I Drove Through The Worst Parts of Las Vegas. Holy Crap!
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2022
- You don't see THIS side of Vegas when you come to party, that's for sure!
Aww Las Vegas. So fancy. Everyone who goes to Vegas usually stays down here and dresses up all nice and gets free drinks handed to them by attractive bartenders. Las Vegas is known worldwide for its over the top, glamorous strip. You’d think this whole place was like this if you didn’t leave your hotel.
But MOST of Las Vegas is not that. MOST of Las Vegas is a very poor rundown place. In this video, we’re going to explore the true, ugly side of Las Vegas. A lot of this desert city is pretty beat up and poor and not what you see on TV or from the view of your hotel room.
Now the consensus from the data and from the people I know who live in Las Vegas is that there are three main parts of Las Vegas that are the worst parts of town. They are here - an area way up on the far northern fringes of town, a part of town on the north end off of Lake Mead Blvd and a neighborhood on the fringe of downtown near Jerry’s Nugget.
There’s a fourth area near the Stratosphere right off the Strip that was actually the worst, and I found it so dangerous and intimidating that I did a whole separate video on it. Cause it was that bad.
But for the most part, we’ll be spending time in North Las Vegas, which is the most rundown and dangerous part of any other area in the state of Nevada.
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it would be fair if you would mention, that most people only want to have a better life and try to evade any type of trouble, they are doing the job no other would do like cleaning hotel chamber and this for a very low wage! this are hart times and so many struggle to pay the high rent or other necessity
Socialism works until you run out of other people's money. Double whammy coming, no money, no water. Where will 40 million people move to? Who will pay for it?
I had a chance to go to Las Vegas and work as a pastry chef and saucier ,I turned the offer Down , that was back in the 1980' when it was booming , with legalized gambling all across the United States Las Vegas went from a ghost town to a graveyard
Bro I’m all for great America 🇺🇸 but u can’t be driving around ppls houses sayin how broke they are 😂
Exactly!!!
Just moved to Las Vegas from Southern California 5 months ago. Most of the LV valley is nice. Just like anywhere there are bad parts. But the ghettos of LV are child’s play compared to the ghettos of Los Angeles.
Detroit makes that all look like paradise. No joke
I agree! Been in LA for 35 years and have seen some serious Ghettos. Take a drive down San Pedro street in the heart of LA. It is unbelievable!
@@rsohlich1 Baltimore, East Saint Louis, Flint, and Gary make Detroit look like paradise. I have not been to the ghettos of Chicago, Memphis, & St. Louis yet; and that’s why I didn’t mention them.
@@jag92949 Well, Memphis is turning into the Detroit of the south.
Yeah, or compared to Oakland.
I lived in Las Vegas from 1991 to 2011 and I must say that if you go there with a lot of ambition and discipline against the vice’s you can do very well there. Vegas enabled me to retire comfortably. Vegas can be heaven or hell it’s up to the individual
Completely AGree!
Wise words
That's right I live in abilene texas there is nothing here but I make a good living here jobs on every corner
Did you wear a blindfold every day to block the ugly?
@James Bond I must admit that the Vegas women were the bottom of the barrel
Moved out of Las Vegas a few months ago. I was living down town for about year, because rent has gotten so high. I also worked in Paradise. If you want to visit Las Vegas. It’s not a city to walk around like other cities. Just take care and know where you are and where not to be.
In the name of all that is Holy, WHY would you decide to move to a desperate S8it hole like Las Vegas? You can do ALOT better than that. Just imagine all the low lifes you're going to have to fight off of you in the next years that you're there. Buy a gun.
Whoops, please disregard my last message, as I realized that you moved OUT of Vegas. Good for you. I hope you find peace and harmony in your new city. Aloha.
These two guys have got to be the most sheltered children alive.
My thoughts exactly!!!
Lol
Exactly...
Keep their names out yo fuckin mouth.
EXACTLY! It’s gross for them to act like they know what they’re talking about
Being born and raised in Las Vegas I can assure you not all of the city is like that there are lots of really good areas too like in Henderson or Summerlin
There should be no places like that...anywhere.
I am sure there is, but point of videos like this is that the country is failing. The bad areas are spreading like terminal cancer throughout the nation. WAKE UP! You think crime isn't going to spread throughout good areas get real.
Let's be real . LV and Hen are dumps . Boulder City rocks.
He does not realize that he is talking about north Las Vegas not Las Vegas. They are 2 different cities, he should update the title, it’s misleading
@@janethill4365 There is no perfect world. Anywhere.
I spent three weeks in North Vegas. White guy doing a contract job. Stayed in a motel down the road from the El Cortez. Was pretty shady. On the other hand a older homeless man made sure I was safe . My safety consisted of trading some smokes and a soda when I went to the C store. Truly believe this man got me through my contract safely.
Such a cool story. A little kindness goes a long way and it is a two way street.
That’s the tactic I used in Mexico lemme tell you your just hoping that cig/cigs or beer is enough to make the person not want to rob you😂
As another native of Las Vegas, even in what you call “bad areas” of Vegas there are very good people. You a parent have never heard of don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Other than the casinos, Vegas is no different than any other city. We have mostly good people and our share of crime. You have lived a very sheltered life if you think that Vegas is any different than other cities.
How is it NOT different?!? it attract people from ALL over the WORLD it’s the adult Disneyland!! where anything goes at a much deeper level then most areas in the US
@@terrewertz4084 You're premise is ludicrous.
lmao, he must’ve showed you’re house😂😂
@@terrewertz4084 it’s not different.
It’s just money Vegas happens to be a place that attracts money.
Open your mind up a little
For me Las Vegas NV is the capital entertainment of the world, and if you hit the jockpot, so be it, there's bad elements everywhere
I lived in Vegas for about 10 years, I feel like this is exaggerated. Definitely has some issues but I never felt it was that bad. And the 9 stabbings was some crazy dude on the strip stabbing random people. Not gang related.
Very, very true. This guy seems to have some reason to lump all of North Las Vegas into a ghetto. But, he is just wrong.
Nah bruh i from here these streets are bad. Lot of ppl broke and doin bad out here where im from just the way it is. Kids exposed to these elements adapt to the fast life, and quick fast money hustles (its a hustle city) but the steet called Carey is literally jacked up alll the way threw. Lake mead headed east after rainbow, nellis Boulder Hwy, Rancho Karen, east vegas valley.(SO MANY OTHER STREETS AS WELL) Alot of apartments all over the city section 8, you can't just brush it off. Cause when you take the city bus like me and thats all it takes to be in these streets you'd kno. But stay in nice areas for nice outcome but the ghetto is huge out here and he circles it @11:60 alot of zip codes run down. Crazy crack heads nd robbers in these streets really not a joke if u not careful in certain areas off that map on @11:60 dont BS my city
And my city doesn't get recognized for what it actually goes threw 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 look at the map at @11:50 and tell me its a beautiful place to not have a car.. its not terrible but definitely NOT GOOD from the smells of the city pollution to getting gang banged and pressed for dumb shxt
@lasthumankind what ??? Im a east las vegas native
spot on. dude stabbing was also probably a tourist too lol. tourists cause so many problems tons of fights on the strip and dt it’s all on youtube too. and not this dude circling silverado ranch, the lakes and the airport saying it’s bad 😂
These neighborhoods didn't look all that bad compared to your other videos! The homes looked all lived in with some really nice cars and trucks in the driveways!! Some of the homes looked kind of nice!
Some of the areas that he was filming in the middle of the video were NOT a bad part of Vegas- I have only lived there for the past 30 years!
I agree. They may not be much in the way of luxury, but you could tell that the residents have pride and take care of their property. They may not be able to afford a million dollar house, but they appear to be responsible and clean!
Exactly, they were just homes built in the 60-70's and not considered the UPPITY part of town now
He makes videos for drama, not the truth. Can’t blame him, there is money to be made in drama, truth is boring.
When Nick Johnson did Detroit, the areas he showed were not so bad at all. He went to the neighborhoods near downtown. The true bad areas are on the north side.
the blue and red map you drew is so spot on i lived there for a year in spring valley, and it was exactly how you put it, right in the middle you didn’t circle it at all, it was pretty alright out there :)
Been here since 96 from Milwaukee. Been to enough bad areas in Chicago to say the worst parts of Vegas are nowhere near the worst of the worst back in the Midwest. There's countless areas of Milwaukee I wouldn't dare walk through even in broad daylight and I can't say the same here. And I spent a huge part of my first 15 yrs here right around Fremont where drugs prostitution and actual crime happened. Worked with a guy who years later I saw on the news buried his old lady under their trailer. It wasn't shocking to hear so it's definitely bad here just not anything like back east or you would see in an LA Oakland Houston etc etc
Well said my friend 🤙🏽 I’ve lived here since 2017 north west loose centennial area and I love it never had any issues here at all rents 1/4 of what I’m paying in Bay Area and I tend to stay away from the “bad” areas and once the sun set I’m home! LoL 😂
THANK YOU, I've been living here in Vegas for 4yrs. and these neighborhoods are like Rodeo Drive compared to O'Block, Humbolt and The Wild 100's. I take it Vegas residents have never been jacked by construction workers before.
Sigma Milwaukee 🗿🗿 I have family in Wisconsin
This kind of thing is rampant throughout the US now and it’s making us start looking like a third world country. We are going downhill fast and it seems as if many people are actually rooting for it to continue. You’d think our own citizens would want us to prosper.
Many millions come to this great country with nothing to offer at all. They drain Americans financially.
We are on the decline as a nation, our golden age has passed. What comes next will prove that soft handed men DON'T STAND A CHANCE! As a nation we must hit rock bottom before rebuilding if we can rise again.
Some people just want to watch the world burn
This all began during the Reagan years. This is the result of 35 years of Trickle down economics. The middle class in America is doomed. The upper class, will use working class conservatives to hang onto power, so they can vacuum up any bit of remaining wealth the middle class had, be that in real estate, retirement funds, or anything else they can steal. First they distract you, and then blame some hippy for the whole mess, while they continue to steal. It's a vicious cycle.
they want the country to collapse so they can implement their worker's utopia, like in Cuba and Venezuela.
I have Family in LV - haven't been there in 2 years. My niece is a high school teacher there. It has had ups and downs since the beginning. I think it was fun back in the early 90's when buffet food was cheap and there were still some of the classic casinos and hotels.
I agree with that statement totally….all the fun has been sucked out of Vegas. Machines pay in credits….BORING! Food once nearly free now costs an arm and a leg. Not the Vegas of the 80’s to 2005 at all. That said, the rest of Vegas is just like every American city the last 70 years, some bad areas you avoid but even the bad areas are relatively I ok. Just because you live in a run down neighborhood it doesn’t make everyone a thief and a killer.
Amazing! When I was a kid back in the 50’s the US seemed to be THE place to be. In retrospect Canada turned out to be THE PLACE! Universal healthcare, a great educational system, no guns - to speak of - in the general population hence lower crime. Plus 20% of the world’s fresh water and a population size around 10% that of the US! How can you beat that!
Sad place to live. It seems to lack hope. Looks sterile, desolate and depressing 😕
It was cool then
@@jamj1877 Yes, that is how poor areas of the desert look, whether it’s Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque or Las Vegas.
this adds an entirely new level to sin city….the dark & seedy side….great vid Nick!
The lack of trees/greenery and shade is the worst aspect of Vegas ...
I’ve been in most of these areas and never had a problem. Glad you survived the drive
I have lived in Las Vegas for over 11 years now and unfortunately I have seen the worst part of Vegas and yet I still pick up people as a rideshare driver who work in multi million dollar casinos who live in the worst neighborhoods and it absolutely breaks my heart!!!! Kudos :)-
I would be cautious about moving to a place where water is an issue.
Phoebe Bee not to worry they have been sucking all the water from the Midwest aquifers for decades.......
Like all of California, Arizona, Nevada and texas?
vegas is no where near as bad as some other places in severe drought🤷♂️ vegas puts back nearly all of the water it takes out of lake mead and is capable of pumping water from the deepest point
I live here and I’m dealing with it. Otherwise we can all migrate and overpopulate other states. Viva Las Vegas
That was the main concern for me. However, California isn't much different. The water and food issue is being controlled, it isn't a natural occurrence. Where you have snow, you have flooding and freezes too. I mean where do we go? Off planet. There is a problem everywhere. We can't all live in the country, the south or even the east coast.
I've lived in Las Vegas most of my life, over 50 years. I was working at the Golden Nugget during the Rodney King Riots, fellow workers who live in this part of town were afraid to go home at night. I've never had a problem though, and neither has most of my very extended family. It's no worse or much better than any other medium large city.
I am glad this video was posted ..
Las Vegas blows everything up like they are the number one city in the world LOL They do absolutely nothing for the homeless but instead continue to feed the addictions. Most people who visit Las Vegas are very happy to say they are going home.
I worked security on the city bus. Lots of homeless, drugs, and alcohol. Talking to the people, most aren't that bad. So just don't be a victim. How you carry yourself matters.
@@cindyb5364 I moved out of the state. Go to the BTC, LVMPD, and rub some dirt on it. Drivers are not cops nor security. You sound like a troll. Ask for Marksman Security MOD.
Las Vegas used to be controlled by the mob from Bugsy Siegel to Five Crime Families. Now it's a corporate Disneyland.
Since you mentioned Disneyland, with all the homelessness and prostitution and other stuff like that, instead of becoming a city do you think it would have worked better as an adult Disneyland or something, cause it doesn't sound like a good place to raise kids
Nice to see and hear what's life looks like in this part of US. Thanks for video. Best wishes from Serbia/Europe.
I love this video..I must say what a beautiful part of the world...you do get good and bad in all parts of any place you live in ...but all you good people just have meetings and talk about the problems try to help each other..sometimes it does really help not everyone can be bad..you have a beautiful state..the views you have to pay a million dollars for .I do think sometimes we always look at how bad things are before we see the good things and sometimes things don't seem that bad...Good luck everyone...
Las Vegas is more ghetto than people think. Being born and raised here, it's still a developing city with new people moving. The gentrification being introduced now will bring the cost of living and rent.
These Californians moving here dont realize that. Theyre only coming and raising the housing costs
@@chrisb.5351 We realize it but we still want to move there. Deal with it.
How is the Saudi gang element?
@@kimleonard4087 The joke is on you. Many Californians move to Nevada only to find out the quality of life isn't so good. It also ranks second to last (the last being Honolulu) in school quality. So, if you do move there, you'll need private schools if you have kids. I lived there for 16 years and am so glad I left when I did. Crime is through the roof in every area of that city.
@@kimleonard4087 Go ahead.
I live in Vegas, older home built in the early 80s. Not going to lie those places exist, but iv never been to them. We are not rich or poor, my home was $120k new in 81. Homes around me sell from $750k to over 1.5 million, 1/2 acr lot with natural lawn front and back 10ft deep pool.
I actually appreciate you showing this to people, so many with drug, alcohol, and sex addiction move here thinking it will be a 24/7 vacation only to bankrupt themselves quickly.
Something interesting about Vegas, those of us who live here don't do the tourist thing. Last time I was on the strip was the day covid shut it down and I can't remember the last time I gambled. I believe the machines took coin's, I hear they no longer do.
After watching Nick's videos -- they are so interesting and informative, I actually feel like I've been there! 😆
you are sooo right. once you leave the strip . some parts looklike the entrance to skid row☹
$200,000 for a doublewide with one russian olive tree explains the poverty more than does the shiny new rims on a lifted cherry red Ford 150. Housing prices are being jacked up by foreign real estate "investments," mostly Chinese Communist money. Look to Vancouver as the prime example of the problem. Also follow a dude called Louis Rossman who covers NYC commercial real estate.
easy to blame others when your supposedly superpower country cant even build affordable housing .
@@anirudhmitra4232 The affordable housing was jacked up by foreign investors all over the metropolitan areas of the country. Happens in Seattle too. My Cousin's wife works for a real estate firm in the greater Western WA area and she says MOST, if not ALL, of her clients as of late have been Chinese foreign investors. That is a serious problem for those looking for real estate in any given area, if people can just swoop in and artificially inflate properties to super high prices. Ezekiel is not wrong!!!
@@anirudhmitra4232 Google what a company called Blackrock has done to the housing market. It’s mostly foreign money. It should be illegal.
For a garbage dump of a house here in medical lake, with no yard, you need 300k. It’s ridiculous.
Been following Louis Rossman for a while(tech videos), he has good information on what's been happening in New York real estate wise. It's pretty damn crazy what's going on.
I’m from Chicago, lived in Vegas now for 14 years. There really isn’t a part of town that is THAT band. North Las Vegas isn’t that bad either. It may look rundown, but a very nice Hispanic community for the most part. I’ve walked through the area behind Stratosphere many times, and while it’s not great, you don’t really need to trip about it. They’re actually planning on demolishing a good portion of it soon since it is so close to Main Street which will now be brewery row
Yeah, being in Philadelphia and living in the Killington area, Vegas isn't that bad compared to where I live at lol
For those that don't know, it can get up to 120 Fahrenheit in the summer there, so that's another reason to move there.
But, as we used to say, it's a "dry heat". 😄😄😄
It was still very hot, though.
U have a very unique narrative style. 🤙🏼
I do not live in US. I have never been here. I was born and grown up in Poland. Being almost 50 I can remember communism times... and how much west, and especially US impressed us. It was a colorful, wealthy world full of potential and possibilities for us.... So different then our reality where buying basic products was a challenge, all flats were furnished with the same cheap stuff (as nothing else was available) and buildings were grey and sad.
Since then the world changed, my country changed... and US changed. I also changed and understood how much the TV picture is biased with PR, marketing and political propaganda.
Since I understood it, I have been learning about world and its problems more from internet, from private people publishing their videos or from independent organizations.
I love my place in the world and can not imagine living day by day having all those structural problem.
Do not get me wrong, I do not say we don't have social problems in Poland! But they are much less serious...yet.
God bless you America. I hope you will find your way, that all the world will find a way back .... as our societies are heading inevitably towards calamity.
Unlike the Eastern Bloc, Americans are choosing a tyrannical and poverty-giving government voluntarily. People under 30 are brainwashed that the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong were nurturing its citizens.
America's parasitic political class has milked it for their personal benefit.
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It is stunning in a way.. All people from US I had contacted directly can see it, and have similar remarks. Nevertheless the political dynasties and the political system is ... doing great 😁
@@terywetherlow7970 Brilliant line
@Opal Allen Exactly!
If you're in the middle of a desert, a house shouldn't be like 350k+
It's embarrassing. People in Mexico would laugh at this.
Californians will offer 100K over that asking price because to them, it's cheap. Then they move to Vegas and the reality sets in. The grass is not actually greener in the desert.
I had an acquaintance who retired in Ventura, California and then moved to Carson City around 2006. He was looking forward to as they say, getting from it all for piece and quiet. He returned to Ventura after two years. He was bored out of his mind. It was too laid back; nothing going on, he claimed. I never admitted to him that years ago I thought he was making a mistake and should have stayed in Ventura because it was his home for decades. You just don't up and leave your hometown if you're comfortable there.
You're funny, I enjoy your vids, thanks!
If he calls the first neighborhood getto, I'd love to see where he lives. It must be in a gated community with million dollar homes. I saw people who take pride in their homes, and this goes for 90% of the neighborhoods he drove through. BTW. These neighborhoods are our working class folks. The homeless folks he showed are in the area that we call, the naked city.
Exactly dude 💯💯
Right, it’s working class neighborhood…is it Beverly hills no but it’s not ghetto either. He has a condescending elitist attitude, probably some trust fund baby born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Did you read the murder reports dummy?
Sucks for you people who grew up in a non guard/gated neighborhood lol. Cry about it.
@@Ahahahhaaah cry about it? nobodys crying but you
MOST of Las Vegas? Hardly. 47 years I worked all over the city and surrounding areas as well as Indianapolis. Both have good and bad but MOST areas in Both citys are nice neighborhoods.
I would agree with his assessment of most. Summerlin and Green Valley are nice. Maybe some other areas far South or far West but overall most of Las Vegas is bad to some degree or another.
@@StatisticsJason Summerlin and Green Valley have had some of the worst crimes in the history of the County in them, from murders to drug ring busts!
@@lydiaedwards8100 I'm not a fan of the entire LV metro area. I'm glad I left.
@@StatisticsJason Las Vegas isn’t the only worst state there california, Chicago, and a lot more…
@@StatisticsJason Las Vegas is only bad if you find the worst areas…
You must have driven thru North Vegas very early in the morning, before they all get up. Good strategy ! lol
You know you know you know we know we know we know !!!🤣 These guys are hilarious talking like they’re driving through a zoo and those are animals that live there not human beings wow these guys are funny 😂
What a drama Queen. I’m 59 years old and my entire life every city has had one or even several bad parts of town if it was big enough . No, I have no affinity for Vegas and never lived there but have spent plenty of time. I have lived in South Phoenix which had parts very similar to this.
Bait of the click
If walks like a 🦆
@@truthisdatroll it’s a duck? Las Vegas is huge…this is a tiny portion.
looks like 99% of Yuma to me
Of all places who would have thought it exists though !?
Not the prettiest but if a mans gotta place to rest his head at night and put food on the table, he's doing pretty good.
East Fremont street can get bad. Anyplace close to the Strip can be bad. North Las Vegas turned around mostly. There are some very nice areas these days. I lived in Rhodes Ranch but had to move to Houston while also working overseas. On my old side of town, I had my truck in storage stolen. It cost me $5,000 to get it back and repaired. It took 3 months to make the recovery from the North Side of Las Vegas.
Law enforcement is going hire these two guys as consultants. HAHAHA
Im pretty much consider Vegas my hometown and i can’t say he is wrong. Everything said in this Video about Vegas is quite true. And it is depressing as hell.
I lived in Vegas on and off for 40 years and thought about moving back but when I was there in August for my mother in laws funeral I did realize how depressing it was. The only thing I like is that the streets are wide and you can walk freely not like the inner cities here in Baltimore, its so dirty and RAT infested and this is just as depressing.
I have been here since the 1980's and there is only a cpl bad areas. I lived in BC 1970's.
@@annfisher8256 I still miss it. I'm so ready to move back but I'm helping my son and daughter who were born and raised in LV but like it here in Baltimore and I don't like it here I was born and raised here
@@bethjudie8 WHAT THE F ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!!
Too bad. I like Las Vegas. I think life is generally what you can make it. Even if your property is small you should still find a way to beautify it. It seems just ridiculous to create a situation then sit around and talk bad about it. Years ago, I had the solitude to write six books in LV (not bestsellers, but my creativity was inspired). Had I stayed there who knows what I would have achieved by now. There could be an opportunity for neighborhood beautification services.
I like Las Vegas as well and agree with what you said and the opportunity suggestions.
Thanks for sharing 👌 great Video
I really give Nick credit for going into all these dangerous places! Great videos!
It's not that bad actually. It just looks bad.
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There’s barely a free drink in Vegas anymore unless you’re upper 1%. Cocktail women don’t exist anymore other than some random women serving drinks on rare occasion. When I first came to Vegas in 1987 I was 19 years old playing blackjack at the Dunes $2 dollar tables and if I just mentioned a beer or cocktail the Pit Boss would do a loud 2 claps of his hands and the most smoking hot cocktail lady would be there with whistles and bells.
Exactly
It was better when the mob ran it.they where for the little guy now with all these corporations running it they dont care.just profits.
Same experience, same dates, same age!!!
Dude you can still gets ton of free drinks when gambling, and the waitresses are smoking hot, we just won over 100 at southpoint and they give you drinks, by the way you can't be cheap and you have to put in more than one dollar
@@rewindo2604 yeh I know how to take care of the real cocktail ladies. Ive been doing this since 1987.
I lived in Vegas/Henderson for years working on the strip and by the lake. I also lived in Oakland, CA for several years, and I can tell you, Oakland is WAY more dangerous. It takes, on average, more than a year for most folks to find work in Las Vegas, and if you've got any kind of record you're totally screwed so don't try. Crime tho, is grossly underreported because they don't want to tarnish their rep as a family vacation city and discourage tourism.
Facts especially in Henderson so many crimes/shootings go unreported it's crazy. They want to keep their top 5 safest city badge so they don't report anything same goes for the crimes in the casinos.
How come it takes more than a year to find work in Las Vegas? They have huge casinos, hotels, night clubs, restaurants, shopping malls, resorts and attractions all over the city. How is that even possible? Don't they have a labor shortage like the rest of the country?
I agree, but i also find oakland to be safer than Stockton in many cases.
@@CBatista1234 it really doesn't take that long depending on your background, the type of job you want, and networking connections you may have.
A year to find work?? Where are you looking lol?? Compared to the rest of the US, Vegas actually has a pretty good job market. I had a much tougher time looking for work in CA and AZ. Vegas sucks though. I was born and raised there and you couldn't pay me to return.
“The population has doubled in the last 10 years” lol okay. Great to have such informed guests on.
Hi from the uk 🇬🇧. Thanks for the video. I’m always confused by these areas that are designated as ‘poor’. There seems to be a wealth of vehicles, and who would pay 200 thousand for these properties if the area is so bad. It also looks quite clean 🤔. Just some thoughts that went through my head.
Maybe they rent it mostly?
Cars are cheap so no big value there. And I guess they just have very low standards of living and don't want more or something
Yeah, $50,000 on a vehicle and live in a shack?
Cars are a little different in America, they're not viewed as luxuries like some other parts of the world with trains and whatnot. They're necessary for almost every major city because of how spread out we are here. Believe it or not, our one state of Nevada (there are 50 states) is larger than the UK :O That being said, this guy doesn't really know what he's talking about. Some of the areas he's calling "bad" are just old houses where working-class people live
@@stevengold ah, okay, thanks for the information. I Appreciate it.
Yeah, $200K for that crap. nah.
Unlike other cities it's the North area that has the ghettos. South of Vegas is actually nice. Stay south of Desert Inn Road except when going to the outlets and Fremont Street and you won't ever see or experience any of this.
For Detroit, the south side used to be worst. Now, it’s the north side.
I moved to Vegas in the late 80's. North Las Vegas was a shithole then too. All those areas you mentioned were already shitholes. That area of the strip where the stratosphere is was referred to as "The Naked City" even back then. I only lived in Vegas proper for the first 6 months I was there. I then moved out to Henderson close to Lake Mead. . It's much better out there. I moved back to Texas 15 years ago. I miss the dry climate in Nevada but I LOVE being home in Texas too!!
@D. Johnston 702 , I sold my house for 340,000 when I left there. There were people from California buying houses in Nevada to move to several years in advance of their retirement in order to get them while they were still affordable. Right after we sold and moved; our neighbors told us that the bottom fell out of the housing market and they couldn't give a house away. I definitely miss the climate but I'm happy to be living on salt water now. I missed it while I was in Nevada!
Thank you. Nick needs to do a better job of looking into the history of these places he talks about.
I lived in the Naked City when I was 18, that was 34 years ago. It was crazy then and I moved from crazy Carson Ca. What a trip that experience was!!
@jūn , well. I live on a the Trinity Bay which is the opposite side from Galveston and the Galveston bay. It's the same body of water. It's pretty humid but I love the beach. I liked Lake Mead but it's pretty cold compared to the Gulf of Mexico. And I really like salt water and the Dolphins I can snorkel with. We have mosquitoes in Texas for sure and I never saw one in Nevada! Lol My parents have a ranch out in the dryer part of Texas close to the border so not many mosquitoes there. It depends on where you want to live. Texas pretty much has it all. I grew up here and roamed around for about 30 years. Nevada wasn't the only place I lived. I just stayed there longer. Bartending money was GOOD! LOL You can live in the desert, hill country, Forrest, beach, flatlands, city, country, small town. Pretty much any environment you want in Texas. Lots of rivers and lakes too. I also love the freedom in Texas. The only thing I'm waiting for is legal marijuana! Lol
@jūn , Austin probably has the least extreme weather. Houston gets really hot. Dallas can get pretty cold. San Antonio gets pretty hot. Maybe take a vacation to Texas and check out some places to find one that suits you. People are very friendly and welcoming. :) I prefer the coast.
I moved to North Las Vegas last June and I LOVE IT HERE. I even work at a high school next to the Nellis Air Force Base. Yes, there are poorer looking spots, but everyone near me is friendly and I feel perfectly safe there. I lived in Los Angeles for 30 years and Boise, Idaho for 10 before moving here and compared to other cities, this one is fine and always has something interesting to do.l
Hey Nick I enjoy watching your shows . Very informative. I’m from California a native. I like the way this guy kept blaming Californians for all the bad stuff that happens. I guess Las Vegas people can do no wrong. Granted California has its flaws of course. We’re not entirely to blame
When I see a neighborhood with bars on the doors and windows and excessive metal fences, that's the first sign that it isn't a good place to live. If you need those things, you probably need to find some place safer to live.
That ‘safer place to live’ is in Boise; and the suburbs!
Exactly what my moms always tells me
I'd say it's the 7-8 cars parked on the yard per house, the set of living room furniture set up (couch chair loveseat) on the front lawn, and notice someone has a PT Cruiser parked out front - no one who's not mentally defective buys ones of those.
Then ppl that live in nice area not bars wonder why there house broken into lol I worked in a $$$ area . Cars , homes broken into they had couple rapist in the area this is a million dollar area I don’t care what area I’m in gate on window an alarm system lol go brake into the easy house
@@alexcarter8807 lol.. pt cruiser
Interesting that the majority of vehicles parked at the homes do not look old but fairly recent.
Living in the desert, cars do not deteriorate. My car is 17 years old and looks new. If I was still in upstate NY, my car would have been junked years ago from the rust and corrosion from salt on the roads in the winter.
I Work in property management. It’s just how people decide to spend their money.
You have 5 people living in a 1 bedroom apt but they all have 30k SUVs and cars.
Thats anywhere. In most "hood"videos, the streets are full of clean cars. Often luxury models. Watch any videos from slums in Ny, NJ, Pa and Chicago. Very few junky cars.
@@ceeko5484 Cadillacs, BMW's, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus.
It was always that way. In the late 70s I was bussed to the hood to go to Kit Carson 6th grade center (which I actually have fond memories of). It was near the Jerry's Nugget neighborhood they showed on this video. It was a hardcore ghetto area, even back then, but I remember seeing new cars parked in front of the homes including several Cadillacs.
Ive noticed its like ghost town, no kids out playing, no neighbours out talking, or anyone walking around
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The areas in the video didn't look so bad. Of course, its hot out, so everyone good or bad goes inside. Should have done a night drive in those areas. Might have been a different story. 👍
War zone at night. Gangbangers, freaks, dealers, robbers, you name it!
yeah apart from 12:00 the neighborhoods don't look bad at all compared to some of the ones I've seen in LA and Detroit.
@@lettuce1305 I hear ya', and I'm from Detroit, myself.
You must be high. Drive through the areas at night? Really?
FYI Nick a lot of people from California (of course) moved to NV because of the affordability and closeness to home. The reality, there is not enough jobs in NV, it is extremely hard to get a decent job, traffic is terrible, people are rude, homelessness is on the rise and California politics spread like cancer to southern Nevada. In 5 years NV will be indistinguishable from CA. FYI I lived in Nevada for 7 years recently moved to Texas (DFW area) it’s expensive here now like everywhere but I love it and have no regrets.
I recently retired at 59 and live in a relatively nice, safe,...and peaceful area of MD. As my girlfriend and I think about (possibly)relocating we use 3 criteria to immediately cross an area off
our ''maybe'' list,...1) areas where California people have moved to,..2) areas that California people have moved to and driven up rents and home prices to insane levels ..3) areas that Calif people have moved to,....driven up rents and home prices to insane levels,....and ruined.
Yeah have you looked at crime in Tennessee? Mississippi? Louisiana? Didn’t think so. Typical boomer, regurgitates whatever nonsense they see on Facebook.
Most jobs are service jobs huh.
People fleeing CA and bringing politics with them, hopefully the ones moving there from CA are the few sane voters that are left there.
@@MrJestyler people are leaving because the buying of houses by hedge funds and foreigners with CCP bucks has left rents being too high for normal folks.
I feel like I used to work with Chris at bass pro shop in Vegas 😂
Vegas sucks because of the heat. Other than that it’s an okay place to live. It has it’s rough parts but it also has a lot of really nice parts. We moved to Utah and like it here a lot better but it has it’s issues as well. 🤷♀️
I live in one of those areas. Just moved here 9 months ago. It's freaking nuts. Luckily I am in an RV park with security.
Lived there for almost 7 years off and on, and, I can tell you he's not showing the worst..... it's not GLITZ and GLAMOUR it's GUTS and GORE!!!!! Right off the STRIP is the most frightening and the people who visit don't have any clue just how bad it is......👎👎👎👎💰💉💰💉🗑️🗑️🗑️
I used to live in north Vegas by Nellis. The north east is actually pretty safe if you don’t get involved with the wrong people. The bad crime is actually on the nicer side of town like summerlin. Home invasions, burglaries, even murders tend to happen more on the west side of town for some weird reason.
Your right!!
True
the reason is that there is where the worst people live and concentrate.
Well, if you're a thief or burglar, it makes more sense to steal from the wealthier areas than to victimize poor people who haven't got anything!!! LOL
"Here's an expert on the area: local man that watches news sometimes" stellar reporting
When I lived here, it always creeped me out to be on streets that were block after lonnnng block of 10 foot high walls. If you were being chased by someone,... or a coyote... you had nowhere to go. Every neighborhood there has a wall around at least 3 sides of it. Most of them were in the middle of nowhere, or right on the edge of town when they were built. Then it all filled in together, with more walls.
This is Utopia compared to all the older big cities in the US. Streets are clean, very little yard debris. Vegas is getting there, but it has a LONG way to go dude. I wish my streets were this frickin wide!
One thing we have in the desert is a lot of SPACE. Has nothing to do with how "clean" you think the streets are, those areas he drove through are crime ridden hellholes. The only reason you think it looks so "nice" is because the sun shines over 300 days per year. Why didn't he see many people? The people there sleep all DAY and troll all night.
@@DesertDweller74 you are spot on...he should do a video at night.
@@DesertDweller74😂
One should take in account that most of those (rundown, looking bad neighborhoods) are residential areas for the low wage earners in the strip. This is the group that wants to live close to their place of work. Majority of residential areas in closer or close to the strip are cheap, shady, or just plainly bad, again by who's standards that's all they can afford. The old saying people that live together in a neighborhood think alike. If and when any of you happen to be in Vegas drive around Henderson, Summerlin, Spring Valley, Skye Pointe, Inspirada, and The Lakes. The theory is the further one leaves away from the strip area is well-off i.e., can afford the gas, mortgage, and utilities. Service industry workers, migrants, and low-wage earners need to live close to the strip that saves them time and money (to work and from work).
I realize this comment is old AF but thank you! This is very in-depth!
I’d like to move to Vegas and bring my
Two kids (I’m upper middle working class) and can afford a nice house but am still deciding WHERE.
LV has always been a vacation spot for us and we want to get out of California but still want to be able to drive back to San Diego to visit family And friends.
Your comment is very helpful thank you!
@@Gargamel19 Summerlin is great, but if you need easy access to get back to California, I’d suggest West Henderson or Southern Highlands.
@@MichaelInTheDesert thank you. Those are the areas we’re actually looking at. We can afford a 5+ bedroom house in those areas.
You are so funny.. keep doing your thing
We bought our first home in NLV off Losee Rd. Brand new construction, 21 years ago. It was a beautiful area but things started to change with the school system, 4 years in and we moved to Lake Las Vegas, when everything crashed and those homes were affordable.
I'll say this. The people of Las Vegas are amazing. It's such a transient place and folks just seem to be pretty decent, trying to carve out a life.
I can see now that California is bringing their politics and that's sad for NV, as a whole.
Outside of Vegas is beautiful. It's actually an amazing state. The desert is pretty special.
We moved to the Midwest, 4 years ago and I'm glad we did, because Covid was much better in Midwest than in NV.
I'll always love Las Vegas, the people, the history and Central Church. That's where you'll get a good idea about the city.
If you have a suppressed vice, this place will pull it out of you.
Otherwise, there are some amazing things about Vegas and many terrific neighborhoods
NO STREET LIGHTS : That first place must be a dark and intimidating neighbourhood after dark. Adults probably don't like walking around, never mind letting your kids be out and about after dark. The only lights I noticed were at the street junctions - maybe that's why the shootings and stranglings happen there. At least you can see what you're doing !
Good eye!
It is VERY dark in this city which is weird.
In some neighborhood it has to be vote on to get things done. If one neighbor doesn't want it than they don't get it. He should got out ask a someone instead of speculating.
@@gabrielle5062 Nobody is speculating anything.. we all clearly see there are no street lights.
I have been to Vegas. It is nauseating to smell the air with thick marijuana smoke. Maybe that's why they are poor. Drug users.
You have to drive around at night. That's when all the action starts.
I don't want Nick to die
Nick lives matter.
Is that something u regularly do
@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 Just watch Cops. Let them do the driving...
@@joelonzello4189 I thought cops tv show was cancelled?
@ 6:04
You Cali~Rolled That ST🛑P SIGN!
Reminding me of gta san Andreas mission when you start talking about the crime abd seeing the chain mail fences etc
I'm an uber driver and I delivered food for the Culinary Academy during the pandemic. So I've been all the places you are showing. Some of those areas aren't that bad ,you talk about the crime in those areas, dope crimes like everywhere else in America.
The most odd things I've seen since moving here is women walking by themselves down dark streets at 1 or 2 in the morning 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Exactly 👍
Oakland ca is really dangerous.
I’m from Detroit, my definition of danger is a little different than most 😂 I’m moving the LV in june, looking at the spring valley area. I’m a little priced out of Summerlin and Henderson at the moment for the size I need.
I have teen girls, main concern is them being safe. Question: What areas do you find to be decently safe?
@@MoonRambo702 I would personally just avoid any neighborhood east of the strip. Don't get me wrong. you will find nice "new construction" neighborhoods throughout the East, but it's only pretty for the little space that the HOA has control over. It doesn't change the run down shopping centers, grocery outlets, or schools. I know Summerlin is expensive, but if you go far enough Southwest, or far Northwest, the prices start to level out, because Summerlin is predominantly considered center west. These Lake Mead trailer parks shown in the video are a walking distance from where I grew up on Owens Ave. It's a lot of Mexican/Latino influence, people dub it the little Mexico, my high school was 70% Hispanic, this may not be super relevant, but I thought I'd share that info because people are often surprised about it. This is not a bad thing, in fact I myself fall into this statistic because my mom is Mexican. But if you want really good tacos, I suppose this would be the area to go!
@@MfckingDye Greatly appreciate the info, my wife is Mexican and Tacos just happens to be my favorite food group 😂. Everything that is popping up in our search with the realtor is mostly west of the strip, so thats good. The wife’s new job is north west but our kids are going to Coronado. Trying to find that perfect location for reasonable commutes.
Great video Nick. I was in Las Vegas in March of 2019. I was looking for a hotel off the strip and I accidently ended up in some rough areas.
I can't believe there's a single homeless person in Las Vegas because it's SO INSANELY HOT there! It's a good 115F every day in the summer, it's insane. I don't know how anyone can live in a tent in that kind of heat.
Was homeless in Vegas for 18 years loved it
noticed in some of the rougher neighborhoods where a lot of the housing has no decent shade to protect the houses from excessive sun heat, imagine if the AC goes out, you got nothing but a box that may as well be a sauna without the humidity. Looks pretty bleak in the neighborhoods even the nicer ones. Track housing, or pre manufactured homes, cheap construction and not enviro friendly, the ideal home for the desert is your basic Adobe Home one would find in Taos, NM, but then again, cost and working class people can't afford anything now even if the building is junk.
This is so true! I saw the bad side of Las Vegas myself when we was going on the Hoover Dam trip.
Me and my friend drove through some of the worst areas when we went last year, cause we were bored. It’s really something else to be on a block with boarded up and broken windows everywhere, and see the huge expensive skyline in the background.
Hey Nick, I personally think this video great looking not back, I seen so much worst. I drove threw Nevada in 1992 year that been the last time I drove in this state. Thank you, for sharing this video. I visited the Grand Canyon was why I drove into Nevada state.
damn i can't believe you got out of that first neighborhood alive, that was the most dangerous place i've ever witnessed hope someday they can clean it up
Great message after.
250,000? For a run-down shack? No wonder there are is a lot of homeless people, they have priced almost everyone out of the market for a home. In Arkansas, that amount of money would buy you a house and land.
Same here where I live....of course it's in the country an hour and a half from anything resembling a metro area but that's why I like it here. Plus zero crime.
But Arkansas is the 5th poorest state in the country.
For 250,000 you can buy a nice home with land in Wisconsin easily with access to everything you need within 5 miles. It's the bitter cold winters that make it undesirable.
@@carolinepandalove7214 geez don't tell them that...we dont want to end up with those overinflated home prices here and all the other problems. When people comment that Wisconsin winters are cold and brutal I just agree with them. This is not where they want to live lol
Arkansas huh 🤔
I lived in Vegas for 25 years before recently moving to Florida.
Actually the worst part of town is what we call Tent City, near Catholic Charities.
In Las Vegas, The west is the best and the east is the beast!
Isn't that with every city
This. Centennial Hills, Summerlin, and Southwest are good areas. There's no reason to go to East Las Vegas because it sucks so bad.
We lived in Skye Canyon before moving this year to Florida
Man I wished you had shown some of the street signs better I could get my bearings on where you were. Love to see my old neighborhood without having to go there. Oh I worked at Bob Stupaks back before it became the Stratosphere. We had to have security walk us to our cars. In 85
I moved from Eugene, OR to Sunrise Manor off Lake Mead and Mt Hood back in 2001. I was 15-16 at the time, and I’ll never forget how weird it was to be living with my Grandpa in a double wide and seeing big new houses right across the street. Needless to say I didn’t stay long before moving back to Oregon lol. Gangs and meth addicts were the main issue. I was meeting kids my age who skipped the whole smoking pot with your friends phase and went straight to selling meth and heroin and gangbanging. It was crazy.
Are those kids you refer to now dead?
The irony is those are the very reasons I left Oregon.
@Nicholas James, yeah, that area has always been a bit ghetto. Since you lived there, it has been moving more and more on to the "Undocumented" area. Not sure I would call it worse or better than it was in the early 2000's... but more the same but different. Sideways move. Oddly enough, it's a strange area though. I have been about a half mile away in various houses way up the hill for 31 years. We now live in one of the "smaller" houses in my neighborhood at 3100 sq/ft on a half acre. Extremely nice newer neighborhood, but with not so nice neighborhoods like your old one scattered around a half mile away. For us, it's ideal though. We are car people with 9 cars (4 are race cars) so we cannot live in a HOA and have to have ample garage and parking space. Our neighborhood is actually nicer then some of the so called "nice" neighborhoods in Vegas.
@@33Donner77 wouldn’t doubt it
@Leonard Maltin Gae not nearly as bad as other places. I wouldn’t even call it a nightmare here at all 🤣!
Downtown is being cleaned up and on Northside also is trying to be rehabbed. I'm sorry you don't drive around hoods for weed it's usually hard drugs.We have dispensaries for weed
Yeah, I giggled at that weed comment. 🤣
Homeless people are everywhere no matter what city your in.!?
That block has changed with construction still ongoing! But more needs to be done!
Always love watching your videos Nick, stay safe while you're out and about cruising the streets of the US
@@user-zf2ub1hi3z no thanks Scammer your fake channel was reported
I will say that the streets are somewhat clean compared to the east coast cities.
Or midwest ghettos, Flint, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and KC.
Right Comin from Jersey this doesn’t look bad to me at all
Philly makes this city look like candy land meets Mr. Rodgers neighborhood.
clean and dry.
East coast cities are a different kind of ghetto. Rough, rust belt towns, abandoned buildings, smashed windows, grimy streets. The cold weather doesn’t help the situation either.
The problems with Las Vegas have nothing to do with people coming from California or anywhere else. The problem with Las Vegas is that the establishments of the city don't give a damn about nothing but the strip and the Fremont experience area. It isn't the people is the fact that they don't put money into no part of Vegas other than the tourist areas casinos and hotels on the strip
My dads apartment complex had a lot of mailbox break ins in the pandemic. He lived behind the MGM. It happened in Green Valley too. Jerry's Nugget is by all of the homeless shelters. We don't have shelters for severely mentally ill people. There are so many of them taking public transportation out here. They get money for the bus by panhandling. They do have security get on the busses to take photos and kick people off. It costs 2k per month for a small older apartment with security.
Comin from Jersey this doesn’t look bad to me at all. Not to say Jersey is is tough everywhere you go but here is so spaced out and sunny and the houses are fairly nice. If this was a neighborhood in Jersey I’d say it’s jus a regular town.
And it looks like they keep their lawns mowed.
I'm from Jersey too, and I bet you it's a different story at night! in this neighborhood!
@@OMEGATECH BINGO! It's a war zone at night.
@@DesertDweller74 hey it's like Newark, kind of okay in the day but don't be walking the streets at night!
I lived in Vegas for over 8 years, compared to Baltimore where I also lived, Vegas is like Beverly Hills. Baltimore is a dark, rat infested, crime and gang infested cesspool.
Exactly 👍
Baltimore sucked, rest of Maryland is good
Been biking around town, biggest problem is that there’s debris everywhere, broken glass etc. If you stay on the main roads it’s fine but north Vegas did look very sketchy. Lots of very nice neighbourhoods too, lots of homelessness in general around the core. Sketchy places are easy to spot and avoid.
I used to live Lake Mead in eastern area in the 1970s when I first moved there I used to find my way around by looking at sunrise mountain 😂 it’s for now then it was then.