In a few weeks I’m gonna be riding my horse at Joseph D. Grant County Park But you wouldn’t know where that is Because you’ve never been to San Jose or near California you’re a fake and Some day I’ll come to your neighborhood and we’ll talk
Hello 👋👋 Nick , don't you just absolutely love the third world banana Republic 🌴 at the United States has become by saturating it with socialist third world poverty stricken people, only 5 million homeless Americans in the United States of America 😰😰😰‼️
I live in San Jose. Yeah, the homeless problem is ridiculously huge but the CRIME is out of control. Not enough cops and the ones we have are looking to get out. Our former mayors (Sam Liccardo and Chuck Reed) ran them all off and cut funding to the department. My neighbor across the street had his front door kicked in during the middle of the day by burglars that ransacked his house and stole stuff. He came home to that, called the cops and told them that he had crystal clear surveillance video of the robbers. The SJPD dispatcher interrupted him mid-sentence told him, "We don't have the resources to investigate any of that. Here's a case number...call your insurance company." He too, had enough of the bullshit and promptly moved out.
Wow...that's really f...d up shit. I was born and have lived in New Zealand all my life. During the past decade, l've noticed a rise in the number of Americans that are residing in the the city where l live. Google search stats of Americans wanting to immigrate show a lot of those searches focused here or Australia. Possibly because our government policy leans toward progressive liberalism. I am a street photographer, and as a hobby, that's what l've done for the past decade and a half. I have met and photographed some pretty cool people from many parts of the world. There's this thing about the Americas l meet When l jokingly tell them l probably would have voted Republican if l was an American. When l tell them that it's becausel liked DJT's policies... l literally see the majority of them start to inwardly shrink while trying to maintain control while quickly throwing up their firewalls. That is humorous and sad because for starters, my skin color is brown. Our country has a lot of those same issues that the US has... just on a smaller scale. And we are experiencing inflation across the board and that includes housing and to some degree homelessness and crime.
@@eileenmikulecky8007 You are so right, sad that to many people want to stay in the matrix and think we are living in the greatest place on earth, what a joke.
Hey Nick, I’m from San Jose and living in Morgan Hill 10 miles south of SJ, we have a family owned restaurant and it’s so unaffordable that finding hospitality staff is super difficult since they can’t afford to live in the area it’s truly saddening.
I used to live inside a directly across from where they relocated the House of Pizza then moved to Morgan Hill 65 West 1st Street but I foresaw what was going to happen I do miss my favorite restaurant Original Joe's but good thing I left the 95 move to Arizona for 20 years and it became California moved from Arizona to Colorado been a one horse Town very nice now now imagine San Martine must be built up like mad Gilroy was another nice place my uncle had some property not far from that Gilroy Garlic Factory across that would be 152 across from Sandra sigil Elementary School but those days are over nice to hear somebody that remembers things
Can you reduce your hours to just peak? I don't live there anymore but I see on Reddit people complaining about tipping and all the extra fees charged at restaurants. The reality is.. you will have to pay your staff more and pass the costs onto the consumer. If the consumer doesn't want to pay, then time to shut down. Really sad to hear this is happening.
@@katierose1893 Out here in North Dakota many eateries have shut down because they could not afford the help. Others have stayed open but could not get help at any price. At the Donut Hole starting wage is over $23/hr. For a while Walmart was starting people at $25/hr. They are back down to $17/hr now but more for the night shift. My brother used to run food services at a college in Colorado, and he had trouble getting help, fortunastely there was a pool of students willing to work, but only at their own chosen hours.
Born and raised in San Jose since the early 90's, it's more or less always been like this but has definitely gotten worse in recent years. It's easier for the homeless since the weather stays temperate compared to other cities. When I was a child there was a homeless man named Norman that went door to door each week looking for work. My mother would pay him to mow the lawns and sweep the sidewalk. I sometimes wonder what happened to him, he was a good man.
It was San Jose where I first came as an immigrant from India (now in East Coast). Loved it from day one. Like to mention that rich cities in India like Mumbai, Bangalore has slums in some areas which in a way are 'camp' for the homeless but that is poverty and no drugs.
I was born in raised in Los Gatos, which is about 20 minutes from San Jose. My whole family left and moved to Georgia during the pandemic. We just couldn’t do it anymore. Between the housing market, high taxes, homelessness, rising crime, lack of culture/fun things to do for young people, and evil politics that run the state, it was time to go. The draconian lockdowns were what really pushed us over the edge. It’s heartbreaking what’s happened to our home and we definitely all feel a sense of displacement, but it was the right thing to do. We are thriving in Georgia and I encourage everyone who can leave California to do so. It’s not going to change, so in my opinion it’s better to leave and go somewhere that more closely aligned with your values.
Well, you guys were just raised under the “American way” where all you want is these utopian suburbs where the kids all jump around the block. Y’all want life to be a perfect little movie. But I commend you for leaving since it’s actually doing something.
San Jose is not boring...you just have to look for the things you want to do. The big value of San Jose is that it is centrally located in between San Francisco and Santa Cruz/Monterey. You have lots of options to visit places around and outside the city plus the proximity to both SF and SC. The only negative about SJ is that it is too busy, people are always on a rush, not very many eateries compared to SF, and a clear division between the "haves and have nots"...the middle class is slowly disappearing.
SJ is boring AF. It's much worse now. You want to make money in tech 👍 you want to pay top dollar for housing 💯 but it's BORING AF. I'd check the testosterone levels of the citizen males in the area for a demographic study.
This guy is a Republican. He just posts videos to bash California and fulfill the needs of his subscribers to point their fingers at a Democraticly run state. He isn't interested in showing anything positive about California.
Exactly! I worked downtown for several years. It was an easy drive from my house in Almaden Valley. I moved to Elk Grove 6 years ago and I’m so sorry I did. I bought a brand new house for $336,000 after selling the Almaden house for a million plus. It’s not worth it because the homesickness is the worst! I want to go to the beach, Shoreline, Sharks games, and the Mountain Winery.
I was raised in SJ in the early 80's and 90's. I remember the city began hanging up signs that said, "San Jose is growing up." That was the message. No other info was offered. These signs were all over the city. Back then the homeless were situated in the downtown area and there were no camps. I grew up in the Rose garden area across the street from Mayor Hammer. That area is still gorgeous and you can actually take a tour of my childhood home as it is listed on the Rose garden website as a historical home. That shit is really weird! My parents bought the home for less than 100,000 and now it is worth 3 million.
@@provident8732 Very familiar with the Rose Garden area. Home may cost 3 mil, but is not worth it. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum was always one of my favorite things to do and see there.
@@veronicafigueroa2384 Believe me, after dark the homeless come out and populate Santa Clara St & First St. They are everywhere and, a few years back, there was plenty of violence. downtown SJ at night is not a place to be.....
I remember SJ back in the 80s, and it was never like this. I have several friends who live there, and of course, they are all liberals who keep on voting for this and other nonsense. My older original tech friends were different and worked in old tech (HP, IBM etc) and were much more libertarian, but they've been replaced by the FB, Apl, Google "progressives".
Still have a lot of high paying jobs in the area and a lot of people got wealthy at the cost of others who didn't make the same investments in life. Before the tech companies were there, it was pretty much an agricultural city with some military bases near by. Once there was also a great middle class that worked the hands on tech jobs(assembly and manufacturing) that were plentyful for most and affordable housing. After a while, those jobs went away(due to the corporate globalization of products) and the higher paying jobs (more skilled labor) became more available. The amount of people moving to silicon valley with high wages and no new housing being built led for real estate to skyrocket. Lower earners were getting pushed out and bad political leadership led to the slow degradation of the 10th largest city in the US.
Exactly, most landlords want individuals/families to earn six figure incomes to rent or they show you the door. If you’re earning under $50,000 yearly it’s a major struggle with more low quality living in Silicon Valley
@@tracymarquez6875 I’m shocked you can afford anything there making 50k, taking home 50k sounds barely doable. You are a budgeting wizard and belong in finance.
@@davidgill3356 how people afford rent is to have all family members that are all working to pitch in. Grandma or grandpa stays home and takes care of the kids so child care is not an expense. This only works if you have an extended family you can live together with.
When I was a kid, the song, "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?", by Dionne Warwick was popular. The gist of the song was, if you couldn't "make it" in Hollywood, San Jose was a good alternative.
I lived in California in 1970 the one thing I think that has changed is the job market. When I was there migrant workers and that doesn't mean people from Mexico that means anybody who traveled up and down the coast and work the farms would move with the crops. The thing is they had jobs. Seasonal workers that you could trust would come back each season. Now California is very technologically advanced. Farmers are replacing human workers with machines conveyor belts. It looks to me like all of a sudden something stopped working which made it impossible for people to travel with jobs. What happens when you don't have a job to go to you have to stay where you are. Unless you've got money behind you. It looks to me like a lot of people don't qualify for the jobs that are in San Jose but they don't have the money to go any place else and there's no place else looking for a person with their work experience. They're redundant. No one needs them anymore so they're stuck. I was shocked to see the condition of Salinas.
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Born and raised here. I really miss the familiarity and my home town. I moved to TN and actually have a home here. It hurts me to see San Jose this way. Thank you for shedding light on San Jose. I hope one day it’ll become the small town I once knew and I could move back again. As of lately though. Everyone I know is saying that San Jose has changed a lot lately and it’s not what it used to be 😞 a lot of those I knew growing up (San Jose natives) are moving out.
There are still plenty of beautiful neighborhoods in San Jose if you can afford to buy a house in the nicer/safer areas, but downtown and much of East San Jose have the highest diverse population with lots of homeless roaming around or living near to/on the banks of Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe river. Downtown S.J. is expected to change for the better/becoming more vibrant once Google builds Google Village starting this year or next, with completion close to 8 years if they aren’t interrupted by a pandemic or natural disaster, as they were in 2020
I moved Away as well. It’s a dumpster fire there of wokies and lefty bullsh!t (I’m not on the right either). I hope to see it better one day too but the wokies have to bounce in order for that to happen. Too many sheep/ posers and not enough lions/ punks.
I’m in the same boat! We moved to Georgia in 2020 (born & raised in the bay.) it’s heartbreaking and we feel displaced, like we’re in a random place that’s not really home. But it’s infinitely better than being in what the Bay Area has become.
I moved outta California to mississippi Pinebelt. Me and new wife actually own a house with acre of land. Could never ever have that in California\ rich people and excessive greed destroyed the USA😢
I'm a life-long Santa Clara resident and I have seen San Jose and other cities in the Bay Area going through absolute appalling rate of decline (homelessness, crime, drugs, mental health, etc.). As you mentioned, Bay Area is one of the wealthiest cities in America and to see the demise of such cities is so heartbreaking and unconscionable! California (Newsome) and the local cities MUST act fast and get this situation under control before it's too late but I'm afraid the dam has already been broken and won't be able to hold back the water.
@@baovu714 I wouldn't want anything more than to have Newsome out of the office and all those alike! Clearly, he and his agenda isn't working for California and it has only gotten worse every year!
@@baovu714 how ? Have you seen the recall election ? Newscum got even more votes than he originally got when he was first “elected” If that is not cheating, how else do you explain that ? DemonRats have perfected the art of cheating to stay in power. Don’t waste your time !
God bless your videos for being truthful even when it hurts. I grew up in San Jose and when I go back to visit it really hurts to see how it's changed.
I was born and raised in Silicon Valley; Santa Clara & San Jose. I am older and as a kid growing up there it was wide open orchards, farms, and laid back living with beautiful weather to go along with wonderful life style. The schools were incredible. During the summers almost all the kids worked in the apricot, prune, pear orchards and vegetable farms. During the evenings we would play baseball and football under the lights. Crime was virtually non existent and we stayed in the parks playing late into the night. No one locked their doors. We children freely went from house to house entering as we pleased to visit our friends. It was a time and lifestyle that only those who knew it could appreciate those wonderful days in the 1950s. You can say what you want about how much wealth has come to Silicon Valley. And yes, there are incredibly overpriced homes and condos everywhere. After retiring we sold and got the hell out. San Jose California had the LARGEST homeless encampment in the Unites States. There were actually three generations of thousands of people living in pure squalor in the Coyote Creek! It was beyond ugly! Some of these people were actually gainfully employed but just couldn't afford the cost of living. One morning I was in commute traffic going to work which was about five mile drive. I was dead stopped and looked around and saw hundreds of cars as far as the eye can see. It was madness on a daily basis and we lived in an upscale area just a little outside of downtown. It was at that point (2013) that we decided to get the hell out. My wife was more than ready. We sold our overpriced home in a week for 100k more than we were asking. Indian immigrants on HB1 visas paid cash. We have friends still in the area. The politics are 100% leftist and can be ugly. They have been the victims of crime on two or three occasions. The quality of daily life has deteriorated greatly the last 25 years. It's been eight years and I can't overstate how happy we are to be out of that once beautiful place that has been turned into a high tech shit hole with millions of people swarming like flies.....
I came to the bay area in 2006. It was glamorous and beautiful... then got ugly (too many tech workers like myself, too much traffic, no diversity other than tech) in around 2009 and then I quit my tech job and left around 2010. I was just there visiting September 2022 and it was so hot and dead and ugly. I may have been part of the problem as a techie but once I realize that I left the tech field and california. I'm sorry for what people like myself created. Keep where you are a secret.
Moved out of San Jose, CA last year. Cost of living, high crime, San Jose and Santa Clara county governments are inept, area has gone downhill in the last 10 years.
The level of mismanagement is insane. This place is probably twice as rich per capita as the wealthiest areas here in Finland, yet our worst "ghettos" look nicer than half of San Jose. Remote working will turn half of California into an urban wasteland, unless they get their act together.
Has Finland had 50% population growth since the 1970s? US has. And the San Jose area has had more than that. Rising housing costs push people onto the streets. The most marginal first, then working class. The lucky ones live in camper vehicles. More people = lower standard of living across the board.
I was recently in Tokyo, I didn't see anything as much as a stray cat, let alone a homeless person. And their property is expensive and their stock market hasn't gone up for 30 years, but they have a deep sense of societal responsibility which is basically making sure you have a shelter to go to if you are too poor to have a place to stay
Nick, I grew up in Quito and Los Gatos, California in the 1950s, this is disgusting. I left California in September, 1996, because I had studied Demographics since 1987, and by 1992 it was obvious it was going to go straight into a raunchy gas station toilet. No one would listen, but Demographics allow you to see decades into the future.
Yeah it is sad I left a 95 I remember I used to drive through Los Gatos to go to up to Skyline Boulevard to Los Altos Rod and Gun Club I doubt that's even there anymore but that used to be one of my favorite and most secluded shooting ranges you can go to again glad I left the 95
"Botanero" is not botanist, it means "snack bar", in mexico, botaneros are bars where you can get some light food or snacks with your beers, like, peanuts, quesadillas, light stuff like that.
My brother moved to San Jose in the back around 1970 after college. He struggled with his first house. It cost him $55k back then. He sold it a few years ago after he had a custom house built in Milpitas. The house is literally down the street just over a mile from the new Apple campus. He was able to sell the house for about $1.5 million. One unfortunate consequence of the pandemic was the closing of Saddle Rack night club. That place could pack people in every night. It was actually a place for many musicians to stop by if they were in the Bay Area doing a show.
I figured I would check the city out on a business trip a few years ago. I sat down at a cafe downtown. Some dude walked right up, dropped his pants, took a dump on the sidewalk next to my table and continued on his merry way.
Only in California 😂😂😂Idaho I never see shit like that. Wonder why people keep moving up here. 😂😂honestly I don't blame ya. I'd rather stick to visiting California, living would be too much for me😂😂
Maybe it's too much to expect, but I think the people shown here who have made the kind of disastrous life choices that led them into this dismal state of affairs ought to do some "major soul searching" too. Of course, that is never required of them. NO, instead, it's the average citizen working their butt off, paying taxes, and staying sober who's supposed to search their soul over all this.
They made the life choice of not being in the top 5% upper middle class when housing costs went up by 5x. My condo costed 160 when I first moved to this area in 95. It got to 900 at peak. Rents are 3000+. When you do that, lower middle class people get pushed to the streets. Lots of working people living in vehicles. I see campers parked all around.
I know this video is about California but the fact that Illinois lost more people than California is actually insane! That puts into perspective how terrible it must be to live in Illinois! I think we need an Illinois Road Trip series to investigate this.
I'm from Milpitas, got priced out so I moved my family to San Diego in 2014. Best decision I ever made my kids are thriving here . More jobs than people to fill.
There are some companies that exist in both places like Abbott Labs, Genentech, ASML,Northrop Grumman. Biotech & pharmaceuticals is huge, also defense.
Hey are the apartments in San Diego cheaper than Milpitas ? I just moved to California Milpitas and I like it but want something less crowded and more jobs for me and my wife
@@ndg8240 The pay is less here in San Diego but the weekends are great I wouldn't trade a Saturday in SD for anywhere in the world. Where else can you be 10 miles from beach,border,downtown ,Indian casinos. You have time for all that on a Saturday.
I was born and raised here and still live here. When I was young we called the homeless, hobos and homeless, and they were usually harmless. Now they're what we see in this video! It's scary to walk near their "encampments" unlike it was back in the 80s and 90s
Exactly, because decades back the homeless were mostly alcoholics since drug possession was a felony including marijuana. Now many mix alcohol with marijuana since it’s been legalized or use heroin/meth which makes them more crazily addicted, filthy looking, and even out of control violent/criminal. The soft on crime policy keeps them on the streets instead of behind bars!
My dad worked there briefly in 1980 and 1981 when I was 12 or so. The highlight for me was going to Spartan Stadium during the summers to watch George Best do his thing. Even in the twilight of his career, it was fun to see him on the field. The goal against the Strikers was one of the best ever even if it was against an NASL level defense.
Love your work, Nick! We live in Sunnyvale and you painted a fair and accurate video! Thank you for showing people what I’m suffering in. Crime, intentional policies that have destroyed Santa Clara county (San Jose area), and that none of this by accident. None. But people don’t care enough to do anything.
I have been trying to figure that out. WHY? Someone must be getting rich off the homeless. If you really cared about people you wouldn't let them destroy themselves right.. Democrats all caring and stuff. I Never liked Republicans rich stuffshirts.
Born and raised in San Jose. I finally moved out (8 years ago) after living there for 37 years. Everything is ridiculously over priced. I can only imagine how much worse it is now. It was trippy seeing The Ritz and Caravan. I used to hang out at both of those places.
And the Democrats don’t care, they think they are being compassionate by enabling people to live on the streets and in parks, but really they’re not !!
I spent 40 years in the central valley. I lived in San Jose for a time in the early 90s. I can remember how high the prices were on housing compared to Sacramento. Could not believe how people could afford it. We had a company apt, so it was ok... But I loved the area. It was beautiful and we never felt in danger. Knowing what's happening all over, I made the right decision getting my kids out 13 years ago.
I can identify with your post as a former California resident in the year 1988, I was renting a room and a parking place at a boarding house in Daly City, because living in Monterey Bay are Palo Alto was completely impossible, , because working two full-time jobs I couldn't afford an apartment on my own, and then every time I got a paycheck from Hollywood, the state government goes right into my bank account and takes out my residence tax, and they take as much as they want as many times as they want, things were much better there when Ron Reagan was governor don't you agree, ❓ ❓❓
Oh Dear God! Now I know why one of my clients who has had a winter home there for 35 years wants to now sell it. I thought she was being dramatic. She said there is no happy medium there. It's either very high end or extremely shockingly impoverished. She has a gorgeous condo there and she told me it's down right dangerous for her to ride her bicycle now. She love riding her bicycle. So I understand now. I am mind blown Nick! What in the sam hell is going on in California!?
We stay for the Mediterranean climate weather. Never gets too cold (seen snow flurries twice in 40 years) or too hot. We have maybe 1-2 weeks a year where it would be nice to have AC. 300+ days of sunshine a year.
Exactly, sometimes San Jose goes through very rainy atmospheric river storms as this year which greatly impacts the homeless, but it’s mostly sunny most year with some cold winters or mild ones
I asked my dad what was Silicon Valley called before it was Silicon Valley and he responded: "Valley of Hearts Delight" Actually just an advertising slogan promoted back then by the local Chamber of Commerce, and associated with the fruit orchards and dozens of canneries in San Jose, Santa Clara city, etc. When I was growing up in the 30's and 40's people would typically refer to the individual cities & towns such as San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, etc. The valley overall was seldom referred to, similar today to the Sacramento Valley. These towns were separated by farms and orchards not unlike Tracey, Stockton, Modesto, etc. are today. If you wanted to refer to the larger area you said "Santa Clara Valley" As the farms & orchards disappeared they were replaced by residential/commercial buildings. Today as in Los Angeles the individual municipalities are hard to discern. The term "Silicon Valley" is a catch phrase first appearing fifty or so years ago in trade newspapers but is now known worldwide. Silicon is the stuff upon which the first transistor chips were made. The term 'South Bay" is now coming into use. Surprisingly the simple term "bay area" identifies us even on the east coast as I discovered when living back there. When I was born in 1932 San Jose's population was 60,000. Now it is 2,000,000, the tenth largest city in the U.S.
Exactly, and San Jose truly was the Valley of Heart’s Delight with clean air/sunshine/beautiful fruit trees and flowers everywhere/low cost of living/moderate population/friendly down to earth people. It was the safest city in the U.S. Then high tech took over in the early 90s and wiped out the orchards/raised the cost of living to excessively high, attracted criminals, and created thousands of homeless while 1000s fled to safer/cheaper cities
@@tracymarquez6875 So true..my dad often talks about how things used to be. I now talk that way too as I am nearing 50 and remember some of those good days. Orchards as far as the eye can see. Sounds pretty wonderful.
I must say that San Jose has drastically changed and has morphed into a Corporate High Tech paradise that certainly isn't the same city that I grew up in.The politics haven't changed much but San Jose has always been a progressive entity.When I was a student at SJSU back in the late 60's and early 70's the downtown was a total vast wasteland.Nothing like it appears today.I am happy to see that downtown San Jose finally became a lively,entertaining venue that I surely could have enjoyed back during my college days.Yes,San Jose had gone through a major metamorphosis from when I lived there.I hope that Original Joe's still there---that Italian oasis of some of the most scrumptious pasta and Mediterranean delicacies anywhere in California!If I could afford it,I would move back there in a flash. Yes,San Jose has really metamorphosed into world class center of high tech industry and great restaurants.Wish I could move back there!
I am so glad that I got out of the Bay Area more than 20 years ago, when I recognized that the quality of life was going to go downhill. Moved up to Sacramento, which has turned into a mini version of the Bay Area. Now , I have left the state completely. I love my new Home State. No traffic, low crime, low property taxes. We have maybe 2-3 homeless people, who live in town.
I left Florida for the same reasons. Hope that’s not the state you moved to, because it’s next up on the list for human beings to trash. It’s already underway.
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I remember as a kid when we visited California, when I saw the signs for San Jose all I could think of was the song by Dionne Warwick, and how so many people had moved there because of that song! What a sad state of affairs we see now!
Legendary California columnist Dan Walters has opined this is one of the by-products of California's obsession with environmental controls making it near impossible to build new housing.
Bullshit. It's the product of republican states not providing liveable wages for people and not taking care of drug addicted homeless people. With nothing in those states, the homeless drug addicted people travel to California where it's warm and they can get government assistance even if they're homeless.
That is somewhat correct! The conflict is the hippocrassy of tree hugging along with allowing , for example, she'll oil dumping 51 MILLION gallons of mercury into the carquinez straight, and the rhodia co pushing hours and hours of phosphoric acid ( battery acid) into the air . CA environmental loving is popular talk for politics in CA. "Conservation to save mtn lions" accelerated extinction from over populations that caused inbreeding, which lowered genetic diversity . CA talks a good game, and it's an act noone looks into .
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 "eco-friendly" is code for "working class subjugation" "affordable housing" is code for "money laundering scheme for parasitic bureaucrats"
The main issue is zoning severely limits what developers can build. Only a few areas in the city are zoned for medium and high density, and even developments here face NIMBY backlash.
yes, I'm sure the homeless were sitting in their homes in Topeka, KS and then decided to move to San Jose to be part of the tech scene, but found that they couldn't afford a home. that's probably it.
Many people moved to San Jose because of the great job offers and high pay,! Only to find that they become poor and even more broke because of the high prices!
Nick, This was a good video. In your videos you touch on the topic of homelessness a lot, which is good. Today, I saw a video about how Finland has solved its homelessness issues, I believe it was from the"Invisible People" YT Channel. The Finns were saying they took they ideas that they learned from America and then applied it and localized the solutions. They were saying, just providing low income housing is not enough, a whole eco system needs to be created around the root causes of homelessness in the industrialized world... I wish you would do a video about San Francisco; I just saw a video about all the businesses closing and leaving SF , block after block... very sad.😮
My parents bought a brand new house in San Jose in the Blossom Hill Santa Teresa area and the early seventies for 25k today it's worth over a million dollars and it's just basic house and yes the east side of San Jose has always been the worst in the seventies on 80s it was predominantly Mexican I assume it still is I'm sure glad I left there 30 years ago moved to Florida
East side San Jose is still predominantly Mexican with lots of Asians: Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino and a Portuguese community, all living side by side or intermingled. Downtown S.J. has more people of the white race/Asians/blacks but also more Hispanics living farther away from San Jose State University. Most other nicer S.J. neighborhoods are mostly white sometimes mixed with Asian race, and can be diverse too white with some Hispanics, Russians, etcetera
I lived 10min from Apple HQ, got chased and yelled at by homeless multiple times, had car windows smashed and garage broken into and my bike stolen. Police were too busy enforcing commuter lanes used by rich E-car owners I guess...
Born, raised and STILL living in SJ/Bay Area. This place is a dumpster fire. Literally. Expensive as hell. LA style traffic conditions. Bums everywhere. Neighbors hate each other because of gross inequity of property taxes (thank you Prop 13). Only tech wealthy people can afford to live here, and they’re barely making it. Public schools suck. Crime rates soaring. DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!
I was MIA for about 6 months or so from a lot of Social media I usually use/watch. I come back to your channel and your subscribers have increased by like 250k. Kudos to you. Keep doing your thing Nick Johnson.
It won't get any better unless the cost of housing in California goes down! The cost of housing has more than tripled in the last 6 years! I am an educated single parent with a full time job and I have lived in northern California my entire life and as a single parent I have never worried about being able to keep a roof over my family's head, until the past 6 years. California is definitely not the state it used to be.
It really brings down the mood of the place. Can't a way be found to keep them out of parks, at least? How are decent people supposed to sit and enjoy the park, see the monuments, etc. when there's excretia, trolleys full of crap, and addicts sleeping all over it, in daytime? It's really unfair and demoralising for the ordinary population.
It's soo crazy to think how San Jose looks now. I'm from Silicon Valley and I remember when it was the cheapest place in the Santa Clara County to live.
California needs to find its soul, there is no spiritual energy in that place. It’s the first thing I noticed in a visit in 2003…can’t imagine it’s improved
I grew up in West SJ, one of the distinctly different SJ neighborhoods. Big changes, but still nice. Although, some of the community feeling is reduced for me. Biggest visible changes are the condo jungles sprouting up, mostly in the Almaden area along highway 85. The increased population density is concerning. I miss the beautiful orhards and open spaces.
I was born and raised in San Jose, and I moved out for greener pastures five years ago. San Jose was a great place to live forty years ago. Once the corporate businesses moved in and the mom-and-pop shops were removed everything turned to crap. Best restaurants a long time ago, now corporate restaurants rule the roost. Liberal politics has ruined a once great place.
My family moved to Cupertino in 1968, from Santa Rosa.I was in Middle School at the time. It was nice back then. Nothing like what your video shows today. I'm sad to see what the area has turned into.
Hey Nick, appreciate the overview and actual honesty when approaching this situation. California certainly has it's problems with how we handle prosecution, homeless, etc. But a huge aspect to the homeless epedemic is that only a fraction of these folks actually came from California. As someone who lives here and talks with them frequently, California is seen as a safe haven to live in (weather, servies, etc) and we take on the burden from other states that don't want to deal with this issue. States literally have programs to bus in homeless. I'd encourage you to talk about solving this as if we're all on same team as we desperately need your help. This is a national issue, not just a California issue :)
The homeless go where they can find resources. They need drugs and handouts, and the west coast provides both in spades. Fix the drug problem and you will fix the homeless problem.
@@benjamindover7399 Do lenient laws, free resources, no policing exacerbate the issue? 100% Is removing those programs or laws going to solve the issue? Pretty naive to say it would. Fixing the drug problem means billions of dollars need to be allocated NATIONWIDE to policing, addiction programs, mental health facilities, etc. I'll work on voting out our state officials in California to do my part 😆
I lived in San Jose almost my entire life. My wife and I made low 6 figures and we struggled. San Jose is beautiful. For me, the GRIND of trying to make it there proved to be too much. @50 my wife our two small children and I moved to Texas. My income is 1/3 of my salary in San Jose. My quality of life has increased by 90%. I wish I moved 30 years ago. I was brainwashed by the greatness of California. I was brainwashed that the rest of the country is substandard. One of my greatest surprises about living in Texas is the outstanding school system. Excellent well-funded sports programs. Both of my children are honor roll students and are challenged by the curriculum. San Jose is not worth it.
The disparity is crazy how close different groups are next to each other. For new years we visited my family. One brother lives in a run down ghetto scary apartment complex. My cousin literally across the street a upper middle class house.
Wow Nick, Your video this morning hit home. Your first scene was less than a mile from my home here. I only been here since 2014 and I have seen a steady decline in this city. A few years ago they closed down the "Jungle". The city promised those living there housing vouchers. To my knowledge, very few people have gotten permanent housing. In fact, the "Jungle" is starting to get repopulated again with the city doing nothing to resolve the problem. The main problem here is housing. I consider myself lucky that I'm a veteran who unfortunately is on disability. Without a housing voucher, from a program run by HUD/Veterans affairs. I wouldn't be able to rent a modest one-bedroom apartment here. Even though San Jose is building low-cost housing. There is a waiting list even before a new apartment building is completed.
@@NickJohnson I'm hanging on quite fine. I know I'm doing better than others and know that I'm very lucky to have the V.A behind me. San Jose and other cities need to do something. Unfortunatly solving the homeless problem is not a one solution fits all type of approach.
San Jose underfunds/understaffs their police force. It operates like a small town with big city needs/problems. Still no investigation response for why the stripper got a 'free ride' from the San Jose fire department to her place at work at the Pink Poodle strip club in October. No matter how angry the mayor was at the bad press the story appears to have been suppressed. The lady got her ride, the hoses still operate (no damage), any fires that night were hosed down and extinguished, and everyone appears to have had a happy ending.
I'm from near San Jose, and I make vlogs about San Jose on my channel. San Jose lost its luster long ago. Homelessness, crime, prostitution, homicides, and expensive housing costs are issues that plague this city. I don't recommend tourists spend time here... Here are parts of San Jose I do recommend: 🌟 Downtown San Jose (which is NOT always safe, but there are a few bars and lounges. Are they spectacular? No. Best bar is Haberdasher). 🌟 Communication Hill (a neighborhood located atop a mountain. Very popular spot to exercise, drive around, and get a view of San Jose on a clear day). 🌟 Willow Glen (boring residential area, but the homes are nice and it's a safe part of SJ. They have a small downtown strip) 🌟 West San Jose (another safe part of San Jose, bordering Cupertino. Santana Row is a great outdoor mall to walk around). 🌟 South San Jose (quiet, safe, and next to wineries that tourists don't know about🍷).
I grew up on the east side. Early 60's till 1972 . It was a great time . Lived on a old family orchard. Apricots , cherries and walnuts . Acres and acres. 680 runs through the property now. I think it's part of zoria circle now or court. Last time I went down there was 2009 , I guess to reminisce. Berryessa School and Pala Middle School are no more. They closed down old San Jose speedway . I hope Alum Rock Park is still there. 🧐
Oooh yes~> Berryessa School I remember it from the early 70's it was such a BEAUTIFUL School, only the front part of the school remains the rest was knocked down just so they could build a movie theater that went out of business not long after it opened they knocked that down to build a gym and the front part of the school remains because it's considered a historical site that are being used as dental offices..... I remember all the apricot and Cherry farms in that area... Sad to see it gone.
Ha! Loved this video. I left San Jose in 2013. Loved it there, but homeless is definitely a lot worse now and I wouldn’t be able to afford it anymore. Kind of a bummer.
Nice reporting and sociology study, Nick! Good review of San Jose, CA, and nice interview of local resident. This type of video helps get some key topics out there for a wider discussion and to help inspire new ideas. From my perspective, it seems there are now at least four main issues that are sort of combined within many communities of the USA, which include the local environment, available quality housing, care for the homeless, and a new concept called "combined accountability and opportunity factors". The details to explain all of these and how they go together can take a while, but indirectly your videos and comments in your videos help give examples of what those main issues are about, but require reading between the lines. Also, the four main issues usually will likely need to be considered together for long lasting solutions within many communities, but there may be a need to break large problems into smaller subsets for urgent single issues. For the details of these ideas, there were comments in other videos made on an idea of something tentatively called "Team Shelter" that is conceptually similar to TeamSeas. Tall goals for sure. Alas, continuing to think of ways to make a proactive, incentivized, vision proposal(s), and "working" plan(s) for making practical solutions to at least the Four Big Issues / Challenges / Opportunities, (i.e. local environment, quality housing, homeless, combo accountability and opportunity factors) to which each main issue can have some sub-issues. Anyway, just an idea. Thanks again for great videos.
Thank you for uploading this video. It captures so much of what San Jose is. I lived in down town. The only thing I'd like to add is my thoughts on downtown. Yes, downtown is clean which is surprising. Still a bunch of homeless people. And it's decent for night life activities. But that is it. What a lot of people don't realize is how dead downtown is during the day. You can be in the heart of the city at 9:00AM and there is hardly anyone outside walking. And most buildings vacant. Even two skyscrapers there are entirely empty! It's hollowing out. I am happy to have left.
Not sure if this is true or not but I heard a lot of the homeless aren't from California. The other states give them a one way ticket to California cities for the benefits. Has anyone else heard of that?
What benefits? A lot of people due come to California and leave if they can afford it! Illegal aliens however seem to get most of benefits leaving nothing for those who deserve It t most!
@@robertchilders8698 I'm talking about homeless from with in the states. Not from out of the country. Poor states send their homeless to California. Or people from poor states come to CA, to reap the benefits.
Made it out of there after a few years. Don’t care to ever go back. I moved there thinking I was going to make the next step in my career and that I was “making it”. What a dumbass I was. Over those years the problems exponentially got worse, to where it was hard to recognize after only a few years. When I see other liberal cities looking the way San Jose did when I moved there in 2016 and see them going in the same direction politically, I foresee those cities looking the same way in a very short time. I moved to a more secluded area a half hour from Uptown Charlotte, and I see some of the same symptoms showing up there. The residents in those nice houses downtown are constantly subject to assault, burglary, and random backyard visitors. My old neighbors had a homeless guy holding a straight razor pounding on their door. My wife twice saw turds in transit falling from a dude’s butt right outside of the park. The Ryland neighborhood and the Coleman shopping center are open season for crime victims. Police helicopters with bright spotlights and loud bullhorns overheard regularly. Lots of homeless people randomly yelling at people who walk by, and that’s if they decide not to assault them. The improv is great and hockey games are always fun, especially when the Kings reverse swept the Sharks in 2014. I’ll never tell anyone they should vote for a republican cause that party has their own problems, but I don’t see why the hell anyone who has been through what the residents of downtown San Jose have gone through would continue to vote democrat. If they look seeing people poop in the street, then they are getting what they are paying for.
Nice to see the positive review of my hometown of San Jose.. Jason’s comments really nailed it…. If you apply yourself and put in the work San Jose is a great place and success can be within reach…
San Jose has always had so many good paying jobs. I used to really hustle working my butt off. I loved working there. Now I've learned to work no matter where I live.
Gavin is doing a bang up job. Californian's must be so proud. After all, they didn't recall him. Nick, you know pot is legal in California right? That's why everyone is so happy.
@@manxue3205 it's hard to help people who think they're being revolutionary and changing things for the good of their state. There's a channel on YT, the guy has remastered old home films. He goes pretty far back and it's interesting to see how different states were even back in the late 50s, early 60s. In one he shows films of 1960 streets in New Mexico and California. If I recall correctly, it's LA. In NM, they ride down the streets and you see adobe homes, stores, just a regular neighborhood. In California, they ride down the street and it's 90% strip joints, dirty movies and all the trimmings. But the streets were clean and there wasn't any homeless.
@@Hashdollars I'll tell you this, I moved from Denver, Colorado 7 years ago, because it was turning into California. I now live in a wonderful little town of 7100, not in Colorado. Honestly, I don't want people moving here. The big crime in the news here, a bike was stolen. It was recovered less than an hour later. It's quiet and people don't think their opinions are so important that they riot or protest. They tell city council and it's brought up in a meeting. I've never seen a city so clean, it amazes me. Love it here, don't come, don't come.
@@Hashdollars no I don't think that and I never said that. I said I love it here. Having a bad day or are you always so congenial? Must be that big city Iiving. Stay well and Happy New Year.
Nick you should make a top 10 of the most beautiful cities you have visited traveling all over the country, even if some of them have problems, focusing only on their beauty.
Right?? I grew up and lived there (early 60s to 70s). Not sure if there are still any orchards up in the foothills, and as far as I know, the only orchard left in Silicon Valley is in Sunnyvale.
I grew up in San Jose and went to college there. I make a respectable living. But as a single earner, I have no chance of buying a home there. I have been priced out of California. last year, i left.
How many if these people are illegals who your governor has welcomed them to your state. Most of these illegals are poor uneducated people who need taxpayers to support them. These are not the immigrants we need in America. These people have no rights coming across our border and yet most of them believe they have the right to be here.
@@R-BURQUENO True would be great to be a red state again but unfortunately our news and media is too democratic for that to happen again. Yeah South Park did an episode on it where they mentioned how states and cities move their homeless problems around. Plus I seen those religious buses pull up to drop them off in L.A.
Great job Nick! By the dialogue, It looks like Jason Wayne's been watching a lot of your videos..... LoL San Jose, has a great sanitation program to help the homeless throw away a bunch of their garbage, also the inner city homeless are in bed and wrapped up before dark, That's why you don't see them. Thanks so much for going to the trouble to make this series it's been great!
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In a few weeks I’m gonna be riding my horse at Joseph D. Grant County Park But you wouldn’t know where that is Because you’ve never been to San Jose or near California you’re a fake and Some day I’ll come to your neighborhood and we’ll talk
@@healthy-drinks I live here this place a neo confederate rigged system of enslavement and disposal at a systematic level
Hello 👋👋 Nick , don't you just absolutely love the third world banana Republic 🌴 at the United States has become by saturating it with socialist third world poverty stricken people, only 5 million homeless Americans in the United States of America 😰😰😰‼️
Have you Been to Kensington Ave. in Philadelphia?
I live in San Jose. Yeah, the homeless problem is ridiculously huge but the CRIME is out of control. Not enough cops and the ones we have are looking to get out. Our former mayors (Sam Liccardo and Chuck Reed) ran them all off and cut funding to the department. My neighbor across the street had his front door kicked in during the middle of the day by burglars that ransacked his house and stole stuff. He came home to that, called the cops and told them that he had crystal clear surveillance video of the robbers. The SJPD dispatcher interrupted him mid-sentence told him, "We don't have the resources to investigate any of that. Here's a case number...call your insurance company." He too, had enough of the bullshit and promptly moved out.
Wow...that's really f...d up shit.
I was
born and have lived in New Zealand all my life.
During the past decade, l've noticed a rise in the number of Americans that are residing in the the city where l live.
Google search stats of Americans wanting to immigrate show a lot of those searches focused here or Australia.
Possibly because our government policy leans toward progressive liberalism.
I am a street photographer, and as a hobby, that's what l've done for the past decade and a half. I have met and photographed some pretty cool people from many parts of the world.
There's this thing about
the Americas l meet When l jokingly tell them l probably would have voted Republican if l was an American. When l tell them that it's becausel liked DJT's policies... l literally see the majority of them start to inwardly shrink while trying to maintain control while quickly throwing up their firewalls. That is humorous and sad because for starters, my skin color is brown.
Our country has a lot of those same issues that the US has... just on a smaller scale.
And we are experiencing inflation across the board and that includes housing and to some degree homelessness and crime.
I know the feeling. LAGUNA BEACH 69 thousand..now 2.5 mill.‼️🥴
This is the decline of civilization, and if our leaders don't act. We ,as a country, are done.
@@eileenmikulecky8007 You are so right, sad that to many people want to stay in the matrix and think we are living in the greatest place on earth, what a joke.
Wow
Hey Nick, I’m from San Jose and living in Morgan Hill 10 miles south of SJ, we have a family owned restaurant and it’s so unaffordable that finding hospitality staff is super difficult since they can’t afford to live in the area it’s truly saddening.
I used to live inside a directly across from where they relocated the House of Pizza then moved to Morgan Hill 65 West 1st Street but I foresaw what was going to happen I do miss my favorite restaurant Original Joe's but good thing I left the 95 move to Arizona for 20 years and it became California moved from Arizona to Colorado been a one horse Town very nice now now imagine San Martine must be built up like mad Gilroy was another nice place my uncle had some property not far from that Gilroy Garlic Factory across that would be 152 across from Sandra sigil Elementary School but those days are over nice to hear somebody that remembers things
If I were you, I would tell the whole family to get out of shithole california and go to Florida or Texas.
Can you reduce your hours to just peak? I don't live there anymore but I see on Reddit people complaining about tipping and all the extra fees charged at restaurants. The reality is.. you will have to pay your staff more and pass the costs onto the consumer. If the consumer doesn't want to pay, then time to shut down. Really sad to hear this is happening.
@@katierose1893 Out here in North Dakota many eateries have shut down because they could not afford the help. Others have stayed open but could not get help at any price. At the Donut Hole starting wage is over $23/hr. For a while Walmart was starting people at $25/hr. They are back down to $17/hr now but more for the night shift. My brother used to run food services at a college in Colorado, and he had trouble getting help, fortunastely there was a pool of students willing to work, but only at their own chosen hours.
Ironic, they come into these cities for the culture and then drive the culture away through gentrification
Born and raised in San Jose since the early 90's, it's more or less always been like this but has definitely gotten worse in recent years. It's easier for the homeless since the weather stays temperate compared to other cities. When I was a child there was a homeless man named Norman that went door to door each week looking for work. My mother would pay him to mow the lawns and sweep the sidewalk. I sometimes wonder what happened to him, he was a good man.
God Bless Norman!
It was San Jose where I first came as an immigrant from India (now in East Coast). Loved it from day one. Like to mention that rich cities in India like Mumbai, Bangalore has slums in some areas which in a way are 'camp' for the homeless but that is poverty and no drugs.
What is the color of Norman? White or black? Norman is still alive?
Every big city, has a homeless problem. But in California, there's much more opportunities than there are many other places in the United States.
There was almost no crime in San Jose or in the Bay Area in the 1990’s. It was a boom time. It really didn’t go downhill until after 2003 or so.
I was born in raised in Los Gatos, which is about 20 minutes from San Jose. My whole family left and moved to Georgia during the pandemic. We just couldn’t do it anymore. Between the housing market, high taxes, homelessness, rising crime, lack of culture/fun things to do for young people, and evil politics that run the state, it was time to go. The draconian lockdowns were what really pushed us over the edge. It’s heartbreaking what’s happened to our home and we definitely all feel a sense of displacement, but it was the right thing to do. We are thriving in Georgia and I encourage everyone who can leave California to do so. It’s not going to change, so in my opinion it’s better to leave and go somewhere that more closely aligned with your values.
You made the right choice, and I can't wait to leave myself, at least Los Gatos got the nature going for it :).
I'm in silicon valley your right about leaving
Blame the ghetto people!
Moved out right before the pandemic out of Santa Clara to Tennessee. Much better now and retired, living on passive income.
Well, you guys were just raised under the “American way” where all you want is these utopian suburbs where the kids all jump around the block. Y’all want life to be a perfect little movie. But I commend you for leaving since it’s actually doing something.
Born and raised in sj. The only thing I’m scared of is getting hit by a Tesla.
San Jose is not boring...you just have to look for the things you want to do. The big value of San Jose is that it is centrally located in between San Francisco and Santa Cruz/Monterey. You have lots of options to visit places around and outside the city plus the proximity to both SF and SC. The only negative about SJ is that it is too busy, people are always on a rush, not very many eateries compared to SF, and a clear division between the "haves and have nots"...the middle class is slowly disappearing.
Very true!
SJ is boring AF. It's much worse now. You want to make money in tech 👍 you want to pay top dollar for housing 💯 but it's BORING AF. I'd check the testosterone levels of the citizen males in the area for a demographic study.
This guy is a Republican. He just posts videos to bash California and fulfill the needs of his subscribers to point their fingers at a Democraticly run state. He isn't interested in showing anything positive about California.
Exactly! I worked downtown for several years. It was an easy drive from my house in Almaden Valley. I moved to Elk Grove 6 years ago and I’m so sorry I did. I bought a brand new house for $336,000 after selling the Almaden house for a million plus. It’s not worth it because the homesickness is the worst! I want to go to the beach, Shoreline, Sharks games, and the Mountain Winery.
I believe that's all entirely true for all of California. The middle class is slowly disappearing by the year
I was raised in SJ in the early 80's and 90's. I remember the city began hanging up signs that said, "San Jose is growing up." That was the message. No other info was offered. These signs were all over the city. Back then the homeless were situated in the downtown area and there were no camps. I grew up in the Rose garden area across the street from Mayor Hammer. That area is still gorgeous and you can actually take a tour of my childhood home as it is listed on the Rose garden website as a historical home. That shit is really weird! My parents bought the home for less than 100,000 and now it is worth 3 million.
Homeless camp is a new thing. Back in the 80’s 90’s wasn’t any camp. And the homeless didn’t get bad till Obama.
@@provident8732 Very familiar with the Rose Garden area. Home may cost 3 mil, but is not worth it. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum was always one of my favorite things to do and see there.
Homeless, including veterans used to be on Santa Clara Street.
@@veronicafigueroa2384 Believe me, after dark the homeless come out and populate Santa Clara St & First St. They are everywhere and, a few years back, there was plenty of violence. downtown SJ at night is not a place to be.....
I remember SJ back in the 80s, and it was never like this. I have several friends who live there, and of course, they are all liberals who keep on voting for this and other nonsense. My older original tech friends were different and worked in old tech (HP, IBM etc) and were much more libertarian, but they've been replaced by the FB, Apl, Google "progressives".
Still have a lot of high paying jobs in the area and a lot of people got wealthy at the cost of others who didn't make the same investments in life. Before the tech companies were there, it was pretty much an agricultural city with some military bases near by. Once there was also a great middle class that worked the hands on tech jobs(assembly and manufacturing) that were plentyful for most and affordable housing. After a while, those jobs went away(due to the corporate globalization of products) and the higher paying jobs (more skilled labor) became more available. The amount of people moving to silicon valley with high wages and no new housing being built led for real estate to skyrocket. Lower earners were getting pushed out and bad political leadership led to the slow degradation of the 10th largest city in the US.
Exactly, most landlords want individuals/families to earn six figure incomes to rent or they show you the door. If you’re earning under $50,000 yearly it’s a major struggle with more low quality living in Silicon Valley
@@tracymarquez6875 I’m shocked you can afford anything there making 50k, taking home 50k sounds barely doable. You are a budgeting wizard and belong in finance.
@@davidgill3356 how people afford rent is to have all family members that are all working to pitch in. Grandma or grandpa stays home and takes care of the kids so child care is not an expense. This only works if you have an extended family you can live together with.
I have lived in San Jose since 1970. A lot has changed. Some better. Some worse. Still, I plan to stay here until I die.
When I was a kid, the song, "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?", by Dionne Warwick was popular. The gist of the song was, if you couldn't "make it" in Hollywood, San Jose was a good alternative.
That was in the "good old days"!!
I lived in California in 1970 the one thing I think that has changed is the job market. When I was there migrant workers and that doesn't mean people from Mexico that means anybody who traveled up and down the coast and work the farms would move with the crops. The thing is they had jobs. Seasonal workers that you could trust would come back each season. Now California is very technologically advanced. Farmers are replacing human workers with machines conveyor belts. It looks to me like all of a sudden something stopped working which made it impossible for people to travel with jobs. What happens when you don't have a job to go to you have to stay where you are. Unless you've got money behind you. It looks to me like a lot of people don't qualify for the jobs that are in San Jose but they don't have the money to go any place else and there's no place else looking for a person with their work experience. They're redundant. No one needs them anymore so they're stuck. I was shocked to see the condition of Salinas.
Will they go home?
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Born and raised here. I really miss the familiarity and my home town. I moved to TN and actually have a home here. It hurts me to see San Jose this way. Thank you for shedding light on San Jose. I hope one day it’ll become the small town I once knew and I could move back again. As of lately though. Everyone I know is saying that San Jose has changed a lot lately and it’s not what it used to be 😞 a lot of those I knew growing up (San Jose natives) are moving out.
There are still plenty of beautiful neighborhoods in San Jose if you can afford to buy a house in the nicer/safer areas, but downtown and much of East San Jose have the highest diverse population with lots of homeless roaming around or living near to/on the banks of Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe river. Downtown S.J. is expected to change for the better/becoming more vibrant once Google builds Google Village starting this year or next, with completion close to 8 years if they aren’t interrupted by a pandemic or natural disaster, as they were in 2020
I moved Away as well. It’s a dumpster fire there of wokies and lefty bullsh!t (I’m not on the right either). I hope to see it better one day too but the wokies have to bounce in order for that to happen. Too many sheep/ posers and not enough lions/ punks.
I’m in the same boat! We moved to Georgia in 2020 (born & raised in the bay.) it’s heartbreaking and we feel displaced, like we’re in a random place that’s not really home. But it’s infinitely better than being in what the Bay Area has become.
@@jensenskinner5371 I get that 100% from the wife and I leaving the bay for tejas. But better here!!
I moved outta California to mississippi Pinebelt. Me and new wife actually own a house with acre of land. Could never ever have that in California\ rich people and excessive greed destroyed the USA😢
I'm a life-long Santa Clara resident and I have seen San Jose and other cities in the Bay Area going through absolute appalling rate of decline (homelessness, crime, drugs, mental health, etc.). As you mentioned, Bay Area is one of the wealthiest cities in America and to see the demise of such cities is so heartbreaking and unconscionable! California (Newsome) and the local cities MUST act fast and get this situation under control before it's too late but I'm afraid the dam has already been broken and won't be able to hold back the water.
I think so too
Or, or maybe a thought. Get rid of the politicians (Newsome) who created this.
@@baovu714 I wouldn't want anything more than to have Newsome out of the office and all those alike! Clearly, he and his agenda isn't working for California and it has only gotten worse every year!
@@baovu714 how ? Have you seen the recall election ? Newscum got even more votes than he originally got when he was first “elected”
If that is not cheating, how else do you explain that ?
DemonRats have perfected the art of cheating to stay in power. Don’t waste your time !
The drugs and mental illness
God bless your videos for being truthful even when it hurts. I grew up in San Jose and when I go back to visit it really hurts to see how it's changed.
I was born and raised in Silicon Valley; Santa Clara & San Jose. I am older and as a kid growing up there it was wide open orchards, farms, and laid back living with beautiful weather to go along with wonderful life style. The schools were incredible. During the summers almost all the kids worked in the apricot, prune, pear orchards and vegetable farms. During the evenings we would play baseball and football under the lights. Crime was virtually non existent and we stayed in the parks playing late into the night. No one locked their doors. We children freely went from house to house entering as we pleased to visit our friends.
It was a time and lifestyle that only those who knew it could appreciate those wonderful days in the 1950s.
You can say what you want about how much wealth has come to Silicon Valley. And yes, there are incredibly overpriced homes and condos everywhere. After retiring we sold and got the hell out. San Jose California had the LARGEST homeless encampment in the Unites States. There were actually three generations of thousands of people living in pure squalor in the Coyote Creek! It was beyond ugly! Some of these people were actually gainfully employed but just couldn't afford the cost of living. One morning I was in commute traffic going to work which was about five mile drive. I was dead stopped and looked around and saw hundreds of cars as far as the eye can see. It was madness on a daily basis and we lived in an upscale area just
a little outside of downtown. It was at that point (2013) that we decided to get the hell out. My wife was more than ready. We sold our overpriced home in a week for 100k more than we were asking. Indian immigrants on HB1 visas paid cash.
We have friends still in the area. The politics are 100% leftist and can be ugly. They have been the victims of crime on two or three occasions. The quality of daily life has deteriorated greatly the last 25 years. It's been eight years and I can't overstate how happy we are to be out of that once beautiful place that has been turned into a high tech shit hole with millions of people swarming like flies.....
I came to the bay area in 2006. It was glamorous and beautiful... then got ugly (too many tech workers like myself, too much traffic, no diversity other than tech) in around 2009 and then I quit my tech job and left around 2010. I was just there visiting September 2022 and it was so hot and dead and ugly. I may have been part of the problem as a techie but once I realize that I left the tech field and california. I'm sorry for what people like myself created. Keep where you are a secret.
If you don’t mind me asking where did you guys go? Currently in sacramento looking to evacuate but I am having trouble finding a good place to go.
@@ToxicWhiteoutGaming Anywhere Right, Texas and Florida is a good place to start.
@@ToxicWhiteoutGaming probably abroad. It’s a mess, even in cities like Tampa and Orlando . It’s a different governor but the same financial policies.
@@ToxicWhiteoutGaming Easy, just go to Gomes’s country: Messyko!
Moved out of San Jose, CA last year. Cost of living, high crime, San Jose and Santa Clara county governments are inept, area has gone downhill in the last 10 years.
Ghetto people ruin everything!
AMEN!!
The level of mismanagement is insane. This place is probably twice as rich per capita as the wealthiest areas here in Finland, yet our worst "ghettos" look nicer than half of San Jose. Remote working will turn half of California into an urban wasteland, unless they get their act together.
Has Finland had 50% population growth since the 1970s? US has. And the San Jose area has had more than that. Rising housing costs push people onto the streets. The most marginal first, then working class. The lucky ones live in camper vehicles. More people = lower standard of living across the board.
I’ve watched UA-cam for many years and I think this maybe the best content I’ve come across.
Me too
I was recently in Tokyo, I didn't see anything as much as a stray cat, let alone a homeless person. And their property is expensive and their stock market hasn't gone up for 30 years, but they have a deep sense of societal responsibility which is basically making sure you have a shelter to go to if you are too poor to have a place to stay
Nick, I grew up in Quito and Los Gatos, California in the 1950s, this is disgusting. I left California in September, 1996, because I had studied Demographics since 1987, and by 1992 it was obvious it was going to go straight into a raunchy gas station toilet. No one would listen, but Demographics allow you to see decades into the future.
You sure aren’t that smart that was the best time to buy their you’d be a multimillionaire but then again you weren’t that smart
And indeed, it has. R.I.P. California. And America. And the WORLD.
Yeah it is sad I left a 95 I remember I used to drive through Los Gatos to go to up to Skyline Boulevard to Los Altos Rod and Gun Club I doubt that's even there anymore but that used to be one of my favorite and most secluded shooting ranges you can go to again glad I left the 95
@@gohome678 Nope it's still there. And very active.
YOU SAID THAT RIGHT AMEN 🙏🙌
i lived there in San Jose for 50years, it deserves the reputation
lol u are correct
"Botanero" is not botanist, it means "snack bar", in mexico, botaneros are bars where you can get some light food or snacks with your beers, like, peanuts, quesadillas, light stuff like that.
Not to me it's not
My brother moved to San Jose in the back around 1970 after college. He struggled with his first house. It cost him $55k back then. He sold it a few years ago after he had a custom house built in Milpitas. The house is literally down the street just over a mile from the new Apple campus. He was able to sell the house for about $1.5 million. One unfortunate consequence of the pandemic was the closing of Saddle Rack night club. That place could pack people in every night. It was actually a place for many musicians to stop by if they were in the Bay Area doing a show.
The Apple campus is not in Milpitas, it’s in Cupertino.
I thought that the Saddle Rack closed down years before the pandemic??
@@robertchilders8698 - The original Saddle Rack in San Jose closed down a couple weeks before 911.
As a San Jose resident living in Homeless central (East San Jose) I endorse this video!
This is Outrageous, I used to live in San Jose in the early 90's and so many things have changed since then
I figured I would check the city out on a business trip a few years ago. I sat down at a cafe downtown. Some dude walked right up, dropped his pants, took a dump on the sidewalk next to my table and continued on his merry way.
I used to live in San Francisco and I've made at least 50 trips to the bay area. I saw some crazy stuff but I NEVER saw anything remotely like that.
I saw a few people doing that on the sidewalks when I lived there for a whopping 6 weeks before I bailed. That was 10 years ago.
Only in California 😂😂😂Idaho I never see shit like that. Wonder why people keep moving up here. 😂😂honestly I don't blame ya. I'd rather stick to visiting California, living would be too much for me😂😂
this happened to me in Seattle (the University District). Yuck!
@@1MinuteFlipDoc yeah I was in Seattle 5-10 years ago something like that, and it was ghetto and bad then. Especially around t-moble Park.(was safeco)
Maybe it's too much to expect, but I think the people shown here who have made the kind of disastrous life choices that led them into this dismal state of affairs ought to do some "major soul searching" too. Of course, that is never required of them. NO, instead, it's the average citizen working their butt off, paying taxes, and staying sober who's supposed to search their soul over all this.
They made the life choice of not being in the top 5% upper middle class when housing costs went up by 5x. My condo costed 160 when I first moved to this area in 95. It got to 900 at peak. Rents are 3000+. When you do that, lower middle class people get pushed to the streets. Lots of working people living in vehicles. I see campers parked all around.
I know this video is about California but the fact that Illinois lost more people than California is actually insane! That puts into perspective how terrible it must be to live in Illinois! I think we need an Illinois Road Trip series to investigate this.
Haha maybe one day!
Maybe high crime and murder rate, and cold as fuc.
Dead outside of Chicago. The lake is nice though.
I’m born and raised here in SAN JO , a lot of crime and violence but they don’t like to advertise that
I'm from Milpitas, got priced out so I moved my family to San Diego in 2014. Best decision I ever made my kids are thriving here . More jobs than people to fill.
There are some companies that exist in both places like Abbott Labs, Genentech, ASML,Northrop Grumman. Biotech & pharmaceuticals is huge, also defense.
I used to love San Diego! But I'm afraid to go back as to the fact of what the rest of California has become!!?
Hey are the apartments in San Diego cheaper than Milpitas ? I just moved to California Milpitas and I like it but want something less crowded and more jobs for me and my wife
@@ndg8240 The pay is less here in San Diego but the weekends are great I wouldn't trade a Saturday in SD for anywhere in the world. Where else can you be 10 miles from beach,border,downtown ,Indian casinos. You have time for all that on a Saturday.
I was born and raised here and still live here. When I was young we called the homeless, hobos and homeless, and they were usually harmless. Now they're what we see in this video! It's scary to walk near their "encampments" unlike it was back in the 80s and 90s
Exactly, because decades back the homeless were mostly alcoholics since drug possession was a felony including marijuana. Now many mix alcohol with marijuana since it’s been legalized or use heroin/meth which makes them more crazily addicted, filthy looking, and even out of control violent/criminal. The soft on crime policy keeps them on the streets instead of behind bars!
To me, they are lazy, on welfare, no bills, and are still hobos, vagrants, living in nice warm weather.
They werent so schizo back then. Now most are very mentally unstable.
We di nga? Wag Tayo ganun sa kapwa natin.
My dad worked there briefly in 1980 and 1981 when I was 12 or so. The highlight for me was going to Spartan Stadium during the summers to watch George Best do his thing. Even in the twilight of his career, it was fun to see him on the field. The goal against the Strikers was one of the best ever even if it was against an NASL level defense.
Love your work, Nick! We live in Sunnyvale and you painted a fair and accurate video! Thank you for showing people what I’m suffering in. Crime, intentional policies that have destroyed Santa Clara county (San Jose area), and that none of this by accident. None. But people don’t care enough to do anything.
Why did they do it then Pablo?
@@NickJohnson Because the New World Order wants America to go down.
I have been trying to figure that out. WHY? Someone must be getting rich off the homeless. If you really cared about people you wouldn't let them destroy themselves right.. Democrats all caring and stuff. I Never liked Republicans rich stuffshirts.
Agreed! Lived in Mountain View for a year. That is all I could take. The price of living there was not worth it
Born and raised in San Jose. I finally moved out (8 years ago) after living there for 37 years. Everything is ridiculously over priced. I can only imagine how much worse it is now. It was trippy seeing The Ritz and Caravan. I used to hang out at both of those places.
What state you move to?
And the Democrats don’t care, they think they are being compassionate by enabling people to live on the streets and in parks, but really they’re not !!
I spent 40 years in the central valley. I lived in San Jose for a time in the early 90s. I can remember how high the prices were on housing compared to Sacramento. Could not believe how people could afford it. We had a company apt, so it was ok... But I loved the area. It was beautiful and we never felt in danger. Knowing what's happening all over, I made the right decision getting my kids out 13 years ago.
I can identify with your post as a former California resident in the year 1988, I was renting a room and a parking place at a boarding house in Daly City, because living in Monterey Bay are Palo Alto was completely impossible, , because working two full-time jobs I couldn't afford an apartment on my own, and then every time I got a paycheck from Hollywood, the state government goes right into my bank account and takes out my residence tax, and they take as much as they want as many times as they want, things were much better there when Ron Reagan was governor don't you agree, ❓ ❓❓
Smart, where did you move to?
@@FrankYoung1128 Arizona, but California and other socialist commies make messes and flee here
So did you leave for Az?
@@FrankYoung1128 Im guessing Az.
From a San Jose resident you 100% correct, to the wealth to homelessness
Hello Nick, good to see you, even though I'm in Australia, I always love your videos, thanks for showing me around America 🇺🇸😊
Thanks for watching!
Oh Dear God!
Now I know why one of my clients who has had a winter home there for 35 years wants to now sell it. I thought she was being dramatic. She said there is no happy medium there. It's either very high end or extremely shockingly impoverished.
She has a gorgeous condo there and she told me it's down right dangerous for her to ride her bicycle now. She love riding her bicycle. So I understand now. I am mind blown Nick! What in the sam hell is going on in California!?
I live up 17 and SJ is somewhere I go often, it's very sad that a state as wealthy as ours can't take care of its people.
By far the most significant work you've done bro! Keep it up we need you.
We stay for the Mediterranean climate weather. Never gets too cold (seen snow flurries twice in 40 years) or too hot. We have maybe 1-2 weeks a year where it would be nice to have AC. 300+ days of sunshine a year.
Exactly, sometimes San Jose goes through very rainy atmospheric river storms as this year which greatly impacts the homeless, but it’s mostly sunny most year with some cold winters or mild ones
Guess why all the hobos "Know the way to San Jose"!🤣
The only good thing there is is the weather! THE PEOPLE ROTTEN and GREEDY!
I asked my dad what was Silicon Valley called before it was Silicon Valley and he responded:
"Valley of Hearts Delight"
Actually just an advertising slogan promoted back then by the local Chamber
of Commerce, and associated with the fruit orchards and dozens of canneries
in San Jose, Santa Clara city, etc. When I was growing up in the 30's and
40's people would typically refer to the individual cities & towns such as
San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, etc. The valley overall was seldom referred
to, similar today to the Sacramento Valley. These towns were separated by
farms and orchards not unlike Tracey, Stockton, Modesto, etc. are today.
If you wanted to refer to the larger area you said "Santa Clara Valley"
As the farms & orchards disappeared they were replaced by
residential/commercial buildings. Today as in Los Angeles the individual
municipalities are hard to discern. The term "Silicon Valley" is a catch
phrase first appearing fifty or so years ago in trade newspapers but is now
known worldwide. Silicon is the stuff upon which the first transistor chips
were made.
The term 'South Bay" is now coming into use. Surprisingly the simple term
"bay area" identifies us even on the east coast as I discovered when living
back there.
When I was born in 1932 San Jose's population was 60,000. Now it is
2,000,000, the tenth largest city in the U.S.
Sorry I’m gonna call out you ,You’re forgetting the salt marshes and that it was a marshland all the way up until the Corps of Engineers dried it out
Exactly, and San Jose truly was the Valley of Heart’s Delight with clean air/sunshine/beautiful fruit trees and flowers everywhere/low cost of living/moderate population/friendly down to earth people. It was the safest city in the U.S. Then high tech took over in the early 90s and wiped out the orchards/raised the cost of living to excessively high, attracted criminals, and created thousands of homeless while 1000s fled to safer/cheaper cities
@@tracymarquez6875 So true..my dad often talks about how things used to be. I now talk that way too as I am nearing 50 and remember some of those good days. Orchards as far as the eye can see. Sounds pretty wonderful.
I grew up in San Jose and was born---one of the Baby Boomers that have grown up now,and now living in Portland-San Jose's so-called "sister city"
I must say that San Jose has drastically changed and has morphed into a Corporate High Tech paradise that certainly isn't the same city that I grew up in.The politics haven't changed much but San Jose has always been a progressive entity.When I was a student at SJSU back in the late 60's and early 70's the downtown was a total vast wasteland.Nothing like it appears today.I am happy to see that downtown San Jose finally became a lively,entertaining venue that I surely could have enjoyed back during my college days.Yes,San Jose had gone through a major metamorphosis from when I lived there.I hope that Original Joe's still there---that Italian oasis of some of the most scrumptious pasta and Mediterranean delicacies anywhere in California!If I could afford it,I would move back there in a flash. Yes,San Jose has really metamorphosed into world class center of high tech industry and great restaurants.Wish I could move back there!
I am so glad that I got out of the Bay Area more than 20 years ago, when I recognized that the quality of life was going to go downhill. Moved up to Sacramento, which has turned into a mini version of the Bay Area. Now , I have left the state completely. I love my new Home State. No traffic, low crime, low property taxes. We have maybe 2-3 homeless people, who live in town.
What state is that?
Which state?
@@NickJohnson i moved all the way to Russia from CA and couldnt be happier. Would love to do an interview with you ))
I left Florida for the same reasons. Hope that’s not the state you moved to, because it’s next up on the list for human beings to trash. It’s already underway.
@@NickJohnson I would prefer not to be specific , other than I am in the South east and in a rural area.
I've been critical of your work until I realized I'm not doing any of the work that You're doing. So I'll continue giving You my support. Thank You for shining a light on all this. ✌🏾
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I remember as a kid when we visited California, when I saw the signs for San Jose all I could think of was the song by Dionne Warwick, and how so many people had moved there because of that song! What a sad state of affairs we see now!
Do you know the way out of San Jose?
Legendary California columnist Dan Walters has opined this is one of the by-products of California's obsession with environmental controls making it near impossible to build new housing.
Bullshit. It's the product of republican states not providing liveable wages for people and not taking care of drug addicted homeless people. With nothing in those states, the homeless drug addicted people travel to California where it's warm and they can get government assistance even if they're homeless.
Also maybe educate yourself about types of housing, developers are coming up with many affordable eco-friendly types of housing.
That is somewhat correct! The conflict is the hippocrassy of tree hugging along with allowing , for example, she'll oil dumping 51 MILLION gallons of mercury into the carquinez straight, and the rhodia co pushing hours and hours of phosphoric acid ( battery acid) into the air . CA environmental loving is popular talk for politics in CA. "Conservation to save mtn lions" accelerated extinction from over populations that caused inbreeding, which lowered genetic diversity . CA talks a good game, and it's an act noone looks into .
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 "eco-friendly" is code for "working class subjugation"
"affordable housing" is code for "money laundering scheme for parasitic bureaucrats"
The main issue is zoning severely limits what developers can build. Only a few areas in the city are zoned for medium and high density, and even developments here face NIMBY backlash.
I grew up in San Jose, but left 5 years ago to buy a new house 45 minutes away for $500K. I do miss it though.
yes, I'm sure the homeless were sitting in their homes in Topeka, KS and then decided to move to San Jose to be part of the tech scene, but found that they couldn't afford a home. that's probably it.
Many people moved to San Jose because of the great job offers and high pay,! Only to find that they become poor and even more broke because of the high prices!
When housing prices are that high I don't know why anyone is surprised that homelessness is a problem.
Nick, This was a good video. In your videos you touch on the topic of homelessness a lot, which is good. Today, I saw a video about how Finland has solved its homelessness issues, I believe it was from the"Invisible People" YT Channel. The Finns were saying they took they ideas that they learned from America and then applied it and localized the solutions. They were saying, just providing low income housing is not enough, a whole eco system needs to be created around the root causes of homelessness in the industrialized world... I wish you would do a video about San Francisco; I just saw a video about all the businesses closing and leaving SF , block after block... very sad.😮
My parents bought a brand new house in San Jose in the Blossom Hill Santa Teresa area and the early seventies for 25k today it's worth over a million dollars and it's just basic house and yes the east side of San Jose has always been the worst in the seventies on 80s it was predominantly Mexican I assume it still is I'm sure glad I left there 30 years ago moved to Florida
East side San Jose is still predominantly Mexican with lots of Asians: Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino and a Portuguese community, all living side by side or intermingled. Downtown S.J. has more people of the white race/Asians/blacks but also more Hispanics living farther away from San Jose State University. Most other nicer S.J. neighborhoods are mostly white sometimes mixed with Asian race, and can be diverse too white with some Hispanics, Russians, etcetera
Jacksonville?
Everyone one I knew in San Jose has let;!!
I lived 10min from Apple HQ, got chased and yelled at by homeless multiple times, had car windows smashed and garage broken into and my bike stolen. Police were too busy enforcing commuter lanes used by rich E-car owners I guess...
Haha oh man
Born, raised and STILL living in SJ/Bay Area. This place is a dumpster fire. Literally. Expensive as hell. LA style traffic conditions. Bums everywhere. Neighbors hate each other because of gross inequity of property taxes (thank you Prop 13). Only tech wealthy people can afford to live here, and they’re barely making it. Public schools suck. Crime rates soaring. DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!
I was MIA for about 6 months or so from a lot of Social media I usually use/watch. I come back to your channel and your subscribers have increased by like 250k. Kudos to you. Keep doing your thing Nick Johnson.
Cool!! ❤️❤️
It won't get any better unless the cost of housing in California goes down! The cost of housing has more than tripled in the last 6 years! I am an educated single parent with a full time job and I have lived in northern California my entire life and as a single parent I have never worried about being able to keep a roof over my family's head, until the past 6 years. California is definitely not the state it used to be.
I remember going to the San Jose flea market when I was younger. They had the best corn dogs!
Corn dog needs an emoji- 🌽 🐕 doesn't count
It really brings down the mood of the place. Can't a way be found to keep them out of parks, at least? How are decent people supposed to sit and enjoy the park, see the monuments, etc. when there's excretia, trolleys full of crap, and addicts sleeping all over it, in daytime? It's really unfair and demoralising for the ordinary population.
It's soo crazy to think how San Jose looks now. I'm from Silicon Valley and I remember when it was the cheapest place in the Santa Clara County to live.
California needs to find its soul, there is no spiritual energy in that place. It’s the first thing I noticed in a visit in 2003…can’t imagine it’s improved
I grew up in West SJ, one of the distinctly different SJ neighborhoods. Big changes, but still nice. Although, some of the community feeling is reduced for me. Biggest visible changes are the condo jungles sprouting up, mostly in the Almaden area along highway 85. The increased population density is concerning. I miss the beautiful orhards and open spaces.
Some of our homeless have incredible vehicles
I was born in the middle of an Apricot orchard in San Jose ten years before Silicon Valley,
Apricot needs a damn emoji
@@NickJohnson I am too old to use Emojis
Thank you for exposing these crimes against humanity. It's disgusting. But you're doing something about it.
Vagrants, bums, hobos. I can live without them. 💉☠️🤣
I was born and raised in San Jose, and I moved out for greener pastures five years ago. San Jose was a great place to live forty years ago. Once the corporate businesses moved in and the mom-and-pop shops were removed everything turned to crap. Best restaurants a long time ago, now corporate restaurants rule the roost. Liberal politics has ruined a once great place.
My family moved to Cupertino in 1968, from Santa Rosa.I was in Middle School at the time. It was nice back then. Nothing like what your video shows today. I'm sad to see what the area has turned into.
The average middle class home is $1.3 million. That’s INSANE‼
And that’s just one reason why CA has homeless people.
I was in the US back in 1990 and went to San Jose, sure didnt look like that. What a shame to see it this way now
Hey Nick, appreciate the overview and actual honesty when approaching this situation. California certainly has it's problems with how we handle prosecution, homeless, etc.
But a huge aspect to the homeless epedemic is that only a fraction of these folks actually came from California. As someone who lives here and talks with them frequently, California is seen as a safe haven to live in (weather, servies, etc) and we take on the burden from other states that don't want to deal with this issue. States literally have programs to bus in homeless.
I'd encourage you to talk about solving this as if we're all on same team as we desperately need your help. This is a national issue, not just a California issue :)
The homeless go where they can find resources. They need drugs and handouts, and the west coast provides both in spades. Fix the drug problem and you will fix the homeless problem.
@@benjamindover7399 You are soooo right on 💯💯💯💯💯 Instead they trash talk California, which solves nothing. Thank you 😊
Agree with you 💯💯💯💯
@@benjamindover7399 Do lenient laws, free resources, no policing exacerbate the issue? 100%
Is removing those programs or laws going to solve the issue? Pretty naive to say it would.
Fixing the drug problem means billions of dollars need to be allocated NATIONWIDE to policing, addiction programs, mental health facilities, etc. I'll work on voting out our state officials in California to do my part 😆
California government doesn’t want to solve this. It’s a money maker for them.
I lived in San Jose almost my entire life. My wife and I made low 6 figures and we struggled. San Jose is beautiful. For me, the GRIND of trying to make it there proved to be too much. @50 my wife our two small children and I moved to Texas. My income is 1/3 of my salary in San Jose. My quality of life has increased by 90%. I wish I moved 30 years ago. I was brainwashed by the greatness of California. I was brainwashed that the rest of the country is substandard. One of my greatest surprises about living in Texas is the outstanding school system. Excellent well-funded sports programs. Both of my children are honor roll students and are challenged by the curriculum. San Jose is not worth it.
Sir please stop selling drugs for your own safety.
The disparity is crazy how close different groups are next to each other. For new years we visited my family. One brother lives in a run down ghetto scary apartment complex. My cousin literally across the street a upper middle class house.
Wow Nick, Your video this morning hit home. Your first scene was less than a mile from my home here. I only been here since 2014 and I have seen a steady decline in this city. A few years ago they closed down the "Jungle". The city promised those living there housing vouchers. To my knowledge, very few people have gotten permanent housing. In fact, the "Jungle" is starting to get repopulated again with the city doing nothing to resolve the problem. The main problem here is housing. I consider myself lucky that I'm a veteran who unfortunately is on disability. Without a housing voucher, from a program run by HUD/Veterans affairs. I wouldn't be able to rent a modest one-bedroom apartment here. Even though San Jose is building low-cost housing. There is a waiting list even before a new apartment building is completed.
Kirk! Hang in there bud!
@@NickJohnson I'm hanging on quite fine. I know I'm doing better than others and know that I'm very lucky to have the V.A behind me. San Jose and other cities need to do something. Unfortunatly solving the homeless problem is not a one solution fits all type of approach.
Why can't they make a camp ground somewhere and have bathroom and shower facilities and some decent tents
San Jose underfunds/understaffs their police force. It operates like a small town with big city needs/problems. Still no investigation response for why the stripper got a 'free ride' from the San Jose fire department to her place at work at the Pink Poodle strip club in October. No matter how angry the mayor was at the bad press the story appears to have been suppressed. The lady got her ride, the hoses still operate (no damage), any fires that night were hosed down and extinguished, and everyone appears to have had a happy ending.
I'm from near San Jose, and I make vlogs about San Jose on my channel. San Jose lost its luster long ago. Homelessness, crime, prostitution, homicides, and expensive housing costs are issues that plague this city. I don't recommend tourists spend time here...
Here are parts of San Jose I do recommend:
🌟 Downtown San Jose (which is NOT always safe, but there are a few bars and lounges. Are they spectacular? No. Best bar is Haberdasher).
🌟 Communication Hill (a neighborhood located atop a mountain. Very popular spot to exercise, drive around, and get a view of San Jose on a clear day).
🌟 Willow Glen (boring residential area, but the homes are nice and it's a safe part of SJ. They have a small downtown strip)
🌟 West San Jose (another safe part of San Jose, bordering Cupertino. Santana Row is a great outdoor mall to walk around).
🌟 South San Jose (quiet, safe, and next to wineries that tourists don't know about🍷).
As someone who lives in San Jose, I agree that the taxes here are extremely high. As of July 2023, sales tax is over 10 percent already.
Diane Warwick- Do you know the way to San Jose? Time for a rework-Do you know the way out of San Jose 😂😂😂
I grew up on the east side. Early 60's till 1972 . It was a great time . Lived on a old family orchard. Apricots , cherries and walnuts . Acres and acres.
680 runs through the property now. I think it's part of zoria circle now or court.
Last time I went down there was 2009 , I guess to reminisce. Berryessa School and Pala Middle School are no more. They closed down old San Jose speedway .
I hope Alum Rock Park is still there. 🧐
Beautiful Alum Rock park is still there for the avid hiker but beware of rattle snakes at higher elevations!
Oooh yes~> Berryessa School I remember it from the early 70's it was such a BEAUTIFUL School, only the front part of the school remains the rest was knocked down just so they could build a movie theater that went out of business not long after it opened they knocked that down to build a gym and the front part of the school remains because it's considered a historical site that are being used as dental offices..... I remember all the apricot and Cherry farms in that area... Sad to see it gone.
My father worked at Berryessa school in the early 70's...I don't even recognize the city anymore.
Ha! Loved this video. I left San Jose in 2013. Loved it there, but homeless is definitely a lot worse now and I wouldn’t be able to afford it anymore. Kind of a bummer.
Nice reporting and sociology study, Nick! Good review of San Jose, CA, and nice interview of local resident. This type of video helps get some key topics out there for a wider discussion and to help inspire new ideas. From my perspective, it seems there are now at least four main issues that are sort of combined within many communities of the USA, which include the local environment, available quality housing, care for the homeless, and a new concept called "combined accountability and opportunity factors".
The details to explain all of these and how they go together can take a while, but indirectly your videos and comments in your videos help give examples of what those main issues are about, but require reading between the lines. Also, the four main issues usually will likely need to be considered together for long lasting solutions within many communities, but there may be a need to break large problems into smaller subsets for urgent single issues. For the details of these ideas, there were comments in other videos made on an idea of something tentatively called "Team Shelter" that is conceptually similar to TeamSeas. Tall goals for sure.
Alas, continuing to think of ways to make a proactive, incentivized, vision proposal(s), and "working" plan(s) for making practical solutions to at least the Four Big Issues / Challenges / Opportunities, (i.e. local environment, quality housing, homeless, combo accountability and opportunity factors) to which each main issue can have some sub-issues. Anyway, just an idea. Thanks again for great videos.
Thank you for uploading this video. It captures so much of what San Jose is. I lived in down town. The only thing I'd like to add is my thoughts on downtown. Yes, downtown is clean which is surprising. Still a bunch of homeless people. And it's decent for night life activities. But that is it. What a lot of people don't realize is how dead downtown is during the day. You can be in the heart of the city at 9:00AM and there is hardly anyone outside walking. And most buildings vacant. Even two skyscrapers there are entirely empty! It's hollowing out. I am happy to have left.
Not sure if this is true or not but I heard a lot of the homeless aren't from California. The other states give them a one way ticket to California cities for the benefits. Has anyone else heard of that?
Yes
@@NickJohnson anectdotal evidence, what are your sources nick? See a lot of cars, many RV'S, IN these homeless encampments.
What benefits? A lot of people due come to California and leave if they can afford it! Illegal aliens however seem to get most of benefits leaving nothing for those who deserve It t most!
@@robertchilders8698 I'm talking about homeless from with in the states. Not from out of the country. Poor states send their homeless to California. Or people from poor states come to CA, to reap the benefits.
@@robertchilders8698 The benefits my tax dollars pay for!🤷🏻♀️
Made it out of there after a few years. Don’t care to ever go back. I moved there thinking I was going to make the next step in my career and that I was “making it”. What a dumbass I was. Over those years the problems exponentially got worse, to where it was hard to recognize after only a few years. When I see other liberal cities looking the way San Jose did when I moved there in 2016 and see them going in the same direction politically, I foresee those cities looking the same way in a very short time. I moved to a more secluded area a half hour from Uptown Charlotte, and I see some of the same symptoms showing up there.
The residents in those nice houses downtown are constantly subject to assault, burglary, and random backyard visitors. My old neighbors had a homeless guy holding a straight razor pounding on their door. My wife twice saw turds in transit falling from a dude’s butt right outside of the park. The Ryland neighborhood and the Coleman shopping center are open season for crime victims. Police helicopters with bright spotlights and loud bullhorns overheard regularly. Lots of homeless people randomly yelling at people who walk by, and that’s if they decide not to assault them.
The improv is great and hockey games are always fun, especially when the Kings reverse swept the Sharks in 2014.
I’ll never tell anyone they should vote for a republican cause that party has their own problems, but I don’t see why the hell anyone who has been through what the residents of downtown San Jose have gone through would continue to vote democrat. If they look seeing people poop in the street, then they are getting what they are paying for.
Great points!
sorry for giving up on dreams 💔
@@jaquim6383 For some the dream is not living in a Liberal sh*thole.
Goal Accomplished🏅
Democrat that needs to join a strong, sensible, ethics matter new political party.
My last time on California I went through a truckstop 30 miles south of San Jose. A quarter of the lot was a homeless camp.
i lived downtown SJ in/around 2011-13 originally from SF. and this docu is spot on
Downtown seems way chill compared to when I visited 5 years ago
It was probably 8:00 am Sunday morning ....
This is heart breaking. Take care Nick!
You probably went during the holidays because trust me from 3:30 to 7 there’s definitely traffic in San Jose especially during the week
Nope
Nice to see the positive review of my hometown of San Jose.. Jason’s comments really nailed it…. If you apply yourself and put in the work San Jose is a great place and success can be within reach…
San Jose has always had so many good paying jobs. I used to really hustle working my butt off. I loved working there. Now I've learned to work no matter where I live.
Gavin is doing a bang up job. Californian's must be so proud. After all, they didn't recall him.
Nick, you know pot is legal in California right? That's why everyone is so happy.
He's banging California
Not great. I guess past few CA governors, San Jose Mayors and US presidents didn't do a bang up job, either.
@@manxue3205 it's hard to help people who think they're being revolutionary and changing things for the good of their state.
There's a channel on YT, the guy has remastered old home films. He goes pretty far back and it's interesting to see how different states were even back in the late 50s, early 60s. In one he shows films of 1960 streets in New Mexico and California. If I recall correctly, it's LA. In NM, they ride down the streets and you see adobe homes, stores, just a regular neighborhood. In California, they ride down the street and it's 90% strip joints, dirty movies and all the trimmings. But the streets were clean and there wasn't any homeless.
@@Hashdollars I'll tell you this, I moved from Denver, Colorado 7 years ago, because it was turning into California. I now live in a wonderful little town of 7100, not in Colorado. Honestly, I don't want people moving here. The big crime in the news here, a bike was stolen. It was recovered less than an hour later. It's quiet and people don't think their opinions are so important that they riot or protest. They tell city council and it's brought up in a meeting. I've never seen a city so clean, it amazes me. Love it here, don't come, don't come.
@@Hashdollars no I don't think that and I never said that. I said I love it here. Having a bad day or are you always so congenial? Must be that big city Iiving. Stay well and Happy New Year.
Nick you should make a top 10 of the most beautiful cities you have visited traveling all over the country, even if some of them have problems, focusing only on their beauty.
When we first moved to SJ, there were lots of orchards.
The good old days,!
Right?? I grew up and lived there (early 60s to 70s). Not sure if there are still any orchards up in the foothills, and as far as I know, the only orchard left in Silicon Valley is in Sunnyvale.
thanks for the drone credit! I actually live not too far from the homeless camp at 3:42 ! Those people have been there for years!
I grew up in San Jose and went to college there. I make a respectable living. But as a single earner, I have no chance of buying a home there. I have been priced out of California. last year, i left.
Damn, my uncle lived in San Jose, until he died recently ...
😢 sorry
Most of the homeless people in California are not from California. Tired of other states sending their homeless people here to "enjoy the weather".
How many if these people are illegals who your governor has welcomed them to your state. Most of these illegals are poor uneducated people who need taxpayers to support them. These are not the immigrants we need in America. These people have no rights coming across our border and yet most of them believe they have the right to be here.
LMAO. Don't blame other states. Your politics and voting is what got you to where your at.
@@R-BURQUENO True would be great to be a red state again but unfortunately our news and media is too democratic for that to happen again. Yeah South Park did an episode on it where they mentioned how states and cities move their homeless problems around. Plus I seen those religious buses pull up to drop them off in L.A.
in the 1968-69 academic year I biked with a friend from the Stanford campus to his home in Atherton and had drinks with the Black Panthers
I can hardly believe it. I visited San Jose in 1995 and it was absolutely nothing like this.
Great job Nick!
By the dialogue, It looks like Jason Wayne's been watching a lot of your videos..... LoL
San Jose, has a great sanitation program to help the homeless throw away a bunch of their garbage, also the inner city homeless are in bed and wrapped up before dark, That's why you don't see them.
Thanks so much for going to the trouble to make this series it's been great!