I arrived in 2005, left in 2006. It's all an illusion that only the blind can't see. They constantly talk about the weather and the beaches and the lifestyle -- none of which come close to making up for the ignorant policies and soul-crippling taxes. I'm pleased to see it crumble.
Come to Texas, but stay outa Austin and Houston. Californians ruined Austin, and Hurricane (guess the demographic) Katrina folks ruined Houston. @@MyBelch
San Jose is GONE NOWWWW! Pretty sad Leo. Thanks for showing the world what is happening to California. You're doing a superb job. Many blessings from Minnesota.
I’m 68 years old born and raised in San Jose just moved up to the mountains a year ago so sad to see what happened to my town. When I was, the kid, San Jose was the most beautiful farming, town, all the fruit and vegetables the horses, the cows it is a wonderful place to live. Never to be again so sad.😢
San Jo', Story and King is where we used to cruise with other young kids back in the '80's. I've since gone back and the decadence and wealth divide is sad.
You were able to buy a house? I just realized you sold a house in San Jose. So you made like a cool mill off your purchase anyways… congrats on being a home owner. I make $90k in the San Jose area and I’m poor and probably will never own a home… good game chat good game. :/
ITS OUR FAULT FOR NOT DOING MORE TO GET CORRUPT POLITICIANS LIKE NEWSOM, BREED, THAO, ETC. OUT OF OFFICE. IT'S OUR FAULT FOR ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN AND NOT TAKING PROPER ACTION TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.
No, the last recalled was RIGGED. He actually lost the race. He is living the LIE. The number one party in this state that dwarfs both the GOP and the Democrats is who? Independent. Gavin knows it.
Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren. FBI. “AOC” who forced Amazon from building their headquarters in the Bronx (her district). “Ilhan Omar”. The Somali pirate with her fake husband - brother. To bypass immigration. “Rashida Tlaib”. The Palestine radical protesting right along with the crazy college kids.
I taught at SJSU and lived on campus; to see what has happened to this beautiful downtown is heart breaking. To think that this was one of the most affluent cities in the country and see it now is frightening. As goes California, so will go the country. This is what the next Great Depression looks like folks. Thanks for the video Leo!
San Jose is still an affluent community. It is the hard-working, middle-class business owners who are being squeezed out. Every Californian I have met is proud of the diversity of their state, but it becomes less economically diverse every day. In California, you either "have" or "have not." The wealthy I know in the state act like this is just "the way things go" and continue to sing the praises of the state. That is until Kmala starts taxing them on unrealized gains. I know many who have moved to states with no income tax and spend six months and one day per year in the no income tax state to avoid California taxes. They love the California climate but ran away to establish residency to save money. The hypocrisy in the Bay Area is stunning.
I think about all the people who started their businesses to capture their dreams; to see all those dreams destroyed by stupid policies...I feel bad for them.
"It's inconceivable to think the current administration keeps telling us how many jobs they've created and the economy is doing great.." All politicians are bull shit artists....you do realize that don't you? and they're all paid for by corporations to win elections to do them favors. Every single parcel delivered to your door is one sale less in a brick and mortar retail outlet.....internet shopping is the death of these shops..not the politicians you don't like. Netflix will be the death of cinemas, automation will be the death of factory worker jobs (you can see this in warehousing already), self driving cars will be death of cab and trucking jobs etc etc ...soon gardeners, accountants and teachers will lose their jobs, all to robots....and don't get me started on sex robots!
Democrats, it just came out they were all lies, look around, they are evil liars. I think they don’t know how to tell the truth at all. They began by telling nothing but lies about Trump when all along they are the ones trying to turn us into communists, shut us up. See the corrupt stuff they are trying on him.
I think all the eyes are saying please look at us we are all gone, why??? Who’s in charge, who didn’t help us??? What, the democrat administration, that is who. Who got picked as the VP? Didn’t his great city of Minneapolis just get trashed. They are both smiling about it. Don’t make them happy, don’t vote any of them back in. 100% failed us all.
I was born in California, and I grew up in Santa Clara, VERY close to San Jose. I have lived in SF 3 different times in my life as an adult. I also lived in Los Angeles for 7-8 years before moving back the 3rd time to SF. I'm still in California, but I don't live in either city now...haven't for many years. It breaks my heart to see how liberal policies have COMPLETELY destroyed these once vibrant cities.
@@Deetroiter I left Santa Clara in 2006. I can't say I miss it. I miss it historically in my memories and as I continue to learn more of its history and the area. I've worked at the haunted Toys r Us, Fry's electronics, went to school at Peterson JHS, Wilcox HS. I dumped trash with my dad right where the forty-niners stadium was built!! I miss our big house on Cooper drive but I don't miss all the meth heads!! Yeah there's methods everywhere but at least they don't know where I live now!!! I pass through to visit my sister there still. 😢
@@RGE_MusicWe go through manufactured boom-and-bust cycles, because the people running our country plan it that way. We should not have a Federal Reserve system and be paying interest rates to private families on the money that we print, either. Talk about built in inflation!
All the restaurants were wiped out due to COVID restrictions. If not immediately, they tried to hang on, but the Democrat sanctioned crime and decay put the nails in the coffin.
I don’t get it. Why don’t all the businesses flood back-in and set up their stores again in the same spaces? It looks like the buildings are still good, the public transport works as usual, and the weather is beautiful. The stores should all be open, not closed like this.
@@elementcreator1 they should put in offers then. Let the landlords decide if they’d rather receive NOTHING from letting these spaces sit empty or SOMETHING from them filling up, I say.
I was in CA recently. Basically every hotel, shopping center, park, attraction had a sign warning you not to leave valuables in your car. So, that kind of tells you state of things. What they need is a commitment to law enforcement and long jail sentences, but they opt for signs.
@@RaymondFellers-g7t I would say this is somewhat accurate. Covid really did a number on us. Tech jobs are very easy to switch to remote so our office vacancies are really high, which hurts retail.
@@KalaVeritates down town is bad there are other places you havent been in san jose. Down town was going out back in 2011. I remember back in 2009 where i used to work at farmers market area. There are a lot change and also business closing slowly. Most of the nightclubs slowly disappeared. Been reading some of the comment blaming the democrats. That sht is getting old.
@@mkaberli614 Look what happened with Sam as mayor. nothing done with homeless. new mayor is actually trying to clean up. grew up in San Jose and it's become a shit hole. you are blind if nothing is wrong there
14:33 this time of day it's dead downtown because it's between lunch hour and food pantry handout hour! Wonder how long it'll be before somebody walks through downtown with the cement block and just takes out all the plate glass windows just for fun. 😮
He cheated in his recall. There was a pencil size hole on each side of every envelope that contained a vote. I got one. My friend got one. Democrats could hold one to the light, push the edges, spread the envelope, see the offensive vote, and toss it.
I’ve lived in San Jose my whole life. 43 years. It used to be this thriving city with a lot of hustle and bustle. And now, it’s dominated by big retail and big names in Santana Row Or valley fair. Outside of that, businesses are suffering because of the liberal, permissive approach to dealing with homelessness and crime. One of the most expensive places to live in the United States, and downtown is a ghost town.
Large Data Centers have taken over Santa Clara Valley. They are consuming hundreds of Megawatts of electricity. The Democrats think that's just fine. (why are data centers immune of their climate change madness?)
People's lives, futures gone now. I've lived in Cali since 1962 and I've never seen decline happen so fast. Gee, who's the governor? When you see an angry, combative democrat you know they are to blame for the decline.
I am from London, and most every summer I used to visit good friends in San Jose, and every time I could see the change in it`s dynamics. The biggest "dead city" I have ever been in.
ALL OF YOU WHO MOVED AWAY How many of you are voting Blue in your New Home? All of you are and you insist all your thoughts are your own and were not placed there by some guys with PhDs in PSYOPs who work for BlackRock.
@@artemismaximus So what's happening? The center of a city should not have vacant blocks with derelicts standing like statues. These are not signs of a healthy city.
I lived downtown in the late 70's, and early eighties while attending San Jose State. Lived on 15th Street, the dorms on 10th, and a house on 6th Street. We lived on 9th Street as well. Spent about 7 years downtown and for a while after we married. East Santa Clara St. was thriving back then. That was during the Vietnamese refugee placement by the government. That was a positive as they opened up quite a few businesses. Even so, crime was pretty high downtown. There were no camping vagrants but there were drunks and panhandlers. The Second Street corridor thrived during the tech boom of the late 90's to the early 2010's. You couldn't get a parking spot during that era. At least Original Joe's is still open and the University thrives. As Silicon Valley companies move away due to high state taxes and regulations the empty buildings will continue to mount. The heyday is GONE NOW.
They put a Safeway on the corner of South 2nd St. and San Fernando. We owned a lot of rental properties around SJSU and I would walk my dog around the campus area, and I saw a large construction crew putting in massive steel beams embedded in concrete on that corner, must have been around 2008 or so. "Wonder what's going in here?" A Safeway! A downtown Safeway. What a blessing. I would drive there and park in the underground lot. Then: 1) the in-store upscale coffee shop had its seating filled up with homeless. (the same thing happened to the McDonalds on South Third at San Carlos, one block from the SJSU entrance). Safeway shut down the coffee shop. That McDonalds closed also. 2) at some point, 2? 3? years or so after the new Safeway opened, we could no longer park in the underground lot without paying. We sold everything and left California in 2017. The wife and I had spent so many years there in Santa Clara County (aka Silicon Valley) - I got my undergrad and grad degrees at UC Berkeley, she was crossing the Bay Bridge during the week, from where we lived in Berkeley, to attend SFSU. At that time (early 1990s), San Francisco had won, for four (4) years in a row, the award for "Cleanest Big City in America' I know that might be hard to believe now, but it's true. I have walked along that sidewalk where all those shops used to be, at the very start of your video, SO MANY TIMES!. I can't believe Safeway is now closed and all those shops are gone too. Real shocking. Very sorry to see what Mayor Susan Hammer had been able to do - really turn San Jose around - just go to pieces. Mayor Hammer was the mayor of San Jose in the 1990s when the wife and I first started operating our rental properties, and MY GOODNESS, she turned that city into one of the best places around in those years. She did a fantastic job. Sorry to hear your story about what has happened.
FYI… Prop 33 is on the November California general election ballot. It would repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which put limits on rent control laws to ensure that housing providers could make a fair return on their investment and stay in business. Repealing Costa-Hawkins would mean cities could enact radical rent control, even on single-family homes and condos, and prevent property owners from resetting the rent to the market rate after a tenant voluntarily moves out.
@@arneb3818 We're in a different state, that all sounds pretty radical. *_LET'S CONSIDER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF..._* CITY: "Mr. restaurant owner, we have outlawed your ability to set your own menu prices. From now on, you must get City approval for any annual increase over, say, 2.5%" Or the City tells all doctors and dentists: CITY: "We have outlawed your ability to set your own fees. You can only increase your fees by 2.5% annually or less." Would there be a change in the number of restaurants, doctors and dentists who operate in that City? (ANSWER: a shortage of restaurants, doctors and dentists would develop, as they relocate to different areas) *_THIS MIGHT BE OKAY THOUGH, A DECREASE IN AVAILABLE RENTALS_* because of the # of people leaving California. In 2015, a poll done in San Francisco (2 years before we left the state for good), over 50% of residents of the SF Bay Area wanted to move away. So the "leaving" trend has been around a while. Maybe fewer apartments and retails stores will work out, I don't know. But San Jose was a pretty cool place to reside. Woz Way, Childrens Discovery Museum, the Sharks, TONS OF TECH JOBS. It's very discouraging to see San Jose sort of collapse.
What's going on is that the people there and the other Metro California cities are voting themselves right into moral and financial bankruptcy. Tocqueville's prophecy for America is blossoming right before our eyes.
2008-2015 it was starting to go down hill. Trump era didnt do a thing. Funny how a lot of the comemnt saying its Democrats fualt. 😂😂😂 If Trump was “ such a good President” why does it look like everything is closing down. When covid hits most store business got hit real hard. Lets forget who was the president at that time. Lol
@@glumGlumm Stop fooling yourself. Who in the hell would want to hang out down there with all the no cash bail reform BS going on? Must be nice to be rich and away from all the consequences of insane Progressive policies.
Leo, about 50 years ago I used to take the train down from Palo Alto (where I was a renter who couldn't afford a car) to San Jose and walk from the station to San Jose State University to take meteorology classes there. I was shocked, the first time, to see much of the sort of desertion that you're seeing now. My 1.3 mile walk was through downtown and it was then a disaster area. At that time there was little high-tech in San Jose, which was still partly tied to its agricultural past (Gilroy was farmland wilderness in those days). All of the tech was in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. But about 20 years later San Jose had snapped back. That's a long time. We can only hope.
I forgot where I was recently but the closed stores had realistic renderings of a open business. Like a clothing store, a restaurant, a shoe stores, a telephone store. All closed but if you didn't look too closely they still looked open.
I just read an article about how the legal pot industry is collapsing in California. Seems that the regulations and fees are so insane that the illegal market dwarfs the legal market. California can't even make easy money off of legal pot. California may have the most natural beauty and diverse climate of all 50 states but until they get their act together we will be hearing a lot more "gone now" messages from Leo.
Agree with post 100%. I love this place but it hurts to see what the people and their Democrat overlords have done to it. Probably never coming back to a free land. The illegal vote guarantees it. GONE NOW and forever.
I saw something about that a year or so ago. People wanted to be legal and paid out the a$$ for it. Now it's all cartels. Slave labor and dumping chemicals...sad.
Weather is highly overrated and NO, California doesn't have a monopoly on natural beauty. Other states like Florida have beautiful turquoise seashores, there's the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Arches National Park, and the Rocky Mountains. The Jersey Shore is so much nicer than the Pacific shore, while the East Coast has so many quaint harbor towns and the best seafood. Lake Michigan is practically a tropical seashore with it's turquoise blue waters and quaint harbor towns.
They should be taking more taxes for online services and giving more support to real stores and other places at streets. Just for people to go outside, walking, communicating, breathing. This is a way of caring about people's health - physical and mental and this is very important in fact.
I lived in San Jose before I left for Texas in 2018. . . . glad I did that. I heard one problem is that no one wants to reduce the price of the land property in Silicon Valley and henceforth no one wants to rent or buy any of these spaces and commit financial suicide with any business idea they might have.
Hope you didn't bring your California mindset and lib voting policies with you. You guys already ruined Austin, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver Denver, somewhat Phoenix, somewhat Boise, and Las Vegas. Warning..don't mess with Texas.
EIGHT years ago?..I left in '97. Hope you didn't bring your crap ass democrat voting policies with you to Texas, Arizona, Tennesee, and Florida, we don't want you otherwise. Chuck those Ca. plates as fast as you can and blend in. Robert at 69.
@@nightreapers3425 idk about you but I actually go to San Jose downtown 4 days/week for sjsu. I can tell you that is an over exaggeration. He showed like 2 blocks of downtown instead of the whole thing. Didn’t even come even near the school. It’s almost like he’s nitpicking and running a narrative to get views.
@@Astelch That to but you should know it’s not just downtown. East side is worse. North. It’s all San Jose getting bad and there is needles everywhere bud
During my tenure in the United States Navy from 1985 to 1993, I resided in San Jose. It is disheartening to witness the significant decline the city has experienced since that time.
Sad to see this. I remember the days of cruising Santa Clara St and the whole downtown area was hopping. Bars, restaurants, clubs, the shark tank all popping off.
Our family saw it coming 15 years ago and we moved the whole family out of the state. Took our money with us they replaced us with foreigners good luck with that.
NEVER FORGET This all started with the GEORGE FLOYD ANIMALS and the COVID PSYOP. I will be voting for President Trump, because I have a memory. Make America Ball Again 2024 --REDWOOD CITY
It started Way before George Floyd, remember the movement many years before George Floyd the occupy people looting and burning down city like Portland and Seattle and so forth, happened Way before Floyd
It's a decaying mess with a corrupt city and county government. It's just not worth it to live here, unless you have a career you are pursuing, and can save or invest your earnings. Quality of life sucks and commutes eat up your family time. This is not the San Jose of even 20 years ago, and I don't plan to stay a minute longer than I have to. Thanks for the video, stay safe out there.
I had a relative recently pass away who lived in San Jose since the mid-1970s. It’s sad that she passed away, but I’m also glad that she isn’t having to live through the collapse. I would visit San Jose many times to visit her, and it’s shocking to see this area empty like that.
@@RGE_Music The "why" is a long topic that would turn into a novel here. The short version is that perhaps the people in power don't care about regular people, and just care about their own selves, about what they can get away with. As for it not being fair, Frodo and Gandalf have this exchange early in the Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo begins to realize a difficult journey is being forced on him: Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time.” Gandalf: “And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” It's not fair that this is happening to you (and to most of us as well). Sometimes in life we can't choose what happens to us. But we can choose how we react, and how we act. So a few suggestions, in no particular order: Get financially educated. The system will not be there for you (and probably not for me, either). Learn how money works, how to make it work for you so you will never be hungry. Start with "Minority Mindset" on youtube. (If I had that in school, I would have bought up a ton of Apple stock in the mid-90s and been financially set for life.) Think of dollars as only a mechanism to buy assets that will earn you more dollars (to buy more assets, and repeat). Build relationships. Know your neighbors, know your family. Cultivate these relationships, build strong bonds. These people will help you when you're in a tough spot, because they know you will help them when they're in a tough spot. Go to a church and read the Bible. Learn of God's love for you, and His peace will be an anchor for your heart and mind as the storms of this chaotic life try to overpower you and drive you to despair. Yeah, the Bible is a big book, can be tough to make sense of why certain things are in it, or how it is relevant. Ask people at church about it. At the very least, start with reading the book of Proverbs. It has 31 chapters, read one chapter a day each month for how to be wise. Learn how to defend yourself and those who you love. Martial arts, firearms, whatever, but always be training. Learn from those who have come before you. Read books, talk to people, learn from their experiences. Learn skills. Your guitar is great! Keep it up. Use it to bring joy to yourself and others. Also learn things like how to build things, how to use tools. Learn how to grow food. Learn a second language. Never stop learning. Don't despair. Those in power that only care about themselves, who are letting California (and elsewhere) collapse, want you to despair and go away. Don't give them that. Don't let them beat you down. Good luck, my friend!
I'm 28 and i had to move out to Gilroy. San Jose you can't walk outside anywhere. it's so normal in Gilroy it's like how it use to be in San Jose back in the 2000's
I went to and graduated from SJSU in the 90s. Downtown was busy and thriving, full of students from the campus getting food to eat and shopping during the day, and making the most of the variety of night life during that time. Cinebar was the traditional graduation morning bar, Waves was cool and the hub of Mardi Gras, and many businesses were alum-owned and very SJSU supportive.
Cinebar was great for a heavy pour and cheap drinks. When Anita and Moody ran it and Ace was a Bartender it was epic. There would be like 4 or 5 of us in the Bar and I'd take up a collection and do a Taco Bravo run to have them let us stay after hours to sober up.
ALL OF YOU WHO MOVED AWAY How many of you are voting Blue in your New Home? All of you are and you insist all your thoughts are your own and were not placed there by some guys with PhDs in PSYOPs who work for BlackRock.
San jose weather in the 80s and 90s was a dream now its hot af and cold as hell just like everywhere else. Too expensive and everyone who lives there is dumb as a rock. Please dont leave san jose, you all need to stay there.
I still live here and it wasn't the "Liberal, permissive approach to dealing with homelessness and crime." that caused the downtown to be totally dead of retail and other shops. Compared to other cities there are very few homeless in the downtown. It was major mistakes on development by the elected officials. First they ran the light rail trains through first and second streets which removed blocks and blocks of parking for businesses which then folded. Then they built new buildings with very high leasing spaces. Businesses then moved out. Then they built a new downtown in Santana Row which killed more buisnesses in downtown. Then they focused on high tech jobs only which brought in nerdy workers who just want to play video games, order things on-lines, even coffee and food and not socialize in cool shops or start businesses. Don't blame it on being liberal.
100% true, the elected officials have done this to San Jose. Selling our downtown to the highest bidders who are only interested in building way to expensive apartments. Then the nerdy lil dorks go to Santana Row and Valley Fair to shop, leaving our downtown San Jose like a ghost town. I grew up here my whole life in downtown San Jose used to be bustling and full of life.
This seems to be the equivalent of Rustbelt America, mill towns that died when the jobs went abroad, or for whatever reasons. The same thing happened to rural America where small towns lost their populations and are essentially ghost towns. But this is happening in affluent areas with high-tech, cutting-edge industries. Why?
Yeah like the others have said all those Mill towns and the Rust Belt and all you're talking about actually died because the city became so horrifically mismanaged the businesses left.
At this point I have basically become a Metal Leo impersonator. My speech patterns, my vocal inflections, my attention only to vacant real estate...I don't know if there is a viable way the real "me" will ever re-emerge.
Worked downtown in 2016 till 2021. Covid closed down the SJSU and a lot of small businesses . It made getting around SJ easier but tragic just the same. Much of 1st and 2nd street was redeveloped in the 90's and was quite active until the epidemic.
I lived in San Jose throughout my childhood in the early 2000s. It was a wonderful experience, and I have so many memories from there. It’s heartbreaking to see this city decline year after year.
@@mylesdeportado2004 Xi and Putin are Trump's besties. They spread strategic chaos. This is not about an American election, however -- look up Zhang Li Properties, a Chinese company buying up San Jose real estate and wrecking it.
Leo knows the way to San Jose, he walks the empty streets and videos the empty buildings, walks past the strung out junkies and if you don’t pay attention to what he is showing, you to will also be “gone now”.
San Hozay is my hometown. Grew up not to far from downtown and went to SJSU in the early 90s. I remember back in the 70s downtown was just a cesspit of addicts and the mentally ill, low rent stores and just ugly. Then in the 80's and 90's under Mayor Tom McHenry's leadership a lot of investment was undertaken to revitalize the DT core with the convention center, the Fairmont Hotel, rebuilding of Plaza Park (Plaza de Cesar Chavez), light rail, attraction of new buildings and businesses. For a while it was quite vibrant with business, events, restaurants, theater and the arts. It was a cool place to hang out. Seems it is reverting back to what it was like in the 70s. Such a shame.
Native to the South Bay growing up in the 50s and 60s. Left twenty years ag because of over population. Now becoming a ghost townI Who'd a thought! Valley of the heart's delight!
The Bay Area is clearly in decline. We need a change. New leadership. During the pandemic and hybrid and remote work arrangements, half of the Bay Area moved to the East Bay and beyond. Now that more companies are requiring onsite five days a week, highways like 680 are parking lots. Coming and going. Instead of spending their time in San Jose cafes and restaurants, many are sitting in traffic for hours and hours. And the rampant crime doesn’t help either.
@@suppylarue220 Y...t censors 95% of my posts. Free speech is getting freer and freer here in the "land of the free and home of the brave", just like our cities are getting greater and greater.
Nobody wants to talk about this stuff happening in San Jose, but the fact of the matter is that it's happening. Just take a trip to downtown. This didn't happen all at once, it's been happening for years. No one wants to deal with the homeless, no one wants to come back to smashed car windows, no one wants to deal with the ridiculous parking costs.
yeah man, I am from Santa Clara and before covid I used to go to downtown SJ all the time to catch Sharks games. Post covid I returned once and it has been just like you have pointed out. Really sad to see the place become a shell of itself.
If the Democrats put in this new Capital Gains tax structure the Stock market will crash overnight and private equity will dry up. Its the end for the tech sector.
I worked at the Jose theater in the 70s. Would walk to Original Joes for some real good Italian food. Sad. Thanks for showing all this to the world, it’s a testament to the fine politicians we have.
Oh, yes. I was a kid in the 70s. We would go and watch triple feature horror films on Saturdays. Only 50 cents! My mother used to love Original Joe's. She used to work at Berg's on 1st st. I loved walking over to Woolworths for a slice 🍕
Tax payers have footed the agenda bill for generations now the government cant tax their way out of incompetance/hatred for the worker. All they do is blame across the isle, but the reality this state has been ran by one party for half a century.
@@vincedugar4840 Yup. Hated when the whole food truck thing started. It was taking money out of our Brick and Mortar restaurants and food stores. Plus sending the profits out of the country and taking it out of our circulation. 🤷🏻♀️
It's actually a little better than a year ago. The forced closures during the pandemic caused a lot of businesses to switch to remote work, and the downtown service industry of restaurants, etc. disappeared. The mayor is doing a fairly good job of at least getting a lot of the vagrants off the streets. He's working against the ignorant mentality of most of the people that live there who just enable the homeless and criminals. Not sure what the future holds for downtown, but cleaning it up is first. Businesses may return if the crime and homeless are eliminated. Also, the national election will have little to no effect on California and San Jose.
Perhaps we were duped for the last 50 years when the education system falsely told us they would concentrate on “Reading, writing and arithmetic.” Maybe we should have emphasized teaching our kids more history, civics and economics.
For as long as I can remember, downtown San Jose has always been in an odd limbo phase, even in its better days. I remember when the downtown association formed, and they were trying to revitalize it back in the early 90s. Not that some good things didn't come out of it. I think the San Pedro Square area is really nice. However, San Jose is a very large city geographically and is a lot more suburban than urban. Unless you live in the immediate downtown area, there is really not much of a reason to go there for anything. At best, it could rely on traffic from the people that worked in the office buildings, and students at San Jose State. Otherwise, you have local malls and shopping centers, and other business districts that are much nicer, and less of a hassle when it comes to parking like Willow Glenn. In which case; why would anyone bother with going out of their way to go downtown? They wouldn't, and pretty much never did.
Okay... I've lived in San Jose for much of my life... Born and raised.. Leo, thank you for doing this, seriously. I've seen my city just slowly circle the drain, man, and it's so disappointing.
Thank you for showing us these videos. It’s unbelievable. I live in west Texas, oil country, the traffic has tripled in the last six months here. I guess work is the main reason.
You know things have collapsed when somebody parked in a wheelchair with a blanket over their head is now just ‘normal’!..
show some respect.. thats the president.!!
I thought he was just ready for Halloween already.
He's 'gone now'..
Very sad but common in many cities in every state/country .
Humanity for a liberal.
I left California in 2007 after spending 50 years there. What a crap hole it is now!
Your late but not too late, I left in '97.
I arrived in 2005, left in 2006. It's all an illusion that only the blind can't see. They constantly talk about the weather and the beaches and the lifestyle -- none of which come close to making up for the ignorant policies and soul-crippling taxes. I'm pleased to see it crumble.
@@MyBelch You can blame Gruesome Newson for the majority of this crap.
Come to Texas, but stay outa Austin and Houston. Californians ruined Austin, and Hurricane (guess the demographic) Katrina folks ruined Houston. @@MyBelch
@@bobmalack481 I moved permanently to Thailand. Been here since 2006. No plans on moving back.
San Jose is GONE NOWWWW! Pretty sad Leo. Thanks for showing the world what is happening to California. You're doing a superb job. Many blessings from Minnesota.
The bay area is thriving
I’m 68 years old born and raised in San Jose just moved up to the mountains a year ago so sad to see what happened to my town. When I was, the kid, San Jose was the most beautiful farming, town, all the fruit and vegetables the horses, the cows it is a wonderful place to live. Never to be again so sad.😢
San Jo', Story and King is where we used to cruise with other young kids back in the '80's. I've since gone back and the decadence and wealth divide is sad.
You were able to buy a house? I just realized you sold a house in San Jose. So you made like a cool mill off your purchase anyways… congrats on being a home owner. I make $90k in the San Jose area and I’m poor and probably will never own a home… good game chat good game. :/
I knew the way to San Jose....now I don't recognize it.
A wild guess is you moved to Ben Lomond/Scotts valley.
@@bobmalack481 Boulder Creek
ITS OUR FAULT FOR NOT DOING MORE TO GET CORRUPT POLITICIANS LIKE NEWSOM, BREED, THAO, ETC. OUT OF OFFICE.
IT'S OUR FAULT FOR ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN AND NOT TAKING PROPER ACTION TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.
but they don't make mean tweets!!! ....and they say things I that make me feel virtuous
No, the last recalled was RIGGED. He actually lost the race. He is living the LIE. The number one party in this state that dwarfs both the GOP and the Democrats is who? Independent. Gavin knows it.
Kamala Harris
Joe Biden
Gavin Newsom
Nancy Pelosi
Chuck Shumer
They did this
You forgot Bama
And Dominion voting machines
@@richardnassano623yup….jobama is a c u lt 👽👺
Mad Maxine.
Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren. FBI.
“AOC” who forced Amazon from building their headquarters in the Bronx (her district).
“Ilhan Omar”. The Somali pirate with her fake husband - brother. To bypass immigration.
“Rashida Tlaib”. The Palestine radical protesting right along with the crazy college kids.
it's like seeing the ruins of an ancient civilization
People will ask, what happened. One word. Democrats
another “great reset”. And they will cover up what happened. Future gens won’t be able to learn what happened just as past resets are hidden from us.
Ruins, Yes. Ancient, No
Anybody remember the Roman empire? History has a habit of repeating itself based on human nature.
That’s exactly what it is.
I taught at SJSU and lived on campus; to see what has happened to this beautiful downtown is heart breaking. To think that this was one of the most affluent cities in the country and see it now is frightening. As goes California, so will go the country. This is what the next Great Depression looks like folks. Thanks for the video Leo!
There is plenty of money flowing thru the United States. But the retail/restaurant downtown areas are not going to make it. They are too expensive.
San Jose is still an affluent community. It is the hard-working, middle-class business owners who are being squeezed out. Every Californian I have met is proud of the diversity of their state, but it becomes less economically diverse every day. In California, you either "have" or "have not." The wealthy I know in the state act like this is just "the way things go" and continue to sing the praises of the state. That is until Kmala starts taxing them on unrealized gains. I know many who have moved to states with no income tax and spend six months and one day per year in the no income tax state to avoid California taxes. They love the California climate but ran away to establish residency to save money. The hypocrisy in the Bay Area is stunning.
@@enjoybendlife People vote with their feet. Always have, always will.
@@enjoybendlife Hoovering up the middle class wealth resulting in just two classes...The Newsom's and Pelosis, and the Peasants...is the goal.
@earlcoli5607 I attended SJSU from 1979-1983, lived in West Hall on the 4th floor. Just curious if you were teaching there at this time, or later?
What you have showing in these cities, reflects back to when this country was in a DEPRESSION!! We are in a DEPRESSION!!
Yes, sir.
Every war for at least the past 350 years was because of banks. Every "revolution" the same. Banks.
The Great Depression…ALSO caused by the government.
Look at prices in 1928 depression and now and it is seven worse now!
I weep for my old hometown. Lived there from a 5 year old in '67 to leaving in 2021.
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end!
I saw what was coming so I left the state 10 years ago. I lived SJ for 57 years. It's jaw dropping what the Democratic's have done.
Is it any better where you are?
@@johnnada. Very much, we took a hit during COVID. Now a whole lot of buildings going on.
Geezusfuckingchrist it's NOT just "what the Dems have done." That's your bullshit late stage capitalism at work, dude.
The answer is AI, Drugs, Made in China and Ecommerce.
you lucky SOB. "they" make it more difficult to get out of Commifornia now without some damage.
I think about all the people who started their businesses to capture their dreams; to see all those dreams destroyed by stupid policies...I feel bad for them.
Uh....these are chain stores. Boo hoo.
I dont.
Unless they voted democrat !!!
Liberalism just destroys
@@exil3dlivecom Can you give an example, or are you just trolling?
It's inconceivable to think the current administration keeps telling us how many jobs they've created and the economy is doing great...
Lots of things are inconceivable to you, I bet.
@@mikeymutual5489Oh look, a Kamala stan. Go have another cup of soy milk.
"It's inconceivable to think the current administration keeps telling us how many jobs they've created and the economy is doing great.."
All politicians are bull shit artists....you do realize that don't you? and they're all paid for by corporations to win elections to do them favors.
Every single parcel delivered to your door is one sale less in a brick and mortar retail outlet.....internet shopping is the death of these shops..not the politicians you don't like.
Netflix will be the death of cinemas, automation will be the death of factory worker jobs (you can see this in warehousing already), self driving cars will be death of cab and trucking jobs etc etc ...soon gardeners, accountants and teachers will lose their jobs, all to robots....and don't get me started on sex robots!
Democrats, it just came out they were all lies, look around, they are evil liars. I think they don’t know how to tell the truth at all. They began by telling nothing but lies about Trump when all along they are the ones trying to turn us into communists, shut us up. See the corrupt stuff they are trying on him.
I think all the eyes are saying please look at us we are all gone, why??? Who’s in charge, who didn’t help us??? What, the democrat administration, that is who. Who got picked as the VP? Didn’t his great city of Minneapolis just get trashed. They are both smiling about it. Don’t make them happy, don’t vote any of them back in. 100% failed us all.
When the people are taxed to hell and there is no politician representing them, you get this.
What scares me is where these thieves are going to go when there is nothing left to steal...our houses!
I was born in California, and I grew up in Santa Clara, VERY close to San Jose. I have lived in SF 3 different times in my life as an adult. I also lived in Los Angeles for 7-8 years before moving back the 3rd time to SF.
I'm still in California, but I don't live in either city now...haven't for many years.
It breaks my heart to see how liberal policies have COMPLETELY destroyed these once vibrant cities.
What do you vote for?
Would bet money you’ve voted blue down the ticket your entire life
Santa Clara is still nice! Sadly, can’t say the same for SJ and many other areas nearby. Even Sunnyvale is slowly turning into a toilet
It's caused by many changes not simply "liberal" policies. Research it.
@@Deetroiter I left Santa Clara in 2006.
I can't say I miss it.
I miss it historically in my memories and as I continue to learn more of its history and the area.
I've worked at the haunted Toys r Us, Fry's electronics, went to school at Peterson JHS, Wilcox HS.
I dumped trash with my dad right where the forty-niners stadium was built!!
I miss our big house on Cooper drive but I don't miss all the meth heads!!
Yeah there's methods everywhere but at least they don't know where I live now!!!
I pass through to visit my sister there still.
😢
So sad, every business had lots of employees, nice job Newsome.
Sorry, Newsom moved to Marin Co.
@@bendeleted9155 Making excuses for Newsom? Clearly a Democrat.
@@letsreasonthisout2898 jumping to conclusions? Clearly a democrat. See how this works?
Thanks for documenting this, it's really a weird time we're living right now..
We go through cycles as people and cultures
@@RGE_MusicWe go through manufactured boom-and-bust cycles, because the people running our country plan it that way. We should not have a Federal Reserve system and be paying interest rates to private families on the money that we print, either. Talk about built in inflation!
@@marygoff3332 maybe we should start a revolution
@@RGE_MusicShuddap
All the restaurants were wiped out due to COVID restrictions. If not immediately, they tried to hang on, but the Democrat sanctioned crime and decay put the nails in the coffin.
I don’t get it. Why don’t all the businesses flood back-in and set up their stores again in the same spaces? It looks like the buildings are still good, the public transport works as usual, and the weather is beautiful. The stores should all be open, not closed like this.
They’re not stupid enough to pay the high lease prices from $3,000 to $30,000
@@elementcreator1 they should put in offers then. Let the landlords decide if they’d rather receive NOTHING from letting these spaces sit empty or SOMETHING from them filling up, I say.
I was in CA recently. Basically every hotel, shopping center, park, attraction had a sign warning you not to leave valuables in your car. So, that kind of tells you state of things. What they need is a commitment to law enforcement and long jail sentences, but they opt for signs.
I'm absolutely stunned. I used to take my daughter to the children's museum and we'd walk around the shops. Good grief how sad to see it like this.
It IS sad.
It is not as bad as he portrays it. He's a liar.
@@artemismaximus It is certainly much worse than 10-15 years ago. Same with SF.
@@RaymondFellers-g7t I would say this is somewhat accurate. Covid really did a number on us. Tech jobs are very easy to switch to remote so our office vacancies are really high, which hurts retail.
@@KalaVeritates down town is bad there are other places you havent been in san jose. Down town was going out back in 2011. I remember back in 2009 where i used to work at farmers market area. There are a lot change and also business closing slowly. Most of the nightclubs slowly disappeared. Been reading some of the comment blaming the democrats. That sht is getting old.
Vote blue and everything turns to poo 💩
What makes you think the vote counts are honest.
'blue poo' so good to you, you do you, screw 'da blue, they leave you alone to a boo'a-hoo. Buisnesses flew 'da coo. Good bye Boo-Boo!
@@mkaberli614They may be not...
@@mkaberli614 Look what happened with Sam as mayor. nothing done with homeless. new mayor is actually trying to clean up. grew up in San Jose and it's become a shit hole. you are blind if nothing is wrong there
14:33 this time of day it's dead downtown because it's between lunch hour and food pantry handout hour!
Wonder how long it'll be before somebody walks through downtown with the cement block and just takes out all the plate glass windows just for fun. 😮
To quote Kamala…”we did it Joe”
Over 65% of Californians will vote for Kamala. INSANE.
@@mikelfrance-l6x Not to mention all the illegals given $$ and a ballot.
2 diabolically evil democratic party 😈 reprobates with obama's blessings.
@@mikelfrance-l6x No they won't.
@@mikelfrance-l6x If Dome minion is used, you are correct. If they are honest...no.
imagine a place with perfect weather... and people still don't want to visit
Thanks!
@garyworthington840 once again, thank you very much for your continued support to the channel
Who else loathes Gavin Newsom.???
Me! He is the worse governor California has ever had!
Trump 2024!
He cheated in his recall. There was a pencil size hole on each side of every envelope that contained a vote. I got one. My friend got one. Democrats could hold one to the light, push the edges, spread the envelope, see the offensive vote, and toss it.
I do
Count me in! Sunnyvale, Ca.!
This is the future of the entire country
California is in first place
Not if............
Just in the blue states.😮
not the future. TODAY IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN. The decay shows.
Of course it is...just time and all is dust..😊😊😊
I’ve lived in San Jose my whole life. 43 years. It used to be this thriving city with a lot of hustle and bustle. And now, it’s dominated by big retail and big names in Santana Row Or valley fair. Outside of that, businesses are suffering because of the liberal, permissive approach to dealing with homelessness and crime. One of the most expensive places to live in the United States, and downtown is a ghost town.
It's not a ghost town. Go at night on a Friday. People are out and about
@@RGE_Musicfr. Its only dead during the weekday because everyone is working from home now
Large Data Centers have taken over Santa Clara Valley. They are consuming hundreds of Megawatts of electricity. The Democrats think that's just fine. (why are data centers immune of their climate change madness?)
@@RGE_Music
Why are you ignoring what is being presented in this video?
What Leo is showing is PROOF.
@@skippylippy547 it only tells one side of the story.
Why do the people that live there keep voting for the same "progressive" politicians? They are not getting different results!
They’ve destroyed our normal.
Dion Warwick's New Song Version "Do You Know Your Way Out of San Jose" Gone Now . Another Great Video Thanks
😂👍
Put a $100 down and buy a car
It should be "Do You Know The Way Out Of San Jose".
@@barfoonisland2003 yes that's Sounds better
Gone Now
People's lives, futures gone now. I've lived in Cali since 1962 and I've never seen decline happen so fast. Gee, who's the governor? When you
see an angry, combative democrat you know they are to blame for the decline.
Lockdowns and stolen elections have consequences. Americans have no freedom or representation.
it's not a decline. it's deliberate to get rid of us. people are being forced out in order to make room for the replacements. we are not welcome.
The Bay Area was a lovely place in the 1950’s when I grew up there.I used to ride the train from S.F. to San Jose as a kid.
@@tommytwogloves16 yes, it was pleasant. the old thick steel cars vs. the "paperthin" cars of today. progress is just a word.
Dionne Warwick can't sing that song anymore.
I am from London, and most every summer I used to visit good friends in San Jose, and every time I could see the change in it`s dynamics. The biggest "dead city" I have ever been in.
ALL OF YOU WHO MOVED AWAY
How many of you are voting Blue in your New Home? All of you are and you insist all your thoughts are your own and were not placed there by some guys with PhDs in PSYOPs who work for BlackRock.
Got that right mate!
If it wasn't for all the high tech in the Bay area, San Jose would be a literal dump. It's overpriced and over-rated.
It already is a shithole. Been there many times, hate everything about it.
I'm really sorry to see this. Seattle is very similar now too.
After living in Milpitas for 25 years we left. It’s just too expensive and the crime is horrendous
same here, left in april 2023. lived right near hillview/los coches.
Complaining about crime is now racist. So is math.
@@remyweim3 - wasn't that a very good area before?
@@888jimm we lived right down the street from the tennis courts behind Curtner grade school. Our neighborhood was nice
The new owners of our house are paying $16k for property tax!!!! That’s insane
If Burt Bacharach was writing the song today it would be:
"Do You Know The Fastest Way OUT Of San Jose?"
@@MarkRVillano These days I’d call its new theme song Highway to Hell.
Who would you get to sing it ? Maybe Dionne Warwick could contact one of her psychic friends for a suggestion . 😵💫😝
VOTE WOKE! NOTHING faster than THAT!!
@@billmoran3219Miss Cloe? From the cemetery!
Cleo
😎DON'T STOP BRO,JEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. People need to see what's really happening.
This is literally not what is happening. Come and see for yourself.
Wow..I need to 'jeep up' the great work. Where's the sand dunes?
@@artemismaximus So what's happening? The center of a city should not have vacant blocks with derelicts standing like statues. These are not signs of a healthy city.
This is what happened when everyone started buying online. People complain but will not support their local business.
I lived downtown in the late 70's, and early eighties while attending San Jose State. Lived on 15th Street, the dorms on 10th, and a house on 6th Street. We lived on 9th Street as well.
Spent about 7 years downtown and for a while after we married. East Santa Clara St. was thriving back then.
That was during the Vietnamese refugee placement by the government. That was a positive as they opened up quite a few businesses. Even so, crime was pretty high downtown. There were no camping vagrants but there were drunks and panhandlers.
The Second Street corridor thrived during the tech boom of the late 90's to the early 2010's. You couldn't get a parking spot during that era.
At least Original Joe's is still open and the University thrives.
As Silicon Valley companies move away due to high state taxes and regulations the empty buildings will continue to mount.
The heyday is GONE NOW.
San Jose is definitely GONE NOW!
FOR LEASE!
@@wobbler8473 😂
no chance ,
Which is why single family houses are over $1M everywhere in SJ and sell for ALL CASH.
GONE NOW! tm
I can't help myself now, if I see a closed business in real life or on someone else's video I have to say GONE NOW!
same, or FOR LEASSSE
@@empiregone Good luck with that..hehe
Me three!
Me too i walked past a shop in Sydney this morning and it was recently vacated I said forrrleease!!
I do it too now. Or I go “for lease”
They put a Safeway on the corner of South 2nd St. and San Fernando. We owned a lot of rental properties around SJSU and I would walk my dog around the campus area, and I saw a large construction crew putting in massive steel beams embedded in concrete on that corner, must have been around 2008 or so. "Wonder what's going in here?"
A Safeway! A downtown Safeway. What a blessing. I would drive there and park in the underground lot. Then:
1) the in-store upscale coffee shop had its seating filled up with homeless. (the same thing happened to the McDonalds on South Third at San Carlos,
one block from the SJSU entrance). Safeway shut down the coffee shop. That McDonalds closed also.
2) at some point, 2? 3? years or so after the new Safeway opened, we could no longer park in the underground lot without paying.
We sold everything and left California in 2017. The wife and I had spent so many years there in Santa Clara County (aka Silicon Valley) - I got my undergrad and grad degrees at UC Berkeley, she was crossing the Bay Bridge during the week, from where we lived in Berkeley, to attend SFSU.
At that time (early 1990s), San Francisco had won, for four (4) years in a row, the award for "Cleanest Big City in America'
I know that might be hard to believe now, but it's true.
I have walked along that sidewalk where all those shops used to be, at the very start of your video, SO MANY TIMES!. I can't believe Safeway is now closed and all those shops are gone too.
Real shocking. Very sorry to see what Mayor Susan Hammer had been able to do - really turn San Jose around - just go to pieces.
Mayor Hammer was the mayor of San Jose in the 1990s when the wife and I first started operating our rental properties, and MY GOODNESS,
she turned that city into one of the best places around in those years. She did a fantastic job.
Sorry to hear your story about what has happened.
FYI… Prop 33 is on the November California general election ballot. It would repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which put limits on rent control laws to ensure that housing providers could make a fair return on their investment and stay in business. Repealing Costa-Hawkins would mean cities could enact radical rent control, even on single-family homes and condos, and prevent property owners from resetting the rent to the market rate after a tenant voluntarily moves out.
@@arneb3818 We're in a different state, that all sounds pretty radical.
*_LET'S CONSIDER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF..._*
CITY: "Mr. restaurant owner, we have outlawed your ability to set your own menu prices. From now on, you must get City approval for any annual increase over, say, 2.5%"
Or the City tells all doctors and dentists:
CITY: "We have outlawed your ability to set your own fees. You can only increase your fees by 2.5% annually or less."
Would there be a change in the number of restaurants, doctors and dentists who operate in that City?
(ANSWER: a shortage of restaurants, doctors and dentists would develop, as they relocate to different areas)
*_THIS MIGHT BE OKAY THOUGH, A DECREASE IN AVAILABLE RENTALS_*
because of the # of people leaving California.
In 2015, a poll done in San Francisco (2 years before we left the state for good), over 50% of residents of the SF Bay Area wanted to move away.
So the "leaving" trend has been around a while. Maybe fewer apartments and retails stores will work out, I don't know.
But San Jose was a pretty cool place to reside. Woz Way, Childrens Discovery Museum, the Sharks, TONS OF TECH JOBS.
It's very discouraging to see San Jose sort of collapse.
What's going on is that the people there and the other Metro California cities are voting themselves right into moral and financial bankruptcy. Tocqueville's prophecy for America is blossoming right before our eyes.
2008-2015 it was starting to go down hill. Trump era didnt do a thing. Funny how a lot of the comemnt saying its Democrats fualt. 😂😂😂 If Trump was “ such a good President” why does it look like everything is closing down. When covid hits most store business got hit real hard. Lets forget who was the president at that time. Lol
@@glumGlumm Stop fooling yourself. Who in the hell would want to hang out down there with all the no cash bail reform BS going on? Must be nice to be rich and away from all the consequences of insane Progressive policies.
On the plus side, the plywood board business is booming !
Leo, about 50 years ago I used to take the train down from Palo Alto (where I was a renter who couldn't afford a car) to San Jose and walk from the station to San Jose State University to take meteorology classes there. I was shocked, the first time, to see much of the sort of desertion that you're seeing now. My 1.3 mile walk was through downtown and it was then a disaster area. At that time there was little high-tech in San Jose, which was still partly tied to its agricultural past (Gilroy was farmland wilderness in those days). All of the tech was in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. But about 20 years later San Jose had snapped back. That's a long time. We can only hope.
Amazing to me that anyone still thinks painting vacant buildings with amateurish murals somehow helps.
I know. So UGLY.
When cities do "beautification" projects, it's lipstick on a pig.
Yes, agree. Juvenile thinking.
I forgot where I was recently but the closed stores had realistic renderings of a open business. Like a clothing store, a restaurant, a shoe stores, a telephone store. All closed but if you didn't look too closely they still looked open.
Another billion dollar Democrat idea.
Yet they tell us the economy is booming and jobs are being created.
That’s government jobs.
I live here and can tell you it's doing just fine. Have you checked our unemployment rate?
@@artemismaximus Metal Leo must be lying then.
@@jojorey6886 Lying by omission, yes.
@@artemismaximus he’s omitting the stores that are open?
I just read an article about how the legal pot industry is collapsing in California. Seems that the regulations and fees are so insane that the illegal market dwarfs the legal market. California can't even make easy money off of legal pot. California may have the most natural beauty and diverse climate of all 50 states but until they get their act together we will be hearing a lot more "gone now" messages from Leo.
Agree with post 100%. I love this place but it hurts to see what the people and their Democrat overlords have done to it. Probably never coming back to a free land. The illegal vote guarantees it. GONE NOW and forever.
I saw something about that a year or so ago. People wanted to be legal and paid out the a$$ for it. Now it's all cartels. Slave labor and dumping chemicals...sad.
Weather is highly overrated and NO, California doesn't have a monopoly on natural beauty. Other states like Florida have beautiful turquoise seashores, there's the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Arches National Park, and the Rocky Mountains. The Jersey Shore is so much nicer than the Pacific shore, while the East Coast has so many quaint harbor towns and the best seafood. Lake Michigan is practically a tropical seashore with it's turquoise blue waters and quaint harbor towns.
Says a lot about government when they can't even well weed competently.
My post is gone...
They should be taking more taxes for online services and giving more support to real stores and other places at streets. Just for people to go outside, walking, communicating, breathing. This is a way of caring about people's health - physical and mental and this is very important in fact.
I lived in San Jose before I left for Texas in 2018. . . . glad I did that.
I heard one problem is that no one wants to reduce the price of the land property in Silicon Valley and henceforth no one wants to rent or buy any of these spaces and commit financial suicide with any business idea they might have.
Hope you didn't bring your California mindset and lib voting policies with you. You guys already ruined Austin, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver Denver, somewhat Phoenix, somewhat Boise, and Las Vegas. Warning..don't mess with Texas.
Hopefully you did not bring your liberal voting tendencies with you, you guys already ruined Austin. Robert at 69 in Arozona.
I left SJ in 2015. Lived in the North Side my whole life but couldn't afford it anymore.
Hope you didn't bring your liberal voting ways and values with you. Youll get away with that in Austin or Houston, not here on Tyler. Robert at 69.
AND THEY WILL KEEP VOTING FOR SAME PEOPLE .
Same here in Canada! Justin Hitler is ruining the whole country, and he'll be voted in again, like he has the last THREE FREAKING TIMES!
They actually voted to recall Gavin Newsome, but he wiggled out of it... Kind of like how they rigged the vote in 2020.
Actually the same people will keep cheating and stealing the vote.
Not so. You can vote for a different person, but the counters of the votes give your vote to the "same people" as you said.
We used to live in California 8 years ago. CALIFORNIA, GONE NOW!!!!!
EIGHT years ago?..I left in '97. Hope you didn't bring your crap ass democrat voting policies with you to Texas, Arizona, Tennesee, and Florida, we don't want you otherwise. Chuck those Ca. plates as fast as you can and blend in. Robert at 69.
Hope you didn't bring your lib voting habits with you, and don't mess with Texas.
@@bobmalack481 You betcha Jose.
Didn't know San Jose is suffering the same fate as San Francisco. Gone Now!
its not as bad as sf. No needles and druggies in a line waiting for their fix. But rent has been terrible. 1 bedroom = $1800+.
I was just in San Francisco for the weekend and had a great time. The City is thriving like the old days
@@Astelch Dude you are blind. they piss all infront even all the way up to alum rock!
@@nightreapers3425 idk about you but I actually go to San Jose downtown 4 days/week for sjsu. I can tell you that is an over exaggeration. He showed like 2 blocks of downtown instead of the whole thing. Didn’t even come even near the school. It’s almost like he’s nitpicking and running a narrative to get views.
@@Astelch That to but you should know it’s not just downtown. East side is worse. North. It’s all San Jose getting bad and there is needles everywhere bud
Babylon the great has Fallen. Rotten to the Core.
I assume a state politician would walk the same route and be proud of the success.
During my tenure in the United States Navy from 1985 to 1993, I resided in San Jose. It is disheartening to witness the significant decline the city has experienced since that time.
For lease:
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😂😅 sadly hilarious
Sad to see this. I remember the days of cruising Santa Clara St and the whole downtown area was hopping. Bars, restaurants, clubs, the shark tank all popping off.
Our family saw it coming 15 years ago and we moved the whole family out of the state. Took our money with us they replaced us with foreigners good luck with that.
NEVER FORGET
This all started
with the GEORGE FLOYD ANIMALS
and the COVID PSYOP.
I will be voting for President Trump,
because I have a memory.
Make America Ball Again
2024
--REDWOOD CITY
The wonders of socialism. Our brave new world order! Next they bring in the 'great solution'. Surveillance and police state.
Trump is the one who started the lockdown and destroyed all the businesses.
It started Way before George Floyd, remember the movement many years before George Floyd the occupy people looting and burning down city like Portland and Seattle and so forth, happened Way before Floyd
Don't move to East Palo Alto..
@@bobmalack481
i ALREADY spent a year
living on WEEKS ST,
back in the early 2000s....lol
AND I was copping $7 weed packs
on Hazlewood.
Word...
Metal Leo, you are singlehandedly pointing out what everyone should see and understand,...last 4 years are going to take 10+ years to recover from...
If ever?
@@margaretthatcher6828 Finite resource peaks and decline, means population down and economy down
It's a decaying mess with a corrupt city and county government. It's just not worth it to live here, unless you have a career you are pursuing, and can save or invest your earnings. Quality of life sucks and commutes eat up your family time. This is not the San Jose of even 20 years ago, and I don't plan to stay a minute longer than I have to. Thanks for the video, stay safe out there.
A million other ppl anywhere you wanna go.......not a life I wanted so I moved.
They should’ve let the drug dealers keep dealing down there, at least they kept the area fun and turned up. Now it looks like a ghost town
I had a relative recently pass away who lived in San Jose since the mid-1970s. It’s sad that she passed away, but I’m also glad that she isn’t having to live through the collapse. I would visit San Jose many times to visit her, and it’s shocking to see this area empty like that.
I'm young. It's not fair that it's collapsing as I become an adult. I grew up into this? Why? Do you know?
@@RGE_Music The "why" is a long topic that would turn into a novel here. The short version is that perhaps the people in power don't care about regular people, and just care about their own selves, about what they can get away with. As for it not being fair, Frodo and Gandalf have this exchange early in the Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo begins to realize a difficult journey is being forced on him:
Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time.”
Gandalf: “And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
It's not fair that this is happening to you (and to most of us as well). Sometimes in life we can't choose what happens to us. But we can choose how we react, and how we act. So a few suggestions, in no particular order:
Get financially educated. The system will not be there for you (and probably not for me, either). Learn how money works, how to make it work for you so you will never be hungry. Start with "Minority Mindset" on youtube. (If I had that in school, I would have bought up a ton of Apple stock in the mid-90s and been financially set for life.) Think of dollars as only a mechanism to buy assets that will earn you more dollars (to buy more assets, and repeat).
Build relationships. Know your neighbors, know your family. Cultivate these relationships, build strong bonds. These people will help you when you're in a tough spot, because they know you will help them when they're in a tough spot.
Go to a church and read the Bible. Learn of God's love for you, and His peace will be an anchor for your heart and mind as the storms of this chaotic life try to overpower you and drive you to despair. Yeah, the Bible is a big book, can be tough to make sense of why certain things are in it, or how it is relevant. Ask people at church about it. At the very least, start with reading the book of Proverbs. It has 31 chapters, read one chapter a day each month for how to be wise.
Learn how to defend yourself and those who you love. Martial arts, firearms, whatever, but always be training.
Learn from those who have come before you. Read books, talk to people, learn from their experiences.
Learn skills. Your guitar is great! Keep it up. Use it to bring joy to yourself and others. Also learn things like how to build things, how to use tools. Learn how to grow food. Learn a second language. Never stop learning.
Don't despair. Those in power that only care about themselves, who are letting California (and elsewhere) collapse, want you to despair and go away. Don't give them that. Don't let them beat you down. Good luck, my friend!
Grusums plan.... there's no other answer....he/they haven't lifted a finger to help business.... silence which in my book implies agreement.
out with the old, in with the new,
and
6 feet under with you.
This is what the Democrats did to our state of California it's not just San Jose it's all over Shane Shane
Who's Shane?
Seattle. Portland. New York. San Francisco.
Funny -> Miami and Dallas are doing just fine. (Not sanctuary cities.)
No thats what ur goverement has done
@@mahkuntizitchy2083 typo
I'm 28 and i had to move out to Gilroy. San Jose you can't walk outside anywhere. it's so normal in Gilroy it's like how it use to be in San Jose back in the 2000's
I went to and graduated from SJSU in the 90s. Downtown was busy and thriving, full of students from the campus getting food to eat and shopping during the day, and making the most of the variety of night life during that time. Cinebar was the traditional graduation morning bar, Waves was cool and the hub of Mardi Gras, and many businesses were alum-owned and very SJSU supportive.
There are still things like this happening just at a smaller scale
Cinebar was great for a heavy pour and cheap drinks.
When Anita and Moody ran it and Ace was a Bartender it was epic.
There would be like 4 or 5 of us in the Bar and I'd take up a collection and do a Taco Bravo run to have them let us stay after hours to sober up.
ALL OF YOU WHO MOVED AWAY
How many of you are voting Blue in your New Home? All of you are and you insist all your thoughts are your own and were not placed there by some guys with PhDs in PSYOPs who work for BlackRock.
San jose weather in the 80s and 90s was a dream now its hot af and cold as hell just like everywhere else. Too expensive and everyone who lives there is dumb as a rock. Please dont leave san jose, you all need to stay there.
It's literally sunny and low 80's on the day you wrote this. 2 weeks of hotter weather doesn't make it the desert.
People in San Jose are rude and unfriendly.
I still live here and it wasn't the "Liberal, permissive approach to dealing with homelessness and crime." that caused the downtown to be totally dead of retail and other shops. Compared to other cities there are very few homeless in the downtown. It was major mistakes on development by the elected officials. First they ran the light rail trains through first and second streets which removed blocks and blocks of parking for businesses which then folded. Then they built new buildings with very high leasing spaces. Businesses then moved out. Then they built a new downtown in Santana Row which killed more buisnesses in downtown. Then they focused on high tech jobs only which brought in nerdy workers who just want to play video games, order things on-lines, even coffee and food and not socialize in cool shops or start businesses. Don't blame it on being liberal.
100% true, the elected officials have done this to San Jose. Selling our downtown to the highest bidders who are only interested in building way to expensive apartments. Then the nerdy lil dorks go to Santana Row and Valley Fair to shop, leaving our downtown San Jose like a ghost town. I grew up here my whole life in downtown San Jose used to be bustling and full of life.
The elected officials are liberal. They are good at taking money and spending other people's money while being anti capitalists
The apologist has arrived. "Don't blame it on being liberal." Damn, that's funny.
This election on 5th November will be our last chance to vote RED,or just as San Jose is we'll all be Gone Now!!!
Trump 2024 Save America. 👍🇺🇸
So sorry to say that you are right.
Trump will open retail in downtown San Jose?
@@danielsteinberg7698 He might, the man is billionaire realestate Mogul.
good luck with that. most people will still vote blue. they’re that dumb.
This seems to be the equivalent of Rustbelt America, mill towns that died when the jobs went abroad, or for whatever reasons. The same thing happened to rural America where small towns lost their populations and are essentially ghost towns. But this is happening in affluent areas with high-tech, cutting-edge industries. Why?
AI.
Taxed into oblivion
Democrats happened.
Its called the communist takeover of the USA.
Yeah like the others have said all those Mill towns and the Rust Belt and all you're talking about actually died because the city became so horrifically mismanaged the businesses left.
The Omega Man is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film starring
Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic.
I think of that Great movie every time I watch Leo's videos!
Remade into "I am Legend" comics and film.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 that's right, a remake that I would like to forget about 😂
Thank you for telling me about this. I will try to watch.
“Omega Man” is a Heston classic!👍👏
Your videos are extremely important now. What we are collectively going through needs a voice and documentation. Thank-you!!
I took a shot every time he said gone, I was gone after a few minutes
At this point I have basically become a Metal Leo impersonator. My speech patterns, my vocal inflections, my attention only to vacant real estate...I don't know if there is a viable way the real "me" will ever re-emerge.
Kamala, "Joe we did it!"
Gavin,"Hold my chateau lafite Rothschild ".
Oh SNAP!
I see gavin gruesome Newsome as a used car salesman one day. Kamala can couch surf at my pad any time, but Joe can pound sand!
Gone now!
Worked downtown in 2016 till 2021. Covid closed down the SJSU and a lot of small businesses . It made getting around SJ easier but tragic just the same. Much of 1st and 2nd street was redeveloped in the 90's and was quite active until the epidemic.
I lived in San Jose throughout my childhood in the early 2000s. It was a wonderful experience, and I have so many memories from there. It’s heartbreaking to see this city decline year after year.
Democrats love this!
China loves this. Putin loves this.
WEF loves this! Part of the plan!
@@ulexite-tv Xi and Putin both endorse Kamala!
@@mylesdeportado2004 Xi and Putin are Trump's besties. They spread strategic chaos. This is not about an American election, however -- look up Zhang Li Properties, a Chinese company buying up San Jose real estate and wrecking it.
Their plan is on track.
Leo knows the way to San Jose, he walks the empty streets and videos the empty buildings, walks past the strung out junkies and if you don’t pay attention to what he is showing, you to will also be “gone now”.
Metal Leo's candor is BRUTALLY refreshing and ironically humorous.
San Hozay is my hometown. Grew up not to far from downtown and went to SJSU in the early 90s. I remember back in the 70s downtown was just a cesspit of addicts and the mentally ill, low rent stores and just ugly. Then in the 80's and 90's under Mayor Tom McHenry's leadership a lot of investment was undertaken to revitalize the DT core with the convention center, the Fairmont Hotel, rebuilding of Plaza Park (Plaza de Cesar Chavez), light rail, attraction of new buildings and businesses. For a while it was quite vibrant with business, events, restaurants, theater and the arts. It was a cool place to hang out. Seems it is reverting back to what it was like in the 70s. Such a shame.
Native to the South Bay growing up in the 50s and 60s. Left twenty years ag because of over population. Now becoming a ghost townI Who'd a thought! Valley of the heart's delight!
Boards boards boards!
We should invest in PLYWOOD!
Hahaha good business opportunity BOARDS BOARDS AND MORE BOARDS😂😂
The Bay Area is clearly in decline.
We need a change.
New leadership.
During the pandemic and hybrid and remote work arrangements, half of the Bay Area moved to the East Bay and beyond. Now that more companies are requiring onsite five days a week, highways like 680 are parking lots. Coming and going. Instead of spending their time in San Jose cafes and restaurants, many are sitting in traffic for hours and hours.
And the rampant crime doesn’t help either.
You can hit LIKE before watching. THANKS, LEO...we won't defund you.
but y...t....will trace you and punish.
@@suppylarue220 Y...t censors 95% of my posts. Free speech is getting freer and freer here in the "land of the free and home of the brave", just like our cities are getting greater and greater.
Nobody wants to talk about this stuff happening in San Jose, but the fact of the matter is that it's happening. Just take a trip to downtown. This didn't happen all at once, it's been happening for years. No one wants to deal with the homeless, no one wants to come back to smashed car windows, no one wants to deal with the ridiculous parking costs.
yeah man, I am from Santa Clara and before covid I used to go to downtown SJ all the time to catch Sharks games. Post covid I returned once and it has been just like you have pointed out. Really sad to see the place become a shell of itself.
If Harris gets elected, the United States: GONE NOW!😢
The USA is the subject of worldwide jokes. The USA's good international reputation: GONE NOW !!
If the Democrats put in this new Capital Gains tax structure the Stock market will crash overnight and private equity will dry up. Its the end for the tech sector.
@@mikelfrance-l6x Then the Democrats will give us Universal Basic Income
I totally agreed with you. And it terrified me just to think of it.
I’m Canadian. Look at us. This is what Harris will do to the US if she’s elected. Vote wisely! Canada is a joke now and overrun by Indian nationals.
I worked at the Jose theater in the 70s. Would walk to Original Joes for some real good Italian food. Sad. Thanks for showing all this to the world, it’s a testament to the fine politicians we have.
Oh, yes. I was a kid in the 70s. We would go and watch triple feature horror films on Saturdays. Only 50 cents! My mother used to love Original Joe's. She used to work at Berg's on 1st st.
I loved walking over to Woolworths for a slice 🍕
It's still there
@@RGE_Musicthat’s great to hear! Is the Jose theater there as well? Is it operating?
The Jose Theatre is now a busy Improv comedy club and you can still walk to OJs and get service from professional waiters.
@@pangoroo comedy club! San Jose has some spots still. Don't let the video mislead you.
I don’t understand how the San Francisco Bay Area pays its bills!!So many closed businesses!
And where do residents go to eat?
Food Truck Culture has filled the vacuum of the restaurant closures...
Tax payers have footed the agenda bill for generations now the government cant tax their way out of incompetance/hatred for the worker. All they do is blame across the isle, but the reality this state has been ran by one party for half a century.
There's thousands of open spots don't worry 😉you'll find your local McDonald's nearby
@@vincedugar4840 Yup. Hated when the whole food truck thing started.
It was taking money out of our Brick and Mortar restaurants and food stores.
Plus sending the profits out of the country and taking it out of our circulation. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Koji-888 It's become a substitute for the "Night Life" of once vibrant downtown scenes in many Cali Cities...
It's actually a little better than a year ago. The forced closures during the pandemic caused a lot of businesses to switch to remote work, and the downtown service industry of restaurants, etc. disappeared. The mayor is doing a fairly good job of at least getting a lot of the vagrants off the streets. He's working against the ignorant mentality of most of the people that live there who just enable the homeless and criminals.
Not sure what the future holds for downtown, but cleaning it up is first. Businesses may return if the crime and homeless are eliminated.
Also, the national election will have little to no effect on California and San Jose.
Perhaps we were duped for the last 50 years when the education system falsely told us they would concentrate on “Reading, writing and arithmetic.” Maybe we should have emphasized teaching our kids more history, civics and economics.
And basic biology -like a boy can’t become a girl because he puts on a skirt and lipstick.
For as long as I can remember, downtown San Jose has always been in an odd limbo phase, even in its better days. I remember when the downtown association formed, and they were trying to revitalize it back in the early 90s. Not that some good things didn't come out of it. I think the San Pedro Square area is really nice.
However, San Jose is a very large city geographically and is a lot more suburban than urban. Unless you live in the immediate downtown area, there is really not much of a reason to go there for anything. At best, it could rely on traffic from the people that worked in the office buildings, and students at San Jose State.
Otherwise, you have local malls and shopping centers, and other business districts that are much nicer, and less of a hassle when it comes to parking like Willow Glenn. In which case; why would anyone bother with going out of their way to go downtown? They wouldn't, and pretty much never did.
Do they still have the Cinequest Film Festival?
Very well put.
-Former SJ’n
@@peace-and-quiet To my knowledge, yes they do.
@@earlygail Thank you.
Born and raised in Campbell and you are totally correct.
01:24 Zombie sighting
Frakka
Yep. Fentanyl.
This is the beginning of the end of the US.
Okay... I've lived in San Jose for much of my life... Born and raised.. Leo, thank you for doing this, seriously. I've seen my city just slowly circle the drain, man, and it's so disappointing.
Thank you for showing us these videos. It’s unbelievable. I live in west Texas, oil country, the traffic has tripled in the last six months here. I guess work is the main reason.
Gone Now....