I Went Back To California. My Home Town Looks Like A War Zone. 

We work for a sanitation company that does work for TV/film not to long ago we were power washing in downtown LA and it is so disgusting, piss and crap everywhere drug use and the city is filthy I threw up a few times. This is all happening right next to high end lofts that go for $5k a month.

@LeRoy SL You know whats even more crazy, those people who live in those lofts are oblivious to all the homeless, drugs, piss and poop, trash and crime all around them. They literally sit at nice restaurants or at coffee shops with all this crap around them like nothing's wrong, it's so fucking bizarre.

Yeah. Homelessness is literally state wide.

No its not. Stop Lying to people. I live in north county san diego and its nothing like you say.

@@eduardomendoza2015 there are places that are still nice, true. But homelessness is NOT just in the big cities. The central valley has a ton of homelessness. The high desert communities have plenty of homeless encampments. The bay area aside from Frisco has huge homelessness populations. IT IS STATE WIDE.

When people don't have hope....it's a big decline in standard of living for everyone. Look like it's happening in the US quickly.

All by design. Elitists want to destroy it all to rebuild it in their own image.

Throughout my travels, those that moved out of Democrat cities and states, have enjoyed success and prosperity. This woke, diversity, inclusion, equity is minority bull sheet.

@@YA-qj8fxIt’s not going to work. When you push agendas on people who don’t like it you’re asking for people to rebel. If it’s not them destroying our country we got to destroy it ourselves to rebuild it but we know nothing is never going to be the same.

I keep telling all of you! That usa 🇺🇸 will become Venezuela 🇻🇪! Wake up sheep 🐑 rat 🐀 racers!!! Solution is leave usa 🇺🇸! Plenty of other way better countries

Alot of midwest towns are pure middle class and doing just fine

To a country that no longer honors God.

Yes, I left San Bernardino in 1966. It’s a real mess . Very sad .

Was still good when i moved here in early 80’s

You may have gone to HS with my father-in-law. Born in ‘50, graduated from SBHS in 1968. Escaped to Cal Poly in SLO, became an architect and never came back.

And 1970 was just about the time the Democrats took over the Legislation !

​@@richardbird9326Democrats have dominated urban areas since that time, Republicans however have increasingly dominated rural areas, which also have more crime, drugs, and general dysfunction than they did pre-1970.

you do know how large California is right ? there are good and bad places anywhere you go . i travel all over there are good and bad places everywhere you go people do not like to tell you about there bad areas.

beaches, cars, music, lifestyle are still there... this town is very inland

This is all delivered our politicians are enemies of the people filled with greed. Moved all our corporations overseas.

The UN ruins everything

@@VinhTran-rr9zr Go to Santa Cruz, Monterey, Seaside, Carmel for the good shit.

the government didn't put up money to move manufacturing facilities out of the country. That's all done by private enterprise (or foreign governments). It makes no sense for any government to pay money to shrink its tax base.

In the early 80's I saw a news report on a factory closing down. It was one of those factories that employed at least several hundred for generations. The kind of factory that built a solid and stable working middle class. IIRC it made small household products but it could no longer compete price wise with imports. At that moment I knew America was going to change economically and not for the better.

it's not a big deal - we have telecommuting. Hire from anywhere for anything.

Americans don't protest 🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧 they don't do anything they just let the Democratic party 🎉🥳 destroy America and turn us into a third world country ❗😈 Communism is next❗

The Clinton legacy.

I hope you are not anywhere near Deabornistan.

I can really relate to what you are saying,I am now glad that I got stationed in south dakota in the air force instead of California back in 1983 to 1985 .,It sure does look like it,s a real mess down there these days.

California became so hedonistic it started rotting from within as leftist agendas took root.

I went from growing up in San Bernardino to now living in riverside and riverside is just a more classier ghetto than SB, but at least it’s a little better. I couldn’t stand being in San Bernardino. Sometimes my heart would race when I seen people argue because in SB anything can happen! If anybody else is in San Bernardino please get out. My little brother is from west side verdugo and is doing life for killing . He got locked up when he was 18, and it was all for a gang. That is not a life to live and to all the young kids trying to make a name is SB I hope you come across this video and these comments one day to see how moronic you are.

And this is the difference between a single mother vs. a single father. A single mother would continue to live there with their child committing child neglect all because she can live off of cheap/free limited resources.

@@spankbuda5760 agreed! The system in San Bernardino county is so corrupt it’s a joke. They get the dads for the max amount of child support because that’s how the government gets paid. When I went to the child support office in Ontario the lady at the booth even told me most of their income comes from fathers who pay child support. Fathers get bent over sideways because we not only have to pay child support but also pay taxes still for the people who live off of welfare and food stamps. So basically we are paying double for people to be in assistance. My kids mother was abusing the system and I called fraud on her and made the welfare office so their job instead of just collecting government tax money. She was collecting welfare and food stamps while living with her new bf she just had a kid with and he has a house with a good job. He’s a CO, go figure someone who works in the law enforcement field helping someone break the law. She wasn’t reporting him, their new kid, or her new address and now she had a job and is no longer taking advantage.

@@spankbuda5760 your comment is sexist and wrong. I’m from Pennsylvania so I simply moved back where I came from. There are lots of great single mothers doing the right thing for their children. I know them. But of course there are many single mothers who aren’t, there are also many more single mothers than single fathers because far more women don’t give up on raising their children. People deserve to be judged as individuals not completely written off because you think everyone in a group is the same, they aren’t.

@@benkelly7182 You poor soul. You keep thinking that. It's not sexist when I'm pointing out the obvious. And you're incorrect about the mothers giving up on their children because if these single mothers really wanted the best for their child they would've picked the correct suitor to be a husband and a father. When the courts provide FREE legal aid to women while the man must pay for his attorney fees/court cost, his rent, miss work, his personal bills, and child support during the court proceedings sounds as she receiving handouts from every directions seems more sexist. You obviously don't know the negative statistics with children coming out of single mother homes while you're praising the one's that YOU know as if they make up the large percentage of single mothers. See I don't have to tell you my personal experiences when you can go to these areas where single mothers live at. You can monitor these children undisciplined behaviors. You can watch the NBA and the NFL players behaviors. They have done studies upon studies concerning this. Children brought up in single mother homes are: 5 times more likely to commit suicide, 9 times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape, 20 times more likely to end up in prison, 32 times more likely to run away from home. 70% of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long sentences, were raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous, and more likely to end up divorced. I was complimenting you for being a father especially being a father to your daughter. But what you just typed you sound like a female minded simp. Single mothers are for recreational use only!

And then add in the scammers who take what little is left of people's livelihood through theft. SMH and crying...

Sorry to say bro , but your government use American Taxpayer Money to invaded other countries for their own Imperialist Agenda and don't seem to taking care its people anymore .

Agree as a civilization USA and UK is dead

Some blame money blown on war or jobs going offshore!

From the book "Why We Fight" published by the German Army Personnel Office in 1944 *"Roosevelt believes he can lead the American folk to world domination with Jewry‟s help. He will no longer be able to banish the spirits he summoned. The future will prove that Roosevelt led his folk and with it all of America into an age of pitiful decline and JewishBolshevik chaos."* The problems faced by America are far greater than most can imagine. That's why the situation is so dire.

I came to San Diego in 1985. It is still the finest city in America. I've been to many states, and there will always be bad neighborhoods. Of course, CA has suffered from Democrat politicians for so many years. Our current President is a good example of what happens when this party wins elections. We really need to vote them out.

I read your post, having lived in the Pacific Northwest all my life until a few years ago I would be interested in where you live. I still have friends in that area mostly the Bellevue area where I grew up. Even though I don't live there any more I still keep up with what is happening there and the decline due to the liberal politics. How about a little history lesson, the last Republican mayor was in 1970 and his name is Wes Ulhman. The last Republican govenor was in 1984 John Spellman. The last Republican Senator was in the 70's but I can't remember his name. After the Seattle Pilots left Seattle in 1969 after just one season there he sued MLB baseball and Seattle was given a new franchise the Mariners in 1977. We see a huge divide occcuring in Seattle, people with their ever appreciating homes, their Starbucks in one hand and cheering on he progressive agenda with the other. I have always had a heart for those that are hungry and homeless, but this problem has grown out of control. Reducing felonies to misdemaors, the roles have been reversed The criminal is now the victim due to oppression, racisim and the true victim has been made out to be the criminal. Leaders in Seattle did nothing when the riots occurred after George Floyd letting the city be destroyed and burn't down. Business owners who shops were vandalized and destroyed and were forced out of business or left. How can we forget about Chaz, the mayor remember calling it the summer of love letting protestors take over a six block area while the police were forced to standby and do nothing until somebody died. How can I forget the drugs, providing needles to addicts and setting up designanted areas to shoot up drugs.I think the attitude in the Seattle area it is not a problem until it shows up on my doorstep then it is a problem. If you love mountains and lakes and hiking there is no better place to be as you can escape one day all the madness going for least one day. Seattle may look to some to be heaven on earth I guess that depends on where your moving from and comparing the two cities.

Pacific Northwest is beautiful but is now just like California sad

​@@marysegura5157true, visited seattle and couldnt help thinking how beutiful this place would be if it got its stuff together. Like a much bigger victoria ca.

California was a paradise before mass immigration caused white erasure.

That was before the Pelosi's and gang were in charge!

Shopping malls are in your description of heaven -- LMAO. As you were....

That was when Republicans were running things.

When my parents were born in So Cal in the 30s and me in the 50s, it was an amazing place to live. I left for Goa, India in 2015. No regrets.

I am so sorry.

OMG that's really horrible. I'm sorry.😢

So sorry , total breakdown of civilised behaviour,drugs so evil...your dear grandma did her best to show a good example,May a God bless her dear soul.Amen....

Curious. How do you vote?

@@Rockhound6165 doesnt matter, democrat or republican, different side of the same devil's coin

We're still in the "Destruction Phase", Joe's good at that.

And to add on: I’m not trying to advocate for blind positivity. We are absolutely in a crisis with many areas in the US (and have been for many years), but the people who just go “lol everything is fucked” aren’t really helping, so what are you gonna do about it? Nothing? Cool then hop off and make bandwidth for people who are ready and willing to help.

I can't imagine being the owner.

@@extropiantranshuman agreed....sad stuff

I mean, in Truth, this video is about San Bernardino... before it was trvshed,...it was a deserted open lot. So...like alot of things "ppl" talk about in YT...kinda misleading.🦊🚬

@@intermodus2180 so your saying my friends who live there that say this is exactly whats happening are just lying? It amazes me that people seem to think other people have no ties to california to confirm the shithole cali has become.

I AM the old(ish) guy watching it happen, in my case it's either little working class family homes get run down, bars appearing on the windows and well-tended gardens going to weeds and trash everywhere, or the opposite--house flippers from out of state pricing out the long time residents and hipster businesses and chains replacing family run businesses.

No bins! Where do you put trash?

It's not until I started watching channels like Not Just Bikes and this one that I realized how utterly depressing and dystopian a lot of the USA looks. Completely centered around cars as a method of transportation, to the detriment of the overall quality of life.

Buddy the problem is a bit bigger than that. Stores aren’t their because they’ll be looted DRY

​@@Flameseeker006 As long as you have enough space for parking lots, cars are a really good method of transportation. The lack of public transport has nothing to do with the condition these neighbourhoods are in.

That's cause nicks only showing the most disgusting, little tiny parts that he can find. There's 100s of grocery stores, markets here, places to eat etc. Don't lesion to this guy, find someone else or go look for yourself. A lot of facts he said are true but it still not as bad as places like in LA or in the east cost like Detroit

The only credit with more low-income residents is the better street tacos to eat from the stands.

Blue urban culture is not American culture. Them voting Democrat makes them a third world country.

@@pandemicofvaxxedholes yep same thing is happening in Portland where I’m from

At least it's a good place to practice one's criminal skills so that they don't get caught, because with inflation getting worse faster than it's been in decades, you'll need criminal skills. Plus, some people were truly made for crime. Texas is not a good state for that purpose I just mentioned.

*Time to stop visiting, I'd say. Way too crowded and expensive anyway. What are all these millions of people thinking?!*

@@gordon3186 I have or at least had alot of family in San Diego and ig the tourist areas are cool if you haven’t been but even those places are getting bad

make mexico great again

The whole world is perishing. Bible prophecy is fulfilling before eyes that can see it because they studied it.

are you ok? why so fatalistic? my state has nothing even close to bernardino even at its worse

@@ROMVS but close to mexico

@@henrikfox8960 According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas "Mexico's economic growth continues, inflation moderates". Just watched a video that Mexico is benefiting from US China trade war, maybe if they continue to improve, less people will want to move to the US with a plot twist of some people moving from poorer areas in the US to Mexico instead. Sounds like a plot in a propaganda movie but I wouldn't be mad if that happened.

God, it's scary

Ya know what they say right? One persons poo stains is another persons gold. Especially if she sexy.

Take a look at Kensington Ave in Philly. Block after block of people shooting up in plain view, mountains of trash everywhere. China is waging war on the US with cheap Fentanyl and nobody is waking up to it.

I live in a small town down state Illinois ...it's that way here now .

It is a shame what has happened to California , when I was growing up is was the State everyone wanted to move to when they got through School , now people are fleeing the State

I lived all over the country. There are worse ghettos in the midwest... chicago, muncie, east st louis, seattle, brownsville brooklyn. Its all relative.

Blame this problem on the Government and local Politicians good none educated jobs long gone was the demise of this country and price increase on taxes housing cars food etc.

Blame the voters!

​@Ben are you saying Muncie indiana is this bad?

@@billstill1794 you probably are uneducated and dontt understand how economies work

Yeah, buddy. I don’t think Nick or most of his followers are on board with criticizing the rich, lol.

You should see what unfettered socialism looks like...try Cuba. Go live there.

Move

What does the rich have to do with unkempt yards and houses? You can be poor, but you don't have to be trashy

Lol you blame this on capitalism.

The fall of the Roman empire. Yes, pray. Everyone pray.

When I came back to LA - I won't recognize the city. Was walking in downtown at night, I'm still alive somehow. Even found a way to buss station without Google. It's looks like after judgement day in 2029. 😅

​@@hallieadams4225 too much praying and not enough doing.

​​@@hallieadams4225 roman empire?

Bad immigration policies are one of the problems.

N. Carolina is awesome...

you can do it! all you need is a form of transportation and about a grand or two in your pocket

It's a long way but Springfield, Mo is pretty nice. We have crime like everywhere, but our Mall is intact and very busy, clean streets and the homeless are not allowed to camp wherever they want. Housing prices are decent and good schools.

The MSM would have you believe that the decline of the dollar is 'actually a good thing' , but this neighborhood is the fruit that is wrought, all the while begging for more of the same. More debt, same wage. Less value, higher demand, zero supply. California will be indistinguishable from the slums of Mumbai in another 20 years, with the rest of the country in tow. You heard the lady, "It's our own fault".

Yet the voters keep putting the same elected officials back into office so apparently CA voters love how their state looks.

He actually looks and sounds as if he's on some kind of drug. But he's got dreams. He's doing a lot of talk, tho he literally has no pull. Good luck

lol - yup he sure could find the shiny needle in that haystack from hell.

Something just occured to me. A couple weeks ago. Why don't some of the residents clean this up? It's all garbage. If more garbage shows up again keep picking it up. Volunteers. Youth groups, Civic groups, neighborhood groups. California- Be California! This is what liberals do. Conservatives, conserve and hold back. Liberals, the word comes from the word Liberty. Freedom. An example is-A lotion bottle..Spread on liberally..Spread on a lot. Spread on Conservatively. Hold back. Spread on very little. Help one another. I am not even talking about encampments. Those will come a little later. California

Another Sam Bankman Fried wannabe.

Robert Palmer definitely has the same disease most people in California have. His order of operations is deeply flawed. You MUST fix the homeless/drugs/crime problems BEFORE you rebuild downtown, revitalize parks, art walks, etc. You can't have nice things when zombies are walking around town 24x7.

WELL Y'ALL GOT WHAT YOU KEPT VOTING FOR YR AFTER YR.

I wonder why it went 3rd world, any ideas?

@@Jerrymac333 Democrats took over everything

Same here....

@@Jerrymac333 NAFTA, DESTROYING THE UNIONS, NAZIS IN THE CIA, AND SPENDING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DESTROY THE SOVIET UNION!-LESLIE C. MOORE

Pelosi Newsome gruesome town

I live about an 1hour and a half away. I haven’t been there in 10 years because of the conditions you described . I can only imagine what it looks like now

San Francisco has been a shit hole for a long time. However, it's gotten particularly bad in the last 2 years. Absolute cesspool of filth, homelessness, drugs, prostitution, you name it. People piss and shit in the streets there too

@@natestrasburg all true. Hotel staff advised us not to go for a stroll at night. Taxi driver wouldn’t stop at red lights after midnight.

Democrats have ruined California. And people keep voting for them. I now have ZERO sympathy for that state.

Divorce time

Run……don’t walk 😢

From so cal and grew up in la county. LA near the city... Even the wealthy areas are the last place I would want to be. Literally the weather is the only thing unique and beautiful. But even then that's only if you are by the coast. Inland can be crap in summer.

Life long Marylander here,....born and raised in P.G County,......now retired and living in Anne Arundel County. The more I travel the country the more I realize ''Maryland is paradise'',....and you can also be at the beach in the morning,...and in the mountains in the afternoon.

I would say move.........but............if you don't have conservative values like nuclear family, love Jesus, love guns, believe in hard work, like to help others, and so forth. Please stay there, if you do have those values, come to the mid-west, we don't have oceans or huge trees, but for many of us that is ok and there is a reason we stay here. No way if you paid me I would ever live on the west coast, or leave in most states on the east coast, both have became everything America was never meant to be.

Yep that's all gone now

Living in Texas back in 1980s San Bernardino used to be mentioned on TV movies and such as a nice place to live. I visited california 2 years ago and that place is a shit place now.

I was born here, my dad was born here, and his dad was born here. That was back when citrus drove the San Bernardino/East Highland economy

Same I was born in San Bernardino and raised near Cherry in Fontana. Some of my family still live in San Bernardino in a few apartment complexes.

Desert rats

Watch me not care.

@@243wayne1 I hear rope is on sale.

@@243wayne1 You cared enough to comment.

@@trees915 *WRONG.*

You can't handle the diversity! (Neither can San Bernardino)

SB has always been a ghetto!

Left LA over 2 years ago, it has become a total dump, never thought I'd leave but I'm glad I did.

the whole country will be California.

@@radfan7020 It will if Democrats have their way.

@@ust7243 You were part of the problem i'm sure.

@@radfan7020 Wrong.

Lol It sure is!

It's his best....it's heartbreaking and there nothing we can do about it. Absolutely nada

Nick, your interview with your friend illustrates part of what's wrong with Cali these days. "I'm just stayin' positive, man..." That's SOOOoo California. My family is from towns in S. Pittsburgh, and in spite of the leveled and devastated look of the place *I* can come up with positives too: 1. Less population there means less addict deaths! 2. The river hasn't flooded in 20+ years now! 3. There are still roads there that haven't completely fallen into disrepair! 4. Since most of the steel mills have shut down, there's not that smoky, metallic smell in the air anymore! 5. There's a new addict clinic set up in McKeesport now! etc. But the harsh reality is: The best days behind places like these are not coming back. Not in my lifetime, anyway. There will be no miracles at work here. To your friend's points: Honestly who cares about who from what race is in charge - it's CAN THEY FIX IT? And the answer is: No. Without common and organized culture, we're getting all the 'diversity' for diversity's sake that we deserve. State support for positive change isn't there either, and it seems that most Cali denizens have simply given up fighting for a functional civilization. Only a place like California would declare that they have a budget 'surplus'. They are overspending when you look at the inevitable pension situation - live for today, I guess - their budget is on autopilot until the money runs out. And it will. With many businesses leaving the state, you simply can't count on revenue. No one can tell anyone else what to do - not even the cops (for fear of a lawsuit, or worse!) So chaos and anarchy rule - and what's happening in California is merely the halftime show. The game will continue, has been continuing, in every other state. What will change this? Probably only something truly horrific, catastrophic, or the End Times. I'm voting for the latter, of course...

Amen!

Yes he's great! spot on!!

Too many extremely beautiful women. Really sad.

What's heartbreaking is the American people's unwillingness to stand up to these big bad four and a half foot tall Latino street gang member invaders.

Best decision of your life👍

You were brought up poor. Desert rat 🐀

@@Existential_Dread alot of silicone tits tho...

I know right! Only time I would go to SB is for the raves at NOS Event Center or Glen Helen

Boy, I couldn't have said it better myself. Neutered soy boys who couldn't defend their family from a spider. It's really no wonder things have gone to hell.

@@fatwombat2611 👆🏻 Yes, perfectly put. Thank you.

Not the entire nation I lived in Hemet CA. for a while that place is a shit hole also. Now I live in San Angelo a small city in west central TX. We have none of these issues.

Semper Fi

@@2659cowboyup yeah no illegals in Texas, lol

viele hier schreiben dass die ursache in der abwanderung der firmen liegt. das ist kein zufall, das ist gewollt. und genau das passiert gerade auch in deutschland. immer mehr firmen wandern ab, und die mittelklasse findet keine richtige arbeit mehr. nur noch 0815 jobs ich glaube auch dass es bald in deutschland so kommt

Being from Germany originally I feel like it's been going down hill ever since the Wall came down.

As Germany isn't sinking itself. That country lost it YEARS ago.

@@frankb3347 this bringing the wall down was a mistake split germany in half,1 side got radicalized into communism and then decades later rip it down and let them loose into european society? its how yall wound up with merkel the migrant lover germany has been cucked since,bend over for diversity to the point of humiliation,im part jewish and even i think enough is enough,the humiliation ritual gotta end before you fade away or rev up the reich machine out of anger.

Oh, yes...here you can see what our Green party and their ideology will do to our country!

We might have known the same people Shelley!

@@NickJohnson Hi Nick! I am a little bit older than you, but, its possible! I went to San G. and graduated 1981. I worked in San Bdno from 2002-2019 and the one thing I must say is the police department is amazing. I have a lot of respect for the police department and the firefighters there. My son-in-law was stationed in they city (CAL FIRE) and any call they went on a sheriff or PD had to be present (go with them). I am not sure if it's still that way since I don't work in the city and neither does he. That is how bad it was, since the firefighters were getting shot at when they would go to a call...sad. I am glad you got out! I have no clue what it will take to make it better. I have seen what made it worse and that was the gangs from Pomona, mental health issues, drugs of course and low cost housing (at one time). Anyway, thank you so much for this video and I can still remember how awesome it was when I grew up there in the 60's-70's its just really terribly sad to see the extent of the destruction.

I grew up in SB also, graduated from Pacific in 81. I just can’t believe such a beautiful area has deteriorated so much. Hopefully it can build back!

I lived in San Bernardino and graduated from San Gorgonio High School in 1975. I remember shopping at the Central City Mall. I live in Honolulu now.

"All Gringo City"

Same

Originally from the Chicago area. I have absolutely no desire to go back.

The loss of religion, equality propaganda, focus on increasing corporate profits in exchange for the death of local and family owned businesses, large scale farming, big corporations like Amazon existing, food being replaced with poison like fast "food" and everything being packaged in poisonous plastic and poisonous "vegetable" oil.

Juice.

9/11 toppled more than just those towers

Biden happened to America. Democrats also happened to America

I ask myself that every day. From small towns to large cities drugs are destroying America and also many other things are too. I grew up in the 1970s and that was basically a good, safe time. I can't say that for today. Immigration is totally out of control. Millions of poor, unskilled people from 3rd world countries are literally invading us and we have to give them all free medical, education, food, shelter. etc., etc. costing this country billions and billions of dollars that we should be using to improve our infrastructure, schools, etc. These laws need to be changed. Too much money given to foreign countries to fight wars. America and Americans should come first but more and more America and her citizens come last. We need to get rid of all the ancient narcissistic politicians and vote in younger and normal people. People who actually care about America and her people rather than themselves and their careers.

I believe you and I have no desire to visit California

Same heee

I'm still in California I live in Sacramento, I can't tell you how bad it's getting. There's atleast 3 people infront of every store beginning for money. Every light you see people holding signs. Not in the expensive area you might see a couple, but in the middle class and lower end it's crazy.

Same here grew up in the Bay Area left at 19 and only been back once to visit.

I left California in 2000 and never looked back. It's a dumpster fire now

oy vey!

yet regular houses in downtown LA a decent area are one and a half million for nothing special. I think small apartment complexes witha supermarket could start the ball rolling. THe weather is great.

Voting matters

@@tomedgar4375 More importantly, who COUNTS the votes matters more.

I notice my place in the antelope valley is gettin more and more dirty with nasty rude people. The narcs still protect where the higher class are but its catchin up to their snobby asses. Ill tell you this though i like homeless people way more than gangsters and hoodlums.

@@tomedgar4375 Yeah, just think about the assholes we voted for back in the 80's that offshored our factory jobs. Oh wait, those were not dems.? Fact is both parties have failed us in different ways. Not sure that voting mattered much in the big picture.

I'll never go back to America...

@@creamydistortion Where do you live? I'm dying to move to another country.

i think these places can be gentrified. small apt. complexes with a supermarket would work.

Facts

Mine just built a new 100 mil highschool with a epic football field. Kinda jelli 😂Houses can still be found for 200- 400k and you get paid close to the same as people in cali for the same job. Couple public schools made the top 100 lists. Some places just doing better then others, especially the ones that focused on the middle class. None of them are on the coasts

It's a bit of a shock isn't it?

Louisville is not as bad as SB though. Its clean at least.

Donnell0303 *Democrat run city, stop reaching

@@MbisonBalrog clean? What part of Louisville are you talking about Norton Commons? I went to the west end a few weeks ago and was amazed at how bad downtown has gotten from the hospitals to the other side of Portland. 2020 was the demise of Louisville when the mayor allowed the riots and looting to take place. Now it's boarded up buildings homeless camps everywhere and several businesses gone. So it's far from clean

It sucks I live in utah it's cold here we have are homeless people but not as many in California still a good place to live. I grew up in slc moved to delta small city where my dad was born nice here no homeless camps wish America could become strong again

Get out now

Duh

Sell your house and move to another state while its worth something before its worth nothing and you can't move out.

- Get water to the farms, to h**l with the delta smelt - Deport all illegal immigrants, starting with the ones with debts to the cartels - Legalize the involuntary institutionalization of drug addicts - End all industry-unfriendly policies involving CO2 - Build new nuclear plants to replace ones that are aging out - Sunset all zoning regulations - Expose exactly who has political clout in the San Francisco / Silicon Valley / Hollywood political money machine That'll do for a start

Demographics is destiny.

@@jds4305I was in NYC 4 years ago. The subway was clean. So we’re sidewalks. I was quite impressed. My daughter lives in New Haven. We parked at JFK and took the subway in plus all over town. I felt safer there than in San Diego or LA. Lived in San Diego 56 years. Our entire family left California.

@B Ulrich the saddest part is how everyone looks the other way at why this happened and hides being bullshit copes like "muh democrats".

@@WyldStallion-bs9oo Demographics.

I used to think that I should've got my rear out to CA in the late 70's. Seems that would've been the best time since I was done with high school in 1976.

Wait till the Chinese troops get there.

And you still vote demonrats

I wonder if your voting democrats into office in this once beautiful state...

Never say never. California's decline coincided with their lax immigration enforcement as well as bloated welfare spending and marxist mindset. I know, I was born there and witnessed the implosion firsthand. It's impossible to be the Third World's soup kitchen when you can't even take care of your own citizens. According to their whacked-out politicians, the #1 problem in the state is not violent crime, drug cartels, massive unemployment, illegals or homelessness, but their carbon footprint. Their solution is to require everyone to buy a Tesla.

Big bear isnt too bad

Accurate

Kaiser steel shut down.

Any idea how Laka Gregory/ Crestline area is doing nowadays? I have found memories catching trout there in the early 80's.....use to be a great summer getaway

@@igglybiggly6951 Crestline has really fallen apart. it's another drug central zone.

If i lived in Bakersfield I’d be pretty down too

I lived in Bakersfield for a year in 2008. I remember thinking some areas and neighborhoods just felt lifeless, empty and sad.

Bakersfield is a dirt shit hole! And very scary place to be!

why is a farming town or city like Bakersfield is having such issues?it is terrible that white people are so attracted and addcited to all kinds fo drugs esp meth?

Democrats and republicans running California to the ground. Looks like NY state same blight there and lots of people moving to Florida or Mexico.

Everywhere in California is like this now.. it’s pathetic. It’s heartbreaking. All stores Do have everything everything behind plastic cabinets, batteries, make up , underwear..

The liberal Democrats and their supporters, think everthing is fine.

But you keep voting for it ???????????????????????

@@RicoSuavee77 the problem is that Republicans are leaving California with consistency, so eventually Cali will become all Democrat soon. There will be no hope forever after that. The entire west coast is doomed. From 1980s dream location to 2020s post apocalyptic overpriced shell of a bygone era, California is done. Not even severe population loss will wake them up to change. The west coast will be an irrelevant part of America soon that nobody will want to talk about. The whole west coast will be like Detroit if it isn’t already.

davidgribble263 EXACTLY! I try to tell people in the comments why are you complaining about how bad California has gotten when you’re literally part of the problem! Change only starts with accountability! Like why do people from California not understand this?????

I think what he misses is what is going on in the "jewel" part of cities when people all live in "luxury" high rises, but only corporate chains can afford the rent, we have "luxury" Dollar Generals and Dunkin Donuts. The whole "live work play' model, but people work just to pay rent, "play" is staying in with Netflix. I have lived in same area of Atlanta for a long, long time, and these ticky tacky highrises go up and rents skyrocket. Its more expensive to live in Atlanta than Paris. You figure that out, I can't. Soaring rents increase homelessness, and even though models show its infinitely cheaper to just put a free roof over their head than leave them to their own devices on the streets we choose the more expensive route.

Again… democrats took over and destroyed it.

This is what happens to cities that are run by Democrats for decades.

it takes time, a good city government, and cooperation between the city, state, and federal government. A lot of these cities lost one or more of those at some point, but they can come back

Dead cat bounce temporarily glorifying "sreet-cred" culture while continuing to pack em in like sardines. It's not rejuvenation or revitalization, it's recreating criminal spawning grounds all over again. Happening here in AZ where all the trash are coming. Seen it already. Tacoma, SF, LA, everywhere. Razing and reclaiming the land for agriculture, military, sports, or autonomous factories are better options. Revitalize. Right. Let's get some wannabe art shows complete with crocs fashionistas and more glitterskull pretend hardcore graffiti "artists" and shit. Fin beautiful. While you're at it make sure to put another redman headdress on Yet Another Rastafarian because who hasn't had enough weed and beer amirite

Don't be fooled, as soon as they stop to throw money at that pile it will bounce back.

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He’d get rolled-up for a blunt.

@@sergpie 🤣

@@sergpie Lol

Yeah, it will soon be a place where only the rich & their mindless servants will live in.

Voting? It doesn't WORK. Elections are RIGGED

@@erichhartmann9797 Then we are forced to wait for the corrupt system to collapse under its own weight. Or make noise.

The system is rigged

@Selv, I think part of the problem is the need for election reform. Governor Newsom signed the bill mandating all elections in California be done by mail-in ballot. Until we get serious about voter ID and adopt rules similar to those currently in use (look up the voting rules in Sweden, and other European nations) we will continue down the road to serfdom.

@@OceanSwimmer Agreed.

All those BIG empty parking lots or lots. Why not make some of those homeless camps, where they can have trash cans, running water and even pot-a-potty's. Rather then have them all over the streets. How much would that cost? Almost nothing. Homeless people don't like rules, so it's why they won't go to shelters. So at least you can start to clean up the city.

SB hasn’t been thriving since like the 40s. Lol

It was def a slow collapse but it’s still sad to see….I drive through north San Bernardino daily to get home. Like Nick said some of the people ran for the hills😂 not too bad up there yet…

I agree with most of this except the weed part like I was in high school when weed was still illegal and the city was still like that. Weed becoming legal had no affect on that city and let’s be honest there’s legal weed dispensaries in even the nicest and richest cities so that clearly had no part in the city being what it is today. The dude is just biased about weed and it seems that he just already had a negative view on weed before he tried to use it as a reason as to why the city is in shambles. If anything weed dispensaries would help the city make some money but it seems that whatever money the city is making isn’t being put to good use really. Overall when I was in high school and lived by the city before weed was legal everyone already knew the city was ghetto and in shambles so sadly the down fall of the city was caused by many other things that the guy mentioned so everything else is technically indeed accurate and right. I live in the city now and I would like to see the city become a better place.

@@Luna-mx7fi People that think that weed is nothing are in denial. Weed is a gateway drug and on it's own it makes people bi-polar and lazy. The real reason it's made legal in many places is that there would be jails and prisons the size of a city to hold everyone that smokes it.

@@Jason21012 well I disagree, it most certainly has. It's bad now as many places around the US, don't be nasty

A beacon of light in a field of darkness

And it won’t fix anything. He’ll eventually leave the state of California just like all the Republicans did. There’s no fixing this state for at least 100 years literally.

He's a nut.

@@misterrobert6799 lol how so?

@@misterrobert6799 lol how so?

They can just come in and take it? I hope they're compensating the owner.

@@briannadickson2884 government just fucks with no lube.

Thanks Tribeck