It’s not pronounced “ reed-ding”, it’s pronounced “red-ding”. Philly still has lots to offer and great neighborhoods. Focusing on the worst is titillating.
The video was well laid out and informative. Just had a gander at a lot of the comments and I think that a lot of the people super offended are probably on drugs, so don't take their words too harshly. Keep up the good work
@@jaynguyen1573 the video wasn’t that informative, subjectively biased. It informs on the less greener side of the grass to a city with bones your city will never experience.
That part about Blacks being poverty stricken. You need to see more videos. Its primarily white people poverty stricken. Not blacks or Latinos. They are getting an Edjucation and leaving.
I am from Philadelphia, and I find it depressing these days. Sure if you have money you can hang out in the better areas, but the neighborhoods overall feel and look dangerous.
I lived in Kensington from 2005 to 2019 when i first moved there i didn't feel comfortable, but after a few years i felt safe there. No one really messes with you as long as you mind your business.
Politicians are definitely to blame...they spend more time on what their approval ratings are, how their re-election campaign is going, and getting payoffs from businesses, than they do in actually rebuilding the city...and yet the people still vote for them...
@@companyinsight Philly was the best city of them of them ALL in the world. Remember when Eagles WON !!!!. The WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD CELEBRATED WITH US AND I MEAN THE WHOLE MEAN JUST THAT !!!! THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD !!! No one got that type of LOVE. We are as strong city. We just need a little push and a little help. We are the strongest city in the in the WORLD !!!!. WHY DO YOU THINK THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD CELEBRATED WITH US WHEN WE WON. NO ONE HAS EVER GOTTEN THAT. AND I AM NOT TRYING TO BRAG ON THAT. THERE IS SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ABOUT US. WE NEVER GIVE UP OR EACH OR ON EACH OTHER. I'm a Goretti Gorilla !!! That picture is just my art work. I'm an artist. Eveyone thinks I'm a guy. No matter how I try to tell them I'm not, It doesn't work.
@@littleone5201 I not only remember the Eagles. I remember the Flyers. I remember the 76ers. I remember Allen Iverson. Rest assured, I have lived and breathed Philly. Things are tough for the city, but I believe Philly can be stronger and better than ever before. 💪 Thanks for your support. Be sure to subscribe for new videos ever Wed if you enjoy content like this!
Having only been here a year, the disparity is on display all over the city. Spend enough time on the El and you can see first hand when a strong batch of heroin or more likely these days, fentanyl hits the streets. Although its rough to see, this city is incredible. I've never seen a city represent the duality of flourishing and suffering in such a way. When I walk down the street, everyone sees me. Where I'm from on the west coast that is none existent. This is a city where nobody ceases to exist despite their addictions, poverty or illness. This city is horrifically flawed, but the people are fucking amazing. I couldn't imagine calling anywhere else home.
That is a really incredible the firsthand account of Philly. I haven't been back since leaving a few years ago. Good luck in the city and be sure to subscribe for updates every Wed if you enjoy content like this!
@Bob Johnson I agree. Philly is a strong city. It'll make it bigger and stronger. Thanks for the support Bob. Be sure to subscribe if you enjoy content like this for updates every Wed.
This is the best comment on philly. I would argue overall the city is still on an upward trend, at least over the last 20 years, its definitely hit a rough patch like most cities right now. However i think the reason everyone points at us is also because we have that reputation, its easy to say oh they are doing it again. But truly we are a city of dueling economic outlooks and aot of it is due to the council, and the state choosing to ignore so much and focus on the wrong solutions for problems.
If we were to look at Philadelphia and isolate it from comparison to other American cities, then yes, the city looks atrocious. But, the areas in which those horrific clips originated have been terrible for as long as most of us can remember and the horror and tragedy is usually confined to those areas. If you contrasted Center City - how we pronounce the word 'downtown' in Philly - with Chicago's Magnificent Mile, or even formerly vibrant areas of San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or Seattle, the difference between them is pretty stark. Center City is bustling again, moreso than it was even prior to the pandemic, with almost all of the stores having been reopened. My office is in Center City, but I live in South Philly - born and raised - and I can tell you that my neighborhood still shows the dynamic of a very mixed income and multiracial neighborhood. I don't like to compare Philly to other cities because, as almost everyone knows, we have a huge inferiority complex, but honestly even I myself have to wonder how Philadelphia managed to survive relatively unscathed when compared to so many other formerly vibrant cities that once looked down their noses at us.
Agreed, whenever I head there to visit my family, I see the changes for the better. I see the new small, corner restaurants and coffee shops springing up all over South Philly, but I know there are some horrible places in Philly as well.
I'll also add that, even though I'm from Philly and usually have a knee jerk reaction to criticism - particularly when it seems to hail from New York - I did end up subscribing to your channel for two reasons. One, I like the whole 'Rise and Fall' idea, and two, you used clips from 'Philadelphia - The Great Experiment,' which is one of my favorite documentaries. This city represents everything great and everything terrible about the United States, and the passions and power plays that helped mother the country are still found here, only now they find expression through sports teams. Yes, we're angry, and violent, and we may have murdered that trash Canadian robot some years ago, and okay, maybe we did throw ice and snow at a poorly dressed Santa, and of course there was that Easter moment where some kids were booed because they couldn't find the eggs, and so our reputation precedes us. But we have a lot of good to show for ourselves, and while some areas do look like the Philadelphia scene from World War Z, at least we're not Detroit.
Thanks for your support (and for subscribing!) . I've lived, worked and studied in Philly so I know what you're talking about. There's good and there's bad. Philly always had a lot of potential and I still think the city does to be one of the top cities in the nation. We'll see. Covid could be an indirect boom as people choose to leave nyc.
I can remember Philadelphia being one of the cleanest cities. Every metropolitan area/city has issues. However, it is beyond atrocious now in "Philly". The crime is so unwanted and unpleasant. The schools are terrible. Many of my family & friends headed in other places such as Delaware , VA and other places further South where it is warm, or Midwest states. There are some beautiful people I left behind when I moved. I will always come home and visit , but to live there again...I can't do it. Once you get outside the box to other places, you realize there are many other safe places you can live and enjoy.
Totally understand I left to Florida and now live near the LA /MS coast near the beaches. I will NEVER come back.. Other than to visit family that are now in Delaware or greater Northeast. It is so sad I am a born and raised Philadelphian. I do miss my cheesesteaks though.
Have traveled to Philly twice now in 2022. My experience is that the city has a dark cloud over it, but some of the folks I’ve met are the most kind hearted people. Coming from a clean city (salt lake city) and seeing how dirty and neglected Philly is was an eye opening experience for me. I want to do something good for the city in the future someday, especially with the Youth. Philly needs saving.
I subscribed to a local news channel in Philadelphia, and there were so many shootings in the news in the past week, I swear it makes Los Santos look like a reasonable place to live.
As a Philly native this is really well done. I was born and raised in and around Kensington which is possibly one of the most neglected neighborhoods in the country. I appreciate what I’ve become from being born here, it’s part of who I am. But all the reasons I’ve left are very clear in this video.
Hi Gil, thanks for the kind words and for sharing your experience. I'm also from Philly too, thus the video. It's been tough times for the city of brotherly love. Be sure to subscribe if you enjoy content like this for updates every Wed! :)
Education is paid for via property tax. However, property values are very low so the taxes are not enough to sustain good schools. Polititians children go to Friends Select and other top tier private schools and couldn't care less about the school system. Until there is a viable education system so people can garner good/great paying jobs, cheap housing is all they will be able to afford and so the cycle will continue. Philly politicians have proven to be corrupt (Black and White), especially the ones that we thought really cared. I love my city, but left as a 20 year old in 1988 and don't have plans to return. The city looks great to the untrained eye, but the same crimes still take place daily. Nothing has really changed.
Wasn't even aware of that! Thanks for sharing. Hope you enjoyed the video. Be sure to subscribe for new updates every Wed if you enjoy content like this one.
I agree with basically everything you said. The city has a crap ton of problems and a lot of them are not going to be fixed within the next few years. I think for what the city has it doesn't really freaking well, we have some of the most vibrant arts, food and music scenes in the country. We have some really good public transit even though it lacks severely in some areas and we have in my opinion some of the nicest people and most sociable people in the country. I think that most of our problems could be fixed if we simply got federal or state help, the state refuses to do it on mostly partisan beliefs that are rather stupid, which is part of the reason our infrastructure in several places is so bad and SEPTA our transit system is severely underfunded. If we could get federal help, we could very easily start to deal with the drugs, the infrastructure, the crime, etc. Former mayor nutter managed to bring down crime. Granted he never had a spike this big, we need to find some form of way to get the money we need, and allow it to go to the programs that need it. If we're able to fix that, I think the city will once again be an amazing place, and also I think another reason we're not mentioned as a great city very often is because the people who live here have a huge inferiority complex in relation to the city. Having neighbors like New York, Washington, DC and in some cases Boston can really make someone think their city isn't as good when in reality. I think the cities just as good as places like Boston or Washington DC as long as you avoid certain areas haha
Philly is a great place for people who can't make it or afford to pay the rent in New York City. There may not be as many mice inhabiting apartment buildings... but what we lack in vermin we make up for in trash on every inch of the streets. There are plenty of human rats to get chummy with, too! Enjoy boarded up windows and doors, shootings, homelessness, and crime. To anyone who says that all these problems are isolated to Kensington, Strawberry Mansion, and other notorious slums... nope. This sh/t is happening everywhere, including historically affordable residential areas in South Philly. Tourist-friendly spots, like South Street, aren't immune to gun violence, either. If you don't HAVE to be here for medical school or residency, do NOT move here.
I was in Philly for a few days recently (hadn't been there in 15 years), and really enjoyed myself. It's clear when you look around that there are problems. But it's also clear that there are some very good things going on, too. I really think the city has a lot of potential if it can find some new direction. It reminded me of visiting Albany, NY a couple years back. You could see the physical signs of a city that had fallen, almost into ruin, and the seeds of new life were taking root. I don't think Philly has fallen anywhere near as far as Albany, and I see those seeds growing. So, I have high hopes for it. It's a city that is ripe for some new urbanism, that's for sure. It's got a good enough network of public transit that focusing on that, pedestrianizing a network of streets, building some real cycling infrastructure (paint ain't infrastructure), could do a lot to save the city money, get cars out of the core, free people from the financial burden of needing to own a car, and drive business. My wife & I have chatted a bit about potentially moving to Philly. We love living in the D.C. area, but it's so darned expensive.
Philly has been pretty hot for the past decade. I’ve lived in Fishtown, and South Philly. Both of those neighborhoods have been great and continue to develop. Covid has messed things up with the riots and lack of activities. I don’t have any kids, so the bad schools aren’t a factor for me, but that is something the video is correct about.
Yeah, Penn State is 200 miles from Philadelphia and as this was a video about Philadelphia (with a number of inaccuracies and mispronunciations), it doesn’t makes sense to include something about Penn State (University of Pennsylvania is not Penn State University).
@@brianp1230 Brian, apologies for my mistakes. Am still a newbie and working hard to improve! Do hope you stay and hope you enjoy some of my other videos. My favorite is the one on in-n-out and shake shack.
It doesn’t deserve to be called the city of brotherly love ,when it’s the epicenter for heroin. The rise of gun violence and prostitution is horrible along with that public school system. Thank god I moved out of killadelphia.
Eeh. No, heroin is terrible but they have been able to keep it contained to Kensington, we need federal help to get rid of it, but the states and country won't help. Gin violence is as bad as any other large American city. For the most part the city is really good. But there's a few neighborhoods that ruin the city's vibe
It always makes me laugh to hear anyone call Philly "the city of brotherly love" when the city has some of the rudest and least friendly people I've had the misfortune of meeting.
Now that you've pointrd out Philly's problems, what exactly are your solutions to these problems? Do you have any or is Philly just doomed? Its so easy to criticize.
You're right. Philly is, sadly, a dump. There's a reason why the suburbs, including cities over an hour away by car (without traffic), are seeing sky-high rents and an unusual amount of growth... new apartment buildings are being built on every empty square inch of land everywhere but the city proper. People who once enjoyed living in Philly just can't stand it anymore. People who are moving to Philly for jobs know better than to risk living downtown. Many of the suburbs within a 20-minute drive have equally become laden with violent crime, along with unkempt and vermin-filled apartment buildings at insane rents. There are far more bad neighborhoods than good, both in and outside of downtown. And once relatively safe areas for tourists, etc. are now seeing an alarming number of shootings due to COVID-19 causing more homelessness and crime.
@@alexas.5287 have you been in Philly recently? I mean parking lots are being filled in with apartment complexes. New buildings are propping up everywhere. Downtown is very lively. Rent/house prices have been rocketing up here, with many people moving in. You’re right crime has increased a lot since the pandemic like many cities. That’s one thing that needs to change. But overall the city has been tons of fun to be at.
@@Dalt21 Yes. I never said any new apartments weren’t being built in downtown proper. The unreal amount of land destruction and new apartments and corporate buildings popping up within a one-hour radius of downtown over the last 5-6 years speaks volumes, though. And I’ve been a resident for most of my life. This doesn’t really have anything to do with “fun.” Plenty of places are fun but you wouldn’t want to live there every day, like DC. My comment was about livability. The trash and violent crimes in Philly have gotten much worse, but we’re also seeing homeless more than ever. And even before the pandemic, in my experience every apartment that was remotely affordable was a dump - unless you’d prefer to live on a crumbling block in North or South Philly with boarded up windows and doors a block or half a block over. Oh, and no doubt many of these new buildings downtown of all places will be charging the highest rents the city has ever seen to draw in all the NYC transplants who see them as cheap in comparison.
@@alexas.5287 I’m partially with you. But at the same time, cheap rent can definitely be found now and before the pandemic in nice areas. My gf lived in fairmount and mannayunk for 800 a month with a good set up. Then moved near the liberty bell and is now paying 1k a month for 2bed 2 bath. (With another roommate). Which isn’t awful. I can’t really speak on the surrounding suburbs in PA since I’m not familiar. Im from jersey originally
If it’s that bad, why are so many drug addicts and homeless people moving to Philadelphia? Maybe because the lack of law and order promoted by the City Council, the handouts given by the government and the drug culture ingrained in Philadelphia are to blame.
I recommend if you're going to do a video on the city you first learn how to pronounce the names of places for example Reading Terminal Market is pronounced like the past tense of the word as in I read a book yesterday.
Scrolled through so many comments, no one is asking the right questions. Who were in charge, what were their policies on crime? The drug epidemic was brought in by criminals. Were enforcers depowered? If so why is anyone surprised, you go soft on crime you get more crime... people have lost common sense.
We have 24 buildings under construction over 12 stories in multiple projects all across the city with another 40 Proposed with skyscrapers from 130ft -1,200ft and some may never come to fruition bc of COVID and toll brothers ditching their own hometown for other cities because of mindsets like this one in the OP.
I'm actually making a video on that soon. 😀. Thanks for your support Philma. Be sure to subscribe for new updates every Wednesday if you enjoy content like this.
Why aren't the people that were shown to be drugged out of their mind not picked up by authorities and sent to a clinic????? Where I live, if someone was like that, they would immediately be given to a treatment center...do the authorities not care???? Don't they realize that these people may become criminal when they need their next fix???? Isn't it better (and more cost effective) to treat them before they get worse and commit crimes?????
This is an American city...you must not be from here. If you get pulled over w it, you're hit but the ones that are homeless on foot are given free reigns. They don't have time to fw everybody hitting the stem or poking their arms. Most importantly, most of those people aren't gonna pay their court cost and fines. No profit from arresting them, and our resources aren't set up (sadly) to help the large numbers of people that are strung out rn.
@@companyinsight decriminalize drugs and push rehabilitation. We need less drug scare propaganda and promote more of a harm reduction narrative. As far as cops and homeless, I have no idea. People far brighter than me can't figure it out either. if you kick em out, they inevitably go somewhere else. Free government housing regulations should be updated. Their restrictions have heavily contributed to children in poverty grow up withour a dad at home.
We have many of the same social problems in UK cities, and for the most part things like poverty and crime are ignored. There is a current trend to 'gentrify' inner city areas and boost the property values, but this just pushes more people into poverty and homelessness. Rents and utility costs are huge, and pay is kept low for most people. So as with Philly, many people are working two jobs and are still living in poverty.
Nah, this pandemic didn't do a thing to bring this city back to life. But it did bring a hit of realization and common sense. I feel like Philadelphia can come back. Philadelphia kinda has to. Our surrounding suburbs are currently starting to die, and Philadelphia is the biggest city in PA, so Philadelphia has to make a come back. It's not impossible, just hard. And we need to start be solving at least 2 of our biggest problems. Our failing education and drug problems. Our education should be a top priority because if people don't feel stuck or trapped in a broken system, maybe we won't have too much of a problem with graduation rates. People will probably want to go to college and will help a little with our poverty. If we fix our drug problem, we can also bring down our homeless population (a lot of the homeless are on drugs, not everyone, but it's a large amount). And it'll help fight against some of our drug related crimes because there won't be a big drug Market. Meaning, no one's going to be selling drugs in the city as much as they used to because no one's buying any. Once we fix those 2, everything will fix itself (with additional help of course, but it'll still be a come back). It's not a perfect fix, but we have to work on our problems one at a time. Or maybe we can do multiples at a time. We just need leaders willing to push stuff forward. They don't have to be political leaders, just people that will blow things up into the mainstream and help fix legislation, get funding, and plan everything out till it's finished. It won't be over night, but you can get things done with at least 1 year.
David, I 100% agree with you on #2 for Philadelphia, but #1 I believe is more of a personal characteristic at this point depending on personal drive. Sure Philly education sucks but so does most of the US. Everything can be found and learned online these days. It's up to someone to actually want to do it to change their lives. Thanks for your support. Be sure to subscribe for updates every Wed if you enjoy content like this.
@@companyinsight I agree with you, but we need to fix our education system. It's a must. It needs to start somewhere. Lots of students in here don't care enough about learning to learn on their own. Because of all the crime, corruption, and loss of hope, lots of students don't care nor have the proper materials to learn by themselves. Learning by yourself is possible but it's way easier said than done. And we don't learn what we need to learn for life and for some people - who can't learn on their own- school is their last option. So we need to fix it, or at least try. I have a baby brother (who's in 1st grade), a baby niece (who didn't start at all), and a lot of baby cousins that will have to hold their own against a corrupt system (not much now since they're all in elementary school or not attending at all, but in middle school highschool). You may not agree with the first one but we have to try. Thinking like that won't fix the problem. It's like putting a piece of Scotch tape on a broken bucket. To learn efficiently at home, you need to have access to either the internet or a lot of books (along with a PC, notebooks, pencils or pens, and other things that might be useful). Then, you need to find websites, books, and other learning material to learn what you want to learn. Lastly, you need to keep a consistent schedule for you day to day learning (especially if you're learning more than one skill). And there's just assuming everything goes right. You need to have to money to fix or replace a broken computer or tablet, replenish any supplies needed, have the money to afford a good stable Wi-Fi connection (you can always go to an area with free Wi-Fi but that's not easy in the light of covid), and accommodate if materials are unacceptable at a particular time. And sure, you can do it without certain items, but it just makes it harder on you and will can discourage a learner. I know this because I tried learning how to code without the proper equipment (an okay running PC and stable Wi-Fi connection), and it wasn't impossible, but made it miserable to learn. This is not a good solution to fixing our broken education system. It has too much uncertainty. If we at least try to fix our education system, not only will it be more worth while going to school, kids can get access the the education they need. Learning by yourself is a temporary solution to a permanent problem (unless we fix it). We need to actually fix the bucket with flex tape or with some plastic.
This city been on this rise since 2016 my boy lol we did get hammered for 2 years but made it out alive once they built the 2nd Comcast tower the city was on the rise
What?? We must not be in the same city. What’s the Comcast tower do for anyone? Are you staying at the five-star hotel on top of it? Because every damn day something worse happens in the city. Driving down second and mifflin you’re getting carjacked. Walking home at third and Bainbridge at 8 o’clock on a Tuesday, you’re getting murdered. Getting off the subway to go to Temple and Cecil B Moore, you’re getting shot because someone wants your cell phone and 20 bucks in your purse. , women gettibg raped on the market Frankford line and people watching, waiting for the train at second and market and people getting shot on the tracks. 13th and Walnut, there’s a rapist pulling women into side streets at 7 AM. Dope everywhere, Kensington full of zombies that are simply moving south and west Philly with its hipsters and gang wars. Can’t even get a cheesesteak at midnight because soccer fans, soccer fans nonetheless, beating 30 year old with a trashcan till hes dead. City is not on the rise. Maybe it’s on the rise for most murders in the US, but it is not on the rise for anything. It’s worse than it was in the 80s. That city has a falling football team, maybe the Sixers bring a little bit of light but, nothing but guns and drugs and zombies left. And I lived there all my life. So it ain’t like I’m some outsider. It’s disgusting what happened to that city. I caught people setting my house on fire on camera with their faces smiling and Cops did nothing, trash everywhere, junkies and homeless all over broad street. Not a damn good thing left about that city and up is not the direction it’s going. Kids for, seven years old getting shot, trash doesn’t get picked up, UPS man getting ambushed and killed at third in south, no one works and everyone’s hungry.I’ve been out 4 months and man, there is no amount of money that could meet me ever go back and it breaks my heart but truth is truth
@@JohnZindel5 We had the highest murder rate in the country. Either you don’t live in Philly or your perceptions are all mucked up. They are shooting mothers that are pregnant and returning from their baby shower and raping women on trains and again, the highest murder rate in the country.-557 people are dead this year by murder.
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I guess philly is so bad noooot. That is why everyone is trying to move to philly. Philly is the city that at least try's harder than any city in America. Everything started here in philly. An at least philly try's. Im not saying we have our faults, we do. BUT WE AT LEAST TRY. DO GIVE UP ON US. AND WE SHOULD NOT GIVE UP ON US. OK !!!!!!!!!!!😢😤
I haven't given up, don't worry. There's a chance Philly will be stronger after covid is all over. Thanks for your support. Be sure to subscribe for new updates every Wednesday if you enjoy content like this. 👍🏻
Try? I grew up in north Philly and am 30 now. Getting the hell out of this dump of a city. No one tries anything because just look at the drug addicts, ghettos, and how dirty the city is not to mention how shitty the streets are. I’ve moving to DC where when I went there was no potholes and it was clean. It’s called Filthadelphia for a reason. Philly is a disease filled with bums.
@@cesarmarroquin8818 DC has some parts that are just as shitty as North Philly. You could move to Conshy, Northern Liberties, Center City, Manayunk. You judging the entire city because your grew up in the shittiest part of the city
I don't think Philly will come back to life . Once something has been dead for as long as Philadelphia has been I don't think you could ever bring it back.
@@Dalt21 Philly has too much potential to die. I'm currently looking to move there because it really is a bustling city and I believe it's only going to continue to grow, despite all of it's challenges.
@@Slaythehippies yeah this guy is full of it. The city will specifically never die due to the history along with the many major universities within the city. Crime needs to be figured out, but overall this city is tons of fun, and not dead at all
@@companyinsight Philly was and will be a shit hole before 300 murders let's not joke at this point it's just a conversation topic as I walk to the bathroom but Good luck bLM and all that jazz hey let's march or hold a vigil that helps a lot. Remember vote democrat that helps as well.
Marijuana has been proven not to be a "Gateway" drug...if anything, alcohol is a far more liable candidate, as so many deaths from drugs stated that the individual had both alcohol and hard drugs in their system...
@@companyinsight "I am a weasel voiced 25 year old suburbanite who clipped together a bunch of clips of Kensington and make it seem like the entire city is like it! I only ever go to the city to eat food! That's all there is to do according to me. Eat food and do drugs!" - clown
Yes he is. The truth is this guy is a Trump-supporting Republican who hates Democratic locations. He makes negative videos all the time mostly putting down Democratic cities or locations, and tries to pretend that that's not what he's doing and that he's simply making a video. Every once in awhile he may make a quick mention in a negative way of a Republican place to throw viewers off his real agenda, to attack Democratic locations. Try to find a video of his where he picked one Republican location and spent the entire video of over 15 minutes insulting it; it doesn't exist. It's a shame, Trump is out of office and we still have these Trump supporting idiots lingering around.
@@companyinsight What you are doing is trying your best to pretend that you're not taking a political stance. And how are you being objective with a title like Is This The End Of Philadelphia, Why Is Philadelphia So Bad, What Happened To Philadelphia? There's nothing objective about that? You also attacked another Democratic location (as you meant to), Chicago, stating Chicago and Philadelphia are the top two in the Murder Capital list. Any fool knows that you don't look at flat numbers only, you take the population of a city and divide it by the number of murders it had so that you get the per capita. Doing this, you will see that very large cities like Chicago and Philadelphia are actually safer (despite the perception you lay out) than some medium-sized or smaller cities with lower murder rates because you are more likely to become a victim in the medium-sized or smaller city. The flat murder rate alone isn't all you're suppose to use. Another example: Let's say last year, City A had a murder rate of 121 people and a population of 600 thousand; and City B had a larger murder rate of 401 people and a population of 3 million. You're saying City B is the Murder Capital because of the flat number of murders, 401 vs. 121. But in actuality, City A would be the Murder Capital because City A has a murder for every 4958 people while City B has a murder for every 7481 people - the per capitas. That means you're less likely to be a victim of a murder in City B than you would be in City A. So Philadelphia nor Chicago are near the top when it comes to chances of being a victim of a murder due to their larger populations, many other US cities are ahead of them. -You don't look at flat numbers only. And with Republicans spending all their time fighting gun control measures, you shouldn't be on here as a Republican insulting any city over its murders when the Republican party isn't doing anything to help the problem. After all, one murder is one too many. So if you're really trying to be objective and balanced as you claim, pick out something related to the Republican party and insult it incessantly for over 15 minutes like you did Philadelphia in this video. Here's some ideas to get you started: States With The Lowest GDP, (they're mostly Republican, pick any one); Why Did The Republican Party Let Itself Get Infiltrated By The Tea Party; Why Did Mostly Republicans Attack The U.S. Capital?
Lived there back in the early 00s. In center city, and boy were lots of crackhead. My car at that time was broken into. People and things to do was great, it's just the gangs and crackhead and poverty ruined the experience. Now 2022, forget it the quality of the city lowered, no point for philadelphia to exist as a city anymore. So sad, almost like philadelphia sold its soul and all that remains living there a lost souls.
No wonder why John Street has been pretty lousy, and he was from Democratic Party. Mr Katz had the chance to stop this madness in 1999, but he sadly lost to Street. Now his son is the chair of PA Dems, and the party took over all the politics in PA, in Senate, House and all mines tried (except Secretary of State of PA, whom is still a RINO).
Philadelphia doesn't control the minimum wage in the city... The State does... This video is filled with too many inaccurate information to take seriously.
Democrat failed philly. Not business friendly, not landlord friendly, no one wants to invest here. It’s a shame given the number of great universities here.
Lol Kensington (beg of video) has always been there..has nothing to do with it. When I lived there they were cleaning up Kensington but that was pre-pandemic. It was nothing I work for homeless shelters. The homeless situation ability is nothing compared to the west. At least pre-pandemic. Go check out California or Portland and get back to me in Philadelphia they have it fairly well managed. Yes there are a couple bad areas but compared to the 50 different sections of the city you really only got a few bad ones and that's pretty good
Kensington is the largest drug market on the planet. You should ride the El bus after midnight before you spew ignorance. All under the platform there are homeless people. Not only that these same people get on almost all routes of SEPTA and shoot up, smoke cigarettes, and make the train carts their home. You can't be from Philly, or you live a sheltered life. They even be on the roads begging along Roosevelt Blvd. Come'n man don't be delusional or tell straight lies. No need to compare cities. Los Angeles ain't even a good comparison. LA is a HUGE county. Of course there's more people. It's MORE space as the county is GIGANTIC; If you're to compare. That's like if you combined Philly, Delco, and South Jersey' homeless and druggies. I wonder if it'd be the same scope, or more?
Please this is so one-sided literally every major city in the US has homeless people people on drugs etc. Philadelphi is doing great economic wise we have people moving from out of state coming here there’s no city like Philadelphia😌
I also don’t think you know what you are talking about and you like to let your politics get into your video. You miss out on the group of people that have been in power in Philadelphia since the 50s
100% not. It's impossible to go through the full history of Philadelphia in a limited amount of time. I was afraid the current video is already too detailed and long.
If Philadelphia is to make a return to the glory days it needs to try something different like vote Republican and give it a chance. It's been Democratic city for decades now and it's not working out.
To the content creator: What do you consider yourself, aside from human? This entire channel seems very "artificial" and "robotic". By the way, you know nothing about The Real Philly. Scanning through the internet pulling together cut after cut, photo after photo, and descriptions by those that obviously never lived in Philadelphia. You claim to be from Indonesia. Some of your early blogs seem just as artificial and robotic as every video on this platform. You should take a trip and stay for a week, maybe walk around the Kensington section between the hours of 11pm to 7am. Bring a camera and try walking, not driving, while filming. That would be worth watching, that is your footage surviving the visit. Humanity is a failure. Are you part of it? Maybe not? If not, what do you classify yourself as? I wish you the best regardless.
I can tell you put a lot of work into your videos, but it’s painfully obvious that you’ve never been in Philly. Pulling clips of zombies on Kensington Ave and making it look like that’s all you see when you’re in this city is kinda disrespectful to us from the city. I would suggest possibly visiting a city to investigate what’s really going on, instead of just researching information online. I wouldn’t recommend Philly being your first adventure though unless you have a bulletproof vest and learn how to pronounce Reading Market.
@@h8breed_diehard642 My bad. The zombie clips are more of a flashy intro. A video showing a drive through downtown Philly would be pretty boring... I do think the rest of the video has substance though.
You mispronounced Reading market and a few other major landmarks… to anyone living here this video is a joke. You also said that we have an opium epidemic?!? Lol. Horrible video
What ruined and destroyed once clean, decent Philadelphia? In one word: DIVERSITY. In the 1950s, Kensington, like all those other neighborhoods, was clean and well-kept. Great for raising a family, walking to work in a nearby factory. Then the industries moved out, people who could, followed the jobs and the diverse moved in.
So why has a historically bad neighborhood like fishtown or northern liberties been on the rise? Most of the surrounding neighborhoods of center city have gotten nicer.
Philly just needs to be ran by Republicans for decades it has been a democratic City and obviously that's not working out for it and they would focus more on trying to keep drugs out of the city and helping those are on drugs and help restore the dilapidated neighborhoods and try to get people out of poverty bring in jobs it could be a decent City again.
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@Bob Johnson Love the pride Bob. :D
It’s not pronounced “ reed-ding”, it’s pronounced “red-ding”.
Philly still has lots to offer and great neighborhoods. Focusing on the worst is titillating.
The video was well laid out and informative. Just had a gander at a lot of the comments and I think that a lot of the people super offended are probably on drugs, so don't take their words too harshly. Keep up the good work
@@jaynguyen1573 the video wasn’t that informative, subjectively biased. It informs on the less greener side of the grass to a city with bones your city will never experience.
That part about Blacks being poverty stricken. You need to see more videos. Its primarily white people poverty stricken. Not blacks or Latinos. They are getting an Edjucation and leaving.
I am from Philadelphia, and I find it depressing these days. Sure if you have money you can hang out in the better areas, but the neighborhoods overall feel and look dangerous.
I went on a tour all over Philly for the first time in my life and some places looked scary dangerous angry people weird accents
I lived in Kensington from 2005 to 2019 when i first moved there i didn't feel comfortable, but after a few years i felt safe there. No one really messes with you as long as you mind your business.
Politicians are definitely to blame...they spend more time on what their approval ratings are, how their re-election campaign is going, and getting payoffs from businesses, than they do in actually rebuilding the city...and yet the people still vote for them...
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@@companyinsight Philly was the best city of them of them ALL in the world. Remember when Eagles WON !!!!. The WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD CELEBRATED WITH US AND I MEAN THE WHOLE MEAN JUST THAT !!!! THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD !!! No one got that type of LOVE. We are as strong city. We just need a little push and a little help. We are the strongest city in the in the WORLD !!!!. WHY DO YOU THINK THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD CELEBRATED WITH US WHEN WE WON. NO ONE HAS EVER GOTTEN THAT. AND I AM NOT TRYING TO BRAG ON THAT. THERE IS SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ABOUT US. WE NEVER GIVE UP OR EACH OR ON EACH OTHER.
I'm a Goretti Gorilla !!!
That picture is just my art work. I'm an artist. Eveyone thinks I'm a guy. No matter how I try to tell them I'm not, It doesn't work.
@@littleone5201 I not only remember the Eagles. I remember the Flyers. I remember the 76ers. I remember Allen Iverson. Rest assured, I have lived and breathed Philly. Things are tough for the city, but I believe Philly can be stronger and better than ever before. 💪 Thanks for your support. Be sure to subscribe for new videos ever Wed if you enjoy content like this!
Maybe less drugs might help.
THE DEMOCRATIC MAYOR AND GOVENOR ARE SCREWING UP THE ONCE GREAT CITY. IDIOTS.
Having only been here a year, the disparity is on display all over the city. Spend enough time on the El and you can see first hand when a strong batch of heroin or more likely these days, fentanyl hits the streets. Although its rough to see, this city is incredible. I've never seen a city represent the duality of flourishing and suffering in such a way. When I walk down the street, everyone sees me. Where I'm from on the west coast that is none existent. This is a city where nobody ceases to exist despite their addictions, poverty or illness. This city is horrifically flawed, but the people are fucking amazing. I couldn't imagine calling anywhere else home.
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@Bob Johnson I agree. Philly is a strong city. It'll make it bigger and stronger.
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This is beautiful and I agree!
This is the best comment on philly. I would argue overall the city is still on an upward trend, at least over the last 20 years, its definitely hit a rough patch like most cities right now. However i think the reason everyone points at us is also because we have that reputation, its easy to say oh they are doing it again. But truly we are a city of dueling economic outlooks and aot of it is due to the council, and the state choosing to ignore so much and focus on the wrong solutions for problems.
If we were to look at Philadelphia and isolate it from comparison to other American cities, then yes, the city looks atrocious. But, the areas in which those horrific clips originated have been terrible for as long as most of us can remember and the horror and tragedy is usually confined to those areas. If you contrasted Center City - how we pronounce the word 'downtown' in Philly - with Chicago's Magnificent Mile, or even formerly vibrant areas of San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or Seattle, the difference between them is pretty stark. Center City is bustling again, moreso than it was even prior to the pandemic, with almost all of the stores having been reopened. My office is in Center City, but I live in South Philly - born and raised - and I can tell you that my neighborhood still shows the dynamic of a very mixed income and multiracial neighborhood. I don't like to compare Philly to other cities because, as almost everyone knows, we have a huge inferiority complex, but honestly even I myself have to wonder how Philadelphia managed to survive relatively unscathed when compared to so many other formerly vibrant cities that once looked down their noses at us.
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Philly looks like Portland and San Francisco, but worse.
@@KALMA26 San Francisco is way worse
@@KALMA26 actually affordable though
Agreed, whenever I head there to visit my family, I see the changes for the better. I see the new small, corner restaurants and coffee shops springing up all over South Philly, but I know there are some horrible places in Philly as well.
I'll also add that, even though I'm from Philly and usually have a knee jerk reaction to criticism - particularly when it seems to hail from New York - I did end up subscribing to your channel for two reasons. One, I like the whole 'Rise and Fall' idea, and two, you used clips from 'Philadelphia - The Great Experiment,' which is one of my favorite documentaries. This city represents everything great and everything terrible about the United States, and the passions and power plays that helped mother the country are still found here, only now they find expression through sports teams. Yes, we're angry, and violent, and we may have murdered that trash Canadian robot some years ago, and okay, maybe we did throw ice and snow at a poorly dressed Santa, and of course there was that Easter moment where some kids were booed because they couldn't find the eggs, and so our reputation precedes us. But we have a lot of good to show for ourselves, and while some areas do look like the Philadelphia scene from World War Z, at least we're not Detroit.
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But Detroit started like this. And it didn’t end pretty for the people and the City of Detroit 😦
I can remember Philadelphia being one of the cleanest cities. Every metropolitan area/city has issues. However, it is beyond atrocious now in "Philly". The crime is so unwanted and unpleasant. The schools are terrible. Many of my family & friends headed in other places such as Delaware , VA and other places further South where it is warm, or Midwest states. There are some beautiful people I left behind when I moved. I will always come home and visit , but to live there again...I can't do it. Once you get outside the box to other places, you realize there are many other safe places you can live and enjoy.
what year do you remember it being clean?
I’m moving to Fargo North Dakota… I hate Philly wasted my life In Philly … I will never come back here to live again .
Totally understand I left to Florida and now live near the LA /MS coast near the beaches. I will NEVER come back.. Other than to visit family that are now in Delaware or greater Northeast. It is so sad I am a born and raised Philadelphian. I do miss my cheesesteaks though.
Have traveled to Philly twice now in 2022. My experience is that the city has a dark cloud over it, but some of the folks I’ve met are the most kind hearted people. Coming from a clean city (salt lake city) and seeing how dirty and neglected Philly is was an eye opening experience for me. I want to do something good for the city in the future someday, especially with the Youth. Philly needs saving.
Why you hating on philly, i can hate on salt lake all day
@@Roadtripmik no hate here, y’all just need to take care of your city and clean it up.
I live in Philadelphia and all I Gotta say is,
“The city of brotherly love HA! More like the city of brotherly hatred.”
I subscribed to a local news channel in Philadelphia, and there were so many shootings in the news in the past week, I swear it makes Los Santos look like a reasonable place to live.
As a Philly native this is really well done. I was born and raised in and around Kensington which is possibly one of the most neglected neighborhoods in the country. I appreciate what I’ve become from being born here, it’s part of who I am. But all the reasons I’ve left are very clear in this video.
Hi Gil, thanks for the kind words and for sharing your experience. I'm also from Philly too, thus the video. It's been tough times for the city of brotherly love.
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Education is paid for via property tax. However, property values are very low so the taxes are not enough to sustain good schools. Polititians children go to Friends Select and other top tier private schools and couldn't care less about the school system. Until there is a viable education system so people can garner good/great paying jobs, cheap housing is all they will be able to afford and so the cycle will continue. Philly politicians have proven to be corrupt (Black and White), especially the ones that we thought really cared. I love my city, but left as a 20 year old in 1988 and don't have plans to return. The city looks great to the untrained eye, but the same crimes still take place daily. Nothing has really changed.
Philly is cracked just like it's precious Liberty Bell
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Boy, you are a comedian. I’m laughing so hard I’m depressed.
You didn't mention the DA Krasner. He has a no bail policy. Even for violent criminals.
Wasn't even aware of that! Thanks for sharing.
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I agree with basically everything you said. The city has a crap ton of problems and a lot of them are not going to be fixed within the next few years. I think for what the city has it doesn't really freaking well, we have some of the most vibrant arts, food and music scenes in the country. We have some really good public transit even though it lacks severely in some areas and we have in my opinion some of the nicest people and most sociable people in the country. I think that most of our problems could be fixed if we simply got federal or state help, the state refuses to do it on mostly partisan beliefs that are rather stupid, which is part of the reason our infrastructure in several places is so bad and SEPTA our transit system is severely underfunded. If we could get federal help, we could very easily start to deal with the drugs, the infrastructure, the crime, etc. Former mayor nutter managed to bring down crime. Granted he never had a spike this big, we need to find some form of way to get the money we need, and allow it to go to the programs that need it. If we're able to fix that, I think the city will once again be an amazing place, and also I think another reason we're not mentioned as a great city very often is because the people who live here have a huge inferiority complex in relation to the city. Having neighbors like New York, Washington, DC and in some cases Boston can really make someone think their city isn't as good when in reality. I think the cities just as good as places like Boston or Washington DC as long as you avoid certain areas haha
Philly is a great place for people who can't make it or afford to pay the rent in New York City. There may not be as many mice inhabiting apartment buildings... but what we lack in vermin we make up for in trash on every inch of the streets. There are plenty of human rats to get chummy with, too! Enjoy boarded up windows and doors, shootings, homelessness, and crime.
To anyone who says that all these problems are isolated to Kensington, Strawberry Mansion, and other notorious slums... nope. This sh/t is happening everywhere, including historically affordable residential areas in South Philly. Tourist-friendly spots, like South Street, aren't immune to gun violence, either.
If you don't HAVE to be here for medical school or residency, do NOT move here.
I was in Philly for a few days recently (hadn't been there in 15 years), and really enjoyed myself. It's clear when you look around that there are problems. But it's also clear that there are some very good things going on, too. I really think the city has a lot of potential if it can find some new direction. It reminded me of visiting Albany, NY a couple years back. You could see the physical signs of a city that had fallen, almost into ruin, and the seeds of new life were taking root. I don't think Philly has fallen anywhere near as far as Albany, and I see those seeds growing. So, I have high hopes for it. It's a city that is ripe for some new urbanism, that's for sure. It's got a good enough network of public transit that focusing on that, pedestrianizing a network of streets, building some real cycling infrastructure (paint ain't infrastructure), could do a lot to save the city money, get cars out of the core, free people from the financial burden of needing to own a car, and drive business.
My wife & I have chatted a bit about potentially moving to Philly. We love living in the D.C. area, but it's so darned expensive.
I wish I new this info before I moved here . I would have never come.
Check out my video on Texas or Florida!
Philly has been pretty hot for the past decade. I’ve lived in Fishtown, and South Philly. Both of those neighborhoods have been great and continue to develop. Covid has messed things up with the riots and lack of activities.
I don’t have any kids, so the bad schools aren’t a factor for me, but that is something the video is correct about.
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At 3:24 these institutions also ignored wrong doings of Jerry Sandusky at Penn State...
True!
Yeah, Penn State is 200 miles from Philadelphia and as this was a video about Philadelphia (with a number of inaccuracies and mispronunciations), it doesn’t makes sense to include something about Penn State (University of Pennsylvania is not Penn State University).
@@brianp1230 Brian, apologies for my mistakes. Am still a newbie and working hard to improve! Do hope you stay and hope you enjoy some of my other videos. My favorite is the one on in-n-out and shake shack.
@@brianp1230 He's using Sandusky as a prime example of what these halls of Liberal Woke Indoctrination are contributing to this nightmare.
It doesn’t deserve to be called the city of brotherly love ,when it’s the epicenter for heroin. The rise of gun violence and prostitution is horrible along with that public school system. Thank god I moved out of killadelphia.
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Eeh. No, heroin is terrible but they have been able to keep it contained to Kensington, we need federal help to get rid of it, but the states and country won't help. Gin violence is as bad as any other large American city. For the most part the city is really good. But there's a few neighborhoods that ruin the city's vibe
It always makes me laugh to hear anyone call Philly "the city of brotherly love" when the city has some of the rudest and least friendly people I've had the misfortune of meeting.
Now that you've pointrd out Philly's problems, what exactly are your solutions to these problems? Do you have any or is Philly just doomed? Its so easy to criticize.
Such a happy way to describe a hell on Earth
That's one nice way to put it. Check out my video on Chicago.
You're right. Philly is, sadly, a dump. There's a reason why the suburbs, including cities over an hour away by car (without traffic), are seeing sky-high rents and an unusual amount of growth... new apartment buildings are being built on every empty square inch of land everywhere but the city proper. People who once enjoyed living in Philly just can't stand it anymore. People who are moving to Philly for jobs know better than to risk living downtown.
Many of the suburbs within a 20-minute drive have equally become laden with violent crime, along with unkempt and vermin-filled apartment buildings at insane rents. There are far more bad neighborhoods than good, both in and outside of downtown. And once relatively safe areas for tourists, etc. are now seeing an alarming number of shootings due to COVID-19 causing more homelessness and crime.
@@alexas.5287 have you been in Philly recently? I mean parking lots are being filled in with apartment complexes. New buildings are propping up everywhere. Downtown is very lively. Rent/house prices have been rocketing up here, with many people moving in. You’re right crime has increased a lot since the pandemic like many cities. That’s one thing that needs to change. But overall the city has been tons of fun to be at.
@@Dalt21 Yes. I never said any new apartments weren’t being built in downtown proper. The unreal amount of land destruction and new apartments and corporate buildings popping up within a one-hour radius of downtown over the last 5-6 years speaks volumes, though. And I’ve been a resident for most of my life. This doesn’t really have anything to do with “fun.” Plenty of places are fun but you wouldn’t want to live there every day, like DC. My comment was about livability. The trash and violent crimes in Philly have gotten much worse, but we’re also seeing homeless more than ever. And even before the pandemic, in my experience every apartment that was remotely affordable was a dump - unless you’d prefer to live on a crumbling block in North or South Philly with boarded up windows and doors a block or half a block over. Oh, and no doubt many of these new buildings downtown of all places will be charging the highest rents the city has ever seen to draw in all the NYC transplants who see them as cheap in comparison.
@@alexas.5287 I’m partially with you. But at the same time, cheap rent can definitely be found now and before the pandemic in nice areas. My gf lived in fairmount and mannayunk for 800 a month with a good set up. Then moved near the liberty bell and is now paying 1k a month for 2bed 2 bath. (With another roommate). Which isn’t awful. I can’t really speak on the surrounding suburbs in PA since I’m not familiar. Im from jersey originally
If it’s that bad, why are so many drug addicts and homeless people moving to Philadelphia? Maybe because the lack of law and order promoted by the City Council, the handouts given by the government and the drug culture ingrained in Philadelphia are to blame.
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1/2 these pictures aren't from Philly. Bethlehem steel is in Bethlehem, Pa not philly.
Phily is one giant getto
If that was so why are the bad areas getting gentrified?
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I recommend if you're going to do a video on the city you first learn how to pronounce the names of places for example Reading Terminal Market is pronounced like the past tense of the word as in I read a book yesterday.
Scrolled through so many comments, no one is asking the right questions. Who were in charge, what were their policies on crime? The drug epidemic was brought in by criminals. Were enforcers depowered? If so why is anyone surprised, you go soft on crime you get more crime... people have lost common sense.
We have 24 buildings under construction over 12 stories in multiple projects all across the city with another 40 Proposed with skyscrapers from 130ft -1,200ft and some may never come to fruition bc of COVID and toll brothers ditching their own hometown for other cities because of mindsets like this one in the OP.
Its all relative compared to other cities and states right?
@@companyinsight if you lived here for a year you’d understand entirely what’s going on here
So are you saying it's improving? Or it's bad?
I wish I dropped out of high school. Its more about indoctrination than education these days
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Heartbreaking
Why aren't the people that were shown to be drugged out of their mind not picked up by authorities and sent to a clinic????? Where I live, if someone was like that, they would immediately be given to a treatment center...do the authorities not care???? Don't they realize that these people may become criminal when they need their next fix???? Isn't it better (and more cost effective) to treat them before they get worse and commit crimes?????
Reminds me of the video I made on Downtown LA last week.....
This is an American city...you must not be from here.
If you get pulled over w it, you're hit but the ones that are homeless on foot are given free reigns. They don't have time to fw everybody hitting the stem or poking their arms. Most importantly, most of those people aren't gonna pay their court cost and fines. No profit from arresting them, and our resources aren't set up (sadly) to help the large numbers of people that are strung out rn.
@@BB-uu9oo What do you think we should do as a country?
@@companyinsight Philly wont be fixed by something that LA or DC does, it will be fixed by something that Philadelphia does.
@@companyinsight decriminalize drugs and push rehabilitation. We need less drug scare propaganda and promote more of a harm reduction narrative. As far as cops and homeless, I have no idea. People far brighter than me can't figure it out either. if you kick em out, they inevitably go somewhere else. Free government housing regulations should be updated. Their restrictions have heavily contributed to children in poverty grow up withour a dad at home.
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60 years Democrat rule. That's why. /the end
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God bless Philly
We have many of the same social problems in UK cities, and for the most part things like poverty and crime are ignored. There is a current trend to 'gentrify' inner city areas and boost the property values, but this just pushes more people into poverty and homelessness. Rents and utility costs are huge, and pay is kept low for most people. So as with Philly, many people are working two jobs and are still living in poverty.
Thank god I left Philly because of too many homicide in the city along with some of its suburbs
Corruption drugs and greed!
I left in late 1990s during the big Exodus. Best move i made😊
Nah, this pandemic didn't do a thing to bring this city back to life. But it did bring a hit of realization and common sense.
I feel like Philadelphia can come back. Philadelphia kinda has to. Our surrounding suburbs are currently starting to die, and Philadelphia is the biggest city in PA, so Philadelphia has to make a come back.
It's not impossible, just hard. And we need to start be solving at least 2 of our biggest problems. Our failing education and drug problems.
Our education should be a top priority because if people don't feel stuck or trapped in a broken system, maybe we won't have too much of a problem with graduation rates. People will probably want to go to college and will help a little with our poverty.
If we fix our drug problem, we can also bring down our homeless population (a lot of the homeless are on drugs, not everyone, but it's a large amount). And it'll help fight against some of our drug related crimes because there won't be a big drug Market. Meaning, no one's going to be selling drugs in the city as much as they used to because no one's buying any.
Once we fix those 2, everything will fix itself (with additional help of course, but it'll still be a come back). It's not a perfect fix, but we have to work on our problems one at a time. Or maybe we can do multiples at a time. We just need leaders willing to push stuff forward. They don't have to be political leaders, just people that will blow things up into the mainstream and help fix legislation, get funding, and plan everything out till it's finished. It won't be over night, but you can get things done with at least 1 year.
David, I 100% agree with you on #2 for Philadelphia, but #1 I believe is more of a personal characteristic at this point depending on personal drive. Sure Philly education sucks but so does most of the US. Everything can be found and learned online these days. It's up to someone to actually want to do it to change their lives.
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@@companyinsight I agree with you, but we need to fix our education system. It's a must. It needs to start somewhere. Lots of students in here don't care enough about learning to learn on their own. Because of all the crime, corruption, and loss of hope, lots of students don't care nor have the proper materials to learn by themselves. Learning by yourself is possible but it's way easier said than done. And we don't learn what we need to learn for life and for some people - who can't learn on their own- school is their last option. So we need to fix it, or at least try. I have a baby brother (who's in 1st grade), a baby niece (who didn't start at all), and a lot of baby cousins that will have to hold their own against a corrupt system (not much now since they're all in elementary school or not attending at all, but in middle school highschool). You may not agree with the first one but we have to try. Thinking like that won't fix the problem. It's like putting a piece of Scotch tape on a broken bucket.
To learn efficiently at home, you need to have access to either the internet or a lot of books (along with a PC, notebooks, pencils or pens, and other things that might be useful). Then, you need to find websites, books, and other learning material to learn what you want to learn. Lastly, you need to keep a consistent schedule for you day to day learning (especially if you're learning more than one skill). And there's just assuming everything goes right. You need to have to money to fix or replace a broken computer or tablet, replenish any supplies needed, have the money to afford a good stable Wi-Fi connection (you can always go to an area with free Wi-Fi but that's not easy in the light of covid), and accommodate if materials are unacceptable at a particular time. And sure, you can do it without certain items, but it just makes it harder on you and will can discourage a learner. I know this because I tried learning how to code without the proper equipment (an okay running PC and stable Wi-Fi connection), and it wasn't impossible, but made it miserable to learn. This is not a good solution to fixing our broken education system. It has too much uncertainty.
If we at least try to fix our education system, not only will it be more worth while going to school, kids can get access the the education they need. Learning by yourself is a temporary solution to a permanent problem (unless we fix it). We need to actually fix the bucket with flex tape or with some plastic.
Really sad! The Philly metro is pretty lacking as well
They have a lot of work to do for the city to catch up to the status as before.
This city been on this rise since 2016 my boy lol we did get hammered for 2 years but made it out alive once they built the 2nd Comcast tower the city was on the rise
What?? We must not be in the same city. What’s the Comcast tower do for anyone? Are you staying at the five-star hotel on top of it? Because every damn day something worse happens in the city. Driving down second and mifflin you’re getting carjacked. Walking home at third and Bainbridge at 8 o’clock on a Tuesday, you’re getting murdered. Getting off the subway to go to Temple and Cecil B Moore, you’re getting shot because someone wants your cell phone and 20 bucks in your purse. , women gettibg raped on the market Frankford line and people watching, waiting for the train at second and market and people getting shot on the tracks. 13th and Walnut, there’s a rapist pulling women into side streets at 7 AM. Dope everywhere, Kensington full of zombies that are simply moving south and west Philly with its hipsters and gang wars. Can’t even get a cheesesteak at midnight because soccer fans, soccer fans nonetheless, beating 30 year old with a trashcan till hes dead. City is not on the rise. Maybe it’s on the rise for most murders in the US, but it is not on the rise for anything. It’s worse than it was in the 80s. That city has a falling football team, maybe the Sixers bring a little bit of light but, nothing but guns and drugs and zombies left. And I lived there all my life. So it ain’t like I’m some outsider. It’s disgusting what happened to that city. I caught people setting my house on fire on camera with their faces smiling and Cops did nothing, trash everywhere, junkies and homeless all over broad street. Not a damn good thing left about that city and up is not the direction it’s going. Kids for, seven years old getting shot, trash doesn’t get picked up, UPS man getting ambushed and killed at third in south, no one works and everyone’s hungry.I’ve been out 4 months and man, there is no amount of money that could meet me ever go back and it breaks my heart but truth is truth
100% agreed. Each neighborhood has improved over the past 10 years or so, before the pandemic.
My view is more here than the comment before this.
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@@JohnZindel5 We had the highest murder rate in the country. Either you don’t live in Philly or your perceptions are all mucked up. They are shooting mothers that are pregnant and returning from their baby shower and raping women on trains and again, the highest murder rate in the country.-557 people are dead this year by murder.
Lucky = Hard work. Taxes = Democratic.
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I guess philly is so bad noooot. That is why everyone is trying to move to philly. Philly is the city that at least try's harder than any city in America. Everything started here in philly. An at least philly try's. Im not saying we have our faults, we do. BUT WE AT LEAST TRY. DO GIVE UP ON US. AND WE SHOULD NOT GIVE UP ON US. OK !!!!!!!!!!!😢😤
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Try? I grew up in north Philly and am 30 now. Getting the hell out of this dump of a city. No one tries anything because just look at the drug addicts, ghettos, and how dirty the city is not to mention how shitty the streets are. I’ve moving to DC where when I went there was no potholes and it was clean. It’s called Filthadelphia for a reason. Philly is a disease filled with bums.
@@cesarmarroquin8818 some parts really are quite bad but don't be so rough on the city that raised you!
@@cesarmarroquin8818 DC has some parts that are just as shitty as North Philly. You could move to Conshy, Northern Liberties, Center City, Manayunk. You judging the entire city because your grew up in the shittiest part of the city
I don't think Philly will come back to life . Once something has been dead for as long as Philadelphia has been I don't think you could ever bring it back.
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Stop it. I was just in Philly this weekend, and it was bustling.
@@Dalt21 Philly has too much potential to die. I'm currently looking to move there because it really is a bustling city and I believe it's only going to continue to grow, despite all of it's challenges.
@@Slaythehippies yeah this guy is full of it. The city will specifically never die due to the history along with the many major universities within the city. Crime needs to be figured out, but overall this city is tons of fun, and not dead at all
According to the census, the population decline has reversed. So that's good
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@@companyinsight Philly was and will be a shit hole before 300 murders let's not joke at this point it's just a conversation topic as I walk to the bathroom but Good luck bLM and all that jazz hey let's march or hold a vigil that helps a lot. Remember vote democrat that helps as well.
I’m from there and it has gone downhill.
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Filthadelphia sounds more suitable
Philly is the reason Will Smith smacking people around 😮...
Price controls like minimum wage and rent control never work. If you want prices to go down you need to increase supply.
he has that "raid shadow legends voice "
Marijuana has been proven not to be a "Gateway" drug...if anything, alcohol is a far more liable candidate, as so many deaths from drugs stated that the individual had both alcohol and hard drugs in their system...
Yes, there's too much of that in the cities nowadays.
Weed led me to all other drugs and eventually the mental ward.
I don't think its the end all be all but weed and alchohol are both gateway drugs honestly.
ii got shot by a random in west philly
Very good! I live in Philadelphia.
Who ever made this is a clown.
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@@companyinsight "I am a weasel voiced 25 year old suburbanite who clipped together a bunch of clips of Kensington and make it seem like the entire city is like it! I only ever go to the city to eat food! That's all there is to do according to me. Eat food and do drugs!" - clown
Yes he is. The truth is this guy is a Trump-supporting Republican who hates Democratic locations. He makes negative videos all the time mostly putting down Democratic cities or locations, and tries to pretend that that's not what he's doing and that he's simply making a video. Every once in awhile he may make a quick mention in a negative way of a Republican place to throw viewers off his real agenda, to attack Democratic locations. Try to find a video of his where he picked one Republican location and spent the entire video of over 15 minutes insulting it; it doesn't exist. It's a shame, Trump is out of office and we still have these Trump supporting idiots lingering around.
@@GreenLine4444 Tim, I try my best to be objective, informative and not to take a political stance.
@@companyinsight What you are doing is trying your best to pretend that you're not taking a political stance. And how are you being objective with a title like Is This The End Of Philadelphia, Why Is Philadelphia So Bad, What Happened To Philadelphia? There's nothing objective about that? You also attacked another Democratic location (as you meant to), Chicago, stating Chicago and Philadelphia are the top two in the Murder Capital list. Any fool knows that you don't look at flat numbers only, you take the population of a city and divide it by the number of murders it had so that you get the per capita. Doing this, you will see that very large cities like Chicago and Philadelphia are actually safer (despite the perception you lay out) than some medium-sized or smaller cities with lower murder rates because you are more likely to become a victim in the medium-sized or smaller city. The flat murder rate alone isn't all you're suppose to use. Another example: Let's say last year, City A had a murder rate of 121 people and a population of 600 thousand; and City B had a larger murder rate of 401 people and a population of 3 million. You're saying City B is the Murder Capital because of the flat number of murders, 401 vs. 121. But in actuality, City A would be the Murder Capital because City A has a murder for every 4958 people while City B has a murder for every 7481 people - the per capitas. That means you're less likely to be a victim of a murder in City B than you would be in City A. So Philadelphia nor Chicago are near the top when it comes to chances of being a victim of a murder due to their larger populations, many other US cities are ahead of them. -You don't look at flat numbers only. And with Republicans spending all their time fighting gun control measures, you shouldn't be on here as a Republican insulting any city over its murders when the Republican party isn't doing anything to help the problem. After all, one murder is one too many. So if you're really trying to be objective and balanced as you claim, pick out something related to the Republican party and insult it incessantly for over 15 minutes like you did Philadelphia in this video. Here's some ideas to get you started: States With The Lowest GDP, (they're mostly Republican, pick any one); Why Did The Republican Party Let Itself Get Infiltrated By The Tea Party; Why Did Mostly Republicans Attack The U.S. Capital?
Lived there back in the early 00s. In center city, and boy were lots of crackhead. My car at that time was broken into.
People and things to do was great, it's just the gangs and crackhead and poverty ruined the experience.
Now 2022, forget it the quality of the city lowered, no point for philadelphia to exist as a city anymore. So sad, almost like philadelphia sold its soul and all that remains living there a lost souls.
No wonder why John Street has been pretty lousy, and he was from Democratic Party. Mr Katz had the chance to stop this madness in 1999, but he sadly lost to Street. Now his son is the chair of PA Dems, and the party took over all the politics in PA, in Senate, House and all mines tried (except Secretary of State of PA, whom is still a RINO).
@@agitohd philly haven't been the same since Hill street Blues 💯 🤦🏿♂️
Philadelphia doesn't control the minimum wage in the city... The State does... This video is filled with too many inaccurate information to take seriously.
Who is bankrolling this dork?
You should do the fall and rise of champion
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The three most impacted by COVID neighborhoods are my neighborhoods.
Goodness Philly was such a good city to visit ...its a shame politicians had let this happened.
Democrat failed philly. Not business friendly, not landlord friendly, no one wants to invest here. It’s a shame given the number of great universities here.
Lol Kensington (beg of video) has always been there..has nothing to do with it. When I lived there they were cleaning up Kensington but that was pre-pandemic. It was nothing I work for homeless shelters. The homeless situation ability is nothing compared to the west. At least pre-pandemic. Go check out California or Portland and get back to me in Philadelphia they have it fairly well managed. Yes there are a couple bad areas but compared to the 50 different sections of the city you really only got a few bad ones and that's pretty good
Kensington is the largest drug market on the planet. You should ride the El bus after midnight before you spew ignorance. All under the platform there are homeless people. Not only that these same people get on almost all routes of SEPTA and shoot up, smoke cigarettes, and make the train carts their home.
You can't be from Philly, or you live a sheltered life. They even be on the roads begging along Roosevelt Blvd. Come'n man don't be delusional or tell straight lies.
No need to compare cities. Los Angeles ain't even a good comparison. LA is a HUGE county. Of course there's more people. It's MORE space as the county is GIGANTIC; If you're to compare. That's like if you combined Philly, Delco, and South Jersey' homeless and druggies. I wonder if it'd be the same scope, or more?
6:56 - 7:10 is not Philly.
Philly is not bad, keep hating!! You should go to chester and camden bro
Please this is so one-sided literally every major city in the US has homeless people people on drugs etc. Philadelphi is doing great economic wise we have people moving from out of state coming here there’s no city like Philadelphia😌
You said reading wrong it’s reeding
Reding
My bad. Don't let that affect the overall video.
@@companyinsight I agree, you lost me as soon as you mispronounced that
@@pipchrishall :( Sorry about that. Be sure to check out my video on NYC or my new one.
I also don’t think you know what you are talking about and you like to let your politics get into your video. You miss out on the group of people that have been in power in Philadelphia since the 50s
100% not. It's impossible to go through the full history of Philadelphia in a limited amount of time. I was afraid the current video is already too detailed and long.
Fate or destiny
You pronounced it Reeding.... Its Red-ing dude.
Somber interesting shots of the city..... WHATS UP GUYZ?!?! ugh...pass
Well if you don't want to watch the full clip I don't know what to say....
Philly is dope but politicians fucked it up. It will be a hip city in the future guaranteed..
"Reading Terminal Market" It's pronounced red-ing.
If Philadelphia is to make a return to the glory days it needs to try something different like vote Republican and give it a chance. It's been Democratic city for decades now and it's not working out.
Philly haven't been sh... since Hill street Blues smh 🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
Or maby make it so there’s better options for voting 🤷♂️
Why does this video only focus on Kensington? Like there aren't any other up and coming neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Terrible context
swarthmore isnt in philly
Philadelphia is actually on the rise despite what this video might say
Most of the people who talk doom and gloom about it are people who don't live there.
Bruh said Boston is must visit lol
Philadelphia has s ok me cleaning up to do
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It sounds like the narrator has never been to Philly.
False.
Philadelphia was a great city in 2009 but not anymore
You showed a bunch of videos not from Philly
wee all know why. lol
Philly is the best American city by far
To the content creator: What do you consider yourself, aside from human? This entire channel seems very "artificial" and "robotic". By the way, you know nothing about The Real Philly. Scanning through the internet pulling together cut after cut, photo after photo, and descriptions by those that obviously never lived in Philadelphia. You claim to be from Indonesia. Some of your early blogs seem just as artificial and robotic as every video on this platform. You should take a trip and stay for a week, maybe walk around the Kensington section between the hours of 11pm to 7am. Bring a camera and try walking, not driving, while filming. That would be worth watching, that is your footage surviving the visit. Humanity is a failure. Are you part of it? Maybe not? If not, what do you classify yourself as? I wish you the best regardless.
Thanks for sharing the feedback. It's helpful and I'll try to make my new videos better. 🙏
I can tell you put a lot of work into your videos, but it’s painfully obvious that you’ve never been in Philly. Pulling clips of zombies on Kensington Ave and making it look like that’s all you see when you’re in this city is kinda disrespectful to us from the city. I would suggest possibly visiting a city to investigate what’s really going on, instead of just researching information online. I wouldn’t recommend Philly being your first adventure though unless you have a bulletproof vest and learn how to pronounce Reading Market.
@@h8breed_diehard642 My bad. The zombie clips are more of a flashy intro. A video showing a drive through downtown Philly would be pretty boring... I do think the rest of the video has substance though.
You mispronounced Reading market and a few other major landmarks… to anyone living here this video is a joke. You also said that we have an opium epidemic?!? Lol. Horrible video
BLACK PEOPLE happened to Philadelphia
What ruined and destroyed once clean, decent Philadelphia? In one word: DIVERSITY. In the 1950s, Kensington, like all those other neighborhoods, was clean and well-kept. Great for raising a family, walking to work in a nearby factory. Then the industries moved out, people who could, followed the jobs and the diverse moved in.
So why has a historically bad neighborhood like fishtown or northern liberties been on the rise? Most of the surrounding neighborhoods of center city have gotten nicer.
When you’re in Center City you don’t see that much poverty at all compared to other cities homelessness
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Philly just needs to be ran by Republicans for decades it has been a democratic City and obviously that's not working out for it and they would focus more on trying to keep drugs out of the city and helping those are on drugs and help restore the dilapidated neighborhoods and try to get people out of poverty bring in jobs it could be a decent City again.
9 out of the 10 poorest and most dangerous states are red states but keep trying