1968-1983., When there were orange groves which are now homes, buildings. I loved the old days, overly expensive now.
I've lived in Santa Ana most of my life and it saddens me that it's considered a bad place. I love living here and have never really had as many negative experiences compared to when I lived in Anaheim for 6 months. I saw people get stabbed to death in my gated complex, but I never saw anything like that in SA.
Yeah Anaheim is definitely worst than SA and it seems like SA has progressed a bit but we still have bad politicians
This guys is a fool you don’t have to take his opinion into consideration
@@locomotive5A hell no it isnt anaheim is pure whites
@@santaanahst3867 haha but you're talking about specific parts I would say most parts have more hispanic people.
I actually almost got stabbed by a homeless guy in santa ana sense I had to go to work there at a landscape company called Landcare it would start at 7 in the morning so around 5 I'd take the bus there and as I was walking there I saw a homeless man looked kinda scary I ran from him and saw he had a knife , I met up with my landscaper friends there and they scared him away , but def dangerious in the morning also when I eventually got my car I would park at the same job and area my friends were this time a bit earlier sense I wanted some sleep some homeless guy tried breaking into my car had to honk the horn to scare him off , so in the morning def santa ana is dangerious
I got a degree from Santa Ana college back in the 90's. I believe it looks better now than back then.
I grew up in the neighborhood shown in this video. In the late 70's and early 80's it looked much worse. The 1100 sq ft home I grew up is now worth $600K. You don't let that kind of asset fall into disrepair. They are proud of their homes, and it shows.
Is Santa Anna safe place or not ?
I got admission in Santa Anna college for my degree 🙄, can you please help me to know something about Santa Anna ?
@@anandhbabu18 Santa has its methamphetamine issues and chronic homeless community.But as you can see where do is driving thru it basically look like that.His definition of bad is personal.
It almost seems like if the neighborhood is not his skin complexion, it’s a bad neighborhood. It may be more culture shock for him and he attributes that to bad neighborhood. As this neighborhood was pretty clean, especially for a larger populated city.
So question, before Santa Ana was mostly all whites, at first wasn’t it mostly all Mexican before whites settled there?
Before it was a white suburb, it was basically farmland with pockets of indigenous/Spanish/Mexican owners. The entirety of OC used to be strawberry and citrus fields. Santa Ana was pretty much the hub because it’s where the courthouse and stuff were. It wasn’t until after WWII when the suburbanization kicked up, though even towards the 1990s there was still tons of empty land.
@@SP-xy7yh thank you for that History. I have to educate myself on the history of California, I love it so much and the culture.
Thank you!! Yes!! And if these other dumb rich cities would keep their transients in their own city.... Santa Ana would not be so bad... but no they come and drop them off here.
it was spanish from San Clemente to San Francisco hence all the cities had spanish surnames
@@hildaprado5413
Have literally seen vans from other cities dropping off homeless here.
I''ll pass on California but seemed really nice for a Poor Area.
@My Earth Exactly! I live in this *ghetto gangster city" and I pay $1,300/month for a one bedroom apartment. And that's cheap compared to others areas. Living in santa ana is actually pricey.
@Fungus Amongus Yeah it sucks being labeled the "ghetto" of orange county. When in reality, SA is considered OC's downtown. This video doesn't talk about "Floral Park" the homes there average at $1 million. He didn't talk about "French Park" some beautiful original Victorian houses. We have million dollar flats by the train station. Why would people pay millions to live with gangsters? He never even went through downtown. Which I believe he says he was in the video. He just chose a alleyway and a "bad" neighborhood and based everything from that. It's even funnier that there's neighborhoods that are even worse then what he showcased. Absolutely no research at all. This guy gets a 4/10
The average income is 60000 which is really high for the US but in surrounding cities the average income is at least $100000
Yeah because everybody has their fucking teethssss
@@MrOGsonic How so? Idk where you live, but even in really bad areas the cheapest apartment is like 1500 to 1600 for one bedroom.
The easiest way I can put it is that Santa Ana is a stronghold in Orange County for the working class. It's funny because I feel like all the hispanic families such as mine never really got in tune with getting involved with the community or invloved in school activity. All our parents know is work. I'm sure the district knows this. Regardless somehow it feels like home misguided youth is why i feel our beautiful city ended up in a video like this. Growing up alot of young people my age were prideful but full of wasted potential with no one to tell them. Santa Ana will always be my home.
Tbh, it looked just fine to me. Just another boring SoCal suburban sprawl. Didn’t see even 1 graffiti?....
i did see one.. When he was driving down what looked like an alleyway. But was a street. I guess. Looked like i definitely saw one on a fence. Which still isnt bad.
Orange county is known to buff graffiti to keep its image as a nice place
@@Omw2fyb true sometimes I’ll see tagging and the next day it’s already gone
They've must have been saving some of that spraypaint for N. Main St.--saw a Bank of America there covered with bubble letter graffiti, almost as bad as some of the overpasses on the 710.
Yeah, they paint over graf right away in SA. I remember in school they would have anti graf videos.
THIS, compared with the badlands of Baton Rouge, LA looks like Disney Land.
I’m an LSU student and I support this message.
@@sethbearry440 Hi Seth! LSU fan here, too. Small world! Happy Thanksgiving.
Baton Rouge has extremes in both directions. The worst parts of Baton Rouge are slightly worse than the worst parts of New Orleans. There's just more of it in New Orleans.
For the OC it's bad but yeah, it's average for all big cities.
@@NickJohnson Hi Nick! One day you ought to drive through New Orleans...it is a very interesting and historical city...The old Garden District uptown is gorgeous! Well, it would have more national interest than Baton Rouge would have. The 2 cities are not far apart geographically but are very different. Shreveport, LA does not even seem remotely like either one of them. Louisiana has many regions and culturally diverse areas. Nick, I love your videos.
Is this an attempt at satire? I see well maintained homes, well maintained lawns, clean streets, well maintained landscaping and lots of trees. Looking at the cars, while not the latest models, I see well maintained vehicles, and in good shape for being 10-15 years old. I didn’t hear one police siren or a helicopter during the filming of this video. Very dramatic.
Foreal bro,lmao. I’m from the east coast, just moved to Buena Park and drive around there alot. This dude has clearly never been to bad neighborhoods if he thinks Santa Ana is bad.
That’s the point. Orange County is so nice they call it the “bubble” it’s one of the safer areas in the country and this is what it’s lowest income area looks like
As a long past X-Californian. I'm sorry, this looks like a basic middle class working neighborhood. Where are the "for sale" signs, where are the barred windows, street corner hang-outs? I wouldn't live in CA on my worst day again but really???
Because the worst parts of Orange County are like the decent parts of Los Angeles county.
Damm I’ve never seen my city look so beautiful 😻 ❤️
this ong tho
13:29 I used to live in the two story house behind Kitchen Floors on the side of McFadden and in the cul de sac. It was with a very nice family, who I rented a room from for a year. I never had any problems with the family or anyone in the neighborhood around us. It was the first time living away from my family and it was a time in my life that made me feel happy and thankful. I am proud to have lived in the Santa Ana community and are grateful for all the hardworking people who make it what it is today.
It’s my neighborhood!! I love this place, it may be low income but it’s nothing but hardworking people.
He said people might earn around 24,000 dollars a year. My dad who's a hispanic earns 87,000 a year and i live in this city. And im also 11 years old if you want to live somewhere decent come to Santa ana.
He said the average. Which is true. Your dad is not the average then. My dad used to earn a lot more than the average too.
All I saw when watching this video where nice neighborhood, not poor neighborhood. I have lived in this city for over 50 yrs. IDK how you can drive down Santa Ana's streets and neighbors and refer to them as poor.
A Los Angeles native, my father moved my mother and I to OC in 1965 following the Watts Riots. I grew up in Fullerton, and served as a cop while in college. I went back to LA to finish my education and immediately came back after attempting to work there. LA was crappy even in the 1980's.
Bottom line: With the exception of the cities of Beverly Hills, San Marino and Burbank, the worst parts of OC beat out the best out the best parts of LA County hands down! I can walk down the street in Santa Ana, Westminster or Garbage Grove and feel completely safe. However, once in a while I need to chase out nutcase homeless at night lounging around my office in Newport Beach. I carry a frying pan with me to show them I mean business instead of a nightstick. Thankfully, I have never had to use the frying pan in anger or self defense.
You go Alex!! 🍳
What's your beef with GG? Put your dukes up
Anyone else from Australia here? 🇦🇺
The residential streets were giving me Western Sydney vibes 😂 Looked pretty clean and tidy though compared to some of our worst suburbs.
They have more street gangs in Orange County though despite the general tidy appearance
I travel some. This representation is incorrect for the most part with a twist of culturally deficiency. This city is the center of OC, work, freeways, best food. Houses are not cheap... The only problem, not enough social and economic power, until recently... Homeless not worse than what I've seen in LA, Washington, San Diego, Boston, Seattle and small cities.
This is right at the edge of my service territory, during bad weather have been over there many times. Most of the people you meet here are much nicer, more helpful, pleasant and understanding to deal with than the richer areas of the O.C., especially the new parts of Yorba Linda. Be safe.
It really doesn’t look that bad, Palm Trees are pretty, I’m from Ft. Worth Tx and we don’t have Palm Trees, California is on my bucket list though 😊
If you ever want to come you're more than welcome I could be your tourist guide
It’s a great County! Way better than Los Angeles!
It's on your bucket list because you watch too many you tube videos. I would rather be In california than ugly hot disgusting Texas
If you like homelessness , a Governor that is being recalled: 1.9 million signatures.
Ft. Worth has hoods. that 1 spot was rated highest death rate capitol crime for a couple years a few miles from the old toys r us near ridgemar mall opposite side of the 30 by the 7 eleven. then also the eastside, stop6
Santa Ana is home to a lot of Americans were not white, but we are Americans. We are also proud of our Mexican heritage and our fellow hard-working immigrants in our city. With out them Santa Ana wouldn't be what it is today.
This is the nice part of “Santana” lol. West Anacrime, Stanton, La Habra, and some of Buena Park got more of a hood vibe but all is like Heaven compared to Long Beach and LA
Agreed... I used to drive down beach and ball to get to work and would be impressed to see the prostitutes up and working at 7am.
La Habra isn't really hood it's just mostly run down, I've never felt unsafe there
It’s all nice compared to somewhere shittier. It all has to do with perspective I guess
I was thinking the same! I'm a property manager in LB, Santa Ana is not bad at all.
Truth
Am I missing something? These places look like normal, comfortable suburbia. The houses and yards are well kept, there’s zero evidence of neglect from what I saw; no derelict cars, no rubbish strewn about the place.
I grew up in Orange county, I've worked in and visited Santa Ana hundreds of times. Santa Ana and its residents are awesome and the beating cultural heart of orange county. Even post covid Santa Ana has a vibrant downtown. I was just up there today for lunch at my favorite roadside taqueria.
I have lived in Santa Ana all my life and what you did in this video is talk crap about our city it's not a bad place i see alot of nationalities coming to visit S.A.these people are hard working and keep there homes well maintained.
Ok
Santa Ana is a bad place indeed. He isn't talking poorly about it. It's the mere truth. The houses are not well kept once you take a closer look. Everytime I pass by there it looks like mere trash, mattresses are left outside, packed cars in one house etc...its a horrible looking place.
@@NickJohnson all you have to say is OKAY you're just a hustler trying to make some coin with some cheap easy jabs at a really beautiful city full of a diverse array of people. Santa Ana has some beautiful history and to say "OK" to someone's vehement reply calling you out on trying to paint a city a bad way for some silly youtube views shows you have no desire to learn about other cultures and have respect for those that don't look like you. Shame on you.
Born and raised in Santa Ana and I can tell you there are many things that happen at night. driving through the day will not have anything
Homie put some sad ambient music over it.
Agree the grave
So I saw a Working class Hispanic neighborhoods. I saw no trash, no homeless encampments, no open air drug markets, no prostitutes. Not saying some of these may exist there, but it looked pretty good. BTW, I grew up there.
OC is strange, good right next to bad. All over the place. There are rough neighborhoods in Anaheim, Garden Grove, Fullerton, etc. But none of them are as bad as Los Angeles.
Where would you recommend an apartment for a couple to move to in oc? My bf and I were originally considering Anaheim or Fullerton, but in the comments I’ve seen Anaheim nicknamed anacrime which is pretty discouraging. I want to find an apartment that’s in a non rundown area and my budget is 2k a month for a 1b and I research crime stats but it’s not the only factor. It would be nice to find an apartment that’s in more of a suburb area. Any advice is appreciated!
Orange, CA
Having grown up in OC, I once agreed with you about Santa Ana.
However, I moved to the Bay Area and saw what true poverty and crime look like. Once I got this perspective, I never viewed Santa Ana the same way. It is much nicer than other parts of LA or SF.
Same. I went to SF for the first time to visit my sister who was attending the University of San Francisco at the time. I made the mistake of unknowingly walking into what I would later find out was Tenderloin neighborhood! I even spent the night in a motel close there 😨😨😨 omg never again. I was not able to sleep and couldn't wait for it to be morning so I could return back to my Santa Ana neighborhood.
I’ve lived in Santa Ana off and on in the good parts and in the bad parts since the early 80s when I was a teenager. Nothing much has changed except for a more liberal government that allows for more crime to go unpunished. But the people that live in those houses and who work there are actually pretty CONSERVATIVE family oriented people who know more about loyalty to one another than most. If you’re going to measure the neighborhood by what it looks like or the type of rims people have on their cars, which is implied, that’s one standard. But the real way to measure the streets you drove is by how well the families that live there care for one another. Measure the degree of that against the clinical more shallow type of familia you might encounter in “nicer” areas and Santa Ana wins hands down.
Never had a problem with anyone in Santa Ana. As long as you give people respect, look them in the eye and are sincere, don’t be too aloof, even the most hard gangbangers are going to leave you alone.
Good to know
13:04 - how nice, there are people that pick up trash and dispose of it!
I always do! I detest litter! I'm a Nazi about it. A guy threw his paper cup out his window and when I was done with him he picked it up, apologized and said he'd never do it again!!
Recycling
They are recycling cans.
homes in the first half of the video look pretty decent and well kept
What is this? I see a nice, clean, well-kept older community here. You said "densely populated" early on... well, densely populated is a good thing. That's what you want in a city. That gives you street life and walkability. If you don't want that, go to a sterile, new suburb with endless tract houses and huge garages carefully arranged in cul-de-sacs. It's evident here that Santa Ana actually has a historic downtown, which is rare in Southern California jurisdictions. And it looks walkable and attractive... it looks like there is rejuvenation going on. But I'm originally from Detroit, so I have a different paradigm as to what is "the hood." Where are the bombed-out buildings, and the vast acres of weed-infested vacant lots? Where are the structures stripped of metal plumbing and HVAC ducting for scrap? Where are the piles of garbage? There's not much graffiti or tagging evident in this video either. I see mowed lawns, trimmed shrubbery, fresh paint. Quaint homes from the 1920s-1950s era. Even the alleys here are pretty clean. Wait, I see a couple (probably homeless) people with carts later in the video, and there's a discount store and a donut shop... whoa... but don't all communities have those things? (Shrug) Sorry... these so-called "hoods" are not bad by any stretch of the imagination. You must come from a really bland, sheltered suburban background. I think I want to move to Santa Ana.
Very clean compared to London UK, which is a dirty, dirty dump.👍
There are some really cool pre-ww2 bungalows in Santa Ana. It’s actually a pretty cool area. -OC resident
i actually live in one! oc houses are honestly amazing in a lot of north oc and this guy makes it seem like a joke :/
Yes. All those updated remodeled 50s homes go for 700k+
Nick Johnson wrong!! It has problems but not like Los Angeles or San Bernardino. It can get worse, if the people in Santa don’t fight to keep the drugs and homeless problems out of their communities.
The worst part of OC, CA looks like the nice part of RVA.....
Look great honestly 😂
Yeah that was the point ArmyRetGuy
@@NickJohnson I figured as much lol
You get a lot of rich white people complaining
@@Someonesaidthis That might be worse than being in the ghetto lol.