I'm from México and have been living here for 30 years. I've never seen poverty like I did when I went to LA, I was in shock. It was a dream of mine to go workout at golds gym in Venice beach and oh boy the things I saw. In Mexico the extreme poor people at least keep their dignity and maintain clean.
I agree. I know some of the poorest Ranchitos in northen Mexico and though the people aren't smart they live with dignity. They bathe, clean their clothes, work to take care of their children the best they can and they try to celebrate any little thing to try to squeeze some joy out of life. American poor just quit. BTW, I'm from LA too, instead of Venice try going down to the south bay for your beach activities, much safer and cleaner.
Cuz yall don’t have the drug problem we have. Your country supplies are country with the dope. If it was the other way around then Mexico would probably be like LA and Kensington.
@nattyfatty6.0 Literally just shared my experience of visiting LA lmao. Would you like to pay for my ticket so I visit every town and every city in california?
@@77D777 True, the most disgusting city in mexico I have ever been too is Mexico city, that shits disgusting and you see junkies often, kinda like in LA
@@JosePerez-fe2gvIf you did more than think about it for a second you’d know when and WHY those streets became like that, but you don’t understand the socio-economic state of California and just regurgitate the same shit from your corner of the world and it shows, do you even know who ‘Gavin’ refers to?
Ghost kitchens are the future of American restaurants. Most of the Asian restaurants i serve are delivery or takeout only. They maintain a storefront, but only because they are already there. When they open future restaurants it will just be a kitchen in the cheap industrial space. They are popping up all over. A kitchen has lower overhead, fewer employees & higher profits.
Recently went on a road trip through America with my family and had a great time, but I could easily say that San Francisco and L.A where the worst cities. I visited San Fran 20 years ago and it was a beautiful city, but I have never seen so much poverty, drug abuse, filth, mental health problems on almost every corner in my life. Your political representatives are running the state of California into the ground.
I visited San Fran circa 1980 and it was better than now but still drunks and beggars at every turn. I stopped at a park to rest and beggars actually lined up to take turns at me. At a fast food place a beggar sat down across from me and panhandled me while I was eating. A wino veteran came up to me downtown and wanted me to listen to his story. His breath stank so bad I still remember it today.
My people won't even go there. Thanks, Newsom, for ruining SF. Now he is doing the same thing for the rest of the state. And how on earth can he be expected to run the country and not do the same thing.
@@3d4u2c Been lots of places, but I am talking about my home state Cali, and the dude governing it, and this video is only a sample size of the entire state of California.
@@deeess2687so the second a Republican governor gets elected in California again, boom, snap, 25,000 unhoused people are off the streets huh? It’s that simple huh? And if it’s not then you should run for local office and fix it
That Yoshinoya restaurant has the best pot stickers in the entire city. Sometimes homeless people try to steal your food so you need to lock the doors and roll up the windows.
What’s crazy is that LA was more dangerous in terms of homicides from the early 80s-late 00’s, what’s gotten worse is the homelessness & open drug use. In the 80s my mom was literally walking over de@d bod!es in that same park in this video. It’s different times, different problems.
@@de5163 You can see the LAPD’s archived data from the 1990s. All violent crime (murder, assault, robbery etc) was significantly higher in the 80s and 90s (like NYC and most US cities). But there does seem to be more open drug use and visible homelessness today, as you said.
This very area, the Macarthur Park area, with a 3 mile radius, was absolutely worse back in the 90s. It was tantamount to a 3rd world country, even more packed, dense and crowded with lost, lonely, addicted, broken souls...
The disparity of wealth vs poverty in LA really was one of the things that bothered me the most when I resided there that restaurant at 1 min or so, business people go there for lunch, 1:07 sandwiches run about 25 dollars across the street people are going through trash cans
@@JustBree716 a middle class Californian, or shit even low class at this point are easily a mid-west/southern rich with the kind of money they have to earn just to stay alive in a 2 bed 1.5 bath
I love that deli they have the greatest sandwiches. It’s right on Alvarado. You have to fight all the Third World losers to get into the place but it’s worth it.
In 1982 in Huntington Beach, I was renting a 3-bedroom 1327 Sq Foot home for $600 monthly. In the garage I found an inspection notice stapled to a beam. House was built in 1962 for $12,000 dollars. We left California in 1987. Yesterday I googled the old home only to see that the estimated sale price was $1.1 million. No wonder we are seeing these scenes. Housing is outrageous. Who can afford those prices?
Rents are up too, I rented a studio apt. across from the beach in Santa Monica in 1972 for $110 per mo.,though I was only making $100 per wk. That's where society is off track, only one fourth of monthly income was to be spent on housing.Greed has consequences.
These people are homeless even in affordable states like Nebraska or Missouri. They panhandle for bus tickets to California and resume laying on sidewalks because the weather is more hospitable to outdoor living there. They're on hard drugs and/or mentally ill.
So where are all the movie stars who are so concerned about the homeless? Oh, they're in their gated communities. I could never live like this. I would head up to Alaska to attempt to live in the wilderness.
U took the words right out of my mouth. Lol. Standing on their soap box at the Oscars wagging their got dam fingers, meanwhile Venezuela is down the street
oh lets look at my monthly budget here for bill and house payments etc. -- need to save money for 400 dollar shoes this month and 300 dollars for drugs oh what about food oh i just eat crackers and chips and ride my bike.
Nah. Chicago is truly America's last great 1st world big city. Even the dangerous hood have nice lawns, house and expensive cars. Now imagine the nice areas of Chicago 🤑
Los Angeles has horrible smog so there is a fog. Last time I was there back around 2005 the smog was so bad on Hollywood Boulevard. I cannot see the other side of the street. My eyes burned for three days. I would not go to LA without a military gas mask
@@charrua59 Nah, bro. I think they live outside because the California climate allows it. Also because California is a very rich place that attracts all sorts of rabble. And also because most of these people are drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill people, illegal immigrants, or just ghetto trash, who will probably never live like civilized people again. Let's say they can't afford to buy a house. What prevents them from working and renting? Not even a house, but an apartment. At least a room. I am sure that in a country like the USA, you can find a suitable town where workers are needed and housing is affordable. But no. They would prefer to live in a tent on dirty streets, receive benefits, engage in crime, and spend money on drugs. Without radical measures, the situation in such places will only get worse.
I'm in Cape Town, South Africa. Some parts are very beautiful and wealthy. Some third world, like many countries throughout the world, not only Africa. I would agree that the cars are above average and in good condition.
I live in Chicago, and my neighborhood doesn't look like this at all. Why not? Demographics (duh). It would look even better if not for the postal workers, or the You-Know-Who Crowd visiting the parks (vs. using the parks in their own "turf"). How does Chicago compare to Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, East Cleveland, K.C., D.C., Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Camden, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Buffalo? 🤔
I worked Rampart and Central Divisions for several years, both as a street Cop and later as a Supervisor. My last assignment was in Central Division, as a Captain. Throughout my assignments we were able to maintain a livable condition for the community. After 30 years of service , I retired and moved to another State. I have now been gone for 26 years. Last year I decided to take one of grandsons to LA in order to show him where I had worked all those years as a Policeman. I was completely dumbfounded. Parts of Rampart and Central Divisions are no longer what I knew.They are now full of trash, homeless people, and derelicts. In fact,in my opinion, the communities have been completely overtaken by what can best be described as a foreign population resembling a “Third World Country”. It was very sad to see how these communities have deteriorated to such a low level of living…..
@@kingkobrazxbecause the drug addicts in Beverly Hills are very rich… there are SO MANY addicts of ALL creeds classes etc. however it’s only the dirt poor homeless addicts that everyone sees in plain sight in public spaces every day and night… addicts with money and clout aren’t hangin down on skid row… also the MESS should also be attributed to MENTAL ILLNESS not just drugs and alcohol
@kjul - the same turds stay in power because votes are rigged. If it doesn't make sense, think about it. People need to let go of that delusion that a majority of people anywhere are still voting against their own freedoms and for the same ol asshat politicians. Tptb love to divide the peasantry....blame Californian expats for your state flipping. They put much time and effort into manufactured consensus and consent.
They aren't. Case in point, California voted NO on gay marriage in 2008. No. No. No. And the Supreme Court overturned the vote. Do you really think Biden was elected? Of course not. Pick Jesus. He is a real being. Man's time is over here. God created the Earth and he wants new guardians here. Mankind has only been allowed to be here about 6,000 years. No more.🤷♀️
First part is Westlake 6th Street, home to thousands of Migrants from Mexico, Central and South America (Los Angeles Police Department Rampart. Second part of the video is Skid Row
He goes around the same corner in multiple videos and Westlake's vastly different in day than night. Latino street vendors take over that whole area until midnight, that's where he got the night footage. Skid Row's also has a Latino market on multiple sides, the poverty nest is that condensed in DTLA.
I live in England, visted the US many times and always loved it, great country and met some great people, never went to LA though, and have been thnking of going one day before I get too old, but maybe I won't bother after watching this.
Obviously it has nice parts this is just the rough parts. I could say the same about England also. Weather looks like crap. But that wouldn’t be the main factor why I wouldn’t visit.
@@77D777 Yes, you make a fair point, there are some inner city areas of the UK that are a bit ropey, but nothing to the scale of this, and the weather being crap in England is a bit of a misconception, sure we have our fair share of rain and gray skys, we are an island in the North Atlantic after all, but we can have some glorious sunny days too during spring and summer, sure, our weather is not in the same league for sun and temprature as California, but as much as I love the sun, I do like to have four seasons....Cheers!
@@sicr7373 yeah man I lived in Florida for 3 1/2 years the heat was brutal I like seasons also and moved back to my hometown in middle America Missouri.. never left the states but I would love to visit the UK one day and London.. looks cool.. hope you can come over and travel one day also.
I live near Home depot up the street from Macarthur park. The sidewalks are congested and bullshit goes on but many families like my own use the park and are trying to make a living. 99% of the time you have to look for trouble, like any other part of the city.
@@DefensisIndusnah you have other counties to the east like riverside and san bernardookie with plenty of junkies. Victorville, Hemet, etc.Then you head north and you’ll find Bakersfield, Fresno, and Oakland with their own crap to contend with.
@@bk972 I live in Chicago, and my neighborhood is way better than this (despite people like the postal workers). What are your nicknames for Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, East Cleveland, K.C., D.C., L.A., Inside Job City, Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Camden, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Buffalo? 🤔 What state are you from? 🤔🤨
I went to L.A some years back and wasn't crazy about then. It looks even worse now. Most of it is me though. Not big on large groups of people. I'm just a laid back quiet kind of guy.
Why bother renting any retail storefronts when you can just open up a tent in front of it 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Big change is needed. And when business starts getting affected and people lose money, then it will happen.
This near MacArthur Park? I visited with my parents (they grew up in LA and Santa Ana) and we were walking around trying to go down memory lane and I never knew how crowded the streets were with little tents. Stores almost overflowing to the curb. Maybe it's because I was 7 before we left Cali.
More and more places going up for lease. Rampant unchecked retail theft and people selling all sorts of boosted goods. This is a more practical and realistic dystopia than the cyberpunk one we all thought we would find ourselves in.
Don't be ridiculous if Trump doesn't win the whole world will continue dumping the petrodollar and our $ will become worthless the people against Trump want a cashless society and no cars/beef @@drumtwo4seven
It only got worse during Covid. Things have actually improved in many areas of the city. There are areas of homeless that have been housed and areas cleaned up. I'm sure that will happen here two, but it takes time.
I have actually been to the Westlake area near MacArthur Park. One of the first shots in the video. It wasn't the best when I was there, but now it looks worse. You only used to see a bunch of tents in the Skid Row area near the older part of Downtown Los Angeles. Now it looks like Skid Row has expanded to multiple parts of the city.
My daughter was there not long after Kobe and about a year after that by way of upstate NY. She knows of skid row but she's still young and carefree so when i asked her to paint a picture of what she saw she was totally not interested in what i wanted to know 😅 about the nasty grimy los Angeles i watch from the comfort of my couch. Lol. Thank God she came back in one piece for sure.
Moved to LA from miami back in 2017 to feel the vibe and to check out the city i only lasted a year and a half the experience was brutal and i can say from watching this video it has gotten worse since i was there....would i ever go back to visit?? I don't think so!
What are people doing? Setting up shops in front of shops? Nothing like free rent. And what was up with that crazy red van? lol Wow! The homeless situation is completely out of control since the last time I was in LA. I heard it was bad but seeing is believing! It's unreal.
If you're talking about the red van with the banana on it, I believe it is a public health agency encouraging sexual health. Usually these vans and pop-ups provide free-of-charge STD testing, prescriptions, birth control, and other resources to minimize the spread of disease.
Yet in Hollywood store owners put planters out front to deter the homeless setting up camp. The city made the shop owners remove the planters because "They were blocking the sidewalk"
To be fair it’s mostly in the urban areas, Bay Area, Central Valley & LA county, outside of those areas there are still very beautiful parts of California left.
@@RenR70The urban areas of all those places are wonderful, too. The areas with homeless are TINY compared to the rest of all these cities. LA is 500 square miles, the areas in this video is a few square blocks.
and the thing is all this hood shit is spreading, and it’s making the wealthy/middle class californias move to different states. especially texas because the property’s are so cheap here. they are making everything so expensive by moving everywhere and destroying other states with their california opinions and it’s only a matter of time where the homeless will rise up in other states because of the flood of californians moving there. california needs to fix their shit it’s a lose lose situation for everyone right now.
This is not only sad, this is UNACCEPTABLE! Los Angelas, CA is one of the most expensive places to live in the country with some of the highest taxes in a country. The USA has the highest economy IN THE WORLD! How is the homeless crisis even a thing here? Homelessness is bad for the environment. Why are we sending BILLIONS to other countries while we have THIS here at home? It is PAST TIME we demand better from our leadership! Letting people live like this and spread diseases is not compassion. Having open borders and allowing drugs into our country which is a major factor leading to homelessness is not helping them. Being soft on crime on people selling drugs leading to homelessness is not justice. Spending MILLIONS of taxpayer's money on the "homelessness problem" which ends up with the net result of more people being homeless is not working. Remember ALL OF THIS when you vote this November! I live here in CA and for the first time in almost 10 years I did not get a tax refund, but I own money and I have busted my butt and worked more this past year than I have ever worked before. Several times I had to go without sleep, working from sunup to sundown in order to get my work done and for what? I am literally working right now to pay off my taxes AND FOR WHAT!?!?!
California doesn't know where 20 billion dollars went to help the homeless!!! Think about how much 20 billion is?! it's like Mount Everest amounts of money 💰 😅
@@stephentontz3853 Agreed! It is nice to see my "shadow banned" comment is not completely blocked off for everyone to see. Let's hope more people wake up and better yet they have the character and backbone to admit they were wrong by backing Biden and make it right by voting for Trump this November. #BlacksForTrump #Trump2024
Wow Los Angeles is starting to look a lot like Detroit. It's so sad to see so many people homeless, whether by choice or misfortune. What gets me is how can these people afford these tents, aren't they expensive? In any event, this is another great video by Charlie, thank you!
Never understood how you could sleep in a tent in that environment. Wouldn’t you want to see what threats were swirling around you? At any moment something very bad could happen & you would never see it coming.
Im born and raised in los angeles age 52. Ladies and gentlemen it was bad never this bad! 70s 80s 90s all good. Luckily im moving out end of year far away. Finally
I am Mexican. OMG, honestly that video reminds me Tepito in Mexico city but in the 80's. "First world"? I don't think so. I live in Guadalajara and I have to say that even here you don't see many homeless people, this is a rotten society.
We’re talking about just Wilshire. Just one street, but the 8-mile distance between Wilshire and Alvarado and Wilshire and Rodeo…damn, it’s like two different worlds
7th and Alvarado, and the authorities are allowing another skid row to develop there ... and there's a subway station right close by that working people have to push through the filth and squalor to get to!! 🤮
I took my Mexican cousin and her Colombian friend on a quick LA tour. We passed through this area and I told them about our problems with housing/poverty. They said this was nothing compared to shanty town they have. Still we have a problem.
Damn LA looks like a dump
And yet you can’t buy an apartment in MacArthur park for under $700k
It IS a dump
Facts, big facts
@@allybearbear I lived in Westlake (6th and Union Drive) and my rent for a large studio with huge windows was $733.
People will say it’s only in certain areas but actually a good portion of LA is dirty af 😂
I'm from México and have been living here for 30 years. I've never seen poverty like I did when I went to LA, I was in shock. It was a dream of mine to go workout at golds gym in Venice beach and oh boy the things I saw. In Mexico the extreme poor people at least keep their dignity and maintain clean.
I agree. I know some of the poorest Ranchitos in northen Mexico and though the people aren't smart they live with dignity. They bathe, clean their clothes, work to take care of their children the best they can and they try to celebrate any little thing to try to squeeze some joy out of life. American poor just quit. BTW, I'm from LA too, instead of Venice try going down to the south bay for your beach activities, much safer and cleaner.
Cuz yall don’t have the drug problem we have. Your country supplies are country with the dope. If it was the other way around then Mexico would probably be like LA and Kensington.
@nattyfatty6.0 Literally just shared my experience of visiting LA lmao. Would you like to pay for my ticket so I visit every town and every city in california?
@@77D777 True, the most disgusting city in mexico I have ever been too is Mexico city, that shits disgusting and you see junkies often, kinda like in LA
Mexico is a shyt whole country
Man we are so lucky that they banned plastic straws and one time use plastic bags.
Our country deserves better leadership and management.
or better citizens. think about it.
Yep a replacement by new people that wanna work. Maeby it's the Biden plan and we just haven't figured it out yet.
@@JosePerez-fe2gvIf you did more than think about it for a second you’d know when and WHY those streets became like that, but you don’t understand the socio-economic state of California and just regurgitate the same shit from your corner of the world and it shows, do you even know who ‘Gavin’ refers to?
It’s karma …. You yanks have done enough…. Payback time
Tough luck then. You'll have to chose between a deuce and a turd....like always. 😂
This is why so many shops are online only. Before long, no storefronts or restaurants will be physically accessible.
Scary
Wait till Nancy Pelosi's nephew becomes president😮
All part of the plan.
How about all the wonderful third world vendors selling the stuff they stole out of your house?
Ghost kitchens are the future of American restaurants. Most of the Asian restaurants i serve are delivery or takeout only. They maintain a storefront, but only because they are already there. When they open future restaurants it will just be a kitchen in the cheap industrial space. They are popping up all over. A kitchen has lower overhead, fewer employees & higher profits.
Recently went on a road trip through America with my family and had a great time, but I could easily say that San Francisco and L.A where the worst cities. I visited San Fran 20 years ago and it was a beautiful city, but I have never seen so much poverty, drug abuse, filth, mental health problems on almost every corner in my life. Your political representatives are running the state of California into the ground.
I visited San Fran circa 1980 and it was better than now but still drunks and beggars at every turn. I stopped at a park to rest and beggars actually lined up to take turns at me. At a fast food place a beggar sat down across from me and panhandled me while I was eating. A wino veteran came up to me downtown and wanted me to listen to his story. His breath stank so bad I still remember it today.
most gloablist cities usually worst conditions. Not how humans should be living
We know.😂
democrat outcomes
My people won't even go there. Thanks, Newsom, for ruining SF. Now he is doing the same thing for the rest of the state. And how on earth can he be expected to run the country and not do the same thing.
This is how bad Newsome is. Perfect example of a failure. Dude needs to get exposed more for his other failures.
This has been going on in every state across the country long before Newsome. Have you been anywhere else?
True
@@3d4u2c Been lots of places, but I am talking about my home state Cali, and the dude governing it, and this video is only a sample size of the entire state of California.
@3d4u2c its only going on in Democrat stronghold metro areas.
@@deeess2687so the second a Republican governor gets elected in California again, boom, snap, 25,000 unhoused people are off the streets huh? It’s that simple huh? And if it’s not then you should run for local office and fix it
Born and raised in LA. Left 8 years ago. People are too stupid and vote for fools who play on the “compassion card”. Nothing will change.
Same like me. About that time. It looks terrible than 2015- damn it!
LA has been a dirty butthole since the 60s when the usual suspects moved west
Yeah liberal America has been robbing the whole damn country that way
That Yoshinoya restaurant has the best pot stickers in the entire city. Sometimes homeless people try to steal your food so you need to lock the doors and roll up the windows.
"That yoshinoya restaurant has some of the best pot stickers in the city" 🤓🥸🤡
@@MoKa-zs1zo Damm why u so booty hurt over a comment
LA has become a place full of crime, drugs, and homelessness. It wasn't always this bad.
It's certainly getting worse, though that stuff has been going on here for decades.
What’s crazy is that LA was more dangerous in terms of homicides from the early 80s-late 00’s, what’s gotten worse is the homelessness & open drug use. In the 80s my mom was literally walking over de@d bod!es in that same park in this video. It’s different times, different problems.
@@de5163Didn't they fish out a few bodies back in the day?
@@de5163
You can see the LAPD’s archived data from the 1990s.
All violent crime (murder, assault, robbery etc) was significantly higher in the 80s and 90s (like NYC and most US cities).
But there does seem to be more open drug use and visible homelessness today, as you said.
This very area, the Macarthur Park area, with a 3 mile radius, was absolutely worse back in the 90s. It was tantamount to a 3rd world country, even more packed, dense and crowded with lost, lonely, addicted, broken souls...
The disparity of wealth vs poverty in LA really was one of the things that bothered me the most when I resided there that restaurant at 1 min or so, business people go there for lunch, 1:07 sandwiches run about 25 dollars across the street people are going through trash cans
Did u say sandwiches run $25?
I literally just had a rib dinner with all the fixins for $27
@@JustBree716 a middle class Californian, or shit even low class at this point are easily a mid-west/southern rich with the kind of money they have to earn just to stay alive in a 2 bed 1.5 bath
I love that deli they have the greatest sandwiches. It’s right on Alvarado. You have to fight all the Third World losers to get into the place but it’s worth it.
The poverty is self inflicted. It should be illegal to not work. All malingerers should be sent into exile at hard labor.
I really said aloud “man LA Kitchen is getting done dirty immediately” 😂
The food ain’t cheap but it did me alright a few times down there.
Good to see you’re still cruising around my friend. Been watching your videos for a long while now. 💪😎
In 1982 in Huntington Beach, I was renting a 3-bedroom 1327 Sq Foot home for $600 monthly. In the garage I found an inspection notice stapled to a beam. House was built in 1962 for $12,000 dollars. We left California in 1987. Yesterday I googled the old home only to see that the estimated sale price was $1.1 million. No wonder we are seeing these scenes. Housing is outrageous. Who can afford those prices?
True, but the homeless issue has less to do with housing prices. It's more about mental illness and addiction.
Rents are up too, I rented a studio apt. across from the beach in Santa Monica in 1972 for $110 per mo.,though I was only making $100 per wk. That's where society is off track, only one fourth of monthly income was to be spent on housing.Greed has consequences.
These people couldn’t afford living in that house even for free
These people are homeless even in affordable states like Nebraska or Missouri. They panhandle for bus tickets to California and resume laying on sidewalks because the weather is more hospitable to outdoor living there. They're on hard drugs and/or mentally ill.
So where are all the movie stars who are so concerned about the homeless? Oh, they're in their gated communities. I could never live like this. I would head up to Alaska to attempt to live in the wilderness.
They're eating at Langer's right there at 7th and Alvarado. It's still well known for the pastrami sandwich.
U took the words right out of my mouth. Lol. Standing on their soap box at the Oscars wagging their got dam fingers, meanwhile Venezuela is down the street
Most of them don't live anywhere near these neighborhoods.
They are in Santa Barbara! And Switzerland! And France! And Tuscany!
Waaaaaay out in West LA and the Hollywood Hills looking down at these people you see on this video
America is truly a third world country with a Gucci belt.
oh lets look at my monthly budget here for bill and house payments etc. -- need to save money for 400 dollar shoes this month and 300 dollars for drugs oh what about food oh i just eat crackers and chips and ride my bike.
@MikeV.-sy6fl
And woman with their hair dyed red or blue with tattoos all over
Nah. Chicago is truly America's last great 1st world big city. Even the dangerous hood have nice lawns, house and expensive cars. Now imagine the nice areas of Chicago 🤑
Anyone who says this has never been to a third world country
You're just a goofball
This makes me realise we are ALREADY living in the dystopian future. Except there isnt any neon or constant rain and fog...
Yea it's dystopian but not cyberpunk
If things get bad with AI years down the road...it's a wrap...
Who says neon is necessary for a cyberpunk future to be achieved? Yes, #Cyberpunk2020 has well arrived.
Los Angeles has horrible smog so there is a fog. Last time I was there back around 2005 the smog was so bad on Hollywood Boulevard. I cannot see the other side of the street. My eyes burned for three days. I would not go to LA without a military gas mask
I love how this African country has dirty streets, but at the same time expensive cars.
Housing don't seem cheap. That's why everyone living on the streets.
@@charrua59 Nah, bro.
I think they live outside because the California climate allows it. Also because California is a very rich place that attracts all sorts of rabble. And also because most of these people are drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill people, illegal immigrants, or just ghetto trash, who will probably never live like civilized people again.
Let's say they can't afford to buy a house. What prevents them from working and renting? Not even a house, but an apartment. At least a room. I am sure that in a country like the USA, you can find a suitable town where workers are needed and housing is affordable. But no. They would prefer to live in a tent on dirty streets, receive benefits, engage in crime, and spend money on drugs. Without radical measures, the situation in such places will only get worse.
I'm in Cape Town, South Africa. Some parts are very beautiful and wealthy. Some third world, like many countries throughout the world, not only Africa. I would agree that the cars are above average and in good condition.
This is an American city.
@@tonylife94 lol
LA looks 3rd world af it makes Chicago look like Disneyland on King David 😂
Still no one thinks your funny.
I live in Chicago, and my neighborhood doesn't look like this at all. Why not? Demographics (duh). It would look even better if not for the postal workers, or the You-Know-Who Crowd visiting the parks (vs. using the parks in their own "turf").
How does Chicago compare to Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, East Cleveland, K.C., D.C., Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Camden, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Buffalo? 🤔
@@JdeC1994 trying to get a mature response from this dude is like trying to have a conversation with a baby.
@@douglasldn2831 That's cap 😂
@@chination1796 Murder capital of the United States
And Newsom wants to be President ..... Hahahaaa
We can't let that happen!!
Right !! Trump 24
Newsom wants to expand his plan to turn every state in the United States into California.
If they instate him like they did with Biden and you do nothing, the jokes on you :))
President of the Real Estate Investment Trusts...all of Em ?
Knew LA was bad but not this bad…
Looks like Namek on crack
You can almost smell the swamp-@ss thru the video screen .
And the turtle tank essence coming from the Petri dish on 2 leg
welcome to Africa Country
Haiti, Africa, Brazil, Chicago, New York City Bronx.
@@Tromp222
What?
It's the "going-green" initiative in their style. "Climate-change" beggars.
I worked Rampart and Central Divisions for several years, both as a street Cop and later as a Supervisor. My last assignment was in Central Division, as a Captain. Throughout my assignments we were able to maintain a livable condition for the community. After 30 years of service , I retired and moved to another State. I have now been gone for 26 years. Last year I decided to take one of grandsons to LA in order to show him where I had worked all those years as a Policeman. I was completely dumbfounded. Parts of Rampart and Central Divisions are no longer what I knew.They are now full of trash, homeless people, and derelicts. In fact,in my opinion, the communities have been completely overtaken by what can best be described as a foreign population resembling a “Third World Country”. It was very sad to see how these communities have deteriorated to such a low level of living…..
Thank you for leaving
Thank you for staying @@carolburnette2019
This is what drug addiction produces.
True, although there are also many drug addicts in Beverly Hills too.
@@devinagrace1999beverly hills is beautiful
No.....
It's what LIBERALS produce.
@@kingkobrazxbecause the drug addicts in Beverly Hills are very rich… there are SO MANY addicts of ALL creeds classes etc. however it’s only the dirt poor homeless addicts that everyone sees in plain sight in public spaces every day and night… addicts with money and clout aren’t hangin down on skid row… also the MESS should also be attributed to MENTAL ILLNESS not just drugs and alcohol
I wonder why people from these cities keep voting for the same people that are responsible for this absolute MESS.
because orange man bad
Cuz trump said some mean things.
Mean tweets!
@kjul - the same turds stay in power because votes are rigged. If it doesn't make sense, think about it.
People need to let go of that delusion that a majority of people anywhere are still voting against their own freedoms and for the same ol asshat politicians.
Tptb love to divide the peasantry....blame Californian expats for your state flipping.
They put much time and effort into manufactured consensus and consent.
They aren't. Case in point, California voted NO on gay marriage in 2008. No. No. No. And the Supreme Court overturned the vote.
Do you really think Biden was elected? Of course not.
Pick Jesus. He is a real being. Man's time is over here. God created the Earth and he wants new guardians here. Mankind has only been allowed to be here about 6,000 years. No more.🤷♀️
Those ppl not thinking about using condoms 🙄
😂😂😂 this comment took me out
🇲🇽 Mexican women have 5 kids at 25😅 21 3 kids 15 1 kid 😅
@@dionafeworki2387with every STD you can think of
@@dionafeworki2387you should be embarrassed
Condoms $100 in cali😂😂😂
First part is Westlake 6th Street, home to thousands of Migrants from Mexico, Central and South America (Los Angeles Police Department Rampart.
Second part of the video is Skid Row
Mostly Central Americans in Westlake area.
Westlake is TJ. Cut it out 😂
He goes around the same corner in multiple videos and Westlake's vastly different in day than night. Latino street vendors take over that whole area until midnight, that's where he got the night footage. Skid Row's also has a Latino market on multiple sides, the poverty nest is that condensed in DTLA.
I live in England, visted the US many times and always loved it, great country and met some great people, never went to LA though, and have been thnking of going one day before I get too old, but maybe I won't bother after watching this.
Obviously it has nice parts this is just the rough parts. I could say the same about England also. Weather looks like crap. But that wouldn’t be the main factor why I wouldn’t visit.
@@77D777 Yes, you make a fair point, there are some inner city areas of the UK that are a bit ropey, but nothing to the scale of this, and the weather being crap in England is a bit of a misconception, sure we have our fair share of rain and gray skys, we are an island in the North Atlantic after all, but we can have some glorious sunny days too during spring and summer, sure, our weather is not in the same league for sun and temprature as California, but as much as I love the sun, I do like to have four seasons....Cheers!
@@sicr7373 yeah man I lived in Florida for 3 1/2 years the heat was brutal I like seasons also and moved back to my hometown in middle America Missouri.. never left the states but I would love to visit the UK one day and London.. looks cool.. hope you can come over and travel one day also.
I live in the US and would love to visit LA one day
Come not all places is like this I'll tell u we're to go
I live near Home depot up the street from Macarthur park. The sidewalks are congested and bullshit goes on but many families like my own use the park and are trying to make a living. 99% of the time you have to look for trouble, like any other part of the city.
Looks like a nightmare :( This looks unfixable
Its a nightmare!
If they same people run California, of course.
You knailed it. The beginning of your video shows the intersection at Wilshire and Alvarado. However, I've seen worse streets.
fuck this shit, god help this hood
its the whole state not just a "hood"
This particular area is the worst area in LA and one of the worst neighborhoods in the whole state
@@StevenMcTowweleeieyou're crazy 😂 the rest of California is Rural! Deserts, National/State parks, or endless Farmland. U definitely lying!
@@DefensisIndusnah you have other counties to the east like riverside and san bernardookie with plenty of junkies. Victorville, Hemet, etc.Then you head north and you’ll find Bakersfield, Fresno, and Oakland with their own crap to contend with.
Unreal, when a city loses control! I'll stay in the Midwest thank you!
its coming to us... sooner than you like
Go visit Shitcago!
@@bk972 I live in Chicago, and my neighborhood is way better than this (despite people like the postal workers).
What are your nicknames for Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Newark, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, East Cleveland, K.C., D.C., L.A., Inside Job City, Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Camden, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Buffalo? 🤔
What state are you from? 🤔🤨
@@bk972 Yup, and I'm a native Chicagoan from the southwest side. Got out in 2007.
I too live in Shitcago! Currently Garfield Ridge which is decent. Prior to that I lived in West Garfield Park and it is total shit! @@JdeC1994
I went to L.A some years back and wasn't crazy about then. It looks even worse now. Most of it is me though. Not big on large groups of people. I'm just a laid back quiet kind of guy.
Years back it just looked rundown, now it looks filthy and disgusting.
Why bother renting any retail storefronts when you can just open up a tent in front of it 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Big change is needed. And when business starts getting affected and people lose money, then it will happen.
Check out German in Venice's videos on Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Businesses -- LUXURY businesses -- are bailing.
I love camping in a tent, just not in the middle of a ghetto. I'd feel safer in the woods with grizzly bears roaming everywhere.
There's no access to drugs/booze/cigarettes in the woods out in the middle of nowhere.
Homeless heaven
Biden's World.
@@hitek9too255 not into politics but I do agree.
Democrat Dreamland
libtardian utopia
Right. They come from ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES and MEXICO to live on the streets in Los Angeles.
Most of them are NOT Californian people.
What a wonderful looking place.
Zionism is the Problem
Keep voting democratic kids.
Great job Newsom
So much filth and grime!!! Earthquake only way this will get changed in our lifetime
Just like some parts of London and the UK now.
Im from 🇬🇧 brighton is like this, i saw some ods in high street 2 weeks ago right next to churchill sq at 2pm.
The driver keeps going around the same few blocks at different times of the day. 😂
I'm holding hope that a rich country will start an "Adopt an American" charity campaign.
Sally Struthers will make a commercial about it.
I've heard that wealthy Scandinavians adopt babies from the hood sometimes. Who knows
Cyberpunk 2077 makes alot more sense now lol.
I think it takes place in Cali, but they made it look like Miami for some reason? especially in the Anime 😂
@@DefensisIndus Its California in the RPG books. South Cali and Miami honestly whats the difference? trash everywhere LOL
@@DefensisIndusGame made by Europeans, they must think that Florida and California are the same thing.
This near MacArthur Park? I visited with my parents (they grew up in LA and Santa Ana) and we were walking around trying to go down memory lane and I never knew how crowded the streets were with little tents. Stores almost overflowing to the curb.
Maybe it's because I was 7 before we left Cali.
More and more places going up for lease. Rampant unchecked retail theft and people selling all sorts of boosted goods. This is a more practical and realistic dystopia than the cyberpunk one we all thought we would find ourselves in.
Thanks for the footage.
Drove around these streets last in 2019, this is getting worse and worse, lord save that state.
been here over forty years hasn't gotten much worse or better always been crowded and dirty. chumps tariffs on chinese imports will make it worse
@@drumtwo4seven That's literally a lie, keep coping. This place gets worse every single year.
Don't be ridiculous if Trump doesn't win the whole world will continue dumping the petrodollar and our $ will become worthless the people against Trump want a cashless society and no cars/beef @@drumtwo4seven
@@drumtwo4seven*40 years you have lived in Los Angeles and ur blaming chump? Blame yourself voting blue for the last 40* 🤡
It only got worse during Covid. Things have actually improved in many areas of the city. There are areas of homeless that have been housed and areas cleaned up. I'm sure that will happen here two, but it takes time.
@CharlieBo313 When was this video recorded? I used to drive by this route everyday from 2009-2012. It has drastically changed so bad!!!
Seeing all this hustle makes me realize my life's just on easy mode.
oUr GrEaTeSt StReNgTh
Mostly Mexicans in la
Diversity will never be a strength. Monoculture like Japan is the real deal.
you wouldn't survive one min on these streets
I have actually been to the Westlake area near MacArthur Park. One of the first shots in the video. It wasn't the best when I was there, but now it looks worse. You only used to see a bunch of tents in the Skid Row area near the older part of Downtown Los Angeles. Now it looks like Skid Row has expanded to multiple parts of the city.
Can you do compton next pls
Unless 1 of their stars with cameras is their you, won't see nothing
My daughter was there not long after Kobe and about a year after that by way of upstate NY. She knows of skid row but she's still young and carefree so when i asked her to paint a picture of what she saw she was totally not interested in what i wanted to know 😅 about the nasty grimy los Angeles i watch from the comfort of my couch. Lol. Thank God she came back in one piece for sure.
Great job Newsome and Karen Bass
What every Influencer living in LA doesn't want to show you
Alot of them are living in trailers, and in their cars.
A little different than i remember seeing on Adam 12, Dragnet, and Emergency
Moved to LA from miami back in 2017 to feel the vibe and to check out the city i only lasted a year and a half the experience was brutal and i can say from watching this video it has gotten worse since i was there....would i ever go back to visit?? I don't think so!
What are people doing? Setting up shops in front of shops? Nothing like free rent. And what was up with that crazy red van? lol Wow! The homeless situation is completely out of control since the last time I was in LA. I heard it was bad but seeing is believing! It's unreal.
If you're talking about the red van with the banana on it, I believe it is a public health agency encouraging sexual health. Usually these vans and pop-ups provide free-of-charge STD testing, prescriptions, birth control, and other resources to minimize the spread of disease.
Yet in Hollywood store owners put planters out front to deter the homeless setting up camp. The city made the shop owners remove the planters because "They were blocking the sidewalk"
Keep voting BLUE and nothing will change for the better !!!
Its beautiful out there this time of year
Never been to California always heard how nice it was along time ago, they need to step back and look at what is happening to their state
It used to be really nice but not anymore and it’s sad to see my city like this
To be fair it’s mostly in the urban areas, Bay Area, Central Valley & LA county, outside of those areas there are still very beautiful parts of California left.
@@RenR70The urban areas of all those places are wonderful, too. The areas with homeless are TINY compared to the rest of all these cities. LA is 500 square miles, the areas in this video is a few square blocks.
and the thing is all this hood shit is spreading, and it’s making the wealthy/middle class californias move to different states. especially texas because the property’s are so cheap here. they are making everything so expensive by moving everywhere and destroying other states with their california opinions and it’s only a matter of time where the homeless will rise up in other states because of the flood of californians moving there. california needs to fix their shit it’s a lose lose situation for everyone right now.
If Newsom is president, then this will be America.
Я не ошибся?это та страна,которая учит весь мир,как нужно жить ???????????!!!
Southern California is hardly part of the u.s. anymore
I won't learn
Russian bot
@@justintaylor3569 You have not answer his question yet.
I mean, you guys aren't doing much better with the whole communism thing now, are you?!
I'm a Detroiter. No neighborhood scared me more than driving through Skid Row near 7th Street!
This is not only sad, this is UNACCEPTABLE! Los Angelas, CA is one of the most expensive places to live in the country with some of the highest taxes in a country. The USA has the highest economy IN THE WORLD! How is the homeless crisis even a thing here? Homelessness is bad for the environment. Why are we sending BILLIONS to other countries while we have THIS here at home? It is PAST TIME we demand better from our leadership! Letting people live like this and spread diseases is not compassion. Having open borders and allowing drugs into our country which is a major factor leading to homelessness is not helping them. Being soft on crime on people selling drugs leading to homelessness is not justice. Spending MILLIONS of taxpayer's money on the "homelessness problem" which ends up with the net result of more people being homeless is not working. Remember ALL OF THIS when you vote this November! I live here in CA and for the first time in almost 10 years I did not get a tax refund, but I own money and I have busted my butt and worked more this past year than I have ever worked before. Several times I had to go without sleep, working from sunup to sundown in order to get my work done and for what? I am literally working right now to pay off my taxes AND FOR WHAT!?!?!
California doesn't know where 20 billion dollars went to help the homeless!!! Think about how much 20 billion is?!
it's like Mount Everest amounts of money 💰 😅
Yes! Vote for President Trump.
@@stephentontz3853 Agreed! It is nice to see my "shadow banned" comment is not completely blocked off for everyone to see. Let's hope more people wake up and better yet they have the character and backbone to admit they were wrong by backing Biden and make it right by voting for Trump this November. #BlacksForTrump #Trump2024
Seems like you drove around Westlake. It has looked like that forever.
Exactly it hasn’t been nice since the 1930s 😭 when it was referred to as the Champs-Élysées of LA
This is Gov. Gavin Nuisance L.A.
Go visit Vancouver please.
man the dtes is bad, real bad. only clean place in vancouver is north van which is a whole different city at this point
Wow Los Angeles is starting to look a lot like Detroit. It's so sad to see so many people homeless, whether by choice or misfortune. What gets me is how can these people afford these tents, aren't they expensive? In any event, this is another great video by Charlie, thank you!
Looks a lot like Roosevelt Ave in Queens NYC but sunnier
Never understood how you could sleep in a tent in that environment. Wouldn’t you want to see what threats were swirling around you? At any moment something very bad could happen & you would never see it coming.
I wonder if Gavin Newsom ever takes this drive?
2:46 That mobile cleaning robot is awesome
Im born and raised in los angeles age 52. Ladies and gentlemen it was bad never this bad! 70s 80s 90s all good. Luckily im moving out end of year far away. Finally
Looks like something from a futuristic dystopia movie.
1080p-1440p #WHEN :) love your videos!
Life under a Democrat governor. It can't get any worse than that!
Yes ,a president just as bad.. Biden Obama!!
How utterly beautiful!
Good Job California! Good Job!
There’s always more money for Tel Aviv and Kiev though! Happy Fourth!
Israel gets $50b taxpayer freebies every year regardless, Ukraine is getting invaded
In Russia you don't see this mess.
What doesn't kill you,will make you stronger!
America has $ trillions to spend on its military toys but not these issues.
Wat so they can buy more drugs.
Ukrane
Democrats steal the money
This is Newsom’s California, imagine how the U.S. would turn if he became president
I've been to LA once. Never again.
It depends where you go.
@@ozzierabbit587 in my experience ... No thanks
Mmm!...the beef bowl from Yoshinoya, one of my L.A. favorites.
Vote for Kamala and we’ll have this dump nationwide
Good grief. ! What has happened to LA ? I’m watching from England and it’s so sad to see the decline 😢
I am Mexican. OMG, honestly that video reminds me Tepito in Mexico city but in the 80's. "First world"? I don't think so. I live in Guadalajara and I have to say that even here you don't see many homeless people, this is a rotten society.
It's not. This is only a few streets in a city that is 500 square miles in size.
We’re talking about just Wilshire. Just one street, but the 8-mile distance between Wilshire and Alvarado and Wilshire and Rodeo…damn, it’s like two different worlds
Juarez with skyscrapers
More like Tijuana with a hint of San Salvador
Grab me some Degree off that table please! Thanks love your videos any in South Texas?
7th and Alvarado, and the authorities are allowing another skid row to develop there ... and there's a subway station right close by that working people have to push through the filth and squalor to get to!! 🤮
I took my Mexican cousin and her Colombian friend on a quick LA tour. We passed through this area and I told them about our problems with housing/poverty. They said this was nothing compared to shanty town they have. Still we have a problem.
Unbelievable that this is the USA.
I live in L.A. and went to San Francisco the other day and it's 2X worse than this...I saw people eating out of garbage cans over there....
Um, they do that in L.A. too, even over in Santa Monica
Damn shame
It sure is a great place. Can't wait for my next trip there.
wonder if that japanese food place is any good
Yoshinoya is fire but that particular yoshi is crazy af I’ve ate inside there before lol
Yoshinoya in Japan is really good. It tastes like McDonald's here in the states
Yes!
Way to go California!!! Once again you set a new (undesirable) standard! Congratulations!!!
Damn that is sad.
I’m from Chicago there ain’t nearly as much litter on the streets as L.A. Makes Chicago look clean.