Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer
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Germany does that on a nationwide level.
Europe does that on a continental level.
@@sheteeh8922 Geography does that on a planetary level.
@@BadDayLp Until you get to east asia.
@@BadDayLp Space does that on a galactic level... wait
@@BadDayLp no
This joke density is getting seriously astronomical
Peak Joke better not be occuring soon.
it's as thicc as a *🅱️ R I C K*
I thought of a long-winded response to this, but decided against it.
if only one third of them was actually funny. good thing hes having fun tho.
@@TheKurtkapan34 yeah, I wish HAI would tone it down with the jokes. The amount of them makes it difficult to watch the video at times. The dude is having fun though so I'm happy for him.
In Phoenix, Arizona (a city that came up after the industrial revolution) the eastern suburbs are more desirable than the western suburbs? Why? Because the commuters from the western suburbs have the sun in their eyes both as they're driving east into the city in the morning and back home west in the evening.
I went in to this wondering the same thing. I was assuming it had something to do with the freight trains going up and down Grand Ave, but that makes a lot of sense.
Exactly the example I was going to mention when I saw this video in my recommendations, and exactly the explanation I was going to give. Or are you actually future me who went back in time to post this?
I live in Phoenix, and honestly I never thought of that. But I guess it's true.
they make sunglasses hmmmm
I'm trying to understand you're logic here. Are you implying that Phoenix is the ONLY city in the world where the sun rises in the east and sets in the west?
“... exposed brick loving hipsters.” Finally, a brick reference so I can add this video to my Bricks playlist.
Brick king
Wait I thought it was only a joke, it's real
@@angh3094 The historical root of the Great Brick Movement.
@@angh3094 shit, I also checked it out...
@Brooke King, you're a shady, weird kind. I can't see how that is to any use, but I love you! 😂
What does a tiny angry screaming frog have to do with bricks?
he spent 6 minutes to say “because pollution blows to the east”
Only 4 minutes. After that, he talked about gentrification.
And how much of that was dumb jokes
*in a certain section of the Northern Hemisphere. It just so happens that it contains most of (if not all of) the USA and Europe. I guess the rest of the 6 minutes was Half As Interesting ( 🤣 ) as the main point
@@redapol5678 it also contains whole of china and japan, and a good portion of india. What is that like 80% of worlds population? lol
@@qwerty_and_azerty yeah which has nothing to do with the topic. He seems to think that racism is more popular in the us than in countries like South Africa, China, Myanmar, Mexico. Pretty absurd if you ask me. I’m tired of all this race baiting nonsense, systemic racism is over in the US, get over it, I’m sure you guys wish it weren’t so, so you would have something to complain about
I feel like writing all of the jokes for this probably took longer than the actual research about the topic.
How'd you feel about new zealand's flag petition? I'd quite like it because *the British Empire was fricking chaos*
Sorta spoiled it for me
@@mjzudba801 as an Irishman Im all for former colonies especially those of the British variety removing union jacks and all other ties to them
@@mjzudba801 also the silver fern flag is pretty sick lol
I’m kind of getting sick of all of these jokes tbh :-/ I love the channel and its content but there’re just too much of them and the whole video just doesn’t sound serious at all...
I’m going to school for meteorology so I will now be referring to myself as not a gynecologist or whatever.
Make sure your math skills are updated
I live in Glasgow, Glasgow University used to be in the East End, and then got moved to the West End. Now the West End is prosperous, where all the nice restaurants and most of the expensive houses are. The East End, however, compared to the rest of Glasgow, is very run down, and most violent crime/murders in Glasgow takes place in this area of the city.
“He was busy getting rich writing about how poor he was”
Country music artists: 👀
I bet you Sam is getting rich joking about this stuff.
And rappers are the opposite of this.
N👁🗨rmie
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@@hassebrasse7210 XD this is so true
"Radical environmentalist Richard Nixon" is not something you hear everyday
Well he was one
Almost as if it is a bi partisan issue.
@@swiftdragonrider It was until Trump started saying it was fake, even then all you need to do is look up the copious amounts of data.
You want to hear something crazier. Nixon actually wanted to sign legislation giving Americans UBI, Universal basic income, but couldn't because Democrats didn't go along.
@@Roderickdl he also set up the EPA
This is fascinating, because the cities I have the most experience with, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland, are all the other way around. So all my life I've just assumed the opposite, that the west side of a city tends to be the poorer one. I thought it might have been to do with having the Sun in your eyes driving to and from work in the city centre if you live in the west.
That's because the video mentions wind patterns in the northern hemisphere,
On the east coast of Australia, living is more expensive to the east because it's closer to the beach.
@@TroyKnox isn't everything the opposite south of the equator?? you toilet water spins counter-clockwise??? that fits.
In Sydney, the coastal areas are to the east, which is more desirable.
@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki This myth has been debunked way too many times by now. The vortex spin direction has nothing to do with the location
Places near natural harbours are always the most developed and costlier. They always have big ports and are international trade hubs. They often fall to the west side of the land due to wind I suppose. I've always found natural harbours as the ultimate reason coastal cities are always most populous, followed by cities next to major rivers. More trade = more wealth
I have literally ALWAYS wondered about this. Here in Coeur d’Alene ID which is a small town, we have this area called “East Sherman”, Sherman being the name of the Main Street coming out of downtown and it’s traditionally been a pretty rundown area which is odd because just blocks to the west, it’s much more affluent and very touristy in the historic section.
How to flex during the industrial revolution: "I live in the west of my city"
England is my city
@@SpunkyGo0se London is my state
How to meta-flex: "I live in the east of my city, the part that will be gentrified in a 100 years from now, which I know due to my use of a home-made time machine - just a hobby of mine."
@@sherwingonsalves8821 Ireland is my county
Hold up
AKA brag
I just realized that by "two cities" Dickens was referring to social class and not two physically separate cities.
Your 9th grade english teacher failed you (or maybe you failed her, I'm not an expert on your life, just an expert on necromancy)
@@arthas640 Wait wha-
@@arthas640 not in ninth grade and the usa
The Tale of Two Cities were both about 2 cities and social class struggles , it was ultimately one of the best love stories esp the end . Always reminds me of the end of Casablanca when Rick lets Elsa get on the plane. Sorry I have always been a hopeless romantic.
It was about both. He definitely highlighted the differences between London and Paris in the late eighteenth century.
I hated reading a tale of 2 cities in grade 10, you sent me back on a ptsd trip.
This ended up happening much more recently in Pocatello, Idaho. An investor was looking to build a fertilizer plant (good business in a heavily agricultural state) and thought he would benefit from the large worker base and nearby university in getting it staffed. The city of Pocatello wasn't willing to let them build nearby since they didn't want the smell and environmental impact despite the potential financial benefits. Pocatello is actually quite close to the county line on the west side and the neighboring county did reach an agreement with the fertilizer company. The plant was built right on the county line but still less than a mile from Pocatello, and upwind. Pocatello still got the smell and environmental impact but thier neighbors to the west get to collect the taxes.
"why living on the west side of a time zone will kill you" "Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer" well i guess theres no winning then
You need to find a city split by a timezone
live in the middle
@@re57k I was going to say live on the north side but that works too.
@@seanclark5613 living in the south side works too!
No, the takeaway is clearly to live in the west end of the eastern most city in a timezone.
Short answer:
Lots of factories in the west. Smog blows east, east gets smog and is poorer.
technically the factories where in the middle and rich people moved west of the factories, while poor people stayed near the factories or drifted east as the housing was cheaper
@@yussefthe3rd So lots of factories in the middle while the rich stayed west and the poor stayed east
This summary would get a fail on a comprehension aptitude test and rightfully so
@@arcaneminded let me try again,
Factory smog goes east, rich go west, east side remains poor.
my city is literally the complete oposite of this video
This was really informative. Coming from a Caribbean Island I completely got this wrong. Our prevailing winds are North-Easterly so I thought the explanation would be that the sun sets in the west and rich people like to see a nice sunset. Couple that with the Caribbean Sea side of the islands being far calmer than the Atlantic Ocean and it makes sense why most high value properties are on the West Coast in the Lesser Antillies.
"A lot has changed since the industrial revolution [citation needed]"
oh god, too good
He really hit us with more jokes than I’ve heard in my entire day within just 2 mins of this video
It's true. East Austin has now been taken over by hipsters.
And Mexicans lol
I am still one of the working class non-hipsters who live in Toronto east end.
@@ARTiculations ok boomer
@@jgp7414 I prefer to identify as Greatest Generation 1900s-1920s.
Hello fellow austinite. Shame on the hipsters for making East Austin safer and less crime ridden, right ?
This is wild actually, now that I think of it this has been true in every city I've lived in
Yeah as soon as someone points it out, its crazy how easy this is to observe
In cities based on the Feng Shui idea of Japan, the northeastern part is called a demon gate, and development is delayed and land prices are cheaper, so in modern times it is often a factory area.
china. specifically tang chang'an.
Feng shui is literally Chinese...
For cities on east coasts it’s generally the opposite. East side-rich, west side-poor. For coastal cities, the rule is generally, coastal areas-rich, inland-poor, and is greater factor than east-west
Around here, the beach areas are rich, then it gets poor once you get 2-4 miles inland, then richer as you go further west. Generally, the further west you go out of the city the more recently the suburb was built.
Your explanation is far more plausible. I have been to over 30 countries and I'm thinking hard about all the cities I've been to. I don't see any obvious wind-related trend. If anything, what you said is correct. The rich have bought up real estate by the seaside with an ocean view, while inland areas tend to be poorer.
@Tyler Haraf Chicago's divide is more north-rich, south-poor. Same in Atlanta. The video mentioned Paris, but it's more north-poor than east-poor. In cities like Sydney and Auckland, it's the west side that are working class. The video's thesis sounds pretty flimsy to me. And we haven't even talked about new cities that have sprung up in Asia where most of the world lives - especially in China and India. While I don't know about economics within cities in China, the geoeconomic trend there is that the coast (east) is rich while the inland part (west) is poor, exactly the opposite to Europe because it's only the other side of the Eurasian landmass. I think Thomas Grabkowski's explanation is far more plausible.
Cities are overrated anyway.
In New York, the east and west sides are generally where the projects are kinda pushed off closer to the the East River and the Hudson River in the west. In the middle is a higher socio-economic class. My guess is they they want the PJs outta site from tourists and richer residents
I want an excuse to drop "radical environmentalists like Richard Nixon" into conversation now.
Don't forget supporter of UBI.
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear jonas
@@AxxLAfriku I know the answer
@@AxxLAfriku Hello there; it’s been a while
OSHA was also introduced during his presidency. don’t forget workplace safety
literally the opposite in Melbourne, Australia. The east easily has the majority of the wealthy in the city.
Pretty sure it is the same situation in Sydney too.
In Perth the west is wealthier. It more about where the coasts are.
In my home city Santiago (capital of Chile) is also the case. The north eastern part of the city is wealthier. Although is further away from the coast so I don't know why is that way.
@@victornoel36 most certainly because it's physically higher. Pollution goes downward, and ports aren't precisely the cleanest of areas.
I feel this video applies mostly to plains. Here in Buenos Aires the wealthier regions are in the northwest. Although the metropolitan area is way too big and the western side is the poorest.
everything south of the equator is the opposite???!!!!
@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki no, when you go south enough you get westerlies again. Maybe Australia is too much to the north to get them.
Here in Vietnam, it's the western (often older) part of the city that is poor and the eastern (often newer) part is where higher networth people live.
This is true because our country has mostly eastern coast.
Edit: Same is also true for Australia where most of population live on the eastern coast.
I think that might also be because you are on the southern hemisphere. On the southern hemisphere, the wind travels from east to west, contrary to the northern hemisphere where it's west to east.
To to generally put, location of wealthier cities are still determined by wind direction.
@@isiah180 vietnam isnt on the southern hemisphere tho
@@spielholle ooof. Good catch. Nvm what I said hahah
In Australia, the west is poorer, and we usually call worse off bogans “Westies”
But Australia is upside down, so the theory holds up.
@@PaidAMaluCachu That’s actually more correct than you think
@@Miku-uw2sl I accidently did a big brain? Noice.
wait what about Perth and Adelaide
not in Perth mate
The amount of puns and dad jokes in this video is overwhelming
I’ve heard my lifetime supply of dad jokes now, so I’m all set. Thanks!
Notably, Cincinnati Ohio, a heavily industrialized city, has the opposite. Much of the heavy industry was located west of downtown due to better spots for ports along the Ohio River and one of the Midwest’s largest train hubs, Union Terminal. The east side had more breweries and other industries that didn’t cause heavy pollution. Due to the unique geography of the Ohio River Valley, the smog would simply sit over the west side, so the hills in the east were attractive to the upper class. After the construction of streetcars and inclines made the hills around Cincinnati more accessible middle class families did end up moving into these richer neighborhoods
I thought Dickens wrote: "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"
You’re correct
I thought it was the German version: "It was the best of times, it was the Bratwurst of times."
It went down a storm on first publication.
Didn't Stephen J fry from fututama say it as well?
Ah, the greatest novel known to man
Chicago’s east side would like a word, most importantly about the fact it doesn’t exist
... it’s called Detroit.
there are hundreds if not thousands of cities that don't have an east side
Tri-state area
Does Gary Indiana count?
how can there not be an eastern part of chicago?!
the humour in these vids is so dense and top notch it's incredible that they are also informative
Can confirm. I’m surrounded by abandoned houses and my rental is rotting (landlord hid it all with paint).
Oh, look, Pittsburgh. That’s where I am too. I do love this place, just not my street.
The east side is the poorest!
Me: *Laughs in Chicago*
I feel like in America it’s more the south side of the city.
@@willythough south and east side, st louis, Detroit, New York, memphis, new Orleans are neat examples
@@bobabola1386 East Memphis and east suburbs of Memphis are where most of the money is. South Memphis, not so much.
@@Martinsspiegel I aint from Tennessee so I dont really know much about Memphis my bad
@@bobabola1386 south stl is the affluent part of the city (if you dont include the county)
Jesus this video is just packed with jokes, like twice the normal amount lol
HAI made a video about color and language that could easily have been 2 minutes long but he crammed it with shitty jokes.
@@TheSecondVersion I absolutely love it
Not a single one about East LA, he didn't take the easy way out for sure.
th-cam.com/video/sFUFw1GH6ic/w-d-xo.html
Yeah he laid it on a little thick.
@@bennfisherr6317 Wait... laying things... And they're thick... Bricks! I knew it, he's laying bricks!
Love the humor and the knowledge!!
Lol I love your comedy sprinkled into these videos
Except for Östermalm (East city borough) in Stockholm, haha.
Was going to mention that. In Stockholm, the eastern boroughs were historically more wealthy, while the south (Södermalm) is the rough working class neighborhood that turned into a haven for IPA-drinking and latte-sipping hipsters.
In my home town of Uppsala, the east-west divide is clear even to this day, with clergy, royalty, and academia residing west of the central river, and the working class and industry on the east side.
Bern East is also richer than Bern West. Until roughly 15 years ago, Bern West was known for being the poor part of the city.
was not expecting to see you here out of all places
Yeah, there are a lot of exceptions, usually dictated by local geography. East Chicago and Salt Lake City are both richer than the west sides as well.
You doing alright bud?
"Where's that chuckling coming from?"
"East Grand Rapids."
is east rlly any poorer than wyoming?
didn’t expect to see my suburb here lmao
Heeyyyy!
how do you do, fellow grand rapidseans!
@@statesam999 go green ;)
I love the little quips it makes the video so much better
“West End Town a dead end world, East End Boys and West End Girls” only people who listen to 80s music will get the reference
Pet shop boys =)
Go West
PSB's!!!!
Or play GTA
I love jokes where the joke is the joke isn't funny.
The jokes are funny, especially the Georgia one.
Antijokes?
well then this is the channel for you
Weedeater
In Australia it’s the opposite. The richest suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide are all in the east. (Perth is in the west, Canberra and Hobart the south.)
And Darwin doesn’t matter 🤣
(Just a joke. Don’t read too much into my comment)
The evidence provided in this video is pretty flimsy. If anything, wealth tends to be more concentrated on the coast because rich people buy up real estate with ocean view, while the poor tend to live inland.
@@cclover6315 if anything, it’s completely dependent on the particular circumstances of the country, culture, city etc, which was also alluded to in the video
Even here in America, its often opposite. This video sucks.
@@GUITARTIME2024 the video is talking about specific trends in a certain part of the world. It explicitly says it doesn’t apply to everywhere in the world. On what basis does the video suck? For noting a general trend that isn’t always true and being honest about it?
Cool to see Pgh recognized on a prolific TH-cam channel. He's right. I live in Pittsburgh. I grew up in the north (very wealthy now) but it was a late bloomer in terms of when the north hills boomed (after Pittsburgh's Renaissance when the mills moved out and medical and tech moved in) I recently moved east of the city into the suburbs. The property values are much cheaper out here. I can afford a 2 story 3 bedroom 2 car house alone with a fenced in yard.
If I venture into the eastern more urbanized areas of Lawrenceville all you see is gentrified industrial buildings turned into hipster havens. Coffee shops, trendy bars, artesian shops. Its kind of cool, but the property values there have sky rocketed and I can't afford a fixer upper.
Your humour is utterly brilliant !! Oh, and there is a bit of info there as well.....Top channel , congrats !
"A lot has changed since the industrial revolution.[citation needed]"
Clever lol
Whether it has or hasn’t, how is any of that funny or clever?
@@TKUA11 The "[citation needed]" part. It's an obvious as hell thing to say, so it was a silly way of sarcastically saying "duh"
@@TKUA11 It's objectively funny. Don't argue.
@@mrosskne Exactly
"radical environmentalists like Richard Nixon"
lol he's right
coal plants violate the right to clean air. i wouldn't even consider it radical to destroy these facilities with aggressive force
@jade Idiocy like that is the reason our country is falling apart
@@kabar7929 using coal power in the 21st century is the reason our planet is falling apart
@Gilad Penn - Imagine a pre-Koch USA, in which the right worked from the same set of facts as everyone else, rather than demanding “alternative fact” all their own:
Eisenhower could warn against the military-industrial complex, Nixon could start an environmental agency and place price controls on food staples, mom-and-pop shops were everywhere, there were local department stores rather than big box chains, consolidation and hedge funds and mergers & acquisitions had not yet killed off all the local banks and all the local hospitals, cops generally weren’t given military equipment or told to treat their neighborhoods as hostile occupied territory, in areas such as civil rights where we lagged behind we were at least trying to progress and to improve things, we had robust civic participation in politics, and ample public spaces and public services… I got to experience part of that, and it was grand!
But beginning in the 1980s, the Charles Koch-ification of the USA and of the world, which in the ‘60s and ‘70s his “Donor Network” had begun preparing to set into motion, sprang into full effect… and now here we are. We can’t even convince the right to wear masks during a pandemic.
Believe me, it wasn’t always like it is now.
The best thing the USA could do now is to exile Charles Koch to Elba, break up Koch Industries and the Koch Donor Network, and give all that money back to humanity. Believe me, we once nearly lived in the future! Then Charles Koch dragged us all back into a horrible past…
I have been wondering about this East-West trend in US cities for a long time. Thanks for addressing this. In India, cities have a North-South trend, where the South is usually full of newer and wealthier neighborhoods.
Ahmedabad has an east west trend, with the west is significantly richer and more developed than the east.
In Ireland it's north-south as well. It's to do with the English of course.
The ones I’ve seen are north/south. Chicago and Dallas are the third and fourth largest metros in the US and both are poorer in the south.
Portland, Maine is a perfect representation of this. Munjoy hill (east end) used to be on of the cheapest and worst neighborhoods in the city and now the prices have quadrupled since 2014
this title implied lake michigan is the poorest part of chicago
O yea I forgot that all of Chicago is poor
well, the south side is where all of the hmm is, and that is the eastest part.
@@evanmurray6509 there's a ton of money in Chicago
@@evanmurray6509 Chicago and the suburbs has more wealth than anywhere else in the Midwest. (One of the wealthiest regions in the US, even accounting for the rust belt)
@@zkingsalsa nah it’s the southwest side south side especially Hyde park has some cash
I feel like this video was a "Try to use all the stock footage" challenge.
London has changed a bit though, now, pockets of poverty and wealth can be found everywhere due to gentrification. You can turn to one street corner and see some new expensive apartments and you can turn another corner and see a council estate. East London and West London have been heavily gentrified in the last 10 - 15 years. Areas like Shepherd's Bush, Hackney, Stratford, White City, etc have changed a lot, but they do still have pockets of inner city and working class elements to them, such as council estates which are still there. South London has changed a lot too, Croydon, Brixton and Peckham, along with Elephant & Castle have been gentrified a lot too, although the council estates are still there. It also depends on which part of the borough in which you reside or go through.
That does not seem to go with the "rule of the commute" that you always live east of where you work. So that the sun is behind you in the morning on the way to work and behind you on the way home.
I used to work south of where I lived, so I sat on the right side of the bus going to and from work. Less sunshine.
Joke to content ratio is leaning a bit hard on the joke recently.
These videos have gone from educational to a waste of time
Nearly reaches a Bob saget level. Have a new colleague. Very funny the first two days. Now I'm getting tired of this funnymachinegun. They call these people a one trick pony. Wonder how long it takes before he can offer his funniness in a new company.
Agreed.
It's like every other sentence now. It's a fucking family guy episode at this point. I seriously hope this guy cringes looking back someday.
@@henk3202 He's literally not a one trick pony though. th-cam.com/users/Wendoverproductions
In Utah, the further east you live in any given valley, the more wealthy you are. This is because housing on the east ends tend to be on foothills of mountains, which drastically raises prices for real estate. West ends of towns tend to be in the middle of valleys, so there was a lot more room for trains and industrial areas, dropping prices of real estate. They also tend to be much farther away from city centers and amenities.
As a former Utahan I can confirm
East High school where all the rich kids go, West High school is where all the poor poor kids go and there used to be a South High back in the day but that's a college campus now.
I'm in Wichita, KS and this city breaks the rule, too. The west side is the more industrial, run-down, poorer side, while the east side (aside from a couple small areas) is the richer, nicer side. The middle of the city is a mix of downtown and really nice areas along the river. You don't want to live on the south side, though.
Never heard of this before, interesting stuff! Greetings from the east of Amsterdam, where both westerly winds and gentrification prevail
This is really interesting, can you please site your sources so I can look deeper into this? thanks.
"I would like to speak to the manager of meteorology"
"If we are to shame the wind responsibly, we must first understand it"
Truly wise words to live by. One must not just rush to the tantalizing wind shaming.
Ha!
I’ve noticed these points, that you’ve made, & agree!
Yet in our town we have a stinky pulp mill as far east as you can get,
& often when the conditions are wrong, we all smell it!
Those Bumper-cars, at 4:42, look absolutely radiant!
Drive carefully, & smile often!
Very cool you used Pittsburgh in the background at the beginning
this really really lacks maps showing the average income acroos cities where there is this east west divide
Agreed
East Detroit is beautiful this time of year. Love, Windsor, Ontario
That made me laugh out loud!
South Detroit isn't real either.
I had a friend when I was younger who lived in Windsor. He told me that you could hear gunshots from across the border ever so often. Is that true, because thinking back it sounds like bullshit.
@@enotsnavdier6867 I'm from Windsor never heard any gun shots. I think it could be possible to maybe hear faint shots.
What I do remember as a kid, is going down to the river on devils night. Looking across at Detroit and just seeing smoke rising from everywhere. In 1984 there was a record of like 800 fires ( arson ) that devils night.
I feel like I just listened to a whole stand-up routine
This is interesting to watch as an Australian, where it's usually the reverse: the eastern suburbs of our big cities are wealthier, and the western suburbs, not. I generally just assumed that was down to most of our big cities being on the eastern coast and hence, the eastern suburbs being closer to the sea and all that, but it may be more complicated.
coriolis effect, the prevailing winds are in the opposite direction down south of the equator
I always thought in the United States that it had to do with our westward moving settlement, meaning the east sides of cities were the oldest (and more likely to be rundown). That just encouraged more people to move west. Live and learn!
Honestly it’s probably many reasons, and that is probably one of them as well
Interesting thought, but cities are typically built from the center and outwards, not in a general direction. Typically, there's a specific set of features that make it a good place to start a settlement and then things grow from there. So it wouldn't really work for cities, although it would make a lot more sense when looking at the US as a nation, where things really did grow from east to west (but then more likely the opposite, as more history tends to result in more wealth).
@@fanbuoy9234 You are correct about center out, but in many or most older cities this is complicated because most of them are built on the edge or shores of a body of water--sea, lake, river ... And in some cases squidged between hills or mountains and a body of water (e.g., a lot of Mediterranean cities, Rhineland). So growth may not be circular.
@@elainechubb971 Agreed, nature of course sets boundaries. I recently flew over Erbil in Iraq and that was fascinated, as it was the most circular city I've ever seen. Then again, it's pretty much in a flat desert, from what I can tell, so it was really interesting to see how that allowed the circular shape.
Ditto
Don’t worry us Singaporeans live in the East thus everyone here is sending this comment with a Nokia 3310
I saw you over 90 days ago on RLL's video about how to know when you are in time, are you still stuck in the past and unable to change your name?
3310? You in Tekong isit
@@frostbittenwinds9703 aww...poor guy can't change his name
Oh no, next step is that Singapore equips their military with nokias and the second step is world domination O.o
Oh no
Legendary device.
One sarcastic jab after another. Entertaining and illuminating. Thanks for the video.
Without wanting to sound like a killjoy, the sheer density of dad jokes in this script actually makes following the main point of the video really difficult.
These jokes/minute numbers are getting to heights never thought possible.
Why should I believe anything in this video when you’re not even a gynaecologist?
Vajeen
Technically, they are called vagina scientists.
@@Heliocentric technically yes, but no. they also study boobs.
Incredible banter and commentary.
Because my city (Saskatoon, Canada) is in a province with an agricultural based economy our city has the opposite effect as our higher class is mostly in the east
"Look guys, I'm not a gynecologist or whatever it's called"
lol
No wonder why everyone leaves an elevator when I fart. They are richer than me.
Counterexample: Brussels. The rich boroughs are in the east and partly south. And winds blow predominantly from the Northwest. But... SE is (moderately) higher in altitude than NW. In French, we say "le haut de la ville" to mention the more chic neighborhoods. "= not Uptown, but Hightown)
One liners are on point in this vid, the anime reference was comedy gold
You really don't have to squeeze in a joke with literally every sentence.
Mustafa Yıldız you really don't have to type every dumb comment you think of.
@@ibec69 You sound upset.
There were jokes?
@@arcaneminded he wrote the script
@@ibec69 lol as if that's not a valid criticism of this family guy episo.. I mean "educational video"
The amount of shade thrown in this video is crazy 😂.
That Georgia Republicans roast had me rolling 😂😂😂😂
Chicago: I see this as an absolute win.
chicago isn’t cheaper on the east coast lmao
@@dumpsterfire3214 Chicago doesn't have an east sign, it's lake Michigan.
I looked at a map of my city to see if this phenomenon applied where I lived. It did not.... And then I realized that (historically) this city was predominately an agricultural town.
That wallstreetbets joke hurt more than I care to admit.
Are you still holding? I'm holding with diamond hands!
@@1BrotherDragon it's not really a loss until you sell!
The real GameStop experience involves buying at full price, having your fun, then selling back for pennies on the dollar.
Not much has changed, besides the flex of having smacked a greedy hedge fund.
I bought high so I could either sell higher or vote at the next shareholder meeting 💎👐
Honestly it's sad to see how the MSM can perpetrate their lies even here... next he'll be making a joke about reddit squeezing silver, I bet! Redditors got rich by winning the game fair and square and people just keep saying they're dumb.
I’m disappointed in you, this is longer than 5 minutes.
That's been the case for every one of his videos for over a year. This is about average video length for this channel.
I'm aware there may be a joke I'm not getting.
@@contrainer_ but don't you know what's the joke you're not getting?
I am glad you fit some content between all of the pop culture references.
1 min video successfully stretched.
Upper East Side NY is an exception, but I do remember seeing blocks of subsidized housing closer towards the water on both sides and the remnants of industry more in Queens/Astoria/LIC
I've been subbed for this channel for a long time, maybe since its inception. This video didn't hit the same, seems to be too many quick jokes and hard to focus on the actual topic than in previous ones.
I think you nailed it. It’s distracting.
work on your taste, brainlet
@@mrosskne everyone is else is saying the same as him
@@mrosskne lmao
ok boomer
Also title: Why the Eastern Europe is Poor.
Cause the USSR?
@@brandonbayne1886 yeah
@@brandonbayne1886 and no access to the sea
@@brandonbayne1886 hell yeah.
@@Dan-zc7ut You ever seen the Baltic Sea? And the Adriatic Sea? And the Black Sea? We've plenty of that around here lol
When I heard 'master of your own domain', I thought for sure it was going to be used to transition to a sponsorship for hover or another website domain service site XD
This is very Pavlovian. We are being conditioned as we speak.
In my American hometown of Dayton, OH, it's usually the opposite. The east side is run down in certain spots, but it's the west side that is super run down. The video does mention redlining, though, and our city definitely experienced it. Some beautiful homes exist in West Dayton that have become run down due to redlining.
"A lot has changed since the industrial revolution. [CITATION NEEDED]"
LOL such a nice sarcasm
Wikipedia sux
That killed me
"Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer (now, with JOKES!)"
The last time I was up in the Calgary Tower I noticed this.
The air in the western half of the city looked clear but the air to the east (where the industrial parks are) it had a yellow, polluted tinge to it.
Surprise surprise, the NE and SE quadrants are loaded with rough communities.
Sydney's eastern suburbs buck the trend, I think for a number of key reasons:
- proximity to the ocean, which moderates the climate, especially in summer, making them more desirable
- they don't extend very far, only about 8 km east of the CBD.
- the scarcity of the land, and the spectacular harbour views, make the land very valuable
- often the breezes come from the north-east or the south-east, even if high level winds might coming from the west.
Without the stupid memes and stale jokes and sponsored segment this video would be about 45 seconds long.
Without the whiny commenters like you this comment section would be about 1/2 as long
@@cjonh808 if he wants to whine he can. It's the comment section
@@weirdnomad8868 I could say the same about the jokes in the video. Or my comment too. Also, you really strolling around casually out here with that musty ass account of yours? Mighta forgotten to switch over to the burner there, buddy
@@cjonh808 Okay.
@@weirdnomad8868 Ok
3:26 “a lot has changed since the industrial revolution” *citation needed 😂😂😂 yeah I need to see your source for that one
I had got a strong feeling of deja vu, before realising the video is 2 years old