Poverty in the Everglades | Belle Glade, Florida
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- Belle Glade is a poverty stricken city in south central Florida. Crime has been a problem here for a long time too. It's kind of ironic how Belle Glade is in Palm Beach County. If you were to head a few dozen miles east and stay within the same county, you would see a completely opposite economy. Agriculture is the towns main industry, in which sugar is the main product of the area.
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I live in charlotte nc and the subdivision next to my house has street names named after belle glade and pahokee I always assumed they were really nice towns if they would name a new subdivision after it.
@@charlesgale4257Interesting
Chris. Can you show the old Belle glade corrections prison please
No trash anywhere! The place is poor, but much better than lots of places I've seen.
In the poor areas of CT the ground is their garbage can .
Who wanna visit belle glade sw 5th Street
I used to cut through Belle Glade going between the coasts back when I was doing trucking runs. It was literally the scariest place I have ever drove though, besides E. St. Louis.
Adding no-goes W Memphis and Eagle Pass
@@Five0 it's a shame these people can't take responsibility.
Go thru certain areas of Bridgeport, Waterbury or New Haven CT and it isn’t any better, just smaller. Amazing how states like CT , MA and NY can hide their crime and poverty while having so much wealth.
No way! I'm a driver and ex cop out of Tampa Youre crazy 🤪
Lmao
I love your videos bud. Keep up the good work. 👍
Another wonderful video. Thank you!😊❤
Thanks as always, Joan!
Thanks for the video Chris. This is one of the nicest dumps that you've shown us. It looks like with a bit of work, Belle Glade can be really nice -- it has a lot of potential.
Maybe one day.
Pahokee looks beautiful in some places too, it's really just the public landscaping, it makes it look much better.
Belle Glade is clean. Don't forget the prison and the Sugar Cane fields.
Belle glade to palm beach is an extraordinary stark difference between really rich and really poor in one county.
And it's pretty much JUST Palm Beach
Even West Palm Beach has a lot of poverty.
west palm beach is poor tho
Belle Glade is not really Palm Beach County! They just drew the county line to the lake is all and made it part of PB County.
The same thing in Miami-Dade County where you have Opa-Locka (one of the most dangerous cities in Florida) and Sunny Isles or Miami Beach just 20 minutes away and those are the wealthiest cities in Miami-Dade County.
@@SamuelHendrix-kb8nnIt’s in PBC 😂 how can it not be??
That’s like me saying that Homestead and Florida City are not part of Miami-Dade County even though they’re far away from everything way down south bordering Monroe County and the Everglades
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Not far away, on the opposite end of the Everglades, there's a very similar situation with Immokalee and its much more wealthy neighbor Naples going on in Collier County, FL.
Used to drive threw Immokalee on the way back to Naples all the time. First thing was to lock the doors and then not stop.
@@robertskelton2576southern life would disagree 😂
Immokalee is like another country:
I was once offered oral sex by a 75-year-old black woman with no teeth.
Moved to Orlando from Chicagoland as a teenager in 1967 and heard about Belle Glade within a couple of weeks even though it is over 150 miles away. Never been there and were discouraged from ever going there. You really did your homework on this one Chris from the AIDS epidemic right up to the present! The video is stunning in that where can you find a town this size not part of a large metro area with so so many apartment buildings? One hope here is diversification. As Florida gets more crowded that could happen here. This excellent video shines a needed light on places that need it. Very good job as usual!
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Greetings, from Labelle, Florida. These communities are less than 50 miles from my house and I am a native south Floridian. I've personally pass through these communities quite often, know people who live there, and observe the issue from a local view. Let me list some direct reasons.
Generational poverty is where it starts. Fatherless homes, government funded households, lack of education, and a community that celebrate the worst part of our society. Just drive thru on a Saturday night and all this becomes very apparent. Ask me how I know.
It's easier to make babies and get paid by the government than get a job. Theft and drug dealing pay better than " minimum wage". Quite frankly they never look or see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yes there are hard working people here, but very few high paying jobs, and almost no affordable housing that's not in the "hood". Thriving communities surrounding these places.
Yes I come from a 2 parent household, didn't have children out of wedlock, stayed out of legal troubles, always had a job, and never touched hard core drugs. Which just proves my point here.
I am blessed and Kind Regards to all.
You're speaking the truth!
As a descendent of generational poverty, descendent of those that are from Pahokee and other small towns like Belle Glade, agricultural workers, a long-term recipient of government benefits, who now owns two homes and works for the federal government, your comments are quite classist. There is a lot more to economic equity and lack of it than the issues that you’ve mentioned, to include how children from economic insecurity are treated in schools, lack of understanding of the systems that this country runs and thrives on, harsher discipline in schools, and so many other factors that cannot be easily explainedexplained away by just people earning more money. I often tell people I’m an individual who makes six figures that is still poor. There is something that generational poverty does to people, and if we keep focusing on what poverty is versus what it does to people, then will never really get to the root of what causes it.
It takes the average family for generations to fully exit poverty. What does that mean? While I’ve achieved great things, the length of time it took, and the intensity of the work I had to do to finally figure it out, well, at least figure it out to the best of my ability, unfortunately, my descendants are living out my same reality. Poverty is a plague I’m not telling you what I think, I’m telling you what I know.
@@iamtiffanykelly3113 we can agree to disagree. Congratulations on your success. I speak facts, and you can get offended by facts, but it's foolish to disagree with facts. Poverty is created by poor decisions and you even admitted that you worked your way out of poverty?! So what's stopping others from doing that? I, along with millions of other people have some of the same issues and problems in life as you have. Please read my previous reply and let me know what I said was not facts. Save your speech for the thousands of black fathers that have abandoned their children and chances to create a family! Kind Regards...
@@ScottCochrane-zp8bj your facts ain’t my facts. Black fathers and white fathers and brown fathers and mothers who abandon their families have nothing to do with this particular conversation, but thank you for adding to the bizarre response you have given. I think I’d rather listen to someone with a PhD in this life versus someone who has no frame of reference. Poverty is most certainly NOT rooted in poor decision making, and I welcome you to try to walk a day in the shoes many of us never had.
@@iamtiffanykelly3113 again we can agree to disagree. These facts are not my facts, they are THE facts. Please check out the facts on black Fathers and the repercussions of fatherless homes. Why does 13% of the population account for 60% of the violent crimes in this country, why do government funded households almost never make it out of poverty, why do black men kill black men at a significantly higher rate than white men kill anyone? Why does black culture embrace a culture that is the worst of society? Fatherless children born into poverty that rely on government funded programs has everything to do with this. Don't take my word for it, do your research and check THE facts.
Again congrats on your success, but you are by far the exception and not the rule...
BTW success is not determined by possessions, success is having a quality of life and freedom to do as you wish. Maybe if you lived within your means, make wise decisions, then you wouldn't make 100k and still be poor?!
It looks like Haiti.
Great travel Chris
The issue for Belle Glade is location. It’s isolated, practically in the lower south middle part of the state by the upper Everglades. Not near any major highways.
7:57 We certainty to do pump out some good NFL players here in Florida...
I'm from Lakeland in Central Florida between Tampa and Orlando home of Ray Lewis (as well as Joe Nemechek Publix supermarket and Red Lobster)
I've been to Belle Glade the town appears to be clean no trash or homeless encampments no graffiti on the buildings and very colorful paint jobs
Chris Harden and myself have been to far worse places.
The main streets with stores and fast food restaurants do not look that bad. There are many businesses, and it looks clean. I am sure there are some very good and honest people living there.
Although it looks like a poorer community the streets and sidewalks appear clean and there don't appear to be homeless squatters. It's a shame when big sports stars don't give back to the communities that produced them. They could do some good here.
communities don't produce talent. USA does not nurture it's young
I believe that a few of them have. Not all though
Homeless squatters 😂 aren't you special
Agreed it is a shame that very few reinvest in areas like this, once they leave they never come back.
This is a nice vid BUT these people who live out there dont care, most get Gov. aid along with the aid from P.B. County others work at the mills and make good money ! so please dont try & make it look or sound as bad cause its not. The people have caused the mess thats out there again they DONT care.
I live 45 mins or so from here in Saint lucie. When i drove trucks, my route often took me around the ENTIRE lake. Talk about a boring route with sketchy 2 lane roads.
I was born in Palm Beach county and raised in Broward! Belle Glade is one of the most dangerous cities in South Florida.
Drove threw there about 30 years ago. Went by those apartments with people hanging all the place. Just keep going and got fast.
I was there one time in the early 80's, and have never been so glad to leave some place.
The concept of 10,000 job employment by the sugar mill is an exaggeration. The work is seasonal, not full time, and for most of the year the locals are not working there.
I think that a saving grace for the area would be to do a "The Villages", or in other words build a whole new city nearby. The land is cheap and Florida has a lack of affordable housing. Perhaps a developer(s) could get together and work on something.
The reason it is beginning to look isolated is the sky rocketing rent prices. You have homes there selling for half a million dollars and rent for one bedroom apartments reaching $2,000 a month. Eventually, you realize that life is unsustainable with such greed and people move out to more affordable communities.
Scary stuff. Needs more house inventory, hospitals, Walmart. And a boom will start..
Great video
With people flooding Florida 😂 trust me, the boom is coming. It’s just a matter of time
Want to work in West Palm Beach? Escape the poverty? Too bad, no buses early in the morning. Haha.
theres poverty in west palm beach.ALOT
Can you locate the huge Caribbean community living in belleglade. These mostly men who stay over from there Caribbean Cane cutting contract way back from as far as the 1960s some have move to fort.Lauderdale but most remains there🇧🇧
Any wonder... Heart of Sugar Industry... Notoriously low paying and highly polluting.
I noticed you didn't interview any of the locals there to learn more in depth living conditions. Was safety a concern?
Can there be Hilljacks without hills?
Yes
A lot of this video was not filmed in belle glade. It was in small towns near by
Nope. It was all in Belle Glade.
Belle Glade looks far nicer than Immokalee.
Better than what I saw in LA. No trash everywhere and the streets aren’t lined with blue tarp housing.
yea right. West Palm Beach looks worse than compton. Get real. Crime, vacant lots near the beach! Imagine that shit in LA. Would never, ever happen. Florida is a shit hole
West palm beach sucks lmao
Didn't you do a video on this?
Yup. This is the same video. Needed to fix a few things on it and re-upload it.
@@ChrisHarden Ok cool Been enjoying the videos so far
Its not that bad looking mam have i seen worst this place could turn around nice long streets its a pretty nice size city too they just need the right kind of resources and or big manufacturing companies to come there and generate some wealth in the area but overall not bad!!!
Im here to tell ya, Belle Glade was a sh!t hole 45 years ago and from your visit I see it hasn't changed.
the town needs more shade trees
As a birder traveling through, I noticed there was a vulture on every few light posts. Not relevant to much but creepy and kinda cool. I’m guessing a fair amount of road kill and dead animals in the roadside waterway attracted the vultures.
Are they turkey vultures? I'm not familiar with Florida wildlife.
One thing I've noticed is there is way too much surface parking for a large part of the buildings. You don't need to have space for fourteen vehicles for one tiny apartment building. That will create more warmth as pavement will just reflect the sun's rays.
No the problem is the pavement ABSORBS heat and DOESN'T reflect it.
It proverty everywhere
This video gives me Deja Vu… but good work nonetheless!
I do not see any homeless encampments.
Oh boy do I smell potential
No one blaming Jeb😊
Looks like a peaceful cheap place to live
You should move on down to Belle Glade, and HURRY !
Cheap? Yes, 120k for an 800 sq ft home. It is possibly the most affordable part of the state. The price per square often has half any of the other population centers.
Quiet? Heck, no. Highest crime rate in the county. I know sensible folk who grew up in the hood or hood adjacent along the coast who would never move out there.
Depends where you live. Some nicer neighborhoods exist in the area that are quiet. @@resengan123
I had a friend who had to deliver medicines to the area. And the AIDS thing?
Everyone was petrified to go into the area because of the MOSQUITOES:
Regardless of what the CDC may say, a mosquito biting someone with AIDS and then biting you WILL transmit the disease.
Good thing we got Brandon to save us
Demographics NEVER seem to be a factor, do they?
Let’s give a huge shout out to anyone locked up in the penitentiary at Bell Glade!
Been closed for years.
@@dhy2kb393 A concrete company purchased the land and built a large manufacturing facility on the site. There are jobs for those willing to work.
No sugar is all south of the lake. But plenty of other agriculture around and north of it.
Isn’t Lake Okeechobee massively polluted from runoff from the sugar farming? I wouldn’t trust eating anything from it.
Yup. Algae blooms effect 85-90 percent of the lake. Makes Lake Erie look like a natural spring.
@@ChrisHarden Algae blooms aren’t pollution. They harm the ecosystem, but no dangerous poisons to people.
@@Ira88881Algae blooms can most definitely be toxic towards humans.
@@ChrisHarden It kills plants and fish…the rotting plants eat up all the water’s oxygen (aerobic bacteria) which in turn kills the fish.
But the algae itself isn’t pollution. Maybe bacteria from rotting fish, but if it happened in a lake with no fish, no danger to drinking that water.
State and county prison is right there when you enter.
I can't blame the people for being so poor. they work the jobs that are there for very low wages. the government and circumstances cause poverty.
In Colorado, the poor think jobs are for idiots. Also, that state has communities that make Belle Glade look beautiful.
I went to Seacrest (now Atlantic) HS in the late 60's, early 70's. We played Belle Glade, regular season. It was known as bad news, as now. State Rd 80 crosses the state, and goes thru BG. You might want to tour Delray, Boca, and Boynton, including doing A1A from Lake Worth to Boca. That is where the yacht/ airplane rich live. You go north, you'll get to Palm Beach, and Mar a Lago, Trump's estate. It was built by one of the Post (cereal) heiresses. Anyway, south PB County is where my Dad had a furniture store, built in '62. 1440 N Federal Hwy (US1), North end of Delray, after the one way splits come back together. Check out Ocean Ridge, Dad had a house there for decades.
VERY FLAT
Hurricane Irma 2017 and no improvements and it's 2024. Those rich folks gotta keep the poor in their place and out of their fancy hoods.
Belle Glade, FL = Homestead, FL in the mid-late 1990s - early 2000s.
Migrant workers bringing in drugs?
It doesn't look too bad. I've seen worse.
Yeah ok spend a week there and then tell us what ya think !
I have seen youtube footage of certain parts of Philadelphia Pennsylvania and it look 50 times more frightening than anywhere in Belle Glades Florida!!!
Maybe you should’ve stopped and talked to some of the local people since you’re trying to capitalize off area that is supposed to be so poor.
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It's as simple as this... Belle Glade is a Democrat run area...the rest is predictable
Florida is a dump
You are weird😂 All your comments on this channel are “Florida sucks” you mad you can’t afford it?
@@Michorida jealous of what lmao
The "nice" areas are few
@@SA-hz1rs so why are you so persistent on hating on Florida? A girl from their break your heart?
@@Michorida
So is that why republicans hate on ny and ca?? Good to know
Which area are you in where it's all pristine? I've never heard of any state being perfect...
Video full of lies
The SAD part is that even though they are POOR A/F they are steadfast Trump supporters.
The sad part is that you are allowed to have access to the internet
Oh yeah typical, I guess you wanna blame these last three plus years on Trump too. Yep your another biden poster child snippy. Fjb/letsgobrandon
They weren't before, but they will be now...FJB
Classic Trump country. Lots of crime.
Trump seems to be living inside your tiny brain.
I love to ride my motorcycle from where I live in east Palm Beach county. Some really beautiful stretches.
Some additional insight. The hurricane you mentioned in 1928 that decimated Belle Glade and surrounding areas.
A mass grave exists with an estimated 2,500+ bodies buried in a field in West Palm Beach.
Really sad. The bodies were in such bad shape they couldnt even determine whether each was male or female.
Wow