The Most Dangerous Slum in Romania 🇷🇴 - A Solo Walkthrough Ferentari, Bucharest - Into The Hood 

Just came back from Romania one of the best places I have visited good people felt very safe there ...way better than bloody Australia this place has gone down the drain...

As a black British based in the UK with 3 Romanian best friends who speaks the language and eats salmali.......I love 💗 Romania!!! I'm not 🚫 scared to go to ferantari Bucharest!!!!

Most of us Aussies have no idea what hardship and poverty are thanks Spanian for letting us see a little bit. Bit rougher than mounty county big fella

I’m from Mexico City and there are FAR worse neighborhoods there. It seems like a dangerous areas but it’s a pretty run of the mill bad neighborhood there. Mad respect for you Brother for showing places that don’t often get any visibility.

I live in Bucharest and I can tell you that this guy is pretending to be scared just to clickbait you all and have video retention. Not one dodgy thing happened in this video. I can tell he felt safe allthrougout and he's conning you for the views... good thing this sort of bulshitting is rewared on youtube.

Funny thing, Romania is safer than western europe tbh, even in the Bucharest area, compared to other big western capitals or cities, people are actually friendly and mind their own business. Ferantari and Rahova was dangerous in the past. Now it tends to be a lot chill.

Made it actually look like more dangerous than it was. Sure it`s not a very nice neighborhood, you haven`t seen the roughest part of it either, but most people are nice and trying to get by, it isn`t full of gangs and criminals.

Gotta be the best series on yt right now, keep it up

You are about 20 years late, no neighborhood is dangerous anymore in Romania. The generations that were really bad and scary are all grown up and they don't have the energy for that kind of life anymore, so I'm not impressed of anyone visiting Ferentari in this period or any neighborhood in Romania for that matter. Everyone is peaceful, no spectacle to see!

Mondays are better when Spanian uploads

The quality of these videos is Crazy. Love watching a real one.

Hey,go in famous L.A,worse than Ferentari which is just one neighbourhood.The rest of the Bucharest is so beautiful.And all the Romania country is such a beautiful place with nice people.I live in Canada and i can't wait to move back in my Bucharest which is a gorgeous city.I lived in Bucharest many years ago and never went in Ferentari.Many big cities in this world are way worse and more dangerous than my country.

You’ll find this type of brutalist architecture all over the eastern block of Europe. Some of these places might even not be too bad but they just look gloomy and unsafe. I think you’ll be fine as a tourist, the mafia usually just leaves tourists alone because their business model isn’t robbing tourists but racketeering and all the other traditional criminal forms of generating income. The only place I’ve ever felt unsafe was in Casablanca, Morocco. When you have groups of 10 men following you asking for money, then getting on a bus full of football hooligans, it’s definitely a bit intimidating.

I live in Bucharest and I know Ferentari s reputation but I never been there. Judging just by the news on tv (not an accurate metric, agree) the place is left just with the reputation as I saw on tv no major crimes committed in there (such as shootings and stuff which are anyway extremely rare in Romania so if it happens will make Breaking News) and as we all noticed, with junkies and poverty.

I have been many times in Bucharest always felt safe watching this felt so familiar to me, next time I go will check this area out with my Romanian friends x Trust me I always feel safe in Romania 🇷🇴 and I speak their language x And those trams I love them x❤ Romanian people are great x

You are improving this series with every video. It is absolutely amazing to see your progress. Thank you for all the hard work you have put into raising the quality of this series and I hope you arent stressing yourself out too much. We want you to enjoy your time doing this as well. I hope one day you could do a trip around asia or perhaps one of the old ghost cities in Russia once everything out there cools down.

This doesn't even look that bad, LOL 😅 I mean for a Roma neighborhood, this actually looks quite decent, for the most part. Come to Stolipinovo, Plovdiv in Bulgaria next time, if you want to see a real Roma ghetto.

8:00 they are not electric cables, that was a broken fiber optic cable.

Fun fact. The changes of getting shot in Ferentari are still much much lower than the average school in US.

This is the most people I’ve seen moving around these projects. The others you’ve visited are ghost towns. And the cars aren’t all burnt and stripped.

Having lived in Russia for 9 years- that 'scary' place didn't look bad at all.

Romanian here, if I was in Ferentari probably I’ll be scared when I saw you around there. Also, Blackman did one in Ferentari and was interesting and we can see that it’s not that scary Ferentari anymore.

I live pretty close to that neighborhood. I've been volunteering there for a couple of years, at one of the schools in the area. I mean, yes, there's a high criminality rate. But children living there are amazing and deserve a chance. And they will have a better future :)

Yeah there is nothing redeeming about Ferentari. I live in romania and let me tell you, it's not the only gypsy slum in the country. All the places where you have a lot of gypsies end up looking like this. There is another place in a city called Baia Mare where the mayor built these beautiful fully furnished apartments as social housing for gypsies, and if you go there now, it's a fucking slum like you wouldn't believe. They even tore the electric wires out to sell the copper and when they were repaired, they did it again. Eventually it got so bad, and the crime went so bad, that the mayor built a fence around the slum. So yeah...

I'm from Romania and I leave close to Ferentari.....Back in the 90 - 00' you cant enter there was more more more dangerous then now and not only in Ferentari, almost all hoods. Now is kinda chill (must of them are junkies and thefts and if you leave them alone they don't bother you- possible to beg for money). Back in the day you cant walk like this and not to be taken into account, asked questions in a much more "brutal" way! Now big city are more saved compared with small cities or side countries.

Love this series, can’t get enough!

As someone who has an interest and been to number of Eastern European countries.. this is great to see thanks mate

And this is how it is today, it cleaned up a lot. The dangerous area retreated to the furthermost zone, towards the edge of the city. A friend of mine lived in that area you first shown in the video as the "safe zone". Like, 10-some years ago, people were getting curbstomped (literally) for mere pennies. Ferentari, at least the area towards that bus station you got off, is actually a somewhat decent place to live in. There aren't really any metro stations there (for obvious reasons), but it's extremely cheap housing. 7:35 That's just a trash chute. It goes straight into a dumpster at the bottom. 7:47 That's not actually poor people living there, look at the cars. The inside of the appartments is fully rennovated. You can search for online appartment selling ads. The exterior of the buildings is the only dirty part of it. Besides not being freshly painted, the inside of the building at 7:23 was squeaky clean. Just look at the floor. 9:38 Some buldings have started the rehabilitation program. The ones on the left have been thermally insulated and repainted. Yeah, besides the southern area, the rest is chill. Poorer than the rest of Bucharest, but not extremely broke. Like i said, the safe and nice areas have been expanding. I remember when i was in school, Ferentari was A LOT worse. Like, that begening area was rough. It wasn't uncommon to see people on the street with knives in their hands. My mom was taken by Google Maps once through the heart of Ferentari, like, way back in the day. This is why i'm talking so light of that area now. You can't even imagine how worse it was, if now you consider it being one of the worst places you've been to. I was actually looking for appartments in that area, like, 2 years ago.

And yet, this is 10X safer and nicer than Detroit or Tijuana..

Another into the hood hell yes love these vlogs so well done Spaniard

As a English wife of a Romanian This is good to watch but please remember , these are people’s homes Romanians are proud people Also ex communist country these aparentment blocks where back in the day for working families and heaped in history I adore Romania you eat fresh live good and really is steeped in culture Big up Romania.

NICELY DONE COBBER IAM WATCHING FROM AUSTRALIA 👍 🇦🇺 👏 👌 😀

Anyway, Bucharest is a very beautiful city!

I swear in every hood video you’ve heard atleast 1 siren in the background😂

Would love to see more series in Europe, Moldova, Georgia etc!

As a person who lived in France for 8 years , this is way safer than all the Z.U.S from France

You forgot to mention the political aliances between the apartments that fused their balconies both horizontally and vertically. Some have sheed metal on them and literally look like improvised machinegun nests. And my favorite of all the apartments with 5 parabolic antennas

Hey @Spanian Your vids are getting throttled. Just an heads up. Keep it up and i love your vids. Keep it up man!

It's weird, a lot of the cars i see parked are not cheap cars while the apartments are extremely bad. To me it seems more like a housing problem then an actual poverty problem there.

guy has clearly no idea of eastern europe and ex udssr realities. this place does not look too bad in comparison.

That was great. Love the series. Pls consider taking local people along as i believe they would maybe wrap the whole thing in more context. Keep it up lad.

Hey spainian, much love from Vancouver Canada. I've been watching your stuff since the beginning. If you want a crazy hood walk through video, check out East Hastings In the city of Vancouver. There's no place in the world that has more of a contrast from ritch to poor blocks away.

Spanian. Brother. You legend. Keep making original content like this mate!

Love the way he is so amazed like we dont know the uk slums or London's gettos pffff cheers mate

Love your videos mate. You gotta visit "fakulteta" in Bulgaria 🎉

The usual - ‘bigging’ it up to make himself look fearless.

Most of the former residents are in Germany now. You are welcome to walk through Duisburg or Gelsenkirchen. It looks similar there today.

I see how you come closer to Bulgaria!:D Nice videos! Cheers!!! P.S. Eastern Europe is like this, and everything is old and you got feeling its gonna brake :D

It reminds me of when I was a child they built flats so everyone condensed Ronda Western Australia

Love your content bro from all the way back in the UK 🇬🇧

shouldve got andrew tate to guide you 😂😂

Best one yet brother!! From Nottingham UK . Xx

Life is so different around The World, it is fascinating. IF one Day You come tô Brazil you Will see Whats a real hood

i live in northern bucharest, a richer and cleaner area. i’ve never been in ferentari before, and now i don’t think i ever will

No wonder there's so many of them back here in Ireland. Enjoy your videos

Considering that Roma people live there, this place is squeaky-clean. They normally trash everything they set foot on.

I just looked on the comments, I'm not from Romania, but close to Romania and this place is definitely not safe, and the guy is really lucky that he doesn't met some groups there. (and don't get me wrong Spanian, is very brave and he is an ex prisoner, which counts (He knows what's the deal), but he is definitely lucky on this tape.)

0:20 i thought you start spitting some bars on that beat :)) long live Romania! We have the friendliest hoods :D

It would have been good to have someone explain the lifestyle of the ppl there

Wow what a guetto! Have fun and a better time in Greece!

Those worst bits of Ferentari reminded me of normal places in Mumbai , not even the slum areas.

Mate, ive just come across your channel. You come across as a top bloke.

Ferentari is not so bad anymore, people got civilised, many financially poor otherwise but in spirit they raised up!

you should go to sweden, back in the day it was a calm country but now we are ranked number one in europe most death shootings per capita so the hoods here are crazy, visit Stockholm - Rinkeby/tensta or visit Gothenburg - Bergsjön

gotta come to the hoods in america, go peep miami, new orleans, chicago, baltimore ...! brooooo

Love and light 💜💞 your a legend ✨stay safe😎 love from Rach Smart 💗

Lol, badass boy pissing himself at the sight of ugly buildings 😂

It's very concerning to see this in the EU, which is internationally considered as pretty rich!

Bro needs to stop going to places where people are simply poor and pretending these places are dangerous, that's what bro needs to do.

Would've shown you around but after watching the video I'm glad I didn't because the shame and disgust on my face would've been immortalized for the ages.

main thing with walking into an unknown ghetto is you dont look like a target

I was raised in Rahova, right next to Ferentari, in the 90's and 00's. Back then you could say they were dangerous, in the sense that you'd have a lot of gypsies and low income households. Nowadays both of them have calmed down, the dudes that were trouble back then are either dead, in prison, or off to western Europe to steal/beg. At this point in time, if you just mind your own business, nobody bothers you on the streets. Yeah, you get the occasional junkie, prostitute, beggar here and there but generally if you're not looking for trouble it doesn't tend to find you. My mum grew up and still lives in Ferentari, so I'm basically there once every couple of days. It's just one of those places that looks worse than it is. As opposed to rough areas in the western world which tend to look a little better on the surface, but where you get shot or stabbed just because you exist.

Another great video :)

If you're ever visiting Romania, you should definitely go to Craiova city, Brestei neighborhood. :)

Bro, relax, you are too stressed out. I actually live in Ferentari and it's nice. Ferentari is one of the three neighbourhoods that make sector 5 of Bucharest. There are some areas that have littering issues. There are some poor areas. The worse is "Aleea Livezilor". There are some dealers and addicted. They don't like being filmed as many came and exaggerated things, talk bad about them. The bad areas are quite limited. But they are not dangerous, unless you flash expensive items, walk around with a selfie stick, or try to pick up a fight. Just be aware, be respectful and all will be good. You walked around and noone pick on you and you were visibly stressed out. This neighbourhood was a lot different 15-20 years ago, violence wise. The cable you got scared of was fiber optics so no danger. Somebody cut it. The "prison" seems to be a private company and they fenced off so nobody would be tempted to get in. Ps: you did not pay the bus ticket!

If you are still in Romania, go to Pata Rat in Cluj-Napoca 🤛

I think the author maybe it looks more scarier than it actually is. Yes, those places look grim and dirty. As you could see no one was yelling or trying to approach him they were just minding their business. Most of the people living in those places are not bad people they are just poor.

I’m an Englishman living in Almaty, and spent time in Odesa, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Bishkek and Moscow…and I can say that’s just how it is. Looks grim and is pretty grim but it’s nothing too ghetto. Just drug addicts and poor people…no proper gang stuff. To be honest I feel more intimidated in my home city of Birmingham in England in the wrong area. The brutalist architecture is foreboding but inside you just have babushkas watching out for your safety lol

As a Romanian born and bread in Bucharest :D - Ferentari is not a suburb, it is a neighborhood. I think there's some political and economy implications. A suburb would be administrated by a local mayors office. Ferentari is administrated by the Bucharest General City Hall and also the 5th District City Hall. The 5 district also administrates one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city - Cotroceni. - 5:49 we have some even older trams (the Tatras) still woring on different lines :D - 7:33 - that long ass tin pipe is either an exterior garbage shoot, or a chimney tower for a restaurant located at the ground floor. If it's a restaurant they are oblidged by law to release the smoke above the building, and not into their windows :) - 10:51 - many of the residents in those buildings are drug users and ex-cons, illiterates, people who have turned their back to the system and the system turned its back to them. They live day to day, doing oddjobs to survive (foraging scrap metal, petty crime and so on) . Unfortunately these people exist in many countries and a city as big as Bucharest will naturally attract them. I hope you enjoyed your time in Bucharest :)

According to the Global Peace Index, Romania is a peaceful nation, even making it one of the safest countries in Europe. Soo is not that bad in Ferentari as it seems. All the thives are gone in Vest Europe 🤣🤣🤣

52 year old Canadian woman living in Bucharest, landed originally in ferrentari for a couple of months, but did only drive through this specific area - it looked scary!! However I never felt unsafe and ventured out at all hours. I guess if you’re looking for trouble you’ll find it but in my opinion Bucharest is lovely.

I love the fact you are starting to explore Europe, particularly eastern Europe. In my opinion there is a lot of good to be found there but western stigmas paint that region as a depressing and unfit place to live.

Poverty and decay in that particular neighbourhood? For sure Very dangerous? Not really and you can take this from someone born, raised and who lived in Bucharest for 35 years. For 5 years I've been living in Berlin and I can tell you that everytime I'm going to certain areas of the city I have to look over my shoulder and keep a suficient amount of room between myself and other dodgy looking people on the street so that I can avoid any potential stabbing. Also being extra careful not staying too close to the ledge of the subway stations lol. Overall, it's 10x more dangerous here than in any area you can find in Bucharest, Romania or in most of eastern Europe for that matter, where the worst that can happen to you is to get robbed and maybe receive a couple of slaps and even that can be avoided with a bit of street smarts and common sense. Here, in Berlin, you can actually get killed. Don't even get me started on the possibility of a terrorist attack which is 100x higher in any large city in western europe than in eastern europe.

This series becomes annoying because Spanian doesn't know the history of Europe/Eastern Europe and what is normal/good there. He just goes there and poo poos everything without any understanding of what he is looking at. Those places aren't dangerous. You can't judge a place in Europe by the way it looks. Man, get some knowledge about places that youvisit. It's getting annoying.

This is heaven compareing to hoods that u can find in Ukraine!

As a Romanian Australian this is quite funny, my family lives not far from there and i go there often to stay with them, and although this is a dangerous place especially if you don't speak the language, for me this isn't anything too crazy as it just looks like another typical poor neighbourhood, but for an Australian or Westerner that has never been in Eastern Europe/Romania or seen something like this, i can understand the reaction.

Poor area, dirty area, but Bucharest is very safe. Even Ferentari is. That does not mean it ain’t brave and nice of you to share these places. Great job!

Love your videos man. It would be really interesting to see you go to Southamerican hoods, they're very different from those in Europe or Australia.

You're probably the bravest RU-vidr anyone's gonna find on the community, glad you posted today

This is one of the poorest places in Bucharest but definitely not that dangerous. I would walk there at any time of day or night unlike in some other more civilized parts of the world.

To be fair, if you've been or are from Eastern Europe, this looks like just another normal neighbourhood.

The buildings are shitty, but the streets are pretty clean except for a few spots.

this is not the usual look of Romanian neighborhoods. I live in Romania, one of the safest places you can live in Europe. A few years ago Bucharest was the safest European capital, I think it's around there now. I can walk those streets, no sweat and is not that big of a deal, simply because is not that dangerous. Granted, you're a foreigner, and you don't really know the place, language etc. But not that bad mate. That slum in Barcelona you showed us, was way worse.

coming from a 3rd world country, this place is a luxury 🤣 it looks way cleaner than new york! haha try to visit sudan and somalia if you wanna see the REAL DANGER 🤣 good content mate. love it. 👌

looked like a slightly rundown retirement village. the rubbish on the ground looked kinda "rough", but, unless ur scared of granmas cooking, this place looked tame af

Cheers from Romania, Bucharest :) if you are still here and need any info, i m here for you ;) ps: you should have seen Ferentari 15-20 years ago, that should have been an exerience, now that part only lives with the past vibe :)

You have this in a lot Eastern European countries. Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia. Go to the old parts of Eastern Berlin and you’ll be amazed by how shitty it looks. In all honesty, these neighborhoods are usually way better than you might think. Never felt unsafe when visiting these areas. Looks horrible, but it was a way of constructing homes back in the days of Communism. Edit: sorry guys I meant Eastern Bloc. Living in The Netherlands, we are also used to calling countries east of Germany ‘Eastern Europe’.

"Most dangerious romanian slum" etc. It is a slum, worst part of Bucharest by far and even so what did he actually had to fear ? It was dirty, poor and neglicted area, 1 hobo (aparently drugged) and the rest were 60yrs old + people and woman. It's not the most peacefull area or safe but still stop the cap ! All along the video he was trying to pump it up to "i shit my pants" type of area but what was it really around him ? Poverty, dirt, a hobo, some used niddles and old people and kids. For what it is (a slum) i really don't see the expected danger levels and all that crap.

AAAAGHHH some trash on the ground AAAAGHHH a hobo on the street I'm going INSANE the most dangerous place i've been lad AAAAHH

They were probably more scared of you, than you of them. :)))))