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Charlie goes to the worst parts of a city .. and generalizes. You never see Charlie go to Chestnut Hill, West Mount Airy, most of East MountAiry, Roxborough, Manayunk, even Center city and its surrounding districts, OVERBROOK Farms, Wynnefield around city avenue, ..hell the entire Upper NE. Philly has operating farms within the city limits nears Saul HS.. but Charlie is too fascinated by Kensington and Fairhill to venture outside the hoods and give a full picture of the city. Philly has the largest municipal park in the USA . And first rate hiking around Forbidden Drive. But Charlie wants to generalize based on hoods .. and you will never see those areas in his videos. Areas that encompass together about two thirds of the city.. if you add up the square miles of those areas from data provided by PEW trust Hoods no where look good.. and northeast hoods tend to look more deteriorated than some in other parts of the country due to the ages of these cities..But Charlie, you do a disservice by over generalization and not knowing the well the subject matter that you are talking about
@Yz Yea Philly is very big and has very nice areas how ever I think the point is to show the worse parts of every city …..And I’m sorry I have been to a lot of cities in hoods almost all ….philly has the worse by far ….Camden and Baltimore are a close second and that it …..New Orleans is close but I really never seen anything close to Philly hoods
@@talkingmoney4499 I all fairness.. there is no such a thing of “ nice” slums, trailer parks, hollers etc. What constitutes the “worse” is always contested. Philly also has some very beautiful areas with architecture from colonial and federalist eras that can’t be matched by the cheaply built and poorly constructed new house in other cities. Chestnut Hill has beautiful, large single homes and are as much part of Philly’s landscape as the “ horrible “ areas. Philly has first rate restaurants, a fun night life and a diversity not matched by many cities. That is why people.. like my self .. who are not from Philly chose to enjoy its amenities. From the comments, it appears that the presentation of this video is unfair of the what Philly has to offer. Gross over generalization coupled with lack of knowledge about a subject is not a good look. Does Philly have the typical problems of many of American larger cities.. sure. Does Philly due to its age have dilapidated areas .. like other NE cities but it’s much larger.. certainly. But it’s a disservice to portray this as the entirety of a diverse and large city
I was homeless and addicted to dope on those streets for over 10 years. Hopped on the train to South Florida in 2012 with nothing but the clothes on my back. I finally escaped that black hole and have been clean and sober ever since. Now I travel the world performing music and sharing my testimony. Sometimes you gotta change people, places and things. 🙏🙏
Worst part is if you go back and look at pictures from the 1950s these were beautiful middle class neighborhoods. Philadelphia row homes are actually very well constructed, inside they all have oak floors beautiful walnut inlays, detailed staircases, and it all went to shit.
I’m from Philly and I will put it like this, you don’t know that this is bad until you leave. You literally grow up thinking this is just how outside looks.
@whitemaninventedeverything9511 tbh cuz even the Hispanic parts of town rude down as they looked are kept clean by the residents. Really only the black parts are litter everywhere
Any one of those people could decide to learn a skill. All you need is a crappy smartphone, which the government will provide you if you are very poor. It's a choice. The only thing to be said is that some who live there just never got the education they needed to know it's a choice. But don't be mistaken, it is a choice.
God *_has_* had mercy and He sent Jesus so everyone can be reconciled to Him for the forgiveness of sin and have eternal life in His Kingdom where evil is not present... learn about Jesus by reading the Bible for yourself, He is the world's only hope of escape from the bondage to sin and death!
You will be enslaved if you are a Caucasian according to the Bible for the r@pe robbery and murder of the blacks Hispanic and native Americans.. or if you are still alive when christ return and bother way he is black... you will be killed by christ and the angels.. the Caucasian race is hated by god.. romans 9 13 ... The Caucasian is a decendant of esau whose seed is cursed and spoiled also reffered by God as the people of his curse.. An we will enslave you... the Bible says it... 12 tribes of Israel the real Jewish are the people your people killed for the revolution hahaha right hahahaha.. get ready for slavery more that what you put us through
Its still an amazing city. But sections of north south and west are really bad. When i first moved here i worked by independance hall and it was really cool to see the place where they all signed the constitution telling britain to eat a dick. I fuck with that mentality heavy.
Drugs probably is what made Philadelphia not evolve just like a lot of places, but some places seem to move on from all the drugs and grow out of it. Crack epidemic hit hard around these areas and this is just one of the places where people never probably stop using drugs.
There is no amount of money thrown at these areas that would make a measureable difference. For some of these slums, we just need to push a reset button and start all over. Such despair.
This is demonstrably untrue, and for the dozens of urban neighborhoods that city governments did push the “reset” button on in the 1970s, nothing changed except residents were now living in gov’t projects instead of private houses/apts. Measurably worse scenario due to isolation from services, notably police services. What fixes these areas is concentrated, deliberate redevelopment, over years and years, called “gentrification”
That's brcause there are so many white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members living in these areas. If the inhabitants were mainly black and Hispanic, these areas would rival Beverley Hills.
No one wants to say it but the reason its like this is because blacks cannot successfully live and acclimate into a modern society. If blacks in the US didn't have the government giving them handouts, where they live would quickly look just like how they live in Africa. Modern society is simply too difficult for them as a whole and it's not fair that we (every other race) ask them to rise up to a standard they're not capable of rising to. They need to be given the opportunity to live in huts without the stresses of conforming to advanced cultures.
Not only is it falling apart but the people are loud, obnoxious and ignorant and it’s obvious they could care less about their neighborhoods the amount of trash on the streets kills me, you don’t need to have money to pick up after yourself, a broom from the dollar store works
@@rosemullen-r5w yea, go through these neighborhoods and the cars parked in front of the falling down houses are worth more than the houses. Priorities, they’d rather drop 10 grand on new rims than a new roof or windows
That's not snow, that's garbage. The residents put it there. How can you expect a landlord to care about a property, when they promptly pig it out ?? Even poor doesn't have to mean dirty. And it costs you nothing to pick the damn stuff up. For a poor neighborhood, there sure are a lot of nice new cars, though...
😩 & If you were out there - all day - sweeping 🧹 it up, or picking it up, they'd just be throwing more down, every literal step of the way . I guess they think it's funny, or they're too high to care 😢 . What happened to neighborhood pride 🤔🤔🤔
I grew up in North Philly in the seventies 24th and Lehigh. The neighborhood that I lived in didn’t look nothing like this and it wasn’t depressing. In came the crack and guns which decimated our communities. I have history here and saw the transformation. How and the hell are all of these colleges in the midst of these communities that’s riddled with crime and degradation.
I've been working on a screenplay for years that is set in Philadelphia. I want to thank you for the footage. This helps me with my mental picture of what life in the row house neighborhoods is like now versus then.
In the United States, Ms. Sanchez. AMERICA is the entire continent since 1507, composed of 35 countries, officially discovered and named America in the South by the Catholics, not by a bunch of Protestants Pilgrims who arrived in the American continent centuries later when everything had already been discovered and named and didn't spend a cent on the enterprise of the discovery of America. Did you believe everything your neocolonisers tell you? How fool.
I got lost one night in a questionable part of Philly coming back one Christmas Eve from visiting family in Camden County NJ. Don’t know what was going on with my gps. I wound up at intersections with abandoned cars parked on sidewalks and in the middle of the roads. I approached a red light and there was an officer in front of me. I was going to pull alongside and ask him how to get to the PA Turnpike. But! He ran the red light and left me there alone. Anyway, I do hope that, despite the rough shape of the exteriors, these families have happy homes, love and lots of all they need. The area looks like it could use a few volunteers to pick up trash, too. It looks to have a lot of history and charm (I imagine what it was like when these buildings were new), so I hope the city or state or a donor will invest to revitalize it or at least give it a facelift. Even to include acceptable designs from the graffiti artists. Thank you for sharing this with us. Wishing everyone there well, happiness, health and all good things!
They don’t need volunteers to pickup the trash. The residents need to take pride in their community and clean up. Instead of it being ‘someone else’s problem’ they need to be part of the solution.
Plenty of volunteers pick up trash. Believe it or not, most home-owners clean the front of their house every day. There is also a program called CLIP (Community Life Improvement Program) which pays people (mostly the homeless) to help clean up the streets. I remember them coming up to me and asking to work the next morning, $50 cash for two hours. I took it. Thankfully, I haven't been to Philly in a year & been clean ever since
Having lived in the area for 30 years, I can almost guarantee you that when those buildings were brand new, there was some politician near by talking about how they "represented a new day" and how "change was a-comin!" all the while skimming money out of public housing funds. It happens all the time on the East Coast, The Wire did not exaggerate about that.
There is rampant corruption in the Philly government, this won't change from some volunteers. This problem is way deeper than picking up some trash. Also, good luck getting people to walk around North Philly voluntarily!
I remember going to a birthday party at a slum in Philly. I had to use the bathroom and when I went into their home they had sheets covering open windows and no electricity. So many stories of my time with the locals while I was in college. This is an accurate representation.
I imagine that you can find poor people anywhere.. but most don’t foolishly generalize about an experience and say that it represents everyone’s experience in a large , diverse metropolitan area.
@@aIysssa Imagine seeing these places with your own eyes and not calling them slums. I still get knots in my stomach just seeing the El just because of how bad it is underneath that rail line. Sucks to have friends that live in slums but it happens and they are still slums despite your friend living there.
@@RawRealRetail They aren't slums. True Slums in undeveloped/developing countries are much much worse. I think people get it twisted and think that if you're not calling something the worst thing you could call it (worst in your opinion) then you're downplaying it. That's not true, there's no downplaying that this is a very bad situation that should not happen in America, but it's just not a slum.
@@poesia-com-cafeina mate - if these are not slums... I live in Poland, Europe - the places with such filth don't exist in my country. If there are poor neighborhoods they are clean and tidy. These are slums for most people in Europe, you can say what you want - this place looks to me like nothing I saw in Europe.
My dad who grew up in what was considered a “deprived” area in London always used to say, “buildings don’t make slums it’s the occupants”! I wonder what this area was like in the 50’s and what changed occupancy wise since then?
Unfortunately not the case for US cities. Starting in 1933, US metro regions began rolling out "redlining" policies that effectively discouraged banks from granting home loans to marginalized groups, and specifically black people. This ultimately limited housing options for these groups to the lowest quality sections of cities, and to this day the US has a massive segregation problem when it comes to urban/suburban real estate (despite redlining policies being overturned, starting in 1968). Further, because of this historical segregation in US urban real estate, marginalized groups have also received worse primary education (due to low local property tax revenue), worse public healthcare resources, and fewer opportunities for upward mobility. It is extremely unfortunate, but for the US, the buildings have quite literally made the slums.
As wrote in my main comment, the people in this neighborhood are just fine. Just because it’s poor and it isn’t pretty doesn’t make it horrible or dangerous. Your dad was right. People make slums not buildings, and West Kensington is a little shabby but not a slum. I know this neighborhood like the back of my hand as I worked there for half a decade and I made friends and learned a lot about humanity that I sure didn’t learn in my wonderbread middle class upbringing.
Born in west Philly, moved after my HS graduation because my mom passed and I went to live with my dad. Been on the west coast ever since and after watching this I’m definitely grateful to be out here (and not there!)
You know you miss being able to walk to the corner store or hear music flowing when you open your window. You must get bored having to drive everywhere, even to get a bag of chips. No kids playing in the summer time, no grannies watching you from their porch. No sidewalks, no Wissahickon, no parkway, no fire hydrant parties. Grass is greener.
I grew up within 3 blocks of K&A. Back in 1975 it was nowhere this bad. A few blocks' walk and you'd be "on the avenue". Lots of shops to visit, like an outdoor mall. Most of what you needed other than a supermarket, it was all there. A hardware store, 4 shoe stores, a dry-cleaner, a modern Woolworth, 2 pharmacies, 3 banks, a 24-hour diner, a McDonalds, a large movie theater (Midway), dentists, a York ladies' apparel store, Levin's furniture, and the Library on McPherson Square. 0:32 This is by 2nd & Allegheny. 1:53 This is K&A, 7 blocks east of the earlier footage. The house on the right, with the ground-level entrance sticking out on the sidewalk, was Dr. Stack MD in the 1970s. You'd go in that door down to his office in the basement. Some of the yellow trim still has that color. We were on the 700 block of Willard St, 2 blocks from here. We spent 6 months at 834 Madison St, just around the corner, now it doesnt exist any more, what a shame! 2:07 imagine the large cars from the 1970s parked on these streets! It was tough to park and get by. The City has special smaller trash trucks that get up these streets. Having to wait on someone stopped is commonplace. Feltonville, Onley and Juniata Park have back drives, but not Kensington! 6:18 back to Front St and West Kensington. Something that might not be obvious, when these rowhouses were built in around 1900-1910, the developer did build different models on different blocks, so actually some are bigger/nicer. After all this time you still have some blocks that look a lot better and others that are trashed, and missing a lot of houses.
I grew up in Manhattan and I remember back in the 90s (I was like 11 -13 years old )my dad drove me around North Philly and the scenery has marked my memory. It was like if I was in a different world. Very similar to what this video shows but worst… I just couldn’t believe what I saw.
One of my nightmares would be to find myself suddenly teleported to a place like this from my cute little seaside town in Australia and be told "this is where you live now" 😲 Oh shit... You're doing an incredible job with your videos Charlie. You've got a bigger pair than I do, but please be careful.
It is Philly, but it is just a slice. I live in kinda the polar opposite large city in the country but my one, five day visit of Philly cemented it as my favorite city in the U.S. I’ve been in every large city in the country except Miami and Minneapolis and most medium sized ones as well and Philly is fantastic, culturally rich, historic and beautiful. But, like every city you’ve got to stick to certain places and avoid others.
@@tpolerex7282 I guess it's the same in any city in the world. There are places in cities in my own country where I wouldn't go either, especially at night. Having said that though, I've never seen any places in Aussie cities that are quite as rundown as this. Of course my own sense tells me that this video is by no means representative of Philly as a whole, and I'm aware that Charlie focuses on areas like this in his videos. Thank you for your insights 🙂
Imagine being a grown man and hanging out in a abandoned parking lot FULL of trash and just being ok with it ! I feel for those individuals ! And if someone went there and started volunteering to clean they would prob tske offense to it
By the time people wake up and realize that politicians are not their friends, either side, it'll be too late I'm afraid.nothing is free in this world despite what the politicians tell you, everything comes at a cost.
As a person who lives in Philadelphia, it's so depressing and dead. The love here is extremely fake and will force you to not be social with anyone. People standing on the corners smoking their lives away; people sitting on the steps stressing about life; possibly suicidal; shootings every day; not to mention the lack of job opportunities here and how picky these companies are, leaving people homeless, joining a gang, or worse, committing suicide. I would not come here unless you were visiting to see landmarks, etc.,or for the food.
It's so depressing to see what as happened to those districts of Philly. The hope has gone. So sad. Really ain't that much to see,unless you have big money.🚔
@@brucekilby9957 the killing is the worst part I remember somebody killed my lil homie an he was only 13 or 14 they shot him more then 10 times I wish I can move out this zoo but I can't afford to do it sadly.
@@Astroi98I used to love Philly but living here is making me cynical and racist. I’m trying my best to overcome the negativity and hate but it’s so difficult when I see every stereotypes in action every, single, goddamn day. I’m tired
If you have a car you can get your ass in it, pack your belongings n move. Move anywhere in the US. I did it several times from NY to TX to SC to FL to MO now back in NY.... stable living now in NY with kids but I worked around the country made money n found out no place like home... which is NY
It seems that the meaning assigned to the word "slum" in the USA is totally different from that in 3rd world countries. All I can see here is a fairly decent middle class neighbourhood, probably suffering from gross neglect; definitely not a slum. As opposed to what I see here, slums in other countries do not have paved streets, electricity, running water etc.
Philadelphia also has some of the most beautiful neighborhoods. I lived in Philly all my life . Obviously there are bad areas like most cities , but they are the overwhelming minority.
Up here in Canada it’s the same in some city’s in Hamilton Ontario many streets look the same ,it’s gotten worse everywhere tents and drugs real dog eat dog world ..Unemployment is 10% everything is getting repossessed cars ,homes next year it’s going to be much worse😢
I'm from Philly. I was raised near that area. That's what you call "North Philthy" lol. It's not that bad. If you look some of the old industrial "row homes" are actually kept up pretty well. It's just the abandonment houses and lots on the block that distract the eye from how some people actually keep their houses up. It's sad. But Philly local officials are professional theives who are more interested in shady real estate deals than helping the people of the city 😅
We left the city of Philadelphia 10 yrs ago and we now live on a small farmette in the mountains hundreds of miles away. We raise animals and grow our own food. We often go for days without seeing another human being. It’s a peaceful, quiet, stress-free life. I couldn’t be more relieved that we made that decision to jump ship a decade ago. I highly recommend.
A lot of areas in Detroit look like this, especially the area I live in. I'm just glad I never bought kids into such a depressing, crime ridden, drug infested city like this or Detroit.
@@KTJohnsonkidThunder It's sad and disheartening. As a baby boomer, I grew up in a beautiful, natural scenic environment, now just looks like a toxic, destructive, Armageddonic place.
The 1st time I went to Philly the FIRST thing I noticed was every single store & bodega had these HUGE signs about BED BUG treatment. I was like "WTF? Get me outta here"!
I grew up poor. Lived across the street from the projects. White kid in "the hood." Like Chris Rocks Parents, my parents made us clean in front of our house and the house on either side. There is no excuse for filth.
You definitely don't want to find yourself boxed in on one of them back alleys. When that truck stopped in front of you and you had nowhere to go I was like yep he's done now
Naw… New Orleans. Looks like the ancestors were just freed from slavery and living in cardboard boxes. They sound like the enslaved ancestors, too. OMG. Sad state of affairs. 💔 And, no…I’m not from there.
I commuted to Temple University in the 1980's. The campus was beautiful, but you knew to never leave it after it got dark. Fast forward 40 years: it actually managed to get worse. Happy that I moved out of Philly!
My cousin was born and raised in Oakland and when I brought him to where I lived in Fairfield which is an hour away, he couldn't process how nice my neighborhood and house looked. Tbh, it's a decent area where I live but the fact that he was in awe how everything looked was a bit sad. smh.
I cannot imagine living in this neighborhood. No grass, no bushes or flowers, so few trees, cramped, ill-kept, crowded with cars. Maybe lots of children live indoors. No toys seen, no bike or swing. Depressing, bleak. God help the youth who must defeat hopelessness and escape.
These are the exact streets my drug-addict mother would drag me through as a young boy (age 1 - 6). I'm 40 and it still haunts me. That f'n train, the smells, the things I saw at such a young age, the weirdos attacking us. Insane.
I grew up in Brazil . In the slums. With very little infrastructure. Dirt roads . But I felt safe there . Because people took care of each other . It was a village . We were broke but we were proud of our little house . With a slab cement floor and no doors in the bedroom. We worked hard to beautify it. Added tile , doors . Planted flowers . The whole neighborhood did that. This place has sewer, electric, , phones, paved streets but it’s way more depressing than the slum where I grew up in. People don’t take pride where they live . This happens
Grew up in Brazil too and this is what I noticed when comparing favelas with American ghettos. There’s a lot more union, family vibes and friendship in favelas. Now these ghettos are hostile as hell.
anyone else adviced, they have money for cars and jordans, but not for a proper home maintain? remembers me the gipsy neighbours in my country in europe
fr... these ppl live in a beautiful area, they all got cars and clothes and all the things u said... out here in brasil on the favela i grew up we didnt had nothing but we took pride and had unity, its crazy how ''rich ppl'' here have cars and nike, over there the poor got cars yet they think they are suffering
That’s how America is now a days, muthafuckas a have the nicest looking car clean and everything but where they lay they head at be a different type of story😂don’t get me wrong the insides of the houses be looking good but damn you gotta beamer with tints and nice rims but where you stay be🤦🏾♂️😂
Being from southern New Jersey and a frequent visitor to Philly , I can def confirm that after dark , during the scary hours, northern Philadelphia is one of the scariest places that I have ever walked through. It’s not just the atmosphere, which is terrible enough, but it’s that eery feeling you get when every corner you turn could be a surprise.
Facts north philly is one of the worst places in the country I was born and raised in philly living in the western part of United states now its laughable what they consider the hood out here
@@johnpaul12288 and that happens all over the country in New York back in the day the project's were all white,compton,ca used to be a all white suburb unfortunately are people are destroying neighborhoods with violence and drugs and tryna tell people that look like them that they cant come to their neighborhood and town and that they gotta check in it's sad everybody wants to be a gangsta
This is a generational neighborhood. The younger generations live with the older generation, hence they have more disposable income to spend on things like cars and sneakers. The solid citizens work, so they can buy nice cars 'cause many don't have to worry aboot mortgages and stuff. Also, this is an area with million dollar corners(the drug, or drugs, trade). The drug corners are the biggest employer in this area. It gives people tax-free money in various, direct and indirect, ways. This is America, dude, everybody's aboot cars. We don't do bikes like y'all. The bigger the vehicle the better. Ha ha ha ha...
@@Phillyhomicide right there is the problem. What's more important, a safe place to live or fancy cars, fancy shoes, etc. ? The point is that everybody has to set priorities and make wise choices unless you have unlimited resources. Also, having pride in oneself and one's neighborhood doesn't cost dollars. They could get their lazy arses up and clean up the neighborhood.
A lot of the cars you see in this video are old. Plus, no APK, low road taxes, low gas taxes. You could probably snag most of the ones you see here stateside for $4k-$30k.
I was born and raise in north philly right on 25th and Lehigh ave. Went to Walton elementary, fitzsimmons middle school, dobbins high school on 22nd and Lehigh. I managed to move out of philly at 19 knowing then that it was a trap for all that lived there and never been back only to see family. Been gone for 20 years now. Moving from north philly turned out to be the best decision I ever made. This video is much appreciated and further makes me feel glad that I left.
oh ok that what's up i grew up on Bonsall street i went to fitz as well graduated went to william penn once i left its no reason for me to go back down there now im planning to move from philly for good but i will never forget where i came from 💪💯
Wow. I lived on 27th and Huntington and also went to Walton but a different junior high and high school. I left Philly after graduating from LaSalle and entered the army.
It remind me of the Bronx tbh when I was little... just rats and garbage everywhere. Also just like NYC what weather is it cus I see kids wearing tshirts then kids wearing full blown winter coats... NYC be like that too.
I live in Bangkok and there are slums and the people have much less than this, but they take pride in their neighborhoods and do the best with the little they have. These places just seem like nobody cares, almost like the people *hate* where they’re from. This whole video just reeks of desperation and pessimism and apathy.
@@DAV1979 that’s an excuse bro I know somebody personally who moved to LA with no money no family and had to live in skid row (Google it ) he knew he wanted more and better for himself and he didn’t want to live there for ever this Nigga lived in a homeless shelter , got a job , saved and got a car and next thing you know he got an apt after getting that apt the Nigga moved to Vegas cause it’s cheaper rent like bro… idgaf what’s the situation is you can get out of it if YOU really want to anything else is an excuse! If he can do that shit from nothing anybody can
The trash problem in Philadelphia is unreal. How can anyone be ok with this?? The rat and roach not to mention disease has to be everywhere. What is wrong with these people?? Nobody's going to come in and give you a free cleaning. Do it yourself for christ sake.
Yeah, highlights the selfish people that live in the ghetto. Is that why there’s a ghetto? Does the ghetto make people selfish? In any case, poverty isn’t an excuse and no wonder the rest of the world feels no need to help these people.
That's what it's like in the city and its alleys. When I lived in a place like this, it was a daily occurrence to have the road blocked by cars and trucks with rude, disrespectful people.
I know. It's crazy that just a few miles away from where modern society flourishes, these people are unable to adapt to the standards of advanced civilization. It's almost as if they're an invasive species that can only consume but do nothing to participate in making the local ecosystem flourish.
@@Danlovestrivium I cannot speak to any of that since that has never been my life however I did go to a private school with a prominent football program in the region that often-had transfers on scholarship from areas such as this. Some of the stories I heard them speak of which was normalized to them was just heart wrenching. I don't think most of these people want to live like this but its the card they've been dealt and unless you have a great support system at home to get you out of that area it is probably near impossible to not fall into drugs,gangs,etc.
@@EviK5000 Making excuses and not holding people accountable is exactly how this has spiraled out of control like it is today. If you think blacks are incapable of contributing to a successful society, then you and I agree to a certain extent. I don't think it's impossible, I believe their culture is completely corrupted and until they have that completely stripped away, they will forever be on the bottom. You and I agree, it's near impossible for them with their current culture to not fall into gangs, drugs and prison when they spend so much of their time glorifying it and idolizing the worst mankind has to offer.
I find it crazy that one of the richest countries in the world has so many, very bad looking, slums. And I only know about them because of RU-vid-channels such as this. As a non-American I wonder if the politicians in your country ever talk about these areas, or is it just something they sweep under the carpet?
@@gskillet47 Everything!.....At least have the pride to pick up the garbage and keep your streets clean. Being poor is not an excuse. What little you may have, take care of it. Decency should always prevail.
CharlieBo has driven down every mean street in this country and if he says Philadelphia is the rock-bottom worst then Philadelphia is the rock-bottom worst.
Yeah you would expect some places in the south to be worse. Atlanta, Nashville, Even Miami. The northern states are supposed to be rich enough with taxpayer dollars to fix this.
@@MrSeekerOfPeace the statistic about the southern red states taking in more government money is a misleading one tbh. Most of that money goes to agriculture subsidies and military bases, which are disproportionately concentrated in these states. The money spent in these large urban areas up north is by contrast overwhelmingly funneled into welfare programs and the like, not that we don’t have our fair share of that here in the south, lol.
Not all areas of Philadelphia are like this. There are quite a few areas which are good. But the average crime rates in those areas is still somewhat higher than the national average. Philadelphia is one of the most lively city in America. So many people move here despite having an option to not...
Charlie you not wrong man, and I know you from Detroit. I was raised in Philly and I’m telling you that everything you’re seeing puts a toll on people living here everyday. The vibe is cold and different. You’re scared to go out past dark. It affects people without them knowing until they move out and realize what they came from. I live in NYC now and I love it here. I can go out and enjoy myself at night, there’s police monitoring most blocks, the people are more lively and like to show out here (in a good way). I will always say that if you not from Philly or got family there DONT COME HERE trust me even the main attractions like the love sign or the art museum aren’t worth it. I’m saying this with love though because I love Philly but this ain’t a tourist spot EDIT: I LIVED IN NORTH PHILLY WAY PAST DOWNTOWN SO I AM SORRY IF WE HAD DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES I GET IT DOWNTOWN IS FINE BUT AGAIN I LIVED UP N BROAD ST SO I WOULD NOT KNOW HOW IT IS STOP @ ME SAYIN DOWNTOWN IS NICE COOL IM TALKIN ABOUT NORTH PHILLY AND UPTOWN
Plenty of tourists in Philly encounter no problems. I went there myself a few years ago and enjoyed it. Of course in life anything can happen but if you stick to the tourist spots you should be okay. There's plenty to see in Philly.
Going to have 2 years sober on August 7th, 2023. Watching the video go by Water Street (1:10 in video) gave me chills. I spent many nights in that dirt lot, shooting coke for days on end. I couldn’t stop. I hadn’t showered or eaten in days and definitely wasn’t raised that way. I grew up with both parents, both Philly cops and in Northeast Philly. Graduated high school and went to college. The drugs got the best of me. I started with dope in ‘98 and was stuck for 15 years. Relapsed on coke and couldn’t get clean until 2021. There is a way out, a better life. You just have to give yourself a chance.
My mother was born and raised in North phila and I remember visiting my grand parents there, it was clean, safe and well cared for. I remember the women on sat morning with buckets scrubbing the steps. They were poor, but took pride in their homes, churches, and neighborhood. No trees, but each neighborhood had thier park, or 'squares' as they called them, where you could walk on grass and breath in a glimmer of green oasis. The neighborhood took good care of those precious patches of green. Sadly those values are gone.
At least the graffiti doesn't appear to be as out of control as it is in NYC 90 miles to the north. If you ever watch RU-vidr Cash Jordan's vids of apts for lease in NYC, just about every part of NYC (even its somewhat nice parts) is full of graffiti. It's sad when things like that have to be used to rate an American city.
Our country hasn't come far in the last 100 years. There are you tube videos out there of the slums in NYC. Poor people living in terrible housing with no electricity or running water. But the message, er the lies that are advertised so heavily on television is that everyone in America lives in a 3 bedroom house in a wonderful city, they all drive new cars, go on cruises, take the family to Disneyland and eat out every night. Thank you tube for telling the truth... Here's what the country really looks like. Politicians don't care.
America is what you make of it. Stop implying otherwise. I’m not college educated yet I live in a gated community, own 3 cars including a Mercedes and a beautiful classic Mustang. I work hard and that’s all it takes. Some people are just lazy losers who will never do anything to help or better themselves. I used to live in Philadelphia and it’s a sheet hole. The best thing I ever did was leave. I’ll never live in a city again. Almost every large city is controlled by Democrats, and they all have rampant crime, poverty and dirty/ crappy living conditions and high taxes.
I was born and raised in North Philly. Lived in Germantown before leaving Philly in 1989 and never went back. The area looked like this when I left and 31 years later still looks the same. Wow!
I used to work in the school systems all over Philly. I just want to say, one of the schools were so bad, it was like kids being in prison, they were not even allowed to play outside. When I left the city for some time and returned, I realized how bad things were.
Lazy people and body seems to care about their lives many there must die very young be really who could live like this i my self could not to nasty for me probably no respect for each other dozens help any body God bless you poor souls
@@DavidJohnson-yy5fy The problem is that lazy criminal-types are breeding at high rates. Some places will never recover and kids that have potential get sucked in to the trappings of the communities culture.
Deploying national troops in ghetto cities like Philly would make the drive by shooting disappear and won't be any child abduction. But that's going to be human violation and r*cism so the kids and people are stuck with these terrible conditions.
I spent 5 years in West Philly for college in the 80s. This is what it was like outside the bubble of our campus. Seems like things haven’t changed much in Philly 😳. I used to get extremely depressed in the winter living in such a nightmarish landscape that my parents were begging me to transfer to a different college.
My family went up to Drexel in 91 because my brother was looking into their Engineering program. Man. Outside of the campus, I wasn't thrilled. I went back to the same area in 2001 and seeing the piles of garbage everywhere was sobering.
Philly slums have always looked like this. I moved from Philly to Baltimore in 1966. The Philly slums were physically worse than the Baltimore slums even back then, but the Baltimore slums were (if such a thing were possible) more dangerous - I literally have the scars to prove it. Haven't lived in either place for 30 some years now.
I live in Philly and I NEVER venture into this part of town. It’s honestly like a completely different world . This is coming from someone who was born and raised in Philly
@@floridadashcam nah Fox Chase is near Pittsburgh bro on the other side of the state and most Western PA residents never travel to Eastern PA i was thinking more of maybe Villanova or Westchester as they are pretty close to the philly lol
WOW, I would love to live there, nothing to do all day but sleep and eat. And if you get bored you can do some graffiti or destroy property: what fun, what a great life! Best of all, the Democrats take care of everything for you.
Because like most issues, this can be completely blamed on a political party. You must really be onto something. Let me know when you find something to back that up.
No matter how poor a person or family's is you can still keep your surrounding neat and clean this is a fact. I know lots of poor/low income people who have the cleanest homes and yards I have ever seen in my life. I grew up in VA in a small mostly white town with 10% of black folks living there. My parents and and our 4 neighbors (all of us black folks) kept our yards and homes, neat and clean always and we were all low income back then (70-90's) NO excuses.
@a Listen your replied to me so it BOTHERS you enough to reply to me. BTW I used to live 15 minutes from Philly and I can tell you right now the inside of most of these row houses are JUST as nasty as the GOT damn outside of these homes. I had lots of relatives and people I knew who lived IN THESE row houses so i know this for a fact. Still no excuse to live dirty just because your poor.
More like a channel that makes you grateful you DON'T live in the US. What is it about Americans that has normalised throwing garbage in the streets? And before we get all the geniuses responding with "It's a black thing" It's not a race thing. Look at NYC, shopkeepers are permitted to leave garbage bags on the sidewalk for collection. No wonder the city has a rat problem. I'm from Melbourne, and I can tell you there is no way that would be permitted. Even if you go to the poorest suburb, you might find a few uncut lawns, rundown houses, but you won't see litter strewn all over the streets. And the same can be said about any other city in Australia.
Charlie, I think you may well be right. When it comes to urban blight in the US, with the possible exception of Baltimore, Philadelphia seems to take the cake. Disgusting. I've been a city boy for many years, but I don't know how the locals in these Philly neighborhoods live like that?? I'd get a van I could live in, and I'd GTFO of that sh-thole ASAP.
So you are the same as them. You wouldn't connect with neighbors and make a community beautification group to turn this around, no, you would just up and head out. So you're just as bad as this, except worse cause you grew up in a different place and know 'better'. So you think you're better, but you're actually worse. Do and be better, Mike.
@@BoogieBoogsForever Two words: PRESUMPTUOUSLY IGNORANT. In other words, if you don't know ANYTHING about the person you are addressing, you're better off keeping your yap shut instead (makes you look less foolish).
There's not much wrong with the architecture here, in fact it looks like a place with great potential, nice corner stores, walkable etc. In many places this would be a very desirable neighbourhood. The social conditions though e.g., the uncollected rubbish (garbage) etc point to the problems.
Yeah philadelphia’s a walkable hood for sure but sometimes walkable aint mean shit and one can still be far from important shit even if they’re in a hood that happens to have walkability and access to important shit without rural roads. A hood’s a hood. I agree this has to be easier than an unwalkable isolated Texas hood with weather that’s just as bad. But in the long run you wanna get out of a place like this. At least Texas can be improved
@@gonzalo4658It's true, ive lived in an inner city, and a suburb, and the suburbs has a hospital, grocery store, police station, gas station, right packed across the street. Meanwhile all the city had was a farmers market 2 blocks away that was only open 3 days a week.
Tell you what, you got balls man. Granted, most folks are just living and have no ill intentions towards anyone, but you cruise through spots that all it takes is one cat to get nervous about a strange car lol
Like others have said, the feeling is worse than reality. Nobody is going to shoot your car up. I wouldn't walk through at night, but day is ok (for a male)
I came to the US in 1970 from a civilized country. As a graduate student out west I came to Philly to visit a professor at Temple Univ. I was amazed as the squalor we had to drive through. Here we are 52 years later. No change. Doesn't anyone have enough self respect even to pick up garbage? What's the matter with this country?!
You answered your own question. This is a shitty and deplorable area because it’s populated by shitty, deplorable people who will turn over a pile of bricks after you give them a city
redlining and cities all over the world are the human filth capital even in places like europe and Asia but in Philly its due to Horrible funding thats why car centric Suburbs are better then "walkable" shitholes
