Walking Toronto's Sketchiest Neighbourhood (Moss Park)
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2019
- This video is a walk down Toronto's roughest and most troubled neighbourhood, Moss Park including the homeless shelters
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This is a legit paradise compared to LA skid row. Even in LA suburbs there’s homeless tents all over .
Both LA And SF are pretty bad.
Add Vancouver to that list
No it isn't a legit paradise. I hate how more fortunate individuals like to compare shitty areas saying this and that is worse like it's some contest knowing damn well they didn't live that lifestyle. It's a different beast for these people. At least LA has good weather.
@@tommystunestoons no its notI Ive been to Vancouver and it was nice compared too what Sherbourne and Dundas
@@TheMarkoPoloProgram ok yes la has worse weather but la is the worse city it’s not a good thing but that’s just how it is a majority of the majors cities in us are worse than Toronto if anything these people need to look at what they have and be thankful
Dude casually smoking crack at 5;20 lol. Do not, I repeat, do not walk around this area at night if you're visiting Toronto. It's a whole different animal when the sun goes down.
Ya I'm from Toronto and I walked through it last night and it was insane. It was like the creatures and zombies all messed up on crack and shit. This one girl was on the ground looking possessed bending her body ways I've never seen a body been before
That's the sad part you can tell one day long ago she would have been a good looking girl
@@bhannigan69 the zombie looking ppl r fucked up on fentynal possibly overdosed ppl r dropping like flies it's getting really bad here
@Tyson El Blaxicano Who's trying to be gangster? lol Canadians never say they are gangster.
(well, most of them anyway) We know we aren't that hard-core.
Not to sound stupid. But there are cities in the world where you can't even walk in the safest areas at night. In fact there are cities in the world where you can't even walk in the safest areas at all.
we rented office space in that area for about a month last summer. THANK GOD we moved before the Fall when it got dark at 4pm. I grew up in the hood but THIS had me on edge walking to and from the bus stop each day.
I'm reading all the comments below and it's making laugh because of the debate about how "dangerous/safe it is compared to this place and that place". For starters, yes it's not a nice area of Toronto with some murders and robberies, but for the most part it's just drugged out people that won't bother you. Many of the murders and crimes are between the druggies themselves, not innocent people just walking through just like youtuber was able to. The real rough hoods are out in the boroughs where the gang bangers hang out. Go into the projects and Jane and Finch with a camera and see what happens to you.
The debate how dangerous these places are compared to city "x" always makes me laugh. Like any big city we talk about, there are bad areas where bad things happen. Don't go to those places, whether its NY, LA, Chicago, Toronto, etc...it's all the same crap.
Yes, the issue here is mental health and drug addiction. The crime here isn't all that bad and it is certainly linked to drug addiction. I find it pretty safe to walk in this area and all of Toronto, even at night. I walk everywhere in the city and almost never have a problem or see any problems, not even fights. It's very rare for me to see a fist fight in Toronto and I'm out a lot walking around.
Yeah but the bad parts of other cities are way worse than the bad parts of Toronto. In Chicago there are large parts of south and west side where you don’t even stop at red lights after dark you just drive through there as fast as you can and same can be said with Watts/Skid Row/South-central LA
I liked the video ...you did a good job with your comments in blue
16:30 Its funny you say this because I vividly remember as a George brown student walking to that Dollarama for school supplies totally unaware of the area I was in. I did get a few sketchy vibes but it wasn't until I got there that I realized I was in Moss park. Crazy how super close it is to GB and Eaton centre. I imagined it being somewhere a lot further from the downtown core.
I walked from dundas to king on sherbourne at 10pm. My heart was racing so fast and I realized I made a horrible decision. Never been scared in Toronto....until that night.
Regent Park has changed a lot and seems pretty safe now, even at night. I never see any problems there now.
Fear not move ahead know who you are be strong 💪
You must be kidding.
@@danielb.4461 It's a girl/woman. Her reaction wasn't really very weird at all.
All the beautiful old houses on Sherbourne ..... Jarvis, Sherbourne and Church streets were among the wealthiest and posh neighbourhoods in old Toronto 100+ years ago.
I live in Cleveland, where 80 percent of the city looks far, far worse than any site in this video. If there are some dodgy record stores in this part of town, I'd have no hesitation to stroll around. I adore Toronto. Hope to see you soon!♥️
Cleveland ran by crooks. America can take some lessons
Sad as we are supposed to be a superior nation
I agree 100% with this, im from Toronto but visiting cleveland and many other states i came to realize just how clean and neat Toronto is compared some of the states. Though USA is supposed to be a superior how i look at it, it actually makes sense and if Toronto wasnt so neat it be a disgrace to Canada. Cleveland, though isnt the city Toronto is, is still a big city and as Toronto is Canadas most "prized city" , in the usa yall got like 10 Torontos, probably even more, multiple Torontos in 1 state even. Canada focus resources into making the few major cities compared to the states look good. but the rest of the country u can imagine would look just as grimey as the 80 percent seen in cleveland or worse.
That area isnt really hood its just their are half way houses there.... but it becomes zombie land at night
The area could be cleaned in one year if the gov really wanted to.
Thx for sharing
I used to work in a job that I would need to go into places like Robertson house and it wasn't sketchy at all. For those that don't know the City of Toronto runs a series of homeless shelters and they are categorized by who needs to go into which area. Robertson house was a shelter for women that found themselves in unfortunate situations (i.e. they were in abusive relationships and fleeing from violent men). They were not sketchy at all- not drug addicts or alcoholics etc. In fact they were very thankful to be away from their old homes that they treated Robertson house like a palace. They cleaned the place kept it better than most people keep their own homes. There was nothing wrong with these people they were just fleeing from bad situations. There is another one for families (on Kingston Rd in Scarborough) and another one for old people (also on Kingston Rd in Scarborough) and you wouldn't even know they were homeless shelters because there is nothing wrong with the people they just fell on hard times (lost a job etc) not drug addicts or criminals.
Then there are two shelters- one for men and one for women for people coming out of prison or reforming themselves in some way. They may have had a bad past but they aren't sketchy either. They know if they mess up they go back to prison or out on the street so they stay clean and they are just there looking for work and to get back into society
The only "sketchy" shelter was Seaton house for men (around that area in the video). That was people one step away from prison. The men's shelter they would sell drugs out front and had criminal backgrounds etc. The women's shelter they would approach you like prostitutes. But overall most homeless shelters are not sketchy.
I mean.. if this is the roughest neighborhood in Toronto, Toronto is damn safe and clean...
This isnt the worst hood in the city, this isnt shit compared to jane and finch or black creek.
@@mysteriousscroana318 fr this some pum shit. Jane and finch, regent, jungle, Bleekz, Chester Lee, and the entirety of Scarborough are way more fucked than this😂
Micheal Jackson's Aborted Son chester le aint scary just bunch of social housing and that it
@@o67_ant never said scary just fucked, guy walked bare blocks and only seen one crackhead CLE you can't make it a block without seeing 3.
@Horace Fiend still rougher than this, go around those green overhangbuildings on Gerrard and tell me you don't smell a crack kitchen, all I'm saying.
When I first moved to Toronto the first apartment I looked at right right on the corner of Queen/Sherbourne across from Moss Park and I had absolutely no idea how bad it was, got out of there real fast lmao
A line in the song comes to mind ..Where Hustle is the Name of the Game and Nice Guys get washed away just like the Rain ...
Moss Park has always been a notorious neighbourhood going back many years. Those handsome architectural houses were once the proud homes of wealthy families considering the size. Just the same, the streets appear to be well kept by the city. Compared to US cities no doubt!
One of my delivery truck drivers nearly had his truck jacked on Queen and Sherborne.
thats normal in verdun montreal a guy try to steel my old honda crv with my girlfriend in it goddamn
Toronto has done a 👍 job of keeping its streets clean and inviting
Yeah, the city is pretty clean, especially for a city of almost 3 million people.
No leaves & the dark sky give it mean look. The city looks & feels differnt in the summer
True! Toronto looks very different in the Summer sunshine.
Man this is like walking through the nicest subdivision in the world if you compare it to the east side of vancouver BC lmao! Shit is litteraly like the walking dead with how many junkies their are either roaming around with a tweak walk/limp. Or their just passed out all over the sidewalks, the only other sober/non mentally ill are the cops driving around doing nothing about the problems
I've been to East Hastings and it's rough, very rough! But the rest of Vancouver is quite nice.
Reminds me of certain parts of Brooklyn.
The street that corner store is on is full of prostitutes and dealers now that Street is sketchy asF
@shmoney vibes relax buddy he filmed this on a quite day lol clearly you never been near that sams at night.
You should walk around Jamestown, rexdale neighborhoods south Jane/north Jane and Malvern during daylight though
I used to live in the building next to the church. Used to hear shootings at night and once saw one in the side yard of that church. I was standing on my balcony on the 2 1st floor. Used to walk to Wellesley hospital. My 1st job after graduation. Stayed 3 weeks and moved west to Mississauga. Jarvis wasn't much better.
I live in Baltimore. Come on now!!!! This shit looks lovely!!!
Come round here and find out then. We'll be waiting.
@@KeyserSoze23they won't let me into your country with my criminal record.
@@TheJamieSimpson Ok, never mind then.
Toronto's roughest slums are much nicer then Philadelphia's roughest , and that's a good thing
wow l learned a lot from this video, l am praying the a visitation of the Spirit of God to pour our his Love over Moss Park and the Whole city of Toronto
amen
amen
amen
This looks like the posh places in Scotland where I’m from. The hoods in Scotland are horrendous. A guy got his leg shot the other day for accidentally standing on a guys flower bed. 😔
In days gone by, this was a ritzy neighbourhood...lots of mansions.
Is it similar to Vancouver e Hastings skid row
As a Welfare Worker, Office Q, l walked thru here, Daily like a Mailman. Once I visited a Gent, and had an ominous feeling- l asked him to walk me to the street. Next morning, Police came - he was Dead.
that's not Kim's Convenience "like" the tv show... that is THE Kim's Convenience from the actual CBC show
@5:08 captures random gunfight…lovely
Down here in Philly spots like Kensington make this look upscale n ritzy
not at all rough. lol you can't compare this to skidrow. hahahaha
Interesting. I wonder what it would be like at night time?
I know the area is a lot more animated in the summer, when there are a lot more people just hanging around but I'm not so sure what's it's like late at night.
It’s zombieland at night
Did no one else notice the guy literally smoking crack on the steps of the church at 5:20
@WP Tucker it is not that clean at all. Boyfriend used to be in halfway house on Sherburn. May be gone now.
I noticed but the guy filming this didn't he was to busy thinking about what his next lies would be to make this area really scarey to force the housing prices down so he can buy them all cheap and build condos
This is paradise compared to L.A Skidrow.
America and has nothing to do with this
Or Vancouver DTES
Honestly being on skid row seems better
ohhhhhh shit the homie got some Timmies
Is ist somewhat as bad as the hoods in Regina?
Try Vancouver main and hastings...makes this like Disneyland
Been there and that's a fact lmao but sherbourne can get pretty bad at the end of the month lol
Used to live in Regent Park as a female near Sackville. It wasnt that bad tbh walking up yonge st past filmores, lots of homeless. But you have to be aware of your surroundings. I had two of my friends get punched by homeless when I wasn't there. I saw lots of people doing crack but nobody ever gave me trouble. Used to purposely walk past the brown regent park building there, felt safer in that area and to walk through cabbagetown to downtown instead of going up yonge. Always smelt like piss along that whole street down yonge basically near the cafe etc and the "best coffee in the world" place lmao
I drive this hood all the time. It’s not dangerous. Just a lot of homeless people & drug addicts. It’s more of a sad story then anything else.fyi the Kings Indian restaurant open 24/7 on the corner of sherbourne & Dundas had awesome curry.
The Phoenix concert hall close by.
Is Toronto considered the Midwest or the East Coast? The architecture resembles a lot of that of the East Coast of the U.S.
Toronto is considered East coast, we share a boarder with New York
@@4thdisciple514 Thank you for clarifying.
It’s a mix of Chicago and New England. It has the new world feel of Chicago (with the skyscrapers) and the old world look of New England (Victorian buildings)
What are rooming houses? Are they for like students and shit?
It's a house that is chopped up into many rooms for rent and usually, people share the bathrooms and kitchen. It's much cheaper to rent than a regular apartment but frequently come with problems.
2 minutes in and knew this was a shit video. I was right.
If that's the WORST your city has to offer the better parts must be totally outstanding.
I've seen WAY worse places in parts of Sydney.
It’s not a competition 😂
Bruh not trnya be rude but Sydney is not like that
I didn't see worse people on that corner. Lol
This nice compared to most parts of london.
Downtown Toronto is not scary.
Used to live right up the street in a nice expensive high rise building while I was going to George Brown college for culinary school. Sams convenience makes some great fried chicken and potato wedges.
Looks better than Downtown Eastside in Vancouver BC
Maybe make the words smaller I can almost read them, oh ya make the color more camouflaged I can just about see them! Thanks for a frustrating 3 min
Way to shame him with sarcasm
Sorry about that!
@@progressivelibertarianview8832 I'm Canadian, I feel the guilt and shame! SORRY!!!
Shut up you get what you get
Nice buildings. Even the worst looks better than here in Chicago.
If this is the worst neighbourhood in Toronto. Then this must be a safe city clean city. Why do Torontonians complain about crime but clearly their city is not bad
Because Ontario ppl are usually boring.
This isn’t the worst neighborhood it just has decent crime. There’s neighnorhoods that look way worst. Toronto is a good place though don’t get me wrong but there is parts of the cities you wouldn’t want to visit
80% of the comments are comparing US and Canadian cities. The US has a completely different set of social and economic issues. It would be a more apt comparison to look at Toronto vs. Winnipeg, Saskatoon, or Vancouver.
Yeah, you've got a good point.
Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Vancouver are WAY worse than Toronto.
I'm not trying to be contrarian but seriously, compared to the East Kensington Badlands in Philly, Baltimore, San Fran, L.A. or even East Hastings, Vancouver this is a cake walk.
T.O. is my birthplace and yes, it's become denser in population and the crime rate has risen but you still have an infra structure of sorts.
Regent Park and Shuter street were much worse back in the day. Parliament St was hoe town in 70's Cabbagetown but it's been gentrified to a degree and back when we had the Filmore Hotel Strip club things got sketchy around Dundas and George and Sherbourne but mainly at night.
The real poverty was in Hogtown where I was born. Tar paper shacks and rowhouses competed with small industrial businesses for space below Eastern.
It's been sinking at the Moss Park armouries area for years since they installed more public housing. They've concentrated all the halfway houses, mental health drop in's, shelters and drug services in the surrounding areas so it's no surprise it attracts some shady elements.
I mean come on. If that's the worst of T.O. in your estimation you are either wearing blinders or you don't travel much. Let's see you take a trip up to the Jane Finch corridor and show us how well it's fared since T.O. became a developers wet dream.
my guy, whatever you got typed in your vid I wouldnt know , its blurry as hell
5:22 Hitting the pipe!
Canada dry was invented in that dollarama
Those houses should be worth alot of money, why arent they? I am from Guelph ON and i did not know about this!
Maybe because the area is filled with heroin addicts gangs and prostitutes this guy out here like 10am, come out at like 8pm-4am in the same areas near that sams and it'll be a way different story sadly. I live just down the block from here
Go to East Hastings in Vancouver. You did not show anything sketchy.
Those yellow brick houses are government own…. It’s a scary neighbourhood…. 😢
I know this city well worked right there for a while nothing dangerous at all just a bunch of junkies and mental cases talking to themselves . Your unlikely to get into any confrontation with anyone around that part of town especially during the day it’s really safe
I worked at Moss Park Armoury in the mid 90’s and every morning we’d have to kick all the bums out of the back of the troop carriers where they’d sleep for the night.
wow kicking out the homeless u feel so great about that huh
@@no-ss2dw Well, they were trespassing and sleeping in the back of our trucks, so yeah, we kicked them out.
LOL, come to LA California and see what their skid row looks like
LA's skidrow is just as bad as Philadelphia's. I wouldn't walk there in day time . Having lived in LA for 2 years I've seen a lot of things happen at night time at Skidrow.
All hobos and bums unfortunately move to Vancouver since we are warmest city in Canada
They freeze to death in east coast
I seen hobos sleeping on the ttc subway in late March . It's that damn cold still .
how adorable! Big city Toronto has a big bad scary area. No litter, clean, relatively safe. I've driven through this area more often than not and trust me, not scary. My daughter takes her ballet lessons nearby and I often go for a walk with my morning coffee along these streets. Sorry Chicago. Toronto has done a great job in this regard.
Rio de janeiro is 10000000 more Dangerous...this is a paradise 😅🇨🇦🥰
Thia is what toronto really is like outside the wealthy downtown core if u want move to toronto this the real toronto
My mom lives in the building beside the dollarama, she has been addicted to crack almost my entire life. I live by square one Mississauga it’s crazy how close someone can be & still be so distant
😔 sry to hear about ur mom
It's a hard life I grew up with addicted parents..I'm here in Toronto as well..I often go back to the same building wondering if I could recognize any family...
My mom too, right in cabbagetown :(
@@lukki7ster thank you
Such a waste of Historic homes in Toronto 😢... yes I said it !!! ...
Nobodysever shows don mount court which is just as sketchy and old...it would be cool if someone did. Toronto has plenty of areas as bad as regent and moss park. They are bad but far from the only ones....parkdale , jane and finch, flemmington, parma court, kinda sad
I do not know where you get your information from but alot of it is very incorrect.
None of it was incorrect
It’s not that bad tbh
No, not compared to other places but for Toronto, it is one of the roughest parts.
Try shooting video at 2am u wont make it the whole way prob lose your camera half way
I'm not that brave/stupid! I'm not a big risk taker, so I usually play it safe, although, I do walk everywhere at night, just cautious with camera in hand. Drug dealers/users tend to freak out when they see a camera and I have had some scary incidents, so I'm more careful now.
This place safe and pleasant during daytime
This being skid row is a matter of opinion. On the surface it is, if you consider the lack of money and possessions along with the drug use. I however, look at those factors and also the quality of character. Most of those people are only "problematic" when in need. When they have what they need, they are fine.
Now look at the other end of the scale. Where I co sides the scum bag area of the City. That's the "affluent" area. Queens Park, Bloor/Avenue, going north and east to Rosedale. And Yonge/Bloor. They have everything compared to this area and yet they are exponentially worse as "people".
The real skid road is the yuppies. All of these people are used by the racket that is the homeless shelters. The zealots in this City are the trash.
Everyone you see here were pushed there with harassment by the yuppie, zealot, scum bag, trash.
It's a matter of opinion and I'm safer amoungst those people then I am around the rich folk who folk themselves and folk others.
Coming from Serbia and having lived in Shanghai for many years, in the US too (Miami and NYC), this is absolutely disgusting to me. We don't have any of this degeneracy whatsoever where I come from and now that I'm sadly living in Toronto at the moment, I'd never step food into this disgusting area. Actually most of downtown To is completely overrun by these zombies; it's a cesspool. But the downtown residents and leaders LOVE and CELEBRATE this kind of.... freedoms and flavors 😂
New York is not bad but Toronto makes NY look like a hood
Then go to Latin America and try that
If I want to read I do not read videos just like when I am viewing videos I do not pick up a book.
Lot better than Vancouver e Hastings the hobo area
Uhhhhh.... Toughest? No... Dirtiest? Yes... You do know Main and Hastings in Vancouver has this place beat by 100 fold... Sick sick 6
this is not the real hood. if u want to see the real hood, head to regent park and jane & finch
Its not about how it looks. It looks middle class, but is it safe? Are there many drug addicts, muggers, bullies, swindlers, prostitutes, thieves, unemployed? If so, then its fair enough to label it as skid row. Otherwise, its just another old middle class neighborhood. Show us the slums of Toronto if there is any.
thats not the sketchiest part of toronto
Just imagine this area if guns were legal. Probably have to fence it off to the outside world.
This is not a bad area man. Give it a rest. It's friggin gentrified.
East hastings in vancouver is wayy worse
Take a walk in North end Winnipeg now that is a s*** neighborhood.
I want to thank you for showing how the World is The Reality The whole World is sick Toronto is not Alone mankind is One Big Lie
A crackhead jumped on my car. I love Toronto
are you serious?? lmao i live in america but in my hood there’s a bunch of crackheads (infamous ones at that) one of the best known ones is this woman who everyone calls “Get it Girl” and we sometimes used to see her a lot hanging around the neighborhood doing crazy stuff and stopping random folks. mainly other people stop her since people in Memphis don’t mind their own business 🤦🏾♀️ . we haven’t seen her in a while tho so ppl thinks she’s dead
@@kryztofkowalski4628 I forgot I wrote this comment lol, I actually got in a physical fight with one yesterday he tried stealing my bag
I think your title is rude. Are you soft man? Old ladies live here and are not scared.
Giving out free needles was a ridiculous idea. They are everywhere now.
Lol I seen about 15 people I know 🤦♂️🤣
We should just help heavy drug users overdose.
what a joke are you kidding me? It's toronto and toronto is safe. Guess there's a reason you have 24 k views. There is nothing sketchy in toronto
This ain’t no hood, it makes America’s middle class areas look like Compton 🤣