I live in South Bend. While I feel some of this video is accurate you only showed one side of town. I noticed you stayed on the west side you never crossed Michigan St. The neighborhoods over there are in much better shape. My three kids graduated from South Bend schools and all went to college and are doing fine. In my opinion if your going to do a video about a town show all sides of the town not just a narrative you wish to spin.
You can do this tour in pretty much any city this size in America, then blame the party that has been in control. What city in America with similar population does not have poverty, crime, drugs, gangs, bad schools and run down neighborhoods? Not much has changed? Based upon a comparison over what years? Here are some Republican run cities that I could drive through and make the same video: Chattanooga, TN, Miami, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Lexington, KY, Tulsa, OK, Omaha, NE and Ft. Worth, TX.
LOL letting an area deteriorate to that condition is a travesty. Sure if you want to support keeping it isolated. But Chicago and Baltimore murder rates are similar they keep the worst of the crime isolated to an area and call it a good job. Detroit looks like it's been in a war. Yet oh my it has areas that are not decrepid. I wondered what contortions minds go through where Lori Lightfoot is fund raising for others.when it should be a death knell.
This is what happens when manufacturing jobs are moved oversees. This is evidence of the long term affect when companies move jobs oversees to get away from a decent wage here to slave wages somewhere else.
To solve your issue reduce the corporate tax rate. Tax revenue will increase overall when you have more people working. Companies are not going overseas for cheap wages, they are going overseas to avoid our corporate tax structure and regulations.
@@gobadgego You must have gone to college? Everyone can’t go. Besides, all jobs doesn’t require a degree. Most of those type higher wage jobs are gone.
I’ve grown up in South Bend area and am currently living there now and I’ll admit drugs is still a big issue here, but I think this video sort of paints a bad picture on a city that is slowly crawling back to life because it certainly has come a long way in the past ten years. I understand this man doesn’t live or even spend any time here other than driving around some rough areas in his car. But small businesses are coming back, it’s economically making a comeback as well and it’s becoming more of a progressive place to be. This guy said he was downtown which in reality he did not drive through downtown at all and instead went down Indiana avenue (south), former location of studebaker employed development some 60 years ago which is now the most run down side of town so I think his narration is definitely a little exaggerated. This town is far from perfect and has a long way to go still, but I don’t think this video is a accurate depiction of what South Bend is all about.
I've only lived in the South Bend city limits for 2 years, but I grew up in Southwest Michigan which is the same media market so I'm pretty familiar with how the city is perceived locally. Growing up, people around me always talked about how dangerous South Bend is and as a consequence, anytime I went into the area, it was usually to go to a chain restaurant or store in Mishawaka. Having lived in South Bend for 2 years, that seems like bullshit to me now. Downtown South Bend is really nice with a lot of great non chain restaurants. I love downtown South Bend and I'm sad it took me so long to discover it.
Yea my friend just moved in a great apartment in the downtown area, it seems like a decent area where he is at. Every city has its issues...it is what it is.
Omg..My freind just moved there from Los Angeles. He is originally from Michigan, his mom is living there, and need care so he moved up to be closer to her. He landed a great apartment in the downtown area, he was very relieved. I went for the first time this summer, it reminds me of Michigan. I will be going to visiting my friend there more. It's no different than what's happening in all cities across the country..🤷🏾♀️
Be careful at night in downtown. Me and my girlfriend were almost robbed. I had to draw my gun, point it at them, and let them know I would shoot them. Then after we escape that she uses the bathroom and a guy trys to get in there with her. Yeah.
I was hoping to see some of my old hangouts when I lived there in the 1990s, but apparently you didn’t even make it out of the Westside. It’s like driving down South Stony Island Avenue in Chicago and trying to convince an audience that all of Chicago is like that.
@@NickJohnson lmao why so sensitive? Why so hyperbolic. You covered about 2% of the city. The downtown, east bank, campus, Twyckenham Hills, etc are all thriving and growing. Also had it's first population increase on the US Census in 50 years. You should have made this video 15 years ago, you're a little late to the party. BTW...been interviewed by Paste Magazine lately? Scum bag
Exactly. Though in all fairness, The Bend is not really a destination for much. Schools blow, politics are all funky liberals leeching the city coffers to fill their patronage system with donut snarfing, cig puffing, paper shuffling losers. It just mo’ Liberal run, skull phuqery.
When did the population of South Bend fall by 50,000? The population of the city in 1920 was 70,000, peaked at around 132,000 in 1960 and is currently estimated at around 102,000.
He could have driven through an extremely wealthy enclave in Fairfield County CT, and IMO, it would have been the best way to demonize the Democratic Party via the out of touch type, who never have anything to do with the impoverished and are quick to impose whatever political agenda they have. IMO, the aforementioned is no different than the person, whether red or blue, who puts in an hour on Sunday only for a church service, while during the rest of the week they are treating their fellow person like garbage. In sum, there are evil people on both sides of the political isle, but IMO, the ones that talk the talk, without entering the fray, are the ones who really need to analyze themselves. I am saying this because I enter the fray each day and I enjoy doing it too, because I love working with the community I help. I could easily become a statistic, but if I were one, then that is what I was put on this earth for.
Deindsutrialization screwed up so much of the Midwest. There's way too many places like South Bend, Youngstown, Dayton, etc. who peaked in the 60s and 70s. Reminder that things such as poverty and crime are much more nuanced than whatever party the mayor belongs to.
@@ceeko5484 once corporations figured out that it’s cheaper to produce goods in other countries and simply import them back to the states they had no financial incentives to continue to manufacture in the U.S.
@@jeffreymarshall4572 nope, once trade became much more globalized after world war 2 it became cheaper to simply manufacture goods overseas where you can pay much less to produce than it the U.S. Once you remove those industries that have kept tens of thousands of jobs in your city the people leave, meaning you now have less people to pay for a city that’s designed to have way more. It literally doesn’t matter if you’re republican or democrat
I see that when the guy in the interview mention the slum lords, the interviewer quickly went to "WHAT ABOUT THE CRIME" yeah slum lords are also one of the factors that our neighborhood looks so bad
I'm a '60's kid. I grew up in NW Indiana. This is what happens when all of our manufacturing jobs go overseas. Who in the hell wants to live there or stay when there are no jobs? I watched Gary, IN turn into a shithole. The steel mills were the place to work way back when. Most of that went overseas. It's very sad. What were once thriving beautiful areas now are ghettos.
For the record SB has many neighborhoods that are well kept,instead of focusing on the negative (which is everywhere) let's shine some light on the positive in the city... there are communities that stick together and help one another, home owners that work hard to take care of their properties, and a pride that runs deep... no crime or poverty will ever strip the love and dedication true South Bend residents have... we're a breed of our own that shines as bright as the sun... Much love to SB❤👑
I for 1 am so very sorry for the 100 percent si UN balanced infotour. They never gave a glimpse to the beauty, the people and the young men &women that roam our streets in pursuit of knowledge of Bussines in a spiritual umbrella blue & gold.
I live in a city way bigger than SB, our crime is lower, and our education system is better. It can be better maintained too. The grass puts alot of the ugly away.
As a 40 year resident in the area, i can confirm the first half of this video. There are large sections of south bend that are straight no go zones. Been that way my whole life. Its a mess, for a whole host of reasons. We can blame politicians. We can blame industry leaving. There is plenty of blame to spread around. But ultimately, people need to start taking personal responsibility for where they are and where they are going...
You will see the same thing in China once industry is done with them and moves on to cheaper labor. We are seeing what the world becomes when there is no hope.
@@giuseppeangulo7310 Isn’t it weird how people from California move to Montana and Texas in droves, despite being in what was considered one of the most desirable states not that long ago? Isn’t it weird how people in the northeast move to the southeast, Texas, Colorado and Nevada in droves? Gee, I wonder why. Of course many of those idiots go on to vote Democrat in their new homes, because they don’t realize that doing so destroyed their old homes in the first place. Cognitive dissonance is wild.
As a 57 yr old life long resident , city administration destroyed the school system, the system should have sold adams to IUSB that would have lifted the system out of the red , they rebuilt riley , refurbished adams closed Lasalle which was one of the newest high schools with plenty room to build ,now you have adams, clay ,Riley ,on the east , northeast, south east side and lonely Washington on the west side a whole mess, all the business are on the Mishawaka side of town no attempt to bring any on the west side, the city spent 6 million on subdivisions that should have been used to help the westside the list goes on .
I go to The Tire Rack in South Bend a few times a year for the last 25 years. Some areas are quite nice, especially around the University and hospital. I also have seen some bad. Not Detroit or Gary bad, but it's definitely not good. I do enjoy the airport. Just the right size and minimal BS.
I noticed you pretty much stayed on westside of south bend. There are some improvements and new construction going on in the east race area. It's still sketchy but there's some nice scenery to take in while you're waiting for police or ambulance.
lol, not surprising!1 they dont usually have regualr full time paying jobs so they go to ghettoes to move in..they were active in Lynn, massa chusetts for along time ..same thing
the area you drove around was one of the poorest areas of my town,,,,,, you never stopped and talked to anyone that actually lives here this is not a good representations of a city if you cant even talk to the people who are actually here everyday....we use to be hard workers........seriously....
I do appreciate that you showed the issues and highlighted the history behind south bend but I do think that it would also be helpful to show off areas like downtown and notre dame and the nice neighborhoods around the river to show the juxtaposition and to show how small these areas really are
Actually this is 40 years of a “conservative” tax structure that scrapped the incentive to invest at home & allowed businesses to invest abroad with no repercussions….
@@michaelmullin3585 It is what it is. Nobody wins a race to the bottom. We have a GDP greater than Russia, China, & Japan combined….but only about 30% of Americans have some sort of pension. And for what it’s worth, the business & corporate communities will ship a factory to Mexico or China….while simultaneously waving the flag in your face all day long! And these are the people who own our government on basically every level. The local big city Democrats are trying to hold the seams together on a massively failed system. As far as real world economic policy is concerned, there ain’t a liberal for a thousand miles.
@@michaelmullin3585 you mean like all those southern red states do to steal businesses from the north? How much did trump give foxcon to never even build factory again? Somewhere around a billion I believe. Film a movie in GA and they'll not only charge you no taxes they'll give you money.
@@brianpeterson8908 That’s actually part of the problem. We’ve had a fiat (paper money)system since about 1913 when the Fed was established. Around the same time we established tax structures to encourage reinvestment and to keep a small segment of society from accumulating gobs of paper money. Over the last few decades, we’ve been conned into literally paying businesses to locate to a particular area …while not contributing to the local tax base, and providing marginal jobs…often through a “labor contractor” like ManPower or Labor Ready. Meanwhile the US has a GDP greater than China, Russia,&Japan combined! - and we’ve created several hundred billionaires over the last 40 years. The real issue is that the American worker is amazingly uninformed, and easily led astray by the oddest of right wing narratives.
Thanks for posting this. I worked in the subject area for many years so this brought back a lot of memories. At the 8:19 mark, the brown building on the right was a gym once owned by local celeb Tom Lynch who was a professional wrestler in the AWA and a former Mister Indiana. One of the members actually went on to wrestle Andre the Giant on Monday Night Raw.
Your right, I dated one of Tom Lynch's daughters. Very lovely girls! They were both Cheerleaders at Washington H.S. back in the day like you said Sir. Lancy and Lenny Lynch.
I was born at Memorial Hospital and raised in South Bend the majority of my Life. Things may have been rough but it is what YOU make of it in this city like every city. I went to St. Joseph elementary and ended up Graduating from Penn Highschool in Mishawaka, IN. I love this city because of the history i have there. My grandparents both retired from The University of Notre Dame. I will always love South Bend because of the good memories i have. Although the city is dying...and has been.
Yes, the false promises that Trump imbued on such places will make for some sad watching. Telling places in West Virginia for instance that coal is "coming back" is just not being intellectually or economically honest, but it sure does win ya some votes. Yee haw!
And u can't really can't get a house under 2 hundred thousand now, when u use to be able to get it for like starting at 65-99 thousand and I live in Mishawaka Indiana
@@danielmorse6597LOL!! Not really. It's not like if a bunch Californians we're moving to Indiana , then Indiana would be in big trouble. it's just us Chicagoans - your neighbors . Not even Chicagoans . It's mostly people from suburbs
I do not get blaming problems of a city on the political party of the area. The problems of South Bend are economical and regional. You can cherry pick cities to paint whatever story. Let's take another example: Palo Alto, CA. Run by democrats, best public schools in the country, very rich. Is that merit of the Democrats, nah.
@@TheBearGrappler i had to look up Greg Tanaka. I think Palo Alto has been good before this Greg, and will be good long after, but I'm sure Greg is likely doing an excellent job.
The boarded up liquor store at 6:59 is just two blocks from where my grand parents lived on Brookfield. If you would have crossed the street there on Johnson, 2nd house on the left would be where my aunt lived. That area was a large Polish neighborhood. As a kid I remember going to Kreamo in the afternoons and getting a free loaf of bread at the back door from their overruns for the day. It always smelled like fresh bread there.
The west side of South Bend has always been rough. I have lived here my whole life. You drive down the worst streets in the worst places and think that is the whole town. There are much nicer places than you are showing. Too many drugs, too many shootings, homeless, drugs, all of that is absolutely true
Objectively, this video is misleading. I recently moved to the area from out of state and I have to say that it has been a great experience so far. I live in an area where South Bend, and two of its suburbs, Granger and Mishawaka, meet. As with any city in the world, there are definitely parts of South Bend to avoid; which were basically all that we saw in this video. But the nicer parts far outweigh the bad ones. Also, the population decline is right in line with other midwest cities over the last half century; however, the latest census showed an increase in population within city limits for the first time in decades. This video definitely is from an out-of-towner perspective.
@@Bswinevideo as a Republican that escaped from the liberal Chicagoland area, I can definitely say that is not the case. I just think that this area is in the direction of a rebound. This video was basically just a "I've never been here but it looks rough, so it's rough".
There is so much more to South Bend than what’s acknowledged in this video. The only areas and facts mentioned are the areas in need of assistance and are in the works of being helped. There are so many people here making a difference and coming together to help one another for our town and all of humanity. If you’re looking to research South Bend I’d recommend reaching out to a other digital media and people that live here. If it’s not your kinda place no reason to fascinate on what you don’t like about. Move on to find your true home and share your happiness from there.
I agree. It's a large size city for the state (really like 200k) and close to the beaches and Chicago area. There's stuff to do. It's not as bad as spending summer out in the mountains with not much to do lol!
@@raycarter8070 South Bend is a nice size city. Of course there's going to be crime there like everywhere else , but South Bends got some nice places in the city too. This guy is just assuming half the stuff hes saying
Politics doesn't solve or cause any of these problems. When people are poor, then they are poor. The government doesn't enrich anyone's lives; all they do is take your money. Saying Democrats made South Bend poor, is the same as saying Republicans made West Virginia poor. Switching parties won't solve the underlying problems. South Bend or even Gary Indiana could elect a Republican mayor and the same problems would persist.
I was born and raised in south bend myself. ITs so hard to belive how everything changed here. It just brings a tear in your eyes...You see these same streets you seen long ago and things got worse over the years. I remember long ago Notre Dame kicked a good amount of people out for them to grow their collage student areas. My grandma is one of them I had to move her down south where I currently live. Its been hard for her yeah but she got used o it. Seeing these bricked roads makes me sad it just so unreal to see it all again. I still love South bend and I always go back to visit family. Just theres soo much than this you should've show.
i spend all day everyday(sleeping in my car a lot of nights) all around sb for work and surrounding cities but i live in a much smaller conservative town 20 miles east of sb. beautiful and run down areas in every town. i feel the real problem is corrupt over paid and under worked politicians/government officials living the high life on our tax dollars.
So did u go to south bend or did u just stay on the westside? You didnt go anywhere by downtown and you keep showing the worst side claiming it to be downtown.
I seen the abandoned businesses and remember the warnings about corporations which was another nail in a dying town's coffin. Your neighborhood hardware, autoparts, paint, furniture, clothing, curtains, rugs, dishes, linens, wallpaper, shoes, baby stuff/toys, bikes, tv/electronics, bridal, bakery, butcher, grocer, candy, coffee, diners and corner bars=no driving drunk, gone to super stores that carried all the above. Also, mom and pop stores were not worried about bottom lines, at any given time the shop owner would give something with the purchase or just give something. Made me sad.
The Communists always wanted one huge store, or, one huge farm, not 100s or 1,000s of smaller companies competing. America is going communist, and after they take over, they always decimate the population.
@@compatriot852 Dont let that Notre Dame brand fool ya , you can get robbed or beaten , shot at just as quick by campus as you can anywhere else in South Bend , no exception available there
I used to be a limousine driver in chicago and lots of my clients had homes near here which I didn’t understand. These people are multi millionaires. I don’t see why anyone would voluntarily live near these places ; & the guy at 7:44 is speaking facts. you see nice homes then abandoned vacant homes all in the same city. it’s so strange.
Misleading video, though there is certainly urban blight common to similar sized cities, South Bend's core is revitalizing anchored by the Renaissance District, Four Winds Field, East Bank, Howard Park, SJ County Library, and significant downtown growth/development. There are grassroots neighborhood redevelopment projects, such as 466 Works, Cross Community in Near Northwest, LaSalle Square with Success Academy, Brown Community Center, Western Avenue upgrades, and more. I live outside South Bend, but choose to work in South Bend. Yes, SB has serious issues needing addressed further, but it has committed Community members that have brought SB back from where it was a decade ago. South Bend is a city making a serious and real comeback!
South bend looks like this because of Deindustrialization and urbanization. Literally all of the white people left in the 1970-00s . But what came in the westside was Hispanics. The neon or hood you drove passed for like the first 7 minutes is called Little Mexico. If you lived in the area you would know that population is going up a lot here in the Westside
Damn Nick’s been really dropping the ball lately. Love his videos but now it seems he’s focused on shoving his agenda to the viewer, which didn’t seem like the case before. I liked you because although you’re right leaning, you always seemed to try to be unbiased and only present the facts. Nowadays, you find a blue city, drive through the worst parts you can, and make some comment about why democrat leadership is so horrible. But you never address the fact that all the most populated cities in America are Democrat run and despite their issues (every city has them), people prefer to live in Democrat led cities anyway. Why is that? It’s not like people can’t live where they want. We have cars and trucks and trains and so on. People can settle wherever nowadays. That in the land of the free, people prefer to live in cities where they feel more free. Guess it’s hard to do that in red cities with strict HOA rules, low minimum wage, anti cannabis laws and a very “normie” culture where you feel shamed and judged for expressing yourself. So it seems Americans just want to live in cities where they can live and let live, which is the blue cities.
@@michaelwhite2823 Higher taxes, defund the police, doing absolutely nothing about homelessness, doing absolutely nothing about illegal immigration, doing absolutely nothing to protect their cities during the riots. Look no further than Portland. It’s still going on. All makes for an extremely uncomfortable living conditions
@@5dancingnoses106 no one does Hud corruption better than the Dems. Also they put gas on the borrowing between banks and countries so there’s that. Ask yourself where the gold standard went. I will concede some corrupt repubs from years back did try to remove chapter 11 however their are illegals that have filed multiple times and have been awarded it without paying taxes and living here for years. The system is just broken man
South Bend needs to be reminded of the definition of insanity. Insanity is when you keep reelecting the same politicians but expect different results. Nothing will change until the city decides to move in a different direction for a change.
The worst towns and cites almost always have one thing in common. A certain party administers them long term. The other party has bad ones too. But the one beginning with D are exponentially worse. They somehow convince that better kept areas in town make up for this lol. It's amazing how it gets invisible for the ones conditioned there.
Drive around the absolute worst parts and town and interview your friend from another country. That is some thorough investigation. You should pay me to watch this.
He butchered my city too bro. He has a very biased stereotype generalization type of view. The people who he interviews seem to all be afraid of their own shadows.
A lot of cities like this started their decline with a Republican government and democrats only escalated it. Point is, these cities can't be saved by either
Coming from someone who lives there, your amount of misleading information is astounding. You pretty much only stayed on the west side of the city, which is crumbling and run down. You went nowhere else. You didn’t go to any other areas or downtown, so you could make it seem worse than it actually is. Props on the video, and especially the idiotic comment in the thumbnail, but you truly have no idea what you’re talking about.
Does anyone think that the college should be responsible for helping the city’s little or nah? I go to OU and Norman is a much better city because of the universities involvement so could Notre Dame’s isolation be one of the causes?
I agree with that. These colleges rake in so much money its absolutely ridiculous. Nobody seems to really want to help the greater good when it is definitely in their means. Not all of us can be super rich. It's just not economically possible. No matter how hard you work or bend backwards. Itd be nice to know that these long time establishments actually cared about the community by giving back from time to time.
@@jeffreymarshall4572 since they are a private school I doubt they would significantly drop their tuition, if at all. Public colleges aren’t even affordable for a lot of people😵💫maybe it’s too much to ask a private school to help a community since they must sustain themselves🤷🏽♂️
@@gobadgego takes alot of courage to step into unfamiliar territory. Alot of people in that university smarter than me; I'm sure they could figure something out.
The Ohio State University keeps buying up areas around campus to expand and buys up High Street and tears down the old buildings. They put up nice new places and yet crime still is rampant . Columbus or as I call it Colemanistan is still a cesspool of robbery drugs and shootings ( including murders ). It has been run by democrats for decades
The shooting rate is a little low, it's an every day thing according to the shared news stations. South Bend and Elkhart are two places to straight up avoid. It's spreading into Mishawaka, can't even go to JC Penny without a bullet proof vest 🤦.
Most of it sucks anyway, except for I-933 going into Niles MI. Prettiest areas of SB are ND and SMC, and well, they have their own zipcodes and popo, and townies create a scare whenever they show up at the laundromats at night, seen that happen before, I chased a few kids away myself, didn't call security on them, they were just scavengers.
I lived in South Bend for a month for a gig. I was assaulted while out for a walk, for seemingly no reason. I left the state shortly after. Awful place.
Nick, if this is your take on South Bend and the way you've chosen to experience it, don't come back. You obviously did your research in an arm chair and didn't step foot out of the comfort of your car. You recorded the West Side of SB on the outskirts of downtown. Where is the rest of South Bend?
Literally, he just drove down and in between Western and Lincolnway, I hoped he would at least talk more about how white flight completely screwed over development in the like 70's and 80's. Iusb and the east side paint a whole different picture. But that must go against his talking points, so it was left out 😕
It's crazy how you pretty much left out every good aspect and every nice part of the city. And you know what would make your video better is if you added the information on how to change some of these things and situations in our city. Or the fact that in these bad areas with high poverty and homeless there are countless places to get a free hot meal daily and food pantrys to get non perishable, and, where those places are. considering your driving around you could even show these places. If I was somebody in my own City struggling and I saw this video the only thing it would make me do is feel more helpless and hopeless because there's no good information in it.
Used to live in Culver, had fond memories of South Bend, key word had, seeing you drive past places I once visited, only to see them gone, the entirety of Indiana has just been slowly falling apart, it makes me sad to see my home state like this
Try actually showing the good things next time my g, I live on the west side, and yeah it’s bad, but have you seen the other sides of the city? Only looking at one gives a really bad impression.
this video is so one sided. ive lives her 50 plus years ive raised 3 kids as a single mom. drugs are in certain areas and the same areas what u show. u show nothing about the good areas. bad representation of us. must be a trumper.
South Bend for sure has lots of problems. But I think your points would be more effective without the deceptive framing. Other people in the comments have pointed out that you only showed a bad part of town and I have to think there was a reason for that. There's mentions of what happens downtown without actually showing downtown. There are many problems in SB and many people being left behind. I think you can make that point without cherry picking. This comes off less about caring about the issues and more about using the issues to... idk, own the libs or something? (And don't get me wrong, they provide plenty of material for that)
I have to agree. It's not just a selected few that are the problem. It's the schools, it's people who work in those schools who don't care enough to intervene, the leadership, ect. It's multiple thing that are the problem.
In your Phoenix crime is high video you said crime and gangs were high because it was close to Mexico. Here you are saying that there are gangs because South Bend is close to Chicago and Gary. So your thinking is that no crime is locally created. It comes from somewhere else. But you cite no proof. But you can blame the de-manufacturing and de-industrialization on Wall Street who sent all the jobs off-shore (China). Go to Home Depot or Target and turn over any product and see where there made. None of them say Made in the U.S.
The SB tour should have shown all sides of the city instead of just the West Side, to emphasize the contrasts of different areas. And getting people who have lived in the city from the 10950s/60s even 70s for their perspectives. I liked Javier. He gave a true account.
I do love the brick roads, such an underated aesthetic to places. Not sure if it fares well to weather but I wish more places had it. Quite a shame, I see the beautiful buildings and houses but half the buildings I see could be nice but are damned
Beautiful brick roads but imagine the decaying lead pipes that lie underneath. Decaying lead pipes to transport all of your chemically treated water to your home and decaying lead pipes to take your sewage away..
It's really interesting tho they had soldiers that came back from war lay those roads for employment and a means to get back on there feet after the war. And they are still there. Something really beautiful about our city too is all the big huge old trees that grow in so many places in the heavily populated parts of town . Alot of our corn fields have been gotten ride of but it still have the small town kinda farm city beauty of it even tho it's less that description now
I lived in South Bend in its heyday, in the mid-60's. A lot of industries left in the 70's and 80's and were not replaced. This would have happened under ANY leadership. Studebaker went out of business. What would a GOP leadership do any differently? Tell us, tell us.
@@jeffreymarshall4572 agree with you here except not sure much manufacturing will ever come back to rust belt, including south bend, the unions and high wages drove manufacturing out to China. The way south bend has decayed with no improvement absolutely makes it undoubtedly appear that the democratic leadership there has utterly failed at everything.
Like I said this is my hometown and where he's driving, we've had Town Halls to ask the mayor at the time Pete Buttigieg to use that Surplus money to fix up the northwest side in the Westside but he decides to put in roundabouts lights and decorative brick. The man in this video is driving on the Northwest and West side of South Bend and what we call Little Mexico where it looks bad. Those people that live in that area they all have jobs. They work hard, and they try to do the best they can to keep whatever little bit they have. I know I lived in that area.
The roundabouts were the bottom line worst bullshit to ever happen, Totally unnecessary. You do not put roundabouts on semi truck routes, period! He also took out 30% of the traffic signals on main and michigan to get traffic to the football stadium fast, but now trying to cross those roads is totally impossible. the traffic is just nonstop
Oh one more thing rewatching this... we don't have an apple store that's all UP Mall which is Mishawaka our neighbor city. We closed our mall like 2 decades ago.
I used to collect on delinquent cable bills in the greater South Bend/Mishawaka area. When you go to SB you cannot believe that a school as prominent as Notre Dame is in the middle of this hole. You can tell that it used to be a manufacturing/shop city. Once those businesses packed up and left for cheaper labor the fabric of the city was ripped apart. There’s nothing a mayor is going to be able to do to stifle the downfall. If/when the area rises up again it will be because several businesses, corporations decided to take a chance on the area. It’s a long road back.
I worked there 20-25 years ago. When you do a collections job you see a cross section of the city that very few people ever get to see. I had to collect from the rich, poor, businesses, etc. It’s not an easy job. People I worked with were caught up in the middle of gun fights. Had weapons pulled on them. We’re threatened with violence. You name it, I’ve seen it.
It is...from northern downtown (close to ND) and NNE to the mall area in Mishiwauka. South & West are the bad areas. Maybe a few shady areas east of downtown heading towards Elkhart
@@sopwithsnoopy8779 What no the shady parts are like from hickory apartments to the airport by the mall everyone considers it rich because there's always Ferraris and Lamborghinis passing by
I know exactly where you are at in that first shot. I've been there literally hundreds of times in my life. That speedway used to be really lousy, then they did some serious remodeling to make it look nice.
Go check out Bedford or a bunch of the other towns in the republican state of Indiana before trying to hang it on one political party. You stated the cause of the issues.."post industrial".. show me a town that used to depend on gm or some other big company..that didn't suffer when those companies left as globalization took over.. in some cases the towns literally existed because of the industry ... So it makes sense that they would struggle in post industrial America
This is the typical Democrat " success " story. As Nick says, there a A LOT of South Bends in America, and they have a lot in common. Here's the face of " Build Back Better ".
You can blame politics if you'd like, but what does South Bend have to offer? You present a valid but typically nearsighted argument. In it's hay day South Bend had a glut of uneducated, European immigrant manual labor, mostly reliant on Studebaker & tier one auto industry suppliers. This is exactly like the rest of the rust belt. When those jobs left for cheaper global alternatives due to economic demands, the city imploded. A prosperous municipality exists because they fulfill an economic need. What new role will South Bend fill to EARN prosperity, not demand it with no change? If you just want a government handout, then get in a long line. Even if you get it, you'll probably still fail because nothing has changed,, no Democrat or Republican has cracked that nut yet. South Bend needs to innovate and fill a market nitch to become economically relevant again. Republicans want the prosperity of the 1950's, which is a long past fairy tale your grandparents told you about "the good ol' days" & the Democrats what to subsidize awful programs to uplift the downtrodden that amount to absolutely nothing in the end. Both parties have failed for decades because we outsourced labor and devalued the flexibility, skills & backbone of our own people.
@@dubsondrums6880 That was a big old load of crap. Sure, in the day South Bend had all of what you say, as did many other cities in the " Rust Belt ". I know, I live in this Belt. A major difference in where I live and South Bend is that surrounding communities here, which South Bend lacks, were just as dependent on auto industry jobs, but didn't sit on their hands when the auto industry left. Of course, the changes didn't occur overnight, but they did occur. Tech start ups, health care expansion, the State offering tax incentives to small industry companies, all made a recovery possible. South Bend could have done something similar, but didn't. Ignore the fact that they have been administered by Democrats for decades if that pleases you, but it is fact nonetheless. Don't come to me with the " no Democrat or Republican has cracked that nut.. ", it has been cracked right here in SW Ohio.
There's this thing called "Block Busting". Its when a political party uses laws and regulations to drive out the people who vote against them. So as a purely hypothetical example, lets say you're a political party that doesnt do well with blue collar voters but you have the "welfare vote" by a wide margin. You crash the schools, render them non-functional. Its easy to get control of a school board, candidates with a national party backing them have a huge advantage over some retiree who doesnt even have a campaign staff. So you use your control of the school board to establish ineffective curricula and blow the budget on unnecessary programs. This leaves most people in the community with two choices. 1. Stay and watch their children grow up to be illiterate. 2. Leave. Now all you have to do is get "redevelopment grants" to build housing projects that bring in people who vote for you and now its impossible for anyone outside your party to win an election for the next 40 years. Good thing its hypothetical and doesn't happen in America. It would be terrible if we had a political party that benefitted from causing urban blight. We'd have towns and cities that looked like something out of a third world country.
A lot of this is accurate, but Notre Dame isn’t just isolating itself from South Bend. They buy whole neighborhoods and build housing that ppl here can’t afford. Years ago they publicly announced they want South Bend Indiana to be Notre Dame Indiana. No one who lives here can afford to go to Notre Dame. The local government isn’t any better, but I won’t go on. It is sad to see ppl commenting that you didn’t show any of the “good side” of south bend, it’s true there are some things you left out but ignoring these issues is the real problem
I was just here and can feel that it is trying to come back. I could easily judge the Downtown and say what a sad place, but I can see that there is passion and pride in building it up. I work with municipalities and mayor Pete is a legend. He transformed this place in just a few years. Yes, there is lot to overcome, but I think the people take ownership and are moving forward. I had a pleasant time in SB and felt reasonably safe. There was a good Police presence and they are trying. We all love a good comeback story. Lot of No. Indiana is gritty, grungy and has a feel like Detroit, but the people are good and have pride in this town and I saw that. Notre Dame is freaking beautiful too!
I live in South Bend. While I feel some of this video is accurate you only showed one side of town. I noticed you stayed on the west side you never crossed Michigan St. The neighborhoods over there are in much better shape. My three kids graduated from South Bend schools and all went to college and are doing fine. In my opinion if your going to do a video about a town show all sides of the town not just a narrative you wish to spin.
If he did, he wouldn't be able to push his far right authoritarian agenda.
You can do this tour in pretty much any city this size in America, then blame the party that has been in control. What city in America with similar population does not have poverty, crime, drugs, gangs, bad schools and run down neighborhoods? Not much has changed? Based upon a comparison over what years? Here are some Republican run cities that I could drive through and make the same video: Chattanooga, TN, Miami, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Lexington, KY, Tulsa, OK, Omaha, NE and Ft. Worth, TX.
@@motormaster7501 authoritarian , I hope the mask work better this time , I'm sure you comply with the political order
LOL letting an area deteriorate to that condition is a travesty. Sure if you want to support keeping it isolated. But Chicago and Baltimore murder rates are similar they keep the worst of the crime isolated to an area and call it a good job. Detroit looks like it's been in a war. Yet oh my it has areas that are not decrepid. I wondered what contortions minds go through where Lori Lightfoot is fund raising for others.when it should be a death knell.
@@motormaster7501 Free markets and personal liberties are authoritarian?
This is what happens when manufacturing jobs are moved oversees. This is evidence of the long term affect when companies move jobs oversees to get away from a decent wage here to slave wages somewhere else.
exactly!!!
Your own politicians did it! Both parties are to blame - Remember Clinton, etc?
To solve your issue reduce the corporate tax rate. Tax revenue will increase overall when you have more people working. Companies are not going overseas for cheap wages, they are going overseas to avoid our corporate tax structure and regulations.
@@michaelhill7878 You are right but wages are included.
@@gobadgego You must have gone to college? Everyone can’t go. Besides, all jobs doesn’t require a degree. Most of those type higher wage jobs are gone.
I’ve grown up in South Bend area and am currently living there now and I’ll admit drugs is still a big issue here, but I think this video sort of paints a bad picture on a city that is slowly crawling back to life because it certainly has come a long way in the past ten years. I understand this man doesn’t live or even spend any time here other than driving around some rough areas in his car. But small businesses are coming back, it’s economically making a comeback as well and it’s becoming more of a progressive place to be. This guy said he was downtown which in reality he did not drive through downtown at all and instead went down Indiana avenue (south), former location of studebaker employed development some 60 years ago which is now the most run down side of town so I think his narration is definitely a little exaggerated. This town is far from perfect and has a long way to go still, but I don’t think this video is a accurate depiction of what South Bend is all about.
Hmm ok
@@NickJohnson condescending much? How about walking that proverbial mile before you create content to up the views on youtube?
I've only lived in the South Bend city limits for 2 years, but I grew up in Southwest Michigan which is the same media market so I'm pretty familiar with how the city is perceived locally. Growing up, people around me always talked about how dangerous South Bend is and as a consequence, anytime I went into the area, it was usually to go to a chain restaurant or store in Mishawaka. Having lived in South Bend for 2 years, that seems like bullshit to me now. Downtown South Bend is really nice with a lot of great non chain restaurants. I love downtown South Bend and I'm sad it took me so long to discover it.
Yea my friend just moved in a great apartment in the downtown area, it seems like a decent area where he is at. Every city has its issues...it is what it is.
Unless you have money to spend. Its a shithole sadly.
Omg..My freind just moved there from Los Angeles. He is originally from Michigan, his mom is living there, and need care so he moved up to be closer to her. He landed a great apartment in the downtown area, he was very relieved. I went for the first time this summer, it reminds me of Michigan. I will be going to visiting my friend there more. It's no different than what's happening in all cities across the country..🤷🏾♀️
Nothin wrong wit the bend at all just gotta live here to kno wassup its just like any other city trust me
Be careful at night in downtown. Me and my girlfriend were almost robbed. I had to draw my gun, point it at them, and let them know I would shoot them. Then after we escape that she uses the bathroom and a guy trys to get in there with her. Yeah.
If your friend can make it in Michigan or LA sounds like they will make it ok in South Bend.
@@jodihertle5319 pretty much...😂
I'm from South Bend and the apartments in the downtown area look nice. Especially the ones that they built right by the South Bend Cubs stadium.
I was hoping to see some of my old hangouts when I lived there in the 1990s, but apparently you didn’t even make it out of the Westside. It’s like driving down South Stony Island Avenue in Chicago and trying to convince an audience that all of Chicago is like that.
Next time just for you I'll cover every square inch 👌
@@NickJohnson you literally went to the hardest hit places in the city and are calling that representative. you did it in purpose.
@@NickJohnson lmao why so sensitive? Why so hyperbolic. You covered about 2% of the city. The downtown, east bank, campus, Twyckenham Hills, etc are all thriving and growing. Also had it's first population increase on the US Census in 50 years. You should have made this video 15 years ago, you're a little late to the party. BTW...been interviewed by Paste Magazine lately? Scum bag
Exactly. Though in all fairness, The Bend is not really a destination for much. Schools blow, politics are all funky liberals leeching the city coffers to fill their patronage system with donut snarfing, cig puffing, paper shuffling losers. It just mo’ Liberal run, skull phuqery.
@@Playback007able Agreed...
When did the population of South Bend fall by 50,000? The population of the city in 1920 was 70,000, peaked at around 132,000 in 1960 and is currently estimated at around 102,000.
@@earlostrohs3543 lol. Facts iz easier when you just make them up
Why didn't you drive in on 30 (Main Street) instead of Lincolnway? Would've given a different impression. The West side was always rough.
His goal was only to attack Democrats with a skewed fake narrative.
He could have driven through an extremely wealthy enclave in Fairfield County CT, and IMO, it would have been the best way to demonize the Democratic Party via the out of touch type, who never have anything to do with the impoverished and are quick to impose whatever political agenda they have.
IMO, the aforementioned is no different than the person, whether red or blue, who puts in an hour on Sunday only for a church service, while during the rest of the week they are treating their fellow person like garbage.
In sum, there are evil people on both sides of the political isle, but IMO, the ones that talk the talk, without entering the fray, are the ones who really need to analyze themselves.
I am saying this because I enter the fray each day and I enjoy doing it too, because I love working with the community I help. I could easily become a statistic, but if I were one, then that is what I was put on this earth for.
I-35? 35 doesn't run through South Bend...
The further you get from downtown the better homes and yards appear however these areas are getting worse too.
@@edxx925 Yea this guy obviously has an agenda.
Deindsutrialization screwed up so much of the Midwest. There's way too many places like South Bend, Youngstown, Dayton, etc. who peaked in the 60s and 70s. Reminder that things such as poverty and crime are much more nuanced than whatever party the mayor belongs to.
Why did that happen? Maybe Democrat tax and regulation policy that made other areas-or countries-more business friendly?
@@ceeko5484 once corporations figured out that it’s cheaper to produce goods in other countries and simply import them back to the states they had no financial incentives to continue to manufacture in the U.S.
@@jeffreymarshall4572 nope, once trade became much more globalized after world war 2 it became cheaper to simply manufacture goods overseas where you can pay much less to produce than it the U.S. Once you remove those industries that have kept tens of thousands of jobs in your city the people leave, meaning you now have less people to pay for a city that’s designed to have way more. It literally doesn’t matter if you’re republican or democrat
absolutely
Mike Pence was the fearless leader of Bankrupt Indiana Towns like Gary.and South Bend.
I see that when the guy in the interview mention the slum lords, the interviewer quickly went to "WHAT ABOUT THE CRIME" yeah slum lords are also one of the factors that our neighborhood looks so bad
Exactly
I'm a '60's kid. I grew up in NW Indiana. This is what happens when all of our manufacturing jobs go overseas. Who in the hell wants to live there or stay when there are no jobs? I watched Gary, IN turn into a shithole. The steel mills were the place to work way back when. Most of that went overseas. It's very sad. What were once thriving beautiful areas now are ghettos.
For the record SB has many neighborhoods that are well kept,instead of focusing on the negative (which is everywhere) let's shine some light on the positive in the city... there are communities that stick together and help one another, home owners that work hard to take care of their properties, and a pride that runs deep... no crime or poverty will ever strip the love and dedication true South Bend residents have... we're a breed of our own that shines as bright as the sun... Much love to SB❤👑
I was thinking the same thing. I feel like he went straight to the ghetto
I for 1 am so very sorry for the 100 percent si UN balanced infotour. They never gave a glimpse to the beauty, the people and the young men &women that roam our streets in pursuit of knowledge of Bussines in a spiritual umbrella blue & gold.
I live in a city way bigger than SB, our crime is lower, and our education system is better. It can be better maintained too. The grass puts alot of the ugly away.
The USA spends 750 billion on its military, yet it allows dilapidated run down houses in communities like SB.
@@sbl17jackson37 yeah...might wanna speak with mayor bootigig
As a 40 year resident in the area, i can confirm the first half of this video. There are large sections of south bend that are straight no go zones. Been that way my whole life. Its a mess, for a whole host of reasons.
We can blame politicians. We can blame industry leaving. There is plenty of blame to spread around. But ultimately, people need to start taking personal responsibility for where they are and where they are going...
The left doesn’t believe in personal responsibility.
You will see the same thing in China once industry is done with them and moves on to cheaper labor. We are seeing what the world becomes when there is no hope.
@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew And the right have all the answers.
@@giuseppeangulo7310 Isn’t it weird how people from California move to Montana and Texas in droves, despite being in what was considered one of the most desirable states not that long ago? Isn’t it weird how people in the northeast move to the southeast, Texas, Colorado and Nevada in droves? Gee, I wonder why. Of course many of those idiots go on to vote Democrat in their new homes, because they don’t realize that doing so destroyed their old homes in the first place. Cognitive dissonance is wild.
As a 57 yr old life long resident , city administration destroyed the school system, the system should have sold adams to IUSB that would have lifted the system out of the red , they rebuilt riley , refurbished adams closed Lasalle which was one of the newest high schools with plenty room to build ,now you have adams, clay ,Riley ,on the east , northeast, south east side and lonely Washington on the west side a whole mess, all the business are on the Mishawaka side of town no attempt to bring any on the west side, the city spent 6 million on subdivisions that should have been used to help the westside the list goes on .
I’d love to see a video of you consulting some folks about where they should move to!
@@Lanainvestor Nobody should ever even visit California, let alone move to that commie hell hole.
I was just there last week. its not as bad as you're making it seem
I live there. It's pretty bad
I go to The Tire Rack in South Bend a few times a year for the last 25 years. Some areas are quite nice, especially around the University and hospital. I also have seen some bad. Not Detroit or Gary bad, but it's definitely not good.
I do enjoy the airport. Just the right size and minimal BS.
I noticed you pretty much stayed on westside of south bend. There are some improvements and new construction going on in the east race area. It's still sketchy but there's some nice scenery to take in while you're waiting for police or ambulance.
Ok Charles.
I noticed that too, he kept referring the south west side as if he was downtown which made it seem way worse of a place than what it really is
As I lay dying from a billet wound, "Oh what a nice park they built there."
"east race area?'
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@@michaelhill7878 A "billet"is a place where a soldier is assigned to live in. How could that kill you?
The HELLS ANGELS has a chapter in South Bend
@@bextar6365 😂 😂 yeah we'll see how that works out
@@bextar6365 the Mongols can supervise it 😂
@@bextar6365 a wise man once said....
"I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER" .... COL. HANNIBAL SMITH!!!
lol, not surprising!1 they dont usually have regualr full time paying jobs so they go to ghettoes to move in..they were active in Lynn, massa chusetts for along time ..same thing
So did the KKK
the area you drove around was one of the poorest areas of my town,,,,,, you never stopped and talked to anyone that actually lives here this is not a good representations of a city if you cant even talk to the people who are actually here everyday....we use to be hard workers........seriously....
Why did you stop being hard workers.
Bruh I hate that he implied like we don't work hard
Inaccurate, didn’t go to any of the good parts, legit stayed on the west side for almost the whole time.
It's not about what's RIGHT with the place
I do appreciate that you showed the issues and highlighted the history behind south bend but I do think that it would also be helpful to show off areas like downtown and notre dame and the nice neighborhoods around the river to show the juxtaposition and to show how small these areas really are
Actually this is 40 years of a “conservative” tax structure that scrapped the incentive to invest at home & allowed businesses to invest abroad with no repercussions….
So an American company should be bribed to stay in America? That's what "incentives"are.
@@michaelmullin3585 It is what it is. Nobody wins a race to the bottom. We have a GDP greater than Russia, China, & Japan combined….but only about 30% of Americans have some sort of pension. And for what it’s worth, the business & corporate communities will ship a factory to Mexico or China….while simultaneously waving the flag in your face all day long! And these are the people who own our government on basically every level. The local big city Democrats are trying to hold the seams together on a massively failed system. As far as real world economic policy is concerned, there ain’t a liberal for a thousand miles.
@@michaelmullin3585 you mean like all those southern red states do to steal businesses from the north? How much did trump give foxcon to never even build factory again? Somewhere around a billion I believe. Film a movie in GA and they'll not only charge you no taxes they'll give you money.
@@brianpeterson8908 That’s actually part of the problem. We’ve had a fiat (paper money)system since about 1913 when the Fed was established. Around the same time we established tax structures to encourage reinvestment and to keep a small segment of society from accumulating gobs of paper money. Over the last few decades, we’ve been conned into literally paying businesses to locate to a particular area …while not contributing to the local tax base, and providing marginal jobs…often through a “labor contractor” like ManPower or Labor Ready. Meanwhile the US has a GDP greater than China, Russia,&Japan combined! - and we’ve created several hundred billionaires over the last 40 years. The real issue is that the American worker is amazingly uninformed, and easily led astray by the oddest of right wing narratives.
I live in South Bend, been here my whole life.... Although everything he's sayin is true.... I love my city... I'll be here for life✌❤🙏🙏🙏
Dude you make it sound like a prison sentence.
Thanks for posting this. I worked in the subject area for many years so this brought back a lot of memories. At the 8:19 mark, the brown building on the right was a gym once owned by local celeb Tom Lynch who was a professional wrestler in the AWA and a former Mister Indiana. One of the members actually went on to wrestle Andre the Giant on Monday Night Raw.
That's cool !
Your right, I dated one of Tom Lynch's daughters. Very lovely girls! They were both Cheerleaders at Washington H.S. back in the day like you said Sir. Lancy and Lenny Lynch.
I love that “30 years of democratic leadership looks like “ comment. You are a legend nick
It was Republican free market policies which led to all the manufacturing jobs in these communities going to
Asia.
Don’t get it twisted, republicans policies aren’t perfect either
@@JoeyDNetsfan don't get it twisted; Republican policies are way better.
@@JoeyDNetsfan wow what a warped perspective on history you have. You must have gone to public school.
@@iananderson3799 yikes you really believe this?
I was born at Memorial Hospital and raised in South Bend the majority of my Life. Things may have been rough but it is what YOU make of it in this city like every city. I went to St. Joseph elementary and ended up Graduating from Penn Highschool in Mishawaka, IN. I love this city because of the history i have there. My grandparents both retired from The University of Notre Dame. I will always love South Bend because of the good memories i have. Although the city is dying...and has been.
I think in the near future you're going to make a lot of "what the hell happened to" videos.
sadly probably.
I say do it. Its awesome
NEXT
If that happens we'll already know why it happened
Yes, the false promises that Trump imbued on such places will make for some sad watching. Telling places in West Virginia for instance that coal is "coming back" is just not being intellectually or economically honest, but it sure does win ya some votes. Yee haw!
I see lots of houses on the market in Indiana are being bought up and prices are going up very fast . Many people are moving from Chicago to Indiana
Bringing thier problems with them
Cost of living had a lot to do with that
And u can't really can't get a house under 2 hundred thousand now, when u use to be able to get it for like starting at 65-99 thousand and I live in Mishawaka Indiana
@@cynthiapreston937 can't get anything decent over 1200 sft that doesn't need a repair under $350
@@danielmorse6597LOL!! Not really. It's not like if a bunch Californians we're moving to Indiana , then Indiana would be in big trouble. it's just us Chicagoans - your neighbors . Not even Chicagoans . It's mostly people from suburbs
I do not get blaming problems of a city on the political party of the area. The problems of South Bend are economical and regional. You can cherry pick cities to paint whatever story. Let's take another example: Palo Alto, CA. Run by democrats, best public schools in the country, very rich. Is that merit of the Democrats, nah.
You can thank Greg Tanaka, the only elected official in that city who is fiscally responsible.
@@TheBearGrappler i had to look up Greg Tanaka. I think Palo Alto has been good before this Greg, and will be good long after, but I'm sure Greg is likely doing an excellent job.
The boarded up liquor store at 6:59 is just two blocks from where my grand parents lived on Brookfield. If you would have crossed the street there on Johnson, 2nd house on the left would be where my aunt lived. That area was a large Polish neighborhood. As a kid I remember going to Kreamo in the afternoons and getting a free loaf of bread at the back door from their overruns for the day. It always smelled like fresh bread there.
The west side of South Bend has always been rough. I have lived here my whole life. You drive down the worst streets in the worst places and think that is the whole town. There are much nicer places than you are showing. Too many drugs, too many shootings, homeless, drugs, all of that is absolutely true
Objectively, this video is misleading. I recently moved to the area from out of state and I have to say that it has been a great experience so far. I live in an area where South Bend, and two of its suburbs, Granger and Mishawaka, meet.
As with any city in the world, there are definitely parts of South Bend to avoid; which were basically all that we saw in this video. But the nicer parts far outweigh the bad ones.
Also, the population decline is right in line with other midwest cities over the last half century; however, the latest census showed an increase in population within city limits for the first time in decades. This video definitely is from an out-of-towner perspective.
The west side is safe, like you can go out in the middle of the night and walk
Sounds like you are trying to cover up for the destruction caused by dirty Democrats
@@Bswinevideo as a Republican that escaped from the liberal Chicagoland area, I can definitely say that is not the case. I just think that this area is in the direction of a rebound.
This video was basically just a "I've never been here but it looks rough, so it's rough".
@@jdudek1334 copy that. Fair enough.
There is so much more to South Bend than what’s acknowledged in this video. The only areas and facts mentioned are the areas in need of assistance and are in the works of being helped. There are so many people here making a difference and coming together to help one another for our town and all of humanity. If you’re looking to research South Bend I’d recommend reaching out to a other digital media and people that live here. If it’s not your kinda place no reason to fascinate on what you don’t like about. Move on to find your true home and share your happiness from there.
I agree. It's a large size city for the state (really like 200k) and close to the beaches and Chicago area. There's stuff to do. It's not as bad as spending summer out in the mountains with not much to do lol!
South Bend is a mess..
@@raycarter8070
I'm sorry for your loss
@@Oden-Heinrich Thank you! South Bend is always in my thoughts. its sometimes more than just the downturn of city lol.
@@raycarter8070 South Bend is a nice size city. Of course there's going to be crime there like everywhere else , but South Bends got some nice places in the city too. This guy is just assuming half the stuff hes saying
Politics doesn't solve or cause any of these problems. When people are poor, then they are poor. The government doesn't enrich anyone's lives; all they do is take your money. Saying Democrats made South Bend poor, is the same as saying Republicans made West Virginia poor. Switching parties won't solve the underlying problems. South Bend or even Gary Indiana could elect a Republican mayor and the same problems would persist.
Gore Vidal always said the Republicans and Democrats were wings of the same conservative party.
Amen! Facts 🗣💯
bingo
Considering how much of a Centrist the Democratic party is totally
I was born and raised in south bend myself. ITs so hard to belive how everything changed here. It just brings a tear in your eyes...You see these same streets you seen long ago and things got worse over the years. I remember long ago Notre Dame kicked a good amount of people out for them to grow their collage student areas. My grandma is one of them I had to move her down south where I currently live. Its been hard for her yeah but she got used o it. Seeing these bricked roads makes me sad it just so unreal to see it all again. I still love South bend and I always go back to visit family. Just theres soo much than this you should've show.
i spend all day everyday(sleeping in my car a lot of nights) all around sb for work and surrounding cities but i live in a much smaller conservative town 20 miles east of sb. beautiful and run down areas in every town. i feel the real problem is corrupt over paid and under worked politicians/government officials living the high life on our tax dollars.
So did u go to south bend or did u just stay on the westside? You didnt go anywhere by downtown and you keep showing the worst side claiming it to be downtown.
I seen the abandoned businesses and remember the warnings about corporations which was another nail in a dying town's coffin. Your neighborhood hardware, autoparts, paint, furniture, clothing, curtains, rugs, dishes, linens, wallpaper, shoes, baby stuff/toys, bikes, tv/electronics, bridal, bakery, butcher, grocer, candy, coffee, diners and corner bars=no driving drunk, gone to super stores that carried all the above. Also, mom and pop stores were not worried about bottom lines, at any given time the shop owner would give something with the purchase or just give something. Made me sad.
The Communists always wanted one huge store, or, one huge farm, not 100s or 1,000s of smaller companies competing. America is going communist, and after they take over, they always decimate the population.
It’s a shame that Mom & Pop stores are a thing of the past.
I live in Mishawaka, a town right next to South bend, and have to drive around their on a daily basis. It can be bad, but it has some good parts.
The Mayor went to Washington DC.
My sister has lived in South Bend for 30 years..near Notre Dame..nice area..no problems
the universities ar e usually in the nice part of town!!
That's because she lives near the university. An exception to the rule
@@compatriot852 Dont let that Notre Dame brand fool ya , you can get robbed or beaten , shot at just as quick by campus as you can anywhere else in South Bend , no exception available there
I used to be a limousine driver in chicago and lots of my clients had homes near here which I didn’t understand. These people are multi millionaires. I don’t see why anyone would voluntarily live near these places ; & the guy at 7:44 is speaking facts. you see nice homes then abandoned vacant homes all in the same city. it’s so strange.
Misleading video, though there is certainly urban blight common to similar sized cities, South Bend's core is revitalizing anchored by the Renaissance District, Four Winds Field, East Bank, Howard Park, SJ County Library, and significant downtown growth/development. There are grassroots neighborhood redevelopment projects, such as 466 Works, Cross Community in Near Northwest, LaSalle Square with Success Academy, Brown Community Center, Western Avenue upgrades, and more. I live outside South Bend, but choose to work in South Bend. Yes, SB has serious issues needing addressed further, but it has committed Community members that have brought SB back from where it was a decade ago. South Bend is a city making a serious and real comeback!
South bend looks like this because of Deindustrialization and urbanization. Literally all of the white people left in the 1970-00s . But what came in the westside was Hispanics. The neon or hood you drove passed for like the first 7 minutes is called Little Mexico. If you lived in the area you would know that population is going up a lot here in the Westside
The poles who lived in the Area moved to granger or mishawaka, so the population of the region stayed mostly untouched
Damn Nick’s been really dropping the ball lately. Love his videos but now it seems he’s focused on shoving his agenda to the viewer, which didn’t seem like the case before. I liked you because although you’re right leaning, you always seemed to try to be unbiased and only present the facts. Nowadays, you find a blue city, drive through the worst parts you can, and make some comment about why democrat leadership is so horrible. But you never address the fact that all the most populated cities in America are Democrat run and despite their issues (every city has them), people prefer to live in Democrat led cities anyway. Why is that? It’s not like people can’t live where they want. We have cars and trucks and trains and so on. People can settle wherever nowadays. That in the land of the free, people prefer to live in cities where they feel more free. Guess it’s hard to do that in red cities with strict HOA rules, low minimum wage, anti cannabis laws and a very “normie” culture where you feel shamed and judged for expressing yourself. So it seems Americans just want to live in cities where they can live and let live, which is the blue cities.
Top seven states with highest poverty are red states. “Liberalism” isn’t always the problem.
I grew up there and my family worked at Bendix. I pray they get South Bend fixed up. I will never forget where I came from...
My uncles own bendix
Per Michael Moore, the city of Flint Michigan has voted Democrat for 84 years. 😬
It's easy to blame the left but BOTH SIDES of the USA government are funded by the same central bankers.
@@5dancingnoses106 Unfortunately it’s specific Democrat policies that are destroying cities and states
@@michaelwhite2823 Higher taxes, defund the police, doing absolutely nothing about homelessness, doing absolutely nothing about illegal immigration, doing absolutely nothing to protect their cities during the riots. Look no further than Portland. It’s still going on. All makes for an extremely uncomfortable living conditions
@@5dancingnoses106 no one does Hud corruption better than the Dems. Also they put gas on the borrowing between banks and countries so there’s that. Ask yourself where the gold standard went. I will concede some corrupt repubs from years back did try to remove chapter 11 however their are illegals that have filed multiple times and have been awarded it without paying taxes and living here for years. The system is just broken man
D9 or bigger CAT!
Did you get a chance to see Shipshewana about 30 miles east on US 20? It's an Amish stronghold
South Bend needs to be reminded of the definition of insanity. Insanity is when you keep reelecting the same politicians but expect different results. Nothing will change until the city decides to move in a different direction for a change.
I live in the city trust me that’s pretty much the low income part of the city
Take away all the jobs and this is what happens. Ever been to Gary or Hammond?
exactly...there are thousands of Gary indianas all over the usa!!
Gary smells like rotten eggs roasting on top of a dumpster fire. SB sucks but nowhere near as bad as Gary.
Gary makes South Bend look like Manhattan
Do you have a video about valparaiso, indiana?
I heard a couple Chinese owned factories have moved to America because of low wages/cheap American labor. What a shame.
The worst towns and cites almost always have one thing in common. A certain party administers them long term. The other party has bad ones too. But the one beginning with D are exponentially worse. They somehow convince that better kept areas in town make up for this lol. It's amazing how it gets invisible for the ones conditioned there.
Drive around the absolute worst parts and town and interview your friend from another country. That is some thorough investigation. You should pay me to watch this.
He butchered my city too bro. He has a very biased stereotype generalization type of view. The people who he interviews seem to all be afraid of their own shadows.
Facts!
A lot of cities like this started their decline with a Republican government and democrats only escalated it. Point is, these cities can't be saved by either
Or that failure is not biased towards political party.
South Bend has been Democrat since 1972
Can you give me specific cities where a Republican government initiated a decline? Crickets be chirping.
@@michaelhill7878 Why ask things that you can just google just to argue on the internet about it, doesn't that seem like a waste of time?
@@abw1317 You just proved my point, you are making statements out of your ace, that you cannot back up. "Got ya," Snowflake.
South bend is not a bad place to live its what company you keep and thats in any city
Coming from someone who lives there, your amount of misleading information is astounding. You pretty much only stayed on the west side of the city, which is crumbling and run down. You went nowhere else. You didn’t go to any other areas or downtown, so you could make it seem worse than it actually is. Props on the video, and especially the idiotic comment in the thumbnail, but you truly have no idea what you’re talking about.
Does anyone think that the college should be responsible for helping the city’s little or nah? I go to OU and Norman is a much better city because of the universities involvement so could Notre Dame’s isolation be one of the causes?
I agree with that. These colleges rake in so much money its absolutely ridiculous. Nobody seems to really want to help the greater good when it is definitely in their means. Not all of us can be super rich. It's just not economically possible. No matter how hard you work or bend backwards. Itd be nice to know that these long time establishments actually cared about the community by giving back from time to time.
@@chadmulligan5629 good points!! Notre Dame is a private school too so tuition+ sports revenue= a lot of money😅😅
@@jeffreymarshall4572 since they are a private school I doubt they would significantly drop their tuition, if at all. Public colleges aren’t even affordable for a lot of people😵💫maybe it’s too much to ask a private school to help a community since they must sustain themselves🤷🏽♂️
@@gobadgego takes alot of courage to step into unfamiliar territory. Alot of people in that university smarter than me; I'm sure they could figure something out.
The Ohio State University keeps buying up areas around campus to expand and buys up High Street and tears down the old buildings. They put up nice new places and yet crime still is rampant . Columbus or as I call it Colemanistan is still a cesspool of robbery drugs and shootings ( including murders ). It has been run by democrats for decades
The shooting rate is a little low, it's an every day thing according to the shared news stations. South Bend and Elkhart are two places to straight up avoid. It's spreading into Mishawaka, can't even go to JC Penny without a bullet proof vest 🤦.
So no Pink Houses by John Mellencamp during the drive?
Literally he's making this place sound like Gary. Only parts of South Bend are bad, I live in the area so I can confirm it.
Most of it sucks anyway, except for I-933 going into Niles MI. Prettiest areas of SB are ND and SMC, and well, they have their own zipcodes and popo, and townies create a scare whenever they show up at the laundromats at night, seen that happen before, I chased a few kids away myself, didn't call security on them, they were just scavengers.
Clearly this is a critical, negative and prejudiced outlook.
If you think South Bend is acceptable, you need to leave 😂
not ALL of Gary is bad there some decent residential areas but I know downtown is a waste land
Nice video of my temporary hometown. You should unbox Washington DC and LA and Las Vegas next.
I lived in South Bend for a month for a gig. I was assaulted while out for a walk, for seemingly no reason. I left the state shortly after. Awful place.
Man o man
A town with no jobs will be crime ridden and drug infested no matter where you go that's common sense
Nick, if this is your take on South Bend and the way you've chosen to experience it, don't come back. You obviously did your research in an arm chair and didn't step foot out of the comfort of your car. You recorded the West Side of SB on the outskirts of downtown. Where is the rest of South Bend?
It was raining.
Literally, he just drove down and in between Western and Lincolnway, I hoped he would at least talk more about how white flight completely screwed over development in the like 70's and 80's. Iusb and the east side paint a whole different picture. But that must go against his talking points, so it was left out 😕
6:17 The Hell's Angels of South Bend location!!!!!
It's crazy how you pretty much left out every good aspect and every nice part of the city. And you know what would make your video better is if you added the information on how to change some of these things and situations in our city. Or the fact that in these bad areas with high poverty and homeless there are countless places to get a free hot meal daily and food pantrys to get non perishable, and, where those places are. considering your driving around you could even show these places. If I was somebody in my own City struggling and I saw this video the only thing it would make me do is feel more helpless and hopeless because there's no good information in it.
Used to live in Culver, had fond memories of South Bend, key word had, seeing you drive past places I once visited, only to see them gone, the entirety of Indiana has just been slowly falling apart, it makes me sad to see my home state like this
Try actually showing the good things next time my g, I live on the west side, and yeah it’s bad, but have you seen the other sides of the city? Only looking at one gives a really bad impression.
Where the heck is your sailboat nick? I would've sailed right passed southbend
I didn't have my boat that time! ⛵️
Yeah I live there and there’s definitely a bad part of south bend but you didn’t even show the nice part of south bend like mckinley terrace
this video is so one sided. ive lives her 50 plus years ive raised 3 kids as a single mom. drugs are in certain areas and the same areas what u show. u show nothing about the good areas. bad representation of us. must be a trumper.
South Bend for sure has lots of problems. But I think your points would be more effective without the deceptive framing. Other people in the comments have pointed out that you only showed a bad part of town and I have to think there was a reason for that. There's mentions of what happens downtown without actually showing downtown. There are many problems in SB and many people being left behind. I think you can make that point without cherry picking. This comes off less about caring about the issues and more about using the issues to... idk, own the libs or something? (And don't get me wrong, they provide plenty of material for that)
I have to agree. It's not just a selected few that are the problem. It's the schools, it's people who work in those schools who don't care enough to intervene, the leadership, ect. It's multiple thing that are the problem.
In your Phoenix crime is high video you said crime and gangs were high because it was close to Mexico. Here you are saying that there are gangs because South Bend is close to Chicago and Gary. So your thinking is that no crime is locally created. It comes from somewhere else. But you cite no proof. But you can blame the de-manufacturing and de-industrialization on Wall Street who sent all the jobs off-shore (China). Go to Home Depot or Target and turn over any product and see where there made. None of them say Made in the U.S.
The SB tour should have shown all sides of the city instead of just the West Side, to emphasize the contrasts of different areas. And getting people who have lived in the city from the 10950s/60s even 70s for their perspectives. I liked Javier. He gave a true account.
Living in South Bend, from every corner of the state, this is EXTREMELY interesting to me.
I do love the brick roads, such an underated aesthetic to places. Not sure if it fares well to weather but I wish more places had it. Quite a shame, I see the beautiful buildings and houses but half the buildings I see could be nice but are damned
Beautiful brick roads but imagine the decaying lead pipes that lie underneath. Decaying lead pipes to transport all of your chemically treated water to your home and decaying lead pipes to take your sewage away..
@@JoeSmith-gn1ki tear up them bricks, replace and slap them beauties back on
Those west side brick roads are 100 years old and have never been repaired--but are in low traffic areas.
It's really interesting tho they had soldiers that came back from war lay those roads for employment and a means to get back on there feet after the war. And they are still there. Something really beautiful about our city too is all the big huge old trees that grow in so many places in the heavily populated parts of town . Alot of our corn fields have been gotten ride of but it still have the small town kinda farm city beauty of it even tho it's less that description now
@nick johnson, can you make a video on NWI Indiana (Dyer, Schererville, Saint John, maybe even Crown Point and Cedar Lake added in)
I lived in South Bend in its heyday, in the mid-60's. A lot of industries left in the 70's and 80's and were not replaced. This would have happened under ANY leadership. Studebaker went out of business. What would a GOP leadership do any differently? Tell us, tell us.
They would sit and watch and keep taking lobby money...
But then... that's the answer to most 'what would a politician do' questions! :D
What does South Bend full of Catholics mean?
What would of Republican leadership got them? I’ll wait for that answer.
@@jeffreymarshall4572 you assume that! What changed from 2016 to 2020?
Granger, IN
@@jeffreymarshall4572 agree with you here except not sure much manufacturing will ever come back to rust belt, including south bend, the unions and high wages drove manufacturing out to China. The way south bend has decayed with no improvement absolutely makes it undoubtedly appear that the democratic leadership there has utterly failed at everything.
Nothing. Cities like this are too far to be saved by Republicans and democrats
@@WaluigiLebron this bad off yes, better to burn place down and start over
Nick: You skipped the city side of South Bend. It has a baseball stadium, hospitals, St Mary’s College, Holy Cross. Notre Dame and IU South Bend.
Like I said this is my hometown and where he's driving, we've had Town Halls to ask the mayor at the time Pete Buttigieg to use that Surplus money to fix up the northwest side in the Westside but he decides to put in roundabouts lights and decorative brick. The man in this video is driving on the Northwest and West side of South Bend and what we call Little Mexico where it looks bad. Those people that live in that area they all have jobs. They work hard, and they try to do the best they can to keep whatever little bit they have. I know I lived in that area.
don't forget Pete also gave the business owners in little Mexico money to redo the exteriors of their building and redid all the sidewalks.
The roundabouts were the bottom line worst bullshit to ever happen, Totally unnecessary. You do not put roundabouts on semi truck routes, period! He also took out 30% of the traffic signals on main and michigan to get traffic to the football stadium fast, but now trying to cross those roads is totally impossible. the traffic is just nonstop
Oh one more thing rewatching this... we don't have an apple store that's all UP Mall which is Mishawaka our neighbor city. We closed our mall like 2 decades ago.
I used to collect on delinquent cable bills in the greater South Bend/Mishawaka area. When you go to SB you cannot believe that a school as prominent as Notre Dame is in the middle of this hole. You can tell that it used to be a manufacturing/shop city. Once those businesses packed up and left for cheaper labor the fabric of the city was ripped apart. There’s nothing a mayor is going to be able to do to stifle the downfall. If/when the area rises up again it will be because several businesses, corporations decided to take a chance on the area. It’s a long road back.
South Bend started to crumble 40 years ago. Way to have the pulse on the local economy 40 years late, Mr. Cable bill collector
I worked there 20-25 years ago. When you do a collections job you see a cross section of the city that very few people ever get to see. I had to collect from the rich, poor, businesses, etc. It’s not an easy job. People I worked with were caught up in the middle of gun fights. Had weapons pulled on them. We’re threatened with violence. You name it, I’ve seen it.
No comment on the Hells Angels of South Bend at 6:20 ?
No 🏍
Wow, I always imagined South Bend being some preppy college town like Ann Arbor or Madison. It looks more like Gary-Lite. Sad!
It is...from northern downtown (close to ND) and NNE to the mall area in Mishiwauka. South & West are the bad areas. Maybe a few shady areas east of downtown heading towards Elkhart
Gary looks like a hole in a wall nice downtown 😂
City Beautiful made a video about Gary today. Coincidence? LOL
I did too . I though South Bend was really nice
@@sopwithsnoopy8779 What no the shady parts are like from hickory apartments to the airport by the mall everyone considers it rich because there's always Ferraris and Lamborghinis passing by
I know exactly where you are at in that first shot. I've been there literally hundreds of times in my life. That speedway used to be really lousy, then they did some serious remodeling to make it look nice.
Nick Johnson provides a much-needed public service. His videos need to be seen by every American.
@kevin barker At least he looks up statistics. Why don't you & report back with what you find??
@@michaelwhite2823 doesn't fit his narrative.
@@ec3473 fairly sure they used to be more even handed and gently mocking of both 'sides', now every video seems to be libs are awful.
Go check out Bedford or a bunch of the other towns in the republican state of Indiana before trying to hang it on one political party. You stated the cause of the issues.."post industrial".. show me a town that used to depend on gm or some other big company..that didn't suffer when those companies left as globalization took over.. in some cases the towns literally existed because of the industry ... So it makes sense that they would struggle in post industrial America
This is the typical Democrat " success " story. As Nick says, there a A LOT of South Bends in America, and they have a lot in common.
Here's the face of " Build Back Better ".
You can blame politics if you'd like, but what does South Bend have to offer? You present a valid but typically nearsighted argument. In it's hay day South Bend had a glut of uneducated, European immigrant manual labor, mostly reliant on Studebaker & tier one auto industry suppliers. This is exactly like the rest of the rust belt. When those jobs left for cheaper global alternatives due to economic demands, the city imploded. A prosperous municipality exists because they fulfill an economic need. What new role will South Bend fill to EARN prosperity, not demand it with no change? If you just want a government handout, then get in a long line. Even if you get it, you'll probably still fail because nothing has changed,, no Democrat or Republican has cracked that nut yet. South Bend needs to innovate and fill a market nitch to become economically relevant again. Republicans want the prosperity of the 1950's, which is a long past fairy tale your grandparents told you about "the good ol' days" & the Democrats what to subsidize awful programs to uplift the downtrodden that amount to absolutely nothing in the end. Both parties have failed for decades because we outsourced labor and devalued the flexibility, skills & backbone of our own people.
@@dubsondrums6880 That was a big old load of crap. Sure, in the day South Bend had all of what you say, as did many other cities in the " Rust Belt ". I know, I live in this Belt.
A major difference in where I live and South Bend is that surrounding communities here, which South Bend lacks, were just as dependent on auto industry jobs, but didn't sit on their hands when the auto industry left. Of course, the changes didn't occur overnight, but they did occur. Tech start ups, health care expansion, the State offering tax incentives to small industry companies, all made a recovery possible. South Bend could have done something similar, but didn't. Ignore the fact that they have been administered by Democrats for decades if that pleases you, but it is fact nonetheless.
Don't come to me with the " no Democrat or Republican has cracked that nut.. ", it has been cracked right here in SW Ohio.
I wonder if places in Japan, Germany, Canada, etc have similar issues, or is it just a US thing?
There's this thing called "Block Busting".
Its when a political party uses laws and regulations to drive out the people who vote against them.
So as a purely hypothetical example, lets say you're a political party that doesnt do well with blue collar voters but you have the "welfare vote" by a wide margin.
You crash the schools, render them non-functional.
Its easy to get control of a school board, candidates with a national party backing them have a huge advantage over some retiree who doesnt even have a campaign staff.
So you use your control of the school board to establish ineffective curricula and blow the budget on unnecessary programs.
This leaves most people in the community with two choices.
1. Stay and watch their children grow up to be illiterate.
2. Leave.
Now all you have to do is get "redevelopment grants" to build housing projects that bring in people who vote for you and now its impossible for anyone outside your party to win an election for the next 40 years.
Good thing its hypothetical and doesn't happen in America.
It would be terrible if we had a political party that benefitted from causing urban blight.
We'd have towns and cities that looked like something out of a third world country.
That would never happen in America thank god!
The Democrat scum are doing this right now in Huntington Beach CA.
A lot of this is accurate, but Notre Dame isn’t just isolating itself from South Bend. They buy whole neighborhoods and build housing that ppl here can’t afford. Years ago they publicly announced they want South Bend Indiana to be Notre Dame Indiana. No one who lives here can afford to go to Notre Dame. The local government isn’t any better, but I won’t go on. It is sad to see ppl commenting that you didn’t show any of the “good side” of south bend, it’s true there are some things you left out but ignoring these issues is the real problem
Simple reason jobs left white flight loss of tax base
Democrats. Republican. Same 🕊️ bird. Just different wings. Neither care about us
Bootyjuice did a great job!
thats exactly what I call him too. lol
Have you seen the Kensington Philadelphia videos lately? I would take South Bend anytime 😊.
FYI: "South Bend" is not "all of Indiana". The section of Indianapolis, where I live, is absolutely lovely. Best place I've ever lived.
Very true. Indiana is a great place with some areas not doing well just like every other state. The people are amazing and I love visiting Indiana.
I was just here and can feel that it is trying to come back. I could easily judge the Downtown and say what a sad place, but I can see that there is passion and pride in building it up. I work with municipalities and mayor Pete is a legend. He transformed this place in just a few years. Yes, there is lot to overcome, but I think the people take ownership and are moving forward. I had a pleasant time in SB and felt reasonably safe. There was a good Police presence and they are trying. We all love a good comeback story. Lot of No. Indiana is gritty, grungy and has a feel like Detroit, but the people are good and have pride in this town and I saw that. Notre Dame is freaking beautiful too!
Mayor Pete happened here.
Yes, unfortunately.
Shameful
South Bendover, with Mayor Pete Buttifuck
South Bend has been a craphole when Pete was in grade school. Prove me wrong