Calexico, California | What is it like to live there?
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- Driving through and exploring the border town of Calexico. This town is located in southern Imperial County, California. Situated on the Mexican border, it is linked economically with the much larger city of Mexicali, the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California. It is about 122 miles east of San Diego and 62 miles west of Yuma, Arizona.
Calexico, along with six other incorporated Imperial County cities, forms part of the larger populated area known as the Imperial Valley.
The name of the city is a portmanteau of California and Mexico. The originally proposed names were Santo Tomas or Thomasville. Mexicali is a similarly named city directly across the international border from Calexico, its name being a portmanteau of the words "Mexico" and "California".
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My grandfather was born and raised in Calexico on July 04th 1900. I've never been there.
Did your grandfather live his entire life in Calexico? What did he do?
Good luck on your way back home today and the rest of your life
Calexico is a nice, clean, affordable town with friendly people. I love it!
It really is!
120 degree weather. Yeah very nice.
Sure it is! 🥵
My hometown. Back in the day our streets were filled with kids playing or riding bikes. Loved growing uo there. Class of 1982.
That's awesome! Lucky you! 👍💪
@@4KTravelChannel Exactly! Kids running around in 100 + degrees did not faze us one bit. As long as there was water, friends and a ball, it was on!
I Was Born In Calexico, Right ACROSS From The Hoffman Elementary School On 7th And Pauline Ave. WE Were The Welisch Family. SORRY TO Say,Almost Everybody OF My Family Moved Away, But I Still Remember The Good Old Days Of Growing Up There! HI To Anyone OF Class OF 1966.
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Looking at a Map just out of curiosity..... I noticed the homes that literally look the border when they open their front door.
Just very unique to wake up and see Mexico out your front window...
Yes, indeed.
Live in Mexicali and I go to school in Calexico and not gonna lie it's pretty nice there except in the summer when it's ridiculously hot
Yes it's super hot in the summer
@@4KTravelChannel I know I feel Im melting
i live in mexicali bro
It's just as hot in Mexicali, Einstein.
Quiet and clean?? Calexico??? 😂 now that was hilarious!! FYI, Calexico is anything but those words you chose!! 😂😂
At least people are having fun! 😁
Yeah I was thinking the same thing😭
@@4KTravelChannelfun in calexico? Doing what?
I was born in Calexico back in the days when it had a Hospital now it's just a clinic. Went to De Anza Jr High in 87 and 88 then to high school freshman year only. Love my town very much and will not trade it for any other town.
Great memories 👍
I was also born in Calexico before El Centro had a hospital I live in San Diego but I always love to visit the Valley whenever I can.
Esta muy interesante el video primera vez que veo la ciudad con tan buena historia en un video muchas. Gracias
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I love Calexico, it is nice, quiet, and clean 🥰
I agree, clean little town
Balatonfüred sokkal szebb.
Shit is not clean lmao
But very toasty
You're joking. Highest air pollution in country
Andrade St. is named after my family.
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I have been there a few times during my life. Looks very modern SoCal. I took a friend from Brazil there
to see the border wall in 2022. She was very shocked, actually, by the whole wall along the border (from S.D. to Yuma)
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we need more trees and greenery and more job opportunities nicer transit remodel some buildings fun family activities like mini golf or go carts. More shade parks and benches.
Sounds like a great plan! 👍
You're not that relevant of a city to get such amenities. Border towns are precisely that,border towns that are a pass through for most folks
so we should just suffer because we are not relevant ?? pathetic lol. @@bobbyz414CML
It looks very nice.
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Bring an umbrella for the heat and have plenty of ice in your cooler. It’s a scorcher. Make sure your A/C works.
Totally agree 👍
It's the so cal dez
I lived there when I was a kid in the 60s from kindergarten to 2nd grade. My dad worked at the newspaper and KICo radio. Man so hot in the summers I remember and humid do to the irrigation of the farms. Dont know it thats still happening. But had fun as a kid there
You had a good experience my friend 👍
It still happens
It's mostly humid during late July to mid-October but it has more to do with remnants of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical storms that roll through. Just had a big downpour last night and this evening and the humidity is nuts right now.
My best wishes for Norma, Lily Carmen , and family. May God bless you all! I will always remember Calexico High, the high school I attended for 2 years,, Becoming popular on a Pat Benatar video back in the day! When we viewed MTV, and the Street called Heffernan where I use to live by.
Awesome 👍
I lived there a few times. And there are tons of homeless downtown and in the parks. Bad drug problems. Nobody bothered me, it's just hot as hell from April to November.
Yes it's very hot there
GREAT job on video, I like how you move through at a pace to view everything. I also like that your'e not taking and have the camera on you more than what the video is about , there's lots of video's out there and they need take some lessons from u. I do watch many of your video's , some times I would like to leave a comment to some of these other video's ,to say I would like to see the video not your face and much less talking . but I don't want to be rude. thank u . ur awesome
It's my old hometown ❤❤ shitty hot summers, and cold ass dry winters 😂😂!!!
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Fun fact, Calexico is a composed word who relates California-Mexico and so on with the border city Mexicali which is Mexico-California
That’s right, Calexico comes from California-Mexico
However did you arrive at that nugget of genius?
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I dont think you know what a fun fact is
been there often, lived in El Centro for 5 years when i worked at Centinela state prison
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Looks like a clean and peaceful town. California’s gold found throughout this great state.
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Not one of my favorite places 45+ years ago. The food was the only thing that made the city one worth visiting. Back then, many of the farm workre lived in Mexicali, which was easy and fun to visit for the shopping and street foods.
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Hubieras pasado al Jack in the Box por una doble bacon, a la wal-mart por el mandado y a saludar a los tios. 😆
Ya me fui a comprar una hamburguesa bien chingona por aya 👍 La proxima vez voy a saludar a los tios 👊
I lived in Calexico in 1962 -1963
The name of the City is Calixeco a combination of
Cali ** from cali- fornia exico is from Mexico
And Mexicali is the same Mexi ** from Mex- ico Cali is from California.
I been there.
It is a good place to live 😊
Little quiet town on the border 👍
I was born in Mexicali, live in the beautiful 805 now. Traveled through Calexico many many times. Living in Mexicali and working in Calexico sounds like a cool idea. I'm just wondering what do people do there to make a living ?
They work in agriculture.
Living in the 805, especially along the coast is far different from the desert of Caliexico!
You should go to Mexicali, the Capital of Baja California! Hope you come soon
Good idea 👍
At 4:07 is a perfect metaphor of what you can expect living in calexico. The cars start moving and people run in front of you for no good damn reason. There is nothing that's of dire importance at that intersection, maybe except for jack in the box, yum.
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At 13:54, these walls are useless when anyone can just pass through any entry points.
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Aye I live here ;)
Lucky you! 💪
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Brawley is better lmao.
I grew up in heber and Calexico
Lucky you!
Calecia
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Puro Calecia La garra Sureños Gang
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Se la come la Gara puro kgs
Chale puro Ghost town
😆 mejor nada acabos puro peseta ayi
Affordable how? cheapest house is 400k which was built in 1960
To fast for me to notice in what part of Calexico you were at been away 55 years maybe go once a year and just to drive someone there
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Who ever is new at Calexico well…
WELCOME to California,Calexico
We’re all the fun happens❤!!!
And yes I do live there ❤
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my ass we happy 😭
Straight up Atzlanistan... but great Mexican food. It is owned by the La Razianites, and anything not welded down will grow legs and be driven or carried away.
Why they said clean i loled.
Lol
no narration?
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This shows nothing of how it is to live in Calex, as the locals call it.. 😂 come visit I'll give you a real tour
Ok that's for the next time amigo 👍
Calecia. Who says calex?
@12babyapes59 I don't call it calecia would be for all the Spanish speakers & I don't reside in the city only nearby..
Is Calexico dangerous? My employer wants me to deliver goods from San Diego there weekly
Not at all, it's safe.
Yes 😢
Illegal crossings from Mexico at a minimum level, or not at all?
My first and overwhelming thought upon seeing Calexico was "This can't be California, it has to be Mexico." Then, when I got into Mexicali, I thought the opposite: "This must be California." Calexico is a sh*thole, while Mexicali has some very nice areas and great Chinese food.
You may be right
Best time of the year is June through September. If you like living in an oven.
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If I want to read I'll pick up a book
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@Arthur-tl1ix what a cool new concept for you!! you should definitely try it… reading is good and you generally (hopefully) learn stuff!
People who have live in this city/county are obviously going to say it’s nice but as someone who moved here from a big city years ago it’s honestly the worst place in California to live in. It’s also ranked as the worst county in all California. There are no jobs here, it is corrupted, everything is going out of business, the healthcare here is horrible. The main hospital in El Centro (the neighboring city), sends you to San Diego due to being the closer medical facility. Which is 2 hours away. They are currently in the process of going bankrupt due to misused funds. Horrible air conditions due to pollution from factories and all the chemicals they use for all the fields and farms. As well the pollution from Mexico. (imperial county ranked with the county with more asthma cases as well). Everything is closing since this is the worst place to bring a business. If you go to the outlets in Calexico or the mall in El Centro, everything is closing. Also if you are Looking for a job here good luck because they only hire friends and family. Most people who grew up here tell me they are looking to leave and never come back. The best thing about the imperial valley is literally Mexico cause there’s more things to do over there than here. Also during the summer the temperatures rise up to 120s - 130s. Another neighboring city imperial got caught manipulating votes during the elections for city council as well. When people come here and ask what’s to do everyone say go to Mexico or San Diego lmao.
That's very interesting 👍
I live in imperial County. Born and raised. I hate to spread negativity but what this guy says is 110% facts. Don't ask why they don't have a Bank of America.
yea as someone who was born and raised in EC, it’s clear that the valley is going to shit. the place probably won’t be habitable anymore like in another 15 years or so. i love this place because it is my home, but i’m getting outta here as soon as i’m done w college 😅
Who hurt you why so much hate calexia es chingon
Ahhh you never been to Seely CA, another so called city in the Imperial Valley.
I've traveled the world, and its funny how you find people speaking perfect English in Germany and in Thailand. But you go to cities like this, people either don't speak English well or its heavily accented. Must be a cultural thing.
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Usually people from Mexicali come over here a lot because they work, shop, commute or visit family on this side. A lot of them didn't really grow up with english so they grow up not knowing any, but the younger generation know enough to get by. That's because the kids either cross the border and come to the schools here or some of them went to private schools and took some classes there. It varies, but tbh, the more south of the town you go into, you'll find less people who can speak it, mostly because they are from mex and they are waiting for the buses downtown or they are field workers who just finished their jobs and hanging around getting food, the bus, getting a ride, or waiting for their freinds so they can cross back together. Historically both sides of the border have heavy agriculture industries or other forms of work and most people from mex come to work jobs because the wages are better and a lot of these people worked all their life so picking up english hasn't been a priority for many.
yeah its weird, i was raised learning both languages at the same time so im fluent in both but people often tell me i have a “mexican accent” when i speak english and i dont even know what that means
Or, Americans not speaking Spanish when they travel to or live in Latin America. You're right! It must be a cultural thing.
Its because almost everyone here knows how to speak Spanish or atleast understands it so it isn't really much of a necessity for everyone to speak English as they can still get by just with Spanish. That is unless you are going to school here. If you go to school then it is more of a requirement to understand English as that is the language used for most of the schoolwork for all subjects with the exception of Spanish classes.
Expect second class service @ any of the stores there including Wal- mart if you’re an American…the Mexicans get treated better than an American. I get discriminated all the time.. and I am from here and I still live here
Are they trying to take over? It used to be Mexican territory before 1844
@@4KTravelChannel I mean Calexico and Mexicali have always been interlaced as almost a same city, however Mexicali grew bigger and Calexico is sometimes seen as rather than another city, a nice and tidy shopping center for American goods that are sometimes cheaper than those exported to Mexico and Mexicali city, I'm from Mexicali, and since Imperial County is the county in the US with most Mexican % (IK it says hispanic origin and stuff in the census, but its 99% Mexicans that went to farm up north for better rates) Maybe that's why, it's a basically Mexican city with American infrastructure, therefore, second class citizenship in one's own country, due to cultural differences, similr things could happen where the American migrants that come to Mexico to be able to spend in Pesos while earning dollars, anglomerate in small communities, and being Mexican there could also garner the second class citizenship treatment he's describing here.
@@fernandojosegonzalezolguin3481 Very good point 👍
Boy, shut the hell up, this ain't remotely true for Calexico just as it isn't for the rest of the damn Valley.
Thank God for the wall!
The wall is only 30% of the border
what does this have to do with calexico
It's only the slightly larger fence, plus mexicali ain't no Tijuana yet, plus most of the jumpers are civvies anyway
QUIT BEING A RINO
L response kid
bro i hate it here
It's not for everyone
This place is by far the worst place to live in the imperial valley. Being a border town crime rate is high. And the city officials don’t care much for how it’s maintained
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It's really a shame the way people just walk out in front of traffic, which is already in the intersection. Rude, dangerous and stupid.
It is what it is.
Nothing to do there, muy feo......
Ok pero todos dicen que esta muy chido vivir en Calexico
Brawley is better haha, calexicans and el centrians just jealous
Lol. they say that calexicans are the bravest people, right?
@@4KTravelChannel I suppose to live there yeah haha. It's all jokes of course, we all live in hell here anyway, but it's just funny to make fun of yall
@@4KTravelChannel hey, you know, I've been wanting to make videos like this too, exploring the valley and all, you know? You wanna colab?
Entire imperial valley is horrible, I hate this place with all my heart not just the area but the people in it as well. Don’t come here lmao
You can move elsewhere, you have a choice.
VTALV
Hater, love ❤my old Calexico.