I was in this video not gonna say what part to save myself the embarrassing things I was doing and where I was sleeping, but I'm clean now and live in a small town 3 hours from Philly in my own place with my dad and my 5 cats, life is so much better sober.
I live in Poland, Europe. I've never seen anything like this. The worst parts of the worst cities never looked like this. Even in communism years (30 years ago...) there was no junks on the streets. Nobody throws trash directly on the street....sad to see such pictures from USA.
I've been to Poland several times. Its a lovely country and feels very safe. I think that fact it seems to be 99% Polish is the reason. I'm seeing mixed societies fail and the western leaders are oblivious. The UK is a prime example of this direction
Same in the UK, we have rough areas but nothing to this extreme. Even in the roughest parts of Manchester, it's not this bad. Maybe Europeans have more respect?
Living in the UK i thought we had some rough areas but this is just beyond any words to describe the total loss of hope that this area portrays . All the Leaders in the US should be ashamed of how neglected this area is. I found this video heart wrenching.
I have been to third world countries and never have I ever seen this much filth and trash in their streets. Every political leader that represents this area both local and the national level, should be ousted from their positions. This shows the people that they are only in power for a paycheck, and NOT for the good of those who live their and have businesses there. This is an absolute shame and disgrace.
Maybe because they are so poor in those countries they can't afford the items that create trash? Also lets not act like a place like India or Ghana is cleaner than Philadelphia
This is the Global blueprint for the incoming 4th World Wilderness (via the sustainable development scam) Leave the cities if you can, its coming after the financial collapse.
I live in Armenia and I can't believe that such a mess can happen in this country, even in Brazil and Venezuela, there is no such thing, despite the underdevelopment
It reaches a point where there's very little anyone can do to reverse the decline. You can spend all day playing the blame game...won't change anything. There will always be broken people in society.
And remember there are no restrooms or showers outside, so imagine the smells. It's only a matter of time till the plague comes back and we have a real pandemic.
It looks like they only collect the rubbish once a year! If all those folks just standing around doing nothing used their time to pick up litter they'd clean the place up in a day!
Born and raised in Olney and I raised my daughter in Holmesburg and we moved out to Gilbert, Arizona 14 years ago. Love my Philly sports teams, family and friends there but glad I don't live there anymore....
I moved my family out in 2000. I lived on Rand st off of "I" st. Used to be a great neighborhood up until the 1990`s. The evil spread like cancer from Kensington ave half way houses.
My friend came from Queensland Australia to visit me in the United States. I showed her center city Philadelphia and then we took a drive through Kensington to show her what poverty looks like. She was absolutely shocked and horrified.
I have never seen such an abundance of stooped over zombies, shuffling around, oblivious of the trash blowing around seemingly everywhere. This looks like an alternate dimension, but unfortunately it is the reality in 2022. Wow !
A Lot Of Our Highways Are Getting Just As Bad, Trash Everywhere. Along Side of Road. They Are Even Thowing Large Pieces Of Funiture Along Our Highway. I Have Seen All Kinds Of Stuff.Even Toilets.
Can you imagine. I live in north Philly and my whole life as a child having to walk past what we call “zombies” and stepping over their needles was normal to us also them asking us for our bus money was normal too. It’s sad and I can’t control my environment bc I was born here. It’s become normalized. All I can do is hope to save enough and get a nice home somewhere out of Philadelphia. Between this and the gun violence I don’t feel safe here anymore.
And it still looks the same. Only difference is the city is finally cleaning up the streets but still not helping people who are stuck on the streets and need rehab.
Our founding fathers must be looking down and saying it was good while it lasted. They knew we couldn't keep a free Republic as more and more corruption took over. God help us pray for the restoration of our great country.
govt putting monies / support to other countries, climate gods, every one else BUT back into cleaning up, really helping folks, give folks a purpose , work for a worthwhile living wage, prove the govt isn't corrupted, and working for the US for a change........OH WOW MAN , That was a far out , man very trippy!!!!
Bro what? Some part of USA is worse than 3rd world country. After I traveled to Europe and East Asia I felt like we're way behind them in terms of society, technology and infrastructure..
My mother tells me about how she grew up in this area and all the struggles that existed... It's extremely upsetting to see that it's only gotten worse since then.
Sou do Brasil,isso está acontecendo em todo país, estão acabando com o Estados Unidos de dentro p fora. Estou assustado com isso,um país próspero,parece que não tem governantes,muito triste,espero que dias melhores volte p esse povo americano,na graça de Deus.🙏
If you see this and all you can do is make a political comment, it says a lot more about you than politicians. It sounds like you are saying you don't care about human suffering. Sad.
I stayed in a hostel (Bank Street) in Philadelphia for 3 nights. One of the first things I was told on arrival was that I must not turn left out of the main entrance as you'll be heading towards an area that is extremely dangerous. That was back in 94'.
Yea. The video is just showing one tiny area of Philly. This is the area known as "Kensington" I believe. It's the absolute worst example of the city. Next is or used to be Chester city. Chester is a different kind of bad though.
I lived in Philadelphia for the 1st 35 years of my life. I remember it was always a filthy crime ridden place with huge rats. When Ed Rendell became mayor it improved briefly but returned to it's usual trashy self after he left office.
People need to do the following: 1. Change the city officials. 2. Evaluate the existing laws. 3. Mobilize the citizens per block, district to do the clean up drive. 4. Let there be a leader who can lead the people who still wanted for change. 5. Provide assistance to those homeless like feeding program. 6. Iron hand is needed in this place. 7. Pay higher salary for garbage collectors. 8. Provide more jobs. 9. Provide safe and clean temporary shelters. 10. Show love and beauty.
I used to work in Kensington at the ER. This is the result of neglecting priorities of the people and for the people. I feel for this community, and hope to see the city step up and serve to protect our community.
Politicians certainly deserve plenty of blame, but the people who live like this also deserve blame as well for not doing even the bare minimum to help themselves. Things don't get this bad unless the people living there allow it to.
I live in Den Bosch, Netherlands. While we have our "sort of" bad neighbourhoods here, this looks like a totally different reality. I can't imagine driving through a place like that, let alone live in it.
As someone living in south Louisiana, I just can't imagine what it must be like living in such a city! New Orleans has gotten bad over the years and is still paradise compared to this!😔
Just a word of advice if you ever come to Houston stay away from the Greyhound Bus Station. You definitely need to be armed in that area. Always been that way for as long as I can remember. Everything near it is not safe either.
I got laid off of my job a couple weeks ago and am going through a breakup, but seeing this makes me grateful of the life I have, opportunities I have, and support system that helps me through tough times.
It made me think - this is probably one of the reasons of your ever rising city sprawl in the US. All hardworking people will borrow to the hilt to get the place to live in the suburbs to stay away from such stuff. My friends from the US who live in the suburb told me that the local community put some pressure on municipality to stop regular bus service from downtown to their suburb and I was wondering why? Now I know.
This is actually true, on the weekends my city stops bus transportation from downtown to our mall just outside downtown in a nice part of town, because the youth kept going there and having shoot outs in the parking lot and the amount of people getting robbed was out of control. When I was in highschool on the weekends the stores stayed open till 10 and the mall was open till 1 or 2am and you could walk around till the theater closed. Now everything starts closing by 7 and everyone under 18 must be out of the mall by 8pm.
I live in a relatively nice suburb in the US. My local grocery store has a bus stop in it that brings in all kinds of drug addicts and mentally unstable homeless people.
I don’t get why more people don’t move to rural America, city’s around 50,000 people 3 hrs from a big city are best, plenty of hard work and money if that’s your thing
well, first you have to live in a country with no national healthcare, mental health counseling or hope of finding gainful employment. maintain that system for generations and this is what you get.
@@hizzlemobizzle it was pretty bad in the 80s and things turned around for the better, all without national healthcare. And now it’s happening again - why?
@@GK-ku3zv The resident's of my city (Detroit) were more interested in stripping homes for scrap, than even cutting the grass or doing even simple maintenance . I have lived my entire life in the city and have seen why home prices dropped below 10,000.00 and at that price nobody had insurance so when they set them on fire they just walked away and left it for the city to handle. They also shoplifted so much that most stores left the city. None of this is the cause of anyone other than themselves period.
@@Eman-vp5wk An average two bedroom apartment now is close to $2000 a month. The average cost of a home in the U.S. now is about a half a million with increasing interest rates for the lending corporations. Minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour and Walmart is the country's largest employer with education quality continuing to decline, and cost impossible for an 18 year old, or older, about $30,000 a year for Publically supported colleges. That's up several thousand percent since the early 90s with min. wage the same. It's simple math. In so many ways we have broken all records for the regression of a society to over 100 years ago except then income tax was about 2%.
Living in Philly in the 50's it was a swell city, Now I wouldn't even drive through it, "Welcome to Philadelphia enter at your own risk" And you can solidly blame it's decline on the people who've run it.
It's important to document these everyday street scenes for their historical value. I've enjoyed watching the 1906 films shot from a cable car going down the main street in San Francisco before and after the earthquake. Very rare and fascinating footage.
When I first moved here. I didn’t have a car so I had to rely on public transportation. I had a job where I got off around 2-4am. It was great money but my sole reason for quitting was seeing this every night and I had to alert bc I was concerned for my safety.
I currently live in PA only 1 hour and 9 minutes away from Philly in a small suburb called "Wyomissing" and its like an entirely different country here my advice to anyone visiting here is just avoid Philly and see the small coal mining towns situated near the Appalachian Mountain range and the farmland communitys throughout the state youll have a much better time and youll meet much nicer people.
Here in Brazil, the very center of Sao Paulo, meaning downtown, is like that. There are other places as well, but downtown is a big concentration. And the biggest difference I noticed is that your streets are not full of holes and craters. I'm sorry, there are plenty of sad and uglier stuff to be worried about this, but I couldn't help and noticed that.
💔This is just a snippet of one area where the people are completely neglected. Another major problem here is drugs, started by drug companies, perpetrated by doctors who then cut people off and leave them to their own devices from withdraw. This entire area was a beautiful place when I was growing up in Philly. This is a disgrace to humanity at the hands of our own government. SHAME ON THEM ALL.
I was a real street cop for a long time starting in 1982. I loved the hoods and all the honest people in them. Even through the crips bloods gang wars I was there. I ain't never seen this before.
@@sirjohnahayfalcon nobody failed except the people seen in this video. Everyone makes a choice, this is what those people chose. Stop trying to blame others that didn’t have anything to do with other peoples choices. Including Wes, who was never a cop as he claims.
I live in Mexico city and there is nothing as bad as this video compared to where I live. Really should be thankful for all the privileges I have, and hope that the people of Philadelphia and everyone in such an area can prosper very soon.
Wow, this is awful. Frightening and educational, all in one. Thank you to the person who created this and posted this. This is so important to see. The most valuable video I have seen in a long time. Very very frightening.
@@hoodsnhollers I want to go there with a group of 15 people (safety in numbers?) and with a big broom and just start sweeping. I want to sweep every sidewalk. If I could do that with a group of people for safety purposes, I swear - that would be my next vacation. Hoods N Hollers, are you with me?
@@tanickasinclair7035 I would love to go up there to lend a hand, so much garbage everywhere. Can't believe the city let's it get that bad, there's no excuse for that unless they just had a hurricane or something. Much love from Savannah GA💕
I'm very impressed with your bravery. I'm from a village of 1500 people. In the middle of farm land. So this is very educating. I like how you leave the commentary to us viewers. I'm subscribed
The Mayor and City leaders should be kicked out of office, they ought to be ashamed of themselves to allow their City to be seen in such a depressing light. Thank God I live in a City where something like this would NEVER be tolerated.
I drove that street last summer when me and my bf were visiting Philly. He heard about this place and wanted to see for his own eyes. It was unbelievable like a zombie apocalypse. I was driving because my bf can't drive in city traffic. After I drove up the street. I honestly had to pull into a store parking lot to take a few minutes to compose myself before we headed back down the street to get to the hotel. Talk about a mix of anxiety, fear and just head shaking at the fact that the city just doesn't care.
Brave driver there...I thought a couple of times someone was gonna jump out and block the vehicle, like at the beginning and the guy in the blue shirt.
My mother was born in Philadelphia. It's sad to see what's happening to the city of liberty, and all U.S. cities, a 3D expression of a two-tiered society. The U.S. is becoming a third-world country.
This is horrifying! This is why I don't go into the city anymore. What is wrong with the government today? They don't run a sanitation system anymore? Truly shameful!
I've lived in 3rd World countries. The US is already the world's biggest 3rd World country. We don't have military on the streets (yet) like most 3rd world countries do because our economy has been good enough. Not so anymore. In a generation, once enough of the infrastructure breaks down we will have small enclaves of civilization separated by vast swaths of- whatever you want to call what this vid shows. 😡🥺
@@cristianhcm1914 depends on which part of Japan. Just like America, not everything you see is always what you would expect and hope you have a good time.
@@hoodsnhollers have you ever been attacked while driving through? Looks like any minute someone could throw a brick through your window or jump on you car.
I know I am not the only person who remembers what it was like when we not only cared about how our cities looked but also about our fellow man. It's heartbreaking to see just how far we have fallen from being a society that cared about things simply because it made a difference. So sad we don't want to make that difference anymore.
There are two or three people living in a car and a couple of tents near my work. This is a business district and most of the area is pretty clean. But I have to walk across the street when I pass this area because there is so much trash. They have three full shopping carts of trash, plus hefty bags that they don't even bother to seal with twisty ties. These people have nothing to do all day, yet they can't be bothered to wheel the trash to a nearby Walmart once a week? It pisses me off. This kind of thing didn't exist in this area five years ago.
Where do you expect them to throw away their trash then? When a bunch of homeless people flood the streets, there isn't going to be enough accessible trash disposals to house everyone's trash. Especially when it fills up faster. And given the lack of transportation, wheeling carts of trash that piles up every week is less than ideal to handle. Unless there are garbage disposals somewhere accessible to lighten the load every day. But even that fills up fast if every homeless person uses it.
You produce the same amount or more trash, it is just that you are lucky enough to have a trash can to put it all in. Let the city stop picking up trash in your area for weeks and see if the area you live in doesn't become like this or worse?
America has the nerve to pontificate to the world about how superior we are knowing full well that this is part of our reality. The heartbreaking thing is that this is replicated in most of our major urban areas and more of our rural areas than we care to admit. Appalachia springs to mind immediately. The trouble for us is that the whole world can see this, and worse, on the same internet that I just saw it on. Our foreign policy should consist of staying home, staying silent, and pouring our resources and effort into fixing this bullshit instead of into weapons and the Military Industrial Complex. I speak as a retired soldier who cannot believe I was ready to die to preserve this.
Жаль вас! Вы тратите много средств на то, чтобы финансировать войны и конфликты в мире. Может быть, лучше вкладывать деньги и силы в развитие своей страны!? Мне очень жаль. 🙏
Accurate depiction of Kensington. Would you believe children live here? I don’t even drive through this area. It’s just depressing to know people live here and don’t have much of a choice.
find this video more interesting and informative than ones done in daylight with not a soul in sight. Wow... everyone looks lost, can;t find their way... tragic. Reminds me of some rough areas in Jamaica I've been through. "The American Dream" ... yeah.. okay...everyone gets a chance... at any rate, nice work, thx for posting it
OMG I live five minutes out of Detroit and I don't even think I've seen parts of Detroit this bad. I'm sure there are but I can't believe from what I've seen here that this shocked me as much as it did. Just the amount of garbage everywhere is insaaaane. This is beyond words.
What's really hard to believe is if you go the "Philadelphia Eagles" area it's a total different scene. As Pennsylvanians we need to stop putting so much money into the NFL and clean this up! Before anyone goes off on me, just think about the amount of money it takes to upkeep that area and the city can't afford to help homeless. It's disgusting.
There are no jobs. Citizens need to feel valued and feel like they are building a viable future for themselves and their loved ones. Takes skills = training and jobs that pay a living wage, not working 3 McDonalds jobs. Politicians have no tools to fix this imho.
@@acehandler1530 There are Help Wanted signs up EVERYWHERE. 'Citizens' need to stay in school and get a good education, to get those good - paying jobs. No school, and it's "Do you want fries with that".
Thank you for the upload, it is very Raw. I feel so grateful to have a warm clean bed & peaceful sleep. These poor people are living a hellish nightmare.
I'm small town- as in, a few buildings in the middle of hills, valleys and farmland. I moved to a more urban area for about a decade and hated it. There's no way I'd wanna live someplace like this.
Probably have to do like that one store (I believe it was Walgreens?) in this video, and have a big gate in front of the store and it's parking lot to lock it all up at night. Honestly I don't know how these stores are managing it during the daytime though, because this city looks like it's going to be rough no matter what time of day or night it is. It's all sad and pathetic to say the least.
Appalling, I thought there were some rough patches here in NYC but I don't think there's anywhere like this.I hope this was sent to all the area papers, news channels, and politicians.
I was in this video not gonna say what part to save myself the embarrassing things I was doing and where I was sleeping, but I'm clean now and live in a small town 3 hours from Philly in my own place with my dad and my 5 cats, life is so much better sober.
Glad you're feeling better now 🌄
Congratulations and hope for a good future.
Bless up brother.
I’m so very proud of you. I’m wishing you endless years of sobriety and proud moments. Be well.
That's great. Much respect for turning things around.
I live in El Salvador and there's nowhere as bad as this. Lots of people are poor but they still have their dignity.
I live in Poland, Europe. I've never seen anything like this. The worst parts of the worst cities never looked like this. Even in communism years (30 years ago...) there was no junks on the streets. Nobody throws trash directly on the street....sad to see such pictures from USA.
I've been to Poland several times. Its a lovely country and feels very safe. I think that fact it seems to be 99% Polish is the reason. I'm seeing mixed societies fail and the western leaders are oblivious. The UK is a prime example of this direction
@@mgc6813 Explain how?
Same in the UK, we have rough areas but nothing to this extreme. Even in the roughest parts of Manchester, it's not this bad. Maybe Europeans have more respect?
Never let them convince you that this is normal
Living in the UK i thought we had some rough areas but this is just beyond any words to describe the total loss of hope that this area portrays . All the Leaders in the US should be ashamed of how neglected this area is. I found this video heart wrenching.
This is in many big cities here in the US unfortunately. Find a video from the German in Venice and take a tour of skid row in LA.
It’s more of these peoples fault we throw billions and billions into these areas to make them nice with 0 results
Welcome to America. No other major city in any other Western country has these kinds of problems. This country is pathetic.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg , try Detroit , Flint , Memphis & Louisiana
They won't be ashamed. Business as usual for them.
You can see why Will went to live with his Aunty and Uncle in Bel Air!
GOOD ONE 😹
will helped make it that way (you might get burned tryin to do what I did)
LOL
But does this also explain why he slapped Chris Rock?
Haha made me lol 👍
Now imagine what's happening inside of those buildings that you can't see.
I have been to third world countries and never have I ever seen this much filth and trash in their streets. Every political leader that represents this area both local and the national level, should be ousted from their positions. This shows the people that they are only in power for a paycheck, and NOT for the good of those who live their and have businesses there. This is an absolute shame and disgrace.
the people in these neighborhoods are not voting, not political
they don't know and they don't care.
Maybe because they are so poor in those countries they can't afford the items that create trash?
Also lets not act like a place like India or Ghana is cleaner than Philadelphia
This is the Global blueprint for the incoming 4th World Wilderness (via the sustainable development scam)
Leave the cities if you can, its coming after the financial collapse.
America is a third world country
I live in Armenia and I can't believe that such a mess can happen in this country, even in Brazil and Venezuela, there is no such thing, despite the underdevelopment
The city leaders must be so proud of themselves…
It reaches a point where there's very little anyone can do to reverse the decline. You can spend all day playing the blame game...won't change anything. There will always be broken people in society.
More interested in what's in your wallet.
They obviously don't care
The bird sounds we’re making me laugh, but it somehow made this easier to watch cause it’s so infuriating to see people reduced to this
Has not been a decent leader in Philly since Rizzo.
I just still can't get over all the garbage around! 🤮
I'm just astounded how much of it appears to be 8×11 sheets. Why on earth would these vagrants be generating so many docs?
Can't afford to hire garbage collects that money was needed for corporations posting record breaking profits.
And remember there are no restrooms or showers outside, so imagine the smells. It's only a matter of time till the plague comes back and we have a real pandemic.
It looks like they only collect the rubbish once a year! If all those folks just standing around doing nothing used their time to pick up litter they'd clean the place up in a day!
Joggers jog
No smartphone in sight, just people living the moment.
Leaving Philly 14 years ago was the best decision I've ever made for my family.
Same, I left in 2021.Enjoying Florida!
Yep 👍🏻 I moved to NE PA 5 years ago and couldn’t be happier
Born and raised in Olney and I raised my daughter in Holmesburg and we moved out to Gilbert, Arizona 14 years ago. Love my Philly sports teams, family and friends there but glad I don't live there anymore....
Did you go to bel air?
I moved my family out in 2000. I lived on Rand st off of "I" st. Used to be a great neighborhood up until the 1990`s. The evil spread like cancer from Kensington ave half way houses.
I used to be homeless in Kensington...aka worst part of Philly. I'm lucky to have made it out alive. Different life, different me.
I'm glad i found your comment after watching this video, like a ray of hope.
God bless you. I hope you will always have a home. Be safe and well.
How did you rise above it, if you don't mind me asking?
God bless you I wish you all the best. My heart breaks for these lost souls. What is the answer…I wish I knew.
Super 👌🤝
My friend came from Queensland Australia to visit me in the United States. I showed her center city Philadelphia and then we took a drive through Kensington to show her what poverty looks like. She was absolutely shocked and horrified.
Thank God your car didn't break down.
im from queensland and this video is crazy, i imagine she was shocked!
@@richardsamueljordan1569 I'm also glad that the car didn't break down (it's a shock to me(
And who would even dare attempt to work or shop at that Walgreens some brave people
You’re a good friend 😂
I have never seen such an abundance of stooped over zombies, shuffling around, oblivious of the trash blowing around seemingly everywhere. This looks like an alternate dimension, but unfortunately it is the reality in 2022. Wow !
Yes, an 'alternate {hellish} dimension'.
Looks like any inner city in ussa
A Lot Of Our Highways Are Getting Just As Bad, Trash Everywhere. Along Side of Road. They Are Even Thowing Large Pieces Of Funiture Along Our Highway. I Have Seen All Kinds Of Stuff.Even Toilets.
Yea but at 1:30 you can see the trash can is full
It looks like the dead zone☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
Can you imagine. I live in north Philly and my whole life as a child having to walk past what we call “zombies” and stepping over their needles was normal to us also them asking us for our bus money was normal too. It’s sad and I can’t control my environment bc I was born here. It’s become normalized. All I can do is hope to save enough and get a nice home somewhere out of Philadelphia. Between this and the gun violence I don’t feel safe here anymore.
And it still looks the same. Only difference is the city is finally cleaning up the streets but still not helping people who are stuck on the streets and need rehab.
Good God......what a depressing cesspool.
Human beings should not live like this…..
They seem to revel in it. I know from personal experience that the vast majority of these people simply do not want help.
Our founding fathers must be looking down and saying it was good while it lasted. They knew we couldn't keep a free Republic as more and more corruption took over. God help us pray for the restoration of our great country.
There sending billions of dollars to other countries instead so sad
I give you republic if you can handle it
Benjamin Franklin
govt putting monies / support to other countries, climate gods, every one else BUT back into cleaning up, really helping folks, give folks a purpose , work for a worthwhile living wage, prove the govt isn't corrupted, and working for the US for a change........OH WOW MAN , That was a far out , man very trippy!!!!
Some fight their way out of poverty. Some throw themselves into poverty. Sad but true.
You gotta do a hell of a lot more than just pray. Without taking action, nothing will ever change.
What has America become, so sad !!!
And people say California is bad??
THEY CONTINUE TO SEND MONEY TO OTHER COUNTRIES INSTEAD OF FIXING THE CRISIS WERE SEEING SO SAD
My state is not like this.
@@qua7771 Pennsylvania is nothing like that just Philadelphia
Yup! I used to deliver in Philly. I'm glad I don't any more.
Wow, an actual zombie dystopia exists.
People living in filth not even caring and neither does the city apparently
The city cleans up weekly, within 24 hours of picking up the garbage it is back.
Neither does the system that created it apparently.
Damn, brooms must really be expensive here!
Hard to believe that city is part of the United States, and was once one of its leading cultural and economic centers.
Bro what? Some part of USA is worse than 3rd world country. After I traveled to Europe and East Asia I felt like we're way behind them in terms of society, technology and infrastructure..
This goes on 24/7 over there.
So this is true Capitalistic society
Welcome to Filthadelphia from a "survivor" of 45years. This "hoody" is nothing, I had bars on my 2nd and 3rd floor windows.....
??? American slums always look like this!
My mother tells me about how she grew up in this area and all the struggles that existed... It's extremely upsetting to see that it's only gotten worse since then.
i am happy you mother came out of it ok.
The trash everywhere is appalling, and who would feel safe on these streets?
I surely would NOT.
Criminals
I've been OCONUS 🌏 & there are slums there too but in USA it's just sad.
You can easily tell what kind of politicians run this city.
Cities are a different kind of beast.
They don’t care!
Sou do Brasil,isso está acontecendo em todo país, estão acabando com o Estados Unidos de dentro p fora.
Estou assustado com isso,um país próspero,parece que não tem governantes,muito triste,espero que dias melhores volte p esse povo americano,na graça de Deus.🙏
City or country?
@@abdur1300 if you don’t have policies that are anti-drug and anti-crimes, police won’t enforce them. It always starts at leadership
I cannot believe places like this really exist. Truly shocking. It looks like hell.
Hell on earth: 100% concrete, no tree, no light, no joy, just dirt, ugliness and despair.
Well, a certain political party has ruled Philly for many years. You are seeing some of their policies and neglect being played out on video.
So, who is running the street Sanitation Department?
@@kc5hgv appears to me that they don't have a Sanitation Department
If you see this and all you can do is make a political comment, it says a lot more about you than politicians. It sounds like you are saying you don't care about human suffering. Sad.
@@user-ss5dj4fs2o lol. If you just care a little more, these people will be able to turn their lives around?
It would be exactly the same if the GOP ran Philly. It's Philly's own people ruined it far more than the politics.
Rocky Balboa jogs through these areas during his training. That's why he was so tough.
I stayed in a hostel (Bank Street) in Philadelphia for 3 nights. One of the first things I was told on arrival was that I must not turn left out of the main entrance as you'll be heading towards an area that is extremely dangerous. That was back in 94'.
It's probably worse now.
lol That area is extremely safe now. Center city used to be bad I heard but things changed dramatically in the past 20 years or so.
*It's always sunny in Philadelphia theme plays*
the garbage everywhere and that one dude threw a bag like it was nothing on the street wow
I've heard people refer to it as Filthadelphia and now I know why.
🤣
Yea. The video is just showing one tiny area of Philly. This is the area known as "Kensington" I believe. It's the absolute worst example of the city. Next is or used to be Chester city. Chester is a different kind of bad though.
I know. I thought that it was always Sunny😀 in Philadelphia .?
I lived in Philadelphia for the 1st 35 years of my life. I remember it was always a filthy crime ridden place with huge rats. When Ed Rendell became mayor it improved briefly but returned to it's usual trashy self after he left office.
Wow, just wow
Depends on the area.
@@defendingthefaith.7889
It's all of Philly that this is happening to, not just the Kensington area!
They don't show you this in the sugar coated media. Great video! Love and much respect from England UK ❤
Instead of helping other countried financially we need to start helping our own citizens .This is unreal .😢
People need to do the following:
1. Change the city officials.
2. Evaluate the existing laws.
3. Mobilize the citizens per block, district to do the clean up drive.
4. Let there be a leader who can lead the people who still wanted for change.
5. Provide assistance to those homeless like feeding program.
6. Iron hand is needed in this place.
7. Pay higher salary for garbage collectors.
8. Provide more jobs.
9. Provide safe and clean temporary shelters.
10. Show love and beauty.
Just go with #1 & #6. As far as #2-enforce existing laws
Also, have you seen India lately?
And get back to our JudeoChristian values and abide by the ten commandments..
I used to work in Kensington at the ER. This is the result of neglecting priorities of the people and for the people. I feel for this community, and hope to see the city step up and serve to protect our community.
Well said Lucian.They are looking to be LOVED
Zor be guzelim
They are looking to be given everything with no work
Politicians certainly deserve plenty of blame, but the people who live like this also deserve blame as well for not doing even the bare minimum to help themselves. Things don't get this bad unless the people living there allow it to.
Agreed. Kensington wasn’t always like this, it was a working class area when I was a child.
I live in Den Bosch, Netherlands. While we have our "sort of" bad neighbourhoods here, this looks like a totally different reality. I can't imagine driving through a place like that, let alone live in it.
As someone living in south Louisiana, I just can't imagine what it must be like living in such a city! New Orleans has gotten bad over the years and is still paradise compared to this!😔
The whole city isn’t like this.
New Orleans is the murder capital of the US, so try again.
@@defendingthefaith.7889 when it the last time you seen garbage men and truck or street sweepers?
@@defendingthefaith.7889 the people that vote for this are all over
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True but no part of New Orleans is this street
I had a friend from Philly, and he said that while driving through both Philly and Baltimore, you locked your doors! This footage cements his claim!
Lol used to drive trucks for a living I’ve been in the cities you are talking about and yes I don’t miss them.
I was always taught to lock doors never give people the benefit of the doubt
Not from Philly, I'm from Wilmington DE and you ALWAYS locked your doors. If you forgot, you'd take a literal U-turn even if it's gonna make you late
Just a word of advice if you ever come to Houston stay away from the Greyhound Bus Station. You definitely need to be armed in that area. Always been that way for as long as I can remember. Everything near it is not safe either.
Same way in Jacksonville. I would think it’s safe to say about 90 percent of the Greyhound terminals in major cities across the U.S.
That’s pretty sound advice for any city.
Are you talking about the one on Main near I45? That whole area of midtown is sketchy as hell.
Greyhound Bus stations in EVERY city are no-go zones.
Stay away from any bus station.
In ANY city...
This is what hopelessness looks like. If you have a family member on drugs dont give up on them.
Great to see so many fine American's working hard for a living and making America the powerhouse it once was.......
We've lost the idea that EQUALITY and FAIRNESS is something that has to be WORKED FOR, not handed out
We need more big cities for sure, and the people in them telling the rest of the country how to live.
How they should be living
Good luck trying to convince people how to live by your standards. Your way of living may not be for everyone's circumstance.
@@Evil_Beauty That is not what he is saying. He said he preferred not to have people in big cities like Philadelphia telling him how he should live.
Cold nights
SO WHAT DO WE DO WITH THESE PEOPLE? CONSTRUCTIVE ANSWERS PLEASE...
City Hall must be very proud of their work 👍
I got laid off of my job a couple weeks ago and am going through a breakup, but seeing this makes me grateful of the life I have, opportunities I have, and support system that helps me through tough times.
Stay strong, pal ❤ And remember, there's always someone worse off than you.
Best of luck, hope you’re doing well.
I hope you are doing better
It made me think - this is probably one of the reasons of your ever rising city sprawl in the US. All hardworking people will borrow to the hilt to get the place to live in the suburbs to stay away from such stuff. My friends from the US who live in the suburb told me that the local community put some pressure on municipality to stop regular bus service from downtown to their suburb and I was wondering why? Now I know.
This is actually true, on the weekends my city stops bus transportation from downtown to our mall just outside downtown in a nice part of town, because the youth kept going there and having shoot outs in the parking lot and the amount of people getting robbed was out of control. When I was in highschool on the weekends the stores stayed open till 10 and the mall was open till 1 or 2am and you could walk around till the theater closed. Now everything starts closing by 7 and everyone under 18 must be out of the mall by 8pm.
I live in a relatively nice suburb in the US. My local grocery store has a bus stop in it that brings in all kinds of drug addicts and mentally unstable homeless people.
@@pmscalisi If they’ve already been gentrified, that is.
I don’t get why more people don’t move to rural America, city’s around 50,000 people 3 hrs from a big city are best, plenty of hard work and money if that’s your thing
in the US they always make it difficult for the poor areas to connect with the rich areas via public transportation.
How can people live in such disgust and filth? It’s really hard to imagine. The addicting power of drugs is amazingly strong!
well, first you have to live in a country with no national healthcare, mental health counseling or hope of finding gainful employment. maintain that system for generations and this is what you get.
@@hizzlemobizzle it was pretty bad in the 80s and things turned around for the better, all without national healthcare. And now it’s happening again - why?
WHAT DOES ANYONE SUGGEST WE DO WITH THESE PEOPLE? CONSTRUCTIVE ANSWERS PLEASE...
@@GK-ku3zv The resident's of my city (Detroit) were more interested in stripping homes for scrap, than even cutting the grass or doing even simple maintenance . I have lived my entire life in the city and have seen why home prices dropped below 10,000.00 and at that price nobody had insurance so when they set them on fire they just walked away and left it for the city to handle. They also shoplifted so much that most stores left the city. None of this is the cause of anyone other than themselves period.
@@Eman-vp5wk An average two bedroom apartment now is close to $2000 a month. The average cost of a home in the U.S. now is about a half a million with increasing interest rates for the lending corporations. Minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour and Walmart is the country's largest employer with education quality continuing to decline, and cost impossible for an 18 year old, or older, about $30,000 a year for Publically supported colleges. That's up several thousand percent since the early 90s with min. wage the same. It's simple math. In so many ways we have broken all records for the regression of a society to over 100 years ago except then income tax was about 2%.
Living in Philly in the 50's it was a swell city, Now I wouldn't even drive through it, "Welcome to Philadelphia enter at your own risk" And you can solidly blame it's decline on the people who've run it.
It's a little weird that all those sci fi movies that show a future that looks like this and boom, here we are.
It's important to document these everyday street scenes for their historical value. I've enjoyed watching the 1906 films shot from a cable car going down the main street in San Francisco before and after the earthquake. Very rare and fascinating footage.
When I first moved here. I didn’t have a car so I had to rely on public transportation. I had a job where I got off around 2-4am. It was great money but my sole reason for quitting was seeing this every night and I had to alert bc I was concerned for my safety.
I currently live in PA only 1 hour and 9 minutes away from Philly in a small suburb called "Wyomissing" and its like an entirely different country here my advice to anyone visiting here is just avoid Philly and see the small coal mining towns situated near the Appalachian Mountain range and the farmland communitys throughout the state youll have a much better time and youll meet much nicer people.
Just brought a house in lykens
Here in Brazil, the very center of Sao Paulo, meaning downtown, is like that. There are other places as well, but downtown is a big concentration. And the biggest difference I noticed is that your streets are not full of holes and craters. I'm sorry, there are plenty of sad and uglier stuff to be worried about this, but I couldn't help and noticed that.
💔This is just a snippet of one area where the people are completely neglected. Another major problem here is drugs, started by drug companies, perpetrated by doctors who then cut people off and leave them to their own devices from withdraw. This entire area was a beautiful place when I was growing up in Philly. This is a disgrace to humanity at the hands of our own government. SHAME ON THEM ALL.
I was a real street cop for a long time starting in 1982. I loved the hoods and all the honest people in them. Even through the crips bloods gang wars I was there. I ain't never seen this before.
Yeah its the results of the USA sending money to other countries instead of trying to fix this crisis
U cops failed then and now not your fault but your bosses and their bosses
@@sirjohnahayfalcon nobody failed except the people seen in this video. Everyone makes a choice, this is what those people chose. Stop trying to blame others that didn’t have anything to do with other peoples choices. Including Wes, who was never a cop as he claims.
you were in l.a?
NYPD here. Retired. Glad you got through it as well.
No one can feel proud to live in a first-world country that has situations like this. It's just disgraceful.
I live in Mexico city and there is nothing as bad as this video compared to where I live. Really should be thankful for all the privileges I have, and hope that the people of Philadelphia and everyone in such an area can prosper very soon.
Wow, this is awful. Frightening and educational, all in one. Thank you to the person who created this and posted this. This is so important to see. The most valuable video I have seen in a long time. Very very frightening.
Thank you for watching
@@hoodsnhollers I want to go there with a group of 15 people (safety in numbers?) and with a big broom and just start sweeping. I want to sweep every sidewalk. If I could do that with a group of people for safety purposes, I swear - that would be my next vacation. Hoods N Hollers, are you with me?
@@tanickasinclair7035 I would love to go up there to lend a hand, so much garbage everywhere. Can't believe the city let's it get that bad, there's no excuse for that unless they just had a hurricane or something. Much love from Savannah GA💕
I'm very impressed with your bravery. I'm from a village of 1500 people. In the middle of farm land. So this is very educating. I like how you leave the commentary to us viewers. I'm subscribed
Thanks so much for watching!
The Mayor and City leaders should be kicked out of office, they ought to be ashamed of themselves to allow their City to be seen in such a depressing light. Thank God I live in a City where something like this would NEVER be tolerated.
And that city is?
Where do you live .
Never say never!
Detroit, Cleveland, NYC, Chicago, New Orleans, Philly, LA, San Francisco, this is wetting worse...
The anxiety that would flow threw my body just driving past this has to be unparalleled.
I drove that street last summer when me and my bf were visiting Philly. He heard about this place and wanted to see for his own eyes. It was unbelievable like a zombie apocalypse. I was driving because my bf can't drive in city traffic. After I drove up the street. I honestly had to pull into a store parking lot to take a few minutes to compose myself before we headed back down the street to get to the hotel. Talk about a mix of anxiety, fear and just head shaking at the fact that the city just doesn't care.
Such an awkward sentence, Fuller.
Through
Brave driver there...I thought a couple of times someone was gonna jump out and block the vehicle, like at the beginning and the guy in the blue shirt.
My mother was born in Philadelphia. It's sad to see what's happening to the city of liberty, and all U.S. cities, a 3D expression of a two-tiered society. The U.S. is becoming a third-world country.
This is horrifying! This is why I don't go into the city anymore. What is wrong with the government today? They don't run a sanitation system anymore? Truly shameful!
I agree with A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
I've lived in 3rd World countries. The US is already the world's biggest 3rd World country. We don't have military on the streets (yet) like most 3rd world countries do because our economy has been good enough. Not so anymore. In a generation, once enough of the infrastructure breaks down we will have small enclaves of civilization separated by vast swaths of- whatever you want to call what this vid shows. 😡🥺
you're right. this is really just one example of lots of places in the US now. it's pathetic.
@@bluelogimouse2123
Most 3rd world countries have military on the streets? really? you sure you don't mean war torn countries?
It's nice to see people have pride in their community.
..thank God I'm moving to Japan.
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@@cristianhcm1914 depends on which part of Japan. Just like America, not everything you see is always what you would expect and hope you have a good time.
Wow. I live in the UK and I’ve never seen anything close to this. That is absolutely shocking in a country like the US.
The UK is a very beautiful country, I visited it and was in awe. Love from the commonwealth ❤️🇬🇧
Brixton is like this
I wouldn't call this worst, I would call it the saddest.From someone who was homeless on the streets in London many years ago.
The zombies are upon us. Nice job love to watch night time!
Thanks for watching
I’m glad cannibalism isn’t natural. They’d be the walking dead for sure.
more brains!
@@hoodsnhollers have you ever been attacked while driving through? Looks like any minute someone could throw a brick through your window or jump on you car.
I know I am not the only person who remembers what it was like when we not only cared about how our cities looked but also about our fellow man. It's heartbreaking to see just how far we have fallen from being a society that cared about things simply because it made a difference. So sad we don't want to make that difference anymore.
Miami used to be one of if not the cleabes city now I see garbage in alot of places. I'm here in key west for labor day it's so beautiful.
Your fellow man has to want to make a difference for themselves. You can’t do it for them.
I live in Poland. I'm terrified of what happened to the US. However, Poland is a beautiful clean country.
I’ve had empathy for these people, I’ve lost it today, it’s unbelievable how much trash they create.
There are two or three people living in a car and a couple of tents near my work. This is a business district and most of the area is pretty clean. But I have to walk across the street when I pass this area because there is so much trash. They have three full shopping carts of trash, plus hefty bags that they don't even bother to seal with twisty ties. These people have nothing to do all day, yet they can't be bothered to wheel the trash to a nearby Walmart once a week? It pisses me off. This kind of thing didn't exist in this area five years ago.
Where do you expect them to throw away their trash then? When a bunch of homeless people flood the streets, there isn't going to be enough accessible trash disposals to house everyone's trash. Especially when it fills up faster.
And given the lack of transportation, wheeling carts of trash that piles up every week is less than ideal to handle. Unless there are garbage disposals somewhere accessible to lighten the load every day. But even that fills up fast if every homeless person uses it.
You produce the same amount or more trash, it is just that you are lucky enough to have a trash can to put it all in. Let the city stop picking up trash in your area for weeks and see if the area you live in doesn't become like this or worse?
Seriously isn't there any garbage collectors???
@@Evil_Beauty It's no excuse not respecting your environment, would you live like that? 🙄
America has the nerve to pontificate to the world about how superior we are knowing full well that this is part of our reality. The heartbreaking thing is that this is replicated in most of our major urban areas and more of our rural areas than we care to admit. Appalachia springs to mind immediately. The trouble for us is that the whole world can see this, and worse, on the same internet that I just saw it on. Our foreign policy should consist of staying home, staying silent, and pouring our resources and effort into fixing this bullshit instead of into weapons and the Military Industrial Complex. I speak as a retired soldier who cannot believe I was ready to die to preserve this.
AMEN BROTHER!
Жаль вас! Вы тратите много средств на то, чтобы финансировать войны и конфликты в мире.
Может быть, лучше вкладывать деньги и силы в развитие своей страны!?
Мне очень жаль. 🙏
Accurate depiction of Kensington. Would you believe children live here? I don’t even drive through this area. It’s just depressing to know people live here and don’t have much of a choice.
I thought that it was always Sunny😀 in Philadelphia .?
There is always a choice. I’d rather be homeless and live in the woods than live in Kensington.
@@luckymanham302 That’s not a choice. By definition it’s “a choice” but a “choice” where the other option is just as bad is coercion.
Choice is the one thing they have got, they ain't got much else.
I grew up in this neighborhood, when I got the chance I moved and never looked back.
find this video more interesting and informative than ones done in daylight with not a soul in sight. Wow... everyone looks lost, can;t find their way... tragic. Reminds me of some rough areas in Jamaica I've been through. "The American Dream" ... yeah.. okay...everyone gets a chance... at any rate, nice work, thx for posting it
You have some real guts just to drive through these streets. Gives me the creeps just watching it.
It ain't just the politicians, it's the people.
I agree.
We are not all the same. God bless, Jack.
What a nice clean no drugs neighborhood.
I live in philly and ive been there before...i cant describe how sad this is. Sad is definitely an understatement at this point. I feel so bad 🥲
OMG I live five minutes out of Detroit and I don't even think I've seen parts of Detroit this bad. I'm sure there are but I can't believe from what I've seen here that this shocked me as much as it did. Just the amount of garbage everywhere is insaaaane. This is beyond words.
What's really hard to believe is if you go the "Philadelphia Eagles" area it's a total different scene. As Pennsylvanians we need to stop putting so much money into the NFL and clean this up! Before anyone goes off on me, just think about the amount of money it takes to upkeep that area and the city can't afford to help homeless. It's disgusting.
There are no jobs. Citizens need to feel valued and feel like they are building a viable future for themselves and their loved ones. Takes skills = training and jobs that pay a living wage, not working 3 McDonalds jobs. Politicians have no tools to fix this imho.
Exactly.
@@acehandler1530 There are Help Wanted signs up EVERYWHERE.
'Citizens' need to stay in school and get a good education, to get those good - paying jobs.
No school, and it's "Do you want fries with that".
I can't believe any of these business are open it's terrifying 😳
Right 🫣
My great grandparents lived right up from Kensington & Allegheny Aves (aka the K&A) until the late 80s. It wasn’t great then, but it’s worse now.
It makes me appreciate being from a small community where people care.
I was lucky enough to have been born and raised in the mountains of Montana. I can’t even imagine living in a big city.
Absolutely incredible for me as an Austrian 🇦🇹 from Europe!
In Europe, such a situation is unthinkable!
I live in Milan Italy and the worst suburbs are a grand hotel in comparison
Austrian cities are very clean and civilized.
Now I know why Zombie movies are so popular in the US.
What a lovely city. Would surely want to raise my children there.
omg I really hope you are joking. This is a terrible place for anyone let along children!
Надеюсь это сарказм?
Watching this made all my problems in my life feel insignificant, kept me humble
Not just civic decay, moral decay.
The zombies go out at night ..
Thank you for the upload, it is very Raw. I feel so grateful to have a warm clean bed & peaceful sleep. These poor people are living a hellish nightmare.
I'm small town- as in, a few buildings in the middle of hills, valleys and farmland. I moved to a more urban area for about a decade and hated it. There's no way I'd wanna live someplace like this.
Imagine trying to run a shop in this place how do they keep going?
Probably have to do like that one store (I believe it was Walgreens?) in this video, and have a big gate in front of the store and it's parking lot to lock it all up at night. Honestly I don't know how these stores are managing it during the daytime though, because this city looks like it's going to be rough no matter what time of day or night it is. It's all sad and pathetic to say the least.
Plexiglas!
@@amandawolfe1054 everything is behind bulletproof glass
Accept EBT cards. That's what makes up the biggest percentage of any Farm Bill. Food Stamps.
You can almost feel the despair and hopelessness
I visited Philly one week a few years back. Filthiest place I've ever been too. When I got back home it felt like paradise.
Appalling, I thought there were some rough patches here in NYC but I don't think there's anywhere like this.I hope this was sent to all the area papers, news channels, and politicians.
There have for sure got to be places like this in parts of the Bronx.
149th st. & 3rd Avenue in the Bronx and a lot of Harlem. Yeah NYC has its warzones too.
Seeing all the trash and bottles being thrown in the street , I wouldn't be driving in that neighborhood. I don't need to get flat tires .
Can you tell me where I can find Rum Ham in the area?