I would hardly classify elm st and 9th and 12th st as the hood. Honestly the "hood" parts are like those weird half streets like muhlenberg st or going close to cotton st. Theres always something going on near cotton.
If you really look well it is clean. Rarely saw any garbage on the street as you drove. Those homes are more than 100 years old. They need to be remodeled for sure. A lot of Hispanics live there. I lived there as a child. Walked to school " Amanda E Stout and NEVER was approached by a car or a person( like nowadays). I was 9 and most of the kids as well walked to school. Reading doesn't have big companies so jobs they would pay well are not much; therefore, the town gets by whatever local businesses are present. Brings memories.
I moved here from Maryland in hopes of starting a new life and gotta say it's one of my biggest mistakes.. I've been here 4 years and now I'm ready gtfoh and never come back. I feel like the only thing Reading has to offer is that damn hospital..
I moved from a really nice charlotte suburb and went to high school at Berk’s catholic in reading suburb, now live in roxborough a Philadelphia suburb. I’ve seen a lot of nasty things as a little white girl and so has my boyfriend as delco blood as a white boy. We hope EVERYONE finds peace and stays safe out there. We love Philly and hope the culture changes back from filth and violence
@@ItalianStallion69 my uncle used to live in mt penn but had to move cuz a gang was stalking his house and harassing him and his family, now he lives in the suburbs and he's not looking back lmao
@@ItalianStallion69 LOL dude he got shot at, his dirt bikes got stolen multiple times, there were people that would just sit in a car outside his house staring at it all day, it was fucking nuts man
if youre into checking out small hood cities, consider taking a stroll around Lawrence, MA, just north of Boston. Manchester, NH can get pretty wild in certain areas on a hot summer night too.
There used to be a store on 10th St. that I went to from time to time. This was back in the early 2000's. Never really felt unsafe there. It was usually in the middle of the day on Saturday, though.
Most of what was on Pike Street all gone now. Goosehouse gone, 1402 gone, Mike's Rising Sun gone, Brass Lantern gone, all but the 'Pike' still be there. West Reading is actually still pretty nice.
Maybe I’m “reading” too much into this- but for being one of the if not THE poorest city in the country, it has beautiful architecture. If cleaned up, it may no longer have that title
I think its just how zoning used to be done since towns wanted to pack as many people into the area as possible to boost local businesses, plus to have things accessible on foot.
@@pod9363I’m from Pennsylvania, back when Pennsylvania was a colony the king of England would tax the people for the width and lengths of there house.Therefore people built row houses like London.another reason is because having houses close together made it easier for the people to migrate to there factory 🏭 jobs.Remember Pennsylvania used to be the economic engine of the usa at one point
The last time I was in this hood it was 1978, I robbed two women, stole their car and sold it to the local junkyard for 500 bucks. Had a great weekend going out.
Reading, PA has much less vioIent crime than the most vioIent, murderous areas in the U.S. because Reading, PA is majority hispanlc unIike the most vioIent areas which are ALL majority bIack. Even so, the fact remains that the safest areas in the U.S. are ALL predominateIy whlte areas.
The overall crime rate in Reading, PA is 80% higher than the average of crimes committed per 100,000 people in the USA. The statistic states that the overall crime rate in Reading, PA is 80% higher than the average of crimes committed per 100,000 people in the USA
@@brianlevy5911 But the fact remains that Reading, PA even using the stats you mentioned, has much less vioIent crime than the most vioIent, murderous areas in the U.S. because Reading, PA is majority hispanlc unIike the most vioIent areas which are ALL majority bIack. The most vioIent areas have nearly 300% higher vioIent crime rates (per 100,000) compared to the nationaI average and aII of those areas are bIack. Do you need me to expIain anything eIse to you?
😂😂😂bruh we’re do you get your information from…Pennsylvania is nowhere near the poorest states in the usa …The states that you think are richer on average doesn’t make more money than Pennsylvanians…Texas,Georgia,nc etc and to be specific Pennsylvania has the 5th biggest economy in the usa…even if u do your research on this area it’s just pocket of the city that’s poor,overall the reading area is not poor and more suburban than urban
@@henryjohnson7083I have myself driven through at least 10 cites in PA and almost all of them looked like Reading or much worse, "Chester", York" "Wilkes-Barre" Philly, Kensington, . I didn;t see ONE affluent upscale city. I also have seen "NICK JOHNSONS posts on Penn on YT and he states at least a dozen cities were run down, isolated and just plain deserted. So name some affluent cities in Pennsylvania cause I cant name ONE. Here is 10 more cities in PA that are in dire poverty he 35 poorest towns in Pennsylvania 1. Indiana Borough. 2. Lock Haven. 3. Clarion Township.4. Duquesne. 6. Briar Creek. 5. Chester. . 6Johnstown. . 7 Mount Oliver. . 8) York City. 9. Clarion Borough. 10. Arnold City. 11/ ALLENTOWN.
Correcao. Que ! Mundo! Corregindo duas palavras charlie pra voce ver charlie como meu idioma e dificil ne amigos ninguem e perfeito so deus ok observa boa noite quero ver voce indo a costa rica amigo no futuro pais chuvoso boa sorte good night
Actually Reading, PA has much less vioIent crime than the most vioIent, murderous areas in the U.S. because Reading, PA is majority hispanlc unIike the most vioIent areas which are ALL majority bIack. Even so, the fact remains that the safest areas in the U.S. are ALL predominateIy whlte areas.
Boa noite charlie como esta o canal no mundo ta bem ta good ok porque vejo muitos querendo amigo do you tub e tem wue ser bom e vejo que o senhor leva jeito a tempo seria bom legal e poder ate ir em outros paises contrys conhecendo mais e possibilitando a outras culturas e importante no kundo atual turbulento pense amigos mais paises tente visitar ja vi varios videos seus no mexico tente ir na africa do sul ok honduras e outros ok boa noite
Acho que o senhor ja esta vivendo disto ja alguns? Anos vejo voce fazendo muitos videos ok felicidades e exitos nas empreitadas da vida of lafi good night bay bay thau eua
This would actually be a nice neighborhood if cleaned up. The architecture itself is gorgeous
I agree, it must have been lovely once.
Agreed
Reading was a great city just terrible politicians that sold it out and turned it into this shit hole
These are nice neighborhoods. Idk why this qualifies as "hood"
It's about time you drove through Reading.
Once you see the forests in the horizon you realize that this could become a really nice town with the right resources and leaders.
The buildings are fkn GORGEOUS and with the mountain woah, nice
Very cheap and affordable!
Gorgeous for a slimy ghetto.
It's hard to sense the atmosphere but some of the streets seem kinda cosy and others I'd run from. The beautiful day helps.
I would hardly classify elm st and 9th and 12th st as the hood. Honestly the "hood" parts are like those weird half streets like muhlenberg st or going close to cotton st. Theres always something going on near cotton.
Drive through Norristown, PA sometime
If you really look well it is clean. Rarely saw any garbage on the street as you drove. Those homes are more than 100 years old. They need to be remodeled for sure. A lot of Hispanics live there. I lived there as a child. Walked to school " Amanda E Stout and NEVER was approached by a car or a person( like nowadays). I was 9 and most of the kids as well walked to school. Reading doesn't have big companies so jobs they would pay well are not much; therefore, the town gets by whatever local businesses are present. Brings memories.
Yo whatup charlie
Since you are in Pennsylvania can you stop by norristown?
Known as the poorest small city in the nation. It is also one of the most hispanic at nearly 70%, so… yeah they eat alot of rice and beans here
Harrisburg, York, Johnstown are pretty rough too.
I moved here from Maryland in hopes of starting a new life and gotta say it's one of my biggest mistakes.. I've been here 4 years and now I'm ready gtfoh and never come back. I feel like the only thing Reading has to offer is that damn hospital..
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Beautiful mountain view at 7:55
I moved from a really nice charlotte suburb and went to high school at Berk’s catholic in reading suburb, now live in roxborough a Philadelphia suburb. I’ve seen a lot of nasty things as a little white girl and so has my boyfriend as delco blood as a white boy. We hope EVERYONE finds peace and stays safe out there. We love Philly and hope the culture changes back from filth and violence
Oh wow, Allentown looks so much better than Reading these days! I know the old town very well. Left the state of decay years ago & never looked back!
notice how it’s poor but the people aren’t bad?? No reason to hate on this place bro
@@ItalianStallion69 my uncle used to live in mt penn but had to move cuz a gang was stalking his house and harassing him and his family, now he lives in the suburbs and he's not looking back lmao
@@0ater cap ur uncle prolly thought some Puerto Ricans were some gang members 😂
@@ItalianStallion69 LOL dude he got shot at, his dirt bikes got stolen multiple times, there were people that would just sit in a car outside his house staring at it all day, it was fucking nuts man
@@0ater 🧢
You gotta go back to Reading in the summer
Agreed.
No
@@monk4ever why. We all know it's too cold for shenanigans.
What’s it like during summer?
@@SJSWizard Mushroom Farms on the East side have a nice humid funk and if the wind catches it just right you might hurl
My home. This was mostly the North side of city which tends to be nicer than the South side.
Every south eastern PA hood town looks like this. A bunch of row homes and trash spread out. No one out in the day time til bout 3 or 4 foreal
This place doesn’t look so bad, the houses are kind of nice
Slangin' rocks, nonstop. Snatchin' Purses on ya block
Why do You drive so quick?
Wouldn’t you if you were driving through an area like this
Seriously?
Look just like philly
Yep, Philly is not too far south
Looks cleaner
If Philly was clean
Its not as bad YET
holy fuckin shit he did it, i've probably commented to come to reading like 20 times on your videos and here he is
if youre into checking out small hood cities, consider taking a stroll around Lawrence, MA, just north of Boston. Manchester, NH can get pretty wild in certain areas on a hot summer night too.
Looks like mob apartments ..hey jimmy you see that guy lol
It honestly looks fine. A bit rustic yeah but not that bad.
There used to be a store on 10th St. that I went to from time to time. This was back in the early 2000's. Never really felt unsafe there. It was usually in the middle of the day on Saturday, though.
Was a bar on every corner back in the day.
Most of what was on Pike Street all gone now. Goosehouse gone, 1402 gone, Mike's Rising Sun gone, Brass Lantern gone, all but the 'Pike' still be there. West Reading is actually still pretty nice.
I have a video on this topic in reading pa
Charlie you really started this wave ngl
When did Reading get so bad? It's largely Hispanic or Puerto Rican now I think
Subsidized Caribbean Hispanics = broken and clogged toilet
Without a doubt, Reading is one of the worst cities I’ve ever had the pleasure to visit
I agree
Ughhh, Reading is gross.
I heard these places used to be lit in the early 2000s
It was Nostalgia fr everbody used to be outside
They were lit back in the 1940s
It did, u had to be there lol
I went there in 2001. It was still trash back then.
@@monk4ever 🧢
My toilet is a much cleaner place than this.
Yeah, that place is nicknamed the overflowing toilet
My b00ty is cleaner than this place.
Essas !? Correcao e para voces ter boa traducao do portugues!
Уютно, довольно чистенько 😊👍
Небо яркое, весна рядом 🌿
// Cozy, quite clean 😊👍
The sky is bright, spring is near 🌿
My city born and raised
A lot of people say this is a dump but i like it
You like crime?
Reading just look like the nicer parts of north Philly
Maybe I’m “reading” too much into this- but for being one of the if not THE poorest city in the country, it has beautiful architecture. If cleaned up, it may no longer have that title
Looks like Philly 🤔
Tbh it's not even that bad here
It was a dangerous hood even in the 60's and 70's
Looks like Yonkers N.Y.
Rabbit, Run
How did they build all those houses so close to each other?
I think its just how zoning used to be done since towns wanted to pack as many people into the area as possible to boost local businesses, plus to have things accessible on foot.
Platted out way before cars were thought of!
@@pod9363I’m from Pennsylvania, back when Pennsylvania was a colony the king of England would tax the people for the width and lengths of there house.Therefore people built row houses like London.another reason is because having houses close together made it easier for the people to migrate to there factory 🏭 jobs.Remember Pennsylvania used to be the economic engine of the usa at one point
Paulo vai com deus e que tenha exitos na vida felecidades parabens
The last time I was in this hood it was 1978, I robbed two women, stole their car and sold it to the local junkyard for 500 bucks. Had a great weekend going out.
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ain't nothing worst than an old fool and that would be you.
"Is that right?"
-the authorities
what'd you do with their bodies?
@@Amir_Nassir they should be OK
Looks better than Philly lol
Reading, PA has much less vioIent crime than the most vioIent, murderous areas in the U.S. because Reading, PA is majority hispanlc unIike the most vioIent areas which are ALL majority bIack.
Even so, the fact remains that the safest areas in the U.S. are ALL predominateIy whlte areas.
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Kensington Philadelphia is a white neighborhood and the worst neighborhood he has shown
The overall crime rate in Reading, PA is 80% higher than the average of crimes committed per 100,000 people in the USA. The statistic states that the overall crime rate in Reading, PA is 80% higher than the average of crimes committed per 100,000 people in the USA
@@brianlevy5911 But the fact remains that Reading, PA even using the stats you mentioned, has much less vioIent crime than the most vioIent, murderous areas in the U.S. because Reading, PA is majority hispanlc unIike the most vioIent areas which are ALL majority bIack.
The most vioIent areas have nearly 300% higher vioIent crime rates (per 100,000) compared to the nationaI average and aII of those areas are bIack.
Do you need me to expIain anything eIse to you?
Сколько стоит квартира в таком милом районе?
I used to ride thru Reading during the summer 09 to see the latinas .
You like whale watching?
Almost at 1 milly
Unfort. PA is one of the poorest States in the USA
Poorest-- is West Virginia
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😂😂😂bruh we’re do you get your information from…Pennsylvania is nowhere near the poorest states in the usa …The states that you think are richer on average doesn’t make more money than Pennsylvanians…Texas,Georgia,nc etc and to be specific Pennsylvania has the 5th biggest economy in the usa…even if u do your research on this area it’s just pocket of the city that’s poor,overall the reading area is not poor and more suburban than urban
@@henryjohnson7083I have myself driven through at least 10 cites in PA and almost all of them looked like Reading or much worse, "Chester", York" "Wilkes-Barre" Philly, Kensington, . I didn;t see ONE affluent upscale city. I also have seen "NICK JOHNSONS posts on Penn on YT and he states at least a dozen cities were run down, isolated and just plain deserted. So name some affluent cities in Pennsylvania cause I cant name ONE. Here is 10 more cities in PA that are in dire poverty he 35 poorest towns in Pennsylvania 1. Indiana Borough. 2. Lock Haven. 3. Clarion Township.4. Duquesne. 6. Briar Creek. 5. Chester. . 6Johnstown. . 7 Mount Oliver. . 8) York City. 9. Clarion Borough. 10. Arnold City. 11/ ALLENTOWN.
Haha what dose Charliebo drive ??
Correcao. Que ! Mundo! Corregindo duas palavras charlie pra voce ver charlie como meu idioma e dificil ne amigos ninguem e perfeito so deus ok observa boa noite quero ver voce indo a costa rica amigo no futuro pais chuvoso boa sorte good night
Go to Hudson Street
Come well armed or leave in a bodybag
Unbelievable
Also Reading doesn’t look bad at all.
Go there and youll change your mind
@@coalregionrider6525 Also went to Philly and this town is nothing.
Reading is not bad? Are you from the middle East?
@@monk4ever But by the looks it’s still heaven compared with Oakland.
@@monk4ever lol I hear that Baghdad is nice this time of year
It's a beautiful place though
New bar hours 5 pm to 9 pm
Its winter there now Everyone is still sleeping go when its warm out the guns just rang out this past weekend.
Meu sonho ir para os estados unidos
Reading will take you in with open arms
Personnally, I could live here cleaner.
And then there's the no azzzzzz zone
Maybe everybody here is reading a book about Donald Trump!!
Democrats are the ones that created these hellholes. If anyone should be "reading a book about Donald Trump", it's you.
Yeah, in Spanish
@@Penn2327what’s wrong about reading it in Spanish
Nothing but flats alley
Ohhhhhhhhh breakout city
Watch out 4 the I got what you need girls there's only 1
Horrible depressing place. I would just keep on driving..
there is one element most common in these "hoods" you go to, and it ain't poverty.
Actually Reading, PA has much less vioIent crime than the most vioIent, murderous areas in the U.S. because Reading, PA is majority hispanlc unIike the most vioIent areas which are ALL majority bIack.
Even so, the fact remains that the safest areas in the U.S. are ALL predominateIy whlte areas.
At ome time there was white people in reading. 50 some years ago
Corrupt politicians. Love d sheeples
Absolutely
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bro east coast is depressing asf!!! LOL!!!
Midwest is
Boa noite charlie como esta o canal no mundo ta bem ta good ok porque vejo muitos querendo amigo do you tub e tem wue ser bom e vejo que o senhor leva jeito a tempo seria bom legal e poder ate ir em outros paises contrys conhecendo mais e possibilitando a outras culturas e importante no kundo atual turbulento pense amigos mais paises tente visitar ja vi varios videos seus no mexico tente ir na africa do sul ok honduras e outros ok boa noite
Look like Pittsburgh
similar narrow corridor type streets as Pitt & Philly yes, and of course the old row homes. Even a little mountain right next to it too.
а где там веселое что то ?
Death row street no azzzz zone
I AM FROM OF BRAZIL PERNAMBUCO GRAVATÁ
Greetings from Detroit
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Acho que o senhor ja esta vivendo disto ja alguns? Anos vejo voce fazendo muitos videos ok felicidades e exitos nas empreitadas da vida of lafi good night bay bay thau eua
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Bro reading trash ain't shi to do out here