As a Mexico born Mexican living in the US, the reason as to why u rarely seen Hispanics living in the streets is because of our culture; families are close knit and hard working people and we allow large family members to live together for the better or worse
No Hispanics live in the streets to and they also get fucked on all the dope they deal to each other to but it's mostly because employers hire low wage illegal migrants over american citizens because they pay less and don't have to pay benefit's by the way mexican families are not that big anymore it's less than 2 per family by now because the birth rate has plummeted even in mexico since the 1970's.
Huge respect for Hispanics living here in Kansas City. They are the few people here who will actually work for a living. They have great family values and I have great respect for them.
@@bscottb8 it would be far cheaper to help people with rent. Drug test and clean up the druggies and force real changes to the building permit and lawsuit mess.
@@blakejohnson3864 bingo. Everyone is escaping their fascist red states for greener pastures in places like Colorado and California, myself included. I don’t need some nanny government telling me I can’t even enjoy cannabis in my free time… for half the wages, too. Unreal.
Thanks so much for posting this. I saw your videos 2 years ago about New Jersey and I was so glad to hear about the realistic approach and lifestyle out there. You now did my hometown San Diego!!! Thank you sooooo much for the honest truth about our city!!!
I lived in San Diego from 1974 to 1978, while attending SDSU. That was an incredible time to live down there and I have many happy memories. There were no homeless people pooping anywhere in SD back then.
I so loved growing up in San Diego. We finally had to sell the family house there, this year, to pay for Mom’s care. The city worked so hard to clean-up the downtown in the 80s and it worked. Such a gem. Heartbreaking to see it mistreated so very badly. Those in charge have changed. Such a waste. My family was one of those who landed in SD because of my dad’s Navy career. He was a frogman. Living in Long Beach has taught me that, “If you feed them, they will come.” Offering services draws homeless. Good weather, alone, won’t result in such large numbers. Not saying that as a criticism of helping people. It just seems to be the way it works.
The main causes of homelessness a political changes that have occurred since 1980. Reagan attacked unions thus lowering the wages of most hourly workers because companies won't pay a higher wage if they don't have to compete against unionized shops for workers. Reagan also changed the tax laws so that the wealthy paid less and less tax. Reagan raised taxes many times on everybody else--he even started taxing social security benefits. The federal government under Reagan stopped sending income tax money back to the States but instead started spending it on the military. Of all the ways you can spend tax money, more of it goes to the 1% if you spend it on the military. The reason for this is that military spending is technology spending. Technology spending goes to people in the stock market. Almost all the stock market is owned by the 1%. Additionally, military spending a secret so if you pay your pal $400 for $5 toilet seat, no One ever knows unless somehow it gets ratted out. The supreme court, which 90% of the time rules for whoever is more wealthier more powerful in front of them, also started making laws. The loss they made were that they decided campaign finance regulation was illegal. The first case was Buckley v Valeo--brought by the brother of William Buckley a television far right wing conservative commentator who happened to be a federal judge. He decided that he personally, and he was very rich, didn't like campaign finance law so he personally brought a lawsuit against campaign finance laws. That lawsuit said that spending money on campaigns was equivalent to free speech. Since we have a first amendment for free speech, which I'm sure the founders never meant free speech to apply to something that was not a human being. Scotus, without Congress made it illegal to restrict speech for rich people. Given how right-wing the supreme Court was, there's no surprise that 2 years later there was another lawsuit that said that corporations, which are not human beings, had the right of free speech and thus the right to spend as much money on elections as possible.
I was born and raised in San Diego but have not lived there since the '90's. When my father passed away in 2015, I stayed in his house (my boyhood home) for about a week with my brother. We were just cleaning the place up and doing yardwork while trying to figure out what we wanted to do with it. At one point a couple of guys in expensive suits came over and made us an immediate lowball cash offer to buy the house. We both declined, as they were pushy and seemed like shady characters. Then we discovered that they'd seen our father's obituary and decided to see if they could just come over and take advantage of a grieving family. Slimeballs.
And what was their sales pitch? “Hey buddy… saw your dad just passed away. Thought we’d swing by and try to weasel this house out of your inheritance. What do ya say?” Or did they play it off like they had no idea and were just approaching people randomly?
drdan75 .........vultures are always circling when someone dies.......they either want the house,contents or car sitting in garage........then you have family members youve not seen for years looking for $$$,jewellery,etc.
I visited San Diego once back in '86 as a teenager. I've been all over the country, but that was one of my fondest experiences. Such a cool town. Kinda sad to see it in its current state. Hopefully California as a whole can make a turn around some day soon.
I worked for the Navy in San Diego in the 80’s. It was clean and a safe place to live. It’s heartbreaking to see what’s become of this beautiful city! So sad!
Very big cities have very complex problems. We arrived in San Diego at the end of 1978, with the Navy/military in the Linda Vista area (visited by Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1940s, when those apartments were first built, I am guessing) having just completed its move, to Rosecrans & other places. Tons of poor Southeast Asian refugees and tons of poor, newly arriving Mexican and other Latin American immigrants.... we dominated that former housing area of the US military, in Linda Vista throughout the 1970s and 80s... But Linda Vista & those old housings also are just a stone throw from Fiesta Island, Sea World, and the beautiful beaches there; a mile from our old apartment by the canyon area, there's the neighbors and people that sustained the ultra expensive, private, Catholic University of San Diego (I believe Bush and Al Gore debated there once). Today, lots developments & money inched their way from the other side, the Fashion Valley/Mission Valley area... and my former, poor neighborhood is now slowly being swallowed up by new expensive apartments, making it too expensive fore poorer families to live in. Basically, from the Old Town/Mission Valley, Fashion Valley, through my former poor neighborhood of Linda Vista, to the Miramar & Mira Mesa area, onto the affluent Poway region, on the left side I-15 going north.... and on the far side of it, along 805, going north, on the exclusively affluent Rancho Santa Fe, Fairbanks Ranch areas... all the way up to and through the San Marcos area.... it's just ENDLESS DEVELOPMENTS! After 25 years away, I returned to visit San Diego recently and I was so shocked at its drastic transformation.... on every front... Believe it or not, as a Junior High school boy, I used to go fishing under the 805 Bridge, a mile north of Fashion & Mission valley malls... It's a wild place... Now, EVERY inch of land there is taken ovre by office buildings or luxury condos. Could have bought $15,000 worth of 1/2 acre of "useless land" there where I fished and now it'd be worth $10M! But, yes, the sight of so many homeless people all over like what's seen here... it is distressing... Used to be, from childhood memory of the late 1970s through much of the 1980s.... mostly only individuals & small groups in or around the Balboa Park area, across from the Uptown/Hillcrest areas... and individual wandering in Downtown, San Diego... a favored place to wander around for me, too, throughout high school and college days.... There was almost never big camps like these around or under bridges and overpasses like shown here.... But people, rich and poor, have been moving to 362 day a year sunny San Diego from southern states (poor states with very little social programs), northern states (cold like hell, from November to April, and then boiling hot in summer days, from May through October)... And with each cycle of economic boom & bust, with each generation, there seems to be tens of thousands more of these very deprived people. Some are mentally and physically okay who just don't work or who can't find work.... but many also are handicapped or unwell, with many social, mental, and physical needs... Suffering, as the wise old Buddha and others have observed thousands of years ago --- before there was any of these modern & acute homelessness --- seems to be a FUNCTION of the human experience... P.S. one funny, odd, and perplexing anecdote: at UCSD I worked for 4 years in the student cafeteria at the Revelle College diner place, the largest cafeteria on campus. There used to be a colleague student who also worked there and he told us he was living (at night) by the bushes near the Glider Port/Torrey Pines Golf Course/Blacks Beach area. When I first heard about his story --- smart kid but one from a broken home without family support --- I thought it was odd and funny. He said housing was too expensive and he didn't have enough money to pay rent. Or he chose it because he could save money? His story, odd back then in the mid 1980s, is quite typical today... of people, young and old, who are smart, educated, and hard working who just don't have enough resources for a place to stay, in a lasting way... BTW, if you worked at the cafeteria as a student, a meal only cost you 10 cents, so it's a very good deal; you save a lot of money on foods! And, yes, we WERE earning slightly more than the minimal wage ---- over $7 an hour, in the mid 1980s to early 90s ---- with small increases, so working in the cafeteria in college is a very good idea on many fronts in terms of cost-saving...
Im a San Diegan after about five years of not visiting downtown, the other day I had to go to the courthouse, I was in shock! What a horrible dirty place!…homeless people everywhere. The most shocking thing for me was to see a lot of homeless senior citizens…my heart broke in pieces…I help a little old lady to push her buggy cart, I hear two of them talking about where they were going to spend the night…it was early in the morning and they were already worried about shelter for the night…very, very sad.
I was picking up mail on a very cold night last month and this old lady walked to me begging for help, as she didn't have a place to sleep and they wouldn't let her sleep in the mail room. It was so heartbreaking to see. I called 911 and they said they'd send help. We live in a very disfunctional world these days. And it's everywhere in the world. The only places you won't see homeless these days are the places not attractive enough for newcomers.
did you park at the mall that was my favorite part of going to that court is I could get free parking if I bought something so I always got cheese fries and a drink from super fries don't know if it's still there or if mall has stores in it still but it's way better than hiking and paying 20 bucks to park
Yet, these same people voted for the SOBs in Sacramento & Washington DC who ruined your state & the country. They are giving debit cards to illegals & over a trillion to Ukraine - but American seniors are sleeping in tents! Eff you, JB!😡
I am a native San Diegan. I love this place. Not going any where. I left years ago, was gone for 10 years and came back. It's not perfect but there are good paying jobs and the weather is GREAT! When I was gone, the cities I moved to had very little employment opportunities. The pay was not much either. I have many friends that have moved away and I see them on Facebook complaining about the weather in their new cities. There's also LOTS to do here. We have beaches, mountains (with snow at times), the zoo, Sea World, Mexico, Los Angeles up north, etc.
I worked as a volunteer in L.A. to get homeless people off the street and discovered what a large percentage of the people living in squalid homeless camps will tell you right to your face. They live on the streets to pursue their drug addictions and be free from any personal responsibility to take care of themselves. Even when affordable housing is offered they will reject it if there are any strings attached like curfews or no alcohol or drugs. The homeless drug addicts will also tell you they will end their drug addiction and get off the street when they decide thats what they want to do. Which is why most of the drug and alcohol rehab programs are a big scam to charge taxpayers millions of dollars $ to rehabilitate homeless drug addicts who just relapse and go back to their addictions. So providing affordable housing to people working in low paying jobs will help lift them out of poverty but it's not a solution for homeless drug addicts.
My brother is one of those addicts living on the streets in soCal. Help from family was offered multiple times but he wasn't interested in anything but living in squalor freely. No regimen no responsibility. Mentally checked out many years ago. He doesn't qualify to be a danger to himself or anyone so CA says 'whatever dude.'
@@emilym8571 Many homeless drug addicts have family members who tried to help them but their good intentions backfire because the homeless drug addict steals anything thats not nailed down to sell for drug $ . Its also dangerous because drug dealers are mixing crystal meth with fentanyl which allows a drug addict to go on drug binges 24/7 for 5 or 6 days which can trigger a psychotic breakdown due to sleep deprivation involving delusions, hallucinations and potentially violence. Much like gov't programs that indefinitely provide free food, cloths and blankets etc to homeless drug addicts no questions asked their good intentions don't solve the problem but enable and perpetuate a parasitic lifestyle because they don't understand that the goal of homeless drug addicts is to manipulate and use everyone else to pursue their addiction by becoming the turd in the punch bowl that everyone else is then forced to deal with.
Gentrification has happened in most big cities in the US. Globalists knew that this would cause massive levels of homeless in these cities. It was also used as a weapon against Americans to depopulate. Agenda 21 is back in play and moving swiftly.
About two decades ago, I lived in San Diego for two years while attending university. I would pay appx. $600 for a studio close to Fashion Valley Mall. Used to work at a law-firm in downtown. I would go to the beach once a week with my Eros Ramazzoti music and my Starbucks cappuccino. The weather is absolutely beautiful year round. Absolutely loved it! Great memories!
@@brianchisnell1548 if that's the case, we wouldn't have a inflation crisis internationally to delay shipping items around the World. If you know how inflation works as it seems media is taking advantage of your rent free space. You would think differently.
@@BrandonHanson I know how inflation works. I am born in inflation back in 90s'. So yeah media ,they are the worst in this case. People also should be more together and helping each other. Which is not the case. At least not that I am seeing it around me. And more homeless % on the street. We all know why.
Love, love, love San Diego! My Aunt has lived in San Diego for 52 years. She paid less than $40,000 for her house and it's now worth close to $950,000. That is crazy! She got in on the fixed taxes in her neighborhood. My poor cousin can't afford to buy a house in San Diego and he works at the San Diego Zoo. So sad.
Tell your aunt to put the house in a trust ASAP. That way your cousin can inherit it & the government cannot force the sale to take money from your aunt for healthcare. Better do it or you cousin will never get an inheritance.
I left San Diego in 1999 after almost 20 years being there. It's just a shame about all of the problems you have covered in this video. I love the place and miss it, but since I'm not young anymore I guess I made the right choice to leave before this all happened. I hope it can be fixed and people can be helped to live better. Thanks again for your video's.
I lived two consecutive winters in SD back in the mid/late 80's (me and a training buddy were down there for sports training). We rented a really cool little bungalow a half block from the north end of PB. Rent? $700/month. SD was nice enough, but it never grabbed me as a place to live permanently. Sorry to see it so expanded and goin' to hell like LA and SF.
"all over town you hear about people who have left for arizona, utah, colorado, texas... escondido. people cant afford it here anymore" - one of these is not like the other. this cracked me up
Escondido is nearly just as expensive and just as ghetto like San Diego. I feel sorry for UT and Texas, though, since those states are way different, and ppl are just gonna turn it to another california.
@@AngelicoCiudad if that's the case you might as well call Florida a new Ohio, when not seeing New York or other states moving down there. If America actually had a legitimate political system instead of 2 failing parties (Democrats and Republicans) to ruin America and make us more divided. All 50 states would he better and offer better lives for our own people. Forget supporting red or blue, they'll both leave you dead after they screw with you.
Was driving in San Diego during the 70s. Wanted to catch some rest, pulled the car over to catch a nap one late night. Wasn't long before the cops were there , telling me if I didn't get moving I'd be arrested for vagrency. Things sure have changed.
It’s 2023 of course things have changed since the 1970’s 😂 All jokes aside the homeless situation is out of control here & across the country & there needs to be a solid plan to address the issue rather than just breaking down their encampments every so often. All that does is leave them with even less than they already have. The mentally ill NEED the most help & drug addicts need long term rehabilitation.
From everything I've seen about San Diego in the 70s it was an absolutely perfect place to live. Nearly everything we have now, entertainment, freeways, even more open space, and far far fewer people. You can even look in the Reader for concerts and see some of the best acts in the country, Led Zeppelin, ELO, Three Dog Night, you name it all playing on any given weekend for _cheap._ Now we've got the exact same infrastructure and housing in the core but 5x the number of people. It had matured fully then and has been on an unfortunate decline.
I lived in San Diego for 3 short years. It was wonderful! Now back in my slightly more affordable home state of Maryland. San Diego will always hold a special place in my heart…
@@bigdawggkev I will be here as long as my elderly parents are still alive. The 3,000 mile distance did have me worried at times. After they are gone (hopefully no time soon) the sky’s the limit.
I’m a Marylander moving to San Diego next year. Idc what anyone says nothing on earth could keep me here in boring as Howard county Maryland. San Diego will always be better even with the homeless and peice
I had a condo in one of those downtown high rises. I got tired of the homeless problem, it wasn't fun to walk downtown anymore, so I sold it this summer for almost double what I bought it for. Once you get away from downtown there are plenty of nice areas in SD
@@javierrocabado8503 its all over california from Sacramento to bakersfield. All over southern California nick has a palm springs video a few days ago the problem is horrendous
@@PelosiStockPortfolio Texas, Florida, Colorado, and most red and blue states have horrendous homelessness, a lot of those came and still coming to California because the good weather, the medical care and many state assistance that they are denied in their home places.
Great video on the issues San Diego faces. Been here since 1978, born and raised in L.A. It's really a shame what has happened to our beautiful, prosperous state. The poverty and greed are so apparent that it would disgust most people. I'd like to be able to drive from my home to Disneyland and have it like it was when I was a kid. Believe it or not, mostly dairy farms and orange groves from near LAX to Anaheim in the early 60's. Keep up the good work, love your commentary as well.
California native here and yes, lots of dairy and orange groves. But then all these people moved into Orange County, meadows and orange groves are replace by homes. More homeless Americans moved to California for the weather, SAD!
I was in the US Navy for 20 years. My first ship was stationed in San Diego. I used to walk from 32 Street Naval Base up past Balboa Park & Hospital all the time. I would also walk to the USO. I’d walk back to my ship at 0200 in the morning. No one would ever bother you. I absolutely LOVED San Diego! Then I got orders to NTTC Corey Station in Pensacola, Florida in 1986 I believe. Everyone who’s stationed in San Diego there tells me not to go back. It breaks my heart…
I visited San Diego in 1989 with my family. Mom and dad and us siblings who were around 10 years old. We were tourists from Europe and I remember dad hailing a cab one day when we were about to visit some friends out of town. The driver got so happy when he heard our destination, Costa Mesa, that he shouted joyfully to his cabbie friends "they're going to Costa Mesa!"
Costa Mesa is in Orange County, a very long Taxi drive, very long...he was excited about the fare he was going to get lol San Diego in 1989 was great still, Costa Mesa just ok (lived there before moving to San Diego 1981-82). Glad you visited regardless.
@@kbVACArestatecarsnrvs I talked to my dad today about it and it turns out my childhood memory was a bit incorrect as we took the cab to Costa Mesa from the airport in L.A. A much shorter ride but still he was happy to get a good fare none the less. We went to San Diego later on by hire car :) We also visited Hawaii and Oahu during this same month-long trip.
We went to San Diego about 25 years ago. I saw my first homeless people. I was heartbroken, but they scared me too. It didn't look anything like this. It was just so beautiful. No desire to go back today. I am glad I saw it the way it was before. I am so afraid there is no hope for so much of California. What a sad situation for those that are there in the middle of it all.
I did la 15 years old ish lots scary homeless beggers ! Chicago wasn't as bad or kckc . But I did visit San Diego in 04 for week no homeless or not noticed. Clean laid back. Highways are race tracks :) 6 lanes of fun :). This is sad !!!
The high prices on housing caused all of this dominoes effect homelessness. Houses then apartments then hotel/motels then RV parks. Left in 99 rent for 2 br was 5-600$. Came back in 2003 they were in the $1000s. Every year after $100 rent increases. Sad 😭
I have lived in San Diego for the past 42 years. I used to live in Chicago. It has changed and the housing is not affordable anymore. We bought a mobile home in 89. Now they are selling for 250 thousand with the land. There are pros and cons to most cities. I love Escondido and cannot imagine living anywhere else. We have the beach,desert and mountains within an hours drive. It’s hard to beat that besides the weather.
I’m an Angeleno, but I love taking weekend trips down to San Diego with the wife. Even back around 2016, the situation wasn’t as bad as it is now. It’s sad to see the encampments popping up down there, but it’s still a HUGE far cry from what’s happening in LA and San Francisco/Oakland.
I was in San Diego at age 14 in December 1977. As a young skateboarder I remember being all stoked and exited about being in California coming from cold and wintery British Columbia Canada. For kids of my generation California was the coolest, hippest place on earth. I got my first high end custom skateboard A Logan Duralight for $80.00 while in SD. My general view view of California was very positive even when leaving LA airport passing through South Central and Compton on my way to Disneyland with my family which, at the time like today, were well known high crime areas. I did return to LA in 2002 as an adult, a bit wiser and less stoked, even then, it appeared little changed in appearance except for newer buildings and attractions. These days looking at recent footage I am shocked and horrified at the visible decay, and poverty in areas I recognized when I visited there years ago. Back in the late 80's I had a friend lay it all out in detail on what he believed would be a future of just the super rich and the poor and nothing else. And its so true, so accurate and its everywhere, not just in California.
I born in Medellin Colombia 🇨🇴, when my friends watch the videos on TH-cam of the homeless people in LA, they ask me why I don’t move back to Medellin , it’s a city that you can live decently because we have affordable house with a $2,500 down payment , Mortgage is only $150 dollars for a brand new 3 room 2 bathroom gated community niche view apt. So I thought it’s true I moved .
And now you've got that great new leader - Gustavo Petro. Congratulations! The speeches I've heard him make have melted my heart and brought tears to my eyes. As long as the US doesn't assassinate him or regime change him like they did with Pedro Castillo in Peru, you could have a very nice life in Colombia.
Im from San Diego and have lived here for most of my life. It has gone to complete shit over the years. There is so much that doesnt get reported or end up on the news in regards to how violent the homeless have become. Some of them are walking around in downtown with firearms and other weapons.Your video is the most detailed I seen on the different regions and covers a lot of the basics.
I lived there for 2 years. I knew I’d never be able to afford housing long term there. I bought elsewhere where my mortgage is what my rent was in Hillcrest. I called it Sandy Ego bc people were sort of stuck up and materialistic
It seems from 'news' reports that most Americans are armed to the teeth and you risk your life simply walking along any streets - bloody horrible place - who would want to live there ?
That is why I call it a Giant SEWER which it is. Not until you of California Kick out Democrats will it return to a decent City again. Otherwise, you of San Diego enjoy your Giant open air Sewer, Y'all Hear?
Nick Johnson, I am so grateful for all of your work. Your research, insights, commentary, and camera footage are invaluable for showing everyone reality in each location. Think I'd get that from the Chamber of Commerce?? I also just like learning about and seeing the many different cities and towns. Fascinating.
I finally moved out of San Diego, but I miss it. Couldn’t afford it. I see so many homeless in the Downtown area. It’s making the city look bad especially with the tourists. I ended up in San Diego because I was in the military. I miss the nice weather.
You're in the military and you can't afford living in San Diego? I'm homeless and I live in LA in my minivan, it's very expensive to live even in your car, I can't afford it. What's a swin have to do to get buy nowadays?
I left Dan Diego in 1980. Pete Wilson was mayor & there was a building moratorium. I went to visit three years ago and recognized nothing. It was horrible. Haven't returned and will not. I think that the places you've visited that at one time had a large military presence were thriving a large part because of that presence 😞Even La Jolla has changed.
I just came across this great video! Wow, it brought back the most happy time of my life! My husband was in the Navy, and we spent 1973-1977 stationed there. The weather was perfect, the city was beautiful, and everyday you could find fun things to do that did not cost a lot of money. We were young, had two small children, enjoying life, and didn't want to leave when our time was up. Needless to say, San Diego then, was nothing like what I see in this video. How sad....
Yeah in the 70s people actually could make a living wage as a cashier.. or store clerk.. now they'd have to work three full-time jobs as a cashier or a clerk to be able to survive there...
Yeah a lot of guys like my father came to SD with the Navy, met my mother, who both just by chance came from Brooklyn. 1950s. I crazy enough moved to east coast at age 23(1980) and never left
Nick, as always, you've done a wonderful job on this video. Thank you. San Diego used to be best known for its beautiful weather. Its location in the continental forty-eight states is the closest we have to being a temperate zone. A temperate zone is an area where the temperature remains consistently warm throughout the year. In 1954 an aunt of mine had joined the Navy and she was stationed in San Diego. She spent four years there in the service and she lived in what was then called Navy Housing, an apartment. Because of that she had many of our family members (located in Connecticut) come out to San Diego and visit. Everyone reported on how magnificent the weather is there. And in the 1950s San Diego was a very beautiful place. When I was about nine in the mid-'60s my family left Connecticut and moved to the Ocean Beach section of San Diego. We lived there for about two years before returning to Connecticut, and the weather was so good that I could ride my bike almost every day of the year. The fishing pier in Ocean Beach had been completed and opened the year before we moved there. I remember how beautiful the beach was, not looking at all like what I'm seeing in the video here. The school I attended was on the road that ran along the beach, and I could see the ocean right outside my classroom windows. I remember the ocean breezes blowing into the classroom. One thing that stands out about San Diego is the airport being downtown. That location seems to have worked well prior to the jet-age but certainly by the time of the big airliner crash there in '78(?) the increase of air traffic, its pollution and noise made that downtown airport a very bad location. Though convenient for travelers and particularly those flying into the city. I recall beach camping at Camp Pendelton that Nick and Mark Powell mentioned. At the time Camp Pendelton allowed people to camp there, but I don't know if that's still allowed. People and families liked camping there because they felt safe, as well as it being a completely non-commercial place. And my young self, felt safe knowing that soldiers were watching out for us. Other than periodic patrols, there weren't any services at all for camping there. My parents had bought a little travel trailer and with that my parents made for our family of five to camp comfortably. I also recall us going up into the mountains for a picnic and there was a lot of snow. I thought our parents were fooling us about going up into the mountains and there would be snow. It's a strange thing traveling a relatively short distance from the temperate zone area and arriving at a winter wonderland that was fifty degrees cooler. I'd have liked to have experienced San Diego between 1900-1950. I think it must have been a heavenly place.
@@NickJohnson Thank you very much, Nick. It's an honor to have received a comment from you. You have created an outstanding channel here, and your truths about the state of our nation deserve to be known by all.
I have lived in San Diego for around 8 years. I saw some of the changes, but wasn't around when the city had a "mid-size" feel and homes were more affordable. You did forget to mention that Chula Vista is "split" into 2 sides: east and west. The 805 serves as the unofficial dividing line between east and west. The west side was the "ghetto" side you mentioned. Hop over to the east side and it's pretty much becoming like Carlsbad and other middle to upper middle class neighborhoods. Single family homes on the east side can run up $1 million or more. It's almost like a different world in east Chula Vista when compared to its west side.
I’m a delivery driver and i cover the west side of chula vista from 805, broadway H street and marina bay park are getting really bad and I’ve grown up in that area but once you go west of 3rd ave it’s really nice and feels safe
Last time I was in San Diego was over 30 years ago. Took my son there to see Sea World. Spent several days seeing the sights and it was overall, really nice. Old town was really cool. Sad that it's going the same direction as Los Angeles.
No BS. I’m a Quality Inspector for one of the biggest companies in the world and I cannot afford to buy anything more than a two bedroom condo, in San Diego.
Yeah. Property taxes then HOAs take over $1000. A month that's not including a mortgage and the living expenses. $200,000 minimum income🤭🤸♀️🦨 I make 65,000. Have no mortgages, and couldn't swing a place other then a 800sq foot tinny box! I'll stay in lincoln ca.
I've read a lot of the comments and seems you have stirred up feelings for the area. I visited my uncle in SD in 1978, it was a dream neighborhood, and enjoyed the time I spent there. It is too bad that we can't find leaders that work for the people like they are expected to, rather than their greedy selfish selves.
Born and raised there. Just revisited it two days ago. My son lives there now, two blocks from PetCo Park. Nothing is the same now. Homeless all over, disease, filth, stinks to holy hell. People walk though that crap to get to Petco! You cant park anywhere when there is an event going on. Lots of great memories up until the 80's. Politicians have ruined the place, and even as positive you are about an about face..It will never happen, San Diego has started it's trip down the rabbit hole! Won't be going back anytime soon. People should never allow this kind of crap to happen yo a city. But then again you get what you vote for....Don't feel sorry for any of them!
Yep I live right there too and you forgot because of all the mental ill and drug addicts and homeless people anyone that is sane won't even look to you much less make conversation or say hi on the streets. terrible place to live no community anymore just empty souls.
"Cacafornia" enough said. I have spent all 52 years of my life in California. Lived in both NorCal and SoCal. Watching the decline is heartbreaking. I climbed to the top of the mountain next to Big Bear mountain 10 years ago and on the summit boulder were LA gang graffiti and broken alcohol bottles with a used condom wrapper. Awesome work Nick and especially the commentary. Taking a cruise through the Harbor Area (focused on Wilmington CA) could be an interesting drive: junkyards, projects, strip clubs, dive bars, the harbor, and ghettoes. You were there before I think but it didn't catch the true spirit of the area.
@@CristinaDavalos1127 Understood! I work for a non-profit and have taught sustainability for 15 years at the adult and college level. There are over 50,000 homeless in the city of LA alone. Enjoying the vast but dwindling beauty of California seems like sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich. Not much time to preserve the remaining beauty. California was once home to to Tulare Lake The ninth largest body of fresh water in North America. Gone forever now. There are over 1100 dams in California installed since the 1850s. There is far less remaining than you imagine I guess. These are the last slivers even though they are wonderful. California, the land Kalifa, has been trashed for two centuries.
why put yourself through the wait....is there really a goal worth letting your life be exposed to that....mind you, it got too bad for me 2 decades ago after going to a show in SF and getting acosted by several dozen beggers during a 2 block walk in 2001...
Was born and raised in SD County, and last time visiting SD was back in 2014. At that point, it was pretty bad but usually in downtown shelters, so I'm curious: Did SD actually become that much worse now?
@@AngelloDelNorte Yes, the SD rents, and home prices, are in an expensive bubble. People have moved to Tijuana for a rental, and the headache of crossing the border daily to work in SD. San Diego job market has always been weak, and pay does not match housing costs. In old days, US Military, and Rohr Industries, and General Dynamics, and SPAWars had fat federal govt contracts. NASSCO ship repair facility, North Island Naval Aircraft Rework Facility, etc Camp Pendleton USMC, all of these pumped big bucks into San Diego County. A lot of San Diego Filipino Community members are result of US Navy careers. We bought a house, with land, for $36K in 1977, a small house that we upgraded nicely, we sold 3 years ago for $500K. If we held it longer, it is $600K today!!! 4 miles from the beach, but no real big pay jobs to match house prices. Many service workers cross from Tijuana daily to staff low paying jobs. The freeways are choked with cars. If you want a $100K annual job, work for US Govt at one of the Ports of Entry border crossings, or San Diego Airport. State of California will Tax The Hell out of you, while you avoid stepping on poop on public sidewalks.
I moved from San Diego to Berkeley, CA 6 years ago because I got into UC Berkeley. I think the homeless problem is way worse here but honestly its really bad in EVERY city from San Diego to the Bay. Even rich Santa Barbara has a horrible homelessness problem. With that said, I miss San DIego a lot and I am hopeful that I will be able to afford to buy property there and move back. It's the place I feel is home.
I was born in Sacramento and raised in San Diego East County, and I never thought I would have to leave, but a few years ago I just could not afford the rent and had to move up to Victorville. Some years ago, an acquittance of mine said that eventually San Deigo will become a retirement community because those are the only people that could afford to live there, wow he was right.
@@Utubedeletescomments I did not think houses would have gotten so expensive and my grandmother had an acre of property I had to maintain back then, so I was not into owning a housing mood. I was let someone else maintain the property and I could always store my toys like boats for example on my grandmother's property. Yes, I screwed up and I admit that.
There are really nice areas of a Chula Vista. The east side of CV, AKA Eastlake area, is all new. Probably the largest newer development in all of California.
5 years a security guard in downtown sd, i would say 90 % of homeless are in that situation because of addiction, they get help from people, monthly wellfare but they spend it all on drugs. I did see few individuals that were just having a bad time but i could tell the difference by the way they talked and were looking for a way out.
@@Cherrysmith2809 im sorry but that’s exactly what lead to this issue, the prisons are full of people due to drug related crimes, my brother is a cop in sd and he saids its out of control. Look up Switzerland unorthodox method opioids crisis. They found a way to eliminate the problem, to make it brief they place people with addictions in a type of program that teach them a skill set, once they are done they give them a job, this method makes has a 90% recovery rate. Their approach to this method was base on the psychological fact that most addicts are addicted because they feel like they don’t belong in society, by giving them a useful skill set, they become valuable to society which makes them feel appreciated.
This video made my heart ache. I lived in San Diego proper for 3 years on a boat then moved inland a few miles. Left after 23 years when my husband passed. Really miss it but at present there’s no going back apparently.
@@christinecortese9973 Actually, homeless men have top-shelf tastes, cruising the boutiques of Beverly Hills and Fifth Ave, NY, NY.Some even summer in the Hamptons and winter in Montserrat.
I’ve been going to San Diego for 4 years, always stayed in the Mission Valley area. This area was beautiful 4 years ago, it has now morphed into a sh** hole: homeless everywhere, encampments, loonies walking around tweeked out on meth or just high as a kite on Fentanyl or heroin. I was in the Target store there, absolutely bizarro world: homeless pushing shopping carts in the store with all there smelly junk, loading the shopping carts up with store goods, then just walking right out without paying or worrying about being arrested. Also, video tapped a homeless troll ripping open bags of socks, putting them on, then just walking out, same thing, nobody even tried to stop him. California brought this upon itself, voters voted for it: Prop 47 Prop 57 Assembly Bill 109 Closing of mental health institutions Proposition 47 made all hardcore drug possession and use a simple misdemeanor citable offense. The whole State is an insane asylum.
Hi Nick first time I've ever watched your video very great work. I live in Las Vegas now. But I did live in Pacific Beach from 2006 to 2013. I had a cool little free-standing house just down the alley from Rocky's Pub. I enjoyed it it was a lot of partying going on but I knew that going in but the downside is the jets taking off all day long it's very noisy. New subscriber here. At the time that I lived there on Promontory Street the street was getting filled up with motor homes and people living in their cars.
I grew up in North Park, San Diego 1948-1965. It was basically a Navy town then, the zoo and Balboa Park museums were free to kids under age 16. Altogether wonderful then. Got a job in San Fernando Valley, got married in Iowa ( AF guy) and travelled to Texas, then Key West FL, then back to Texas. As civilians we moved to San Jose in 1975 where our kids grew up. As Silicon Valley brought riches into the area, the cost of living went up to unbelievable levels. I have lived in AZ since 2002. My memories of long ago San Diego are good.
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You MISSED one of the hugest contributing factors to massively high rents and housing costs, it's Airbnb. I've lived in San Diego since the mid-80s and once Airbnb took off I watched the rents double then quadruple as thousands of rental units went off the market to Airbnb. It used to be so much more affordable before then.
@@pablopicaro7649 definitely not coincidence. That is like saying a red light runner and the ensuing crash was coincidental. The other even bigger factor is the new breed of corporate investor. The state of California also shares blame by making it too difficult to build affordable housing. ($1000 / mo) and less.
The work from home people who moved here from the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, Boston, etc didn't help make real estate more affordable either. So not only are we competing with investors for housing, but now there's a whole new element of people who don't even work for SD businesses who have moved here and drove up the housing costs even further. They did the same thing to Phoenix, Boise, Austin and Florida.
You make the best retirement videos ever. I am a Viet Nam era vet that is about to retire. I have a great SSI benefit and a few properties to give to my children. Your teaching of where or where not to park my rent free tent is very informative for me. Please do Santiago, Chile. I already know how to live homeless in the United States. Colorado Springs in the summer and the California coast in the winter. Have you ever hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada and back? Rent free in San Diego for a few weeks here and there would be just dandy. Thank you.
Left 40 years ago. Best move I ever made. When I was growing up there Chula Vista still had farms in the city limits. Place has gone to hell in a hand basket.
We left SD a few years ago for many of these reasons. So sad to have to leave, but also very happy to live where everything is so different in a great way!
I love your show. It has an 80's-90's feel to it, which makes sense, seeing you're a Gen Xer :) Thanks for covering my hometown. It's fun watching all the familiar places :)
I have been a resident of San Diego for over 60 years. The problem is NOT a lack of affordable housing but instead a large and growing number of mentally ill, drug addicted, losers. I've been told that 70% of San Diego's homeless fit this description. They are unemployable, and even if housing prices dropped 75% they would not be able to maintain a household due to their drug use and mental health issues.
Well said. No matter the city: San Diego, Los Angeles , San Fran, NYC, Chicago, Philly, Detroit…the issue is the same: severe substance use with co-existing mental health (often triggered by the drugs). To give these folks “livable wages (Universal Basic income)” will be a death sentence just like giving them “clean needles” and “safe injection sites” and “harm reduction”; all of these policies lead to death for a chronic drug user. The issue was never affordable housing; the issue is lax public policy that has undermined the law enforcement efforts and public’s ability to provide safe exits from homelessness through substance use and mental health treatment.
And you can't force them to get help or to move into a facility for drug addiction or a mental health facility where they can be monitored because that is a breach of their civil rights.
@@lesleyowen7654 I am not trying to be flippant here but it's like breeding vampires.. a drug addict will find someone else to get hooked on drugs so that they can get drugs cheaper from the dealer. It spreads like a disease each addict spreads the disease to someone else. They target kids. And now it's becoming very visible that it's spreading the disease of mental illness the disease of drug addiction. It's like an unspayed cat she can have a litter of kittens every 6 months. Your neighbor how it used to have one cat now it's got 2,000 cats running loose. The other part of this is whether location location. They are not going to go someplace where they're going to freeze to death in shorts and a shirt or a tarp over them.
Born and raised in San Diego but inland in El Cajon is where I grew up spending the 1st 30 years of my life. I left and couldn't be happier that I did. I go once a year to visit family and it's a pit. Homeless everywhere with no where to go. People literally drugged out of their minds, mentally ill roaming everywhere. Its not safe, it's not nice, it's a damned mess. In just one day I saw a drunk drop his pants and spray the side of a 7/11 with diarrhea then a couple hours later, there was a spun out woman with clear mental health issues who took her shirt off, in broad daylight and was just standing on one of the busiest streets in town with her books hanging out. They try to make parts of San Diego look appealing such as the gas lamp district, the embarcadero and touristy areas but outside of those areas, it's a disaster and I have no idea why anybody would want to live there. It's grossly over priced and overrun with filth. It was so pretty when I was growing up. Low crime, clean and affordable not it's the complete opposite. So sad.
Has San Diego become a sad, despicable reality of life in the USA….the deplorable socio-economic conditions that are spreading throughout our country is appalling….the polarization of wealth cannot be denied…but lottery’s are not the answer….somewhere along the road we have lost a sense of values, a communist myth of the classless societies, and a psychotropic mindset of misguided entitlement….why people cannot see that our country is being guided down a rabbit hole, dug by big money like Sorros, Gates and cartels, is beyond me…we, as all great societies, will perish from an implosion of greed, lawlessness and moral decay….perhaps the old German quote is tragically even more true today than ever before, “money rules the world and the stick beats the dog”….
I did a vacation in the downtown a few months back, and the marina views are gorgeous. However, I cannot deny that the homeless issue is beginning to encroach upon the city in a bad way, and while I enjoyed my time overall I'm concerned about the future. I hope better days are on the way. It's like there's a battle in downtown between good and bad. The Gorgeous Hotels (two thumbs up for Manchester Grant Hyatt and Hotel Del Coronado in particular), marina district, gaslamp quarter, cosmopolitan culture and gorgeous beaches clash with the homeless problem.
I was in downtown SD a few weeks ago. An elderly homeless man came up to me, covered in blood, in a daze. He begged me call 911, saying he had been jumped a day earlier. I asked him why he didn’t go to the hospital earlier. He said that nobody was willing to even look at him. Of course, I called 911 for him. I came back to where he was about 2 hours later, and he was still waiting. He was 60 years old.
My son is in the Navy and will be transferring to San Diego soon. I'm going to send him this video. He'll be on a ship part of the time but this will be a good introduction.
Smart idea. Nick does a lot of good! That’s for sure! Thank your son for his service. My husband’s grand daughter is also in the navy. She’s stationed Norfolk Va. ✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
As long as he is Single and lives either on the Ship or in the Baracks, he won't have to worry about paying for Ridiculous Rent cost. BAH should be about $2.5k / month.
Nick, I just got hooked on your channel via the San Bernadino video and really like these vids. I like how you take a look at all these parts of the US from your perspective, but devote equal time to interviews with locals to give a balanced and realistic look at what challenges many corners of the US face. I was born and grew up in San Diego and it breaks my heart to see what has become of the city. I now live on the other end of the Pacific but still visit my family over in SD. San Diego used to be the place that was more chill and slow-paced than LA and SF, but comfortable and easy to live in. Now, I just see the worst aspects of both of those cities infecting and growing within SD. Even though I live in a foreign country now, whenever I visit San Diego my hometown feels more foreign than where I currently live. Mainly because I've acclimated to where I am, but also because SD has transformed so much. Your videos on the homeless and affordable housing crises wrecking the city really shine light on what has tainted the place. Have you thought about doing a trip to Arizona? A focus on Phoenix and Tucson would be a fascinating series of videos. Arizona is where many people from SoCal escaped to get away from Cali's horrible taxes and laws, but now there are a lot of signs that Arizona is starting to suffer from the "Cali Plague" and old school native Arizonans are really hating it. Even the housing there has gone crazy and the homeless problem is starting to get bad as well.
I was in san diego back in october of this year and i saw the homeless tents everywhere. Despite the smells i still loved visiting that city. I get home sick and i never lived there.
lmao, I just went to downtown San Diego and all over the city. Go there yearly. I haven't seen anything he pointed out in SD. He is literally Cherry Picking the "bad areas". Like every city, there are good and bad parts of a town.
In 01-02 while in the Marines it was getting better I think. Im guessing it was more conservative then but I got out in 2002. As you said it Democrats allowing all of this crap happen and dont care now.
I travel to Baja a lot and despite the fact that they are way poorer than in SD and have lots of other problems, there is only a fraction of the homeless. Most of the homeless I see south of the border are migrants from Central America that are just passing through on their journey to the USA.
First of all anybody that from Mexico that wants to be in America's been here for twenty years and how do you know their nationalities do they wear a flag from what country they're from on their back.. I go down to Mexico a lot myself. It's obvious that you visit a different Mexico than I do..
As a Brit I was shocked to see the homeless situation in LA on a visit a few months back. Then somebody told me San Francisco was the same. Now San Diego too? How the hell has this happened when California has a larger economy than the whole of the UK?! I love California but damn
Until 2019, San Diego was my favorite place in America to visit. On our last trip (2019), I was disgusted by the amount of pee puddles we had to jump over, while walking to the beach. I don’t know if we’ll ever go back. 🙁
@bulrich610 you would think street cleaners would be high demand not even over here in Florida You're lucky if you see them once a week that needs to stop they need to be out every day, cleanliness is next to Godliness.
I lived there in the ‘80’s and still have family there. The freeway system is much more extensive and the hills and outer areas have been developed. Used to be quick and easy to get around but the traffic, especially rush hour, can be bad. Not as bad as LA yet. I still enjoy San Diego when I visit, though.
I lived in San Diego 10 years. Left to go back to home state over a year ago. It's such a shame but, it's getting bad in parts of SD. Whole families in cars, drug addicts everywhere, and theft galore. We left just in time. Hope the Navy doesn't send us back. Loved it there at one time. Just can't do it anymore.
I am a Native Californian, but no longer live there. It breaks my heart to see what is going on. I was born and raised in the Central Valley where the food is so very good. I also have lived in the Salinas Monterey area for 14 years and my husband worked for one of large produce companies. Wonderful produce. I know live at the end of the world.
Coronado Island was the Spanish Land Grant given to Pedro Carrillo, he sold it in the 1800"s for 3 thousand dollars. My 4th GGF and his brother had one for all of Alpine - they sold in 1846 in 2 parcels for 1,400. It was 17 thousand acres.
I wonder if the lack of Asian and Hispanic homeless, based on your observation, is that they have a stronger sense of family. It isn't uncommon for multiple generations to live together.
I remember having a blast visiting downtown SD back in 2014-16. Nowadays I have more trust walking through National City at night. Going into downtown these days, I have to keep looking down to avoid excrement. While selectively tuning out my surroundings. Though I do tend to tune in on the sane ones that are just down on their luck.
I was in SD about 5 yrs ago (2016/2017) and it was beautiful. I remember staying at an AirBNB in Gaslamp and walking around at night then and it was fun and pretty much safe. My family had a great time then, I’m hoping that things will get better. Thanks for the video 😊💎
I left around that time to the midwest. It’s only gone downhill from there. Had a great job managing commercial landscapes like Petco Park, all the swanky condo complexes to north county coastal properties. Certainly miss surfing Blacks. But overall the lineup is waaaay to crowded. Impossible to park.
Man! So glad we left California. It will be 3 years ago next month. I spent close to 20 years of my life out there being stationed in the military and staying another 15+ years after separation. I remember first going to SD on a 96 hour weekend in 2000 and being amazed 😍. Also very surprised at all the homeless even then. Looks like that was nothing compared to today. Quite sad I tell you. We sometimes go back to OC to visit friends and family, but it’s kinda like Biggie once said “Cali great place to visit”. I couldn’t see us going back and struggling like we were with everything costing $ costing so darn much.
I went to San Diego back in 2010 and loved it. But I was taken aback by the amount of homelessness there was downtown. I can't even begin to imagine how much worse it got.
I remember in the mid-80s when I lived downtown at 7th and Island, there was ONE homeless guy. That's right. JUST ONE on 5th Ave. dragging his blanket. He was fat and he would beg restaurant goers for money. ONE HOMELESS GUY!
North County is the place to be if you can work from home and avoid the commute. It's expensive but now it's expensive everywere so you might as well escape the homeless blight and enjoy the beaches.
Informative and concerning. Cannot address the "homeless problem" without acknowledging untreated psychiatric and substance use issues. Yet, CA continues to approach it that way. Nick, would you consider doing these in the future? Either way - thanks and Happy 2023 to you. 1. The High Desert, CA (Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley, Adelanto, etc.) 2. Chicago Suburbs (Chicago Heights, Park Forest, Harvey, Dolton, Sauk Village, etc.) 3. Culver City, CA
As a human being born in these United States, it is unacceptable to see and pass by and do nothing about this beautiful state! OMG! UNACCEPTABLE UNACCEPTABLE UNACCEPTABLE Pray😢
I work as a HVAC Service Technician for a big company out of North County San Diego. I work on am average of 5 homes a day in the entire county. Alot in LA jolla, rancho santa fe, carlsbad etc. It's a pretty cool experience being able to enter some of these homes and talk to wealthy people. Most of the time the wealthy customers I work for are really cool. The ones that worked hard to get where they are, are almost always conservative. I noticed the liberal ones tend to have family inheritance etc.
We live in a Gilded Age. Just like the late 19th century, the wealthy have a massive amount, and the poor so little. However, just as then, drugs and alcohol don't help.
As a Mexico born Mexican living in the US, the reason as to why u rarely seen Hispanics living in the streets is because of our culture; families are close knit and hard working people and we allow large family members to live together for the better or worse
Looks like you haven’t been to LA much
No Hispanics live in the streets to and they also get fucked on all the dope they deal to each other to but it's mostly because employers hire low wage illegal migrants over american citizens because they pay less and don't have to pay benefit's by the way mexican families are not that big anymore it's less than 2 per family by now because the birth rate has plummeted even in mexico since the 1970's.
Also hispanics are alwyas constantly working hard or out looking for work
Hundo P.
Huge respect for Hispanics living here in Kansas City. They are the few people here who will actually work for a living. They have great family values and I have great respect for them.
I live in Colorado. A lot of places that have never had a homeless problem now have homeless cities. It's an issue across the country.
Democratic policies.
Poverty, Inc. -- it's a mindfuck case of the more you do to help, the worse it gets.
@@bscottb8 it would be far cheaper to help people with rent. Drug test and clean up the druggies and force real changes to the building permit and lawsuit mess.
@@trserrin Capitalism policies**
@@blakejohnson3864 bingo. Everyone is escaping their fascist red states for greener pastures in places like Colorado and California, myself included. I don’t need some nanny government telling me I can’t even enjoy cannabis in my free time… for half the wages, too. Unreal.
Thanks so much for posting this. I saw your videos 2 years ago about New Jersey and I was so glad to hear about the realistic approach and lifestyle out there. You now did my hometown San Diego!!! Thank you sooooo much for the honest truth about our city!!!
I lived in San Diego from 1974 to 1978, while attending SDSU. That was an incredible time to live down there and I have many happy memories. There were no homeless people pooping anywhere in SD back then.
Back then, La Jolla was affordable.
I so loved growing up in San Diego. We finally had to sell the family house there, this year, to pay for Mom’s care. The city worked so hard to clean-up the downtown in the 80s and it worked. Such a gem. Heartbreaking to see it mistreated so very badly. Those in charge have changed. Such a waste. My family was one of those who landed in SD because of my dad’s Navy career. He was a frogman. Living in Long Beach has taught me that, “If you feed them, they will come.” Offering services draws homeless. Good weather, alone, won’t result in such large numbers. Not saying that as a criticism of helping people. It just seems to be the way it works.
Same here grew up in Santee grad Santana high 1974 went into usmc Feb 74 good times back then
Immigration act of 1965
The main causes of homelessness a political changes that have occurred since 1980. Reagan attacked unions thus lowering the wages of most hourly workers because companies won't pay a higher wage if they don't have to compete against unionized shops for workers. Reagan also changed the tax laws so that the wealthy paid less and less tax. Reagan raised taxes many times on everybody else--he even started taxing social security benefits. The federal government under Reagan stopped sending income tax money back to the States but instead started spending it on the military. Of all the ways you can spend tax money, more of it goes to the 1% if you spend it on the military. The reason for this is that military spending is technology spending. Technology spending goes to people in the stock market. Almost all the stock market is owned by the 1%. Additionally, military spending a secret so if you pay your pal $400 for $5 toilet seat, no One ever knows unless somehow it gets ratted out.
The supreme court, which 90% of the time rules for whoever is more wealthier more powerful in front of them, also started making laws. The loss they made were that they decided campaign finance regulation was illegal. The first case was Buckley v Valeo--brought by the brother of William Buckley a television far right wing conservative commentator who happened to be a federal judge. He decided that he personally, and he was very rich, didn't like campaign finance law so he personally brought a lawsuit against campaign finance laws. That lawsuit said that spending money on campaigns was equivalent to free speech. Since we have a first amendment for free speech, which I'm sure the founders never meant free speech to apply to something that was not a human being. Scotus, without Congress made it illegal to restrict speech for rich people. Given how right-wing the supreme Court was, there's no surprise that 2 years later there was another lawsuit that said that corporations, which are not human beings, had the right of free speech and thus the right to spend as much money on elections as possible.
I was born and raised in San Diego but have not lived there since the '90's. When my father passed away in 2015, I stayed in his house (my boyhood home) for about a week with my brother. We were just cleaning the place up and doing yardwork while trying to figure out what we wanted to do with it. At one point a couple of guys in expensive suits came over and made us an immediate lowball cash offer to buy the house. We both declined, as they were pushy and seemed like shady characters. Then we discovered that they'd seen our father's obituary and decided to see if they could just come over and take advantage of a grieving family. Slimeballs.
Omg what???
Yes the slime balls u mention. Saw my grandmothers death notice and broke in robed the place. Riverside CA.
Holy shit. Did you happen to get a business card or know their names?
And what was their sales pitch? “Hey buddy… saw your dad just passed away. Thought we’d swing by and try to weasel this house out of your inheritance. What do ya say?”
Or did they play it off like they had no idea and were just approaching people randomly?
drdan75 .........vultures are always circling when someone dies.......they either want the house,contents or car sitting in garage........then you have family members youve not seen for years looking for $$$,jewellery,etc.
I visited San Diego once back in '86 as a teenager. I've been all over the country, but that was one of my fondest experiences.
Such a cool town. Kinda sad to see it in its current state. Hopefully California as a whole can make a turn around some day soon.
Numbskull
Unfortunately, it’s probably not gonna happen. The entire country is headed that way.😢😡
I worked for the Navy in San Diego in the 80’s. It was clean and a safe place to live. It’s heartbreaking to see what’s become of this beautiful city! So sad!
It is Marsha
It is sad
You never been to Horton Plaza in the 80s then or Mission Beach.
Very big cities have very complex problems.
We arrived in San Diego at the end of 1978, with the Navy/military in the Linda Vista area (visited by Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1940s, when those apartments were first built, I am guessing) having just completed its move, to Rosecrans & other places.
Tons of poor Southeast Asian refugees and tons of poor, newly arriving Mexican and other Latin American immigrants.... we dominated that former housing area of the US military, in Linda Vista throughout the 1970s and 80s...
But Linda Vista & those old housings also are just a stone throw from Fiesta Island, Sea World, and the beautiful beaches there; a mile from our old apartment by the canyon area, there's the neighbors and people that sustained the ultra expensive, private, Catholic University of San Diego (I believe Bush and Al Gore debated there once).
Today, lots developments & money inched their way from the other side, the Fashion Valley/Mission Valley area... and my former, poor neighborhood is now slowly being swallowed up by new expensive apartments, making it too expensive fore poorer families to live in.
Basically, from the Old Town/Mission Valley, Fashion Valley, through my former poor neighborhood of Linda Vista, to the Miramar & Mira Mesa area, onto the affluent Poway region, on the left side I-15 going north.... and on the far side of it, along 805, going north, on the exclusively affluent Rancho Santa Fe, Fairbanks Ranch areas... all the way up to and through the San Marcos area.... it's just ENDLESS DEVELOPMENTS!
After 25 years away, I returned to visit San Diego recently and I was so shocked at its drastic transformation.... on every front...
Believe it or not, as a Junior High school boy, I used to go fishing under the 805 Bridge, a mile north of Fashion & Mission valley malls... It's a wild place...
Now, EVERY inch of land there is taken ovre by office buildings or luxury condos.
Could have bought $15,000 worth of 1/2 acre of "useless land" there where I fished and now it'd be worth $10M!
But, yes, the sight of so many homeless people all over like what's seen here... it is distressing...
Used to be, from childhood memory of the late 1970s through much of the 1980s.... mostly only individuals & small groups in or around the Balboa Park area, across from the Uptown/Hillcrest areas... and individual wandering in Downtown, San Diego... a favored place to wander around for me, too, throughout high school and college days....
There was almost never big camps like these around or under bridges and overpasses like shown here....
But people, rich and poor, have been moving to 362 day a year sunny San Diego from southern states (poor states with very little social programs), northern states (cold like hell, from November to April, and then boiling hot in summer days, from May through October)...
And with each cycle of economic boom & bust, with each generation, there seems to be tens of thousands more of these very deprived people. Some are mentally and physically okay who just don't work or who can't find work.... but many also are handicapped or unwell, with many social, mental, and physical needs...
Suffering, as the wise old Buddha and others have observed thousands of years ago --- before there was any of these modern & acute homelessness --- seems to be a FUNCTION of the human experience...
P.S. one funny, odd, and perplexing anecdote: at UCSD I worked for 4 years in the student cafeteria at the Revelle College diner place, the largest cafeteria on campus. There used to be a colleague student who also worked there and he told us he was living (at night) by the bushes near the Glider Port/Torrey Pines Golf Course/Blacks Beach area.
When I first heard about his story --- smart kid but one from a broken home without family support --- I thought it was odd and funny. He said housing was too expensive and he didn't have enough money to pay rent. Or he chose it because he could save money? His story, odd back then in the mid 1980s, is quite typical today... of people, young and old, who are smart, educated, and hard working who just don't have enough resources for a place to stay, in a lasting way...
BTW, if you worked at the cafeteria as a student, a meal only cost you 10 cents, so it's a very good deal; you save a lot of money on foods! And, yes, we WERE earning slightly more than the minimal wage ---- over $7 an hour, in the mid 1980s to early 90s ---- with small increases, so working in the cafeteria in college is a very good idea on many fronts in terms of cost-saving...
It will soon belong to the Cyborgs and other Creatures in the future!!
Im a San Diegan after about five years of not visiting downtown, the other day I had to go to the courthouse, I was in shock! What a horrible dirty place!…homeless people everywhere. The most shocking thing for me was to see a lot of homeless senior citizens…my heart broke in pieces…I help a little old lady to push her buggy cart, I hear two of them talking about where they were going to spend the night…it was early in the morning and they were already worried about shelter for the night…very, very sad.
I was picking up mail on a very cold night last month and this old lady walked to me begging for help, as she didn't have a place to sleep and they wouldn't let her sleep in the mail room. It was so heartbreaking to see. I called 911 and they said they'd send help. We live in a very disfunctional world these days. And it's everywhere in the world. The only places you won't see homeless these days are the places not attractive enough for newcomers.
Only in the wealthiest, greediest, capitalistic pig society ever in the history of Earth, will you see homeless elderly.
did you park at the mall that was my favorite part of going to that court is I could get free parking if I bought something so I always got cheese fries and a drink from super fries don't know if it's still there or if mall has stores in it still but it's way better than hiking and paying 20 bucks to park
Yet, these same people voted for the SOBs in Sacramento & Washington DC who ruined your state & the country. They are giving debit cards to illegals & over a trillion to Ukraine - but American seniors are sleeping in tents! Eff you, JB!😡
Too many homeless Americans more for the weather, and lets face it San Diego has the best weather in the country.
I am a native San Diegan. I love this place. Not going any where. I left years ago, was gone for 10 years and came back. It's not perfect but there are good paying jobs and the weather is GREAT! When I was gone, the cities I moved to had very little employment opportunities. The pay was not much either. I have many friends that have moved away and I see them on Facebook complaining about the weather in their new cities. There's also LOTS to do here. We have beaches, mountains (with snow at times), the zoo, Sea World, Mexico, Los Angeles up north, etc.
Agreed! I have lived here all my life and I still love it. ❤
I worked as a volunteer in L.A. to get homeless people off the street and discovered what a large percentage of the people living in squalid homeless camps will tell you right to your face. They live on the streets to pursue their drug addictions and be free from any personal responsibility to take care of themselves. Even when affordable housing is offered they will reject it if there are any strings attached like curfews or no alcohol or drugs. The homeless drug addicts will also tell you they will end their drug addiction and get off the street when they decide thats what they want to do. Which is why most of the drug and alcohol rehab programs are a big scam to charge taxpayers millions of dollars $ to rehabilitate homeless drug addicts who just relapse and go back to their addictions. So providing affordable housing to people working in low paying jobs will help lift them out of poverty but it's not a solution for homeless drug addicts.
⬆️⬆️Criminally underrated comment... Thanks for speak truth 🙏🏾
You cannot save those who wish not to be saved.
Underneath homeless is a drug problem..underneath the drug problem is usually a mental illlness..x1000s of people
My brother is one of those addicts living on the streets in soCal. Help from family was offered multiple times but he wasn't interested in anything but living in squalor freely. No regimen no responsibility. Mentally checked out many years ago. He doesn't qualify to be a danger to himself or anyone so CA says 'whatever dude.'
So let’s help the working poor then.
@@emilym8571 Many homeless drug addicts have family members who tried to help them but their good intentions backfire because the homeless drug addict steals anything thats not nailed down to sell for drug $ .
Its also dangerous because drug dealers are mixing crystal meth with fentanyl which allows a drug addict to go on drug binges 24/7 for 5 or 6 days which can trigger a psychotic breakdown due to sleep deprivation involving delusions, hallucinations and potentially violence.
Much like gov't programs that indefinitely provide free food, cloths and blankets etc to homeless drug addicts no questions asked their good intentions don't solve the problem but enable and perpetuate a parasitic lifestyle because they don't understand that the goal of homeless drug addicts is to manipulate and use everyone else to pursue their addiction by becoming the turd in the punch bowl that everyone else is then forced to deal with.
As someone lived in SD for 10 years and left, this is a highly accurate summary of the different regions of San Diego.
could you go into detail on the political situation in SD? seems very similar to what's happening in northern California
Gentrification has happened in most big cities in the US. Globalists knew that this would cause massive levels of homeless in these cities. It was also used as a weapon against Americans to depopulate. Agenda 21 is back in play and moving swiftly.
And the liberal realtor didn’t even mention that his chinese clients are the ones making the RE prices unaffordable.
@@maxwalsh234 it's all over california
@@maxwalsh234 It used to be conservative and poorly run but not destitute. Now it's run by progressives and poorly run and 2nd world.
About two decades ago, I lived in San Diego for two years while attending university. I would pay appx. $600 for a studio close to Fashion Valley Mall. Used to work at a law-firm in downtown. I would go to the beach once a week with my Eros Ramazzoti music and my Starbucks cappuccino. The weather is absolutely beautiful year round. Absolutely loved it! Great memories!
I'm from San Diego. It really got worse during and after the pandemic as with many places
Agree. I actually just moved recently here in SD. And omg how expensive is right now.
Yeah. The flu is the reason.
@@brianchisnell1548 if that's the case, we wouldn't have a inflation crisis internationally to delay shipping items around the World. If you know how inflation works as it seems media is taking advantage of your rent free space. You would think differently.
@@BrandonHanson I know how inflation works. I am born in inflation back in 90s'. So yeah media ,they are the worst in this case. People also should be more together and helping each other. Which is not the case. At least not that I am seeing it around me. And more homeless % on the street. We all know why.
@@BrandonHanson Ya don't understand humor or sarcasm. The place was a shithole long before the pandemic. Born there in the late 50's. I outta know.
Love, love, love San Diego! My Aunt has lived in San Diego for 52 years. She paid less than $40,000 for her house and it's now worth close to $950,000. That is crazy! She got in on the fixed taxes in her neighborhood. My poor cousin can't afford to buy a house in San Diego and he works at the San Diego Zoo. So sad.
Tell your aunt to put the house in a trust ASAP. That way your cousin can inherit it & the government cannot force the sale to take money from your aunt for healthcare. Better do it or you cousin will never get an inheritance.
That's excellent advice. Don't let the nursing home get it.
It's all greed..I'm from Diego..I had to leave
I lived in San Diego for 52 years. This was a very accurate video. Good job Nick.
I left San Diego in 1999 after almost 20 years being there. It's just a shame about all of the problems you have covered in this video. I love the place and miss it, but since I'm not young anymore I guess I made the right choice to leave before this all happened. I hope it can be fixed and people can be helped to live better. Thanks again for your video's.
The news on tv said poway is safer
This city is screwed beyond all recognition and it's only gonna get worse.
I lived two consecutive winters in SD back in the mid/late 80's (me and a training buddy were down there for sports training). We rented a really cool little bungalow a half block from the north end of PB. Rent? $700/month. SD was nice enough, but it never grabbed me as a place to live permanently. Sorry to see it so expanded and goin' to hell like LA and SF.
"all over town you hear about people who have left for arizona, utah, colorado, texas... escondido. people cant afford it here anymore" - one of these is not like the other. this cracked me up
the commyfornia leftist idiots are coming to Arizona and dropping the same BLUE ballots in the box that killed that place.
hahaha Escondido! that was good.
Escondido is nearly just as expensive and just as ghetto like San Diego.
I feel sorry for UT and Texas, though, since those states are way different, and ppl are just gonna turn it to another california.
Escondido 😆😆😆😆😆 what about Poway
@@AngelicoCiudad if that's the case you might as well call Florida a new Ohio, when not seeing New York or other states moving down there. If America actually had a legitimate political system instead of 2 failing parties (Democrats and Republicans) to ruin America and make us more divided. All 50 states would he better and offer better lives for our own people. Forget supporting red or blue, they'll both leave you dead after they screw with you.
Was driving in San Diego during the 70s. Wanted to catch some rest, pulled the car over to catch a nap one late night. Wasn't long before the cops were there , telling me if I didn't get moving I'd be arrested for vagrency. Things sure have changed.
It’s 2023 of course things have changed since the 1970’s 😂 All jokes aside the homeless situation is out of control here & across the country & there needs to be a solid plan to address the issue rather than just breaking down their encampments every so often. All that does is leave them with even less than they already have. The mentally ill NEED the most help & drug addicts need long term rehabilitation.
SWEET 70s
From everything I've seen about San Diego in the 70s it was an absolutely perfect place to live. Nearly everything we have now, entertainment, freeways, even more open space, and far far fewer people. You can even look in the Reader for concerts and see some of the best acts in the country, Led Zeppelin, ELO, Three Dog Night, you name it all playing on any given weekend for _cheap._ Now we've got the exact same infrastructure and housing in the core but 5x the number of people. It had matured fully then and has been on an unfortunate decline.
@@tjackson4982 - They need rehab, but most don’t want it.
Nick, It's even getting worse than you say. Neither party has handled the situation well. Good point, Nick. Thanks for sharing.
I lived in San Diego for 3 short years. It was wonderful! Now back in my slightly more affordable home state of Maryland. San Diego will always hold a special place in my heart…
Hi.. do they still tax MD for rain off water? 😕
✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
I’m in Maryland rn and plan on moving elsewhere as soon as I can afford it. I love this state but it’s not for me
@@bigdawggkev I will be here as long as my elderly parents are still alive. The 3,000 mile distance did have me worried at times. After they are gone (hopefully no time soon) the sky’s the limit.
I’m a Marylander moving to San Diego next year. Idc what anyone says nothing on earth could keep me here in boring as Howard county Maryland. San Diego will always be better even with the homeless and peice
@@beambooi6431 San Diego is endless restaurant choices be sure to check out the fish tacos.
I had a condo in one of those downtown high rises. I got tired of the homeless problem, it wasn't fun to walk downtown anymore, so I sold it this summer for almost double what I bought it for. Once you get away from downtown there are plenty of nice areas in SD
I thought is was LA and SF problem due to their democrat mayors.
@@javierrocabado8503 its all over california from Sacramento to bakersfield. All over southern California nick has a palm springs video a few days ago the problem is horrendous
@@javierrocabado8503 SD also has a democrat mayor. But LA and SF are far worse than any other city
@@PelosiStockPortfolio Texas, Florida, Colorado, and most red and blue states have horrendous homelessness, a lot of those came and still coming to California because the good weather, the medical care and many state assistance that they are denied in their home places.
I have a condo up North in Mira Mesa, not many homeless here, everything around here in the walking distance, bike or ride a bus , very convenient.
If you are visiting San Diego, stay away from downtown at night. It's downright dangerous.
@@josephimperatrice5552 Only thing tough on you is your breath!
Well as a women I understand. But as a 6'3 230 pound man I wish a nigga would
BS theres some homeless people most of them are fighting their own heads, crime rates are low.
Great video on the issues San Diego faces. Been here since 1978, born and raised in L.A. It's really a shame what has happened to our beautiful, prosperous state. The poverty and greed are so apparent that it would disgust most people. I'd like to be able to drive from my home to Disneyland and have it like it was when I was a kid. Believe it or not, mostly dairy farms and orange groves from near LAX to Anaheim in the early 60's. Keep up the good work, love your commentary as well.
Oh yeah. Mission Valley was dairy farms in the 60s. Saw it change to malls before my kid eyes.
California native here and yes, lots of dairy and orange groves. But then all these people moved into Orange County, meadows and orange groves are replace by homes. More homeless Americans moved to California for the weather, SAD!
San Diego is my favorite city. Will be heading there for my honeymoon. BTW I Love watching your videos from Kenya 🇰🇪
I was in the US Navy for 20 years. My first ship was stationed in San Diego. I used to walk from 32 Street Naval Base up past Balboa Park & Hospital all the time. I would also walk to the USO. I’d walk back to my ship at 0200 in the morning. No one would ever bother you. I absolutely LOVED San Diego! Then I got orders to NTTC Corey Station in Pensacola, Florida in 1986 I believe. Everyone who’s stationed in San Diego there tells me not to go back. It breaks my heart…
I visited San Diego in 1989 with my family. Mom and dad and us siblings who were around 10 years old. We were tourists from Europe and I remember dad hailing a cab one day when we were about to visit some friends out of town.
The driver got so happy when he heard our destination, Costa Mesa, that he shouted joyfully to his cabbie friends "they're going to Costa Mesa!"
Costa Mesa is in Orange County, a very long Taxi drive, very long...he was excited about the fare he was going to get lol San Diego in 1989 was great still, Costa Mesa just ok (lived there before moving to San Diego 1981-82). Glad you visited regardless.
@@kbVACArestatecarsnrvs I talked to my dad today about it and it turns out my childhood memory was a bit incorrect as we took the cab to Costa Mesa from the airport in L.A. A much shorter ride but still he was happy to get a good fare none the less. We went to San Diego later on by hire car :)
We also visited Hawaii and Oahu during this same month-long trip.
We went to San Diego about 25 years ago. I saw my first homeless people. I was heartbroken, but they scared me too. It didn't look anything like this. It was just so beautiful. No desire to go back today. I am glad I saw it the way it was before. I am so afraid there is no hope for so much of California. What a sad situation for those that are there in the middle of it all.
Same here, I thought it was crazy then.
I did la 15 years old ish lots scary homeless beggers ! Chicago wasn't as bad or kckc .
But I did visit San Diego in 04 for week no homeless or not noticed. Clean laid back. Highways are race tracks :) 6 lanes of fun :). This is sad !!!
I sAw My FiRsT hOmElEsS pEoPlE
The high prices on housing caused all of this dominoes effect homelessness. Houses then apartments then hotel/motels then RV parks. Left in 99 rent for 2 br was 5-600$. Came back in 2003 they were in the $1000s. Every year after $100 rent increases. Sad 😭
@@wrotedog Housing is cheaper in Mississippi 🙂
I have lived in San Diego for the past 42 years. I used to live in Chicago. It has changed and the housing is not affordable anymore. We bought a mobile home in 89. Now they are selling for 250 thousand with the land. There are pros and cons to most cities. I love Escondido and cannot imagine living anywhere else. We have the beach,desert and mountains within an hours drive. It’s hard to beat that besides the weather.
Funny! I left Encinitas for Elmhurst
I really appreciate the honesty in your videos. I been watching you for years. Don't stop what you're doing. 💯
OK PJ
I’m an Angeleno, but I love taking weekend trips down to San Diego with the wife. Even back around 2016, the situation wasn’t as bad as it is now. It’s sad to see the encampments popping up down there, but it’s still a HUGE far cry from what’s happening in LA and San Francisco/Oakland.
Give it time
It gets worse every day. They should have done something long ago. We’re right behind S.F. and L.A. now. 😢😡
I was in San Diego at age 14 in December 1977. As a young skateboarder I remember being all stoked and exited about being in California coming from cold and wintery British Columbia Canada. For kids of my generation California was the coolest, hippest place on earth. I got my first high end custom skateboard A Logan Duralight for $80.00 while in SD. My general view view of California was very positive even when leaving LA airport passing through South Central and Compton on my way to Disneyland with my family which, at the time like today, were well known high crime areas. I did return to LA in 2002 as an adult, a bit wiser and less stoked, even then, it appeared little changed in appearance except for newer buildings and attractions. These days looking at recent footage I am shocked and horrified at the visible decay, and poverty in areas I recognized when I visited there years ago. Back in the late 80's I had a friend lay it all out in detail on what he believed would be a future of just the super rich and the poor and nothing else. And its so true, so accurate and its everywhere, not just in California.
I enjoyed your channel regarding San Diego. Thanks for bringing light the reality as to what’s happening in this great City.
I born in Medellin Colombia 🇨🇴, when my friends watch the videos on TH-cam of the homeless people in LA, they ask me why I don’t move back to Medellin , it’s a city that you can live decently because we have affordable house with a $2,500 down payment , Mortgage is only $150 dollars for a brand new 3 room 2 bathroom gated community niche view apt. So I thought it’s true I moved .
Wow lucky
And now you've got that great new leader - Gustavo Petro. Congratulations! The speeches I've heard him make have melted my heart and brought tears to my eyes. As long as the US doesn't assassinate him or regime change him like they did with Pedro Castillo in Peru, you could have a very nice life in Colombia.
Im from San Diego and have lived here for most of my life. It has gone to complete shit over the years. There is so much that doesnt get reported or end up on the news in regards to how violent the homeless have become. Some of them are walking around in downtown with firearms and other weapons.Your video is the most detailed I seen on the different regions and covers a lot of the basics.
I lived there for 2 years. I knew I’d never be able to afford housing long term there. I bought elsewhere where my mortgage is what my rent was in Hillcrest. I called it Sandy Ego bc people were sort of stuck up and materialistic
It seems from 'news' reports that most Americans are armed to the teeth and you risk your life simply walking along any streets - bloody horrible place - who would want to live there ?
That is why I call it a Giant SEWER which it is. Not until you of California Kick out Democrats will it return to a decent City again. Otherwise, you of San Diego enjoy your Giant open air Sewer, Y'all Hear?
@@jimcoulter5877 The weather will always attract both the wealthly and the homeless. I suppose some would like more authoritarian rule.
i had my window busted by some tweaker and when i tried to report it the police pretty much told me to F off
Nick Johnson, I am so grateful for all of your work. Your research, insights, commentary, and camera footage are invaluable for showing everyone reality in each location. Think I'd get that from the Chamber of Commerce?? I also just like learning about and seeing the many different cities and towns. Fascinating.
Thanks for sharing this! Happy New Years 🙏🙏🙏
I finally moved out of San Diego, but I miss it. Couldn’t afford it. I see so many homeless in the Downtown area. It’s making the city look bad especially with the tourists. I ended up in San Diego because I was in the military. I miss the nice weather.
You're in the military and you can't afford living in San Diego? I'm homeless and I live in LA in my minivan, it's very expensive to live even in your car, I can't afford it. What's a swin have to do to get buy nowadays?
I left Dan Diego in 1980. Pete Wilson was mayor & there was a building moratorium. I went to visit three years ago and recognized nothing. It was horrible. Haven't returned and will not. I think that the places you've visited that at one time had a large military presence were thriving a large part because of that presence 😞Even La Jolla has changed.
I just came across this great video! Wow, it brought back the most happy time of my life! My husband was in the Navy, and we spent 1973-1977 stationed there. The weather was perfect, the city was beautiful, and everyday you could find fun things to do that did not cost a lot of money. We were young, had two small children, enjoying life, and didn't want to leave when our time was up. Needless to say, San Diego then, was nothing like what I see in this video. How sad....
Yeah in the 70s people actually could make a living wage as a cashier.. or store clerk.. now they'd have to work three full-time jobs as a cashier or a clerk to be able to survive there...
America was better overall in the 70s, since then it has declined, you were lucky
Yeah a lot of guys like my father came to SD with the Navy, met my mother, who both just by chance came from Brooklyn. 1950s. I crazy enough moved to east coast at age 23(1980) and never left
Nick, as always, you've done a wonderful job on this video. Thank you.
San Diego used to be best known for its beautiful weather. Its location in the continental forty-eight states is the closest we have to being a temperate zone. A temperate zone is an area where the temperature remains consistently warm throughout the year.
In 1954 an aunt of mine had joined the Navy and she was stationed in San Diego. She spent four years there in the service and she lived in what was then called Navy Housing, an apartment. Because of that she had many of our family members (located in Connecticut) come out to San Diego and visit. Everyone reported on how magnificent the weather is there. And in the 1950s San Diego was a very beautiful place.
When I was about nine in the mid-'60s my family left Connecticut and moved to the Ocean Beach section of San Diego. We lived there for about two years before returning to Connecticut, and the weather was so good that I could ride my bike almost every day of the year. The fishing pier in Ocean Beach had been completed and opened the year before we moved there. I remember how beautiful the beach was, not looking at all like what I'm seeing in the video here. The school I attended was on the road that ran along the beach, and I could see the ocean right outside my classroom windows. I remember the ocean breezes blowing into the classroom.
One thing that stands out about San Diego is the airport being downtown. That location seems to have worked well prior to the jet-age but certainly by the time of the big airliner crash there in '78(?) the increase of air traffic, its pollution and noise made that downtown airport a very bad location. Though convenient for travelers and particularly those flying into the city.
I recall beach camping at Camp Pendelton that Nick and Mark Powell mentioned. At the time Camp Pendelton allowed people to camp there, but I don't know if that's still allowed. People and families liked camping there because they felt safe, as well as it being a completely non-commercial place. And my young self, felt safe knowing that soldiers were watching out for us. Other than periodic patrols, there weren't any services at all for camping there. My parents had bought a little travel trailer and with that my parents made for our family of five to camp comfortably. I also recall us going up into the mountains for a picnic and there was a lot of snow. I thought our parents were fooling us about going up into the mountains and there would be snow. It's a strange thing traveling a relatively short distance from the temperate zone area and arriving at a winter wonderland that was fifty degrees cooler.
I'd have liked to have experienced San Diego between 1900-1950. I think it must have been a heavenly place.
Wonderful story. Thanks for sharing....
Wonderful. ❤️❤️
@@NickJohnson Thank you very much, Nick. It's an honor to have received a comment from you.
You have created an outstanding channel here, and your truths about the state of our nation deserve to be known by all.
I too grew up in Diego..it saddens me I had to leave..couldn't afford to stay..left 8 yrs ago..sad sad world..greedy world..
I have lived in San Diego for around 8 years. I saw some of the changes, but wasn't around when the city had a "mid-size" feel and homes were more affordable. You did forget to mention that Chula Vista is "split" into 2 sides: east and west. The 805 serves as the unofficial dividing line between east and west. The west side was the "ghetto" side you mentioned. Hop over to the east side and it's pretty much becoming like Carlsbad and other middle to upper middle class neighborhoods. Single family homes on the east side can run up $1 million or more. It's almost like a different world in east Chula Vista when compared to its west side.
I’m a delivery driver and i cover the west side of chula vista from 805, broadway H street and marina bay park are getting really bad and I’ve grown up in that area but once you go west of 3rd ave it’s really nice and feels safe
Interesting Johnny. This defies the typical standard of homes closer to the ocean being worth more.
I live in Carlsbad. I have relatives in east Chula Vista. Trust me, Carlsbad and that part of Chula Vista have little in common.
@@JeffScott-1978 - In that area, the west side is closer to the bay, not really the ocean.
@@robertjensen1048 - Eastlake?
Thanks
Last time I was in San Diego was over 30 years ago. Took my son there to see Sea World. Spent several days seeing the sights and it was overall, really nice. Old town was really cool. Sad that it's going the same direction as Los Angeles.
I remember in the 80s there was an activist group that started up in San Diego called "Stop LA-ization NOW!" They sure lost that war!
Liberals are destroying the city like they did SF
@@kinkle2 - They expected the easy life to last forever and never prepared for the rainy days.
Did you get splashed by the killer whale?
No BS. I’m a Quality Inspector for one of the biggest companies in the world and I cannot afford to buy anything more than a two bedroom condo, in San Diego.
Wow
Who need anything more than that? A 2 be condo is plenty .
@@casebeth how would you know? Nice devaluation here 🤔
Yeah. Property taxes then HOAs take over $1000. A month that's not including a mortgage and the living expenses. $200,000 minimum income🤭🤸♀️🦨 I make 65,000. Have no mortgages, and couldn't swing a place other then a 800sq foot tinny box! I'll stay in lincoln ca.
@@AliciaM5555 that's objectively plenty of room.
I've read a lot of the comments and seems you have stirred up feelings for the area. I visited my uncle in SD in 1978, it was a dream neighborhood, and enjoyed the time I spent there. It is too bad that we can't find leaders that work for the people like they are expected to, rather than their greedy selfish selves.
Born and raised there. Just revisited it two days ago. My son lives there now, two blocks from PetCo Park. Nothing is the same now. Homeless all over, disease, filth, stinks to holy hell. People walk though that crap to get to Petco! You cant park anywhere when there is an event going on. Lots of great memories up until the 80's. Politicians have ruined the place, and even as positive you are about an about face..It will never happen, San Diego has started it's trip down the rabbit hole! Won't be going back anytime soon. People should never allow this kind of crap to happen yo a city. But then again you get what you vote for....Don't feel sorry for any of them!
Yep I live right there too and you forgot because of all the mental ill and drug addicts and homeless people anyone that is sane won't even look to you much less make conversation or say hi on the streets. terrible place to live no community anymore just empty souls.
You just described pretty much every major city in CA.....
@@AKAAAK Yeah I know..Sorry about that! LOL
@Ken Uber Don't be sorry, be sad. This state use to be a kind of utopia but, unfortunately, has been turning a 180 and going downhill fast. 😕
@@AKAAAK and small cities to check Nicks palm springs video it's horrible I live near there it can be confirmed
"Cacafornia" enough said. I have spent all 52 years of my life in California. Lived in both NorCal and SoCal. Watching the decline is heartbreaking. I climbed to the top of the mountain next to Big Bear mountain 10 years ago and on the summit boulder were LA gang graffiti and broken alcohol bottles with a used condom wrapper. Awesome work Nick and especially the commentary. Taking a cruise through the Harbor Area (focused on Wilmington CA) could be an interesting drive: junkyards, projects, strip clubs, dive bars, the harbor, and ghettoes. You were there before I think but it didn't catch the true spirit of the area.
Cacafornia lol 😆
My parents took us frequently to Big Bear in the 50s. It was pristine. How sad to hear about it now.
There are still many beautiful places in California. Sorry you're focusing on the bad 👎
@@CristinaDavalos1127 Understood! I work for a non-profit and have taught sustainability for 15 years at the adult and college level. There are over 50,000 homeless in the city of LA alone. Enjoying the vast but dwindling beauty of California seems like sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich. Not much time to preserve the remaining beauty. California was once home to to Tulare Lake The ninth largest body of fresh water in North America. Gone forever now. There are over 1100 dams in California installed since the 1850s. There is far less remaining than you imagine I guess. These are the last slivers even though they are wonderful. California, the land Kalifa, has been trashed for two centuries.
I'll be leaving San Diego in about three years. I literally hate living here. What's happened to San Diego is down right depressing.😞
why put yourself through the wait....is there really a goal worth letting your life be exposed to that....mind you, it got too bad for me 2 decades ago after going to a show in SF and getting acosted by several dozen beggers during a 2 block walk in 2001...
@@CATech1138 - It’s not necessarily a “goal”, it’s the heartbreak of leaving our hometown.
Was born and raised in SD County, and last time visiting SD was back in 2014. At that point, it was pretty bad but usually in downtown shelters, so I'm curious: Did SD actually become that much worse now?
@@AngelloDelNorte Yes, the SD rents, and home prices, are in an expensive bubble. People have moved to Tijuana for a rental, and the headache of crossing the border daily to work in SD.
San Diego job market has always been weak, and pay does not match housing costs.
In old days, US Military, and Rohr Industries, and General Dynamics, and SPAWars had fat federal govt contracts.
NASSCO ship repair facility, North Island Naval Aircraft Rework Facility, etc
Camp Pendleton USMC, all of these pumped big bucks into San Diego County.
A lot of San Diego Filipino Community members are result of US Navy careers.
We bought a house, with land, for $36K in 1977, a small house that we upgraded nicely, we sold 3 years ago for $500K. If we held it longer, it is $600K today!!! 4 miles from the beach, but no real big pay jobs to match house prices. Many service workers cross from Tijuana daily to staff low paying jobs. The freeways are choked with cars.
If you want a $100K annual job, work for US Govt at one of the Ports of Entry border crossings, or San Diego Airport.
State of California will Tax The Hell out of you, while you avoid stepping on poop on public sidewalks.
@@AngelloDelNorte- Unrecognizable! It’s heartbreaking. I only go downtown for a ballgame.
I moved from San Diego to Berkeley, CA 6 years ago because I got into UC Berkeley. I think the homeless problem is way worse here but honestly its really bad in EVERY city from San Diego to the Bay. Even rich Santa Barbara has a horrible homelessness problem. With that said, I miss San DIego a lot and I am hopeful that I will be able to afford to buy property there and move back. It's the place I feel is home.
I was born in Sacramento and raised in San Diego East County, and I never thought I would have to leave, but a few years ago I just could not afford the rent and had to move up to Victorville. Some years ago, an acquittance of mine said that eventually San Deigo will become a retirement community because those are the only people that could afford to live there, wow he was right.
@@Utubedeletescomments I did not think houses would have gotten so expensive and my grandmother had an acre of property I had to maintain back then, so I was not into owning a housing mood. I was let someone else maintain the property and I could always store my toys like boats for example on my grandmother's property. Yes, I screwed up and I admit that.
There are really nice areas of a Chula Vista. The east side of CV, AKA Eastlake area, is all new. Probably the largest newer development in all of California.
5 years a security guard in downtown sd, i would say 90 % of homeless are in that situation because of addiction, they get help from people, monthly wellfare but they spend it all on drugs. I did see few individuals that were just having a bad time but i could tell the difference by the way they talked and were looking for a way out.
The Federal and State governments have failed there citizenry
@@Cherrysmith2809 im sorry but that’s exactly what lead to this issue, the prisons are full of people due to drug related crimes, my brother is a cop in sd and he saids its out of control. Look up Switzerland unorthodox method opioids crisis. They found a way to eliminate the problem, to make it brief they place people with addictions in a type of program that teach them a skill set, once they are done they give them a job, this method makes has a 90% recovery rate. Their approach to this method was base on the psychological fact that most addicts are addicted because they feel like they don’t belong in society, by giving them a useful skill set, they become valuable to society which makes them feel appreciated.
This video made my heart ache. I lived in San Diego proper for 3 years on a boat then moved inland a few miles. Left after 23 years when my husband passed. Really miss it but at present there’s no going back apparently.
Did you ever think of dating a homeless guy. They don't ask for much.
@@markremy4946 Well that’s an economical way to live, I suppose!
@@christinecortese9973 Actually, homeless men have top-shelf tastes, cruising the boutiques of Beverly Hills and Fifth Ave, NY, NY.Some even summer in the Hamptons and winter in Montserrat.
I’ve always wanted to visit but idk it never seemed worth it and I lived in OC for a year
2:00 looks so beautiful
I’ve been going to San Diego for 4 years, always stayed in the Mission Valley area. This area was beautiful 4 years ago, it has now morphed into a sh** hole: homeless everywhere, encampments, loonies walking around tweeked out on meth or just high as a kite on Fentanyl or heroin. I was in the Target store there, absolutely bizarro world: homeless pushing shopping carts in the store with all there smelly junk, loading the shopping carts up with store goods, then just walking right out without paying or worrying about being arrested. Also, video tapped a homeless troll ripping open bags of socks, putting them on, then just walking out, same thing, nobody even tried to stop him.
California brought this upon itself, voters voted for it:
Prop 47
Prop 57
Assembly Bill 109
Closing of mental health institutions
Proposition 47 made all hardcore drug possession and use a simple misdemeanor citable offense.
The whole State is an insane asylum.
Great comment, and so true!
Wow what the
Yep !
Voter's Fπ@√d. 😡
Hi Nick first time I've ever watched your video very great work. I live in Las Vegas now. But I did live in Pacific Beach from 2006 to 2013. I had a cool little free-standing house just down the alley from Rocky's Pub. I enjoyed it it was a lot of partying going on but I knew that going in but the downside is the jets taking off all day long it's very noisy. New subscriber here. At the time that I lived there on Promontory Street the street was getting filled up with motor homes and people living in their cars.
San Diego isn't the same Yvette 😢
Keep up the great content Nick!
There's just not enough exposure to this problem.
The government and government-controlled media (read: every media outlet in the US) doesn’t want the people to know about this problem.
The news outlets won't touch it
I grew up in North Park, San Diego 1948-1965. It was basically a Navy town then, the zoo and Balboa Park museums were free to kids under age 16. Altogether wonderful then. Got a job in San Fernando Valley, got married in Iowa ( AF guy) and travelled to Texas, then Key West FL, then back to Texas. As civilians we moved to San Jose
in 1975 where our kids grew up. As Silicon Valley
brought riches into the area, the cost of living went up to unbelievable levels. I have lived in AZ since 2002. My memories of long ago San Diego are good.
Mine too
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Very true me working for the city I still can’t even afford a place to live in
You MISSED one of the hugest contributing factors to massively high rents and housing costs, it's Airbnb. I've lived in San Diego since the mid-80s and once Airbnb took off I watched the rents double then quadruple as thousands of rental units went off the market to Airbnb. It used to be so much more affordable before then.
coincidental , not the cause
@@pablopicaro7649 definitely not coincidence. That is like saying a red light runner and the ensuing crash was coincidental. The other even bigger factor is the new breed of corporate investor. The state of California also shares blame by making it too difficult to build affordable housing. ($1000 / mo) and less.
The work from home people who moved here from the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, Boston, etc didn't help make real estate more affordable either. So not only are we competing with investors for housing, but now there's a whole new element of people who don't even work for SD businesses who have moved here and drove up the housing costs even further. They did the same thing to Phoenix, Boise, Austin and Florida.
@@camogle-williams7170 Yes this caused a huge increase in rents too and in Tijuana and surrounding areas also.
People buy these homes up and turn them into Air BNB
You make the best retirement videos ever. I am a Viet Nam era vet that is about to retire. I have a great SSI benefit and a few properties to give to my children. Your teaching of where or where not to park my rent free tent is very informative for me. Please do Santiago, Chile. I already know how to live homeless in the United States. Colorado Springs in the summer and the California coast in the winter. Have you ever hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada and back? Rent free in San Diego for a few weeks here and there would be just dandy. Thank you.
Left 40 years ago. Best move I ever made. When I was growing up there Chula Vista still had farms in the city limits. Place has gone to hell in a hand basket.
We left SD a few years ago for many of these reasons. So sad to have to leave, but also very happy to live where everything is so different in a great way!
I love your show. It has an 80's-90's feel to it, which makes sense, seeing you're a Gen Xer :)
Thanks for covering my hometown. It's fun watching all the familiar places :)
I have been a resident of San Diego for over 60 years. The problem is NOT a lack of affordable housing but instead a large and growing number of mentally ill, drug addicted, losers. I've been told that 70% of San Diego's homeless fit this description. They are unemployable, and even if housing prices dropped 75% they would not be able to maintain a household due to their drug use and mental health issues.
So where did all these drug addicts come from
There weren’t thousands of homeless people all over America 20 years ago
Well said. No matter the city: San Diego, Los Angeles , San Fran, NYC, Chicago, Philly, Detroit…the issue is the same: severe substance use with co-existing mental health (often triggered by the drugs). To give these folks “livable wages (Universal Basic income)” will be a death sentence just like giving them “clean needles” and “safe injection sites” and “harm reduction”; all of these policies lead to death for a chronic drug user. The issue was never affordable housing; the issue is lax public policy that has undermined the law enforcement efforts and public’s ability to provide safe exits from homelessness through substance use and mental health treatment.
Correct. Affordable housing is a political tool.
And you can't force them to get help or to move into a facility for drug addiction or a mental health facility where they can be monitored because that is a breach of their civil rights.
@@lesleyowen7654 I am not trying to be flippant here but it's like breeding vampires.. a drug addict will find someone else to get hooked on drugs so that they can get drugs cheaper from the dealer. It spreads like a disease each addict spreads the disease to someone else. They target kids. And now it's becoming very visible that it's spreading the disease of mental illness the disease of drug addiction. It's like an unspayed cat she can have a litter of kittens every 6 months. Your neighbor how it used to have one cat now it's got 2,000 cats running loose. The other part of this is whether location location. They are not going to go someplace where they're going to freeze to death in shorts and a shirt or a tarp over them.
Born and raised in San Diego but inland in El Cajon is where I grew up spending the 1st 30 years of my life. I left and couldn't be happier that I did. I go once a year to visit family and it's a pit. Homeless everywhere with no where to go. People literally drugged out of their minds, mentally ill roaming everywhere. Its not safe, it's not nice, it's a damned mess. In just one day I saw a drunk drop his pants and spray the side of a 7/11 with diarrhea then a couple hours later, there was a spun out woman with clear mental health issues who took her shirt off, in broad daylight and was just standing on one of the busiest streets in town with her books hanging out. They try to make parts of San Diego look appealing such as the gas lamp district, the embarcadero and touristy areas but outside of those areas, it's a disaster and I have no idea why anybody would want to live there. It's grossly over priced and overrun with filth. It was so pretty when I was growing up. Low crime, clean and affordable not it's the complete opposite. So sad.
Has San Diego become a sad, despicable reality of life in the USA….the deplorable socio-economic conditions that are spreading throughout our country is appalling….the polarization of wealth cannot be denied…but lottery’s are not the answer….somewhere along the road we have lost a sense of values, a communist myth of the classless societies, and a psychotropic mindset of misguided entitlement….why people cannot see that our country is being guided down a rabbit hole, dug by big money like Sorros, Gates and cartels, is beyond me…we, as all great societies, will perish from an implosion of greed, lawlessness and moral decay….perhaps the old German quote is tragically even more true today than ever before, “money rules the world and the stick beats the dog”….
I did a vacation in the downtown a few months back, and the marina views are gorgeous. However, I cannot deny that the homeless issue is beginning to encroach upon the city in a bad way, and while I enjoyed my time overall I'm concerned about the future. I hope better days are on the way.
It's like there's a battle in downtown between good and bad. The Gorgeous Hotels (two thumbs up for Manchester Grant Hyatt and Hotel Del Coronado in particular), marina district, gaslamp quarter, cosmopolitan culture and gorgeous beaches clash with the homeless problem.
I was in downtown SD a few weeks ago. An elderly homeless man came up to me, covered in blood, in a daze. He begged me call 911, saying he had been jumped a day earlier. I asked him why he didn’t go to the hospital earlier. He said that nobody was willing to even look at him. Of course, I called 911 for him. I came back to where he was about 2 hours later, and he was still waiting. He was 60 years old.
Maybe he couldn't afford co-pay for ambulance?
@@markremy4946 doesn't matter, they have provide medical.
@@favor4afavor823 No! Only in Europe!
My son is in the Navy and will be transferring to San Diego soon. I'm going to send him this video. He'll be on a ship part of the time but this will be a good introduction.
Smart idea. Nick does a lot of good! That’s for sure! Thank your son for his service. My husband’s grand daughter is also in the navy.
She’s stationed Norfolk Va.
✌️ Rosey 🇺🇸
As long as he is Single and lives either on the Ship or in the Baracks, he won't have to worry about paying for Ridiculous Rent cost. BAH should be about $2.5k / month.
Nick, I just got hooked on your channel via the San Bernadino video and really like these vids. I like how you take a look at all these parts of the US from your perspective, but devote equal time to interviews with locals to give a balanced and realistic look at what challenges many corners of the US face.
I was born and grew up in San Diego and it breaks my heart to see what has become of the city. I now live on the other end of the Pacific but still visit my family over in SD. San Diego used to be the place that was more chill and slow-paced than LA and SF, but comfortable and easy to live in. Now, I just see the worst aspects of both of those cities infecting and growing within SD. Even though I live in a foreign country now, whenever I visit San Diego my hometown feels more foreign than where I currently live. Mainly because I've acclimated to where I am, but also because SD has transformed so much. Your videos on the homeless and affordable housing crises wrecking the city really shine light on what has tainted the place.
Have you thought about doing a trip to Arizona? A focus on Phoenix and Tucson would be a fascinating series of videos. Arizona is where many people from SoCal escaped to get away from Cali's horrible taxes and laws, but now there are a lot of signs that Arizona is starting to suffer from the "Cali Plague" and old school native Arizonans are really hating it. Even the housing there has gone crazy and the homeless problem is starting to get bad as well.
I was in san diego back in october of this year and i saw the homeless tents everywhere. Despite the smells i still loved visiting that city. I get home sick and i never lived there.
Kind of like the song Africa by TOTO....homesick feeling in that video, for a continent I've never visited.
I live in downtown San Diego for the past 4 years. It feels like living in an abandoned theme park. Moving to Oklahoma in a few months! 🤠
love your tours. please do more of the nice places and underrated ones, cheers
I'm a native born San Diegian... I can't believe what my State, County, and City have become under Democrat control... It's disgusting!
lmao, I just went to downtown San Diego and all over the city. Go there yearly. I haven't seen anything he pointed out in SD. He is literally Cherry Picking the "bad areas". Like every city, there are good and bad parts of a town.
In 01-02 while in the Marines it was getting better I think. Im guessing it was more conservative then but I got out in 2002. As you said it Democrats allowing all of this crap happen and dont care now.
@@Magniton1 i live here in Sam Diego. It's all there.
@@Magniton1 Nick Johnson sounds educated and charming but low key he’s a huge hater ,
@@Magniton1 wrong I live here too he’s 100% on point
I’ve been living here for two years now… the homelessness is actually the least of San Diego’s issues. I hate it here.
Hope you are doing cool
GET OUT!
What kind of other issues are there?
You should move...
Have lived quite a few places, by far the worst. Been here for a year. 2/10, would not recommend but I see why them folks love it here so much
Always humorous and informative.
I travel to Baja a lot and despite the fact that they are way poorer than in SD and have lots of other problems, there is only a fraction of the homeless. Most of the homeless I see south of the border are migrants from Central America that are just passing through on their journey to the USA.
First of all anybody that from Mexico that wants to be in America's been here for twenty years and how do you know their nationalities do they wear a flag from what country they're from on their back.. I go down to Mexico a lot myself. It's obvious that you visit a different Mexico than I do..
As a Brit I was shocked to see the homeless situation in LA on a visit a few months back. Then somebody told me San Francisco was the same. Now San Diego too? How the hell has this happened when California has a larger economy than the whole of the UK?! I love California but damn
Too busy paying for criminals who broke into the state and throwing money at the homeless problem with zero accountability.
liberal policies have consequences.
Looks like a 3rd world country
San Francisco was the homeless capital of the USA for years.
Does London have many homeless? If so, are they mostly cockney?
Great video! Just saw a video with Sean Hannitty interviewing Gavin Gruesom. Gavin thinks everything is great in California!!!
Until 2019, San Diego was my favorite place in America to visit. On our last trip (2019), I was disgusted by the amount of pee puddles we had to jump over, while walking to the beach.
I don’t know if we’ll ever go back. 🙁
Dont come back. There's still the sizeable tourist economy that, if it fails, will bring down SD and force a reconsideration of the politics.
In Los Angeles, you jump over poop puddles
San Francisco jump over needle puddles
@bulrich610 you would think street cleaners would be high demand not even over here in Florida You're lucky if you see them once a week that needs to stop they need to be out every day, cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Come to Louisiana you will love it 😀
I lived there in the ‘80’s and still have family there. The freeway system is much more extensive and the hills and outer areas have been developed. Used to be quick and easy to get around but the traffic, especially rush hour, can be bad. Not as bad as LA yet. I still enjoy San Diego when I visit, though.
I lived in San Diego 10 years. Left to go back to home state over a year ago. It's such a shame but, it's getting bad in parts of SD. Whole families in cars, drug addicts everywhere, and theft galore. We left just in time. Hope the Navy doesn't send us back. Loved it there at one time. Just can't do it anymore.
I am a Native Californian, but no longer live there. It breaks my heart to see what is going on. I was born and raised in the Central Valley where the food is so very good. I also have lived in the Salinas Monterey area for 14 years and my husband worked for one of large produce companies. Wonderful produce. I know live at the end of the world.
We left toro park in February. Best decision. We will miss the weather and good Mexican food though.
Julie, where did you go to?
Awww. You can always move back to California.
Could not agree more I moved to San Diego in 1975 and sadly I am leaving to go to Mexico where life is so much better in every single way
RIP. CA.
Diversity is our strength
Coronado Island was the Spanish Land Grant given to Pedro Carrillo, he sold it in the 1800"s for 3 thousand dollars. My 4th GGF and his brother had one for all of Alpine - they sold in 1846 in 2 parcels for 1,400. It was 17 thousand acres.
Can you do a show on Ventura County? I would appreciate your perspective. Thank you
I wonder if the lack of Asian and Hispanic homeless, based on your observation, is that they have a stronger sense of family. It isn't uncommon for multiple generations to live together.
San Diego is a great place. I visited 10 years ago from Australia (Sydney). La Jolla and also the beaches north like Carlsbad and Oceanside.
I remember having a blast visiting downtown SD back in 2014-16. Nowadays I have more trust walking through National City at night. Going into downtown these days, I have to keep looking down to avoid excrement. While selectively tuning out my surroundings. Though I do tend to tune in on the sane ones that are just down on their luck.
I was in SD about 5 yrs ago (2016/2017) and it was beautiful. I remember staying at an AirBNB in Gaslamp and walking around at night then and it was fun and pretty much safe. My family had a great time then, I’m hoping that things will get better. Thanks for the video 😊💎
I left around that time to the midwest. It’s only gone downhill from there. Had a great job managing commercial landscapes like Petco Park, all the swanky condo complexes to north county coastal properties. Certainly miss surfing Blacks. But overall the lineup is waaaay to crowded. Impossible to park.
I'm seeing lots of familiar streets and neighborhoods. Over the years I've lived in several San Diego locations.
I lived in North Park und Mission Hills. Now in Florida
Man! So glad we left California. It will be 3 years ago next month. I spent close to 20 years of my life out there being stationed in the military and staying another 15+ years after separation. I remember first going to SD on a 96 hour weekend in 2000 and being amazed 😍. Also very surprised at all the homeless even then. Looks like that was nothing compared to today. Quite sad I tell you. We sometimes go back to OC to visit friends and family, but it’s kinda like Biggie once said “Cali great place to visit”. I couldn’t see us going back and struggling like we were with everything costing $ costing so darn much.
I went to San Diego back in 2010 and loved it. But I was taken aback by the amount of homelessness there was downtown. I can't even begin to imagine how much worse it got.
Real worse
It's very bad
I remember in the mid-80s when I lived downtown at 7th and Island, there was ONE homeless guy. That's right. JUST ONE on 5th Ave. dragging his blanket. He was fat and he would beg restaurant goers for money. ONE HOMELESS GUY!
The downtown smells like 👎🏼. Thx for making this video Nick.
North County is the place to be if you can work from home and avoid the commute. It's expensive but now it's expensive everywere so you might as well escape the homeless blight and enjoy the beaches.
I am moving from San Diego in the next few months. I can no longer afford to live here and as the Navy has caused rents to hit the $3500 a month mark.
My grandma lived there for 20 years between 83 and 2003. It was really nice. Her and my grandpa were the landlords of an apartment building.
Informative and concerning. Cannot address the "homeless problem" without acknowledging untreated psychiatric and substance use issues. Yet, CA continues to approach it that way.
Nick, would you consider doing these in the future? Either way - thanks and Happy 2023 to you.
1. The High Desert, CA (Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley, Adelanto, etc.)
2. Chicago Suburbs (Chicago Heights, Park Forest, Harvey, Dolton, Sauk Village, etc.)
3. Culver City, CA
They don't want treatment Oteka.
As a human being born in these United States, it is unacceptable to see and pass by and do nothing about this beautiful state! OMG!
UNACCEPTABLE
UNACCEPTABLE
UNACCEPTABLE
Pray😢
😢 I totally agree
I work as a HVAC Service Technician for a big company out of North County San Diego. I work on am average of 5 homes a day in the entire county. Alot in LA jolla, rancho santa fe, carlsbad etc. It's a pretty cool experience being able to enter some of these homes and talk to wealthy people. Most of the time the wealthy customers I work for are really cool. The ones that worked hard to get where they are, are almost always conservative. I noticed the liberal ones tend to have family inheritance etc.
Exactly key word “WORK HARD”!
Spoiler Alert: It's one single Uniparty....there is no opposition and any perceived differences are merely "theatrics."
We live in a Gilded Age. Just like the late 19th century, the wealthy have a massive amount, and the poor so little. However, just as then, drugs and alcohol don't help.