Pensacola, Florida | What Happened?

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  • Опубліковано 17 тра 2023
  • Pensacola, Florida has a lot to offer. Beaches, great weather, tons of outdoor activities, and lots of sports entertainment. However, there are also a lot of run down areas as well. Many abandoned homes, run down housing complexes, and some pretty sketchy places you might not want to be around at night. Crime is an issue but has definitely improved over the years, I seen a lot of police presence in these particular places. Poverty is definitely a problem as it sits around 20%. Let's take a ride and check out some of the worst areas.

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  • @FLPAN1993
    @FLPAN1993 Рік тому +43

    I was born and raised in Pensacola. I moved from there about 5 yrs ago. I cannot move back even if l wanted to. Cost of living has increased. Use to you can find a decent house to live for $500 a month. Now it is $1,300 a month. Utilities has skyrocketed. If you ever watch a video for tourists, all you will see is downtown and the beach. Ever since Hurricane Ivan hit Pensacola back in 2004, it was never the same. Crime has increased. 3 years ago there were shootings 7 days in a row. Local politicians never try to bring in new business in Pensacola. They depend on the beach and the Navy. But the video you have seen here is not the whole city. There is still some nice section of Pensacola. But it looks run down and dirty.

  • @pensacolawatchdog
    @pensacolawatchdog 11 місяців тому +9

    Fellow Pensacolian and new subscriber! Trying to shed some light on corruption within our government!

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat Рік тому +19

    The poverty is palpable 😢

  • @drum61729
    @drum61729 11 місяців тому +7

    As someone whos lived just on the outside of Pensacola for my whole, ive seen every type of home or rental raise in price drastically each year to where now my house sells for almost 3x as much as we bought it. The poverty is tangible

  • @AnnaS1371
    @AnnaS1371 11 місяців тому +8

    We’ve been in Pensacola for less than a year. Besides the beaches (which are super touristy though), the downtown and surrounding areas, everything else is run down and neglected. We are currently looking to move to the Huntsville area in AL or to Baldwin county AL (close to here as we are almost at the AL border). Things are super expensive in Florida, even in less nice areas such as Pensacola. You can see a huge difference when you drive less than an hour into Alabama, it’s so much nicer, way less homeless and crime in all of Baldwin county.

    • @GatorB850
      @GatorB850 10 місяців тому +2

      Baldwin County is a great place to live and raise family. I was born and raised in Pensacola and its sad what has happened over the last 10 years there.

  • @CC-kl4nh
    @CC-kl4nh 3 місяці тому +2

    Thanks for showing the REAL Pensacola! All them other UA-camrs trying to play up Pensacola!

  • @RhettaPeoples
    @RhettaPeoples Рік тому +4

    I absolutely love your channel.

  • @Mrs.AmyAlexandriaRamirez1977
    @Mrs.AmyAlexandriaRamirez1977 Рік тому +8

    I was just watching your Pensacola video from a year ago. There was more people, especially children out playing, people out walking and way more traffic than this video.

  • @vickisawyer7405
    @vickisawyer7405 Рік тому +28

    The saddest part of these videos is that churches are also being abandoned. Thank you for the video.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Рік тому +7

      Thanks for watching Vicki! At first I wasnt sure if people liked to see them or not. There's SO many out there abandoned or just falling apart

    • @anjachan
      @anjachan Рік тому +2

      Im not a christian but even for me it´s weird to see ...

  • @22vx
    @22vx Рік тому +1

    Thanks for sharing 👍

  • @tanja6233
    @tanja6233 Рік тому +5

    Once apon a time when all was so easy and simple..
    Turn the corner 😢..
    This Ain't Living > Marvin Gaye.. Thank you for your time stay safe in your travels

  • @rhard007
    @rhard007 Рік тому +14

    I don't know what you mean by "what happened " ... I was stationed there in the late 80s, and recognize all the streets during your driving , everything looks the same. The only thing Pensacola ever had going for it was those beautiful beaches, some of the whitest sand in the world.

  • @kydavion
    @kydavion 11 місяців тому +9

    Live in Pensacola currently. It’s becoming expensive to live here so those in poverty stay in similar areas shown. But if you have money to live in the “nice areas” you’ll probably never even be around these places.

    • @HarbourPunk
      @HarbourPunk 11 місяців тому

      I also live in Pensacola, and I’m really unhappy the way things are here. I used to live in Hampton, VA though, and that wasn’t much better. With any luck I’ll be getting outta here in a couple years.

  • @LeonteRahja
    @LeonteRahja 11 місяців тому +4

    It's some nicer areas but they are more expensive. God bless the people living in those hoods, especially the children 🙏🙏

  • @litaheffley6990
    @litaheffley6990 11 місяців тому +1

    Love ❤️ your videos cool 😎 👌 thanks 👍

  • @rwl8150
    @rwl8150 Рік тому +6

    Strange how poor folk can afford tall rims on their cars.

  • @michaelanthonyvideos
    @michaelanthonyvideos Рік тому +5

    Wow 😮

  • @CRUCIFi777
    @CRUCIFi777 Рік тому +9

    Downright prosperous compared to other places in higher elevations of the rust belt.

  • @johnmartin7182
    @johnmartin7182 Рік тому +7

    As always awesome content thanks again WOW looks like a apocalypse

  • @opticalspider7003
    @opticalspider7003 11 місяців тому +4

    I rmbr when I joined the navy all I heard about from older people is how amazing Pensacola is. After getting there I realized they were talking about back in their day and haven’t been in 20+ years

  • @shutterlag192
    @shutterlag192 10 місяців тому +1

    Pensacola has been this way my whole life as far as I’ve known. I’m 35. Downtown is decent now and over by the mall but very run down about 3/4 of the city. I live in Fort Walton which also has run down areas but pretty easy to avoid them and getting easier. Getting really expensive in all these beach towns though. In 5-10 years gonna be Cali level. Trying to buy some real estate 😂

  • @priscillafitch3397
    @priscillafitch3397 Рік тому +1

    Pensacola is a very beautiful place.Can anyone tell me what area that's in it kind of looks like Trumanon I'm not sure.

  • @katrinayoung3607
    @katrinayoung3607 5 місяців тому

    I would love to visit this place. Something about it,maybe it needs more flowers and gardening etc. I love a challenge ❤

  • @harri211
    @harri211 Рік тому +3

    Florida is not the postcard image everyone envisions. I lived in Miami 20+ years ago, about 5-10 miles inland. Let me tell you it's ugly out there. There are no palm trees... just filth & a bunch of storage lockers & industry.

  • @aprillundberg1197
    @aprillundberg1197 Рік тому +5

    Some of the buildings remind me of Army barracks!

    • @harimauplayer
      @harimauplayer 11 місяців тому

      I thought about the same, temporary kinda housing

  • @WhispersFromTheDark
    @WhispersFromTheDark Рік тому +14

    What struck me most was the nice newer cars. Hell, I work full-time and couldn't afford a car like those....

  • @J.C.Ky.ridgerunner1955
    @J.C.Ky.ridgerunner1955 Рік тому +2

    I once lived in there, where did all the palm trees go. kinda strange, no palm trees

  • @viwaldi4434
    @viwaldi4434 Рік тому +6

    I'm going to move there and start working at International Paper.
    In which part of the city is it best to rent or buy a house?
    A family with two school-aged children.

    • @nwAmerican
      @nwAmerican Рік тому +3

      I'm moving there in a month from Washington state. Hope everything works out for you

    • @zachnunya8749
      @zachnunya8749 11 місяців тому +4

      Idk your budget but…check out pace, Milton, and Cantonment. Most of the sketchy areas are in west Pensacola.

    • @harimauplayer
      @harimauplayer 11 місяців тому

      If you work mostly remote, why not Navarre?

    • @redpanda7576
      @redpanda7576 11 місяців тому +1

      Honestly if you go across the bay bridge to Gulf Breeze its nicer than Pensacola, but is a different county.

    • @visionnowministries7898
      @visionnowministries7898 11 місяців тому +2

      North and northeast part of Pensacola!

  • @user-um7gb3ds1i
    @user-um7gb3ds1i 11 місяців тому +3

    There are rough sides and beautiful sides. Been here all my life, still love my hometown. With all that being said, it is very congested, some crime and high rent.

    • @wolfshanze5980
      @wolfshanze5980 11 місяців тому

      I also live in Pensacola... notice the "poor" parts of town all have nice cars out front. Compare that with say, Kensington Philadelphia or downtown San Fran... yeah... I'll take the poor parts of Pensacola over the poor parts of major cities anyday.

  • @laretdenton9768
    @laretdenton9768 Рік тому +1

    Good grief 😢

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited Рік тому +4

    While I've certainly seen much worse this doesn't look like a very nice place to live. Rather mundane and boring.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Рік тому +1

      It is definitely a boring area if it weren’t for the crime!

  • @BrominatedVegetableOil
    @BrominatedVegetableOil Рік тому +6

    I want franchise in Pensacola

  • @pre1980cars
    @pre1980cars Рік тому +1

    I had to hit pause when i seen the red 68 Galaxie

  • @copperpot5462
    @copperpot5462 Рік тому +3

    What happened? The Caribbean came to Florida.

  • @happyd6145
    @happyd6145 Рік тому +3

    That's were Roman Reigns is from !

  • @louisrodgers5976
    @louisrodgers5976 Рік тому

    Nobody outside. But around the corner Beer store😮😮 it's ghostly in the daytime image nite time. 😮😮😮

  • @janeentumbao8690
    @janeentumbao8690 Рік тому +1

    So...
    When are you gonna cross the Mississippi River?😊

  • @pondturt
    @pondturt Рік тому +1

    Reminds me of a coo coo cal song 🤔

  • @wandadillard2838
    @wandadillard2838 Рік тому +5

    How much is redlining contributing to these areas?

  • @AllShaaaallPerish
    @AllShaaaallPerish 10 місяців тому +1

    I live in pensacola and they are fixing up a lot of these areas especially the alphabet streets.

  • @jamerican_usnavy
    @jamerican_usnavy Рік тому +1

    What are the bad areas in Pensacola

    • @SweetPeaSaid
      @SweetPeaSaid Рік тому +1

      They are scattered around and between the nice areas.

  • @perryandy2
    @perryandy2 Рік тому +5

    I've always preferred coke

  • @HeartFarts
    @HeartFarts Рік тому +6

    Time, greed, and secrets. that's what happened.

  • @tommyjones7096
    @tommyjones7096 10 місяців тому +3

    I'm a 40-year Pensacola resident.
    What happened here is what happened to lots of other US cities.
    It's called late-stage capitalism.

  • @MountainKoi91
    @MountainKoi91 19 днів тому

    Yeah, not really much of a middle class here…either you live in poor, run down neighborhoods or you live in nice, but overpriced ones.

  • @paunchybeast6945
    @paunchybeast6945 11 місяців тому

    Honestly good, gotta make your houses look ugly cause if they look just a little bit clean they will try to make rent 3x what it should be

  • @user-cc8nn1ql9d
    @user-cc8nn1ql9d Рік тому +4

    Какое унылое место! Будто это концлагерь

  • @toxicfrog2278
    @toxicfrog2278 11 місяців тому

    Lifr happened sorry i live in florida and this is bot how it looks

  • @doubled3962
    @doubled3962 Рік тому +3

    1:05 this looks like base housing

  • @joananthony6323
    @joananthony6323 Рік тому +6

    Florida is now approaching California with levels of homelessness. The cost of making these areas more habitable with a couple of stores and a bus service would be miniscule compared to both the societal and financial costs of homelessness
    It's all down to a lack of will on the part of the local, state and central governments

  • @davestrang8585
    @davestrang8585 Рік тому +1

    Florida happened

  • @jayjaynella4539
    @jayjaynella4539 Рік тому +6

    Not as bad as many of the northern cities you video in. Looks like big improvements can be made by hauling away the excess rubbish.

  • @zuleikagomes5918
    @zuleikagomes5918 Рік тому

    🤔❤️🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @mincerstephen9137
    @mincerstephen9137 Рік тому +16

    When that hurricane hit the ghetto of New Orleans in 2005, a lot of those people ended up in Pensacola and Mobile. They brought the crime with them.

  • @robp54
    @robp54 11 місяців тому

    who are the owners of these empty houses?

  • @h.v.davidson4507
    @h.v.davidson4507 Рік тому

    Trashee' city ...

  • @AdventureVixen
    @AdventureVixen Рік тому

    The way my jaw dropped

  • @MrPmcMcMental
    @MrPmcMcMental Рік тому +4

    I wonder what these communities would look like if American gang culture didn’t exist?

  • @billstill1794
    @billstill1794 Рік тому +2