10 Worst towns in California. Southern Cal version
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- 10 Worst towns in California. Southern Cal version
I think it is time to tackle a list I hinted at earlier this year and never got to. When I listed the worst towns in America I said I had to cut Southern California out because it had like 17 of the worst 20. When you suck that bad, you get your own list is the rule here.
A couple of things with this list. I say town but technically some are small cities. I am just cutting out the major cities like Los Angeles and San Diego proper. If I say cities in the title I will have a bunch of geography nerds jumping up my butt. I don’t like anything jumping up my butt especially geography nerds. Most of these are in the LA metro or LA county.
This is another list that has enough to make 3 videos, but we’ll start with one and see how it goes.
These are not places you want to buy real estate.
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When a city depends on a casino for tax revenue, you know massive levels of crime, drugs, and alcoholism exists.
Hawaiian Gardens
talking shit bought BG lol
I learned this fact from SimCity (when you build a casino your tax revenue goes up, but so does the crime rate).
Like Las Vegas? Where are the stats on that? Can you give me a few please
Any specifics? Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, oh yeah, where do you live I’m sure there’s some close to you too.
Long Beach is such a diverse city like it has a bit of everything, from super wealthy neighborhoods, to bustling hipster areas, to chill middle class, to chill lower class, to rough neighborhoods. But it all coexists together instead of conflicting. It's my favorite SoCal city for so many reasons.
I live and love the LBC. dude is way wrong
This video needs to focus on Long Beach NOW! Every place has its past, but L.B. has not stayed in the past!
Yes, Long Beach is diverse! It's still the lowest priced property for a beach city. It has its own Terrace Theater & Convention Center, Art Museum, the Grand Prix, the Blues Festival (among other events) and the new Pike exists with shopping, dining, and lots of fun activities, next to Shoreline Village, another attraction across from the Queen Mary.
The amazing food options available throughout the city makes it an adventurous diner's paradise from Belmont Shore to downtown, to ALL AROUND!
Come to Long Beach and find out for yourself!
P.S. I love Long Beach!
I lived on Raymond and 8th when I was in 4th grade. And for 6th grade moved to Coolidge Street in North Long Beach. That was a bad move. Ended up moving to OC. I do remember going to The Pike.
Also check your title on your house there are many Oil rights still on property there. Standard Oil has paid out if you check .
I know the pike is so dope the shopping, the theater,signal hill, little Cambodia, downtown clubs, and bars I miss living there.
I love that the towns next to the Salton sea don't make this list. Even though they remind me of a zombie apocalypses IRL.
So true !
I barely heard of Salton Sea the other day
@Kawh
Salton Sea lmao…I used to ride dirt-bikes there…
@@chocboiwonda6810 barely? Were you close to not hearing about it and just made it in time? Lemme guess….you say I will be there “right now” too ?
God, they are creepy.
When I lived in Downey briefly about 40 years ago, I heard people calling Bell Gardens "Bell Garbage." Left California over 20 years ago but sad to see how much decline there has been.
Gina Towns in LA with 'garden' in their name always morphed into 'garbage' because, well... because ... that's what they looked like. In Orange County we had Garbage Grove. It still looks like groves of garbage but those garbage houses are in the $millions today.
Surprised San Bernardino wasn’t on here
Especially on the 4 year anniversary of the shootings. :'(
Lol funny. I was thinking the same think. And I live in SB.
@@joylindadichamounix Wow that was already 4 years ago crazy
@@K.B.Williams, yes. I can't help but to cry when I think of it.
The I.E needs it’s own video.
As a Southern Californian kid, you’re right. Hemet is truly miserable and gross unless you cook and sell meth.
I picked up some county land with a Hemet address. Soon to be annexed by Temecula. I grew up in Newport and remember well when the Santa Ana Heights addresses were annexed. Newport Beach address gave all the homeowners a nice equity bump.
Everyone has to move there now because its the last place you can afford a 3 bedroom home on less than 30k. The only jobs in hemet are food service, cow insemination, and retail. or else drive to perris to work at a warehouse job or drive across the state to OC, Vegas, or SD for city work. Hemet is rough unless you got 5 generations of family's to spread out the mortgage on the stick house surrounded by tenement trailers, but at least you get space and the freedom of rural living i.e parking your car on the lawn and just tossing used motor oil wherever, merica.
You sure Hemet is not an abbreviation of, Hey Meth!!
Rodney Bellber lmao
San Bernardino is just as worse as Hemet. I have lived my whole childhood in San Bernardino, and its gotten ever since the 2008 economic recession happen, and since then it has gotten worse, and worse throughout the years.
As someone who grew up in Whittier, I felt this. My mom's from Montebello. When I lived in Temecula I had to go to Hemet frequently. I can attest to all of this.
I no longer live in California. I could never go back, despite the great weather. It just feels so soulless.
@@andrewleo1521 I loved Temecula. Never said I didn't. What does wine or video games have to do with anything? Geez.
Montebello isn't that b ad.
The fact that San Bernadino isn't on your list is amazing. San Bernadino has been ranked the worst city in California several years in a row. Recently, it's also been listed as the 2nd poorest city in the country behind only Detroit. And as far as most dangerous cities go, it's always been in the top 20 for a couple decades now.
i saw that they were rated A+ for housing on a list
Gotta love home. Its not for the weak.
Nobody cares about San Bernardino
Maybe it’s too big for inclusion?
I thought foe sure san berdo wuld be number 1.thats why i watched the video
You're going to need a bigger list.
Gary Grinkevich I agree, I’m wanting to move. I would rather live in Las Vegas.
@@michelleosas-thegospel1cor54 Vegas has really cleaned up in the last 10 years, theres is still a skid row but its nothing compared to Santa Ana river bed these days.
And i thought living in fresno was bad. I mean i seen some crazy things. But nothing that bad.
They don't need a bigger list pick any ten and you will be right get it got it good
This was just LA. Lynwood is not even that bad.. #1 should have been Victorville or Lancaster
Back in the 60’s and early 70’s Palmdale was a great little town. My grandparents lived there and my brother and I would spend a few weeks there in the summer. We would walk a block down to the community pool. They had a rec center and we could check out balls and board games. We were very young, no cell phones, no adults supervision, it was pretty safe. My grandma would feed the hobos who knew where she lived by word of mouth. I never felt scared. A few years ago I drove through it, I was heartbroken to see what it’s become. I’m grateful for the wonderful memories I made there.
I'm 78 yrs old and lived here all my life (in the SF Valley) You've told me things I didn't even know!! Fun listening to you. Thank you.
I’m a Southern CA native, have lived here my whole life. I’m 99% in agreement, but would like to disagree on two points- 1) No one wanted to move to Hemet, not even in the 90’s. 2) Not all parts of Long Beach are as described. Some parts are quaint and beachy, friendly and relatively safe. Just need to be aware which part of LB you’re in.
Alot of parts of california are third world shit holes this includes beach citys regular citys like los angeles county orange county inland empire etc etc
The dessert citys are a dump too
Poverty is the main reason
This state like many in the usa are no longer resembling a first world nation
I live in the west part of long beach
I did a few moving jobs in Long Beach and the neighborhood's were absolutely beautiful.
I don't remember exactly what areas in Long Beach, but they were definitely expensive neighborhoods.
I am from Hemet, it is an utter hellhole, and cesspit. Never going back.
@@metaldiscipline3955 what makes hemet so bad? Just asking
Hey, Barstow has both a Taco Bell AND a Del Taco right off the freeway! What more can you ask of a town?
Lmao a bush
a chipotle and in n out too! :-D
Easy girls in the early 90s now I couldn't really tell you
Still got the Denny's?
Real jobs, things to do, great schools and no crime
I was born and raised in Hemet. It was a small sleepy peaceful town before the 90’s, when people started selling in LA and moving to Hemet. The video suggests that these poor people moved there and then regretted it, when it was the trash that they brought with them that destroyed the town.
I go to school in hemet
Fact: Huntington Park and Huntington Beach have everything to do with each other. Bothe we’re established by Henry Huntington who also owned the estate which is now the Huntington Library in San Marino.
I was very glad to see this video. I haven't seen any of your lists for quite a while.
This video should be called "10 Places in Southern California That Scare Westsiders, Suburbanites and Soccer Moms"
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Exactly.
Enjoy living in filth then
Enjoy crack towns stinky
Keep telling yourself that 😆
You mean the Southern Los Angeles version?
You mean the Southern L.A.County episode Part One. Lol
There is another?
Any other?
Good point, but remember that Barstow and Palmdale are both north of LA. Let's call it NOLA, shall we?
Philip Germani Barstows not its on the way to Vegas
Thank you for this, it’s funny and informative 😎😇
I grew up in Barstow, the city managers were also the local business owners and they put a stop to any attempts at development that might challenge their fiefdoms. What they got instead was rot and the areas outside of Barstow like Silver Lakes, Victorville & even Apple Valley have progressed. That old boys club has probably all passed away by now, but their legacy remains.
I grew up there in the 80s. It's really gone downhill :( Wouldn't ever want to move back, not that I moved far ha ha (VV)
I can’t believe Victorvillle didn’t make the list-what were we, number 12 or something?!? 😂😂😂
It was bad when I was stationed there 1980...I see things havent gotten sny better....
Ted Heaberlin. Middle between Barstow and Palmdale
Judith Huling-Cadieux-probably a lot worse!
@@tedsmusic5556 lol, oh my, that's NOT GOOD....glad I got out!!
Hesperia is just as bad
Like Malik, I'm surprised you left out my hometown, San Bernardino.
Very entertaining!!!!. Thanks for the great info..
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This video should have been titled “Worst neighborhoods to live in LA”
But these aren't neighbourhoods, these are towns genius
@@Sk2PPer most southern californian see this as greater LA not towns
Good point @Sauce Boi
Yes, there are lots of great places in SoCal.
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I had a job offer in Lancaster, right next to Palmdale, and turned it down immediately after visiting the town.
Good, it’s awful to be here, it’s a sinkhole that prevents you from leaving
Yeah it sucks especially in the summer gets super hot and Eastside Lancaster probably the worst area
I was born, raised, and currently live in Lancaster. It has gotten bad over the time, but I slowly seeing getting better, but only with the unfortunate rise in cost of living. Despite its rough edges, it has desert charm.
Haha good
Always trust the vibes. You did right.
I’m still trying to figure out how being low income causes someone to trash their own apartment/ home or steal / beat the neighbor’s.
Depression, mental illness, drugs etc cause people to do that. When you feel hopeless and frustrated, it radiates to all aspects of your life and makes you do stupid things.
As a former Surf City Resident. Thank you so much for making the distinction between Huntington Park and Huntington Beach.
If you’re from the IE & dating, when someone says they’re from Hemet, it’s an immediate deal breaker
If the meth mouth wasn't a dead giveaway, Hemet is definetly a second hand indicator.
Yupz
I was called out toan evacuation center, in Hemet, because some mental giant decided to smoke crystal meth and shoot up the neighborhood. Good times!
Same for You-pipa
😂🤣
I live in a beautiful area of Long Beach! On the Beach in Belmont Shores. Long Beach is a large city with diverse neighborhoods, but still many beautiful areas to live.
Got a number??? 🙂🙂
I lived there too, it’s beautiful!
Renee m. You rule
I agree!
@Dax P. LeBaron Doesn't mean she's lying. And so what that she's white if that's what she is. You have a picture of Darth Vader as your avatar. Grow up.
If you do a part two to this, I'd like to suggest a few other Socal cities; El Cajon, National City, El Centro, Vista, Brawley, and Lemon Grove.
National City, Lemon Grove, and San Bernardino for sure.
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I've lived in SoCal all my life (44 years now) and can agree with all of the cities on your list EXCEPT one: Long Beach. I mean, really? What about San Bernadino? Moreno Valley? Hawaiian Gardens? How was this list compiled? You must have some personal knowledge of the area, so how on earth could LB make that list?
As with any large city, Long Beach (pop. 500,000+) certainly has it's fair share of issues. I wouldn't live downtown, nor would I live in North LB. However, the vast majority of the city is populated by middle and upper middle class residents in a rather vast suburbia. Additionally, it has thriving art and beach communities, coastal neighborhoods comprised of multimillion dollar homes, and a lot of fun things to do downtown and at the Pike. Plus... we had Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz. LOL
YOU FORGOT
JENNY RIVERA .👍🙏🏻
LONG BEACH CA. IS NICE 👍👍🤝🏼BUT EXPENSIVE
Long beach is the poorest coastal town in all of socal aside from Imperial Beach in SD. It is a shithole, maybe you don't see it, but there is a lot of sketchy people and all the easy sign to move in housing has helped ruin it. I was 16 and couldn't walk to my friends house from the pier or vice versa without drugs being offered from shady ppl
@@AuRowe , I never had a problem living there. I lived there as a college student and as working professional. What pier are you talking about? Shoreline Village doesn't have a pier.
HARD to keep Long beach out of this ugly group, especially when you have the CRAPHOLE -- Wilmington sitting right there! they just have gangs, the west wilmas are alive and well, killing their own, just because! People can't leave there, because they don't know how to act in a normal town!
@@yakkyuu12 I lived most of my life in San Pedro and it's getting to be almost as bad as Wilmington in some parts
“” We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”” - Hunter S. Thompson
I knew that town sounded familiar.
Madison County Sound Labs bat country
“We can’t stop here, this is
BAT COUNTRY!”
600 390 is definitely you don't wanna nobody what kind of empire
I been in California approximately 35 years and I think you miss other places worst than Long Beach. You miss watts, south central , Inglewood, San Bernardino, Victorville, Hesperia. Long Beach is growing. Now we have many beautiful buildings, beaches, restaurants, outlets, etc. And I miss that we have very nice people. 😃🙌🏻
You also missed Etiwanda, Riverside, East LA, and the Crenshaw District. We can’t forget the MacArthur Park area, too
What's up with Hesperia? When I lived in CA, Hesperia was middle clasd
not all of hesperia is bad yes there are bad areas but pratracally everywhere you go down here
@@davidclaro152 yea. Riverside is a shithole
never been to Calfornia but i learn from your videos. was just creepy about the body found. thanks for sharing
Hemet is Mississippi
San Bernardino is Detroit with palm trees
Jaja yup
So True🤣😂
No you mean Bloomington... Hehe
I live in San Bernardino and that description is pretty accurate. At least there's good Mexican food here.
Good comparison. Lol.
Hey Briggs! Love your channel.
The body discovered in the Long beach amusement park belonged to Elmer J. McCurdy, a famous bandit killed in 1911, the undertaker displayed it and charged a nickel to view, the body traveled as a curiosity and eventually ended up as a scary display in the fun house. I love that story. Morbid huh... keep the great vids coming and thank you for your service.
I understand they gave him a proper burial.
I submit mostly filming locations at IMDb, but back in April 2012 I submitted this trivia.
Starsky and Hutch: The Psychic (#2.13)
SPOILER: Driving in the amusement park before discovering the dead Julio Gutierez in the van, Starsky and Hutch drive by the Laff in the Dark funhouse. In real life, in December 1976, the crew of The Six Million Dollar Man: Carnival of Spies (#4.18) accidentally discovered the hanged man prop in the funhouse was actually the mummified remains of Elmer McCurdy, a notorious outlaw who had been killed in a gunfight in 1911.
@@brothersterling McCurdy was an outlaw in Oklahoma who died suddenly while in jail. Having no family to claim the body, he remained at the local undertaker's for an indefinite period of time. After being embalmed, etc. the undertaker gave the body to a traveling circus show, that used it in some kind of arcade game.
After traveling and being swapped around for several decades, it eventually made its way to the NuPike Amusement Park in Long Beach until someone found it during the demolition of the park, and recognized it was, in fact, a real body and not a manikin.
The Long Beach PD and LA County Coroner were called and McCurdy was finally identified months later and returned to his home town. Funds were donated and he was given a ceremonial burial and a marker which remains to this day.
If you Google NuPike, McCurdy and Oklahoma you should be able to find the complete story on him.
Hey, I love Long Beach!
Left there in 1995, but still own a condo one block from the beach. It's rented, though.
Long Beach doesn't belong in the same list as Barstow, Compton, or Hemet.
Long Beach can be pretty bad because of the people who live there. I once found a heroin needle in the sand 🥲
Omg LB is the 7th largest city in CA. There's a shit ton of different neighborhoods. And you're just a peach of a person aren't ya? 😂 I absolutely agree with Tom that LB does NOT belong on this list!! I've lived in 3 different LB neighborhoods for over 15 years and I'll never leave. The economy is booming here and lots of places are experiencing a Renaissance.
Absolutely love Long Beach, I haven't found any issues living there. The people there seem so fun and cheerful.
@@briangasca6534 i find that all the time in venice and santa monica
You showed a picture of the Denny's I used to work at in Bell Gardens. I never thought of Bell or Bell Gardens as especially bad. They are comparable to all the cities in that area. Vernon should definitely be on this list.
Dude you need to do a whole episode on Hemet/San Jacinto, it's changing every month and getting crazy!
I’m on the border between Lynwood and Compton California so I understand where he’s coming from
Whats wrong with Lynwood and Compton? They were great towns in the 1940s. 😂
James S.
NWA can fill you in!
Tortilla FLATS man.. but Compton is getting gentrified now..
Rob Roux i grew up in t flats hood in the 70s 80s and 90s by the time i was 13 i was shot at twice already and had a good friend of mine die in front of me cpt was no joke back them thats why i had to leave i also lived in park village projects a year or so and golden st by thr swap meet but the t flats area was the worst at the time
Me too! I lived in lynwood and Compton was 2 blocks away! Back in 2000-2006
This was a great video funny and I learned allot of interesting things about these cities I like to go to
As always great videos.
Have you done any videos yet on Holbrook, Az?
Fun fact about my home town, Long Beach: a few years ago the city drained the Colorado Lagoon which is a little pond next to a golf course. They found about 60 bodies in there... that was covered up real quick.
🧐🤔 that is not true
@@californiaboy1godbless108 I lived across the street, watched the construction workers put up the green wall, saw the police, ambulances and investigators move the body bags from my bedroom, and had a conversation with a construction worker when they were draining the pond
so we must be neighbors👍🤝🏼
@@californiaboy1godbless108 7 years ago we probably were lol
What😆😆😆😆😆
Born and raised in Southern California and very proud of it. I'm glad to see all of the transplants move away. Hope to see home turn back to the way it used to be.
It won't ever be like it used to be when property values were going up.
Yeah, you can pretty much give up on the 1950's LA returning fantasy.
Hate to tell you. People from SF and Silicon Valley are moving in.
@@garylangley4502 Shhhhhhhhh!
interesting fact. . . the great majority of California residents are from other states. It's mostly a state full of transplants.
Thank you for your service!
Long Beach has great neighborhoods. It is definitely the best city on the list.
Hello Mr. Briggs, I like your journalistic humor as well as your geographic information.
Long Beach is way better than Lynwood.
what part of Long Beach you in lol haha. Lynwood is always nice and quiet driving by
Long Beach has a beach
Depending on what part of LongBeach but obviously the rich area of LB is better than Lynwood
Barstow and Fresno are two Cali towns, the mention of which causes great eye-rolling.
Lived in Lancaster Ca in 1984- 1986 it was such a great little town and Palmdale as well went back about 15 years ago it was sooooo diffent lots of gangs
It’s been over run with drugs, it’s really bad there. That being said I still lived there.
The west side on both cities isn’t bad,some petty little crime not as bad as the Sfv though
Sad, I have lived in Hemet for 30 years and have watched it change. Sad, very sad,
We were there in 82. Yes it's gone downhill but that's complaining that a broken down car is ugly. That valley is and has always been a toilet.
What was it like back in the day? This is fascinating to me. 💌
@David Wang Hemet yuk!
Tweekers suck.
@@MFTH-cam683 back in the 90's had a friend living in Hemet, it was a small town feeling. Now, it's just a POS. It is sad.
Long Beach is a great place to live when you live next to the beach 😉
So true
Even then.. Long beach beach is dirty and dangerous. That along with San Pedro and Venice is the beaches to avoid in LA. Honestly just go to the O.C. our San Diego.
My mom moved to Long Beach from Ohio in the 1950s when it was a fashionable place to be. There are still many decent areas especially near the ocean.
Psh, i live by the LB Airport and that area is great. House is worth almost a million and we bought it for like 350k in the 90's lol
Blythe, CA. #1, period. Anyone who has been there knows what I mean.
That town is some Hills Have Eyes shit haha
Fax
Niland
Omw there now.....the river
I was born and raised in Blythe lol. I moved to SD as soon as I graduated high school lol
Long Beach is a nice city. I lived there 3 blocks from the ocean, the bike trail is really awesome, the aquarium, Belmont Shore/Shoreline Village. Great food and plenty to do. There used to be a IHL team called the Ice Dogs, we had season tickets. They played at the convention center. So many cool places there.
On a business related trip to California last week I stumbled upon the most striking, large geographic feature I had seen in some time: the Salton Sea. THEN, I researched it...WOW! I would love your take on the place. I visited and, while I am well travelled and truly appreciate your videos, have to say I have never conceived of any place like it - and it's "story" is heartbreaking!
It's just so very sad ! No wonder folks don't want change especially by the army cor of engineering !
Montebello is not that bad. There are nice parts of the city and some nice parks.
I was born in Anaheim, grew up and lived in Lancaster until I was 13, then moved to Palmdale and lived their until I was 16. Then I moved to Salem, OR. Also I'm 18 and I just joined the Army National Guard. Weird stuff. Personally I'd say Lancaster Is worse then Palmdale. Especially East Lancaster, beech street is where people die.
I been to all dose city that’s crazy.
Why isn’t 29 stumps on this list?
@@philkearny5587 29 stumps laughs at this list.
I'm from Palmdale, born and raised, and I feel like east Palmdale is marginally worse than east Lancaster but they're pretty comparable
You DID the right thing now larn more in the Army ok.
Informative video.. thumbs up. 👍
Thank you I agree on the cities you named 👍😳🙋♀️
I would like to see a part 2 of the list!
Carl Johnson part 46 comes out tomorrow
That list is 75 towns long
Long Beach is awesome!
You are right on point with Barstow California. I escaped from that ⚫ Hole 9 years ago and NEVER LOOKED OR WENT BACK ! It's a place for people who have lost the will to LIVE .
The last time I went through Barstow was 1996 when I was 12 and my dad got a new job at Pax River and me and my family moved from Ridgecrest, California to Lexington Park, Maryland.
I lived in Trona when young for 4 years. Ridgecrest was the closest town to us & it was a big deal when they got a McDonald's. I was happy when we moved to Montclair.
Ridgecrest meth heads
you missed Hawaiian Gardens
Blanch Blanchard Hawaiian gardens is small and no one cares about it
Old Towne13 Yeah, with Samoan Gangsters.
Although a few are missing, I would have to say, after working or living in some of these areas, you nailed it. Looking forward to leaving Ca. soon.
Wow! Grew up in the area, this is spot on 🎯 truth 💣
Good video. Keep it up!
BASICALLY: Don't live anywhere off the 710 Freeway!
Or south of 10
Actually aside from Compton most of it relatively safe and good value for you money. There's some gentrification happening, mostly with Long Beach. Some of those other mid cities are actually not too bad... decent 1920s to 1950s architecture... relatively kept up... try driving down Tweedy Blvd in South Gate. It's not too bad. Cheaper than trying to get into Torrance or South Pasadena with all the cool L.A. places at a striking distance.
I had lived West of the San Diego Freeway most of my time in SoCal. West of 405 is best. Manhattan Beach, where I grew up, is now Beverly Hills of the coast. All Rolls', M. Benzs, Porcshe, bling, gaudy houses, fake people. Snobbery at its finest.
Not even where the 710 ends in Pasadena? I think many of those homes start at $1 million.
So "Worst" equates to poverty percentage? That's the only data I really hear mentioned.
Yea basically, but why would you wanna live around poor people
Poor= high crime source see statistics
You didn’t listen well. He lists many other stats.
Please make another video very interesting Los Angeles & Riverside counties only 👍
You put in Long Beach, but failed to mention San Bernardino? I'm curious what metrics you used to make this list.
Four of those cities are cool and Ive never had problems going there : Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, El Monte and Montebello the rest on the list do suck .
Any town can suck! Rural areas can too!
At least when you get robbed it'll be a sunny day! Always looking for that silver lining.
Oh mah Lawd.
@@BigMoe3 Lynnwood was bad when I lived in so cal 35 years ago..must be a real hellhole now huh?
@@cherbear1996 I think so. It's a spin off Compton. I moved to another state. I didn't like all that violence growing up in Los Angeles county.
All these cities are majority Mexican. High % Illegals.. Im from Long Beach then moved to Whittier.. Briggs is not stating the illegal Alien portion of each city which is the reason for high poverty.. I know, I lived it. in my face daily...
Its always sunny in Phila …… er, Hemet.
Agreed....Thanks for sharing...
Good video and pretty accurate and entertaining. I grew up in the greater Los Angeles area. I noticed most of these cities are along the 710. Montebello is just a boring place. Long Beach is patchy, with good and bad parts. I would have thrown Riverside and San Bernardino in there in place of Montebello and Long Beach.
I lived in Barstow for a year. And I never returned.
Was going for a promotion at work that would have taken me to Fort. Irwin.. I saw Barstow and was like, nah. 😂😂😂
I'm from San Diego. This is a pretty accurate list. Worst part is the cost of living in these towns are way over priced only cause their in California.
I was born in Los Angeles, grew up in El Monte and still here after 40 years...this is as accurate as you can get!
Lol my mouth dropped when my city I grew up in came up. El Monte. This video was funny, I agree with everything you said.
I am quite surprised that Desert Hot Springs didn't make the list.
Woohoo, my town made the list!...
...wait a minute 🤔😩
"Used to be I could drive up to Barstow for the night, find some crossroad trucker to demonstrate his might." - Sheryl Crow, "Leaving Las Vegas"
The cover photo of this video is perfect!
Long Beach is a thriving city, a lot of new developments going on. Downtown is booming with construction.
North, West and East LB are bad areas. You guys are naming DTLB, Belmont Shore and near Cal State LB.
Yeah, there are a whole lot of new buildings being built
Um plz Long Beach is amazing so diverse everyone is cool until they not it’s the city by the sea no place I’d rather be!!! And I’m from the North Side!!!
I haven't found any bad places in Long Beach. Everyone seems chill, although there are some drug people out there but still Long Beach is a wonderful place to be in. The rent there is pretty high so it's hard to find places where the rent is below 1,000 dollars. Living by the beach is way more expensive 2000-4000. So far Long Beach is great!
My mom had a random idea to move us to Needles, CA in Aug. 1999.. Actually ended up staying til Jan. 2002
2.5 years of my life in hell lol
Been there to live also... Not much left now
Made the mistake of gasing up in needles. They take full advantage of the last station on I 40 was 150 miles ago. Can only imagine how much everything else costs.
@@kczcb4697 gotta go 5 min cross the river in to Arizona for half the price of the needles stations
Makes sense. Sadly in my case I was on fumes. Had no choice. No better for next road trip
Yeah it was pretty bad, when I’d pass through to go to Bullhead for hardcore shows. I can only imagine about terrible it is now
I have been to most of those places. I lived in CA for a few years. He forgot a good one. The name is Lawndale. I was told when driving through that burg do not stop at stop signs when people are around, because you will get car jacked.
hemet, barstow, riverside, st bernadino, of course you know, that all those lovely places are in the inland empire and it would be such fun to organize a tour of those sucking gems featured as : the trail of tears, guns and despair !!
About Long Beach--my grandma graduated from their high school in 1918. She loved the Pike. My parents met there when my dad was on leave from the Navy after WW II. My grandma took me on the rollercoaster there. The safety gear was questionable. It was built out over the water. You could see the ocean through the cracks in the floorboards! Belmont Shores used to be a great place to go innertubing before they drilled the oilwells offshore. A bit of background about this area; all the towns
around Lynwood, &c. were bedroom towns for GM, which had a big assembly plant there into the Sixties. There was a Ford plant in Pico Rivera. Lakewood and surrounds were company towns for McDonnell Douglas (I worked there as a contractor in the Eighties.) Boeing bought it and tore it down. Commerce was the location of the Bell System Works and Western Electric, where my dad, brother and I all worked at one point. I took a hardship transfer and moved to the Central Coast the weekend of the Rodney King riots. I found a house with cheap rent a few blocks from the beach. I go down to visit every couple of years and DO NOT regret leaving. All the good (read Union) jobs went away from L.A. a long time ago. Believe it or not, it used to be another world, with excellent ranch land, agriculture and dairies. Cerritos used to be Dairy Valley. I can understand why there are so many rent refugees leaving. We're getting statewide rent control in January. My immediate family left for the Midwest. I enjoy your videos. Keep 'em coming.
@Art Anson I was aware of the white flight. We lived in Pico Rivera at the time. Realtors had a field day playing on the fears and prejudices of white home owners. You make some sweeping generalizations that I find disturbing, however. I can't co-sign that mindset. Pico Rivera was an Hispanic community. I was the last white girl in my class in the fifth grade. I'm bilingual in Spanish. English speakers have no idea, usually, about how hard it is to learn the language. On another topic, the Coastal Commission in Southern California has no teeth. The real estate developers have built on wetlands near Playa del Rey that is a methane sink. Some day a resident may light up one of those cute chimineas in their backyard and the whole area will explode. The thing I still love about L.A. is its diversity. But saying a certain racial group is somehow degenerate is akin to saying that all whites are dangerous because of the behavior of the Manson family. The Central Coast has a microcosm of various peoples. The decent folk are plagued with the violent minority of gang bangers, the Norteños and Sudeños so that certain areas in the county seat are unsafe for the decent Hispanics who live there. That's the same all over. The only thing constant is change. The past is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Working Telco construction for Western Electric was an in-your-face experience as a woman. We were hired because the Feds sued Bell Systems for discrimination in hiring. The men of my dad's generation were resentful, and acted out in unpleasant ways. We were pioneers. While I miss the wages and benefits, I don't miss the mean spiritedness of discrimination. We worked twice as hard for half the recognition. Anyway, this is longer than I intended. Peace out! 😎
Thank you Laurie for the tour of SoCal - still I Love it I can't help myself.
Hemeth!
I live in Huntsville, Alabama. I was going to move to Palmdale, California. I see Palmdale is on your 10 worst in So Cal. Can you tell me how you rate Huntsville, Alabama? I would really appreciate your feedback.
Palmdale is not that bad m. Boring town that’s about it 1 hr away from everything
You should probably reconsider Long Beach, it has its bad parts, but it also has lovely parts, and is a fun place to hang out.
Barstow actually has really cool geology, fun places to shoot, and lots of space. I'd add another gridlocked city like Van Nuys.
Barstow's a little bit out of the way but there's nothing wrong with it
Copper City dude! My grandpa used to take my siblings and I there on our shooting trips.
@James05574 those were the good old days
You know your a barstow lad when our one saving grace is "the desert is pretty cool " god forbid you lived somewhere so much worse than barstow this guy didnt cover it like baker,newberry,yermo or dagget .
@@legacy_the_archer the desert is cool. I've been all over.
what !?!? No San Bernardino on your list ?? you didn't do your homework well. Lol :)
san bernardino is not even close, to what long beach, compton used to be on the 90's
San ysidro .....YIKES
Lol 😝
and no high desert!
The fact that San Bernardino is not part of Los Angeles County already makes it easy better. Regardless of the crime.
No way, bad call on Long Beach. Loved living there and it's is an amazing place to live--def one of my favorites, second to San Diego.
Just depends on the area, east side longo could get pretty crazy but it’s not super super bad but not exactly safe haha
@@GOODFELLAPRODUCTIONS true haha
As someone who has been to Long Beach countless times, it’s a beautiful and relatively wealthy city (as you saw in the photos). This guy’s only complain is that the houses are expensive and they found a dead body 50 years ago. It has million dollars seaside mansions and great night life. To me is seems like a smaller version of San Diego.
Most of San Diego is a hole now, so not sure that's a great'comparison.
I remember passing through Barstoo, you're not kidding about the gas thing. I thought for a minute we were in a abandoned town.
Born and raised in the I.E. lived in Barstow for 6 months while working a government contract at Fort Irwin. There is absolutely no reason to live in Barstow lol
tHANKS FOR THE USABLE INFO... IS THERE ANY CHANCE O GIVE US SOME GOOD AND BAD TOWNS/CITIES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AS WELL AS MID-CALIFORNIA. THANKS SO MUCH.
Id put Watts in there. Sketchy every time I worked there. Long Beach has a lot of bad spots, but A LOT of good spots too. I wouldnt qualify it as Los Angeles, LB is pretty much its own.