First of all, please know what you're talking about when, posting such things. You were NOT in the "Camp Curtin area of Harrisburg. You were in the Allison Hill section. Yes, I agree that, certain parts Harrisburg look AWFUL & the crime is RIDICULOUS. I grew up in Harrisburg, was raised on 2400 block of Reel Street. We had a beautiful tree lined street. There were pretty lawns & some yards like, ours had pretty hydrangea bushes. Mostly all of the residents were homeowners & two parent families. Harrisburg didn't start to go downhill until the drug scene took over. For outsiders looking in, Harrisburg isn't as bad as it's being made out to be. There are great people here trying to make our city better instead of looking for, everything that's wrong. There are beautiful neighborhoods here. You don't have to leave the city to, find a great place to, live here. Yes, Harrisburg desperately needs help. It also meeds to be loved back to make it a better city. We need people in office that, actually care about the WHOLE city & not the affluent & influential.
@@HansTyndale It's the same all over PA. I worked for 10 years for a state representative from Pittsburgh, and 15 years for state representatives and a state Senator from Philly, and I've lived in Harrisburg all my life.
really, it wasn't drugs darlin' i moved to harrisburg in 1976 and it was a shithole then and its only gotten three times worse. keep pretending and bullshitting yourselves as to the real reason
Perfectly stated. To me, it looks like a decent residential neighborhood that needs a compassionate economic infusion by way of jobs, trade schools & small business assistance. ❤😊
1 - Welcome to Harrisburg, it's nice to have you. 2 - That's not Camp Curtain, that's Allison Hill. 3 - Selective attention changes the way you perceive a place. If you seek out a steaming turd, you're probably going to find a steaming turd. It seems you already decided the narrative of Harrisburg before you arrived. You missed many wonderful places and people. 4 - We have many challenges and it's not paradise. 5 - Grass is always greener. 6 - I have a cat 😺 7 - I will now like my own comment.
Thank you! The person who posted this video clearly just wanted to find blight which we have but the city is very safe. Just because someone can't afford to fix up their house doesn't mean they are bad 🙄
Yes, this is the same neighborhood as the first video. It's not camp curtin. It's still 80% Allison Hill. Not bad considering they redlined this city for decades. Heck back in 2006 I was told by Commerce Bank that they didn't lend in the city of Harrisburg due to their Incinerator Problem. How could people refinance their mortgage if the local banks weren't investing in the area? It's sad but this happened by design not by accident.
And I at age 41 can tell you the decline from the early 80's to today is unbelievably depressing and drastic Any Capital city of any State or Commonwealth that is as bad across the board as Harrisburg should seriously be reconsidering what they believe is an acceptable level of corruption in government because they show up to this disgrace daily and it doesn't bother them one bit that it's a hellhole face the facts
@@bigvalley4987 uhm not so quick it's not safe at all and no one is making judgements about people not being able to fix their homes Harrisburg is dangerous and it's only getting worse
Harrisburg born and raised here. I recognize all these different spots around the city. Honestly despite all the flaws Harrisburg has I love the city and it’s people, most people are very friendly. Feel free to ask any questions about Harrisburg if you have any. I also agree with the comments that say they’re only showing the worst parts of the city and it gives a false image
hey . hii. i m from indian. i am staying here for one month in Allison hill, de street with my husband.people said that its not a safe place.Isn't.shoild be leave this place.
@@meenakshisavita7240 Hello Meenakshi, welcome to the United States and to Harrisburg. Allison Hill is the most unsafe part of the city, but also the part with the cheapest rent. There are a lot of other parts of the city that are better, I would move off Allison hill and into downtown, midtown, or uptown. If you have kids, I would move outside of the city because the schools in the city are not good and the ones outside are much better.
It seems like about 3 mile outside of every center city is blighted . All the cities are rotting and decomposing and it like no one in power in any city cares. America is dying a steady slow death. Since nonthing is made in America anymore there are fewer jobs. With education on a steady decline and city crime on a rapid increase. America can’t last many more years. God Bless America because we need it.
This is my hometown born and raised. Like any city it has it's goods and its bad parts. I can say it's very rundown in the city. But in the burbs you will find more beautiful tree lined area's. This video is very deceptive because he is not driving on major streets. He's in alleys and side streets. The city has very large and affordable homes. The crime is high but you can get a job and be on your feet rather quickly. This also looks like a very dreary day. It looks and feels very different in the summer months. Bottom line it needs some work but hey what city doesn't.
@@traincore1955 With all the almost daily shootings in York, PA......the folks there have NO ROOM to comment on Harrisburg. York isn't even as large as Harrisburg is, population wise.
@@CindieLee1953 I'm not saying York isn't comparable to Harrisburg but it's a lot worse there compared to York despite the population... not that for a capital city that Harrisburg is big by any means. That being said, I've left Pennsylvania years ago. I only go back to see my mom and that's it. I could never live my life there.
I’ll tell you what’s happened to Harrisburg (and countless other cities like it): the mass exodus of city planners, and their replacement by “community organizers.” If you strip away the add-on structures and cheap façades, you’ll find a metropolis that people were once proud of. Beneath the spray paint and plywood, you’ll find ornate building structures which show that they were designed and constructed by skilled artisans for a proud people that took “ownership” of their neighborhoods. If a neighborhood displays a decline, it’s reflective of the human decline behind it. One more thing that I’ve mentioned before: the clearest sign of a declining culture is the absence of mothers with their infants. If you don’t see them, you’re in a death trap … get the hell out of there ASAP.
YOU ARE SPOT-ON!! GENERATIONS OF COLLECTING WELFARE INSTEAD OF WORKING!! IT'S A DARN SHAME! BUT, IT'S WAY TOO LATE IN THE GAME! THESE PLACES ARE GONE AND THEY'RE NEVER COMING BACK UNLESS MANUFACTURING KOBS ARE CREATED! AND, WILL ANYONE EVEN WORK THOSE JOBS IF THEY WERE TO BE?
Never understood how all the blame is put on the people who don't even own the property. I bet majority of the people who lives in this neighborhood are renters. What does welfare have to do with a landlord keeping up there property?
I live in another part of PA, near Philly. You think Harrisburg is bad. You should see Trenton the Captial of NJ across the river from Philly. This would be perfect for an episode of dashboard tours.
South Philly is Very interesting, but the smell of Garbage in May near the Wal-Mart was horrible and we didn't go out at night as my forever friend since we were Military Wives during the Viet Nam War didn't think it Good and she had grown up in West Philadelphia with her Dad was in the US Navy ⚓😇🎆✨
Would Love to see the City at night sometime later on; i did see an omnious-looking Night Club off to the big parking lot? way left & before the Wal-Mart with Gangster cars right out of The Godfather 😎
BS. He had do his best to find bad areas. I can take you around the same general areas and you'll see nice houses, yards and clean streets. It's easy to find ugly when you are looking for it and have an audience who needs to have something to look down on.
I think what he's trying to say is if he would of went 2 streets down in the camp curtain neighborhood it looks totally different uptown area actually has more clean area then dirty and run down I live there so I know
@@andrewsmith5159 I noticed he did a lot of alley crawling to avoid the nicer blocks. He also opened on the hill at the horse trough and took the worst route to get uptown
There are quite a few areas that look just like you show, but there are of course also many others, and noteably there are a few who are slowly coming back a bit. The city is totally bankrupt (mis-management mostly), but also all the corporations moving out to the suburbs, draining the city of much needed capital. So they cannot do much. They invested a bit into improvements on Third street, and I hope they continue by turning the square in front of Midtown bookstore into a much needed downtown square area, instead of the forelorn area it is now. It looks like that is the direction they are going, and that would be really good for this city. Put a few restaurants, etc on the two sides that have nothing useful, and you can make that a downtown hangout. But yes, there are a lot of rundown areas to go still in Harrisburg. But finally, I do feel that it is at least moving in the right direction again. Hope it continues.
The biggest drain on Harrisburg is the State Capitol. They have so much land downtown but pay no taxes to the city. So all that space taken up by State buildings can't be other business or homes that pay taxes. And all those commuters that drive on city streets to work at the Capitol don't pay any taxes to the city.
It's like any old industrial area, the decent jobs that people came for where sent to Mexico or the cheapest Asian country of the day and the people are left behind.
There are actually a load of jobs in the area and very nice clean upscale neighborhoods in the uptown midtown area he just didn't drive through it also you can get a job paying 20 hourly just going to a temp agency you just have to want more for yourself
Born and raised in Harrisburg. 63 years old, and I find that its not WHERE you live and walk, it is HOW you live and walk. 1:: Mind your business and handle your business. 2:: Show respect. 3:: Dont act like a victim... street survival where ever you live.
NOT Camp Curtain in the pix. There was even a banner that said "Allison Hill". ALSO, I'm quite sure that if you go into declining neighborhoods, and drive down back alleys, any city will look like this.
I frequent Harrisburg often, and I traveled Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maryland, Idaho, California, Washington, and almost every else in the Us I can tell u Harrisburg is the Most safest out of anywhere , 👀 if think otherwise u might just be soft and sheltered..
7 shootings in one day for that whole year... I ve been in places where they get 20 shootings a day for a year ... 2 hrs away in Baltimore.... All in all I'll rather be right here in Harrisburg where it's safe
@@chameleonGemini8263 it was just one incident. And it wasnt in one year it was 7 shootings in 1 day in 2 weeks. Baltimore is even worse as is Chicago. You refuse to notice all they have in common and it's not poverty, because Appalachia has more poverty and no shootings
I'm only pointing out the fact Harrisburg is Pleasantville next to other places, I can almost guarantee those shootings were isolated and more importantly related to each other I say this because? ..in those other city's the crime rate is so high and anyone ( innocent,and random) could catch the grim reaper just by looking at someone wrong.. Harrisburg just does not carry that type of vibe,and the majority of the citizens are safe and they know it
It's a real shame what has happened to Harrisburg in the last couple of decades. I've lived there since '84 and my family has lived there all my life. I remember what it was like in the '70s when the steel mill was still running. Night and day.
@@HansTyndale no, but I normally hear about it. I do know that PENNDOT has a serious budget shortfall because of the lack of gas tax collected during Covid. I also heard registration and fees are going up, again. Regardless, if it passed I would think the news would have gotten ahold of it and it would be out.
I used to live in Lemoyne which borders Harrisburg. I actually liked living there. Would do my morning runs along the park that follows the river. Was kind of nice in that way.
Absolutely Lemoyne, Camp Hill there's a few nice area's that border Harrisburg but it's sad for the Capital to be like this it used to be beautiful and could be again
@@waltglow6396 it's not just about voting.. it's upholding southern tradition and beliefs. Politics is one part of what makes Southern people who we are.
I live close to Harrisburg and worked on the ambulance there. Camp curtin is not a real bad part of town . The worst is what they call on the hill. Cresent and 12th.
Across the river in Camp Hill, Lemoyne, Mechanicsburg, Gettysburg, Carlisle, all great places to live. Also east in or around Hershey. There's also great hiking in the area. There are some REALLY depressing little run down small towns though scattered around, and there really isn't a big university anywhere. You can get to Baltimore north nicer side or northwestern Washington DC in about an hour or so though.
@@davidgno yes there are some great places and beautiful scenery in this area, you just gotta stay away from Harrisburg and your good, but to me in a way that makes it an easier place to live. It's not like there's this and that specific street, it's literally just once you're across that bridge you're better off
I’m looking to move to PA next year. Is there any good cities? I know typically cities aren’t the best to live but I’d like more of a city. But a small city if that makes sense. I’m probably looking for something unrealistic lol.
@@cierraaaaaaaas The central area of Harrisburg between the bridges where it’s more gentrified is okay as far as city urban living. There are shootings in Harrisburg all the time though.
I’m a native of HBG. I agree. In the 1950’s the population was over 100K. White flight in the 60/70’s made a big impact. Now it like 40k still live there. I moved away 25 yrs ago.
@@Jacious I am a native, too, except my BLACK family didn't come from South Carolina.......my grandfather came to Steelton in the 1920's to work in the steel mill. From Virginia. In fact, I know very few BLACK people who live here who are originally from South Carolina. Where do you people get your information? And there are more than 40K people living in the city. If you are going to give out statistical information, could you PLEASE give out accurate information?
@@CindieLee1953 my point was the Great migration was from the south, Virginia, Georgia, etc. South Carolina was mentioned because the new Great migration is back to the south where the cities are new, the weather is better and there are lots of opportunities for better housing and employment. Just take a look at Greenville, what a great place for the new migration, and close to Atlanta.
You need to know what territory you talking bout..First off this is Not uptown. This is considered Allison Hill abd South side...This is The Hill Not Uptown...Talk facts which this is Not. Better know what your talking bout..Territory.
That is not the worse area in Harrisburg. You should check out Allison Hill anywhere around 15th - 17th ave between State & Derry.... also 1 blk above Cameron St off Market St ...
99% sure most of this video WAS the hill. Pretty sure this guy didn't ask a single local about the area before he filmed, either that or he just doesn't care lol
It's kinda crazy watching a video of Harrisburg lol I moved away at 18 and now live in NYC. I couldn't stand living in Harrisburg growing up, bc it was sooo boring. But, I visit probably once a month and it honestly isn't as bad as the video makes it look lol. I think you just showed the super run down parts no one ever goes to in the city. Uptown is getting better, but where you're at is on the hill. Thats the crazy part of town people avoid lol
All the bad neighborhoods you've mentioned, I looked them up and they are indeed really bad. I also see a direct correlation between that and the demographics.
Well when you enslave a people for 400 yrs then segregate then for another 100 yrs oh and after all that you redline them from fair housing and then create ghettos and projects what do you expect to happen, I guess that's all apart of ya get what you vote for right?
@@craighedrington5365 Is that an excuse for not picking up the trash on the streets? The government is not their Daddy, take care of where you live, nobody is coming to save you from yourself.
@@frankwhite2230 Your absolutely right, however there are groups like the YMCA that are in these neighborhoods, even people that don't live in the neighborhood making efforts to clean the streets
The last time I drove by Harrisburg a few years ago, looking from a road that was either PA 22, I-81 or I-83 (don't remember which), there seemed to be a whole neighborhood of not-particuarly-old homes that were boarded up. Looked like they were condemned. Does this sound familiar to anyone who knows Harrisburg far better than I do? What was going on with these homes?
Im pretty sure you were on 83 and yes I know what's going on that is south Allison hill the worst part of Harrisburg drugs homicides lack of motivation people just stop investing in that neighborhood the city is mainly focused uptown and midtown which is becoming very vibrant
Thanks Nick, Harrisburg has been subpar for a few years. They do seem to be trying to pick it up. I am very fortunate to live in Lancaster. It's beautiful here with great people and long history!!! Keep these great videos coming. Hope you have a wonderful day!!!
Just read an article today listing Harrisburg as one of the top ten happiest places to live in the US. I always assumed it was like Scranton or Wilkesbarre...but maybe not???
I lived in Harrisburg for 3 years..definitely rundown because of poor government management. Crime ridden? I don't think so..never had a problem with crime.
Spent almost three years in PA. Wouldn't live anywhere but the Main Line or Bucks County. Harrisburg is a dump. All the coal towns are dead. Centralia is on fire, literally.
Loss of middle-class manufacturing jobs, not maintaining a floor under wages, boosting shareholder value at the expense of workers, voting for candidates beholden to corporate lobbyist and rich donors - Why do you keep asking "What happened to..."?
As others have stated this is Allison Hill. I was born and raised in this section of the city from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. My father worked at the Bethlehem Steel Mill in Steelton and walked to and from his job. Every once in a while he would get a ride with a co worker. We walked everywhere even after public transportation came into being in the 1970’s. We were close enough to the downtown area where there were places to shop, eat and see movies.
Have lived in or around Harrisburg for a total of about 3-4 years of my life; born and raised in PA (and MD) before I moved to the west coast. I’m an addict and I have horrible memories of all my affairs in and around York, Lancaster, and Harrisburg. Infested with heroin, fentanyl, and drug overdoses. I can tell you from extensive amounts of personal experience. Absolutely desolate, dark, sad and grey places…you couldn’t pay me to move back to those cities. And btw Allison Hill or “the Hill” as we called it is by far the worst hood in HBG. I’m lucky I never got shot, stabbed, or robbed walking and driving around that god awful shithole at night. Also, idk why but ppl from this area always talk shit on it, until someone else does, and then they defend it?? Pennsylvanians are so weird. Glad I got out lol
Weird. I've lived ands worked in and around Harrisburg for over 25 years and I haven't taken any drugs. That's probably why I never felt the need to walk around Allison Hill or any other drug infested areas at night. I can understand your having bad memories here but don't blame the area. I don't mean to scare you but I heard there are drugs on the west coast too so be careful out there.
Video says he's in camp curtain area "uptown" all I saw was Allison Hill. If you're going to make negative videos of a city maybe you should be accurate.
We really are the state with cookie cutter cities. I live about 2-3 hours Northwest of Harrisburg and a lot of the cities up here look exactly like that.
Can't believe Nick came to my corner of the world. I live about 15 to 20 minutes from the area toured, but haven't been through that part of the city in years. Harrisburg has a lot of problems, but they are trying to gentrify it. But most people like myself who live in the suburbs of Harrisburg have no reason to go into the city unless that is where you work. Parking is a mess, and it's much easier to go to restaurants where parking is abundant. Except for going to baseball games, I can't tell you when was the last time I went into the city.
@@timothyheinz5693 animals? What is wrong with you? There’s a great church there in the thick of it that does wonderful things for the neighborhood. People aren’t animals. They are poor and trying to do better for themselves, they may be domestic violence survivors. They may be down on their luck.
You think Harrisburg is bad, try driving in downtown Allentown, Pa. I actually live outside of Allentown, but I avoid downtown area if possible. It has the PPL Center for events which I go to. But I will Uber there instead of driving through. Don't get me wrong, I love the area I live. Lehigh Valley has so much to offer for everyone. Great location .
I live five minutes away from Allentown. Downtown is bad but it’s at least... like alive. Try driving through Trenton. That’s like if Allentown had died and all that’s left is stragglers.
@@fluxmisdemeanor829 I agree, living 5 minutes away from Allentown ( by airport). It's not as bad as it was years ago, but walking through certain neighborhoods are very sketchy. But I still love the area.
Once again, same as in Oildale, all cars are at home. Hardly anyone is at work. I'm sure these folks are not remote coders working from home. America is a hollow shell of its former self. How sad...
A lot of the jobs that are available are just not enough to make ends meet. For some folks, just sitting home being broke is the better option. Its not that they're lazy or anything, its just that they're at their witts' end.
Harrisburg is great, I have lived here for years. The notion that it is a crime blighted hellscape is just wrong. sure Harrisburg has its problems but it is trying. Maybe instead of indulging in shame content we could work to make it better. Slow the gentrification, invest in public transit, give people livable wages and social safety nets, get the police involved in the community instead of just policing communities.
Altoona pa 😂😆 small town with majority being white meth, crack, heroin addicts. Worse smaller towns I been to in pa in I been to all them was York pa, Scranton pa, hbg pa, and by far the worse Williamsport pa or reading pa for smaller cities Lancaster ain't nothin but Amish filled with a couple wanna be gangsters from other areas
Moved away from southwest PA a few years ago saw a video on here recently of my home town most of the stores in the plaza i grew up next to are abandoned. Alot changed in 6 years.
Downtown Seattle was Pristine and a Huge shift after 2012 and shockingly Bad by 2017 and only more so now because of Toxic synthetics.. Meth, Fentanyl etc. Manufacturing and Trafficking by NWO Nazis and theirs in Collusion north korea, etc. To Destroy from within😸 & by Extremely Predatory Orwellian Electronic kkk-Nazism Stalinist Stasi replications of insidiously diabolical Organized Electronic Gang Stalking Senate Hearings Ron Wyden, Marco Rubio_Mark Warner is the new Chair_ and Richard Burr, Chair before stepped down because the previous Administration went after him like they did John McCain and Mitt Romney 😎_ et al of the bi-partisan intelligence Committee (of now 18 US Senators including Mitch Mcconnell sitting in) on Gang Stalking Stasi Stalinist kkk-Nazism Gestapo SS Josef Mengala Auchswitz inventions others under Hitler and related & All of which includes Reichstag Fire tactics and Stasi smear campaigns and surreptitious entries and extreme Thievery and Vandalism and Cyber-Torture and Cyber Thievery and Cyber Attacks relentlessly Violent and Continually Victimizing Americans and Others at will to herd ordinary Citizens USA and Globally into 'The System' and kicked off of Planes, etc by causing them to act out in Airlines... Unthinkable just short years ago/unedited/
Southwest Pennsylvania is like West Virginia, nothing like the east where you have Lancaster, York and Adams counties, the mix of farmlands and woodlands are incredible and the Amish have turned Lancaster into their own Paradise here on earth, plus there was never any coal mines, just miles and miles of manicured orchards and farms.
Around the capital itself and some other neighborhoods are improving. But Allison Hill, which he starts in, and Camp Curtin are both rough. Harrisburg has increased it's population is on the up and up in general though.
Looks like a city neighborhood on a gloomy day. If you don't like it stay out. Drive through some of the nicest suburbs on a gloomy day and it'll look "sad".
I used to live in Carlisle which is not too far from Harrisburg and this is nothing new really. I lived there back in 2013 and I see not much has changed. I hate to see drug activity creep into these small towns not too far from Harrisburg. Even in Hanover, you saw quite a number of ppl with addiction issues 😕
Sickening to learn that the Vampires of Meth Fentanyl etc Toxic synthetics profiting off of People also put it in Appalachia and the inner Cities and even orchestrated the Deaths of Good Students, et al at Jesuit Prep in Portland, Oregon (vs Portland, Maine which is or seems tamer)
There is actually alot of construction going on I live in midtown the new federal court house condos rite across the street 2 new business building on 6th Street and drugs are everywhere in America even upper rual dauphin where teens are dying from over doses
Allison Hill area is also bad.i used to be there alot in my teens. One night, my one friends' best friend we had just dropped off was shot and killed on porch moments later after we left. But there's a dispensary there right in the middle of it all now. Went there twice and feels like a odd location.
If I'd have known you were coming to Harrisburg I would have offered to buy you lunch. We've lived in a neighboring township for 30 years. Just another example of what decades of democrat politicians have managed to create. You missed the huge homeless encampment a block from the Amtrak station off Market street. Hall Manor, Allison Hill, Reservoir Park, Italian Lake...all pretty much no mans land...especially after dark. A few years ago we had two State Representatives "robbed" at gunpoint a block from the Capital building. One of the Reps (from Erie) pulled his own CC out and after a bit of a kerfuffle it was all resolved. A friend of mine was robbed at knife point across the street from the Capital building at 2:pm on a weekday. Too bad he wasn't standing next to an expired meter...HBG Parking Meter Maids would have been there to write the ticket. It's a shame, Harrisburg used to have some really nice places to eat and we took the kids to Reservoir Park, Riverfront Park and Italian Lake all the time...
Democrats have NOTHING to do with it. Good lord. You can still go to those parks, I do. If you think crime only happens at the capital, you’re nuts. Crime is everywhere. White and black, republican and Democrat. Rich and poor.
Dems and Reps haven't done much for the city! They are both to blame! I will say Mayor Stephen Reed did some really nice things to improve the city like restaurant row on 2nd Street but also did some not nice things too like spending millions on the Civil war museum, wild west museum that never opened and the incinerator! I mostly blame Harrisburg city council approving that too and then blaming the mayor when shit hit the fan!
The best thing about this area are the large amounts of warehouse jobs you can get. This is an industrial region and jobs are plentiful if you want to work. I moved out of Harrisburg a few years ago and jobs are so much harder to find. The sad part about Harrisburg is there are always clouds above the whole area but that could be a PA thing. And don't be messing around in the city because if you are looking for trouble its there. If society ever broke down that area would go nuts as its a firecracker waiting to go off.
A damn shame; all that neighborhood needs are buckets of fresh paint, a cleaning crew to clean up the place, to demolish some of those burned out houses, and a bit of rehabing.
Hey you Penn people: How is State College for a place to live? I'm retired now and am considering relocating. Miami has become too hectic and too expensive.
Born here in 1964 and lived here until I moved in 1998. Both of my parents were also born and raised here. Believe me the city started to decay in the 70s. Wouldn't feel safe walking anywhere in the city now with the exception of some of Bellevue Park.
Thanks Nick - I live in Sweden - far from US - But I am interested in the situation 'over there' - Can anybody texplain the high cost of housing? A 'sudio' just a room and a kitchen and bath - prices of 1- 2000 usd /month - I mean that is rediculus. I could build a house for that mony in two years - And these studios can be of poor standard too. Of course you need water and electricity garbage etc - Why is it like tha? I US cities many houses stand til they collapse. it doesnt look like that here? Most of these houses could have been saved. ?
@@NickJohnson Of course it is greed. But why arn't the market forces working? It must be something fundamental different. I know for instance that, in US the bank takes the house if someone cant finance the loan. Here a person still owes the bank. The owner remains owner - and has to sell, and after selling be in debt for the house he not longer owns. In this way the house gets a new owner. In US the houses stand empty - Yes it is the greedy banks who prefer it to be that way, am I right?
You asked about rents. A town house in most of these neighborhoods runs around 900.00 usd/ month just outside of the city you can rent a nice well matined townhouse for 1100. Efficiency apartments like you described are hard to find. A one bedroom easer. They go from 850 to 1300 per month.
Nick you must return soon to Harrisburg Pa. Get back to me, I'll show you the other side of town. You missed quite a bit. If you just cruise uptown and Allison Hill your not getting the full scope. That half square mile isn't going to do it for you.
First, you need to find out where you are going before you open your mouth. You are not even close to Uptown Harrisburg. You are showing an area where there are a lot of abandoned homes.
People don't take care of their property. It's a sign of low self esteem. The poorest neighborhoods have expensive cars or expensive accessories such as 2000 dollar rims, but claim poverty. Typical
Do you know that most of those "expensive cars" are rejects that have 200,000 miles on them, are bought from "buy here, pay here" car lots, because the people who buy them don't have the best credit, but they need transportation. My neighbor has an automobile dealer's license, and he goes to the auction and buys these "rejects", shines them up, and sells them to people who have no other options. And sometimes they run for a whole month without problems, and sometimes not.
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You really shouldn't talk bad about Harrisburg. It was people that moved there from other states that made it look the way it does now.
First of all, please know what you're talking about when, posting such things. You were NOT in the "Camp Curtin area of Harrisburg. You were in the Allison Hill section.
Yes, I agree that, certain parts Harrisburg look AWFUL & the crime is RIDICULOUS. I grew up in Harrisburg, was raised on 2400 block of Reel Street. We had a beautiful tree lined street. There were pretty lawns & some yards like, ours had pretty hydrangea bushes. Mostly all of the residents were homeowners & two parent families. Harrisburg didn't start to go downhill until the drug scene took over.
For outsiders looking in, Harrisburg isn't as bad as it's being made out to be. There are great people here trying to make our city better instead of looking for, everything that's wrong. There are beautiful neighborhoods here. You don't have to leave the city to, find a great place to, live here. Yes, Harrisburg desperately needs help. It also meeds to be loved back to make it a better city. We need people in office that, actually care about the WHOLE city & not the affluent & influential.
@@HansTyndale It's the same all over PA. I worked for 10 years for a state representative from Pittsburgh, and 15 years for state representatives and a state Senator from Philly, and I've lived in Harrisburg all my life.
Perfectly said
really, it wasn't drugs darlin' i moved to harrisburg in 1976 and it was a shithole then and its only gotten three times worse. keep pretending and bullshitting yourselves as to the real reason
Perfectly stated. To me, it looks like a decent residential neighborhood that needs a compassionate economic infusion by way of jobs, trade schools & small business assistance. ❤😊
1 - Welcome to Harrisburg, it's nice to have you. 2 - That's not Camp Curtain, that's Allison Hill. 3 - Selective attention changes the way you perceive a place. If you seek out a steaming turd, you're probably going to find a steaming turd. It seems you already decided the narrative of Harrisburg before you arrived. You missed many wonderful places and people. 4 - We have many challenges and it's not paradise. 5 - Grass is always greener. 6 - I have a cat 😺 7 - I will now like my own comment.
Thank you! The person who posted this video clearly just wanted to find blight which we have but the city is very safe. Just because someone can't afford to fix up their house doesn't mean they are bad 🙄
Yes, this is the same neighborhood as the first video. It's not camp curtin. It's still 80% Allison Hill. Not bad considering they redlined this city for decades. Heck back in 2006 I was told by Commerce Bank that they didn't lend in the city of Harrisburg due to their Incinerator Problem. How could people refinance their mortgage if the local banks weren't investing in the area? It's sad but this happened by design not by accident.
@@sinc3re1ydan or doesn't live anywhere near the property and takes the loss as a deduction every year.
And I at age 41 can tell you the decline from the early 80's to today is unbelievably depressing and drastic
Any Capital city of any State or Commonwealth that is as bad across the board as Harrisburg should seriously be reconsidering what they believe is an acceptable level of corruption in government because they show up to this disgrace daily and it doesn't bother them one bit that it's a hellhole face the facts
@@bigvalley4987 uhm not so quick it's not safe at all and no one is making judgements about people not being able to fix their homes Harrisburg is dangerous and it's only getting worse
Harrisburg born and raised here. I recognize all these different spots around the city. Honestly despite all the flaws Harrisburg has I love the city and it’s people, most people are very friendly. Feel free to ask any questions about Harrisburg if you have any. I also agree with the comments that say they’re only showing the worst parts of the city and it gives a false image
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hey . hii. i m from indian. i am staying here for one month in Allison hill, de street with my husband.people said that its not a safe place.Isn't.shoild be leave this place.
@@meenakshisavita7240 Hello Meenakshi, welcome to the United States and to Harrisburg. Allison Hill is the most unsafe part of the city, but also the part with the cheapest rent. There are a lot of other parts of the city that are better, I would move off Allison hill and into downtown, midtown, or uptown. If you have kids, I would move outside of the city because the schools in the city are not good and the ones outside are much better.
really, i moved out in 76 when the population was about 79,000, today its about 45,000.. da ya think its workin'?
I’m from Harrisburg too. Went to college in Philadelphia and frankly stayed there and never thought about coming back to Harrisburg
It seems like about 3 mile outside of every center city is blighted . All the cities are rotting and decomposing and it like no one in power in any city cares. America is dying a steady slow death. Since nonthing is made in America anymore there are fewer jobs. With education on a steady decline and city crime on a rapid increase. America can’t last many more years. God Bless America because we need it.
Very sad
My father use to say, you made your bed now sleep in it.
USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Shows where the priority for the government is placed.
This is my hometown born and raised. Like any city it has it's goods and its bad parts. I can say it's very rundown in the city. But in the burbs you will find more beautiful tree lined area's. This video is very deceptive because he is not driving on major streets. He's in alleys and side streets. The city has very large and affordable homes. The crime is high but you can get a job and be on your feet rather quickly. This also looks like a very dreary day. It looks and feels very different in the summer months. Bottom line it needs some work but hey what city doesn't.
Thank you for saying this, Ms. Hillhouse. I am 68 years old and have lived in Harrisburg all my life, and Bellevue Park surely doesn't look like this.
The crime is high thas not good
@@traincore1955 With all the almost daily shootings in York, PA......the folks there have NO ROOM to comment on Harrisburg. York isn't even as large as Harrisburg is, population wise.
@@CindieLee1953 I'm not saying York isn't comparable to Harrisburg but it's a lot worse there compared to York despite the population... not that for a capital city that Harrisburg is big by any means. That being said, I've left Pennsylvania years ago. I only go back to see my mom and that's it. I could never live my life there.
People like to drag harrisburg, but I love harrisburg, I do not like what's happening to it now
I’ll tell you what’s happened to Harrisburg (and countless other cities like it): the mass exodus of city planners, and their replacement by “community organizers.”
If you strip away the add-on structures and cheap façades, you’ll find a metropolis that people were once proud of. Beneath the spray paint and plywood, you’ll find ornate building structures which show that they were designed and constructed by skilled artisans for a proud people that took “ownership” of their neighborhoods.
If a neighborhood displays a decline, it’s reflective of the human decline behind it.
One more thing that I’ve mentioned before: the clearest sign of a declining culture is the absence of mothers with their infants. If you don’t see them, you’re in a death trap … get the hell out of there ASAP.
YOU ARE SPOT-ON!! GENERATIONS OF COLLECTING WELFARE INSTEAD OF WORKING!! IT'S A DARN SHAME! BUT, IT'S WAY TOO LATE IN THE GAME! THESE PLACES ARE GONE AND THEY'RE NEVER COMING BACK UNLESS MANUFACTURING KOBS ARE CREATED! AND, WILL ANYONE EVEN WORK THOSE JOBS IF THEY WERE TO BE?
Amen!
@@REMBRANTTUBE 👌👌👌👌
Never understood how all the blame is put on the people who don't even own the property. I bet majority of the people who lives in this neighborhood are renters. What does welfare have to do with a landlord keeping up there property?
I live in another part of PA, near Philly. You think Harrisburg is bad. You should see Trenton the Captial of NJ across the river from Philly. This would be perfect for an episode of dashboard tours.
Kensington!
Trenton is a bona fide ghetto sadly.
South Philly is Very interesting, but the smell of Garbage in May near the Wal-Mart was horrible and we didn't go out at night as my forever friend since we were Military Wives during the Viet Nam War didn't think it Good and she had grown up in West Philadelphia with her Dad was in the US Navy ⚓😇🎆✨
Would Love to see the City at night sometime later on; i did see an omnious-looking Night Club off to the big parking lot? way left & before the Wal-Mart with Gangster cars right out of The Godfather 😎
Baltimore here. Nuff said.
BS. He had do his best to find bad areas. I can take you around the same general areas and you'll see nice houses, yards and clean streets. It's easy to find ugly when you are looking for it and have an audience who needs to have something to look down on.
BS. Allison Hill and Camp Curtin are for the animals.
I think what he's trying to say is if he would of went 2 streets down in the camp curtain neighborhood it looks totally different uptown area actually has more clean area then dirty and run down I live there so I know
@@andrewsmith5159 I noticed he did a lot of alley crawling to avoid the nicer blocks. He also opened on the hill at the horse trough and took the worst route to get uptown
@@Skiis44 he definitely did avoid the more eye popping neighborhoods I'm from uptown grew up a block away from the governors mansion
It is the purpose of the video to find the worst part. You guys dumb or something?
There are quite a few areas that look just like you show, but there are of course also many others, and noteably there are a few who are slowly coming back a bit. The city is totally bankrupt (mis-management mostly), but also all the corporations moving out to the suburbs, draining the city of much needed capital. So they cannot do much.
They invested a bit into improvements on Third street, and I hope they continue by turning the square in front of Midtown bookstore into a much needed downtown square area, instead of the forelorn area it is now. It looks like that is the direction they are going, and that would be really good for this city. Put a few restaurants, etc on the two sides that have nothing useful, and you can make that a downtown hangout. But yes, there are a lot of rundown areas to go still in Harrisburg.
But finally, I do feel that it is at least moving in the right direction again. Hope it continues.
I hope so too
The biggest drain on Harrisburg is the State Capitol. They have so much land downtown but pay no taxes to the city. So all that space taken up by State buildings can't be other business or homes that pay taxes. And all those commuters that drive on city streets to work at the Capitol don't pay any taxes to the city.
@@sinc3re1ydan yup, good points.
they moved out to stay alive so stop sugar coating it. how for can you move, soon you'll be in jersey, another democratic shithole
Democrat run city. Say no more.
All in all Harrisburg the river the bridges are beautiful. It is a beautiful quaint friendly city. I love it here.
It's like any old industrial area, the decent jobs that people came for where sent to Mexico or the cheapest Asian country of the day and the people are left behind.
There are actually a load of jobs in the area and very nice clean upscale neighborhoods in the uptown midtown area he just didn't drive through it also you can get a job paying 20 hourly just going to a temp agency you just have to want more for yourself
Lots and Lots of Slumlords have properties in Harrisburg. If they would crack down of theses slumlords, then just maybe HBG might stand a chance.
This the one right here!!
Born and raised in Harrisburg. 63 years old, and I find that its not WHERE you live and walk, it is HOW you live and walk. 1:: Mind your business and handle your business. 2:: Show respect. 3:: Dont act like a victim... street survival where ever you live.
NOT Camp Curtain in the pix. There was even a banner that said "Allison Hill". ALSO, I'm quite sure that if you go into declining neighborhoods, and drive down back alleys, any city will look like this.
I mean he did say he was looking for the worst hoods of Harrisburg Pa soooo……….. the point of the video is to show the worst parts of Harrisburg
I frequent Harrisburg often, and I traveled Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maryland, Idaho, California, Washington, and almost every else in the Us I can tell u Harrisburg is the Most safest out of anywhere , 👀 if think otherwise u might just be soft and sheltered..
This!
You do know there were 7 shootings in one day in allison hill. Or do you dent reality?
7 shootings in one day for that whole year... I ve been in places where they get 20 shootings a day for a year ... 2 hrs away in Baltimore.... All in all I'll rather be right here in Harrisburg where it's safe
@@chameleonGemini8263 it was just one incident. And it wasnt in one year it was 7 shootings in 1 day in 2 weeks. Baltimore is even worse as is Chicago. You refuse to notice all they have in common and it's not poverty, because Appalachia has more poverty and no shootings
I'm only pointing out the fact Harrisburg is Pleasantville next to other places, I can almost guarantee those shootings were isolated and more importantly related to each other I say this because? ..in those other city's the crime rate is so high and anyone ( innocent,and random) could catch the grim reaper just by looking at someone wrong.. Harrisburg just does not carry that type of vibe,and the majority of the citizens are safe and they know it
It's a real shame what has happened to Harrisburg in the last couple of decades. I've lived there since '84 and my family has lived there all my life. I remember what it was like in the '70s when the steel mill was still running. Night and day.
Steven Reed is what happened to Harrisburg! 30 yrs of him robbing the city left it in shambles!
@@HansTyndale that’s like during mass shootings how gun stores take advantage. Hmm
@@HansTyndale it’s not apples to oranges but whatever. That bill won’t get through.
@@HansTyndale I didn’t hear that, and I work at the capital.
@@HansTyndale no, but I normally hear about it. I do know that PENNDOT has a serious budget shortfall because of the lack of gas tax collected during Covid. I also heard registration and fees are going up, again. Regardless, if it passed I would think the news would have gotten ahold of it and it would be out.
I used to live in Lemoyne which borders Harrisburg. I actually liked living there. Would do my morning runs along the park that follows the river. Was kind of nice in that way.
Great running along the susquehanna!
@@ForeverYoungKickboxer All the way to 3 mile island.
Absolutely Lemoyne, Camp Hill there's a few nice area's that border Harrisburg but it's sad for the Capital to be like this it used to be beautiful and could be again
I live 2 miles from Lemoyne now. Sometimes go to the Lemoyne pool
I also lived on front st lemoyne great scenery but the train would piss me off.
To learn what happened to PA, listen to Allentown by Billy Joel
I moved out of Taxavania 4 years ago moved to Tennessee, my property tax went from 7,500.00 a year to 961.00 gasoline is about 50. cheaper here 👍👍👍👍👍
You guys will ruin Tennessee. I see it coming
@@FD-xr5qw FD no I vote Republican,and support the area I'm in 👍👍👍👍👍
@@waltglow6396 it's not just about voting.. it's upholding southern tradition and beliefs. Politics is one part of what makes Southern people who we are.
@@FD-xr5qw Tennessee is no place to go for safety, comfort or amusement 😂 unless you’re going to a cabin
@@rl2023te People are free to move where ever they want. Enough with this dumb provincialism.
I am unfortunately from this area and I personally think that York is just as bad
Worse in some areas.
York is has a larger square mileage of worse. The animals need a place to live too.
I live in Harrisburg and work in York
@@timothyheinz5693 dude, your comments. Wtf
I live close to Harrisburg and worked on the ambulance there. Camp curtin is not a real bad part of town . The worst is what they call on the hill. Cresent and 12th.
Across the river in Camp Hill, Lemoyne, Mechanicsburg, Gettysburg, Carlisle, all great places to live. Also east in or around Hershey. There's also great hiking in the area.
There are some REALLY depressing little run down small towns though scattered around, and there really isn't a big university anywhere. You can get to Baltimore north nicer side or northwestern Washington DC in about an hour or so though.
Fairfield / Carroll Valley, PA (which is just a few miles south of Gettysburg) almost has zero crime!
@@davidgno yes there are some great places and beautiful scenery in this area, you just gotta stay away from Harrisburg and your good, but to me in a way that makes it an easier place to live. It's not like there's this and that specific street, it's literally just once you're across that bridge you're better off
Lititz and Mannheim are also nice
I’m looking to move to PA next year. Is there any good cities? I know typically cities aren’t the best to live but I’d like more of a city. But a small city if that makes sense. I’m probably looking for something unrealistic lol.
@@cierraaaaaaaas The central area of Harrisburg between the bridges where it’s more gentrified is okay as far as city urban living. There are shootings in Harrisburg all the time though.
All the folks who moved here from South Carolina in the 20's and 30's changed Harrisburg into what it is today, at one time it was an incredible city.
I’m a native of HBG. I agree. In the 1950’s the population was over 100K. White flight in the 60/70’s made a big impact. Now it like 40k still live there. I moved away 25 yrs ago.
@@Jacious I am a native, too, except my BLACK family didn't come from South Carolina.......my grandfather came to Steelton in the 1920's to work in the steel mill. From Virginia. In fact, I know very few BLACK people who live here who are originally from South Carolina. Where do you people get your information? And there are more than 40K people living in the city. If you are going to give out statistical information, could you PLEASE give out accurate information?
@@CindieLee1953 my point was the Great migration was from the south, Virginia, Georgia, etc. South Carolina was mentioned because the new Great migration is back to the south where the cities are new, the weather is better and there are lots of opportunities for better housing and employment. Just take a look at Greenville, what a great place for the new migration, and close to Atlanta.
@@CindieLee1953 it is accurate darlin'
You need to know what territory you talking bout..First off this is Not uptown. This is considered Allison Hill abd South side...This is The Hill Not Uptown...Talk facts which this is Not. Better know what your talking bout..Territory.
That is not the worse area in Harrisburg. You should check out Allison Hill anywhere around 15th - 17th ave between State & Derry.... also 1 blk above Cameron St off Market St ...
99% sure most of this video WAS the hill. Pretty sure this guy didn't ask a single local about the area before he filmed, either that or he just doesn't care lol
You do realize you were in Allison Hill not Camp Curtin area.
It's kinda crazy watching a video of Harrisburg lol I moved away at 18 and now live in NYC. I couldn't stand living in Harrisburg growing up, bc it was sooo boring. But, I visit probably once a month and it honestly isn't as bad as the video makes it look lol. I think you just showed the super run down parts no one ever goes to in the city. Uptown is getting better, but where you're at is on the hill. Thats the crazy part of town people avoid lol
Want to see sad? Drive through Winsted Connecticut. City is so dull. I know, I live there. I would even sit for an interview with you to discuss it.
Ok Michele!
I'd love to be part of that discussion
You should go to my hometown of Mount Carmel PA. I grew up there for 22 years and left with my family and we have never looked back.
THIS IS NOT THE UPTOWN !!!
THIS IS THE SOUTH HILL DISTRICT
Some of it is N 6th
All the bad neighborhoods you've mentioned, I looked them up and they are indeed really bad.
I also see a direct correlation between that and the demographics.
Stop noticing things!
They get what they vote for.
Well when you enslave a people for 400 yrs then segregate then for another 100 yrs oh and after all that you redline them from fair housing and then create ghettos and projects what do you expect to happen, I guess that's all apart of ya get what you vote for right?
@@craighedrington5365 Is that an excuse for not picking up the trash on the streets? The government is not their Daddy, take care of where you live, nobody is coming to save you from yourself.
@@frankwhite2230 Your absolutely right, however there are groups like the YMCA that are in these neighborhoods, even people that don't live in the neighborhood making efforts to clean the streets
No job no dignity. But drug and welfare (probably unions) make middles class jobs disappeared quickly.
The last time I drove by Harrisburg a few years ago, looking from a road that was either PA 22, I-81 or I-83 (don't remember which), there seemed to be a whole neighborhood of not-particuarly-old homes that were boarded up. Looked like they were condemned. Does this sound familiar to anyone who knows Harrisburg far better than I do? What was going on with these homes?
Neglect.
On 22 head toward colonial Park and union deposit those homes were boarded up because they were being demolished to widen the highway.
They widened the highway. The government took them from the owners.
Im pretty sure you were on 83 and yes I know what's going on that is south Allison hill the worst part of Harrisburg drugs homicides lack of motivation people just stop investing in that neighborhood the city is mainly focused uptown and midtown which is becoming very vibrant
Thanks Nick, Harrisburg has been subpar for a few years. They do seem to be trying to pick it up. I am very fortunate to live in Lancaster. It's beautiful here with great people and long history!!! Keep these great videos coming. Hope you have a wonderful day!!!
I was just in Lancaster this morning Don. Went to Lititz and Manheim!
@@NickJohnson I would've treated you to lunch!!! Where are you now?
There are areas of Lancaster that are just as bad as Harrisburg
@@PARodandReel Lancaster has culture and tourism that helps them. Harrisburg doesn't have much going on for it other than it being the capital.
Egads some of that was sad to see. Thank you for the show, sir Nick!!
Just read an article today listing Harrisburg as one of the top ten happiest places to live in the US. I always assumed it was like Scranton or Wilkesbarre...but maybe not???
Probably because its affordable still compared to other cities and w alot of state jobs available w pretty good pay is my guess
I lived in Harrisburg for 3 years..definitely rundown because of poor government management. Crime ridden? I don't think so..never had a problem with crime.
There were a lot of homicides on the hill when there were tearatory fights and runners from Philadelphia were cleaning house before that.
I like the old row houses.
This channel should be named "I've locked my doors because I'm too afraid to get out of my car"
Spent almost three years in PA. Wouldn't live anywhere but the Main Line or Bucks County.
Harrisburg is a dump.
All the coal towns are dead.
Centralia is on fire, literally.
Thanks for the info. How about Pittsburgh?^^
My Aunt & Uncle lived in Harrisburg one year back in the 70s
Feels as if I'm riding shotgun as you drive slowly looking for that house you bought drugs at.
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Damn lol wut
Loss of middle-class manufacturing jobs, not maintaining a floor under wages, boosting shareholder value at the expense of workers, voting for candidates beholden to corporate lobbyist and rich donors - Why do you keep asking "What happened to..."?
As others have stated this is Allison Hill. I was born and raised in this section of the city from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. My father worked at the Bethlehem Steel Mill in Steelton and walked to and from his job. Every once in a while he would get a ride with a co worker. We walked everywhere even after public transportation came into being in the 1970’s. We were close enough to the downtown area where there were places to shop, eat and see movies.
Nice going the wrong way on a 1 way 🤣
That's just pa. The streets and parking are screwed. I'm willing to bet that if it was a one way that sign hasn't been obeyed in decades.
Have lived in or around Harrisburg for a total of about 3-4 years of my life; born and raised in PA (and MD) before I moved to the west coast. I’m an addict and I have horrible memories of all my affairs in and around York, Lancaster, and Harrisburg. Infested with heroin, fentanyl, and drug overdoses. I can tell you from extensive amounts of personal experience. Absolutely desolate, dark, sad and grey places…you couldn’t pay me to move back to those cities. And btw Allison Hill or “the Hill” as we called it is by far the worst hood in HBG. I’m lucky I never got shot, stabbed, or robbed walking and driving around that god awful shithole at night. Also, idk why but ppl from this area always talk shit on it, until someone else does, and then they defend it?? Pennsylvanians are so weird. Glad I got out lol
Weird. I've lived ands worked in and around Harrisburg for over 25 years and I haven't taken any drugs. That's probably why I never felt the need to walk around Allison Hill or any other drug infested areas at night.
I can understand your having bad memories here but don't blame the area. I don't mean to scare you but I heard there are drugs on the west coast too so be careful out there.
If you’re into drugs, Little House on the Prairie would create bad memories. Sorry you went through that, but it’s not the place, it’s the lifestyle.
I was born I Pennsylvania but looking at this I don't think I will go back.
Video says he's in camp curtain area "uptown" all I saw was Allison Hill. If you're going to make negative videos of a city maybe you should be accurate.
We really are the state with cookie cutter cities. I live about 2-3 hours Northwest of Harrisburg and a lot of the cities up here look exactly like that.
Can't believe Nick came to my corner of the world. I live about 15 to 20 minutes from the area toured, but haven't been through that part of the city in years. Harrisburg has a lot of problems, but they are trying to gentrify it. But most people like myself who live in the suburbs of Harrisburg have no reason to go into the city unless that is where you work. Parking is a mess, and it's much easier to go to restaurants where parking is abundant. Except for going to baseball games, I can't tell you when was the last time I went into the city.
It looks like getto
@@milenaosole3799 he's only showing you the bullshit
Around the capitol is gentrifying. Allison Hill is for the animals. Animals need to live somewhere.
@@timothyheinz5693 animals? What is wrong with you? There’s a great church there in the thick of it that does wonderful things for the neighborhood. People aren’t animals. They are poor and trying to do better for themselves, they may be domestic violence survivors. They may be down on their luck.
@@timothyheinz5693 I am not an animal, and I live in Melrose Gardens, next to Bellevue Park, on ALLISON HILL!
Lots of brick structures, homes, charming, cozy. I wouldn't mind living there.
Harrisburg is the ghetto. Try Lancaster
Hahaha wow you clearly aren’t a local
I promise you, You don’t. Its Boring & Shitty & so are the people lol.
Yeah, no...
@@AZJYouCantAffordLancaster is a ghetto from all the newcomers from different states/countries.
Pennsylvania should be ashamed at the way they keep the capital! Shit I'm from R.I. & Providence looks much better!
I went to Harrisburg for Microsoft training years ago. I didn't see one good looking women the entire week lmao.
That sucks
I’m sure you’re a gem.
You think Harrisburg is bad, try driving in downtown Allentown, Pa. I actually live outside of Allentown, but I avoid downtown area if possible. It has the PPL Center for events which I go to. But I will Uber there instead of driving through. Don't get me wrong, I love the area I live. Lehigh Valley has so much to offer for everyone. Great location .
I’m from Allentown. It’s horrible for sure
Or Reading…
I live five minutes away from Allentown. Downtown is bad but it’s at least... like alive. Try driving through Trenton. That’s like if Allentown had died and all that’s left is stragglers.
@@fluxmisdemeanor829 I agree, living 5 minutes away from Allentown ( by airport). It's not as bad as it was years ago, but walking through certain neighborhoods are very sketchy. But I still love the area.
Allentown is not worse than harrisburg it has a higher population yet harrisburg has more murders
So you do realize your on Allison hill area. Not camp curtain uptown like the whole first half of this video in the wrong area. Please honey stop
Used to go ski at seven springs, and party in Harrisburg! Ouch!
I recommend your channel to everyone because it’s so good!
Once again, same as in Oildale, all cars are at home. Hardly anyone is at work.
I'm sure these folks are not remote coders working from home.
America is a hollow shell of its former self. How sad...
A lot of the jobs that are available are just not enough to make ends meet. For some folks, just sitting home being broke is the better option. Its not that they're lazy or anything, its just that they're at their witts' end.
@@whooelse9444 I hear you. I didn't quite think of it that way.
i dont know what it was about harrisburg, but its the one place ive been to and you could just feel how depressing it was
Maybe it's you.
Harrisburg is great, I have lived here for years. The notion that it is a crime blighted hellscape is just wrong. sure Harrisburg has its problems but it is trying. Maybe instead of indulging in shame content we could work to make it better. Slow the gentrification, invest in public transit, give people livable wages and social safety nets, get the police involved in the community instead of just policing communities.
it’s a lot cleaner looking than philly.
A lot less urine
can you do a show like this for altoona pa? it's really bad. I like you channel. Appreciate the work you put into it
Altoona pa 😂😆 small town with majority being white meth, crack, heroin addicts. Worse smaller towns I been to in pa in I been to all them was York pa, Scranton pa, hbg pa, and by far the worse Williamsport pa or reading pa for smaller cities Lancaster ain't nothin but Amish filled with a couple wanna be gangsters from other areas
I think it’s beautiful in some ways.
Harrisburg been my 2nd home since I wuz born 46yrs ago. My 1st original hometown.....Philly
Moved away from southwest PA a few years ago saw a video on here recently of my home town most of the stores in the plaza i grew up next to are abandoned. Alot changed in 6 years.
Downtown Seattle was Pristine and a Huge shift after 2012 and shockingly Bad by 2017 and only more so now because of Toxic synthetics.. Meth, Fentanyl etc. Manufacturing and Trafficking by NWO Nazis and theirs in Collusion north korea, etc. To Destroy from within😸 & by Extremely Predatory Orwellian Electronic kkk-Nazism Stalinist Stasi replications of insidiously diabolical Organized Electronic Gang Stalking Senate Hearings Ron Wyden, Marco Rubio_Mark Warner is the new Chair_ and Richard Burr, Chair before stepped down because the previous Administration went after him like they did John McCain and Mitt Romney 😎_ et al of the bi-partisan intelligence Committee (of now 18 US Senators including Mitch Mcconnell sitting in) on Gang Stalking Stasi Stalinist kkk-Nazism Gestapo SS Josef Mengala Auchswitz inventions others under Hitler and related & All of which includes Reichstag Fire tactics and Stasi smear campaigns and surreptitious entries and extreme Thievery and Vandalism and Cyber-Torture and Cyber Thievery and Cyber Attacks relentlessly Violent and Continually Victimizing Americans and Others at will to herd ordinary Citizens USA and Globally into 'The System' and kicked off of Planes, etc
by causing them to act out in Airlines... Unthinkable just short years ago/unedited/
Where did you live in SW PA? I appraise in 11 counties here.
Southwest Pennsylvania is like West Virginia, nothing like the east where you have Lancaster, York and Adams counties, the mix of farmlands and woodlands are incredible and the Amish have turned Lancaster into their own Paradise here on earth, plus there was never any coal mines, just miles and miles of manicured orchards and farms.
Are there safe and affordable places to live in harrisburg?
I see new buildings though, is it getting gentrified ?
Around the capital itself and some other neighborhoods are improving. But Allison Hill, which he starts in, and Camp Curtin are both rough. Harrisburg has increased it's population is on the up and up in general though.
The majority of this video is still Allison Hill.
Looks like a city neighborhood on a gloomy day. If you don't like it stay out. Drive through some of the nicest suburbs on a gloomy day and it'll look "sad".
Great vid Nick! :) That cyclist had a deathwish though near the end of the vid. :)
Who told KEN that this was Camp Curtain neighborhood?
Lmao @ "KEN" 😂💀
Lived in Phoenixville from 79-82. It was a nice town back then but I'm sure it's gone downhill since.
Spent summers in Phoenixville in 88-90, grandma lived there while I was in college. Nice little town.
I used to live in Carlisle which is not too far from Harrisburg and this is nothing new really. I lived there back in 2013 and I see not much has changed. I hate to see drug activity creep into these small towns not too far from Harrisburg. Even in Hanover, you saw quite a number of ppl with addiction issues 😕
Sickening to learn that the Vampires of Meth Fentanyl etc Toxic synthetics profiting off of People also put it in Appalachia and the inner Cities and even orchestrated the Deaths of Good Students, et al at Jesuit Prep in Portland, Oregon (vs Portland, Maine which is or seems tamer)
There is actually alot of construction going on I live in midtown the new federal court house condos rite across the street 2 new business building on 6th Street and drugs are everywhere in America even upper rual dauphin where teens are dying from over doses
What happened? It's called sec8 and the DemoRats that's exactly what happened! FJB
I bet these old homes have alot of memories.
I have traveled around AMERICA, watching Nick's travel channel. THANK-YOU
Nick needs to do a little more research. He doesn't even know what part of the city he is in.
Always see decent cars in these hoods.
Selling drugs is lucrative.
they come with 21% interest rates
Nice cars lol more likely lemons lol 😂 outsides nice inside is bullshit but every nice car in Harrisburg doesn’t mean there from Harrisburg
Allison Hill area is also bad.i used to be there alot in my teens. One night, my one friends' best friend we had just dropped off was shot and killed on porch moments later after we left. But there's a dispensary there right in the middle of it all now. Went there twice and feels like a odd location.
If I'd have known you were coming to Harrisburg I would have offered to buy you lunch. We've lived in a neighboring township for 30 years. Just another example of what decades of democrat politicians have managed to create. You missed the huge homeless encampment a block from the Amtrak station off Market street. Hall Manor, Allison Hill, Reservoir Park, Italian Lake...all pretty much no mans land...especially after dark. A few years ago we had two State Representatives "robbed" at gunpoint a block from the Capital building. One of the Reps (from Erie) pulled his own CC out and after a bit of a kerfuffle it was all resolved. A friend of mine was robbed at knife point across the street from the Capital building at 2:pm on a weekday. Too bad he wasn't standing next to an expired meter...HBG Parking Meter Maids would have been there to write the ticket. It's a shame, Harrisburg used to have some really nice places to eat and we took the kids to Reservoir Park, Riverfront Park and Italian Lake all the time...
Next time 🍺 🍔
Democrats have NOTHING to do with it. Good lord. You can still go to those parks, I do. If you think crime only happens at the capital, you’re nuts. Crime is everywhere. White and black, republican and Democrat. Rich and poor.
@@katwat6983 If you say so.
@@katwat6983 Amen!!
Dems and Reps haven't done much for the city! They are both to blame! I will say Mayor Stephen Reed did some really nice things to improve the city like restaurant row on 2nd Street but also did some not nice things too like spending millions on the Civil war museum, wild west museum that never opened and the incinerator! I mostly blame Harrisburg city council approving that too and then blaming the mayor when shit hit the fan!
You're literally only showing Allison hill, which yes, is the worse part of Harrisburg, but is only a small part of it
The best thing about this area are the large amounts of warehouse jobs you can get. This is an industrial region and jobs are plentiful if you want to work. I moved out of Harrisburg a few years ago and jobs are so much harder to find. The sad part about Harrisburg is there are always clouds above the whole area but that could be a PA thing. And don't be messing around in the city because if you are looking for trouble its there. If society ever broke down that area would go nuts as its a firecracker waiting to go off.
What in tarnation is UP with PA Mappies!
The whole STATE has gone to H E double hockey sticks!
A damn shame; all that neighborhood needs are buckets of fresh paint, a cleaning crew to clean up the place, to demolish some of those burned out houses, and a bit of rehabing.
First you need to replace all of the residents.
@@sevzas hope you don't mean as in The Yellow Star of David! Facetiously noting am sure, right?^^
Hey you Penn people: How is State College for a place to live? I'm retired now and am considering relocating. Miami has become too hectic and too expensive.
It is a nice place yes
The area i live is nice and everyone is friendly only a few blocks from " the worst neighborhood" and bro where hell isnt drug use active in the us 🙄
Thats out the south side off of 13th and Derry street
do a drivethrough of the worst hoods in lititz
Lol I was just there two days ago. Stayed in Manheim!
You should go to Steelton just 10-15 minutes south on PA-230
I’ve got a buddy who is a drug dealer there in Harrisburg 😆
✍ Rundown and gloomy, possible location for filming a horror movie. Hope you makes it out of the dump. Blessings 🧵
I. Live. In. Harrisburg. Its. Little. Ragedly. With. Some. But. Not. As. Bad. As. Some. Cities
Girl, Interrupted (1999) was filmed in Harrisburg.
@@sinc3re1ydan that was filmed at the state hospital grounds across from the Farm Show Complex
funny shit
That was allison hill not uptown camp curton
Born here in 1964 and lived here until I moved in 1998. Both of my parents were also born and raised here. Believe me the city started to decay in the 70s. Wouldn't feel safe walking anywhere in the city now with the exception of some of Bellevue Park.
Thanks Nick - I live in Sweden - far from US - But I am interested in the situation 'over there' - Can anybody texplain the high cost of housing? A 'sudio' just a room and a kitchen and bath - prices of 1- 2000 usd /month - I mean that is rediculus. I could build a house for that mony in two years - And these studios can be of poor standard too. Of course you need water and electricity garbage etc - Why is it like tha? I US cities many houses stand til they collapse. it doesnt look like that here? Most of these houses could have been saved. ?
Greed
@@NickJohnson Of course it is greed. But why arn't the market forces working? It must be something fundamental different. I know for instance that, in US the bank takes the house if someone cant finance the loan. Here a person still owes the bank. The owner remains owner - and has to sell, and after selling be in debt for the house he not longer owns. In this way the house gets a new owner. In US the houses stand empty - Yes it is the greedy banks who prefer it to be that way, am I right?
You asked about rents. A town house in most of these neighborhoods runs around 900.00 usd/ month just outside of the city you can rent a nice well matined townhouse for 1100. Efficiency apartments like you described are hard to find. A one bedroom easer. They go from 850 to 1300 per month.
Nick you must return soon to Harrisburg Pa. Get back to me, I'll show you the other side of town. You missed quite a bit. If you just cruise uptown and Allison Hill your not getting the full scope. That half square mile isn't going to do it for you.
Your Town, etc. vs You Are .. You're 🥳🌞
You should go to Allison Hill and Reservoir Hill in Harrisburg then
My old stomping grounds.
First, you need to find out where you are going before you open your mouth. You are not even close to Uptown Harrisburg. You are showing an area where there are a lot of abandoned homes.
I live 5 minutes from this city and this video is spot on! It has only gotten worse and worse over the last 20 years. Lived here since 99
People don't take care of their property. It's a sign of low self esteem.
The poorest neighborhoods have expensive cars or expensive accessories such as 2000 dollar rims, but claim poverty. Typical
Do you know that most of those "expensive cars" are rejects that have 200,000 miles on them, are bought from "buy here, pay here" car lots, because the people who buy them don't have the best credit, but they need transportation. My neighbor has an automobile dealer's license, and he goes to the auction and buys these "rejects", shines them up, and sells them to people who have no other options. And sometimes they run for a whole month without problems, and sometimes not.