...That one day, the population would divide the face of their reality all on one vertice I have a feeling that they'd do better with education since harsher climates require a ton of tenacity, They seem more divided than abandoned like the East cost or America.
I moved to CA back in 2016 and lived in Sacramento. Growing up in a rural east coast town, I was fooled by the media's portrayal of CA hence why I moved out there. It was one of the biggest events of disillusionment I have ever experienced in my life. California does have some beautiful places but the state is extremely overrated and full of problems. Californians have this weird stockholm syndrome like mindset where everyone just turns a blind eye to the problems and tries to pretend that it's not as bad as it seems. Needless to say, I got out of there and went back to my homestate last year. I feel like I caught the last chopper out of saigon.
This. I grew up in Sac Town. Friends still there want to argue with me that the state isn't a dumpster fire. "But national parks and growing produce." Okay buddy, keep on ignoring those homeless on your front lawn. As a natural enthusiasts, i concur that the region has some of the most spectacular geography in the world but that doesn’t change the levels of corruption in the government.
I've heard people call California the land of fruits and nuts. The INSANE gender ideology they are embracing is going to make it quite the freak show. The insanity in California has no limits.
@Sam Nishimoto Yes absolutely. I've heard there are still some good areas in California. I sincerely hope those good areas aren't ruined like the major cities such as Los Angeles.
I'm on the East Coast as well. The way movies and TV portrayed California Was always like a larger than life place. I toyed with the idea of moving out there years ago just because of the car culture and the weather. Thank God I never made that move.
@@jackburton4892 You are not the first to point this out. However point to a conviction or even an arrest of a poll worker whose action resulted in the change of the election result.
I am resident of Seattle and the crazy thing is I used to be left-of-center but the kind of leftism being preached and practiced here (and California) has moved me firmly to the right. And I am not alone. The circle of friends I hang around are were all solid Democrats (many of them are immigrants) who are now shocked at what's going on. Just today, I was at a party where one attendee told us that when he went to his car parked in front of his house, he saw a homeless guy chilling inside his car smoking "something". Upon seeing the car owner, he ran away. Apart from the car being a mess, a few items were missing. He went to file police report but officer declined to do anything because the value of stolen items was less than $900 and theft of $900 was legal. But it was not the monetary value my friend was concerned about. It was feeling of losing the sense of safety concern for himself and his family given that elected of officials no longer care about public safety. This is the brand of progressivism we are facing. Needless to say, my friend vowed to vote out current city officials in the next election even it meant electing a Republican.
My office is in Sacramento since 2004. What this city is turned out to be, is beyond imagination. And it is happening all over the Bay Area. Stop sending money abroad, help our people! Enough is enough.!
I'm born and raised in Sacramento and I used to think I was so lucky to have grown up there and never wanted to live anywhere else. Then about 20 years ago I started to really notice the changes. More crime, crazy traffic, higher prices. Then the problems got worse and worse and happened faster and faster. I moved to Arizona 4 years ago and have never regretted leaving. It's just mind-boggling to see these once nice neighborhoods turning to garbage dumps.
I live just north of Sacramento. My doctor is in Downtown Sacramento. It's so heartbreaking to see so many on the street. I have a friend like a sister that I've known since 1983. We met in the Sacramento Children's home. Now she is living in a cluster of bike parts and junk. I invited her over to my house but, she didn't want to leave her precious junk. I bring her clothes, boots, food and batteries. Trying to help her.The rats are huge and it's so cold. I worry about her but, I don't think she understands how dire her life is. I never thought she would end up on the streets. I want to leave California in a couple of years. It's never been like this in Sacramento. I hate the way it's become.
I am a Japanese living in Tokyo. As you know, there are many homeless people in Tokyo. I understand that it is not something that people from other countries should complain about. What is strange, however, is that among the things in the tents and trailer houses, there is an American flag. It is easy to dismiss this situation with the words "self-responsibility," but whether they display the flag out of irony, loyalty, or patriotism, I do not know the answer, but it is certainly one of their most prized possessions, and I feel that the flag makes it seem even more tragic.
Great series. Unfortunately, I don't see California getting any better with the current party leadership. I grew up as a young child in North Highlands and made many trips back from Ohio to visit my dad in Citrus Heights. I learned to ski on Folsom lake. Great memories of a better time for California. Sad to see the destruction.
I was born in L.A. in 1949, and grew up there. It was a great place to live. Skid row was small and inhabited by old broken men. We called them winos back then but that’s probably not polite these days. I watched as more and more out of state, down and outers moved in. It got so bad we had to move out of the state. That was about ten years ago and the wife and I are glad we moved. Best of luck to us all, from Portugal.
The state became a human junkyard. Other states (and nations) dumped their worst on California, or the worst from those places came out to California and ruined it. According to my elderly former neighbor there (she was born in 1908 and probably dead by now), it all started around the late ‘60s with LBJ’s “great new Society”, and with California’s “Open Door Policy”.
"good people are leaving, and lots of bad people are coming"....I'd say the state is getting exactly what it deserves. Bad policies make for bad living conditions and the residents of California keep voting for the same thing over and over. Good luck.
Everyone I know that has left California are FOX news watchers and Trumpster's- MAGA's. Which is fine by me, get out the hate!! Many homeless are funneled and bussed into California. Can't be homeless in the snow, bro! Our economy is rocking in California we need workers. Banks are behind people not being able to afford even rent and jacking up property prices!
I just left Southern California where I lived for 54 years, for N. Georgia. I was trying to figure out why my modest Georgia neighborhood has ZERO homeless when a basically identical hood in Riverside Ca. was loaded with it. I have concluded it is in large part because back here housing is super affordable. Even a druggie with no money can squeak by here because there are a ton of houses that have a lower level that is made into a couple of apartments. All hoses on all sides of me have little apartments in the lower level. Plus the mobile home parks here can exist as cheap, junky trailer parks. In California there are almost no houses with apartments in them and Mobile home parks are usually pretty decent because they make $. Even “trailer parks” are EXPENSIVE there. Also, the food bank situation here is epic. Free food is not hard to find. You can squeak by out of the reach of homelessness here. Lastly, because there are SO many Mexicans willing to live together in one house, they come up with the dough to buy or rent in So cal. Keeping the prices high. I love it here in the South East. . No graffiti, homelessness, clean air, water, trees. I love your channel Nick. You are so funny.
almost never touched upon is the influx of central american immigrants and their effect on local economies. I am an immigrant too. But I was priced out of a neighborhood near work partly because many of the affordable apartments were packed full of Latinos - the office for my building was run by latinos. Coinkeydink much? lol. The older retired and working class blacks were the worst affected as rents went up year after year - even with rent control. I remember reading about lawsuits in California brought by black Americans because of Spanish speaking discrimination. And finally as a waiter it was the worst. We used to have only a couple of bussers, all male, who worked their butts off to make us money because it made them money too. They built houses in their home countries it was that good. Now there are as many bussers as waiters if not more and almost 50% of the tip goes to the busser crew. Sometimes more if based on percentage of sales and not actual tips - terrible idea. And because there's a gaggle rather than one or two there's more socializing than bussing. I got out pre-pandemic from the waiting side and so glad I did. It has been the worst of two worlds this past twenty years. Rents soaring due to immigration and apartment/rental house packing and wages being depressed by immigration. The bosses and landlords are the worst people in society and I'm no Marxist by a long shot.
@@omi_god: If the millions of illegal immigrants were not here in California then millions of apartments and homes would become available for people here legally. THAT'S when the law of supply and demand would kick in to a great extent. Landlords and house sellers would have to lower prices in order to compete for the lower numbers of people needing shelter. Then people here legally can better afford the housing.
@@omi_god Supply and demand certainly exists, so arguing that it doesn't certainly discredits your argument (1.6 million people disappearing from a population of 39 million would most certainly make housing prices go down... and severely undercut several industries). I think your better argument wouldn't be to "blame the landlords" and essentially restrict residential houses to only be owned by the primary resident (thereby eliminating foreign investors, corporations, etc)... or perhaps I'm being obtuse and missing the whole point of a housing market.
Because the weather is nice most of the time. I live in New Jersey just outside of NYC. I don't see homelessness to this extent. It's because it's impossible to live rough year round here. The week before Christmas the temps dropped to zero at night. It's also not new that the homeless are rolling into states with mild weather. I have a friend who lived in Michigan back in 70s until his father lost his auto job, could not find another job and moved the family to Florida. When my friend asked his father why they were moving to Florida his father replied, "Because we're poor." My friend asked if they'd be just as poor in Florida his father replied, "Probably, but where would you rather be poor this January? Florida or Michigan?"
That's right, with the nice weather people come from all over, never ends,of course this winter is not a mild one.This can't go on forever, this group of people, politicians included,are so unworthy and blinded by Satan to act and live like the world just started the day they were born is sick minded,I want to outlive them so I can see California like it once was.
@@zLigHt44 See California how it once was? You mean like it was in the 1930s when all the Oakies showed up? The poor and hopeless have been coming to California in waves for decades. What's happening now is not new.
Born and raised in the Central Valley when it was a virtual Garden of Eden full of agriculture. So sad to see the Golden State lose its beauty over the years. Looking for other options for a lower cost of living.
Most people who live in California don't care, accept what's going on, get used to it, ignore it. The small minority of middle class are fleeing. Most people outside of California are outraged by these conditions but not Californians. This is the reality of Liberalism. I live in California and want to leave but it's expensive to move.
I feel you. Most people that can help change California, don't care. It's a shame. We need to gather and work together and figure out how to deal with this. I also think that California is paying for other states expenses. FasTrack is a rip off. The bridge tolls are b.s. it's a 3 rd world country. And those that live in this state who make good money. Don't care because they're comfortable where they are. And they have no empathy. I would like to move as well, and like what you said it's expensive to move.
People can’t afford to care they have to put all their time and effort to being able to pay their bills, not to mention trying to eat healthy and stay in shape, have a family and some sort of social life.
I feel you. I tried living in CA years ago and was absolutely shocked at how blind everyone is to the problems there. People are largely uneducated about everything. There seems to be this culture of "let someone else deal with it."
Up here in the foothills just northeast of Sacramento I have no friends, I have always made friends very easily, but up here these people are so far left I can't stand being around them. I left southern CA. because of the crime but these people up here are something else. I met a woman recently who wants to go out with me. I took her out for coffee and right away I knew it would not work. I guess not getting killed by a gang member is better than not having a woman in my life!!
You have to go past the foothills into the mountains. That's where the conservatives are. But they are very private up there and you're not gonna make too many friends either.
I have lived in Sacrament for 35 years, and it used to be super affordable, super nice and clean and safe. Now, it resembles a 3rd world country and is dangerous.
The Congo is crying out for more children to help mine for cobalt. For batteries. Can California please send 100,000. The minimum age requirement is 4.
As a person that was born and raised in Sacramento and lived in midtown Sacto in the 70s, 80s and 90s I just wanted to say you did a great job except you missed some really beautiful locations - all the old churches are quite a marvel, the art museums like the Crocker Art museum and you didn't even touch on Old Sacramento with its river boat rides and old town fun. Also just a walk around state capitol park would've been neat. I'm just saying there's some very old world charm that you missed, however I agree, it's totally gone to hell abd it's really sad to see. Sutter's Fort is basically a homeless camp. Thank you for this vid.
NOTHING IS LOVELY ANYMORE I'm a white-haired senior and only because I carry on my wheelchair did I prevent myself from being raped in Capitol Park on a sunny afternoon with lots of people enjoying themselves. A family not 30 feet away but of course trees and dense foliage create screens.
I saw an article that says that California has had the most people moving out of any US state . . . in each of the last three years. Disclosure, I'm one of them. And, like nearly all ex-Californians, I'm so relieved to be gone, and don't see myself ever returning unless it's for a family emergency. 2/3 of the population lives within 50 miles of the coast, and 2/3 of them WANT things the way they are. They love the high prices, high crime, ubiquitous homelessness, wasted water, Top Two election system, near-permanent mask-and-vax, and discouragement from speaking your mind if it doesn't agree with the SF Bay Guardian. It's not like a Communist country, because most people in these countries hated it and were not Communists. It's more like 1930s Germany, where a supermajority of the population eagerly supported the Third Reich. As a result, most of the Assembly members and Senators are loony lefties. And yes, their politics are ruining the entire state, including the Central Valley and mountains. Jefferson can't become its own state too soon.
You are correct about the 1930s Germany comparison. I can't get my relatives to see what is happening. It's like that trope about the frog in the pan of water on the stove. Turn it up slowly, let them get used to it. Normalize it. Say it's just because of those heartless (name political or racial group here) that things aren't better. Coddle street criminals but enact heavy penalties against anyone who questions policy. But... but... the weather is nice (most times)... Signed, a native Californian who got out years ago and am glad I did.
I'm a former California resident that lived in San Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, Daly City, my last address was in Brisbane, but my favorite part of the state is up north around Paradise and through the lush Napa valley, the land is Paradise but it's full of fruits nuts and flakes ‼️
Homeless have ruined Sacramento. Just drop out of society and expect to be taken care of. Hey, guy, how come for years and years we never saw this kind of homelessness before? Drop outs. They also have chosen to take drugs and are always drinking. So sick of it.
My uncle lived near Sacramento in Roseville for many years. He told me he was moving bc he was finally fed up with police chasing criminals through his back yard. He sold his house in Roseville and moved to Virginia to a small town with lots of land and none of the problems. He never looked back. Can't say I blame him.
That's very sad to hear about Roseville. On my way to Thunder Valley Casino from the Bay, I would always stop by there and it seemed like such a nice place.
Roseville is a really good city. I can’t imagine moving because you are “tired of cops chasing people through his back yard”. I used to live there. You have west Roseville with all the wealthy people, and then downtown Roseville with all the working class people, all of whom are very nice.
@@DrSocky I get the impression from commenters here that Roseville is a nice town. I personally have never visited the Sacramento area. My uncle lived there from the 80s until a few years ago when he moved. I'm not sure if perhaps it was just his neighborhood or how many times this happened.
Another great video. You captured what’s going on in Sacramento. One thing in Sacramento hasn’t changed in 30 years; the good neighborhoods might be just a mile or two from the worst. Also, the unofficial Sacramento motto is: “Sacramento, come for the heat, stay for the dust.”
San Diego, oh man. Breaks my heart. San Diego was always a little secrete that only those who lived there knew, it was the best big city in the world. Now? Just another big city in California. It was a conservative hold out, not any more.
I was born and raised in Sacto. I joined the military and retired in 2005, Thank God I live in Texas now. I grew up in south Sac, and it really depresses me when I go back and visit. My old neighborhood is like a war zone now. Very sad,
I grew up near Shingle Springs and my dad worked in Sacramento. I have so many fond memories there: my friend and I riding her horse to the general store in Rescue, panning for gold in our creek and swimming there, visiting Sutters Fort and Coloma, the Hangtown Parade in Placerville, getting into trouble for being in mines we weren’t supposed to be in, learning to swim at Ponderosa High School, visiting the capital, wandering for miles to go fishing or swimming, finding old mining camps and finding the iron frying pan I still use to this day, and having eye surgery that made it so I could see at the children’s hospital in Sacramento. Big part of my life. I took my kids back there around 2010 and it had changed but was still good. This video makes me so sad to see how it’s changed since then. 😢
Born and raised in Placerville, went to ponderosa, visited my mom this past Thanksgiving and it's nothing but houses all the way up. I was happy to see gold harvest market and the area still somewhat not touched. Rescue and the area seem to be okay still. We also got into trouble at goldbug mine and etc. Swimming in Coloma and Sutter. Miss those days. I also remember Cameron Park lake and being care free. 40yrs now, haven't lived in that area since 2004.
My grandparents lived there just across McKinley Park, Sacramento, and settled there before the Second World War. It was a clean and very peaceful area to live in. When we first visit 40 years ago the place is so laid back that we just love it. People are friendly and help each other. We keep on visiting them almost every time we have a vacation and drive around and take them to Reno and Lake Tahoe. Now it turned to more crime, and exorbitantly high prices and surrounding towns turned into ghetto-free housing programs by His Majesty Governor Newsom and his Aunt Queen Nancy Pelosi. My grandparents passed on and if they were still alive would be very disappointed now.
I know, same here, my grandparents lived there and died there the last year for them was 1985. They all would be so heartbroken and mad to see what it has turned into.
Willie....if you get this, could you respond. My Mother live at 3984 McKinley Park. Was that near you're grandparents? She wondering if she might have known my Mother. . She passed away in 2015.
Yes ,u need to do something. Unions,better wages, affordable healthy food, healthcare,teaching people to deal with money,not to have loans to credid cards companies,not buying every thing on credit,affordable housing, good schools,free universities, educated people.
He takes his private helicopter to Tracy Island. He is completely disconnected from reality. When we sell our shop we are definitely moving the F*#! Out of this state.
I was in Sacramento in 1973. You would not believe the difference compared to today. There were no homeless, the city probably had 80 percent fewer people living there.
More ppl live in Sac because they work in the SF Bay area and can't afford to live there. Housing costs went up as more and more bay area workers with big pockets moved in. When housing costs go up, the most economically marginal people who were already living there become homeless. Drug addicts and mentally ill first, then low wage working poor. Then lower middle class working people start living in vehicles and storage containers. Then you see them in tents and little self built houses in shantytowns. Some people probably start drinking and using because life on the street is hard. This is happening in many Western countries, not just California or the US. I hear "housing crisis" on BBC programs. Population increase faster than home construction and it pushes folks on the bottom onto the street and forces the people just above them to live with unrelated roommates into their 40s. Population in the US, Canada, and England has gone up by 50% over the last 4 decades. None of them has increased housing inventory by 50%.
As a California native, you must have a college degree to earn a livable wage. That’s just how it is here, some places in California even that isn’t enough
This California road trip was kinda depressing! So sad to see a beautiful state fall apart! Affordable housing and coming up with a solution to the homeless epidemic is a good way to start. I agree, I would not want to be in charge of this state. Hopefully your next trip home will be better, doubt it though 😂
A liberal friend of mine owns an apt building in mid town Sac. I warned him many years ago that homeless and crime will be a problem in Downtown Sac. He of course disagreed. Today, he complains about homeless, his apt's getting broken into, crime, violence... I tell him he is getting what he votes for. Again, he disagrees And yet the problems have gotten worse with democrats in charge. Most people in California never learn...
I've lived in Midtown Sacramento for 11 years. Qhat you didn't see (so couldn't show) are the hundreds of homeless camps destroying the American River and Parkway (nature preserve). Aside form the over 350,000 lbs of trash we removed from one creek in the Parkway last year alone, over 130 fires were started in the camps. Neighborhoods adjacent to the Parkway avoid the area because of the drugs, crime, and loose vicious dogs. It's a disgrace.
@@NickJohnson the river stretches for miles and there is 2 of them actually. Not to mention all the little creeks and levees around the city are flooded with homeless too. It's bad.
Mr Nick, your videos are great and your narration is excellent. Thanks for exposing these issues. It amazes me UA-camrs are putting out better and more accurate news than MSM. Rather than the government pumping money into welfare, giving these homeless folks free stuff and free drug paraphernalia, they should be pumping money into programs to enable these people into being productive. How about some trade-schools and education? How about actually holding criminals accountable?
The homeless aren’t a trade away from changing their life. They are drug addicted and drunk. Remember when high schools taught cooking, sewing, wood shop, small engine repair etc? Kids were taught how to fix or make things. The homeless problems are really from broken homes and fatherless children. Messed up parents and grandparents. There’s no program to fix the decay of society sine WW1.
@@Watchoutforsnakez This is why possessionnof hard drugs like meth, heroine, cocaine should have jail time with mandatory drug programs and trade skill programs. Of course lack skills is not the main issue here. But things were WAY better when there was consequences. It was not perfect, but there was a LOT less crime and violence.
This video was largely comprised of saying “California has problems. Sacramento is in California and has some of those problems. Like homelessness. Look, there are tents here, weird! They need to do better in regards to homeless. Oh, and it costs a lot to live here.” All the while speculating why it is happening using the normal reasons everyone says. Literally none of that is original content, and it’s what every MSM outlet has said for years. Lol. If you want it to be “better than MSM”; solutions need to be presented, a new perspective needs to be given. Not just appealing to your confirmation bias.
I really enjoyed the California road trip videos! I'm sad to see them come to an end. Nick, what would you say are your favorite and least favorite places after seeing everything, and what which area were you the most surprised by?
I left San Freancisco in 2003 because it was a shit hole. I then moved to sacramento but it was already a shit hole. We called the walmart Mutant Mart. I'm back on the east coast. I love what yo do Nick!
Thanks Nick for the work you do. It's impossible to show all the homeless camps in Sacramento. The river parkways, and many hidden places only visible by the obscured pathways where many homeless camps are. I know you can only cover so much. It's 10 times worse. Thanks for the exposure you put on the homeless problem and the political corruption with the Democrats. On the upside...Sacramento has some beautiful parks, golf courses schools, neighborhoods and homes. In addition, there are thousands of homes here that are grand estates worth a million and up.
When l left San Jose back in 2001 it was because renting costs outgrew my wages. But l wept because it was still a beautiful state. Now they could not pay me to come back.
How often does the Governor walk the streets? lol. I have seen him at Starbucks, but walking the streets, in Sacramento? Never happen. But just like you said, Sacramento is far from the worst place to live in CA and downtown is pretty safe.
Leftietards have historically never cared much for the plebians. They use them to gain positions of power and wealth. Always remember how Stalin needed to murder his way to the throne room to obtain power. His bizarre hatred of farmers and regular people was reflected in the policies he created. Even Karl Marx himself hang out with the rich (Engles, his best friend). He refused to associate with plebians who lived in filth. Not much has changed over the centuries. Men like Karl Marx have nothing in common with the group they proclaim to care so much about.
@@pandemicofvaxxedholes Well, I kinda work in a government entity right now, so I have nothing to add to that. But hopefully things get better sooner rather than later.
@trevorthetherapist4200 Until the obsession with mirroring Europe and Canada is erased from the minds of young people, nothing will change. Look at the scam Bernie created. All the uneducated and indoctrinated college kids ate his lies up like cake. Now Bernie is extremely wealthy and has multiple houses. His world-class healthcare meant he didn't pay a dime for his heart attack!
@@comeoncents3288 oh man, you're right. Them Mexicans will only hire Mexicans. Try being another race and get a job where Mexicans mainly work... I've tried and trust me they ain't hiring no one but they're own. And most jobs in California require that one is bilingual Spanish/English. Just saying. Im not hating on them. It's fact's It's annoying when I go into a place of business and the guy behind the counter can't speak English and has to find another English speaker to help. And I'm in the Bay Area'. Not like I'm in a bordering city.
I lived in the Sacramento area last 26 yrs. It was an awesome place but because of progressive politics that encourage homeless to come to CA. Current policies allowed an "unhoused person" getting cash aid and food stamp. They automatically qualify. Why change when u get freebies. I can tell you this, the taxpayer base is shrinking and new freebie programs are handling out with no stop in sight. ⁶ I missed the old California where people are driven by their work ethics and the can do attitude. Now the welfare system has created a whole new class and they're on the free bread for generations passing down to their kids and their kids. California has become a toilet that cannot flush its own excrement. So 😔
I moved to Southern California as a baby. I lived in Southern California for fifty-five years before I moved to Central Texas six years ago. Most of my life was spent in Costa Mesa in Orange County and the last sixteen years was spent in Woodcrest, CA. It was a beautiful place but the left has ruined it. BTW, Folsom has a prison.
From Berkeley-the social decay in the Bay Area has happened with amazing swiftness. Subtract the drugs and it would be a lot different. All of it , the whole drug smorgasbord.
The biggest reason why California is the way that it is, is because there are too many people occupying the state. 40 MILLION people live here. If California was a country, it would be the 37th most populated country in the WORLD. 37 out of 234 is still pretty up there. This place just has too many people but nobody wants us in other states. I’ve vacationed in other places and told them where I’m from and received plenty of unwanted attitude. I’m not going to leave California forever, but I wish I could…
The biggest reason why California is the way it is, is because it's run by leftist morons, put in office by bigger morons. People who don't understand that the freedoms and good lives that Americans live are not the norm but the exception. Meaning that people have to work to maintain it. The last thing on the minds of leftist malcontents.
It was just in the news that Adam Rich died at the too young age of 54. This made me think back to watching Eight is Enough as a kid, a show that is now mostly interesting as a historical artifact portraying the Sacramento of the late 1970s as a clean and safe place where middle class families could thrive.
99.9% of the homeless have substance abuse/addiction, mental health issues, or both. CA needs to expand what's called "conservatorship" where you can be dictated where to go, what medications to take etc. Because the hallmark trait of both mental illness and addiction is not being able to reflect on your condition or adequately assess how bad things have gotten. It's the only way they're going to get out of this. South Park did the homeless episode probably 12 years ago and it was a parody at that point, no longer.
Then governor Ronald Reagan closed down the institutions in California. I'm in favor of bringing them back. SF, Sac, LA, San Diego, San Jose, and all other cities will be better in no time.
No offense....but where have you been for the last 20 years? Democrats and their politics and programs have decimated this once great state. California is right in the sheet-hole. Thank Gavin Newsome and EVERY Democrat in this state, politician and citizen.
I’d like to see how many of these individuals are doing any kind of drinking or non prescribed drugs. The ones who aren’t and can test should really get a secondary safety net. If they are sober and had a freak accident and want to work they should have an outlet.
Or it's called a 3 rd world country. We can thank Ronald Reagan when he was the govt of California. He closed 90% of mental health facilities. Which caused homelessness
Are salaries in relation to the housing cost in these areas? To afford a 2,800 US$ monthly rent (or mortgage payment), you should earn 35 US$/hr (net, after tax). On the thumb rule, that rental expenses should be about 1/3 of your net income. And looking at the additional cost (compared to Germany) for college education, student loans payback, childcare, health insurance etc.: this salary should even be way above 35/hr. While I can imagine that many do have this income, how about the average construction worker, nurse, wallmart employees, employees in the small shops, and many more on minimum wage of 7.25 US$/hr - what does a waiter on 2.75 US$/hr (living on tips) do, how does this math work? (e.g. in Germany, childcare, school and university is free and we receive about 270 €/month for each child until education is finished)
SUTTER COUNTY HAS the best resolution for homelessness in the county..... They have a black bear that freely roams through . Ya know it gets hungry it just eats a homeless person. Lmfao
Sacramento has always been California's diamond in the rough. Snobs in the Bay Area looked down on it. But there was no justification for that. I used to hang out in midtown, about a mile from downtown and the Capitol. Lots of great little cafes. Walkable neighborhood. Lots of trees. Ample parking. Great weather (I like the dry heat in the summer). Great, down-to-earth people. Low cost of living compared to the coastal part of the state. When I decided to leave San Diego in 2019, Sacramento was my first choice. But it had gotten a little too expensive, so I moved to Palm Springs instead. A few months later, Covid hit. Does midtown still have nice little cafes with shaded patios where you can smoke a cigarette? I doubt it. But you could ask that question about any place in the country. I really like the weather in Sacramento. Lots of rain in the winter to turn everything green (when we're not in a drought), hot dry summers with beautiful warm evenings. Plenty to do without dealing with the stress of a big city. It's still on my list of places to live if some money comes my way. But with Democrats dominating the state government (and I assume the city of Sacramento), things will have to change politically in order to make a move feasible. I'll stay in Riverside County for now where we have a sheriff who will arrest the Gestapo, I mean FBI, if it tries to pull its antics where I live.
That camp wasn't an abandoned homeless camp there are hundreds upon hundreds of people who live in that "abandoned camp" you just happen to have come when services were having a soup kitchen for them. That camp is anything but abandoned.
🦅🇺🇲🦅 what a crying shame there's 5 million American citizens homeless Coast to Coast because of deregulation outsourcing and corruption and the government,
I cannot help but wonder ( not being judgmental either way) but if the US has this homeless nightmare in most places, what effect does the huge numbers of migrants arriving illegally have on the problem.
All of those people have to live somewhere, too. And it’s not like they’re building new ones just for them, so you’re competing with them when you apply for a new place.
You'll notice that very few of the people on the streets are immigrants! Where I'm from, the homeless people are all Americans who aren't willing or don't know how to hustle like the immigrants do.
Unfiltered population growth = higher cost of living. Higher cost of living = more homelessness. People on the Left only want illegals here because they aren't white.
What I don't understand (not a complete dummy here) how did we get to this point? The entire West Coast has been hostage to the homeless, and crime, for several years, what went wrong? I have lived paycheck to paycheck forever, but I pay my bills, pay rent, etc etc.... why can't most of these folks do it? I still manage to smoke, and drink, tired of these people wanting free everything and not being responsible for their own choices. No end to it. Thanks Nick:) XO's as always.
This is so sad what Democrats have done to California. I lived here all my whole live and was forced to move because the choices California/Sacramento was making. The worst part is people see what's happening to CA and they will be voting for same people.
I was born in Sacramento in 1964 looked nothing like this. It was beautiful and clean. It’s sad to look at photos of me and my sister standing in front of the capital with our Easter dresses on and all the beautiful tulips at the capital. Not the California I grew up in that’s why I left the state last year
I lived in Sacramento starting in the early sixtys,. Heroine poppy's grew undesturbed along the sidewalks near the capital building! There was less homeless people as and no drug addicts to like there is today!
I got my I-phone stolen by a drug addict in Sac. I got hit in the back of the head with a pipe and some one on a bike stole my phone I tried to run after them. The Sherifs are nice and they found them but what is Sac a 3rd world country its ridiculous. When that happened I lost all sympathy for the homeless drug addicts. The mentally ill drug addicts to normal people is to high there. Nice normal people I feel bad for them it was a nice place good restaurants and everything was a shame. You should have gone to the American river trail is awful and also there was way crazier hobo camps I went to them to find the person who stole my phone.
@@mor9n243 Wow how bad is that I have to be in a voluntary house arrest WTF Glad I moved SAC is worse than some 3rd world countries can't even go across the street You should here how Absurd you sound I was visiting my family happened last holidays what a trash place you can't even live your house
@@mor9n243 I moved(went home)the crazy drug addict to normal is to high I was just visiting family. I don’t want to have to deal with that stuff. Now I see homeless I have my hand on a weapon ready to go.
Hi Nick, could you please plan a second visit to Sacramento city / area for an update relevant the homeless still resisting or run away far from the sanctuary capital due to the recent flood?
Here's the rest of my California Road Trip playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLq-_cmf3H6yoGM0mmbTCTmMa9zMFvvDeG.html
What is it you want to show me?
...That one day, the population would divide the face of their reality all on one vertice I have a feeling that they'd do better with education since harsher climates require a ton of tenacity, They seem more divided than abandoned like the East cost or America.
Gold vs. the Case-Shiller Home Price Index
Gold vs. Home Prices
Hey Nick! you should watch a few of my videos! it's in my backyard! I think you're work is awesome!
@@royramey5659 so what's you're drug of choice!
I moved to CA back in 2016 and lived in Sacramento. Growing up in a rural east coast town, I was fooled by the media's portrayal of CA hence why I moved out there. It was one of the biggest events of disillusionment I have ever experienced in my life. California does have some beautiful places but the state is extremely overrated and full of problems. Californians have this weird stockholm syndrome like mindset where everyone just turns a blind eye to the problems and tries to pretend that it's not as bad as it seems.
Needless to say, I got out of there and went back to my homestate last year. I feel like I caught the last chopper out of saigon.
This. I grew up in Sac Town. Friends still there want to argue with me that the state isn't a dumpster fire. "But national parks and growing produce." Okay buddy, keep on ignoring those homeless on your front lawn. As a natural enthusiasts, i concur that the region has some of the most spectacular geography in the world but that doesn’t change the levels of corruption in the government.
I've heard people call California the land of fruits and nuts. The INSANE gender ideology they are embracing is going to make it quite the freak show. The insanity in California has no limits.
@Sam Nishimoto Yes absolutely. I've heard there are still some good areas in California. I sincerely hope those good areas aren't ruined like the major cities such as Los Angeles.
I'm on the East Coast as well. The way movies and TV portrayed California Was always like a larger than life place. I toyed with the idea of moving out there years ago just because of the car culture and the weather. Thank God I never made that move.
Well, that Stockholm syndrome is what the LEFT and Democrats Do. I wish people would smarten up and not vote BLUE anymore.
California needs a huge wake up call
What can they do when even the poll workers themselves are corrupt?
@@jackburton4892 You are not the first to point this out. However point to a conviction or even an arrest of a poll worker whose action resulted in the change of the election result.
It needs a re-haul. We keep trying to vote RED, but the numbskulls keep voting blue over and over again.
just wait till all of the illegal immigrants biden and newscuum are welcoming into the state.
@@birdlynn417 lol
They lock up the deodorant here but not the criminals! Comedy gold from tragedy! Great video!
But hey California, keep voting Democrat ! It’s working so well !! 🤦🏻♂️🙄
Mappy exercising his comedic chops! Keeping Nick on his toes too!
They lock law abiding citizens in their homes for years, they are China.
😂😂😂😂😂
@dankelly5150
I live in Mississippi. A Republican state, and it's no better here 😮
I am resident of Seattle and the crazy thing is I used to be left-of-center but the kind of leftism being preached and practiced here (and California) has moved me firmly to the right. And I am not alone. The circle of friends I hang around are were all solid Democrats (many of them are immigrants) who are now shocked at what's going on. Just today, I was at a party where one attendee told us that when he went to his car parked in front of his house, he saw a homeless guy chilling inside his car smoking "something". Upon seeing the car owner, he ran away. Apart from the car being a mess, a few items were missing. He went to file police report but officer declined to do anything because the value of stolen items was less than $900 and theft of $900 was legal. But it was not the monetary value my friend was concerned about. It was feeling of losing the sense of safety concern for himself and his family given that elected of officials no longer care about public safety. This is the brand of progressivism we are facing. Needless to say, my friend vowed to vote out current city officials in the next election even it meant electing a Republican.
USA left is not a true left.
My office is in Sacramento since 2004. What this city is turned out to be, is beyond imagination. And it is happening all over the Bay Area. Stop sending money abroad, help our people! Enough is enough.!
I'm born and raised in Sacramento and I used to think I was so lucky to have grown up there and never wanted to live anywhere else. Then about 20 years ago I started to really notice the changes. More crime, crazy traffic, higher prices. Then the problems got worse and worse and happened faster and faster. I moved to Arizona 4 years ago and have never regretted leaving. It's just mind-boggling to see these once nice neighborhoods turning to garbage dumps.
It is still nice in Folsom and El Dorado Hills.
It's moving fast like a roller coaster. Give it some time and it'll reach there
They allow bad to mix with good, making half those who just want to make it, landlords in Iowa are real low brawl if you know what I mean
@@trevorthetherapist4200 It's like a flood is raising the water line.. and you're saying "It's dry over here" LOL... Are you armed?
@@trevorthetherapist4200 yes but very expensive
I live just north of Sacramento. My doctor is in Downtown Sacramento. It's so heartbreaking to see so many on the street. I have a friend like a sister that I've known since 1983. We met in the Sacramento Children's home. Now she is living in a cluster of bike parts and junk. I invited her over to my house but, she didn't want to leave her precious junk. I bring her clothes, boots, food and batteries. Trying to help her.The rats are huge and it's so cold. I worry about her but, I don't think she understands how dire her life is. I never thought she would end up on the streets. I want to leave California in a couple of years. It's never been like this in Sacramento. I hate the way it's become.
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Starting a non profit and making money from enabling homeless is now a career path in California.
Washington state too
Many states in the USA.
Oregon is catching up.
I am a Japanese living in Tokyo. As you know, there are many homeless people in Tokyo.
I understand that it is not something that people from other countries should complain about. What is strange, however, is that among the things in the tents and trailer houses, there is an American flag. It is easy to dismiss this situation with the words "self-responsibility," but whether they display the flag out of irony, loyalty, or patriotism, I do not know the answer, but it is certainly one of their most prized possessions, and I feel that the flag makes it seem even more tragic.
Thank- you for your intelligent and insightful comment.
That is a good question about the flag. I will ask them
Some are military veterans with mental issues. They are waiting for help.
@@weareoriginyup thats they way the vets who risked their life are treated by our government
So what do they do with homeless people in Tokyo? How is it different or similar?
Holy smokes, Sacramento too? It feels like our country is collapsing in slow motion when seeing scenes like this.
Great series. Unfortunately, I don't see California getting any better with the current party leadership. I grew up as a young child in North Highlands and made many trips back from Ohio to visit my dad in Citrus Heights. I learned to ski on Folsom lake. Great memories of a better time for California. Sad to see the destruction.
I was born in L.A. in 1949, and grew up there. It was a great place to live. Skid row was small and inhabited by old broken men. We called them winos back then but that’s probably not polite these days. I watched as more and more out of state, down and outers moved in. It got so bad we had to move out of the state. That was about ten years ago and the wife and I are glad we moved. Best of luck to us all, from Portugal.
The state became a human junkyard. Other states (and nations) dumped their worst on California, or the worst from those places came out to California and ruined it. According to my elderly former neighbor there (she was born in 1908 and probably dead by now), it all started around the late ‘60s with LBJ’s “great new Society”, and with California’s “Open Door Policy”.
Remember the L A TV show Help Thy Neighbor hosted by Larry Van Nuys?
Have a lot of well to do Californians moved to Portugal? If so, why that country?
"good people are leaving, and lots of bad people are coming"....I'd say the state is getting exactly what it deserves. Bad policies make for bad living conditions and the residents of California keep voting for the same thing over and over. Good luck.
Well said.
Everyone I know that has left California are FOX news watchers and Trumpster's- MAGA's. Which is fine by me, get out the hate!! Many homeless are funneled and bussed into California. Can't be homeless in the snow, bro! Our economy is rocking in California we need workers. Banks are behind people not being able to afford even rent and jacking up property prices!
We ALL suffer from THEIR STUPIDITY. The entire US suffers from it !
Maybe were not voting them in
Trash Biden!! Dems!!!
I just left Southern California where I lived for 54 years, for N. Georgia. I was trying to figure out why my modest Georgia neighborhood has ZERO homeless when a basically identical hood in Riverside Ca. was loaded with it. I have concluded it is in large part because back here housing is super affordable. Even a druggie with no money can squeak by here because there are a ton of houses that have a lower level that is made into a couple of apartments. All hoses on all sides of me have little apartments in the lower level. Plus the mobile home parks here can exist as cheap, junky trailer parks. In California there are almost no houses with apartments in them and Mobile home parks are usually pretty decent because they make $. Even “trailer parks” are EXPENSIVE there. Also, the food bank situation here is epic. Free food is not hard to find. You can squeak by out of the reach of homelessness here. Lastly, because there are SO many Mexicans willing to live together in one house, they come up with the dough to buy or rent in So cal. Keeping the prices high. I love it here in the South East. . No graffiti, homelessness, clean air, water, trees. I love your channel Nick. You are so funny.
I love it here too
almost never touched upon is the influx of central american immigrants and their effect on local economies.
I am an immigrant too.
But I was priced out of a neighborhood near work partly because many of the affordable apartments were packed full of Latinos - the office for my building was run by latinos. Coinkeydink much? lol.
The older retired and working class blacks were the worst affected as rents went up year after year - even with rent control.
I remember reading about lawsuits in California brought by black Americans because of Spanish speaking discrimination.
And finally as a waiter it was the worst. We used to have only a couple of bussers, all male, who worked their butts off to make us money because it made them money too. They built houses in their home countries it was that good.
Now there are as many bussers as waiters if not more and almost 50% of the tip goes to the busser crew.
Sometimes more if based on percentage of sales and not actual tips - terrible idea.
And because there's a gaggle rather than one or two there's more socializing than bussing.
I got out pre-pandemic from the waiting side and so glad I did.
It has been the worst of two worlds this past twenty years. Rents soaring due to immigration and apartment/rental house packing and wages being depressed by immigration. The bosses and landlords are the worst people in society and I'm no Marxist by a long shot.
@@omi_god also supply/demand. immigrants do increase demand and california hypocrite NIMBYs decrease supply.
@@omi_god: If the millions of illegal immigrants were not here in California then millions of apartments and homes would become available for people here legally. THAT'S when the law of supply and demand would kick in to a great extent. Landlords and house sellers would have to lower prices in order to compete for the lower numbers of people needing shelter. Then people here legally can better afford the housing.
@@omi_god Supply and demand certainly exists, so arguing that it doesn't certainly discredits your argument (1.6 million people disappearing from a population of 39 million would most certainly make housing prices go down... and severely undercut several industries). I think your better argument wouldn't be to "blame the landlords" and essentially restrict residential houses to only be owned by the primary resident (thereby eliminating foreign investors, corporations, etc)... or perhaps I'm being obtuse and missing the whole point of a housing market.
I have been living here for 20 years. Part of the problem is that homeless people are moving here from other places. Well presented video.
Because the weather is nice most of the time. I live in New Jersey just outside of NYC. I don't see homelessness to this extent. It's because it's impossible to live rough year round here. The week before Christmas the temps dropped to zero at night. It's also not new that the homeless are rolling into states with mild weather. I have a friend who lived in Michigan back in 70s until his father lost his auto job, could not find another job and moved the family to Florida. When my friend asked his father why they were moving to Florida his father replied, "Because we're poor." My friend asked if they'd be just as poor in Florida his father replied, "Probably, but where would you rather be poor this January? Florida or Michigan?"
That's right, with the nice weather people come from all over, never ends,of course this winter is not a mild one.This can't go on forever, this group of people, politicians included,are so unworthy and blinded by Satan to act and live like the world just started the day they were born is sick minded,I want to outlive them so I can see California like it once was.
@@zLigHt44 See California how it once was? You mean like it was in the 1930s when all the Oakies showed up? The poor and hopeless have been coming to California in waves for decades. What's happening now is not new.
@@MrSloika I'm talking crime and trash, and disregard for the law.
@@MrSloika You wrong
California was the state I grew up at where I was born and to see it like this is really sad.
Born and raised in the Central Valley when it was a virtual Garden of Eden full of agriculture. So sad to see the Golden State lose its beauty over the years. Looking for other options for a lower cost of living.
I hear you there. It’s not the state with which I grew up, anymore.
Most people who live in California don't care, accept what's going on, get used to it, ignore it. The small minority of middle class are fleeing. Most people outside of California are outraged by these conditions but not Californians. This is the reality of Liberalism. I live in California and want to leave but it's expensive to move.
I feel you. Most people that can help change California, don't care. It's a shame. We need to gather and work together and figure out how to deal with this. I also think that California is paying for other states expenses. FasTrack is a rip off. The bridge tolls are b.s. it's a 3 rd world country. And those that live in this state who make good money. Don't care because they're comfortable where they are. And they have no empathy.
I would like to move as well, and like what you said it's expensive to move.
People can’t afford to care they have to put all their time and effort to being able to pay their bills, not to mention trying to eat healthy and stay in shape, have a family and some sort of social life.
@@Jack-goff what a morally ambiguous comment. If you can’t afford to care then why even engage in this conversation?
Sell everything,hop a bus to Arizona. Just leave your politics at the stateline.
I feel you. I tried living in CA years ago and was absolutely shocked at how blind everyone is to the problems there. People are largely uneducated about everything. There seems to be this culture of "let someone else deal with it."
I was born in Long Beach raised in Clearlake. I love California but I’m moving out the Dems or destroying the state I mean demons.
Up here in the foothills just northeast of Sacramento I have no friends, I have always made friends very easily, but up here these people are so far left I can't stand being around them. I left southern CA. because of the crime but these people up here are something else. I met a woman recently who wants to go out with me. I took her out for coffee and right away I knew it would not work. I guess not getting killed by a gang member is better than not having a woman in my life!!
Elaborate
You have to go past the foothills into the mountains. That's where the conservatives are. But they are very private up there and you're not gonna make too many friends either.
I have lived in Sacrament for 35 years, and it used to be super affordable, super nice and clean and safe. Now, it resembles a 3rd world country and is dangerous.
The Congo is crying out for more children to help mine for cobalt. For batteries. Can California please send 100,000. The minimum age requirement is 4.
As a person that was born and raised in Sacramento and lived in midtown Sacto in the 70s, 80s and 90s I just wanted to say you did a great job except you missed some really beautiful locations - all the old churches are quite a marvel, the art museums like the Crocker Art museum and you didn't even touch on Old Sacramento with its river boat rides and old town fun. Also just a walk around state capitol park would've been neat. I'm just saying there's some very old world charm that you missed, however I agree, it's totally gone to hell abd it's really sad to see. Sutter's Fort is basically a homeless camp. Thank you for this vid.
I'm only one person what do you want Jesus
@@NickJohnson damn bro take a chill pill 😂
@@NickJohnson You definitely like fear porn.
NOTHING IS LOVELY ANYMORE
I'm a white-haired senior and only because I carry on my wheelchair did I prevent myself from being raped in Capitol Park on a sunny afternoon with lots of people enjoying themselves. A family not 30 feet away but of course trees and dense foliage create screens.
@@NickJohnson I just love your videos. But please Nick, don't use the LORD's precious Name in vain.
I saw an article that says that California has had the most people moving out of any US state . . . in each of the last three years. Disclosure, I'm one of them. And, like nearly all ex-Californians, I'm so relieved to be gone, and don't see myself ever returning unless it's for a family emergency.
2/3 of the population lives within 50 miles of the coast, and 2/3 of them WANT things the way they are. They love the high prices, high crime, ubiquitous homelessness, wasted water, Top Two election system, near-permanent mask-and-vax, and discouragement from speaking your mind if it doesn't agree with the SF Bay Guardian. It's not like a Communist country, because most people in these countries hated it and were not Communists. It's more like 1930s Germany, where a supermajority of the population eagerly supported the Third Reich. As a result, most of the Assembly members and Senators are loony lefties. And yes, their politics are ruining the entire state, including the Central Valley and mountains.
Jefferson can't become its own state too soon.
You are correct about the 1930s Germany comparison. I can't get my relatives to see what is happening. It's like that trope about the frog in the pan of water on the stove. Turn it up slowly, let them get used to it. Normalize it. Say it's just because of those heartless (name political or racial group here) that things aren't better. Coddle street criminals but enact heavy penalties against anyone who questions policy. But... but... the weather is nice (most times)...
Signed, a native Californian who got out years ago and am glad I did.
I'm 1 minute in to your video and absolutely enjoy your commentary ❤️
You're so honest.
Commentary was spot on
@kennymccannYT Especially the fact that was brought up....deodorant is locked up on store shelves but criminals aren't locked up!
I'm a former California resident that lived in San Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, Daly City, my last address was in Brisbane, but my favorite part of the state is up north around Paradise and through the lush Napa valley, the land is Paradise but it's full of fruits nuts and flakes ‼️
Yep, at least he’s being honest, which most people in that state arent.
@@crazyralph6386honest in the way that he's talking to a mirror when he posts videos. Red states are just as junk.
Homeless have ruined Sacramento. Just drop out of society and expect to be taken care of. Hey, guy, how come for years and years we never saw this kind of homelessness before? Drop outs. They also have chosen to take drugs and are always drinking. So sick of it.
Bingo
Effing progressive elitist who want us all dead!
My uncle lived near Sacramento in Roseville for many years. He told me he was moving bc he was finally fed up with police chasing criminals through his back yard.
He sold his house in Roseville and moved to Virginia to a small town with lots of land and none of the problems. He never looked back. Can't say I blame him.
Roseville is a great city
That's very sad to hear about Roseville. On my way to Thunder Valley Casino from the Bay, I would always stop by there and it seemed like such a nice place.
Roseville is a really good city. I can’t imagine moving because you are “tired of cops chasing people through his back yard”. I used to live there. You have west Roseville with all the wealthy people, and then downtown Roseville with all the working class people, all of whom are very nice.
@@DrSocky I get the impression from commenters here that Roseville is a nice town. I personally have never visited the Sacramento area. My uncle lived there from the 80s until a few years ago when he moved.
I'm not sure if perhaps it was just his neighborhood or how many times this happened.
Yeah Roseville is a beautiful city crime here is virtually non-existent.
Another great video. You captured what’s going on in Sacramento. One thing in Sacramento hasn’t changed in 30 years; the good neighborhoods might be just a mile or two from the worst. Also, the unofficial Sacramento motto is: “Sacramento, come for the heat, stay for the dust.”
The Big Tomato.
Or across the street
I love the Public Access Channel feel of your videos. Nostalgic and great. Thank you for making your UA-cam channel essential.
San Diego, oh man. Breaks my heart. San Diego was always a little secrete that only those who lived there knew, it was the best big city in the world. Now? Just another big city in California. It was a conservative hold out, not any more.
I was born and raised in Sacto. I joined the military and retired in 2005, Thank God I live in Texas now. I grew up in south Sac, and it really depresses me when I go back and visit. My old neighborhood is like a war zone now. Very sad,
I really enjoyed the California trip. Thank you, for sharing with us. It definitely keeps things in perspective about the US.
I grew up near Shingle Springs and my dad worked in Sacramento. I have so many fond memories there: my friend and I riding her horse to the general store in Rescue, panning for gold in our creek and swimming there, visiting Sutters Fort and Coloma, the Hangtown Parade in Placerville, getting into trouble for being in mines we weren’t supposed to be in, learning to swim at Ponderosa High School, visiting the capital, wandering for miles to go fishing or swimming, finding old mining camps and finding the iron frying pan I still use to this day, and having eye surgery that made it so I could see at the children’s hospital in Sacramento.
Big part of my life. I took my kids back there around 2010 and it had changed but was still good. This video makes me so sad to see how it’s changed since then. 😢
Born and raised in Placerville, went to ponderosa, visited my mom this past Thanksgiving and it's nothing but houses all the way up. I was happy to see gold harvest market and the area still somewhat not touched. Rescue and the area seem to be okay still. We also got into trouble at goldbug mine and etc. Swimming in Coloma and Sutter. Miss those days. I also remember Cameron Park lake and being care free. 40yrs now, haven't lived in that area since 2004.
It's terrible now, homeless all over, expensive!!!
My grandparents lived there just across McKinley Park, Sacramento, and settled there before the Second World War. It was a clean and very peaceful area to live in. When we first visit 40 years ago the place is so laid back that we just love it. People are friendly and help each other. We keep on visiting them almost every time we have a vacation and drive around and take them to Reno and Lake Tahoe. Now it turned to more crime, and exorbitantly high prices and surrounding towns turned into ghetto-free housing programs by His Majesty Governor Newsom and his Aunt Queen Nancy Pelosi. My grandparents passed on and if they were still alive would be very disappointed now.
I know, same here, my grandparents lived there and died there the last year for them was 1985. They all would be so heartbroken and mad to see what it has turned into.
Willie....if you get this, could you respond. My Mother live at 3984 McKinley Park. Was that near you're grandparents? She wondering if she might have known my Mother. . She passed away in 2015.
Bingo.
Pelosi
Newsom
Feinstein
Brown
Schiff
Getty
Boxer
* Those families have ruined California since around 1990.
Sold out moved out in 05 saw the writing on the wall..
But Nancy Pelosi was even quoted to say that she was proud of what California had become🤣🤣😁
I'm glad you saying it Nick. We need more people to step up and say something. Enough is enough!
Yes ,u need to do something. Unions,better wages, affordable healthy food, healthcare,teaching people to deal with money,not to have loans to credid cards companies,not buying every thing on credit,affordable housing, good schools,free universities, educated people.
A thousand Thumbs Up! This message needs to get out, Newsom is a DISASTER!!
He takes his private helicopter to Tracy Island. He is completely disconnected from reality. When we sell our shop we are definitely moving the F*#! Out of this state.
Where you going??
@@NickJohnson probably N.C
Up in the mountains, my son wants to build a cabin and plant an orchard.
I lived in Sacramento from 1989 to 1992, and it was a shithole was back then, but most of the homeless weren't out on the streets yet.
I love this California series. So cool. I've been watching all of em. It's def helpful to see what's going on around this state. Right on Nick!
I was in Sacramento in 1973. You would not believe the difference compared to today. There were no homeless, the city probably had 80 percent fewer people living there.
Me too...I was 4 in 1973 but stayed in midtown until 1999 ..I miss what it once was ...
I mean there are more and more humans on the planet now…
More ppl live in Sac because they work in the SF Bay area and can't afford to live there. Housing costs went up as more and more bay area workers with big pockets moved in. When housing costs go up, the most economically marginal people who were already living there become homeless. Drug addicts and mentally ill first, then low wage working poor. Then lower middle class working people start living in vehicles and storage containers. Then you see them in tents and little self built houses in shantytowns. Some people probably start drinking and using because life on the street is hard. This is happening in many Western countries, not just California or the US. I hear "housing crisis" on BBC programs. Population increase faster than home construction and it pushes folks on the bottom onto the street and forces the people just above them to live with unrelated roommates into their 40s. Population in the US, Canada, and England has gone up by 50% over the last 4 decades. None of them has increased housing inventory by 50%.
Some parents kick their kids out the door as soon as they turn 18.
As a California native, you must have a college degree to earn a livable wage. That’s just how it is here, some places in California even that isn’t enough
i said this years ago, stop paying your property taxes until they clean up your area.
This California road trip was kinda depressing! So sad to see a beautiful state fall apart! Affordable housing and coming up with a solution to the homeless epidemic is a good way to start. I agree, I would not want to be in charge of this state. Hopefully your next trip home will be better, doubt it though 😂
A liberal friend of mine owns an apt building in mid town Sac. I warned him many years ago that homeless and crime will be a problem in Downtown Sac. He of course disagreed. Today, he complains about homeless, his apt's getting broken into, crime, violence... I tell him he is getting what he votes for. Again, he disagrees And yet the problems have gotten worse with democrats in charge. Most people in California never learn...
Loved Mappy's comment about the deodorant! 🤣😂🤣🏆 So TRUE! They lock up the makeup also! SMH. Flippin' thieves ruined it for us. 💩
Mappy does have smart ideas sometimes!
To remember the golden age of California just watch a season of The Brady Bunch.
I've lived in Midtown Sacramento for 11 years. Qhat you didn't see (so couldn't show) are the hundreds of homeless camps destroying the American River and Parkway (nature preserve). Aside form the over 350,000 lbs of trash we removed from one creek in the Parkway last year alone, over 130 fires were started in the camps. Neighborhoods adjacent to the Parkway avoid the area because of the drugs, crime, and loose vicious dogs. It's a disgrace.
I tried to get back there but it's too crazy. I showed a little bit of the river.
@@NickJohnson the river stretches for miles and there is 2 of them actually. Not to mention all the little creeks and levees around the city are flooded with homeless too. It's bad.
Thank you for exposing these sadistic hypocrites in high places, and bringing light to the homeless crisis
Mr Nick, your videos are great and your narration is excellent. Thanks for exposing these issues. It amazes me UA-camrs are putting out better and more accurate news than MSM.
Rather than the government pumping money into welfare, giving these homeless folks free stuff and free drug paraphernalia, they should be pumping money into programs to enable these people into being productive. How about some trade-schools and education? How about actually holding criminals accountable?
The homeless aren’t a trade away from changing their life. They are drug addicted and drunk. Remember when high schools taught cooking, sewing, wood shop, small engine repair etc? Kids were taught how to fix or make things. The homeless problems are really from broken homes and fatherless children. Messed up parents and grandparents. There’s no program to fix the decay of society sine WW1.
@@Watchoutforsnakez This is why possessionnof hard drugs like meth, heroine, cocaine should have jail time with mandatory drug programs and trade skill programs. Of course lack skills is not the main issue here. But things were WAY better when there was consequences. It was not perfect, but there was a LOT less crime and violence.
This video was largely comprised of saying
“California has problems. Sacramento is in California and has some of those problems. Like homelessness. Look, there are tents here, weird! They need to do better in regards to homeless. Oh, and it costs a lot to live here.”
All the while speculating why it is happening using the normal reasons everyone says.
Literally none of that is original content, and it’s what every MSM outlet has said for years. Lol.
If you want it to be “better than MSM”; solutions need to be presented, a new perspective needs to be given. Not just appealing to your confirmation bias.
@@CornOnTheCop This is fear porn.
"We will give you folks all the dope and coke, because we are woke" 😁
I really enjoyed the California road trip videos! I'm sad to see them come to an end. Nick, what would you say are your favorite and least favorite places after seeing everything, and what which area were you the most surprised by?
I liked the desert communities a lot and Monterey. I didn't think San Diego would look like such a dump Heather
@@NickJohnson
San Diego and Santa Cruz became part of the ocean (close enough) during these heavy rains during these past few days.
Thank you for the real unfiltered footage. Keep up the the great work, stay safe and stay frosty when dealing with unpredicteable people. 👏
Haha ok
The politicians care about the homeless people very much! That's why their policies are designed to create MANY MORE homeless people.
Hello Nick, good to see you, Thanks for sharing, from sunny Adelaide, South Australia 🌞
I left San Freancisco in 2003 because it was a shit hole. I then moved to sacramento but it was already a shit hole. We called the walmart Mutant Mart. I'm back on the east coast. I love what yo do Nick!
Thanks Nick for the work you do. It's impossible to show all the homeless camps in Sacramento. The river parkways, and many hidden places only visible by the obscured pathways where many homeless camps are. I know you can only cover so much. It's 10 times worse. Thanks for the exposure you put on the homeless problem and the political corruption with the Democrats. On the upside...Sacramento has some beautiful parks, golf courses schools, neighborhoods and homes. In addition, there are thousands of homes here that are grand estates worth a million and up.
Newsom hasn't been seen on the street in Sacramento in over 2 years.
Rent when up 25%. What do you want the poor property owner do? Property taxes keep going up, maintenance is up, politicians salary up..
When l left San Jose back in 2001 it was because renting costs outgrew my wages. But l wept because it was still a beautiful state. Now they could not pay me to come back.
appreciate your channel and insight man, stay hopeful
Sacramento was once a strong proud city. The fucking capital of CA. What a shame.
How often does the Governor walk the streets? lol. I have seen him at Starbucks, but walking the streets, in Sacramento? Never happen. But just like you said, Sacramento is far from the worst place to live in CA and downtown is pretty safe.
Leftietards have historically never cared much for the plebians. They use them to gain positions of power and wealth. Always remember how Stalin needed to murder his way to the throne room to obtain power. His bizarre hatred of farmers and regular people was reflected in the policies he created. Even Karl Marx himself hang out with the rich (Engles, his best friend). He refused to associate with plebians who lived in filth. Not much has changed over the centuries. Men like Karl Marx have nothing in common with the group they proclaim to care so much about.
@@pandemicofvaxxedholes Well, I kinda work in a government entity right now, so I have nothing to add to that. But hopefully things get better sooner rather than later.
Screw all of the nasty coffee drinkers and their needs and wants
He walks alright, but in his gated community. What they say “rules thee not for me”.
@trevorthetherapist4200 Until the obsession with mirroring Europe and Canada is erased from the minds of young people, nothing will change. Look at the scam Bernie created. All the uneducated and indoctrinated college kids ate his lies up like cake. Now Bernie is extremely wealthy and has multiple houses. His world-class healthcare meant he didn't pay a dime for his heart attack!
Maybe all the young men of fighting age rushing across the Southern border will build homes for the Americans who voted their way into poverty.
Or like Pelosi said, “ who will pick our crops?”
@@comeoncents3288 oh man, you're right. Them Mexicans will only hire Mexicans. Try being another race and get a job where Mexicans mainly work... I've tried and trust me they ain't hiring no one but they're own. And most jobs in California require that one is bilingual Spanish/English. Just saying.
Im not hating on them. It's fact's
It's annoying when I go into a place of business and the guy behind the counter can't speak English and has to find another English speaker to help. And I'm in the Bay Area'. Not like I'm in a bordering city.
I lived in the Sacramento area last 26 yrs. It was an awesome place but because of progressive politics that encourage homeless to come to CA. Current policies allowed an "unhoused person" getting cash aid and food stamp. They automatically qualify. Why change when u get freebies. I can tell you this, the taxpayer base is shrinking and new freebie programs are handling out with no stop in sight. ⁶
I missed the old California where people are driven by their work ethics and the can do attitude.
Now the welfare system has created a whole new class and they're on the free bread for generations passing down to their kids and their kids.
California has become a toilet that cannot flush its own excrement.
So 😔
I moved to Southern California as a baby. I lived in Southern California for fifty-five years before I moved to Central Texas six years ago. Most of my life was spent in Costa Mesa in Orange County and the last sixteen years was spent in Woodcrest, CA. It was a beautiful place but the left has ruined it.
BTW, Folsom has a prison.
True!
I doubt that many of the politicians walk the streets anywhere in America. Let alone California!
Thanks for keeping it real Mappi! Much love to your channel
Mappy says HI!!
I live in Sacramento. It's a dump.
From Berkeley-the social decay in the Bay Area has happened with amazing swiftness. Subtract the drugs and it would be a lot different. All of it , the whole drug smorgasbord.
The biggest reason why California is the way that it is, is because there are too many people occupying the state. 40 MILLION people live here. If California was a country, it would be the 37th most populated country in the WORLD. 37 out of 234 is still pretty up there. This place just has too many people but nobody wants us in other states. I’ve vacationed in other places and told them where I’m from and received plenty of unwanted attitude. I’m not going to leave California forever, but I wish I could…
The biggest reason why California is the way it is, is because it's run by leftist morons, put in office by bigger morons. People who don't understand that the freedoms and good lives that Americans live are not the norm but the exception. Meaning that people have to work to maintain it. The last thing on the minds of leftist malcontents.
It was just in the news that Adam Rich died at the too young age of 54. This made me think back to watching Eight is Enough as a kid, a show that is now mostly interesting as a historical artifact portraying the Sacramento of the late 1970s as a clean and safe place where middle class families could thrive.
99.9% of the homeless have substance abuse/addiction, mental health issues, or both. CA needs to expand what's called "conservatorship" where you can be dictated where to go, what medications to take etc. Because the hallmark trait of both mental illness and addiction is not being able to reflect on your condition or adequately assess how bad things have gotten. It's the only way they're going to get out of this. South Park did the homeless episode probably 12 years ago and it was a parody at that point, no longer.
Then governor Ronald Reagan closed down the institutions in California. I'm in favor of bringing them back. SF, Sac, LA, San Diego, San Jose, and all other cities will be better in no time.
to the young people...the only thing we all used to complain about in California was smog in the big cities...LA, San Jose, Sacramento ..
In the early Forty's, smog was a sign of great progress in L.A. !
No offense....but where have you been for the last 20 years? Democrats and their politics and programs have decimated this once great state. California is right in the sheet-hole. Thank Gavin Newsome and EVERY Democrat in this state, politician and citizen.
Exactly
I’d like to see how many of these individuals are doing any kind of drinking or non prescribed drugs. The ones who aren’t and can test should really get a secondary safety net. If they are sober and had a freak accident and want to work they should have an outlet.
Been homeless hare in Sacramento for 3 years I never see the governor.
The more money they throw at it the worse it gets. What happens if the money ended. What would happen.
Thanks for the whole eye opening cities tour. You've documented a specific moment in time and for posterity. Hoping for positive changes ahead.
Ok Kevin
You brought me back home Nick! I'm staying in Virginia though. Good luck, CA.
This is the result of multiculturalism and diversity
Voters in CA ruined things!
the voters voted for this... we should rejoice in their success!
This is only what lays at the bottom of what Hollywood and the entertainment industry brings to society
That's a very vague and broad comment. Hollywood and entertainment are not solely responsible for this.
and the liberals and democrats.
Or it's called a 3 rd world country.
We can thank Ronald Reagan when he was the govt of California. He closed 90% of mental health facilities. Which caused homelessness
I haven't been to a theater in decades nor do I watch TV Because all the 💩💩💩💩 that comes from Hollywood Just complete utter trash
Hollywood and the entertainment industry are on the literal other side of California. How are they relevant at all?
Thank you so much for showing the world the truth it needs to be seen.
Yes
Bay area transplants made traffic a nightmare in my city when it never was before
Are salaries in relation to the housing cost in these areas? To afford a 2,800 US$ monthly rent (or mortgage payment), you should earn 35 US$/hr (net, after tax). On the thumb rule, that rental expenses should be about 1/3 of your net income. And looking at the additional cost (compared to Germany) for college education, student loans payback, childcare, health insurance etc.: this salary should even be way above 35/hr.
While I can imagine that many do have this income, how about the average construction worker, nurse, wallmart employees, employees in the small shops, and many more on minimum wage of 7.25 US$/hr - what does a waiter on 2.75 US$/hr (living on tips) do, how does this math work? (e.g. in Germany, childcare, school and university is free and we receive about 270 €/month for each child until education is finished)
We bomb countries so we don't have any extra $$$
When you gonna realize they don't care
SUTTER COUNTY HAS the best resolution for homelessness in the county..... They have a black bear that freely roams through . Ya know it gets hungry it just eats a homeless person. Lmfao
Both and raised in Sacramento. Moved to Texas in 2012 and I'll never go back. They ruined my home.
Sacramento has always been California's diamond in the rough. Snobs in the Bay Area looked down on it. But there was no justification for that. I used to hang out in midtown, about a mile from downtown and the Capitol. Lots of great little cafes. Walkable neighborhood. Lots of trees. Ample parking. Great weather (I like the dry heat in the summer). Great, down-to-earth people. Low cost of living compared to the coastal part of the state. When I decided to leave San Diego in 2019, Sacramento was my first choice. But it had gotten a little too expensive, so I moved to Palm Springs instead. A few months later, Covid hit. Does midtown still have nice little cafes with shaded patios where you can smoke a cigarette? I doubt it. But you could ask that question about any place in the country.
I really like the weather in Sacramento. Lots of rain in the winter to turn everything green (when we're not in a drought), hot dry summers with beautiful warm evenings. Plenty to do without dealing with the stress of a big city. It's still on my list of places to live if some money comes my way. But with Democrats dominating the state government (and I assume the city of Sacramento), things will have to change politically in order to make a move feasible. I'll stay in Riverside County for now where we have a sheriff who will arrest the Gestapo, I mean FBI, if it tries to pull its antics where I live.
Midtown is still nice but there's tents all over
That camp wasn't an abandoned homeless camp there are hundreds upon hundreds of people who live in that "abandoned camp" you just happen to have come when services were having a soup kitchen for them. That camp is anything but abandoned.
You are very talented in many ways Nick, I predict you will garner much fame & fortune. Don’t abandon your honesty & truth-telling EVER! 👍❤️
🦅🇺🇲🦅 what a crying shame there's 5 million American citizens homeless Coast to Coast because of deregulation outsourcing and corruption and the government,
You crack me up😂you and mappy 😜🤣
Dude, the government is out of control🤍🤍🤍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇😇😇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔨🔨🔨They should be embarrassed by their actions😈😈😈
I cannot help but wonder ( not being judgmental either way) but if the US has this homeless nightmare in most places, what effect does the huge numbers of migrants arriving illegally have on the problem.
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All of those people have to live somewhere, too. And it’s not like they’re building new ones just for them, so you’re competing with them when you apply for a new place.
They compound the problems, three, four families in one house, apartment. This allows them to work for less wages putting others out of work!!!
You'll notice that very few of the people on the streets are immigrants! Where I'm from, the homeless people are all Americans who aren't willing or don't know how to hustle like the immigrants do.
Unfiltered population growth = higher cost of living. Higher cost of living = more homelessness. People on the Left only want illegals here because they aren't white.
What I don't understand (not a complete dummy here) how did we get to this point? The entire West Coast has been hostage to the homeless, and crime, for several years, what went wrong? I have lived paycheck to paycheck forever, but I pay my bills, pay rent, etc etc.... why can't most of these folks do it? I still manage to smoke, and drink, tired of these people wanting free everything and not being responsible for their own choices. No end to it. Thanks Nick:) XO's as always.
Lots and lots of cheap and addictive drugs flowing freely over the boarder happened…
People kept taking drugs and voting for Democrats
People got lazy and weren't held accountable.
This is so sad what Democrats have done to California. I lived here all my whole live and was forced to move because the choices California/Sacramento was making. The worst part is people see what's happening to CA and they will be voting for same people.
I was born in Sacramento in 1964 looked nothing like this. It was beautiful and clean. It’s sad to look at photos of me and my sister standing in front of the capital with our Easter dresses on and all the beautiful tulips at the capital. Not the California I grew up in that’s why I left the state last year
I lived in Sacramento starting in the early sixtys,. Heroine poppy's grew undesturbed along the sidewalks near the capital building! There was less homeless people as and no drug addicts to like there is today!
I got my I-phone stolen by a drug addict in Sac. I got hit in the back of the head with a pipe and some one on a bike stole my phone I tried to run after them. The Sherifs are nice and they found them but what is Sac a 3rd world country its ridiculous. When that happened I lost all sympathy for the homeless drug addicts. The mentally ill drug addicts to normal people is to high there. Nice normal people I feel bad for them it was a nice place good restaurants and everything was a shame. You should have gone to the American river trail is awful and also there was way crazier hobo camps I went to them to find the person who stole my phone.
why were you roaming around dumb move
@@mor9n243 Wow how bad is that I have to be in a voluntary house arrest WTF Glad I moved SAC is worse than some 3rd world countries can't even go across the street You should here how Absurd you sound I was visiting my family happened last holidays what a trash place you can't even live your house
@@MultiCose you live there but dont know the symptoms to look out for unless you're old i think you have to be more aware
@@mor9n243 I moved(went home)the crazy drug addict to normal is to high I was just visiting family. I don’t want to have to deal with that stuff. Now I see homeless I have my hand on a weapon ready to go.
@@MultiCose yeah schizos attack no warning
Hi Nick, could you please plan a second visit to Sacramento city / area for an update relevant the homeless still resisting or run away far from the sanctuary capital due to the recent flood?
The nasty tents have been washed away by the floods...