I Went To The Worst Place To Live In Connecticut 

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To the people here that are from Bridgeport, I would like to say that the grass is greener on the other side. I was born and raised in Bridgeport, on the East Side next to East Main Street. I just want to point out that through hard work and dedication, you can achieve a better life. Growing up in Bridgeport, I’ve seen friends go to prison, young girls becoming pregnant, young men selling drugs, etc. I figured out long time ago that I could never accomplish anything in life if I end up like everyone else. So I worked hard and saved enough money to move out of Bridgeport. Nowadays, I live in Munich, Germany, studying automotive engineering and I’m currently on the mist of starting my own car company. I hope you guys are able to achieve your dreams and goals because as much as I love Bridgeport, it won’t help you achieve it. But if an East Side kid can make it out and big, so can you. I hope all of my “Bridgeportians” can read this and find it motivating to accelerate to a purposeful life. Best luck and wishes to you all!

Thanks, with so many complaining about CT, this tour made me feel better about my State. The worse neighborhood, in the worse city in the State; no burned out houses, no junk cars left on the street, (with the exception of the industrial area south of I95, where there were few homes.) The roads were pretty free of pot holes, most of the residential neighborhoods had good sidewalks, commercial areas filled with small businesses, many examples of new construction of housing, redeveloped older industrial buildings...no where near areas of Detroit, Cleveland, or Camden.

Proudly, I'm born and raised in Bridgeport. I've lived on every side of town the east side is the roughest, but if you live through the late 80s and early 90s it is a much better place now.

Bridgeport is located in Fairfield county. The majority of the wealthiest Connecticut communities are also located in Fairfield county. Fairfield county is the "poster child" of the "land of the haves and have-nots."

Bridgeport is being cleaned up as we speak. What you see today is nothing how it was 30 years ago. The Bridgeport of today is up and coming and thriving.

Bridgeport has it’s good & not so good areas just as any other big city. I grew up there, and I’ll always love it #BPTstandup❤️

Outside of Greenwich (which is what people outside of CT who've never been here think the whole state is like), most big towns here look a lot like this. Bridgeport is just the biggest. It's not Kensington Philadelphia dangerous, or Youngstown desolate, it's just a good old CT industrial town whose better days are behind it.

Bridgeport is CT's largest city 🏙️. Surprisingly enough there are houses in the city with astronomical price tags since it is indeed a part of the esteemed Fairfield County. Also, it's not the "East Side" it's the East End as termed by the locals. For those who did not have to grow up in poverty or raise your children in poverty, be thankful. My paternal grandmother lived on Cowles St. until her ☠️. I've seen enough of Stratford Ave to last a lifetime on my many trips from the train station to her house. Stay safe and healthy everyone. 🙏🏽❤️

Well, you never actually showed ANY of the East Side. You drove through and filmed the East End. Most of the East SIDE ( IE, north of Barnum Ave) would not have fit your narrative very well though. I grew up in the East End, before it became war zone. The last time I drove the length of Stratford Ave, 4 or 5 years back, was to show a visitor from Japan where I grew up. It looked much, much worse than it does now, based on your video. When I was a kid, Stratford Avenue was a busy, commercial district. That all ended with the growth of malls. Malls did to inner city commercial areas full of mom & pop stores what Amazon and other online shopping sites have done to so many malls more recently.

Born and raised in Waterbury, schooled in New Haven, Cleveland, Bridgeport and Philadelphia. Can unequivocally state this is NOT the worst part of Bridgeport. If you want to find the worst part of any major US city just look for a nucleus of liquor outlets, check cashing stores, transportation hubs, pawn shops, storefront churches, out patient drug rehabs, abandoned houses, broke down playgrounds, building murals with inspirational messages, and an interstate highway nearby. You were driving through the deindustrialized section of Bridgeport where many factories that once provided good jobs for the community were demoloshed and leveled a good 35 years ago.

Stewie: “Brian, this doesn’t look like Santa’s Workshop. It looks like… Bridgeport, Connecticut.” Brian: “Oh boy here come the letters.”

I moved to Bridgeport about a year ago from the Bronx NY, I’m downtown bp not far from the stress factory ( a comedy club) it’s pretty nice and clean. Way better than the Bronx imo

I've heard lots about Bridgeport, but nothing in this video looked bad in my opinion. The industrial section didn't look good, but that is the case in most cities. Much of what I saw looked like any typical older blue collar/middle class area in an "older" city.

Looks like mixed commercial and residential territory. It doesn't look bad. Perhaps a nocturnal visit might seem more menacing.

Just to clarify, your video is of the EAST "END" of Bridgeport, not the EAST "SIDE". I am from the EASE "SIDE" it also has a big share of the crime etc. But, there was always a distinction in neighborhoods.

Not even the closest of being the worse part of CT.

Back when I was a kid, me and folks loved to take the ferry from Port Jefferson to Bridgeport every few weekends. Great times back in the 80s.

Bridgeport was boomin in the early 50s 60s era.. its great city but once father panik was tore dwn folks were residentially spread out in diffrent parts of the city destroying the neighborhoods wit crime and etc... I lived in bpt since 85 and im telling you right now nothings worst i mean nothings worst than Hartford Ct..

Your narrative is so helpful as things have changed so much since I lived there! thanks for this.

Considering the slum I was expecting to see these streets and houses were remarkably well kept and mostly litter and junk free.

I was raised in the East Side of Bridgeport, left a few years ago to Waterbury! 😂 When you grow up like this you don't see it like outsiders do. It's a different world many will never understand. Be grateful if you live or grew up in a good area, you are lucky.

Glad found you vlog! You got interesting content and your vlog about featuring wilmington in SoCal brought me here. Will be waiting for the next vlog.

Too bad those buildings couldn't talk, as they would have some interesting stories...

I'm from Stratford, the next town over from BPT. I lived off Nichols Ave and was maybe a quarter mile from the success projects on MLK. Despite its flaws, growing up here in the 90's was a great experience. I live in Atlanta now and definitely miss being so close to NYC.

I lived here Bridgeport CT I CAN TELL YOU back in the 80's, 90's and the beginning of 2000 it was bad now it have come down and there are worse places. You need to live and experience in order to know, there's good and bad people everywhere you go in the world. Bridgeport CT there's good Latin, Italian, etc. restaurants, Comedy Theater at the downtown, Captain Cove is a good place for the family and the Beardsley Zoo plus at the Arena downtown Bridgeport CT there are concerts and special events every month there is help for all kinds of needs as well 😊 Thank you for reading Blessings

I grew up in Westport and moved to Bridgeport after College. That was in 1972. Haven’t left and wouldn’t leave. There’s nothing better than Bridgeport and by far has more Character and Vibrancy than anywhere else in Connecticut. So Chris, it’s people like you who bring out the worst in me. GTH

Thanks for the upload !!

Homes in the worst city in Connecticut go for an average of $250,000? They're doing pretty well.

Bridgeport is a very beautiful city with so much great potential but I am not sure we will ever get there with the people that are elected to these councils and other political parties. The eastend where you are driving through use to be a very vibrant area decades ago.

I remember about 10, 12ish years ago my friend moved to Bridgeport to work at her new job, and she lived in a brand-newly renovated apartment building on a block that was recently renewed too, her building was (I think) an old bank, it had the vault still in it, there was a whole block of new restaurants and cafes and shops, a little open air mall, it was super nice. We went for a walk to explore her new city one night and got to the end of her nice block and crossed the street, and it was like night and day 😂 the block across the street hadn't been touched yet, trash on the street, broken windows, shuttered shops, the difference between the two blocks was crazy...we turned around and went back lol I can't remember the name of her building or street, but it really was nice what they did with it

Interesting video & never knew the cities that are listed here! Great video! I live in Massachusetts!

Well kept roads, someone care about that town

Every industrial/private home areas look pretty much alike no matter where you go. The good thing about this area is that it’s relatively clean, most of the apartments and homes look well kept. Believe me when I say I’ve seen and lived in areas that are much worse. I give this part of town a C+. 😊

New Haven , Hartford, Waterbury all have bad areas.

I lived in Bridgeport in the 80’s them my family moved to North Carolina! the place looks exactly the same… even nicer

As someone who live in Fl now buy used to live in Norwalk, it’s nice seeing Bridgeport talked about lol

Ha! I hitchhiked to Bridgeport when I was a teenager with my wing babe to see her family in the projects... It wasn't spiffy but I would not have said back then it was the worst place in Connecticut! The city still looks like any metropolitan area on Long Island Sound in Connecticut...

Bless u 4 these videos. Stay inspired

At least they don’t have liquor stores on every corner

It isn’t a bad place at all! I served the City for over 20 years, and found some of the nicest kindest people, anywhere! Do you think that they want to live like this? No! It’s years of corruption in government, and ridiculous real estate prices!

It looks so nice I was expecting the ghetto!! Looks like a nice suburb

For the most populous city in CT, it really isn't that bad. I live here in the North End, and I like it. Very diverse City close proximity to NY and the transportation system is very good. I grew up in Norwalk, CT and there are pretty sketchy neighborhoods there as well. For those of us that have been around long enough, we know the 80's and 90's was pretty rough, but these Cities look much better now. Born in Queens NY, raised in Norwalk, CT and now live in Bridgeport, CT I can say the trickle effect from NYC has come up the I95 corridor. All the cities are cleaner and have less blight and crime than other parts of the US.

Been there for the gathering of the vibes music festival never had a problem

Weak, not impressed. Looks like a suburb compared to Gary, IN and Detroit.

Here's a little personal story about that intersection @ 5:38. Im a truck driver and used to deliver to a place down the road from there called "Valley container." It was a cold winter night about 11:30 pm when I was at that corner about to make a delivery when a man climbed on the step of my truck demanding $20. I said "no I don't have it" and quickly opened my door causing him to tumble flat on his back with a knife falling onto the ground. He got up and instantly we both saw red and blue lights. Thank got a Bridgeport cop saw the whole thing and arrested him so I could make my delivery.

I'm born and raised in Bridgeport CT, my mother is Native American and my father Irish. I had a lot of great experience growing up and loving Bridgeport. I received a great education, and I traveled across the country and lived in different states. I realized I was smarter than a lot of people in these different places. I was always able to find work because of the skills I developed living in Bridgeport CT, I loved the play ground programs that taught us recreation and skills to be around our neighborhood children and the wonderful workers that provided a excellent program and explain I can never forget. I learned great, meaningful working skills that served me well in life. I was able to share this knowledge and skills with my own children, who knew how to live and accomplish anything they put their mind to.

They only mostly show so much negative stuff going on in Bpt but they have so much positive things going on that people don't hear about .

I miss Bridgeport CT. The Black Rock section is nice

This is Greatest channel about America, i'm from europe and i learned a lot from your videos, keep going 👍🌟

Great Videos!!!

Nice Bro!informative.👍

I grew up in CT and moved to FL 2 years ago…I’m honestly glad I left. CT willl always be home but most people there have that “stuck” mindset…it’s a very depressing place and Hartford where I’m originally from is full of ignorance. I hope CT people read this and don’t get triggered. I know they will; they always do 🙃

Nick... I expected it to look very different! It appears to me it's rather really quiet! It does have beautiful homes that seem to be taken care of. How far from there are the grocery stores or the Mall? Also How far do most people travel for employment? I really do enjoy all your videos and I know it's a lot of work putting them together! I really find them so interesting because I know I don't always have the extra monies to travel and at the same time I when I watch your videos I feel I've been there! Thanks Nick! Please stay safe 🙏

I live a couple towns away from Bridgeport. It has some neighborhoods I would try to a avoid! lol but it also has ST Mary’s, captains cove, a new amphitheater for concerts. I appreciate your video tho! Enjoyed the tour! Going to subscribe to see more :)

Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury, Meriden, New Haven are very bad. I grew up in Hartford. CT is one of the worst states easily

If you are going to be fair, in that very neighborhood you “picked” follow East Main St a block further south and find the new high end waterfront development “Bass Pro Shop, restaurants and shops plus the new Bridgeport Harbor water front which now hosts Multi million dollar yachts on a daily! 👍🏻

The city still has a lot of good parts to it structurally. They'll gentrify it just like they're doing to other cities all over the U.S. In 10 years, no one will recognize it anymore. This video will become a "remember when Bridgeport looked like....."

thanks for this. I used to live on the West Side.

Nick, I was hoping since your into real estate you could help me understand why there has been such a dramatic spike in home values. IDK about all of the US but here in central Ohio house prices and rents have gone way up. For instance, my house went up in value over 100k during the pandemic and my neighbor (who rents) was told his rent was increasing to 2g's a mo. which is about $500 more a month. He could not afford to stay so he moved las week.

My husband lived in The Hollow when we started dating. It migt be sketchy, but the food around b'port is amazing!

Due to gentrification, the East End was the largest group of homeowners that lived in their homes in the State of CT. If you ask anyone in CT which City is the worse, they won't say Bridgeport. The worst cities are closer to Hartford, Waterbury. The factories left and so did the resources. Note, the people in Bridgeport's taxes are some of the highest in the Country.

Well, as a person who lives in Russia I find this part of Bridgeport quite decent. In Russia such a place would be even considered well-off.

This is nothing compared to Philadelphia, PA. Kensington Ave. Area. It's a real dump. You never saw such a terrible area. Very sad indeed...

Nick, My family is originally from Connecticut. Bridgeport doesn't look bad at all.... Connecticut is an expensive state to live in so the Riff-Raff is in other states. I don't see burned out abandoned neighborhoods here, people seem to take pride in the area. just another nice area to live in.... don't see any homeless here, like in Oregon and California.... plus the area you were in is zoned for commercial and light industrial. so, I don't expect to see a lot of fancy homes.

What you need to do is drive into success village or the greens. I grew up here and have spent a lot of time in this city. Thankfully I've moved on.

It reminds me of the section of Davenport, Iowa between Locust Street and the Mississippi River.

Bridgeport CT to me being born and raised was a amazing place to grow up. There were people from many different backgrounds from different countries. The working class, working hard to make a better life for themselves and their family. I call old school workers

If this is the worst Connecticut has to offer, then Connecticut has it pretty good.

Bridgeport is my hometown and was born and raised there. I love it with all my heart ❤️ anyone that was raised there will understand.

I really enjoyed your amazing videos I really appreciate Man I feel like I am living in USA I suggest you if you add map links of the place where you visited and recorded the video that will be very helpful navigate the place thank you so much Bro

Hey Nick, just curious, what is your home state?

Dude I live 25 miles from Bpt, Bpt isn't Beverly hills but it aint the Bronx or Detroit, it's a descent city! Video didn't look that bad at all and yes I've worked in Bpt

I used to do visiting nurse there. They would bring a guard for me but he waited in the car so if i got killed he wouldnt even know til i never came back. But people were always kind to me and i was okay but it wasnt the safest. A friend of my daughters lived there put his head out the window and was shot by a stray bullet fire. And university of bridgeport was my school for nursing back in the 80s it was nice there! Love from connecticut!💜 Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life! 👑🦁

Me being a Stratford resident, I have been to Bridgeport many times. The 2 good attractions are Captain’s Cove Seaport, and Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. My favorite thing about the city is the Bridgeport Islanders minor league hockey games. I also liked the time that I went to visit Sacred Heart University. They are actually redeveloping abandoned areas.

Took a while too edit this? Looks like a spring drive

YESSS CONNECTICUT LETS GOOOOOOOOOO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY

I've worked that whole state. Bridgeport is actually up and coming. They just built a yacht club and revitalized downtown. You should see the boats parked out there. Its nothing now to what it was in the 90's. Should have hoped on the ferry and do Long Island lol

I love how people who don't even live in Bridgeport Connecticut are so quick to put a label on it.

Nick, you should go to Waterbury, Ct. They have more abandoned HOUSES than Bridgeport ever had in its existence.

You know your hood is terrible when there's a jail sitting next to residential homes.

You started off driving down Stratford avenue then loop around to connecticut avenue. Took that left down central ave. That building on the left @ 7:44 Ralphola Taylor Community Center the actor Michael Jai White use to teach karate there in the early 90's before he became famous. You took central ave to the old bridge to pleasure beach. then to newfield... there must have been people hanging out at newfield park cause you went around it completely. This is the East End of Bridgeport. The east side is a little up the road and predominantly puerto ricans. The East End not as bad as it used to be far as crime these days..ever since they put those cameras up along Stratford avenue

Good people come from this area, lawyers, doctors, nurses, cna , truckers, drug abuse counselors, cops, firemen, Pastors, Bishops, Priest, etc...so stop it already with the insults. 😡

Where you we’re driving was actually the East End .. the East side is different but both are wild 😂😂😂

In the late 80's and early 90's this was an extremely dangerous city. Many murders.

Where are the boarded up houses like Baltimore has.

I was raised in BPT. In 86 - 00, it was worse back then! My dad was close to death several times due to gang violence. I am so glad my mom took us out of there! We still visit of course! Love me some food from Coquitos ☺️

Bridgeport has gotten better since I was there it used to be so much worse

When I lived in Wilton in Junior High they used to bus the kids in from Bridgeport to provide us some diversity, but I can't recall ever having any classes with them. Once they got off the bus, where did they go?

And there are no bars on the windows, or high fences with locked gates around every house.

My hometown is bout 15-20 mins south. Norwalk CT. We lived in the West Side of Bridgeport (Howard Ave.) mid 80’s… Had to move out because a car crashed through our living room

B-port does have one attribute that in the end may save it - Metro North Railroad. If you live in Bridgeport, and want a decent job, you can get one in New York City and the commute is within a normal time parameter. That is not true of many other troubled cities, where if you're there, you're stuck. Thanks to the railroad, if you're there in B-port - actually you're not stuck - you can take the train to get to NYC and work there, where there are always jobs that pay. Also, B-port to its credit, in part due to the influence of the Catholic Church, has resisted casino's. Yet - the casino's have succeeded in blocking development of alternative uses for the target casino sites. Alternative uses such as middle income housing which usually comes with a few scoops of some more heavily subsidized housing for people within lower income strata; and there needs to be a stronger push for those kinds of housing - which in turn leads to growth in general-purpose market-rate housing. Also, for the record, malls have absolutely nothing to do with the problems of B-port, and no doubt about it, there are problems in B-port. Stamford took a big hit from a mall, B-port never did. There are problems with criminals, including various types and flavors of organized crime, and there are also serious problems with the police, including all three kinds of police which call B-port home - including the Bridgeport Police, the FBI, and the Connecticut State Police. Also, a major problem which B-port has had for years - is that it "goes the extra mile" to block and disable business initiatives - which is why in the surrounding areas, we refer to it as "The People's Republic of Bridgeport", which is true and more sad than funny. Also, in B-port, for some reason, the Moonies found a home but they seem to have assimilated or perhaps given up the ghost concerning their cult-ish aspects. The key thing about B-port is if you want to have a decent job, thanks to the railroad - you can. NYC is commutable from B-port, and hopefully that will lead to more housing development instead of the Las Vegas style overly grandiose marina's which are run like armed private clubs, and aspired (by some misguided souls) casino's. It's the town that gave New York City Cardinal Egan, who was a great figure in New York history. For some reason, God put him in Bridgeport where some would say he earned his stripes, then God sent him to New York City where he became one of the greatest figures ever in the history of the Catholic religion, and of NYC history in general. My guess is he still watches over the place.

What about the northeast part of the state? (Windham County) Many CT people didn’t know it existed until Covid maps/stats. There are towns with houses much more rundown, where the incomes are lower and the people have been super unemployed since the mills and factories mostly went under a bunch of years back? If you took someone who didn’t know that part of the state there they’d think they’d suddenly gone to a poor part of the south.

It’s not so bad, a few of my coworkers moved there since it’s cheaper then westchester county and Stamford which is closer. A one bedroom apt is $1,200 with a parking spot compared to the outrageous prices near our job in white plains.

You mixed up the east side with the east end. Take a ride down again, make sure you hit pt or the greens homes and Trumbull gardens to get the full taste

Will wait for New Haven video, Still waiting for unboxing MA t shirt lol

Doesn't look too bad! I lived in Waterbury for one year, and it really was, for the most part, a hole. If New Haven didn't have Yale, then it would be truly terrible. I was surprised you didn't get off I-95 at Exit 93 in Connecticut. There's a Stuckey's there!

What a shame. It was a thriving industrial center. Thanks, Democrats!

🙄I grew up in Bridgeport. I live on 5th street and Conn Ave. You past by my elementary school on Newfield Ave. I m writing my book and drawing pictures of my childhood now. I live in California now. However, I love and appreciate living there as a young girl. Everyone looked out for each other. Tyfs. Shout out to my 🏡 town I 💚you.👍🏾

Im from Bridgeport grew up in FPV. East End and East Side i lived at the corner of Artic and William St. We moved to North Carolina in 97'. Ive walked through these streets