Poverty in the Everglades | Belle Glade, Florida 

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I used to cut through Belle Glade going between the coasts back when I was doing trucking runs. It was literally the scariest place I have ever drove though, besides E. St. Louis.

Moved to Orlando from Chicagoland as a teenager in 1967 and heard about Belle Glade within a couple of weeks even though it is over 150 miles away. Never been there and were discouraged from ever going there. You really did your homework on this one Chris from the AIDS epidemic right up to the present! The video is stunning in that where can you find a town this size not part of a large metro area with so so many apartment buildings? One hope here is diversification. As Florida gets more crowded that could happen here. This excellent video shines a needed light on places that need it. Very good job as usual!

Thanks for the video Chris. This is one of the nicest dumps that you've shown us. It looks like with a bit of work, Belle Glade can be really nice -- it has a lot of potential.

I love your videos bud. Keep up the good work. 👍

No trash anywhere! The place is poor, but much better than lots of places I've seen.

Greetings, from Labelle, Florida. These communities are less than 50 miles from my house and I am a native south Floridian. I've personally pass through these communities quite often, know people who live there, and observe the issue from a local view. Let me list some direct reasons. Generational poverty is where it starts. Fatherless homes, government funded households, lack of education, and a community that celebrate the worst part of our society. Just drive thru on a Saturday night and all this becomes very apparent. Ask me how I know. It's easier to make babies and get paid by the government than get a job. Theft and drug dealing pay better than " minimum wage". Quite frankly they never look or see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yes there are hard working people here, but very few high paying jobs, and almost no affordable housing that's not in the "hood". Thriving communities surrounding these places. Yes I come from a 2 parent household, didn't have children out of wedlock, stayed out of legal troubles, always had a job, and never touched hard core drugs. Which just proves my point here. I am blessed and Kind Regards to all.

Not far away, on the opposite end of the Everglades, there's a very similar situation with Immokalee and its much more wealthy neighbor Naples going on in Collier County, FL.

Another wonderful video. Thank you!😊❤

Belle glade to palm beach is an extraordinary stark difference between really rich and really poor in one county.

7:57 We certainty to do pump out some good NFL players here in Florida... I'm from Lakeland in Central Florida between Tampa and Orlando home of Ray Lewis (as well as Joe Nemechek Publix supermarket and Red Lobster)

I live 45 mins or so from here in Saint lucie. When i drove trucks, my route often took me around the ENTIRE lake. Talk about a boring route with sketchy 2 lane roads.

The issue for Belle Glade is location. It’s isolated, practically in the lower south middle part of the state by the upper Everglades. Not near any major highways.

Can you locate the huge Caribbean community living in belleglade. These mostly men who stay over from there Caribbean Cane cutting contract way back from as far as the 1960s some have move to fort.Lauderdale but most remains there🇧🇧

I've been to Belle Glade the town appears to be clean no trash or homeless encampments no graffiti on the buildings and very colorful paint jobs

The main streets with stores and fast food restaurants do not look that bad. There are many businesses, and it looks clean. I am sure there are some very good and honest people living there.

Although it looks like a poorer community the streets and sidewalks appear clean and there don't appear to be homeless squatters. It's a shame when big sports stars don't give back to the communities that produced them. They could do some good here.

Drove threw there about 30 years ago. Went by those apartments with people hanging all the place. Just keep going and got fast.

Great travel Chris

As a birder traveling through, I noticed there was a vulture on every few light posts. Not relevant to much but creepy and kinda cool. I’m guessing a fair amount of road kill and dead animals in the roadside waterway attracted the vultures.

It looks like Haiti.

This is a nice vid BUT these people who live out there dont care, most get Gov. aid along with the aid from P.B. County others work at the mills and make good money ! so please dont try & make it look or sound as bad cause its not. The people have caused the mess thats out there again they DONT care.

Im here to tell ya, Belle Glade was a sh!t hole 45 years ago and from your visit I see it hasn't changed.

I was there one time in the early 80's, and have never been so glad to leave some place.

I think that a saving grace for the area would be to do a "The Villages", or in other words build a whole new city nearby. The land is cheap and Florida has a lack of affordable housing. Perhaps a developer(s) could get together and work on something.

The concept of 10,000 job employment by the sugar mill is an exaggeration. The work is seasonal, not full time, and for most of the year the locals are not working there.

Any wonder... Heart of Sugar Industry... Notoriously low paying and highly polluting.

Want to work in West Palm Beach? Escape the poverty? Too bad, no buses early in the morning. Haha.

The trailer park your turning in on 4:36 is my old neighborhood I grew up in besides the violence had a dope childhood. Unfortunately I did lose a childhood friend due to gun violence he was only 15 my folks decided to move us out to TX where I currently live now

Belle Glade looks far nicer than Immokalee.

I noticed you didn't interview any of the locals there to learn more in depth living conditions. Was safety a concern?

Hey Chris! Love the videos and am looking to do something similar in my local area of all the small towns around where I live! I was curious on what equipment you use to capture footage, I’ve been looking at the DJI Osmo Action 3 and with how good your videos look, I was curious on what you use!

The company I used to work for operated a facility in conjunction with the sugar mill to manufacture an industrial chemical from the waste from sugar production. In the 80's the place acquired the nickname "Belle AIDS" and everyone dreaded having to go there even for a short visit and not just because of the AIDS. The place was a hell hole. The stink of the swamp, fermenting sugar cane bagasse and industrial chemicals was horrible. And the people. Not one single member of our staff actually lived there and nobody who visited stayed there and did their best to avoid interacting with the locals and to be out of there before sunset. It was quite literally the worst place I have neve been and I have been to some truly awful places. We eventually had to shut the place down for environmental reasons but it was perpetually on the raw edge of turning a profit and probably should have been shut down a long time before it actually was. There will never be a stable economic base there, no business will ever locate there and bring "high paying jobs" to an area where the average person can't even read or write and most of them are convicted felons.

Scary stuff. Needs more house inventory, hospitals, Walmart. And a boom will start.. Great video

I do not see any homeless encampments.

Its not that bad looking mam have i seen worst this place could turn around nice long streets its a pretty nice size city too they just need the right kind of resources and or big manufacturing companies to come there and generate some wealth in the area but overall not bad!!!

Didn't you do a video on this?

Better than what I saw in LA. No trash everywhere and the streets aren’t lined with blue tarp housing.

Let’s give a huge shout out to anyone locked up in the penitentiary at Bell Glade!

One thing I've noticed is there is way too much surface parking for a large part of the buildings. You don't need to have space for fourteen vehicles for one tiny apartment building. That will create more warmth as pavement will just reflect the sun's rays.

A lot of this video was not filmed in belle glade. It was in small towns near by

Isn’t Lake Okeechobee massively polluted from runoff from the sugar farming? I wouldn’t trust eating anything from it.

Outsiders have no idea how bad it actually is in Belle Glade

State and county prison is right there when you enter.

I live in Belle glade, there are places which are ghetto but honestly I’ve seen worse in wpb

Demographics NEVER seem to be a factor, do they?

No sugar is all south of the lake. But plenty of other agriculture around and north of it.

Looks like a peaceful cheap place to live

I went to Seacrest (now Atlantic) HS in the late 60's, early 70's. We played Belle Glade, regular season. It was known as bad news, as now. State Rd 80 crosses the state, and goes thru BG. You might want to tour Delray, Boca, and Boynton, including doing A1A from Lake Worth to Boca. That is where the yacht/ airplane rich live. You go north, you'll get to Palm Beach, and Mar a Lago, Trump's estate. It was built by one of the Post (cereal) heiresses. Anyway, south PB County is where my Dad had a furniture store, built in '62. 1440 N Federal Hwy (US1), North end of Delray, after the one way splits come back together. Check out Ocean Ridge, Dad had a house there for decades.

No one blaming Jeb😊

This video gives me Deja Vu… but good work nonetheless!

Can there be Hilljacks without hills?

Hurricane Irma 2017 and no improvements and it's 2024. Those rich folks gotta keep the poor in their place and out of their fancy hoods.

the town needs more shade trees

No where near the the issues that has been all over the usa

Good thing we got Brandon to save us

I can't blame the people for being so poor. they work the jobs that are there for very low wages. the government and circumstances cause poverty.

Oh boy do I smell potential

911 hijackers trained or wanted to train on crop dusters there, so there's that.

VERY FLAT

Migrant workers bringing in drugs?

It doesn't look too bad. I've seen worse.

Belle Glade is actually a very beautiful place. All of you clout chasers LOVE to come to the city and dog it out. There are some great people to come from Belle Glade and all of the city is not a bad looking area. Get a life!

Maybe you should’ve stopped and talked to some of the local people since you’re trying to capitalize off area that is supposed to be so poor.

The SAD part is that even though they are POOR A/F they are steadfast Trump supporters.

It's as simple as this... Belle Glade is a Democrat run area...the rest is predictable

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All Obiden voters

Florida is a dump

Classic Trump country. Lots of crime.

Video full of lies

I love to ride my motorcycle from where I live in east Palm Beach county. Some really beautiful stretches.

Some additional insight. The hurricane you mentioned in 1928 that decimated Belle Glade and surrounding areas. A mass grave exists with an estimated 2,500+ bodies buried in a field in West Palm Beach. Really sad. The bodies were in such bad shape they couldnt even determine whether each was male or female.

The reason it is beginning to look isolated is the sky rocketing rent prices. You have homes there selling for half a million dollars and rent for one bedroom apartments reaching $2,000 a month. Eventually, you realize that life is unsustainable with such greed and people move out to more affordable communities.

I had a friend who had to deliver medicines to the area. And the AIDS thing? Everyone was petrified to go into the area because of the MOSQUITOES: Regardless of what the CDC may say, a mosquito biting someone with AIDS and then biting you WILL transmit the disease.

It proverty everywhere

Belle Glade, FL = Homestead, FL in the mid-late 1990s - early 2000s.