I am born and raised in Montreal and lived there til 35 before moving to Texas.Sure there are isolated criminal incidents and gang activity in certain neighborhoods but overall Montreal is a pretty safe city.There aren't any 'no-go' zones that are highly dangerous...nothing like some cities I have been to in the USA like Baltimore or New Orleans where there are areas you certainly don't want to walk through if you don't live there!!
Exactly. The way Mtl works is different than american's cities. Like, ppl have to know it Doesnt mean that these neighborhood is full of black people thats describes as a dangerous hood. Im living in Montreal-North and its pretty nice spot. We can walk there in the middle of night and 90% nothing will happens to us. Frl, there is how Mtl works: each hood in Montreal is dominated by a ethnicy. Go in Parc-Ex and you will feel like you go to a trip to India and Sri-Lanka; Stl is dominated by Italian; Plateau is full of french people from France. The same for mtl-north. There is alot of Haitian there
Walk the streets around Pascal and Lapierre at night is not recommended if you are not from there but its one of the only area in Montreal that can be risky
@@disgustika yes, not all of Montreal North but in certain part it is not a good idea to stroll around.. but tbh anybody that aint from there has no business going since its so far from the center of the city.
No, a house in St-Henri will cost you around 1 million nowadays. Even when it comes to rent, it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods to live in right now.
Been following you for a while, never though you'd drop by, this is my town, too bad you didnt reach out when I posted a message in our Ottawa video, I would have shown you more of the worse areas, but I think you nailed it pretty good, Montreal North and St Leonard are pretty bad gangwise
@@RealArtVandelay Then at 5:30 he was in Griffintown and Point St Charles. Some of the oldest housing in the city in the Point but not really the hood anymore.
@@stepheng3667looks to me like south Laval, its also the oldest part of Laval, poor but not reaply gangland. The last parts of the video are in St Henry and Lachine, definitely an old sad dead part of town with no life and old bland buildings... again, poor but not really hood
@@totsmini3105 exactly No place is safe my friend. It's the wonderful disparity that is being created by our governments between the poor and the rich that is causing this.
There was literally no cones. When did he do this? I just drove 5 km using two streets and must have went through a dozen different projects that had cones. If you go walk in any direction from my job for 3 mins, there are again over a dozen different coned out zones...most of them no one is working on. They closed the street behind ours on one side, put full of cones, stopping traffic going into boulevard. That was 2 weeks ago. They haven't started any work, just blocking traffic and access so people started moving the cones back, then back again, moved the portable barrier and now you can sort of pass thru both ways.
Yeah the Indigenous areas in the prairie provinces (both rural and cities like Winnipeg) are the only real hoods Canada has. The low-income areas of Montreal and Toronto are still safer than the safest of US cities even if they look just as bad as the US because of the older housing stock.
Actually, it's way safer than it was in 90 and 00's when the biker wars and mafia wars were going on. It was over 100 murders in 80 and 90's and by 2005 it was under 50 and it hasn't changed. The last 5 yrs it's in the 45 range. Last year in August, the media really played up how violent "it is now" when two different mobsters were assassinated in a cafe and parking lot. It was the 21-22nd murders of the year. So the media looooove to scare people like they always do: weather, vaccines, violence. The sky is always falling because that sells. I'm not saying you wouldn't get mugged or robbed or get your car stolen but the idea that mafia/gang warfare is more dangerous than before is simply not true. Petty street gangs exist and the idea that Mtl North is a hood they live in is ridiculous. There are beautiful parks, sports complexes, fields, community centers and beautiful triplexes. HoMa is more run down as the old industries have disappeared and it's an older working class neighborhood that's being gentrified so I get it looks worse. But Mtl North? Gtfo...that's just people larping, acting out what they see others do.
@@JohnManzo Montreal from the 70s - early 90s really used to be very dangerous. Back in 1975, Montreal's homicide record was 112, the population was around 1,080,545 in 1976, giving the city a homicide rate of around 10.4 per 100,000. To put it into perspective, New York in 1997 had 770 homicides with a population of 7,383,000 people giving NYC a homicide rate of 10.4 per 100,000 people. In 1989, Montreal hit a second peak with 96 murders (around 9.5 per 100,000). Even in 2001 (years after the peak in homicides), Montreal had 66 murders, with a murder rate of around 6.3 per 100,000 people, compared to NYC's 8.1 in the same year. Montreal was (& still kinda is) a VERY active city, with multiple levels crime groups ranging from, the Mafia like the Rizzuto crime family, Irish mobs like the West End gang, & not to mention Blood sets like "Les Bo-Gars" (who are located in Montreal-Nord, which in modern-day is considered the most dangerous hood in the city) & Crip sets like the "Crack Down Posse". Montreal kinda went through the same thing New York went through, where both cities were one of the worst in their own respective country from the 70s-90s, but in the modern-day, both cities are considered one of the safest major cities in North America (& possibly the world too).
Yeah it's been getting bad like 40+ shootings in a year but also people are getting stabbed too. It's not fun seeing my favorite city getting worse with violence.
@@agamer4891 Crime is now going back down. It peaked during Covid. Still the worst neighborhood in Montreal is way safer than the safest neighborhood in L.A.
Ex Montrealer here, Other than the service alleyway behind Atwater library and Reddy memorial hospital, Montreal, even in the more working-class neighborhoods looks a whole lot nicer than scenes of Detroit, Milwaukee, Camden and on and on.
Go tour Edmonton, its the murder capital of Canada at the moment. Or tour Winnipeg or Regina, guarantee you your viewers will be shocked how rough hoods can get here, MTL dosen't compare to the western hoods
@@dangerislander yeah the reserves can get pretty bad depending on which ones you go to, but the chances Charlie would go do a video on that would be pre slim
@@lesexpos4469 yeah that was fuked up and she was just waiting for the bus man they need to step up on the gang stuff before it goes way out of control
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It's ludicrous to compare these places in Montreal to "worst hoods" in the US. Just because black people live there doesn't make it terrible. Yes, some people are poor; but Montreal is not a dangerous city for its size, and these places are communities. Want to see a bad neighbourhood in Montreal? Go to the area around Berri metro, Ste Catherine Street and Parc Emille Gamelin. Shambling junkies and shouty drunks with trash everywhere is far worse than tree-lined streets and small apartment buildings in Montreal North.
@@MAKOBITEthe city moved out all the hookers and junkies from the old downtown red light district st.laurent and st Catherine about 20yrs ago and they just went east a few blocks to Berri metro and now you have needles in parcs and hookers in alleyways all the way to Parc Lafontaine. They cleaned up that downtown area (it is generic, bland now) and moved it to more residential area. And Berri which is the hub for three metro lines is ground zero. Genius.
@@MAKOBITE Downtown Montreal is the most "ghetto" part of the city. Hobos, junkies, unstable people off their meds, hookers, thieves, homeless encampments, etc.
Parts of Cote des Neiges south of Van Horne to the traintracks is the crummiest area i ever had the misfortune of renting. Ironically, just cross the tracks and it is T.M.R. which is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods, and Outremont and Hampstead to each side. I am hoping that the opening of the new light rail line will bring some revitalization to the area. I used to speak out against gentrification but the poverty and drugs in this area is insane.
So you’re in Montreal 45 mins from north Burlington vt and 2 hr from west Rutland vt IVE BEEN ASKING YOU TO PLEASE DO THESE HORRIFIC GHETTOS FOR YEARS NOW Charlie bo!!!?
That was kinda creepy going through that alley with that one dude walking right towards you. Can’t imagine what it would be like at night if you were walking there all by yourself.
What's so funny is that alley is actually in Westmount, one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. If you pan the camera to about 5:00 you'll be staring at the old Montreal Forum.
from the visual perspective I guess it would look better to go downtown where most of the homeless are and on top of that you film the day before trash collection around 1st of July when most people move and throw stuff away so the trash looks trashier
A hood/ghetto is a low income area with lots of crime, and there's lots of those in Montreal (& Canada in general), the big difference is that the hoods in Canada aren’t as big & as widespread like America, Canada does a lil bit of a better job of not letting their major cities fall apart & turn into total NO-GO ZONES & WARZONES like Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Jackson, MS Memphis, or New Orleans, all those are some EXTREME cities with some of the highest murder rates in the world. Canadian cities are no different from American cities we still got areas where you gotta watch your surroundings. A lot of people think that because Canada is safer in the US that means there's no bad areas there, when there's in fact a lot of violence in some Canadian neighborhoods, it just doesn't get the same coverage/reputation, because the US is the next door neighbor and because of the Canadians are "nice" stereotype. Canada is FAR from perfect.
the real hoods in Canada by definition are in the Prairie cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton, Saskatoon etc. North end and West end in Winnipeg is no joke, lot of boarded up and burned up houses , lot of murders , high concentration of poverty, drug and native gangs problem, the whole yard. its night and day compared to the "hoods" of Montreal and Toronto. You be surprised how its problematic down there.. of course it aint Baltimore or Detroit but it is messed up still..
Hood where im from in Canada is mostly native americans. My stepbrothers best friend got shot and died. My best friends close friend got shot and died. My best friend got sliced by a machete and a guy i used to hoop with got shot in the hood. My uncles brother got shot and died. Cousin did 7 in the pen for murder. My other stepbrother did 3 for gun possesion. Stay out the hood i could read the vibes since i was kid and i stayed out of the hood and away from people with that ghetto mentality.
@@LANGI902 bro who wants to live where you have to drive 30 minutes to the closest grocery store, and where your only options for entertainment are run down movie theaters, a mediocre pizza place, and walmart?
In Montréal it's mostly grimy corners more than all around hoods. It's not like it's a decline like in the USA but you can live and feel the same for sure in smaller patches...
don't be fooled by the scenery, Montreal-North has heavy gang activity, especially on Lapierre and Pascal where he was for a moment. surprised he didn't go to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
Liar. Doesnt mean that these neighborhood is full of black people thats mean thats the worst hood. Im living in Montreal-North and its pretty nice spot. We can walk there in the middle of night and 90% nothing will happens to us. Frl, there is how Mtl works: each hood in Montreal is dominated by a ethnicy. Go in Parc-Ex and you will feel like you go to a trip to India and Sri-Lanka; Stl is dominated by Italian; Plateau is full of french people from France. The same for mtl-north. There is alot of Haitian there
I’ve lived in Hochelega-Maisonneuve for more than ten years. If there are gangs here they must be well hidden. It’s mostly moms pushing strollers, early morning runners along the bike paths, parents walking kids to school and lots of cute dogs. You’ll see the odd person at Metro looking for spare change, but you see that almost everywhere. It’s a bit different west of Pie-IX but definitely not dangerous.
Some of the areas in the video definitely have a poorer reputation but but it doesn''t mean they are very dangerous. If you mind your own business and don't draw the wrong kind of attention, nobody will bother you. But if you go looking for trouble you will find it, probably even in good parts of cities.
I live in Montreal, I walk around alone in the middle of the night as a woman, its safe af. Doesn't even touch the town I'm from on the ghetto scale, montrealers would be scared to walk through a real hood on god
Montreal is known for it's street art.....people see some graffitti and are like oh that's a hood. lol.....or hey black people live here. Gotta be the hood.
I lived in Verdun , LaSalle , St.Henri , ! Spent all my time in Point St.Charles with friends . But Montreal isn't the same place anymore ! They need police in Metros now ! Too much violence and crimes ..
That hood in Montreal looks like Rogers Park/West Ridge on the North Side of Chicago but then again looks can be deceiving too just like Rogers Park and West Ridge
Gangbanging have started in the hood of MONTREAL-NORTH before New York. They started in California, but in Montreal we had bloods and crips gang around early 80's. In Montreal-North we had the first gang of Bloods in Montreal city called: Bo Gars, and crips were in St-Michel and they were called CDP, Crack Down Posse, New York gang banging activity started in the 90's
oh please ! the peeps you see walking around are bohemians "slumming it" for the "experience" . One call to rich mommy or daddy , limousine picks them up and they can go live with parents in the wealthiest hoods in metro montreal . reminiscent of song , lyrics and video by band Pulp - Common People - youtube
@@joaquintamayo3126 They speak Creole not really French. Although its vocabulary largely derives from 18th-century French, its grammar is that of a West African Volta-Congo language branch, particularly the Fongbe and Igbo languages. It also has influences from Spanish, English, Portuguese, Taino, and other West African languages.
The guy walks through the alleys to show ugly Montreal, if you do that in any city you will have the same result, a little intellectual honesty please.
When I went to montreal I stayed at the gouvernot hotel off ST CATHERINE street a McDonald’s right around the corner. Hotel Had a weird ass door system lol. Video on my TH-cam
this polite stereotype thing don't apply in Montreal.. the province of Quebec is different from the rest of Canada, even them don't consider us like Canadians. And its mainly French language that is being spoke out here.
Wait until you find out that the worst ghettos in Canada are actually comparable to some American ghettos (Obviously not to the same extent as like a city like St. Louis, Jackson, MS or New Orleans but that should obviously go without saying). Just because Canada is safer in the US, doesn't mean there's no bad areas there, when there's in fact a lot of violence in certain neighborhoods as well, it just doesn't get the same reputation/coverage, because the US is the next door neighbor.
Gangbanging have started in the hood of MONTREAL-NORTH before New York. They started in California, but in Montreal we had bloods and crips gang around early 80's. In Montreal-North we had the first gang of Bloods in Montreal city called: Bo Gars, and crips were in St-Michel and they were called CDP, Crack Down Posse, New York gang banging activity started in the late 90's
I am a woman. White. Montreal is safe everywhere. I walk in that « hood » all the time. Yes there are gangs but you don’t have more risk of being a victim of crime. Poverty does not mean more crimes here. It is nowhere near what the USA has. I just get annoyed when I hear « hood ». St-Henri is a place people want to live in actually (end of video). And expensive one to rent a place.
All you said is facts big time. When you think of it, when you just mind your own business, you have no trouble. It used to be like that in Haiti too until the president got killed and i would say around 2020. Most Haitians from here and USA can't go to Haiti right now cause they are aiming at all Diasporas and kidnappings at the airport and killings all kinds of stuff. Last time i went in Haiti was in 2019 and i seen Violent scenes and violence to an extent that Montreal has never seen on Montreal streets. I'm talking whole neighborhoods 300 400 people running after 2 little kids for stealing food and beating them with sticks rocks punches everything. Senseless violence for no reason.... But it was still cool as long as you would never steal and never do anything wrong. But now it's a different story i can't go back there@@bigfatburn6229
@@bigfatburn6229 The most murders the USA have seen in one year like in Chicago Haiti have seen it in 2 days in Port au Prince 400 something murders in one day in just one neighborhood in one city in Haiti
At 5:44, I live 50 feet from the corner on the left for 3 years, 15 minute walk to downtown. The are is completely under regentrification, along with St-Henri, Point St Charles and Verdun due to the same downtown proximity and the cleaning up of the Lachine Canal. This video is a 'Fail' if you're trying to show the 'worst hoods'. Good luck trying to buy up cheap real estate in ANY of these areas. I guess you couldn't find any hoods with hookers and crack heads....
Charlie you can not turn right when the light is red in montreal😂😂😂
I think that's one of his tactics 😂 never stop at a red light in the hood period
I never knew that.
I live in mtl and never turn on the right
Turn on the green
Like Charlie cares
I am born and raised in Montreal and lived there til 35 before moving to Texas.Sure there are isolated criminal incidents and gang activity in certain neighborhoods but overall Montreal is a pretty safe city.There aren't any 'no-go' zones that are highly dangerous...nothing like some cities I have been to in the USA like Baltimore or New Orleans where there are areas you certainly don't want to walk through if you don't live there!!
Exactly. The way Mtl works is different than american's cities. Like, ppl have to know it Doesnt mean that these neighborhood is full of black people thats describes as a dangerous hood. Im living in Montreal-North and its pretty nice spot. We can walk there in the middle of night and 90% nothing will happens to us. Frl, there is how Mtl works: each hood in Montreal is dominated by a ethnicy. Go in Parc-Ex and you will feel like you go to a trip to India and Sri-Lanka; Stl is dominated by Italian; Plateau is full of french people from France. The same for mtl-north. There is alot of Haitian there
@@patatebanine4278where the African, African Americans and Haitians living in Montreal?
French black is way better than American black period !
@@BLACKSTA361mtl north and st-Michel
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Bro you can literally walk through these streets at night and not have to worry LOL
Walk the streets around Pascal and Lapierre at night is not recommended if you are not from there but its one of the only area in Montreal that can be risky
@@Cornerkid82 I lived in St-Henri area, its so nice but I'm also male
@@disgustika St-Henri is safe and nothing to worry about, its a completely different scene than the area I was mentioning.
@@Cornerkid82 Oh got it. Are you saying Montreal North or something? I've never been so you're probably right.
@@disgustika yes, not all of Montreal North but in certain part it is not a good idea to stroll around.. but tbh anybody that aint from there has no business going since its so far from the center of the city.
We don’t have hoods in Montreal….we have neighborhoods.
you also have poverty
Mostly speak French in Montreal.
Oui oui
This actually looks like a decent neighborhood in lots of US cities!
well, St-Henri and Griffintown are amongst the nicest neighbourhoods.
With the matured trees 😍😍
That's what Delino Deshields said when he did neighbourhood outreach with the Expos.
@@fredklein3829 Nobody knows about or cares about that
From 6:00 it's St Henri which used to be known as a tough neighborhood but gentrification has taken hold and a house will cost you around $800K.
No, a house in St-Henri will cost you around 1 million nowadays. Even when it comes to rent, it's one of the most expensive neighborhoods to live in right now.
Point Saint Charles was tough back in the day but always an amazing place Always loved it even when it was the so called slums.
@@The_Monolith sorry, do you mean an apartment will cost this or a private house?
St Henri used to be known as the Westmount of the poor back in the 60s and 70s.
montreal got a sick graffiti scene no doubt
I love the area I live in for that love the graffiti most people do not but for me its what makes it what it is.
I live in Montreal I feel safe everywhere I go.
Honestly every city has its bad parts! Obviously compared to Toronto or Vancouver Montreal is still safe
@@awmusichistoryOnly Toronto is more dangerous than montreal Vancouver is just bunch of goofys
Montréal these past months has seen too many drive by
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Liar .
Been following you for a while, never though you'd drop by, this is my town, too bad you didnt reach out when I posted a message in our Ottawa video, I would have shown you more of the worse areas, but I think you nailed it pretty good, Montreal North and St Leonard are pretty bad gangwise
2:25 is not Pelletier Street?
@@001bsc Rue Pascal, it's in Montreal North, near the river, a very well known dangerous hood and gangland
@@RealArtVandelay Then at 5:30 he was in Griffintown and Point St Charles. Some of the oldest housing in the city in the Point but not really the hood anymore.
@@stepheng3667looks to me like south Laval, its also the oldest part of Laval, poor but not reaply gangland. The last parts of the video are in St Henry and Lachine, definitely an old sad dead part of town with no life and old bland buildings... again, poor but not really hood
@@totsmini3105 exactly No place is safe my friend. It's the wonderful disparity that is being created by our governments between the poor and the rich that is causing this.
I'm surprised no gangstas threw poutine at your car!
Poutine must taste like some straight ass 🤮
Lmaoo … or throwing labatts blue beer at the car
One thing you'll notice in Montreal are construction cones and detours literally everywhere.
@@totsmini3105 No the city just starts all these projects and decides to forget about finishing them lol
@@poisonviper1 wasn't that a thing since the Olympics. When the Olympic stadium wasn't even finished.
There was literally no cones. When did he do this? I just drove 5 km using two streets and must have went through a dozen different projects that had cones. If you go walk in any direction from my job for 3 mins, there are again over a dozen different coned out zones...most of them no one is working on.
They closed the street behind ours on one side, put full of cones, stopping traffic going into boulevard. That was 2 weeks ago. They haven't started any work, just blocking traffic and access so people started moving the cones back, then back again, moved the portable barrier and now you can sort of pass thru both ways.
This looks better than the northern suburbs of Paris before the riots.
Paris is much more dangerous than Montreal
Hope you do other Canadian cities next Charlie! I hear Western Canada has some hoods as well.
He has done other Canadian cities already check his past videos, but I do hope he does more.
Yeah the Indigenous areas in the prairie provinces (both rural and cities like Winnipeg) are the only real hoods Canada has. The low-income areas of Montreal and Toronto are still safer than the safest of US cities even if they look just as bad as the US because of the older housing stock.
Montreal got worse in the last few years , with more gangs related shootings . But still very low compared to U.S. cities .
Actually, it's way safer than it was in 90 and 00's when the biker wars and mafia wars were going on. It was over 100 murders in 80 and 90's and by 2005 it was under 50 and it hasn't changed. The last 5 yrs it's in the 45 range.
Last year in August, the media really played up how violent "it is now" when two different mobsters were assassinated in a cafe and parking lot. It was the 21-22nd murders of the year. So the media looooove to scare people like they always do: weather, vaccines, violence. The sky is always falling because that sells.
I'm not saying you wouldn't get mugged or robbed or get your car stolen but the idea that mafia/gang warfare is more dangerous than before is simply not true. Petty street gangs exist and the idea that Mtl North is a hood they live in is ridiculous. There are beautiful parks, sports complexes, fields, community centers and beautiful triplexes.
HoMa is more run down as the old industries have disappeared and it's an older working class neighborhood that's being gentrified so I get it looks worse. But Mtl North? Gtfo...that's just people larping, acting out what they see others do.
Like all of Canada, Montreal's murder rate peaked around 1980. It was never, ever, ever, ever high, even by Canadian standards.
@@JohnManzo Montreal from the 70s - early 90s really used to be very dangerous. Back in 1975, Montreal's homicide record was 112, the population was around 1,080,545 in 1976, giving the city a homicide rate of around 10.4 per 100,000. To put it into perspective, New York in 1997 had 770 homicides with a population of 7,383,000 people giving NYC a homicide rate of 10.4 per 100,000 people. In 1989, Montreal hit a second peak with 96 murders (around 9.5 per 100,000). Even in 2001 (years after the peak in homicides), Montreal had 66 murders, with a murder rate of around 6.3 per 100,000 people, compared to NYC's 8.1 in the same year. Montreal was (& still kinda is) a VERY active city, with multiple levels crime groups ranging from, the Mafia like the Rizzuto crime family, Irish mobs like the West End gang, & not to mention Blood sets like "Les Bo-Gars" (who are located in Montreal-Nord, which in modern-day is considered the most dangerous hood in the city) & Crip sets like the "Crack Down Posse". Montreal kinda went through the same thing New York went through, where both cities were one of the worst in their own respective country from the 70s-90s, but in the modern-day, both cities are considered one of the safest major cities in North America (& possibly the world too).
Yeah it's been getting bad like 40+ shootings in a year but also people are getting stabbed too. It's not fun seeing my favorite city getting worse with violence.
@@agamer4891 Crime is now going back down. It peaked during Covid. Still the worst neighborhood in Montreal is way safer than the safest neighborhood in L.A.
I could see some French influence in Montreal buildings and houses
Ex Montrealer here, Other than the service alleyway behind Atwater library and Reddy memorial hospital, Montreal, even in the more working-class neighborhoods looks a whole lot nicer than scenes of Detroit, Milwaukee, Camden and on and on.
Drop a new interview bro been a min 👀👀😳
It will be easy since less people speak french in mtl no more.😢
Make a video about the city of Edmonton
Go tour Edmonton, its the murder capital of Canada at the moment. Or tour Winnipeg or Regina, guarantee you your viewers will be shocked how rough hoods can get here, MTL dosen't compare to the western hoods
that's not even close to true.
@@41italia I heard the reservations are worse! Pretty sad tho
Ed..monotone
@@41italia u been out here?
@@dangerislander yeah the reserves can get pretty bad depending on which ones you go to, but the chances Charlie would go do a video on that would be pre slim
I love Mtl, peaceful and walkable city for it's size
So peacefull … a innocent women was shot at day light 3 weeks ago
Gotta try some of that Montreal crack 😮💨
@@lesexpos4469 yeah i know it's worse than chicago now..
@@daydreamer3316🤓💀
@@lesexpos4469 yeah that was fuked up and she was just waiting for the bus man they need to step up on the gang stuff before it goes way out of control
FInally!! Glad you came
Compared to the US rust belt and places like Philadelphia and Baltimore this looks like a meadow full of flowers!
Man if You wanna name a US city that looks crappy don't Say philly or Baltimore Say detroit 😂
and compared to the slums of Brazil, India and Mexico, Philadelphia and Baltimore look like great Cities 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@carlosgabriel3890 but detroit doesn't🤣🤣🤣
@@carlosgabriel3890Not really
and thank god thats a good thing
Lapierre pascal.. this guy knows the hood in the northside 🔥🔥🔥
Ahhh! Facts!
SHOUTOUT MTL🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Bo in the Quebec traps love it
You gotta go to Vancouver next
Vancouvers is at 4 day of car from montreal.
@@lesexpos4469yea but i mean next time hes closer like in Seattle
I wonder if the Punjabi gangs are still a thing there
@@dangerislander they are theres a big rivalry going on in Vancouver between them right now
@@ufos6942 damnn... just like in my city but it's the lebanese/Arabs.. currently a gangland war of who will have power in the city.. so many murders
Come to Winnipeg, Manitoba??!! Its a hellhole all in one.
Are you stopping here in Québec city? 😮
Houston: Sippin syrup
Montreal: Sippin Maple syrup
hilarious 😄
It's you
Lets go charlie 💯
Go west to the next sector called St-Michel.
wooooo scary ! lmao . Compared to the Hoods in the US this looks like upscale gentrified expensive real estate neighborhood .
Yeah Montréal is pretty safe lol
you missed the pie-ix / 43e rue area and the Ville St-Pierre area which are in the top 3
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Cleaner then Vancouvers alleys
Nice pleasant surprise to see my city here! As ghetto as it may seem 90% of the time, somehow it's still one of the safest places in the world lol
Montreal hood actually looks pretty nice...not so bad..........
It's ludicrous to compare these places in Montreal to "worst hoods" in the US. Just because black people live there doesn't make it terrible. Yes, some people are poor; but Montreal is not a dangerous city for its size, and these places are communities. Want to see a bad neighbourhood in Montreal? Go to the area around Berri metro, Ste Catherine Street and Parc Emille Gamelin. Shambling junkies and shouty drunks with trash everywhere is far worse than tree-lined streets and small apartment buildings in Montreal North.
@@MAKOBITEthe city moved out all the hookers and junkies from the old downtown red light district st.laurent and st Catherine about 20yrs ago and they just went east a few blocks to Berri metro and now you have needles in parcs and hookers in alleyways all the way to Parc Lafontaine.
They cleaned up that downtown area (it is generic, bland now) and moved it to more residential area. And Berri which is the hub for three metro lines is ground zero. Genius.
@@MAKOBITE Downtown Montreal is the most "ghetto" part of the city. Hobos, junkies, unstable people off their meds, hookers, thieves, homeless encampments, etc.
Parts of Cote des Neiges south of Van Horne to the traintracks is the crummiest area i ever had the misfortune of renting. Ironically, just cross the tracks and it is T.M.R. which is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods, and Outremont and Hampstead to each side. I am hoping that the opening of the new light rail line will bring some revitalization to the area. I used to speak out against gentrification but the poverty and drugs in this area is insane.
So you’re in Montreal 45 mins from north Burlington vt and 2 hr from west Rutland vt IVE BEEN ASKING YOU TO PLEASE DO THESE HORRIFIC GHETTOS FOR YEARS NOW Charlie bo!!!?
That was kinda creepy going through that alley with that one dude walking right towards you. Can’t imagine what it would be like at night if you were walking there all by yourself.
It would be like a scary movie. Compare to usa, most people don’t go outsite at night.
not at all. also, it wasn't in a bad hood at all.
@@robertmoray988 cringe asf
What's so funny is that alley is actually in Westmount, one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. If you pan the camera to about 5:00 you'll be staring at the old Montreal Forum.
@@lesexpos4469 lol what? Montreal is known for it's nightlife
from the visual perspective I guess it would look better to go downtown where most of the homeless are and on top of that you film the day before trash collection around 1st of July when most people move and throw stuff away so the trash looks trashier
C'est marrant comme ça passe du béton à un endroit tout boisé à la fin.
I always thought Canada was too nice to have hoods
I was right
A hood/ghetto is a low income area with lots of crime, and there's lots of those in Montreal (& Canada in general), the big difference is that the hoods in Canada aren’t as big & as widespread like America, Canada does a lil bit of a better job of not letting their major cities fall apart & turn into total NO-GO ZONES & WARZONES like Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Jackson, MS Memphis, or New Orleans, all those are some EXTREME cities with some of the highest murder rates in the world. Canadian cities are no different from American cities we still got areas where you gotta watch your surroundings. A lot of people think that because Canada is safer in the US that means there's no bad areas there, when there's in fact a lot of violence in some Canadian neighborhoods, it just doesn't get the same coverage/reputation, because the US is the next door neighbor and because of the Canadians are "nice" stereotype. Canada is FAR from perfect.
Toronto, Windsor, Nova Scotia
the real hoods in Canada by definition are in the Prairie cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton, Saskatoon etc.
North end and West end in Winnipeg is no joke, lot of boarded up and burned up houses , lot of murders , high concentration of poverty, drug and native gangs problem, the whole yard. its night and day compared to the "hoods" of Montreal and Toronto. You be surprised how its problematic down there.. of course it aint Baltimore or Detroit but it is messed up still..
@@kiddo7711not really. As a white woman, I can walk anywhere at 3 am here in Montreal. I would not do that in USA. Nowhere
Hood where im from in Canada is mostly native americans. My stepbrothers best friend got shot and died. My best friends close friend got shot and died. My best friend got sliced by a machete and a guy i used to hoop with got shot in the hood. My uncles brother got shot and died. Cousin did 7 in the pen for murder. My other stepbrother did 3 for gun possesion. Stay out the hood i could read the vibes since i was kid and i stayed out of the hood and away from people with that ghetto mentality.
Save your money. Move to the countryside!
@@LANGI902 bro who wants to live where you have to drive 30 minutes to the closest grocery store, and where your only options for entertainment are run down movie theaters, a mediocre pizza place, and walmart?
@@jonathanielpringlemaniii A lot of people. Especially 30 + year olds
@@LANGI902 ya i realized environment is not for me and i need to focus on money to get away for good.
@Shifty _10 You get that sweet life of no junkies, cops or ambulances ... you never wanna look back!
I know this is naive, but seeing a "grimy" hood in Canada is weird.
In Montréal it's mostly grimy corners more than all around hoods. It's not like it's a decline like in the USA but you can live and feel the same for sure in smaller patches...
You didn't see one. This video is an absolute joke.
@@iconocolor643ya because of gentrification, mtl areas looked like Detroit but with people
Merci. Anything first or second floor with nice neighbours is fine with me. 🤗
im from cote des neiges alotta great memories there fr🔥
don't be fooled by the scenery, Montreal-North has heavy gang activity, especially on Lapierre and Pascal where he was for a moment. surprised he didn't go to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
Liar. Doesnt mean that these neighborhood is full of black people thats mean thats the worst hood. Im living in Montreal-North and its pretty nice spot. We can walk there in the middle of night and 90% nothing will happens to us. Frl, there is how Mtl works: each hood in Montreal is dominated by a ethnicy. Go in Parc-Ex and you will feel like you go to a trip to India and Sri-Lanka; Stl is dominated by Italian; Plateau is full of french people from France. The same for mtl-north. There is alot of Haitian there
I’ve lived in Hochelega-Maisonneuve for more than ten years. If there are gangs here they must be well hidden. It’s mostly moms pushing strollers, early morning runners along the bike paths, parents walking kids to school and lots of cute dogs. You’ll see the odd person at Metro looking for spare change, but you see that almost everywhere. It’s a bit different west of Pie-IX but definitely not dangerous.
I lived in Montreal then I moved to Atlanta. Trust me Montreal is fine, nothing to compare with the US
@@pg13clippers18 montreal is organized crime. not hoolligans shooting up schools
@@pg13clippers18 st-misch?
When i think about those nights in Montreal
I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me.
Memories of love above the city lights
I've tried so hard to take it but alone my heart won't make it!
I just wanna stop, and tell you what I feel about you babe....
Looks like a lovely quiet area
Not all that hardcore as far as hoods go.
Which area of this in Montreal ?
Tabarnack no way !!!
Some of the areas in the video definitely have a poorer reputation but but it doesn''t mean they are very dangerous. If you mind your own business and don't draw the wrong kind of attention, nobody will bother you. But if you go looking for trouble you will find it, probably even in good parts of cities.
No none of these areas shown are dangerous in the slightest at night.
I live in Montreal, I walk around alone in the middle of the night as a woman, its safe af. Doesn't even touch the town I'm from on the ghetto scale, montrealers would be scared to walk through a real hood on god
MTL is so lovely & safe :)
Montreal is known for it's street art.....people see some graffitti and are like oh that's a hood. lol.....or hey black people live here. Gotta be the hood.
Most of it is graffiti. It isn't art.
Last time I came was 2018 but I visited this week again finally and it seems worse or am I imagining things 😢
its always beautiful around old Montreal
I lived in Verdun , LaSalle , St.Henri , ! Spent all my time in Point St.Charles with friends . But Montreal isn't the same place anymore ! They need police in Metros now ! Too much violence and crimes ..
That hood in Montreal looks like Rogers Park/West Ridge on the North Side of Chicago but then again looks can be deceiving too just like Rogers Park and West Ridge
I never expected charlie to pull up in my city😂
If this is the "worst" part of Montreal, then I'd call that city lucky.
How did u go to north to south so fast 😅😅😅
Parece assustador alguns lugares!!!
did charlie move to canada
MTL worst hoods: nice cars, nice homes, everyone inside their home watching netflix, new buildings being built, no trash nowhere, trees everywhere lol
Gangbanging have started in the hood of MONTREAL-NORTH before New York. They started in California, but in Montreal we had bloods and crips gang around early 80's. In Montreal-North we had the first gang of Bloods in Montreal city called: Bo Gars, and crips were in St-Michel and they were called CDP, Crack Down Posse, New York gang banging activity started in the 90's
Yeah well its not really poor but there really are murders and shit
You literally just described gentrification
oh please ! the peeps you see walking around are bohemians "slumming it" for the "experience" . One call to rich mommy or daddy , limousine picks them up and they can go live with parents in the wealthiest hoods in metro montreal . reminiscent of song , lyrics and video by band Pulp - Common People - youtube
Look out for orange pylons everywhere.
for "worst" it looks good. The streets are clean
This is the hood,wow....im from nyc kiving in Atlanta
Looks peachy compared to Philadelphia
Ah yes, Charlie crosses the border and visits my hometown
If this was "Hood" than what is the whole State of Michigan??
Overall Montreal is pretty safe anywhere you go. Nothing like the U.S. at all!
Looks totally fine....
Montreal is pretty safe when I went.
Been here, also had the time of my life in these parts
Are there any Haitians in Quebec? 👀
About 70,000 in Montreal 😊
@@AnObservantTraveller74 oh wow i knew there would be Haitians because they also speak french as well
@@joaquintamayo3126Bien entendu 😊
@@joaquintamayo3126 They speak Creole not really French. Although its vocabulary largely derives from 18th-century French, its grammar is that of a West African Volta-Congo language branch, particularly the Fongbe and Igbo languages. It also has influences from Spanish, English, Portuguese, Taino, and other West African languages.
Montreal got the third largest haitian population in North America after Miami and NY
The guy walks through the alleys to show ugly Montreal, if you do that in any city you will have the same result, a little intellectual honesty please.
When I went to montreal I stayed at the gouvernot hotel off ST CATHERINE street a McDonald’s right around the corner. Hotel Had a weird ass door system lol. Video on my TH-cam
A Montreal robbery..........."pardon me, but if it's not too much trouble I need to take your things. I'm really sorry aboot this."
This. Is what he would say “after” the mob hit on you.
I think aboot is an Ontario thing. Never heard it here. Just like the politeness meme. Also, no penguins and polar bears in streets.
this polite stereotype thing don't apply in Montreal.. the province of Quebec is different from the rest of Canada, even them don't consider us like Canadians. And its mainly French language that is being spoke out here.
Hi anyone suggest me the most dangerous place in Montreal…
I love places with people I love the place
u should slide through uptown/plamondon
Starting to notice a theme with these videos... People don't want to better themselfs!!!
Montreal is a poor city with bad roads, infrastructure and crime
Watch out for the mafia lol.
no narration?
Hoods in Canada, still lightyears better than in the US.
Wait until you find out that the worst ghettos in Canada are actually comparable to some American ghettos (Obviously not to the same extent as like a city like St. Louis, Jackson, MS or New Orleans but that should obviously go without saying). Just because Canada is safer in the US, doesn't mean there's no bad areas there, when there's in fact a lot of violence in certain neighborhoods as well, it just doesn't get the same reputation/coverage, because the US is the next door neighbor.
griffin town is not a hood anymore lol
0:27 this is Westmont.
Lol you literally drove through a commercial alley in Westmount at the beginning, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Gangbanging have started in the hood of MONTREAL-NORTH before New York. They started in California, but in Montreal we had bloods and crips gang around early 80's. In Montreal-North we had the first gang of Bloods in Montreal city called: Bo Gars, and crips were in St-Michel and they were called CDP, Crack Down Posse, New York gang banging activity started in the late 90's
Montreal is known more for Mafia types and biker gangs
I am a woman. White. Montreal is safe everywhere. I walk in that « hood » all the time. Yes there are gangs but you don’t have more risk of being a victim of crime. Poverty does not mean more crimes here. It is nowhere near what the USA has. I just get annoyed when I hear « hood ». St-Henri is a place people want to live in actually (end of video). And expensive one to rent a place.
All you said is facts big time. When you think of it, when you just mind your own business, you have no trouble. It used to be like that in Haiti too until the president got killed and i would say around 2020. Most Haitians from here and USA can't go to Haiti right now cause they are aiming at all Diasporas and kidnappings at the airport and killings all kinds of stuff. Last time i went in Haiti was in 2019 and i seen Violent scenes and violence to an extent that Montreal has never seen on Montreal streets. I'm talking whole neighborhoods 300 400 people running after 2 little kids for stealing food and beating them with sticks rocks punches everything. Senseless violence for no reason.... But it was still cool as long as you would never steal and never do anything wrong. But now it's a different story i can't go back there@@bigfatburn6229
@@bigfatburn6229 The most murders the USA have seen in one year like in Chicago Haiti have seen it in 2 days in Port au Prince 400 something murders in one day in just one neighborhood in one city in Haiti
Nicer than Portland
I am know living in Montréal it is a real safe city .
At 5:44, I live 50 feet from the corner on the left for 3 years, 15 minute walk to downtown. The are is completely under regentrification, along with St-Henri, Point St Charles and Verdun due to the same downtown proximity and the cleaning up of the Lachine Canal. This video is a 'Fail' if you're trying to show the 'worst hoods'. Good luck trying to buy up cheap real estate in ANY of these areas. I guess you couldn't find any hoods with hookers and crack heads....
So clean compared to Vancouver
Love how everyone’s comparing this to the worst places in the US and then trying to contradict it saying mtl is safe😂😂 yall r dumb af just saying
St-Michel 67
Lol literally one of the safest areas in Montreal. Hilarious.