Pahokee - The Worst Town In Florida 

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A lot of people don’t realize how poor parts of Florida are. If you get away from the coasts and go into central Florida, there are many towns like Pahokee

Having lived in FL my entire life, I can tell you there's a little bit of Pahokee in every city in the state.

I was hoping for a little more history of the town and maybe some insight into why it fell into decline

Born and raised in Pahokee, it's completely heartbreaking to see the condition of the city. I left in 1992 for a better life! My first job was at the hospital and I would of never imagined that that would become the reality of Everglades Memorial Hospital. Lord please restore Pahokee to some kind of glory.

You do the hokey pahokee and you turn yourself around and get out of town, that's what it's all about

I think this is where Florida Man lives

*Strange Fact:* About 1 in every 30 residents is a registered s-x offender (the average town in America has about 1 registered offender per 2500 people). A ministry group set up a community called Miracle Village nearby, which provides rehabilitation and housing for offenders. It became so popular that there are rarely openings, so offenders hoping to get in began to move and settle in the closest community to Miracle Village, which is Pahokee.

I've been in this town many times and it is not that bad at all. The people are farmers for the most part.

A "worst town in this state" actually sounds like a good series that ppl would watch

What happened to the “Worst Town in Florida!” I wanted to hear about the economy and down fall there, not a hospital tour!

“The unemployment rate is between 16 & 30%} Coronavirus: “Hold my orange juice.”

So it's economically depressed, the streets look clean, no litter.

You should rename this video Abandoned Hospital. No information about Pahokee.

Kids pack your bags, we going on vacation

I lived in Pahokee for about 2 months I'm not even going to lie it was kind of peaceful people are very friendly it is a little rough but other than that it's a good place and Im from Lake Worth

That's funny way to spell, "Tour of an Abandoned Hospital."

I thought this was supposed to be about a town, not video of abandoned buildings. That could have been anywhere in the world.

WTF?! Graffiti actually made that building look better.

I just want to get a big ass loan, hire dozens of people who are skilled laborers and rebuild the whole place into something beneficial for the community.

Anyone that lives here knows that Florida is its very own worst town

Perhaps elaborating more on the history of the town

You can find places like this in every state in this country.

Imagine winning a vacation to Florida and ending up in pahokee

I keep reading people saying this is central florida... but this is in South Florida

"Pahokee is the worst town in florida" proceeds to show an abandoned hospital for 10 minutes

should have just called it, tour of an abandoned hospital. you didnt explain shit about what happened to the town

I lived in Jacksonville for about 10 years, and during that time I had visited many places in Florida. Honestly, after St. Augustine I saw a town like this every 25-50 miles. People don’t realize that Florida is not all beaches and vacation time. However Florida projects this image and lets towns like this fall into despair.

Sees staircase labeled "Hell" Heads up it. Me: Neat.

I was born in that hospital like a week before it shut down.

You characterize these towns based on the poor. you make is so that the worse a town is is because of the amount of poor people....

You're very right about what you say at the end about people having no idea what's out there. I was a Florida surveyor who spent years out in Pahokee, Belle Glade, and Port Myakka and people have absolutely no idea what's out there. Pahokee actually looks a thousand times better than when I was there in the late '90s early 2000s. There's also a time when they burn the sugarcane fields which turns the place into a surreal hellish environment. Smoke everywhere, Ash falling from the sky, and black dust kicked up from hundreds of sugarcane trucks. Scrawny little rabbits used to run out of the fields when they were burning them and hit the canals where the Gators would go nuts engorging themselves on them along with beat up trucks owned mostly by Haitians also harvesting these rabbits for free protein. And I'm sincere when I tell you late 90s downtown Pahokeei was something people would not even believe. Open murders right in front of the liquor store hang out. Shanties with blankets for doors. No trash pickup. Pahokee looks a hell of a lot better than what it did if you can believe it or not. Sugar cane fields and prisons. That's the only other thing out there other than those towns. I think people think I exaggerate when I used to tell them stories about these areas. In reality it was worse than I could possibly explain.

The hospital got too boring. Would have liked to see more of the town and learn why you thought it is the worst town in FL

I will buy a house for my mother-in-law here

It's quiet & no one's around. Looks like the perfect place for me

“The worst town in Florida” is like saying “The smelliest part of the dumpster fire”

I love how polite Dan Bell is to the killer hornets. “Ehh, no thank you!”

This video could also be titled Sneak peak at New set for Walking Dead Or Fallout: New Florida E3 2018 trailer

I live in Pahokee and it’s really nice and everyone is really close and some nfl players came from Pahokee

I spent some time in pahokee as a kid. I had some good times on the lake. The local Highschool football coach was an awesome man that would allow the players to come hangout at his house where he had a pool table and other fun activities.

This one had a lot of artwork. It makes me wonder -- who is J-O-N-E-S? How is their "outlet" spray-painting their name in an abandoned hospital? If JONES wrote their name in 8-foot-tall letters on the outside, would the police stop them? Wouldn't it be ironic if THAT was the only public investment the building received? Who does JONES expect to see their name? Are they alive? Is Bright Sun Films the only reason JONES's name is spoken?

Pahokee - Florida's Florida.

Him breathing that hard scares me more than the video and this actual place

The wisest thing he did was wear a mask in these mold mildew infested places. That get into a human lung is disastrous problems.

Beginning of video Me: "It can't be that bad." End of video Me: "Is this from fallout?"

Some more commentary about the city and its history would’ve been nice.

What we don't realize is this is all around us, we just don't see it.

This is was mostly about THE HOSPITAL...wtf...

Look how beautiful the sky looks though?

The neighboring city Belle Glade is arguably worse

As a resident of Florida I appreciate you talking shit about some hospital they close 20 years ago and not anything about an actual town. I was with you for the first two minutes and then nothing factual was actually offered

I saw the Black Lives matter and questioned when this was released and realized this was made in 2017

Threatened and followed by several people? Jeez, what the hell.

Basically any town that's not boasting tourism of any kind is a shit hole down here.

11:22 I'm so glad that I am not the only person who goes "HMMMM NO THANK YOU" whenever I see a wasp.

Everybody talks about how bad Pahokee is without even setting foot in Belle Glade

I like this sort of video but I would like more details. I like the voice over parts better than the quiet parts. I just think there is too much dead air to keep my attention.

Pahokee isn't all run-down hospitals, there are some amazing trails by the lake! Places get abandoned all the time, but the state of Florida is putting a lot of effort into that area making it a nice spot for bird watching, hiking and biking. I had a great time stopping thru there on my way from Melbourne to Miami.

Daaaang Jake I'm glad you had Dan Bell with you on this trip for back up!! I got chills just from what you showed here, I can't imagine what you didn't show on camera

Was there once about 10 years ago , we stayed in the koa there on the lake for a boat race , a cop told us we would’ve never made it out of there if he wasn’t there , the cops dog had a bulletproof vest on and there were bars on the window

90% of this video is just an abandoned building, but if you google the city its actually not that bad lmao, its progressing

I feel like selling meth just looking at this town.

I was questioning what to do with my life, then a sign 11:53

There have been several videos of the old Everglades Hospital through. I watched most all of them. It’s crazy to see the inside of the facility 9 years ago and now. The deterioration is enormous. In fact dangerous. There were once lives saved in that hospital. Hard to imagine huh???

You know shit was getting too real when you heard a rooster in the background

I'm sorry but Belle Glade is worse. It's also a town built by the sugar industry. It has the highest concentration of people with AIDS in the state.

people move to florida and expect a luxury place, but then you realize it looks a lot like this, outside of the giant liminal space suburbian neighborhoods and endless freeways. its a strange state to live in.

You wanna know what really happened to this town?! The government and those damn developers lured a bunch of people to that area with a bunch of grandeur promises. When the people realized there was no intrinsic value to the place most of them left. The ones left behind probably had no where else to go.

As a Floridian, I absolutely agree. Pahokee is part of my commute to work, and every time I drive past this, I feel like crying. It's like driving through a mini Gary, Indiana and is what many people think of when thinking "gross parts of Florida".

So... tropical Detroit?

Wait did he say he was threatened and followed like is no one else gonna react to that

I was actually born in that hospital and yes, Pahokee is a dump that I'd recommend everyone to avoid unless you hate your life.

You should rename this video to "tour of an abandoned hospital" considering it makes up 3/ 4 of the video. Not to much else about why it's the worse town.

This is where Florida Men spawn. They emerge from eggs hidden in underground chambers depending on the meth in the air.

That hospital looks like it belongs in fallout 3

Wow...the darker side of Florida! I have just recently moved to this town to recover from Cancer and it is filled with the most joyful, honest welcoming and sweet people I have ever come across. Yes the infrastructure is in bad shape and it is a town in sever economic decline but that is overshadowed by the peacefulness of the area, and the warmth and history of the people I've met. White, Black, Latin, Middle East...etc., it makes no matter, they open their hearts willfully to their neighbors old and new. This is a place where people see only you...not your house, your car, your dress, your possessions. Be you rich or poor, you are first a neighbor. This is a community that comes together and helps each other...old values are maintained while welcoming in the modern world for the benefit of it's citizens. It's an old town and it wants to stay that way because, the alternative isn't always better. There is love and joy here. Sure there are issues....but what city or town doesn't have them. As far as it being the next real estate boom....you don't know much about the Muck that made this farming community that it is. Visit again and visit with the people....rather than the bricks and bees.

It would have been cool if you would have went into more detail about why the town is in the shape it's in and why people left.

you know how many ghosts that hospital has? forget the wasps

Person: “there are wasps everywhere” Me: “yup, sounds like Florida, I miss it”

This town is an absolute football factory. They have produced a lot of NFL players.

Holy shit, that hospital looks like it's straight out of Fallout.

As Spiro Agnew said, "If you've seen one slum, you've seen 'em all."

This is so sad. When I see the hospital, it’s easy to imagine the nurses and doctors stations and the bustle of the hospital. I found this to be the less upsetting or frightening of the places you’ve visited. There’s a holiness of care still there.

The hospital looks like something you'd find in fallout 4

*dont dead, open inside*

This isn't too uncommon for Florida. Even in the coastal regions. Someone else commented it but, there really is a little bit of Pahokee in every town in Florida

It’s sad.I know all too well Pahokee.I was born and raised in Immokalee.I remember times going to Pahokee for high school games and it was dangerous.The list goes on and on.Pahokee is just one of many underdeveloped areas in Florida.

So I'm cruising though Pahokee on Google and yea, the town is run down a bit but for the most part, people keep their home's clean and nice.

Mechanization eliminated many farm labor jobs and the residents killed their small businesses by driving miles to Walmart.

A lot of dead air on this one. I don't wanna be staring at walls for 40 seconds for you to talk for 5 seconds and then show us another 40 seconds of silent walls.

One of the worst??? I was under the impression I was watching a video about the hands down worst town in Florida.

I am from the muck I was born in this hospital raise in Belle glade as a child and moved to pahokee and lived there for 8 years before leaving. A lot of great peoples that supports one another. Talented and gifted good folks. Yes it's poor not many opportunities but the city hasn't always been this way. Belle glade is about 11 minutes away and has more shopping spots and other things but has a higher crime rate. Pahokee need people's who are willing to invest in the town to build it back up. I do not ever want to live there cause it is nothing to do very depressing place. a lot of church gathering is what people here do the most.

Went through there last week, I thought I was going to break the front axle out from under my truck. The roads are actually collapsing by 4-6 inches in areas. I could go about 20 mph max. The sad part is, it could be a great retirement community being it sits on the Lake Okeechobee.

Its hard to believe that in a first world country that a town like this exists.

This absolutely sucks. Anyone can go film dilapidated areas and buildings in any town, and call it the worst this or that. Lame.

Florida native here who used to visit Pahokee for work. It's truly a desolate and hopeless place. I've never felt scared for my life working before having to visit some of the housing projects there. These people are desperate and poor. And in a state with as much money as Florida that is a bad combination. It's a ghost town that doesn't know it's dead yet.

Tropical Detroit.

I live near Orlando and had to make a drive down to Miami recently. I got about halfway down the highway and decided to take the “scenic route” because I noticed I was running super early. I ended up driving through Pahokee and it was so eerie and intriguing.

As I write this... the hospital has been torn down, but most other abandoned structures like the school still remain. The town looks possibly even rougher than it did 3 years on. The whole lake Okeechobee region of Florida, especially where the sugar industry dominates, is in really sad shape. As a Floridian it’s painful to see your fellow citizens living in such squalor. It’s a stark contrast from eastern palm beach county, where I’m from. A different world with just an hour drive west.

Misleading title. Should read "Exploring Abandoned Pahokee Hospital".