Really, who told you Watsonville sucks? It's not exactly cheep there anymore and hasn't been for a long while now. It's just another mostly working class town. Btw there's lots of Cheep Hispanic areas in Texas (like Alabama cheep!) and New Mexico don't you know?
Watsonville had a good sized Filipino population in the early 1900's (brought in as farm workers) and thrived there,until the locals didnt like the fact that the Filipino men were beginning to have relations with their womenfolk.A riot happened and a Filipino spot was burnt to the ground(it was where dances were hosted where local women danced with pinoy manongs).Racism was a factor.
I lived in Watsonville, went to school there. I lived on top of 152 / Hecker Pass from 1965 to 1972. Worked at Montana Inn Restaurant, when it first open.
Watsonville includes beach areas of La Selva Beach, Manresa and Sunset, all with multimillion dollar homes and beach access, also a number of luxury communities in the hills of Corralitos and the Larkin Valley area. Watsonville borders Aptos and include scenic wineries and hillside estates. Downtown Watsonville IS historic with many farming businesses that settle there. Although it is mostly hispanic now, it has a great history of Japanese and Croatian immigrants settle here. It is an older community with lots of history.
Watsonville is a great place, very calm and relax place to live, I moved to Manteca 3 years ago but I always go back to Watsonville at least 2 times a month
The high prices are based on speculation for demand from the few high paid tech workers and others, and those with Silicon Valley real estate equity (including large numbers of working class Latinos btw!), and not local incomes, which is why there are few current sales..
At the 13:45 mark you drove past the street that my family moved to in 1974. Watsonville was a little hidden gem in the Monterey bay area. It didn't demand the high prices of other places because it wasn't right on the beach but still had the great weather year round. It was a nice place to grow up.
You guys missed Ketts Castle! Yes, an actual castle! 🏰 It's gorgeous. It's semi surrounded by it's own lake called Kelly Lake. Check it out next time. Otherwise it's a nice town. It has a few beaches, redwoods in Mt.Madonna state state park, very nice sloughs to hike next to. You can kayak and go whale watching in Moss landing which is the next town over. Besides that Monterrey and Santa Cruz are more touristy. It's way too expensive to buy a house for most ppl here. We'll see what the future holds. Cheers.
When we have 5 Starbucks, county charges 10 cents a cup three Mc Donald’s. Also Santa Cruz county charges you for having your own well. “PVWM” shows you how corrupt this city , county are.
Nice Too See Some One Cruzing my Town That I Grew up In It Has all way s Been a Town Of Many people From around The world. when silicon Brought in Electronics. Many Years Ago. The House Prices we Up and Never Went Down That Was all Most 50 Years ago
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I live in watsonville and people say it's bad from the past and there's lots of crime i would say but if you remove all those topics it's a pretty good area 😃
And don't get me wrong watsonville is rich with history, And there are beautiful homes there especially the victorians. You guys did miss a lot of the neat streets. And they do have amazing food, My favorite was always Tepas Although i'm not sure if it's still there.
When I attended high school in '56 through 58, Taylors Hot Dog stand was where the police dept is now and hot dogs were 5/ $1. Just had a couple a week ago and now they're over $2 each.
.....the last couple of times we had a serious real estate downturn (1989, 2008), prices declined by more then half(!) and took years and years to recover amidst a flood of sales and foreclosures. 2005 or so was the first time prices got SO out of hand...
In 1980, I drove a pickup truck and camper from Watsonville to Circle, Alaska....end of the road (at the time) because of the wide and mighty Yukon River.....no bridge then. I found Drisco strawberries in some Alaskan stores.....must have been flown in. (Still have the pickup)
Interesting I've never been to Watsonville but I actually haven't herd bad things about it. I know there are some gang problems and poverty and lot's of farm worker's. Lots of the working class of the area also live in Salinas, parts of Santa Cruz and in the Mountains, in Seaside, and in smaller towns nearby.
I looked up the average sales price of a home in Watsonville. $663,000! You gonna need a few million subscribers for that. Plus, I'm gonna guess taxes out the roof. Those are prices near my area of Bonita Springs, Fl..
Watsonville is a country ag small town. They are known for growing delicious strawberries, artichokes and brusselsprouts.We grew up playing sports against them.Good football team in the 90s.amazing soccer program. Soccer wins section titles. Not a good town to wear blue in.
If your going to do some exploring you should document not only the good part but also the bad part your just cruising down the boulevard why don’t you cruise down the neighborhoods
if you'd turned right at Burger King that would've been poolside I believe. when I was kid the northerners and southerns would clash in a liquor store parking lot right behind the Burger King I was a small kid from sac visiting dad for the summer he was a northerner it was real knives and bats lol
Hi my name is Janet frey I miss watsonville and Santa Cruz boardwalk my friends Judy Blair Janice harino Cheryl flath Denise the boiling ally fun days fun days 😊💕🌍
Do you people really think that Watsonville is expensive? it's the cheapest city in Santa Cruz county. You guys didn't go through Martinelli street, Lakeview, Gzidich far, Pinto Lake, Sunset Beach, Palm Beach, Staff of Life, and other cool places in Watsonville.
@@christinegralow367 You clearly do not k now what you're talking about. I said it's the cheapest city in Santa Cruz county. I didn't say it was cheap. As for houses going for millions - million dollars is "cheap". You couldn't get a bathroom in Silicon Valley for million dollars. So I stand by what I said. I never said Watsonville is cheap. But it is true that it is the cheapest city in Santa Cruz county. Compare home prices in Watsonville with Santa Cruz, Capitola, Aptos, Soquel ..., you will see that Watsonville is the cheapest. But you're correct. Nice homes easily go for over million. But that is cheapest in Santa Cruz county.
"In a town where (small and terrible) houses are $600,000, people are looking in the garbage for food". That's what you get with a sanctuary city. That's not mentioning the high crime rate involving drugs and murder. Good way to ruin a town/Country.
Are you even from Watsonville? I lived in the next town over for 15 years and worked at Watsonville City Hall for 2 years. Just because it seems scary and ghetto doesn't mean its half as bad as what you assume. The homelessness there isn't even a fraction of surrounding cities. The people I know there are friendly as hell. Allot of the crime and murder comes from the outside in. Gang members travel from Castroville and Salinas in to Watsonville to shoot rivals or innocent people minding their own damn business.
Really, who told you Watsonville sucks? It's not exactly cheep there anymore and hasn't been for a long while now. It's just another mostly working class town. Btw there's lots of Cheep Hispanic areas in Texas (like Alabama cheep!) and New Mexico don't you know?
Watsonville had a good sized Filipino population in the early 1900's (brought in as farm workers) and thrived there,until the locals didnt like the fact that the Filipino men were beginning to have relations with their womenfolk.A riot happened and a Filipino spot was burnt to the ground(it was where dances were hosted where local women danced with pinoy manongs).Racism was a factor.
Exactly. It’s very sad that we don’t get taught about the Watsonville Riots, it’s a tragic thing that everyone from this city should learn.
Lot of untold dark history in this town Native American massacres
There’s a whole lot of the town that you missed. A lot of newer neighborhoods and a lot of good parks. The Coralitos area too.
Pretty sure they were viewing the older part not the newer parts bud
I lived in Watsonville, went to school there. I lived on top of 152 / Hecker Pass from 1965 to 1972. Worked at Montana Inn Restaurant, when it first open.
Great video, you missed Mount Madonna! I live in watsonville, thank you!
In 2010, my 2nd wife and I were married in Mt Madonna Park.....had to pay the park service $100 for the priviledge.
Watsonville includes beach areas of La Selva Beach, Manresa and Sunset, all with multimillion dollar homes and beach access, also a number of luxury communities in the hills of Corralitos and the Larkin Valley area. Watsonville borders Aptos and include scenic wineries and hillside estates. Downtown Watsonville IS historic with many farming businesses that settle there. Although it is mostly hispanic now, it has a great history of Japanese and Croatian immigrants settle here. It is an older community with lots of history.
Can you tell us what are the Victorian neighborhoods and also all the old Spanish style homes?
Watsonville is a great place, very calm and relax place to live, I moved to Manteca 3 years ago but I always go back to Watsonville at least 2 times a month
Stop telling Katie how to drive like a little child. Does she not have a license? You’re making me nervous and I’m not even in the car
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The high prices are based on speculation for demand from the few high paid tech workers and others, and those with Silicon Valley real estate equity (including large numbers of working class Latinos btw!), and not local incomes, which is why there are few current sales..
At the 13:45 mark you drove past the street that my family moved to in 1974. Watsonville was a little hidden gem in the Monterey bay area. It didn't demand the high prices of other places because it wasn't right on the beach but still had the great weather year round. It was a nice place to grow up.
You guys missed Ketts Castle! Yes, an actual castle! 🏰 It's gorgeous.
It's semi surrounded by it's own lake called Kelly Lake. Check it out next time.
Otherwise it's a nice town. It has a few beaches, redwoods in Mt.Madonna state state park, very nice sloughs to hike next to. You can kayak and go whale watching in Moss landing which is the next town over. Besides that Monterrey and Santa Cruz are more touristy.
It's way too expensive to buy a house for most ppl here. We'll see what the future holds.
Cheers.
When we have 5 Starbucks, county charges 10 cents a cup three Mc Donald’s. Also Santa Cruz county charges you for having your own well. “PVWM” shows you how corrupt this city , county are.
Hello, welcome to Watsonville. I’m from there but studying in UCMerced. Hope you liked cause I like this town.
Nice Too See Some One Cruzing my Town That I Grew up In It Has all way s Been a Town Of Many people From around The world. when silicon Brought in Electronics. Many Years Ago. The House Prices we Up and Never Went Down That Was all Most 50 Years ago
I stayed at a motel 6 here and it was sketchy as hell
yeah, don't stay there 💀
Mate every town is like that I can almost guarantee in Watsonville your safe our crackheads mind there own business 😂
@@LilAid why u saying mate if ur from California
Lived in Watsonville most of my life, now live in Texas, thanks for the memories.
Glad to help, overall california is awesome place despite the cost
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I live in watsonville and people say it's bad from the past and there's lots of crime i would say but if you remove all those topics it's a pretty good area 😃
@@isaactorres4311That rarely happens, but I do agree it’s very sad.
And don't get me wrong watsonville is rich with history, And there are beautiful homes there especially the victorians. You guys did miss a lot of the neat streets. And they do have amazing food, My favorite was always Tepas Although i'm not sure if it's still there.
Unfortunately they’re not there anymore it’s been long gone
Killer Klowns: From Outer Space (1988) 🤡🤡🤡 🍿🍭🔪was filmed here. It's also my family hometown.
Try Santa Rosa Market for some of the best burritos and tortas. Chicharron burrito and asada tortas are my favorites 🔥
⛰️ Awesome area ⛰️ California is awesome
Watsonville was bad around 2003, they've cleaned up the gangs though. I almost got jumped at 13 years old.
Looks like you drove by couple of “ Edgar’s” 😂
Edgers haircuts. The most silliest thing I've seen in my life but I'm old so what do I know lol
taking all the wrong turns my guy
Try Taylers Hot dog's next time you're there. best in town. Watsonville, is where I grew up. best memories. ever.
Juse went yesterday I've been craving them for quite some time. Highly disappointed, they don't taste the same, with a hint of BBQ sauce 😑
When I attended high school in '56 through 58, Taylors Hot Dog stand was where the police dept is now and hot dogs were 5/ $1. Just had a couple a week ago and now they're over $2 each.
@@ohwell14 Have to agree, they don't taste the same, but still better then most In Los Angeles, hard to find that taste.
My first cousin had a farm there, but just moved to Hawaii.
The expensive islands 🌴
.....the last couple of times we had a serious real estate downturn (1989, 2008), prices declined by more then half(!) and took years and years to recover amidst a flood of sales and foreclosures. 2005 or so was the first time prices got SO out of hand...
Born and raised in Watsonville that first neighborhood you went through is riverside a little ghetto my stomping grounds I love it
Its not as bad as people say 🌴
Marchant st. Hell yeah. I grew up there . walk that alley a 1000 times. Nothing fancy but it made me who I am today. Dont regret my hood.
Old homes have lovely massive space and great details inside. And funky furnaces, wiring, etc. Tricky.
Im born and raised in Watsonville. It’s a great town with lots of nice people, and strawberries as my husband works for Driscolls.
In 1980, I drove a pickup truck and camper from Watsonville to Circle, Alaska....end of the road (at the time) because of the wide and mighty Yukon River.....no bridge then. I found Drisco strawberries in some Alaskan stores.....must have been flown in. (Still have the pickup)
Watsonville is a great town, not for everyone tho I'll tell u that
I liked it. Seamed like good people hard working
Nothing much keeping people out besides maybe the lack of things to
Do
❤my home town it is beautiful ! I cover a lot watsonville on my channel
Interesting I've never been to Watsonville but I actually haven't herd bad things about it. I know there are some gang problems and poverty and lot's of farm worker's. Lots of the working class of the area also live in Salinas, parts of Santa Cruz and in the Mountains, in Seaside, and in smaller towns nearby.
I'm proud of Watsonville, look up the the Watsonville Riots and how we Hispanics and asians stopped all that from happening.
@fadniger7363 no, not that they are bad at all. Why would they be? Just that there are many farm workers living in and around Watsonville.
Will the people who told you that this town is bad or wrong about it. I've always loved this town
That smell would be in the area of the apple cider vinegar plant.
You guys went right past Martinelli’s and didn’t go to Taylor’s Hot dogs known buy many truck drivers .
I'm here for work I have only passed through on the 1 but never stopped ill be here a couple of weeks 04 2023
Funny thing is that Burger King at the beginning sucks 😂
I think the most wonderful charm of Watsonville is probably the Red Apple Cafe or the Henry J Mello Center
I looked up the average sales price of a home in Watsonville. $663,000! You gonna need a few million subscribers for that. Plus, I'm gonna guess taxes out the roof. Those are prices near my area of Bonita Springs, Fl..
I need to make more 😂
nahh its 750,000 thats why watsonville hasn’t gotten an influx of bay area people thank god cause it’s too expensive 😂
Check out Napa next!!!!
The good old days
BRO GO TO GIZDICH RANCH I LIVE DOWN THAT STREET + try their pies
My 1st wife worked there for four years...back in the 70's....I think.
I love watsonville i might move to Colorado this year its going to be hard to leave here but i will come back and visit every year❤
Watsonville is a country ag small town. They are known for growing delicious strawberries, artichokes and brusselsprouts.We grew up playing sports against them.Good football team in the 90s.amazing soccer program. Soccer wins section titles.
Not a good town to wear blue in.
If your going to do some exploring you should document not only the good part but also the bad part your just cruising down the boulevard why don’t you cruise down the neighborhoods
My beautiful little city fresatown baby you passed my house 😊
You guys went everywhere but the hood. Next time roll through Clifford Ave, Landis, Rodriguez, city hall. Etc.
Nah. Not “You guys went everywhere but the hood.” /
NEXT TIME HIT 2ST 🔵 AND STOP AT THE MARKET LA ROSA WE GOT 🔥 BURRITOS. PSWC X3
@@calilifethang3500quit hiding and bust out 😂
Looks like you been there before. 😂
Debbie! Debbie! Debbie!
if you'd turned right at Burger King that would've been poolside I believe. when I was kid the northerners and southerns would clash in a liquor store parking lot right behind the Burger King I was a small kid from sac visiting dad for the summer he was a northerner it was real knives and bats lol
Green valley me trae recuerdos bonitos
Neta, tumbando los chaptes
@@mob4007 quien dice que soy de poorside ese y yo tengo homies del que todavía rifan jaja shout out listo, rascal, smiley, and Rip sad boy
Check out Gilroy
Garlic capital of the world.
It's cool now but in the 90s it was bad, and the Hood is at front st check out the bridge by the alleyway
LA MONALISA 💯
Thank for taking me home I’ve been in Utah seince 2017
👌 glad to help.
I understand I’m a local
That’s my home 😁
I've been to Watsonville it's a nice city also it's not a town it's a City
It’s more like a town tbh
Nah. Not Everyone. Not “Everyone.” /
You can tell it’s a tourist town haha man hell naw nobody wants to see Watsonville not even the ppl that live there!
And you past right by my husbands work place Driscolls the best berries around
I see my grandmas house
I live here
Hi my name is Janet frey I miss watsonville and Santa Cruz boardwalk my friends Judy Blair Janice harino Cheryl flath Denise the boiling ally fun days fun days 😊💕🌍
I grew up by Cassidys pizza
O and maryann plump I miss my friends from Janet frey😊😍👟
Oakland has the most Victorians fasho
with the tall palm trees awesome combination for neighborhoods
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I love you guys when you argue. It’s never serious
Nothing is cool about watsonville bro they all flooded rn 🤣🤣🤣
Do you people really think that Watsonville is expensive? it's the cheapest city in Santa Cruz county. You guys didn't go through Martinelli street, Lakeview, Gzidich far, Pinto Lake, Sunset Beach, Palm Beach, Staff of Life, and other cool places in Watsonville.
@@christinegralow367 You clearly do not k now what you're talking about. I said it's the cheapest city in Santa Cruz county. I didn't say it was cheap. As for houses going for millions - million dollars is "cheap". You couldn't get a bathroom in Silicon Valley for million dollars. So I stand by what I said. I never said Watsonville is cheap. But it is true that it is the cheapest city in Santa Cruz county. Compare home prices in Watsonville with Santa Cruz, Capitola, Aptos, Soquel ..., you will see that Watsonville is the cheapest. But you're correct. Nice homes easily go for over million. But that is cheapest in Santa Cruz county.
i live here and it sucks
I live in Vegas , but I use to have a girlfriend from watsonville
"In a town where (small and terrible) houses are $600,000, people are looking in the garbage for food".
That's what you get with a sanctuary city. That's not mentioning the high crime rate involving drugs and murder. Good way to ruin a town/Country.
Are you even from Watsonville? I lived in the next town over for 15 years and worked at Watsonville City Hall for 2 years. Just because it seems scary and ghetto doesn't mean its half as bad as what you assume. The homelessness there isn't even a fraction of surrounding cities. The people I know there are friendly as hell. Allot of the crime and murder comes from the outside in. Gang members travel from Castroville and Salinas in to Watsonville to shoot rivals or innocent people minding their own damn business.
Theres notthing good in watsonville😂😂