The 10 Worst Neighborhoods in America Are Terrifying
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Published 2021-11-23
Can you walk your dog at 5pm? Do your neighbors all have jobs? Can you leave your Amazon crap out front while you’re on vacation?
Or is it bad like this?? Where you hear gunshots during breakfast. Where your neighbors are on crack. Where your teenager gets carjacked on the way to her friends house. This my friends, is what we’re going to talk about today.
Bad neighborhoods like this are sadly becoming a growing problem in many of our American cities. It’s neighborhoods like this that have people fleeing big cities for good. There are many reasons we have such terrible hoods - drug use, gangs, generational poverty, lazy people making excuses - but there are lots of good hard working people in bad hoods, too. Which is sad. Cause they’re stuck there.
A lot of the reason we have bad neighborhoods like this is because of decisions made at the higher level of government. But that’s another video entirely.
In this video we’re going to take a cruise through some of the worst neighborhoods in the country and talk about why they are that bad.
Well, that’s because we only measured neighborhoods with 10,000 or more people. So your little ghetto hood didn’t make the cut because you’re too small. And to be honest, there are going to be neighborhoods worse than the ones I’m gonna highlight. Many don’t report crime correctly. What we’ll talk about are just the worst parts of the worst cities. It’s not exact. But it’s close.
Now, to measure these bad neighborhoods we used data. I threw in all 800 neighborhoods with more than 10,000 people into my magic sorting sheet and told it to rank them based on four important metrics - a variety of crime rates, poverty levels, unemployment rates and cost of housing. I think you’ll see it was pretty accurate. So get out your bullet proof helmets and get ready to duck. We’re heading into some of the worst neighborhoods in America.
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All Comments (21)
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As a black dude who grew up in a rough black community and got out, I don't see it ever changing. It just seems like there was a mindset in the community that was inpossible to change. And it's definitely wasn't color related as black immigrants came in and did very well.The people who grew up there just had no motivation and had access to welfare
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It’s so sad. When your born into poverty and you see your parents work hard and have nothing you look at the gangs who have more and end up looking up to them instead. It’s very sad.
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They don't want poverty to go away for the same reason pharmaceutical companies don't want disease cures; that's the money maker. The power.
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When the factories were shipped overseas the good Union jobs went with them. Corporate America was rewarded with lower taxes for moving and they also got a workforce in China, India, and the rest who have zero rights and no Unions. That’s how the Labor Movement was destroyed. Nearly one quarter of hourly and salaried jobs used to be Unionized in the 1950’s and 1960’s. That’s also when our standard of living was the highest in the world. Many of those neighborhoods used to be filled with working families. Flint Michigan used to be one of the best places to live in the U.S.A
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I feel bad for the Google Street View drivers driving through these hoods.
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I love how there is a "dip" sign in the road. I live in Japan where they would just fix the road. In America, they just put up signs advertising that the roads are crap.
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I grew up in a terrible neighborhood outside of Chicago but I worked hard and now I live in a great neighborhood .
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This is just too depressing to watch. I'm just glad I don't live anywhere in those areas of the country.
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USA becomes Bangladesh but with one big difference, in Bangladesh are no NO-GO areas and life is much safer.
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I agree with the Chicago cop: at this point there’s probably nothing you can do except let it burn. I’ve waited 20 years to see my hometown clear up and it’s getting there…slowly… but only because the crackheads died, the empty houses have burned and the drug dealers ran out of clients and/or got old and fat. It’s getting better…things do fizzle out but they have to burn first. Unpopular opinion but hey.
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Prime examples of what happens when you get rid of strong families. 87% of incarcerated male prisoners come from single mother households, women can't raise men on their own and the more they try, the worse it gets. Lost boys struggling for an identity seek out strong male role models in the form of gangs.
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Middle class factory jobs used to be in these major cities. Automation took away some of those jobs, high labor costs took away more jobs, and international trade treaties took away most of the rest of the jobs.
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Hey Nick, Great job to give us folks who are considering relocation an overall sense of what's out there. This "interview style" video was a good way to hear both your spin as well as the perspective of other folks. You're fun to watch and we enjoy your talented sense of humor. When you get back to Sarasota one of these days, please feel free to be our guest! Thanks from Glenn & Alma Johnson
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I really don't want to "thumbs up" this very sad video...but we know what we all mean....thanks again for keeping me company, Mr. Nick!
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Nick, you did an amazing job and thank you for not being afraid to have the "HARD" and "UNCOMFORTABLE" conversations that people are afraid to have bc no one wants to talk about it which are the realities of what is going on in our neighborhoods, in everyone's neighborhoods
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There are a lot cheaper homes than $30,000 in Detroit. The city routinely auctions off decayed homes for $1,000. Many of those properties don’t even get one bid.
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My hood is so bad that even my dog packs a gun.
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Great interview with Ricardo! We need more conversations like this.
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That intro wow .. you are a legend. So tragic yet i can hear your deeper point through the sarcasm without always revealing it making it qua more relaxing to watch.
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I like that you went out of your way to get interviews with people actually there.
