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Hey Charlie - Great Vid - but corrected title is "What Defund the Police Looks Like" cheers from an ex NYC guy now happily (safely) living on Miami Beach 🙂
I’d say probably don’t touch the camera after you’ve started rolling. Every time you adjusted the camera it sounded like someone running their hands through a box of legos
I find it amazing how The Wire managed to completely capture the reality of the grittiness of the hoods in Baltimore while telling such compelling stories in this setting
And the fact that they filmed it all on site. I learned last week that the actor that played Bubs got approached and offered drugs multiple times while filming the first season.
I’ve lived in Md for 24 years. Baltimore is so much worse than The Wire. It’s the only place in America where the homeless and addicts feel entitled to whatever money you have on you. Y’all don’t know anything about this city. F these mfs
I really like how he just drives around and shows what it's like without adding a bunch of snarkey commentary like some UA-camrs do. They really get on my nerves!
@@ryanchilcoat2394 Moved from Fairbanks, Alaska to a town about 10 miles from Baltimore. Was going to audition for a band whose rehearsal space was in Baltimore and had directions printed out from Mapquest (this was 2008, didn't have a smart phone, no GPS). Of course, got lost, ended up in these streets and finally stopped at a CVS (not the one in the video). Asked a lady inside how to find the area I looking for. She told me and walked outside with me and pointed to each street and said if I drove down any other way I'd 100% get a bullet in my head.
@@Jigaboo1929 damm bro scary shit i live 20 min from city so i know if im in the blue police light areas to get the fuck out but it seems no matter where ive gone in the city i got offered boy or girl which is herion and coke prob cause im white
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198Has nothing to do with Capitalism in terms of thriving. All it was was people not living in poverty... now everyones living in poverty.
Do you really think our educational standards throughout the whole United States will get better, it's been on a decline!. Pretty sure they want us dumb, and other countries are waiting to capitalize in on that!. Especially the ghettos and slums, they don't care about the citizen's and next generations being brought up to get an education. Especially minorities!. They want you to be stuck desperate and in poverty to fund the prisons!. It's a continuous cycle of revenue!. Americans got hustled!. But I dont have to tell you anything you don't already know, it's evident!.
I’m from NJ born and raised, I went to Baltimore 4 years ago to help someone I know get his plumbing/hvac business going… the main unit which is heavy goes in the backyard so he parked in the alleyway…. I’m putting tools back in the truck around noon , end of July of 2020, I turn around had a shotgun and 45 to my head…. They wanted phone, wallet and my keys , I told them everything was in the house thinking they leave me alone…. They escorted me to the back door with shotgun against back of my neck…. By the grace of god the door handle was on the right so door swung open to the left, as I stepped in I sidestepped to the right, slam door in their face as same time as I walked in, ducked, locked the door, crawled into the kitchen…. I saved a grandmother, daughter, 3 little kids that day
@@Kazillion-Jillionaire ya I sat there for half hour making up very small details like door opened to the left, sidestepped to right and jumped in closed the door at same time, ya I made up that whole story in the 2 min it took me to write that in that much detail, I must be real gifted I should write a book
I'm from a pretty rough section in Brooklyn, NY and I have never seen anything in the US this bad. There are plenty of tough 'hoods in this country, but nothing like Baltimore. It's sad that there is still so much poverty.
@@evanharkey7100 Nah, I remember the 70’s plus, with all the crime., going forward to today. The only thing I’ve seen worse than this is overseas. Baltimore needs real attention. Perhaps many of the run-down blocks are largely inhabited, but this poverty reflects the US.
@@jamppamaattori its too late for people like him man, only way for them to learn is for them to be in a remotly similar sitution or to personally meet someone they see trying, versus seeing random figures in a video and placing racist and prejudice belifs on any race darker than him or any group thats not his. They can then bitch about coal leaving and its affects on republican run states or communities but then become practically braindaid once they see similar issues effects on the otherside with a million more people to deal with in a bigger industry.
I remember doing lyft full time through these parts for two years straight. Now I’m living downtown VA. Can’t lie, life’s good. Thank God for blessing me 🙏🏿
My Buddy and I took the wrong exit going to Cal Ripkens last home game years ago and drove through a couple miles of that craziness. People hanging out of windows naked, a car on fire, music blaring, shady as shit people on every corner, burned out houses. I've been through most parts of DC and it doesn't compare. Baltimore is like another planet.
The architecture in many of these historical buildings is incredible, so unique. It's a shame they are in such decay & ruin. Hate to see this, we as a nation bulldoze them down and put up new ugly square boxes. We erase our heritage moving forward & that's shameful.
What in the world do you see as redeeming about that architecture? It looks horrible! I'm not talking about the general condition of the neighborhood, I mean the design of those row houses. No wonder the place became a slum! I can't see anything they could do to that hood to improve the basic, built-in squalor. Awful!
@@shaggybreeks It's nostalgia, brick facades, curved arch widows, at TS 2:27 check out those curved walls, things you don't see anymore. Its a slum there's no arguing that but if someone had a vision to purchase these old building and renovate think of how cool it could look, unfortunately I think its past that. At some point a big developer will come in and buy the land for pennies on the dollar, destroy these old buildings & put up square ugly ones with no character or charm I have an appreciation for the old architecture, they don't make them like that anymore, looks like I have 62 thumbs up so I'm not the only one who feels this way. Everyone has a different vision.
@@user-ch6if6tv6jthese people got a lot more issues to deal with than those of us who are lucky enough to have the time to watch youtube videos and post comments
@@jp99575weveryone's got a different vision, yeah. I think I share yours though. old architecture had so much purpose, even on low-income properties. where I live, it's all mid- to high-income subdivisions with no character that fall apart after a couple of years. The walls in my house are cracking and all of the storm drains on my street had to be replaced last year-but my development is only 6 years old. I always wondered what people are thinking when they endeavor to build this stuff.
Nothing was worse than the South Bronx. It looked like a war zone. New York City rebuilt that neighborhood and you can't even tell what it looked like before. No city in America should look like this anymore. This is crazy.
We are more concerned with that Ukrainian fake war that we probably started over our own cities. Yes, most of the residents in that area are responsible for this, but instead of funding wars, how about giving those people opportunity in life.
NYC has a lot more going for it than Bmore. It’s the fashion/financial capitol. Billions upon billions of buisness revenue and jobs. Tourism, cuisine, nightlife, television, radio, broadway plays, you name it. All Baltimore has for tourists to come to the city is Chesapeake Bay crabs or Heroin.
I know the wire is fiction, but the sentiment is true, the old school gang bangers had some semblance of codes and honour. But once they went away, the new generation coming through had none of that and it still continues to get worst in these neigbourhoods.
As someone who grew up in a run down part of the U.K., the run down brick built terraced houses look weirdly familiar, most British ones don’t have that many steps up to the front doors though.
Funny how I live in Boise Idaho and so many people and teens around here try to act hood but they wouldn’t walk around these hoods with the confidence they have around here in the suburbs
Haha yep I see it where I live to. I’m in a small town in Oregon. I moved to Indianapolis for a few years, there’s some rough areas there to and it was definitely a big culture shock for me being born n raised in Oregon. Now I watch these teens around here thinking they’re so tough and think they’re in gangs.. I would just love to drop them off in a place like this. Even east side Indi.. it’s not as dangerous as some other cities but it would still scare the pants off these silly kids here 😆
it's actually *_not_* funny... it is 100% proof that #thug-life is merely hollywood propaganda designed to subvert American young people and overthrown parental authority in an certain age group, it's certainly NOT a reality of a glamorized people group that actually exists.
@@hazeymystic8867 lol there's a great Dave Chappelle skit where he drops his white step son off in the hood for tryna act tough. but at the end of the day these kids just want to be cool and their parents/mentors need to educate them on how the real world works or they will eventually learn the hard way.n
yeah bro Im in Oregon and after traveling the country, let me confirm for you, people who act hood in the NW part of the country outside of small pockets of North Portland or Tacoma/Seattle are entirely unaware of how real it gets in this country
We lived in Southeast Baltimore in Curtis Bay and watched the decline hit so fast. The bird (police helicopter) was flying every night. We used to play a game called name that gun when we'd hear gun fire. The first month we were there someone had their head taken off with a shotgun just a block over. As soon as a murder memorial started to go away another would pop up on the side of the road. One year we even rang in the new year as the first murder of the year about a block from our house on Hazel Street. For some reason though I never felt like we were in danger. Everyone on the block looked out for each other. We didn't interrupt the dealer's business, they knew we were straight laced, kept to ourselves and made sure no one messed with us. Kind of odd but I miss that old house. Half the block burned up a few years after we moved and I don't think they even bothered demolishing the ruined rowhouses.
Man as someone that grew up in bad neighborhoods in the Midwest, what's up with east coast cities and whole streets just burning up like that? Is it cause the buildings are all close together? I see so much more fire damage in videos from up there
@@nousername2942 Rowhouses are built right beside each other like townhouses but it's a whole block. One goes up and it jumps roofs all the way down. Our old house was built in 1910 so it was a dried out old box of matches pretty much. The fire started next to where we lived and consumed half the row before the firetrucks even got there. It's crazy how fast those old houses burn.
@@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits There was a church I saw that burned back in 04 or 05 and it was built in the 80's with trusses from a 1900's era building that was demolished. Someone was sweating pipes and lit the insulation on fire, burned the entire roof right off the building before the fire department could make it the 1/8 of a mile there. Luckily no one was injured or killed.
@@Tracert-mc1hu It is crazy how fast fire moves if there's enough fuel. One of my old neighbors took video of the block fire with his phone and sent it to me. It literally took just a minute to go 3 houses each way.
Back in 2009 when I was in highschool I had a mentor that was from Baltimore, told me he witnessed a murder right in front of him at a stop light, guy went up and just shot someone in the head. I'm from silver spring md, it's pretty bad but not like this poverty here is off the charts
I drove through something similar once because of construction/detour. The weird thing about Baltimore, this is just a few blocks from a really nice neighborhood. Something north of inner harbor/fells point but i forget the name of it.
I used to live right off Broadway in Fells Point. The side I lived on was younger working-class people, and the neighborhood was pretty nice, with many renovated townhomes. However, like 100 feet away, across the street, was terrible. A couple of areas in Baltimore are even worse than this though. There are whole neighborhoods that are abandoned and look like actual warzones. It is insane how poorly Baltimore is run, and it's sad considering the fact Baltimore is actually really beautiful.
It's wild how cities like Baltimore and Detroit have been this way for ~50 years. White people collectively moved to the suburbs and the cities crumbled, and they've pretty much looked the same ever since. 50+ years and zero progress. Just burned out and boarded up remains of what came before.
@@garrom5652 The police in Baltimore are run by the state and governor's house. This dates back to the civil war when the municipal government was not trusted to stay on the Union's side.
@@fellspoint9364 I lived on Bank Street next to Fells Point about 7 years ago. I know the crime picked up quite a bit during and after the pandemic hit. The inner harbor is also a ghost town now, which is unfortunate.
I drove through this area in 2019.I left New York city en route to Texas and around 2am I was getting tired so I GPS'd the nearest Motel 6 to sleep at.It took me off the highway and right into the middle of this area.I've seen a lot of poverty in the USA but this was really striking...the sinister energy at night with the people walking around...I wouldn't dare get out of my car and walk around here at night...you can feel the potential danger.Seeing so many buildings that are half boarded up and half occupied...unbelievable that one apartment is vacant and boarded up while the neighbor's light is on!!I finally got to my motel 6 which was still in the same neighborhood.I was tired and needed sleep so I decided to get out of my car and go to the office which was locked....you had to interact through a small window.The clerk told me I had to leave a $75 deposit which I didn't like.I looked around and started thinking about my car being left out here and my room was probably going to be scummy so I got back in my car and drove off.I GPS'd another Motel 6 which brought me to a cleaner neighborhood that felt safer and I slept there instead(with no required $75 deposit!!).I'm sure most folks in this area are good people but the poverty level is so astonishing and the potential negative expreriences that can occur from the certain bad people here make this a place to avoid if have no business going there.
Did that Motel 6 have it's front desk behind bullet proof glass? The reason I ask is because I had a 1 night stay in NYC near the airport in a hotel that had bullet proof glass ... And rooms *in the basement!* I was first given one of those basement rooms (where the windows were the kind that had no way to open them). Horrible place to spend $150 for a measly 4 hours of sleep.
@@amg9163 They probably were bullet proof glass now that you bring it up.I didn't hang around too long to ask questions though...the vibe in that area had me really thinking about seeking another place.When he said I had to deposit $75 I took it as a sign to leave.
@@vladpintilei6204 it implies that if a business has to charge a protection fee against vandalism in their place then it's pretty indicative of the potential bad things that can occur because it reflects the crime and nature of the area.
The 'crazy' is that you could retitle this 'Visiting the aftermath of a warzone' and people would believe it... It's difficult to comprehend communities in such disrepair in America, and as many have already commented, they're getting worse every year. Stay safe Charlie!
I went to college in Baltimore County and for one of my classes we had to go into the city to volunteer at this soup kitchen. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing driving through those neighborhoods man.
I've seen videos like this of areas where I don't think anything looks that run down - honestly pretty livable. But this looks like a war zone. It hurts to see so many people struggling like that. I hope cities like Detroit and Baltimore can find ways to revitalize themselves however long it takes.
We have some friends who live in Baltimore and went to visit for a few weeks. It was a cool city. Lots of history and things to see, great food, nice people. The difference from block to block was crazy though. One street would be updated, beautiful townhomes and the next would be an abandoned building with a tree growing out the top. It was definitely a place where you were fine in most places but wouldn't want to wander around a block over.
In December me and my cousin went through some really, really rough areas of Baltimore. Had I known where he was going I wouldn’t have agreed to go. There were people nodding out, trying to stay awake and keep walking, almost on every street corner. Shit was like real life zombies. We got to this really long street and it was bombed out, ransacked houses everywhere on both sides for as long as you could see. There were these bright blue lights on every single light pole (BPD security cameras) for blocks and blocks. It was literally like The Last of Us in real life.
There are areas all over the U.S. especially right jow Post-COVID that are facing similar issues. I'm from Maine for god's sake and i've been to some of the bigger cities or towns like Portland or Augusta, as well as having lived in section 8 housing in Bangor. Id see a lot of the same shit you're seeing in this video there too. Its everywhere. So many homeless camp out at this restaurant i used to work at in downtown Bangor. Even found two drugged out dudes in a storage container outside the restaurant building, trying to sleep. Literally shoves themselves in there
I was born in DC in 1971 & grew up in the DMV & spent a good amount of time in & around Baltimore & I remember people used to ask me if Baltimore is as bad as it seems on “The Wire” & I’d tell them “no….it’s worse” 🖤🥶
I was born in Baltimore in 1969 and grew up in the DMV. And DC is now different than Baltimore. You still have neighborhoods that are just as bad as Baltimore. So don’t get brand new because dc back in the 80’s we’re just like Baltimore. I know I was there I remember the show “City Under Siege “ that came on every night at 11p on channel 5. Yeah! As a small kid there were no vacant houses in Baltimore that I remember until the drugs overwhelmed the city and that’s real
I drove through baltimore last month. The streets are covered in trash bags. On the sides of the road i saw broken glass bottles, condoms and even needles. Half of the places i went through felt dangerous, had bad feelings everywhere i went. Im so sorry for the community and for the kids who have to grow up there
I know right . The kids that have to grow up here is where my empathy is . I know it’s hard sometimes to not become a product of your environment when you grow up like this
This really reminds me of some parts of inner city Bradford in England. Same level of poverty. It's sad, because those abandoned houses I bet were beautiful in their prime.
I'm asking out of curiosity, since it's England is that a white ghetto or a black/brown/ethnic ghetto? I'm wondering because it is England. I'm also wondering if this is a specific demographic/ethnic condition or a general human condition. If you're answer is "predominantly white" then that's really saying something that there's more at play here to this way of life.
@@PokrPro21 The ghettos in Bradford are mostly Pakistani and Bangladeshi. A lot of northern England is like this now. We do have a lot of poorer areas that are mixed, England is generally less segregated than the US outside of the larger cities.
@@generalspidrax9699 I was expecting more of a lower class white ghetto. Wow. I heard you guys have a migrant problem with more problems and crime that the native population never had to deal with before but I'm American so I obviously don't know the full story outside of what Paul Joseph Watson posts.
Yup, if you Google the Toxteth area of Liverpool say 1900, the mansion houses and public squares where the merchants lived were STUNNING. Then guess what? Afro Caribbeans moved in and turned the area into a lawless toilet.
@@PokrPro21 Don't listen to these idiots, Glasgow in Scotland was once the murder capital of Europe with some of the highest poverty rates, they had "Schemes/council estates" which are the equivalent of your housing projects in America. Full of white males, white ghettos. And there are the same "white ghettos" throughout the whole of england, the most deprived area in england is infact a place called "Jaywick", its a seaside town
Great video. Here’s a twist; tour some of these super wealthy, exclusive neighborhoods. And just see what develops…..should be an interesting contrast. ❤
The most fucked us part of all those dilapidated row houses is that they are still good housing stock. They could still be perfectly livable homes for people, with relatively modest public investment. They built blocks of row houses like bomb shelters, so it’s not individual buildings, but rather one huge building cut up into smaller pieces. This is why a lot of them are still standing true, and plumb even though their interior floors are gone. We have the money, means, and ability to returns cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Cleveland, and Philadelphia back to their former glory as bustling metropolises, the only thing we lack is the will to do so from governments. Vote, run, and we can all win.
Most of those dilapidated row houses are too structurally deteriorated and compromised to save and rehabilitate. The only viable solution is demolition and clearance. That is what Baltimore has been doing the past decade, demolishing all these decrepit derelict row houses.
Charlie not very often mention word crazy in his videos. After seeing his past drive through Baltimore videos, yeah its getting crazy which means VERY BAD. Its gonna continue to be bad with things going on today. Stay safe bro.
Trenton, NJ is extremely similar. I’m there a lot for work and there are entire neighborhoods that looked like they were bombed with broken/boarded windows, melted off siding from fires, and missing pieces of the roof - with people still living in them. Sad.
@@NoahBodze About 60 years ago the Democrats in charge of the Federal Government at the time had devised a plan that would pay them for having illegitimate children. Before electronic benefits payments there were welfare checks. The checks always hit the mailboxes on the first of each month. Once a month the stores had 18 wheelers pull up overnight and these trucks were filled with Pampers.
There's a horror survival videogame called The Suffering: Ties that Bind, that takes place in Baltimore. Gotta say, the developers really knew how to capture the Baltimore essence when they developed the game
I loved that series so much, still do. It was the first thing that came to mind when I first went to Baltimore for work a few years back. What an absolute pit of misery.
GTA has never really sold the tough, run down hood vibe very well. GTAIV tried, but fell short. GTAV is only about vapid, shiny things. GTASA just too cartoonish
Baltimore, Philadelphia (North Philly), Camden NJ, Newark NJ, Detroit, St Louis, Jackson MS, Cleveland (East), Youngstown OH, Flint MI and Chicago (Southside) are the worst looking hoods in America. Back in the day, NYC (South Bronx & Brownsville-ENY) and Washington DC would be on that list but both cities have fixed up their hoods and experiencing rapid gentrification.💰
@@nikkitak8360 yea im from south side of Chicago too and even though it can be dangerous it doesn't look that bad compared to hoods of other cities. Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit and Memphis look way worse in comparison.
All of those cities were entirely built by whites and sacked by migrating blacks. Demographic and census data doesn’t lie. There were almost no one who looks like you above the Mason-Dixon Line until during WWII and as soon as you got north you rioted and destroyed what someone else built. Some things never change.
Camden is a ghost town, like some post apocalyptic movie. The trash and urban decay in North Philly could definitely give Baltimore a run for its money.
i took a train from DC to NYC over the summer and we went through B More..shit broke my heart man. especially being a huge fan of Cal Ripken/Orioles back in the glory days.
Go visit Asian cities - YES US is doomed and never going to catch up. I have visited Saigon, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Chaing Mai, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Dailan, Guangzhou, Mumbai and no where the hoods are this bad except for the slums in Mumbai - but they are prosperous with normal humans living and thriving. This is zombie land
@@satyakammisra You're picking the worst US has to offer and comparing it to the best of Asia. Compared to most European cities, many of the cities you named are worse - Chinese cities with horrific air quality, India with filth, Dubai being unwalkable, Hong Kong is overcrowded etc. Many US cities are not that nice, that is true but give people the choice of Beijing or any major US city and the choice would be obvious.
Charm City - body count 159 as of 7/27/23 with 350+ nonfatals- and Maryland's soft on crime initiatives mandate reduced convictions and incarcerations, esp for #1 offenders. Bottom line, Baltimore is DONE!
yo thx for uploading these, cuz for some reason people are curious about these places and this way we get to see them for ourselves without risking going there and someone being like "whoa who TF's this new guy kickin around?? Better check him right quick" and that can get ugly in any community, even "safe" towns and cities. Some places are just better off viewed on YT, if curious to travel one should think europe, asia, canada etc. You da man tho, taking the risk, props sun, thats bravery
Ive felt better about walking around some hoods with crip and bloods tags everywhere vs. those annoying groups of walkers who police their neighborhoods as criminal watch. At least in the hood you figure out how not to be bothered.
Trees growing out of,and inside, the empty shells of houses isn't all that unusual since their decay provides enough "soil" for trees like Ailanthus Altissima to grow...Sometimes they sprout in roof gutters if there is enough "soil" in them...
At one time these were BEAUTIFUL AND THRIVING neighborhoods. My parents and grandparents grew up here. Raised families. Lived middle class wholesome lives. Took so much pride in their homes and neighborhoods. Now, it’s a disgusting, shithole war zone!!! Pisses me off.
The East Coast, Midwest and Southern cities have some of the grimiest looking ghettos I've ever seen. I've been to a couple areas in those regions where you can just feel the despair in the community/neighborhood.
Some of the propblem with cities like this is that leins can be placed on property as debts which then spiral into massive numbers on properties. So they just sit vacant and in conditions of disrepair because buying a lot thats is $5,000 also comes with baggage of $500,000K of bad debt that must be paid UP FRONT. Its a systemic issue that allows for poor deprived areas to stay that way. So whre you look at these videos to get your misplaced ideas of cities with minority areas in disrepair- its not as easy as "grab a brook and clean up your city"
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It looks like war zone
@@takasmaka820 It is where the dregs of society live.
Hey Charlie - Great Vid - but corrected title is "What Defund the Police Looks Like" cheers from an ex NYC guy now happily (safely) living on Miami Beach 🙂
I’d say probably don’t touch the camera after you’ve started rolling. Every time you adjusted the camera it sounded like someone running their hands through a box of legos
Baltimore, where somebody can become some body.
LOL or become....dead by 19.
That hits hard but true sadly....
oh wait...I think I got what you mean!
Why I laugh so hard at this.
A lot of dangerous white people there
It's legitimately difficult to tell which buildings in this video are abandoned and which ones aren't
Somewhere a bald eagle caws triumphantly.
4th world country))
Other buildings are barely standing up.
Most are not. Welcome home.
which is pretty fucked if you ask me when you cant tell a house is occupied or nah its just a very dark uncanny vibe
I find it amazing how The Wire managed to completely capture the reality of the grittiness of the hoods in Baltimore while telling such compelling stories in this setting
And the fact that they filmed it all on site. I learned last week that the actor that played Bubs got approached and offered drugs multiple times while filming the first season.
I’ve lived in Md for 24 years. Baltimore is so much worse than The Wire. It’s the only place in America where the homeless and addicts feel entitled to whatever money you have on you. Y’all don’t know anything about this city. F these mfs
If I were the narrator of this video, I probably would have played the opening theme to the wire
The Daily Wire? Ben Shapiro?
the show on hbo "The Wire" @@AmarilloMusicAB
I really like how he just drives around and shows what it's like without adding a bunch of snarkey commentary like some UA-camrs do. They really get on my nerves!
Same I cannot stand that guy Mikey Gee ir whatever his name is seems very fake.
Even the cop was walking like a dope fiend
1:40 nah he bought that chain from the dollar store
Even the cops in Baltimore are doped up lol
Damn
Probably a truant officer.
@@matthewhernandez8342 😂😂😂
This is the part of Baltimore you don't want to get lost in. Speaking from experience.
If you see his past videos to now, you start see how badly the area become.
Why what happened to you
@@ryanchilcoat2394 I almost got killed on these back blocks people try to rob u
@@ryanchilcoat2394 Moved from Fairbanks, Alaska to a town about 10 miles from Baltimore. Was going to audition for a band whose rehearsal space was in Baltimore and had directions printed out from Mapquest (this was 2008, didn't have a smart phone, no GPS). Of course, got lost, ended up in these streets and finally stopped at a CVS (not the one in the video). Asked a lady inside how to find the area I looking for. She told me and walked outside with me and pointed to each street and said if I drove down any other way I'd 100% get a bullet in my head.
@@Jigaboo1929 damm bro scary shit i live 20 min from city so i know if im in the blue police light areas to get the fuck out but it seems no matter where ive gone in the city i got offered boy or girl which is herion and coke prob cause im white
My grandmother is from Baltimore. She talks about the glory days of the place of long ago, long before the corruption got way rampant
Corruption didn’t kill Baltimore, de-industrialization did. It thrived when capitalism was in a certain period and that period is long over
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 And what do you think killed de-industrialization? It was political corruption.
Lazy blacks. Its very simple. Every city with mainly black population
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198Has nothing to do with Capitalism in terms of thriving.
All it was was people not living in poverty... now everyones living in poverty.
corruption did not kill Baltimore, blacks becoming majority did, to many blacks destroys neighborhoods.
Respect to the people that are still doing their best to maintain the homes... Even just stuff as simple as painting it.
Yeah, you've got to respect someone who paints their home.
I’m watching this video after reading that 23 schools in Baltimore had 0 students that passed math☹️
Source!!!!
Do you really think our educational standards throughout the whole United States will get better, it's been on a decline!.
Pretty sure they want us dumb, and other countries are waiting to capitalize in on that!.
Especially the ghettos and slums, they don't care about the citizen's and next generations being brought up to get an education.
Especially minorities!.
They want you to be stuck desperate and in poverty to fund the prisons!. It's a continuous cycle of revenue!. Americans got hustled!. But I dont have to tell you anything you don't already know, it's evident!.
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Damn they know how to count at least?
My daughter was blessed to be in a good school but the Baltimore school system is a joke over all
Imagine if you showed this clip to the families who originally built/lived in these neighborhoods
Some of them might actually be watching this vid right now
@@SpicyMang0sno
...there wouldn't be a dry eye...
I think about that too! I can't imagine what they would think if they could see this mess now.
Most of them live 15 minutes away
I grew up in the area and this breaks my heart, man. So much beautiful history here and it’s just turned to the ruins of a lost civilization.
I’m from NJ born and raised, I went to Baltimore 4 years ago to help someone I know get his plumbing/hvac business going… the main unit which is heavy goes in the backyard so he parked in the alleyway…. I’m putting tools back in the truck around noon , end of July of 2020, I turn around had a shotgun and 45 to my head…. They wanted phone, wallet and my keys , I told them everything was in the house thinking they leave me alone…. They escorted me to the back door with shotgun against back of my neck…. By the grace of god the door handle was on the right so door swung open to the left, as I stepped in I sidestepped to the right, slam door in their face as same time as I walked in, ducked, locked the door, crawled into the kitchen…. I saved a grandmother, daughter, 3 little kids that day
Let me guess: The perps were Nordic-looking dudes with MAGA hats, correct? Oh. Never mind.
How long did it take to make that up?
Would be cool if it was true, sounds very fake though
@@Kazillion-Jillionaire ya I sat there for half hour making up very small details like door opened to the left, sidestepped to right and jumped in closed the door at same time, ya I made up that whole story in the 2 min it took me to write that in that much detail, I must be real gifted I should write a book
@donnyfoster1859 how old are you man?
I'm from a pretty rough section in Brooklyn, NY and I have never seen anything in the US this bad. There are plenty of tough 'hoods in this country, but nothing like Baltimore. It's sad that there is still so much poverty.
NYC used to look this bad if not worse
@@evanharkey7100 Nah, I remember the 70’s plus, with all the crime., going forward to today. The only thing I’ve seen worse than this is overseas. Baltimore needs real attention. Perhaps many of the run-down blocks are largely inhabited, but this poverty reflects the US.
Watch his video on Atlanta hoods, it was worse than this
@@Powerule23 Philly and Detroit look just like this
Where you at, Williamsburg 😂
The amount of hopelessness and resignation on display is heartbreaking.
These American Ruins.
Democrat ran cities always end up looking like this
@@Travis-kw3mo I encourage you to look into the situation a little more. Your unreasonable conlusion is rather shocking in its simplicity.
@@Travis-kw3mo i'd argue theres another stronger common denominator, which there's global evidence for.
@@jamppamaattori its too late for people like him man, only way for them to learn is for them to be in a remotly similar sitution or to personally meet someone they see trying, versus seeing random figures in a video and placing racist and prejudice belifs on any race darker than him or any group thats not his. They can then bitch about coal leaving and its affects on republican run states or communities but then become practically braindaid once they see similar issues effects on the otherside with a million more people to deal with in a bigger industry.
I worked in South Africa and Nigeria yrs ago. Those houses look like mansions in comparison to African ghettos. Good video.
100% especially around Durban ☠️💀☠️
I remember doing lyft full time through these parts for two years straight. Now I’m living downtown VA. Can’t lie, life’s good. Thank God for blessing me 🙏🏿
My Buddy and I took the wrong exit going to Cal Ripkens last home game years ago and drove through a couple miles of that craziness. People hanging out of windows naked, a car on fire, music blaring, shady as shit people on every corner, burned out houses. I've been through most parts of DC and it doesn't compare. Baltimore is like another planet.
People, don’t forget to vote Democrat again in 2024 so you can continue to live the life of luxury and prosperity. Remember, Joe Biden loves you!!!!!!
That's their culture
@@santo-rr4uv That's why we need to vote Republicuck next election so they can do absolutely nothing to undo the destruction!
All hail the Uniparty!
@@santo-rr4uvNigga the party doesnt matter, people do. And you cant change people.
@@santo-rr4uv it’s not that simple. Not everything is black or white, or blue or red.
The architecture in many of these historical buildings is incredible, so unique. It's a shame they are in such decay & ruin. Hate to see this, we as a nation bulldoze them down and put up new ugly square boxes. We erase our heritage moving forward & that's shameful.
What in the world do you see as redeeming about that architecture? It looks horrible! I'm not talking about the general condition of the neighborhood, I mean the design of those row houses. No wonder the place became a slum! I can't see anything they could do to that hood to improve the basic, built-in squalor. Awful!
@@shaggybreeks It's nostalgia, brick facades, curved arch widows, at TS 2:27 check out those curved walls, things you don't see anymore. Its a slum there's no arguing that but if someone had a vision to purchase these old building and renovate think of how cool it could look, unfortunately I think its past that. At some point a big developer will come in and buy the land for pennies on the dollar, destroy these old buildings & put up square ugly ones with no character or charm I have an appreciation for the old architecture, they don't make them like that anymore, looks like I have 62 thumbs up so I'm not the only one who feels this way. Everyone has a different vision.
It’s called maintenance which these lazy folks ain’t capable of.
@@user-ch6if6tv6jthese people got a lot more issues to deal with than those of us who are lucky enough to have the time to watch youtube videos and post comments
@@jp99575weveryone's got a different vision, yeah. I think I share yours though. old architecture had so much purpose, even on low-income properties. where I live, it's all mid- to high-income subdivisions with no character that fall apart after a couple of years. The walls in my house are cracking and all of the storm drains on my street had to be replaced last year-but my development is only 6 years old. I always wondered what people are thinking when they endeavor to build this stuff.
It's nice because they take care of it. This is a good video to show to kids so that they learn the value of cleaning their room.
GREAT JOB ,ELIJAH CUMMINGS .
Nothing was worse than the South Bronx. It looked like a war zone. New York City rebuilt that neighborhood and you can't even tell what it looked like before. No city in America should look like this anymore. This is crazy.
We are more concerned with that Ukrainian fake war that we probably started over our own cities. Yes, most of the residents in that area are responsible for this, but instead of funding wars, how about giving those people opportunity in life.
NYC has a lot more going for it than Bmore. It’s the fashion/financial capitol. Billions upon billions of buisness revenue and jobs. Tourism, cuisine, nightlife, television, radio, broadway plays, you name it.
All Baltimore has for tourists to come to the city is Chesapeake Bay crabs or Heroin.
@@ALGREEN540
NYC sucks i agree
Don't worry whitey will come to the rescue 😂
@@ALGREEN540 I think they are referring to the South Bronx of the early 70's
Damn! Things havent changed much since The Wire
Looks even worse
I know the wire is fiction, but the sentiment is true, the old school gang bangers had some semblance of codes and honour. But once they went away, the new generation coming through had none of that and it still continues to get worst in these neigbourhoods.
Sheeeeiiiitt!
Avoid bad language guys
its way worse
I drove through Baltimore for a work trip and I legitimately felt like my life was in danger
Can assure you it wasn't
That crib @4:40 looks spooky….tree growing out of it and all
As someone who grew up in a run down part of the U.K., the run down brick built terraced houses look weirdly familiar, most British ones don’t have that many steps up to the front doors though.
Yeah. All those houses built for factory workers and their families. And then one by one, all the factories closed.
So like the UK then
Very similar to where I live in Liverpool
@@lhoman8426or Middlesbrough
It’s the stone cladding, remember though if you have nothing in the States you’ll be much worse off than the UK.
Funny how I live in Boise Idaho and so many people and teens around here try to act hood but they wouldn’t walk around these hoods with the confidence they have around here in the suburbs
Haha yep I see it where I live to. I’m in a small town in Oregon. I moved to Indianapolis for a few years, there’s some rough areas there to and it was definitely a big culture shock for me being born n raised in Oregon. Now I watch these teens around here thinking they’re so tough and think they’re in gangs.. I would just love to drop them off in a place like this. Even east side Indi.. it’s not as dangerous as some other cities but it would still scare the pants off these silly kids here 😆
it's actually *_not_* funny... it is 100% proof that #thug-life is merely hollywood propaganda designed to subvert American young people and overthrown parental authority in an certain age group, it's certainly NOT a reality of a glamorized people group that actually exists.
@@hazeymystic8867 lol there's a great Dave Chappelle skit where he drops his white step son off in the hood for tryna act tough. but at the end of the day these kids just want to be cool and their parents/mentors need to educate them on how the real world works or they will eventually learn the hard way.n
yeah bro Im in Oregon and after traveling the country, let me confirm for you, people who act hood in the NW part of the country outside of small pockets of North Portland or Tacoma/Seattle are entirely unaware of how real it gets in this country
Thats stupid. Every state has violent crazy people. Just because there are abandoned buildings and poverty where people live doesnt make them tough.
Got the train from NYC to DC it stopped in Baltimore, just looking out the window i was worried this my stop 😅
It’s so vibrant! And I’m sure the food is amazing!!
We lived in Southeast Baltimore in Curtis Bay and watched the decline hit so fast. The bird (police helicopter) was flying every night. We used to play a game called name that gun when we'd hear gun fire. The first month we were there someone had their head taken off with a shotgun just a block over. As soon as a murder memorial started to go away another would pop up on the side of the road. One year we even rang in the new year as the first murder of the year about a block from our house on Hazel Street. For some reason though I never felt like we were in danger. Everyone on the block looked out for each other. We didn't interrupt the dealer's business, they knew we were straight laced, kept to ourselves and made sure no one messed with us. Kind of odd but I miss that old house. Half the block burned up a few years after we moved and I don't think they even bothered demolishing the ruined rowhouses.
Man as someone that grew up in bad neighborhoods in the Midwest, what's up with east coast cities and whole streets just burning up like that? Is it cause the buildings are all close together? I see so much more fire damage in videos from up there
@@nousername2942 Rowhouses are built right beside each other like townhouses but it's a whole block. One goes up and it jumps roofs all the way down. Our old house was built in 1910 so it was a dried out old box of matches pretty much. The fire started next to where we lived and consumed half the row before the firetrucks even got there. It's crazy how fast those old houses burn.
@@LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits There was a church I saw that burned back in 04 or 05 and it was built in the 80's with trusses from a 1900's era building that was demolished. Someone was sweating pipes and lit the insulation on fire, burned the entire roof right off the building before the fire department could make it the 1/8 of a mile there. Luckily no one was injured or killed.
@@Tracert-mc1hu It is crazy how fast fire moves if there's enough fuel. One of my old neighbors took video of the block fire with his phone and sent it to me. It literally took just a minute to go 3 houses each way.
Back in 2009 when I was in highschool I had a mentor that was from Baltimore, told me he witnessed a murder right in front of him at a stop light, guy went up and just shot someone in the head. I'm from silver spring md, it's pretty bad but not like this poverty here is off the charts
It is a shame to see these beautiful old row homes be let go past the point of no return.
The viable solution now is demolition and clearance since those old row houses are too badly deteriorated to repair and reoccupy
4:33 second house from the left. The tree is growing from the second story, its roots & other foliage having engulfed the building interior.
Also 4:51 beautiful.
I drove through something similar once because of construction/detour. The weird thing about Baltimore, this is just a few blocks from a really nice neighborhood. Something north of inner harbor/fells point but i forget the name of it.
I used to live right off Broadway in Fells Point. The side I lived on was younger working-class people, and the neighborhood was pretty nice, with many renovated townhomes. However, like 100 feet away, across the street, was terrible. A couple of areas in Baltimore are even worse than this though. There are whole neighborhoods that are abandoned and look like actual warzones. It is insane how poorly Baltimore is run, and it's sad considering the fact Baltimore is actually really beautiful.
The democrats man
It's wild how cities like Baltimore and Detroit have been this way for ~50 years. White people collectively moved to the suburbs and the cities crumbled, and they've pretty much looked the same ever since. 50+ years and zero progress. Just burned out and boarded up remains of what came before.
@@garrom5652 The police in Baltimore are run by the state and governor's house. This dates back to the civil war when the municipal government was not trusted to stay on the Union's side.
Where did you live rafterman ? How long ago ? Has it really gotten bad ?
@@fellspoint9364 I lived on Bank Street next to Fells Point about 7 years ago. I know the crime picked up quite a bit during and after the pandemic hit. The inner harbor is also a ghost town now, which is unfortunate.
I drove through this area in 2019.I left New York city en route to Texas and around 2am I was getting tired so I GPS'd the nearest Motel 6 to sleep at.It took me off the highway and right into the middle of this area.I've seen a lot of poverty in the USA but this was really striking...the sinister energy at night with the people walking around...I wouldn't dare get out of my car and walk around here at night...you can feel the potential danger.Seeing so many buildings that are half boarded up and half occupied...unbelievable that one apartment is vacant and boarded up while the neighbor's light is on!!I finally got to my motel 6 which was still in the same neighborhood.I was tired and needed sleep so I decided to get out of my car and go to the office which was locked....you had to interact through a small window.The clerk told me I had to leave a $75 deposit which I didn't like.I looked around and started thinking about my car being left out here and my room was probably going to be scummy so I got back in my car and drove off.I GPS'd another Motel 6 which brought me to a cleaner neighborhood that felt safer and I slept there instead(with no required $75 deposit!!).I'm sure most folks in this area are good people but the poverty level is so astonishing and the potential negative expreriences that can occur from the certain bad people here make this a place to avoid if have no business going there.
Did that Motel 6 have it's front desk behind bullet proof glass? The reason I ask is because I had a 1 night stay in NYC near the airport in a hotel that had bullet proof glass ... And rooms *in the basement!* I was first given one of those basement rooms (where the windows were the kind that had no way to open them). Horrible place to spend $150 for a measly 4 hours of sleep.
@@amg9163 They probably were bullet proof glass now that you bring it up.I didn't hang around too long to ask questions though...the vibe in that area had me really thinking about seeking another place.When he said I had to deposit $75 I took it as a sign to leave.
@@sonnywolfblues what was so bad about the deposit? sorry, I don't travel often
@@vladpintilei6204 it implies that if a business has to charge a protection fee against vandalism in their place then it's pretty indicative of the potential bad things that can occur because it reflects the crime and nature of the area.
@@sonnywolfblues ohhh it was for vandalism, that's crazy bruh
Charlie pls come to Troy NY its mad ghetto here, some areas remind me of baltmore
It would be cool if you could show pictures at the end of the video of what each city looked like in it's heyday.
The 'crazy' is that you could retitle this 'Visiting the aftermath of a warzone' and people would believe it... It's difficult to comprehend communities in such disrepair in America, and as many have already commented, they're getting worse every year. Stay safe Charlie!
Democrats
@@chiquita683 Banana.
It’s the residents.
@@chiquita683 Go ahead and blame democrats. Blame republican company owners for outsourcing everything. Blame the whole government for welfare
@@fhowland its you
I love this channel. I admire Charlie’s decision to always let the footage speak for itself.
Charlie's not wanting to attract attention.
and the footage says "around blax, never relax!"
Where in Baltimore is all this? I've looked all over Google maps and can't find it.
Was there a war in Baltimore recently?
It has always seemed so strange to see new cars in these areas.
I left Bmore many years ago, what a hopeless place. I went in the military and never looked back. Place sure hasn’t changed much.
Good for you! Stay strong.
Thank you for your service
It's sad
Hope you’re doing well man, go kick ass in life
"I left the violence of Baltimore to be violent against foreign nations in the military".
I went to college in Baltimore County and for one of my classes we had to go into the city to volunteer at this soup kitchen. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing driving through those neighborhoods man.
I've seen videos like this of areas where I don't think anything looks that run down - honestly pretty livable. But this looks like a war zone. It hurts to see so many people struggling like that. I hope cities like Detroit and Baltimore can find ways to revitalize themselves however long it takes.
We have some friends who live in Baltimore and went to visit for a few weeks. It was a cool city. Lots of history and things to see, great food, nice people. The difference from block to block was crazy though. One street would be updated, beautiful townhomes and the next would be an abandoned building with a tree growing out the top. It was definitely a place where you were fine in most places but wouldn't want to wander around a block over.
Similar to Flint, for the same reasons.
Cincinnati is just like this lol it’s more block by block than neighborhood by neighborhood
Or be out at night.
Nicest most murderous place I've ever been.
Take the place around University of Maryland Dental school. Fresh building that is safe and clean. Go two blocks away and it looks like a war zone.
In December me and my cousin went through some really, really rough areas of Baltimore. Had I known where he was going I wouldn’t have agreed to go. There were people nodding out, trying to stay awake and keep walking, almost on every street corner. Shit was like real life zombies. We got to this really long street and it was bombed out, ransacked houses everywhere on both sides for as long as you could see. There were these bright blue lights on every single light pole (BPD security cameras) for blocks and blocks. It was literally like The Last of Us in real life.
I grew up in Baltimore. I left some 45 years ago. looks like I made the right decision.
There are areas all over the U.S. especially right jow Post-COVID that are facing similar issues. I'm from Maine for god's sake and i've been to some of the bigger cities or towns like Portland or Augusta, as well as having lived in section 8 housing in Bangor. Id see a lot of the same shit you're seeing in this video there too. Its everywhere. So many homeless camp out at this restaurant i used to work at in downtown Bangor. Even found two drugged out dudes in a storage container outside the restaurant building, trying to sleep. Literally shoves themselves in there
Nice pfp, love the germs
Anyone know where in Baltimore is this?
You came in that CVS parking lot and spun right Charlie Boy you must know these parts fr (Penn-North)
I was born in DC in 1971 & grew up in the DMV & spent a good amount of time in & around Baltimore & I remember people used to ask me if Baltimore is as bad as it seems on “The Wire” & I’d tell them “no….it’s worse”
🖤🥶
I was born in Baltimore in 1969 and grew up in the DMV. And DC is now different than Baltimore. You still have neighborhoods that are just as bad as Baltimore. So don’t get brand new because dc back in the 80’s we’re just like Baltimore. I know I was there I remember the show “City Under Siege “ that came on every night at 11p on channel 5. Yeah! As a small kid there were no vacant houses in Baltimore that I remember until the drugs overwhelmed the city and that’s real
Where in B-More is this?
So true
The overcast really adds to the video
The Wire theme should absolutely be playing in the background.
To what does one attribute the rot? The inhabitants of this neighbourhood?
I drove through baltimore last month. The streets are covered in trash bags. On the sides of the road i saw broken glass bottles, condoms and even needles. Half of the places i went through felt dangerous, had bad feelings everywhere i went.
Im so sorry for the community and for the kids who have to grow up there
It's the community and kids that continue this lifestyle
I know right . The kids that have to grow up here is where my empathy is . I know it’s hard sometimes to not become a product of your environment when you grow up like this
Only the strongest and smartest will survive. Natural selection.
@@gangisspawn1 they dont know any better im guessing
Heroin still comes thru the port there more than anywhere else on the east coast
This really reminds me of some parts of inner city Bradford in England. Same level of poverty. It's sad, because those abandoned houses I bet were beautiful in their prime.
I'm asking out of curiosity, since it's England is that a white ghetto or a black/brown/ethnic ghetto? I'm wondering because it is England. I'm also wondering if this is a specific demographic/ethnic condition or a general human condition. If you're answer is "predominantly white" then that's really saying something that there's more at play here to this way of life.
@@PokrPro21 The ghettos in Bradford are mostly Pakistani and Bangladeshi.
A lot of northern England is like this now.
We do have a lot of poorer areas that are mixed, England is generally less segregated than the US outside of the larger cities.
@@generalspidrax9699 I was expecting more of a lower class white ghetto. Wow. I heard you guys have a migrant problem with more problems and crime that the native population never had to deal with before but I'm American so I obviously don't know the full story outside of what Paul Joseph Watson posts.
Yup, if you Google the Toxteth area of Liverpool say 1900, the mansion houses and public squares where the merchants lived were STUNNING.
Then guess what? Afro Caribbeans moved in and turned the area into a lawless toilet.
@@PokrPro21 Don't listen to these idiots, Glasgow in Scotland was once the murder capital of Europe with some of the highest poverty rates, they had "Schemes/council estates" which are the equivalent of your housing projects in America. Full of white males, white ghettos. And there are the same "white ghettos" throughout the whole of england, the most deprived area in england is infact a place called "Jaywick", its a seaside town
Wow, the wire was filmed. Nearly 20 years ago and the place hasn’t changed a bit.
When does ROBO-COP come out
Great video. Here’s a twist; tour some of these super wealthy, exclusive neighborhoods. And just see what develops…..should be an interesting contrast. ❤
The most fucked us part of all those dilapidated row houses is that they are still good housing stock. They could still be perfectly livable homes for people, with relatively modest public investment. They built blocks of row houses like bomb shelters, so it’s not individual buildings, but rather one huge building cut up into smaller pieces. This is why a lot of them are still standing true, and plumb even though their interior floors are gone. We have the money, means, and ability to returns cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Cleveland, and Philadelphia back to their former glory as bustling metropolises, the only thing we lack is the will to do so from governments. Vote, run, and we can all win.
Most of those dilapidated row houses are too structurally deteriorated and compromised to save and rehabilitate. The only viable solution is demolition and clearance. That is what Baltimore has been doing the past decade, demolishing all these decrepit derelict row houses.
The money yes, the means no. These houses are owned by outside investors.
If you think the issues are as simple as voting then you clearly haven’t seen the wire
A episode straight out the wire. They don’t have street sweepers it’s so nasty. The quality of life just living there is depressing.
1:09 That looked like a robbery set up for a sec
At 1:19 you hear a gunshot?
Baltimore must have been beautiful at its peak. Love the buildings
It was like looking at your mother's ass.. beautiful
Just like anything that’s taken over basketball people, it all turns to sh#t eventually
When I tell people that my family lives in Maryland, they always assume Baltimore… and I’m like “hell nah!!!
In this part of bmore, if ur white, either you're the most run down junkie ever or u don't stay here. Period.
My favorite quote from Eurotrip: "It's a good thing you came in the summer, in the winter it can get very depressing"
The wire was how long ago.
Charlie not very often mention word crazy in his videos. After seeing his past drive through Baltimore videos, yeah its getting crazy which means VERY BAD. Its gonna continue to be bad with things going on today. Stay safe bro.
yupp sad ASL man frfr
Trenton, NJ is extremely similar. I’m there a lot for work and there are entire neighborhoods that looked like they were bombed with broken/boarded windows, melted off siding from fires, and missing pieces of the roof - with people still living in them.
Sad.
I live in the outskirts of Trenton and this is absolutely true.
Was that a gun shot at 1:22 mark?
Crazy how these are probably the same hoods used in the TV series, "The Wire", and they look no different than a decade ago.
Don't forget about the "The Corner" series. Watch that last month.
that what happens when you don't fix the problems they have
Go back six decades and they’re prosperous. But something else was missing then, too.
Real baltimore is worse than the wire
@@NoahBodze About 60 years ago the Democrats in charge of the Federal Government at the time had devised a plan that would pay them for having illegitimate children. Before electronic benefits payments there were welfare checks. The checks always hit the mailboxes on the first of each month. Once a month the stores had 18 wheelers pull up overnight and these trucks were filled with Pampers.
There's a horror survival videogame called The Suffering: Ties that Bind, that takes place in Baltimore. Gotta say, the developers really knew how to capture the Baltimore essence when they developed the game
Good horror game, but still not half as scary as a a group of “normal” black people in Baltimore.
Looks like a Fallout 3/Silent Hill crossover
Resident Evil
@@kaj7135 huh 🤔
I loved that series so much, still do. It was the first thing that came to mind when I first went to Baltimore for work a few years back. What an absolute pit of misery.
I was a Baltimore Police officer in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s a war zone.
What GTA graphic enhancement mod did you use for this?
GTA has never really sold the tough, run down hood vibe very well. GTAIV tried, but fell short. GTAV is only about vapid, shiny things. GTASA just too cartoonish
Baltimore, Philadelphia (North Philly), Camden NJ, Newark NJ, Detroit, St Louis, Jackson MS, Cleveland (East), Youngstown OH, Flint MI and Chicago (Southside) are the worst looking hoods in America. Back in the day, NYC (South Bronx & Brownsville-ENY) and Washington DC would be on that list but both cities have fixed up their hoods and experiencing rapid gentrification.💰
You forgot Gary, IN
New Orleans?
I'm in Chicago. The south side is bad but this looks like a third-world country
@@nikkitak8360 yea im from south side of Chicago too and even though it can be dangerous it doesn't look that bad compared to hoods of other cities. Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit and Memphis look way worse in comparison.
All of those cities were entirely built by whites and sacked by migrating blacks. Demographic and census data doesn’t lie. There were almost no one who looks like you above the Mason-Dixon Line until during WWII and as soon as you got north you rioted and destroyed what someone else built.
Some things never change.
CharlieBo walkin through the garden, you better watch your back
Which garden
@@rabioramos1796 Where Chris and Snoop hang out.
Are we going to Hamsterdam? Did Bunk make all the people go so we can do Hamsterdam in the area the video went over ?
This is something like out of a scary movie
CharlieBo's videos is the truth. No narration, just raw life.
I was born and raised in Southwest Baltimore City, I moved to the country in 2010, was the best move I ever made in my life…
For those born into this, how on earth do you attempt to get yourself out and have a better life? I just can't fathom, it seems impossible
Staying in school. Work, work, work. Try to get a scholarship or a grant. Pray. People have done it.
Looks nice!
Only places that can even come close to this grit is Camden and Philly
I think this might actually beat them. This feels like a whole new level.
This looks a bit worse but its silly to even compare
@@vadim9342Nah camden is the worst
Baltimore easily top 3
Camden is a ghost town, like some post apocalyptic movie. The trash and urban decay in North Philly could definitely give Baltimore a run for its money.
Detroit is pretty greasy dude.
i took a train from DC to NYC over the summer and we went through B More..shit broke my heart man. especially being a huge fan of Cal Ripken/Orioles back in the glory days.
i was constantly on edge, fearful of the next time your camera was going to make the plastic clicking noise
The one good thing about growing up here, if you make it out, there isn’t much else out there that can really get to you.
Buenos videos, siempre mostrando la realidad. Saludos desde El Salvador en centro américa
Saludos de Honduras 🇭🇳 hermano , yo vivía en Baltimore antes ahí ay una comunidad salvadoreño y hondureño
Imagine how beautiful those brick rowhomes and streets were in its prime. This country is doomed.
Yup. The place is beautiful, low-rise buildings and brick as well. The people who reside in the areas though...
Go visit Asian cities - YES US is doomed and never going to catch up. I have visited Saigon, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Chaing Mai, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Dailan, Guangzhou, Mumbai and no where the hoods are this bad except for the slums in Mumbai - but they are prosperous with normal humans living and thriving. This is zombie land
@@satyakammisra You're picking the worst US has to offer and comparing it to the best of Asia. Compared to most European cities, many of the cities you named are worse - Chinese cities with horrific air quality, India with filth, Dubai being unwalkable, Hong Kong is overcrowded etc.
Many US cities are not that nice, that is true but give people the choice of Beijing or any major US city and the choice would be obvious.
Today Ukraine looks worse. So, dear Americans, your money goes there. You are honest taxpayers, thank you!🤣🤣🤣
@@AlexRokutov If you Russian cockroaches wouldn't have destroyed it, none of that money would go to Ukraine.
Charm City - body count 159 as of 7/27/23 with 350+ nonfatals- and Maryland's soft on crime initiatives mandate reduced convictions and incarcerations, esp for #1 offenders. Bottom line, Baltimore is DONE!
The sad thing is with all its old buildings Baltimore could actually be a really nice city if only somebody had taken any care of it...
All the old buildings are full of lead paint and asbestos.
On a positive note, when there is an economic collapse, these folks will have no idea anything has even happened..lol
Omg that looks like a depressing place.. even the tree's have given up on life 🤨
Right. It's very sad.
Its winter goofy ahh
It's winter you silly sausage.
I wonder if Amazon even delivers packages there.
I lived in Baltimore my whole life and it actually looks like that
yo thx for uploading these, cuz for some reason people are curious about these places and this way we get to see them for ourselves without risking going there and someone being like "whoa who TF's this new guy kickin around?? Better check him right quick" and that can get ugly in any community, even "safe" towns and cities. Some places are just better off viewed on YT, if curious to travel one should think europe, asia, canada etc. You da man tho, taking the risk, props sun, thats bravery
Ive felt better about walking around some hoods with crip and bloods tags everywhere vs. those annoying groups of walkers who police their neighborhoods as criminal watch. At least in the hood you figure out how not to be bothered.
Why not just go there, be respectful, and volunteer with local community-run projects that benefit people in need. There are many in Baltimore.
Trees growing out of,and inside, the empty shells of houses isn't all that unusual since their decay provides enough "soil" for trees like Ailanthus Altissima to grow...Sometimes they sprout in roof gutters if there is enough "soil" in them...
Amazon deliver here?
Everything brick and asphalt, no gardens no green no nothing. Arrest the city planners
At one time these were BEAUTIFUL AND THRIVING neighborhoods. My parents and grandparents grew up here. Raised families. Lived middle class wholesome lives. Took so much pride in their homes and neighborhoods. Now, it’s a disgusting, shithole war zone!!! Pisses me off.
What caused this downfall?
@@thetayz72 manufacturing jobs being sent overseas
Back in the 60s, housewives used to scrub the marble steps to their rowhouses. Hard to imagine now.
The East Coast, Midwest and Southern cities have some of the grimiest looking ghettos I've ever seen. I've been to a couple areas in those regions where you can just feel the despair in the community/neighborhood.
It’s them 200 year old brick buildings make shit look fucked up
@@Mjh97 crazy to think that most of the buildings in these neighborhoods are the "originals" from when they were first built in the 1800s
Yeah I’m from SC an you ain’t lying in just glad they keep the spotlight off us an just show how shitty the major cities have become..
Urban decay is a lot worse cuz usually the cities are older
Some of the propblem with cities like this is that leins can be placed on property as debts which then spiral into massive numbers on properties. So they just sit vacant and in conditions of disrepair because buying a lot thats is $5,000 also comes with baggage of $500,000K of bad debt that must be paid UP FRONT. Its a systemic issue that allows for poor deprived areas to stay that way.
So whre you look at these videos to get your misplaced ideas of cities with minority areas in disrepair- its not as easy as "grab a brook and clean up your city"
I'm telling you this don't get your vehicle impounded at the impound yard
For some reason, all videos of this content cause me to have a wild desire to go clean the apartment. It's like I feel like I'm in the mud.