I lived about 3 blocks from areas like this in Atlanta and used to travel these type streets every day. Everything almost always cool during the daytime regardless of who/what you were, i would shop in any of those convenince stores and local fast food joints over a big/nice one to be honest. All that would change after dark however. The people that LIVE in these areas are great people, the people that STAY in these areas are 90% of the trouble.
Great video! I was born in Atlanta back in the 50's and grew up in Decatur. I spent most of my teenage years hanging out in Atlanta. It's a-shame to see what's going on there. Crime is so bad that the Atlanta mayor and our Governor don't know what to do about it. Every morning the first 15 minutes of the news is how many people were killed last night or how many cars were stolen or broken into. Atlanta has become the new Detroit. I live 45 miles north now but do not go downtown anymore. Thank's for making this video.
Thank you for posting another mind-blowing video. I live 30 miles from Boston where the real estate prices are through the roof (no pun intended). In my area, starter homes sell for over $500,000. It's insane. Thank goodness I bought my house 30 years ago as I would never be able to afford one today. When watching these videos, it's hard to believe we live in the same country. It's just wrong!
The affordability of a home near Boston is very low. I grew up 5 miles north of Boston. It was a kind decent town. My cousins house in Somerville with a view of the interstate sold for insane $$$. She bought a house in my hometown for $700K. So yes ,the prices are incredible. You get very little for your $$.
Sad to see so much urban blight in one city. My hometown had pockets of it, our downtown was a dangerous area throughout the 80's, but the city is actively cleaning up and revitalizing, even as the old manufacturers left some newer manufacturers moved in.
Yes so many empty towns n nice homes in the USA yet so many people r homeless living in deplorable conditions. Y don't they move 2 some of these nice places where their lives would b happy n peaceful?
Some of these abandoned buildings are too far gone. Need to bring out the bulldozer and rid the place of those really bad properties. Then gentrification has a chance of working.
Not true. I live in Atlanta, but in the Dekalb County part instead of the Fulton County section. I live on North Druid Hills road in a nice, older neighborhood. All of the homes have been updated and the property values in this area have more than doubled over the last 20 years. Every city has good and bad areas, but I do agree with you that most of the urban areas of ATL are not safe and should be avoided...especially at night! Enter at your own risk! 😱
I lived the first 20 years in Atlanta NW off Bankhead. We're talking 40s and 50s It wasn't like this then. This is what drugs do to towns. I blame this on code enforcement. If they did (what they're paid to do) it would not look this way. I live in suburbs of Atlanta and I'd be afraid to go into town.
Yes, the video was intended to show the worst areas of Atlanta - and I recognize a number of them in the video including one apartment complex a friend of mine USED to live in. However, like most large cities, there are some not so nice areas. So if you are moving here, you need to do your homework on what areas are amenable to you and what ones are not. LOTS of nice neighborhoods here!! Mostly in the N, NW and NE. I've lived here a total of 25 years and find it very enjoyable with lots of great nightlife, food, shopping, etc. It has its ups & downs like every big city.
It’s so upsetting to see so many once solidly middle-class homes abandoned, many trashed. Ridiculous! Mindfully, you let the video unfold in its deafening silence, allowing the images to make their own potent non-verbal narrative. Thank you for caring and for bringing this before the American people. “Attention must be paid.”
This is the new norm unfortunately!! As far as your question on investing in a gentrification neighborhood - this area still has buildings with good foundations/ bones. We should demand that tax dollars go to repairing the properties with potential and make them available as affordable housing with a low interest loan for low income families. What's the chances of that??
All of these houses were originally owned by people who had good paying jobs. All those jobs were exported, and those who could, fled. Low income families were all that was left, and this is the end result. Poverty leads to desperation, crime, and blight. Why would I want my tax dollars going to rebuild this, for it to happen again? This will all rebuild itself when PEOPLE have the money to do so.
Apparently lots of apartments were already built and now lay abandoned and vandalized. What can be done with any single family homes? They'll end up the same way after taxpayers pay to rebuild them.
Thankyou for posting these videos , without any commentary they are even more hard hitting . They should be compulsory viewing for every single politician in the area , regardless of party , they should be totally embarrassed and ashamed of this ....
If you make it to Jeannette i'll show you around. Several homes and an old brewery are earmarked to get demolished within a year or so. A few row houses were just burned up and considered "suspicious". On the main street Clay Ave one old department store was saved by a micro-brewery. Moe & Shemp spent three years here in the early 1920s and lived on Clay Ave. They worked in the summer theater at the now gone Oakford Park. Side note: Moe would stay two streets above me when the Stooges were in the area touring. I beaned him with a snowball around 1970 or 71.
@@hoodsnhollers i can show you a copy of a handwritten letter from Moe and show you the location where he lived with Shemp on Clay Ave. His letter said he was there in 1919 and 1920. Also i can show you the location where Oakford Park was .
I blame Atlanta officials. They were so busy trying to make Atlanta great they forgot about those who never were elevated. You can't mistreat those who have the least then expect to prosper.
So when they gentrify a place like that, where do these people go, I mean gentrifying would mean pushing the people out of the area because they can no longer afford to live there. And how in the world do you gentrifying a terrifying hood.
I watched this whole thing, and knowing even worse parts of Mckeesport that you missed in your video, (I live in Mckeesport, you actually drove past my house), I still think we have the worst town in America.
I love your videos man! I (unfortunately???) Live in one of the towns you've been through hahaha How do you record your videos? Are you inside a car? My gf keeps saying it looks like you're riding a scooter wearing a helmet or something hahaha
I see the city is adopting more and more police street cams. We have them on every street in Memphis. Our crime is out of control, But i lived in Atlanta for 4 years and it was pretty bad too.
Only the people that lives here for years survive this dangerous neightborhoods ,there are occupied homes and some look abandoned. How scary must be at night. I would never live here not Even if i get everything free.
I believe in One thing,changes are sustainable while prosperity come with struggle and hard work and You lost your time with much due to greed. We Indian were much balanced our life 20 years before and now have wealth but not that happy life,here everyone in race of more and more wealthy the same way they are loosing natural aspact. I am now willing to live and want to generalized these kind of places. A balanced life is more important than hunger of earning only wealth.
I used to work in some of these areas and I can truly say that the houses/apts may be raggedy but there were some nice cars with expensive sounds systems.
I have never seen so many boarded up houses in my life. Makes me glad my city tears down all old decrepit abandoned houses. Keeps my city clean and safe.
No I would not live in areas or invest if I had money to invest. It would be like putting perfume on a pig. Not blaming the people who have no choice to live their, totally not their fault. However, with having a choice, I would not choose bad areas that were gentrified. Hope that explains my perspective. Also, great footage 👍🏻
Just wanted to let you know I watch and like all your videos. I watch TH-cam on my smart TV so I don't comment. Figure it was time to grab the phone to let you know
This is actually prime real estate in ATL and a great investment for gentrification. Would I invest? If I had the money, but only if there was affordable housing in place for dislocated residents. And I mean properly managed affordable housing, well kept properties, background checks for residency, and measures to keep low income families safer, being able to thrive within their community.
I was born and raise in Atlanta till we finally moved when I turned 15 go to capital homes go threw the neighborhood by the federal pin go to cabbage town go threw the streets we’re Martin Luther king middle school and smith high school is you will see smith high school had a day care across the street for students so they would go to school I don’t miss it all oh go threw little fivepoints
I feel like I’m watching TV with no sound! But that’s cool too if you would rather not talk to us! I understand! Then you would feel like you were taking to yourself.😊
Honestly the place was beautiful, the house are nice it just need a little renovation if I could get a chance to live in that kind of place I would love too..
Why is the place so quite , big houses but no people living there? Wish we have that here in philippines, just kidding sir. But i enjoy watching seeing quite places. I love it.thank u
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Thank you I think your videos are important. I will say they need some sound of some kind of sound going while they are playing would make a huge difference music, car noise , something.
there we go...i was wondering when the next drive would occur. thank you. Gentrification...i'd get in quick smart but perhaps in an area where there are others doing the same. Easy for me to say from here in Oz. But surely the prices of land/house would be attractive. Why are so many vehicles parked with the nose facing the street? I would have thought this is just giving thieves a good opportunity to relocate your car
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All I can think is "don't break down, don't get a flat tire". 😱
I wouldn't even want to stop at stop signs.
I love taking a ride along with you, especially with no talking. It has so much more impact ! Thanks !
Thank you so much for watching!
I lived about 3 blocks from areas like this in Atlanta and used to travel these type streets every day. Everything almost always cool during the daytime regardless of who/what you were, i would shop in any of those convenince stores and local fast food joints over a big/nice one to be honest. All that would change after dark however. The people that LIVE in these areas are great people, the people that STAY in these areas are 90% of the trouble.
Live in a dump but drive nice cars.
Your videos are far more educational than public school classes. Thank you.
Thanks so much I appreciate that!
For Real
Imagine the ppl that worked hard & made those houses homes only decades later destroyed by their grandchildren
Kudos to the girl with the lemonade stand. I hope better things come her way 👍
That’s what I’m sayin
She started when she was a little bit younger than what she says now she been out there for a minute
Pon el traductor friend
Great video! I was born in Atlanta back in the 50's and grew up in Decatur. I spent most of my teenage years hanging out in Atlanta. It's a-shame to see what's going on there. Crime is so bad that the Atlanta mayor and our Governor don't know what to do about it. Every morning the first 15 minutes of the news is how many people were killed last night or how many cars were stolen or broken into. Atlanta has become the new Detroit. I live 45 miles north now but do not go downtown anymore. Thank's for making this video.
Thank you for posting another mind-blowing video. I live 30 miles from Boston where the real estate prices are through the roof (no pun intended). In my area, starter homes sell for over $500,000. It's insane. Thank goodness I bought my house 30 years ago as I would never be able to afford one today. When watching these videos, it's hard to believe we live in the same country. It's just wrong!
Thanks so much for watching! I love the New England area but yeah those prices are out of this world.
Gracias amigo
@@hoodsnhollers how much do houses in this area (your video) go for? Did you ask?
The affordability of a home near Boston is very low. I grew up 5 miles north of Boston. It was a kind decent town. My cousins house in Somerville with a view of the interstate sold for insane $$$. She bought a house in my hometown for $700K. So yes ,the prices are incredible. You get very little for your $$.
My heart is just breaking watching this.
Sad to see so much urban blight in one city. My hometown had pockets of it, our downtown was a dangerous area throughout the 80's, but the city is actively cleaning up and revitalizing, even as the old manufacturers left some newer manufacturers moved in.
Thanks for the road trip!
And thanks for making me more grateful for the nice home I live in!
America has streets many blocks long, of homeless ppl, and whole towns of empty houses. So hard to understand.
Check out Kensington Ave., Philadelphia some time. It makes this look like upscale living.
I have a few kensington and Philly videos on my channel check em out !
Yes so many empty towns n nice homes in the USA yet so many people r homeless living in deplorable conditions. Y don't they move 2 some of these nice places where their lives would b happy n peaceful?
Some of these abandoned buildings are too far gone. Need to bring out the bulldozer and rid the
place of those really bad properties. Then gentrification has a chance of working.
So where'd everybody go? Sheesh. That's a lot of abandoned housing.
They're on section 8 somewhere else in the metro.
Every part of Atlanta is the dangerous part.
Not true. I live in Atlanta, but in the Dekalb County part instead of the Fulton County section. I live on North Druid Hills road in a nice, older neighborhood. All of the homes have been updated and the property values in this area have more than doubled over the last 20 years. Every city has good and bad areas, but I do agree with you that most of the urban areas of ATL are not safe and should be avoided...especially at night! Enter at your own risk! 😱
Anyplace is dangerous, depends on who/what you are or what any given situation is
I grew up in a small suburb that was gentrified by people moving from the inner-city. It didn't go well and it's a crime ridden dump now.
One thing I’ve noticed is the state of the house, yet they have rather new and expensive cars parked out the front.
This is good information for ppl that relocate to different cities/states to know where NOT to live👍
I lived the first 20 years in Atlanta NW off Bankhead. We're talking 40s and 50s
It wasn't like this then. This is what drugs do to towns. I blame this on code enforcement. If they did (what they're paid to do) it would not look this way. I live in suburbs of Atlanta and I'd be afraid to go into town.
They done the same thing to Atlanta they done to Detroit.
And camden and new orleans
And East Cleveland and a lot of Ohio.
Yep.
Glad someone else is noticing
And allow it every single time
I'm from the D, and yes you're right: also in Florida and Harlem...... it's a shame how Detroit and Harlem are becoming.
I would like to support the young lady with the lemonade stand❤
Yes, the video was intended to show the worst areas of Atlanta - and I recognize a number of them in the video including one apartment complex a friend of mine USED to live in. However, like most large cities, there are some not so nice areas. So if you are moving here, you need to do your homework on what areas are amenable to you and what ones are not. LOTS of nice neighborhoods here!! Mostly in the N, NW and NE. I've lived here a total of 25 years and find it very enjoyable with lots of great nightlife, food, shopping, etc. It has its ups & downs like every big city.
The early 90s and 80s ATL was much worse
Facts
Lord, have mercy! Thank you, sir.
It’s so upsetting to see so many once solidly middle-class homes abandoned, many trashed. Ridiculous!
Mindfully, you let the video unfold in its deafening silence, allowing the images to make their own potent non-verbal narrative.
Thank you for caring and for bringing this before the American people. “Attention must be paid.”
This is the new norm unfortunately!! As far as your question on investing in a gentrification neighborhood - this area still has buildings with good foundations/ bones. We should demand that tax dollars go to repairing the properties with potential and make them available as affordable housing with a low interest loan for low income families. What's the chances of that??
All of these houses were originally owned by people who had good paying jobs. All those jobs were exported, and those who could, fled. Low income families were all that was left, and this is the end result. Poverty leads to desperation, crime, and blight.
Why would I want my tax dollars going to rebuild this, for it to happen again?
This will all rebuild itself when PEOPLE have the money to do so.
Apparently lots of apartments were already built and now lay abandoned and vandalized. What can be done with any single family homes? They'll end up the same way after taxpayers pay to rebuild them.
Thankyou for posting these videos , without any commentary they are even more hard hitting . They should be compulsory viewing for every single politician in the area , regardless of party , they should be totally embarrassed and ashamed of this ....
Thanks so much for watching!
If you make it to Jeannette i'll show you around. Several homes and an old brewery are earmarked to get demolished within a year or so. A few row houses were just burned up and considered "suspicious". On the main street Clay Ave one old department store was saved by a micro-brewery. Moe & Shemp spent three years here in the early 1920s and lived on Clay Ave. They worked in the summer theater at the now gone Oakford Park. Side note: Moe would stay two streets above me when the Stooges were in the area touring. I beaned him with a snowball around 1970 or 71.
I plan on that in the near future. Thanks so much for watching!
@@hoodsnhollers i can show you a copy of a handwritten letter from Moe and show you the location where he lived with Shemp on Clay Ave. His letter said he was there in 1919 and 1920. Also i can show you the location where Oakford Park was .
I blame Atlanta officials. They were so busy trying to make Atlanta great they forgot about those who never were elevated. You can't mistreat those who have the least then expect to prosper.
Wonderful morning! Sweet sunny day! Clean nature!
So when they gentrify a place like that, where do these people go, I mean gentrifying would mean pushing the people out of the area because they can no longer afford to live there. And how in the world do you gentrifying a terrifying hood.
I watched this whole thing, and knowing even worse parts of Mckeesport that you missed in your video, (I live in Mckeesport, you actually drove past my house), I still think we have the worst town in America.
I love your videos man! I (unfortunately???) Live in one of the towns you've been through hahaha
How do you record your videos? Are you inside a car? My gf keeps saying it looks like you're riding a scooter wearing a helmet or something hahaha
That’s great LOL! I’m inside a car, maybe when it gets warm out again I’ll do some motorcycle angles but definitely won’t be on any scooters haha
I wonder what these neighbor hoods looked like 20 years ago I bet they were alot nicer an happier
20years to 30 it's was beautiful place to live. My family from down. There. It's change like everything thing else.nothing never say same.
Gee , I wonder why .
What kind of camera are you using
I see the city is adopting more and more police street cams. We have them on every street in Memphis. Our crime is out of control, But i lived in Atlanta for 4 years and it was pretty bad too.
Lemonade stand has got to be the most adorable front ever
Only the people that lives here for years survive this dangerous neightborhoods ,there are occupied homes and some look abandoned. How scary must be at night. I would never live here not Even if i get everything free.
You'd be surprised at how many homeless people live in those bandos.
Hola!!! I just love ur vids!!! TY you ROCK!
Hola Deborah! Thank you so much!
Home of the walking dead.
That's every we're now
Great video. This is the home of my Atlanta braves
damn 38 4 children and selling lemonade on the street corner
Why is it that in these videos the houses are falling apart but there's cars parked around them that are quite new?
What part of Atlanta is this? What neighborhood??
He was cutting in between all the worsts parts of each area but most of it was Bankhead, right next to the falcons stadium.
I was wondering too because I never seen this part of Atlanta 😳
Vine City/Bankhead area
Atlanta? Why am I not surprised or shocked.
For Fuel.
Wow thank you so much Deborah! I appreciate it so much! Thanks for being around from the very beginning!
The gentrification is part of the blight.
ATL has had areas like these for as long as I can remember. I attended GA Tech in the 60s, and these rough areas existed then.
Hey you ain't been down here to Holmes county bonifay Florida is just as bad but what can we do you have a blessed evening
I believe in One thing,changes are sustainable while prosperity come with struggle and hard work and You lost your time with much due to greed.
We Indian were much balanced our life 20 years before and now have wealth but not that happy life,here everyone in race of more and more wealthy the same way they are loosing natural aspact.
I am now willing to live and want to generalized these kind of places.
A balanced life is more important than hunger of earning only wealth.
You know it's rough when they close down apartment complexes.
Gentrification is such a broad term. Wouldn't it always be nice to have new money come into a place that needs it?
I used to work in some of these areas and I can truly say that the houses/apts may be raggedy but there were some nice cars with expensive sounds systems.
I have never seen so many boarded up houses in my life. Makes me glad my city tears down all old decrepit abandoned houses. Keeps my city clean and safe.
if there borded up with no electricity it should be up to the owners or city to bulldoze them down after 90 days no ifs or buts about it
Well nowadays you can get shot anywhere in n ATL/metro area so really he could’ve just rode around anywhere lol
Why are all these houses shut down ? What happened to the people who lived there ?
They were renters. The owners wouldn't repair the houses so section 8 relocated them.
No I would not live in areas or invest if I had money to invest. It would be like putting perfume on a pig. Not blaming the people who have no choice to live their, totally not their fault. However, with having a choice, I would not choose bad areas that were gentrified. Hope that explains my perspective. Also, great footage 👍🏻
I'm glad I have that kind of background...always feel kinda warm and at home in those kinds of places.
I can’t say the same fr since I’m from fl the area itself is so beautiful. I can see why it’s called the city in a forest.
When will you do New Orleans?
Probably before summers end
@@hoodsnhollers bet. Let me know if u need locations.
You need to say where you are so we can avoid them.
Esse é o lado triste dos Estados Unidos que poucas pessoas mostram e falam.
Just wanted to let you know I watch and like all your videos. I watch TH-cam on my smart TV so I don't comment. Figure it was time to grab the phone to let you know
Thanks so much Ronnielee!
Hope you do a video in NY city. Its a mess there too.
I will in the future. Thanks for watching !
I was born in Atlanta but living here could get you killed. You're brave even driving here.
Entrando na quebrada de atlanta deve ser muito perigoso ai até a noite é pior
That was eye opening
This is actually prime real estate in ATL and a great investment for gentrification. Would I invest? If I had the money, but only if there was affordable housing in place for dislocated residents. And I mean properly managed affordable housing, well kept properties, background checks for residency, and measures to keep low income families safer, being able to thrive within their community.
I was born and raise in Atlanta till we finally moved when I turned 15 go to capital homes go threw the neighborhood by the federal pin go to cabbage town go threw the streets we’re Martin Luther king middle school and smith high school is you will see smith high school had a day care across the street for students so they would go to school I don’t miss it all oh go threw little fivepoints
Capitol Homes been gone since 2003. It got demolished and replaced by Capitol Gateway.
Captivating
I feel like I’m watching TV with no sound! But that’s cool too if you would rather not talk to us! I understand! Then you would feel like you were taking to yourself.😊
Im ur new subscriber from today... and im really shocked to watching these videos😳😳
Anybody here lived in Brandywine Apartments, or the complex across from it in the early 70s?
Which Town n City is this???
Atlanta, Georgia.
Things are bad in Boston and California. Wish you get a chance to video record it.
I’ll do them in the near future for sure
@@hoodsnhollers yes definitely in Cali🌴
It's sad no one is interested in helping these Atlantans apply for loans offered by the city to redo their homes in many historical areas.
I think I saw a geek monster
Honestly the place was beautiful, the house are nice it just need a little renovation if I could get a chance to live in that kind of place I would love too..
Why is the place so quite , big houses but no people living there? Wish we have that here in philippines, just kidding sir. But i enjoy watching seeing quite places. I love it.thank u
It's dark between them houses you'll get caught up
Atlanta - Georgia, is it the town of the walking dead serial movies take place?
How much does a regular house cost now days
Kenapa begitu sepi...?
Tidak ada orang apalgi anak anak...? Seperti tidak ada kehidupan di dalam nya...
Hanya rumah rumah yang kosong tidak berpenghuni dan mobil yang terparkir
Thank you I think your videos are important. I will say they need some sound of some kind of sound going while they are playing would make a huge difference music, car noise , something.
Are you not getting any audio at all? I have the car noise and surroundings audio on there.
Why is it dangerous but there are still people living there?
This part of Atlanta looks just like Alabama & Mississippi with those tiny shotgun houses
Every state has those
Looks like your driving through Mogadishu or something. What a dump. Hard to believe that places like this exist in the US.
really looks dangerous---lots graffitis---signs of thug life!!!
you be safe out there and anywhere..i pray inJESUSNAME
thanks for sharing
Bankhead NOT Buckhead and
Why dangerous, because of bandits or ghost ?
Nada comparado ao Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷
12:09 Does someone left that scooter there? That thing cost about $400-$500.
No, I couldn't live there now, but I can invest in those areas being gentrified.
there we go...i was wondering when the next drive would occur. thank you. Gentrification...i'd get in quick smart but perhaps in an area where there are others doing the same. Easy for me to say from here in Oz. But surely the prices of land/house would be attractive.
Why are so many vehicles parked with the nose facing the street? I would have thought this is just giving thieves a good opportunity to relocate your car
Investors bought everything up during the recession and are sitting now.
If I had the money I’d invest in some properties
Tem quê traduzir para o português só imagem.
And I wanted to relocate to Georgia now I am scared show us the safe places to live in georgia
Scared to see this place
So like where are all the poor people at that used to live?
Keep spirit