I'm from México and have been living here for 30 years. I've never seen poverty like I did when I went to LA, I was in shock. It was a dream of mine to go workout at golds gym in Venice beach and oh boy the things I saw. In Mexico the extreme poor people at least keep their dignity and maintain clean.
I agree. I know some of the poorest Ranchitos in northen Mexico and though the people aren't smart they live with dignity. They bathe, clean their clothes, work to take care of their children the best they can and they try to celebrate any little thing to try to squeeze some joy out of life. American poor just quit. BTW, I'm from LA too, instead of Venice try going down to the south bay for your beach activities, much safer and cleaner.
Cuz yall don’t have the drug problem we have. Your country supplies are country with the dope. If it was the other way around then Mexico would probably be like LA and Kensington.
@@humanspecieseradicationmedia Literally just shared my experience of visiting LA lmao. Would you like to pay for my ticket so I visit every town and every city in california?
@@77D777 True, the most disgusting city in mexico I have ever been too is Mexico city, that shits disgusting and you see junkies often, kinda like in LA
3rd world? depends on who you classify as the 3rd world, many in the U.S. classify Mexico as the 3r, which is B.S. the U.S. has much more homeless and drug use then Mexico, so who is the real 3rd world?
In most of the 3rd world people are poor, but still happy and take part in their communities. This is just abysmal depression, as if people have just given up. Their politicians are running the state into the ground.
Recently went on a road trip through America with my family and had a great time, but I could easily say that San Francisco and L.A where the worst cities. I visited San Fran 20 years ago and it was a beautiful city, but I have never seen so much poverty, drug abuse, filth, mental health problems on almost every corner in my life. Your political representatives are running the state of California into the ground.
I visited San Fran circa 1980 and it was better than now but still drunks and beggars at every turn. I stopped at a park to rest and beggars actually lined up to take turns at me. At a fast food place a beggar sat down across from me and panhandled me while I was eating. A wino veteran came up to me downtown and wanted me to listen to his story. His breath stank so bad I still remember it today.
My people won't even go there. Thanks, Newsom, for ruining SF. Now he is doing the same thing for the rest of the state. And how on earth can he be expected to run the country and not do the same thing.
@@charrua59 Nah, bro. I think they live outside because the California climate allows it. Also because California is a very rich place that attracts all sorts of rabble. And also because most of these people are drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill people, illegal immigrants, or just ghetto trash, who will probably never live like civilized people again. Let's say they can't afford to buy a house. What prevents them from working and renting? Not even a house, but an apartment. At least a room. I am sure that in a country like the USA, you can find a suitable town where workers are needed and housing is affordable. But no. They would prefer to live in a tent on dirty streets, receive benefits, engage in crime, and spend money on drugs. Without radical measures, the situation in such places will only get worse.
I'm in Cape Town, South Africa. Some parts are very beautiful and wealthy. Some third world, like many countries throughout the world, not only Africa. I would agree that the cars are above average and in good condition.
I live in Chicago, and my neighborhood doesn't look like this at all. Why not? Demographics (duh). It would look even better if not for the postal workers, or the You-Know-Who Crowd visiting the parks (vs. using the parks in their own "turf"). How does Chicago compare to Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, East Cleveland, K.C., D.C., Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Camden, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Buffalo? 🤔
What’s crazy is that LA was more dangerous in terms of homicides from the early 80s-late 00’s, what’s gotten worse is the homelessness & open drug use. In the 80s my mom was literally walking over de@d bod!es in that same park in this video. It’s different times, different problems.
@@de5163 You can see the LAPD’s archived data from the 1990s. All violent crime (murder, assault, robbery etc) was significantly higher in the 80s and 90s (like NYC and most US cities). But there does seem to be more open drug use and visible homelessness today, as you said.
This very area, the Macarthur Park area, with a 3 mile radius, was absolutely worse back in the 90s. It was tantamount to a 3rd world country, even more packed, dense and crowded with lost, lonely, addicted, broken souls...
@@3d4u2c Been lots of places, but I am talking about my home state Cali, and the dude governing it, and this video is only a sample size of the entire state of California.
@@deeess2687so the second a Republican governor gets elected in California again, boom, snap, 25,000 unhoused people are off the streets huh? It’s that simple huh? And if it’s not then you should run for local office and fix it
The disparity of wealth vs poverty in LA really was one of the things that bothered me the most when I resided there that restaurant at 1 min or so, business people go there for lunch, 1:07 sandwiches run about 25 dollars across the street people are going through trash cans
@@JustBree716 a middle class Californian, or shit even low class at this point are easily a mid-west/southern rich with the kind of money they have to earn just to stay alive in a 2 bed 1.5 bath
I love that deli they have the greatest sandwiches. It’s right on Alvarado. You have to fight all the Third World losers to get into the place but it’s worth it.
@@JosePerez-fe2gvIf you did more than think about it for a second you’d know when and WHY those streets became like that, but you don’t understand the socio-economic state of California and just regurgitate the same shit from your corner of the world and it shows, do you even know who ‘Gavin’ refers to?
That Yoshinoya restaurant has the best pot stickers in the entire city. Sometimes homeless people try to steal your food so you need to lock the doors and roll up the windows.
So where are all the movie stars who are so concerned about the homeless? Oh, they're in their gated communities. I could never live like this. I would head up to Alaska to attempt to live in the wilderness.
U took the words right out of my mouth. Lol. Standing on their soap box at the Oscars wagging their got dam fingers, meanwhile Venezuela is down the street
@kjul - the same turds stay in power because votes are rigged. If it doesn't make sense, think about it. People need to let go of that delusion that a majority of people anywhere are still voting against their own freedoms and for the same ol asshat politicians. Tptb love to divide the peasantry....blame Californian expats for your state flipping. They put much time and effort into manufactured consensus and consent.
They aren't. Case in point, California voted NO on gay marriage in 2008. No. No. No. And the Supreme Court overturned the vote. Do you really think Biden was elected? Of course not. Pick Jesus. He is a real being. Man's time is over here. God created the Earth and he wants new guardians here. Mankind has only been allowed to be here about 6,000 years. No more.🤷♀️
I live in England, visted the US many times and always loved it, great country and met some great people, never went to LA though, and have been thnking of going one day before I get too old, but maybe I won't bother after watching this.
Obviously it has nice parts this is just the rough parts. I could say the same about England also. Weather looks like crap. But that wouldn’t be the main factor why I wouldn’t visit.
@@77D777 Yes, you make a fair point, there are some inner city areas of the UK that are a bit ropey, but nothing to the scale of this, and the weather being crap in England is a bit of a misconception, sure we have our fair share of rain and gray skys, we are an island in the North Atlantic after all, but we can have some glorious sunny days too during spring and summer, sure, our weather is not in the same league for sun and temprature as California, but as much as I love the sun, I do like to have four seasons....Cheers!
@@sicr7373 yeah man I lived in Florida for 3 1/2 years the heat was brutal I like seasons also and moved back to my hometown in middle America Missouri.. never left the states but I would love to visit the UK one day and London.. looks cool.. hope you can come over and travel one day also.
@@bk972 I live in Chicago, and my neighborhood is way better than this (despite people like the postal workers). What are your nicknames for Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, East Cleveland, K.C., D.C., L.A., Inside Job City, Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Camden, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Buffalo? 🤔 What state are you from? 🤔🤨
In 1982 in Huntington Beach, I was renting a 3-bedroom 1327 Sq Foot home for $600 monthly. In the garage I found an inspection notice stapled to a beam. House was built in 1962 for $12,000 dollars. We left California in 1987. Yesterday I googled the old home only to see that the estimated sale price was $1.1 million. No wonder we are seeing these scenes. Housing is outrageous. Who can afford those prices?
First part is Westlake 6th Street, home to thousands of Migrants from Mexico, Central and South America (Los Angeles Police Department Rampart. Second part of the video is Skid Row
Don't be ridiculous if Trump doesn't win the whole world will continue dumping the petrodollar and our $ will become worthless the people against Trump want a cashless society and no cars/beef @@drumtwo4seven
To be fair it’s mostly in the urban areas, Bay Area, Central Valley & LA county, outside of those areas there are still very beautiful parts of California left.
@@RenR70 Until a homeless person or drug addict decides to live in front of your house! They're coming so don't get too comfortable. You are in California.
I am Mexican. OMG, honestly that video reminds me Tepito in Mexico city but in the 80's. "First world"? I don't think so. I live in Guadalajara and I have to say that even here you don't see many homeless people, this is a rotten society.
Why bother renting any retail storefronts when you can just open up a tent in front of it 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Big change is needed. And when business starts getting affected and people lose money, then it will happen.
@@allybearbear That’s cool. I’m talking about a video game. I think you’ve made a mistake. But historically Charlie commenters are usually wackado. Hood experts. lol. I’m scared.
I live near Home depot up the street from Macarthur park. The sidewalks are congested and bullshit goes on but many families like my own use the park and are trying to make a living. 99% of the time you have to look for trouble, like any other part of the city.
I went to L.A some years back and wasn't crazy about then. It looks even worse now. Most of it is me though. Not big on large groups of people. I'm just a laid back quiet kind of guy.
More and more places going up for lease. Rampant unchecked retail theft and people selling all sorts of boosted goods. This is a more practical and realistic dystopia than the cyberpunk one we all thought we would find ourselves in.
WOW. I was a weed delivery driver for 8 years going all across the LA county area from ie to the coast of LA all the way down to the OC up until a year and a half ago. I have NEVER seen such a rapid decline like central LA has seen. How did they let it get like this
What are people doing? Setting up shops in front of shops? Nothing like free rent. And what was up with that crazy red van? lol Wow! The homeless situation is completely out of control since the last time I was in LA. I heard it was bad but seeing is believing! It's unreal.
If you're talking about the red van with the banana on it, I believe it is a public health agency encouraging sexual health. Usually these vans and pop-ups provide free-of-charge STD testing, prescriptions, birth control, and other resources to minimize the spread of disease.
Yet in Hollywood store owners put planters out front to deter the homeless setting up camp. The city made the shop owners remove the planters because "They were blocking the sidewalk"
I have actually been to the Westlake area near MacArthur Park. One of the first shots in the video. It wasn't the best when I was there, but now it looks worse. You only used to see a bunch of tents in the Skid Row area near the older part of Downtown Los Angeles. Now it looks like Skid Row has expanded to multiple parts of the city.
This near MacArthur Park? I visited with my parents (they grew up in LA and Santa Ana) and we were walking around trying to go down memory lane and I never knew how crowded the streets were with little tents. Stores almost overflowing to the curb. Maybe it's because I was 7 before we left Cali.
This is not only sad, this is UNACCEPTABLE! Los Angelas and CA is one of the most expensive places to live in the country with some of the highest taxes in a country. The USA has highest economy IN THE WORLD! How is the homeless crisis even a thing here? Homelessness is bad for the environment. Why are we sending BILLIONS to other countries while we have THIS here at home? It is PAST TIME we demand better from our leadership! Letting people live like this and spread diseases is not compassion. Having open borders and allowing drugs into our country which is a major factor leading to homelessness is not compassion. Being soft on crime on people selling drugs leading to homelessness is not justice. Spending MILLIONS of taxpayer's money on the "homelessness problem" which ends up with the net result of more people being homeless is not working. Remember ALL OF THIS when you vote this November! I live here in CA and for the first time in almost 10 years I did not get a tax refund, but I own money. I am literally working right now to pay off my taxes AND FOR WHAT!?!?!
California doesn't know where 20 billion dollars went to help the homeless!!! Think about how much 20 billion is?! it's like Mount Everest amounts of money 💰 😅
My daughter was there not long after Kobe and about a year after that by way of upstate NY. She knows of skid row but she's still young and carefree so when i asked her to paint a picture of what she saw she was totally not interested in what i wanted to know 😅 about the nasty grimy los Angeles i watch from the comfort of my couch. Lol. Thank God she came back in one piece for sure.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 and people thats not from here always want to move here while us natives trying to get out and when people move here they realize the real LA and they feel dumb
7th and Alvarado, and the authorities are allowing another skid row to develop there ... and there's a subway station right close by that working people have to push through the filth and squalor to get to!! 🤮
