Literally saw a dumpster that was overfilled. So, the Trash guys ain't going. But, you all can make crude oil out of all your waste. Burn everything and the smoke turns into oil with a special process.
@@allstarfania There's a Democratic Governor now in Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. I hope she can help with Flint's problems. But first, she has to fulfill her #1 campaign promise of 'fixing the damn roads!'
l kern and when the big three started shipping jobs overseas, it took away a lot of structure, and at the same time, here comes crack Cocain! Other businesses couldn’t thrive when the main the main source of the towns economy lays off 200,000 people as you said! I remember when I moved to Saginaw from New York back in 1982, it was beautiful. People had money, and nice house’s! Black teenagers got cars from their parents at 16! in New York, we didn’t get cars at 16. We took the subway. I saw the decline starting about 85/86
T Huss Unions we’re keeping you safe from what could easily been a sweat shop, learn to respect those who stand up for you class interests Neoliberalism did this to Michigan, not the poor
I LIVE IN FLINT AND WHAT HE SHOWED WAS MOST OF THE ABANDONED AREAS (WHICH EVERY CITY HAS) THIS IS NOT I REPEAT THIS IS NOT ALL FLINT HAS TO OFFER..SHEESH
Everyone's in the comments talking about how horrible this is and I'm over here like "Hey! He passed my childhood home" 😂 Moved out a long time ago though, as do many
@@kingReddy101 How are you delusional? Well, let's see. You get upset because others don't fall for the same hocus pocus bullshit that you do, you claim they're going to an imaginary place, called Hell, to 'burn for eternity' (LOL!), and then, like a hypocrite, you say they're hateful. It's hilarious, how blissfully ignorant and sick in the head you are. :'D You should be in a padded room.
Your videos will be gold in 20 years. Well they are already but you know what I mean. Historical documentation. Stay safe CharlieBo and Merry Christmas.
@W TF? Democrats for about 100 years . Still GM bailing out and abandoning contaminated properties for the Taxpayers to cleanup had something to do with Flints demise. Population drops from 500k less than 75k . State Emergency Manager takes over and causes the water crisis. I think abandoned homes is a given. Every City in the Country has the same problems with Corporate Industries leaving for tax incentives and relief in other States and Countries.
As a former Flintstone, born and raised. I have to say this is embarrassing. I love my hometown and I love what CharlieBo313 does, but I want everyone to know it wasn’t always like this. Flint used to be a bustling city full of hard working families and beautiful homes. RIP to a once amazing city. Hopefully it will rise from the ashes one day like a Phoenix
Ian, I feel your pain... Where I grew up in North Houston from 75' until 91' it was a pretty decent middle class area.. I was a bit of a problem child (ha-h) so I ventured out.. That being said, as tough as I know I am, I wouldn't drive down the streets I grew up on back then unarmed. People are getting shot there all over the place now... What would be REALLY cool is if you or anyone would post up pictures of Flint before it got to where it is now. Does Flint have a FB or other group from the past?
In other cities they have ghettos and hoods but our whole damn city is the Hood...lol..no Manhattan or uptown or Beverly Hills or Buck head to visit.....straight hood through out the whole damn city.
Thank you for producing a great video of the city of my roots. Good memories of times and travels growing up until my family moved away in the early 70's.
Thank you for your recording and your remaining into that time/space. Remind me never to say "I think I have the night off". Ha ha. What a morning! We love you all, mox.
Of the things that always leave me perplexed, the fact that even in the poorest hoods in the U.S. you would always see a "good" car in front of almost every house. A car is a luxury in my country and always comes at the tail of priorities. But in America? Sheesh, you would see a lambo parked in front of a house that, from its mere ugliness, needs to be rebuilt from scratch!
This is because US social security doesn't include price of a car in eligibility criteria. In Germany if you own a car that cost more than 7500 euro you can't apply for welfare.
The result of no jobs doesn't make you too lazy to pick up the trash in one's yard. If people don't want their neighborhood's to look like this, get up and do something. Clean it up.
@@Flatleava Investment of what exactly? You invest, the people that turned it into what it looks like will just do it again. Why can't people go outside and start picking up the trash on the streets? It doesn't take a Mayor, Governor, Police etc. to do this. I'm sure the landlords just don't give a crap to invest in their buildings either when it is full of people that just tear shit up.
These neighborhoods are talked about by our grandparetns with affection so they were not the same years ago. In the GM boom these houses were prob owned by GM workers and the neighborhood was full. Now we've all left farther and farther out and the city has been abandoned
@@tompaul2591 you mean like the majority white ghettos in the south? Or the white part of Baltimore city that's just as shitty as the rest of Baltimore? Nice try at trying to impede your racism into this.
CharlieBo, I just wanted you to know that I worry about your mental well-being. It has to be heartbreaking seeing all of the things you see and man do you see a lot. Your videos are powerful without being loud and you're doing the country a service by showing the rest of us what it's really like out there. Happy holidays to you.
@@anatucker3806, of course he shows the bad areas. If we wanted to see suburbia, anyone with a car (or an Uber) could do that. I don't think that means he's biased. He's selective in the video he shoots.
He's from a depopulated part of Detroit and he probably has plenty of people in Flint too since its only an hour away from where he grew up. It's probably not too hard on him when he's just filming the places he drives at anyway. I do appreciate all the crazy traveling he does though, rolling through hoods a thousand miles from home is what's tough.
It is VERY sad I’m all the way in Texas and this is pissing me off! God forbid we refuse to let 30 Haitians die in a fucking earthquake or tsunami but fuck let this go down in our backyard! 👍 good job government. Land of the free. Psh!
I was born and raised in Flint, it used to be a booming city until they took Buick City and AutoWorld out of here. That is when all the crime started happening in flint. It breaks my heart to see what Flint has become from what is used to be.
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I was born in flint grew up in a rough neighborhood (Merrill Hood)area around Pasadena and DuPont and the poverty only getting worse but my grandma told me General Motors jobs is the reason she moved there back in the day but the good auto jobs are gone now. Nowadays it look like a ghost town.
@Peyton Brimmer true. Any reliance on a single thing is a bad idea. But what i see is cheap real estate, empty warehouses/ factories and people that need work. Idk why American companies don't take advantage of that. I certainly would. Hell i got ideas spinning about my head right now. You know if its still possible to buy property for 5 10 20k?
Best thing that could happen to neighborhoods like this is the city takes ownership of the abandoned buildings and demolishes them, turning the land into parks, farm fields, or just letting them return to nature.
@@TheBb6prelude So do the big businesses that abandoned Flint. But they aren't willing to help pay to create parks in Flint and allow the area to 'return to nature'.
As bad as Detroit. Flint's population is now only 48% of what it was at its 1960 peak. Even Genesee County's population has declined 10% since its 1980 peak.
My hometown! There are nicer area’s in Flint! Left many years ago! Still come home every year! Only Flintstones will understand 🤞🏽♥️🎯 #Born #Raised #Flint #Michigan
Agreed i didnt recognise a single house and a lot of flint is standing like the west side we have nice houses and even mansion in flint this only hight lighted a very small part of our community
I grew up in one of these areas. Happy I was able to get out but i still have family there. The people are good people trying to make it but unfortunately the mayor and leaders are crooks
I still love my town. I haven't lived there for years but still pray for family and friends there. It's a lot of good people there that's just trying to survive and take care of their family. Im a true Flintstone ❤. I hope Santa blessed every house there.
Benton Harbor/St Joseph Michigan. The dichotomy between the two towns I used to find shocking. Just like how pretty the Michigan countryside is and how ugly the urban areas are. Merry Christmas Mr. Charlie.
@Maserati Rick nothing wrong with Kalamazoo! Michigan has been going through a rough patch, but the people are very nice and I hope things pickup soon!
Doctor Detroit Sure they do, more drug overdoses and dead people piling up from preventable disease than anywhere else. Must be a cultural thing Oh, I see that white middle aged males account for 70% of all suicides. That must just be a cultural thing, too.
Happy Happy Christmas & New Year hols there Charlie Bo ... greetings and blessings from Ireland on this frosty clear crisp morning. Admire your documentative work. Love 💖🙏
They thought that Flint had hit rock bottom in 1989 after two decades of middle class flight to its suburbs. However the automotive industry just kept declining which has caused Flint to decline even further to the point of no return. I am surprised that Flint didn't go bankrupt just like Detroit.
@Doctor Detroit I'm not american but anyone that makes a portamento of a party name and something silly is probably not a genius. Does your theory about demo-spastics hold up to analysis or is there similar dysfunctional republi-handicap states?
No, it's a city that was taken advantage of by big business and tossed away when done. Then came back again and most people working for that company lives on the outside of the city. It's just as much a corporate welfare country as it is welfare country.
@@bullonwallst Flint, MI is a symbol of capitalism failure. When big businesses can no longer profit in a certain town, they abandon it and leave it to rot. East Cleveland, OH is another symbol of capitalism failure. 100 years ago, East Cleveland was a high class town that the Rockefellers called home. Then as profits dropped, many wealthy folks in East Cleveland decided to leave. After the very wealthy left East Cleveland, it slowly began to rot and has evolved into another mess, similar to Flint. Socialist governments would never allow Flint and East Cleveland to deteriorate like this.
Me and my boyfriend Tim have been living here for the past 7 yrs. I was born here.. raised in Florida near Daytona beach but came back here to Flint in 1994. Raised my 4 kids here who are now all grown with families of their own. I attended Baker College with a college degree in business. We struggle like crazy but we make it by going day by day. We purchased a mobile home and are paying $270 a month. The park is pretty quiet and a nice neighborhood. It all don't look like this. There are some nice parts. But you just don't want to go out at night if you can help it. I don't go out at all by myself without my boyfriend. He is with me usually at all times.. he is protective. It is a poor city. There are not alot of shootings a few.. just have to watch your back and not be stupid!! Keep your wallet out of your back pocket, keep doors house and car locked all times, and watch your purse in the shopping cart.
I go out at night alllll the time by myself at any hour i choose everybody isant struggling or afraid of the dark..my dude keeps his door unlocked all the time whn hes home no one bothers him..wht ur saying is not even tru maybe 4 u bcus ur scared but thats a person problem dnt put that off on the city..
We have an online business "Pickled Barrel" at pickledbarrel.co and we make money through that store. It brings in enough for us for now. Plus my fiance has just started a business making homemade pipes and sells them. I lived on the East side for 6 years when my kids were growing up.. moved to Flushing and then on to Romulus which is a little bit from Detroit. I retired as a head teller of Chase Manhattan. I worked there many years. I attended Baker College just before landing my job at Chase. I moved from Romulus to Mount Morris in 2013 and then on to Flint off Atherton Rd and Dort Hwy where my fiance and I lived for a few years. Now we are living in a trailer park next to skateland in Mount Morris. It is quiet and the neighbors are nice here. We are hoping to sell our mobile home and get something nicer once we save up enough money. We are finding our way of making it and between the two of us... we will.
I still watch my purse in the shopping cart and lock my doors. It is called common sense. My dad got mugged when he was taking the city bus about 7 yrs ago. I also got my firebird stolen right out of my driveway.. I didn't lock it. Dumb. These incidents both happened in Flint. But it could happen anywhere. This world is crazy. Not scared just cautious.
I can't help that some of your videos like this one brings tears to my eyes. What a world we all live in that is corrupted, and messed up. May my Almighty Holy Father and His Mighty and Holy Son come back very soon!
Emilio Fernandez It is horribly sad what has happened to most older northern US cities. First middle class fight to the suburbs than disastrous urban renewal to revitalize and rebuild than deindustrialization and finally abandonment and decay.
I dont think 2020 get better because of Capitalism and Trump. Capitalism will grow and grow but the Ressources of our Planet are not endless. Capitalism carries war like the cloud the rain. Merry Christmas and good luck. Greetings from Germany.
@@FroggyFroggerAllesRoger Correct, being in Germany you can look in from the outside and clearly see the destruction of capitalism. On the inside people can't see it because they believe capitalism will benefit them. However, greed is the factor that keeps the wealthy wealthy while they suck the life from everything else and capitalism promotes greed.
I live in Canada and I thank you for showing us these videos, so people can see the reality of middle America...Canada is far from perfect, but less extreme I,d say. I've been to Philadelphia a couple times and was kind of shocked by the poverty I saw there. And L.A, don't get started, parts of it look like a Third world country. Happy 2020 to you and yours!
I currently live in Flint, and though this video shows a lot of its downfall, it’s not this run down, zombie apocalypse looking city everywhere. It is my home and until you’ve actually been here and lived here, you wouldn’t understand it has beauty as well. Is it slowly declining, yes, but some of us are actually trying to make it better. This video makes it seem way worse than it is.
I agree there is beauty in flint. THE PEOPLE! I lived on dort highway and mlk near 5th avenue. It was super run down, was shot just walking down the street, was bleeding out at hurley for two hours, was part of the u of m flint violence study, was held up at gunpoint and offered crack more times than i can count. I am white from brighton mi so i know what privlige is like, yet i have never met more wonderful kind loving black and white and hispanic people in my life. They differently werent that awesome in brighton, grand rapids or in the U.P. where i currently live. Please write me back and tell me what you think. Thank you soooo much!
I agree with Meagan. I recently moved from flint but I'll always love my city. I wouldn't change a thing about it. Some of my best memories in life are there.
Bad water , jobs vanished , not many life attracting qualities , but cheap land is always a goal when homelessness is at an all time high , Los Angeles native here who will live anywhere to get away from all these mescans and $1500 1 bedroom apt rent
Thank you for showing everyone parts of Flint most people won't see. I grew up in Flint 50 years ago and I remember those neighborhoods when the homes were new and full of people. It makes me sad that a place that used to be so full of life now seems so lonely. Flint lived and died by General Motors. I hope a great and innovative leader will someday be able to breathe new life into that town. Everyone deserves to live in a happy and pretty place. Thank you for posting this video.
I grew up in Flint and have so many memories. Many of my family members still lives there and I go back to visit every chance I get. I grew up in the area where this video was taken, which was where my great-grandmother use to stay. Pierson and Wilkins area.
This Dizzy Wright Territory right here. Much love to bro and everyone who made it out the hood! Hope they get their water fixed and everyone has a very Merry Christmas!
I live in Flint n yes it’s sad!!! These are the very poor parts of flint not all of flint look like this...We do have millions dollar houses in flint not a lot tho...If u can survive in flint u can survive anywhere in the world 🌍 U have to be a hustler so survive here...Happy Holidays!!!
you're right! There are some really nice homes off Court street, Miller Road area. But the old East side between Robert T and Dort highway are nothing but bombed out houses.
Johnny Bravo I’m not talking about selling drugs I’m saying hustle as in doing hair on the side or cutting grass etc...A hustler can make things happen I’m a hustler a go getter not a drug dealer...it’s not a lot of jobs around here at least none that will pay ur bills...anyways I wasn’t talking about a drug dealer smh 🤦♀️
bach baroque Yes ur absolutely right! Nice houses over by Mott college too...my grandma stay over by Mott in a nice house...the Eastside nothing but druggies
Born and raised in flint , raised 4 kids in flint. It's sad. Looks like a war zone if you look at an aerial photo now and one from 15 yrs ago . Flint can be great again!
I heard some 5 years ago the city switched from the Detroit water supply to the flint river water supply which was contaminated with lead in the water system at which caused a lot of effects to people health physically and mentally.
@@SalamiStayFly It is sad, the system has failed. I'm glad they got the situation under control and tightened up on quality control at the water treatment plants and are replacing old lead water lines but a lot of people are still advised to use water filters. In the USA I think everyone should have access to clean drinking water, at least for a supposed 1st world country anyway.
Thanks For The Video Tom👍 Although It Appears The HOOD Actually Left Flint. As You Were Driving Throughout Flint.. Is It Not Odd One's Mind Works On Recalling What Them House's Would Look Like "Before" All This? Loved The House That Had Xmas Decorations On The Fence Still Alfter All This💖
Thank you! My mom's house is 8:36. Appreciate your capturing of this time...but I'm going to have faith that this can only go up...can only improve, right?!
This is life for those who choose to live in EBT cards and have no desire to work but to be a parasite on those who work...this is their mindset but to breed with the biggest buck with the finest car.
Rocky Stellone Must be all blacks in Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma. That’s the top ten for ya!
Jimmy Beasley Considering your boy up there, who commented specifically on a city with a 57% black population and used the old “welfare queen” trope, made the assumption I’m gonna use reasoning and say he did. And maybe you. You wanna take up for his comment?
Some of these houses might sell for less than $10,000. I would say these would be good starter homes, but a lot of them are in horrible shape and need lots of work. Other homes shown here are in such bad condition, they should be torn down.
R McElhaney Who in their right mind would want to buy and invest in these horribly deteriorated neighborhoods. Plus violent crime is rampant in Flint making it one of the deadliest cities in the US.
My stepdad used to be a cab driver in Flint. He said there were areas in the North end where they would absolutely refuse to drive to. Too many drivers were being robbed at gun point, himself included, so they refused service to those areas. I'm surprised he never got shot.
Born and raised in the U.K. but my mother lived in Flushing from 79-84 and worked as a typist for Flint PD. Some of the stuff she typed up during murder statements etc was wild.
I'm 74, grew up in Traverse City with a ton of relatives in Flint. I spend a lot of time in Flint visiting relatives hunting pheasants and generally having a good time. Right now I'm at a loss for words and feeling a fit of depression coming on.
I also grew up in Flint MI , spent 52 years there , went to Westwood Heights schools, (Hamady Hawk) Grad in 1980. Flint used to be the place to live back where the shops were going strong. People straight out of high school were getting jobs in the shop for $27 a hour , great benefits. its all a shame , I now live in FL, I would never go back to Genesee County , and have never been back. Very different here , and sunny.
When I taught here in the 90’s and early 2000’s there were over 32 public schools in the district. There are now 12. Cody Academy Elementary where I spent most of my time is now a grassy lot. So sad.
Nothing breaks my heart more than riding through the city and seeing northern boarded up civil park boarded up and so many other schools. City became a ghost town
1 thing I, can surely say about Charlie is that, he's really exposing all of #45's lies of claiming to have made this country a better place for all. Keep up the good work Charlie!
