What The Hell Happened To Austin?? I Went To Find Out.
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Are we seeing the decline of America right before our eyes?
I spent 5 days in Austin, Texas to report back on what is happening on the ground there. It's not pretty. But there's hope!
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Here's the link to the original Austin homeless video I produced when we were here. It's CRAZY! ua-cam.com/video/anV40accHfo/v-deo.html
My parents and I moved there in 1976 when I was 9 years old, lived there from 1976 to 2017 with a 2 year break when I lived in Georgetown, Texas. It's definitely not the city it used to be. I got priced out in 2017 and moved to a much less expensive Texas city to the north. If anyone actually wants to move to the Austin area I would recommend Georgetown, Belton or Temple. They don't defund their police departments and then have to rely on the state police (DPS) to control crime like Austin did. PS: Love the channel. keep up the good work ! : )
The California transplants ruined Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, etc.!
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@@PatrickCole-md9bu Gotta work really hard and non-stop to keep them from gaining power. And work extra hard to defeat them in Arizona!
@@johnbartholf777 People need to get off their lazy butts and vote against their crazy leftwing looney chit.
California happened to Austin; the same thing that happened to Oregon and Washington state.
and Colorado.
@@JK-ld8cd They began devastating Colorado in the 90s. Now it's a complete sh*thole.
And generalization happens to people that comment and don't want to look at the details.
Yup
NJ MASS HI CONN IL...? Marixist demorats.
As a fellow Texan from Houston. I frequently visit Austin for work. The city has gone downhill. Nothing like it used to be. And its all political.
houston has worse crime.
As a fellow Texan from the Plano area, we are eternally gratefully for the people of Austin and their liberalism. Because of their lax laws and support of illegal substance use, the riff raffs in our area have almost all moved to Austin.
To put it another way, Plano is our house and Austin is the roach trap.
If you're from Houston and think Austin's bad then that really makes a strong statemnt lmao
As a fellow former Houstonian, Houston has gone to hell equally. I used to live on the west side not far from 6/memorial. Places around there have gotten so sketchy but so many areas have gone to shit there.
@stevenetram Houston has always had bad crime and it got much worse after the Katrina refugees.
What is Austin's excuse? They went from one of the best small or mid-sized cities in the country to a complete shithole in a decade.
Nick I'm 57 years old I'm bedridden I'm in a nursing home and I enjoy your videos very thoroughly it's the only thing that allows me to escape this hell that I'm living in thank you so much keep up the great work
Why are you bedridden so young?
I happy you enjoy them😮
Sorry your going through a rough time. May God help and bless you
You are not missing much. Biden is our president and the world is about to end.
@@dominysynclairI’m 44 mostly bedridden since 22 it happens.
Tokyo had 30 million people when my husband lived there. The streets were clean. There weren't homeless living on the streets. No crack houses. If you stole something they prosecuted you.
It doesn't have to do with the number of people. It has to do with the kind of people running things.
Diversity is our strength
Japan is a Homogeneous culture they care about each other! America is exactly the OPPOSITE!!!!
It's the culture. It's the people
Yes, and they want to ruin that, too
@@georgehigh4723it's also modern libs putting ideals over realism
I say modern, because I was moderate left before covid
After covid they lost the plot
The citizens of Austin are getting exactly what they voted for. I left in 1999 - good riddance!
TX as a whole is getting what it votes for. It's not relegated to Austin.
Yeah, it is. I lived in Austin for awhile in the past. It was wild but not nearly as trashed as it is now. I blame the one's in charge.
I don't blame the way ppl vote, All these politicians are great liars!! When any of them campaign they sound great, they get in office, power goes to their heads. They get bribed by lobbiests, opposed by fellow politicians n who knows what else n there we have it. They don't care what they promised, they just give into the ppl with the biggest wallets 😢
Have you noticed that most of the trashy cities are run by democrats? It has everything to do with politics@@orlando198200
Yes, it is politics, get a clue, here in California. The liberal communist voted in proposition 47 allowing theft of up to $950 to be charged as a misdemeanor. And then voting in liberal DAs who will not prosecute misdemeanors also, no bail, then proposition 47 also made most drug possession a misdemeanor. This was voted in the leaders who overtax us were voted in voting is politics.
We never had a homeless problem in Australia. Now we have homeless everywhere as our government brings in thousands of migrants a day.
WEF
Man, sorry to hear that. Government is importing poverty and misery over seas that should keep the garbage away. Germany, France and the UK are like that at present. Oz will lose its soul and it’s deliberate. Sad.
I live in Melbourne Vic mate , around 5 mill. Austin has around 1.2 mill. Couldn’t show you an area in Melb that looks anything like the shiteholes of US cities. Definitely agree the Aust Govt is weak and fugged up ,immigration way to high ,but absolutely no comparison. The only comparison I have seen to the US is the Aust outback towns with high Aboriginal populations and that’s a fact , seriously high crime rates ,rubbish ,car wrecks,drunks everywhere ,rough sleepers ,burnt out houses ,like it or not .
This is the post covid world we live in. Sadly conspiracy has become fact. What will we do about it?
Government has ruined our country, they should pay a huge penalty & get canned. It's nuts that we have senators 80+ yrs old still in office who should be forced to retire. I bet they all take naps @ work, long lunches bcuz they chew too slow, walk too slow, 4get where their going, 4get why their walking while sum of them have to wear depends. I bet Diane Feinstein 4 sure, she's like 92 gimme a break! She farts dust in the wind & don't even know it probably thinking "Boy it's sure windy out here!" 👩🦽💨🤤
Native Texan, been living in Austin since the 80s. It stopped being weird around 1994. Its a cesspool. I go to Kyle or Roundrock when I want to go to Texas. Austin is not Texas. I am always carrying a firearm. Police response is over an hour. 911 is not answered. On a good note my home value went uo 480%. I bought in the 90s.
Sell that house what are u waiting for sir
I lived in Austin in the late 80s. Incredible city. The economy was terrible so when the company where I worked went out of business, most of us had to leave Austin to find work. Many tearful goodbye dinners. Sad to see what’s happening there.
I can't help but notice that no matter how bad an area is, it seems like everyone has a newer car than mine
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Yea,on payments
@@johnjaco5544 or just a lease- and people riding in Ubers and such.
Ikr. But half of them waiting on the repo ppl
those car loans are serious😂
I'm afraid that we're going to see a lot of "What the hell happened" in 2024. Current economy and drug addiction are bringing the U.S. down to a stealthy type of depression that only rich people can endure. And, the rich keep getting rich, while the poor keep getting poorer. The frog is beginning to boil and it doesn't know it.
I totally agree with the boiling frog analogy.
The current economy is actually better than it's been for the last several years. Regarding drugs, what stat are you referring to?
Even the rich doesnt want to endure. Soon the poor stops buying what the rich is selling ans the rich become poor too!
@@LokiDWolfThe economy is NOT doing better when you factor in the rise in prices due to inflation. People have less than they did before. Just because the rise in inflation went down doesn’t mean prices dropped.
@@LokiDWolfnice lie dude
I see the Austin city council gave themselves a 40% raise back in 2022. Council person makes $116,000 a year. Not a bad gig considering you don't have to do much.
city govt. has big deficit due to pension obligations
Love your work!! Got banned for 6 days on Facebook for trying to share this video!
What grounds could that be based upon?!
@@Cycology_Majorpropaganda and lies
@@texanalways7325you must be one of these Affluent White Female Liberals!!
@@Cycology_Major If you’re not advancing The Message you’ll get banned quickly. This is why I’m no longer on FB.
I’m from Portland. I was hoping to escape this just to find out it’s the same mess in Austin. Austin please don’t encourage this life style like they did in Portland! It’s a sure sign your city is in decline.
It's a literal free for all. 😂 They need to legalize weed.
It will never be like portland.. period.. close.. but never like portland.
💩☠
I'm sure you helped to break Portland. Stay.
Don’t vote Democrat
Lived in San Antonio when I was a kid (1968-1971), and when my grandparents came to visit, we took a day trip to Austin. It was a beautiful place back then. We also took a day trip to Laredo, Mexico. Mexico in 1968 was a lot cleaner than Austin in 2023. Place looks like the worst parts of the third world. Karachi, Pakistan, Damascus, Syria and Amman, Jordan have abject poverty, but you wouldn’t see drugged out zombies and freaks passed out on the sidewalks there. Their poor at least hold on to their dignity. Can’t say that about Austin. Nick’s photojournalism shows the truth we’d never see on network or cable news.
That is right about third-world countries. I live in India. I'm about to lease a property east of Gājiyābād (east of Delhi) to build a house on. The problem is, it's trashed out. Soil needs to be dug down to about 1.5 feet to get the layers of trash out, test the soil, and then backfill the property with fresh dirt and packed down to bring the level up about 3 feet above the present level, to be level with the street so people can turn into the mini-subdivision (row of 8 houses, 4 on each side, and I'm taking one of them). But you are right. You will not find such people. The people you see on the streets are sleeping, but not drunk or passed out. Gujarāt state is a dry state, where you will not see alcoholics roaming about. You might in other states, but it's rare. The people may be poor, but they understand that it's their karma for something that happened in previous lives and find ways to bear it and get out somehow. And they have their spiritual path to help with this. This is particularly true for poor farmers. They can be the nicest, most accommodating people around. I'm here in India to help change that, to make opportunities available in a way not possible through corporations.
Go to Seattle if you haven’t been in a few years democrats have made it a real shyt hole. Lived up there for 13 years it’s unrecognizable now trash everywhere and these are the same people that will scream “the environment “ as they destroy it and cram green new deal (scam ) down our throats.
Texas was pretty nice back in the 70'-80's, Houston, Austin no problem. I had to move after the oilfield collapsed and ended up in Florida running heavy equipment for 40 yrs. Now the snowbirds and mass migration here has ruint Fl' and i'm moving to northeast Texas for my last years. My family lives there.
Now I see why my niece and her family are moving from Austin to South Dakota!!
We considered so ourselves, but maybe one day Texas can be independent and we can clean the place back up.
Don’t Austin my South Dakota 😂
I lived there in 1980-1986 when it was the GREATEST town. ALL cities are riddled with homelessness in the US, and it's not going to get any better in our lifetime.
It's incredible watching the very distinct patterns of social decay infect the U.S. - and indeed so many other cities in the world, including my own.
I stay away also.
Thank a Democrat. And YES Austin is run by Democrats even though it’s Texas so is Dallas , San Antonio and Houston all run by Rats. Moved out of there 10 years ago to the free state of Florida . Nice and clean here don’t see this crap Thank you Desantis!
Now a lot of Dems have quit because Desantis, starting Jan 1 2024 put new law in effect ALL elected officials have to disclose every $1000 in assets . Brilliant !
And my own
I’ll tell you how it happen once each country established itself. They should have closed the doors and implemented the strictest immigration and border patrol ever. Because once everyone there already assimilated to each countries say of life. If you let new immigrants in they will just destroy what was built.
I lived and worked in Austin for 20+ years and watched the city change into a place I no longer wanted to be in and decided it was time to leave. The city has changed so much it is unrecognizable from what it used to be. Austin could be any big city in the world with no character.
May I ask where you went? I live in San Antonio, where crime is getting really bad. There are some good little cities around us, though.
I moved to Lexington about an hour east of Austin, a very small town. It took me awhile to adjust to living in such a small town having been used to stores, restaurants and places to go but I am now retired and glad to be in a quiet town with a slower pace.
@@sherrieatkinson5410 sounds amazing, like you found a little piece of heaven!
feel the same about dallas
I am one of those people who moved to Austin from California and I love Austin and feel it has a lot of character and culture I just think it sucks those who were here originally like yourself don't like what it's turning into :/
GOOD video!! I saw more journalism in this video then CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and NBC do in a month!!
I'm 53. Just to offer a bit of life advice, gleaned from observation and personal experience, is to never live anywhere that's going to get "discovered", even if it means moving to the most remote town in the country. Someplace away from a f*cking "corridor."
The open carry law is a huge advantage to Austin. You dont have to be the victim of a random street beatdown.
Open carry is so dumb.
@@OtisFlintActually it's a deterrent for dumb.
@@rse4379 NOPE
@@andretobias2439 Let me guess, you don't believe in guns.
That hasn't seem to help all the suspicious deaths surrounding Lady Bird Lake and the downtown area.
This too heartbreaking. What happened. Is our country in decline everywhere?
Almost. The strong Republican cities are mostly ok.
Small towns are the only hope! And please no one come to mine! It is growing and we don’t want it to!
only Democrat ran city working on collapsing America
WEF push of destruction of all but the elites.
@@QueenB572 Where exactly do you live? LOL
Every time I think about moving somewhere the first place I go to is this channel.
Sorry to ruin things 😢
And then we defer our move even further down the road… 🫣😩
Moved to Austin in early 60's. Grew up h stayed in the same neighborhood till 94 when we moved. Am in tears whenever I see that neighborhood now. Only visit on Google Maps.
Deregulation. Don't forget the people living in cars. Incapable of providing an economy that houses people. Corruption.
People living in cars are counted homeless by the US census. And deregulation? how come the most regulated states like california have the highest homelessness per capita in the US then? 🤣
Jesus Nick. GREAT JOB brother. This is next level gonzo journalism that is needed. You're elevating your craft with this series.
I almost moved to Austin 10 years ago. Back then it was good. But my husband didn’t like it so we didn’t move. Hope Austin can be saved. ❤
The United States has become a different place. It's so sad Nick. Its happening here in Omaha now too...
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It's Austin, California! I live in Los Angeles County right on the border of OC, and I go to Texas for 1-2 weeks every month. It's the same dang thing. I'm a conservative looking to leave California. The 4 major metro areas in Texas are the most depressing thing. Big cities are big cities with liberalism eating away from the city center outward.
Relocating to Florida is the best thing we ever did! I miss home but I’ll never step foot in California again. It’s too far gone 😢
@@theartistcherrypi6454 good for you getting out of here. I love the people in Florida. I get so depressed when coming back here. My family and I are PO'ed at being pushed out of our home state.
@@meandub How long will you stick it out?
From what I read in the news periodically it doesn’t seem the voters there want change or any improvement given they couldn’t even recall Newsome. I wish everyone in that state had the ability and means to see how much better and normal the rest of the US is once you escape from there.
Well, at least some other parts of the US but definitely not all.
Will you stay there indefinitely?
It’s really sad because all of my family is still there but they refuse to leave. My last trip home right before COVID I almost cried driving around seeing the destruction and decay. It was surreal! At that point I had been gone for years but the difference in how it was when I left vs the tent cities and shanty towns in formerly prestigious and upper middle class areas was jarring.
I was so heartbroken seeing my hometown in such a dystopian state. I asked my family what happened since I left but they just shrugged their shoulders like nothing was wrong. It makes no sense to me that they seem to have accepted abnormal as their new normal.
You could not pay me millions of dollars to move back there to any city in that entire state.
Central Florida is the best move I ever made and my only regret is that I didn’t come here sooner.
Please move to the oc and vote red. We need you
Fort Worth is a big city run with right leaning politicians, move there
California happened to Austin. Sadly Austin is a case for what happens when you try to be the most liberal city ( Austin) and most liberal county( Travis) in Texas. You're spot on that Austin is barely Texas now.
lol Republican ran state, I think the governor is in charge of the whole state, low taxes and low wage that’s the great state of Texas 😂
@orlando198200 Austin and Travis County are so Leftist that they are barely Southern and barely Texan.
@@Staywoke7909- WRONG. The cities have their own governments. Austin, like Houston, is a progressive liberal run city.
@orlando198200 yes but the major influx of a very trashy element of CA has been a relative recent phenomenon...past 20 years maybe and it's caught up with the city.
@@Staywoke7909Wages aren’t low adjusting for cost of living, California has super low wages adjusting for cost of living. The region with the highest purchasing power in the US are Midwestern and Rocky mountain states (mainly utah). The south is not bad but has a couple rich states next to literal impoverished deep south states.
I love the cats that come and join in on the interviews. Great video, so sad to see what’s become of Austin.
The hepcats haha
I live in Austin and it is my hometown. Part of the solution is to quit voting Democrat.
My daughter lives in Austin and in 2020 she had to move from her apt. To an expensive gated apt. Because she didnt feel safe -- bums, homeless and mentally ill sleeping in bus stops, park benches, hanging out in the alleys, etc. Im hoping she can move away at some point.
As European I wonder what is the plan and why so many Americans want this decline and absurd mixing, uncontrolled migration, legalized crime etc. - maybe that is the reason to make people to pay for closed/gated communities?
@@Saeglopur89We don’t we’ve been complaining about this for years. The uneducated didn’t realize what they were doing we told them. I’m gonna tell you a secret it’s the 1st gen even 2nd gen immigrants that have coddled the illegals making it a horror story. Those of us here 200 years plus we are true Americans it’s not us who wanted this. And the blk Americans were too busy with the race war now they are complaining but probably too late.
This is some of the worst writing I've read. I would suggest taking a writing course,
Austin has been ruined for several years and it’s only going to get worse
I got the hell out of Oregon and moved to beautiful pro America San Antonio Texas and love it. I was sent to Austin to deliver a building and HOLY $hit... it was like I teleported to Hawthorne District in Portland. BLM, rainbow signs and Biden signs adorned yards and miserable people barely greeted me. I find the pro Tolerance Libs to be the most pretentious and unfriendly people around. I love the genuinely kind and courteous Texas culture.
I am a native Texan. The crime is the main reason I do not go to Austin. There is no such place as nice hoods in Austin
Another problem in Austin is all the unsolved, suspicious deaths around Lady Bird Lake and the downtown area.
Yeah hella guys. I think it’s a sheriff due to all the police cover ups and they called a guy with duck tape on his entire face and hands and feet a suicide?! Lol how is that even possible? Did he walk 5 miles n jump in? Lol definitely still some ghb druggies that do it to rob people. Often they give people too much. I tripped on how often it happened
Romeo Rose is the Rainey Street Ripper
They dont care about crime its a liberal city. Great place for serial killers they want to defund the police and this is what happens
@veronatragedy7016 they know who was killing people?
@@bellasue02 Verona Tragedy is ‘Romeo Rose’, an ATX laughingstock & ‘has been’ of 10 yrs ago trying to craft another 15 min’s of fame for himself, once again.
I lived in Boulder, Colorado and the similarities between Austin and Boulder are striking.
It's like this in all the major cities. The Leftists are going to use these cities to spread this destruction out into the surrounding communities. Kinda like FOBs (forward operating bases), and I'm pretty sure we're just going to sit around and let it happen.
I find Boulder much more comparable to Ann Arbor in my limited time spent at both cities. Highly upscale college towns that are part of a major metro but just far enough away to be its own thing.
Wow, I haven’t been back Austin Texas in almost 2 decades with those new skyscrapers. It’s looking more like Miami in Texas.
Before COVID, I used to visit Austin for work and fun. It was the place to be and the nightlife was incredible and somewhat safe. Plus it was cheaper than anywhere else I went. Especially where I live, it was a relief to be somewhere that wasn't hectic and dangerous. Now it's like similar to San Francisco, dangerous, expensive, and corrupt. What's the point of moving away from whatever city you're in if you're gonna have the same experience there. Sure gas is cheaper but everything else just feels unsafe and not great to look at.
Nick, this is such a masterpiece. I HAVE lived here for 28 years, and it was such a beautiful place until all the unplanned, unregulated growth has done exactly what you portray here (actually worse). I live in a so called "good part of town" and I don't feel safe after numerous close calls and no police. Shameful. So appreciate you telling the truth and got with good sources for information. I love the lad speaking about our local politics, I'd love to meet her.
Agreed. Great video on Austin. Sums it up very well. I lived there from 2009-2021. My family and I really enjoyed it for the first 5 years. But it recent years the homeless and affordability really became bad. Glad to be out of there!
But most of you in USA want this and voted for that, I'm trying to understand as European what are the reasons? Years and years and it progresses to more and more cities, you even export those ideas to the rest of the world which is worst thing. But why? To make people pay for closed/gated places?
@@Saeglopur89- not everyone in the U.S. is clueless. Only progressives.
@@Saeglopur89 It’s almost impossible to find any American in comments who doesn’t identify ONLY with the far right or far left parties. Too many important issues should be considered individually, by Moderates, yet we here have little to no choice about who to vote for. Texans constantly blame Democrats for excess growth & California problems yet Republicans rule the state -& especially business law.
I wonder how many people know that voting for other offices is just as important as voting for Mayor.
I first went to Austin to visit friends back in '83 and had a great time. To me, it felt like the Emerald City of OZ, and I couldn't wait to go back. However, when I went back in '89, you could tell that the whole vibe of the place had started to change, and the cracks were starting to show. It was bigger, dirtier and not as much fun. It was still better then than it appears to be now, but, if you were paying attention, you could see where things were headed.
Much respect to the officer you interviewed. 👏🎯💯🤓👍🇺🇸
Never been to a Walmart that keeps men undergarments in a locked glass case, until I went to the one alongside I-35 in north Round Rock, Texas. Theft in this store is horrendous the workers tell me.
Thats funny 😂 f Walmart lol 😂
Sounds like Houston 3 dollar after shave under lock and key.
It's heartbreaking. I'm native Texan, live in the burbs of another major Tx metro and my goal through my 20/30s was to someday relocate to the Austin area. Not anymore. It's been ruined.
Same here. It’s not happening now or ever; it’s past. I’m looking into an entirely different region now.
Don't let this video scare you because it's trying to and being deceptive. Austin has less homeless and safer than the other big cities in Texas.
Austin looks to be a 15 minute city.. in the making
I was born in Houston, grew up in Austin. Not sure what happened. In the early 2000's the realtors and glossy magazines all started pushing Austin as the place to be. And they flocked there. It was quickly ruined and downhill ever since. I left in 2013 and dont even like to visit there. Its a mess.
That’s what happen to LA alone with illegal im migration we are worse then ever.
The last few years, I've been hearing that Austin is just ten years away from being the next Portland. Hopefully they can continue gaining a little more control back so that doesn't happen! Refunding the police is a good start. I believe in you, Austin!
‘Refunding’ isn’t the opposite of defunding, hon’. But I know you don’t mean ‘give them back their money’, lol
Imported leftists & thousands of illegals won't allow that.
Even when I lived in Austin for 5 years back in the 1980's, Austin was more expensive than other cities in Texas to live in. Traffic was bad back then too. Looks like things have just gotten worse. I live just 75-80 miles from Austin now but haven't been back there since 2010. Started seeing the downward trend back then with homeless people everywhere.
Californication!
I am so thankful that my son left there after living in California for 13 years. Not for Texas but to southern Illinois. Sorry not much better…. But he now owns a home!
I visited Austin in 2016 and we found many homeless people close to the downtown area.
It looked very dirty to say the least
As a Dallasite that has visited Austin now and then for many years, I can attest to the accuracy of this video. Austin in the 80's and 90's was a very vibrant. energetic place that I loved to visit. When I visited in the 80's and 90's, I saw very few homeless bums. Now they're all over the place. Even worse, there are a lot of jobs going unfilled because these people aren't willing to do what it takes to do them. They're hooked on drugs, think the world owes them a living and more, all of which employers frown upon, and refuse to realize it's killing them. Sadly, this stuff isn't limited to Austin, it's all over Texas. :(
I lived east of Dallas off and on in the 1980s at Lake Tawakoni and worked construction in Dallas. Was able to meet Stevie & Jimmie Vaughan & Dimebag Darrell and see them play live there. The lake was a nice place back then. I went back to visit my sister in 2007. She had been forced to move into a gated community. Nice vacation homes had been destroyed by copper thieves. Obvious, dirty, skinny addicts were walking everywhere. Strange people approached us in the area saying, "Got any scrap metal junk you need hauled off? Can I come look around just to be sure? I can mow your yard!" Desperation!
I was thinking of living there and starting a tourist related business targeted at campers and fishermen. I loaded my stuff back up and got out of there quick! I`m in the Louisiana woods now. Got me a travel trailer. I got emergency solar power, made a vegetable garden, and started planting fruit trees and berries. I have a creek to fish in and have made a few animal friends. Peaceful. Quiet. Security cameras and alarms. It`s bad now everywhere. People have no hope!
Time for Governor Abbott to enforce the rule of law and not have city halls subvert them.
I live in Austin and from Dallas, Dallas has plenty of homeless maybe more than Austin. So Dallas has gone down hill. I think not. Nick is just exploiting these people for profit. Homeless is a hard nut to crack. The state had a big hand in it when they shut down many state mental hospitals. So now they are all on the street. It also doesn't help that many smaller towns bus their homeless to the bigger cities.
@@BTSloan70- most states shut down their mental health hispitals. Look at California as just one example.
Just because the houses aren’t falling apart and people take care of their yard and property doesn’t necessarily mean that place is safe. Sometimes that’s where the worst crime happens. If the locals say don’t go there.. you probably shouldn’t
Crime, drugs and homelessness yet there is no shortage of vehicles parked in gardens and verges.
Hey thanks for coming to the city Nick a huge fan of your UA-cam channel
Please never stop making your videos! I feel like this gives me the opportunity to see and learn about people, places, and things from such a unique perspective!
Haha I'll try Cathy
Austin doesn't have a homeless problem. Austin has a drug problem.
This catchphrase is worn out. The ATX has BOTH problems.
Your sass is objectively funny, it penetrates and resonates 💜
California moved here. Thats what happened to Austin.
Went to Austin 10-12 years ago. Went back last year and I could not believe it. The difference was crazy. I can't understand why the residents are ok with this
Mass mind control.
We're not which is why we're all leaving. After 42 years born and raised here I'm moving to Killeen in a couple weeks.
Such a shame. I lived in Austin back in 2005 and it was very different.
Same here with Portland. I lived there 2006-2010 and coming from Philly, I was very impressed. Portland was goofball for sure, but clean and safe and pleasant. Thank God I saw the writing on the wall - Ron Jeremy opened a sex club - and I just knew it was time to leave. Now look at it 🤮
Your videos are looking very professional,you are getting so good Mr San Bernardino. Been following you all over the US. Keep up the good work.
Ok James
Great video! I’ve been living here in Austin since 2001. God bless the police officer you interviewed. Just last year In my neighborhood right down the street from me 4 people including a swat officer was killed. I agree with what he said about people being disconnected from reality. Things can be turned around, poor leadership! There is no perfect place to live, but I never imagined Austin would get this bad! It’s headed fast to becoming a weird shithole! At least the tacos and BBQ are good! Oh and HEB is the best! ❤
A family member killed them. He was mentally ill. Happens all over America because....easy access to guns
It is NOT a homeless problem, but a drug problem.!!!
No, when you give people money for nothing, this happens.
NO, it's a political problem. They are doing it intentionally to every state in this country. When America falls the rest of the world will, then the globalists can rule.
and where do the drugs come from? Cocaine... CIA via Peru and Bolivia. Fentanal... CIA via China Heroin... US military/CIA via Afghanistan. Sam Walton became so wealthy using his trucking company to bring into the country he was able to open all those Walmarts.
They have created addicts of all kinds. taken away jobs and it is all part of a planned destruction of America.
Along with mental health issues. And some are what they classify as "Dual diagnosis". Afflicted by BOTH. Some of it predisposed & some of it caused by early/ unresolved catastrophic trauma. Very SAD.
Drugs is the third highest reason but not number 1
I like her. She seems level headed and willing to work with anyone to fix Austin.
For real. Finally have seen an old school democrat that loves America and their community
I moved away from Austin 3 years ago, so sad to see the changes you described during and after Covid. Austin was such a great place before that. Moved outside of Las Vegas, I feel so much safer here. Ironically, the fact no one is trying to virtue signal here stops the issues you mentioned Austin has. We love our people in blue, and criminals are criminals here and will go to jail.
I went in april 2023 bad experience almost got attacked twice the same day by homeless drug addicts with my family and kids was really scary.
We considered moving to Austin around 2011-2012. So glad we didn’t. I miss the Austin of the 80’s. My sister in law has 40 acres out in the country and the toll road built around her property. She works in Buda and hardly goes into Austin unless she has to. She says it’s awful there.
It's a great place in some areas. Texas needs to legalize weed
AUSTIN TX. IS. TRASH. ALL. BEEN. 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽
I live in the next county over from Austin. Never want to go any where near that place. Got everything I need where I'm at, except for the airport.
Great coverage Nick. I have been in Walmart a few times here in North Texas late at night and it was kind of scary. I felt like i was in another country. I was getting hard looks from some of the males and i felt threatened. That was back around 2008, so i know it has to be worst now. I will never do that again.
Thankfully I've never had to try this, my brother has told me if the need raises to act crazy. Talk to myself bite myself talk to my imaginary friend. He says if most ppl think you're nuts they will leave you alone 😅
Sounds like it might work.@@mariacherrington61920
@@mariacherrington61920😂😂😂
What really amazes me is that it's happening in all western world - try to walk in some German or Swedish cities. Absurd amounts of brown people from Africa and Middle East, extreme crime spiking to absurd levels. Now even in central and eastern Europe - 23% of crime now in my country comited by immigrants while 10 years ago it was ZERO
@mariacherrington61920 People used to do it all the time in NYC.
a mighty good show, mr. johnson. thank you!
I’m from California and I had two friends that left California and moved to Austin. We didn’t really talk politics but I know they had low morals. Both of them liked to do drugs and dated guys that were gang members and sold drugs. Both of them left California and headed to Austin because they said it was a fun city and low cost of living. Last I heard was that one of them became a single mom. I wouldn’t be surprised if both vote Democrat.
From the sound of it, I doubt either votes at all…
Too bad to see Austin go this way. I visited Austin in the 90s and liked it back then.
Yep, Austin's a "Utopia" alright... thanks Nick for once again showing us what's REALLY going on in these cities.
I remember the broken spoke being out in the middle of nowhere. How Austin has changed. I was born and raised there till I was 35, then moved away. Now I'm 51. It's nothing like it used to be.
I was In Austin in 2013. Even then, there were people shooting up on 6th Street, in full view of cops.
Like Seattle, Austin was a place I expected to really like, and found disappointing.
Great reporting on an AWFL situation. I went to UT-Austin in the 1980's and was baptized in the University Baptist Church on Guadalupe Street. I'm so sad to see what has happened to the city in the past couple of decades. We are seeing the willful destruction of the nation by an ideology of willful ignorance.
Sadly I think the same thing has happened everywhere in this country... All of our politicians are idiots!!! Not a single one of them in either party is in touch with the common person.
Politicians only understand ppl who make at least a million dollars a year, and that's not the majority of us.😢
Nick Im so grateful for all your hard work on these videos ❤
To all of us: all we can do is keep on swimming. Much love my brothers n sisters ❤
"All of our politicians are idiots!!" You are still not getting it. This is all being done on purpose. They are not idiots, they are being paid to gaslight you and ignore whats going on, and making you believe they are idiots so they can continue to do the same. How can people not see this for themselves?
Jeff poliiceman speaks truth! 52min until end.
Of course a liberal rag like the Chronical would blame Musk for Austin's downfall. But the quality of life there had taken a nose dive long before Elon had been heard of. The truth is, Austin is too crowded and over priced. Lots of young people want to live there. They come and play, advance their careers then bounce off some place else when it's time to have a home and family. The Hubster and I boogied out of there last year and haven't shed any tears .
I lived in Austin for 18 years and loved it. Moved out 2 years ago and I’m so glad I did. It is just like LA now. I like Converse just outside of San Antonio. 💪🏽🤠👍🏽
I just said that
Converse is a dump but cheap
I am a Texan and I avoid Austin always.
I avoid just about all the major cities. Occasionally I'll go to Galveston or San Antonio.
@@rse4379How’s San Antonio these days? I lived there as a kid when my Dad was assigned to Ft. Sam Houston in ‘68-‘71. Fond memories of SA, but I’m sure it’s gone now.
@@brinsonharris9816 Honestly I spend most of my time near the Riverwalk area, which is great as you know. Like any other city, it has its rough patches to stay clear from.
@@rse4379Nothing like this I hope.
@@brinsonharris9816 Its been a little while sense I was last there. So not sure if it has progressed to this point. Sadly, this seems to be a problem accross the entire country.
I like the way she thinks! God bless America
When the justice system is broken no matter how many police you put on the streets criminals will just kip doing what they do best knowing they will be back out on the streets things just kip going down from there
It reminds me of Southern California where I was born and raised. It was awesome when I grew up but now, it's disgusting. So happy I moved to Texas in 1986.
A once great country that was admired around the world is now in rapid decline.
“The country I was brought in fell apart and died”. Chicago,
I don't think the US was ever admired around the world lol.
Great video every time! I love your sense of humor. Thank you!
Austin really isn't that radically left compared to most coastal cities. And it's expensive because it's popular, not because of politics. Every city has a homelessness problem. I've been here for 5 years and I love it.
Went back to Austin to visit after moving away 11 years ago. It was horrible. Took friends who had never been to South Congress, left after 30 minutes. Even Lake Travis lost its charm. NOTHING in the city is like it used to be. No longer cool and unique. It's boring and gross. They're also tearing up 360 and making the hills look uglier for massive buildings.
The lady talking at 49:00 doesn't seem to want to mention the OPEN BORDER for the crime problems. Glosses over that entirely.
Immigrants aren't the only ones committing crimes in TX.
Right! The crime footage i see on u tube looks like they all just swam over from the gambia. Close the border already
yep, she's not gonna talk about that.
Thanks to you for making this video. Thanks so much to the police officer and the lady business owner for speaking out. Both very articulate and reasoned. It’s hard to get the socialists/marxists out when there’s millions of dollars invested in getting them elected and keeping them there. No local candidate can compete with that. And yes thanks to Gov Abbott. For doing what he can on a state level. Perhaps some legislation about campaign funding should be considered.
This is what happens when you vote with emotion instead of logic.
The local government in Austin is way too extreme left.
Who in there right mind would get rid of the police
Dumbed down liberals, that’s who!
No one has. However, If you bother to Google it you will find that many cities in the US are having difficulty hiring and keeping officers on the street.
It didn't happen. Look at the budget by year. These cops are insane.
that sign in the beginning said $15k sign on bonus for cops. They seem desperate to get them back.
Lefties
I went to UT and lived in Austin almost 5 years. This breaks my heart! Our governor is handing our state over to businesses. I live in the DFW area now, and it's getting bad here, too. It's all about businesses and not about the people. I wish California would stay in California. Rainey Street was not even a thing when I was there in the early '00s. It was a neighborhood no one went to.
I tried to tell people for years he's a rino, he doesn't care about Texas, & he's as crooked as Biden. Right now people calling him a hero makes me sick. He could have stopped illegals flooding in years ago, lied he'd done all he could. There's an entire city called Colony Ridge of nothing but illegals- who BOUGHT their homes with illegal funding- built by Abbott donors. Texas is going blue and he's directly responsible. People are so lazy they won't look at what he DOES, they just listen to him brag & buy all of it.
I'm from Australia and don't understand suburbs/ neighbourhoods you can't go too.
Giant corporations in league with government Mussalini corporatism rather than old fashioned mom & pop businesses. True Facisim at top levels. Including the head lock on insurances gov requirements for licenses for just about everything. Inflation cannot happen without government overspending EVER.
Governor Abbott managed to get the legislature to pass a new law to stop the homeless encampment in Austin. The streets in Austin is NOTHING like Seattle, L.A., Portland homelessness problem. I dislike Austin as a real Texan, however as you say even the bad areas aren't that bad. GOVERNOR ABBOTT forced them to refund their police.
Thank you. this a most jumping up point for this video.
Politicians happened. Out of control egos and greed.
There are people in every city that are waiting…waiting…to do their part.
It’s almost time
Greed in general 💔
No morals. No families. No relationships. Division.
I don't know what the hell this comment section is actually smoking but I want some, cuz apparently this whole entire comment section is just blaming the Democrats like homelessness wasn't a problem before the mass Exodus from California.
Nooo everybody's blaming the Californians.
Homelessness has existed but the method of living in public spaces did not. The support for engaging in drug use by the government was not. They say it is to help people survive but more people are dying by overdose now than they had prior to catering to them.
The democrats incentives more and more people to be homeless by paying them giving them phones and legalizing shitting in public. Yes it IS Democrat policies don't be salty
Probably the most accurate depiction I have seen. Truth!