Seattle homeless tour - Homeless crisis on the streets of Seattle - This is what it looks like.
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- When you mention Seattle, most people think of a city that's modern and progressive, with beautiful nature, green spaces, mountains and lakes, the Space Needle. But there is an ugly side that has become a crisis - homelessness. Despite throwing millions of dollars at the problem it only continues to grow worse. Due to non-enforcement of drug laws, Seattle has become a mecca for drug users and dealers. Combine that with untreated mental illness, lack of affordable housing, and politicians who think the solution is more and more leniency to crime, and you have a recipe for disaster. This is a look at the dark side of a beautiful city.
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People in Seattle keeps voting for same political party.. I see no change... It's only going get worse.
You are 100% correct. Thanks for watching and leaving your astute comment.
They keep voting democrat only because their mindset of "I hate republicans" The democrats are creating the mess not only in Seattle but other states and the voters are stuck on voting not based on facts (because taking in information and analyzing things is too difficult for people today)but because they dont like the other side.
@@chrisb3976 You nailed it. Common sense/critical thinking skills are in shorter and shorter supply. People don't want to hear or even consider anything which challenges their preconceived beliefs. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you for posting this. No one should waste their money and their precious vacation days coming to Seattle anymore. It was once a great city, but not anymore. I finally left 3 years ago - driven out by the lawlessness and it's only gotten worse since I left.
Someone asked "then why is Seattle still growing?" Momentum. A lot of these buildings were planned a decade ago. Cancer grows too, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.
Love your analogy, and like cancer this mess is also spreading, oozing out of the city into all the surrounding areas of the county. We will be getting out soon also, Thanks for your visit and comment.
I will be moving there because they will be paying me double what I was making
It is a turd bin. Spent 35 years there and had family obligations to stay. Moved away 1.5 years ago. I don't think I will even go back for a funeral. Liberals are stinking shit logs in all these cities. Salt Lake City is not that bad, but not good. It is ran by liberals, too. STILL BAD. It is a sad assed banana repewklic.
@@larryhinze9314 Sorry to hear that about SLC, thought maybe there would be some sanity at least in Utah. Hard to find a city of any size not infected by the disease of liberal socialism nowadays. What is it about urban living that infects these places?
Never again will I go there for a vacation! Too much crime, and the so called officials like it that way . Tourists are not protected! You know THAT by the way they don’t protect the businesses!
I live & work in Seattle downtown and yes, this is what I walk by and see every day. I got robbed on a bus at the Pioneer Square station once. I wanted to love living my life in Seattle but it gets scarier and more depressing as I see the endless homelessness and crimes. 😞
I can imagine how depressing and unsafe that must be. We only go into town occasionally to make videos like this one and that's bad enough. Thanks for the visit and comment.
Buy a gun and get a concealed pistol permit. Washington is a "shall issue" state.
Get out if you can.
@@Countcho A solid plan for those who can. Thanks for watching.
Leave then
25 years ago as a teenager from Europe it was one of my biggest dreams to live in this city..so sad to see Seattle this way..😥
It is sad indeed, and the saddest part is it's all avoidable but has been let to deteriorate like this. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I was legitimately just saying this to my partner, I was so huge into grunge when I was younger - late 90’s.
Little did I know by the time I would be financially set up to travel here it would be like this
Beautiful.
Isn't it? Thanks for watching.
It doesn't help that other cities ship their homeless to Seattle. Seattle has become an open air insane asylum
It's now known around the country as "Freeattle" among the druggies, they know they can come here and get free stuff from the city and steal whatever they want to support their drug addiction and be immune to prosecution. How to ruin a once great city in just a few years. Thanks for the comment.
No one "ships" their homeless to Seattle. Seattle has put out the welcome mat for them.
@@lucytimmerman8687 Either way the end result is the same, a mess. Thanks for the comment.
I remember the great stories of Seattle nail Seattle has some sad times! What does Seattle's future hold! People are coming from all over the United States to Seattle once again for a different reason what this person right here has pointed out is true! I hate to use the word homeless like to choose another word for some of the people that have real issues and struggle with keeping a roof over their head!
I'm from Maryland and I worked in the underground subways 1989, 2013, 2016 wow has the homeless got bad. I loved Seattle man really. Had alot of fun went to games did some fishing did som razor claiming. Went out on boats. Little extra rain sometimes but great place.
The situation has gotten completely out of hand. Don't even feel safe or want to go downtown anymore. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
Congratulations Seattle! You worked hard for this!
If voting for Marxist/socialist politicians is working hard, then yes, they have. Thanks for watching.
I hate being red in this hellhole.
The west coast seems to have turned into skid row country. LA, San Fran, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver. I know of no other first-world country where skid rows are as numerous as in the great US of A.
Sad but true. As a resident of this area for 57 years I can attest firsthand to its steady slide into the toilet, especially accelerated over the last 10 years or so. Thanks for the comment.
I hope to be leaving the Pacific Northwest by this Summer.
Ditto here. Any destination in mind? Thanks for watching.
OMG....i.m realy speechless to see this...Great video my friend..Thankyou so much for sharing and for great work .😘😘😘
It's very sad to see our once beautiful city turn into this. Thanks for the visit and comment.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 😘😘😘
So since this the city really cleaned up ..the tent cities ..I have where they went ..but it's pretty clean now ..a few areas..of crime ..but they are hoping for the city and community to come back and revive the city again 🙏 hopefully to keep it clean ..it got really bad ...
It still is bad, just not as visible. Property crime, violent crime, theft, drug deaths, all through the roof. Thanks for the comment.
i love very much the freedom, yeah in U.S.A.
Thanks for watching.
I can't imagine being a business ownere and have to step over someone passed out at the door of my business!!! Thank you for sharing.
Or imagine living in a previously nice neighborhood and now there are drug addicts pitching their tents 25 feet from your front door on the strip of grass between your sidewalk and the street and there's no legal recourse for you to get rid of them. That happens here too. It's insanity. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@Mario Gonzalez Because they are complicit in the intentional chaos and destruction desired by the left. Thanks for watching.
We welcomed a new Nurse to my practice. She’s from Seattle. When I welcomed her and we chatted, she told me why she left Seattle … the homeless population is uncontrollable. I just sat there in disbelief at what I was hearing. I was thinking of retiring to Seattle but seeing is believing! Thank you for helping me not make a huge mistake! There’s no way in hell I’d move there now. 🤨
I've lived in the area for over 50 years and used to enjoy going into the city. Now Downtown and many neighborhoods are nearly unrecognizable from what they once were and not at all family friendly. Of course there are still nice areas but I think you have made a wise choice in not moving here. Plus it's hella expensive. Thanks a lot for visiting our channel and leaving a great comment.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 I am In my sixties now. I was born and raised in Seattle. I am so saddened as to what Seattle has became in the last 20-30 years. I used to like to visit once in a while as I live in Pierce County. I have never liked Seattle's ultra liberal politics. This current disaster is the result of many failed policies. Seattle citizens, why do you keep voting these same politicians in over and over? SMHD! 😤
@@mrcappetto Same here Mike. Remember, one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. So...Seattle voters are insane. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@Soma Persona … it’s off my list 😉👍🏻
@Soma Persona A wise choice.
They got what they voted for! THEY GOT WHAT THEY VOTED FOR! That is the TRUTH nobody wants to admit, ESPECIALLY THEM.
You are 100% correct, and the saddest part is they keep voting for the same collection of idiots whose policies have created and sustained this debacle. Insanity. Thanks for watching and commenting,
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Are people of seattle just blind of what their surrounding or something?
i still dont understand why we still vote for Inslee
@@capcom7794 Me neither. Thanks for the comment.
I think lots of the Seattleites are compassionate to the “misfortunate” homeless and gladly to elect hippie politicians (city councils) to encourage that behaviors. Why complaining of what they are signing up for?
@@rainbow3ododo It is a situation of getting what you voted for - and continue to vote for so of course it will only get worse. Thanks for watching.
I moved to Washington from Las Vegas took my family to visit downtown and it was the worse experience my family ever had. From the far seeing Seattle lights was beautiful until we got closer it was disgusting.
Seattle tourism is down across the board and it's easy to see why. Try to walk around downtown without stepping in shit or being accosted or seeing drug deals and usage right on the street. Shameful what has been allowed to happen to this once beautiful city. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Affordable rents is the #1 reason. Property owners are greedy for the higher rents of which more and more can't afford anymore
Affordability has little to nothing to do with the mental health and drug addiction issues that plague the vast majority of these people. When offered free housing most of them reject it.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 you don't have a clue
We used to live in Capital Hill neighborhood now in North Seattle Hope we don't have to leave here unless next stop is Heaven!
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They need to find a solution to homelessness. Every big city is having these problems.
It's 95% a drug issue. But instead of treating it as such, cities like Seattle keep throwing millions of dollars into housing projects for people who don't want to do anything but shoot up. That's why they prefer to live in tents on a sidewalk. They don't want a "home" and most of them refuse it when offered.
Thanks for watching, we appreciate it!
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Thanks for the reply.
5:55 Check out the two tweakers at the bus stop getting high. Of course, that's not as bad as what I saw yesterday in the University District where a woman pulled down her pants and defecated and urinated all over the bus stop benches on 45th and Roosevelt. The business owner across the street came out and yelled at her and she then walked out into the middle of the street with her pants below her knees screaming at the top of her lungs. It's gotten so bad that people don't even bat an eye.
Or the tent drug deal going down at 6:25 or so. You're so right, the more this behavior is tolerated and untreated the more it becomes "normalized" and accepted. Could you imagine any of this being seen and basically ignored 30 or 20 or even 10 years ago? The crime, vandalism and theft that takes place every single day across the region and isn't even considered or treated let alone prosecuted as criminal behavior? And all in the name of "compassion". Where's the compassion for the average hard working tax-paying citizen who only wants some normal peace and safety? When did the words law and order become bad or considered only "right wing?" It's truly morphed into Bizarro World around here. Time to get outa this place. Thanks for watching.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 I paid $12,500 in taxes to live in Seattle this year. Appalling! This would have never happened 10 years ago. Period.
I use to love going to Pike Place and do some of my shopping, the hole area is a shit hole. Have not been back in years. Miss supporting the vendors. Seattle residents are getting what they voted for and keep voting for.
Your last sentence is 100% accurate. We only go in that area to make our videos but it is less enticing all the time. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Wrong. Psychiatrists are a huge scourge in society n responsible for all manner of exploitation n corruption, drug addiction n they destroy lives. No one has ever been saved by a psychiatrist as they're just shills for toxic poisons. You're pretty ignorant for the time spent supposedly understanding the issue.
Fck people form WA, ruin other places as well.
Thank you so much for taking us on a grand tour to see what Seattle has to offer. I used to be able to tour my friend when she was visiting the city. Now I avoid the city at all costs, and had chills on my back walking on Pike and 3rd, or Pioneer Square in board day light. Think of the attempt rape of the county court staff in the court bathroom, I am not sure what could surprise me next.
It is a shame because there are still lovely areas around the city, but overall only getting worse. Thanks for watching and commenting.
We recently visited Seattle from Cincinnati. It was so sad to see the sheer number of tents and homeless in the city. We visited about 23 years ago and remember it as a beautiful city. Unfortunately it is now grotty and depressing.
That sounds about right. It has been sliding downhill for a couple decades now but the decline has greatly accelerated in the last 10 years and even more the last 5 or so. A once great city now on the ropes and as you say, would any out-of-towners like yourself choose to return or recommend a visit here to anyone they know? Not likely. Thanks for the visit and comment, we appreciate it.
Voting Democrat at the City and State level caused this.
@@joevarga5982 Can't argue with you when you're right. Thanks for watching and commenting.
To all my fellow people out in this world who has a job, business, or Some form of Employment, sometimes like I am going to do today, go into work on my off day, which is today and I will stay home tomorrow, 2 days off,just try to work some of your days off, put in some overtime, if your job provides it, and if you only save $50 every time you get paid do that..Because folks you do not want to end up like this.. This is so damn Tragic and it really pisses me off to see other people living this way, it’s definitely heartbreaking, and shameful on Society as a damn Whole..
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Ballard commons park has been occupied by these people for a long time, my wife is too scared to walk in the park.
Our homeless video #2 features Ballard Commons. Thanks for watching.
The Mayor should be ashamed. These are people in dire straits, not dogs. In the messiest places, pay one of the homeless people to clean it up.
The mayor, and even more so the City Council, are not only NOT ashamed, they are the ones most directly responsible for this disaster with their liberal crime and drug tolerating policies they have put in place over the last decade and more. Thanks for watching.
Bring back WPA have them clean up the streets, have them work in the food kitchens, have them repair the broken city. Become part of the solution not contribute to the problem.
Thanks for watching.
I have no idea where they put the tent cities from Seattle....the streets are clean from them ...such a change from last year almost like t day and night
They've just moved on to less visible places, trust me, the homeless population has NOT declined. A lot of them have moved into outlying areas and suburbs of Seattle. I know because we live in south King County and the numbers here have increased dramatically along with the accompanying skyrocketing crime levels. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Yep unity works
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Couldn't happen to a better city. NOT so Emerald these days.
You are unfortunately correct. Thanks for watching.
Lawlessness. This human misery, filth and source of crime and violence will only disappear with force intervention for drug abusers. Housing will solve nothing.
I believe you are correct, sir. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
Can you show the areas that don't have tents? This is worse than Portland.
We have many videos on our channel that show the best parts of the city. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Lived here 25 years and trust me as realistic as these videos are, they are just a drop in the bucket . Here's what you need to understand : You could be living an a more rural part of town, maybe a mix of condos, and single family homes , maybe patches of apartments . Family friendly area near a school , you get the idea. You come out and there are derelict RV's back to back to back taking up all the parking . On the parking strip are tents, tarps , lean-to's . Piles of trash , drug gear, stolen bikes, lawnmowers , BBQ's , baby strollers . All the windows in the RV's are covered, many don't even run. Gas generators run at any hour night or day . You see obvious crime going on, chopping up bikes and cars drug use and sales , addicts either on the nod, pacing back and forth , passed out. People in obvious mental crisis screaming at the top of their lungs or attacking a tree for no reason. Some of this, sometimes ALL of this, and according to the laws of the city, there is NOTHING you can do. If you call the police they will tell you their hands are tied. Besides they are so understaffed there's nobody available if they could. There's literally no means to have them removed that doesn't take weeks, months, even years unless something SERIOUSLY dangerous happens. Now picture that in front of YOUR house or apartment. And this is going on all over town for the most part. Your local supermarket get shoplifted from dozens of times every single day . People with carts full of steaks and booze and whatever they want just walk right out because they know nothing will happen. Half the businesses you see have plywood covering broken windows .
Every word you write is true. We simply don't have the time or the will honestly to document all of it. I've lived here since the mid 60's and watched it deteriorate from something close to paradise to the mess it is now. Truly sad and the worst part is it's all avoidable, aided and abetted by failed leftist policies. But they say you get the government you deserve and this is what all the idiots have voted for and continue to do so. Thanks for watching and leaving your comment.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 I hope that if it gets bad enough for those that helped create this it will lead to some change . Thanks for what your are doing
In these pictures it is actually much cleaner than it was
Glad I didn't see it before then, bad enough like this. Thanks for watching.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 I left a year and a half ago. Looks more homeless and desperate.
@@larryhinze9314 It's certainly not getting any better.
Hi ! Thanks for sharing this ! What a bad situation in beautiful Seattle !! So sad 😞. A big intervention needed 👍. Wishing you well, Don 👋
Thank you Don for your visit to our channel and leaving your comment, we appreciate it! You are right, a different approach is needed because what they are doing now has created this problem and is only making it worse.
I lived 13 years in Seattle in the 80's and 90s, it was a beautiful city. Lively vibrant exciting. Full of restaurants theater and other attractions. But not this. As you were driving you could feel the depression of the city. However, from the pictures, it's still not as bad as Sacramento CA. Just moved out of Sacramento and the homeless have spread out from the city proper to all neighboring cities as well. There's pretty much no where in a 30 mile radius that doesn't have homeless along the roads, under freeways, hiding along rivers, even out in the agriculture areas there's roads and roads of RVs and cars along with the tents.
I've been here most of my life and watched it slowly deteriorate. We live in the suburbs where it is still tolerable but don't even venture into Seattle proper anymore. Can't imagine how bad it must be in the urban areas of California. Why do people tolerate the destruction of their cities like this? I have no answers. Truly sad to see. Thanks for watching and leaving your comment.
Tim Conway at 1:05
If you say so. Thanks for watching.
thanks for sharing. I'm from Indonesia so I know the situation there
Thank you very much for your visit to our channel and commenting and for your support, we appreciate it.
Sure is different from the Frasier days.
Frasier was Hollywood fantasy. This is reality. Thanks for watching.
Have all those homeless been tested and or inoculated for covid? If covid is so contagious and life-threatening it seems there would have been a major covid outbreak among the homeless in their little homeless encampments.
Of course they haven't. Just another curiosity of the overhyped covid propaganda machine and another stat no one talks about because it doesn't fit the narrative. Thanks for watching and commenting.
The Climate of Seattle is a very big draw to many of the homeless !
Seattle in general is warmer and more temperate overall than most of the Northern half of the US .
I think all the free handouts and tolerance of drug use and breaking the law without consequences has a lot more to do with it. Thanks for watching.
They need to turn their abandon building into sleeping pod’s. Something is wrong with the government for allowing that amount of homelessness in their city
Not sure what the answers are but something different is needed than what they have been doing because it's definitely not working. Thanks for watching.
Super sad and almost angering to see this.
Homelessness is just one big reflection of bad politicians and for lack of a better word, neglect on major problems (e.g. drug abuse).
We agree 100%. The angering part is that people keep electing the same moronic politicians who created this mess with their idiotic socialist policies. One definition of insanity: continuing to do the same thing expecting different results. Thank you for your visit to our channel and your comments.
Its not just drugs , alot of those people are mentally ill, and thats not their fault, and i dont think they should be punished for that , they cant help it!!And people donate hundred thousands of dollars to help the homeless problem, so help them!!! And stop stealing their money!!! Its not right!!!
@@saralenagriffith6509 Mental illness is rubbish. Only a sluggard ends up homeless.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 This isn't a political issue. Both sides are played by the same people. The only solution is the people need to grow a pair and upturn the government.
@@thebabbler8867 yeah well its not their fault they have mental issues, its not exactly a choice ya know, im sure they have already suffered enough just being mentally ill, why are they being punished? They are American citizens and they cant get help?? Oh but anyone els from any other country , they re welcomed in with open arms and bring all their brothers and sisters and they get help for them and their kids and they dont even speak English, theyre probably terrist too!!! Look the bottem line is theres people living in tents in the middle of the city because they cant afford to pay rent, the rent prices are way too high!! And section 8 has too long of a waiting list, not to mention all the fake scammers saying theyre section 8 getting my personal information for a whole year i thought i was on the list and the kept sending me messages like section 8 has a check for $5000 for me and they have a perfect house for me but it was actually a scam i guess, cause when i called the office they didnt know who i was and they said they never received my application, and im like i got it off google though , ?? They didnt even care id been in a tent and scammed, aparently its perfectly legal for them to scam me??🤔like it was my fault, how am i supposed to know it a scam.
Make housing affordable. Many homeless work or did before losing hosing. 2000 a month for 2 bedroom is nuts. Corporations own most apartments. Instead of looking down and criticizing fight for affordable housing
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Heart broken when watching this. Lived in Seattle during 17-18 and I have walked almost all those places. It was beautiful then.
The saddest thing is there are still beautiful places here but more and more of them are being ruined like this, it spreads like a bad unchecked infection. Thank you for your visit and comment.
Is anyone choosing to visit or vacation in these areas anymore? I would assume the news is out about Seattle, Portland, several cities in California…. I would think states are loosing tourist $. Does anyone have any information about that?
I'm sure you are correct but I don't have any hard data to prove this. Thanks for the visit and comment.
@sd lm Yes, eventually it will all crash as all socialist "utopias" do. Get out now while it's still possible. Thanks for the visit and comment.
Im sure some people still do. People still visit NY there has always been homelessness there
Saw this firsthand on my last visit two years ago. Tents everywhere. One guy was asleep on the sidewalk in Chinatown and passed another wearing five layers of clothes in mid July. Very sad to see as Seattle is beautiful city and the people are lovely. Was thinking of retiring there but will just visit instead.
Yeah, I would not recommend retirement in this area. No signs of this improving any time soon, in fact it's only getting worse. And it's expensive to live here. Thanks for watching and commenting.
The guy wearing five layers of clothes in mid-July was likely schizophrenic and incapable of understanding his own plight.
True enough or maybe he had to keep everything he had with him all the time. But the city went from being one that I was so impressed with and praised its cleanliness when I spoke of my first visit to the complete opposite six years later. And I saw the same look of disappointment on every Seattlelite when I mentioned the difference. One person I met said that when the big companies arrived, all the prices went up. But it looks as if the money did not filter down and an entire section of society were suddenly homeless through no fault of theirs.
A Utopian paradise 👌
For leftists maybe. Thanks for the comment.
My wife and I moved to the Seattle area back in 1989. Back then it was a beautiful clean and happy place to live and work. Now we can't wait to get out of here. You missed the good years. Stay away.
Same here. Planning our escape soon. Thanks for watching.
The painted poles look pretty......
ok
I had no idea. Absolutely mind blowing.
As a longtime resident of this area it is still hard for me to believe that this has been allowed to happen and become normal here. Thank you for watching and commenting.
This isn’t the Seattle I remember.
I visited Seattle back in June 2003 for 21 days & that Summer in Seattle was just awesome!!
I saw a few homeless people & a couple of junkies throwing up near Pike Place Market but it wasn’t anything like this.
I have/had plans to visit friends in Seattle in September to see how much the place has changed & I’m thinking I’m better off visiting Croatia instead.
This is so heartbreaking to watch.
We filmed this about a year and half ago. Some of these locations have been cleared and some not, but as soon as one is swept, another pops up somewhere else. It's so random and that's the hardest part. You can be walking down a normal looking street, turn the corner and there's a bunch of tents blocking the entire sidewalk so people have to walk in the street to get around them. Drug deals going down right on the corner of 3rd and Pike, cops standing there watching and do nothing because they know if they arrest them they will be back on the street next day. No prosecution of anything, theft, drugs, doesn't matter. If I were you I'd opt for Croatia without a second thought. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Is this the mighty America.
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This is what happens when you promote the belief that the homeless are victims of unfortunate circumstances, instead of accepting the fact that the majority are addicts. Some argue that many of them are mentally ill, well, mental illness is also a result of long term drug use. I personally think these people should be confined to certain areas, not allowed to turn an entire city into not only an eyesore for all, but also make it unsafe for all.
100% agreed. Unfortunately the opposite is true here, the policies which have created this mess only aid and support these people and their drug habits, making many areas of the city unsafe and unfit for normal citizens to go about their lives. Thanks for the comment.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Seattle leadership has turned the city into a addict's utopia, which is why we're overrun with them. And if they ever start giving them housing as has been discussed, then it's all over for Seattle. I can retire in about a year, and I'm putting this overpriced city, overrun with homeless people in my rearview mirror for the last time.
@@dh2392 Our plan as well.
I now see that Seattle is buying hotels and putting the homeless up in them. So with affordable housing out of the way, they're all seeking gainful employment now, right? We know the answer to that as it has always been an addiction problem, not an issue of affordable housing. If I could no longer afford the rents in Seattle, I would move as would anyone, I wouldn't take to living on the streets just so I could live in Seattle. It's a narrative that doesn't hold up
@@dh2392 All true. Thanks for the comment.
I was born in Seattle, and even though my work has taken me to places far from Seattle, my home has always been in Seattle. After 51 years I did what was once unthinkable... I moved. I live about 30 miles south and I only regret not moving sooner.
People have commented about the crime in Seattle, but there is no crime in Seattle because of treasonous idiots like Kshama Sawant & Jenny Durkan have legalized everything. Well, there are no laws... unless you're an honest, taxpaying citizen with a job.
What leads me to believe that the majority of the homeless in Seattle (as told to me by a homeless man who WORKED his way out of the gutter), don't want change, if anything they'd prefer to drag the rest of society with them. Look at the homeless encampments around Seattle that provide port-a-potties & dumpsters, there are mountains of trash and shit everywhere
I have told everyone who will listen that this is a crime aided and abetted by the local politicians. They should all be kicked out of office and permanently barred from ever holding any kind of public position again. Never gonna happen though. We will soon be following you out but planning to go farther east, out of state. This Seattle madness will only continue to metastasize like the cancer it is to the entire Dem run state. Thanks for watching.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Amen! The cancer IS progressive policies. I live an hour out of Seattle and avoid the city but have watched as everything that is wrong with Seattle has spread across Western Washington. The problem with moving is all the idiots that voted this in are fleeing as well. Just ask people in ID or MT…Coastal lefties F everything up there should have to live in what the created!
@@TheTmac51 Maybe some rule if you move from blue to red state your voting record is scrutinized first. Too many dem votes, sorry, you can't live here. I joke of course, but it is insane to see people doing that.
Left 15 years ago- can't believe 15th Ave looks like that...
All the old homes torn down that had many people living in them, to be replaced by expensive apartments from Bellevue Developers definitely didn't help.
It's pretty much an unmitigated disaster at this point and only getting worse. Pretty sad to see as a long time resident of the area. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@sunnyskytravel4571
I used to manage the I90 Lid Park- I bet there's a ton of tents in there, we have had them in 2003
@@GardenerEarthGuy Probably right, haven't actually been in there.
And people there will still vote democrat and the problems will continue.
100% agree. Don't see any long term solutions on the horizon. Sad state of affairs. Thanks for the visit and comment.
At least the guy at 1:24 was wearing a mask. Nobody in Seattle cares about anything else.
That's about right.
There’s no street life at all in this video. The only people you see on the street are homeless. How long can a city survive that way?
You are correct. Downtown is a shell of what it once was years ago. Sure some people still are brave (or foolish) enough to go down there, but less and less "normal" citizens downtown all the time by choice, unless you have some unavoidable reason to go there. Thanks for watching.
Why don't some of the people leave Seattle is a mess too expensive to live there the people don't welcome you there, it's always wet there, no jobs, they can steal what they want no police enforcement there, it's horrible.
Have to agree with every word you write. It only continues to slide downhill. Thanks for watching.
Same thing has happened to my former home, San Francisco. I'm utterly sick of this BS. If people want to live like pigs in garbage and their own feces, they need to camp out at the garbage dumps, not in areas where people live and work. I feel sorry for the mentally ill, but the druggies, no way! If any homeless person is able to work, they can work on crews cleaning up the foul messes they've made. Period!
Right on the money comments. Thanks for watching!
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It is sad to see, yes there are many beautiful areas here too but sometimes it's important to show the dark side also. Thank you for visiting our channel and commenting.
Bill Gates needs to get them some foundation filtered/vaccine money.
Ha ha!
So sad this is what 100 million a year has bought them. What a waste of life and resources. The paradox seems to be the more you spend the more free service the more homeless and drugs. But hey, the NGO’s and catholic social services are doing very well, and they are not going anywhere.
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Should've filmed Gotham in Seattle
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You really take good photos!
Thank you for making good movies on UA-cam all the time⭐️
I love all your photos!
Thank you so much for your great videos.
I love them. ❤️
I enjoy all your videos. Great work
All the pictures you take are so beautiful
You're such a good photographer! ☘️
I can see why everyone likes you.😃
You’ve got the gift.❤️
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What do you expect, it's the left coast, next thing you'll know there will be places were junky's can get clean needles and do there drugs in a safe environment that provided by the state.
Already happening. There are many places where the junkies can get clean needles and the whole city is basically a safe environment because no laws are enforced and no crimes prosecuted. You can see drug deals and usage on just about any street corner in downtown Seattle, sometimes with cops standing there watching and not allowed to do anything about it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hi, thanks for sharing these very sad pictures....
You're welcome and thanks for watching and leaving your comment.
Could you imagine if a tornado came and thoes tents weren't staked down good they'll suffer from wind damage!
Gosh, that would be terrible.
Another problem? People migrating to Seattle by the truck loads from all over the U.S.
Drug addicts and criminals know they can come here and live their "lifestyle" not just with impunity but with the support of the politicians and community. Sickening. Can't wait to get out of this Bizarro World hellhole. Thanks for watching.
This is Seattle looking like this? I thought it was Skid Row..It looks really, really Bad.
Yes, unfortunately it is Seattle. The camps move around from place to place but they are always somewhere. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Tears. America could be so much more if it loved it's poor
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Watch a real live drug deal going down @ 6:26 !
Yep. Thanks for watching.
Wow I can not believe how bad the homeless crisis has gotten in the West Coast I remember back in 2015 when I was only 17 I went down to Seattle from Wisconsin to visit some family there I have seen an few homeless people there but it's always has been like that in any big cities and towns but nothing this bad I heard it's has got an lot worse since I left Seattle I can only hope for the best for anyone that are going thoes this right now Seattle was an great city when I was there
There are still great things to see and do here, but the bad stuff spreads like an infection into every part of the city. Thanks for watching and leaving such a great comment, we appreciate it.
This is terrifying. I use to want to move here. It's out of the question now. I would go broke feeding as many people as I possibly could and would go broke and then end up hungry
I certainly would not recommend moving here to any normal person. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Don't feed the pigeons.
@@lucytimmerman8687 what is going on with the pigons are they vicious ?
100 million a year, why don't they build low cost housing.
They keep talking about it, but this is not really a housing problem, it's a drug addiction/mental illness problem. Most of those living this way refuse services when offered, including housing. This is their "lifestyle" of choice. Thanks for watching and commenting.
So what are we going to do to stop this growth? no more free drugs?
How about enforcing laws and actually prosecuting criminals?
last month i arrive to Seattle as a tourist for three days, due to pandemics the hostel kitchen was closed and everything releated to food became grab-n-go so finding a bench to eat your meal without audience is not easy, one guy was ready to stab me for my poor teriyaki chicken, so a donated it to him, then he stick to me all day even walked me to seatac all the way annoying and talking shit, thank God he could not pass the departure gate :')
Wow, that is some story. Sorry to hear it. So the question is did what you see and experienced make you want to ever return to Seattle or recommend it to some one you know? Probably not. Sad. Anyway thanks for watching and leaving a great comment.
seattle sounds about right raised in seattle 70. 80. 90, thats why i left
Feed a stray, own a stray.
The major there don't give a shit about there city, it sinks all the time, the only wants get affordable is in the Pikes Market and in order for you to get in there you have to know someone, it doesn't matter about the list, there's no list.
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Didn’t a city worker get sexually assaulted in a city hall restroom by a homeless person?
Yeah, that was maybe 6 months ago. Right across the street from the big camp shown here in this video. The city's solution? They closed that entrance to City Hall on 3rd Ave. and made everyone come in through the 4th Ave entrance which was farther away from the homeless camp. Brilliant, huh? That'll fix the problem. Thanks for watching and commenting.
The mayor and the governor should be ashamed what's it going to take to stop this
It will take voters voting out the idiots responsible for these failed policies. Unfortunately the voters just keep voting in the same or worse idiots. Thanks for the visit and comment.
They have no shame.
This is so sad! We have the same problem in Vancouver! But I'm just afraid to go to the streets where they live.😊 Like 214!
It seems to be a pervasive problem here on the West Coast especially. We drive around it to film but don't go walking inside these areas, too dangerous. Thanks for the visit and comment.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 😊❤️
Crazy. I want to move back to the PNW and wanted to try Seattle rather than going back to Oregon. But it looks like both PDX and Seattle are disaster zones for homeless, drugs and mental illness. It's a gorgeous city, but marred by this. Wow.
I would advise against moving here, besides the rampant drugs, crime and homelessness there is also the crazy housing market which is out of control and unaffordable for most anyone but millionaires and very high wage earners. Lots of folks moving out of here. Thanks for the visit to our channel and comment.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 tbh Seattle is much cheaper than where I am in NYC, but my original intent was to live in Woodinville
@@lavinder11 Woodinville, Seattle, doesn't matter, it's all expensive now. So NYC is even more? Nuts, it makes you wonder if another housing crash is imminent. Can't keep escalating like this forever.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Yep. The same apt I have is over 1500 but would be about 900 in Seattle. It's crazy, my friend.
@@lavinder11 $900 apartment in Seattle??? Where? I live out in the burbs and a cheap 1 bedroom in ghetto apartment complex goes for over a thousand.
Ohh my God!😞
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Camps only get cleared when there are fires or killings.
Sadly true and sometimes not even then. Thanks for the comment.
GREAT tourist ads . . . to see Seattle online, before flying in to spend your bucks $ 💀
Just think of it as a public service announcement! Thanks for watching!
So vibrant and beautiful. Love Seattle.
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Past tense.
Seattle promotes the belief that the homeless are victims of unaffordable housing. Well, Seattle has been buying up hotels and putting the homeless in them, so can we agree that for those in these hotels that affordable housing is no longer an issue? So with that out of the way, they're seeking gainful employment, right? No, because the problem has always been addiction, not affordable housing. Seattle leadership knows tax payers would be much less accommodating to having their pockets picked to support the homeless if Seattle promoted them as addicts, so they don't, they promote them as victims of affordable housing.
Your comment is spot on. Thanks for watching and leaving your thoughts.
If anything the housing is unaffordable because of property taxes bought on by our great leaders (shhhh don’t mention that one either)
Its not just drugs , alot of those people are mentally ill!! And they cant help it, and its not right to just assume they re on drugs, and the ones that are on drugs is usually because they are suffering from cancer or a medical purpose . And people have donated hundred thousands of dollars to help the homeless, so why arent they doing so?? I think thats why they re all bringing their tents right downtown, so people can see they are still there , not getting the help they should . And who is behind it all ?? The mayor??
@@saralenagriffith6509 I attribute a lot of the mental illness to prolonged drug abuse. The city has decided to tolerate up to 3 grams of heroin, which means you will attract junkies from far and wide. I understand helping those that become homeless due to unfortunate circumstances, but I don't understand the tolerance of drug abuse.
@@dh2392 oh i know , thats unbelievable! Why the city has allowed that is beyond me!!! That was the wrong move if you ask me, some of them need jail , so they can see a judge and the judge send them to treatment, because they arent going to volunteerily go to treatment. Before you know it this place is going to look like Philly. Look up on youtube "morals over money" thats how this place is going to be if they dont get a handle on it soon.
I came to Seattle as an international student in 2015 and instantly love the city. Even homelessness has been a thing back then it was not at this crazy level. It is just so sad to see the streets I used to walk through like Capitol Hill or Downtown are swamped by drugs addicts like this. Was planning to visit Seattle and recommend it to my friends and family but I think I would not now.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except addicts, it's a great place for them, aided and abetted by feckless politicians. Thanks for watching.
Same. I visited around 2017 and the homelessness was bad, but not this level. I remember we were even warned not to go into the subway by another homeless person because of the frequent robbings that happen down there. It was a shame because otherwise the city was lovely.
@@luckyDancer100 It's not improving. We avoid going into the city for any reason now except to make the occasional video such as this.
The millions that is for the homeless trickles down to thousands cause of crooks taking most of the monies before it reaches our people!😪🥰😇🌈
Exactly why government intervention in ANY endeavor is always the least efficient method of doing anything to "help" anyone. 90% of the funds end up, as you say, in someone's pocket and not the needy, intended recipients. Thanks for watching.
Lack of living wage jobs, skyrocketing cost of living is the cause.
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A Progressive utopia on full display enjoy your polices, they got you here. LETS GO BRANDON!!!
And yet the local idiots keep voting in politicians who continue down the same socialist path of doom...oh, I mean Utopia. Right. LGB!
Summer love in Seattle??
Is your real name Jenny Durkan perhaps? Thanks for the comment.
Jenny Durkan's 2nd annual "Summer of Love".
😁 Best comment of the day - you win! Thanks for watching!
@scrub44 Agree with you 100%. One definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing (or re-electing the same gang of idiots) and expecting different results. So it's really on the voters who keep these people in power. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Durkan and Inslee sold our be love city to the homeless and it became a shittttthole now day. Sadly
@@johnnydo6410 SO true. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hey Donald....RIGHT ON with that comment !!!!!
If you hadn't told me, I'd think it was a camping ground.
Not a camping ground I'd want to stay in. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Yeah well there's haters and trollers every where. And there's no help biking to work there. And it would be enough if you had a bike anyways. Maybe a bike and trailer you could camp in. Then you could work your way slowly out of the hole. But no one's helping them like that so guess what? It's easier to get drugs and steal from stores then to get a days labor. Now you start giving free bike to homeless and maybe a kids trailer. And only this would help. If not pay the millions to try and house them. Which would you do? Change the drug laws to ten years hard time for hard drugs. And people will think the next time they're out about doing those drugs. More for dealers and trafficking of such drugs. Or deal with the crime and stuff we are seeing now. I am homeless too but I made my own camp trailer for my bike. And it helps me be safe, comfortable. And able to work daily labor to pay my phone and bills. My car got stolen and now I'm back to square two with just my design to help. You seen so bikes and trailers are very needed. Must allow them to camp in other places.
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"They called it paradise. I don't know why. Call someplace paradise you can kiss it goodbye"
Isn't that the truth! Thanks for watching and commenting.
All th rich need to fix that mess.
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I was attacked on the bus by a homeless guy in October and I waited in the cold for over an hour for the police to show up but they never did. Tried calling the non emergency number the next day to report it as well but couldn't get through. What good is it if you can't report crime, bad enough when they can't enough show up to help you? I'm still shaken up from it. I have to go downtown for a couple of doctors appointments and I found myself mindlessly crying hoping no one attacks me again. And the recent election of Kshama Sawant feels like someone poured salt over that wound all over again. I will be moving my doctor's appointments to other cities and won't be stepping for in Seattle again. Not that I was going there much before.
So sorry to hear of your terrible ordeal. We used to enjoy going into town.Not anymore. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Wow sorry to hear about that,that's not good. To look at all those shakes around town remind me of South Africa 🇿🇦 .
Hope you get well soon
From South Africa
@@ricadosias2348 Thank you! Truly appreciate it. I've been taking it one day at a time.
@@sumie327 Hi Sumedha how are you doing?everything good your side...
@@ricadosias2348 Sorry for the late reply. Yeah so far good. How about you? Keeping well, I hope.