LA Livin' not to discredit your friends experiences but I’m going to assume your friends aren’t living in metro housing so they can’t judge what it’s like
This area is being gentrified completely. It will be replaced w/ new condos, townhomes, recreational centers, and shops. Like a Toronto version of Harlem. Went from being the largest stretch of project housing to being a heavily gentrified section of the city close to downtown.
I notice that ypu Canadians love comparing Toronto to Harlem or NYC, but you try to act as if you are bigger and better than Chicago because you have a few more people. You can't even compete with Chicago, so leave NYC out of it.
@@Thebrothaisback LOL you are making assumptions a lot. I never said anything about Chicago or thinking we're better. I honestly think Chicago is better in many ways but our "hoods" are nowhere near as bad as Chicago's so that wouldn't be a good comparison. Whereas NY has similar style hoods w/ high rise buildings and lots of gentrification. Even the ethnic make up of people in both cities hood's are similar. In MY experience Harlem was the closest US neighborhood comparison to the "hood" parts of Toronto. Even statistically, rate of crimes are almost on the same level for both cities of Toronto and NY from 2018. Yes the downtown area and size of cities Toronto compares to Chicago but this video is strictly about the hood areas of cities. In that department Chicago is real rough and it would be dumb to say that it compares to Toronto.
@@iamlina3164 Canadians always try to compare Toronto to NYC when there is no comparison - at all. You guys then try to bypass L.A. since you can't beat that either, then you think that you are one up on Chicago because you have a few more people, even though Chicago is more spectacular. I've been to Toronto and it's not bad, but it is nothing like NYC. Chicago may be the place you need to compare it to if you people keep feeling the need to keep comparing your one big city to our cities, as if you are looking for respect and validation from us. Chicago's location and some attributes put it closer to Canada, so if you even had to compare, the cities nearer Canada would be the ones, instead of thinking that ypu can get with Americas best, which has no Canadian attributes.
@@Thebrothaisback I get what you're saying but I'm just speaking specifically on what this video is based on, which are hoods in Toronto as well as this channel what it is made for. To showcase hoods across North America. I think if anything Toronto is a Canadian copycat of NY. We try to bite NY's style a lot, I think that's why others make the comparison. NY is way better, I know that. LA idk how anyone compares them to Toronto. West coast and eastern cities are different, so that is weird. Chicago overall is most like Toronto, but like I said there's a reason I used NY instead, just for the purposes of this video. But tbh I find North American cities generally to be pretty basic. There's much better places to see out there.
@@iamlina3164 well, this channel is to showcase 🇺🇸 hood, but people made requests for Canada and I assume, made the proper donations, so he went there. NYC is #1, so you guys want to compare your #1 to ours, but our #3 is better than your #1. Hell, our #4 might be too!
Much love for coming out here but you're 12 years too late on Regent Park. This was one of the first and largest housing projects in North America until they knocked it down. The largest projects downtown right now is Alexandra Park aka P.O. - The most violent housing projects right now you'd have to visit Lawrence Heights aka Jungle. The projects in the Kipling and Martingrove area in Rexdale (Doomstown, O-Blocc) and Jane and Finch (Driftwood, Shoreham) are probably what you're looking for
The main area that's still pretty sketchy is around sherbourne and dundas (briefly shown in the video) down thourgh to sherbourne and queen (Moss Park). Regent used to be a ghetto as little as 8-10 years ago before they started revitalizing it. Glad they cleaned that place up.
@kaleel clark regent park, alexandria park have heavy gang presence but Moss park and shourbourne and dundas and mostly just junkies and trap apartments, yeah.
Regent park has been under revitilation for 15 years, the south side Dundas and below was done first, the north side where you are driving -Gerrard st down to Dundas is in the 4th stage. Regent park now is a mix of Affordable housing, RGI and private condo owners.
Regent park was the first housing projects located downtown but it isnt a hood anymore, they tore at least 75% of it down. You gotta go to lawrence heights area / jungle, anywhere on the jane from the top to the bottom etc...
Listen to me if u want real hoods do Driftwood, Connections south Jane and finch, Alexandra park, Galloway and moss park its basically regent park but a lil south
Cataraqui, 400, 4 corners , Pentagon , gooch , village , duncanwoods , rexdale plus lots more real hoods in the city and I agree he should go to some of the more unknown real hoods cuz regent too gentrified now same with alexandra park ( P.O.) its being gentrified as well also kinda difficult to drive through p.o. its all walkways and pedestrian for the most part oh and also pelham park its prob the most grimey looking of all the hoods in the city
Lol at everyone saying Canada ain't got no hood. Just because their hoods don't look too bad to us doesn't mean it isn't the hood. I'm sure you can get murked in this hood too
@@lamBETTERthanY0U I understand it's not nearly as dangerous as cities in the U.S. but you can still get killed In any hood. Wrong place wrong time and the people you associate with is what matters
@@-_8809 I wouldn't say Toronto has a higher murder rate than a lot of major cities in the U.S. their murder rate last year was 3.1 per 100,000. That's really low but yeah, you're right. Murder isn't the only factor of how dangerous an area can be
Regent park is nice now after they torn down the southside and there almost done with the northside building up condos. The two main hoods downtown are Regent park and Alexandria park which are both getting torn down and gentrified. btw a lot of american movies were filmed in Regent to make it look like a american hood. Like 4brothers the movie they used regent to make it look like a Detroit hood
@#BAGLIFE MIKE it was filmed in Hamilton Ontario an hour away from Toronto. I seen it filmed there #Facts Same with exit wounds the car accident with the Bitch and she drives by a pizza pizza dtown
@#BAGLIFE MIKE look it up Four Brothers filmed Toronto, they used Regent Park it was the scene where Mark Whalberg jumps out that apartment complex. And most other scenes were in Hamilton,ON
my aunt & cousins used to live here late 1990’s, it was very rough, junkies Everywhere. My mom and I would visit her sister from Ohio, her tires were punched out all 4. My mom was so mad she didn’t come back to Toronto 10 yrs later but that time my aunt from Toronto moved to a better area in the city.
Toronto and Scarborough Hoods: 1. Driftwood Jane & Finch (probably the most dangerous) 2. Black Creek and Woolner / Weston Rd 3. Kipling / Rowntree in Etobicoke / Rexdale 4. Parma Ct & Flemingdon park 5. Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute Durham Hoods: 1. King Street & Simcoe Downtown Oshawa (lots of crackheads out there) 2. Major Oaks in Pickering
@@SimilakChild the Oshawa is 100% tru tho. I mean I was born and raised in T-dot so I know alla that but I go to high scl in Oshawa nd all the ppl here r beans.
Wow, didn't know you came up to Canada. This place looked more rundown before they replaced some of the old blocks with condos. I used to live in Mount Dennis, now I'll have to see if you filmed there! Keep up the interesting vids.
When we were kids we used to call Jane and Finch the Jungle the first time I ever saw somebody killed shot right in front of us we were just kids my uncle lived over on Driftwood Avenue which is about half a mile away bad area I do believe it has changed and for the better
Cognitive Awareness damn I grew up on Southside of Jane and Finch seen a lot of shit which I will not discuss but I made it out and became a better man Regent Park and those other places ain’t nothing compared to Northside and Southside Jane and Finch
Jane and finch is safe stop fooling yourself... jesus christ just look at his other hood videos and compare it jane and finch.. its soft and watered down af
@Night City you lame ass kid Jungle isn't called *Flemington Park* it's just Jungle dumbass... stop spreading false bulkshit lies to feel better. And I don't give a fuck about where your family lived clown
everyone is saying it looks nice automaticaly just because its canada, if this was in chicago and it looked the exact same people would be saying it looked bad
@Kay Flip thats what im trying to say belive me i grew up here, the way it looks now is nothing to what it was in the 90's all anyone needs to do is google regent and shooting together and see how many pages of articles come up lol your ppl are seeing regent after 15 years of gentrification, the crackheads are gone , the gangs are gone the shit has wendys and starbucks there now, something they wouldnt DREAM of putting there back then.
The city promised a certain amount of the new condo units would be given back to the subsidized renter, then when the units were finished approximately 25% of the previous tenants that were promised first dibs were left out so the builder could sell more units.
Go to Montreal in hoods like Montreal-North, some spots in RDP, PIE IX is extremely grimey as well, St-Michel, Park-Ex and Amabaie it’s gonna be worth it and you’ll be surprised by how it looks
@@mariageorge4341 yes im well aware of that i remember the 90s and early 2000s i was born in the 80s and i stayed in the east end of toronto for a abit bit were talkin about currently
@@gavinn.4060 you know what mean as far as places that used to be astaple of canandian hoods block of blocks now its been renovated to look better while most of the original residents have been relocated now its a hot bed for outta towrners lookin for condos and the down t.o experience
Toronto isn't like other city. We dont have entire areas being ghettos like American cities. We have government n subsidized housing within neighborhoods. There are like 50 of them across the city. I think its s lot better model than Chicago where all the poor people live together. In toronto most public high school are a mix of middle n lower class it not like Chicago where everyone in the school is either poor or not poor. The toronto model helps prevent segregation and helps changes views although it's not perfect.
Kay Flip, are you from Toronto? Yes last year, what about previous years? Lol And when we get drive by everyday by the minutes then we’ll talk other then that Toronto just another city but ain’t no hood. 😂🤣
@Kay Flip which includes 2 massacre. One on the danforth the other on young. It was also a record year because of that. Stop trying to glorify Toronto's gang culture it doesn't exist like it does in the states.
15:43 this intersection is disgusting. I've seen drug deals, people using drugs, fights, police take downs, gay men screwing each other, car break ins.
Hoods in Canada aren't like in the states. Ours aren't as run down and blighted... But the shootings and crime are still there. Charlie u should come to my city of montreal... St Michel/pie ix, st Henri and the Northside got a reputation too.
Ur block is pretty clean and respectful.. alot of opportunities and very low crime rate.. be proud of the fact that it is the farthest thing from a ghetto.. not perfect but not a hood either
Damn, i used to LIVE in the Regent Park area, (somewhere in Parliament & St. Jamestown idk) thankfully nothing bad happened to us, but heres a story that happened to my older brother: He used to go to Regent Park Public School (Now Nelson Mandela, bc they tore the school down) There was a lockdown (my older bro told me the story bc i was only in kindergarten when it happened so) there was a shooter there (not a shocker in Regent park) and gunshots where everywhere, he didn’t remember much but he remembered the gunshots, he was only like 9 or 8 when it happened so
@@bankovp4833 london ain't on no smoke compare to Toronto like wtf are you good. Your on a toronto hood video talking shit and hyping up the UK LOOOL wastee
Regents parks design was used to build alot of the projects in the states. First public housing in Canada. Regent park doesn't exist anymore though, they gentrified the shit out of it.
yup, the condo developers ran out of space in the nice parts and looked on a map and realized this was the only crappy part left downtown. probably bought it dirt cheap
You people always have your minds on our country and you cannot deal with your own alone. We don't do that here, which is why we don't care about Canada.
@@chelseagirl278 No, they wouldn't have bought land in downtown Toronto dirt cheep. It's not the buildings in the area they purchased, it was the land.
Canadian cities have a different vibe. Their mannerisms are more old school, and people are more courteous for the most part. There are some areas in Toronto that you obviously have to be careful, but you generally don't feel the level of danger as you do in most big American cities.
yup Montreal has some good looking hoods. st-henri by the track, montreal north, hochelaga-maisonneuve, dixie courts, a-ma-baie in pierrefonds, st-michel, point st-charles and the graffiti is beautiful here
Show me a hood in Boston that’s worse than the Jane strip, or nyc or Seattle. Nobody’s gonna deny that the worse hoods in the us are worse than the the worst of Canada but what you said is retarded as shit
It's sad though, these hoods look like the suburbs but we have philadelphia new rochelle the bronx wilmington baltimore dc norfolk raleigh charlotte miami compton detroit chicago, etc, I'm telling you toronto is lucky
That Boy Fai there are no low income areas that aren’t housing projects the demand to live in the city is too high for any areas to become ghettos, also you have to mention that we don’t have the same history of white flight
@@sabergenesis People look at Toronto, a city that is bigger than Chicago and don't think it has crime. For example, when I was there we would go to Buffalo NY occasionally. Buffalo looked horrible next to Toronto, people would not take canadian money, etc. Then you go to Toronto and the hot dog guy gives you the exchange on American Dollars, its just really deceptive, but there is crime in Toronto
@Plan_It_Hoax That is true. It's hard to get the whole city on film. It's taken up so much land as a mega city. It'll probably never stop growing. It's already taken over Hamilton and Niagra falls.
CabbageTown use to be much larger with old architecture. Regent Park and St.Jamestown use to be old Victorian neighborhoods as well. It was built with old british architecture. Poor Irish immigrants eventually started to move in, and future many other immigrants moved in over the decades. Cabbagetown had become a working class neighbourhood. Around the world after post world war 2 many cities, especially in USA and Canada started to redevelop cities for the future of cars, expansion of suburbs, expansion of highways, expansion of shopping malls and parking lots and what they often called redeveloping of old slum clearings in inner cities, which were then replaced with housing project appartment blocks, which were terrible designed, and ugly. Old Cabbage Town cleared out old Victorian homes to be replaced with Regent Park in the late 1940s, some of the first projects in North America of its style, which spread across USA. They decided this was better developed then what was previous there as they were working class neigbourhoods, and this was better then fixing the old homes. How ever these new developments only attracted more poor people, and fell into despair. In the 1960s more of Cabbagetown homes were destroyed to make way for massive tower blocks of St.Jamestown. After this Cabbagetown was almost completely lost in the 1970s as more developed neighbouroohds had been looked at to be replaced, luckily people realized the history needed to be saved. And locals got together to protect the old neighbourhoods that remained. Over time the old Cabbagetown neighbourhoods that were not destroyed went from working class and middle class neigbourhoods to more wealth of today, as the homes today have been renovated and saved and are worth alot of money today. Regent Park however was to late, until the 2000s when they started to knock down the projects built in the 1940s for better development. Many cities like New York City to Chicago, to Cincinnati or Montreal, old lively neighbourhoods were destroyed only to be replaced with just as bad, or even worse new developments of concrete block project towers.
half that area was tore down and replaced with condos, it was a real f'ing dive for decades, nothing but crackheads down there should have went to tbe east end scarborough
I thought I was going to die on George st. Went to filmores & ended up swarmed by 20 crack heads. Earlier that day I gave a hand full of change to the man who ran the block he rembered me & allowed me & my couz to leave. There's more to the story. I had a moment where I thought we're dead
@MrZapparin my cousin got in a fight with one of the crack heads during the day. I don't know what time we left but it was late night. Me & my couz went back to the strippers place on gorge street next to covedent house. When we left there's was a gang of crack heads & the guy my cousin fought was there. The fuck told the head dude that's them. I had given the boss 12$ in change earlier that day & he remembered me & let us leave. Its not some were you want to be when the sun goes down or anytime really. We were swarmed by @ least 14-18 heads. The big man yelled @ every one to shut the fuck up the heads were ready to go in. There's more to it long story short
Haha, I lived on George Street as a kid. I actually grew up there, from 2005 to 2011 in the Jenny Green Co op. Thank god I got out of there. I remember my mom taught me to never speak to anyone there and keep my head down while walking to and from home. Plus I just now figured out that the Filmores hotel there is a strip club 0_0
Nope.. this guy has been in real hoods.. the fact that you had to call out these places is because "hoods" dont exist in canada.. only neighborhoods where refugees act like they in the US
@@sandoandjeans The fact that you're so ignorant as to all the suffering and despair that happens is actually stupid. Hood's aren't only in America you fucking moron, Reserves in Canada are more isolated and poverty stricken than any ghetto in the US. nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/native.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=780
@ell mmm Ignorance is bliss. Native reserves are way more poverty-stricken then a US ghetto. in a ghetto, the unemployment rate is 20%-40, in a native reserve it's 100%
east Cleveland is definitely listed as a suburb in cuy.co. the 1st one ever in cleveland..this reminds me of the outskirts suburbs that's going dwn hill due to ppl moving from the inner city..Euclid,maple,Garfield.etc.
I did not know there were so many coloured people in canada. I thought it is all white. This does’t look like a ghetto though. Looks like the good neighbourhoods in USA.
@@-_8809 I did not know that. I have never been there, and came to false conclusions, since living standard and health in canada is very high, and since in TV canadians are always white people who say "Ey, my friend!"
Janos Merges don’t stress bredrin. You’re mostly right but Toronto, Montreal, and other large cities here have very large populations of immigrants but in the country it is Caucasian as fuck
The thing is, we don't want our city to look hard as nails.. There is no rewards for being a dumpy city with poverty. I'm proud of Toronto, best city in the world to live in. Stop thinking poor and misery is cool cause that's backwards..
Projects Hood/ Skid Row - Puleeze. This is one of the most beautiful cities I have seen in a long time. If I ever had to relocate, I would seriously consider moving here. Thank you for this.
Lived there in 1999 NEVER AGAIN ...I HAVE BEEN TO CHICAGO and I would rather live there than regent park ..truth is its still dangerous its more hidden know ...
@@alexandersergeyvichgolubko4133 I'm saying that its the WORST HOUSING IVE LIVED IN CANADA YES ...for me they sit fire to the building I was living in ..a gang member tried to set my arm on fire in 2000 I left before I was hurt really badly .. unless you live in a place you never know what its really like I found peace in Chicago they people are great to me ,,,
Thank-you for putting this up, my first girlfriend was from the building right at the corner of Parliament and Dundas the New Town/Inn Town restaurant was on the northwest corner...fuck I miss 1984...
@@torontogal38 I know exactly where you are lol. Small world. I lived in Gilder for 20 years, not so much a hood maybe, but rough and entertaining nonetheless lmao ❤
@@dailybrother9180 what a small world. I grew up in 83 Gilder, left in'91. My mum remained there until 2005, I haven't been back since. Which building were you in?
