Believe it or not, it was a lot worse a few years ago. The university has rebuilt a lot of areas as shown in this video. I went to Temple about 20 years ago and lets just say it was a bit of culture shock for me back then but it forced me to grow up quickly and learn how to live in a major city.
To all the emotional bottom feeders who think CharlieBo's videos are about race: for the love of god please go somewhere else. For me this channel is an understated form of documentary. Charlie demonstrates enormous discipline by not offering subjective commentary and I respect that beyond words. These videos are chronicling America as it exists today. Their value will persist for decades. If you don't like them then I ask you politely, please project your self-loathing and misery somewhere else.
It's amazing how much energy people spend trying to surreptitiously promote the supposed superiority of White people/culture and then say it has nothing to do with race. This guy is not-so-cleverly trying to make a statement with pictures that would be manifestly racist if made with words, which explains why there's no accompanying speech to the video. ... There's also a reason why this video is not presented as a continuous, un-cut trip. It never shows more than a single block at a time and jumps great distances, sometimes miles, between one edit to the next. That is because often he turns the corner onto a pristinely maintained, well-kept row of homes that don't fit into his nefarious narrative. To those not intimately familiar with the greater Temple community, it's easy to believe this video shows the entire area surrounding the university. But while you could circle the immediate outskirts of the Temple campus on foot in under an hour -- probably 30 to 40 mins. -- you could not even cover the contiguous areas shown in this video on foot in a single day, they are that far apart. ... The entire residential area represented by this video covers tens of thousands of streets and blocks and hundreds of thousands of homes, the vast majority of which do not look like this video, which shows about 1 pct of the community. ... This just shows the desperate levels Whites will go attempting to denigrate Blacks, and to promote the feigned supremacy of having White skin, evidencing a seeming inferiority complex.
At a similar neighborhood , while I was at lunch , someone by himself ran off with a 44 foot wooden extension ladder out of the side yard of the house I was working on. Now What was he gonna do with that?! It's always the same - these creatures are opportunistic - if it ain't tied down , steal it THEN figure out what to do wif it. Like an animal foraging for food. He eat anything.
@@apocyldoomer Talk to contractors that have to pay helpers JUST to look after his truck. Tell me. Is that normal? Do we make these people act that way? Is is my fault he doesn't want a job ? Businesses, even Korean grocers get tired of neighbors stealing shit and shooting up his store. Is that the Koreans fault? Nice cars , though.
My car was stolen one night when i attended Temple, the Philly police called me around 3:00 am and said that they had recovered my car (didn't even know it was stolen), and to come pick it up. I started walking down the street, got a few blocks from campus and said to myself i must be crazy. Turned around and went back to sleep. Police called again and said i had to come now cause they had so many stolen cars and no place to put them. By now it was getting light out so i said ok. Got there, they didn't even ask for any ID, the cop handed me a screwdriver and showed me how to start it (the ignition column was cracked open). It was broken into so many times after that when i graduated i took the license plates off and just left it on the street.
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Notice how when he makes the left turn, the video cuts immediately to north of alleghny. You have to travel blocks and blocks to get to the actual bad parts.
You can easily get lost & end up in a real bad spot on foot. You "temple isnt ghetto" deniers act like you need to walk 10 miles to get to the ghetto. Have a daughter & send her there alone and then get back to me
carey540 my grandfather had a daughter and sent her alone there everyday back in the 90s. That daughter is my mom and she is still alive and well. She never seemed to have a problem...
Thats what i was deployed through my sunroof the left side of the nights templars hood, not childhood 😂 With a tiny spot cover 😂 while the eyelash magpie made a move from the right Airwolf 😂
this aint really temple. they cleaned that shit up ALOT. Yea it says surrounding areas but Temple is all broad st. you have to go blocks and blocks to get to these places
Exactly! Only people who aren't from Philly/don't know Philly would think that these neighborhoods are the ones that are close to Temple! He's clearly north of Allegheny Ave.
I went on the Temple campus on a tour and I gotta be real, I felt safe as hell. The surrounding parts? Not so much. But the campus and the buildings on it are pretty nice, especially the CST building
I miss philly and temple ... two very memorable years of my life ... I don’t see anything bad about it ... just stay safe and away from trouble and you’ll be fine ...
I'm always curious about how you mount/disguise your camera, assuming you don't want people to know you're filming. I appreciate what you do though, thank you for the phenomenal perspective!
Notice all the cuts in the video. He doesn't want to show you how far off campus he really is. No Temple student would ever need to go this far from campus. Idk what the point of this video is.
Yep (even though I like to trek that far as an urban photographer)! Only people who aren't from Philly/don't know the city would believe that these are the neighborhoods that surround Main. The driver is clearly north of Allegheny Ave. after the video cuts off from 17th and Diamond.
Umm hey dumbass they can leave campus I live 10blocks away temple university n the students have apartments right across the street from. Where I live soo idk wtf u talking about
I had friends that went to Temple and lived on 18th & Diamond. Real lovely place for a college student to live. Not everyone lives in a dorm on broad st genius.
Dude, I see poverty, not GRIME. You are an ELITEST to call it a ghetto. I see people trying to make a way out of no way. People talking, riding bikes colllecting trash , looks real normal to me. I grew up in the streets of Philadelphia lived off campus at 17th and Columbia. and was lucky enough to be smart enough to also get a scholarship to Temple U, (73)and was able to, now that I am a PHD, give a substantial gift to the university that gave me my start so that some other "ghetto" kid like me can go to the university that engulphs their neigborhood without reaching out to them so it can truely be the people's univeristy . Dont 'DIS North Philadelphia. They raise their children, do their work and get on with their lives. Be happy that someone paid for YOU to be a student (if you are or were one) You need to reach out and make it better. Dont build yourself up by trying to take away the dignity of others. You got to to better, man.
Exactly my first thoughts. Of course there will be trash around and lower income areas in the heart of a city. That certainly does not make it grimy, especially when the areas he’s showing are not in Temple’s immediate area.
I live in Baltimore and l go to Temple Hospital on Broad Street for my GI issues (stomach problem which is called...Gastropaesis)...thanks for the tour of Philadelphia...keep posting!!!
Man, the city of brotherly love is really unlovely in places. It really seems endless. North, south, east, west. I had no idea. Lots of nice late-model cars, though. Nice BMW at 6:56 Hope you'll show us some nice areas of Philly some day, just as you did with Detroit.
This isn’t gonna stop me from going in the fall😩 I fell in love with the school even after this was the first thing I saw when going to the school for my first tour
Jada abdullah go. this video is nothing like what temple really is, trust me. i love going here and this video doesn’t even show the area temple is in.
The people who live in these areas are tax payers, work jobs to raise their families, and strive to live a better life. You should be ashamed of calling it "grimy", don't speak on what you don't know about.
Three generations of black southern migrants have lived in these poor communities. The first generation was one step removed from the ravages of slavery. Today, many in the following two generations have become first generation college graduates and professionals in every area. These professionals proudly visit friends and family who have been left behind. They drive expensive cars when they visit, but they do not think they are better than those who didn't make it; and they are politically ambitious and contemptuous of other groups who try to prove their lives do not matter. They return home to their middle-class black or mixed communities, and pave the way for those who will eventually follow their success stories. These people are not eternally destined for poverty and ignorance; they are advancing generation-by-generation.
Bleak and Sad but true..keep sharing and exposing Charlie. Don't let anyone discourage you. Some of us don't realize how bless we are. We all have free will to live our life how we want. However, some people lack the resources to do better. Blessings
tons of camera cuts this isn’t accurate at all... i go to temple right now as a freshman coming from a very suburban area and i’ve realized temple truly gets a bad rep. these areas are not on campus. the campus has more cops patrolling than you could ever imagine and as a young female i have had no problems in the surrounding area. no temple student is regularly in these areas anyways. everything on campus is very close and those who move off campus into houses have good experiences. this is a completely false representation of temple. i don’t even recognize these areas because these aren’t even the neighborhoods that surround temple.
I've been there and other parts of Philly. When I first went there, I was shocked that it looked like that around there, but then most universities seem to be near hoods, look at Yale and Columbia!
I envy folks that get to live urban areas like this. I am sick of working. I would love to chill, hang w friends & fam, smoke weed, drink, laugh, listen to music, enjoy food, hook up w a girl now and then. Maybe work a little bit here and there for pocket money. I am totally serious. The people that live in the cities you show have a way better life then me. All I do is work, live alone and have no fun at all ever. Last time I had fun was back in college over 30 years ago.
Mike MakesRight it's all fun and games til you one of your friends get caught in crossfire. You have to remember the many negative things that come with the hood.
I wouldn't envy living in the hood at all, you'd have no money. I work mornings 4 hours a day Mon to sat. Guess what? I'm still money poor and looking at getting a second job.
Nice to take the drive down there. I use to attend Temple University, so some of the roads were familiar, You know the poorest of the poor still know how to live strong. Kids still play in their neighborhoods no matter the circumstance, but I always felt a sadness for seeing the people so close and living so open to the street life outside their front door,
Temple trying to buy up north Philly to build a dam foot ball field so for the working people in north Philly who trying to fix up there home can't get a loan to fix up or loan set up for you to fail north Philly is a target area to build up but before you must let go down to get cheap think about it
I wonder if I have made the right decision to enlist than try my luck with Temple University. I’m not going to be saying that I missed Philly, yet I have to think about what my life would have been...had I not enlisted.
Seems like a lot of poor black people value cars and shoes more than anything, so they spend all their income on those things. Not all but a decent amount.
love your videos, charlie, but to say that many of these streets are "surrounding areas of Temple" is misleading. a lot of the footage goes well beyond where any student has a reason to walk. i've never felt unsafe on temple's campus. as for the surrounding blocks, in my experience: south of campus is fine, west and east varies depending on the block, and north... yeah, north of campus is pretty sketchy lmao
The point of the video was that some of the worst looking slums in the country are literally a few blocks from Temple, and they are. those areas are not where students live. there is actually a pretty sketchy public housing project right across the street from part of the campus, but there are so many campus and Philadelphia police patrolling the are it's pretty safe.
for those who don't know at the very beginning of the video those blue trash bags all lined up are usually community service people who got petty little charges.
This is why I didn't attend Temple in 1986. And it was very bad very close to campus then even some of Broad in the heart of Temple was very,, very bad. Such a shame as Temple had so much to offer.
Philadelphia is one of my least favorite american cities. It's such a shame. The downtown core is so clean and manicured like new york city while the outskirts were left to rot. There is like zero intention of cleaning it up.
I drove Septa buses in these areas its a WAR ZONE...I just missed Vietnam but got a taste in N.Philly... MACHINE GUN FIRE making the bus windows into Swiss Cheese ..12 yr old pulling out knives demanding free rides ..robbing people right on the BUS (33) worse route of all
Steve Dwyer I used to ride that route to & from wrk (art museum area) & I would feel uneasy coming through certain areas....& I am born & raised in Philly 🙄😂😂🤦🏽♀️
Give up on themselves ??? Yeah you can’t really help the situation your born into. People didn’t give up on themselves. They make do with the cards they’ve been dealt. Just like anybody else in life would do.
If they built nice things in only suburbs everyone in urban communities would complain .. it is what is is.. instead of Temple would u prefer liquor stores n gun shops
The neighborhood that surrounds Temple isn't even the worst in the city (in fact, it's far from it). I would say that Johns Hopkins is in a worse neighborhood than Temple. At least the Cecil B. Moore/Templetown neighborhood is being developed like crazy right now.
The housing areas of Philly, 80 percent of the houses in the city have never been reassessed so you're looking at houses that have fallen into ruin, of 85k to lots that go for 150k and a little more. i moved into a house near Dmed, and the lot had a store and house. my landlord had to buy both and it had massive water damage. Lot of these houses are Section 8, sheriff sales too, in East Falls that area where the train passes and the high rise condos went up old textile mill houses a bunch were sold for fucking 10 bucks. So its not always the tenant's fault for upkeep, its the city lagging its feet. @datboiwest333 is correct Philly is extremely old, these were cobblestones dirt roads and the city budget is shit to fix.
Lunatic 1 was a suicide, 1 was shot by a Miami police officer after hitting him with a car, 2 were drug overdoses, and 2 were murdered. Stop making it sound like 6 kids were massacred on campus. Get your facts straight before u talk shit on philly
I find these videos quite educational. I find myself searching for a common thread between ghettos of each city. I’ll let you all know if I come up with anything.
Juniatapark54, that's so true. However there's so many Philadelphians living in NY, it makes you wonder why. I know it could be a multitude of reasons. But clearly they must feel NY has something better to offer them then Philly!!!
fixing stuff cost money but also you can do a lot if you want. and it does not all cost much. a basic upkeep can be quiet cheap. but these people seem lazy and more occupied with hanging around the corner activities.
It's amazing how much energy people spend trying to surreptitiously promote the supposed superiority of White people/culture and then say it has nothing to do with race. This guy is not-so-cleverly trying to make a statement with pictures that would be manifestly racist if made with words, which explains why there's no accompanying speech to the video. ... There's also a reason why this video is not presented as a continuous, un-cut trip. It never shows more than a single block at a time and jumps great distances, sometimes miles, between one edit to the next. That is because often he turns the corner onto a pristinely maintained, well-kept row of homes that don't fit into his nefarious narrative. To those not intimately familiar with the greater Temple community, it's easy to believe this video shows the entire area surrounding the university. But while you could circle the immediate outskirts of the Temple campus on foot in under an hour -- probably 30 to 40 mins. -- you could not even cover the contiguous areas shown in this video on foot in a single day, they are that far apart. ... The entire residential area represented by this video covers tens of thousands of streets and blocks and hundreds of thousands of homes, the vast majority of which do not look like this video, which shows about 1 pct of the community. ... This just shows the desperate levels Whites will go attempting to denigrate Blacks, and to promote the feigned supremacy of having White skin, evidencing a seeming inferiority complex.
You're completely wrong, and I'm black. The video is intended to show some of the worst looking areas near Temple university, not necessarily one continuous block. Most of my videos are like that. You're reading way too much into this. I just film mostly run down urban areas as a hobby, and for documentation purposes.
I don't care if you ARE Black! The fact remains, what you're not-so-cleverly attempting is a demonization of Black men and a promotion of White supremacy. Your "it's just a hobby" explanation is a bunch of crap, and you know it. Dumb White people who don't know the neighborhood may be fooled by your fake innocence, but not me. I'm a Temple alum and I know my way around the entire area. I'm neither shamed or impressed by your cowardly "documentation."
Wow, that's the most articulate Temple grad, like, ever. Some people have a "thing" for these areas, whether it's because it is so far removed from their reality that it fascinates them or they love drugs and associate such areas with substances...whatever the reason. Hey, maybe Mr. Charlie can go to some torn-up Appalachian towns and show whitey hanging around and shit.
Briana Crowder They are Documentaries to show the awful situations going on in AMERICA that the Media try's to hide from the public! BTW... You're a very beautiful woman!👍👍👍
You are making it out to be something it is not. OK it is a little grubby but not a ghetto. Take a look at some cities in the U.K. on Google maps. Much worse than this. e.g.London , Manchester , Birmingham , Liverpool , Leeds , Glasgow and many others.
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Believe it or not, it was a lot worse a few years ago. The university has rebuilt a lot of areas as shown in this video. I went to Temple about 20 years ago and lets just say it was a bit of culture shock for me back then but it forced me to grow up quickly and learn how to live in a major city.
Try 30 years ago. I went to school in Happy Valley, but went to Philly because a lot of my friends were from that city.
@@171TITO that was the heyday of the crack epidemic which turned many inner city areas into killing fields.
To all the emotional bottom feeders who think CharlieBo's videos are about race: for the love of god please go somewhere else. For me this channel is an understated form of documentary. Charlie demonstrates enormous discipline by not offering subjective commentary and I respect that beyond words. These videos are chronicling America as it exists today. Their value will persist for decades. If you don't like them then I ask you politely, please project your self-loathing and misery somewhere else.
clive mossmoon. white guy agrees
clive mossmoon that is a perfect way of describing Charlie's vids
Sick Boy you should work on your comma placements while you cry about meaningless shit online. You, really, use, them, too, much.
John D lol I hear Sick Boy's comments in the style of William Shatner
It's amazing how much energy people spend trying to surreptitiously promote the supposed superiority of White people/culture and then say it has nothing to do with race. This guy is not-so-cleverly trying to make a statement with pictures that would be manifestly racist if made with words, which explains why there's no accompanying speech to the video. ... There's also a reason why this video is not presented as a continuous, un-cut trip. It never shows more than a single block at a time and jumps great distances, sometimes miles, between one edit to the next. That is because often he turns the corner onto a pristinely maintained, well-kept row of homes that don't fit into his nefarious narrative. To those not intimately familiar with the greater Temple community, it's easy to believe this video shows the entire area surrounding the university. But while you could circle the immediate outskirts of the Temple campus on foot in under an hour -- probably 30 to 40 mins. -- you could not even cover the contiguous areas shown in this video on foot in a single day, they are that far apart. ... The entire residential area represented by this video covers tens of thousands of streets and blocks and hundreds of thousands of homes, the vast majority of which do not look like this video, which shows about 1 pct of the community. ... This just shows the desperate levels Whites will go attempting to denigrate Blacks, and to promote the feigned supremacy of having White skin, evidencing a seeming inferiority complex.
Did a lot of work in this area back in the Eighties putting up antennas for HBO. Once had my ladder stolen WHILE I WAS ON A ROOF!
joebizzizzle WOW!!! So cruel!! How did u call the police? Most people didn't have a cell phone during that era
joebizzizzle Ahhh, that sucks, years ago, I was an exterminator and worked in those areas, never had a problem and I used ladders, crazy shit, I know.
😂😂😂 sorry for that
At a similar neighborhood , while I was at lunch , someone by himself ran off with a 44 foot wooden extension ladder out of the side yard of the house I was working on. Now What was he gonna do with that?! It's always the same - these creatures are opportunistic - if it ain't tied down , steal it THEN figure out what to do wif it. Like an animal foraging for food. He eat anything.
@@apocyldoomer Talk to contractors that have to pay helpers JUST to look after his truck. Tell me. Is that normal? Do we make these people act that way? Is is my fault he doesn't want a job ? Businesses, even Korean grocers get tired of neighbors stealing shit and shooting up his store. Is that the Koreans fault? Nice cars , though.
My car was stolen one night when i attended Temple, the Philly police called me around 3:00 am and said that they had recovered my car (didn't even know it was stolen), and to come pick it up. I started walking down the street, got a few blocks from campus and said to myself i must be crazy. Turned around and went back to sleep. Police called again and said i had to come now cause they had so many stolen cars and no place to put them. By now it was getting light out so i said ok. Got there, they didn't even ask for any ID, the cop handed me a screwdriver and showed me how to start it (the ignition column was cracked open). It was broken into so many times after that when i graduated i took the license plates off and just left it on the street.
What car was it? Dom poes
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Notice how when he makes the left turn, the video cuts immediately to north of alleghny. You have to travel blocks and blocks to get to the actual bad parts.
You can easily get lost & end up in a real bad spot on foot. You "temple isnt ghetto" deniers act like you need to walk 10 miles to get to the ghetto. Have a daughter & send her there alone and then get back to me
carey540 my grandfather had a daughter and sent her alone there everyday back in the 90s. That daughter is my mom and she is still alive and well. She never seemed to have a problem...
90’s vs 2018
William Brousseau philly is a hellhole
@@CLCVideos Children get kidnapped in nice white neigborhoods all the time, dont you watch the news?
In west Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most on my days.
Thats what i was deployed through my sunroof the left side of the nights templars hood, not childhood 😂
With a tiny spot cover 😂
while the eyelash magpie made a move from the right
Airwolf 😂
this aint really temple. they cleaned that shit up ALOT. Yea it says surrounding areas but Temple is all broad st. you have to go blocks and blocks to get to these places
Exactly! Only people who aren't from Philly/don't know Philly would think that these neighborhoods are the ones that are close to Temple! He's clearly north of Allegheny Ave.
I went on the Temple campus on a tour and I gotta be real, I felt safe as hell. The surrounding parts? Not so much.
But the campus and the buildings on it are pretty nice, especially the CST building
Hoping to get into Temple next year btw
Temple's campus is very safe....the campus proper. Off campus different story.
I'm a Temple alumnus. The campus is very nice and safe. However, venture 4 or 5 blocks off campus......watch out.
As sad as it is theres something about these streets that I find amazing. Its like another world entirely.
Hm...
I miss philly and temple ... two very memorable years of my life ... I don’t see anything bad about it ... just stay safe and away from trouble and you’ll be fine ...
I'm always curious about how you mount/disguise your camera, assuming you don't want people to know you're filming. I appreciate what you do though, thank you for the phenomenal perspective!
Notice all the cuts in the video. He doesn't want to show you how far off campus he really is. No Temple student would ever need to go this far from campus. Idk what the point of this video is.
Yep (even though I like to trek that far as an urban photographer)! Only people who aren't from Philly/don't know the city would believe that these are the neighborhoods that surround Main. The driver is clearly north of Allegheny Ave. after the video cuts off from 17th and Diamond.
Umm hey dumbass they can leave campus I live 10blocks away temple university n the students have apartments right across the street from. Where I live soo idk wtf u talking about
Both of you are in major denial of the shit ass area that is Temple's campus.
I had friends that went to Temple and lived on 18th & Diamond. Real lovely place for a college student to live. Not everyone lives in a dorm on broad st genius.
Older students rent in the area . Another once beautiful city destroyed by a scourge of locusts
FUN FACT - Temple university has the largest campus police force of any college in the US ( 125 officers ). This video tells us why .
yea bc the niggas who made temple decided to build the shit in the middle of north philly like that was a great idea😭
He literally cut to Kensington. Nowhere near campus.
Dude, I see poverty, not GRIME. You are an ELITEST to call it a ghetto. I see people trying to make a way out of no way. People talking, riding bikes colllecting trash , looks real normal to me. I grew up in the streets of Philadelphia lived off campus at 17th and Columbia. and was lucky enough to be smart enough to also get a scholarship to Temple U, (73)and was able to, now that I am a PHD, give a substantial gift to the university that gave me my start so that some other "ghetto" kid like me can go to the university that engulphs their neigborhood without reaching out to them so it can truely be the people's univeristy . Dont 'DIS North Philadelphia. They raise their children, do their work and get on with their lives. Be happy that someone paid for YOU to be a student (if you are or were one) You need to reach out and make it better. Dont build yourself up by trying to take away the dignity of others. You got to to better, man.
Exactly my first thoughts. Of course there will be trash around and lower income areas in the heart of a city. That certainly does not make it grimy, especially when the areas he’s showing are not in Temple’s immediate area.
@@jaidaramsdell4799 you're never too poor to sweep your front porch
I live in Baltimore and l go to Temple Hospital on Broad Street for my GI issues (stomach problem which is called...Gastropaesis)...thanks for the tour of Philadelphia...keep posting!!!
Man, the city of brotherly love is really unlovely in places. It really seems endless. North, south, east, west. I had no idea. Lots of nice late-model cars, though. Nice BMW at 6:56
Hope you'll show us some nice areas of Philly some day, just as you did with Detroit.
Nice BMW parked in front of Section 8 housing. That makes sense!!
seeing nicer cars than houses
Nothing screams drug dealer than a BMW X6 in front of a house with boarded up windows.
Milton Waddams not really. It could be a real estate agent. Or somebody looking to buy property. Or a rental lol
Howlin Iverson right😂
Welfare, our taxes pay for their cars, rent, jewelry, you name it.
Probably because a nice car is easier to get than a nice house.
This isn’t gonna stop me from going in the fall😩 I fell in love with the school even after this was the first thing I saw when going to the school for my first tour
Jada abdullah go. this video is nothing like what temple really is, trust me. i love going here and this video doesn’t even show the area temple is in.
I loved my time at Temple!
The people who live in these areas are tax payers, work jobs to raise their families, and strive to live a better life. You should be ashamed of calling it "grimy", don't speak on what you don't know about.
OMG this is a pleasure Cruise. Please see Kensington and Allegheny. Located in North Philly as well. Philadelphia USA
Three generations of black southern migrants have lived in these poor communities. The first generation was one step removed from the ravages of slavery. Today, many in the following two generations have become first generation college graduates and professionals in every area. These professionals proudly visit friends and family who have been left behind. They drive expensive cars when they visit, but they do not think they are better than those who didn't make it; and they are politically ambitious and contemptuous of other groups who try to prove their lives do not matter. They return home to their middle-class black or mixed communities, and pave the way for those who will eventually follow their success stories. These people are not eternally destined for poverty and ignorance; they are advancing generation-by-generation.
Everybody standing upright and seems to be doing fine. No problem there!!!
Sounds like you're driving a shopping cart .I'd have to drink a lot to survive driving that spine compactor.
Pot holes will do that
Bleak and Sad but true..keep sharing and exposing Charlie. Don't let anyone discourage you. Some of us don't realize how bless we are. We all have free will to live our life how we want. However, some people lack the resources to do better. Blessings
Ppl living there are STILL blessed. Each day you live is a blessing. It’s kind of rude to imply that they aren’t due to the way the city looks.
i didnt see the fresh prince anywhere lol.
of course lol
bev hills
It aint the ninetys anymore
He was always in north Philly fact....
Because he got out like anyone with good sense
tons of camera cuts this isn’t accurate at all... i go to temple right now as a freshman coming from a very suburban area and i’ve realized temple truly gets a bad rep. these areas are not on campus. the campus has more cops patrolling than you could ever imagine and as a young female i have had no problems in the surrounding area. no temple student is regularly in these areas anyways. everything on campus is very close and those who move off campus into houses have good experiences. this is a completely false representation of temple. i don’t even recognize these areas because these aren’t even the neighborhoods that surround temple.
Do you drive a huge truck? The way you make turns, seems like u have to take it wide.
I've been there and other parts of Philly. When I first went there, I was shocked that it looked like that around there, but then most universities seem to be near hoods, look at Yale and Columbia!
University of Chicago, University of Southern California....and many others.
🤔🤔🤔
Columbia is not near the hood 😂😂😂😂 Are you serious? Lmfao
You must not be from ny. Columbia isn’t near the hood at all. 😂😂😂
I envy folks that get to live urban areas like this. I am sick of working. I would love to chill, hang w friends & fam, smoke weed, drink, laugh, listen to music, enjoy food, hook up w a girl now and then. Maybe work a little bit here and there for pocket money. I am totally serious. The people that live in the cities you show have a way better life then me. All I do is work, live alone and have no fun at all ever. Last time I had fun was back in college over 30 years ago.
Mike MakesRight it's all fun and games til you one of your friends get caught in crossfire. You have to remember the many negative things that come with the hood.
I wouldn't envy living in the hood at all, you'd have no money.
I work mornings 4 hours a day Mon to sat. Guess what? I'm still money poor and looking at getting a second job.
Mike MakesRight start your own business
+ivan d Thank you now see you later.
Robanz ZZ dude. u work 24 hours a week.
Been there did it done it no thanks I'm good. AMEN !!! Philadelphia USA
I'm praying for everyone.
Temple parties used to be poppin. Tho good ol days
Funk Shiz facts lol
It’s a great area filled with a lot of hard working good people. I work at Broad and Lehigh.
Nice to take the drive down there. I use to attend Temple University, so some of the roads were familiar, You know the poorest of the poor still know how to live strong. Kids still play in their neighborhoods no matter the circumstance, but I always felt a sadness for seeing the people so close and living so open to the street life outside their front door,
Temple trying to buy up north Philly to build a dam foot ball field so for the working people in north Philly who trying to fix up there home can't get a loan to fix up or loan set up for you to fail north Philly is a target area to build up but before you must let go down to get cheap think about it
White middle class eastern Pennsylvanian: No no no sweetheart not Temple
I wonder if I have made the right decision to enlist than try my luck with Temple University. I’m not going to be saying that I missed Philly, yet I have to think about what my life would have been...had I not enlisted.
If you want to see safe and secure Universities! Go to Deleware, and Deleware State Universities! They are in Excellent Neighborhoods.
Phila is on the level with chicago and New York...eighth city in the world in terms with GDP, and the leading crude oil hustler on east coast.
I graduated from temple in 2013 and live on 17th and susquehanna for 2 years...it was definitely sketch....make sure that I wasnt out late at night
Notice how the poorest hoods have nicer cars than middle class neighborhoods.
vousmevoyez easy to make acar payment if u live in a shitty house. not impressive. im sure u would trade your posh suburban life for a nice car
morotzoo nit hard to pay a car note with rent at 400 a month no bills yea its stupid should be looking at a better place but them cars be 99% used
morotzoo you can get a used one like 2012 for under 30 grand
Seems like a lot of poor black people value cars and shoes more than anything, so they spend all their income on those things. Not all but a decent amount.
Umm really? Not better than any middle class neighborhood I've ever seen. Maybe you're not as middle-class as you think you are.
love your videos, charlie, but to say that many of these streets are "surrounding areas of Temple" is misleading. a lot of the footage goes well beyond where any student has a reason to walk. i've never felt unsafe on temple's campus. as for the surrounding blocks, in my experience: south of campus is fine, west and east varies depending on the block, and north... yeah, north of campus is pretty sketchy lmao
The point of the video was that some of the worst looking slums in the country are literally a few blocks from Temple, and they are. those areas are not where students live. there is actually a pretty sketchy public housing project right across the street from part of the campus, but there are so many campus and Philadelphia police patrolling the are it's pretty safe.
do you go to temple/are you personally familiar with the area? just curious
for those who don't know at the very beginning of the video those blue trash bags all lined up are usually community service people who got petty little charges.
Guess it don't matter if your home is in shambles and total ruin..... Mah car looks good !
This is why I didn't attend Temple in 1986. And it was very bad very close to campus then even some of Broad in the heart of Temple was very,, very bad. Such a shame as Temple had so much to offer.
Why did you cut the video 2:15-2:16?
Becuase he left Temple. Those areas are not close to temple you would have to go out of your way to go there
It sounds like jeepers creepers what you driving 😲
Watching this while listening to "Streets of Philadelphia" by Springsteen.
I was humming it, seemed fitting somehow.
Average Joe bruised n battered,unrecognisable.....
Classic
I was listening to "Do The Hustle".
Robert Thomas lmao
most places got a ghetto section this doesn’t surprise me
Damn I love Philly, but fuck the soda tax and cigarette tax.
Is this person taking us on a Drug run?? I'm from Philly and I think he's about to cop some weed.
:)
back in 1960s lot of good music came out of Philly like freddy cannon. bandstand guests..south street
Philadelphia is one of my least favorite american cities. It's such a shame. The downtown core is so clean and manicured like new york city while the outskirts were left to rot. There is like zero intention of cleaning it up.
Ever city downtown looks good
6:50 looks like a crazy place whoa...
2:18 holy original 1992-93 DA Acura Integra LS in horizon gray metallic. Amazing a Honda that old can survive so long in the ghetto.
As a hard-core 60s liberal would say: That area is underprivileged, under-developed, and socio-economically deprived.
I don’t suppose there are too many local alumni.
Damn that one street is tight lol
I drove Septa buses in these areas its a WAR ZONE...I just missed Vietnam but got a taste in N.Philly... MACHINE GUN FIRE making the bus windows into Swiss Cheese ..12 yr old pulling out knives demanding free rides ..robbing people right on the BUS (33) worse route of all
Steve Dwyer I used to ride that route to & from wrk (art museum area) & I would feel uneasy coming through certain areas....& I am born & raised in Philly 🙄😂😂🤦🏽♀️
Oh, wow. The roach coach district. I haven't seen one of those in years. How cool is that?
My old neighborhood. Gentrification has changed it a lot. It was worse than thos about 15 years ago
What is this? Its not where you live but how you live. So painful to watch ones give up on themselves.
Give up on themselves ??? Yeah you can’t really help the situation your born into. People didn’t give up on themselves. They make do with the cards they’ve been dealt. Just like anybody else in life would do.
Spoken like a true suburban kid
If they built nice things in only suburbs everyone in urban communities would complain .. it is what is is.. instead of Temple would u prefer liquor stores n gun shops
The guy drives an X6 BMW and lives in a shed
Temple has to be in the worst neighborhood for any major university.
Isaac Fox na usc is in south la...not a nice area
True I have been to USC's campus before and drove around the area. It might be debatable which area is worse.
The neighborhood that surrounds Temple isn't even the worst in the city (in fact, it's far from it). I would say that Johns Hopkins is in a worse neighborhood than Temple. At least the Cecil B. Moore/Templetown neighborhood is being developed like crazy right now.
William Clark Agreed. I attend Temple but I toured Hopkins, and that definitely looked worse to me.
Yeah depends on which part of Hopkins you're talking about. The main school is actually in a nice neighborhood.
So, these were homes to the factory workers back in the day?
The housing areas of Philly, 80 percent of the houses in the city have never been reassessed so you're looking at houses that have fallen into ruin, of 85k to lots that go for 150k and a little more. i moved into a house near Dmed, and the lot had a store and house. my landlord had to buy both and it had massive water damage. Lot of these houses are Section 8, sheriff sales too, in East Falls that area where the train passes and the high rise condos went up old textile mill houses a bunch were sold for fucking 10 bucks. So its not always the tenant's fault for upkeep, its the city lagging its feet. @datboiwest333 is correct Philly is extremely old, these were cobblestones dirt roads and the city budget is shit to fix.
When nobody works there is no money to fix anything.
My city. When u coming back and my old college.. TU
is there someone in the trunk trying to get out?
6 Temple students died this school year. Crazy
Artie KlineMeister not crazy, welcome to the ghetto piece of shit wasteland dump of Philadelphia.
Lunatic what city are you from
Alot of them go missing too.
Lunatic 1 was a suicide, 1 was shot by a Miami police officer after hitting him with a car, 2 were drug overdoses, and 2 were murdered. Stop making it sound like 6 kids were massacred on campus. Get your facts straight before u talk shit on philly
@@LunaticMenace damn wtf
Sounded like you hit the Drug dealers BMW at the end..
I was interesting to see so many new/ fresh loking vehicles in the midst of so much poverty and trash. Wow!
some of those cars look a little out of place hmmm
I find these videos quite educational. I find myself searching for a common thread between ghettos of each city. I’ll let you all know if I come up with anything.
Well that's easy, all the residents have big dicks.
@Nan Matau No they have nice round asses and not flat ones where you cant tell where their back ends and their asses began.
GO OWLS! TU!
In some areas having a double wide with a couple of dogs underneath is status, in this one it seems to be satellite dishes.
love the slums..
i love my slums the most but this defo has some romance about it.
The BMW X6 at 6:51 cracked me up
Dr Dwg Why?
I peeped that too. Driving a BMW while living in complete squalor. But hey, maybe he's just visiting
Tori Greene no a some
in these have nice cars. They'd rather a nice car than nice home
All that welfare money, we tax payers helped paid for that car.
probably the owner is a cocaine seller
Where do food trucks use bathroom?
Why are we watching these videos? Forrrr entertainment? Spectacle? New information? I’m confused 🤷🏾♀️
because its youtube
A great school in a not so great area. I read that’s it’s a lot better than it was ten years ago, however.
60K Beemer @ 6:55
Toto I don't think were in Kansas anymore
This video makes me miss Temple 😄
I'm going to Temple this year!
+Cat 54 Merry Christmas! So, how's it going? 12/25/17
You would be very wise to carry a gun.
+Nucky Mancini wheres the socalled olice force?
Best of luck! Temple's a great school. Fellow Owl myself.
Temple isnt even the worst of philly lol
He will be just fine
Why would they harm college kids
They would be losing all their business
Every home refects the inner character of its occupants. Given the choice nails & hair take precedence over home car. All a facade, for show.
Good Old Philadelphia I love my scumbag City
Now I see why there's so many people from Philly living in NY. Couldn't understand it before!!!
The worst neighborhoods in New York don't represent all of New York and the worst neighborhoods in Philadelphia don't represent all of Philadelphia.
Juniatapark54, that's so true. However there's so many Philadelphians living in NY, it makes you wonder why. I know it could be a multitude of reasons. But clearly they must feel NY has something better to offer them then Philly!!!
NYC is one of the world's greatest cities, like London or Shanghai; Philadelphia is smaller, like Lyon or Manchester.
+Tatiana Drayton Same could be said for New Yorkers coming here to Philly.
Tatiana Drayton they move to NYC because they are jockin!
fixing stuff cost money but also you can do a lot if you want. and it does not all cost much. a basic upkeep can be quiet cheap. but these people seem lazy and more occupied with hanging around the corner activities.
Why don’t you fix that annoying rattle in your vehicle?
Kinda reminds me of Mexico. 😁😂
It's amazing how much energy people spend trying to surreptitiously promote the supposed superiority of White people/culture and then say it has nothing to do with race.
This guy is not-so-cleverly trying to make a statement with pictures that would be manifestly racist if made with words, which explains why there's no accompanying speech to the video. ...
There's also a reason why this video is not presented as a continuous, un-cut trip. It never shows more than a single block at a time and jumps great distances, sometimes miles, between one edit to the next. That is because often he turns the corner onto a pristinely maintained, well-kept row of homes that don't fit into his nefarious narrative.
To those not intimately familiar with the greater Temple community, it's easy to believe this video shows the entire area surrounding the university. But while you could circle the immediate outskirts of the Temple campus on foot in under an hour -- probably 30 to 40 mins. -- you could not even cover the contiguous areas shown in this video on foot in a single day, they are that far apart. ... The entire residential area represented by this video covers tens of thousands of streets and blocks and hundreds of thousands of homes, the vast majority of which do not look like this video, which shows about 1 pct of the community. ...
This just shows the desperate levels Whites will go attempting to denigrate Blacks, and to promote the feigned supremacy of having White skin, evidencing a seeming inferiority complex.
You're completely wrong, and I'm black. The video is intended to show some of the worst looking areas near Temple university, not necessarily one continuous block. Most of my videos are like that. You're reading way too much into this. I just film mostly run down urban areas as a hobby, and for documentation purposes.
I don't care if you ARE Black! The fact remains, what you're not-so-cleverly attempting is a demonization of Black men and a promotion of White supremacy. Your "it's just a hobby" explanation is a bunch of crap, and you know it.
Dumb White people who don't know the neighborhood may be fooled by your fake innocence, but not me. I'm a Temple alum and I know my way around the entire area. I'm neither shamed or impressed by your cowardly "documentation."
Ron Peden this is the reality of black dysfunction. Go back to libtard land
Wow, that's the most articulate Temple grad, like, ever.
Some people have a "thing" for these areas, whether it's because it is so far removed from their reality that it fascinates them or they love drugs and associate such areas with substances...whatever the reason.
Hey, maybe Mr. Charlie can go to some torn-up Appalachian towns and show whitey hanging around and shit.
Ron Peden White supremacists wouldn't be so smug if they ever seen Wakanda
Who are you making these videos for?
Briana Crowder They are Documentaries to show the awful situations going on in AMERICA that the Media try's to hide from the public! BTW... You're a very beautiful woman!👍👍👍
Such a pity. You can tell by the quality of the architecture that it was a nice place once. Before the plague of Blue-gummed Beasts.
You are making it out to be something it is not. OK it is a little grubby but not a ghetto. Take a look at some cities in the U.K. on Google maps. Much worse than this. e.g.London , Manchester , Birmingham , Liverpool , Leeds , Glasgow and many others.
This is considered west Philly right?
north philly
only West Philly is considered West Philly lol
bmore is recovering real nice good clean ghettos streets
It has some Baltimore type buildings but it’s college kids and poor blacks that live in the area. Nice cheap housing.