Lg Marquez wow! NYC! A long way from home! It’s hard leaving some where you lived you whole life. I got married when I was 2 years older than you and he was in the Air Force, our first assignment was anchorage Alaska . Talk about culture shock! I was so homesick! I don’t have family in amarillo now my mom passes in 2015 so that was the last time I was there. I miss the snow amarillo gets too! I live in biloxi Mississippi now and it’s so hot and humid here!
Sherry Irwin I totally agree! Coming from Amarillo and moving to a mega city like NYC was also a huge culture shock for me. Sorry to hear about your mother’s passing. And yes I also love the snow that Amarillo get around January or February. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go back to Amarillo for Christmas but I heard there was no snow this Christmas in Amarillo. I’m a sucker for snow I’m just nervous once winter rolls around here in NYC it’s going to be very hectic!😂...Tascosa Rebel for life!👈🏼👆🏼👉🏼. Rebel Strong!💪🏽...Hope you have a happy New Years Sherry😃
Back in the 60's & 70's, the Dumas Highway connected with the Canyon 'E-Way' through 2 of these streets. There was lots of traffic back then! Down Town had 24 hour restaurants & motels! Then, they built a loop around it. So sad!
Damn, despite being smaller than Lubbock, Amarillo actually has the feel of a real city center unlike its bland depressed neighbor to the south. It reminds me of Fort Worth and that's a good thing. Very nice for a small city!! Amarillo should have gotten Texas Tech. Makes me want to visit. Cheers from New York.
@@bluemoro973 Lubbock is pretty big, but really!? You haven't been anywhere else? Fort Worth is around 4 times bigger than Amarillo and maybe 3.5 times bigger than Lubbock. Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and especially Houston are much much bigger that even that! You're really missing out. Texas is incredible! And yes, it doesn't get any bigger than New York. It's super crowded.
@Richard schiffman this is partly true. You can’t compare west Texas. Of course Fort Worth is busier. I just meant that it had a similar Texan feel like Fort Worth. Now visit Lubbock and tell me if their downtown is comparable or not.
I've been thinking about moving to a red state ever since mine (Colorado) went blue. Texas is generally too hot and humid for my tastes, but Amarillo is far enough north that it might not be all that bad. Thanks for giving us a good view of it.
Nope I'm a native Amarillian. Our summers are long hot and dry. We top out in 110s and lows to 0. Windy as hell and less than a inch or two a month during summer. Then that will dump on us in a hour as a storm system blows through. Hopefully it won't birth a tornado.
@@ReichX1000 That’s not true, DFW is very hot in the summer. Lots of days with just nonstop 99/100 degrees for days without rain, summers can be pretty miserable here. Wouldn’t recommend for someone who doesn’t like heat
@@sagetangent6692 June and July is usually 90 or 89 August is the hottest month in Dallas but the Fall in Dallas is chilly and cool and winter Is very Cold I live in Dallas and its currently in the 30s degree
This makes me homesick! I lived 2 blocks south of Polk Street Methodist Church. You almost showed my apartment building (If it's still there) I lived in at the ages of 20-22. I worked for United Supermarkets on South Washington, 1979 - 1981. Although I'm an old die hard liberal; I still love ol' Amarillo!.
The lights on the downtown one ways are set for about 32 - 33 mph. The speed limit is 30. If you do about 32, you can catch every light green without braking.
I was just watching a George Strait video & he was singing about Amarillo by Morning & I just wanted to see what the town that inspired that catchy song was all about. I like that it's not overbuilt. Pretty town, Amarillo.
Everytime I pass through Amarillo it's like a giant ghost town. For a city with a population of 199,924 it's kinda boring but the Big Texan is awesome. The video is awesome and I like the uniqueness of the area especially around Palo Duro Canyon, so all in all the Amarillo area is ok I guess. It has the old west look & feel; plus it doesn't have that hustle & bustle of cities like Dallas & Houston.
I agree with some of the other commenters, compared to other west texas/panhandle cities....this looks pretty nice. Unlike Lubbock, at least Amarillo has some street-level businesses downtown and some lights...I want to move to a smaller Texas community, but I hate how all the downtowns are so dead, old and spread out....Corpus Christi is an example, I've considered moving there but the downtown just looks like a boom-town gone dead.
This was at 7:30 pm. Most of the business people have left downtown after work. This video doesn't show all the activity going on in the clubs and restaurants on Polk St. Granted it was a weeknight and it does look pretty "dead" if it was a Friday or Saturday night you'd see a lot more activity. (Before covid 19) Downtown Amarillo has done a lot in last decade to "revitalize" the downtown area and compared to before that it is a marked improvement. I was project chair in college in which we surveyed a sampling of Amarilloans collecting opinions and Ideas about the future of downtown in about 1995 or 1996 and we met with "Center City Downtown Revitalization" Organ- ization and they decided to "help" revitalize Amarillo downtown. It may have taken longer than they anticipated but now there is considerably more things available such as housing, clubs, restaurants. The streets and sidewalks are clean, in good shape and well lit for pedestrians. Except for a few areas along the tracks its considerably safer than most downtown areas of other cities. All that being said..this is just the downtown area..Amarillo is very spread out and there is usually a good variety of things to do every weekend no matter your interests you'll be able to do something different most weekends of the year. I moved away 2008 but Im close enough and there enough to see Amarillo continue grow and see businesses there adapt and evolve to attract the growing population. It had a population boom before I moved and I was working for a residential builder where we saw a significant surge of transplants making Amarillo their new home for many different reasons. Its not NYC , LA or even DFW...but for around 250k population it still has a small town feel. You can feel safe in most areas, find a decent selection of goods and services, actually know your neighbors and for the most part get a bigger return from your community than what you put into it. Most of the people are really friendly and we have some of the most beautiful sunsets a person could ever see. I haven't been to Amarillo as much this past year due to covid 19 but I feel safe in assuming it hasn't suffered near as bad as a lot of other cities across the nation in the past year. And yes..I believe even with covid there's still decent job opportunities( probably not a dream job right now- but a job) somewhere doing something. I lived there for over 30 years from sixth grade til almost 50 years old and Amarillo will always be home to me and I will always be proud to be from the Texas Panhandle.
@@lilchrisjohnson6798 thank you so much for the reply. I live in MN and have been strongly considering TX for a few months now. I really like what I have seen online in the Amarillo area.
@@Tinna7878 its a great place were off i40 so lots of jobs, and super cheap to live here. My whole family lives in Dallas, but I refuse to move because of how cheap it is here.
@@lilchrisjohnson6798 I currently live right next to Minneapolis so the crime shot up quite dramatically. The appeal of a place with lower crime and the fee of a smaller town is very appealing.
Looks like a ghost town where i live their is a million + in this city would be a shock to go to a place like this plus their is 6 murders a night the ghetto bird fly's constant , cant imagine going to a place like that and not hardly anybody around
Looking at cities like Amarillo go move to from Houston. Want a quieter place to settle down but still with all the amenities of a city. The heat, crime, and housing prices are my main reasons.
I'm from Amarillo but now living in Brooklyn New York for college and I'm always either in Manhattan or Brooklyn where there is always traffic and people walking that was a huge thing to get used to coming from Amarillo.😂
@Elizabeth Dail it looked to me like people were parked blocks away and were walking to civic center or ball park for something. The glimpse of the people i noticed didn't seem to "look" like homeless people. The looked like they were walking with "intent" to get somewhere.
Sun Belt cities are known for having lifeless city centers. Busiest you're going to see is New Orleans. I visited Dallas and said the same thing, "where are the people?"
Rolo, there was a time when Amarillo had a sense of community. Downtown was busy. Last time I was there; all the people are in malls. Tucson, San Antonio San Francisco, & New Orleans are the only cities west of the Mississippi with life downtown, anymore! OH, & Seattle!
@@williamkeith8944 people live downtown. and that street where he passed is the polk in 3th that is not the place where there are frequent people since he looks lost. In our civic center I came from the WWE census year ... why speak without knowing orienting themselves first ...
I live 45 miles north of Amarillo and hate that town so much if I didn't have to go I wouldn't just that I live in a small town that don't have a whole lot of stores so next town that has more stores is Amarillo but OMG its ugly as hell. Never move their if you have children it's not a good place to raise your kids their.
it is very good to live in and safe for children. I live here and I prefer that to being in crime even during the day. It is a quiet and relaxing yo kind of place in downtown Amarillo. And there are many more educational places for children. educate yourself
They goofed up and put a baseball field in center city. Traffic is bad enough before it was built. Tearing down historic buildings to build parking lots and overpriced hotels. Not very smart. There is thousands of acres of land out on the lakeside loop for things like this without disrupting traffic. Get Smart, Amarillo...this isn't working well.
It's not boring. Forgive me, I live in this place, it is super cheap and relaxing because being a small city we all feel like family. I have been living here for 8 years before I lived in Puerto Rico and then in Phoenix Arizona. nothing better than living. boring is one who wants to live boring as you do not speak without knowing and without visiting the city. It is very quiet. If you want to live with noises and savagery, go visit a jungle .. trip in that Street to day. U need see the difference...
Nice and peaceful. Not like the places all those crazy libs come from with crackhead infested, crime spree, dirty needle littered, burning buildings, child shooting filled places where elderly people are beaten.
I'm from England and I'd love to visit Amarillo I just love America
I've been there a couple of times now. It's not too bad but nothing really to keep you there for more than a couple of days.
It's nothing great to visit it's ugly never would live their not a good place to raise your children that's for sure.
Nice to see my hometown. I grew up here, graduated from tascosa in 1985. Miss my home😊
Me too!! I just graduated from Tascosa Class of 2019🎓. I now live in NYC attending NYU and I’m homesick as well. 1700 miles from home 😔
Lg Marquez wow! NYC! A long way from home! It’s hard leaving some where you lived you whole life. I got married when I was 2 years older than you and he was in the Air Force, our first assignment was anchorage Alaska . Talk about culture shock! I was so homesick! I don’t have family in amarillo now my mom passes in 2015 so that was the last time I was there. I miss the snow amarillo gets too! I live in biloxi Mississippi now and it’s so hot and humid here!
Sherry Irwin I totally agree! Coming from Amarillo and moving to a mega city like NYC was also a huge culture shock for me. Sorry to hear about your mother’s passing. And yes I also love the snow that Amarillo get around January or February. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go back to Amarillo for Christmas but I heard there was no snow this Christmas in Amarillo. I’m a sucker for snow I’m just nervous once winter rolls around here in NYC it’s going to be very hectic!😂...Tascosa Rebel for life!👈🏼👆🏼👉🏼. Rebel Strong!💪🏽...Hope you have a happy New Years Sherry😃
Lg Marquez you too!
I know it's in the evening but I am amazed out how little traffic there is.
Back in the 60's & 70's, the Dumas Highway connected with the Canyon 'E-Way' through 2 of these streets. There was lots of traffic back then! Down Town had 24 hour restaurants & motels! Then, they built a loop around it. So sad!
well i mean there are a whole lot of days that you cant hardly drive through it
This person prolly caught a good time Bc this is when everyone’s at works
I mean off work Bc rush hour is at 5-6 that’s when people go home
Damn, despite being smaller than Lubbock, Amarillo actually has the feel of a real city center unlike its bland depressed neighbor to the south. It reminds me of Fort Worth and that's a good thing. Very nice for a small city!! Amarillo should have gotten Texas Tech. Makes me want to visit. Cheers from New York.
Well I was gonna say somthing about amarillo being huge but new york is pretty big i heard. idk the biggest city ive been to is lubbock so 🤷
@@bluemoro973 Lubbock is pretty big, but really!? You haven't been anywhere else? Fort Worth is around 4 times bigger than Amarillo and maybe 3.5 times bigger than Lubbock. Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and especially Houston are much much bigger that even that! You're really missing out. Texas is incredible! And yes, it doesn't get any bigger than New York. It's super crowded.
@Richard schiffman this is partly true. You can’t compare west Texas. Of course Fort Worth is busier. I just meant that it had a similar Texan feel like Fort Worth. Now visit Lubbock and tell me if their downtown is comparable or not.
I thought Lubbock was smaller
@@jadenpina3989 It feels smaller but Lubbock is much bigger
I've been thinking about moving to a red state ever since mine (Colorado) went blue. Texas is generally too hot and humid for my tastes, but Amarillo is far enough north that it might not be all that bad. Thanks for giving us a good view of it.
Dallas fort worth is a great place it just turns 95 degrees in the summer
Nope I'm a native Amarillian. Our summers are long hot and dry. We top out in 110s and lows to 0. Windy as hell and less than a inch or two a month during summer. Then that will dump on us in a hour as a storm system blows through. Hopefully it won't birth a tornado.
@@ReichX1000 That’s not true, DFW is very hot in the summer. Lots of days with just nonstop 99/100 degrees for days without rain, summers can be pretty miserable here. Wouldn’t recommend for someone who doesn’t like heat
@@sagetangent6692 June and July is usually 90 or 89 August is the hottest month in Dallas but the Fall in Dallas is chilly and cool and winter Is very Cold I live in Dallas and its currently in the 30s degree
I live in South TX, and Amarillo is almost 11 hours away from me LOL
Beautiful! Completely my type of city!
This makes me homesick! I lived 2 blocks south of Polk Street Methodist Church. You almost showed my apartment building (If it's still there) I lived in at the ages of 20-22. I worked for United Supermarkets on South Washington, 1979 - 1981. Although I'm an old die hard liberal; I still love ol' Amarillo!.
The lights on the downtown one ways are set for about 32 - 33 mph. The speed limit is 30. If you do about 32, you can catch every light green without braking.
I do 25 and i hit them all green without braking
@@sebastiang9435 You must just be barely catching the tail end of that last green light.
Amarillo is the city where they are safe from California 70% republican for a city of like 200k
I lived a beautiful childhood in Amarillo. I now live in colorado but I want to move back
I was just watching a George Strait video & he was singing about Amarillo by Morning & I just wanted to see what the town that inspired that catchy song was all about.
I like that it's not overbuilt.
Pretty town, Amarillo.
The original singer, Terry Stafford was from Amarillo. I say travel 60 miles west and enjoy a meal at the "Mid-Way Cafe"
I live in Tx but Amarillo is still 500 miles away from me.
Thank you for this...it’s cool to see where I came from!!
Be safe and stay healthy.
God Bless.
I've been the Amarillo hundreds of times
Looks clean.
That was thrilling! Thank you for posting this,
Be safe and stay healthy.
God Bless.
@@realMAGAcanadian You took me so far back....Thank You@!
Thank you 🙏 man !!!!! Planning moving There!!!!
Hello from Amarillo Texas 👋🏻🤠
Howdy Y'all...
You should have driven passed the brand new ballpark. You were only a couple of blocks away a few times. It really is gorgeous.
Not really it’s stupid there are trying to make us a big city
Everytime I pass through Amarillo it's like a giant ghost town. For a city with a population of 199,924 it's kinda boring but the Big Texan is awesome.
The video is awesome and I like the uniqueness of the area especially around Palo Duro Canyon, so all in all the Amarillo area is ok I guess. It has the old west look & feel; plus it doesn't have that hustle & bustle of cities like Dallas & Houston.
Damn Amarillo looks like it died in 1980
I wanna live there
Ugh no I doubt it it's ugly as hell would never raise my children in this sorry ugly town
@@Alastortheradiodemon1239 i moved here last year and i like it
@Amanda Salcido how the crime there in Amarillo? and amenities?
I agree with some of the other commenters, compared to other west texas/panhandle cities....this looks pretty nice. Unlike Lubbock, at least Amarillo has some street-level businesses downtown and some lights...I want to move to a smaller Texas community, but I hate how all the downtowns are so dead, old and spread out....Corpus Christi is an example, I've considered moving there but the downtown just looks like a boom-town gone dead.
This was at 7:30 pm. Most of the business people have left downtown after work. This video doesn't show all the activity going on in the clubs and restaurants on Polk St. Granted it was a weeknight and it does look pretty "dead" if it was a Friday or Saturday night you'd see a lot more activity. (Before covid 19) Downtown Amarillo has done a lot in last decade to "revitalize" the downtown area and compared to before that it is a marked improvement. I was project chair in college in which we surveyed a sampling of Amarilloans collecting opinions and Ideas about the future of downtown in about 1995 or 1996 and we met with "Center City Downtown Revitalization" Organ- ization and they decided to "help" revitalize Amarillo downtown. It may have taken longer than they anticipated but now there is considerably more things available such as housing, clubs, restaurants. The streets and sidewalks are clean, in good shape and well lit for pedestrians. Except for a few areas along the tracks its considerably safer than most downtown areas of other cities. All that being said..this is just the downtown area..Amarillo is very spread out and there is usually a good variety of things to do every weekend no matter your interests you'll be able to do something different most weekends of the year. I moved away 2008 but Im close enough and there enough to see Amarillo continue grow and see businesses there adapt and evolve to attract the growing population. It had a population boom before I moved and I was working for a residential builder where we saw a significant surge of transplants making Amarillo their new home for many different reasons. Its not NYC , LA or even DFW...but for around 250k population it still has a small town feel. You can feel safe in most areas, find a decent selection of goods and services, actually know your neighbors and for the most part get a bigger return from your community than what you put into it. Most of the people are really friendly and we have some of the most beautiful sunsets a person could ever see. I haven't been to Amarillo as much this past year due to covid 19 but I feel safe in assuming it hasn't suffered near as bad as a lot of other cities across the nation in the past year. And yes..I believe even with covid there's still decent job opportunities( probably not a dream job right now- but a job) somewhere doing something. I lived there for over 30 years from sixth grade til almost 50 years old and Amarillo will always be home to me and I will always be proud to be from the Texas Panhandle.
Looks like nothing has changed I lived there there for 27ys
Man, I'd love to live here. Nice conservative city
Thisbplace really aint it lmao
To anyone that has lived in or near Amarillo. Is this a safe place to live? Suburbs?
very safe
I've been here my whole 36yrs and its safest its going to get these days. I still leave my car unlocked in the so called ghetto. Do id say its safe.
@@lilchrisjohnson6798 thank you so much for the reply. I live in MN and have been strongly considering TX for a few months now. I really like what I have seen online in the Amarillo area.
@@Tinna7878 its a great place were off i40 so lots of jobs, and super cheap to live here. My whole family lives in Dallas, but I refuse to move because of how cheap it is here.
@@lilchrisjohnson6798 I currently live right next to Minneapolis so the crime shot up quite dramatically. The appeal of a place with lower crime and the fee of a smaller town is very appealing.
Amarillos by evening
Looks like a ghost town where i live their is a million + in this city would be a shock to go to a place like this plus their is 6 murders a night the ghetto bird fly's constant , cant imagine going to a place like that and not hardly anybody around
Awww, I miss those empty streets
Be safe and stay healthy.
God Bless.
Lol that the city that i am living right know it is a really nice place It has a lovely naiborhood
Looking at cities like Amarillo go move to from Houston. Want a quieter place to settle down but still with all the amenities of a city. The heat, crime, and housing prices are my main reasons.
Amarillos looks a lot like my city, *Monterrey* in Nuevo León, Mexico. 🤠
Why my church is that big building with the green roof Polk street
amarillo by morning
Great tune
Terry Stafford
What's the job market like in Amarillo right now?
What’s this place like? Considering a job there
Yessss I’m on sunlite in that city lol
And the people walking? 🤔🤷🏻♂️
I'm from Amarillo but now living in Brooklyn New York for college and I'm always either in Manhattan or Brooklyn where there is always traffic and people walking that was a huge thing to get used to coming from Amarillo.😂
@Elizabeth Dail it looked to me like people were parked blocks away and were walking to civic center or ball park for something. The glimpse of the people i noticed didn't seem to "look" like homeless people. The looked like they were walking with "intent" to get somewhere.
A bunch of homeless and panhandlers hang out downtown. Careful
I have a question, do most of them there speak English or also Spanish?
Far from the border therefore English is the most spoken language but lots of LEGAL residents speak Spanish as well.
Be safe and stay healthy.
We speak Amurican
@Fox Overstreet what for? The only language that should be spoken is English
@Richard schiffman stole? You mean Conquered loser.
@Richard schiffman no shit. But now its ruled by English speaking people.
Amarillo native living in Massachusetts. Say "North, South, West, East" around here, and they have no idea what you're talking about. Lol
why is that?
@@paulvernier1843 curvy roads, forest, no horizon . It's all left right left right
@@paulknighton3013 I see, but from what I've heard Massachusetts is quite nice
@Ed Gy I was talking about the nature, don't know about the people 😂
Empty Streets. Must have been Sunday after 1pm. Like Atlanta in The Walking Dead. Everybody at The Big Texan?
Sorry , l Love Amarillo ❤🖒
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¿ no hay gente en esta ciudad ?........where are the people ???????????????
Sun Belt cities are known for having lifeless city centers. Busiest you're going to see is New Orleans. I visited Dallas and said the same thing, "where are the people?"
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Rolo, there was a time when Amarillo had a sense of community. Downtown was busy. Last time I was there; all the people are in malls. Tucson, San Antonio San Francisco, & New Orleans are the only cities west of the Mississippi with life downtown, anymore! OH, & Seattle!
looks depressing to me
Living there won't be depressing.
@Elizabeth Dail I can live with that! Still looks depressing as hell!
Quit isn't depressing unless you enjoy traffic congestion
@@timothykeith1367 very true indeed
The school system is trash but the city really nice
Look like 2005/2006
Beautyful city, but where are the people?. It seems like a gost town
Doing meth
This is 7 .30 .....in the evening ?? What happened .?
It's like Night of the Living Dead.
They roll up the streets at 4PM.
People don't live downtown, they are in the suburbs.
@@williamkeith8944 people live downtown. and that street where he passed is the polk in 3th that is not the place where there are frequent people since he looks lost. In our civic center I came from the WWE census year ... why speak without knowing orienting themselves first ...
I live 45 miles north of Amarillo and hate that town so much if I didn't have to go I wouldn't just that I live in a small town that don't have a whole lot of stores so next town that has more stores is Amarillo but OMG its ugly as hell. Never move their if you have children it's not a good place to raise your kids their.
it is very good to live in and safe for children. I live here and I prefer that to being in crime even during the day. It is a quiet and relaxing yo kind of place in downtown Amarillo. And there are many more educational places for children. educate yourself
I’m a kid who lives in Amarillo. it’s a great place to raise kids and hang out.
@@jackieyankee1344 didn’t Johnny frank Garrett live there?
I drive through Amarillo it's ugly.
Most of it is fine, the northwest part of town is where it gets ugly.
Looks so boring
It’s nkt
Not
Trust me, it is. For it's size it ain't much to do there.
Safe from California,maybe but not safe from Trump
Dallas and Fort Worth are so much better lol
But houses cost like 100k - 200k an in Amarillo houses cost from 50k
Do you still eat your crayons?
@@DanyFlow94 development a new mindset then. Make more money to easily afford it. Stop limiting yourself
@@Carla-tz7qw who?
How is ft.worth and Dallas better?
They goofed up and put a baseball field in center city. Traffic is bad enough before it was built. Tearing down historic buildings to build parking lots and overpriced hotels. Not very smart. There is thousands of acres of land out on the lakeside loop for things like this without disrupting traffic. Get Smart, Amarillo...this isn't working well.
I was in Amarillo a couple of months ago driving around at 4-5pm around downtown and on the freeways, there was no "rush hour" as most cities have.
this place looks so boring and lifeless , no wonder it’s a strong haven for conservatives
It's not boring. Forgive me, I live in this place, it is super cheap and relaxing because being a small city we all feel like family. I have been living here for 8 years before I lived in Puerto Rico and then in Phoenix Arizona. nothing better than living. boring is one who wants to live boring as you do not speak without knowing and without visiting the city. It is very quiet. If you want to live with noises and savagery, go visit a jungle .. trip in that Street to day. U need see the difference...
Nice and peaceful. Not like the places all those crazy libs come from with crackhead infested, crime spree, dirty needle littered, burning buildings, child shooting filled places where elderly people are beaten.
I've been to trauma once i went to Amarillo school's
Amarillo sucks
No u
2k ballup you just ain’t found the drugs yet 😂
Depressing place
out in the middle of nowhere..
I live ther u suck peanuts