I've lived here for over 30 years. It used to be a wonderful quiet hometown, but ever since the film festival came to town they have torn down most of the historic areas, and priced residence out of thier own homes. You love it but for those of us who live here the changes are really just very sad. The quiet is gone and the crime is up. People like myself have been pushed out to the fringe of town just to find not just quiet but affordable housing. Just sad to watch your home taken over and then be pushed out of it...
Bigger events coming to small towns are what ruins a good town, to crowded city's terrible traffic and drivers coming from out of state and not to mention the awful housing market going on because of so many people moving to the area. Driving out locals and making so many of them homeless including myself have been for over a year and just now waiting to get into a 975 sq ft apartment for almost a 1k a month in Springdale... New people to the area must be enjoying it but for us who have been born and raised here cannot say the same.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS when the growth makes it impossible for locals to afford to continue to live there is a bad thing. There are millions of Americans homeless and millions one paycheck away from homeless and the housing crisis makes it worse.
I don’t like the fact that you’re making fun of people from Arkansas. I live here in the way that you were talking is not the way that we talk. Be respectful of people and stop making fun of them. This is a nice place to live and everybody respects everybody and tries to do what they can in the state to help their community.
Next time you drive through Bentonville you may want to get a "real" local to give you a tour Maybe you would stop using words like red necks and hilly billies You need to learn the history of our town. No, they are not still building, they are taking away our history and re-buildimg
You'd be upset just the same if it were like the other half of American small towns who's infrastructure is collapsing and they can't afford to repair let alone modernize.
Bentonville is a major attracted city in NWA due to Wal-Mart and most people who live here are educated and professional unlike southern part of Arkansas. Calling it redneck or hillies billies is showing your ignorance. 😎
That Flower Shop you are criticizing has been there for decades and is the most popular flower shop in town!!!!! It has been there long before all the new buildings popped up! 35 people a day move to this area!
Mmmmm, nope. Some people like flowers others don't care for them. I will buy flowers from my mother, but not for myself. My sisters buy flowers for themselves. Different strokes for different folks. And, I like this Flower shop, the people who work in there are really nice. And, it smells good in there, too. I know your beautiful wife likes flowers! On special occasions you can buy her a flower or a bouquet from the grocery store. Or, a gas station. Or, ... Treat her with a symbol of your love! It's for her, not you ... Or, is it? Buy her some flowers and see her reaction, your reward!
This is too funny, I’m sitting on my car after my shift at Flowerama and i get this video recommended to me and he’s talking about where I work😂. I saw your comment and was like “they must be talking about flowerama” and skipped to it and sure enough
I get resistance to change but the same people gripping about change are also bragging about how much money their kids are making in the local tech start ups or corporate life. There are many factors that make up NWA’s growth not just the Walmart, Tyson & JB Hunt Anchors. Did someone say crime is up? 🤦🏼♂️ you don’t have nice communities like this when crime is going up. All our police, in every town, are pretty phenomenal. Crime is way way down from the 80’s & 90’s. The fact that everyone & their grandmother carry’s a gun doesn’t hurt. Fact is we will all be dead 💀 in the future. We are doing our part in NWA to leave it better than we found it.
Bigger events coming to small towns are what ruins a good town, to crowded city's terrible traffic and drivers coming from out of state and not to mention the awful housing market going on because of so many people moving to the area. Driving out locals and making so many of them homeless including myself have been for over a year and just now waiting to get into a 975 sq ft apartment for almost a 1k a month in Springdale... New people to the area must be enjoying it but for us who have been born and raised here cannot say the same.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS walmart requires their vendors to operate and live in the area. In doing so, they ensure their employees can afford whatever housing standard the area adopts. So there's esentialy no cap on what people will charge for homes since walmart will always foot the bill.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS you probably eat at the buttered biscuit in moberly they aren't even local they moved here to start they're small business and are some of the rudest people I have met!. And they call themselves a Christian based restaurant so to keep the believers coming in degusting 🤢
If you had stayed straight on Central past the square instead of going back, you would have seen the former home of Sam Walton. You missed so much. It is a lovely place.
You saying Springdale was a little wack. That’s because it’s the poorest of the 5 major cities in NWA (Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers, and Bella Vista). It’s the worst part of NWA (which is still much better than the worst parts of most cities)
Springdale might be the overall poorest but there are some nice homes in Springdale. They just drove to the poorest part. Never saw Arvest ball park. Children’s Hospital or the newer part of town. All of Northwest Arkansas is like one big city.
Downtown Bentonville is where a 2018 Sci-Fi F.R.E.D.I movie was filmed. In Dec 2020 took a 10hr trip there just to see the landscape and scenes in that movie. Its a very nice and cozy town. It covers alot of area but still seems like a small town to me. I'm from Fayetteville, TN of maybe ~18,000 people . BTW. I traveled during cvid, without vax, without mask just because of my constitutional right to travel.
You are driving too fast to give people a real view of Bentonville. . Walmart recruits a lot of people from University of Minnesota and other colleges from the northern states so the way people talk and think has changed dramatically over the last 15 years that I have owned property there
We feel the same way about burleson Texas and are now moving to Arkansas for Our Jobs and I say that Arkansas is no where near as bad as Texas in population,Taxes,Traffic,and Crime.California has ruined Texas for us.I guess change is different for all of us if we never Experienced anything other than what we've lived.
Can you write off all your trips as long as you post them on your tube channel as a “job?“ Bentonville is known as the biggest small town. It’s better than Mayberry. It’s Home.❤️ You turned too soon downtown. You missed the trails, big park Crystal Bridges and all the other parks and beautiful neighborhoods.
Hi, I'll be visiting in spring, and I want to know if buses are available in Bentonville areas? I was trying to find infos but I noticed there's no bus routes there, only in near cities like Springsdale, etc and run by Ozark something. Thx in advance!
@@NebulaNomad710 I meant around in Bentonville downtown area from xna airport. I want to take busses in that area but I can't find any bus routes within that town. I'll be visiting for an event at Crystal Bridge Museum.
Thank you for welcoming outsiders as we are displaced lol Have to leave where we live because alll the crazy northerners moved down, destroyed traffic and peace and raised rents to 3000 ( I heard people are friendly)
Bentonville is actually what it is today because of WalMart.....It brings a lot of people from all over because of Home office being there.....You seem to be talking a lot about a place you dont seem to know much about....
Is there a particular reason people from your island have come here? Also how do the locals treat you guys? Very cool to have just a large population of pacific islanders here!
@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS in the 1940s and 1950s the US was using the Marshall Islands as a testing ground for nuclear weapons. They tore up the place so badly that it became uninhabitable bc of the radiation. The US government relocated the people to Springdale Ar and now Springdale has the largest Marshallese population outside of the Marshall Islands bc of that.
Its amazing how many times you have said clean!! What did you think arkansas was, some little back woods hole that was dirty, stinks and nasty! Lived here all my life wouldn't trade it for anything.
@@codywest3131 oh I did was born & raised here 1956 to 2022 dont remember gum on the sidewalks went to waltons 5&dime many times. Went to bentonville every Saturday with my grandparents, remembering it a lot different then you.
Incorrect. If walmart had not evolved here our town would still be the same great hometown I grew up in where we all knew each other we could leave our doors unlocked and our keys left in the cars. We would still be buying our groceries at Phillips Food Center and IGA. Our town would be a Hell of alot better than what it is today with all these people who came here and destroyed Our Hometown.
BULLSHIT. Diversity changed my hometown. It also caused our town square statue to be vandalized and removed to protect it from being destroyed by people who moved here who are racists against us Southern People who are descendants from the 17&1800's and Our History and Heritage.
@@codywest3131 I am sorry that happened but I am sorry to say Bentonville is not diverse Rogers and Springdale might be, but not Bentonville you are speaking on a riot that happened which brought others that did not reside in Bentonville.
There is diversity. I've lived in Rogers and Bentonville sense I was 6 years old. It has grown like you wouldn't believe and we have a huge indian population as well as Hispanic. There are all kinds of people that come to work here.
I live in Bentonville since 2002 and majority of population is white. You will see a lot of Indians who work for Wal-Mart. Minority may be like 10%. There are more liberals moving into Bentonville and they try to convert it to little San Francisco. 😆
Progress is destroying Bentonville. If you are considering moving to Northwest Arkansas please do not move here. Go elsewhere and destroy some other place.
"What a town should look like". Actually, we liked it before many historic houses were torn down and replaced with brownstones and ugly brick monstrosities. Its not home anymore. And the pretentious vendor newcomers...they think it's fun to make fun of the local natives. Up yours, Walmart.
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I've lived here for over 30 years. It used to be a wonderful quiet hometown, but ever since the film festival came to town they have torn down most of the historic areas, and priced residence out of thier own homes. You love it but for those of us who live here the changes are really just very sad. The quiet is gone and the crime is up. People like myself have been pushed out to the fringe of town just to find not just quiet but affordable housing. Just sad to watch your home taken over and then be pushed out of it...
Me to
Same
Same! Lived here for 50 years. I absolutely hate it now!
Moved here in 1996. Walmart sucks!
just move to Gentry or Siloam Springs right next door. Those are the typical mid-of-no-where poor southern towns that you'd like.
Loved here my whole life. Wish Bentonville was still kind of small. I honestly hate how big it’s gotten.
Good places grow
Bigger events coming to small towns are what ruins a good town, to crowded city's terrible traffic and drivers coming from out of state and not to mention the awful housing market going on because of so many people moving to the area. Driving out locals and making so many of them homeless including myself have been for over a year and just now waiting to get into a 975 sq ft apartment for almost a 1k a month in Springdale... New people to the area must be enjoying it but for us who have been born and raised here cannot say the same.
I have lived here all my life as well and I agree with you. It is so out of control and the people that are moving here are just plain rude.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS when the growth makes it impossible for locals to afford to continue to live there is a bad thing. There are millions of Americans homeless and millions one paycheck away from homeless and the housing crisis makes it worse.
I don’t like the fact that you’re making fun of people from Arkansas. I live here in the way that you were talking is not the way that we talk. Be respectful of people and stop making fun of them. This is a nice place to live and everybody respects everybody and tries to do what they can in the state to help their community.
For real!
Who cares, they sht talk everyone else with the bless your heart crap
Arkansas has some beautiful scenery mountains and all I love it!!
Come to Louisiana 😃
Love how you guys showcase these cities and towns ❤️👍👍.Keep it comming!!
Pea Ridge is near by and Eureka Springs also places that are worth visiting in Northwest Arkansas around Bentonville.
Thank you for sharing your time in Bentonville, Ar. I worked at Wal-Mart for over 10 years, my second home! 💙
you have seen just the tip of the ice burg..lived here all my life..
Bentonville is awesome..love living here.
Next time you drive through Bentonville you may want to get a "real" local to give you a tour
Maybe you would stop using words like red necks and hilly billies
You need to learn the history of our town.
No, they are not still building, they are taking away our history and re-buildimg
Yes makes me sick what they are doing.
You'd be upset just the same if it were like the other half of American small towns who's infrastructure is collapsing and they can't afford to repair let alone modernize.
Take a drive through Bella Vista. It is more in the hills and has several lakes,water falls, trails etc.
I live in Bella Vista part of the year and especially like being up on the bluff and not worrying about floods
He can't find Bella Vista. He ain't smart enough.
Bentonville is a major attracted city in NWA due to Wal-Mart and most people who live here are educated and professional unlike southern part of Arkansas. Calling it redneck or hillies billies is showing your ignorance. 😎
That Flower Shop you are criticizing has been there for decades and is the most popular flower shop in town!!!!! It has been there long before all the new buildings popped up! 35 people a day move to this area!
Selling flowers is a jerk move. Makes stingy people like me look bad
I bet after i tour the areas 3 of those people will reconsider
Mmmmm, nope. Some people like flowers others don't care for them. I will buy flowers from my mother, but not for myself. My sisters buy flowers for themselves. Different strokes for different folks. And, I like this Flower shop, the people who work in there are really nice. And, it smells good in there, too. I know your beautiful wife likes flowers! On special occasions you can buy her a flower or a bouquet from the grocery store. Or, a gas station. Or, ... Treat her with a symbol of your love! It's for her, not you ... Or, is it? Buy her some flowers and see her reaction, your reward!
This is too funny, I’m sitting on my car after my shift at Flowerama and i get this video recommended to me and he’s talking about where I work😂. I saw your comment and was like “they must be talking about flowerama” and skipped to it and sure enough
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS who cares
I live here and the population is growing too fast
Many might leave not sure they understand what they are buying
how many illegal aliens are being dropped off in that area from Texas and Arizona
AWESOME 🙂
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS 🙄
I get resistance to change but the same people gripping about change are also bragging about how much money their kids are making in the local tech start ups or corporate life.
There are many factors that make up NWA’s growth not just the Walmart, Tyson & JB Hunt Anchors.
Did someone say crime is up? 🤦🏼♂️ you don’t have nice communities like this when crime is going up. All our police, in every town, are pretty phenomenal. Crime is way way down from the 80’s & 90’s. The fact that everyone & their grandmother carry’s a gun doesn’t hurt.
Fact is we will all be dead 💀 in the future. We are doing our part in NWA to leave it better than we found it.
I love Bentonville Ar. Hit like if you do as well! 🤘
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Bigger events coming to small towns are what ruins a good town, to crowded city's terrible traffic and drivers coming from out of state and not to mention the awful housing market going on because of so many people moving to the area. Driving out locals and making so many of them homeless including myself have been for over a year and just now waiting to get into a 975 sq ft apartment for almost a 1k a month in Springdale... New people to the area must be enjoying it but for us who have been born and raised here cannot say the same.
Walmart has ruined NWA, cant find a single house under 300k in Bentonville.
Interesting perspective.. seams like the best town in the whole state to me
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS walmart requires their vendors to operate and live in the area. In doing so, they ensure their employees can afford whatever housing standard the area adopts. So there's esentialy no cap on what people will charge for homes since walmart will always foot the bill.
It wasn't Wal-Mart that did it. It was the new people that moved in and brought diversity and changed everything with their votes.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS you probably eat at the buttered biscuit in moberly they aren't even local they moved here to start they're small business and are some of the rudest people I have met!. And they call themselves a Christian based restaurant so to keep the believers coming in degusting 🤢
Owning a home and electric-car is luxury today. Can’t afford the Americans dream no more.
the truck in the painting in the beginning was Sam Walton's truck Founder of Walmart
Ok cool
Great place I have lived here for 8 years!
If you had stayed straight on Central past the square instead of going back, you would have seen the former home of Sam Walton. You missed so much. It is a lovely place.
Yep that's my home.
Hope you had a chance to check out Fayetteville
Yup
walmart doesn't wrap their cars because they work their either just some pretty nice cars that drive around here
You saying Springdale was a little wack. That’s because it’s the poorest of the 5 major cities in NWA (Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers, and Bella Vista). It’s the worst part of NWA (which is still much better than the worst parts of most cities)
I wont disagree with that 🤝
Springdale might be the overall poorest but there are some nice homes in Springdale. They just drove to the poorest part. Never saw Arvest ball park. Children’s Hospital or the newer part of town. All of Northwest Arkansas is like one big city.
And in downtown Bentonville Drew Barrymore owned a house here
I am going to fly and check out this. Want to move here.
See the country areas too.. it gets backwards quick
Thank you! Love your video.
The 1981 CBS Mini Series Movie The Blue and the Gray was filmed nearby here.
Loved that movie!!! Stacy Keach was my favourite!!!💯🤗🕊️❤️
the Asian population is from India. Computer work.
are the people filming this like 15 years old? what is happening here? What was the thing with yellow cars?
Downtown Bentonville is where a 2018 Sci-Fi F.R.E.D.I movie was filmed. In Dec 2020 took a 10hr trip there just to see the landscape and scenes in that movie. Its a very nice and cozy town. It covers alot of area but still seems like a small town to me. I'm from Fayetteville, TN of maybe ~18,000 people . BTW. I traveled during cvid, without vax, without mask just because of my constitutional right to travel.
Just Far Out!!💯🤗👍☘️🕊️
You are driving too fast to give people a real view of Bentonville.
. Walmart recruits a lot of people from University of Minnesota and other colleges from the northern states so the way people talk and think has changed dramatically over the last 15 years that I have owned property there
Reminds me of cute upstate ny towns without the mountains
We feel the same way about burleson Texas and are now moving to Arkansas for Our Jobs and I say that Arkansas is no where near as bad as Texas in population,Taxes,Traffic,and Crime.California has ruined Texas for us.I guess change is different for all of us if we never Experienced anything other than what we've lived.
We lived in Ft Worth and moved to Arkansas last year too.
Can you write off all your trips as long as you post them on your tube channel as a “job?“ Bentonville is known as the biggest small town. It’s better than Mayberry. It’s Home.❤️
You turned too soon downtown. You missed the trails, big park Crystal Bridges and all the other parks and beautiful neighborhoods.
Greenwood is a nice little town south farther. N ouachitas n bostons beautifully, u can drive right up mt. Magazine and even stay in the lodge
Lakeland is just like this town except you only drive through the bad parts and trash it
You're in the nice part of Arkansas.
i live here so if you need pointers or anything let me know and we just call walmart walmart lol not walma XD
Wah mahhh
Hi, I'll be visiting in spring, and I want to know if buses are available in Bentonville areas? I was trying to find infos but I noticed there's no bus routes there, only in near cities like Springsdale, etc and run by Ozark something. Thx in advance!
@@dionysus4778 yes buses from Fayetteville to Bentonville which is about a 30 ish min drive
@@NebulaNomad710 I meant around in Bentonville downtown area from xna airport. I want to take busses in that area but I can't find any bus routes within that town. I'll be visiting for an event at Crystal Bridge Museum.
Thank you for welcoming outsiders as we are displaced lol
Have to leave where we live because alll the crazy northerners moved down, destroyed traffic and peace and raised rents to 3000 ( I heard people are friendly)
Bentonville is actually what it is today because of WalMart.....It brings a lot of people from all over because of Home office being there.....You seem to be talking a lot about a place you dont seem to know much about....
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You kids make me happy. Plus you make me laugh uncontrollably. Freaking rollbacks. Wama!!
Benton & Bentonville are 2 different places?..
Yes
I like how the guy just keeps repeating himself mindlessly for no reason. Quality channel. I wonder if this is what towns should look like?
I’d rather be in Florida 😂
beaches and palm trees.. guanas and gators..
Where do you people get your preconceived notions Oh How Bizarre
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Marshall Island transplants. MARSHALLESE.. so many that they actually have to have Marshallese interpreters at the hospital
Is there a particular reason people from your island have come here? Also how do the locals treat you guys? Very cool to have just a large population of pacific islanders here!
@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS in the 1940s and 1950s the US was using the Marshall Islands as a testing ground for nuclear weapons. They tore up the place so badly that it became uninhabitable bc of the radiation. The US government relocated the people to Springdale Ar and now Springdale has the largest Marshallese population outside of the Marshall Islands bc of that.
Ya that whole area from fayettville to Bella Vista is fancy, mansions out in countryside too
Yes you're right. There is Pinnacle where it's just a super rich neighborhood then there are more nice neighborhoods around it.
@@fourfurrypotatoes and it is the place I had to go to to finally find a Target store
I'm just curious as to who pays for all these trips bc I know damn well youtube ain't paying you enough for all this driving....
"i know damn well"... maybe you dont know crap
Looks like a nice place
Its amazing how many times you have said clean!! What did you think arkansas was, some little back woods hole that was dirty, stinks and nasty! Lived here all my life wouldn't trade it for anything.
They mean clean by the restored buildings and no gum all over the sidewalks. You should have seen it in the 1970's.
@@codywest3131 oh I did was born & raised here 1956 to 2022 dont remember gum on the sidewalks went to waltons 5&dime many times. Went to bentonville every Saturday with my grandparents, remembering it a lot different then you.
walmart ceos are really private trust me
cookie cutter homes . Touristic simple downtown . Limited future if u r not walmart related good luck
love this stuff guys
Most of those people wondering around downtown are tourists.
Wait till day traffic hits
If not for Walmart it would be just another cruddy town
They destroyed 5000 small towns to make 1 really nice one 🧐
Incorrect. If walmart had not evolved here our town would still be the same great hometown I grew up in where we all knew each other we could leave our doors unlocked and our keys left in the cars. We would still be buying our groceries at Phillips Food Center and IGA. Our town would be a Hell of alot better than what it is today with all these people who came here and destroyed Our Hometown.
Well it isn’t so…
So what made you leave Florida
They live in Florida,they moved to Alabama and lived there for a year and moved back to Florida cause where they moved to Alabama is backwards
Korea but a few places
Bentonville no diversity at all
BULLSHIT. Diversity changed my hometown. It also caused our town square statue to be vandalized and removed to protect it from being destroyed by people who moved here who are racists against us Southern People who are descendants from the 17&1800's and Our History and Heritage.
Ok....well it's a really nice town. Black ppl could move there the same as white people could/can.
@@codywest3131 I am sorry that happened but I am sorry to say Bentonville is not diverse Rogers and Springdale might be, but not Bentonville you are speaking on a riot that happened which brought others that did not reside in Bentonville.
No diversity
Wrong. There is quite a bit here actually
There is diversity. I've lived in Rogers and Bentonville sense I was 6 years old. It has grown like you wouldn't believe and we have a huge indian population as well as Hispanic. There are all kinds of people that come to work here.
@@fourfurrypotatoes Facts
True people who say there is lived here their whole life. I moved from Cali and it's a big difference.
I live in Bentonville since 2002 and majority of population is white. You will see a lot of Indians who work for Wal-Mart. Minority may be like 10%. There are more liberals moving into Bentonville and they try to convert it to little San Francisco. 😆
Progress is destroying Bentonville. If you are considering moving to Northwest Arkansas please do not move here. Go elsewhere and destroy some other place.
"What a town should look like".
Actually, we liked it before many historic houses were torn down and replaced with brownstones and ugly brick monstrosities. Its not home anymore. And the pretentious vendor newcomers...they think it's fun to make fun of the local natives. Up yours, Walmart.
Move to Alabama and be around like minded folks