If you want everyone to be homeless then continue to spread your BS. More and more people are simply unable to afford the rising prices relative to income. It is not from a lack of willingness to work for most of the long term homeless.
So move where the jobs are that pay enough to live on when factoring in the local cost of living. It’s really pretty simple. I’ve been there and done that. Those street bums could get hired on for nearly $100k a year driving a truck for Walmart. The trouble is Walmart doesn’t need crackheads driving their trucks.
I agree with you Nick about the main cause of long-term homelessness. I live in Oregon and the leaders here are always saying more affordable housing is needed to fight the homeless crisis. It is drugs and mental health issues that are the main driving forces for long-term homelessness. Most of the homeless people I see month after month on the streets just aren't functional. You could lower rents 75% or 90% and it wouldn't matter in their cases.
Flint Ironstag, I’m considering moving to Tillamook (I’m on an apartment waitlist) from Washington but wondering if it’s a safe area and not littered with garbage like Olympia. What’s your take?
@@esila4392 I'm from Vashon/Seattle and now live in S. Oregon. Tillamook is cheesy, haha. It's inland coast, so it's a little less appealing than a coastal town that's on the coast with beach access. Full of political nuts up and down the coast driving Teslas. Better than Olympia. I moved here from Tacoma, so yeah...I would say it's safe, but unappealing in a lot of ways. Newport or Florence is a little better. I live by Coos Bay, affordable, but definitely not a place I would recommend.
I do agree with you. People give up on marriage and parenting fairly easy. I'm not speaking on domestic violence, though a factor. Outside of that some folks are just non committal. It's truly sad. I do believe that many people (teachers, mentors, relatives & clergy) can help a child in many ways . Unfortunately so many don't have that advantage.
@@brendasmiley6128I'm betting these single parent homes are not due to individuals merely being anti-marriage. Its likely a really primitive-brained hormonal uneducated dumb woman getting involved with another really primitive-brained hormonal dumb man. Viola, she gets pregnant 🤰. Out pops 👶 baby, or several babies 🤯 by one or more sperm suppliers. He wasn't planning on any long-term commitment in the first place. She was even more careless. I agree that what you're aiming to suggest is that the surrounding support network can make a difference. The overall culture is important. What is tolerated or not tolerated comes from those culture norms. Stable adult role models are so needed for kids to see a route to healthy success. Yes indeed. Family responsibility needs to be culturally ingrained into these people's heads. Divorce isn't really always awful though. People should not be forced to stay together under one roof if being together would be problematic. Kids sense that hostility and it can be a serious stress on kids. There are separated parents that are responsible full on board parents. This isn't quite the same as dumb hormonal morons that carelessly spit out kids simply due to lack of smart birth control, or oh, I know, don't mess around in the first place.
I agree for the most part, but I think the root of the problem is well paying jobs. Most issues in marriage stems from monetary problems. Hopefully more business like the chip factory come, replace the old mills and mines that sustained the natives of Chattanooga.
@katwilliams2950 Chattanooga is growing as a tech hub. At least, that's what this location is aiming to grow through infrastructure improvements and incentives to attract tech to set up here. True that stable income increases stability. It alleviates a serious stress allowing people to actually establish healthy homes and communities.
Excellent video!!! We are in Chattanooga a lot (live in East Alabama) and the city has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years. We’re frankly surprised that some neighborhoods have turned from awful to great. Your series on Appalachia has been outstanding. Come to Alabama sometime. We will make you feel welcome.
@Pamp Suisse Los Angeles I thought all the conservative Californian's (which is somewhat of an oxymoron) all went to Cheyenne Wyoming, Lincoln Montana, and different parts of Texas. I left Oregon for that exact reason though so I'm all for it
Nick, I admire your lifestyle how you're able to go from state to state, town to town and check things out. I'd like to do that someday. I know there's ups and downs to it but it interest me.
Watching from Northern Ireland and just wanted so say we love your videos but these Appalachia videos have been some of our favourite. Such an interesting watch having visited some of the area a few years back.
That tired line about poverty only goes so far. I grew up with and went to school with a family of 7 that lived in a cinder block house and cooked on a fireplace in their home. Their parents made sure that they went to school everyday and all 5 children became productive members of society. So instead of parents teaching their children to suck off the government, teaching them to try hard goes a long way.
he said that samething right after the poverty line statement when asked what the real problem with crime n povetry was he said family n people need to raise there kids right he said the solutions was family so not sure why your just repeating !!! HiS point !!! as if he was makin a excuse or something
It isn't that. It's drugs, it's alcohol, it's generational dependency on the system. It's almost impossible in some minds to get out of it. People need hope and help. Not some asshole telling them to get off their asses
@Alpha Red have you been to Africa?? I have and it's a black people thing! Europeans think they can help/change Africans..nope they will only take from you and destroy you in the end until you are a minority and then extinct
"Do the crime, do the time," whether it's the crack dealer down the street or Donald Trump, I agree. Absolutely. The law is the law. The law should be applied equally and fairly, however. At the present time, that's definitely not the case.
Chattanooga is an AMAZING city. The changes in just the past ten years are mind blowing. It really does have such a refreshing feel to it. You should’ve walked around the Point Park area on top of lookout mountain. It’s soooo beautiful.
Nathan Robinson Thanks for your suggestion on where to visit. I am planning a vacation & looking for things to do especially hotels. I have heard the Signal area is nice too.
It’s wild what is happening to Tennessee all along the I-24 corridor, from Clarksville to Chattanooga. I lived in Murfreesboro and worked in Nashville for years and the cost of living has increased dramatically. The traffic has become horrendous. However, the culture is great. There’s a MLS stadium now, there’s a commuter rail that runs between Nashville and Lebanon, there’s TONS of stuff to do. So there’s a lot of cool things happening there. But if you like Nashville and the Middle Tennessee area from 30 years ago, you move somewhere else. A lot of people I know moved to Chattanooga.
I would rather take a beating than drive on I-24 from Nashville to Murfreesboro and back. I think that has to be one of the most dangerous pieces of highway in the country. I drive my son back and forth to MTSU from Nashville and humor is about the only thing that keeps be going.
We love our city! Glad to see you in Chattanooga, there are a lot of good things going on here. A lot of people care about their communities and it shows.
I lived in Chattanooga for almost 8 yrs it's changed alot and they are cleaning it up but they are pricing people out the 3 bedroom home I rented when from 1500 to 2300 the list agian for 2500 a month
Enjoying your videos so much. This one hit close to home. I have family that live on Signal Mountain. Their teens go to school in Chattanooga. We have seen much change over the years when we visit there or drive past. It is booming! Scary how fast! Thanks for sharing your video….
Contractors are out of their minds here now. Wife wanted to have kitchen cabinets painted and got a bid of $16,000 dollars!!!!! He’s smoking crack! I could replace the damn cabinets for less😂
This reminds me A LOT of what's going on in Raleigh, NC. Big tech and high paying jobs coming in, gentrification, and two versions of the same city for the have and have nots.
@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 Nick was in Morrisville, thats just behind the RTP, but he didnt cruise tru raleigh or others more neighborhoods to show how it is.
I think you don't give alot of people enough credit for wanting to be "passed by" and left alone. My parents moved to Tennessee 20 plus years ago to be left alone and there's countless people in the same boat...they left all the big city bs just to be left alone, not everyone wants all of this
The wheeler dealers are doing this everywhere that is desirable to live or that has any draw appeal at all. I don’t mind things being nice and clean but I despise how the wealthy never leave anything alone. Nothing is sacred to someone who has money. Everything is just an opportunity calling their name to them.
Great work I really enjoyed this series. Hopefully you do a part 2 & maybe 3 of your Appalachian trip, so is to learn more about the most Southern parts of the Appalachian region & the most Northern parts 👏
I appreciate a place getting better too, despite the crime that remains. There’s so much bad news coming from all over the US. Nice to hear about Knoxville and other towns getting better and I always appreciate this virtual tour. Cheers from Australia.
You can see from these videos what happens to places and people when the government doesn't really take care of things. Much different from a country like Denmark.
Why does poverty have to equal crime? I was born into nothing. I worked as hard as I could to learn a trade. Started my own business. Did ok. I never got rich but that was never my goal. I have everything I need and never committed a crime. All that would have done is get me thrown in jail.
I live in Tennessee. We do have a lot of Californians coming here it seems. A lot of Tennesseans are worried they'll make the state blue but I read that most of them are conservatives leaving California. In that case, they'll make the state even more red. I'm a political independent. I see good and bad in both parties. One thing that is happening, though, is that it's causing the cost of real estate to skyrocket. I live in small town Tennessee. I bought my house for $40k seven years ago. It's appraised for $65k if I remodel it now! More than 50% equity! Remodeling would cost about $8k. I'm going to split the property into two lots and build a tiny house on the lot beside it. Then everything will be paid for. I'll be completely debt free! Chattanooga has really changed in the past few years. It used to be absolutely filthy! They've made amazing progress and people are flocking there from all over the country.
I was born here in Tennessee, and I totally agree. Most Californians moving here seem to be more on the Conservative side. However, regardless of political stance, they're coming from a state that was much more economically prosperous for decades and buying up all the houses for Air B&Bs/rental properties. This has been a huge problem for Millennials especially, because we're still trying to gain equity and build ourselves up. It' kind of hard to when you can't buy a home for less than $250,000. My Great-Grandmother's place was in a bad neighborhood in Columbia. They built it for $2000 dollars back during the 1960s. It was recently sold for $320,000 after she passed. The neighborhood hasn't gotten any better. It's simply unsustainable. :(
I lived in the hood of chattanooga for 17 years then I went off to college in Florida... when I came back 5 years later it was a big difference it was cleaner and alot of new buildings came out of know we're and more things to do I am proud to be from chattanooga
Some years ago, I met a dude in NYC from Chattanooga TN, he was the coolest, referring to men as "brothers" regardless to what race they were. I asked him about Chattanooga, he said at the time it was "so-so," nothing spectacular about it. Just a few years ago, I visited TN, driving from NYC. I found Chattanooga to be pretty cool with a hipster vibe, it reminded me of Ashville NC.
I live in North Georgia and Chattanooga has gotten better because of the younger people going to college here. Theirs suppose to be some tech companies coming in also.
There's been 2 waves of migration from California to Tennessee. In the early 2000s, when most of those moved into the Brentwood/Franklin and Green Hills areas. Now it's into the outlying areas.
There still coming! They just built the MLS stadium across the street from me in the middle of a residential neighborhood and there are at least 8 "luxury😂" mixed use apartment complexes going up within a two block area. I think I counted 17 high rise apartment cranes in the middle of downtown last week. There is a "luxury😂" mixed use apartment complex being built on every corner in Davidson County. Prices starting on average of $1800 for a studio and up.
Back in the 90's Tennessee used to be so cool. It was a best-kept secret. Now it's overcrowded and some places (like Nashville) are too expensive. Same thing happened here in FL.
I think in the long run, Californians moving here will be a positive. However, it's incredibly stressful for the locals in the moment. We're going through growing pains. I'm a Nashville native and since the increase of population has been so dramatic, so has the cost of living. Locals are getting thrown out like we don't matter while those from out west are piggybacking off of our lax laws when it comes to income tax and real estate laws. They're selling their multi-million dollar homes and coming over here to play "landlord", buying several single family homes and thus increasing the housing market to an unsustainable level. The way thing are going atm is only benefiting those who are already well off. The people who are trying to work their way up are slipping through the cracks and rent is eating us alive because even a house in a ghetto is $300,000 these days. It might be an unpopular opinion, but until you live here your whole life you won't get a proper grasp on the situation. They're not trying to fix the homeless problem, they're just trying to hide it. It's "illegal" to be homeless in Nashville, for example. Most homeless stay out of sight from any place west of Martin Luther Kind Blvd and North Nashville. Thank you, btw, for making this video. I've always enjoyed them!
I'm from a small town in Oregon, Estacada, we're getting hundreds if family's moving here...and sorry but it ain't a good thing, these housing developments are driving up the costs of living, crime is getting worse, around here homeless isn't only a drug thing, it hits low income family's and pensioners all the same...where is people gonna go if they can't afford 2 grand for rents or the mortgage on a half a million dollar house? If it happened here it will happen there...And I don't want it too...Tenn is high on my list of places to escape to when costs get too high here...I got possibly 2 years left here in Oregon before we're priced out.
Live on the Olympic Peninsula, originally from Louisiana, some family from Arkansas. I tell people the olympic peninsula reminds me of a west coast version of Appalachia unfortunately the Californicators have moved here. Prices for homes have doubled. County government has swung left. This results in extremely harsh building code requirements. Only the rich can build now. Working class rents. Average rent for a small rental in run down Ole Port angeles is $1800 a month! Keep the rich, yuppie, trustafarian hipsters out at ALL costs if you wanna have a place for your kids/grandkids. That all said I'm planning on moving to TN this year.
Thanks for coming back through Chattanooga. I know you hit on it in another video, but you didn't really have a lot to say. I've lived here my entire life. I'm 51, and I've seen a lot of changes. Good and bad. I appreciate this city more now than I did when I was younger, and I don't plan on leaving, well, except you know, when I have to "leave" for good. I do wish housing and rental prices would come back down. People are having a hard time affording shelter and food. Discrepancies between the have and have nots have grown substantially as well. This is a town built on old money, and there are a lot of philanthropists, but it's not enough.
I love traveling around this country and seeing all the different cultures. Alot of people don't get to travel so I think it's important what you're doing bring the different parts of America to everyone.
Exactly. And maybe the parents should teach their children that stealing is wrong. It's like they sit around dumbfounded as to why they're in the predicament that is staring them in the face.
I drove through there recently. I definitely noticed a large homeless presence. I keep hearing how the sense of community there is really strong and a lot of entrepreneurs are moving there.
When I visited Chattanooga for 2 days, I had a good time. I know it's cliche, but this city has its good and bad parts like every city. The best parts were downtown and northeast side from what I experienced.
I used to go to that methadone clinic in 2004. I've been in recovery since 2008. I'm grateful it was there. I lived just outside of Knoxville at that time. There were two methadone clinics: Knoxville and Chattanooga. Knoxville was always full. So, Chattanooga was the only other option. I had to drive it every morning. Two hours.(Four hours round trip) It was crazy.
I was in Chattanooga last September. Stayed at a bed-and-breakfast on top of Lookout Mountain men did the incline railway. We went out to dinner at a place called, I think the butcher block and had a fantastic hanger steak. And I also noticed that they really had made a change and they really seem to be trying to upgrade the town a little bit.
Dude, it’s been going on at a steady pace since the 90s. Just because you only recently noticed doesn’t mean “some lil’ ol’ Podunk backwater” just recently got itself together.
Chattanooga is really nice. It is a city that has a nice vibe and it has some great neighborhoods. There are some great art scenes and good comedy. I like it. People are generally chill. This all really started 30 years ago with the Aquarium. Chattanooga is one of the best towns for tipping their Uber drivers. The tipping rate in Knoxville it is roughly 25% of Chattanooga.
This one of the best " reviews I've ever watched. Excellent intreviews and conversations. I have to admit, I live in East Tennessee and think the people here are the best!
I've been binging on your videos for a couple of days and I love your videos and insights. However, I want to make a point about gentrification. I live in Burley, Idaho and it's a small agricultural/industrial town. Most people, at least the ones that can stay out of jail, work at the various potato and sugar beet processing plants. I'm worried about the housing situation. Houses are being built, but they are usually well into the 6-figures or up to a million, and the older homes are not much cheaper. The old, abandoned house next door went for something like $280,000 and it's rotting from the inside out. My fiance used to catch drug-addled squatters there. Apartments are usually something like a grand or more for a 1 bed/1 bath. The housing situation is out of reach for the families here, and most people who are lucky enough to live in a house live with various family members or roommates. It's going to get much worse when the Mormon temple goes up. Plus there's a ton of problems in this county and surrounding counties. We're known as the "Magic Valley " area, but it's more like "Meth Valley ". We have a pretty large mentally ill and drug addiction problem, and most of the time people have both. I think it would be worth your time to come here. You would see a few distinct cultures. You have the generational meth/prison families, "normal " everyday people, and the Mormons. We also have a lot of Mexican immigrants here due to the agricultural industry. Best of luck and if you come to Idaho, don't just go to Boise!
When I moved away from Oregon last June, we stopped in Burley for gas and Burger King. Used the bathroom at the same time someone else in there open carrying a gun on a belt was in there; I did not freak out because... Idaho. Also the cashier who took our order did not hesitate to talk about the earthquakes Burley gets from the Yellowstone area.
@@Chrisdougable Yes, but it's not for the sake of keeping things "nice". It's to keep things exclusive to people of a certain faith and income. I live in a normal, working class neighborhood. There's a Mormon temple about to be built in the area, and the Mormons only want equally nice, new houses around the temple. I know a couple of people in my neighborhood who have been approached by real estate representatives and asked if they'd be willing to sell their properties. The Church and other interested parties want the land so they can knock the older house down and rebuild homes that go for a half a million, if not more. Gentrification at it's finest. The Mormons only want "their type " around.
hmm. i broke down in chattanooga one time, i ubered to the nearest "downtown" area and it was extremely nice in the spot my driver took me to. i didnt sense any type of homelessness or decay. its really weird seeing this now - i guess i found the one spot that was maintained ? i ate at a taco place called agave and rye - and then looked out over the river. i thought i was in one of the nicest areas of the country i had ever seen. very strange
I was in Chattanooga about 10 years ago and was very impressed then. Didn't see much out of the downtown area, but it was clean, bustling and safe feeling back then.
I lived near to Chattanooga from 2006 through 2009. Chattanooga was turning things around. Tennessee is overall a nice place. I definitely commend Chattanooga and the surrounding communities in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama for turning things around. This is one area I want to go back to. I left the area in 2009/2010 for Arizona... chasing a job.
Thanks for representing Chattanooga in an honest light. I live here, and all of your points are correct - but most importantly, the city is changing for the better.
I was driving cross country from Florida with no real rush back in the late 1990s and stopped for a night in Chattanooga ended up staying a few days, for a Rocky Mountain boy felt pretty much at home with the mountains and mid sized cities being some of my favorites. Guess I was in a nice part of town because I thought it was a pretty great place.
Chattanooga was one of the friendliest cities that I've ever lived in. I was there for several years, approx. 2014 to 2017 and I did not see that much crime. I traveled around the whole city, even late at night.
I was in Chattanooga today with my Airstream. I For the past 6 years I’ve stopped downtown and have seen a change in the downtown and north shore area. Interestingly enough, Chattanooga was one of the first cities I saw electric car chargers back in 2012. The one thing that hadn’t improved is traffic.
Father's in the home. What a novel concept. Hopefully, this town gets on top of the criminal element, and homeless, to get them out of the area. It's been proven over the last 50 years that throwing money at programs solves nothing, encourages laziness and lack of personal responsibility. Of course, the poor are always going to complain about money, but most do nothing about going out and earning it, or try to better themselves by learning marketable skills. Chattanooga, keep control of your city and stop any of the woke transplants from getting into any local political office.
NOT TRUE !! IM POOR AND ME AND MY HUSBAND WORK OUR ASSES OFF WE HAD AROUND 8,000 SAVED TO BUY A HOME THEN THE PANDEMIC THEN THE INFLUX OF NEW YORKERS AND CALIFORNIANS ESPECIALLY WHO VERY MUCH OUT WAGE AND OUTSOURCE US NATIVES RAN UP THE HOUSING THEY WILLINGLY PAID AT 100,000 OVER ASKING PRICE , AND BOUGHT UP ALL THE REALESTATE UNLESS IN WANNA MOVE TO BUMFK TN AND I don't now my savings is depleted from covid and inflation I'll never get to own a home in my life it seems atleast not in TN AND THIS IS MY HOME STATE !!! I WISH THEY ALL GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM THEY FKD UP THEIR STATE AND THEY ARE AFTER OUR STATE NOW !!
Well this guy is obviously not a Christian, Jesus was a homeless man, I guess you didn't know that, you sound like you're trying to get rid of homeless people. They have a right to live anywhere in the country just like me and you, of course some of them are criminals, and so are lawyers doctors police politicians excetera, but I don't see you wanting to run them out of town, My Hope for you is that you become a man and learn compassion, and my hopeful your city is that the homeless population doubles triples and quadruples until you are forced to deal with the situation, instead of simply trying to make the problem go away
Woke transplants? Are you some kind of conspiracy theorist waving a Donald Dump flag around? He is just like Harvey Weinstein he can't get a woman without paying for it or forcing himself on somebody.
I love the Chattanooga area. We live in Bowling Green Ky and travel down often for a taste of the mountains and whitewater rafting, kayaking and hiking trails. It's one of many great areas in east Tennessee and Appalachian Mountain range. Lots of outdoorsy things to do.
Just in a couple hundred mile radius of Chattanooga there are more than half a dozen auto manufactures. KIA and Hyundai have their only N. American assembly plants in Georgia and Alabama respectively. Mercedes has a plant in Alabama, as well as Toyota. Then there's the giant Nissan plant just outside of Nashville that employs upwards of 10,000, and of course VW in Chattanooga. The unions have been trying to get into that plant since it opened, but the vote keeps failing. There's a Cadillac plant just south of Nashville too. In between Chattanooga and Nashville is a giant Nissan engine plant. Nissan moved it's North American HQ from the LA area to just outside of Nashville about 15 years ago. They saw the writing on the wall very early. They got in at just the right time too. Their HQ is located in Williamson County TN, one of the 10 or 15 wealthiest counties in the country. Land prices there have skyrocketed since that HQ was built. It's hard to find anything near the Nissan HQ for under a million.
Remember that not all bums are bums, it's a good way to do open air drug sales if you look like a bum and someone just giving a bum some money. Hiding in plain sight.
The man in the Stanford sweatshirt is speaking straight FACTS. He hit the nail right on the head… Fatherless homes=Rebellious uncontrollable dangerous children - 10000% agree!
I agree with him too. The family unit, societally, has been systematically destroyed over decades, first in the black culture but the destruction has happened in the white culture too. Our society has to revert back to spiritually intact family units.
And then there was the story of ol Roy. He was riding out west when suddenly a Mountain lion attacked him! Grabbed him by his cowboy boots and ripped into them. Roy wrestled with that mountain lion until he took out his Bowie knife and dispatched it. As he rode back into town, the townspeople saw the lion draped over his saddle and ran up to him and asked, " 🎼Pardon me Roy, but isn't that the Cat that chewed yer new shoes?" 🎼
Regarding the comments by the guy who talked about absent fathers: Communities need to teach and inspire a strong sense of parental responsibility. Reforming external circumstances like changing laws only goes so far. Men have to internally be responsible for being a great parent. Sermons and psychology can only point the way. Personal responsibility has to be a burning desire from within.
A lot of men are screaming about getting kicked out of the house for various reasons when they were never providing a home to get kicked out of in the first place.
I went to school in Chattanooga in 2022. I loved it there. It has some of the best overall food and It was cool being close to nature and other cities. I’m not used to being close to anything in Kansas City😂
Thank you so much for your insights. I think you are one of the best channels on UA-cam as you show America how it really is. I can't believe how close you were to where I live. My wife and I moved down here about 2 years ago from Dutchess County, NY. We live in Soddy Daisy, a suburb of Chattanooga. I love your insights and what's going on around here. It's wild that you could be in Rockwood and about an hour away, you're in cosmopolitan Chattanooga. I would love to get to meet you some time
I stayed in Chattanooga at a nice hotel last year while commuting to Florida, to purchase a 1 owner 30k miles Rubicon with no rust. It was Jan. 1st, there were fireworks going on, and traffic was terrible all the way in. That being said, it was pleasantly quiet after 12 - 1AM's New Year celebrations. No gun shots, no gang bangers, no thieves breaking into stuff. Police presence was solid and I felt perfectly safe.
Manufacturing jobs are moving to east Tennessee because lower wages and least benefits, starting pay is 12 an hour some pay more like 14 to 17 an hour. But the rent price went higher, 5 years ago rent price for a house was 700 a month, now for the same house you will pay 1200 dollars....SO PAY AND BENEFITS REMAIN THE SAME BUT RENT PRICES WENT DOUBLE THE PRICE,
I never will understand why people accept crap wages like that, at least not healthy working age men. You can make nearly a $100k a year to start driving a truck. I wouldn’t get out of bed for $12 or even $17 an hour.
A little before 24:00 yes! I, too, am favorable to the positives of gentrification. I love seeing old homes and old neighborhoods revived. These are such beautiful old-style homes. Thank goodness people preserve them!
It improves the area, but it doesn't actually fix the issues as a whole. The people who were committing the crimes in the area don't just stop committing crimes. They get priced out and move to other areas, where they continue to commit crimes.
Hey Nick, enjoy your trips a lot. Did you ever do a vid trip on a place called Hernando, Miss? Daughter went there to visit friends and likes it. Could be a possibility to move out of Cali to retire with them in a couple years. Thanks.
Hernando is nice. Desoto county which Hernando is in is one of the best along with Madison(the richest), and Rankin counties are where you want to be if you go to Mississippi. Avoid Hinds county like the plague!
@Nick Where is all the money coming from for this regentrification? Can people still afford to buy homes here or are global corporations buying up the run down homes and rehabbing to rent?
I went to Chattanooga in january. I like this city. Infrascruture pretty good, places with beautiful views, city very clean, lot of places to park, new buildings, in general this place seem to be friendly to me. They have universities. I walked with my friend little bit after 10 pm and i did not have any bad feelings at all. I think southern part is worse. I was also in northern part and i think is in better shape than southern part. Subburbs of chattanooga are pretty with good houses. I consider this city as a good place to live.
Everyone that has moved to Tennessee from every place has gone crazy and it's caused a lot of loss of our beautiful mountains and everything to do with farming
The gentleman with "Hope for the Inner City" totally gets it. It's about the lack of family structure. The data makes it very clear that when you have two engaged parents in the home the chances that their kids go on to happy, productive lives go up exponentially.. I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on prison reform because we are seeing a softening on crime/sentencing which is leading to more crime. Just because someone isn't incarcerated doesn't mean they will be present in the life'lives of their child/children. I think his heart is in the right place.
He also didn’t mention that some men just don’t want to commit to their children. They abandon their children. It’s not a color thing either. White men do it too. Some men and some women are just deadbeats. They don’t want to be a parent. I felt like he just made excuses and made the men out to be victims. No, a man should always fight to see his children (as long as he’s not abusive). That should be his top priority. Even if you owe child support they cannot deny you visitation rights with your child.
Here's the entire Appalachia Road Trip: ua-cam.com/play/PLq-_cmf3H6yrVA4HLAJ9hgylkyIiI4Az6.html
Right at about 13:38... Person with white pants running across the street... Is that a big rat chasing him/her?
If you want everyone to be homeless then continue to spread your BS. More and more people are simply unable to afford the rising prices relative to income. It is not from a lack of willingness to work for most of the long term homeless.
So move where the jobs are that pay enough to live on when factoring in the local cost of living. It’s really pretty simple. I’ve been there and done that. Those street bums could get hired on for nearly $100k a year driving a truck for Walmart. The trouble is Walmart doesn’t need crackheads driving their trucks.
Dude, You should blur out the gentleman’s face with the laptop, we don’t know his story.
Good video.
I agree with you Nick about the main cause of long-term homelessness. I live in Oregon and the leaders here are always saying more affordable housing is needed to fight the homeless crisis. It is drugs and mental health issues that are the main driving forces for long-term homelessness. Most of the homeless people I see month after month on the streets just aren't functional. You could lower rents 75% or 90% and it wouldn't matter in their cases.
Flint Ironstag, I’m considering moving to Tillamook (I’m on an apartment waitlist) from Washington but wondering if it’s a safe area and not littered with garbage like Olympia. What’s your take?
@@esila4392 I'm from Vashon/Seattle and now live in S. Oregon. Tillamook is cheesy, haha. It's inland coast, so it's a little less appealing than a coastal town that's on the coast with beach access. Full of political nuts up and down the coast driving Teslas. Better than Olympia. I moved here from Tacoma, so yeah...I would say it's safe, but unappealing in a lot of ways. Newport or Florence is a little better. I live by Coos Bay, affordable, but definitely not a place I would recommend.
It seems like soft genocide, population control, etc.
@@esila4392 Considering escaping from Marxist Uptopia?
even if they are functional are there any jobs worth doing? most wages are low and the market is saturated in this dog-eat-dog society.
Broken homes, the cause of most of our societal decay
I do agree with you. People give up on marriage and parenting fairly easy. I'm not speaking on domestic violence, though a factor. Outside of that some folks are just non committal. It's truly sad. I do believe that many people (teachers, mentors, relatives & clergy) can help a child in many ways . Unfortunately so many don't have that advantage.
@@brendasmiley6128I'm betting these single parent homes are not due to individuals merely being anti-marriage. Its likely a really primitive-brained hormonal uneducated dumb woman getting involved with another really primitive-brained hormonal dumb man. Viola, she gets pregnant 🤰. Out pops 👶 baby, or several babies 🤯 by one or more sperm suppliers. He wasn't planning on any long-term commitment in the first place. She was even more careless. I agree that what you're aiming to suggest is that the surrounding support network can make a difference. The overall culture is important. What is tolerated or not tolerated comes from those culture norms. Stable adult role models are so needed for kids to see a route to healthy success. Yes indeed. Family responsibility needs to be culturally ingrained into these people's heads. Divorce isn't really always awful though. People should not be forced to stay together under one roof if being together would be problematic. Kids sense that hostility and it can be a serious stress on kids. There are separated parents that are responsible full on board parents. This isn't quite the same as dumb hormonal morons that carelessly spit out kids simply due to lack of smart birth control, or oh, I know, don't mess around in the first place.
We Mammals need to stick together and make our villages more livable again we can do it Peace fellow Mammals ✌️
I agree for the most part, but I think the root of the problem is well paying jobs. Most issues in marriage stems from monetary problems. Hopefully more business like the chip factory come, replace the old mills and mines that sustained the natives of Chattanooga.
@katwilliams2950 Chattanooga is growing as a tech hub. At least, that's what this location is aiming to grow through infrastructure improvements and incentives to attract tech to set up here. True that stable income increases stability. It alleviates a serious stress allowing people to actually establish healthy homes and communities.
Excellent video!!! We are in Chattanooga a lot (live in East Alabama) and the city has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years. We’re frankly surprised that some neighborhoods have turned from awful to great. Your series on Appalachia has been outstanding. Come to Alabama sometime. We will make you feel welcome.
I'm coming to Alabama next week Keith! Email me - maybe we can meet up! NickJohnsonNC18@gmail
@@NickJohnson Which part of Alabama? I'm in Birmingham..
Just left Chattanooga earlier today for Knoxville by way of Nashville. You guys have a California problem inbound, but don't sleep on New York
@@zacharyrogerssr9331 Some of us Californians are conservative & want to be left alone.
@Pamp Suisse Los Angeles I thought all the conservative Californian's (which is somewhat of an oxymoron) all went to Cheyenne Wyoming, Lincoln Montana, and different parts of Texas. I left Oregon for that exact reason though so I'm all for it
Nick, I admire your lifestyle how you're able to go from state to state, town to town and check things out. I'd like to do that someday. I know there's ups and downs to it but it interest me.
It's kinda exhausting and expensive Mike but you meet cool people and get perspective
@@NickJohnson why don't you consider mobile home.
Where is "Sage Nick's manager" the whole time Nick is gone? She must miss him.
Watching from Northern Ireland and just wanted so say we love your videos but these Appalachia videos have been some of our favourite. Such an interesting watch having visited some of the area a few years back.
Good I'm glad Kristine 🇬🇧
Appalachia has historically been dominated by people of Scottish and Scotch-Irish descent. I don’t know if you knew that.
Great video, Nick. You do a great job peeling back the layers and getting into the real issues or happenings with each town you cover.
That tired line about poverty only goes so far. I grew up with and went to school with a family of 7 that lived in a cinder block house and cooked on a fireplace in their home. Their parents made sure that they went to school everyday and all 5 children became productive members of society. So instead of parents teaching their children to suck off the government, teaching them to try hard goes a long way.
he said that samething right after the poverty line statement when asked what the real problem with crime n povetry was he said family n people need to raise there kids right he said the solutions was family so not sure why your just repeating !!! HiS point !!! as if he was makin a excuse or something
@Captain Flannel he was making excuses and blaming whites for having so many blacks in prison. Do the crime do the time!
It isn't that. It's drugs, it's alcohol, it's generational dependency on the system. It's almost impossible in some minds to get out of it. People need hope and help. Not some asshole telling them to get off their asses
@Alpha Red have you been to Africa?? I have and it's a black people thing! Europeans think they can help/change Africans..nope they will only take from you and destroy you in the end until you are a minority and then extinct
"Do the crime, do the time," whether it's the crack dealer down the street or Donald Trump, I agree. Absolutely. The law is the law. The law should be applied equally and fairly, however. At the present time, that's definitely not the case.
Chattanooga is an AMAZING city. The changes in just the past ten years are mind blowing. It really does have such a refreshing feel to it. You should’ve walked around the Point Park area on top of lookout mountain. It’s soooo beautiful.
Cost of living is good, but crime index is over twice the U.S. average,
@@offandrunning8771 It is NOTHING compared to the metro Atlanta area. Literally every single person who reads this knows it’s the truth.
Nathan Robinson Thanks for your suggestion on where to visit. I am planning a vacation & looking for things to do especially hotels. I have heard the Signal area is nice too.
Chattanooga is a neat city. I hope it. Revives
Nick another great video. I am not even moving but try to catch your videos, Stay safe my friend
It’s wild what is happening to Tennessee all along the I-24 corridor, from Clarksville to Chattanooga. I lived in Murfreesboro and worked in Nashville for years and the cost of living has increased dramatically. The traffic has become horrendous. However, the culture is great. There’s a MLS stadium now, there’s a commuter rail that runs between Nashville and Lebanon, there’s TONS of stuff to do. So there’s a lot of cool things happening there. But if you like Nashville and the Middle Tennessee area from 30 years ago, you move somewhere else. A lot of people I know moved to Chattanooga.
that rail is shit, it barely runs
I would rather take a beating than drive on I-24 from Nashville to Murfreesboro and back. I think that has to be one of the most dangerous pieces of highway in the country. I drive my son back and forth to MTSU from Nashville and humor is about the only thing that keeps be going.
We love our city! Glad to see you in Chattanooga, there are a lot of good things going on here. A lot of people care about their communities and it shows.
I lived in Chattanooga for almost 8 yrs it's changed alot and they are cleaning it up but they are pricing people out the 3 bedroom home I rented when from 1500 to 2300 the list agian for 2500 a month
Damn Asheville nc gone hit 2200 next year crazy expensive
Enjoying your videos so much. This one hit close to home. I have family that live on Signal Mountain. Their teens go to school in Chattanooga. We have seen much change over the years when we visit there or drive past. It is booming! Scary how fast! Thanks for sharing your video….
Ok Sharon
Contractors are out of their minds here now. Wife wanted to have kitchen cabinets painted and got a bid of $16,000 dollars!!!!! He’s smoking crack! I could replace the damn cabinets for less😂
This reminds me A LOT of what's going on in Raleigh, NC. Big tech and high paying jobs coming in, gentrification, and two versions of the same city for the have and have nots.
I think of the Research Triangle Park area.
@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 Nick was in Morrisville, thats just behind the RTP, but he didnt cruise tru raleigh or others more neighborhoods to show how it is.
That’s not unique to Raleigh
Sounds like Atlanta.
Sounds like Nashville TN.
I think you don't give alot of people enough credit for wanting to be "passed by" and left alone. My parents moved to Tennessee 20 plus years ago to be left alone and there's countless people in the same boat...they left all the big city bs just to be left alone, not everyone wants all of this
Right on. Solitude is gold.
The wheeler dealers are doing this everywhere that is desirable to live or that has any draw appeal at all. I don’t mind things being nice and clean but I despise how the wealthy never leave anything alone. Nothing is sacred to someone who has money. Everything is just an opportunity calling their name to them.
If they really wanted solitude and to be left alone they'd never have gotten married.
So very true!! I’m the same way. Just leave me alone.
@@mutiny_on_the_bounty lol ok...
Great work I really enjoyed this series. Hopefully you do a part 2 & maybe 3 of your Appalachian trip, so is to learn more about the most Southern parts of the Appalachian region & the most Northern parts 👏
This was one of your best road trips ever.I watched every episode.Looked foward to each video and as usual,your videos never disappoint.👍
Good!
I appreciate a place getting better too, despite the crime that remains. There’s so much bad news coming from all over the US. Nice to hear about Knoxville and other towns getting better and I always appreciate this virtual tour. Cheers from Australia.
Coming from Denmark, I find it super interesting to learn about the different nuances of American living from you
Good Jonas
You can see from these videos what happens to places and people when the government doesn't really take care of things. Much different from a country like Denmark.
A+ video!
Great shots of the area and the locals seemed very helpful for understanding the culture of the area.
Aww so cute. I love the downtown so cute. I can’t wait to visit Tennessee one day.
I’m so glad I found this channel, I’ve always wanted to explore like you do
That's a damn good interview with both guys, thank you Nick, keeping it 💯 👌
Why does poverty have to equal crime? I was born into nothing. I worked as hard as I could to learn a trade. Started my own business. Did ok. I never got rich but that was never my goal. I have everything I need and never committed a crime. All that would have done is get me thrown in jail.
It has more to do with bad parenting. Even rich people's kids turn to crime sometimes due to bad parenting.
I live in Tennessee. We do have a lot of Californians coming here it seems. A lot of Tennesseans are worried they'll make the state blue but I read that most of them are conservatives leaving California. In that case, they'll make the state even more red. I'm a political independent. I see good and bad in both parties.
One thing that is happening, though, is that it's causing the cost of real estate to skyrocket. I live in small town Tennessee. I bought my house for $40k seven years ago. It's appraised for $65k if I remodel it now! More than 50% equity! Remodeling would cost about $8k. I'm going to split the property into two lots and build a tiny house on the lot beside it. Then everything will be paid for. I'll be completely debt free!
Chattanooga has really changed in the past few years. It used to be absolutely filthy! They've made amazing progress and people are flocking there from all over the country.
I can tell you Northern California is all a flame about Tennessee. East TN is what they like most with it many rivers, lakes and mountains.
@ron winkles Are you in Northern California?
I was born here in Tennessee, and I totally agree. Most Californians moving here seem to be more on the Conservative side. However, regardless of political stance, they're coming from a state that was much more economically prosperous for decades and buying up all the houses for Air B&Bs/rental properties. This has been a huge problem for Millennials especially, because we're still trying to gain equity and build ourselves up. It' kind of hard to when you can't buy a home for less than $250,000. My Great-Grandmother's place was in a bad neighborhood in Columbia. They built it for $2000 dollars back during the 1960s. It was recently sold for $320,000 after she passed. The neighborhood hasn't gotten any better. It's simply unsustainable. :(
I lived in the hood of chattanooga for 17 years then I went off to college in Florida... when I came back 5 years later it was a big difference it was cleaner and alot of new buildings came out of know we're and more things to do I am proud to be from chattanooga
Hey Nick! We used to fumigate a flour mill in Chattanooga! Had my truck broken into twice! Not my cup of tea 😂
Some years ago, I met a dude in NYC from Chattanooga TN, he was the coolest, referring to men as "brothers" regardless to what race they were. I asked him about Chattanooga, he said at the time it was "so-so," nothing spectacular about it. Just a few years ago, I visited TN, driving from NYC. I found Chattanooga to be pretty cool with a hipster vibe, it reminded me of Ashville NC.
Ew
As a local, being compared to Asheville is the worst thing to hear 😂
In other words, primed to be ruined by Yankees and blow-ins.
I live in North Georgia and Chattanooga has gotten better because of the younger people going to college here. Theirs suppose to be some tech companies coming in also.
I mean, UTC has been around since the 19th century. Enrolment is not a new thing.
There's been 2 waves of migration from California to Tennessee. In the early 2000s, when most of those moved into the Brentwood/Franklin and Green Hills areas. Now it's into the outlying areas.
There still coming! They just built the MLS stadium across the street from me in the middle of a residential neighborhood and there are at least 8 "luxury😂" mixed use apartment complexes going up within a two block area. I think I counted 17 high rise apartment cranes in the middle of downtown last week. There is a "luxury😂" mixed use apartment complex being built on every corner in Davidson County. Prices starting on average of $1800 for a studio and up.
Back in the 90's Tennessee used to be so cool. It was a best-kept secret. Now it's overcrowded and some places (like Nashville) are too expensive. Same thing happened here in FL.
The invasion from California is destroying mid Tennessee
Happening even in MONTANA- too crowded !
Left FL 3 weeks ago. F that place. Have a good job, in the hills (holars). Nice folks, great area. Won't say where, local town population is small.
we not the only city in Tennessee bro damn y’all always talking about nashville was this nashville was that who cares that over with now
@@Press1forHollers ffs. If you’re going to be all patronising about the local lingo, spell it right.
I think in the long run, Californians moving here will be a positive. However, it's incredibly stressful for the locals in the moment. We're going through growing pains. I'm a Nashville native and since the increase of population has been so dramatic, so has the cost of living. Locals are getting thrown out like we don't matter while those from out west are piggybacking off of our lax laws when it comes to income tax and real estate laws. They're selling their multi-million dollar homes and coming over here to play "landlord", buying several single family homes and thus increasing the housing market to an unsustainable level. The way thing are going atm is only benefiting those who are already well off. The people who are trying to work their way up are slipping through the cracks and rent is eating us alive because even a house in a ghetto is $300,000 these days. It might be an unpopular opinion, but until you live here your whole life you won't get a proper grasp on the situation.
They're not trying to fix the homeless problem, they're just trying to hide it. It's "illegal" to be homeless in Nashville, for example. Most homeless stay out of sight from any place west of Martin Luther Kind Blvd and North Nashville.
Thank you, btw, for making this video. I've always enjoyed them!
I'm from a small town in Oregon, Estacada, we're getting hundreds if family's moving here...and sorry but it ain't a good thing, these housing developments are driving up the costs of living, crime is getting worse, around here homeless isn't only a drug thing, it hits low income family's and pensioners all the same...where is people gonna go if they can't afford 2 grand for rents or the mortgage on a half a million dollar house? If it happened here it will happen there...And I don't want it too...Tenn is high on my list of places to escape to when costs get too high here...I got possibly 2 years left here in Oregon before we're priced out.
Live on the Olympic Peninsula, originally from Louisiana, some family from Arkansas.
I tell people the olympic peninsula reminds me of a west coast version of Appalachia unfortunately the
Californicators have moved here. Prices for homes have doubled. County government has swung left. This results in extremely harsh building code requirements. Only the rich can build now. Working class rents. Average rent for a small rental in run down Ole Port angeles is $1800 a month!
Keep the rich, yuppie, trustafarian hipsters out at ALL costs if you wanna have a place for your kids/grandkids.
That all said I'm planning on moving to TN this year.
Thank you very much. I love your show. I value your opinion.
Thanks for coming back through Chattanooga. I know you hit on it in another video, but you didn't really have a lot to say. I've lived here my entire life. I'm 51, and I've seen a lot of changes. Good and bad. I appreciate this city more now than I did when I was younger, and I don't plan on leaving, well, except you know, when I have to "leave" for good. I do wish housing and rental prices would come back down. People are having a hard time affording shelter and food. Discrepancies between the have and have nots have grown substantially as well. This is a town built on old money, and there are a lot of philanthropists, but it's not enough.
I love traveling around this country and seeing all the different cultures. Alot of people don't get to travel so I think it's important what you're doing bring the different parts of America to everyone.
Thanks Nick! Your videos help when planning a vacation and areas to avoid. Stay safe!
"No grocery store within five miles "....oh the horror
Exactly. And maybe the parents should teach their children that stealing is wrong. It's like they sit around dumbfounded as to why they're in the predicament that is staring them in the face.
I just commented pretty much the same thing
try walking 5 miles in Chattanooga and you'll experience "oh the horror"... (you sound pretty smart
@@myd0gr3x bet you that it's not a problem to get that 40 oz though.
@@myd0gr3xImprove your situation so you don't have to walk 5 miles.
10:10 Holy cow, no grocery stores within 5 miles of his area? Ugh, yikes.
Just can't get enough of Nick and his Fantastic style and Anecdotes. 😂🎉
I drove through there recently. I definitely noticed a large homeless presence. I keep hearing how the sense of community there is really strong and a lot of entrepreneurs are moving there.
Hey, Nick. Love all of your videos!
How about an updated video on Asheville, NC?!
I know!
When I visited Chattanooga for 2 days, I had a good time. I know it's cliche, but this city has its good and bad parts like every city. The best parts were downtown and northeast side from what I experienced.
You should go to lake Winnipesauka it's so much fun
I used to go to that methadone clinic in 2004. I've been in recovery since 2008. I'm grateful it was there. I lived just outside of Knoxville at that time. There were two methadone clinics: Knoxville and Chattanooga. Knoxville was always full. So, Chattanooga was the only other option. I had to drive it every morning. Two hours.(Four hours round trip) It was crazy.
Congratulations on your recovery!!!
All of these places with high crime rates have one thing in common
Indeed
I was in Chattanooga last September. Stayed at a bed-and-breakfast on top of Lookout Mountain men did the incline railway.
We went out to dinner at a place called, I think the butcher block and had a fantastic hanger steak. And I also noticed that they really had made a change and they really seem to be trying to upgrade the town a little bit.
Dude, it’s been going on at a steady pace since the 90s. Just because you only recently noticed doesn’t mean “some lil’ ol’ Podunk backwater” just recently got itself together.
Lookout mountain is beautiful, I was there about 10 years ago.
Great interview and conversations
I like Marvin a lot
Chattanooga is really nice. It is a city that has a nice vibe and it has some great neighborhoods. There are some great art scenes and good comedy. I like it. People are generally chill. This all really started 30 years ago with the Aquarium.
Chattanooga is one of the best towns for tipping their Uber drivers. The tipping rate in Knoxville it is roughly 25% of Chattanooga.
You gotta have more than an aquarium for a city to thrive
I went to Chattanooga last year and loved it. Did a couple of vids when I was here myself to show people what a gem of a town it is
Again, Thank You Nick For Touring Cities And Small Towns And Showing Your Perspective Which I Think Most Would Agree With You, Wendy
Okay Wendy I'm Glad You Enjoyed It
Awesome video as usual Nick. Refreshing to see some hope in a community.
It’s weird seeing my old community slowly disappearing, I’m not angry things change, it’s just weird how it changed so fast.
This one of the best " reviews I've ever watched. Excellent intreviews and conversations. I have to admit, I live in East Tennessee and think the people here are the best!
I've been binging on your videos for a couple of days and I love your videos and insights. However, I want to make a point about gentrification. I live in Burley, Idaho and it's a small agricultural/industrial town. Most people, at least the ones that can stay out of jail, work at the various potato and sugar beet processing plants. I'm worried about the housing situation. Houses are being built, but they are usually well into the 6-figures or up to a million, and the older homes are not much cheaper. The old, abandoned house next door went for something like $280,000 and it's rotting from the inside out. My fiance used to catch drug-addled squatters there. Apartments are usually something like a grand or more for a 1 bed/1 bath. The housing situation is out of reach for the families here, and most people who are lucky enough to live in a house live with various family members or roommates. It's going to get much worse when the Mormon temple goes up. Plus there's a ton of problems in this county and surrounding counties. We're known as the "Magic Valley " area, but it's more like "Meth Valley ". We have a pretty large mentally ill and drug addiction problem, and most of the time people have both. I think it would be worth your time to come here. You would see a few distinct cultures. You have the generational meth/prison families, "normal " everyday people, and the Mormons. We also have a lot of Mexican immigrants here due to the agricultural industry. Best of luck and if you come to Idaho, don't just go to Boise!
Email me Cassie I'll be there in September! NickJohnsonNC18@gmail
@@NickJohnson I'll be happy to! I'll email you in a bit! Have to do my timesheet for work!
When I moved away from Oregon last June, we stopped in Burley for gas and Burger King. Used the bathroom at the same time someone else in there open carrying a gun on a belt was in there; I did not freak out because... Idaho.
Also the cashier who took our order did not hesitate to talk about the earthquakes Burley gets from the Yellowstone area.
Aren't majority Mormon places really nice?
@@Chrisdougable Yes, but it's not for the sake of keeping things "nice". It's to keep things exclusive to people of a certain faith and income. I live in a normal, working class neighborhood. There's a Mormon temple about to be built in the area, and the Mormons only want equally nice, new houses around the temple. I know a couple of people in my neighborhood who have been approached by real estate representatives and asked if they'd be willing to sell their properties. The Church and other interested parties want the land so they can knock the older house down and rebuild homes that go for a half a million, if not more. Gentrification at it's finest. The Mormons only want "their type " around.
hmm. i broke down in chattanooga one time, i ubered to the nearest "downtown" area and it was extremely nice in the spot my driver took me to. i didnt sense any type of homelessness or decay. its really weird seeing this now - i guess i found the one spot that was maintained ? i ate at a taco place called agave and rye - and then looked out over the river. i thought i was in one of the nicest areas of the country i had ever seen. very strange
Most of Chattanooga is well-maintained. The riverfront is a nice spot, though. Love to bike there and get some reading done.
I was in Chattanooga about 10 years ago and was very impressed then. Didn't see much out of the downtown area, but it was clean, bustling and safe feeling back then.
Such a great video Nick. Loved this episode
Good Coke
Stanford is spitting facts that NOONE in Congress talks about.
Great Video. Thank You for what you do..
Ok Ted
Nick, in your travels, can you ask old time cops how they dealt with homeless 10 years ago compared to now?
Sure Kevin!
I appreciate the fact that you travel from coast to coast. To provide insight about the places in America
I lived near to Chattanooga from 2006 through 2009. Chattanooga was turning things around. Tennessee is overall a nice place. I definitely commend Chattanooga and the surrounding communities in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama for turning things around. This is one area I want to go back to.
I left the area in 2009/2010 for Arizona... chasing a job.
Thanks for representing Chattanooga in an honest light. I live here, and all of your points are correct - but most importantly, the city is changing for the better.
Marvin is chill. He should be the police chief in Chattanooga. Great attitude.
I was driving cross country from Florida with no real rush back in the late 1990s and stopped for a night in Chattanooga ended up staying a few days, for a Rocky Mountain boy felt pretty much at home with the mountains and mid sized cities being some of my favorites. Guess I was in a nice part of town because I thought it was a pretty great place.
Chattanooga was one of the friendliest cities that I've ever lived in. I was there for several years, approx. 2014 to 2017 and I did not see that much crime. I traveled around the whole city, even late at night.
We did the Lookout Mountain Railway several years ago. We really enjoyed it.
I was in Chattanooga today with my Airstream. I
For the past 6 years I’ve stopped downtown and have seen a change in the downtown and north shore area. Interestingly enough, Chattanooga was one of the first cities I saw electric car chargers back in 2012. The one thing that hadn’t improved is traffic.
I was there earlier today as well. Traffic is horrible in middle & east TN period. The infrastructure wasn't built to handle half of California.
Hi nick, good to see you again
Father's in the home. What a novel concept. Hopefully, this town gets on top of the criminal element, and homeless, to get them out of the area. It's been proven over the last 50 years that throwing money at programs solves nothing, encourages laziness and lack of personal responsibility. Of course, the poor are always going to complain about money, but most do nothing about going out and earning it, or try to better themselves by learning marketable skills. Chattanooga, keep control of your city and stop any of the woke transplants from getting into any local political office.
AMEN AND AMEN 🙏🙏
NOT TRUE !! IM POOR AND ME AND MY HUSBAND WORK OUR ASSES OFF WE HAD AROUND 8,000 SAVED TO BUY A HOME THEN THE PANDEMIC THEN THE INFLUX OF NEW YORKERS AND CALIFORNIANS ESPECIALLY WHO VERY MUCH OUT WAGE AND OUTSOURCE US NATIVES RAN UP THE HOUSING THEY WILLINGLY PAID AT 100,000 OVER ASKING PRICE , AND BOUGHT UP ALL THE REALESTATE UNLESS IN WANNA MOVE TO BUMFK TN AND I don't now my savings is depleted from covid and inflation I'll never get to own a home in my life it seems atleast not in TN AND THIS IS MY HOME STATE !!! I WISH THEY ALL GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM THEY FKD UP THEIR STATE AND THEY ARE AFTER OUR STATE NOW !!
Well this guy is obviously not a Christian, Jesus was a homeless man, I guess you didn't know that, you sound like you're trying to get rid of homeless people. They have a right to live anywhere in the country just like me and you, of course some of them are criminals, and so are lawyers doctors police politicians excetera, but I don't see you wanting to run them out of town, My Hope for you is that you become a man and learn compassion, and my hopeful your city is that the homeless population doubles triples and quadruples until you are forced to deal with the situation, instead of simply trying to make the problem go away
Woke transplants? Are you some kind of conspiracy theorist waving a Donald Dump flag around? He is just like Harvey Weinstein he can't get a woman without paying for it or forcing himself on somebody.
I love the Chattanooga area. We live in Bowling Green Ky and travel down often for a taste of the mountains and whitewater rafting, kayaking and hiking trails. It's one of many great areas in east Tennessee and Appalachian Mountain range. Lots of outdoorsy things to do.
Just in a couple hundred mile radius of Chattanooga there are more than half a dozen auto manufactures. KIA and Hyundai have their only N. American assembly plants in Georgia and Alabama respectively. Mercedes has a plant in Alabama, as well as Toyota. Then there's the giant Nissan plant just outside of Nashville that employs upwards of 10,000, and of course VW in Chattanooga. The unions have been trying to get into that plant since it opened, but the vote keeps failing. There's a Cadillac plant just south of Nashville too. In between Chattanooga and Nashville is a giant Nissan engine plant.
Nissan moved it's North American HQ from the LA area to just outside of Nashville about 15 years ago. They saw the writing on the wall very early. They got in at just the right time too. Their HQ is located in Williamson County TN, one of the 10 or 15 wealthiest counties in the country. Land prices there have skyrocketed since that HQ was built. It's hard to find anything near the Nissan HQ for under a million.
Remember that not all bums are bums, it's a good way to do open air drug sales if you look like a bum and someone just giving a bum some money. Hiding in plain sight.
The I65 corridor from Nashville to the gulf is booming.
Always a great video nick everything is so complicated you give good advice 👍 thanks man appreciate
“Gentrification isn’t for everyone” LOL beautiful
Another great videos like always no doubt with that,
The man in the Stanford sweatshirt is speaking straight FACTS. He hit the nail right on the head… Fatherless homes=Rebellious uncontrollable dangerous children - 10000% agree!
I agree with him too. The family unit, societally, has been systematically destroyed over decades, first in the black culture but the destruction has happened in the white culture too. Our society has to revert back to spiritually intact family units.
And then there was the story of ol Roy. He was riding out west when suddenly a Mountain lion attacked him! Grabbed him by his cowboy boots and ripped into them. Roy wrestled with that mountain lion until he took out his Bowie knife and dispatched it. As he rode back into town, the townspeople saw the lion draped over his saddle and ran up to him and asked, " 🎼Pardon me Roy, but isn't that the Cat that chewed yer new shoes?" 🎼
Hello Nick, great video, fully watched 😊
Yay
Regarding the comments by the guy who talked about absent fathers: Communities need to teach and inspire a strong sense of parental responsibility. Reforming external circumstances like changing laws only goes so far. Men have to internally be responsible for being a great parent. Sermons and psychology can only point the way. Personal responsibility has to be a burning desire from within.
A lot of men are screaming about getting kicked out of the house for various reasons when they were never providing a home to get kicked out of in the first place.
Isolating crime is a stage of fighting crime. Sometimes it’s all that can be done about crime when people don’t want extreme solutions applied.
I went to school in Chattanooga in 2022. I loved it there. It has some of the best overall food and It was cool being close to nature and other cities. I’m not used to being close to anything in Kansas City😂
Thank you so much for your insights. I think you are one of the best channels on UA-cam as you show America how it really is. I can't believe how close you were to where I live. My wife and I moved down here about 2 years ago from Dutchess County, NY. We live in Soddy Daisy, a suburb of Chattanooga. I love your insights and what's going on around here. It's wild that you could be in Rockwood and about an hour away, you're in cosmopolitan Chattanooga. I would love to get to meet you some time
We went through Soddy Daisy on the way into town Tom!
I been there several tims when I went to the Tennessee Aquarium and Lookout Moutain inside Ruby Falls.
Oh man I love your comedy and mappy edits you don't do too many or too little. Your friggin funny my man, God bless you and your family!
I stayed in Chattanooga at a nice hotel last year while commuting to Florida, to purchase a 1 owner 30k miles Rubicon with no rust. It was Jan. 1st, there were fireworks going on, and traffic was terrible all the way in. That being said, it was pleasantly quiet after 12 - 1AM's New Year celebrations. No gun shots, no gang bangers, no thieves breaking into stuff. Police presence was solid and I felt perfectly safe.
Manufacturing jobs are moving to east Tennessee because lower wages and least benefits, starting pay is 12 an hour some pay more like 14 to 17 an hour. But the rent price went higher, 5 years ago rent price for a house was 700 a month, now for the same house you will pay 1200 dollars....SO PAY AND BENEFITS REMAIN THE SAME BUT RENT PRICES WENT DOUBLE THE PRICE,
I never will understand why people accept crap wages like that, at least not healthy working age men. You can make nearly a $100k a year to start driving a truck. I wouldn’t get out of bed for $12 or even $17 an hour.
Nick I happened on your channel by chance. You're doing good work. Please keep it up.
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A little before 24:00 yes! I, too, am favorable to the positives of gentrification. I love seeing old homes and old neighborhoods revived. These are such beautiful old-style homes. Thank goodness people preserve them!
I can't say I like gentrification but it's necessary sometimes.
It improves the area, but it doesn't actually fix the issues as a whole. The people who were committing the crimes in the area don't just stop committing crimes. They get priced out and move to other areas, where they continue to commit crimes.
I agree 100% with this man about working on encouraging the family unit.
Nick, you are so funny. Love your videos.
Was waiting for the last train to Clarksville 🤷♂️😎👍🏻😏
Hey Nick, enjoy your trips a lot. Did you ever do a vid trip on a place called Hernando, Miss? Daughter went there to visit friends and likes it. Could be a possibility to move out of Cali to retire with them in a couple years. Thanks.
I might be in Hernando next week!
Hernando is nice. Desoto county which Hernando is in is one of the best along with Madison(the richest), and Rankin counties are where you want to be if you go to Mississippi. Avoid Hinds county like the plague!
@@stephaniehereford4299 Thanks :)
@@besame5504 No problem
@Nick Where is all the money coming from for this regentrification? Can people still afford to buy homes here or are global corporations buying up the run down homes and rehabbing to rent?
I went to Chattanooga in january. I like this city. Infrascruture pretty good, places with beautiful views, city very clean, lot of places to park, new buildings, in general this place seem to be friendly to me. They have universities. I walked with my friend little bit after 10 pm and i did not have any bad feelings at all. I think southern part is worse. I was also in northern part and i think is in better shape than southern part. Subburbs of chattanooga are pretty with good houses. I consider this city as a good place to live.
Everyone that has moved to Tennessee from every place has gone crazy and it's caused a lot of loss of our beautiful mountains and everything to do with farming
Shows what you know
The whole US is going through some major change now.
The gentleman with "Hope for the Inner City" totally gets it. It's about the lack of family structure. The data makes it very clear that when you have two engaged parents in the home the chances that their kids go on to happy, productive lives go up exponentially.. I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on prison reform because we are seeing a softening on crime/sentencing which is leading to more crime. Just because someone isn't incarcerated doesn't mean they will be present in the life'lives of their child/children. I think his heart is in the right place.
He also didn’t mention that some men just don’t want to commit to their children. They abandon their children. It’s not a color thing either. White men do it too. Some men and some women are just deadbeats. They don’t want to be a parent. I felt like he just made excuses and made the men out to be victims. No, a man should always fight to see his children (as long as he’s not abusive). That should be his top priority. Even if you owe child support they cannot deny you visitation rights with your child.
Wow it doesnt look like a place I would like to visit!!!! but hopefully it gets better!!!!!
There's much more to Chattanooga than what's shown in this video.