I Drove Through The Worst Parts Of Boston. This Is What I Saw.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Man parts of south Boston are ROUGH!
For this episode of dashboard tours, I took i93 south from New Hampshire into the Boston area. I wanted to visit the worst area of Boston I could find. It wasn’t hard - the internet was full of information about two distinct parts of south Boston that are notorious for crime and blight and poverty - Mattapan and Roxbury. So that’s where I would go. It was a glorious sunny late winter day on Monday, March 22, 2021 at noon.
We’re going to begin on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan and drive around that area for a while and then take Blue Hill back up into Roxbury and see what it’s like up there. Here’s the exact route I’ll take. If you’re from Massachusetts, you’ve heard of these areas, but you might not have seen them yet.
I didn’t find these areas overly dangerous during the day, but it’s clear that at night, they can be really rough. Home prices in these parts of town are high - close to $450k. Many are older, multi unit row homes in disrepair. Much of the area along the main thoroughfare are sketch and traversed by people who look like they should be at work, but probably don’t have jobs.
Here’s the rest of south Boston’s worst areas.
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Should of done Dorchester ☘️
6:34 A Greek pizza place! Man, I miss those grease (yes, I meant grease) pies.
The worst area in Boston is around Mass Ave and Melnea Cass with everyone sleeping in tents trash and piss everywhere
It's also called Methadone Mile
I seen in the news just today, the authorities are conducting a raid, I think today at 7 this morning. They'd planned to do it in August I think, but the good old enabling leftist ACLU & their destructive agenda sent threats to the police dept and mayor, they will sue if a clean-up is attempted. These encampments & openly drug abusing tent cities are INHUMANE and CRUEL, NOT CIVILIZED and HARMING those they claim they're protecting their "rights", they are hells and most of them aren't in their right mind. Of course an addict is going to "choose" their drugs and if that means plopping down a tent in the road, so be it because they're not in control anymore. For all of society and themselves, they should be forced help. This affects us all, not just the person, but everyone. Tax payers, neighbors, emergency resources, children, community members, local businesses, health & hygiene, safety, so it's NOT JUST THEIR RIGHTS TO CHOICE, we all pay for it in one way or another. Who the hell chooses this when they're thinking straight and NOT addicted to substances!?! NO ONE!!! Same goes for untreated mental illness, others shouldn't have to suffer due to the ill's choice not to deal with themselves. An there are plenty of those types in public housing authorities. Such places should have more transitional options, and that is what should be encouraged and promoted. Not "You're mentally ill so just rot in your illness here forever driving everybody crazy along with you and never improving you're health or circumstances" and that seems to be the Mass Mantra!!! I was raised between Van Nuys California and Chicopee Massachusetts, and as a dual citizen i must emphasize this: DO NOT ALLOW BOSTON TO BECOME ANOTHER SKID ROW OR TENDERLOIN!!!!! That liberal hippy denial garbage is creating inhumane lunacy & disgust, hells essentially.
TRASH UP TO YOUR KNEES 😶😶😶
@@melissahouse3488 You can't FORCE someone to get clean. As a former addict (11 months clean) you aren't ready until you're ready. But they could have vans taking people to facilities, making reserving a detox bed and getting there so much easier.. ☕
Taking tent city down as we speak on the methadone mile. Near BCH
Are you serious? At least know what you are talking about before you do one of these.
South Boston is a separate part of Boston, it’s own neighborhood. Mattapan and Roxbury are nowhere near South Boston.
That's what I said lol
Thank You! 😒
Chill bro
Yeah this was annoying me the whole video
@@Mphillig He had a bad upload, just like im sure you have bad days at work. Everything is gonna be ok Melissa.
I live in this so called "worst part of Boston." This dude is Cap! I've literally walked from Mattapan to Grove Hall, its NOT the worst parts of Boston. Now, MASS AVE(meth mile) and the SOUTH END!? OMG!
That's what my girl said. She no longer lives in Boston, but she said those areas are much worse.
So i see
This observer drove right pass that area likely because it's the South End he'd have to admit but what is to be expected from an outsider looking in especially if you're looking in an are where blacks are the majority.
Idk south boston is quite nice don’t u think 🤔
Mass Ave is way worse
Hey Nick! Those aren't 'row homes,' they are called 'THREE DECKAHS.' Lol
TRIPLE DECKAS! 😊
@@Joelswinger34 Correct!!!
Lmao yes triple deckahs..boston life
Triple Deckahs!
A bunch of nearly immaculate vehicles and beautiful construction. Menacing.
It is scary, if you hear how people there speak.
@@777jones dude please. I worked on a ship in New Bedford. I think i know how they speak. There's been a lot of drugs sure but they get what they get. A lot of scared people all about. Whatever.
There are new high rises going up
Clearly you never been in these parts of Boston.
@@seanhickey7881 You're correct. I like your last name though. My cousin with that last name owned a Harley bike shop.
I'll be moving to one of the good parts of the metro area soon, I'm so excited. Boston is fucking awesome. Sorry Boston is wicked awesome!
It you move to a town just north of Somerville you have to call it by it's rightful name . Meffa or Mefid. Never Medford.
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@@rbspider kid is called Meffa! 😂 the greatest city on the north shore kid!
@@rbspider lol
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those old Victorian homes are beautiful!
Maybe if they painted them all the same color . I really don't like them.
Homes are beautiful - but why so big? Look like for a family of 20 members. And, the heating bill.
@@btbees1 The homes are three family , 1 family per floor . In the old days some were one family but that usually included the grand parents on one floor , son and wife and family on another floor . I guess it may have been the only way to purchase a house. I lived in a two family with father inlaw below me . I lived in another one that was an old sea captains home , nice hardwood floors . big windows. They must have been tough to keep warm
@@rbspider Thank you for the interesting explanation.
Those are actually 3 to 6 family homes.
Correction, Mattapan, Roxbury and most of Dorchester is not South Boston. Also, most people who live in this area are good hardworking families like the rest of Boston. It is culturally rich in diversity and has so much historical value that if you do not live here you wouldn't know. Get out of the car and talk with people, go into the places of business and/or historical building before you label a video as the worst parts of Boston. I get what you are doing, but every area in Massachusetts have its less than desirable areas or people; however, you are correct in challenging political leadership to invest more in these areas - and many of our people do, but these neighborhoods often get left behind because of who lives there and are the least to get the attention it deserves.
Most people are hard working people there. But that doesn’t change the fact that you can still get mugged or shot at there. Those neighborhoods have shootings every other day. Especially North Dorchester.
Absolutely. I live a couple of cities away, and I love this part of Boston. Real, down to earth folks, that work hard, many of them are educated in the trades and academics, nice people give the last dollar in their wallet to you or food that you need if you need it. That’s how we roll here.
You get so much wrong here that it's hard to take you seriously.
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idk how anyone can take his videos seriously when he literally judges strangers in the beginning insinuating they don't work because they're outside. he makes content for people who hate cities and minorities
Went to college in Somerville. Most of the neighborhoods outside of Boston look like this. Crammed like a sardine can. These homes go for 1.5 million now.
Tufts?
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That’s why I’m moving i currently live in Somerville, and I don’t know why is spelling.
the prices here are crazy!!
@@Technoirz same I live in Somerville. Want to move to Chicago though. I know it’s worse but want to experience it for at least a year
There is nothing wrong with this neighborhood. Get a life.
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Did you drive through “Methadone Mile” at all?
I doubt it. He needs to go down "METHMILE"
I'm pretty sure he didn't want to catch airborne HIV.
The methadone mile is a fairly new addition to Boston. They had to close the biggest area shelter due to an unsafe bridge, this started camping on the street. I hate seeing this in my otherwise clean and safe city. Hate it!
@@seanhickey7881 airborne HIV dead 💀🤣🤣🤣
@@rnsteve2265 🙃🙃🙃🙃
Moved to Boston in the early 90’s from West Philadelphia, folks in Boston have no idea what a ghetto looks like. Boston is small geographically and with a housing shortage, real estate state is expensive. Very few abandoned houses and vacant lots, they are just worth too much to be underutilized.
I am from Boston. I was in West Philly three years ago. Holy crap. There is no comparison.
No folks in Boston don’t care about the ghettos in other cities. It’s always outsiders comparing themselves to us and honestly it’s weird and annoying.
Maybe your right i moved from that area in the video to indian school in phoenix, az
@Sarah G I’m in Roxbury staying at an Airbnb and I’m from Philadelphia. They say this is the hood like stay away from Dudley or Nubian square I think it’s called now? I drove down methadone mile someone else said Mission Hill? So I went there and I not once knew for sure if I was “in the hood” when your in Philly there’s no denying it. You will feel that your in the hood just by looking around you the scenery changes that fast. Prostitution, drugs, guns are all common in Philly and literally even the “better” neighborhoods are ghetto. Philly is a shit hole Boston is literally pristine compared to it. Also Baltimore is a shit hole west Baltimore is the only place I’ve driven thru that made me feel uncomfortable like I couldn’t get out the car
Baltimore no joke I'm from Philly I been to LA nyc dc Baltimore Pittsburgh detriot Chicago Columbus Ohio Nashville TN Atlanta Vegas Seattle San fran Portland lynn Massachusetts Boston Springfield Albany Rochester Newark NJ Patterson NJ jonhnstown Pennsylvania chester Pennsylvania Wilmington del Camden NJ Oakland CA Atlantic city Hartford New haven Bridgeport Waterbury con
I grew up in Fields Corner in the 50's and 60's. You should have done your homework. Roxbury has had sketchy areas for a long time but you did not drive through them. Mass Ave. Shawmut Ave. Very dangerous at night. Blue Hill Ave and Norfolk St were pretty sketchy in the 70's but it's improved quite a bit since then. Most of those triple deckahs cost in the area of a million bucks so as you can see, people there take pride of ownership. The houses all look freshly painted. No trash on the street. No drugged out sketchy people staggering around. Looks like it was the dead of winter when you went though. And BTW, Southie is a whole different neighborhood and you were quite some ways from there. I live in Portland Oregon now and PDX is waaaaaay more dangerous than Boston.
This looks not so rough. I’d like to see this route on a weekend night, but I’d worry about Nick’s safety. Only UA-camr who can handle the rough stuff at night is Charliebo313 lol but yeah….
Worst part of Boston have really nice houses... I mean look at those houses at 1:11 those gotta be like over 4,000 sq feet!! Lol I wish I had a house like that.
These are all 3-family homes, and many poor families must double-up to make the high Boston rents.
Lol. I lived 10 miles north of Boston for 15-ish years and commuted into Southie for work for a while and I thought it was a run-down place. After watching videos of Nick driving through the worst parts of other big cities, I see now that Boston and NH are NOT that bad!
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Damn China Sea ( Chinese Food) is still there! I’m talking since 96 crazy! But you need to hit up Dorchester - Colombia Rd
Cool apartment buildings. I love that old architecture. The neighborhoods at the beginning were charming in a "House of Pain" type of way lol
🤣🤣 till you can’t afford the bills
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Yeah our brick complex 🤓it used to be a fucking school 🏫 😂 100 years ago I live in historical building 🏢🏫🏫 they broke the fucking school building up and turned them into brick buildings! It's private property , 😒idc they need to knock these shits down 👎👇 too old , but they don't care as long as they keep it up and it's in tact they ain't knocking anything down , we don't have rodents , no fucking roaches, nothing! They keep exterminator on Deck, they constantly keep the landscaping in tact , 😒I don't like the rules here I break them 😂I done created my apartment so dope but they seen it liked it and left me ALONE 😂they said ok it's nice s long as it's not crazy colors and stuff My home is a GODLY magical witch house dark midnight blue paint, heritage blue paint looks like lilac mixed with baby 💙 idk 😶😐 hard to describe but very nice color , I did my whole bathroom over I put wallpaper in my hallway , kitchen and bathroom have dope tile walls , I put in so many shelves , I turned my bathroom into a spa bathroom I put alot of fucking money in this place 😒 people keep saying I need a house 🏠 nope u trying to give me extra bills 😂I like my money nuggah I like taking care of other things too not just bills which I'm never behind in 🙏🙏🙏💪💪💪💪👀🗣️well god bless you and everyone else on here 💜 stay safe and healthy 💞🙏💪
Boston Rocks! (unless you visit Mass & Cass 😬)
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@@investmenthotline9180 what the hell is that..lol
BOSTON MY CITY LETS GOOOOOOO
Yes
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I am living in Jamaica Plain and I also know Roxbury, definitely they are not bad neighborhoods if you compare with what I saw in NYC, specially Jamaica Plain is not dangerous at all I have never seen any police officers anyway
Man the please has been cleared up and gentrified, therefore properties have raised through the roof. If you want to see the worst of Boston, hit the metadone mile on Mass Av.
The first video you showed you said it was in South Boston. It's not! That is in Mattapan. Get your facts straight before you start naming bad parts of a city.
There are new high rises going up there so it's not all that bad. There are areas that are nice single family houses near the border that you didn't see. I want that building on the right at 6:10
It is a KFC that did not make it.
that actually looks beautiful
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I'm from Roxbury. Grew up there in the 60's thru early 80's. If you're from there, its not bad. Roxbury nor Mattapan are considered South Boston. The town of South Boston is South Boston....
The people you see look like they were dressed for work. They were doing the morning routine. Along Blue Hill Ave there is a bus route. Mattapan Square is a station to get the commute started may it be by bus or train. Good breakfast spots that have been there for years in the square.
he said they don't work because they're black
Boston looks very historic even the worst part you showed us however I would love to take you too tijuana I'll show you what poor,rundown and scary looks like where you'll start too shrink even in your car. BOSTON looks like Disneyland too me your video made me laugh 😅 I've seen bodies on the side of the road. We got it easy in the U.S you don't even know.
Nick, these neighborhoods don't look bad at all! Sure, they are bare, but that doesn't make them undesirable....
He made this video in March. If he had made it 2 months later, these streets would have looked lovely with spring flowers and green leaves on the trees.
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@@investmenthotline9180 Is that tonight's Megabucks number?
pahk the cah and get some chowdah
Mattapan and Roxbury are part of South Boston like The Rolling Stones are part of the Beatles.
This was painful- painfully boring. I guess thanks for pointing out that the “worst” parts of Boston are quite nice.
The double parking is insane! Never seen so much to know parking!
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As an Indian who has never visited the US, I don't see anything unusual, the houses in the neighborhood you've shown are well maintained, have good cars, decent roads, no signs of crime.....a mile apart compared to Detroit.
Lol, I also moved recently to Boston from Ethiopia. These videos are so biased it gave me a very wrong idea of Roxbury before I moved here for graduate school.
My Dad was Born on Blue Hill Ave..at Home...Not in a Hospital...1936......And Graduated from Roxbury High...I was Born in Dorchester Massachusetts...1964..But 3 months after I was Born.. Moved to Quincy Massachusetts..... Just south of Boston... But as a local..Truck Driver.... spent many days on Blue Hill Ave..and all over The city of Boston...
Quincy is paradise compared to Boot Hill Avenue.
Them last 3 mins i used to walk gettin a half a trey from my mans either back to eggy or towards heat. No problem, longsteppah
Treys are sick
@@NickJohnson half a trey five of weed,,
Nick. Mattapan and dorchester is not south Boston. Big difference
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I drive these streets everyday it’s really not bad guy
You are obviously not very well traveled, can’t tell an $850k house if you crashed into it. Do a little research first dude
I would hate living there, everyone is right on top of each other. I need some room because I don't like people that much.
I think this tends to be how places like Murderpan and Roxbury get into trouble. Too many people right on top of each other. People need space.
That is the city's main streets. The houses have big yards.
Boston guy here and you have no knowledge of our beautiful city
I will go next weekend and drive around the worst parts of Detroit and Toledo and we will compare. lol This looks beautiful.
Rows of well maintained old triple deckers. Probably gentrified to the max. Far from ghetto. You want to see poverty, grimy living and homelessness check out Venice Beach; Skid Row (Los Angeles); Oakland CA., etc. Boston has clean streets, nice homes, quiet neighborhoods, family businesses. Not so bad if this is considered the worst.
This is the nicest “hood” that I’ve ever seen.
I’ve been to the worst ghetto’s of Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans.
Now those are real hoods!
There is absolutely NOTHING poor or bad looking in this video NOTHING at all.
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That's not South Boston.
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Woolson Street and Norfolk Street are all in Mattapan. Norfolk Street extends into Dorchester. Both are far from South Boston.
those streets are pristine and there is definitely maintenance going on. You want to come to South Africa to see tin shacks, stolen power lines (the illegal connections are beyond belief). No water or toilets
Its not South Boston
This is where TED lives right?
Guy called this South Boston
I am in Burlington MA not bad just busy😊
The worst places in mass are outside of Boston
It's not south Boston. I think you mean to say south of boston.
New Hampshire is a dump. Nearly every town is run down with addicts everywhere.
Don’t call this South Boston because that’s a completely separate section. Call it Southern Boston or just Roxbury and Mattapan.
That's definitely Mattapan. And we love where we live. Why come through and criticize? Jealous much?!
@@shanduselah2483 No I'm definitely not jealous 😂
Exactly. Somebody didn't really do their homework. For the most part, Boston's "worst parts" in this video looked orderly, with many nice houses and relatively little trash on the streets. Definitely no comparison between these neighborhoods and others you've shown in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, for example. But more to the point, why are you such a bottom dweller? We should call you the Municipal Sniper. Just because you get more viewers when you do videos about the worst "ghettos" (the word you used in other videos) in various cities, doesn't mean you should stoop to that. I don't think you're doing anybody any favors, including yourself, with this video series.
Geographically it is south of the city center just like west Roxbury is really west of west center
There's no such thing as a southern Boston
This looks like it's clean and kept up. Hats off to the people of Boston.
It's crazy because in the 90s it used to be the complete opposite this area.
Though these days its far from "The worst parts of Boston"
At night it gets scary, a lot of crime!
What a joke lol. I’ve lived in Boston my whole life and this dude makes a video driving down “the worst parts of boston”. Maybe in the 70s and 80s but not anymore. He should have drove to mass Ave and showed the ugliest and crime infested area that no one shows.
The 90s Boston was a warzone with gangs.I grew up in it.
Hi any idea how safe will greenwich street to live on?
Factttssss mass ave is straight up terrible
@@gmfbinc.5231 Yeah, and where they're all camping out homeless is mostly south Bostonians. Maybe he should've drove over there.
I agree with you !
Dude that’s the worst side of Boston ? that looks like Chicago’s nicest neighbors. No lie
Chicago's nicest? FOH!
Have you even been to Chicago?
@@frightfright3843 I live in Chicago, that looks like wicker park. Lol
Yeah but it ain’t as nice as chicagos best neighborhoods
Go thru the area he was at around the 13:30 mark..( Humboldt Ave ) go thru there at the wrong time thinking everything is sweet if you want to
Coming from a Canadian, this neighborhood looks really nice. Some of our ghettos are worse than this lol
Where in Canada?
@@noahg5779 Downtown Eastside Vancouver, Barton Street in Hamilton, and Jane & Finch in Toronto are worse than in the video
@@EvaristeWK That’s true Jane, and Finch are really bad. Hamilton has some rough areas. Don’t know about Vancouver. Don’t forget about Winnipeg. And just outside of Canada Detroit.
You think it’s about looks lol
@@EvaristeWK also Montreal lol
Nick, just because there are black people there doesn't make it ghetto! Those folks looked perfectly friendly and respectable.
4 tha ppl in tha backkkkkkkk👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
"Call my neighborhood a ghetto because it houses minorities" - Tales from the Dark Side, Ice Cube
I totally agree. Negative stereotype's drives the insanity that we see on the news and read about everyday. It's also further divided our country by the ignorance of those who perpetrate it.
The Crime rate is what makes it a “ghetto”. Roxbury is the highest crime suburb of Boston.
Well, what you’re not understanding is that Roxbury and mattapan are t two most dangerous parts of Boston and are absolutely considered to be the ghetto. There’s also a lot of white people living in these hoods but don’t be confused, it’s really high crime rate in these neighborhoods he’s driving through
The "worst" neighboorhoods in Boston look far better than those in most other cities. I live in New York City, and while I feel like the toughest neigboors in NYC are better than most places in the country, Boston definitely wins in all categories.
Totally, I agree with you @Terrence Gillon
Oh good ol' New York City. Where if traffic doesn't kill you some homicidal maniac will. Remember when Jason Voorhes terrorized NY? Oh wait, that was a movie. Got any other of a dozen crazy killing maniacs that are real and have been in the news?
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Lmao east New York, Brownsville, south Bronx???
Yeah man I grew up in Boston and it's changed drastically. It's MUCH safer than when I was growing up
I've been on Blue Hill Ave many times, it was much worse in the 80s.
Try the Grits and Shrimp at Brothers on Blue Hill Avenue
Cocaine destroyed most inner cities neighborhoods during the eighties.
You said that mattapan and roxbury are part of south boston (southie). This is untrue. South boston is it's own neighborhood within boston. Mattapan and roxbury are their neighborhoods within boston. Just to be clear. You should do a bit more research
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Facts
Fr & they not even close to eachother 🤣
And rather than knock him u could just say hey your a little wrong.....then explain.......go red sox
Hi Kyle how is greenwich street to live in, I will be joining NEU as a international student in fall
I moved up to just outside of Boston from Baltimore and it feels like Mayberry here. It's such a nice, clean, safe city comparably.
Baltimore? No wonder. There is no worse place than Baltimore.
Baltimore has really gotten bad . Used to be some areas unsafe but whole place is criminal haven now
@@BrogeKilrain True. It used to be safe to avoid Baltimore City by going around it on the Beltway but now you don't dare exit the Beltway even if it's just to gas up.
I'm from the City of Champions, Brockton, 15 miles south of Boston
@@northernlight777 How is the Champion City. Would you say its safe?
So Nick let me get this straight. You can tell if someone should be at work by looking at them?
Your agenda here is quite obvious. Go back to New Hampshire dude.
Yeah that comment was outrageous. To say the average home price is over 400k then imply no one has jobs is ludicrous.
What's funny is most those areas if he woulda turned the camera he woulda got what he was looking for, but since he didn't have a clue he got nothing. Like when he went past Humbolt at the end to jam himself behind the garbage truck...that was all the Humbolt Raiders area 25 years ago. Woulda been karma for what he's trying to portray
There may be neglected homes in Boston but not entire neighborhoods. Property values are too high in Boston for there to be true slum sections.
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@Sarah G there are many a parts of mattapan roxbury and dorchester that have high crime areas but even in most of these sections theres not alot of burnt out houses, graffiti vacant lots etc etc
Yup, and as result crime isn’t as a bad as other cities.
Exactly. Boston used to be dangerous. Not anymore
You definitely should have asked some people who are from Boston before you did this but whatever. The areas you were in are fine actually. You needed to be in certain parts of Dorchester and Chelsea as well as Mass Ave by Boston Medical Center aka Methadone Mile. Either way...at least you tried but it's definitely not correct information.
Absolute Facts ..lol im from Boston..Dorchester to b exact live in quincy now and ya this is wayyy off lmao take lil trip to the mileeeeee😳😳😳😳😳💩👀
Mass and Cass is certainly the worst but you would be hard pressed to find a boarded up house or vacant lot in Chelsea.
Chelsea isn't Boston. It is a separate city.
Rocksbury and murderpan are some of th worst minus th gentrifying
he's a raicst, anywhere there's blacks or browns he says its ghetto and dangerous
Lmfaoo this is my whole neighborhood drive these roads everyday. I love my city
Me too. Live my city! Love dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan all of it. People are just ifnorant and scared. Lol He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth clearly. If it’s so bad why so many white people trying to move to these neighborhoods? Smh
Is that Woodrow and irma st????of blue hill???
Roxbury and Mattapan not worse. City has torn down most of the projects and built town houses for students of the universities and white people moving back into the city. I wonder where the low income and poor went. Rents in the so called worse parts are $1,500 to $2,500 a month for 1 to 2 bedrooms. The average working class families can no longer afford to live in Boston. So where is the worst parts?
@@dorothydennis7337 No idea, but I'm renting in Hyannis for $600/mo and could never afford Boston.
@@nicoleoconnell3695 Woodrow projects? The ham 🍺
When I see clean streets, walkways, building façades, not that old and well maintained cars, almost no people wandering around, I wouldn’t say it’s a dangerous neighborhood. Are you sure you’re not biased?
hahahaha
It’s not bias. Go look up the crime statistics. Roxbury is the highest crime suburb of Boston.
It’s really dangerous to live there.
@@THEBIGLIE20 I live here. Only reason it looks so nice is because the city has been renovating a lot of properties in these areas now, turning a lot of the triple deckers “deckahs” houses you see into condos & up selling. This area ALWAYS was considered & used to be known for “low income/section 8”
Now, A LOT OF PEOPLE who were born & raised here have been bought out of their homes over the last 5-10 years & forced to move out to make way for the “higher income” and/or “richer” people to move in. Only way they could sell to those kind of “market” people is by finally cleaning up the urban parts of Boston.
Don’t get it twisted though. On the outside looking in, especially while just driving through these areas during the early day time, they look nice & clean. Let me see you get out of ur car & WALK these same streets later on in the evening & night time hours…HUGE DIFFERENCE
@@crazylegs1324 Roxbury is NOT a suburb of Boston. It’s a neighborhood of Boston 6 miles from the center of the city
Expected a whole lot worse. The regular decent parts of inner-city Chicago make Boston's hood look like Mayberry. That's a pretty decent "ghetto". 😃
Go to Franklin field at night or any of these places at night it gets active, he didnt show the worst places in this but It is pretty in the summer and spring
I lived in Chicago too....way worse
Apparently the guy who uploaded this video didn’t go to the real ghettos in Boston. This isn’t even south Boston.
He is in Boston not the "ghetto". He didn't go to the neighborhoods/ streets with gangs.
All of Boston is so expensive that you will have a Harvard graduate living next door to a gang member. GENTRIFICATION IS REAL IN BOSTON.
@@jacquir8331 Boston isn’t that expensive compared to LA, San Francisco, NYC especially Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. LA for example, do you think Boston is more expensive housing than Hollywood Hills or Bel-Air? The point I’m trying to make is that all these other cities I mentioned have Ghettos and they are even more expensive to live in. So, Boston obviously also has ghettos as well but this dude who uploaded the video just refused to post a video where he goes to the dangerous neighborhoods in Boston for some reason.
That first street full of three story houses looked really nice. The rest of the video was fairly nice too. Did you put the wrong title on this video?
Apartments
At this point, rents have been so high that there's no need to skip renovations and repairs. Many of the poor have been squeezed out due to the extremely high rents. Areas do change. 20 years ago, people would tell you to ABSOLUTELY do not go there.
Nick, you took a nice ride up Blue Hill Avenue, and as such I enjoyed it greatly. Your title doesn’t fit the video.
Triple deckahs
Dude, you said you were driving through the WORST parts of Boston. Were you tripping? Looks pretty good to me.
🤣🤣🤣 he’s not really going to them and trust me as calm as it looks there’s shootings that happen where he’s driving
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He saying that because he's driving in the urban areas lol
Drives pass my house like huh did you not see all the walking to the zoo and some more made he should’ve taken the right on Washington street and shot down Geneva but then even Geneva getting their upgrade
These are the worst areas. I grew up I these parts, shootings all the time. It’s just that Boston’s inner city is far nicer-looking and less violent than almost anywhere else in America. Not the worst place in the states to be impoverished.
Next time you visit these places, you should take someone who is from there instead of speculating on what you only know via the internet
as someone from Boston i agree, and if he really wanted to get into the "bad parts" of mass he should have gone into Lynn.
Lolol!!! Being from Boston this is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and VERY FICTITIOUS.
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So true
I don't get it.
This is supposed to be the worst part of Boston?
All the houses seem to be in good repair, most of the cars on the street look to be fairly new, there is hardly any garbage on the streets, and the few visible people seem to be going about normal lives.
I don't see any muggers, grapists or shoot outs.
So how is this the worst part of Boston?
Please explain?
Because Boston is just not really that run down in general, there are other parts of Mass that are pretty bad tho like Fall River and Springfield
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Nick Johnson is putting out so much content he's spread thin. He doesn't know Boston, says right up front he got material off the internet to inform his tour. This route is quite a bit like one or two of CharlieBo313's Boston tours, without the side trips into public housing projects. Nick is on Hosmer and Woolson Streets in Mattapan, just like CharlieBo, and later makes a left off Blue Hill Avenue in Grove Hall just as CharlieBo did a year ago. Learning from Charlie's one-way street mistake, Nick continues across Elm Hill Ave into Ruthven Street, where he eventually gets stuck behind a garbage truck. Someone like Nick taking a quick look at the map would conclude this must be South Boston since it's south of the city center but, of course, anyone who knows Boston knows that Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury are not South Boston. Blue Hill Ave has as much claim on "worst part" as any place in Boston; it's been rough there since the neighborhood turned over in the 50s and 60s. But since nothing looks very rough and Nick, unlike Charliebo, doesn't have the skills or the cred to really explore the neighborhoods and talk to people, we don't learn much from his reheated leftovers.
Black people live in Roxbury so this guy considers it “ghetto”
Nick, I live in Boston. Mattapan and Roxbury are not South Boston.
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Hello get your facts straight
* Roxbury you cannot buy a home there for under $1 million. Dudley is an area you want to stay clear of.
* Dorchester - where The on Bowdoin St. Cape Verdians shoot at each other for target practice is dangerous day and night. Never go to that area.
* Mattapan has streets like Wildwood, Woolson and Norfolk were you still have gangs.
If you are not in a gang not caught up you will not have any problems living in these areas you pointed out.
@1:05 you say "people who look like they should be at work!" Who are you to assume? Why because these are people of color? These areas that you mention are full of hard working, honest, and loving families.
Boston is a great city full of wonderful people please do not generalize it.
Well fkn said and factssss i used to live on corner of bowdoin and only and it can b crazyyy and Dudley ya 4 get abt it this 🎥 is wayyyy offfff
Great comment.
Dudley sq is not soo bad tho right?
Don't forget H block land of shooting
Yes! When I was younger I had a boyfriend who was affiliated w/ a cv gang over there around bowdoin/hamilton/draper st. We all used to hang out at Ronan Park. A lot of crazy times being over there. To make it worse, I lived over by Uphams corner, which is where there rivals stayed. Not to long after we broke up, I went w/ a friend of mine to a house party on Humphreys St w/ a friend of mine who’s kids father was from Wendover st (she swore I would be fine that she already told him ahead of time I was coming & informed him of our break up that happened recently)
Everything was fine the first 30 minutes & I started to relax after having a few drinks & smoking a blunt w/ my friend. I went into the kitchen to grab us a couple of beers from the fridge & next thing I know I went from opening the fridge door to grabbing us a couple of beers, to down on the floor, half my body outside of the backdoor on the porch in snow, to my lower half still being on the kitchen floor. Looking up, there were about 4 guys standing over me w/ guns pointing at me, being screamed at if I was there to try & get information so I could run back to tell him. I started balling & saying over & over again that we broke up. It felt like hours I had guns pointing at me, even though it was probably only 3 minutes, but once I was let up I grabbed my stuff & left! Didn’t even bother looking to find my friend or anything just took off. One of the scariest times of my life.
Not to mention the CV gangs were crazy. Most times they were shooting at their own cousins, but just because they belonged to rival gangs, it didn’t matter. It was killed or be killed
I’m born & raised from these parts & still reside to this day. The city has started to renovate & “clean up” the city only within the last 5-8 years (give or take, depending on which areas as well) It was WAY MORE worse when I was growing up & all the way up until I turned 27 about a few years ago, then there started to be a lot of “turn around”’so to speak.
However, even though these areas he is driving through right now appear to be “clean”, it’s still considered to be a bad area/neighborhood due to all the gang activity & shootings that still take place here day or night (a 14 year old was just killed yesterday during a daytime shooting), robberies/break in’s, prostitution all up & down Blue Hill Avenue, & drug dealing/using.
If you’re REALLY from here…u already know what’s up
Looked okay, compared to the vast stretches of vacant lots and decaying properties in places like Detroit or St. Louis.
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The city changed alot in 30 years though, and they still have visions of the "old" Boston. Like they tore all the overhead trains down in the 80's and then turned all the projects in condo's basically. Looks totally different to be honest, and with gentrification most the same people are just not living there anymore.
That's pretty much how city housing looks like, and you see even the boarded up one is under renovation. People around here tend to like our wooden triple deckers and row houses. Area like this have been gentrified all around the Boston area.
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Are they public housing or privately owned?
@@scottdonaldson1973 - most are privately owned. There are subsidized housing sprinkled throughout Beantown and project in every town/city of Massachusetts
Born & raised, used to be worse in 80's and 90s.
This is the fanciest ghetto I have ever seen..wow👀🕵
Better than anything in Philly
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Born and raised in Boston and there are no bad parts! Every city has there issues ours is the price of living. The materials the houses are built in are old colonial and are super expensive. The banks make it harder for our grandparents to refinance or get assistance for repair before the developers come it and strip us from our neighborhood. I love Boston!
Hey Shaniquekwa...we are heading out to Boston on Thursday with the kids (12, 13 & 15) and we are looking for recommendations on where to visit/eat/hike etc. Any thoughts as a Bostonian? 😃
Ok #1: it’s just BOSTON. The only area we call “SOUTH BOSTON” is actual SOUTH BOSTON aka “SOUTHIE” (which is what it is known as to people who are actually from here.
#2 I was born & raised in this area & still live in this area today. Us real locals call these parts the hood & Roxbury is also referred to as “DaBury” & Mattapan is referred to as “Murdapan”
You should have stopped at Ali's at 5:32 point for a Roti.
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It doesn't look bad at all.
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This was a waste of 16 minutes I will never get back in my life. It seems you based this video on conjecture, "MurderPan" (Mattapan), social media, and GPS. You did not connect with us who are actually from "South Boston" Hah! It seems to me you have never been to Boston before you put your phone on your dashboard.
Well just by looking at the cars around the town I know what is reliable to buy Toyota, Honda or Nissan.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mass has the highest concentration of Japanese cars of all states.
These areas have historically been underserved by public transit (on purpose). The residents adapted, and now have methods of transportation that's more reliable (Japanese cars)
It’s become quite clear that Nick has an agenda. Judging from the comment section of this video, it didn’t work because there are far too many people calling him out on his ridiculous, conservative bullshit nonsense about all cities & all liberal states. Even his commentary in his “Interesting Maps” videos is just “off.” He’s gotta throw his little digs.
Anyway, I’m glad the people of the comment section here are calling out his propaganda. The best neighborhood? No, but definitely not the worse.
Please remove this false BS because I am from those two areas in the description you gave is totally untrue please and thank you
Boston is a beautiful place. I've lived here for over 12 years now. Originally from Columbia, South Carolina. Now you want to see ghetto look at Columbia S.C
there are far more killings here in oklahoma city than boston and that is why i want to vacation there sometime.
Wow! Compare these to the ‘bad’ areas of Philly or Baltimore!! No comparison.
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I watched the entire video and this looks like paradise compared to Buffalo New York.
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This is not the worst parts of Boston lmaoooo
This is not the worst parts of Boston.. 🤦♂️
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good streets, and road not damaged...come see Baltimore,....
Hi Nick, thanks for the video. Although I moved away over 30 years ago, there were a lot worse areas that I can remember. Maybe they've improved. The absolute worse thing is owning a car and having to park on the street during the winter. Shovel your car out in the morning and shovel a spot to park at night. And the people that put furniture in their spot trying to save it when they came home!
Those are when the fights break out! Move that damn table!!
@@NickJohnson Aint no fights breaking out. You are one of those white boys who are afraid of their own shadow.
@@NickJohnsonhouses anywhere near Boston are still 400k plus and that’s on the cheaper side