Life in Columbia's most dangerous neighborhood 

So many comments saying that they thought this was the country Colombia. This is Columbia, South Carolina. Colombia and Columbia are spelled differently

Its crazy cause u can live across town and not know any of this is going on

Shout out to the camera man he made the hood look all beautiful and green! Lmao

Treach of Naughty by Nature said, "if you ain't never been to the ghetto, don't ever come to the ghetto".

Im born and raised in Columbia, but I took a trip to Gary, IN and Chicago Westside, it made Columbia feel safe to me.

Im a white woman. I taught in this community, I love this community. I developed lasting relationships that I still maintain today. The community and parents looked out for and loved me. I left after losing too many students to a BS shootings. I taught there for 5 years. I have seen many of my students rise above their circumstances, so many over the years, some are pharmacists, lawyers, policemen, a few doctors, and business owners. I wanted to stay but my heart was broken. I left teaching for 3 years after my youngest student was killed. I’m back teaching because it broke my heart not to be. God Bless❤️

For all the people talking about Columbia is a joke, go there and say it. Its gotten a little better actually. But its serious. The hood that they were showing is actually called Bethel Bishop. The Colony sits right in front of it. Another bad spot. Now go back to the late 80.s and early 90's. Columbia had hoods like Fairfield Arms, Hendley Holmes, Saxon Holmes, Gonzales Gardens and Roosevelt Village. These were the most dangerous hoods in Columbia. Many of you maybe a little too young to remember those hoods. They eventually had to be torn down due to excessive crime rates like drugs, robberies and murder. Trust me, Columbia is much nicer now that these hoods no longer exist. Look up the stats. Columbia used to rank top 10 or 20 (per capita) in everything bad.. That's definitely nothing to be proud of. I"ve been to Brooklyn, Houston, Baltimore, D.C, L.A, Miami, St. Louis just to name a few cities. All of them are good and bad in some ways.But I never had any problems. Respect people and they will respect you. If you know how to carry yourself, you'll be alright in any city for the most part. But go to any city tripping with a chip on your shoulder thinking you run something, and you gonna get dealt with for sure. There are good parts and bad parts of every city. Good people and bad. Every person from the hood is not a drug dealer, killer, gang member or welfare recipient. Some are actually good people. So for all these people talking about somebody elses hood is a joke, there are gangsters, hustlers, killers and drug dealers in EVERY hood. In the idle words of Willie D of the Geto Boys..."Your hood aint no harder than mines MF". So shout out to everyone from every hood in America and beyond. All of us need to be a part of the solution instead of the problem.. Teach your kids better than the way we were taught. Then maybe we all can brag about the POSITIVE things about the hood and not about whose hood is harder. Peace

SAY NO TO DRUGS AND YES TO GOOD HEALTH AND EDUCATION. LIFE IS POWER!

There have been three killings in this area this week one of those people I went to school with RIP Keon Tucker life is too short for Gangs Guns and Drama let go and let You higher power handle it

I used to work as a temp in the office of Saxon Homes in Columbia. The most important rule from my office boss was that we were in our cars headed up I-277 north before it got dark

It’s boring as a mf out there smh

Wtf did i just watch a quick glimpse of sum apartments surounded by a bunch of green trees

My old neighborhood back in the day in the '90s I used to stay there with my mother couldn't deal with the drama in the neighborhood so my mom had to move me out because the game members was about to accept me as one of their own my mom had to save my life to order to get out

Columbia isn’t that bad, where I live is worse. North Charleston, Sc is 3x worse

So y'all just gon ignore the fly😳 that flew on his head 🤣🤷🏾‍♂️

This is nothing.. I remember when the colony was Washington Carver Village... That was a Vietnam war zone FrFr..

I'm from Philadelphia PA, living in St. Andrew's and I can say that everywhere has good and bad, just like dark and light. And Philadelphia PA is pretty bad.

Don’t you love how this is video is put on by a state news outlet... inspirational lol. I used to deliver water to this neighborhood a few years back and there’s good people everywhere. Tough situations, but diamonds are made from pressure. The best way to improve a situation isn’t to glamorize the bad things but lift up positivity and that in turn will change the outlook.

I was in Columbia early this year and a child hood aquaintance I knew got shot and killed by gas station 2 days later after I departed. The pass can catch up. It makes me feel good that I left for good although I love this state through it all. The military freed me from the environment. I remember begging my recruiter in 2010 to get me out of here back then 🥺😞

I know all about this neighborhood. I'm from Columbia, SC.. born and raised in Soda City.

The Colonies... as we call it.

Keep the POSITIVE vibe going my brother... Coming from California.

Lost a sister out there five months ago

They must never heard of Saxon Homes lol Gonzale Gardens

Drone footage shows the beauty that's otherwise hard to see. God bless Bess for working on the beauty of the neighbourhood at the street level. A diamond in the rough!

The only violence I saw was blonde black dude get attacked by flies. 😐smh

Every hood is dangerous

Born & raised in Detroit living in Columbia now this a joke 😂😂😂

Yeah, I was driving back from a Lord Huron concert around this area when i got a brick thrown at my windshield....also the cops didn’t care to look for the person/people....😡

Really nice cinematography. 👍🏻

Yea Columbia it’s not dat bad at all it have crime like ant where else but it’s good city

Yo thats called the colonies its in columbia sc my cuzzos live there they always shoot and fight

Like the man said, “you come in wrong you get check and you come in right you get respect it’s about being a man” . South Carolina is a great place to live but we don’t put up with disrespect.

Bruh they got places like this everywhere. I live in columbia south Carolina and it's roses and bubbles, but I ain't been everywhere so idk.

I lived in Columbia 5 years and i miss it so much. Met lots of great people there and my husband and some of them lived in the colonies. It didnt seem to bad in 2011 when i left.

I came from NY and use to live in Columbia, went to Eau Claire and played ball with Six

I’m in Columbia also, many moons ago my mom lived out there in the colony. It was very peaceful and then things started going down. We move her from out there.

Overall, my city is a good place to live. It has its rough patches just like any other city. Every city has the hood.

All I can say is be careful when you on N Main St. in Cola. Shootings all the time

I'm from Saxon homes and it was bad and the colonies and the Bishop was a great neighborhood until they closed Saxon homes down and they made this place bad!

Huh i live im from Charlotte and i lived in Columbia for a while it aitn that bad its just country now North Charleston, Charlotte, Spartanburg it goes down

I ain't seen not 1 scene where it was dangerous 🙄

Crazy thing is this was not like this when I lived there. The river was safe and the neighborhoods were beautiful. What happened?

We got that in Charleston SC too.

Not 1 bad scene. Whole area was green and well maintained.

Keep doing what you is doing my blessings to you.

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." Oscar Wilde.

I lived there for 6 yrs and it was crazy af

Columbia is not a bad place, the issue is that people are not rational and doesn't solve problems/issue the rational way!

This is what years of Jim Crow looks like today

I grew up in Columbia, SC and this where my entire family is from. Columbia has gotten worse over the years and it’s very disappointing. People I grew up with don’t understand that there is more for them out there than this trash ass city where nothing is growing ! It’s sad .

I'm from Birmingham and Atlanta lived in Columbia and laughed at this goof ass city small asf smh boring ash never will return to that bih

These bonnets Lordt.. I hate them ughhhh

Pablo Escobar really messed South Carolina up...

That is no place to raise a kid. Get the heck out of there,period!

That neighborhood low key looks like a neighborhood in a black mirror episode

I live in Columbia and ik some people that live there. ..

The neighborhood looks nice asf wdym

I hear North Charleston is the most dangerous city in South Carolina. Columbia looks like it has nothing on North Charleston. All I saw was a huge apartment complex surrounded by greenery and trees.

I lived in Columbia after my parents moved us there from NY in the 80's. Lived in Belevedere not far from there too....

I was stationed in Columbia once, seemed pretty safe to me. Had no idea what was a stone throw away.

48 IS THE MOB

This is the neighborhood I was born and raised in. My first 21 years of my life was spent here. My mom, my aunt and several cousins still live there. I was born in 1980 so I grew up in a different time in the Bishop. Honestly to me it was no different from any other low income community.

Rest in peace Octavia found dead killed by own baby father a true angle

Everywhere is dangerous lmao 😂 💀

Shit I'm from Virginia, u think they bad come through Norfolk, Portsmouth, or bad news or any part of the 757. 😬

Why produce children living in these conditions I think they want to raise children in these ghettos

One of the largest & devastating problems is the absence of self pride. It starts with the young ladies not respecting themselves enough to NOT have these innocent babies with these oft unemployed, uneducated, & unmotivated guys. In addition, the guys do not respect themselves enough to NOT impregnate this woman here, that woman there , etc. It is rather disheartening to see this transpire generation after generation & no one seems to care enough to be part of the solution by curtailing this wayward and self/community -defeating behavior. I believe if these young men & women would step up to destroy the generational curse by staying in school & actually studying intensely 📖, refrain from haphazardly bringing children into situations where both mom and dad are ill equipped(emotionally, mentally, & FINANCIALLY ) to support & nuture the offspring , that can help to steer the misguided vessel of chaos, crime, poverty , domestic violence & abandonment that continues to plague the community , into the right direction. It’s the common sense decisions that can make or break the foundation of a community.

Every city has hoods💯 but glad this brother changed to bring it the positive. I think people of color are really starting to wake up and stop letting TV influence their reality! Time to reclaim our neighborhoods and make them flourish. It starts with teaching the youth like that little baby. Education is key how to cultivate the land, manage money, start a business, use their imagination to create.

Shorty snaps a selfie of the new cut🤦🤷😂😂 YFAMC THRUSHLIFE 💨💨💨⛽✌️♥️

They well never put Charleston SC on here, oh noooo.

Most every hood looks like this at a certain time of day. Notice how there's no footage at night.

Come to Memphis Tn it's very crazy

I’m originally from the village that use to be next to ee taylor...who else from that way?

Here now someone got shot and killed across the street from my school Friday....

This is not Columbia (In South America). Maybe Columbia, South Carolina

I personally know Marcus and he is a good dude

That's the bishop

3:53 the bug

Thank you for producing this

The Rock be chill but like she said if you don’t have any business or know anybody then don’t go..

Didnt know they changed the name, We know these apartments as the "Bishop" bethel bishop chappel apartments bka the hood!! one way in and one way out, 2 different projects right next 2 each other.

I’m from NY . And I lived in Columbia SC . And it’s a lot of good people out there so I’m not saying this to talk shit about y’all city but living there . I’ve never seen any violence and never got a vibe of niggaz being grimey . Come where I’m from in NY . Poughkeepsie aka PK . Bka . The kingdom . It’s nothing compared to where I’m from . But Columbia is a great city . Met a lot of good people . And your town don’t have to be violent for it to be official . 💯

No fences, people close together. Community focuses on being multi cultural, but with economic status they round you up and put everyone On top of each other.

Who filmed this?

He has a good attitude. The BEST thing that can happen to a neighborhood like that is JESUS CHRIST. People Giving their lives fully over to Jesus and repenting from their sins and obeying ACTS 2:38 as the Word of God says. This would bring beautiful change. Jesus is the Answer, a repentant heart towards GOD.

This is why I love living in bigger cities. I've lived in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago etc there's just more opportunities to be successful. I think often times these people living in rural areas indulge in crime as a past time or to feel alive and escape boredom.

Portland Oregon is horrible, I cant imagine at least in 2020 that Columbia is worse.. at least u got the weather being good, cheap housing and stuff, good food, nice people that I seen. Portlands losing what it had and its becoming hella boring and crowded.

The Gardens was worse than this before they got torn down. I had the privilege of briefly living in both, and Greenview. Gardens was worse vro. Hell Hunters Way was pretty bad too for a minute

Who from THE VILLAGE

These days, shootings nightly in Columbia. 16 - 18 year olds

World wide struggle if you think this can't happen to your beautiful hood keep living

i live out here and the ppl is who make the neighborhood bad all they do is drink and smoke cigarettes all day long. blk ppl hate each other and they are mad disrespectful to one another. i moved from bk two years ago i live in columbia and ppl out here act mad ignorant like for real its discusting how disrespectful they are . its up to blk ppl to change but we wont so the neighborhoods will stay the same. nuff respect to the young man giving hair cuts cause these mofos out here would rather see you die than give love show love or even care. ppl in N.Y. act nothing like this its sad and im from Brownsville brooklyn ppl still work together wats these ppl excuse 4 real ?

I've never heard any bad comments on Columbia, SC. It seems a good place to live in...

I was in Cape town Africa, and trust me, we have nothing to complain about.

Got caught in a sled bust there working one day. The colony that is.

That fly bit him for giving out free bad haircuts

it ain’t that bad, mane go to cali

Looks like a decent place from.the aerial shots.

WE BEEN WATCHIN THIS HAIRCUT FOREVA