I agree; I bought a ‘cheap ‘ home in Norway Michigan and it absolutely Sucks! The house sucks because so many things were dangerous and wrong with the house and there is many more like it in the area and surrounding areas. A percentage of people just do not care so they let their houses disintegrate and there isn’t much choice in the lower price ranges.
@@angelicamimosa I just bought an adorable cheap little house up north in a very small town built in 1910 and I love it and it's charm. The previous owner loved it to and took good care of it. He did have to put in a furnace and a couple small repairs and he did. I never thought I'd ever be able to buy a house and I'm 60 LoL. Taxes in escrow paid with the small mortgage 💝👍
@@Willybean08 im literally in germany and i want to move to the usa. i think he overstretches the situation a bit that we are a 3rd world country in 30 years but it turns worse each year. the middle class is almost non existant anymore in germany and things like crime rates, drug use, homelesness all go up. also our education gets worse each year, prices for pretty much everything go up as well. in 30 years we are not a 3rd world country, we are california, lmao.
A friend of mine was traveling through St. Louis, needed gas, and wound up in a sketchy part of town. She stops and asks some guy for directions and he looks over, shakes his head, and says "You really shouldn't be here."
NOOOOOOO. So not true. That is only a portion of WV. Much of what he said was true, however, there were some gross misrepresentations of our great state.
I'm just 8 miles from the WV/KY border. It's very, very sad, but I'm glad I didn't stay in Michigan. I've been here for going on 35 years and am glad I left when I did.
I have a question : I only heard bad stuff about WVirginia. But I, weirldy enough, am an European that loves West Virginia because is the state that resembles the most my home area. I talk about mountains, forgotten places, rural areas positioned in remote areas, away from the hustle and bussle(and crime) of big cities, clean air (this is only the natural part) and also I find the hard working class of coal miners and fallen industry to be very familiar. Is true that when a major industry is falling, life goes hard for everyone. I saw west Virginia having lots of abandoned or poorly maintained houses, so does my area, many children taken away from toxic families, same to my area, rural areas that somewhat hold a tradition of being mountain men that endure harsh winters and lots of work in the summer. I very sad about West virgina being ranked so low so my question is:I know that there must be something good and special in this state, what is it? What is something that wv people can feel proud for not being like the other states? Is it true that the crime rate and occurrences are rarer than places like detroit or new York or Los Angeles?
I like how he has a sense of humor about things without being dismissive and hurtful. It feels like he brings things to attention hoping to spur change for the better, not just to mock them.
I am calm and happy in this teeny tiny town. I am calmly watching snow fall... It hasn't been this cold here since 1941. So grateful for heat and lights.
Hello beautiful woman with a beautiful smile 😍, oh my God you are looking very beautiful,best wishes for a wonderful woman like you,your beautiful face is making me going crazy 🤭, i will love to chat with you, how are you doing today
From Uk. baffling mystery. Why would anyone be interested in 'aliens' when they dont even care about their neighbours or anyone other than mabe 'My family' The only help we ever got from people was from working class but even then only about one in a 1000. The only person I could ever trust with my life was labeled 'Criminal' none of the corrupt govt and their huge amount hlepers is ever so labeled..Keep up the Art sport drama and dont ferget yer new kitchen.
The US government has the tendency to create a problem and then of course comes up with a solution . With lousy foreign and domestic policies. The power elite is the only piece of the "apple " pie that prospers. Unfortunately, the poor will get poorer and the rich much richer. As far as the countries that appear to be assisted by the US, that occurs because it's a lucrative business for the few in power. The government has not been known to care about the people , anywhere.
The corporations write the laws through ALEC . They made it impossible to have your own business . All of the fees and licenses and inspections and public officials to pay off and asses to kiss make it literally impossible to open a fucking bait shop
Blame the Communist for providing cheap labor, products for the poor and quality good for big bucks. "Capitalism" gave us "ghost-towns",high rent, and countless victims of it.
Hegelian Dialectic and yes problem...reaction and solution. They have used this scheme to get us into countless wars and just about every other problem we have encountered as a society. Wake up...not woke
i thought i was the only one who felt this way 😅 i think to bring a child into the world right now shows a severe lack of understanding about the world and especially our country
Let’s be rational if you all resort in not having kids don’t you think it will be more catastrophic. Who’ll then carry on history who’ll then take over from the existing ones work. How do you get the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson without having kids were they not once kids. The truth is this you don’t rule forever, there is always power shift.
@@amandanegrete1306 ..." The Call of the Wild " It is programmed in our genes by the great designer... Like having to drink when thirst seeps in.. one philosopher once said.. " A stiff d_ _k has no conscience "..said with due respect and without malice, Thank you 🙏
It would have been nice to put something good in Mississippi's closet: we have the highest rate of African American home ownership. We have the highest percent of African Americans as well. The rest of the US can talk about diversity, but we are diverse.
I'm sorry that I offended you. Can you tell me why those things make us look bad? To me home ownership is a proxy for participation in the community, and the projects I have worked on have included a diverse set of people. My neighborhood is ethnically diverse, including people from Europe, Africa, India, the middle east, Asia and Central America. My best friends are from Iran and Egypt. My closest neighbors are African American. I always felt that it was a positive thing to live in a community like this. Please tell me why you disagree, I really want to know.
@@MrCharlespeele I chose to move here for those exact reasons. I believe that the more each person makes friends across racial boundaries, the less people will fear each other. And anyways, you get a better variety of food at parties and a broader perspective on life. I wanted both.
Nick you know your stuff. I work with the poor and mentally ill and it’s incredibly challenging. Thanks for putting together all you videos with great care and concern while also being entertaining. My hope is more citizens become aware of the shockingly sad state of affairs that our great country is in and decide to do something about it.
@@gurskyman The mountains are heavely logged. The waters are so polluted the people are dying of cancer. Our cities have years of old factories that have so polluted the land it is sickening. The air we breath in Parkersburg causes cancer the the dow chemical company and the fuel refinneries. WEST VIRGINIA TOXIC WASTE DUMP....Raw sewage in our creeks and rivers...fracking methods from oil drilling destroying everything in site. JOHN DENVER must have been paid by the WEST VIRGINIA TOURIST INDUSTRY TO HOOD WINK THEM TO COME HERE...😜😝....NICE PEOPLE...?...Break down here and get a bubba mechanic and tow truck. Go to the town and get your dinner only to find toxic water for your coffee ☕. Lots of people on entitlements and unemployment selling drugs, when their not stripping homes for plumbing copper wire or stealing to support their habit.
Vic Gogan I was solely referring to geographical appearance, but I appreciate you illuminating some of that. I’m originally from eastern PA - we too have our scenic hills, but as you know that beauty often surrounds some of the saddest, most forgotten old coal and steel towns one could come across.
The amount of stress here in the US has also increased the crime. I feel like I genuinely cannot trust a lot of people as of late. I've had 'friends' that I had known for years steal property from me. I don't want to think everybody around me is toxic, and the times we are living through are pushing people to extremes that are ruining our trust in each other.
From Uk. baffling mystery. Why would anyone be interested in 'aliens' when they dont even care about their neighbours or anyone other than mabe 'My family' The only help we ever got from people was from working class but even then only about one in a 1000. The only person I could ever trust with my life was labeled 'Criminal' none of the corrupt govt and their huge amount hlepers is ever so labeled..Keep up the Art sport drama and dont ferget yer new kitchen.
@G Money Strange how the reality is exactly the opposite of what you state here. Try looking at the countries around the world that does better that USA, they are very, very non-religious. Religion, mostly, seems to inspire hate, diversion and teen pregnancy. Go Figure.
@The Meiji Restoration "A decline in religious observance inevitably leads to this." Really? And coincidentally, religious countries tend to be much less happy, safe, and affluent than atheist countries like Northern Europe or Japan. How about explaining that to me? The most dishonest people I've met were always the ones who were also the most religious ones, at least here in Europe.
@G Money You just dodged my whole comment... Nowhere did I mention suicide. Is it because I wrote "much less happy"? Cause if yes and if you happen to think "happiness" and sucide are connected: Suicide is moreso connected to societal structure & loneliness, "honour" & disgrace, and/or the lack of satisfaction and a purpose. There's plenty of literature on suicide. Also, "statistics literally show a massive increase"? Statistics can be used to show whatever you want, bent to your needs. Lesson one in highschool. First and foremost, many countries do not properly disclose cases of suicide (for whatever reason). Second, if you read "old" literature, even old prosa, suicide has always been a hot topic, and people commited suicide just as much as today, if not even more (maybe the reasons were different - think Seppuku in Japan, or any love story with tragic endings, or ancient "laws" where wives had to commit suicide if their husband dies in battle). See? "A massive increase", compared to when? The present is not really all that doom and gloomy compared to the past, worldwide speaking. And religion will not save us, it never has. It has only brought war, separation, mistrust, and fights. What will save us is a resurrection of an affluent and solid middle class, a reconnection to nature (away from digitalization and concrete walls - for our mind's sake), and a public discourse which leaves sentiments and all the hocus-pocus aside.
@The Meiji Restoration That's not true. Europe has the best countries in the world right now and they have many atheists meanwhile strongly religious countries are getting worse.
i grew up in bushwick brooklyn. i lived 2 blocks away from the dekalb L station and the knickerbocker M station. i used to count how many under age girls i could see pushing strollers. lots. my sister wound up having 6 kids from 3 dudes.
The sign about crackheads in Alabama, and you saying “that’s something I’d expect in South America”. I’m British and I expect exactly that from the US. America is a strange place
Perhaps you should inspect your own poverty and homelessness in your own country. The north of england is a near disaster. Southern and northeastern scotland is a mess as well with many suffering from food insecurities. Hull and grimsby? You should watch, 'on benefits and proud of it'. Filmed in liverpool. Tremendously uplifting for such an 'advanced' nation.
@@brucemarsico6 woah dude chill, I wasn’t talking about poverty I was talking about crack heads, and I also never said that UK isn’t rife with poverty. I know it is, I literally live in an area that is very far from rich. Every rich country has poverty still.
@@kftc1980 WV being 93% white has nothing to do with the racial micro aggressions for every other place, hence alluding to a crack problem being something you’d see in South America
I’m in NYC. It used to be the safest big city in America. Thanks to “No bail NY” law and other crap laws rammed through by politicians, crime has skyrocketed. I’m leaving ASAP.
I lived in the the US for 3 years and every one of the states I visited, I believe has potential to produce vast, unimaginable riches for its community and individuals. I truly believe this. If everyone in America decides this instant to stop fighting with each other and somehow find a way to coexist, no one can touch them for the next 100 years. -rooting from far away. Hope you make it!
Most people in this country can't even appreciate your beautiful sentiment! They have an incessant need to hate and blame that will never be squelched. It is an ongoing insatiable hate and blame and scapegoat derangement. They don't k now the conditions and trauma that let to this condition. They devalue education and science and think the Metric system of measurement is, "Of the Devil."
I'd be interested to hear more about you living in Savannah. I almost moved down there once. Really enjoyed the time I spent down there, though on paper my home state is supposed to be "better" (really hard to accept without doing extensive mental gymnastics, though).
@@elliottalderssohn2751 I'm trying to interrogate the important question of whether Savannah is the best place on earth, and you're making jokes. Way to underestimate the importance of this topic.
Wrong!! It starts with members of congress passing measures to benefit the citizenry and not bail-out failing corporations and take big money out of elections, where "contributions" earns "favors".
@@virgilioblanco5374 If you seriously believe congress will ever do anything for We the People ever again then you're delusional. It's up to us to either vote them out or.....force them out.
No it doesn’t. Politicians are to blame. Who the F decided it would be a good idea to have a No Bail NY law where repeat criminals are set free with no bail? And the good people must live with it.
@@keeganbrown9967 increasingly these days, you can’t vote them out. Deblasio is the most hated mayor in my life, yet was re-elected in a landslide, only because he has a D after his name. You could run a literal turd as a Democrat and it would win in a landslide even if Mother Theresa were the GOP nominee.
@@stpstp7160 nothing wrong with having a plan in life to leave the US, but never ok to force yourself to stay in a place you're no longer happy to live in just because you believe that running won't make the problem go away. Of course it's bad everywhere BUT that's never the case. Some folks who leave America are far more happier than those who stay.
@@joanmaciel416 I mean, I would myself "flee" to either Switzerland or USA. But an american in Europa doesn't have many choices that aren't available already in the states IMO. Other than other rich nations, which does more or less the same as the US anyways. If you are poor in Detroit, then you are poor anywhere in the world🤷♀️
If we want wealth then we need to invest in a life style that creates wealth. We are the most wasteful country on Earth. If people could learn to not live on debt and save more, so many of our problems would be gone within a couple of years.
@@dallyh.2960 You guys are enslaved to economic principles that work against you because you think it'ssocialim. Really it is greed. Tax the rich and start feeding your damned people.
No no it trickles down all right, I don't know why there has ever been an argument against this... Look up the definition of trickle... It's not a huge gush of water/wealth, it's just a trickle, That's the trick...
This is just the beginning for America. It’s only going to get worse later and America deserves it because it’s been file and corrupt for a very long time and it’s finally starting to struggle and crumble on down
@@tonyaberney156 no ask Israel in 2019 We gave them $3.8 billion in foreign military aid to Israel Imagined if we used that in our healthcare system which is trash
I drove a tractor trailer for 15 years. The two worst areas in America, actually cities rather than states, that I saw were Detroit and Cairo, Illinois.
Well honey the D ain't like that now no matter what you hear. You can hardly afford a place downtown and white college kids are pretty safe. They are all over Detroit. In my old hood and everywhere. Gentrification fir real
@@Shel1021 That's good to hear. I am glad they are doing something. When I would go there, usually to the warehouse at the old Ford plant, it was so sad. Block after block after block of vacant houses, torn up, spray painted. It was so bad it was heartbreaking to see where the families used to live and all falling into ruin. I am very glad they are turning things around.
@@jodyhull4865 Yeah it's beautiful here now all of our sports stadiums are right downtown along with the casinos. We have a beautiful riverfront with a river walk that goes all the way down , basically the Detroit River to Lake St Clair. Alot of restaurants bars etc. You could go to a game and then just walk, ride bikes hang out all day.
I left Detoitt (Dearborn actually) in 1993 and am soooo glad that I did. It was to the point that I just couldn't stand it anymore. Even the neighbors one son dared to break into our garage and steal my husbands Vespa. That did it , we bought a place in Eastern Kentucky and I would never go back to Dearborn for anything!
From Uk. baffling mystery. Why would anyone be interested in 'aliens' when they dont even care about their neighbours or anyone other than mabe 'My family' The only help we ever got from people was from working class but even then only about one in a 1000. The only person I could ever trust with my life was labeled 'Criminal' none of the corrupt govt and their huge amount hlepers is ever so labeled..Keep up the Art sport drama and dont ferget yer new kitchen.
I live in WV and know you can be poor but you don’t have to look poor or stay poor. Educating yourself how to succeed regardless of what’s going on around you is important and anyone can do it.
Some of the best looking rural land in the country. If I had unlimited wealth I would be tempted to buy everyone there out (those that are obviously struggling), pay their way to drug treatment and a little place to live in the city, tear down the dilapidated homes, and turn all that land into family farms and homesteads.
Political correctness. You can't call people lazy bums anymore. They are homeless now...and we must help them. Which is another way of saying your taxes will be going up.
The government dont care about the people, too busy giving billions to Israel and fighting in countless wars. Its terrible when you wont even look out for your own people's welfare.
@@michaelharte9572 Seeing more of that bullshit now with Mayor Tim Boyd telling people they're a bunch of bums because they're complaining about having no power and struggling for money during a cold weather emergency. We elect officials that do nothing but get on Facebook and Twitter to make fun of us for being poor and not being able to get on a plane to fly to Florida or Mexico. That's not serving or representing your people.
An eye-opening program, it is hard to believe that there is so much poverty in this "powerful and flourishing" country full of possibilities. Really sad. Thank you for this information.
Yeah this guy is an smart guy. Neither New York or California was on this list! Your list is a hatred for the South. I live in Louisiana and I would much rather live here than anywhere in the northeast or the West Coast!!
@@biloz2988 I know. I agree with you 💯 This cat left out all the great stuff about these states!! I can make all those liberal states he didn't mention look a whole lot worse!
Something tragic here - so much potential - so much poverty. And everywhere you go such iconic buildings and such beautiful trees - at least where there are trees. I really notice it as a New Zealander. We have a beautiful country but its not North American beauty. You have your own look and it is amazing.
Excellent as always! My husband and I are addicted to your channel! A great sense of humor combined with very good information. We look forward to seeing more of your videos.
“If You Are Unhappy, There’s Things You Can Do. Just Try to Hang in There. We’re Puling For You. It Might Seem So Unfair, the Way Things Might Seem. But Plenty of Us Care. We Need You To Dream”.🎶🎵 I love your Voice, Songs, Singing, Lyrics & Videos. Thank You, Nick! ❣️
As an European I can't believe that some places in the USA are even worse than the worst places in Southern part of Europe, like Italy, Spain or Yugoslavia. Sad enough!
These images on the video are literally the worst places you can film in America. The vast majority of the country is beautiful and rich. Still, there is poverty like anywhere else.
I'm from Easley South Carolina fifteen minutes away from the University of Clemson. It's rough every where it's how you handle it and deal with it. Just stay focused, positive, and keep working hard. Keep moving forwards in life 👊🏾💯
If all 5000 persons who viewed this video told our politicians to stop giving our money away, it wouldn't make a dent. The country's population is ill informed. You don't see this stuff on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, etc., do you?
They give tax money (And it's not only yours) to buy influence so that foreign monetary policy can continue. In essence the US$ remaining the world trading and most used currency by far. It enables the US treasury the ability to keep printing US$ without the resulting inflation taking place in the US like it does in every other country that creates money out of thin air (Think Zimbabwe/Venezuela) . The money the US gives away costs the US government nothing , it is made up money. Sure it devalues all the USD already out there but more than 2/3 of actual greenbacks in circulation are outside the US. So it's really an indirect tax (Devaluing the USD) with more than 2/3 being collected from the rest of the world not from with in the USA but 100% being created in the USA. Up till the USA is giving away or is using over 2/3 of the printed from thin air FIAT currency it creates to benefit others , then it is still on a positive return game. Why do you think it is so important to keep the USD as the world's reserve currency? Think Saddam and his invasion of Kuwait , that didn't prompt his removal. He was allowed to carry on ruling .However when he said he was switching from selling oil in USD to other payment forms he had to go. Weapons of mass destruction being the official reason but later admitted that there were none.Think Muammar Al- Qaddafi , who even admitted to taking down a US civilian aircraft (Pan Am 103) over Lockerbie . That was no reason to remove him. However when he said he was to stop selling oil in USD it would be his downfall. Mass military exercise had him removed and killed . It's like having a credit card that you only have to bay 1/3 of the bill on and other people have to pay 2/3. How cool is that and to what lengths will you go to keep that arrangement. Sure you need to pay all sorts of bills to keep all those around the globe in agreement to let this carry on. It may even take having hundreds of military bases if far flung places and giving aid here and there but it is a balancing act really. When it's done right it promotes global stability and when not exactly the opposite. it however can not be viewed by looking at the smaller picture.
The way I look at it ,this is not putting America down, is just great info because I'm definitely not moving to those areas, and I thank Nick for the info, Go Nick God bless
@Ed Miller He's the Senator Trump tried to call during the insurrection to try to get him to slow down the certification of the electoral votes. While rioters were seeking to kill Pence and Pelosi, Trump was only interested in delaying the certification.
I’m gonna show this video to people who ask me why I left the USA last year ... 👌 P.S. it took me just a month of living in Oklahoma City to get depressed. The worst place I’ve ever lived in in my life... besides Fresno 😂🙈
My neighbour is American. He immigrated here (Australia) in the early 90s after marrying an Australian. I asked him why on earth he would leave the states. He came from a rural part of Illinois and said that it was going downhill at that time and when he goes back once or twice a year to visit family he said its depressing. He said he moved around a fair bit in the military and liked Hawaii but said the homelessness and poverty is getting bad there too. I’ve travelled to the US 4 times and been through about 30-35 states. I’ve enjoyed each trip but the amount of poverty is something that always shocked me. It’s sad because other than that, I love the US.
@@Mattb81 comparing to the country where I’m originally from and where I live now, the USA is far from being poor. A lot of people do really live on minimum wages but at least the country is developed and you can afford more in the USA than in Ukraine, for example. But if you compare the USA with Switzerland, Australia or UAE, we’ll, then I can say that the USA is far from being rich.
@@dntulsa5039 California's a great state! Taxes, taxes, taxes, homelessness and expensive homes. That's why I live in Oklahoma.... we have tornadoes, and other stuff like corn.
well at least if you are in prison you will get the covid vaccine well ahead of the elderly, veterans, children, etc. It's been a meme that you should commit a low level crime to get your vaccine faster. I'm a vet, and the VA sent me an email saying 'don't call us, we will call you' yet inmates in our state prison are already receiving their shots.
@@thesollylama130 it's for the best trust me they are using everyone as guinea pig at this stage.Dont worry about this crap of a vaccine.This is coming from a nurse who refuse to take it
Nah. Poverty in the US is low af. Go somewhere in Africa, South America, Mexico, Russia, North Korea, China, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, (shall I continue?) and the quality of life there is worst then in america.
Damn...after that rural Alabama news headlines I want to learn about those rural towns. Can you make a video for worst rural areas and small towns in the south?
I love your videos Mississippi has some area's that are doing quite well could you do a top ten reasons to move to Mississippi I moved here 14 months ago and I love it.
The USA has rained down so much terror in the world that your less than 1% annual budget spent on foreign aid is more a kick in the balls than any help.
You noticed that too re: the responding part. Nick does a good job at thumbs upping you or adding even a small comment, whereas other channels of this genre show any appreciation to most of their subscribers. Well I guess that applies to any You Tube video. When that happens, I usually never continue to watch or I unsubscribe. Nick is cool about making time for people, although he may not get to you every time, he does 👍.
Hate to say it but even if we gave $0 for foreign aid the "saved" money would not be redirected to help Americans. It is a problem of capitalism and the demonizing of the poor imo.
I love it so much lmao I’m a ms resident student and I’m so ready to leave lmao 😂. It really does deserve all of the spots it tends to get on these lists
A) prior to. Jobs were created. Fuel prices dropped Some industries stayed in America and as results jobs were created. Those industries went over seas? Were fine for the unemployed left behind. 2) Currently no jobs. B) Industrues are now packing and leaving overseas. C) Jobs are being cut down. D) Natural resources are now imported as to prior to this date America flooded the fossil fuel worldwide causing fuel prices at home to drop. Tell me if anything its wrong here?
If you remove emotion, personality, and look objectively, the last occupant of the White House really did a LOT to help the average American. Unemployment was down to statistical zero. Prices of goods and commodities had dropped. Industry was coming back. Stable, long lasting jobs that paid well. We were energy independent - no more need for endless middle east wars. Yes, his tax cuts DID help despite Pelosi screaming otherwise. The average middle class American saved about 3%, or $2-3,000 per year. That is HUGE especially when prices are also low. Oh, and I forgot the most important part. He was the first president in decades to NOT START A NEW WAR. In fact he tried to STOP the endless, expensive wars and bring our troops home. Congress said "nuh uh, we want more wars!" and blocked him
Love these videos dude... I even grew up in a town that made a "worst" list, Hazleton, PA, (it's a terrible place btw you were so right) Keep up the content!
All kidding aside, what can be done to improve people’s lives in this country.? It is shameful that in a country so wealthy, so many of our citizens are caught in a desperate cycle of living
Americans are "nations of one", kings and queens without subjects". Why do some insist on living like serfs on the public plantation. Sad state of affairs as America is the wealthiest nation in the world, simply because it protects freedom. Obviously that doesn't include the US citizen.
Go back to having the same tax cuts as we did decades ago for the wealthy and stop giving them welfare. Trickle down economics repackaged by republicans is not efficient
The citizens themselves need to ignore the government and start cleaning up their neighborhoods, and this has been happening before, for example there were youtube videos on communities in Detroit cleaning up their neighborhoods sidewalks and lawns. At the very least, we can make the place look nicer first and figure out what we can do from there. If we wait for the big gov or big corps to invest or care about our neighborhoods, you'll be waiting another 100 years and no help will ever come. People have been abandoned by gov and the mega corps.
Another informative video Nick. I thought the opening the closet aspect of the video was BRILLIANT. Loved that. It shows that no matter how negative a situation is, you still can find a little positivity. 👏😁
There's nothing humorous about it. It's the truth. So sad for a country that opens its arms to everyone. 🗽and THIS is the thanks America gets. We All come from somewhere else, and everybody wants to live here. our New and UNIMPROVED immigrants take this country for granted ANYMORE
Great video as always, Nick. So incredibly depressing though. I guess NC isn't so bad afterall. *sigh* I really like how you go to these places and show us what it looks like. Some of the areas that you drive through look pretty dang scary. Stay safe!
No Healthy eating in Oklahoma Dang! Fruits and Vegetables are hard to eat when 80% of Walmart is mainly junk food with sugar ingredients even Whole Foods has a huge section that sells overpriced cup cakes and Ice cream.
Walmart has gotten better though. Adding organic food and more produce. The produce is cheap and not the best, but if you wash it real well it's not bad. Aldi's is cheap too and has some good food. I think it's available, but people just aren't buying it.
Its weird how people tend to think that homes being cheap is great. But there's a reason why the homes are cheap.
And property taxes...if the home prices don't keep out the riff-raff, the property taxes will.
I agree; I bought a ‘cheap ‘ home in Norway Michigan and it absolutely Sucks!
The house sucks because so many things were dangerous and wrong with the house and there is many more like it in the area and surrounding areas.
A percentage of people just do not care so they let their houses disintegrate and there isn’t much choice in the lower price ranges.
I think you want a happy medium theres places were a run down shed is worth half mill
@@angelicamimosa I just bought an adorable cheap little house up north in a very small town built in 1910 and I love it and it's charm. The previous owner loved it to and took good care of it. He did have to put in a furnace and a couple small repairs and he did.
I never thought I'd ever be able to buy a house and I'm 60 LoL. Taxes in escrow paid with the small mortgage 💝👍
Justin homes super cheap here in St Louis! Get a brick one they're semi-bullet proof. Stay away from the windows!
As much as it saddens me, America is tearing itself apart
I want to move out of here, to Europe or something like that. I choose Lichtenstein.
@@Willybean08 You should move to Slovenia.
@Mr. Common sense From what evidence?
@@Willybean08 im literally in germany and i want to move to the usa. i think he overstretches the situation a bit that we are a 3rd world country in 30 years but it turns worse each year. the middle class is almost non existant anymore in germany and things like crime rates, drug use, homelesness all go up. also our education gets worse each year, prices for pretty much everything go up as well. in 30 years we are not a 3rd world country, we are california, lmao.
@@questionyourself718 I would pick Europe any day over the large, cold, dead, sprawling suburbs here in Oklahoma.
As a native Mississippian, I'm honestly relieved that we're not number 1. Sad day when second worst feels like a compliment.
I love Mississippi. Good people there!
@@brialapoint2608 would you like to elaborate?
At least it's not 45 below for 4 months of the year, and at least it's not Detroit. 😁
@@jamesnevsimal Look at his comment history, the guy is a nut.
A friend of mine was traveling through St. Louis, needed gas, and wound up in a sketchy part of town. She stops and asks some guy for directions and he looks over, shakes his head, and says "You really shouldn't be here."
The Vacation movie made a joke about that in the 80s. So nothing much has changed.
Whoa! This exact scenario happened to me, except it was Camden, NJ
That exact same thing happened to me in Chicago.
In other words run!!!!
@Anthony Coz, really? Well who is it then? Rather curious 🤔.
Just like Ancient Rome...we are rotting from within!
MEQ: Yep, swirling the drain as we speak.
And we are supposed to be ok with this.
how did this happen? well I suppose it's happening everywhere
@big pompano just a matter of when
X@@markkelly5900
As a citizen of West Virginia, I can sadly confirm that everything you said about it is absolutely 100% spot on
The land is beautiful. WV needs a do over, so much potential.
NOOOOOOO. So not true. That is only a portion of WV. Much of what he said was true, however, there were some gross misrepresentations of our great state.
I'm just 8 miles from the WV/KY border. It's very, very sad, but I'm glad I didn't stay in Michigan. I've been here for going on 35 years and am glad I left when I did.
ME TOO
I have a question : I only heard bad stuff about WVirginia. But I, weirldy enough, am an European that loves West Virginia because is the state that resembles the most my home area. I talk about mountains, forgotten places, rural areas positioned in remote areas, away from the hustle and bussle(and crime) of big cities, clean air (this is only the natural part) and also I find the hard working class of coal miners and fallen industry to be very familiar. Is true that when a major industry is falling, life goes hard for everyone. I saw west Virginia having lots of abandoned or poorly maintained houses, so does my area, many children taken away from toxic families, same to my area, rural areas that somewhat hold a tradition of being mountain men that endure harsh winters and lots of work in the summer. I very sad about West virgina being ranked so low so my question is:I know that there must be something good and special in this state, what is it? What is something that wv people can feel proud for not being like the other states? Is it true that the crime rate and occurrences are rarer than places like detroit or new York or Los Angeles?
I like how he has a sense of humor about things without being dismissive and hurtful. It feels like he brings things to attention hoping to spur change for the better, not just to mock them.
Haha I try Matt
@@NickJohnson And you do
It in a way that it’s so sad it’s funny...
@@NickJohnson You did a better job at being UNBIASED than television news reporters these days.
I am calm and happy in this teeny tiny town. I am calmly watching snow fall... It hasn't been this cold here since 1941. So grateful for heat and lights.
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@@fazhihimalaya7562 Great for who, that is?
@@byronevans1 Maybe Fazhi was being sarcastic when he/she said, “our great country”😊
@@mlanae20 with that name, I'm not sure he is an american original....
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Moral of this story.
Invest in education.
Better schools.
Lets get it done America.
And manufacturing
Become isolationist too
Gotta pay for wars first remember
Not nearly enough.
Not necessarily college, that can lead you into debt, a trade.
3:05 - it’s easier for these dirty politicians to skim off the top when sending the money to foreign countries.
From Uk. baffling mystery. Why would anyone be interested in 'aliens' when they dont even care about their neighbours or anyone other than mabe 'My family' The only help we ever got from people was from working class but even then only about one in a 1000. The only person I could ever trust with my life was labeled 'Criminal' none of the corrupt govt and their huge amount hlepers is ever so labeled..Keep up the Art sport drama and dont ferget yer new kitchen.
it was actually an export.
america has done this to many other countries.
The US government has the tendency to create a problem and then of course comes up with a solution . With lousy foreign and domestic policies. The power elite is the only piece of the "apple " pie that prospers. Unfortunately, the poor will get poorer and the rich much richer. As far as the countries that appear to be assisted by the US, that occurs because it's a lucrative business for the few in power. The government has not been known to care about the people , anywhere.
The corporations write the laws through ALEC . They made it impossible to have your own business . All of the fees and licenses and inspections and public officials to pay off and asses to kiss make it literally impossible to open a fucking bait shop
Blame the Communist for providing cheap labor, products for the poor and quality good for big bucks. "Capitalism" gave us "ghost-towns",high rent, and countless victims of it.
much of that “foreign aid” goes into their own pockets. this is why we the people need to take over
I see your paving the way for an argument about socialism
Hegelian Dialectic and yes problem...reaction and solution. They have used this scheme to get us into countless wars and just about every other problem we have encountered as a society. Wake up...not woke
When you see what's happening in the USA it makes you wonder why couples want children.
It's only going to become worse.
I wouldn’t bring a child into this world, no way.
i thought i was the only one who felt this way 😅
i think to bring a child into the world right now shows a severe lack of understanding about the world and especially our country
Let’s be rational if you all resort in not having kids don’t you think it will be more catastrophic. Who’ll then carry on history who’ll then take over from the existing ones work. How do you get the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Jackson without having kids were they not once kids. The truth is this you don’t rule forever, there is always power shift.
@@okechukwumark4312 there is nothing “irrational” about adults making a conscious decision not to procreate.
@@amandanegrete1306
..." The Call of the Wild "
It is programmed in our genes by the great designer...
Like having to drink when thirst seeps in..
one philosopher once said..
" A stiff d_ _k has no conscience "..said with due respect and without malice,
Thank you 🙏
This is why The Jerry Springer Show never runs out of guests.
Include MTV RIDICULOUSNESS
Everything on the Jerry Springer Show is very scripted, in another words it is fake!
and why Kelly Clarkson is on TV
I didn't know that show was still on.
Read that and almost dropped my phone laughing so hard.
No wonder the Walking Dead’s director decided to shoot the show in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lol yes very true !!! 🤣
Perfect!!
Better than anywhere in the NE ya twat.
the comic book started off the storyline in Atlanta and the show is based off the book..that's why
It would have been nice to put something good in Mississippi's closet: we have the highest rate of African American home ownership. We have the highest percent of African Americans as well. The rest of the US can talk about diversity, but we are diverse.
Aww I should have you're right!
I doubt that you really want it that way
Mmmm as a black person, I don't think that makes us or the state sound good.
I'm sorry that I offended you. Can you tell me why those things make us look bad? To me home ownership is a proxy for participation in the community, and the projects I have worked on have included a diverse set of people. My neighborhood is ethnically diverse, including people from Europe, Africa, India, the middle east, Asia and Central America. My best friends are from Iran and Egypt. My closest neighbors are African American. I always felt that it was a positive thing to live in a community like this. Please tell me why you disagree, I really want to know.
@@MrCharlespeele
I chose to move here for those exact reasons. I believe that the more each person makes friends across racial boundaries, the less people will fear each other. And anyways, you get a better variety of food at parties and a broader perspective on life. I wanted both.
Inner city Baltimore is the worst ghetto I have ever seen in my life! I cry 😢 for the kids! 🙏🏾
I agree
Philly and St Louis are even worse.
HUGS 💖
When the police were told not to enforce the law, the city became a crime haven. Be careful what you wish for.
Chicago is worse
I rode the Greyhound bus from Florida to Texas and it opened my eyes how America really looked like out of its big cities.
I take that trip once a year. I have learned a lot by doing so.
What
Holy crap, brave!
there is no gettoes in Germany, Canada, Australia and many other countries. I LOVED Vancouver just to expensive.
@@LK-pc4sq this comments fucked u didn't look hard enough in Canada lol trust me there
Nick you know your stuff. I work with the poor and mentally ill and it’s incredibly challenging. Thanks for putting together all you videos with great care and concern while also being entertaining. My hope is more citizens become aware of the shockingly sad state of affairs that our great country is in and decide to do something about it.
West Virginia is one of the most geographically beautiful states! It’s horribly poor, but the people are some of the best you’ll meet.
Wayne Collins the mountains, sir. The space. The scenery. Essentially what would ordinarily make a state beautiful.
@@gurskyman The mountains are heavely logged. The waters are so polluted the people are dying of cancer. Our cities have years of old factories that have so polluted the land it is sickening. The air we breath in Parkersburg causes cancer the the dow chemical company and the fuel refinneries. WEST VIRGINIA TOXIC WASTE DUMP....Raw sewage in our creeks and rivers...fracking methods from oil drilling destroying everything in site. JOHN DENVER must have been paid by the WEST VIRGINIA TOURIST INDUSTRY TO HOOD WINK THEM TO COME HERE...😜😝....NICE PEOPLE...?...Break down here and get a bubba mechanic and tow truck. Go to the town and get your dinner only to find toxic water for your coffee ☕. Lots of people on entitlements and unemployment selling drugs, when their not stripping homes for plumbing copper wire or stealing to support their habit.
Vic Gogan I was solely referring to geographical appearance, but I appreciate you illuminating some of that. I’m originally from eastern PA - we too have our scenic hills, but as you know that beauty often surrounds some of the saddest, most forgotten old coal and steel towns one could come across.
@@gurskyman I must agree with you. Pa is beautiful and yes many very good people
LOL must be all that coal beautifying the WV landscape and its people!
Finish your dinner plate,
People are starving in America.
GG: No, thats part of the problem, Americans need to eat less so they arent too fat to get a job.
starving??? you mean those central american migrants will be starving also when they get asylum? shocking!! lol
No one is starving in America.
@@canaldofred2366 while these guys are clearly skewed on america.. only a fool thinks no one is starvin in america
@@galebh9715 no one is starving in America.
The amount of stress here in the US has also increased the crime. I feel like I genuinely cannot trust a lot of people as of late. I've had 'friends' that I had known for years steal property from me.
I don't want to think everybody around me is toxic, and the times we are living through are pushing people to extremes that are ruining our trust in each other.
From Uk. baffling mystery. Why would anyone be interested in 'aliens' when they dont even care about their neighbours or anyone other than mabe 'My family' The only help we ever got from people was from working class but even then only about one in a 1000. The only person I could ever trust with my life was labeled 'Criminal' none of the corrupt govt and their huge amount hlepers is ever so labeled..Keep up the Art sport drama and dont ferget yer new kitchen.
@G Money Strange how the reality is exactly the opposite of what you state here. Try looking at the countries around the world that does better that USA, they are very, very non-religious. Religion, mostly, seems to inspire hate, diversion and teen pregnancy. Go Figure.
@The Meiji Restoration "A decline in religious observance inevitably leads to this." Really? And coincidentally, religious countries tend to be much less happy, safe, and affluent than atheist countries like Northern Europe or Japan. How about explaining that to me? The most dishonest people I've met were always the ones who were also the most religious ones, at least here in Europe.
@G Money You just dodged my whole comment... Nowhere did I mention suicide. Is it because I wrote "much less happy"? Cause if yes and if you happen to think "happiness" and sucide are connected: Suicide is moreso connected to societal structure & loneliness, "honour" & disgrace, and/or the lack of satisfaction and a purpose. There's plenty of literature on suicide.
Also, "statistics literally show a massive increase"? Statistics can be used to show whatever you want, bent to your needs. Lesson one in highschool. First and foremost, many countries do not properly disclose cases of suicide (for whatever reason). Second, if you read "old" literature, even old prosa, suicide has always been a hot topic, and people commited suicide just as much as today, if not even more (maybe the reasons were different - think Seppuku in Japan, or any love story with tragic endings, or ancient "laws" where wives had to commit suicide if their husband dies in battle). See?
"A massive increase", compared to when? The present is not really all that doom and gloomy compared to the past, worldwide speaking. And religion will not save us, it never has. It has only brought war, separation, mistrust, and fights. What will save us is a resurrection of an affluent and solid middle class, a reconnection to nature (away from digitalization and concrete walls - for our mind's sake), and a public discourse which leaves sentiments and all the hocus-pocus aside.
@The Meiji Restoration That's not true. Europe has the best countries in the world right now and they have many atheists meanwhile strongly religious countries are getting worse.
Kids are hungry, grown ups are fat and teens are pregnant😆 I love this channel🥰
Don't forget New Mexico where our kids are the worst off.
i grew up in bushwick brooklyn. i lived 2 blocks away from the dekalb L station and the knickerbocker M station. i used to count how many under age girls i could see pushing strollers. lots. my sister wound up having 6 kids from 3 dudes.
''When the food runs out, we still have each other.'' -Jeffrey Dahmer-
It's really fycked up!! 🤣🤣🤣Shameful!!!
@@myfoodishere don't knock her, it could have been 6 Baby daddies!🤣🤣🤣
Prediction: Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana will be on this list
And they are. What a surprise! (not)
Arkansas too of course.
AMEN!!!
You mean the three best states? Never
@@redhawk8476 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The sign about crackheads in Alabama, and you saying “that’s something I’d expect in South America”.
I’m British and I expect exactly that from the US. America is a strange place
Perhaps you should inspect your own poverty and homelessness in your own country. The north of england is a near disaster. Southern and northeastern scotland is a mess as well with many suffering from food insecurities. Hull and grimsby? You should watch, 'on benefits and proud of it'. Filmed in liverpool. Tremendously uplifting for such an 'advanced' nation.
@@brucemarsico6 woah dude chill, I wasn’t talking about poverty I was talking about crack heads, and I also never said that UK isn’t rife with poverty. I know it is, I literally live in an area that is very far from rich. Every rich country has poverty still.
@@c.l.visions2581 I think the author of this video thinks you have to be a minority to be associated with poverty and crime
@@yourpalmal3863 rewatch the part about West Virginia, which is 93% white. Then apologize to him.
@@kftc1980 WV being 93% white has nothing to do with the racial micro aggressions for every other place, hence alluding to a crack problem being something you’d see in South America
I’m in NYC. It used to be the safest big city in America. Thanks to “No bail NY” law and other crap laws rammed through by politicians, crime has skyrocketed. I’m leaving ASAP.
You left out democratic politicians
The only reason for crime is poverty. You have your own ridiculously unfair society to thank.
Notice, Democrats run all these cities.
I had a puerto Rican lady try to stab me in New York before. I was glad patrol cops on foot caught her.
Right use to be nice for tourist in New York think this generation just can’t run the country not as bright as there parents expect it to get worse.
Arkansas people don't need on-line dating, they just have a family reunion.
😃
A state of folks, in search of a magic marsupial.
Rip inbreds
lolollllllll right
THAT is Mississippi !!!!
I lived in the the US for 3 years and every one of the states I visited, I believe has potential to produce vast, unimaginable riches for its community and individuals. I truly believe this. If everyone in America decides this instant to stop fighting with each other and somehow find a way to coexist, no one can touch them for the next 100 years.
-rooting from far away. Hope you make it!
Most people in this country can't even appreciate your beautiful sentiment! They have an incessant need to hate and blame that will never be squelched. It is an ongoing insatiable hate and blame and scapegoat derangement. They don't k now the conditions and trauma that let to this condition. They devalue education and science and think the Metric system of measurement is, "Of the Devil."
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Just take a look at France now
I lived in Savannah. You can have a million dollar house (historic) blocks away from the slums. Always amazed that most slums have MLK blvd.
I'd be interested to hear more about you living in Savannah. I almost moved down there once. Really enjoyed the time I spent down there, though on paper my home state is supposed to be "better" (really hard to accept without doing extensive mental gymnastics, though).
@@NightingaleSong
You guy’s outta get a room somewhere in Georgia?
@@elliottalderssohn2751 I'm trying to interrogate the important question of whether Savannah is the best place on earth, and you're making jokes. Way to underestimate the importance of this topic.
AS Chris Rock pointed out a number of years ago, "There is always bad stuff going down on MLK, no matter where it is."
Ok!!
Can't just wait for things to get better, it starts with us.
Wrong!! It starts with members of congress passing measures to benefit the citizenry and not bail-out failing corporations and take big money out of elections, where "contributions" earns "favors".
@@virgilioblanco5374 If you seriously believe congress will ever do anything for We the People ever again then you're delusional. It's up to us to either vote them out or.....force them out.
No it doesn’t. Politicians are to blame. Who the F decided it would be a good idea to have a No Bail NY law where repeat criminals are set free with no bail? And the good people must live with it.
@@keeganbrown9967 increasingly these days, you can’t vote them out. Deblasio is the most hated mayor in my life, yet was re-elected in a landslide, only because he has a D after his name. You could run a literal turd as a Democrat and it would win in a landslide even if Mother Theresa were the GOP nominee.
yeah that's it let's just wait hahahahaha
"What's going on in America?"
I don't know, but I'm getting the hell out of here when I get the chance to.
Where you moving to? Looking from Europa, it seems the states still values freedom..
Think about that every day. But you can't run away from your problems. Unfortunately it's bad everywhere.
@@stpstp7160 nothing wrong with having a plan in life to leave the US, but never ok to force yourself to stay in a place you're no longer happy to live in just because you believe that running won't make the problem go away. Of course it's bad everywhere BUT that's never the case. Some folks who leave America are far more happier than those who stay.
@@mrpoxycat3967 I agree...where could Americans flee to? Unless you are wealthy..then it doesn't matter where you live
@@joanmaciel416 I mean, I would myself "flee" to either Switzerland or USA. But an american in Europa doesn't have many choices that aren't available already in the states IMO. Other than other rich nations, which does more or less the same as the US anyways.
If you are poor in Detroit, then you are poor anywhere in the world🤷♀️
this is a great channel, full of life and reality.
And bluntness, which I love.
Seven though I think Nick is the definition of the word "snarky", I love this channel.
I worked on a psych unit in Arkansas. If you fail at a suicide attempt, you can be charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER. Joy...
WOW!!! I have never heard of such a thing....that blew my mind!🤯
And if they determine it's first degree murder, I guess they give them the death sentence for trying to commit suicide?
This was very informative and yet very depressing.
This is what happens when you pay people a pittance. Trickle down wealth my ass.
Just wait for the Green New deal and hard core "Equity" to kick in...Good times for all!!
If we want wealth then we need to invest in a life style that creates wealth. We are the most wasteful country on Earth. If people could learn to not live on debt and save more, so many of our problems would be gone within a couple of years.
@@dallyh.2960 You guys are enslaved to economic principles that work against you because you think it'ssocialim. Really it is greed. Tax the rich and start feeding your damned people.
@daniel byers Blinded by theists and politicians and authoritarianism. What's more, the idiots donate their hard earned to them.
No no it trickles down all right, I don't know why there has ever been an argument against this...
Look up the definition of trickle... It's not a huge gush of water/wealth, it's just a trickle, That's the trick...
America first. How can we help others when we’re struggling here at home?
I said that when IRAN got pellets of cash...
Ask Biden
Sorry, but to US politicians Israel and Saudi Arabia are more important
This is just the beginning for America. It’s only going to get worse later and America deserves it because it’s been file and corrupt for a very long time and it’s finally starting to struggle and crumble on down
@@tonyaberney156 no ask Israel in 2019 We gave them $3.8 billion in foreign military aid to Israel Imagined if we used that in our healthcare system which is trash
I drove a tractor trailer for 15 years. The two worst areas in America, actually cities rather than states, that I saw were Detroit and Cairo, Illinois.
Well honey the D ain't like that now no matter what you hear. You can hardly afford a place downtown and white college kids are pretty safe. They are all over Detroit. In my old hood and everywhere. Gentrification fir real
@@Shel1021 That's good to hear. I am glad they are doing something. When I would go there, usually to the warehouse at the old Ford plant, it was so sad. Block after block after block of vacant houses, torn up, spray painted. It was so bad it was heartbreaking to see where the families used to live and all falling into ruin. I am very glad they are turning things around.
@@jodyhull4865 Yeah it's beautiful here now all of our sports stadiums are right downtown along with the casinos. We have a beautiful riverfront with a river walk that goes all the way down , basically the Detroit River to Lake St Clair. Alot of restaurants bars etc. You could go to a game and then just walk, ride bikes hang out all day.
I left Detoitt (Dearborn actually) in 1993 and am soooo glad that I did. It was to the point that I just couldn't stand it anymore. Even the neighbors one son dared to break into our garage and steal my husbands Vespa. That did it , we bought a place in Eastern Kentucky and I would never go back to Dearborn for anything!
@@lindasmith3377 sorry to hear that
"Mappy, what are you doing in South Carolina's closet?" LOL
I suppose that you have to stay in one in South Carolina?
Cheating on North Carolina.
@@MirzaAhmed89 Did 6 year old Aisha ever cheat on 54 year old muhammad?
Looking for Lindsey Graham.
@@jeffdodds6895 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🏻🙌🏻
"When the food runs out, we still have each other.''
- Jeffrey Dahmer -
No one remembers that jeffrey dahmer ate his male victims, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin..
@@firstedition1083 Soylent Green, you say?? Don’t worry. Gill Bates has us covered.
@@lamadyarah8787 what is that? I'm vegan and I hear about it but I don't eat that.
Cultivate yr little vertical food garden in small spaces
*eachother, ONE word!!
The downhill of America is very sad.
The politicians need to spend money here. Instead it goes to other countries.
"You really shouldn't be here." "Don't go in there." Advice from the locals. Ain't these people good?
This is sad how the usa take care of other people instead of their own
you probably need poor people to become soldiers.
It's not the people that benefit, it's their rulers.
Much of the world doesn't think the usa takes care of them .They would rather you took care of your own and stay away from them
Who does the USA take care of?
From Uk. baffling mystery. Why would anyone be interested in 'aliens' when they dont even care about their neighbours or anyone other than mabe 'My family' The only help we ever got from people was from working class but even then only about one in a 1000. The only person I could ever trust with my life was labeled 'Criminal' none of the corrupt govt and their huge amount hlepers is ever so labeled..Keep up the Art sport drama and dont ferget yer new kitchen.
I live in WV and know you can be poor but you don’t have to look poor or stay poor. Educating yourself how to succeed regardless of what’s going on around you is important and anyone can do it.
Some of the best looking rural land in the country. If I had unlimited wealth I would be tempted to buy everyone there out (those that are obviously struggling), pay their way to drug treatment and a little place to live in the city, tear down the dilapidated homes, and turn all that land into family farms and homesteads.
This is depressing. What the hell is happening to us?
America doesn't know where to put the money it earns
karma
Political correctness. You can't call people lazy bums anymore. They are homeless now...and we must help them. Which is another way of saying your taxes will be going up.
The government dont care about the people, too busy giving billions to Israel and fighting in countless wars. Its terrible when you wont even look out for your own people's welfare.
@@michaelharte9572 Seeing more of that bullshit now with Mayor Tim Boyd telling people they're a bunch of bums because they're complaining about having no power and struggling for money during a cold weather emergency. We elect officials that do nothing but get on Facebook and Twitter to make fun of us for being poor and not being able to get on a plane to fly to Florida or Mexico. That's not serving or representing your people.
Las Cruces, NM looks worse than Afghanistan. I've been to both places.
There’s a +30 year war going on in Afghanistan...
@@ugaugaarschface that really says a lot!!!
I actually really like Las Cruces, NM.
60% Hispanic, gee I wonder why
@@alfonsomunoz4424
The Las Cruces NM crime rate for 2018 was 404.1 per 100,000 population, a 64.78% increase from 2016
An eye-opening program, it is hard to believe that there is so much poverty in this "powerful and flourishing" country full of possibilities. Really sad. Thank you for this information.
I was expecting Cali to top the list with the most homeless and the most disheveled neighborhoods. It turned out all ten worst are all in the south
Yeah this guy is an smart guy.
Neither New York or California was on this list! Your list is a hatred for the South. I live in Louisiana and I would much rather live here than anywhere in the northeast or the West Coast!!
@@lnugent1000 it's not my list
@@biloz2988 I know.
I agree with you 💯
This cat left out all the great stuff about these states!!
I can make all those liberal states he didn't mention look a whole lot worse!
@@lnugent1000 it is obvious he's liberal
@@biloz2988 yep
This is depressing.
Something tragic here - so much potential - so much poverty. And everywhere you go such iconic buildings and such beautiful trees - at least where there are trees. I really notice it as a New Zealander. We have a beautiful country but its not North American beauty. You have your own look and it is amazing.
Excellent as always! My husband and I are addicted to your channel! A great sense of humor combined with very good information. We look forward to seeing more of your videos.
“If You Are Unhappy, There’s Things You Can Do. Just Try to Hang in There.
We’re Puling For You. It Might Seem So Unfair, the Way Things Might Seem.
But Plenty of Us Care. We Need You To Dream”.🎶🎵
I love your Voice, Songs, Singing, Lyrics & Videos. Thank You, Nick! ❣️
I try Katya ❤️❤️ you be safe out there 😘😘
As an European I can't believe that some places in the USA are even worse than the worst places in Southern part of Europe, like Italy, Spain or Yugoslavia. Sad enough!
I get so sad when i see all these run down states in what should be the richest country in world.
These images on the video are literally the worst places you can film in America. The vast majority of the country is beautiful and rich. Still, there is poverty like anywhere else.
LOL Louisiana’s closet- “yup, it’s all cheeseburgers cigarettes and booze”
That's pretty good!!
And the problem is what exactly?
I moved from Louisiana to Florida in October and I ain't looking back! 😂
@@Dreamtravelthings which part of Florida?
Throw in a fish head and some chickens - it's awful in Louisiana
I'm from Easley South Carolina fifteen minutes away from the University of Clemson. It's rough every where it's how you handle it and deal with it. Just stay focused, positive, and keep working hard. Keep moving forwards in life 👊🏾💯
Tell politicians to stop giving our tax money to other countries.
If all 5000 persons who viewed this video told our politicians to stop giving our money away, it wouldn't make a dent. The country's population is ill informed. You don't see this stuff on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, etc., do you?
Make churches and billionaires pay their just share of taxes.
You are not very smart are you
They give tax money (And it's not only yours) to buy influence so that foreign monetary policy can continue. In essence the US$ remaining the world trading and most used currency by far. It enables the US treasury the ability to keep printing US$ without the resulting inflation taking place in the US like it does in every other country that creates money out of thin air (Think Zimbabwe/Venezuela) . The money the US gives away costs the US government nothing , it is made up money. Sure it devalues all the USD already out there but more than 2/3 of actual greenbacks in circulation are outside the US. So it's really an indirect tax (Devaluing the USD) with more than 2/3 being collected from the rest of the world not from with in the USA but 100% being created in the USA. Up till the USA is giving away or is using over 2/3 of the printed from thin air FIAT currency it creates to benefit others , then it is still on a positive return game.
Why do you think it is so important to keep the USD as the world's reserve currency? Think Saddam and his invasion of Kuwait , that didn't prompt his removal. He was allowed to carry on ruling .However when he said he was switching from selling oil in USD to other payment forms he had to go. Weapons of mass destruction being the official reason but later admitted that there were none.Think Muammar Al- Qaddafi , who even admitted to taking down a US civilian aircraft (Pan Am 103) over Lockerbie . That was no reason to remove him. However when he said he was to stop selling oil in USD it would be his downfall. Mass military exercise had him removed and killed . It's like having a credit card that you only have to bay 1/3 of the bill on and other people have to pay 2/3. How cool is that and to what lengths will you go to keep that arrangement. Sure you need to pay all sorts of bills to keep all those around the globe in agreement to let this carry on. It may even take having hundreds of military bases if far flung places and giving aid here and there but it is a balancing act really. When it's done right it promotes global stability and when not exactly the opposite. it however can not be viewed by looking at the smaller picture.
Tell your government to stop bombing other countries
Thank you for brightening up my day
The way I look at it ,this is not putting America down, is just great info because I'm definitely not moving to those areas, and I thank Nick for the info, Go Nick God bless
Almost all of these states are in the SEC where their football coaches make $6 milly a year.
Red states
@Ed Miller he's a senator from Alabama now, not a Q anon suppporter though
@Ed Miller No, he was just elected to the U.S. Senate.
West Virginia, Oklahoma, New Mexico are not in the SEC. Missouri only joined in 2012.
@Ed Miller He's the Senator Trump tried to call during the insurrection to try to get him to slow down the certification of the electoral votes. While rioters were seeking to kill Pence and Pelosi, Trump was only interested in delaying the certification.
I’m gonna show this video to people who ask me why I left the USA last year ... 👌
P.S. it took me just a month of living in Oklahoma City to get depressed. The worst place I’ve ever lived in in my life... besides Fresno 😂🙈
Totally agree - but Salinas is worse
I'm currently living in fresno and planning to move to either Oregon or Washington state.
@@dragonvue09 good choice! Fresno isn’t great and there is nothing to do there :(
My neighbour is American. He immigrated here (Australia) in the early 90s after marrying an Australian. I asked him why on earth he would leave the states. He came from a rural part of Illinois and said that it was going downhill at that time and when he goes back once or twice a year to visit family he said its depressing. He said he moved around a fair bit in the military and liked Hawaii but said the homelessness and poverty is getting bad there too.
I’ve travelled to the US 4 times and been through about 30-35 states. I’ve enjoyed each trip but the amount of poverty is something that always shocked me. It’s sad because other than that, I love the US.
@@Mattb81 comparing to the country where I’m originally from and where I live now, the USA is far from being poor. A lot of people do really live on minimum wages but at least the country is developed and you can afford more in the USA than in Ukraine, for example.
But if you compare the USA with Switzerland, Australia or UAE, we’ll, then I can say that the USA is far from being rich.
“What is going on in America?”
What goes up, must come down
So fast
@Lordkey these slums are such a trivial part of America; it is ignorant to compare these areas to America
Thank you for the awareness. These kind of channels are extremely necessary!
....sniff..sniff...your closing song almost brought me to tears.........I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!
@Ed Miller I detect sarcasm in BOTH our comments.......
Man, seen a few videos now and you have some really interesting content sir, thank you 🙏🏼
Ok Conrad
This is going to be good and funny 😂😂😂 Nick you always may my day
10:52 That was funny! Oklahoma hiding old fruits and veggies in their closet. 😂😆🤣
Don't come to Oklahoma! Go to California!
No hard feelings. I'm sure Oklahoma is a great state. The video was funny though. 😂
@@dntulsa5039 California's a great state! Taxes, taxes, taxes, homelessness and expensive homes.
That's why I live in Oklahoma.... we have tornadoes, and other stuff like corn.
It’s all rural it just get cold here and tornados 🤣🤣and it all farms but it’s cheap here but taxes suck 🤣🤣 but I benifitted from COVID 😂😂😂
@@dntulsa5039 exactly all we need demsto screw up our state they don’t understand the whole State Farm’s just about 😂😂😂
I am hooked on Nick's videos! I can't click out of them; GREAT STUFF!!
Worse places to live in america is every where. The whole country has gone to hell. Most people will end up homeless or in prison.🇺🇸💀
well at least if you are in prison you will get the covid vaccine well ahead of the elderly, veterans, children, etc. It's been a meme that you should commit a low level crime to get your vaccine faster.
I'm a vet, and the VA sent me an email saying 'don't call us, we will call you' yet inmates in our state prison are already receiving their shots.
@@thesollylama130 it's for the best trust me they are using everyone as guinea pig at this stage.Dont worry about this crap of a vaccine.This is coming from a nurse who refuse to take it
The only way you’re getting that vaccine in me is if you kill me LOL. Covid-free after all this time ;) ( I couldn’t believe it either )
Nah. Poverty in the US is low af. Go somewhere in Africa, South America, Mexico, Russia, North Korea, China, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, (shall I continue?) and the quality of life there is worst then in america.
@@jongallardo8006 I dont need that crap either.Keep taking vit D,C,Zinc,quercertin and boost that immune system up.
Damn...after that rural Alabama news headlines I want to learn about those rural towns. Can you make a video for worst rural areas and small towns in the south?
I love your videos Mississippi has some area's that are doing quite well could you do a top ten reasons to move to Mississippi I moved here 14 months ago and I love it.
I can appreciate how much u emphasized the ridiculousness of billions being sent elsewhere.
Like in the UK we should always look after our own FIRST !!!
The USA has rained down so much terror in the world that your less than 1% annual budget spent on foreign aid is more a kick in the balls than any help.
@@drunkensailor112 I'd rather just keep kicking em in the balls than send anyone a penny
What about the billions spent on Shell Oil subsidies?
Like your vids Nick. Plus your cool. You respond to folks. Much love homie!
You noticed that too re: the responding part. Nick does a good job at thumbs upping you or adding even a small comment, whereas other channels of this genre show any appreciation to most of their subscribers. Well I guess that applies to any You Tube video. When that happens, I usually never continue to watch or I unsubscribe.
Nick is cool about making time for people, although he may not get to you every time, he does 👍.
You forgot to tell folks about 15.5 million to Pakistan for Gender studies.
Good to see you are back in your groove as tourism secretary. 😂😂
I’m a truck driver & yes, GA has some messed up traffic! It’s rough 24/7! 😂
Hate to say it but even if we gave $0 for foreign aid the "saved" money would not be redirected to help Americans. It is a problem of capitalism and the demonizing of the poor imo.
yeah that's a nice little story
but politicians have their priorities set in stone
like sending billions in aid to Israel
Haha, Mississippi can never get a break.
I love it so much lmao I’m a ms resident student and I’m so ready to leave lmao 😂. It really does deserve all of the spots it tends to get on these lists
If they'd focus on getting healthier, increase the minimum wage, and stop being racists - they'd be a lot better off.
The state you cant spell even if you are looking at the word Miscipepe
@@tudorjason haha increasing the minimum wage actually causes low skilled workers to lose those jobs. I'm not making that up.
Oxford is great.
I tell people all the time to stay away from Atlanta. Period.
Thanks to Atlanta Biden is our President.
@@johndurham6172 thank god FDT
I love Atlanta. I don’t know what you are talking about.
@@Isaactorres60 I guess
@@truebetold65 Atlanta is the cash cow of Georgia. More than half of GA’s gdp is from Atlanta.
Very sad situation Nick. Your song was beautiful, thanks.
As usual, great job and pretty accurate I must say...love this channel!
So im confused about what people are fighting about because no matter who's in the white house what has really been done to help America
A) prior to.
Jobs were created.
Fuel prices dropped
Some industries stayed in America and as results jobs were created. Those industries went over seas? Were fine for the unemployed left behind.
2) Currently no jobs.
B) Industrues are now packing and leaving overseas.
C) Jobs are being cut down.
D) Natural resources are now imported as to prior to this date America flooded the fossil fuel worldwide causing fuel prices at home to drop. Tell me if anything its wrong here?
If you remove emotion, personality, and look objectively, the last occupant of the White House really did a LOT to help the average American. Unemployment was down to statistical zero. Prices of goods and commodities had dropped. Industry was coming back. Stable, long lasting jobs that paid well. We were energy independent - no more need for endless middle east wars. Yes, his tax cuts DID help despite Pelosi screaming otherwise. The average middle class American saved about 3%, or $2-3,000 per year. That is HUGE especially when prices are also low.
Oh, and I forgot the most important part. He was the first president in decades to NOT START A NEW WAR. In fact he tried to STOP the endless, expensive wars and bring our troops home. Congress said "nuh uh, we want more wars!" and blocked him
The democrats giveth and the Republicans taketh away
President Joe has done more in 20 days than Trump in 4 years
@@JulianaBlewett Republicans sucks
I loved the song at the end!! I love your videos and they are amazing!!
Hearts!
The three states I spend the most time on Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina back to back to back. feels bad
What that mean?
My homes are all the worst states
East st Louis is in Illinois and the rest is bad Springfield, St Louis, Kansas City and Troy, they all suck
Be cool if u do a video on the wall of homeless being built around the perimeter of santa monica and near every grocery store in L.A.
The smell. The prices.. Wooooo I can't imagine
Near grocery stores.... that’s where the food is. Just like rats and cockroaches
I love the places you show keep them coming.
Love these videos dude... I even grew up in a town that made a "worst" list, Hazleton, PA, (it's a terrible place btw you were so right) Keep up the content!
Can hazleton be fixed John?
True! I'm 30 minutes away
@@NickJohnson smh I don't know Nick, I just don't know...
@@phillygrunt2154 they cannot enter the e commerce economy? No Innovators?
All kidding aside, what can be done to improve people’s lives in this country.? It is shameful that in a country so wealthy, so many of our citizens are caught in a desperate cycle of living
Americans are "nations of one", kings and queens without subjects". Why do some insist on living like serfs on the public plantation. Sad state of affairs as America is the wealthiest nation in the world, simply because it protects freedom. Obviously that doesn't include the US citizen.
Go back to having the same tax cuts as we did decades ago for the wealthy and stop giving them welfare. Trickle down economics repackaged by republicans is not efficient
@A.C. A. well said A.C.A.
The citizens themselves need to ignore the government and start cleaning up their neighborhoods, and this has been happening before, for example there were youtube videos on communities in Detroit cleaning up their neighborhoods sidewalks and lawns. At the very least, we can make the place look nicer first and figure out what we can do from there.
If we wait for the big gov or big corps to invest or care about our neighborhoods, you'll be waiting another 100 years and no help will ever come. People have been abandoned by gov and the mega corps.
Thank You for sharing.
Another informative video Nick. I thought the opening the closet aspect of the video was BRILLIANT. Loved that. It shows that no matter how negative a situation is, you still can find a little positivity. 👏😁
That Missouri truck is killing me! LOL
i have no idea why that's a thing john.
Haha, they are damm ugly😂
That's what happens when you can only afford a lift kit.
Big truck with little tires. 😄 🦆
@@dancarlton7973 Might could be cheaper😂
*Great Narrative Nick* 👍🇺🇸
Hey Jeff
Thanks for making me laugh and cry at the same time Nick. Love your content.
I really love your sense of humor😂 greetings from The Netherlands 🙋🏻♂️
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There's nothing humorous about it. It's the truth. So sad for a country that opens its arms to everyone. 🗽and THIS is the thanks America gets. We All come from somewhere else, and everybody wants to live here. our New and UNIMPROVED immigrants take this country for granted ANYMORE
@@NickJohnson Same I love your humour too mate. Love from England 🏴, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
When I watch this video I think of what it must have been like to live during the fall of Rome. Nick, you of course are the best!! :)
So much need in this country why is this new administration sending tax payers money to wuhan lab in chi na
Great video as always, Nick. So incredibly depressing though. I guess NC isn't so bad afterall. *sigh*
I really like how you go to these places and show us what it looks like. Some of the areas that you drive through look pretty dang scary. Stay safe!
scariest statement ever..." I'm from the government and here to help you".
I HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME AND I REMEMBER THAT, I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THAT RONALD REAGAN WAS PART OF.
Very good vid, my brother. Excellent song and rendition.
There are some nice old timber structures in these less desirable locations.
You can relocate them to somewhere where it's worth renovating them.
No Healthy eating in Oklahoma Dang!
Fruits and Vegetables are hard to eat when 80% of Walmart is mainly junk food with sugar ingredients even Whole Foods has a huge section that sells overpriced cup cakes and Ice cream.
Walmart has gotten better though. Adding organic food and more produce. The produce is cheap and not the best, but if you wash it real well it's not bad. Aldi's is cheap too and has some good food. I think it's available, but people just aren't buying it.
@Ed Miller Bacon, Ham or Turkey is good on salad too. Lol 😋
@@jonasabry9099 THIS^^^
@@laurie7689 Aldi is a budget German supermarket chain that is dominating the world right now.... they are all over Europe too
@@laurie7689 Also, you have to bring your own bag or a box to put your food in.
You crack me up with the 70's references! loooool
80s
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It's easier for a politician to get a kickback from a foreign country then from a state.