Those houses in New Orleans are called “shotgun houses.” They get the name because if someone were to shoot a bullet from your front door, it wouldn’t hit anything and exit through the back door. They were designed after major fires in the 1700s. Building codes required wooden houses to be narrow so that there was room between the houses built on small lots.
Also houses used to be taxed in a different way than they are now. You used to be taxed by the width of the front part of your house in both Louisiana and Texas so you'll see very narrow but also very deep lots for houses in cities like New Orleans, part of Houston and Galveston, and even down here in older parts of Corpus Christi, Texas. I've also seen older houses built like this in parts of Alabama as well.
@@mariop716 you're telling lies. This is yet another one of those black washing of History moments. You get these black supremacists who claim that everything that is in existence today was invented by or built by black people and this is another example of that
We were raised poor but we didn't live in a pig sty. My mother always kept the house clean and tidy and took care of what we did have. The yard was always picked up and kept neat. We didn't have the best wardrobe but our clothes were clean and mended and we bathed everyday. We ate cheap but my mother was a good cook and knew how to make a tasty meal with what she had available. A person can be poor but still have some pride in their surroundings.
I've always felt that if anyone should be upset about the deterioration of Detroit, it's our WW2 allies. That city was one of the main reasons the allies won WW2. Not for nothing was it referred to as The arsenal of democracy.
There are tons of people that should be - and are - "upset" about the deterioration of Detroit. Citizens, small business owners, renters, and even the good politicians were run out by corrupt regimes. There's more that could and should be done to help the city. Beyond helping out in WW2, it was the automotive epicenter, "Motor City".
I feel like, after WW2 the Europeans showed how to rebuild cities. If Detroit can't at least take over a few good things, they're not worth saving. But then again, the decline of US cities has to do with bankruptcy caused by the unsustainable mobility system and cost of roads. Its like a pyramid scheme, go watch videos about it, it is interesting.
Anyone interested in WW2 history or just history in general, I highly recommend the 8 part series War Factories the secret history of WW2. All 8 episodes are available on UA-cam. It gives a major insight into the role Detroit and American and British manufacturing played in the allied victory. Very informative and entertaining.
@@letheas6175 Euros rebuilt their cities on the back of US tax payers via the Marshall Plan but there was a huge variation betw countries. West Germans worked their asses off to rebuild, while other countries twiddled their thumbs by comparison. Detroit went from the richest city America in '53 to one of the most corrupt, ultimately declaring bankruptcy. There's plenty of blame to go around
I mean, making fun of white trash is low hanging fruit in my opinion. Like Dave said, it's such a large area and just like any kind of poverty it's hard to break the cycle when it's been going on for generations. That kid did look like Dave though.
Kyle's stuff is really, really good. He covers a lot of stuff that you guys have had an inkling might be interesting reactions (like tallest building in every state, flags, etc.) but manages to make each topic about as interesting as it can be. It'd definitely be a worthwhile rabbit hole for y''all.
FLDS is Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints. They broke off from the LDS/ Mormon church when the LDS stopped polygamy in 1890. They believed the church was wrong so they broke off and started their own church. They are very different from regular LDS and in many ways still stuck in the 1890's.
No those are not trailer or "caravan" homes in New Orleans. They're called shotgun homes and they're fairly common in older cities in the costal south with long narrow lots. It's the same basic concept as you find in older northern cities: the more lots a developer could put on a street front, the more money they could make selling individual lots. the only difference is they're detached single units instead of rowhouses, and you'll see plenty of conventional rowhouses in older coastal southern cities too.
I am from Maryland. Baltimore has 2 sides to it just like any other city. You can fall in love with the city and it’s charm but if you go a few blocks away from the nice parts you will see shit you thought only happened in movies. Especially at night. Baltimore is beautiful but you don’t want no parts of the ghetto side… trust me… It’s literally a war zone.
6:40 ... really glad Pittsburgh recovered from the steel plants shutting down, great example of an industry deteriorating and a city still thriving. 🖤💛
Lol. When did she say that? Her entire career she’s talked about how poor she was. The only quote I know of that comes close to that is Coal Miners Daughter which was “we were poor but we had love, that’s the one thing daddy made sure of”.
Those aren't trailers in New Orleans, they're called shotgun houses. You can shoot a gun from the front door straight to the back door. Edit: I lived in a haunted one when I lived there. Lol
Im from southwestern WV and he’s spot on about it. Lots of drugs and not many jobs. And Daz is right as well: some ppl just dont want to get off their ass and work. They live off gvmnt aid. I still live in WV but everytime i go back to that area where i grew up its depressing af. My dad was a coal miner. We werent poor but we were surrounded by it. It was 10 miles to the closest store and gas station. Kind of peaceful in a way tho.
There are alot of Irish/Scottish in Appalachia like Dave said but a vast majority settled the East coast like Boston or NYC. Especially Boston there's a huge Irish influence here.
You're conflating two different groups. The Scotch Irish from Ulster who settled the Appalachians in the 18th century, and the indigenous Irish who settled in America's big cities in the 19th century.
The people who settled in Appalachia are Scotch-Irish/Ulster-Scots who are of Lowland Scots and Northern English descent. They're not really Irish. To this day in Ulster those people won't identify as irish. And they settled these areas during 17th-18th century whereas Boston was originally founded, built and settled by English Puritans in the early 17th century who were later on displaced by the massive wave of irish immigrants in the 19th century which is why Boston is now known for it's large irish diaspora.
One of GK's better videos is the one in which he explains the temperature variations in different parts of the country, incl. why some parts do/don't get hurricanes, do/don't get tornadoes, etc.
One of the biggest problems in the US is racism. Racism is still at the heart of most US politics, & it's because of politics that the government doesn't invest in these cities. Also, racism guides immigration policy. I really wish it weren't so, but that's the way it is - racism.
People do not move out of these areas because they don't have the money to move on somewhere else. If they left where they are then more than likely they would be homeless living on the streets.
The homes referenced in New Orleans are called shotgun homes. They are long and thing with no hallways, just one room connected to another with the kitchen in the back. Sometimes, 2 shotguns are built next to each other to create a double. These aren't just in bad neighborhoods; there are shotguns in very nice neighborhoods. Being from New Orleans, everything he said about our inner city is right on the money. But, we have a lot of very nice areas as well. For example, I live a 3 minute drive away from the Joel Glazer residence (yeah, that Glazer); drive past it every day. He lives on the same street as Gayle Benson, who owns the New Orleans Saints. This means that in New Orleans, 2 NFL owners (one of whom also owns Man U) live on the same street. (Audubon Place in case you were wondering.)
I'm still learning but my great grandpa grew up in pike County Kentucky and became a coal miner when he was very young. He had my grandfather with my great grandma then ended up dying on 12/22/1946 because of a slate cave in three days before Christmas and he was 26. As far as I know alot of my family is Scottish and Irish in heritage but a decent part northern European, not sure where though.
NOLA. Those are shotgun houses in New Orleans . They were common in the periods between 1890-1930s. 3 rooms ,open cneters, front and back door. You could open front and back doors and look straight through the house. The wealth gap (distribution of wealth) is the most skewered since 1910.
There at the end - Dave's talking about Slab City, CA. That's the town with no laws. It's an abandoned military base, & isn't too far from Bombay Beach. Like 20 miles or so.
Man, the dude who made this video is CLEARLY a very privileged person who is EXTREMELY biased. Notice how he mentions the poverty in the rural areas but doesnt mention anything about crime(which if you have lived in any of these rural areas especially in West Virginia, you KNOW there's a meth lab within a stones throw), yet when he was talking about the inner cities, he mentions crime. This dude has some obvious racism pushing through as well as some very heavy biases on social classes.
Yeah I was born and raised in Mississippi and there really is a lot of drugs and crime here. But had he been talking about the south side of Chicago he'd say it was a third world ghetto despite that area not being as impoverished as where I grew up
@@John_Redcorn_ You do realize that drugs are crime, right? All those meth labs out in the boonies are crimes. And other than that you're missing the point entirely smdh
@@smashbrandiscootch719 drugs and crime are usually referred to seperately. Crime, when it comes to statistical usage, is usually violent criminal activity like theft/robbery, r*pe, murder, etc. Apparently you dont know how these types of comparison videos work
Holy shit, what a stupid comment. 🤓uh, the obvious racism!!! what about classism!! Okay, do you REALLY want to compare crime rates (violent, notably)? Racially or otherwise?
Many Appalachians have British heritage and have lived in the area over 300 years at this point. It's just never had any industrial growth because of the location, aside from the coal mine and sawmills.
Narrow houses like that are called shotgun shacks. They are made to be skinny and long so you get good breeze as they are built before air conditioning
Slab City is what you're talking about at the end there. I've been there, it's in California, it's been in movies, it has a Jesus mountain thing, yeah, middle of the desert. It used to be a military base but they took everything except the foundations when they left. Hence "Slab City". You should do a reaction video to it.
The Salton Sea was called the Salton Sewer. So stinky! We used to love driving near there, because the road was like a roller coaster, up and down. My husband had a 1959 Chevrolet with wide horizontal fins, and the car would get lifted up in the back. Some time maybe 10 years after, we went through the area and somehow the road was flatter.
10:45 There's actually a book that discusses exactly this and goes more into depth about the value of land in urban and rural areas called "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George. The guy goes ahead and even proposes that the only tax that should exist is a land value tax.
Dave is kind of right about Appalachia. It is true that that's where the Scottish and Irish tended to settle (although quite a few Irish stayed in the port cities to do low-wage work like stevedoring--tons of Irish in Boston and New York). They settled in Appalachia because the land just isn't worth much. It's not great for farming and it's incredibly mountainous and inaccessible. You guys were also on the right track that a lot of them prefer rural, remote life. These people are incredibly self-sufficient in a way that seems to confuse a lot of Western Europeans and even coastal Americans. They'd definitely welcome better infrastructure and job opportunities, but they've grown used to their way of life and there's a definite criminal and anti-government streak in the hills. This is, famously, where most of the country's white lightning aka mountain dew aka moonshine whiskey was historically and is still made and where a great deal of methamphetamine is currently made.
They didn’t settle there because the land wasn’t worth much and you couldn’t farm it. It was the exact opposite. It’s great land for farming in quite a bit of Appalachia. That’s why up until the 90’s a lot of VA’s tobacco was grown there. Most were also self-substaining farmers. It’s just where they ended up and settled particularly given land in those areas after the Revolutionary war (Kentucky a prime example). It was similar to the rural areas in Ireland/Scotland/England where they could grow food to survive and live peacefully.
And no, they aren’t just used to not having shit. The areas have been forgotten about. Coal companies owned these areas. They came in, took all of the resources, and left ruins in their place. That created a cycle of extreme poverty that drowns the areas today. That’s where drugs come in though the meth you’re talking about doesn’t supply the country. It’s bought, sold, and used here. The meth that floods the country is made elsewhere. We also don’t call moonshine “Mountain Dew”, that’s what we call actual Mountain Dew that was created/invented in Appalachia.
@@mattskeens803 '"Mountain Dew" was originally Southern and/or Scots/Irish slang for moonshine (i.e. homemade whiskey or poitin) as referenced in the Irish folk song "The Rare Old Mountain Dew" in 1882. Using it as a name for the soda was originally suggested by Carl E. Retzke." --Wikipedia No idea why you took that so personally. It's just an interesting tidbit. I apologize for offending you by sharing that the soda's name comes from a nickname for moonshine.
@@mattskeens803 Also, no, I'm sorry but you're just straight wrong about Appalachia being good for farming. It's mountain terrain, rocky, and hard to transport goods in and out of. The river valleys have decent soil but are prone to flooding. This is super common knowledge and any cursory research into Appalachia would show that early immigrant settlers were able to afford land there because it was much cheaper than land in eastern Virginia, Pennsylvania, etc. where large cash crop farms flourished. "Self-sustaining farmers" as you put it is exactly what I was talking about. If the land can only support you and your family (and often by the skin of your teeth) then it is poor land for farming. Especially compared to most of the inhabited US at the time where planter aristocracies ruled Virginia and the Carolinas. Coal is a much later phenomenon and Appalachia already had a poor, backwoods reputation by that point. Cheap local labor was one of the reasons coal companies were so successful there. Likewise, if the land was useful for farming it would have been much more expensive to buy up and mine. Yes those companies treated these people poorly and are responsible for much of the current conditions (as well as many people moving to the region in the first place). And yes Appalachia is tragically ignored. However, there is always a bit of resistance to outside help and especially outside governmental help in close-knit, rural communities such as those found in Appalachia. Which is what I believe Dave was getting at.
I moved to an Appalachian county of Kentucky in 2014 from Cincinnati where I lived most of my life. I’m smack dab in the middle of the woods and I love it! Closest grocery is 25 min away. I see far more cows, deer and turkeys than people where I live. It’s absolutely beautiful here. The further East you go some of the issues he addressed certainly exist, but make no mistake that there is great beauty in the life here depending on how you choose to live it. And Dave is correct, there are many read heads here. 🤷♀️😀
The federal government can only do so much in some of these situations, just as state governments can only go so far. One thing to note is just as you speak of all of the money going to London, it happens here, as well. Several times we've been boondoggled here in PA, where we were promised all kinds of things if only we allowed legalized gambling in the Commonwealth - we were holdouts against that corruption for a very long time, but we were promised no property tax if it went through. Didn't happen. Instead almost all of those funds went for various "urban renewal" projects in Philly and sometimes Pittsburgh - forget the rest of the state! Someone else pointed out that on the various Indian Reservations, Native Americans receive funds generated by having casinos on their reservations. Reservations are considered to be separate nations from the US and the legal system is complicated. Local governments from the area have no power, only the tribal police and governments do, unless a Federal crime is committed. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying this but that's how I've come to understand it over the years. I'm with you, Daz, to an extent, about pulling oneself up by simply taking a bit of pride in yourself and your surroundings. No one needs to live in filth and trash, regardless of where they get their water from. My mother's family was what was commonly known as "white trash," with a boatload of kids born throughout the Great Depression. Even the least achieving of those kids was able to buy a home and keep their kids in school to graduate high school. And most of their grandchildren have graduated from college. It would be interesting to live long enough to see what happens in the future with college/university educations in the US so incredibly expensive. Even so, there are ways to do that. For instance, my niece's family recently relocated to Colorado. In that state, it is considerably cheaper for a CO resident to go to college than for a non-resident. Her daughter graduated from high school yesterday. She's not going to go to college until January because by then she will be considered a CO resident and will qualify for that cheaper tuition cost. In the meantime she's working a full time job and is saving for the rest of her college expenses. So there is hope for the continued upward mobility of our family. Several of my parents grandchildren, including my son, got an associate's degree - a trade school certificate - and have done quite well for themselves. In fact, some are doing better than those with college under their belts.
There are a lot of areas in the US that don't have municipal water and sewer (private wells and septic systems are everywhere). Electrical is a different story. The appliances on the front porch of the place at 16:00 is a washer/dryer pair. That is his laundry room.
The home in New Orleans are regular stick houses, known as "shotgun" homes. The lots are narrow and they accommodate. Shotgun refers to the fact that you can shot a gun in the front door and it would do through the house out the back door.
Hello! Those homes are not RV or Mobile homes, they are permanent and are called Shotgun houses. They are actually historic and have been there through many hurricanes and decades. A mobile home would not survive a hurricane there. Shotgun homes are really popular and many will hire a moving company and completely move the entire structure somewhere else that isn't ghetto.
34:45 You are referring to an unincorporated place called Slab City which is found in Imperial County, California. However, since it is within Imperial County, that means that federal, state, and local laws still apply to Slab City and any tourists.
22:00 Too what Daz was saying, im an electrician. i do alot of government and big company jobs. Ive done Amazon Datacenters, Microsoft Datacenters, and others alike. Microsoft is the only one i saw that built in a small poor town, which due too all of us working there stimulated the economy quite a bit (most of us were travelers so we essentially lived there for a bit). However, i think they more did that because it was an isolated place that wasnt too busy. Regardless, it helped the town quite a bit.
Same thing happened in Appalachia that happened in Detroit. Once the coal mines dried up everyone left. Their water is contaminated because of that and it caused cancer and birth defects. Really beautiful landscape. In Canada 75% of indigenous people dont have access to fresh water which is ridiculous considering we have 20% of the world's fresh water and more lakes than every country combined. This was a great video because you guys understood that this is all about business. Daz dropped some knowledge here. 👏🏿. 195 countries and their all businesses. That guy was a good narrator to react to.
“SHOTGUN Houses” : Very narrow houses, a hallway runs front to back, with all the rooms in a row, all accessible off that hallway. These houses were popular through the 1800’s- early 1900’s
Recommend you guys reacting to the tv show the wire. On HBO it’s an amazing look at an American urban city with urban decay and corruption centered in the city of Baltimore! Would love you guys reacting to one of the greatest shows of all time!
First reaction when seeing a guy living in absolutely horrendous conditions in a derelict, drug-heavy area is to make fun and judge? Turned my stomach a bit to see such lack of sympathy
Honestly the way US treats it's people is quite frankly disgusting... In rural areas they can't afford to visit doctor or dentist - the only way they can check up is when one of the charity organizations is sending free ones there.... When 1/3 of Gofundme is asking for help with medical bills - something is wrong.
What happened after Katrina is that Americans raised billions of dollars in aid to help New Orleans. Most of that money was sent to the whiter wealthier areas. A federal judge looked at it, and called it racism. At that time, however, there was relatively little money to take corrective action.
He is completely wrong about New Orleans, so I wouldn't believe anything he said about everything else. He is showing old pictures. Most of the city has been gentrified. There is definitely poverty. There are definitely a few bad spots and a lot of violence, but itsn't nothing like the photos he show from 2005/6....
I've been to New Orleans a couple of times and will be going back again in the future. It's a great city but there does seem to be some major issues with infrastructure. I've never seen roads and sidewalks so bad as I have there. There seems to be a run down feeling about the city (except around the Warehouse district where everything looks new) but it's also very historical. I don't mind a city that is a bit rough around the edges though so I will definitely be going back again.
I grew up in eastern Kentucky and I’ve only known if 1 or 2 families without water but you guys are spot on about the trash that has always pissed me off about that area and a lot of it is just laziness, and the sad thing is it’s not just in wooded area you’ll see spots where every house looks covered in trash luckily my parents took pride in what they had and I didn’t grow up like that
My grandparents were from Eastern Kentucky and never acted like so many of these people do. I often wonder if it’s always been like this or if it’s a generational thing.
@@kcirtapelyk6060 I think it’s more upbringing than generational, I’ve noticed a lot of ppl that grew up with there family acting like that are also acting like that now as grown ups
@@shuddle32 Good point! My grandma was a preachers daughter so that probably provided a better foundation for her and her siblings. My grandad on the other hand had a tragic start in life but was able to rise above it through hard work and determination. His father has an inbred, alcoholic wifebeater who shot and killed his wife during an outdoor church meeting right in front of their two young kids because she left him. My grandad and his sister were split up and were raised by two different sets of grandparents, with their mothers parents adopting and raising my great-aunt while his fathers parents needed a boy to work the farm. He joined the air force at 17 and practically reinvented himself and every birthday, he would say he was 17 and that became a family joke.
This guy beating the shit out of Detroit but not saying any good things about the city, sucks. I've been to Detroit many times growing up in Southwest Michigan. Detroit is actually one of my favorite cities to go to. There is sports, great bar/dinner and some amazing music. There is good and bad parts to every city. town or village.
Yeah, im sure it is nice for the few hours you are there attending your sporting event or shopping in the city but, you wouldn't live there given the choice.
@@paulgunyan6985 Actually I would if given the choice. I have a few friends that live there and really like it. It just depends on which area in Detroit just like any city.
Chicago's population is just under 3M. When you factor in per capita, we aren't even in the top 20 most dangerous cities. But politicians/news want to play with fear instead of reality. Most of the crime comes from a handful of neighborhoods. Which is not to say that every neighborhood on the south/west side is bad. It's become bad in the past decade because in the 90s a lot of the bosses of our gangs were locked up. Without any leadership or organization, shit hit the fan real fucking hard. It happened in México in the 80s and in Iraq when we overthrew Sadaam Hussein. You have to be smart but it's far from a war zone. There's a huge jump from Detroit to Chicago.
Daz for president! Love the well thought out comments guys! Great reaction as always! ETA: Does Dave mean Slab City, CA? That's the only one I know that is said to be lawless, I ask because I'd really like to know if he means a different one that I've never heard of.
I agree with you. It doesn’t matter how poor you are, stop living so dirty. All those cans around the house and trash is disgusting. Laziness! Can you imagine what the inside of the house looks like?
The government issue in Illinois is the same as London, it seems. Chicago gets the lion’s share and they waste it on things, the rest of Illinois gets the change left over
If I had to pick one of those places to live, I’d pick Detroit. Dave, you DO NOT want to live in the Appalachians. Ever see Deliverance? I have a fear of even driving through West Virginia. Inbred banjo playing psychos is what comes to mind. I could be wrong, but…
I have been to a lot of baseball games on the south side of Chicago. It is a pretty dangerous part of town but if park at the stadium you won't have any problems.
I live in the Appalachian region and I can confirm it’s pretty bad here. I live near Charleston, Wv. So I at least live in one of the best parts of Appalachia which isn’t saying much in reality though.
As long as you stay north of Grant Park, in Chicago, you're alright. If you get on the L-train, you can go west or north, but don't miss that last stop before it goes South, as you return.
Sorry brits America isn't all Disneyland and Beverly hills there's a lot of crime poverty and most would be surprised just how rural so much America really is.
Bombay Beach is 22 miles (35 km) away from Slab City. The nearest "real" town with services and grocery stores is Niland, which lies between them, 4 miles from Slab City. Niland wouldn't be called a metropolis, it's a tiny dusty town, population 743 in 2020 according to Google. But it's the place that some of the Slab City people work and get gas (petrol) and groceries and water. Some Slab City people work at a Walmart 18 miles away (according to videos they made). Bombay Beach has a market, the New Bombay Market. All of this is on Google with pictures.
9:24 That is a shotgun shack/house, Dave. Now I look at it there is a look of a trailer. But it never was. I have seen some of these around me (far from New Orleans) that were done up nice. But I have seen some in N.O. that are pretty bad. 15:05 Speaking of self pride I can show you a channel with stories (mainly in the US) that would curl your toenails. Well, you can write me if you ever want to know. Too brutal for reaction on your channel. But fascinating to watch. 23:14 An Indian reservation is it's own country. There are complications to any investments. Which should be cleared out of the way.
Oops. Watched this too late. I live in NYC. I was gonna recommend the Michael Jackson show on Bdwy. Whether u like plays, musicals or one man shows, u would luv this one. Hope u were able to catch it while u were here!!!
A lot of people in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia rely on coal mining and that's a dying industry. Not to get political, but a lot of them thought Trump would lift them out of poverty once elected, but he didn't and I'm sure that was demoralizing. The reason some of these places don't get investment is because incentives are often state-based, not county, city etc based. So while Kentucky has hundreds of car manufacturing facilities, they're mostly in more developed areas with the existing infrastructure to supply those plants and ship their goods out. They're not in eastern Kentucky, they're in central or western.
Daz when you get to new york you gotta come uptown. Visit the morris jumel mansion and the neighborhood its in. Its where George Washington stayed for a month during the revolutionary war and the street looks the same as it did then(minus the modern cars ofc)
"strange in a good way, like Santa Cruz, California" I moved to Santa Cruz from Central Illinois about a month ago, can confirm it is weird, in a good way 😅
Those houses in south are shot gun house 🏡 Designed for air circulation back in the day before ac. You could open front and back door and get a steady stream of air. All open no wall. Nick name shotgun bc you could fire a shotgun down the hall way out the back standing at the front
During a cross country train trip we rode passed a Native American reservation and yeah...it's no exaggeration...they look bad..it's pretty unforgivable to treat the native population like that.
I can confirm. Because indigenous peoples' reservations are governed by the BIA(The United States Constitution isnt actually the rule of law on tribal land), there are many benefits of being an actual country that the lands dont recieve. This causes the electrical grid, water services, and so many other necessary services are of VERY poor quality. Most of the people are forced to make souvenir jewelry and basically pimp out our culture just to get by. It's literally like stepping into a third world country. Also, I wanted to say thank you for your compassion! It honestly means a lot.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 Ah I see that's interesting to know..I was 16 at the time (30 now) and I still remember how bad those houses were..they looked similar to the ones in this video..I can also remember just sitting in my seat shocked like "wtf did I just see? Those can't be homes." It made me feel guilty for being able to travel and see the country while people were living like this. I'm trying to remember if it was Arizona or New Mexico were I saw them. And no problem, I'm black so I can relate in a way..
@@Kayodoms And yeah I'd say you can DEFINITELY relate. I'm never one to compare struggles or say one group of people struggled more than another. But our peoples have experienced really similar things(slavery, poverty, racism, etc) so you definitely have every right to say you relate.
CEO pay has risen 1,322% since 1978. In 2020, the average CEO in the US made 351 times what the average worker did. That means that the average, frontline worker, had to work approximately 17 *months* in order to earn as much as the average CEO earns in *one day*.
You can be miles away from it, many miles, and if the air flows a certain way, it stinks up the area for a few days. I lived a hundred miles away, and we'd sometimes get the rotten egg smell.
@@joekuul8769 I grew up In Ontario Ca couldn't really smell it from there but man you are right about the rotten egg smell once you start getting closer to the Salt and sea
I thought for sure he’d include these two: • Slab City , California, which is a village in the desert with no government or infrastructure. • Centralia, Pennsylvania, which has had an underground coal fire beneath the city for the last 60 years.
14:33 obviously this is right after a party. You can see a keg of beer to the right. Thats a washer and dryer on the porch. The mobile home propably didn't have hook ups. Hey , i came from this same image lol.
I live in Maine and it's become massively run down over my lifetime. So many abandoned mill towns and the homeless population in the larger cities is exploding year over year.
A lot of cities try to bring in jobs. The problem is the companies usually pay less than a living wage or the Unions show up wanting to charge way to much to bother putting a company in.
Chicago doesn't have the worst ghetto. It is the worst large ghetto. There are smaller cities where the violence per capita is way higher than Chicago. Cities like New Orleans, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc.
Those houses in New Orleans are called “shotgun houses.” They get the name because if someone were to shoot a bullet from your front door, it wouldn’t hit anything and exit through the back door. They were designed after major fires in the 1700s.
Building codes required wooden houses to be narrow so that there was room between the houses built on small lots.
Also houses used to be taxed in a different way than they are now.
You used to be taxed by the width of the front part of your house in both Louisiana and Texas so you'll see very narrow but also very deep lots for houses in cities like New Orleans, part of Houston and Galveston, and even down here in older parts of Corpus Christi, Texas.
I've also seen older houses built like this in parts of Alabama as well.
@@christianoliver3572 Yes, the property was taxed by frontage and you see the results in the architecture
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Interesting.
@@mariop716 I don't think that's a settled matter. I believe the two most common theories are yours and Cody's with neither being absolutely proven.
@@mariop716 you're telling lies. This is yet another one of those black washing of History moments. You get these black supremacists who claim that everything that is in existence today was invented by or built by black people and this is another example of that
We were raised poor but we didn't live in a pig sty. My mother always kept the house clean and tidy and took care of what we did have. The yard was always picked up and kept neat. We didn't have the best wardrobe but our clothes were clean and mended and we bathed everyday. We ate cheap but my mother was a good cook and knew how to make a tasty meal with what she had available. A person can be poor but still have some pride in their surroundings.
Very true.
I've always felt that if anyone should be upset about the deterioration of Detroit, it's our WW2 allies. That city was one of the main reasons the allies won WW2. Not for nothing was it referred to as The arsenal of democracy.
There are tons of people that should be - and are - "upset" about the deterioration of Detroit. Citizens, small business owners, renters, and even the good politicians were run out by corrupt regimes. There's more that could and should be done to help the city. Beyond helping out in WW2, it was the automotive epicenter, "Motor City".
I feel like, after WW2 the Europeans showed how to rebuild cities. If Detroit can't at least take over a few good things, they're not worth saving. But then again, the decline of US cities has to do with bankruptcy caused by the unsustainable mobility system and cost of roads. Its like a pyramid scheme, go watch videos about it, it is interesting.
Anyone interested in WW2 history or just history in general, I highly recommend the 8 part series War Factories the secret history of WW2. All 8 episodes are available on UA-cam. It gives a major insight into the role Detroit and American and British manufacturing played in the allied victory. Very informative and entertaining.
@@letheas6175 Euros rebuilt their cities on the back of US tax payers via the Marshall Plan but there was a huge variation betw countries. West Germans worked their asses off to rebuild, while other countries twiddled their thumbs by comparison. Detroit went from the richest city America in '53 to one of the most corrupt, ultimately declaring bankruptcy. There's plenty of blame to go around
@@letheas6175 "democrats"
I mean, making fun of white trash is low hanging fruit in my opinion. Like Dave said, it's such a large area and just like any kind of poverty it's hard to break the cycle when it's been going on for generations. That kid did look like Dave though.
That’s because you won’t get canceled for ridiculing White people. Hell, it’s even encouraged.
Kyle's stuff is really, really good. He covers a lot of stuff that you guys have had an inkling might be interesting reactions (like tallest building in every state, flags, etc.) but manages to make each topic about as interesting as it can be. It'd definitely be a worthwhile rabbit hole for y''all.
I'm from Chicago, and there are so many great places! There are concentrated areas of gang violence with collateral damage, but I love my hometown.
FLDS is Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints. They broke off from the LDS/ Mormon church when the LDS stopped polygamy in 1890. They believed the church was wrong so they broke off and started their own church. They are very different from regular LDS and in many ways still stuck in the 1890's.
the LDS in general are wrong.
@@MikeHawksBig69 very ignorant statement.
@@gokaury sorry boss man that’s just the truth.
No those are not trailer or "caravan" homes in New Orleans. They're called shotgun homes and they're fairly common in older cities in the costal south with long narrow lots. It's the same basic concept as you find in older northern cities: the more lots a developer could put on a street front, the more money they could make selling individual lots. the only difference is they're detached single units instead of rowhouses, and you'll see plenty of conventional rowhouses in older coastal southern cities too.
I am from Maryland. Baltimore has 2 sides to it just like any other city. You can fall in love with the city and it’s charm but if you go a few blocks away from the nice parts you will see shit you thought only happened in movies. Especially at night. Baltimore is beautiful but you don’t want no parts of the ghetto side… trust me… It’s literally a war zone.
They dont call it Bodymore or the Heroin capital of the country for no reason
As a fellow Marylander myself, I agree with the above statement. Just stay out of West Baltimore and you’ll be fine
@@michaelschemlab It's not any safer over East, tbh.
Reminds me of Cleveland
@@chrissears5482 the only people that call it that are the people that live there lol its not like how everybody call Chicago "chiraq".
I believe the place Dave was talking about at the end of the video, the community with no laws, is Slab City. I think that is what it's called.
6:40 ... really glad Pittsburgh recovered from the steel plants shutting down, great example of an industry deteriorating and a city still thriving. 🖤💛
Pittsburg is still really poor and pretty bad. They're lucky they're in a good geographic place that other companies stay there.
@@unclejune2839 I’m not articulate enough to prove that’s not the case but some googling will do the trick lol
Violence is bad in Pittsburgh right now
@@UnbiasedRemarks violence is bad everywhere, the US isn’t in a great spot lmao
@@xRANZIDx it’s crazy rn
Geography king is a great channel hope you do more!
The F in FLDS stands for "Fundamentalist".
17:51 It’s like the country singer Loretta Lynn said: “Growing up, we didn’t know we were poor, until the government told us we were.”
Lol. When did she say that? Her entire career she’s talked about how poor she was. The only quote I know of that comes close to that is Coal Miners Daughter which was “we were poor but we had love, that’s the one thing daddy made sure of”.
Those aren't trailers in New Orleans, they're called shotgun houses. You can shoot a gun from the front door straight to the back door.
Edit: I lived in a haunted one when I lived there. Lol
Im from southwestern WV and he’s spot on about it. Lots of drugs and not many jobs. And Daz is right as well: some ppl just dont want to get off their ass and work. They live off gvmnt aid. I still live in WV but everytime i go back to that area where i grew up its depressing af. My dad was a coal miner. We werent poor but we were surrounded by it. It was 10 miles to the closest store and gas station. Kind of peaceful in a way tho.
There are alot of Irish/Scottish in Appalachia like Dave said but a vast majority settled the East coast like Boston or NYC. Especially Boston there's a huge Irish influence here.
You're conflating two different groups. The Scotch Irish from Ulster who settled the Appalachians in the 18th century, and the indigenous Irish who settled in America's big cities in the 19th century.
@@phillyphilly2095 I had to reread his comment LMAO
The people who settled in Appalachia are Scotch-Irish/Ulster-Scots who are of Lowland Scots and Northern English descent. They're not really Irish. To this day in Ulster those people won't identify as irish. And they settled these areas during 17th-18th century whereas Boston was originally founded, built and settled by English Puritans in the early 17th century who were later on displaced by the massive wave of irish immigrants in the 19th century which is why Boston is now known for it's large irish diaspora.
Nailed it on the healthcare issue fellas
One of GK's better videos is the one in which he explains the temperature variations in different parts of the country, incl. why some parts do/don't get hurricanes, do/don't get tornadoes, etc.
One of the biggest problems in the US is racism. Racism is still at the heart of most US politics, & it's because of politics that the government doesn't invest in these cities. Also, racism guides immigration policy. I really wish it weren't so, but that's the way it is - racism.
People do not move out of these areas because they don't have the money to move on somewhere else. If they left where they are then more than likely they would be homeless living on the streets.
The homes referenced in New Orleans are called shotgun homes. They are long and thing with no hallways, just one room connected to another with the kitchen in the back. Sometimes, 2 shotguns are built next to each other to create a double. These aren't just in bad neighborhoods; there are shotguns in very nice neighborhoods.
Being from New Orleans, everything he said about our inner city is right on the money. But, we have a lot of very nice areas as well. For example, I live a 3 minute drive away from the Joel Glazer residence (yeah, that Glazer); drive past it every day. He lives on the same street as Gayle Benson, who owns the New Orleans Saints. This means that in New Orleans, 2 NFL owners (one of whom also owns Man U) live on the same street. (Audubon Place in case you were wondering.)
I'm still learning but my great grandpa grew up in pike County Kentucky and became a coal miner when he was very young. He had my grandfather with my great grandma then ended up dying on 12/22/1946 because of a slate cave in three days before Christmas and he was 26. As far as I know alot of my family is Scottish and Irish in heritage but a decent part northern European, not sure where though.
NOLA. Those are shotgun houses in New Orleans . They were common in the periods between 1890-1930s. 3 rooms ,open cneters, front and back door. You could open front and back doors and look straight through the house. The wealth gap (distribution of wealth) is the most skewered since 1910.
There at the end - Dave's talking about Slab City, CA. That's the town with no laws. It's an abandoned military base, & isn't too far from Bombay Beach. Like 20 miles or so.
9:55 It's called The Inner Harbor. Lots of other great parts of Baltimore, such as Hampden and Fells Point.
Grove Park, Rosemount, Curtis Bay, Cherry Hill.
No...Sorry, those are the areas that I avoid.
And then there are the neighborhoods of Cherry Hill, West Baltimore, Greenmount East, Fairfield, and Pulaski.
He only used the word "ghetto " to describe cities with majority black population
"Ghetto" was originally used to describe poor Jewish areas. Stop crying like a bit*h.
Man, the dude who made this video is CLEARLY a very privileged person who is EXTREMELY biased. Notice how he mentions the poverty in the rural areas but doesnt mention anything about crime(which if you have lived in any of these rural areas especially in West Virginia, you KNOW there's a meth lab within a stones throw), yet when he was talking about the inner cities, he mentions crime. This dude has some obvious racism pushing through as well as some very heavy biases on social classes.
Yeah I was born and raised in Mississippi and there really is a lot of drugs and crime here. But had he been talking about the south side of Chicago he'd say it was a third world ghetto despite that area not being as impoverished as where I grew up
We dont have that much crime in WV tho. Drugs, absolutely. But most criminals here know theyll get shot if they roll the dice too often.
@@John_Redcorn_ You do realize that drugs are crime, right? All those meth labs out in the boonies are crimes. And other than that you're missing the point entirely smdh
@@smashbrandiscootch719 drugs and crime are usually referred to seperately. Crime, when it comes to statistical usage, is usually violent criminal activity like theft/robbery, r*pe, murder, etc. Apparently you dont know how these types of comparison videos work
Holy shit, what a stupid comment. 🤓uh, the obvious racism!!! what about classism!!
Okay, do you REALLY want to compare crime rates (violent, notably)? Racially or otherwise?
Many Appalachians have British heritage and have lived in the area over 300 years at this point. It's just never had any industrial growth because of the location, aside from the coal mine and sawmills.
Narrow houses like that are called shotgun shacks. They are made to be skinny and long so you get good breeze as they are built before air conditioning
Slab City is what you're talking about at the end there. I've been there, it's in California, it's been in movies, it has a Jesus mountain thing, yeah, middle of the desert. It used to be a military base but they took everything except the foundations when they left. Hence "Slab City". You should do a reaction video to it.
The Salton Sea was called the Salton Sewer. So stinky! We used to love driving near there, because the road was like a roller coaster, up and down. My husband had a 1959 Chevrolet with wide horizontal fins, and the car would get lifted up in the back. Some time maybe 10 years after, we went through the area and somehow the road was flatter.
10:45 There's actually a book that discusses exactly this and goes more into depth about the value of land in urban and rural areas called "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George. The guy goes ahead and even proposes that the only tax that should exist is a land value tax.
Dave is kind of right about Appalachia. It is true that that's where the Scottish and Irish tended to settle (although quite a few Irish stayed in the port cities to do low-wage work like stevedoring--tons of Irish in Boston and New York). They settled in Appalachia because the land just isn't worth much. It's not great for farming and it's incredibly mountainous and inaccessible.
You guys were also on the right track that a lot of them prefer rural, remote life. These people are incredibly self-sufficient in a way that seems to confuse a lot of Western Europeans and even coastal Americans. They'd definitely welcome better infrastructure and job opportunities, but they've grown used to their way of life and there's a definite criminal and anti-government streak in the hills. This is, famously, where most of the country's white lightning aka mountain dew aka moonshine whiskey was historically and is still made and where a great deal of methamphetamine is currently made.
They didn’t settle there because the land wasn’t worth much and you couldn’t farm it. It was the exact opposite. It’s great land for farming in quite a bit of Appalachia. That’s why up until the 90’s a lot of VA’s tobacco was grown there. Most were also self-substaining farmers. It’s just where they ended up and settled particularly given land in those areas after the Revolutionary war (Kentucky a prime example). It was similar to the rural areas in Ireland/Scotland/England where they could grow food to survive and live peacefully.
And no, they aren’t just used to not having shit. The areas have been forgotten about. Coal companies owned these areas. They came in, took all of the resources, and left ruins in their place. That created a cycle of extreme poverty that drowns the areas today. That’s where drugs come in though the meth you’re talking about doesn’t supply the country. It’s bought, sold, and used here. The meth that floods the country is made elsewhere. We also don’t call moonshine “Mountain Dew”, that’s what we call actual Mountain Dew that was created/invented in Appalachia.
@@mattskeens803 '"Mountain Dew" was originally Southern and/or Scots/Irish slang for moonshine (i.e. homemade whiskey or poitin) as referenced in the Irish folk song "The Rare Old Mountain Dew" in 1882. Using it as a name for the soda was originally suggested by Carl E. Retzke."
--Wikipedia
No idea why you took that so personally. It's just an interesting tidbit. I apologize for offending you by sharing that the soda's name comes from a nickname for moonshine.
@@mattskeens803 Also, no, I'm sorry but you're just straight wrong about Appalachia being good for farming. It's mountain terrain, rocky, and hard to transport goods in and out of. The river valleys have decent soil but are prone to flooding. This is super common knowledge and any cursory research into Appalachia would show that early immigrant settlers were able to afford land there because it was much cheaper than land in eastern Virginia, Pennsylvania, etc. where large cash crop farms flourished. "Self-sustaining farmers" as you put it is exactly what I was talking about. If the land can only support you and your family (and often by the skin of your teeth) then it is poor land for farming. Especially compared to most of the inhabited US at the time where planter aristocracies ruled Virginia and the Carolinas.
Coal is a much later phenomenon and Appalachia already had a poor, backwoods reputation by that point. Cheap local labor was one of the reasons coal companies were so successful there. Likewise, if the land was useful for farming it would have been much more expensive to buy up and mine. Yes those companies treated these people poorly and are responsible for much of the current conditions (as well as many people moving to the region in the first place). And yes Appalachia is tragically ignored. However, there is always a bit of resistance to outside help and especially outside governmental help in close-knit, rural communities such as those found in Appalachia. Which is what I believe Dave was getting at.
I moved to an Appalachian county of Kentucky in 2014 from Cincinnati where I lived most of my life. I’m smack dab in the middle of the woods and I love it! Closest grocery is 25 min away. I see far more cows, deer and turkeys than people where I live. It’s absolutely beautiful here. The further East you go some of the issues he addressed certainly exist, but make no mistake that there is great beauty in the life here depending on how you choose to live it. And Dave is correct, there are many read heads here. 🤷♀️😀
lol, "you're living in the middle of the fucking woods"
The federal government can only do so much in some of these situations, just as state governments can only go so far. One thing to note is just as you speak of all of the money going to London, it happens here, as well. Several times we've been boondoggled here in PA, where we were promised all kinds of things if only we allowed legalized gambling in the Commonwealth - we were holdouts against that corruption for a very long time, but we were promised no property tax if it went through. Didn't happen. Instead almost all of those funds went for various "urban renewal" projects in Philly and sometimes Pittsburgh - forget the rest of the state!
Someone else pointed out that on the various Indian Reservations, Native Americans receive funds generated by having casinos on their reservations. Reservations are considered to be separate nations from the US and the legal system is complicated. Local governments from the area have no power, only the tribal police and governments do, unless a Federal crime is committed. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying this but that's how I've come to understand it over the years.
I'm with you, Daz, to an extent, about pulling oneself up by simply taking a bit of pride in yourself and your surroundings. No one needs to live in filth and trash, regardless of where they get their water from. My mother's family was what was commonly known as "white trash," with a boatload of kids born throughout the Great Depression. Even the least achieving of those kids was able to buy a home and keep their kids in school to graduate high school. And most of their grandchildren have graduated from college. It would be interesting to live long enough to see what happens in the future with college/university educations in the US so incredibly expensive. Even so, there are ways to do that. For instance, my niece's family recently relocated to Colorado. In that state, it is considerably cheaper for a CO resident to go to college than for a non-resident. Her daughter graduated from high school yesterday. She's not going to go to college until January because by then she will be considered a CO resident and will qualify for that cheaper tuition cost. In the meantime she's working a full time job and is saving for the rest of her college expenses. So there is hope for the continued upward mobility of our family. Several of my parents grandchildren, including my son, got an associate's degree - a trade school certificate - and have done quite well for themselves. In fact, some are doing better than those with college under their belts.
There are a lot of areas in the US that don't have municipal water and sewer (private wells and septic systems are everywhere). Electrical is a different story.
The appliances on the front porch of the place at 16:00 is a washer/dryer pair. That is his laundry room.
Stoke!! 🤣 I love you guys, thanks for the great reaction! ❤🙂
The home in New Orleans are regular stick houses, known as "shotgun" homes. The lots are narrow and they accommodate. Shotgun refers to the fact that you can shot a gun in the front door and it would do through the house out the back door.
Hello! Those homes are not RV or Mobile homes, they are permanent and are called Shotgun houses. They are actually historic and have been there through many hurricanes and decades. A mobile home would not survive a hurricane there. Shotgun homes are really popular and many will hire a moving company and completely move the entire structure somewhere else that isn't ghetto.
34:45 You are referring to an unincorporated place called Slab City which is found in Imperial County, California. However, since it is within Imperial County, that means that federal, state, and local laws still apply to Slab City and any tourists.
22:00 Too what Daz was saying, im an electrician. i do alot of government and big company jobs. Ive done Amazon Datacenters, Microsoft Datacenters, and others alike. Microsoft is the only one i saw that built in a small poor town, which due too all of us working there stimulated the economy quite a bit (most of us were travelers so we essentially lived there for a bit). However, i think they more did that because it was an isolated place that wasnt too busy. Regardless, it helped the town quite a bit.
That town at the end in Cali had to be the basis for Trever Phillips home county in the latest GTA . Almost frame for frame it's exactly the same.
I agree with you just because your poor doesn’t mean you have to be dirty or messy
Same thing happened in Appalachia that happened in Detroit. Once the coal mines dried up everyone left. Their water is contaminated because of that and it caused cancer and birth defects. Really beautiful landscape. In Canada 75% of indigenous people dont have access to fresh water which is ridiculous considering we have 20% of the world's fresh water and more lakes than every country combined. This was a great video because you guys understood that this is all about business. Daz dropped some knowledge here. 👏🏿. 195 countries and their all businesses. That guy was a good narrator to react to.
I'm from eastern Kentucky and no one has more than the bare assintuals
Dude on the right nailed it.
“SHOTGUN Houses” :
Very narrow houses, a hallway runs front to back, with all the rooms in a row, all accessible off that hallway.
These houses were popular through the 1800’s- early 1900’s
Recommend you guys reacting to the tv show the wire. On HBO it’s an amazing look at an American urban city with urban decay and corruption centered in the city of Baltimore! Would love you guys reacting to one of the greatest shows of all time!
"Ya happy now, ya bi*ch?" -The Bunk
First reaction when seeing a guy living in absolutely horrendous conditions in a derelict, drug-heavy area is to make fun and judge? Turned my stomach a bit to see such lack of sympathy
Honestly the way US treats it's people is quite frankly disgusting...
In rural areas they can't afford to visit doctor or dentist - the only way they can check up is when one of the charity organizations is sending free ones there....
When 1/3 of Gofundme is asking for help with medical bills - something is wrong.
What happened after Katrina is that Americans raised billions of dollars in aid to help New Orleans.
Most of that money was sent to the whiter wealthier areas.
A federal judge looked at it, and called it racism. At that time, however, there was relatively little money to take corrective action.
He is completely wrong about New Orleans, so I wouldn't believe anything he said about everything else. He is showing old pictures. Most of the city has been gentrified. There is definitely poverty. There are definitely a few bad spots and a lot of violence, but itsn't nothing like the photos he show from 2005/6....
So you just admitted that he’s NOT completely wrong.
I've been to New Orleans a couple of times and will be going back again in the future. It's a great city but there does seem to be some major issues with infrastructure. I've never seen roads and sidewalks so bad as I have there. There seems to be a run down feeling about the city (except around the Warehouse district where everything looks new) but it's also very historical. I don't mind a city that is a bit rough around the edges though so I will definitely be going back again.
Why’d ya get so sad 😂
I agree. New Orleans is so much better than what he's saying.
New Orleans has a higher rate of murder than Chicago and an even higher rate of violent crimes.
I grew up in eastern Kentucky and I’ve only known if 1 or 2 families without water but you guys are spot on about the trash that has always pissed me off about that area and a lot of it is just laziness, and the sad thing is it’s not just in wooded area you’ll see spots where every house looks covered in trash luckily my parents took pride in what they had and I didn’t grow up like that
Down here in southeast Tennessee i know people that live off the grid, and it's almost the suburbs it's so close to the city
My grandparents were from Eastern Kentucky and never acted like so many of these people do. I often wonder if it’s always been like this or if it’s a generational thing.
@@kcirtapelyk6060 I think it’s more upbringing than generational, I’ve noticed a lot of ppl that grew up with there family acting like that are also acting like that now as grown ups
@@shuddle32 Good point! My grandma was a preachers daughter so that probably provided a better foundation for her and her siblings. My grandad on the other hand had a tragic start in life but was able to rise above it through hard work and determination. His father has an inbred, alcoholic wifebeater who shot and killed his wife during an outdoor church meeting right in front of their two young kids because she left him. My grandad and his sister were split up and were raised by two different sets of grandparents, with their mothers parents adopting and raising my great-aunt while his fathers parents needed a boy to work the farm. He joined the air force at 17 and practically reinvented himself and every birthday, he would say he was 17 and that became a family joke.
The New Orleans houses,although they look like trailers,are long slim structures due to land use.The ones in good condition are good houses.
This guy beating the shit out of Detroit but not saying any good things about the city, sucks. I've been to Detroit many times growing up in Southwest Michigan. Detroit is actually one of my favorite cities to go to. There is sports, great bar/dinner and some amazing music. There is good and bad parts to every city. town or village.
He is beating the shit out of every city that why the video is called 8 worst places to live in USA lol
He's probably never visited any of these cities.
No place is a utopia.
Yeah, im sure it is nice for the few hours you are there attending your sporting event or shopping in the city but, you wouldn't live there given the choice.
@@paulgunyan6985 Actually I would if given the choice. I have a few friends that live there and really like it. It just depends on which area in Detroit just like any city.
@@jordanyoung5763 The thing that got me is he gave props to Chicago a little bit but nothing for Detroit. That was my only thing.
Chicago's population is just under 3M. When you factor in per capita, we aren't even in the top 20 most dangerous cities. But politicians/news want to play with fear instead of reality.
Most of the crime comes from a handful of neighborhoods. Which is not to say that every neighborhood on the south/west side is bad. It's become bad in the past decade because in the 90s a lot of the bosses of our gangs were locked up. Without any leadership or organization, shit hit the fan real fucking hard. It happened in México in the 80s and in Iraq when we overthrew Sadaam Hussein.
You have to be smart but it's far from a war zone. There's a huge jump from Detroit to Chicago.
I mean, you can explain it away all you want, but it's still the murder capital.
Daz for president! Love the well thought out comments guys! Great reaction as always!
ETA: Does Dave mean Slab City, CA? That's the only one I know that is said to be lawless, I ask because I'd really like to know if he means a different one that I've never heard of.
Dave may be referring to that very last segment. Slab City or East Jesus or might be Quartzite
I agree with you. It doesn’t matter how poor you are, stop living so dirty. All those cans around the house and trash is disgusting. Laziness! Can you imagine what the inside of the house looks like?
Geography King is a great channel, lots of quality content.
We love voting on anything 😊🥇
King of the road is such an entertaining series. Daz would probably actually like it. It's basically jackass meets skateboarding.
The government issue in Illinois is the same as London, it seems. Chicago gets the lion’s share and they waste it on things, the rest of Illinois gets the change left over
Some people keep the refrigerators until they have enough for a truck load. Gotta keep it by the front door to watch it and discourage thieves.
If I had to pick one of those places to live, I’d pick Detroit.
Dave, you DO NOT want to live in the Appalachians.
Ever see Deliverance?
I have a fear of even driving through West Virginia.
Inbred banjo playing psychos is what comes to mind. I could be wrong, but…
That town with no laws in called Slab City, I'm surprised it wasn't on the list.
I have been to a lot of baseball games on the south side of Chicago. It is a pretty dangerous part of town but if park at the stadium you won't have any problems.
Hatred of Mormons is a bizzare phenomenon I’ve noticed in recent times
I live in the Appalachian region and I can confirm it’s pretty bad here. I live near Charleston, Wv. So I at least live in one of the best parts of Appalachia which isn’t saying much in reality though.
As long as you stay north of Grant Park, in Chicago, you're alright. If you get on the L-train, you can go west or north, but don't miss that last stop before it goes South, as you return.
Those houses in New Orleans are called shot gun houses because you can shoot through the front door and it will go through the whole house.
I have to get back to the UK. I loved it over there!
I can name 5 right off the bat. My house, my neighborhood, my city, my county and my State.
What state would that be?
Then move, fuck.
Sorry brits America isn't all Disneyland and Beverly hills there's a lot of crime poverty and most would be surprised just how rural so much America really is.
Bombay Beach is 22 miles (35 km) away from Slab City. The nearest "real" town with services and grocery stores is Niland, which lies between them, 4 miles from Slab City. Niland wouldn't be called a metropolis, it's a tiny dusty town, population 743 in 2020 according to Google. But it's the place that some of the Slab City people work and get gas (petrol) and groceries and water. Some Slab City people work at a Walmart 18 miles away (according to videos they made). Bombay Beach has a market, the New Bombay Market. All of this is on Google with pictures.
9:24 That is a shotgun shack/house, Dave. Now I look at it there is a look of a trailer. But it never was. I have seen some of these around me (far from New Orleans) that were done up nice. But I have seen some in N.O. that are pretty bad. 15:05 Speaking of self pride I can show you a channel with stories (mainly in the US) that would curl your toenails. Well, you can write me if you ever want to know. Too brutal for reaction on your channel. But fascinating to watch. 23:14 An Indian reservation is it's own country. There are complications to any investments. Which should be cleared out of the way.
Oops. Watched this too late. I live in NYC. I was gonna recommend the Michael Jackson show on Bdwy. Whether u like plays, musicals or one man shows, u would luv this one. Hope u were able to catch it while u were here!!!
A lot of people in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia rely on coal mining and that's a dying industry. Not to get political, but a lot of them thought Trump would lift them out of poverty once elected, but he didn't and I'm sure that was demoralizing. The reason some of these places don't get investment is because incentives are often state-based, not county, city etc based. So while Kentucky has hundreds of car manufacturing facilities, they're mostly in more developed areas with the existing infrastructure to supply those plants and ship their goods out. They're not in eastern Kentucky, they're in central or western.
Daz when you get to new york you gotta come uptown. Visit the morris jumel mansion and the neighborhood its in. Its where George Washington stayed for a month during the revolutionary war and the street looks the same as it did then(minus the modern cars ofc)
I’ll do that 👍🏻
"strange in a good way, like Santa Cruz, California" I moved to Santa Cruz from Central Illinois about a month ago, can confirm it is weird, in a good way 😅
Those houses in south are shot gun house 🏡
Designed for air circulation back in the day before ac.
You could open front and back door and get a steady stream of air. All open no wall. Nick name shotgun bc you could fire a shotgun down the hall way out the back standing at the front
During a cross country train trip we rode passed a Native American reservation and yeah...it's no exaggeration...they look bad..it's pretty unforgivable to treat the native population like that.
I can confirm. Because indigenous peoples' reservations are governed by the BIA(The United States Constitution isnt actually the rule of law on tribal land), there are many benefits of being an actual country that the lands dont recieve. This causes the electrical grid, water services, and so many other necessary services are of VERY poor quality. Most of the people are forced to make souvenir jewelry and basically pimp out our culture just to get by. It's literally like stepping into a third world country.
Also, I wanted to say thank you for your compassion! It honestly means a lot.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 Ah I see that's interesting to know..I was 16 at the time (30 now) and I still remember how bad those houses were..they looked similar to the ones in this video..I can also remember just sitting in my seat shocked like "wtf did I just see? Those can't be homes." It made me feel guilty for being able to travel and see the country while people were living like this.
I'm trying to remember if it was Arizona or New Mexico were I saw them.
And no problem, I'm black so I can relate in a way..
@@Kayodoms It was probably the Navajo reservation near Tuba City New Mexico. I cant remember if that one stretches across state lines or not.
@@Kayodoms And yeah I'd say you can DEFINITELY relate. I'm never one to compare struggles or say one group of people struggled more than another. But our peoples have experienced really similar things(slavery, poverty, racism, etc) so you definitely have every right to say you relate.
They're not "treated" like that, that's what they created. They can freely assimilated or prosper otherwise if able.
Yes Mike, and daz that laugh ACE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
CEO pay has risen 1,322% since 1978. In 2020, the average CEO in the US made 351 times what the average worker did. That means that the average, frontline worker, had to work approximately 17 *months* in order to earn as much as the average CEO earns in *one day*.
Mike was on point with the commentary on this one lmfao!
I'm from California and I've been to the Salt and Sea many times it smells awful there as well haha but its kind of cool in a strange way
You can be miles away from it, many miles, and if the air flows a certain way, it stinks up the area for a few days. I lived a hundred miles away, and we'd sometimes get the rotten egg smell.
@@joekuul8769 I grew up In Ontario Ca couldn't really smell it from there but man you are right about the rotten egg smell once you start getting closer to the Salt and sea
I spent the entire month of May in Ireland and Scotland and I'm already trying to figure out when I can go back
I thought for sure he’d include these two:
• Slab City , California, which is a village in the desert with no government or infrastructure.
• Centralia, Pennsylvania, which has had an underground coal fire beneath the city for the last 60 years.
ayo fellow Phantom of the Opera fans!?
Ya'll ever reacted to Nightwish's version of that? Fucking amazing
I'm from Flint, and it's only getting worse!
Well Detroit being the largest ghetto should be changing because it's being gentrified as we speak.
14:33 obviously this is right after a party. You can see a keg of beer to the right. Thats a washer and dryer on the porch. The mobile home propably didn't have hook ups.
Hey , i came from this same image lol.
Fundamental Latter Day Saints
I live in Maine and it's become massively run down over my lifetime. So many abandoned mill towns and the homeless population in the larger cities is exploding year over year.
Hell no to amnesty. If you want to be a US citizen do it legally.
A lot of cities try to bring in jobs. The problem is the companies usually pay less than a living wage or the Unions show up wanting to charge way to much to bother putting a company in.
Chicago doesn't have the worst ghetto. It is the worst large ghetto. There are smaller cities where the violence per capita is way higher than Chicago. Cities like New Orleans, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc.
Daz coming out with some low key based leftist takes in this one 😳
> based
> leftist
pick one