Not really, it’s been building up for many decades. The end of this age is coming to an end as expected. Read your Bible and you’ll see that this is all printed in black white and red. An expected end. You’ll see that everything happening here has happened to every civilization for thousands of years that turns its back on God. The covenant has been broken and Gods protection and provision has been taken away. It’s only going to get worse.
I attended a tech conference in San Jose 7 years ago (approximately). It was completely different -- vibrant, clean, wealthy. It makes me sick that idiots and their failed policies have allowed so many American cities go to ruin.
@@ElectricUniverse56 They don't prosecute criminals in Commiefornia, that is a big factor for the smash and grabs and other crime destroying small businesses.
Criminals and muggers (includes knock out gamers) created a CHILLING EFFECT that causes people (like me) to stay away from these areas. I used to go downtown, but it wasn't the homeless but the potential muggers walking around, motorbiking around, or driving around waiting for opportunity to mug a likely victim.
Homelessness pimps drug addicts drug dealers thugs lowlifes thief’s are what makes places bad. If the cities move these out the cities would come back to life.
Their collapsing b cuz of what they did to kill off nature to build them by artificial dead light AI artificial life that is out of form and flow of music Creation spheres we experience living as being One in eternal peace love harmony and balance with the Great living Oversoul Spirit of Mother Nature Khee Ra ShA Mu ah 💋🌈🔥💦💜🌋
As a 40 year resident of San Jose, I witnessed the promises of former mayors, city councilman and county supervisors pontificate how bicycle lanes, granite pave-stones, reduced parking and light rail will transform and revitalize San Jose's urban core. None of their statements hold true. The politicians do not understand how to run businesses and wasted $millions of tax-payer revenue, to redevelop downtown over the last decades. I used go downtown for dinner and entertainment. But now the streets are constricted, only two lanes where there used to be four. Parking is not available as the city squeezed housing into areas that previously had parking to allow small businesses to operate. The area of Julian and N. 2nd street is difficult to access, with one-way streets and no turns allowed. I have witnessed the parking police ticket a merchant delivering a wedding cake on a Saturday. The delivery truck only stopped for a minute in a handicapped zone on N. Third St. There was no other place for the delivery van to stop. The streets are a maze of obstacles making it impossible to visit, find a parking space and go dinning. The city leaders have ignored the advice of traffic engineers and street planners. The city almost landed a deal with Nividia, to move that company to downtown SJ. They lost it when the greedy politicians demanded concessions from the company to move downtown. They also spent $millions to buy up land for a major league ballpark and failed. Now they want to bring BART to downtown, rapid transit to a place where there are no jobs. The light rail is very slow and inefficient, snaking through downtown and takes longer than driving 101 to arrive at destinations to the north. Politically connected families have lobbied to spend tax dollars to enhance the downtown area, helping boost their family owned real-estate property values. Downtown San Jose is an urban planning nightmare and failure. It can only get worse with the badly educated urban planning socialists running the government.
I used to work in a gas station around Julian St. back in the late 70's as a teenager. It was vibrant and fun. So full of life. Now, I have no intension to drive down that street.
My husband (RIP ) used to make good stories about growing up in San Jose with his family. He reminisced of San Jose: a lot of friendly people, great weather, and plenty of jobs. He witnessed the city change so much.
Everytime you said, "That's closed," my heart sank a little deeper. Seeing my state fall into decay and despair is devastating. I left Cali for Georgia 3 years ago and I will not be returning 😢
Being a Georgian I hope to hell you learned your lesson voting for brainless democrats otherwise go back and enjoy the fruits of your labor not trying to be mean mind you ... I'm voting Trump for the third time hoping we'll get a FAIR election this time around
At least you mentioned Cali as your state and didn't run its name thru the muck. I was born in CA in 1978. I'm a otr trucker and I see poverty in most places along my route.
Mainstream news media will NEVER tell people about the dying cities controlled by democrat politicians because they want people to keep voting democrat. Also look how every late night comedian is "suppose to be in competition" with each other yet they all push the exact same political view which is vote democrat.
Visited San Jose 10 years ago with my kids. This is not how I remember it. Incredible how quickly cities and towns can be destroyed by shocking policies (by supposedly elected politicians) that are not for the people they are meant to represent.
Democrat Party: Wants more government and more taxes < by definition Republican Party: Wants only government where it's needed < by definition People keep voting for the democrat party then wonder why taxes, crime and cost of living keep increasing. What's worse they move into red states and keep voting blue.
Its funny how they blame the democrats. Five years ago it was starting to look like that already. Trump didnt do sht😂 now they will go back to the same sht.
1. The reason why many of stores were closed in the first part of the video, is because they were kicking out businesses in order to build the underground BART subway. They said they needed 2 city blocks emptied and cleared for construction and tunneling. 2. Chachos, Social Lady, Cinnabar, and one other restaurant had to close due to a fire on the 2nd floor. 3. Some of the buildings for lease have rents which are too high, and the property owners are unable to go lower. 4. The building with the eyeballs had hazardous waste issues. 5. The Johnny Rockets building was kicking businesses out, not sure why. The 5 downtown zones which are active are: - San Pedro Square Food Court - South 1st Street Clubs - San Jose State University - Post Street Bars - and City Hall If you want to see a thousand people downtown, go back to South 1st Street after midnight, on Friday night or Saturday night when the businesses open up after dark. People there often do not come out to party until the weekends, after work.
Update: Two new downtown restaurants just opened this week: Rollati now open by City Hall, and a new Mountain Mike's Pizza behind tbe old Hank Coca's Furniture.
That's project will never get going it's just a cash grab for san jose. Cost too much and not safe for building foundation and you can just take vta point less.
California which was once the envy of many States has been reduced to this sorry state...sad...very, very sad. My husband and I took a long time to make a decision if we want to stay in the Peninsula (San Mateo County), and we're glad we left 3 years ago, moved to a city 2 hrs away from San Francisco. It's an entirely different culture where we live now, people are friendlier and more respectful. It's the wisest decision we ever made. Thank you for sharing us your video.
My whole family left. My father told everyone to leave 10 years ago. And I was the only one who didn’t listen. I didn’t believe it. Now my brothers and sisters live in States where they own their own homes and the children are thriving and every store is open.
Two hours from San Mateo? So, Belmont? The entire bay area is a disaster. They choose to support bums and crime over tax-paying citizens. It's a shame.
The bay is full of the most selfish people I’ve ever seen, which is sad because I’ve been fortunate to do quite a bit of traveling. And even sadder is how so many people in the bay treat their neighborhoods and the environment like total shit. Dumping fast food bags on sidewalks, spare tires left against the curbs, etc, etc I’ve never seen such filth elsewhere in my life. I dare say most of even NYC is cleaner than the bay. Like you said, go outside the bay and it’s clean as a whistle, friendly and courteous people who would give you the shirt off of their back. Agains, sad because it’s apparent San Jose and other Bay Area cities were once so beautiful and the envy of many other locations.
I live in Phoenix Az for the last 28 years and we have never had this problem. All restaurants are open and very busy. We have lots of new construction going on downtown and several new sky scrapers under construction. Lots of new apartments being developed and lots of new houses being built also. I believe lots of people can't handle the 118 degree weather in summer time or the high electric bills. Well I hope it never gets like that over here. Enjoy watching your videos and keep them coming. Thanks
I left the Bay Area back in '98 for Phoenix. Moved there in August and almost passed out from the heat. Over time I adapted and raised a family. We left Arizona in 2021 for northern Ohio. I got tired of the heat and wanted to get out of the desert. It's pretty vibrant up here, though like most places, times aren't as good as they once were. Finding an affordable house is tough unless you're willing to invest alot in renovations. Many of the affordable nice ones are bought up and turned into rentals. Cash offers. We can't compete with that.
@@dawnatilla2469this is a spiritual problem. Evil makes desolation and desolation makes for prophecy. If you learn to read the Bible this won’t be so shocking because it’s all written.
I moved to San Jose in 1957 just out of high school, drove thru downtown with my 49 chevy with the pipes sounding good. lived in Milpitas for 35 yrs. What I seen transpire in my time there breaks my heart. What a fabulous place it was. Left 20 yrs ago, I used to miss it but after I've seen what has happened I am really glad my family left. Nothing left but nostalgia. Bon voyage my once beautiful home.
used too go to the theaters in miliptas, and skateboard at the halfpipe at park victoria, thank goodness for dial a ride 10cents. MILPITAS SMOGMONSTER.
@@LeoMetalTraveler My memories of San Jose are all I have left. It was great back then (in my mind). I wish I could add more good memories, but I don't want to become a crime victim. A coworker had his own scary adventure. He was walking to his car (in business attire) when three youths about half a block ahead were walking in the same direction. They saw him and turned around to walk in his direction. Is that suspicious? My coworker was alert and thought so. He didn't want to risk being sucker punched and stomped, so he turned around and ran the away as fast as he could hoping the half block lead would be enough for him to take the long way to his car. He is in good shape, so he managed to get away from the three youths pursuing him. He was huffing and puffing by the time he got to his car not so much from just the running, but from the huge stress spike and fear of evading the youths. He said he will try to decline every future situation where the company tries to send him to work with clients in that area. He wants no more adventures with american youths.
My brother lives in one of the nearby suburbs, famous for a big computer company. I'm out there three, four times a year visiting. San Fran is completely off our visiting list, he hates driving in the city, I despise the crime and the government, and locally, we have great times together. We rarely go into San Jose, and I had no idea that the California blight had reached the city. Truly tragic.
This have NOTHING TO DO WITH PORVERTY OR HIGH PRICE LIVING!! Ppl might suffering from high price living & high price housing. BUT THEY STILL CAN SURVIVE OR EVEN LIVIN IN TINY ROOM, TINY BOX APARTMENTS!! But ppl can’t fk living & working & running bussiness in HIGH CRIMES AREAS BECAUSE IT NOT SAFETY!! THEY GET ATTACK, GUNPOINT ROBBERY & KNIFE STABBING ROBBERY FROM INJURED TO DEAD!! Get robbery & thrives stealing everyday, every weeks, every months, every years & LOST ALL MONEYS!! While customers is get attack, spit on the face while walking in street or get assaulted while eating in restaurants by homeless, thugs & criminals!! SO THEYRE DONT FK WANT TO GO THERE & DONT FK DO ANYTHING NEAR THERE. So it mean restaurants, shop, bussiness owner lost the double: one by homeless, thugs, criminals & one by lost customers!! Ppl lost brains somewhere?? CAN ANYONE FK SEE THESE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CANT FK EVEN CLEAN UP THEMSELVES, THEYRE THROWING SHITTY ANYWHERE THEYRE LIVING & DESTROY WHOLE MOTHERFKER COMMUNITY!! And you expect these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CLEAN THE TOILET. They’re not even putting rock, clothes or shoes or stuff in toilet 🚽 to cause trouble when they’re fk high on drugs & vomit 🤮 on ground IT WOULD BE AMAZING!! Then you think these zombies high on drugs & drunk is follow rules & take responsibility?? Even you’re give these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES A HOUSE & 2000$/month they’re still end up in street & burn the house into the ashes!! THEIR HOUSE WILL MESSING TRASHY!! Why the fk no one DARE TO REPORT TRUTH FACTS & DARE TO CALL OUT RIGHT NAME?? There are alots case druggies homeless get free house/apartment & when they’re high on drugs METHS losing mindset, they’re burn the whole units!! NO FK MEDIA REPORTS THIS & STILL CALL THEM AS VICTIMS, LIKE POOR LITTLE ANGELS While 80% of them is DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THEY CARE FK ABOUT FAMILY, CARE FK ABOUT LAWS & RULES, CARE FK ABOUT REPONSIBLITY, ALWAYS HIGH ON DRUGS FULFILL THEIR SHITTY LIFESTYLE LYING ON GROUND, SCREAMING TOP OUT OF THEIR LUNGS LIKE ANIMAL ZOMBIES EVEN 10FLOOR CAN HEAR IT. VIOLENT, IGNORANT & ARROGANT ASSAULT, ATTACK PPL. 20% homeless is ppl come from real trouble. There are some ppl is become homeless because they’re lost job, lost house, because of bad wrong investment/bussiness then lost everything. There are ppl is stressful after lost everything (kids, family, jobs & brokers) they’re end up become mental illness There are ppl after accident or bad healthy problems, can’t working lost all savings & not good at management their saving moneys & end up in street. BUT MOSTLY THESE PPL IS NOT DRUGGIES, THEY STILL HAVE BASIC MANNERS & LOOK CLEAN, SOME STILL WORK AS PART-TIME JOBS, OR LIVIN IN CARS. You can fk see these type of HOMELESS - they’re deserve second or even third chance, they’re deserve help!! BUT 80% HOMELESS IN THIS VIDEO IS DRUGGIES ZOMBIES!! Alots of them born in normal family, born with healthy body, but because addict to drugs & bad habits, in their Youngful day they think become druggies high on drugs & act like thugs is cools. It’s all personal choice & bad habits & throwing advice/help always. ONLY IN US, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS GET ALL FREE STUFF, MONEYS & BENEFITS. Druggies zombies & thugs have MORE FREEDOM, MORE HUMAN & MORE SUPPORT THAN LAW ABIDING ORDINARY PEOPLE!! Bullshit ridiculous. So these druggies & thugs can have moneys to buy drugs to fulfill their shit, high & higher then spending their free time going around cities doing route “sleep - then eat - then use free moneys from gorvement taxes buy drugs to get high” THEN GOING AROUND ATTACK PPL & ROBBERY, STEALING TO HAVE MORE MONEYS TO BUY DRUGS TO FULFILL THEIR FLYING HIGH. KEEP GIVE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS MORE BENEFITS & FREEDOM TI ACT LAWLESS!! Give them more support & protect over than LAW ABIDING ORDINARY WORKING CITIZENS!! So they can lychee the system & attack ppl & THROWING SHITTY AROUND TO DESTROY THE CITY, AFFECT EVERYONE LIFE & DESTROY WHOLE CITY!! US, CANADA keep create more UNBELIEVABLE RIDICULOUS STUPID LAWS SYSTEMS TO PROTECT & SUPPORT DRUGS, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THUGS & ROBBERY/THRIVES & CRIMINALS!! I believe in 10-20y later US, CAN WILL BE FLOODING BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, DRUGGIES HOMELESS, ROBBERY & THRIVES STEALING LOOTING, THUGS & CRIMINALS!! Teenage running like wild animal, no behavior & bad habits & shitty manner. BECAUSE THEY GET FEED BY ALL VIOLENT STUFF & BRAINWASHED STUFF EVERYDAY IN SHOOLS, MEDUA NEWS & BY LOOKING AT THIS COMMUNITY!! Teenage & Youngful adults will see these druggies zombies & druggies thugs is COOLS & THEY DONT FK NEED FOLLOW RULES/LAWS TO TAKE REPONSIBLITY, WHILE DRUG IS AVAILABLE & CHEAP TO BUY ANYWHERE, ANYTIMES!! Why not get high & buy drugs to use. US, CAN & alots WESTERN COUNTRY WILL BE FLOOD BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES IF THEYRE NOT CHANGING FIX LAWS BOLD HARD LAWS ON DRUGS. And stop give druggies zombies & thugs free shit. THROWING THEM INTO REHAB CENTER BY FK FORCE WITH MEDICAL CARE FOR 6month to 1y, 2 or 3y if it need FORCE THEN STOP USE DRUGS & CLEAN. Act bold & harshly is the FK ONLY SOLUTION TO HELP, NOT BY TALK SOFTLY & TALK GENTLY.
I think there are issues but don’t be disingenuous. You two cranky types wouldn’t have gone to the city anyways. Just sat around complaining about how it was too busy if this wasn’t the issue.
I was in San Jose in May 2023 for a convention. I was shocked at the number of empty storefronts. How can this be the heart of Silicon Valley and look so dead?
@@usenamenotallowed Sillicon Valley people (which turn out to be the richest people in the world) destroyed their own city, now everything is virtual, software, ideas, air...
@@usenamenotallowed I live in Bogotá, Colombia, I don't vote and still we have here the exact same problem you have there, it's not about politics, evil is growing, check it out 1 John :5:19
Flew into SJ in Sept 2023 to visit my oldest daughter. Drove to her apt complex and my wife says “look honey the community is having a block party and people are eating and drinking outside their cars” I said, “no….these are all homeless people living in their cars and it’s no party!” SJ…. What a dump!!
I can't say I "enjoy" your videos. As a native Californian, it's so sad to watch my home State fall apart city by city. Sadly San Diego where I grew up is not far behind. Keep making these to show the world that these once great cities are now turning into Detroit even though the Governor says nothings wrong. Stay safe and I won't blame you the day you choose to leave.
I notice that most reports leave out San Diego as if its "Hillcrest" image must be protected at all costs. I lived there back when "Hillcrest" wasn't gay at all!
@@sb8404 You must mean Greek Town. Just like Hillcrest in San Diego, Detroit fights to show and protect that image at all costs too. That and showing the city at night or from several miles away so the rest of the filth and blight isn't shown. Sadly Detroit (and the rest of Michigan) has been dead for years. I've been hearing "Oh, it's getting better!" before, during and after I left that godforsaken State. The ONLY growth that place has seen in over 60yrs was on Jennifer Granholm's face.
I was born and raised in San Jose, Graduated from Gunderson class of 1979. The downtown become popular in the late 80's to 2005, then it went into decline before the homeless made it impossible to stay open. What I see in this video is that since there are no open businesses to steal from/ATM's to break open most of the bums have moved on to other parts of the city.
This have NOTHING TO DO WITH PORVERTY OR HIGH PRICE LIVING!! Ppl might suffering from high price living & high price housing. BUT THEY STILL CAN SURVIVE OR EVEN LIVIN IN TINY ROOM, TINY BOX APARTMENTS!! But ppl can’t fk living & working & running bussiness in HIGH CRIMES AREAS BECAUSE IT NOT SAFETY. THEY GET ATTACK, GUNPOINT ROBBERY & KNIFE STABBING ROBBERY FROM INJURED TO DEAD!! Get robbery & thrives stealing everyday, every weeks, every months & LOST ALL MONEYS!! While customers is get attack, spit on the face while walking in street or get assaulted while eating in restaurants by homeless, thugs & criminals!! SO THEYRE DONT FK WANT TO GO THERE & DONT FK DO ANYTHING NEAR THERE 🛑 So it mean restaurants/shop, bussiness owner lost the double: one by homeless, thugs, criminals & one by lost customers!! Ppl lost brains somewhere?? CAN ANYONE FK SEE THESE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CANT FK EVEN CLEAN UP THEMSELVES, THEYRE THROWING SHITTY ANYWHERE THEYRE LIVING & DESTROY WHOLE MOTHERFKER COMMUNITY!! And you expect these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CLEAN THE PLACE. They’re not even putting rock, clothes or shoes or stuff in toilet 🚽 to cause trouble when they’re fk high on drugs & vomit 🤮 on ground IT WOULD BE AMAZING!! Then you think these zombies high on drugs & drunk is follow rules & take responsibility?? Even you’re give these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES A HOUSE & 2000$/month they’re still end up in street & burn the house into the ashes!! THEIR HOUSE WILL MESSING TRASHY!! Why the fk no one DARE TO REPORT TRUTH FACTS & DARE TO CALL OUT RIGHT NAME?? There are alots case druggies homeless get free house/apartment & when they’re high on drugs METHS losing mindset, they’re burn the whole units!! NO FK MEDIA REPORTS THIS & STILL CALL THEM AS VICTIMS, LIKE POOR LITTLE ANGELS While 80% of them is DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THEY CARE FK ABOUT FAMILY, CARE FK ABOUT LAWS & RULES, CARE FK ABOUT REPONSIBLITY, ALWAYS HIGH ON DRUGS FULFILL THEIR SHITTY LIFESTYLE LYING ON GROUND, SCREAMING TOP OUT OF THEIR LUNGS LIKE ANIMAL ZOMBIES EVEN 10FLOOR CAN HEAR IT. VIOLENT, IGNORANT & ARROGANT ASSAULT, ATTACK PPL. 20% homeless is ppl come from real trouble. There are some ppl is become homeless because they’re lost job, lost house, because of bad wrong investment/bussiness then lost everything. There are ppl is stressful after lost everything (kids, family, jobs & brokers) they’re end up become mental illness There are ppl after accident or bad healthy problems, can’t working lost all savings & not good at management their saving moneys & end up in street. BUT MOSTLY THESE PPL IS NOT DRUGGIES, THEY STILL HAVE BASIC MANNERS & LOOK CLEAN, SOME STILL WORK AS PART-TIME JOBS, OR LIVIN IN CARS. You can fk see these type of HOMELESS - they’re deserve second or even third chance, they’re deserve help!! BUT 80% HOMELESS IN THIS VIDEO IS DRUGGIES ZOMBIES!! Alots of them born in normal family, born with healthy body, but because addict to drugs & bad habits, in their Youngful day they think become druggies high on drugs & act like thugs is cools. It’s all personal choice & bad habits & throwing advice/help always. ONLY IN US, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS GET ALL FREE STUFF, MONEYS & BENEFITS. Druggies zombies & thugs have MORE FREEDOM, MORE HUMAN & MORE SUPPORT THAN LAW ABIDING ORDINARY PEOPLE!! Bullshit ridiculous. So these druggies & thugs can have moneys to buy drugs to fulfill their shit, high & higher then spending their free time going around cities doing route “sleep - then eat - then use free moneys from gorvement taxes buy drugs to get high” THEN GOING AROUND ATTACK PPL & ROBBERY, STEALING TO HAVE MORE MONEYS TO BUY DRUGS TO FULFILL THEIR FLYING HIGH. KEEP GIVE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS MORE BENEFITS & FREEDOM TI ACT LAWLESS!! Give them more support & protect over than LAW ABIDING ORDINARY WORKING CITIZENS!! So they can lychee the system & attack ppl & THROWING SHITTY AROUND TO DESTROY THE CITY, AFFECT EVERYONE LIFE & DESTROY WHOLE CITY!! US, CANADA keep create more UNBELIEVABLE RIDICULOUS STUPID LAWS SYSTEMS TO PROTECT & SUPPORT DRUGS, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THUGS & ROBBERY/THRIVES & CRIMINALS!! I believe in 10-20y later US, CAN WILL BE FLOODING BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, DRUGGIES HOMELESS, ROBBERY & THRIVES STEALING LOOTING, THUGS & CRIMINALS!! Teenage running like wild animal, no behavior & bad habits & shitty manner. BECAUSE THEY GET FEED BY ALL VIOLENT STUFF & BRAINWASHED STUFF EVERYDAY IN SHOOLS, MEDUA NEWS & BY LOOKING AT THIS COMMUNITY!! Teenage & Youngful adults will see these druggies zombies & druggies thugs is COOLS & THEY DONT FK NEED FOLLOW RULES/LAWS TO TAKE REPONSIBLITY, WHILE DRUG IS AVAILABLE & CHEAP TO BUY ANYWHERE, ANYTIMES!! Why not get high & buy drugs to use. US, CAN & alots WESTERN COUNTRY WILL BE FLOOD BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES IF THEYRE NOT CHANGING FIX LAWS BOLD HARD LAWS ON DRUGS. And stop give druggies zombies & thugs free shit. THROWING THEM INTO REHAB CENTER BY FK FORCE WITH MEDICAL CARE FOR 6month to 1y, 2 or 3y if it need FORCE THEN STOP USE DRUGS & CLEAN. Act bold & harshly is the FK ONLY SOLUTION TO HELP, NOT BY TALK SOFTLY & TALK GENTLY.
I'm from Santa Cruz. me and friends would party I all the poppin' bars in the late 90s thru 00s. also hit up all the cool restaurants in the area as well. totally shocked that downtown is now a ghost town.
I was born and raised here. Most of the people I know , including myself , moved away because no one can afford to live there, let alone shop or run a business here anymore. CA is not business friendly.
I used to walk around these areas as an SJSU student, back before covid from 2016 to 2018. It used to be so lively, it was my first time actually exploring the city. I can't believe how much it has changed.
2016-2018 we had leadership in Washington that understood business and economics. Now our president doesn't even know what day it is. Totally incompetent..
This is a terrific video even though it breaks my heart to watch it. I live in Silicon Valley and no longer go into downtown San Jose. I used to go to San Jose Opera but am no longer willing. Do not want my car's catalytic converter stolen while watching an opera. Do not want to be mugged while walking around downtown. Thank you ACLU. Thank you George Soros. Thank you Mark Rosenbaum. Thank you US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thank you Gavin Newsom. Thank you Jerry Brown. Thank you San Jose Mercury News. Thank you Joe Biden. Thank you Kamala Harris. Thank you Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren and Cindy Chavez and Jeff Rosen. And a special thanks to the leftist voters who put many of the above into office to wreak havoc on San Jose and the rest of California.
I moved out to silicon valley mid-pandemic. Covfefe 19 really accelerated the death of these places. It looks like they were dying pre-covid. The cities were ghost towns in 2020-2022. SF has a hustle and bustle back again, but definitely not the same as it used to be. I can't wait to leave.
You had to go back 40 years to find something to blame on the Republicans. You have proven that the Republicans can't do doodly-squat in California. The Democrats rule the state and this is the mess they have created. It is on them.
The progressive liberals in the Silicon Valley don’t want to hear your points about all the failed leaders, now they moved on to climate change and mandates, which will ultimately deteriorate even more areas!
Thanks. My husband was born in San Jose. We would have liked it if you had called out the streets and cross-streets, to help with orientation. This one was shocking and difficult to watch, but we enjoy your videos greatly. Don't keep the homeless off-camera. Show the whole story.
I try to call out street names as much as possible and I did on the beginning. We started at Santa Clara and then I mention a few streets throughout the video . it’s hard to remember when you were walking with the camera keeping your head on a swivel trying to concentrate. and pay attention to the surroundings at the same time, but I will implement more street names on future videos. Thank you very much for the support ,take care and enjoy the videos.
@@LeoMetalTraveler Her suggestions are valid. I know the area quite well and knew the streets. If you don't identify the actual streets the video becomes just one closed door after another....
@@LeoMetalTravelerPerhaps we should all walk with wooden canes so we can beat shoplifters to a pulp when they don't pay. It's our fault, our citizens are soft on the inside and outside. I think you are a kind person. Thank you for all your efforts! I lived at 370 Ellis in 1988😢 that was a lifetime ago. I'm now 60😮🤔
I lived in San Jose from the late 60's to late 70's. My parents lived there until about 5 years ago. I'm appalled and depressed by this. And now they want another shutdown? Don't tell me this is not planned.
My time also...at that time it was THE FASTEST GROWING CITY IN 🇺🇸.. I did VERY WELL in RE...and the Nightclub business....you put too much air in a balloon 🎈 and it will POP...ALL ABOUT $$$$ Greed!!!Happening to Vegas NOW..🙏☮️🇺🇸
spent my teens / early twenties in san jose back in the 90's . i wish i knew back then how downtown would have ended up . i would have appreciated it more . i went back just before the pandemic and i was heartbroken how sterile and expensive everything was . it's no wonder it's a ghost town now . hell , the dump i lived in was last sold for 1.5 million dollars . who the hell can afford a 11k a month mortage
@@sentryogmixmasteryes, blame a genre of music 😂 bc you don't know who to blame. we have no one to blame but ourselves. i can tell you're probably 13 years old, simply repeating what you've heard your parents say. life will teach you. good luck!!! 🍀
Shocking, what does the future holds for this city(and many others) and the country as a whole? Mind boggling! Total dysfunction and in terminal decy!😮
I grew up for 10 years in San Jose, before the family moved to the Pacific Northwest. While it is disgusting to see everything going this way, my folks knew it was going downhill in the early 90s when we left.
@@lotanto6154 in most of downtown Portland, it is. Towns like Tualatin, Wilsonville, Lake Oswego, and West Linn are still nice. But I left for the SouthWest a few years ago, and only go back to visit. Portland has always been bad, arguably in some cases, even worse than Oakland, with its clockwork May Day riots, black tar heroin epidemic, child trafficking and rampant pedophilia amongst the politicians who eventually become Oregon’s governors.
If it's going down the hill, why home values are going up?? How about those republican red states, some of the poorest in the nation. Mississippi is even worse than some of the 3rd world countries.
Used to live in SJ suburbs, CA back in the 90s & the downtown was still thriving then. A day/night world of difference in this video. A forlorn feeling with so many closed, boarded-up shop fronts & empty spaces for lease.
Downtown San Bernardino, about 1,000 businesses at its peak. The only things open are the buses, the courthouse (they'll never stop taking your freedom or money) and a few odds and ends. The only mall is completely empty. About a 4 square mile center of the city is like a zombie apocalypse at night, completely with zombies and fires.. It's the largest city in the largest county in the United States, and it's practically shuttered.
According to the San Jose Downtown Association, as of May, there are more than 73 vacant storefronts. I worked for a tech startup in the late 90's and would have to walk several blocks from a parking garage to the office. There were (working) people everywhere, and the restaurants were bustling every day at lunch. This is all the result of poor leadership, made more acute by cowardly "leaders" (and unelected bureaucrats) who thought it would be wise to shutdown entire economies for a pandemic. The long term outcomes will be far more devastating than the virus. Life isn't about being alive; it is about living. It's amazing what happens when you combine fear with sheep.
I could not agree with you more! In fact, I believe the whole city was planned out wrong... Airport wise and what. They could have 50+ story buildings... A metropolis. Piss poor planning. A suburb of a shithole called San Francisco.
i used to go to downtown san jose as a kid and always saw bustling activity. people in suits, clean highways, people walking, and no homeless. i went there recently and one park was essentially just a campsite for bums. its crazy how bad it's gotten in just 10 years.
I lived, and worked, in San Jose for two years in the late seventies. It was a vibrant, growing and welcoming city. I have fond memories of my time there. It is sad to see this.
Even before Covid San Jose was struggling. I remember we were working in a building kind of high and at noon we didn't see anyone walking around for a few blocks. It looked like zombie land. Only the Peninsula doesn't look like SF and SJ.
@@LeoMetalTraveler Unfortunately that has always been their problem. Their mayor had always trying to do something. Personally I would rather hangout in SJ than SF, easier parking, less crime. I like where they have the restaurants and live music area. The nice thing about having a car in the Peninsula, you get to go to all the cities that seems 10-15 mins away and less crime.
Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom were before Covid 19. The infection was already running amok. Under Reagan and Wilson, California was the Golden State. It's amazing that democrats can turn Gold into rust. That should be impossible, but they did it.
I lived in Milpitas for over 20 years and moved out of California 2 years ago before things in the Bay Area turned ugly. San Jose used to be awesome and to see it now breaks my heart. And yet the media shows NOTHING about the plight of the Bay Area. A heartfelt thank you for exposing the TRUTH of what’s actually going on
You know how there's rumors that developers wanted the prized land in Maui, and they knew that the people would not sell, so they needed a Event to change their mind. So now we see something similar on a larger scale in SF Bay, downtown gutted by crimes & one can't help but wonder if there's a organized engineered effort to drive property values way down and then some developers will buy it for cheap. I would not be shocked if some whistleblower came forward from a architecture office with actual proof of building plans of areas like Maui & SF, where they knew ahead of time what to build & where. Some say it is WEF doing their 15 minutes Smart Cities which are a nice way of saying concentration camp.
Well they can't set the whole Bay Area on fire, that would be too suspicious. So they do that thing in Robocop, flood the area with crime and drugs, the people that can afford to just move out, and the politicians are in on it, getting kickbacks as the city rots. Then the developers buy it for cheap, flip it, and make a huge profit! You see lots of videos of lootings in SF, and the politicians aren't really serious about stopping it for the last few years. This is no accident.@@twasbrillig33
Only cities run by Democrats .... they are intentionally destroying their inner cities ... Defund their Police and Black Liver Matter...Liberalism and Sorros District attorneys letting criminals go and no bail policies ...only in democrat run cities not Republican red state and red cities...
No you need to check the stats again….only the democrat run cities look like a literal zhombie movie….😂 you know the cities full of effeminate white men defunding the cops that keeps the angry black alpha AFRICAN American men from robbing there stores….😂😂😂😂😂 PLEASE keep voting democrat. And you willlllll!!!!…😂😂
I had a great child hood growing up in the 90's in San Jose. Skateboarding the streets, taking the bus everywhere. Sneaking into raging waters. Its trash now. Been trash.
I left in 1994, and I am Soooo glad I did! Born and Raised in the San Jose Bay area, lived in down town and was there during its hayday! I knew this was going to happen..... it was just a matter of time.....
Tis is the heart of Silicon Valley people. I am very familiar with this entire area. Born and raised here. It's sad to see how our society has evolved. We moved 10 years ago and feel lucky to have gotten out.....
Hey man thanks for making these videos. I lived in SF for 2 years back when I was a teen in the late 90s and have visited every now and then. It's so sad to see what's happened to what was once a wonderful city.
Very true, a good friend of mines, departed San Jose for Spring, Texas. In Texas, it is too hot for homeless encampments in the streets. And, Texas is a no nonsense State, tougher on crime, lower taxes and gasoline prices.
It's fascinating seeing what has become of these cities. I still remember when there was lots of orchards in San Jose and Frontier Village amusement park.
We sat in the cherry trees and ate till we were sick. 1970's. A buck to go to the dump in the mud flats, Dirt bikes on fire trails all the way to the coast! WOW, 50 years ago.
🎼🎵Frontier Village, that's where the action is. The fastest fun in the west.... For thrills and excitement, for things to do, you'll find everything from A to Zoo at Fronnnnn tieeeeeer Village, the fastest FUN in the west. 🎶🎼
Frontier Village. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time. I remember going there during their last summer. Fun times, but we had Great America now, but that's closing now too.
I lived in san jose in 2015/16 downtown was always popping i went back to downtown earlier this year in april cus i was working out there that place was dead af on a friday and saturday. It was crazy how the city changed
Even 10 years ago when I moved to the bay area SJ downtown was pretty rough - only really busy in the evenings around the bars, but during the daytime even then it was a bit of a ghost town apart from the druggies around the park near the center and foot traffic heading for the tech museum or conference center - never felt safe to park there either. Campbell, Willow Glen or Los Gatos are nicer places to hang out. Google was supposed to be doing some major investment with offices in the downtown - not sure what happened to those plans.
What an eye opener. I live in San Jose but was unaware of the downtown situation. There's an area that spans many blocks, near the airport, where there are a ton of RVs, tents, and broken down cars. Before, many would camp along Coyote Creek, and saw many people living in their cars.
I was born and raised in San Jose I left in 79 so sad to see what the democrats have done to California Now I live in an area that doesn’t tolerate criminals and life is pretty safe
It breaks my heart to see the city like this! I used to live on E. San Salvador in the 70s, every weekend I had a stand at the flea market on Berryessa Rd. SJ was a vivid community back then. At least I have my memories ... It's such a tragedy!
Thank you for these videos, Leo. You are doing an important public service. Hopefully people who are considering moving to San Francisco or San Jose can see the truth of your videos and avoid being taken in by false information about life in northern California.
The first major city I went to on my first own vacation (aka solo and not family oriented) was San Jose. I remembered how nice and comfortable it was to go into the downtown area either on foot or even on an escooter (also same vacation where I visited SF for the 2nd time in my life, first time on my own and had a blast visiting all over). This was back in 2018. Now, on a recent drive by during early evening hours on the way to national forests a month or two ago, SF was a dead town. Streets were somewhat busy with commuters but noticeable dip in activity and opened stores, and large pockets of homeless. Seeing San Jose like this - it's not too long ago but it is night and day compared between 2018 and now.
@@LeoMetalTraveler Chase is closing bank branches across the US, and several big construction projects are planned in downtown San Jose. Check the city website.
i live in the south only been up north 1 when it was still good coming to see super car show while visit my lil bro lived up north with his lad in SJ, look like i ain't coming up north to visit that place anytime soon, since it look like SF, LA, SD street look like gosh town who know which idiot homeless gona jack money or car while walk in street, could get mug, machete, hatches, or just with side arm, just a few year during covid with wrong leadership that place turn down that quick kinda sad for them, the end for big tech soon if there no lower tier support business for tech working who still remain up north soon since all the nice perk at fine dine out at nice restaurant and shop at brand name fashion mall come to end?
I grew up there. I left SJ 16 years ago. Shocking to say the least. Still got ton of people that I know that still there. It seems strange that I can't talk to them anymore. It's like people been in jail too long and something is not right up there. What's the world coming to.....
I been walking those streets for years. Still to this day. The way it is today is unimaginable! Downtown SJ in the early 2000s was better than being in Hollywood.
Isn’t it wonderful to know that the government we elected are doing a real bang up job!!!! Way to go Nancy’s Nephew!!!👍 you wanted mierta, you got mierta…..
Isn’t it wonderful and small minded people find a way to blame Nancy Pelosi for everything that's wrong in the world with the least bit of understanding of the facts or how the economy works? I hope you are charging Nancy a lot, cus it sounds like she lives rent free in your head.
@@ulexite-tv Well, how long have Nancy and her merry band of Democrat fools been in charge of California and most of these cities? What have the Democrats done to improve the lives of the TAX PAYERS and the TAX PAYING BUSINESSES in these cities. Line up all the Democrats that have been in power in California for the last 50 years for a huge photograph. That there is the picture of the problem!
@@craighunt5426 Sure, when a republican like G.W. Bush is in office and the economy goes sour under his watch, it's Bush's fault. When it goes bad under democrat Joe Biden it's "You are clueless as to how economic forces work.". From all those closed up stores it looks like a lot of people are having trouble "keeping their day job".
@@craighunt5426 No you're clueless how people finally say fuck this, screw you all and close the doors. Criminal action/behavior is behind most of these stores closing for good. And people like you just want to make excuses for the criminals. Bla, bla, bla they just need more..... No. This is the finality of it all.
This is astonishingly bad. We left 17 years ago to move northeast a bit, and I have never regretted that decision. When you have (former) mayors like Gonzales, who spend two terms on a frenzied bender to over-populate every weird, forlorn corner of SJ, with hideous high rise stack & packs, but without paying any attention to the soul & infrastructure of the city they were charged with overseeing, this is what will transpire every single time. I still recall when they gutted the lower end of South First & Market streets many years ago, well before Gonzales' time, and every business there had to close for the re-dev and rail projects. And for what? Leo's video shows the entirely predictable results.
I grew up in San Jose, right off King Road near the PAL Stadium. It was clean, safe, had its share of different ethnicities back then. Mostly Mexican and Chinese / Vietnamese, but it was relatively safe and gang violence from SoCal had not really reached that far north. This was back in the early 80s. I can't imagine what level of dystopian hell it is now. Homeless and criminals everywhere, and somehow property values sky high. You really never can go back home. I live in Yucaipa now, but jesus christ any thought I ever had of returning to my roots have long evaporated.
Then why is house values are much higher in democratic cities , in comparison to thoe red republican states??? The democratic states also provide 73% GDP in U.S. States such as West virginia , Mississpi republican states are so poor, that some of them are worse than 3rd world countries. And keep in mind and make a note, that high taxes from Democratic states goes SUBSIDIZE those red poor republican states Without our help they can't sustain themselves. Go do your reseach and homework. And never spread disinformation. And best not to repeat things , just because it sounds good to you. Always provide facts. You obviously haven't done any research. And most likely depend on Fox news only.
The homeless and crime in this area drove people out! Restaraunts still operating during weekday lunches and for take out only. Market Street still has an active restaurant food court. Santana Row and Valley Fair malls are thriving, OUTSIDE of downtown. Also, San Jose State University in downtown is a TOP IT university where you need a 5.0 to get into computer science program. It's a lot better than the 90s when there were shootings going on just south of SJSU. That said, crime drive out Safeway and Walgreens, but it will still cost you $1 million for a downtown condo with a hefty condo fee. There is a huge old Italian bank building that is a historical landmark and can't be economically upgraded to meet current standards, so it just sits. A Chinese company started a building project and abandoned it as did Google. Google says their "Google Village" is is on hold due to employees refusing to work in an office after convid
I lived in San Jose from 1959 until 1992. We used to shop at Woolworth, Penny’s and then the little head shops too on San Antonio. I wish you would have better named the streets you were on. We used to cruise First Street, just like in the movie American Graffiti. I believe you showed what used to be Original Joe’s, which was a dining institution in San Jose. This is heartbreaking to see. What have they done to San Jose? What have they done? 😟 I used to live off St James behind Gio’s Nursery. I’ve thought (sometimes) I would like to move back, but never mind. They have let San Jose go to Hell. Appreciate your sharing.
Thank you for sharing and thank you for your support I will implement more street names in future videos ,but in this video we started off on Santa Clara then we moved to First Street then second Street
This week my 80 year old pal of several decades moved to South Carolina from north county San Diego. So happy to leave nutty CA. If I could afford I would leave, although born in CA/
sell your million dollar home and do it... I bought a heck on a nice old house in Missouri for 60,000 its air bnb now and booked 50 nights in 3 months..
Yes, I agree with you. My late husband used to live in San Jose during his childhood years. He used to say San Jose was a beautiful, thriving city with good schools.
Santa Clara county, where San Jose is located, had some of the most severe and long-lasting lockdown protocols in the state. It seemed like every time the rest of California relaxed a given restriction, there was our county, holding on to it. The effect on people’s livelihoods was devastating. Always we were told this was “out of an abundance of caution.” Someone should’ve reminded our chief health officer, Sara Cody, that although caution can be bought, the price is not zero. All this destruction for a failed attempt to suppress a mild disease.
1 Million people is not a mild disease. In fact people are still dying but it longer gets reported on because the vaccines have curbed the effects to a manageable level. I guess you didn’t lose anyone close to you like my friends did but maybe next time, eh?
I hear you, and all this is sad. What happened to the courts, the police, the jails, the rehabs and mental institutions? But... Covid killed over one million Americans. It wasn't mild.
It's not over, covid was just an experiment created by the communist there will be more health threats one of the reasons they want to destroy our economy, devalue our currency and nullify our social security which the Biden administration has already spent on themselves
Thank you for doing downtown San Jose. It's always been sort of a dog, except down by San Pedro, the 88 apartments, etc., but mostly a dog. It is SHOCKING that even down there where it used to bustle, every shop was full, it is empty. All of the courts are down farther on St. James etc. and those shops you were showing us were always busy, always. San Jose all of the zip codes are arguably some of the most affluent in the United States and even Santana Row on Winchester has empty stores. Thanks for showing us, great job! : o)
Thank you for the support ,everyone in the comments from the previous video was recommending to go to San Jose. That’s why I had to take the trip and they were right about the closed stores.
Graduated from SJSU 10 years ago. Before it was booming with restaurants, beer pubs, night clubs (night life). Now it's dead. Thanks for the Vid Leo. ❤
There was always someone that would lease an empty store and I would think they were crazy. And that was when business was good. Now, I don’t think anyone will ever lease those store fronts. There’s only so long the banks can hide loans they are not being paid on. I’m not sure how bad things will get but it is not looking good. Great job on the video, I wouldn’t walk around that place.
I was looking on Yelp and it looks like the San Jose Downtown Food Hall is open but not very good. I worked in downtown off an on over the decades since the 90s. Some years were better. But it's definitely worse now thanks to crime and poor governance. I think Zanotto's was in the place next to the Improv with the butterflies. I kept waiting for you to go past the Walgreens that surprisingly is still open. But it's pretty funky.
In about 1972, I would walk two or three times a week from the train station in SJ to the University there... through the downtown area. I do not now actually recall the story of what caused it, but the downtown then had the same sort of bombed-out look as in this video. It later became very much revitalized, thanks to the Silicon-Valley element.
I saw a light-rail train go by in the very first part of your video, on a cross street in the distance. Years after my forays into San Jose in the 1970s, I became the noise and air quality consultant for that light rail line's construction. In the course of that work I had to walk the alignment, downtown and eastward for some distance I had to go into certain stores and businesses because from the street I could see that some of them had little residential units built in, as on the second story. It's an old-school form of urban design that municipal planners periodically try to bring back. That is, I had to go in to talk to the owners to confirm that what I thought was a residential unit actually was one... because I would have to deal with that in my report of noise impacts. It was so delightful to meet those people. They had vibrant, upbeat spirits. And they came from every type of background.@@LeoMetalTraveler
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The speed at which economic decline and social decay is spreading in the US is truly shocking.
It's actually a quiet war...Communists taking the country, city by city.
Not really, it’s been building up for many decades. The end of this age is coming to an end as expected. Read your Bible and you’ll see that this is all printed in black white and red. An expected end. You’ll see that everything happening here has happened to every civilization for thousands of years that turns its back on God. The covenant has been broken and Gods protection and provision has been taken away. It’s only going to get worse.
Only in blue states tho
Thanks to Biden
Obuma
I attended a tech conference in San Jose 7 years ago (approximately). It was completely different -- vibrant, clean, wealthy. It makes me sick that idiots and their failed policies have allowed so many American cities go to ruin.
Biden still claiming the economy is booming 😂 ....propaghanda
Communism always ends the same way. You vote your way in, but can only shoot your way out.
@@nickmalone3143His idiot voter base believes every lie.
National policies lockdown sanctions oil shutdowns focus on military have accelerated this
@@ElectricUniverse56 They don't prosecute criminals in Commiefornia, that is a big factor for the smash and grabs and other crime destroying small businesses.
Criminals and muggers (includes knock out gamers) created a CHILLING EFFECT that causes people (like me) to stay away from these areas. I used to go downtown, but it wasn't the homeless but the potential muggers walking around, motorbiking around, or driving around waiting for opportunity to mug a likely victim.
Homelessness pimps drug addicts drug dealers thugs lowlifes thief’s are what makes places bad. If the cities move these out the cities would come back to life.
It's as if the hearts of all our once-great cities are becoming nothing more than open air mental asylums.
Their collapsing b cuz of what they did to kill off nature to build them by artificial dead light AI artificial life that is out of form and flow of music Creation spheres we experience living as being One in eternal peace love harmony and balance with the Great living Oversoul Spirit of Mother Nature
Khee Ra ShA Mu ah 💋🌈🔥💦💜🌋
Just California.
They are prepping them to be a "smart city", so everyone can be tracked and traced... they have to get everyone out first...
ah yeah portland that famous city in california @@rachaelkras2386
@@rachaelkras2386 NYC is going downhill, rapidly under Adam's, he may be worse than DeBlasio.
As a 40 year resident of San Jose, I witnessed the promises of former mayors, city councilman and county supervisors pontificate how bicycle lanes, granite pave-stones, reduced parking and light rail will transform and revitalize San Jose's urban core. None of their statements hold true. The politicians do not understand how to run businesses and wasted $millions of tax-payer revenue, to redevelop downtown over the last decades. I used go downtown for dinner and entertainment. But now the streets are constricted, only two lanes where there used to be four. Parking is not available as the city squeezed housing into areas that previously had parking to allow small businesses to operate. The area of Julian and N. 2nd street is difficult to access, with one-way streets and no turns allowed.
I have witnessed the parking police ticket a merchant delivering a wedding cake on a Saturday. The delivery truck only stopped for a minute in a handicapped zone on N. Third St. There was no other place for the delivery van to stop. The streets are a maze of obstacles making it impossible to visit, find a parking space and go dinning. The city leaders have ignored the advice of traffic engineers and street planners.
The city almost landed a deal with Nividia, to move that company to downtown SJ. They lost it when the greedy politicians demanded concessions from the company to move downtown. They also spent $millions to buy up land for a major league ballpark and failed. Now they want to bring BART to downtown, rapid transit to a place where there are no jobs. The light rail is very slow and inefficient, snaking through downtown and takes longer than driving 101 to arrive at destinations to the north. Politically connected families have lobbied to spend tax dollars to enhance the downtown area, helping boost their family owned real-estate property values. Downtown San Jose is an urban planning nightmare and failure. It can only get worse with the badly educated urban planning socialists running the government.
What a tragedy!
San Jose born and raised (South)... And seeing the collapse,makes me sick to my stomach.
I used to work in a gas station around Julian St. back in the late 70's as a teenager. It was vibrant and fun. So full of life. Now, I have no intension to drive down that street.
Sounds just like Hawaii. We have the same incompetent "leaders" not serving the public.
My husband (RIP ) used to make good stories about growing up in San Jose with his family. He reminisced of San Jose: a lot of friendly people, great weather, and plenty of jobs. He witnessed the city change so much.
Everytime you said, "That's closed," my heart sank a little deeper. Seeing my state fall into decay and despair is devastating. I left Cali for Georgia 3 years ago and I will not be returning 😢
Being a Georgian I hope to hell you learned your lesson voting for brainless democrats otherwise go back and enjoy the fruits of your labor not trying to be mean mind you ... I'm voting Trump for the third time hoping we'll get a FAIR election this time around
It wasn't your state. You were Cali's b!#ch. You left so as not to be its b$!ch anymore. Don't feel bad.
At least you mentioned Cali as your state and didn't run its name thru the muck.
I was born in CA in 1978.
I'm a otr trucker and I see poverty in most places along my route.
We chillin down here in San Diego.
Warn everyone about czar newsome.
Learned more in this one video about what’s actually happening in our country than what’s on the news for hours everyday…
The news is not reporting actual news. It’s strictly only what the left agenda wants you to hear
I pick my best comment of the day for me, you made it.
News are all AI, NOT REAL HUMANS anymore 😮
Mainstream news media will NEVER tell people about the dying cities controlled by democrat politicians because they want people to keep voting democrat.
Also look how every late night comedian is "suppose to be in competition" with each other yet they all push the exact same political view which is vote democrat.
Agree
Visited San Jose 10 years ago with my kids. This is not how I remember it. Incredible how quickly cities and towns can be destroyed by shocking policies (by supposedly elected politicians) that are not for the people they are meant to represent.
Democrat Party: Wants more government and more taxes < by definition
Republican Party: Wants only government where it's needed < by definition
People keep voting for the democrat party then wonder why taxes, crime and cost of living keep increasing. What's worse they move into red states and keep voting blue.
So sad, and so very true!
Its funny how they blame the democrats. Five years ago it was starting to look like that already. Trump didnt do sht😂 now they will go back to the same sht.
1. The reason why many of stores were closed in the first part of the video, is because they were kicking out businesses in order to build the underground BART subway. They said they needed 2 city blocks emptied and cleared for construction and tunneling.
2. Chachos, Social Lady, Cinnabar, and one other restaurant had to close due to a fire on the 2nd floor.
3. Some of the buildings for lease have rents which are too high, and the property owners are unable to go lower.
4. The building with the eyeballs had hazardous waste issues.
5. The Johnny Rockets building was kicking businesses out, not sure why.
The 5 downtown zones which are active are:
- San Pedro Square Food Court
- South 1st Street Clubs
- San Jose State University
- Post Street Bars
- and City Hall
If you want to see a thousand people downtown, go back to South 1st Street after midnight, on Friday night or Saturday night when the businesses open up after dark. People there often do not come out to party until the weekends, after work.
Update: Two new downtown restaurants just opened this week: Rollati now open by City Hall, and a new Mountain Mike's Pizza behind tbe old Hank Coca's Furniture.
I remember this area just a few years ago. I loved it down there. This is a travesty!!
oh so everything is fine. good to know.
@@Dwayne-mb2uj yeah if there was ever a better time to open a business in dowtown san francisco nows the time to do it lol
That's project will never get going it's just a cash grab for san jose. Cost too much and not safe for building foundation and you can just take vta point less.
California which was once the envy of many States has been reduced to this sorry state...sad...very, very sad. My husband and I took a long time to make a decision if we want to stay in the Peninsula (San Mateo County), and we're glad we left 3 years ago, moved to a city 2 hrs away from San Francisco. It's an entirely different culture where we live now, people are friendlier and more respectful. It's the wisest decision we ever made. Thank you for sharing us your video.
Do you vote Democrat?
My whole family left. My father told everyone to leave 10 years ago. And I was the only one who didn’t listen. I didn’t believe it. Now my brothers and sisters live in States where they own their own homes and the children are thriving and every store is open.
Two hours from San Mateo? So, Belmont?
The entire bay area is a disaster. They choose to support bums and crime over tax-paying citizens. It's a shame.
You moved to Reno?
The bay is full of the most selfish people I’ve ever seen, which is sad because I’ve been fortunate to do quite a bit of traveling. And even sadder is how so many people in the bay treat their neighborhoods and the environment like total shit. Dumping fast food bags on sidewalks, spare tires left against the curbs, etc, etc I’ve never seen such filth elsewhere in my life. I dare say most of even NYC is cleaner than the bay. Like you said, go outside the bay and it’s clean as a whistle, friendly and courteous people who would give you the shirt off of their back. Agains, sad because it’s apparent San Jose and other Bay Area cities were once so beautiful and the envy of many other locations.
It's like the ruins of a lost civilization.
You don't believe we are lost?
"civilization" 😂
@@Legal_Sweetie333 Yes civilization. There are pockets of the USA that are crumbling into nothingness.
Live in the burbs, shop Amazon all is good.
Bidenomics at work!!!!
It's not called The Great Reset for nothing lol
I live in Phoenix Az for the last 28 years and we have never had this problem. All restaurants are open and very busy. We have lots of new construction going on downtown and several new sky scrapers under construction. Lots of new apartments being developed and lots of new houses being built also. I believe lots of people can't handle the 118 degree weather in summer time or the high electric bills. Well I hope it never gets like that over here. Enjoy watching your videos and keep them coming. Thanks
I left the Bay Area back in '98 for Phoenix. Moved there in August and almost passed out from the heat. Over time I adapted and raised a family. We left Arizona in 2021 for northern Ohio. I got tired of the heat and wanted to get out of the desert.
It's pretty vibrant up here, though like most places, times aren't as good as they once were. Finding an affordable house is tough unless you're willing to invest alot in renovations. Many of the affordable nice ones are bought up and turned into rentals. Cash offers. We can't compete with that.
Enjoy Arizona democrat
Let this be a warning to the rest of America!
They wont listen. We already got the warning in 1917.
this is an urban problem
Dems despise our country.
@@ezdeezytubeThat's the oddest thing. The Midwest isn't already an example?
@@dawnatilla2469this is a spiritual problem. Evil makes desolation and desolation makes for prophecy. If you learn to read the Bible this won’t be so shocking because it’s all written.
I moved to San Jose in 1957 just out of high school, drove thru downtown with my 49 chevy with the pipes sounding good. lived in Milpitas for 35 yrs. What I seen transpire in my time there breaks my heart. What a fabulous place it was. Left 20 yrs ago, I used to miss it but after I've seen what has happened I am really glad my family left. Nothing left but nostalgia. Bon voyage my once beautiful home.
our best memories is sometimes all we have, thank you for sharing
used too go to the theaters in miliptas, and skateboard at the halfpipe at park victoria, thank goodness for dial a ride 10cents. MILPITAS SMOGMONSTER.
@@LeoMetalTraveler My memories of San Jose are all I have left. It was great back then (in my mind). I wish I could add more good memories, but I don't want to become a crime victim. A coworker had his own scary adventure. He was walking to his car (in business attire) when three youths about half a block ahead were walking in the same direction. They saw him and turned around to walk in his direction. Is that suspicious? My coworker was alert and thought so. He didn't want to risk being sucker punched and stomped, so he turned around and ran the away as fast as he could hoping the half block lead would be enough for him to take the long way to his car. He is in good shape, so he managed to get away from the three youths pursuing him. He was huffing and puffing by the time he got to his car not so much from just the running, but from the huge stress spike and fear of evading the youths. He said he will try to decline every future situation where the company tries to send him to work with clients in that area. He wants no more adventures with american youths.
Get ready to make it cost them.
@@jenny-DD So are yours... you just don't know it yet. Everything goes downhill from here.
wow. I grew up in San Jose. I left 8 years ago. it did not look like this!
My brother lives in one of the nearby suburbs, famous for a big computer company. I'm out there three, four times a year visiting. San Fran is completely off our visiting list, he hates driving in the city, I despise the crime and the government, and locally, we have great times together. We rarely go into San Jose, and I had no idea that the California blight had reached the city. Truly tragic.
This have NOTHING TO DO WITH PORVERTY OR HIGH PRICE LIVING!!
Ppl might suffering from high price living & high price housing. BUT THEY STILL CAN SURVIVE OR EVEN LIVIN IN TINY ROOM, TINY BOX APARTMENTS!!
But ppl can’t fk living & working & running bussiness in HIGH CRIMES AREAS BECAUSE IT NOT SAFETY!!
THEY GET ATTACK, GUNPOINT ROBBERY & KNIFE STABBING ROBBERY FROM INJURED TO DEAD!!
Get robbery & thrives stealing everyday, every weeks, every months, every years & LOST ALL MONEYS!!
While customers is get attack, spit on the face while walking in street or get assaulted while eating in restaurants by homeless, thugs & criminals!! SO THEYRE DONT FK WANT TO GO THERE & DONT FK DO ANYTHING NEAR THERE.
So it mean restaurants, shop, bussiness owner lost the double: one by homeless, thugs, criminals & one by lost customers!!
Ppl lost brains somewhere??
CAN ANYONE FK SEE THESE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CANT FK EVEN CLEAN UP THEMSELVES, THEYRE THROWING SHITTY ANYWHERE THEYRE LIVING & DESTROY WHOLE MOTHERFKER COMMUNITY!!
And you expect these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CLEAN THE TOILET.
They’re not even putting rock, clothes or shoes or stuff in toilet 🚽 to cause trouble when they’re fk high on drugs & vomit 🤮 on ground IT WOULD BE AMAZING!!
Then you think these zombies high on drugs & drunk is follow rules & take responsibility??
Even you’re give these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES A HOUSE & 2000$/month they’re still end up in street & burn the house into the ashes!! THEIR HOUSE WILL MESSING TRASHY!!
Why the fk no one DARE TO REPORT TRUTH FACTS & DARE TO CALL OUT RIGHT NAME??
There are alots case druggies homeless get free house/apartment & when they’re high on drugs METHS losing mindset, they’re burn the whole units!!
NO FK MEDIA REPORTS THIS & STILL CALL THEM AS VICTIMS, LIKE POOR LITTLE ANGELS
While 80% of them is DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THEY CARE FK ABOUT FAMILY, CARE FK ABOUT LAWS & RULES, CARE FK ABOUT REPONSIBLITY, ALWAYS HIGH ON DRUGS FULFILL THEIR SHITTY LIFESTYLE LYING ON GROUND, SCREAMING TOP OUT OF THEIR LUNGS LIKE ANIMAL ZOMBIES EVEN 10FLOOR CAN HEAR IT. VIOLENT, IGNORANT & ARROGANT ASSAULT, ATTACK PPL.
20% homeless is ppl come from real trouble.
There are some ppl is become homeless because they’re lost job, lost house, because of bad wrong investment/bussiness then lost everything.
There are ppl is stressful after lost everything (kids, family, jobs & brokers) they’re end up become mental illness
There are ppl after accident or bad healthy problems, can’t working lost all savings & not good at management their saving moneys & end up in street.
BUT MOSTLY THESE PPL IS NOT DRUGGIES, THEY STILL HAVE BASIC MANNERS & LOOK CLEAN, SOME STILL WORK AS PART-TIME JOBS, OR LIVIN IN CARS.
You can fk see these type of HOMELESS - they’re deserve second or even third chance, they’re deserve help!!
BUT 80% HOMELESS IN THIS VIDEO IS DRUGGIES ZOMBIES!!
Alots of them born in normal family, born with healthy body, but because addict to drugs & bad habits, in their Youngful day they think become druggies high on drugs & act like thugs is cools. It’s all personal choice & bad habits & throwing advice/help always.
ONLY IN US, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS GET ALL FREE STUFF, MONEYS & BENEFITS.
Druggies zombies & thugs have MORE FREEDOM, MORE HUMAN & MORE SUPPORT THAN LAW ABIDING ORDINARY PEOPLE!! Bullshit ridiculous.
So these druggies & thugs can have moneys to buy drugs to fulfill their shit, high & higher then spending their free time going around cities doing route “sleep - then eat - then use free moneys from gorvement taxes buy drugs to get high” THEN GOING AROUND ATTACK PPL & ROBBERY, STEALING
TO HAVE MORE MONEYS TO BUY DRUGS TO FULFILL THEIR FLYING HIGH.
KEEP GIVE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS MORE BENEFITS & FREEDOM TI ACT LAWLESS!! Give them more support & protect over than LAW ABIDING ORDINARY WORKING CITIZENS!!
So they can lychee the system & attack ppl & THROWING SHITTY AROUND TO DESTROY THE CITY, AFFECT EVERYONE LIFE & DESTROY WHOLE CITY!!
US, CANADA keep create more UNBELIEVABLE RIDICULOUS STUPID LAWS SYSTEMS TO PROTECT & SUPPORT DRUGS, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THUGS & ROBBERY/THRIVES & CRIMINALS!!
I believe in 10-20y later US, CAN WILL BE FLOODING BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, DRUGGIES HOMELESS, ROBBERY & THRIVES STEALING LOOTING, THUGS & CRIMINALS!!
Teenage running like wild animal, no behavior & bad habits & shitty manner.
BECAUSE THEY GET FEED BY ALL VIOLENT STUFF & BRAINWASHED STUFF EVERYDAY IN SHOOLS, MEDUA NEWS & BY LOOKING AT THIS COMMUNITY!!
Teenage & Youngful adults will see these druggies zombies & druggies thugs is COOLS & THEY DONT FK NEED FOLLOW RULES/LAWS TO TAKE REPONSIBLITY, WHILE DRUG IS AVAILABLE & CHEAP TO BUY ANYWHERE, ANYTIMES!! Why not get high & buy drugs to use.
US, CAN & alots WESTERN COUNTRY WILL BE FLOOD BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES IF THEYRE NOT CHANGING FIX LAWS BOLD HARD LAWS ON DRUGS. And stop give druggies zombies & thugs free shit. THROWING THEM INTO REHAB CENTER BY FK FORCE WITH MEDICAL CARE FOR 6month to 1y, 2 or 3y if it need FORCE THEN STOP USE DRUGS & CLEAN.
Act bold & harshly is the FK ONLY SOLUTION TO HELP, NOT BY TALK SOFTLY & TALK GENTLY.
I think there are issues but don’t be disingenuous. You two cranky types wouldn’t have gone to the city anyways. Just sat around complaining about how it was too busy if this wasn’t the issue.
Yep, it's scary
@@chris8535no state wants to be like California or New York.
Best reason to visit San Francisco is to keep driving through it on the way up to Tiburon and Sausalito. Do not stop, do not pass go.
I was in San Jose in May 2023 for a convention. I was shocked at the number of empty storefronts. How can this be the heart of Silicon Valley and look so dead?
@@usenamenotallowed Sillicon Valley people (which turn out to be the richest people in the world) destroyed their own city, now everything is virtual, software, ideas, air...
@@usenamenotallowed I live in Bogotá, Colombia, I don't vote and still we have here the exact same problem you have there, it's not about politics, evil is growing, check it out 1 John :5:19
Silicon Valley elite live elsewhere, ie Lake Tahoe, Hawaii. They’ve destroyed the Lake Tahoe vibe as well.
@@michellejoy6752 _Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God._
It looks so dead because the politicians literally murdered it.
Flew into SJ in Sept 2023 to visit my oldest daughter. Drove to her apt complex and my wife says “look honey the community is having a block party and people are eating and drinking outside their cars” I said, “no….these are all homeless people living in their cars and it’s no party!” SJ…. What a dump!!
I can't say I "enjoy" your videos. As a native Californian, it's so sad to watch my home State fall apart city by city. Sadly San Diego where I grew up is not far behind. Keep making these to show the world that these once great cities are now turning into Detroit even though the Governor says nothings wrong. Stay safe and I won't blame you the day you choose to leave.
I notice that most reports leave out San Diego as if its "Hillcrest" image must be protected at all costs. I lived there back when "Hillcrest" wasn't gay at all!
Watch a Detroit downtown video so much cleaner and stores are OPEN😊
I know right? I lived there a couple of years as a kid and the last place I lived there was North Park so some of that "fabulousness" bled over to us.
@@sb8404 You must mean Greek Town. Just like Hillcrest in San Diego, Detroit fights to show and protect that image at all costs too. That and showing the city at night or from several miles away so the rest of the filth and blight isn't shown. Sadly Detroit (and the rest of Michigan) has been dead for years. I've been hearing "Oh, it's getting better!" before, during and after I left that godforsaken State. The ONLY growth that place has seen in over 60yrs was on Jennifer Granholm's face.
This is what happens when you vote Democrat. So people either better start changing who they vote for, or get used to this!
I was born and raised in San Jose, Graduated from Gunderson class of 1979. The downtown become popular in the late 80's to 2005, then it went into decline before the homeless made it impossible to stay open. What I see in this video is that since there are no open businesses to steal from/ATM's to break open most of the bums have moved on to other parts of the city.
This have NOTHING TO DO WITH PORVERTY OR HIGH PRICE LIVING!!
Ppl might suffering from high price living & high price housing. BUT THEY STILL CAN SURVIVE OR EVEN LIVIN IN TINY ROOM, TINY BOX APARTMENTS!!
But ppl can’t fk living & working & running bussiness in HIGH CRIMES AREAS BECAUSE IT NOT SAFETY.
THEY GET ATTACK, GUNPOINT ROBBERY & KNIFE STABBING ROBBERY FROM INJURED TO DEAD!! Get robbery & thrives stealing everyday, every weeks, every months & LOST ALL MONEYS!!
While customers is get attack, spit on the face while walking in street or get assaulted while eating in restaurants by homeless, thugs & criminals!!
SO THEYRE DONT FK WANT TO GO THERE & DONT FK DO ANYTHING NEAR THERE 🛑
So it mean restaurants/shop, bussiness owner lost the double: one by homeless, thugs, criminals & one by lost customers!!
Ppl lost brains somewhere??
CAN ANYONE FK SEE THESE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CANT FK EVEN CLEAN UP THEMSELVES, THEYRE THROWING SHITTY ANYWHERE THEYRE LIVING & DESTROY WHOLE MOTHERFKER COMMUNITY!!
And you expect these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES CLEAN THE PLACE.
They’re not even putting rock, clothes or shoes or stuff in toilet 🚽 to cause trouble when they’re fk high on drugs & vomit 🤮 on ground IT WOULD BE AMAZING!!
Then you think these zombies high on drugs & drunk is follow rules & take responsibility??
Even you’re give these DRUGGIES ZOMBIES A HOUSE & 2000$/month they’re still end up in street & burn the house into the ashes!! THEIR HOUSE WILL MESSING TRASHY!!
Why the fk no one DARE TO REPORT TRUTH FACTS & DARE TO CALL OUT RIGHT NAME??
There are alots case druggies homeless get free house/apartment & when they’re high on drugs METHS losing mindset, they’re burn the whole units!!
NO FK MEDIA REPORTS THIS & STILL CALL THEM AS VICTIMS, LIKE POOR LITTLE ANGELS
While 80% of them is DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THEY CARE FK ABOUT FAMILY, CARE FK ABOUT LAWS & RULES, CARE FK ABOUT REPONSIBLITY, ALWAYS HIGH ON DRUGS FULFILL THEIR SHITTY LIFESTYLE LYING ON GROUND, SCREAMING TOP OUT OF THEIR LUNGS LIKE ANIMAL ZOMBIES EVEN 10FLOOR CAN HEAR IT. VIOLENT, IGNORANT & ARROGANT ASSAULT, ATTACK PPL.
20% homeless is ppl come from real trouble.
There are some ppl is become homeless because they’re lost job, lost house, because of bad wrong investment/bussiness then lost everything.
There are ppl is stressful after lost everything (kids, family, jobs & brokers) they’re end up become mental illness
There are ppl after accident or bad healthy problems, can’t working lost all savings & not good at management their saving moneys & end up in street.
BUT MOSTLY THESE PPL IS NOT DRUGGIES, THEY STILL HAVE BASIC MANNERS & LOOK CLEAN, SOME STILL WORK AS PART-TIME JOBS, OR LIVIN IN CARS.
You can fk see these type of HOMELESS - they’re deserve second or even third chance, they’re deserve help!!
BUT 80% HOMELESS IN THIS VIDEO IS DRUGGIES ZOMBIES!!
Alots of them born in normal family, born with healthy body, but because addict to drugs & bad habits, in their Youngful day they think become druggies high on drugs & act like thugs is cools. It’s all personal choice & bad habits & throwing advice/help always.
ONLY IN US, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS GET ALL FREE STUFF, MONEYS & BENEFITS.
Druggies zombies & thugs have MORE FREEDOM, MORE HUMAN & MORE SUPPORT THAN LAW ABIDING ORDINARY PEOPLE!! Bullshit ridiculous.
So these druggies & thugs can have moneys to buy drugs to fulfill their shit, high & higher then spending their free time going around cities doing route “sleep - then eat - then use free moneys from gorvement taxes buy drugs to get high” THEN GOING AROUND ATTACK PPL & ROBBERY, STEALING
TO HAVE MORE MONEYS TO BUY DRUGS TO FULFILL THEIR FLYING HIGH.
KEEP GIVE DRUGGIES ZOMBIES & THUGS MORE BENEFITS & FREEDOM TI ACT LAWLESS!! Give them more support & protect over than LAW ABIDING ORDINARY WORKING CITIZENS!!
So they can lychee the system & attack ppl & THROWING SHITTY AROUND TO DESTROY THE CITY, AFFECT EVERYONE LIFE & DESTROY WHOLE CITY!!
US, CANADA keep create more UNBELIEVABLE RIDICULOUS STUPID LAWS SYSTEMS TO PROTECT & SUPPORT DRUGS, DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, THUGS & ROBBERY/THRIVES & CRIMINALS!!
I believe in 10-20y later US, CAN WILL BE FLOODING BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES, DRUGGIES HOMELESS, ROBBERY & THRIVES STEALING LOOTING, THUGS & CRIMINALS!!
Teenage running like wild animal, no behavior & bad habits & shitty manner.
BECAUSE THEY GET FEED BY ALL VIOLENT STUFF & BRAINWASHED STUFF EVERYDAY IN SHOOLS, MEDUA NEWS & BY LOOKING AT THIS COMMUNITY!!
Teenage & Youngful adults will see these druggies zombies & druggies thugs is COOLS & THEY DONT FK NEED FOLLOW RULES/LAWS TO TAKE REPONSIBLITY, WHILE DRUG IS AVAILABLE & CHEAP TO BUY ANYWHERE, ANYTIMES!! Why not get high & buy drugs to use.
US, CAN & alots WESTERN COUNTRY WILL BE FLOOD BY DRUGGIES ZOMBIES IF THEYRE NOT CHANGING FIX LAWS BOLD HARD LAWS ON DRUGS. And stop give druggies zombies & thugs free shit. THROWING THEM INTO REHAB CENTER BY FK FORCE WITH MEDICAL CARE FOR 6month to 1y, 2 or 3y if it need FORCE THEN STOP USE DRUGS & CLEAN.
Act bold & harshly is the FK ONLY SOLUTION TO HELP, NOT BY TALK SOFTLY & TALK GENTLY.
reap what you sow, keep voting blue
I'm from Santa Cruz. me and friends would party I all the poppin' bars in the late 90s thru 00s. also hit up all the cool restaurants in the area as well. totally shocked that downtown is now a ghost town.
@@BoatLoad-o5zred ain’t much better buddy.The entire government is corrupt
I see that... really a shame they left these loser neighborhoods to spread blight else😢
I was born and raised here. Most of the people I know , including myself , moved away because no one can afford to live there, let alone shop or run a business here anymore. CA is not business friendly.
Newsome, Pelosi, Maxine Waters are All Rich as Hell though.
Insider trading?😮
@@richardpiva3892 No they just do what the private equity corporations tell them to do.
Money doesn’t buy much in Hell though. What good will it do them, besides the short time they’re here on earth?
How right you are
Mitch and Donald are also rich from bleeding morons . what was your point ?
I used to walk around these areas as an SJSU student, back before covid from 2016 to 2018. It used to be so lively, it was my first time actually exploring the city. I can't believe how much it has changed.
2016-2018 we had leadership in Washington that understood business and economics. Now our president doesn't even know what day it is. Totally incompetent..
So do you think Trump did anything? Lol iether democrat or republicans its all going to sht.
Great job Gavin. Mission accomplished
This is a terrific video even though it breaks my heart to watch it.
I live in Silicon Valley and no longer go into downtown San Jose.
I used to go to San Jose Opera but am no longer willing.
Do not want my car's catalytic converter stolen while watching an opera.
Do not want to be mugged while walking around downtown.
Thank you ACLU. Thank you George Soros. Thank you Mark Rosenbaum. Thank you US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Thank you Gavin Newsom. Thank you Jerry Brown. Thank you San Jose Mercury News. Thank you Joe Biden. Thank you Kamala Harris.
Thank you Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren and Cindy Chavez and Jeff Rosen.
And a special thanks to the leftist voters who put many of the above into office to wreak havoc on San Jose and the rest of California.
I notice you didn't dare mention Reaganomics , as a contributing factor . seems biased .
I moved out to silicon valley mid-pandemic. Covfefe 19 really accelerated the death of these places. It looks like they were dying pre-covid. The cities were ghost towns in 2020-2022. SF has a hustle and bustle back again, but definitely not the same as it used to be. I can't wait to leave.
This is hardly a Reagan issue. He hasn’t been president for over 30 years!
You had to go back 40 years to find something to blame on the Republicans. You have proven that the Republicans can't do doodly-squat in California. The Democrats rule the state and this is the mess they have created. It is on them.
The progressive liberals in the Silicon Valley don’t want to hear your points about all the failed leaders, now they moved on to climate change and mandates, which will ultimately deteriorate even more areas!
Thanks. My husband was born in San Jose. We would have liked it if you had called out the streets and cross-streets, to help with orientation. This one was shocking and difficult to watch, but we enjoy your videos greatly. Don't keep the homeless off-camera. Show the whole story.
I try to call out street names as much as possible and I did on the beginning. We started at Santa Clara and then I mention a few streets throughout the video . it’s hard to remember when you were walking with the camera keeping your head on a swivel trying to concentrate. and pay attention to the surroundings at the same time, but I will implement more street names on future videos. Thank you very much for the support ,take care and enjoy the videos.
@@LeoMetalTraveler You did a great job! Your camera picks up some of the streets you cross too.
I guess you were not paying attention, because I saw homeless people.
@@LeoMetalTraveler Her suggestions are valid. I know the area quite well and knew the streets. If you don't identify the actual streets the video becomes just one closed door after another....
@@LeoMetalTravelerPerhaps we should all walk with wooden canes so we can beat shoplifters to a pulp when they don't pay. It's our fault, our citizens are soft on the inside and outside. I think you are a kind person. Thank you for all your efforts! I lived at 370 Ellis in 1988😢 that was a lifetime ago. I'm now 60😮🤔
I lived in San Jose from the late 60's to late 70's. My parents lived there until about 5 years ago. I'm appalled and depressed by this. And now they want another shutdown? Don't tell me this is not planned.
My time also...at that time it was THE FASTEST GROWING CITY IN 🇺🇸.. I did VERY WELL in RE...and the Nightclub business....you put too much air in a balloon 🎈 and it will POP...ALL ABOUT $$$$ Greed!!!Happening to Vegas NOW..🙏☮️🇺🇸
spent my teens / early twenties in san jose back in the 90's . i wish i knew back then how downtown would have ended up . i would have appreciated it more . i went back just before the pandemic and i was heartbroken how sterile and expensive everything was . it's no wonder it's a ghost town now . hell , the dump i lived in was last sold for 1.5 million dollars . who the hell can afford a 11k a month mortage
Wow, thanks for sharing. What a real eye-opener.
A real-estate investment firm with a 0% loan from the Fed.
Bro my mortgage is $28k/month
@@codycast l don't even earn that much in a year!
@@helgabruin2261 I didn’t either when I was young
The nation that I grew up in is quickly crumbling.
Heartbreaking isn’t it?
it's ok....just keep listening to hip-hop.
@@sentryogmixmasteryes, blame a genre of music 😂 bc you don't know who to blame. we have no one to blame but ourselves. i can tell you're probably 13 years old, simply repeating what you've heard your parents say. life will teach you. good luck!!! 🍀
Shocking, what does the future holds for this city(and many others) and the country as a whole? Mind boggling! Total dysfunction and in terminal decy!😮
I grew up for 10 years in San Jose, before the family moved to the Pacific Northwest. While it is disgusting to see everything going this way, my folks knew it was going downhill in the early 90s when we left.
I heard that the Pacific Northwest is the same way especially Portland. Portland is having the same problems as CA especially similar to Oakland.
😔
hope everyone's doing well through the depression of the twenties and the recessions and hyperinflation & pandemics
@@lotanto6154 in most of downtown Portland, it is. Towns like Tualatin, Wilsonville, Lake Oswego, and West Linn are still nice. But I left for the SouthWest a few years ago, and only go back to visit.
Portland has always been bad, arguably in some cases, even worse than Oakland, with its clockwork May Day riots, black tar heroin epidemic, child trafficking and rampant pedophilia amongst the politicians who eventually become Oregon’s governors.
If it's going down the hill, why home values are going up?? How about those republican red states, some of the poorest in the nation. Mississippi is even worse than some of the 3rd world countries.
Used to live in SJ suburbs, CA back in the 90s & the downtown was still thriving then. A day/night world of difference in this video. A forlorn feeling with so many closed, boarded-up shop fronts & empty spaces for lease.
You can't being a dead person back to life. This country is now brain dead.
Most of what you see happened just in the last few years. Never underestimate the destructive force of stupid people who think they're right.
I know what you mean, but I’m not sure I’d say downtown SJ was ever exactly “thriving.”
Downtown San Bernardino, about 1,000 businesses at its peak. The only things open are the buses, the courthouse (they'll never stop taking your freedom or money) and a few odds and ends. The only mall is completely empty. About a 4 square mile center of the city is like a zombie apocalypse at night, completely with zombies and fires.. It's the largest city in the largest county in the United States, and it's practically shuttered.
According to the San Jose Downtown Association, as of May, there are more than 73 vacant storefronts. I worked for a tech startup in the late 90's and would have to walk several blocks from a parking garage to the office. There were (working) people everywhere, and the restaurants were bustling every day at lunch. This is all the result of poor leadership, made more acute by cowardly "leaders" (and unelected bureaucrats) who thought it would be wise to shutdown entire economies for a pandemic. The long term outcomes will be far more devastating than the virus. Life isn't about being alive; it is about living. It's amazing what happens when you combine fear with sheep.
I could not agree with you more! In fact, I believe the whole city was planned out wrong... Airport wise and what. They could have 50+ story buildings... A metropolis. Piss poor planning. A suburb of a shithole called San Francisco.
Not Cowardly leaders... Democrats ...Liberal Leftist Radical DEMOCRATS ...Intentional not cowardly
They are manufacturing another lockdown !
Why do you blame the LEADERS rather than the people who ELECTED them?
This has much deeper roots than just the plandemic
i used to go to downtown san jose as a kid and always saw bustling activity. people in suits, clean highways, people walking, and no homeless. i went there recently and one park was essentially just a campsite for bums. its crazy how bad it's gotten in just 10 years.
I lived, and worked, in San Jose for two years in the late seventies. It was a vibrant, growing and welcoming city. I have fond memories of my time there. It is sad to see this.
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. Truth hurts, but we all need to see what happens when you don’t take the right to vote seriously.
Voting is what gets you this kind of crap. Government does this.
@@Donb1233 or not caring to vote at all
I grew up here, and yes it’s so sad what has happened to our city. Lots of homeless too
It kills me to see my hometown falling apart.
San Jose was such a quiet big city, but it had life...
Even before Covid San Jose was struggling. I remember we were working in a building kind of high and at noon we didn't see anyone walking around for a few blocks. It looked like zombie land. Only the Peninsula doesn't look like SF and SJ.
Thank you for sharing. Yes it felt very strange when I walked a few blocks and there was nobody around in the middle of the day on a week day.
@@LeoMetalTraveler Unfortunately that has always been their problem. Their mayor had always trying to do something. Personally I would rather hangout in SJ than SF, easier parking, less crime. I like where they have the restaurants and live music area. The nice thing about having a car in the Peninsula, you get to go to all the cities that seems 10-15 mins away and less crime.
Definitely, San Jose is doing better than San Francisco
@LeoMetalTraveler San Jose was bad shape before covid so this doesn't surprise me at all at the state that it in.
Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom were before Covid 19. The infection was already running amok. Under Reagan and Wilson, California was the Golden State. It's amazing that democrats can turn Gold into rust. That should be impossible, but they did it.
I lived in Milpitas for over 20 years and moved out of California 2 years ago before things in the Bay Area turned ugly.
San Jose used to be awesome and to see it now breaks my heart.
And yet the media shows NOTHING about the plight of the Bay Area.
A heartfelt thank you for exposing the TRUTH of what’s actually going on
I live in San Jose and I was not aware that everything was closed although I have to admit that I stay far away from the downtown area!
You know how there's rumors that developers wanted the prized land in Maui, and they knew that the people would not sell, so they needed a Event to change their mind. So now we see something similar on a larger scale in SF Bay, downtown gutted by crimes & one can't help but wonder if there's a organized engineered effort to drive property values way down and then some developers will buy it for cheap. I would not be shocked if some whistleblower came forward from a architecture office with actual proof of building plans of areas like Maui & SF, where they knew ahead of time what to build & where. Some say it is WEF doing their 15 minutes Smart Cities which are a nice way of saying concentration camp.
Maui I agree with but I'm not sure your other point does.
Buy it for cheap to do what with it?
Joos behind the curtains..
Well they can't set the whole Bay Area on fire, that would be too suspicious. So they do that thing in Robocop, flood the area with crime and drugs, the people that can afford to just move out, and the politicians are in on it, getting kickbacks as the city rots. Then the developers buy it for cheap, flip it, and make a huge profit! You see lots of videos of lootings in SF, and the politicians aren't really serious about stopping it for the last few years. This is no accident.@@twasbrillig33
Tear down and gentrify it for money.@@nadinekonig5622
I worked in San Jose up till 2001......This is a staggering decline........this area was thriving when I was there......What a disaster
Most cities across the country have been, or are being, systematically destroyed. It’s being done by design.
They are using the homeless/drug addicts to devalue the neighborhoods and then buy the realestate cheap.
Only cities run by Democrats .... they are intentionally destroying their inner cities ... Defund their Police and Black Liver Matter...Liberalism and Sorros District attorneys letting criminals go and no bail policies ...only in democrat run cities not Republican red state and red cities...
D E M O C R A T S
It's global. By design. Look what's going on in Europe. In Canada. In Australia.
No you need to check the stats again….only the democrat run cities look like a literal zhombie movie….😂 you know the cities full of effeminate white men defunding the cops that keeps the angry black alpha AFRICAN American men from robbing there stores….😂😂😂😂😂 PLEASE keep voting democrat. And you willlllll!!!!…😂😂
Really hard not to tear up when you see stuff like this for America man🇺🇸
Liberal states are not America. They are a Marxist disease whose cure is not at the ballot box because ballots leave surviving Leftists.
I had a great child hood growing up in the 90's in San Jose. Skateboarding the streets, taking the bus everywhere. Sneaking into raging waters. Its trash now. Been trash.
I left in 1994, and I am Soooo glad I did! Born and Raised in the San Jose Bay area, lived in down town and was there during its hayday! I knew this was going to happen..... it was just a matter of time.....
Tis is the heart of Silicon Valley people. I am very familiar with this entire area. Born and raised here. It's sad to see how our society has evolved. We moved 10 years ago and feel lucky to have gotten out.....
Thank you for sharing!
Progressives are regressive in real time.... IDK why the leftist cant see that...
Did you move to a Red state or City or into another Democrat Shit hole
More like devolved.
I often think that this may have been what Rome looked like around 470 A.D., right before the final collapse and the barbarian conquest.
Hey man thanks for making these videos. I lived in SF for 2 years back when I was a teen in the late 90s and have visited every now and then. It's so sad to see what's happened to what was once a wonderful city.
Thanks for sharing, I’m currently working on more videos!
Wow! Thank you for your informative videos. I have been to San Francisco and San Jose and I am just in shock at what they look like today. ❤
Thank you for the your support. I will be uploading more videos soon.
At least they Have alot of butterflies painted on the buildings. That helps.
Very true, a good friend of mines, departed San Jose for Spring, Texas. In Texas, it is too hot for homeless encampments in the streets. And, Texas is a no nonsense State, tougher on crime, lower taxes and gasoline prices.
It's fascinating seeing what has become of these cities. I still remember when there was lots of orchards in San Jose and Frontier Village amusement park.
We sat in the cherry trees and ate till we were sick. 1970's. A buck to go to the dump in the mud flats, Dirt bikes on fire trails all the way to the coast! WOW, 50 years ago.
Thanks for sharing!
Exactly! My late husband used to say that there were a lot of orchards in San Jose as well as Frontier Village Amusement park.
🎼🎵Frontier Village, that's where the action is. The fastest fun in the west.... For thrills and excitement, for things to do, you'll find everything from A to Zoo at Fronnnnn tieeeeeer Village, the fastest FUN in the west. 🎶🎼
Frontier Village. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.
I remember going there during their last summer. Fun times, but we had Great America now, but that's closing now too.
“it says coming soon.. we’ll see about that” 😂😂😂
as a former NorCal resident and a lover of San Jose, this saddens me deeply :/
"Coming soon;good luck with that"🤣
That should be my next video title 😁
Hahaha
This is crazy. I remember San Jose being absolutely beautiful
I lived in san jose in 2015/16 downtown was always popping i went back to downtown earlier this year in april cus i was working out there that place was dead af on a friday and saturday. It was crazy how the city changed
Thank you for sharing !
Even 10 years ago when I moved to the bay area SJ downtown was pretty rough - only really busy in the evenings around the bars, but during the daytime even then it was a bit of a ghost town apart from the druggies around the park near the center and foot traffic heading for the tech museum or conference center - never felt safe to park there either. Campbell, Willow Glen or Los Gatos are nicer places to hang out. Google was supposed to be doing some major investment with offices in the downtown - not sure what happened to those plans.
Sad, more visible signs of a collapsing society
What an eye opener. I live in San Jose but was unaware of the downtown situation. There's an area that spans many blocks, near the airport, where there are a ton of RVs, tents, and broken down cars. Before, many would camp along Coyote Creek, and saw many people living in their cars.
You know your city is finished when Graffiti artists have abandoned the city as well
Wow, San Jose is beginning to follow the way of San Francisco
What most people do not realize is that . San Jose is the third largest city in California by population.
I was born and raised in San Jose I left in 79 so sad to see what the democrats have done to California
Now I live in an area that doesn’t tolerate criminals and life is pretty safe
Another crybaby blaming democrats 😂😂😂
someday cupcake you'll wise up to see and understand reality... @@mannyboyaztlan5127
another democrat/liberal denying the facts @@mannyboyaztlan5127 🤣🤣🤣
Our country is brainwashed... Its Politicians not just one side , with due respect, you are the problem.
yeah? go ahead and hang out there with nothing but the ruins of DEMOCRATS@@mannyboyaztlan5127
They 6:27 paint flowers on the buildings to make people not notice the vacancy
It breaks my heart to see the city like this! I used to live on E. San Salvador in the 70s, every weekend I had a stand at the flea market on Berryessa Rd.
SJ was a vivid community back then. At least I have my memories ... It's such a tragedy!
Thank you for these videos, Leo. You are doing an important public service. Hopefully people who are considering moving to San Francisco or San Jose can see the truth of your videos and avoid being taken in by false information about life in northern California.
The first major city I went to on my first own vacation (aka solo and not family oriented) was San Jose. I remembered how nice and comfortable it was to go into the downtown area either on foot or even on an escooter (also same vacation where I visited SF for the 2nd time in my life, first time on my own and had a blast visiting all over). This was back in 2018. Now, on a recent drive by during early evening hours on the way to national forests a month or two ago, SF was a dead town. Streets were somewhat busy with commuters but noticeable dip in activity and opened stores, and large pockets of homeless. Seeing San Jose like this - it's not too long ago but it is night and day compared between 2018 and now.
Exactly. It was still OK back in 2018 it’s just in the last four years that things turned downhill.
@@LeoMetalTraveler Chase is closing bank branches across the US, and several big construction projects are planned in downtown San Jose. Check the city website.
i live in the south only been up north 1 when it was still good coming to see super car show while visit my lil bro lived up north with his lad in SJ, look like i ain't coming up north to visit that place anytime soon, since it look like SF, LA, SD street look like gosh town who know which idiot homeless gona jack money or car while walk in street, could get mug, machete, hatches, or just with side arm, just a few year during covid with wrong leadership that place turn down that quick kinda sad for them, the end for big tech soon if there no lower tier support business for tech working who still remain up north soon since all the nice perk at fine dine out at nice restaurant and shop at brand name fashion mall come to end?
Looks just like my hometown San Francisco's downtown... very sad! I envy all those who took up and moved!
I grew up there. I left SJ 16 years ago. Shocking to say the least. Still got ton of people that I know that still there. It seems strange that I can't talk to them anymore. It's like people been in jail too long and something is not right up there. What's the world coming to.....
They all working their asses off to pay the expensive housing there. ain’t nobody got time for you, homie
Shops should be honest, sign should say "Coming Never"
I been walking those streets for years. Still to this day. The way it is today is unimaginable! Downtown SJ in the early 2000s was better than being in Hollywood.
"Do you know the way to San Jose?" Question no one has asked since the 60's.
Isn’t it wonderful to know that the government we elected are doing a real bang up job!!!! Way to go Nancy’s Nephew!!!👍 you wanted mierta, you got mierta…..
This started long before that.
Isn’t it wonderful and small minded people find a way to blame Nancy Pelosi for everything that's wrong in the world with the least bit of understanding of the facts or how the economy works? I hope you are charging Nancy a lot, cus it sounds like she lives rent free in your head.
Go Blue! yeah right
@@ulexite-tvBut everyone there are woke and highly progressive, why does it look like a third world country! 😮😮😮
@@ulexite-tv
Well, how long have Nancy and her merry band of Democrat fools been in charge of California and most of these cities?
What have the Democrats done to improve the lives of the TAX PAYERS and the TAX PAYING BUSINESSES in these cities.
Line up all the Democrats that have been in power in California for the last 50 years for a huge photograph.
That there is the picture of the problem!
That's what happens when compassion turns toxic. It becomes enabling. All I can say is, "TOLDJA SO!" 😂
You are clueless as to how economic forces work. Keep your day job.
@@craighunt5426 Sure, when a republican like G.W. Bush is in office and the economy goes sour under his watch, it's Bush's fault. When it goes bad under democrat Joe Biden it's "You are clueless as to how economic forces work.". From all those closed up stores it looks like a lot of people are having trouble "keeping their day job".
@@craighunt5426so this is your booming Biden economy! 😮😮😢😅😊
@@craighunt5426
No you're clueless how people finally say fuck this, screw you all and close the doors.
Criminal action/behavior is behind most of these stores closing for good.
And people like you just want to make excuses for the criminals.
Bla, bla, bla they just need more.....
No. This is the finality of it all.
You're all right. Dumbasses.
(Yes, dumba$s. Because you're all right yet still fighting on the same hill)
This is astonishingly bad. We left 17 years ago to move northeast a bit, and I have never regretted that decision. When you have (former) mayors like Gonzales, who spend two terms on a frenzied bender to over-populate every weird, forlorn corner of SJ, with hideous high rise stack & packs, but without paying any attention to the soul & infrastructure of the city they were charged with overseeing, this is what will transpire every single time. I still recall when they gutted the lower end of South First & Market streets many years ago, well before Gonzales' time, and every business there had to close for the re-dev and rail projects. And for what? Leo's video shows the entirely predictable results.
I grew up in San Jose, right off King Road near the PAL Stadium. It was clean, safe, had its share of different ethnicities back then. Mostly Mexican and Chinese / Vietnamese, but it was relatively safe and gang violence from SoCal had not really reached that far north. This was back in the early 80s. I can't imagine what level of dystopian hell it is now. Homeless and criminals everywhere, and somehow property values sky high. You really never can go back home. I live in Yucaipa now, but jesus christ any thought I ever had of returning to my roots have long evaporated.
SHAKEYS PIZZA, KINNEYS SHOES, PINK ELEPHANT, JUST LOVED THAT BIGSLIDE AT BERRESSA FLEA MARKET!!!!
Democrat ran cities are all like this..
Democrats: “Reeeeeeer! It’s capitalism!!!”
Republican states: “We let our police do their jobs, so we’re open.”
Democrats: “Racists!!”
Then why is house values are much higher in democratic cities , in comparison to thoe red republican states??? The democratic states also provide 73% GDP in U.S. States such as West virginia , Mississpi republican states are so poor, that some of them are worse than 3rd world countries. And keep in mind and make a note, that high taxes from Democratic states goes SUBSIDIZE those red poor republican states Without our help they can't sustain themselves. Go do your reseach and homework. And never spread disinformation. And best not to repeat things , just because it sounds good to you. Always provide facts. You obviously haven't done any research. And most likely depend on Fox news only.
It's disgusting what they have done and are doing to our country.
The homeless and crime in this area drove people out! Restaraunts still operating during weekday lunches and for take out only. Market Street still has an active restaurant food court. Santana Row and Valley Fair malls are thriving, OUTSIDE of downtown. Also, San Jose State University in downtown is a TOP IT university where you need a 5.0 to get into computer science program. It's a lot better than the 90s when there were shootings going on just south of SJSU. That said, crime drive out Safeway and Walgreens, but it will still cost you $1 million for a downtown condo with a hefty condo fee. There is a huge old Italian bank building that is a historical landmark and can't be economically upgraded to meet current standards, so it just sits. A Chinese company started a building project and abandoned it as did Google. Google says their "Google Village" is is on hold due to employees refusing to work in an office after convid
I lived in San Jose from 1959 until 1992. We used to shop at Woolworth, Penny’s and then the little head shops too on San Antonio. I wish you would have better named the streets you were on. We used to cruise First Street, just like in the movie American Graffiti. I believe you showed what used to be Original Joe’s, which was a dining institution in San Jose. This is heartbreaking to see. What have they done to San Jose? What have they done?
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I used to live off St James behind Gio’s Nursery.
I’ve thought (sometimes) I would like to move back, but never mind. They have let San Jose go to Hell.
Appreciate your sharing.
Thank you for sharing and thank you for your support I will implement more street names in future videos ,but in this video we started off on Santa Clara then we moved to First Street then second Street
old speggeti factory, orginal joes, ringling bros barnum baillys at sanjose autorium.there was a old comic shop near by, great memories.
This week my 80 year old pal of several decades moved to South Carolina from north county San Diego. So happy to leave nutty CA. If I could afford I would leave, although born in CA/
I retired to rural Georgia from South Florida
News Flash, they are even nuttier in South Carolina, just the other side of the coin.
sell your million dollar home and do it... I bought a heck on a nice old house in Missouri for 60,000 its air bnb now and booked 50 nights in 3 months..
I was born in Escondido and lived and worked in the LOs Angeles area. Moved to Texas in 2014. Doubt I will ever go back to even visit.
@@canamrider07you’re saying texas ain’t really a shithole?
You could interview the shop owners that are still there. Might be interesting to hear what happened...
we've all been experimented on way to long . thanks for the efforts to share this .
peace an blessings craig
Go easy on crime, more criminals. Rain is wet
Can thank Gavin NewScam for this
Hello Metal Leo. Oh no another ghost town. Where are all the zombies at.😮😮
They were all over the place, but kept them off camera, except for the two sleeping in front of the closed Chase Bank
There's a 100 million in California, they mostly come out at dark! 😮😮😮😮😮😊
Paradise in the 70's and 80's..................Glad I got out of California years ago
How sad! I spent many years in San Jose before this happened. It was once a beautiful thriving city.
Yes, I agree with you. My late husband used to live in San Jose during his childhood years. He used to say San Jose was a beautiful, thriving city with good schools.
Santa Clara county, where San Jose is located, had some of the most severe and long-lasting lockdown protocols in the state. It seemed like every time the rest of California relaxed a given restriction, there was our county, holding on to it. The effect on people’s livelihoods was devastating. Always we were told this was “out of an abundance of caution.” Someone should’ve reminded our chief health officer, Sara Cody, that although caution can be bought, the price is not zero. All this destruction for a failed attempt to suppress a mild disease.
1 Million people is not a mild disease. In fact people are still dying but it longer gets reported on because the vaccines have curbed the effects to a manageable level. I guess you didn’t lose anyone close to you like my friends did but maybe next time, eh?
I hear you, and all this is sad. What happened to the courts, the police, the jails, the rehabs and mental institutions? But... Covid killed over one million Americans. It wasn't mild.
It's not over, covid was just an experiment created by the communist there will be more health threats one of the reasons they want to destroy our economy, devalue our currency and nullify our social security which the Biden administration has already spent on themselves
She should be arrested along with the mayor who violated basic civil and Constitutional rights during the pandemic.
@@Cerez78 Your civil rights…LOL. Entitled much?
Wow, thanks for the tour, sad cities...
Thank you for doing downtown San Jose. It's always been sort of a dog, except down by San Pedro, the 88 apartments, etc., but mostly a dog. It is SHOCKING that even down there where it used to bustle, every shop was full, it is empty. All of the courts are down farther on St. James etc. and those shops you were showing us were always busy, always. San Jose all of the zip codes are arguably some of the most affluent in the United States and even Santana Row on Winchester has empty stores. Thanks for showing us, great job! : o)
Thank you for the support ,everyone in the comments from the previous video was recommending to go to San Jose. That’s why I had to take the trip and they were right about the closed stores.
looks like the apocalypse. I had a dream that our small town in Oklahoma looked like this too. might be coming everywhere soon.
I hope not
I was in downtown San Jose in 2004/2005, it looked nothing like this...sad.
Graduated from SJSU 10 years ago. Before it was booming with restaurants, beer pubs, night clubs (night life). Now it's dead. Thanks for the Vid Leo. ❤
Thank you for sharing! I remember it wasn’t that bad 10 years ago I went to a lot of live shows in the downtown area
There was always someone that would lease an empty store and I would think they were crazy. And that was when business was good. Now, I don’t think anyone will ever lease those store fronts. There’s only so long the banks can hide loans they are not being paid on. I’m not sure how bad things will get but it is not looking good. Great job on the video, I wouldn’t walk around that place.
It was really sketchy !
This city is done.
I was looking on Yelp and it looks like the San Jose Downtown Food Hall is open but not very good. I worked in downtown off an on over the decades since the 90s. Some years were better. But it's definitely worse now thanks to crime and poor governance. I think Zanotto's was in the place next to the Improv with the butterflies. I kept waiting for you to go past the Walgreens that surprisingly is still open. But it's pretty funky.
Seattle is looking the same
In about 1972, I would walk two or three times a week from the train station in SJ to the University there... through the downtown area. I do not now actually recall the story of what caused it, but the downtown then had the same sort of bombed-out look as in this video. It later became very much revitalized, thanks to the Silicon-Valley element.
Thank you for sharing with us part of the story we didn’t know about
I saw a light-rail train go by in the very first part of your video, on a cross street in the distance. Years after my forays into San Jose in the 1970s, I became the noise and air quality consultant for that light rail line's construction. In the course of that work I had to walk the alignment, downtown and eastward for some distance I had to go into certain stores and businesses because from the street I could see that some of them had little residential units built in, as on the second story. It's an old-school form of urban design that municipal planners periodically try to bring back. That is, I had to go in to talk to the owners to confirm that what I thought was a residential unit actually was one... because I would have to deal with that in my report of noise impacts. It was so delightful to meet those people. They had vibrant, upbeat spirits. And they came from every type of background.@@LeoMetalTraveler
Dionne Warwick will be shocked to see this.