That is so sad bro pronounce the town that you're in and Louisiana that is so sad houses are all falling apart from the hurricane nobody wants to fix them it's so sad the Billings its City I can't believe it because it's that way I totally forgot what year when Katrina hit that place in Louisiana Louisiana looks somewhat beautiful it was beautiful back in the days thank you so much for sharing this makes me really think that people needs really get off their butt and fixes place and hope for the best anyways have a great day be safe sincerely Suszie😥❤😮
The saddest part is… if someone buys land and builds their dream home… the residents will become their enemies. “If I ain’t got nothin, you can’t have nothing”!
Dave Ramsey quote,”Jealousy is when you want something someone else has. Envy is when you realize you can’t have what they have, and you don’t want them to have it, either.”
My momma always told me there's nothing wrong with being poor but you don't have to be dirty. Clean the place up. Fix the broken windows, tear down the burn out abandoned buildings and get rid of the graffiti. Try to have some pride at least. I've never seen Casino's do anything to help a city. All over the south you see nothing but the poor folks shoving their welfare and social security into the machines hoping to get rich. I'd never approve casinos in my city or state.
A little elbow grease goes a long way. I have never understood those peole who want to keep their old appliance on the front porch and rusted-out automobiles in the yard.
Once whomever decides a casino is coming to an area it doesn't matter what the people want. We have one in my small city as of 12 years ago. People did not want it but we got it anyways. I know for a fact that thousands of names were forged in the process of it being approved.
@@krystalshepherd4582 When the politicians are being paid off there is no way to stop it. Once a politician sees dollar signs all common sense disappears.
Nick, I am a HUGE fan of your work. I've lived in shreveport for 33 years. I would have loved to have shown you around - the safer places. I always tell people- I live in the worst city, in the worst state in America. This film validates it. I own a small business here, that does very well - so it's hard to just "leave" but I'm working on it.
I was in Shreveport last year and had some really nice meals! We loved Bella Fresca, Another Broken Egg, and Fat Calf Brassiere! There are some incredible homes in the area and nice neighborhoods. Too bad we didn’t get to see more of that in this video. My favorite thing about Shreveport/Bossier were the people. Good friendly people with Southern hospitality. If the crime does get cleaned up, Shreveport could become a pretty desirable place with lots of cheap land for development.
@@soul2soul399 50 Cent our savior...and Mayor Arceneaux....JK though. He could have went to Elerbe or Provenance, the Southern Loop area. The old amazing homes off Fairfield...very biased one sided video. What he shows though, is all real and the way it is in those areas, and it has been that way for the the entire 30+ years I have been here.
Agreed, I have driven a truck through Louisiana. The roads are total trash, and everyone drives so fast, too, ruining their cars driving 75 mph over craters ,and to drive fast to where ? to some burned out falling apart building.
I grew up in Shreveport and escaped 6 years ago. Losing GM, and AT&T was the beginning of the end. Once the Casinos came prices for everything skyrocketed while good paying jobs were replaced with lower paying service jobs. I have family there but no desire to return after all this time.
Just like levi's out on the west coast they cut jobs moved to Mexico yet they want 70.00 dollars for there pants..they never got another dollar from this guy.
I didn’t take Nick seriously at first, partly because he has a dry humor, sort of deadpan…but when you realize he’s speaking the truth, you can feel his vibe. He has done a better job documenting the dereliction of duties by our politicians and civic leaders than mainstream media ever has (or ever will). Keep up the good job, and try to stay safe, dude.
I can't imagine when people who were brought up here, see their town like this. It must be devastating for them. Honestly it would make me cry. I would be upset that this is the America that was once was. So Sad!!!
It’s just the typical ebbs and flows of the economy. Detroit has gone through the same kind of downturn. I feel for the people of the city, but it’s not something they can really escape. Industry builds and destroys communities in America, and if I had to guess, the industry here was probably oil refinement or mining.
I worked in natural gas compression traveling all over east Texas to outside Shreveport. There was a huge difference from Longview, TX to Shreveport. But a lot of oilfield workers were moving to Shreve area for lower taxes and housing prices. Not sure this is a thing anymore lol
South side of Longview looks pretty bad and has for years. Every city has this blight to some extent. Some more than others. We go to Shreveport every so often to go antiquing and out to eat. We have always had a good day and never felt uncomfortable. This guy is only showing the bad side. Hes literally complaining about too much green grass. Lol
@@shawnmeyer2788 I now live outside tiny AZ village that is all blight but safe. Cant always judge a book by its cover. Somethings are happening now beyond our control.
@@faheemabbas3965 Australia has places like Shreveport where there's derelict and run down homes, specifically Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, Derby in West Australia and some, but not all Aboriginal communities. The usual reason is excessive drinking of alcohol. The thing I am amazed at in the drive around are the near new and large SUV's sitting in some of the front yards. How do they pay for the fuel to run those massive V8s? They would cost over AUD$100K over here and are owned by miners who would earn that amount every 6 months. I live in a mining town in South Australia and there are some places like there as well, but nowhere as extensive ruins over multiple streets.
The line between the Haves and Have Nots is distinct...why is that? Why can't all citizens have decent roads? Garbage pickup? Safe parks? Maybe because the politicians don't care as long as it ain't in their neighborhood.
Maybe because they have learned that fixing things up does not help, that before long the new places look like the old dumps they tried to fix, once again run down, trash and garbage littered everywhere. People have to help take care of things
The haves are fewer and richer and the have nots are more numerous and we are losing our middle class. Why? Because wealth is being transferred from the middle and low income in cuts to programs and services, and to the richest in terms if cutting taxes for them. The 2017 corporate tax cut of 40% caused a 1.8 trillion deficit that Republicans caused and now want to cover by cutting sicial security and healthcare, medicare, and snap food assistance and so on.
@@loisaustin6200 let's clarify. Politicians are voted for, at least that's what I want to believe. City councils appropriate funds for their district. Governors appropriate funds at the state level. Shreveport is a old town WHY aren't her streets, parks, etc. maintained? Ppl are ppl but politicians never live in neighborhoods they turn into ghettos! And they NEVER at least walk their districts. God's speed.
@@lucystrider728 I abhor both parties. Neither really give a dam about the working class. Shearvport politicians to the entire Congress get their paychecks from our sweat. And 100% America is a fascist nation. 👿 Stay safe.
waouh Thank you Nick for this amazing documentary without filters about the sad reality in Louisiana....You gave me the envy to do the same type of documentary in France or Germany where situations are getting worse and worse !
I was just in Shreveport last year. There are some beautiful neighborhoods and yummy restaurants in Shreveport. I didn’t go into the bad parts or into downtown, so my impression of it was better. Right across the river in Bossier City is a lot of nice suburbs and new shopping areas.
Exactly I live here in Shreveport and it seems to me that he went to the oldest parts of town. We are not some abandoned town he's portraying. We have alot of beautiful neighborhoods here.
I was about to say the same as well. I have friends who live there, and it seems he's being very selective. It's not represented only by what he's showing.
@@allenvestal4474 I seen some run down houses in Austin as well, but it's just one or two houses, not every house. Over here in Taiwan people think America's all gravy, it's not.
My memory of Shreveport, goes back to when I was 16 or 17, driving through downtown, I was pulled over by police, asked to follow the cop to the PD.. I had just bought the car, and my uncle’s name was on the registration.. I bought the car from him, and they were accusing me of stealing the car.. I was being interrogated by a huge detective in a small room, he was all up in my face, threatening to knock me through the f#%^*ing wall.. I never did admit to stealing the car…. Because I didn’t, I paid cash for it… so they finally let me go… little did I know, they had searched my car, while I was inside being interrogated… and all of my tools were stolen from the trunk of my car…. Shreveport left a bad taste in my mouth…
@@johnjolly2087 yes I lived about 70 miles north east at the time… I heard a lot of stories back then… I can’t say it was any better where I was from either 😉
I had the cops rob the hell out of me. If they see something they want it gone. No use in trying to get it back. I have known a few cops who would pull people over. Lots of the people pulled over had something illegal. Cops took what they wanted. They would show it off and if you know them you got freebies. I worked on police bike's. Not all were dirty but a few were terrible.
I will add Shreveport and similar places to my daily prayer list. Where there is life there is hope. Light and goodness always defeat darkness and evil. The more people praying the better. This video helps facilitate prayer for our fellow man so thank you, Nick. ✝️🙏🌷
It's hard watching this happen in real time. I once rented a house in a lower middle class neighborhood about 10 years ago. In the five years I was living there, I witness terrible suburban blight. Homes just falling apart all around me. I felt awful watching this happen, but I couldn't wait to get out of there.
Nick, you are the best!!! As a disabled man, I am happy living in the swamp lands as the locals really help me. This is a great place to live if you want to get out of the urban crime wave sweeping through my hometown of Memphis and second hometown of New Orleans. What you have said is completely accurate. Speaking of Memphis...please be extremely careful and I really mean it if you go there!!!!!!!
Amazing Im from New Orleans and I have lived in Memphis Tennessee My Dad is from Memphis it's my second home 🏠 but you gotta be careful there now it's terrible 🙏
I like your videos. I think the young lady you interviewed made a very good point about so many people no longer believing in God, the decline in the family unit and loss of values. Sadly, this occurring all across our country. 🙏
@@lindajenson4622 👍 I see the awakening happening she spoke of. I'm hoping it overtakes the majority and we can turn things around. But it may well be that this is the final awakening. All signs point to things will only get worse until the end but at least it's getting easier to find more like minded brothers and sisters in Christ who see the writings on the wall. We are seeing just how much evil has taken over and not only no longer hiding but openly coming for our children and it's firing up the need to spread the word of God. So many Christans have been living with to each their own for decades now despite the fact that God's word tells us it is our duty to spread his word.
I’ve been to northern Spain and to answer your question, no I’d say abandoning things that are broken isn’t just an American thing. There were a lot of old falling-apart buildings in the countryside there
Balkan countries are full of bombed out and abandoned towns, some countries have lost 20% of their population since they got rid of communism and allowed people to travel again.
But unlike the US even the poorest in Spain has a fairly good standard of a social welfaresystem they can benefit from. In the US living in a place like Skreveport, La which is completely f@#*% the people living there is f@&#” too. In America you are either bust or boom. Been to the deep south many times the people there is real nice people but they live in a country where things are mismanaged.
We were really surprised to see so many abandoned buildings in Portuguese cities. In the middle of good neighborhoods you'll see formerly beautiful two story homes just totally abandoned. We couldn't figure out why when the buildings were still in great condition that they weren't sold and lived in. We could only guess that the owners were old, died, and didn't have heirs or didn't have anyone in the family who wanted to live there.
@@jasonadamik2206 Sadly it seems many issues of home/property abandonment start that way, with children and grandchildren moving away, not wanting the responsibility of upkeep (or not being financially able to do so) and the home/property goes to rot. It's sad, too, when you see the beautiful architecture of past centuries over the world just going back to nature, but perhaps it is all meant to happen as we eventually do the same...
I believe cities lose jobs like factories and towns have an elderly population that can’t afford to keep their houses updated like they when they were younger. In my town, my mom’s childhood home went from a beautiful neighborhood to empty lots with a few homes. Generations are moving out of the urban areas.
Northern Virginia. I became disabled in ‘17. For 40 years, we were able to wave a $5. bill to have our postage-stamp back yards mowed by workers doing the common areas. Before I left, they wouldn’t do it for $20.
You are truly doing wonderful work to document the obvious collapse of the United States. None of us want to see it per se but we need to know that it’s happening and your documentaries are helping increase awareness. I left the United States in 2013 to live abroad and when I came back nine years later I can hardly recognize this country for what it used to be
After all the years that I drove semi truck, I was all over Louisiana, and I am very shocked to hear the statistics here,they're pretty grim.I thoroughly enjoy how you bring all these things to light Nick,Thank you so very much
@@ericrivera8410True, they block infrastructure and the Republican Governors and Representatives only care about fixing up the tourist spots in those cities and white communities.
I had a black friend from Shreveport during my time in the Navy. He used to wear a gold grill while in uniform. It was insane he never got in trouble or caught. He had told me Shreveport was a terrible city but it’s home for him.
@@joanyow7952 I live in San Francisco where there is a substantial homeless population. Given that Shreveport has population shrinkage, do you think some of the west coast homeless could be housed there? I'm just throwing this out there to hopefully start a conversation.
@@davidtrotman5990 No, based on comments, the area is too poor and downtrodden for California's homeless. The humidity would have them howling over the unsafe living conditions.
Nick, I've traveled to 40 countries. It's amazing how many neglected city structures exist: Sonargaon (Bangladesh), Paramaribo (Suriname), Colon (Panama), Valparaiso (Chile), Ordos City (China). Just to name a few
Corruption and greed seem to be ingrained in human DNA. No area of the world seems safe from it, except maybe the few isolated tribes left untouched by our 'modern' civilization.
@Nick Nicholas If you want to feel good wherever you live in America, go watch a video of the slums in Manilla in the Phillippinnes. Wow...poverty is beyond words. This area looks like Orange County, Calif. to that. It's sick b/c young kids, who look very happy, are living in a horrible environment.They have adapted b/c it's all they know.
america's cities are looking more and more like abandoned ghost towns every year . ever since the whole covid shut down thing , things have not really returned to normal and its like there is not much going on in the country anymore , no matter where u go .
Shreveport sure looks different than it did in the late '70s - early '80s. It's truly sad. Although there are some good things to come from Louisiana, personally, I don't ever plan to return. Best of luck to anyone choosing to stay there. 🙏
I live in Shreveport and love it. Lots of fun things to do, good food, fun social events, minimal traffic, everything is close. There is a lot more to Shreveport than the crappy parts that are shown in this video. And it is a fantastic place to raise a family. And people definitely swim in the river.. have done it many times. Also, a lot of other people are very happy here. Not everyone is unhappy.
I've lived in Shreveport for 47 years and own a Business here. I joined the Military in '96 came back and raised a family. It does have negatives however many towns across the US have negatives and I have tried to do my part to help. This guy went to the Bottoms south of DT perhaps only a few square miles and passed it off as S'port as a whole. Guy wasn't even close describing our town. I guess people find it entertaining to drive around with a cavalier attitude towards the plight of the less fortunate?
My husband and I went to a Shreveport Casino way back after Hurricane Katrina, found some really good travel deal to stay at the Hard Rock Casino for a weekend, help bring some tourist $ into the region..man, what a mess that town was a year or so after the storm, and it looks pretty much the same, like nothing was done after Katrina to fix anything at all!
@@richrolla15 I did get the name of the casino wrong, honest mistake, it was Harrahs, (I think) we also did visit the Hard Rock in Biloxi around that same time and I must've gotten them confused, my bad. But I have been to both places after Katrina.
Really good.. I like the lady towards the end. True family values right there.. and the old buildings are just so sad. I did home renovations for 20 years and to see these beautiful old buildings falling apart is so sad
Thanks Nick for bringing the US to the rest of the world. Zooming in to the street signs and following on Google Maps, while you're driving shows us just how bad things really are. Hopefully they can rebuild their once amazing city.
Hi Mr. Scott's World. I just need some clarification. Are you saying that you retraced the same path on Google Maps as the driver did in the video? It seems to me that the two images would be similar, if not identical. If Google Maps for this area was produced a few years ago, was it your intention to contrast the current appearance of Shreveport with the way it looked a few years ago? I admire your optimism regarding Shreveport's future. Do you foresee the city's current residents to be the primary agents of an economic revival? Or would your vision depend upon transplants who have the means to invest in Shreveport?
@@rumporridge1 Absolutely...WE NEED MORE TAX BREAKS FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,,, Few large cities are governed by Republicans - only 26 of the 100 largest U.S. cities have Republican mayors - making apples-to-apples comparisons difficult. But cities that do have Republican mayors do not have lower murder rates than similarly sized Democratic-led cities
@@rumporridge1it’s going to cost the government money that it can’t recoup. It isn’t cheap to build nations and that’s where we are now. This is nation rebuilding.
On a positive note, the lady you interviewed mentioned some hopeful factors. It is the few that do care and who are willing to implement change that make a difference. Never underestimate them.
In Shreveport we are excited about our first republican mayor in 25 years and an Amazon warehouse coming to town, should be about 1000 jobs added. Shreveport has a lot of nice areas as well and old money.
This was good. Thanks for sharing us with the world. I am a mental health therapist in Shreveport & people (residents of) are truly hurting. Shreveport needs some hard, hard work, but i love what the bbq guy said ❤ "progress" (we are seeing some), but a LONG way to go.
I really appreciate your informative videos (and your droll delivery), driving around the different states. I'm from the UK and live in a lovely part of the country in South West England, not far from the Cotswolds. I don't think I've seen an abandoned building in years. Now I feel depressed.
Sometimes it takes a comment to make you realize how bad things have gotten. I live in Florida and have family in Michigan, both states have some very poor and dangerous areas. I couldn’t imagine not seeing abandoned buildings in certain places. Not seen an abandoned building in years..wish I could say that. The U.S. is going the wrong way.
I live in the UK, near London. I had to move in a hurry nearly two years ago. I feel like I'm living in a Muslim country, everything has become so Islamic here. It's crowded & dirty, most shops are Muslim. I'm disabled & a friend took me out one day. I said to her, are there no white people here? All I saw was black people & Muslims. We are being flooded by illegal immigrants, & they are being put in hotels across the UK. Crime, especially rape & murder has increased. Many cities now look like Muslim countries. I know there are still many beautiful parts of the UK, I only wish I could move to a nice place. I hate urban life anyway.
Nick, thank you for doing this road trip! It’s incredibly sad and enlightening! I live in NW FL, and was shocked to see what has happened in Shreveport. Jerry
What a brilliant way to see the USA! Nick’s sympathetic and insightful commentary provide us with a marvellous virtual Greyhound tour of contemporary America.These videos are irresistible viewing.
As someone who works for a casino in Vegas….I can’t believe the casino there doesn’t give back in much bigger ways to the community. Such a shame and clear display of corporate greed 😢😢
Born and raised in northern Louisiana 45 miles from Shreveport. Family lives there but that’s it. No jobs, schools are terrible, hotter than poop, nothing to do besides outdoor sports where you’ll die of heatstroke. The food is good though!
Good video I live in Lake Charles Louisiana you are welcome to visit Lake Charles,I have been through Shreveport it's very scetchy glad you are showing the world just how much help is needed here in Louisiana 😇👍
4:45 is Texas Ave, not South Texas. You drove by the former buildings of Mc Kay's Auto and H&L Automotive right across the street. That used to be the place to go for aircooled VW's in the mid 90s. It tears my heart to see what it looks like nowadays.
I live in south Louisiana and there are video poker casinos attached to gas stations on every other corner. It’s a sad sight and I know many ppl who have become poor over video poker addictions. It’s sad bc Louisiana brings in a TON of money from gambling. Where does it go?
I absolutely love Louisiana i go there every year for vacation. The cities in Louisiana suck but if you go out into the country it's fabulous and the people are great
I remember my road trip from Warrensburg, MO. Back in the June 2018, I was headed to Baton Rouge to see my mom for the last time. I had just experienced Pine Bluff Arkansas along my trip and that was shocking. I was relieved to finally get to Louisiana, until I got to Shreveport. I honestly had to pull over to make sure Google Maps wasn't frozen. I did not want to believe that the squalid mess that I was observing was actually Shreveport. I drove around for a while just to make sure that I wasn't in the bad section of town. It did not get better looking, as I drove around. It wasn't this way back in the 1990, when I traveled through. I would have remembered if it was.
I love living in Alabama the greatest state in the nation as far as I'm concerned along with a lot of other people I doubt you know anything about Alabama
Thank you for taking the time. For taking us along w/ you these many cruise's. Your review's are both informational & highly thought provoking viewing. You have your little niche `round here carved out well. Please keep it up ;- ]
Hello Nick, I can feel the sadness with you through the energy in this video, it reminds me of Albion Michigan, where me and my son lived for 2 years in terror, kin there took part in gaslighting us Via a city in the south. I can hear your frustration, like me. This end is shadow banned.
I am shook! I lived in southern Arkansas(not by choice,lol) in the late 1980s. We would come to Shreveport and Bossier City to go to a mall/shopping center and it was nice! The city was.clean and populated and seemingly thriving. So sad to see this, some of the nicest people I ever met were from there.
I lived in Shreveport during an internship the summer of 2011. I couldn't leave fast enough when it was done. Easily the most depressing and run down city I've ever witnessed.
I started watching your channel to accumulate travel tips for the future. Looks like my future travel plans will be composed of mostly natural beauty. What's truly sad is the amount of people unwilling to work for anything, and resort to crime instead. We've come a looong way from hunter-gatherers. Will you be producing more videos focusing on the cities/towns in close proximity to the natural parks in this country? Just a suggestion.
I believe much of this is not a lack of funding problem. It's what I call a heart problem. No one can change another man's heart - still better looking than those Indian Reservations in Dakotas, Nick. That shocked me the most. That was. THe worst despair in USA to me.
Kind of like where i grew up as a child Aliquippa PA big steel industry J&L and now nothing, rest of my life grew up in San Diego left Cali in 2000 in Texas now South padre island watching Rockets blow up great channel Nic
Oh yeah that whole area by the Ohio/PA state line has really messed up towns. Youngstown, Aliquippa,East Liverpool,Steubenville, New Castle, and Warren are all a mess.
Just looking at this video today and it is truly sad to see all this poverty in such a rich state. I have been there some25 or so years ago and it has definitely degraded a lot.
You just had to say Casino and that would have explained everything in the beginning. Go to every town with Casinos and all that is thriving are pawn shops!
My wife and I went to Atlantic City on one of those bus trips back in 2001. The casinos had been up and running for something like 20 years, give or take. The city, overall, didn’t look it had benefitted at all… The Yellow Pages had something like 50 pages of escort services. Haven’t been back. No desire to go back.
I’m from Lafayette, which is in the heart of South Louisiana. Today my boss offered me a promotion and raise to relocate to Shreveport. I’ve done enough work there and stayed there long enough to know there is no way I want to move there. I can’t explain why I dislike it there so much. One thing for sure is the water does not taste right, and I genuinely wonder if the locals notice it. I even notice it when I wash my hands. My hands never feel clean while scrubbing them with soap and water lol
Yeah, but corporate welfare is bleeding them dry. Did you see the chart of corporate incentives? Give away that much money and there's nothing left for the city supports.
several years back, a company called "elio" was supposed to build a 3 wheeled car at the closed gm plant. the owner took in a lot of money and went out of business. i intended to buy one of those cars, but didn't put a money in the pot and i am glad i didn't! those jobs would have really helped.
This could be some road trips for you , Cancer alleys of USA . According to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control, Louisiana has the second highest rate of new cancer cases in the nation. While the State of Louisiana funds a cancer prevention program, it does not yet identify pollution exposure as a cancer risk factor.
99% of Vegas casinos are the same way nowadays. Ever since the pandemic ended, it’s become pretty much impossible to win even $50 to treat yourself to a dinner at a restaurant. People are pretending to have fun but no one wins a thing anymore. People aren’t gambling for “fun” anymore. They’re gambling just to gamble or to distract themselves from problems in their lives.
My dad’s family is from there😢….so sad to see this in America! My grandfather & his brothers moved away from there & into California back in the early1950s 🙌🏾🙏🏾. We still have cousins there & they said it’s still very segregated no surprise 😅. The reason why it’s so bad there is because of zero opportunity & poverty crimes. The bad education & no dads is just a symptom of no money/opportunity/2 Americas.
Sometime Nick should have a countdown on his top ten (or more!) worse places -rural or urban- he's ever visited. Better make it top 25. Some choices would be hard to decide on their badness.
Excellent work though. I hope your work wakes people up and that people push back against the system. Nothing will change unless people come to terms with the fact that USA is in desperate need of revision, completely new direction that works for everyone, not just the rich and corporations.
America's economy has been in decline for decades. Shipping jobs overseas, automation and states giving corporations tax breaks and subsidies have depleted government coffers. No money results in a overall decline in society. These things will not change with a change in political leaders. It's not like Republican politicians aren't corrupt as well.
Don’t forget the federal tax breaks or the downstream effects of past administrations doing things like allowing stock buybacks, which were outlawed by the SEC. This has terrible effects on our economy. Consider googles actions last week of approving a 70 BILLION buyback. That’s an incomprehensible number. Indeed it’s roughly 1/5 of the entire national deficit. This comes right on the heels of them laying off 12,000 employees. 12,000. Companies used to reinvest in themselves and grow. Now the only concern is shareholders. The fact that we allow this kind of behavior is stunning. But the problem is that corporate kowtowing is bipartisan. We need senate term limits, restrictions on campaign contributions, outlaw stock trading for our elected leaders, NO closed door meeting, period. This will not happen and our country will continue to decline.
@@reefshadow1 it's almost like state and federal politicians work directly for the corporations best interests regardless of how it hurts the American people.
Interesting irony: Actor turned politician Alan Autry (he played "Bubba", In the heat of the Night, TV series) was born here, he now lives in Fresno, CA (he was formally Mayor) another city, that went into steep decline. Great job, Nick.
Shreveport was booming 15 years ago, movies were being filmed there, industry was alive, but then something happened along the line and everything nice in the town started closing down. We lived in the nicer sections of town and never touched areas like Allendale, but even a simple drive through the town and you could tell that it was run down. I grew up there for 8 years and I never want to go back. It’s so depressing now, local government continues to ravage the place and the people keep voting them in. My friend turned into cedar grove on accident and was about to be confronted by multiple people before he turned off quickly. He’s extremely lucky.
I'm a resident of shreveport. I woke up this morning feeling down. It seems the bluebird of happiness had flown away from my Windows sill and in it's place was the chicken of depression. I thought to myself I feel like doing nothing constructive toda but maybe a UA-cam video will give me a little lift or maybe even a laugh or two. Sometimes they do that. This video popped up and so I watched it. Immediately after, and feeling a bit panicked.. couldn't catch my breath.. walls closing in.. I finally took a long, deep cleansing breath with a matching sigh. I once again glanced out my window.. that chicken of depression was gone.. but, there out my window .. it was the vulture of despair.
Agreed Nick! Maybe bringing to the light as you are painstakingly doing would shame enough folks to try harder to become better. Or not! Thank you for sharing your adventures! 😊
Wearing hundreds of dollars worth of shoes. Attaching wheels and tires worth more than the car. But the roof is like that how do you live ??? (13:20 red truck)
I've seen a lot of poverty on my travels around America, a surprising amount, coming from the UK. It's not the land of milk and honey that America likes to project to the outside world. Having said that, the desperately poor areas do appear to share the same cultural issues. Lack of family cohesion leading to lack of individual responsibility leading to low achievement and low work ethic and ultimately turning to an easier way of getting money through crime.. (why learn how to change a transmission unit when it's easier to steal a car ?) Drugs make the real world fade away for a few hours, it's a downward spiral. Easy to blame everyone else but the recovery will need to begin with that 'personal responsibility'. A good start might be for women not to become pregnant without a husband and an income to take care of things; Family values.
This is what I always say. America is not what outsiders think. The tourism industry lies to people. Same in Florida and Miami especially. They advertise it one way but when you live there you know it's all lies.
Here's my entire Deep South Road Trip: ua-cam.com/video/Pw21HXzMB2s/v-deo.html
That is so sad bro pronounce the town that you're in and Louisiana that is so sad houses are all falling apart from the hurricane nobody wants to fix them it's so sad the Billings its City I can't believe it because it's that way I totally forgot what year when Katrina hit that place in Louisiana Louisiana looks somewhat beautiful it was beautiful back in the days thank you so much for sharing this makes me really think that people needs really get off their butt and fixes place and hope for the best anyways have a great day be safe sincerely Suszie😥❤😮
Publicly here recorded, all this. Until there is no record anymore. Their choice, I guess.
I would eat at that guy’s barbecue for sure.
Run by Democrats and black victimisation says it all....
What a trip.
The saddest part is… if someone buys land and builds their dream home… the residents will become their enemies. “If I ain’t got nothin, you can’t have nothing”!
Misery loved company
Dave Ramsey quote,”Jealousy is when you want something someone else has. Envy is when you realize you can’t have what they have, and you don’t want them to have it, either.”
That is a pretty " DARK" 😊statement 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Damn Right, Cracka !
@@stevenpollard5171envy is an evil evil emotion.
My momma always told me there's nothing wrong with being poor but you don't have to be dirty. Clean the place up. Fix the broken windows, tear down the burn out abandoned buildings and get rid of the graffiti. Try to have some pride at least. I've never seen Casino's do anything to help a city. All over the south you see nothing but the poor folks shoving their welfare and social security into the machines hoping to get rich. I'd never approve casinos in my city or state.
A little elbow grease goes a long way. I have never understood those peole who want to keep their old appliance on the front porch and rusted-out automobiles in the yard.
Once whomever decides a casino is coming to an area it doesn't matter what the people want. We have one in my small city as of 12 years ago. People did not want it but we got it anyways. I know for a fact that thousands of names were forged in the process of it being approved.
@@krystalshepherd4582 When the politicians are being paid off there is no way to stop it. Once a politician sees dollar signs all common sense disappears.
Red states for ya! The Bible belt, lol!
a committee has been sent to Detroit to do a study on cleaning up a city.
When the Greyhound Bus depot is fenced off, you KNOW it's a bad area, because Greyhound usually goes everywhere.
Bc it's an old station that hasn't been demo.
@@nicholasharris3185 Is there a new one ?
@@indycharlie right in front of the police headquarters
@@nicholasharris3185 Very smart place to put a new one !
True
Nick, I am a HUGE fan of your work. I've lived in shreveport for 33 years. I would have loved to have shown you around - the safer places. I always tell people- I live in the worst city, in the worst state in America. This film validates it. I own a small business here, that does very well - so it's hard to just "leave" but I'm working on it.
Aww Donnie! It would have been cool to meet you. Sorry your city is not well right now.
I was in Shreveport last year and had some really nice meals! We loved Bella Fresca, Another Broken Egg, and Fat Calf Brassiere! There are some incredible homes in the area and nice neighborhoods. Too bad we didn’t get to see more of that in this video. My favorite thing about Shreveport/Bossier were the people. Good friendly people with Southern hospitality. If the crime does get cleaned up, Shreveport could become a pretty desirable place with lots of cheap land for development.
I'm sorry. I live in Chicago...I wish I could get out.
@@soul2soul399 50 Cent our savior...and Mayor Arceneaux....JK though. He could have went to Elerbe or Provenance, the Southern Loop area. The old amazing homes off Fairfield...very biased one sided video. What he shows though, is all real and the way it is in those areas, and it has been that way for the the entire 30+ years I have been here.
Show the good side of town
Agreed, I have driven a truck through Louisiana. The roads are total trash, and everyone drives so fast, too, ruining their cars driving 75 mph over craters ,and to drive fast to where ? to some burned out falling apart building.
I grew up in Shreveport and escaped 6 years ago. Losing GM, and AT&T was the beginning of the end. Once the Casinos came prices for everything skyrocketed while good paying jobs were replaced with lower paying service jobs. I have family there but no desire to return after all this time.
Me either 😭
Tell me about it!!! I was raised in FLINT MICHIGAN!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😢😢😢
I dont even.know how I spent most of my life in that place.. Atlanta 3 years now
@@SuperDrestone and you are still stuck in traffic!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🍺🍺🍺
well, you could be living in Texarkana, its a countrier, even lower class version of Shreveport
It simply went down hill when General Mortors moved over seas.
Just like levi's out on the west coast they cut jobs moved to Mexico yet they want 70.00 dollars for there pants..they never got another dollar from this guy.
Lots of union car company plants still here in America. What car company does your money support? Do they have a plant in your state?
I was born there and I'm so glad my mom got us out
I didn’t take Nick seriously at first, partly because he has a dry humor, sort of deadpan…but when you realize he’s speaking the truth, you can feel his vibe. He has done a better job documenting the dereliction of duties by our politicians and civic leaders than mainstream media ever has (or ever will). Keep up the good job, and try to stay safe, dude.
I can't imagine when people who were brought up here, see their town like this. It must be devastating for them. Honestly it would make me cry. I would be upset that this is the America that was once was. So Sad!!!
It’s just the typical ebbs and flows of the economy. Detroit has gone through the same kind of downturn. I feel for the people of the city, but it’s not something they can really escape. Industry builds and destroys communities in America, and if I had to guess, the industry here was probably oil refinement or mining.
I worked in natural gas compression traveling all over east Texas to outside Shreveport. There was a huge difference from Longview, TX to Shreveport. But a lot of oilfield workers were moving to Shreve area for lower taxes and housing prices. Not sure this is a thing anymore lol
South side of Longview looks pretty bad and has for years. Every city has this blight to some extent. Some more than others. We go to Shreveport every so often to go antiquing and out to eat. We have always had a good day and never felt uncomfortable. This guy is only showing the bad side. Hes literally complaining about too much green grass. Lol
@@shawnmeyer2788 I now live outside tiny AZ village that is all blight but safe. Cant always judge a book by its cover. Somethings are happening now beyond our control.
This looks like a Third world Nightmare!!
This is what the rest of America is heading for if we don't stop our government from destroying our country.
Makes Bulgaria look clean and prosperous.
And its all by design!! Part of the plan of the take down of U S A
& Its everywhere and will continue until job done
N W O
I mean it’s the entirety of America at this point.
we’re nothing more than glorified Australia and Mexico
@@faheemabbas3965 Australia has places like Shreveport where there's derelict and run down homes, specifically Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, Derby in West Australia and some, but not all Aboriginal communities.
The usual reason is excessive drinking of alcohol.
The thing I am amazed at in the drive around are the near new and large SUV's sitting in some of the front yards. How do they pay for the fuel to run those massive V8s? They would cost over AUD$100K over here and are owned by miners who would earn that amount every 6 months. I live in a mining town in South Australia and there are some places like there as well, but nowhere as extensive ruins over multiple streets.
The line between the Haves and Have Nots is distinct...why is that? Why can't all citizens have decent roads? Garbage pickup? Safe parks? Maybe because the politicians don't care as long as it ain't in their neighborhood.
Maybe because they have learned that fixing things up does not help, that before long the new places look like the old dumps they tried to fix, once again run down, trash and garbage littered everywhere. People have to help take care of things
The haves are fewer and richer and the have nots are more numerous and we are losing our middle class. Why? Because wealth is being transferred from the middle and low income in cuts to programs and services, and to the richest in terms if cutting taxes for them. The 2017 corporate tax cut of 40% caused a 1.8 trillion deficit that Republicans caused and now want to cover by cutting sicial security and healthcare, medicare, and snap food assistance and so on.
@@loisaustin6200 let's clarify. Politicians are voted for, at least that's what I want to believe. City councils appropriate funds for their district. Governors appropriate funds at the state level. Shreveport is a old town WHY aren't her streets, parks, etc. maintained? Ppl are ppl but politicians never live in neighborhoods they turn into ghettos! And they NEVER at least walk their districts.
God's speed.
@@lucystrider728 I abhor both parties. Neither really give a dam about the working class. Shearvport politicians to the entire Congress get their paychecks from our sweat. And 100% America is a fascist nation. 👿
Stay safe.
I think the roads are fine in this video. . But it takes more than roads to make a city updated.
waouh Thank you Nick for this amazing documentary without filters about the sad reality in Louisiana....You gave me the envy to do the same type of documentary in France or Germany where situations are getting worse and worse !
I was just in Shreveport last year. There are some beautiful neighborhoods and yummy restaurants in Shreveport. I didn’t go into the bad parts or into downtown, so my impression of it was better. Right across the river in Bossier City is a lot of nice suburbs and new shopping areas.
Bossier used to be the red light district
Exactly I live here in Shreveport and it seems to me that he went to the oldest parts of town. We are not some abandoned town he's portraying. We have alot of beautiful neighborhoods here.
I was about to say the same as well. I have friends who live there, and it seems he's being very selective. It's not represented only by what he's showing.
this seems like a good place to film something like the walking dead. how can a functioning government allow a place to get this bad? stay safe Nick.
Haha the walking dead zone
Music district of Austin. The extras don't need makeup.
It also looks like a great place to train for urban warfare.
@@allenvestal4474 I seen some run down houses in Austin as well, but it's just one or two houses, not every house. Over here in Taiwan people think America's all gravy, it's not.
AMERICA IS A GOT DAMN CESSPOOL
This still looks better than Kensington in PA.
My memory of Shreveport, goes back to when I was 16 or 17, driving through downtown, I was pulled over by police, asked to follow the cop to the PD.. I had just bought the car, and my uncle’s name was on the registration.. I bought the car from him, and they were accusing me of stealing the car.. I was being interrogated by a huge detective in a small room, he was all up in my face, threatening to knock me through the f#%^*ing wall.. I never did admit to stealing the car…. Because I didn’t, I paid cash for it… so they finally let me go… little did I know, they had searched my car, while I was inside being interrogated… and all of my tools were stolen from the trunk of my car…. Shreveport left a bad taste in my mouth…
As a person very familiar with S'port police I have to say....sounds about right!
@@johnjolly2087 yes I lived about 70 miles north east at the time… I heard a lot of stories back then… I can’t say it was any better where I was from either 😉
I had the cops rob the hell out of me. If they see something they want it gone. No use in trying to get it back. I have known a few cops who would pull people over. Lots of the people pulled over had something illegal. Cops took what they wanted. They would show it off and if you know them you got freebies. I worked on police bike's. Not all were dirty but a few were terrible.
Damn
Damn that's messed up, but I'm just wondering why he didn't just call your uncle? I would think that would clear it up quickly.
I will add Shreveport and similar places to my daily prayer list. Where there is life there is hope. Light and goodness always defeat darkness and evil. The more people praying the better. This video helps facilitate prayer for our fellow man so thank you, Nick. ✝️🙏🌷
It's hard watching this happen in real time. I once rented a house in a lower middle class neighborhood about 10 years ago. In the five years I was living there, I witness terrible suburban blight. Homes just falling apart all around me. I felt awful watching this happen, but I couldn't wait to get out of there.
Nick, you are the best!!! As a disabled man, I am happy living in the swamp lands as the locals really help me. This is a great place to live if you want to get out of the urban crime wave sweeping through my hometown of Memphis and second hometown of New Orleans. What you have said is completely accurate. Speaking of Memphis...please be extremely careful and I really mean it if you go there!!!!!!!
Greg I already made it through that landmine
Amazing Im from New Orleans and I have lived in Memphis Tennessee
My Dad is from Memphis it's my second home 🏠 but you gotta be careful there now it's terrible 🙏
I like your videos. I think the young lady you interviewed made a very good point about so many people no longer believing in God, the decline in the family unit and loss of values. Sadly, this occurring all across our country. 🙏
@@lindajenson4622 👍 I see the awakening happening she spoke of. I'm hoping it overtakes the majority and we can turn things around. But it may well be that this is the final awakening. All signs point to things will only get worse until the end but at least it's getting easier to find more like minded brothers and sisters in Christ who see the writings on the wall. We are seeing just how much evil has taken over and not only no longer hiding but openly coming for our children and it's firing up the need to spread the word of God. So many Christans have been living with to each their own for decades now despite the fact that God's word tells us it is our duty to spread his word.
@@NickJohnson I went to Memphis by car 30 years ago in 1993 to visit Graceland. Have the streets been bought up that lead to the mansion now?
I’ve been to northern Spain and to answer your question, no I’d say abandoning things that are broken isn’t just an American thing. There were a lot of old falling-apart buildings in the countryside there
It's the same in the UK. A good part of the North of England is moving towards becoming something akin to this.
Balkan countries are full of bombed out and abandoned towns, some countries have lost 20% of their population since they got rid of communism and allowed people to travel again.
But unlike the US even the poorest in Spain has a fairly good standard of a social welfaresystem they can benefit from. In the US living in a place like Skreveport, La which is completely f@#*% the people living there is f@&#” too. In America you are either bust or boom. Been to the deep south many times the people there is real nice people but they live in a country where things are mismanaged.
We were really surprised to see so many abandoned buildings in Portuguese cities. In the middle of good neighborhoods you'll see formerly beautiful two story homes just totally abandoned. We couldn't figure out why when the buildings were still in great condition that they weren't sold and lived in. We could only guess that the owners were old, died, and didn't have heirs or didn't have anyone in the family who wanted to live there.
@@jasonadamik2206 Sadly it seems many issues of home/property abandonment start that way, with children and grandchildren moving away, not wanting the responsibility of upkeep (or not being financially able to do so) and the home/property goes to rot. It's sad, too, when you see the beautiful architecture of past centuries over the world just going back to nature, but perhaps it is all meant to happen as we eventually do the same...
I believe cities lose jobs like factories and towns have an elderly population that can’t afford to keep their houses updated like they when they were younger. In my town, my mom’s childhood home went from a beautiful neighborhood to empty lots with a few homes. Generations are moving out of the urban areas.
Northern Virginia. I became disabled in ‘17. For 40 years, we were able to wave a $5. bill to have our postage-stamp back yards mowed by workers doing the common areas. Before I left, they wouldn’t do it for $20.
AMEN 🙏
You are truly doing wonderful work to document the obvious collapse of the United States. None of us want to see it per se but we need to know that it’s happening and your documentaries are helping increase awareness. I left the United States in 2013 to live abroad and when I came back nine years later I can hardly recognize this country for what it used to be
After 20 yrs living in Asia, I was planning to return to the US, but now this video will put a damper on my plans.
😢
After all the years that I drove semi truck, I was all over Louisiana, and I am very shocked to hear the statistics here,they're pretty grim.I thoroughly enjoy how you bring all these things to light Nick,Thank you so very much
Nick, the sad part is that with the state of political affairs in OUR Country, things may never improve.
I used to like John Kennedy,not so much now,now I see why he knows so many riddles,no time for governing.
Keep voting Republican to see they won't help you
@@ericrivera8410True, they block infrastructure and the Republican Governors and Representatives only care about fixing up the tourist spots in those cities and white communities.
@@ericrivera8410Who will help us?
@ericrivera8410 Shreveport vote Democrat. Blue city for years.
I had a black friend from Shreveport during my time in the Navy. He used to wear a gold grill while in uniform. It was insane he never got in trouble or caught. He had told me Shreveport was a terrible city but it’s home for him.
He sounds like Major Payne.
that is what Pelosi says about San Francisco
@@joanyow7952 I live in San Francisco where there is a substantial homeless population. Given that Shreveport has population shrinkage, do you think some of the west coast homeless could be housed there? I'm just throwing this out there to hopefully start a conversation.
@@davidtrotman5990 No, based on comments, the area is too poor and downtrodden for California's homeless. The humidity would have them howling over the unsafe living conditions.
New Haven CT….I met a white guy from Shreveport he said you just got to know when to go outside…me being a black girl I wouldn’t go out there
Nick, I've traveled to 40 countries. It's amazing how many neglected city structures exist: Sonargaon (Bangladesh), Paramaribo (Suriname), Colon (Panama), Valparaiso (Chile), Ordos City (China). Just to name a few
Corruption and greed seem to be ingrained in human DNA. No area of the world seems safe from it, except maybe the few isolated tribes left untouched by our 'modern' civilization.
Ya,but none of this countries are displayng a dream.
@Nick Nicholas If you want to feel good wherever you live in America, go watch a video of the slums in Manilla in the Phillippinnes. Wow...poverty is beyond words. This area looks like Orange County, Calif. to that. It's sick b/c young kids, who look very happy, are living in a horrible environment.They have adapted b/c it's all they know.
america's cities are looking more and more like abandoned ghost towns every year . ever since the whole covid shut down thing , things have not really returned to normal and its like there is not much going on in the country anymore , no matter where u go .
Hopium kills.
Shreveport sure looks different than it did in the late '70s - early '80s. It's truly sad. Although there are some good things to come from Louisiana, personally, I don't ever plan to return. Best of luck to anyone choosing to stay there. 🙏
I was there in the in the 1980's. I don't remember any of this.
I live in Shreveport and love it. Lots of fun things to do, good food, fun social events, minimal traffic, everything is close. There is a lot more to Shreveport than the crappy parts that are shown in this video. And it is a fantastic place to raise a family. And people definitely swim in the river.. have done it many times. Also, a lot of other people are very happy here. Not everyone is unhappy.
@cl8505: Are you on drugs?
@@alostpilgrimsjourney5953 No sir
@cl9505 I love Louisiana and have met some wonderful people across the state. How can there be two LA.?
You people go to hell for lying right.
I've lived in Shreveport for 47 years and own a Business here. I joined the Military in '96 came back and raised a family. It does have negatives however many towns across the US have negatives and I have tried to do my part to help. This guy went to the Bottoms south of DT perhaps only a few square miles and passed it off as S'port as a whole. Guy wasn't even close describing our town. I guess people find it entertaining to drive around with a cavalier attitude towards the plight of the less fortunate?
The General Motors truck plant shutting down really hurt Shreveport. Lots of good jobs went away.
In my town too😢 GM provided so many middle class jobs.
Yes. Buy American. GM family here.
Yea the local auto workers union was corrupt so they shut down the plant since they have no control of the union.
This is why cities should never rely on one company to drive in profit. This is why sports is very important to cities.
@@hadleymanmusic IBEW at western electric and Baird poulon
My husband and I went to a Shreveport Casino way back after Hurricane Katrina, found some really good travel deal to stay at the Hard Rock Casino for a weekend, help bring some tourist $ into the region..man, what a mess that town was a year or so after the storm, and it looks pretty much the same, like nothing was done after Katrina to fix anything at all!
Corruptocrats
Lies you tell
@@richrolla15 I did get the name of the casino wrong, honest mistake, it was Harrahs, (I think) we also did visit the Hard Rock in Biloxi around that same time and I must've gotten them confused, my bad. But I have been to both places after Katrina.
Katrina didn’t hit Shreveport. Shreveport only got a little bit of weather from it.
As sad as it is, you did a beautiful job Nick. 🧡 🙏
Nick, your content is always unique to me and i love to enjoy learning more about life there in the USA. 👍
Really good.. I like the lady towards the end. True family values right there.. and the old buildings are just so sad. I did home renovations for 20 years and to see these beautiful old buildings falling apart is so sad
Thanks Nick for bringing the US to the rest of the world. Zooming in to the street signs and following on Google Maps, while you're driving shows us just how bad things really are. Hopefully they can rebuild their once amazing city.
Wow that's some real sleuthing
Hi Mr. Scott's World. I just need some clarification. Are you saying that you retraced the same path on Google Maps as the driver did in the video? It seems to me that the two images would be similar, if not identical. If Google Maps for this area was produced a few years ago, was it your intention to contrast the current appearance of Shreveport with the way it looked a few years ago? I admire your optimism regarding Shreveport's future. Do you foresee the city's current residents to be the primary agents of an economic revival? Or would your vision depend upon transplants who have the means to invest in Shreveport?
@@NickJohnson Even this place is better than India.
@@NickJohnson ❤
I can’t imagine how beautiful must it been in the past. Now it just look like abandoned. This is really sad😢
America has tons of places like this. All democratically run. We must bring jobs back to the USA. That to me is the start of getting us back on track.
@@rumporridge1 Absolutely...WE NEED MORE TAX BREAKS FOR BILLIONAIRES!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,,,,, Few large cities are governed by Republicans - only 26 of the 100 largest U.S. cities have Republican mayors - making apples-to-apples comparisons difficult. But cities that do have Republican mayors do not have lower murder rates than similarly sized Democratic-led cities
@@rumporridge1it’s going to cost the government money that it can’t recoup. It isn’t cheap to build nations and that’s where we are now. This is nation rebuilding.
Brilliant video Nick. Loving all the real life images and listening to the locals talk about their neighborhoods
On a positive note, the lady you interviewed mentioned some hopeful factors. It is the few that do care and who are willing to implement change that make a difference. Never underestimate them.
In Shreveport we are excited about our first republican mayor in 25 years and an Amazon warehouse coming to town, should be about 1000 jobs added. Shreveport has a lot of nice areas as well and old money.
This was good. Thanks for sharing us with the world. I am a mental health therapist in Shreveport & people (residents of) are truly hurting. Shreveport needs some hard, hard work, but i love what the bbq guy said ❤ "progress" (we are seeing some), but a LONG way to go.
Great Episode Nick! You're a modern day Mark Twain touring the country with your video camera.
I really appreciate your informative videos (and your droll delivery), driving around the different states. I'm from the UK and live in a lovely part of the country in South West England, not far from the Cotswolds. I don't think I've seen an abandoned building in years. Now I feel depressed.
Sometimes it takes a comment to make you realize how bad things have gotten. I live in Florida and have family in Michigan, both states have some very poor and dangerous areas. I couldn’t imagine not seeing abandoned buildings in certain places.
Not seen an abandoned building in years..wish I could say that. The U.S. is going the wrong way.
I live in the UK, near London. I had to move in a hurry nearly two years ago.
I feel like I'm living in a Muslim country, everything has become so Islamic here.
It's crowded & dirty, most shops are Muslim.
I'm disabled & a friend took me out one day. I said to her, are there no white people here? All I saw was black people & Muslims.
We are being flooded by illegal immigrants, & they are being put in hotels across the UK. Crime, especially rape & murder has increased. Many cities now look like Muslim countries.
I know there are still many beautiful parts of the UK, I only wish I could move to a nice place. I hate urban life anyway.
Nick, thank you for doing this road trip! It’s incredibly sad and enlightening! I live in NW FL, and was shocked to see what has happened in Shreveport.
Jerry
False witness
23:15 that must be a southern thing. I recently moved to Georgia from Minnesota, and I’ve seen these type of trucks everywhere.
They have theaters here, I'm actually taking my daughter to see swan lake soon, an opera... I think any big city will always have bad areas..
What a brilliant way to see the USA! Nick’s sympathetic and insightful commentary provide us with a marvellous virtual Greyhound tour of contemporary America.These videos are irresistible viewing.
As someone who works for a casino in Vegas….I can’t believe the casino there doesn’t give back in much bigger ways to the community. Such a shame and clear display of corporate greed 😢😢
Do you know how capitalism works?
I doubt their take is as large as in Vegas. According to the storyline, there is no money.
Corporations (including casinos) could care less what happens as long as they rake in the money.
@AlisaRedBandana111CCCVVV41Dasha Brigades it is the economic system. Greed is mandatory in capitalism
pays like $16-20 and rents are like $2000 right?
Born and raised in northern Louisiana 45 miles from Shreveport. Family lives there but that’s it. No jobs, schools are terrible, hotter than poop, nothing to do besides outdoor sports where you’ll die of heatstroke. The food is good though!
Good video I live in Lake Charles Louisiana you are welcome to visit Lake Charles,I have been through Shreveport it's very scetchy glad you are showing the world just how much help is needed here in Louisiana 😇👍
4:45 is Texas Ave, not South Texas. You drove by the former buildings of Mc Kay's Auto and H&L Automotive right across the street. That used to be the place to go for aircooled VW's in the mid 90s. It tears my heart to see what it looks like nowadays.
Get those casinos out of there!!!! Nothing economically and socially good can come from those places!!!
Agreed. Send them to Vegas.
@@Raja-bz4yw haha like veges needs more lol. and they will probably leave on there own ..looks like they are not making the money.
That's the only think keeping it up...
Capitalism is awesome 😂
I live in south Louisiana and there are video poker casinos attached to gas stations on every other corner. It’s a sad sight and I know many ppl who have become poor over video poker addictions. It’s sad bc Louisiana brings in a TON of money from gambling. Where does it go?
I absolutely love Louisiana i go there every year for vacation. The cities in Louisiana suck but if you go out into the country it's fabulous and the people are great
I remember my road trip from Warrensburg, MO. Back in the June 2018, I was headed to Baton Rouge to see my mom for the last time. I had just experienced Pine Bluff Arkansas along my trip and that was shocking. I was relieved to finally get to Louisiana, until I got to Shreveport. I honestly had to pull over to make sure Google Maps wasn't frozen. I did not want to believe that the squalid mess that I was observing was actually Shreveport. I drove around for a while just to make sure that I wasn't in the bad section of town. It did not get better looking, as I drove around. It wasn't this way back in the 1990, when I traveled through. I would have remembered if it was.
Your videos on Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi are the most depressing, but eye opening videos you've put out.
I love living in Alabama the greatest state in the nation as far as I'm concerned along with a lot of other people I doubt you know anything about Alabama
I'm proud to be living in the twin state of Alabama. I'll always call Mississippi my home .
Thanks to these videos no illegal migrants will want to live in Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi.
Thank you for taking the time. For taking us along w/ you these many cruise's. Your review's are both informational & highly thought provoking viewing. You have your little niche `round here carved out well. Please keep it up ;- ]
This is a sneak preview of the entire US by 2040
Truest comment on here.
Seems like that doesn’t it!!!
There will be enclaves that won’t allow it.
Yep but probably won't even take that long
@@blackcherry6877 Who says anyone/everyone liking this comment is wishing for it to happen?
The old buildings are beautiful and should be restored. Wow
Cost money alot of money
Hello Nick, I can feel the sadness with you through the energy in this video, it reminds me of Albion Michigan, where me and my son lived for 2 years in terror, kin there took part in gaslighting us Via a city in the south. I can hear your frustration, like me. This end is shadow banned.
Wow. My parents live just east of Ann Arbor and I remember thinking I’d look into housing prices in Albion I has no idea it was ever that bad. :(
I am shook! I lived in southern Arkansas(not by choice,lol) in the late 1980s. We would come to Shreveport and Bossier City to go to a mall/shopping center and it was nice! The city was.clean and populated and seemingly thriving. So sad to see this, some of the nicest people I ever met were from there.
I lived in Shreveport during an internship the summer of 2011. I couldn't leave fast enough when it was done. Easily the most depressing and run down city I've ever witnessed.
And ur still running, chasing a life that will never exist!
Your videos are always the best! This one is particularly sad, and I hope this city can turn around with the new Mayor! Thanks Nick!
I started watching your channel to accumulate travel tips for the future. Looks like my future travel plans will be composed of mostly natural beauty. What's truly sad is the amount of people unwilling to work for anything, and resort to crime instead. We've come a looong way from hunter-gatherers. Will you be producing more videos focusing on the cities/towns in close proximity to the natural parks in this country? Just a suggestion.
Criminals are modern-day hunter-gatherers. They hunt people and business and then gather what they need to survive.
@@FlintIronstag23 well said.
Work for what? 5$ an hour?
Nick, show the nice side of town too. Nice surrounding Suburbs.
nick knows what questions to ask and when to ask them.
thanks nick, always good
I believe much of this is not a lack of funding problem. It's what I call a heart problem. No one can change another man's heart - still better looking than those Indian Reservations in Dakotas, Nick. That shocked me the most. That was. THe worst despair in USA to me.
It was bad Val
That building at 7:05 with all the open/smashed windows is so eerie.
Kind of like where i grew up as a child Aliquippa PA big steel industry J&L and now nothing, rest of my life grew up in San Diego left Cali in 2000 in Texas now South padre island watching Rockets blow up great channel Nic
Oh yeah that whole area by the Ohio/PA state line has really messed up towns. Youngstown, Aliquippa,East Liverpool,Steubenville, New Castle, and Warren are all a mess.
Just looking at this video today and it is truly sad to see all this poverty in such a rich state. I have been there some25 or so years ago and it has definitely degraded a lot.
Yep, my wife is from Shreveport, LA. We moved from there 13 years ago and haven’t looked back.
Imagine being a taxi driver in Shreveport before Uber and Lyft? I'll bet their life expectancy wasn't too long.
Hell a Taxi Driver here was a pedifial and killed a 12 y/o boy here.
R.I.P Justin Bloxum🤞🏽💙🙏🏽
Tiger kabs -= check 'em out
My dad was a cab driver here he was murdered in 2010....
@@AJ-pu2em my dad was murdered same time this happened...
You just had to say Casino and that would have explained everything in the beginning. Go to every town with Casinos and all that is thriving are pawn shops!
My wife and I went to Atlantic City on one of those bus trips back in 2001. The casinos had been up and running for something like 20 years, give or take. The city, overall, didn’t look it had benefitted at all…
The Yellow Pages had something like 50 pages of escort services. Haven’t been back. No desire to go back.
They keep a lot of liquor stores in poor communities. Mostly Poor black communities. You feel me? There's a method to the madness. Intentionally.
I’m from Lafayette, which is in the heart of South Louisiana. Today my boss offered me a promotion and raise to relocate to Shreveport. I’ve done enough work there and stayed there long enough to know there is no way I want to move there. I can’t explain why I dislike it there so much. One thing for sure is the water does not taste right, and I genuinely wonder if the locals notice it. I even notice it when I wash my hands. My hands never feel clean while scrubbing them with soap and water lol
This is the downside to "urban" America. A large city needs a lot of support.
Yeah, but corporate welfare is bleeding them dry. Did you see the chart of corporate incentives? Give away that much money and there's nothing left for the city supports.
End Stage Capitalism and the hard truth of Trickle Down not happening.
Rural communities are emptying out in droves. Takes more gas money to show you how abandoned those are.
@@blackcherry6877 Shreveport = 103 square miles, Denver = 153 square miles, Detroit = 139 square miles, it's a large city, try walking it
@@blackcherry6877 Those are MEGAcities, There is no official definition of a "LARGE CITY." Now you've been schooled.
The worst possible post-season scenario for a college football team is to end up going to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Thats hilarious!!
@@johnnyshreddz it’s not a joke. C’mon man.
several years back, a company called "elio" was supposed to build a 3 wheeled car at the closed gm plant. the owner took in a lot of money and went out of business.
i intended to buy one of those cars, but didn't put a money in the pot and i am glad i didn't! those jobs would have really helped.
This could be some road trips for you , Cancer alleys of USA . According to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control, Louisiana has the second highest rate of new cancer cases in the nation. While the State of Louisiana funds a cancer prevention program, it does not yet identify pollution exposure as a cancer risk factor.
99% of Vegas casinos are the same way nowadays. Ever since the pandemic ended, it’s become pretty much impossible to win even $50 to treat yourself to a dinner at a restaurant. People are pretending to have fun but no one wins a thing anymore. People aren’t gambling for “fun” anymore. They’re gambling just to gamble or to distract themselves from problems in their lives.
The foreshadowing of even worse areas than Shreveport has got me intrigued. Arkansas sounds like it is going to be interesting.
Actually hot springs is a hidden gem.
Well that was thoroughly depressing! Guess I'll cross visiting Shreveport off my bucket list.
My dad’s family is from there😢….so sad to see this in America! My grandfather & his brothers moved away from there & into California back in the early1950s 🙌🏾🙏🏾. We still have cousins there & they said it’s still very segregated no surprise 😅. The reason why it’s so bad there is because of zero opportunity & poverty crimes. The bad education & no dads is just a symptom of no money/opportunity/2 Americas.
You know what that dilbert guy said... he is right, sadly.
Run by Democrats and black victimisation says it all.....
And it’s a democrat city, explains alot
Did the Amish cause all this?
@@wti70 I thought it was the Canadians......🤣
Sometime Nick should have a countdown on his top ten (or more!) worse places -rural or urban- he's ever visited. Better make it top 25. Some choices would be hard to decide on their badness.
Excellent work though. I hope your work wakes people up and that people push back against the system. Nothing will change unless people come to terms with the fact that USA is in desperate need of revision, completely new direction that works for everyone, not just the rich and corporations.
America's economy has been in decline for decades. Shipping jobs overseas, automation and states giving corporations tax breaks and subsidies have depleted government coffers. No money results in a overall decline in society. These things will not change with a change in political leaders. It's not like Republican politicians aren't corrupt as well.
Don’t forget the federal tax breaks or the downstream effects of past administrations doing things like allowing stock buybacks, which were outlawed by the SEC. This has terrible effects on our economy. Consider googles actions last week of approving a 70 BILLION buyback. That’s an incomprehensible number. Indeed it’s roughly 1/5 of the entire national deficit. This comes right on the heels of them laying off 12,000 employees. 12,000. Companies used to reinvest in themselves and grow. Now the only concern is shareholders.
The fact that we allow this kind of behavior is stunning. But the problem is that corporate kowtowing is bipartisan. We need senate term limits, restrictions on campaign contributions, outlaw stock trading for our elected leaders, NO closed door meeting, period. This will not happen and our country will continue to decline.
@@reefshadow1 it's almost like state and federal politicians work directly for the corporations best interests regardless of how it hurts the American people.
@@75vettemaon it’s very depressing, and even without all of our other social problems it’s no wonder that many people just give up.
Interesting irony: Actor turned politician Alan Autry (he played "Bubba", In the heat of the Night, TV series) was born here, he now lives in Fresno, CA (he was formally Mayor) another city, that went into steep decline. Great job, Nick.
Fresno was called an undeclared Civil War Zone in the late 70s.
Casinos… The biggest possible waste of one’s paycheck. Just go ahead and give it right back lol
Shreveport was booming 15 years ago, movies were being filmed there, industry was alive, but then something happened along the line and everything nice in the town started closing down. We lived in the nicer sections of town and never touched areas like Allendale, but even a simple drive through the town and you could tell that it was run down. I grew up there for 8 years and I never want to go back. It’s so depressing now, local government continues to ravage the place and the people keep voting them in. My friend turned into cedar grove on accident and was about to be confronted by multiple people before he turned off quickly. He’s extremely lucky.
Nice video. Its sad how many cities in the USA that are like this.❤ thanks for sharing.
Thank you for all that you do Nick! As always, raw and insightful about the ongoings of our country.
I'm a resident of shreveport. I woke up this morning feeling down. It seems the bluebird of happiness had flown away from my Windows sill and in it's place was the chicken of depression. I thought to myself I feel like doing nothing constructive toda but maybe a UA-cam video will give me a little lift or maybe even a laugh or two. Sometimes they do that. This video popped up and so I watched it. Immediately after, and feeling a bit panicked.. couldn't catch my breath.. walls closing in.. I finally took a long, deep cleansing breath with a matching sigh. I once again glanced out my window.. that chicken of depression was gone.. but, there out my window .. it was the vulture of despair.
Get into a giant aluminum bird with wings and fly yourself outta there
Get Out
You put that SO WELL. Have you ever considered writing? You should 😊 God bless ❤
Uniquely run down,Nick you make my day but laughter is a medicine.
It’s so beautiful there. All those lovely old trees. Some cheap rentals there! Maybe free accomodation in some of those empty houses.
Thank you, Nick Johnson for the time and resources you put into giving us these updates around our country. Peace
whoa first comment here! Keep up the great work Nick we all appreciate it!
shut up Kevin you ain't first
Agreed Nick! Maybe bringing to the light as you are painstakingly doing would shame enough folks to try harder to become better. Or not! Thank you for sharing your adventures! 😊
The cognitively deficient, violent, with little control of their emotions aren't likely to be shamed by their behavior.
Wearing hundreds of dollars worth of shoes. Attaching wheels and tires worth more than the car. But the roof is like that how do you live ??? (13:20 red truck)
Thanks for filming
5:26 That looks like the west side of our town, but we only have a population of about 13-14,000.
I've seen a lot of poverty on my travels around America, a surprising amount, coming from the UK. It's not the land of milk and honey that America likes to project to the outside world. Having said that, the desperately poor areas do appear to share the same cultural issues. Lack of family cohesion leading to lack of individual responsibility leading to low achievement and low work ethic and ultimately turning to an easier way of getting money through crime.. (why learn how to change a transmission unit when it's easier to steal a car ?) Drugs make the real world fade away for a few hours, it's a downward spiral. Easy to blame everyone else but the recovery will need to begin with that 'personal responsibility'. A good start might be for women not to become pregnant without a husband and an income to take care of things; Family values.
Blame it all on everything but the root problems. Stop personal responsibiliting everyone.
It used to be
This is what I always say. America is not what outsiders think. The tourism industry lies to people. Same in Florida and Miami especially. They advertise it one way but when you live there you know it's all lies.