There is a scene in National Lampoon’s Vacation where the Griswolds stop briefly in East Saint Louis to ask for directions. Part of their car is stripped in the few minutes they are there. That movie is from 1980. Things have been the same there for a long time.

@stevedavenport1202

Жыл бұрын

I remember that scene. I real life, wife and daughter woulda been gang banged and dad shanked.

@romanmichaelhamilton8729

Жыл бұрын

Hey Holmes!!!

@sitdowndogbreath

Жыл бұрын

My nigga!

@casanovafrankenstein8538

Жыл бұрын

1983, actually

@sitdowndogbreath

Жыл бұрын

@@casanovafrankenstein8538 smash that like button a******

My wife and daughter were traveling across the country and had to stay in Little Rock. The hotel that they had reserved had three cop cars in the parking lot investigating something. Thank God one of the officers walked up to them and asked what the hell they were doing there and basically told them that he was not going to allow them to stay at that hotel and give him directions to a safe place to stay.

@fsnoload

Жыл бұрын

I live in LR and I have to say, there really isn't a safe hotel on I30 and defiantly not in the southwest part if town. I am curious what hotel it was. This is great city, we just have some lousy leadership and sadly it's a blue city.

@kendallevans4079

Жыл бұрын

Huh? 3 cops cars in the parking lot "investigating something" ?? "one of THEM walked up up to THEM and asked....."" makes no sense

@bogartford6667

Жыл бұрын

Cop sweared at them for just that.

@fsnoload

Жыл бұрын

@@kendallevans4079 I am finding that hard to believe. I know many LRPD Officers and They don't act like that unless provoked. It could also be that they stuck out like a sore thumb in that part of town.

@lucyb7929

Жыл бұрын

Same thing happened to us in Memphis 20 years ago. We were told to get out of that area and given directions to a much safer location. Thank God.

On my first cross country trip in 1974 there was construction going on on the interstate and I found myself in downtown East St Louis. Even though I was only 19 and knew nothing about the area, I knew I was in the wrong place and I immediately hightailed it back onto the freeway.

@jerryrichardson2799

Жыл бұрын

It just looks wrong from the highway, I drove through it two or three times in the late 80s, scary.

I don't know if this company is still in East St. Louis, but they made giant bolts and nuts by hand that were used around the World, including the USSR and China, on massive structures since those had a reputation for never failing regardless of age. Theirs were something like 10X more expensive than their competitors but were considered to be well worth the cost since they held up bridges, buildings and kept giant machinery clamped in place.

East St Louis is one of the creepiest places I’ve ever been. I didn’t know how bad it sucked before I went there. It’s really a depressing place. I’ve been to quite a few of the others on this list but soon as you enter East St Louis you know the best thing to do is get the hell out of there.

@r.pres.4121

Жыл бұрын

The exact same thing could be said about Gary IN, Saginaw MI, Youngstown OH, and Niagara Falls NY. All of them creepy decrepit cities with rampant crime and widespread abandonment.

@thebiolithic

Жыл бұрын

So true, what a ghetto East St. Louis is

@tomrobertson3236

Жыл бұрын

Agree

@johnsyler8580

Жыл бұрын

My wife was born there when they had a hospital. Her mom took her school shopping there until it got so bad they had go somewhere else. My wife was raised in Collinsville Illinois.

@kennetho5393

Жыл бұрын

It's bad when most of the stoplights have been removed because the city can't afford to keep them running base on how little traffic they have nowadays. I'm sure the stats would be worse if there was anything of value to steal. That and not enough cops to even take report.

Camden, NJ; Bridgeton, NJ; Newark, NJ; Atlantic City, NJ; Chester, PA; Norristown, PA; Wilmington, DE; Albemarle, NC; Fayetteville, NC

@PM08203

Жыл бұрын

Chester PA filed for bankruptcy this week.

one of my college friends was beaten nearly to death and suffered severe brain damage one summer in East St Louis. He was part of some church inner city mission to the city in 1966. I talked to a railroad attorney while on a flight and he was describing how the railroad had to start fighting lawsuit claims because people in St Louis would park their car on the tracks and show up with an ambulance chasing attorney and wearing a neck brace.

@chrisoliva530

Жыл бұрын

omg.

@marksnyder8189

Жыл бұрын

At least they were prepared for the "heinous trauma and reckless disregard for humean life" displayed by the thoughtless and deep-pocketed railroad. 🤣😂🤣😂🚅🤑

@bigvito9008

Жыл бұрын

Early form of "the ghetto lottery"

East St Louis.....I mistakenly got off the interstate there and on realising my mistake......I sped out of there, not stopping for a single red light.

Detroit MI, Baltimore MD, East St. Louis Ill, and Camden NJ.

@asimhusain8087

Жыл бұрын

Detroit and Baltimore are way to big to be bulldozed both those cities have major attractions and Detroit still has auto and auto parts manufacturing

@BeyondtheRailz

Жыл бұрын

Then what about the aliens from Independence Day?

@KingNeutral1

Жыл бұрын

Baltimore actually has good bones, architecture and is very walkable….it just needs better people who can fix things up moving in. The sprawled-out sunbelt parking lot cities like Houston should be bulldozed before any older city

@devintaylor8702

Жыл бұрын

Dance with ALIGATOR 🐊🐊

@andrewdubose9968

Жыл бұрын

Hmmmm

I totally agree about Bakersfield. And Stockton CA should be added too.

@jamieforce-gamez264

Жыл бұрын

Yes Stockton is horrible

@impossibledrms

Жыл бұрын

Bakersfield has been bad for 50 years or more. Weather is harsh on buildings, houses etc. People are relatively poor. I always think that it has potential, but the California government seems to work against the people, not for them ( water, recycling, trash, )

@josesiliezar1758

Жыл бұрын

Throw in Vallejo and you got the Triple-Whammy...

As an after thought - I travelled through East St. back in the late 1990s. I stopped and got gas a a small gas station and the attendant thanked me for stopping. He asked if I had seen the two guys hanging around when I drove up. I said yes and noticed they didn't have a car. He said yes he figured they were going to rob him till they saw my patrol car pull in.

Funny thing about car break-ins in Memphis. Some engineers from a company I used to work for were in Memphis. They parked their rental car on or near Beale Street and went to dinner. When they got back to the car it had been broken into and their laptops stolen. The company then issued VERY strict rules on laptops, including you could not lock them in a car, if, say, you had a company laptop, you were taking it home with you to do some work and stopped at the grocery store on the way you had to take your laptop in the store with you. After that rule came out my laptop never left the office.

@leonardgibney2997

Жыл бұрын

Needed for a drugs fix.

#1 just reminded me of the movie "National Lampoon's Vacation," where the dad drives his family through a dangerous part of St. Louis rather than going to the Arch.

@Janeintheok

Жыл бұрын

Forgot about that 😆

@twofiveb

Жыл бұрын

That was a public service announcement

@Grisbi6

Жыл бұрын

In the movie, it was East St. Louis, ILL---a truly scary place to be.

@BoundyMan

Жыл бұрын

@@Grisbi6 There is one error in that movie. East St Louis is in Illinois, but you see them crossing the bridge from Illinois to St Louis before you see them in the bad part.

So true about East St Louis! I was making a cross country trip, east to west, and could tell from the Interstate that East St Louis is where hope goes to die.

@jerryrichardson2799

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, it just _looks_ wrong from the highway. I drove through there in the late 80s a couple of times(1987). I had lived my entire life in West Texas up to that point, St Louis was scary from the highway.

In August, 2021 I rode the train to Memphis to see the pandas at the Memphis Zoo. The hotel where I stayed that night was part of a well-known value chain but it was in apparently one of the worst areas. Check-in was at the last possible minute, 3pm, and all business was done via a thick windowed slot even in the daytime. A parade of interesting characters had shown up to renew their rooms at the back of the hotel, which apparently was a flophouse-type place for dopers and prostitutes. The desk clerk said, "I'll be giving you one of the nice rooms at the front." The room itself seemed fairly okay, and I slept right away because spending the day at the zoo had exhausted me. Later in the night I felt things crawling on me and the next morning found five (count 'em) five bedbugs. If I ever go back to that zoo (which is one of the best I've ever seen), I'll spend $50 to $100 extra to get a room or AirBnB in a better location.

@austintrousdale2397

Жыл бұрын

Even seemingly “nice” hotels can have bedbugs from time to time. I’ve heard that’s a big reason not to sit your suitcase on your bed or other furniture, but instead fold out the luggage rack that they’re supposed to provide in the room.

@marktwain2053

Жыл бұрын

Bedbugs have become an infestation because of all the Foreign Invaders being sent all over the country!

@michaeldickmeyer493

Жыл бұрын

Little bit of a haul, however if you want to see an incredible Zoo, visit Henry Doorly, in Omaha. Best in the Midwest in my opinion. BTW, 5 bedbugs? If you SEE 5, there are probably 500. No disrespect!

@kaydod3190

Жыл бұрын

Memphis Zoo isn’t one of the best. Start traveling more

@itsnotthesamething

Жыл бұрын

I've heard of 5 star hotels getting bed bugs. I agree with Austin Trousdale. Put your luggage on that rack, bring something you can use to hang it from the shower bar or closet hanger, or leave it in the car. Bed bugs are hard to get rid of, if you bring them home with you.

Way back in '10 or '11, when I was stationed at Scott AFB IL I went to a concert on the MO side of the river and took the light train, the Metro. At the time, I thought the Metro ran 24/7, and to my dismay I found out it did NOT. Had a couple drinks after the concert, it was late when I headed back into IL. When I heard the driver saying they were taking the train off the route for the night, I was like "you gotta be sh!tting me!!" The Metro's maintenance facility is smack dab in the middle of East St Louis. But then after a couple seconds of wondering just how the hell I'd get home, the driver announced there would be one final train going the entirety of the rest of the line. That was the longest nine minutes of my life, waiting for the last train of the night at almost 2 am in East Saint Louis.....needless to say, I paid considerable more attention to the schedule after that experience.

@joew3816

Жыл бұрын

I live near Scott AFB and the area is all good, but the metrolink is just flat out scary, glad you made it!

@allthingsharbor

Жыл бұрын

I will not take public transportation. Never.

FYI, East St. Louis is in Illinois, not Missouri-across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. I’ve been there and lived to tell about it. If they’re ever going to give the world an enema, East St. Louis is where they’d ram the nozzle of the enema bag.

@motorhomemac

Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@fredthegraycatt

Жыл бұрын

The west side of that river is no better. 😞

@babecat2000

Жыл бұрын

@@fredthegraycatt Disagree St.Louis is better not by much but better.

Way back in the 80’s, Baton Rouge was a ridiculously safe place to live. One could actually walk the streets downtown alone at night without worries.

@Grisbi6

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to be the purveyor of sad tidings, Griegg, but no large cities are safe any more. Young street criminals are everywhere now.

@esotericsolitaire

Жыл бұрын

Shreveport seemed seedier to me than Baton Rouge.

@marksnyder8189

Жыл бұрын

I was a regular visitor to Baton Rouge in the early 90s. I never worried for my safety except once. I pulled into BR on a Saturday night when there was a football game on. I was rather near the stadium. I didn't realize until I got there that LSU was playing Mississippi State. I drove a maroon car with a gray interior and had a Mississippi plate. I got out with a few drunken curses at me. Whew!

@marksnyder8189

Жыл бұрын

@@esotericsolitaire I found Shreveport ok (30 years ago). Bossier City was 😫, but a lot of Shreveport was nice.

Change is hard and your video showed what locals don’t want to admit. This is what the locals are willing to accept and that’s the real problem. This was a brave video for you to make.

Not from the area, I stopped in East St. Louis for gas and an energy drink once. While filling up, I looked around and realized my mistake. When I went in for my Red Bull, the store clerk just stared at me with his jaw hanging open. His look told me he thought I was or was about to be a ghost. I did my best to keep calm while moving quickly. That night at a hotel, I watched a documentary on East St. Louis. Needless to say, I don’t intend to make that mistake twice!

@marksmith7054

Жыл бұрын

I've been through E. St Louis Many times NEVER have I stopped there for anything, I always made sure I had enough fuel to get far far far away from there before I needed another stop for anything.

@RedRoseSeptember22

Жыл бұрын

What happened?

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

Even the cops won't go to just anyplace in East St Louis without three or four others as back up. Not too long ago a state trooper went in there unescorted and paid with his life. If I ever travel thru there I get gas about 50 miles south of St Louis on I-44 which will take me well into Indiana and safer areas before refueling.

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

@@marksmith7054 Yeah I never get off the interstate for at least 50-75 miles after I've passed thru there.

@darthlatitude2105

Жыл бұрын

What's wrong with doing that?

I knew East St. Louis was going to be #1. I'm just surprised Camden, NJ wasn't on the list.

There was a period in the mid 2000s where the Memphis city police refused to enter certain neighborhoods.

@PerfectionInMotion69

Жыл бұрын

It was only one neighborhood and it was because there is a frequency phenomena where the radios don't work in that area. It's a dead zone.

@tomf1408

Жыл бұрын

Hell, that is happening in San Francisco right now. Police won't go into the potrero Hill housing projects anymore. The last time they did they got ran off by people shooting at them and throwing rocks and bottles. Thanks Obama.

@telcobilly

Жыл бұрын

I lived outside Memphis in the 90s in Bartlett. I was cautioned on what areas to avoid. Orange Mound being the worst..

@snakemain

Жыл бұрын

@@telcobilly I lived south of Memphis growing up, and we'd go to 6 Flags Over Orange Mound aka Liberty Land every summer.

@johnh.tuomala4379

Жыл бұрын

I heard that Memphis is so rough, even the cops pay protection!

Briggs, you never disappoint! Thank you for your efforts!!!

One thing I love about these videos is checking the comments after to see all the stories people have about crazy shit they've seen up and down the states

Always great when Briggs does a "10 horrible cities" video, and only one Ohio town is on it.

@mirzaahmed6589

Жыл бұрын

How did Cleveland/East Cleveland not make the list?

@TheBlueDeath123

Жыл бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 Cleveland is not so bad. It is utopia compared to Youngstown, Toledo, or Dayton

@pbmpharmacist

Жыл бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 bc it's better than you think it is

@flyingspirit3549

Жыл бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 Cleveland? "The Mistake on the Lake"? How the heck did Chicago not make or LEAD the list!

@r.pres.4121

Жыл бұрын

Cleveland is horrible and no better than Youngstown or Toledo. It continues to hemorrhage population and business and it is just a decrepit dangerous city that is best avoided.

I would have added Oakland, California to the list. No matter how much they try, it still remains pretty much a pit. The Oakland A's will probably leave for greener and better pastures soon and there's really nothing there unless you're rich and can live in the hills. If you're poor, it's a nightmare. I worked in Oakland for 6 years and it was horrible. The downtown is dreadful and only getting worse.

@j.r.3215

Жыл бұрын

For several years Oakland was the Murder capitol of the US, probably still in the top 5 or 10.

@lugi25

Жыл бұрын

I mean, add all or most of California.

@jondstewart

Жыл бұрын

Oakland and anywhere in the SF Bay Area, I’ve wondered how many people are actually able to afford a home there unless they’ve lived in the same place for at least 30 years or earning at least half a million a year. And a hated city for decades that has a reputation as a ghetto has has a major league ball team and professional football team all that time.

@villixeb

Жыл бұрын

@@lugi25 I live in Grass Valley and Nevada City...it's one of the nicest, prettiest and safest towns I've lived in. Not to mention Lake Tahoe, Bolinas, Santa Cruz, Napa...etc....I'm not too familiar with So Cal...but Big Sur, Monterey, Isla Vista...CA is a big state...I think you're making an unfair generalization

@villixeb

Жыл бұрын

@@jondstewart Anywhere in the Bay Area...No. SF proper has some really nice neighborhoods

I'm surprised that Gary, IN and Camden, NJ didn't make the list. From my own experiences I'd have to add Newburgh, NY as an honorable mention.

8:48, USS Kidd, the river is so low now that she is sitting high and dry, The pier ahead of her is also completely out of the water.

I would pick up the St Louis paper on weekends for a while, and got some info on East St Louis. They went for 2 years without garbage pick up maybe 10 years ago. Very few of their cop cars were running, and only 2 had working radios. A church group built new energy efficient houses to just give to locals. Nobody wanted them because the property taxes were 6k a year, and that was 15 years ago.

@thebiolithic

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@Marrifikc

Жыл бұрын

😮😮😮😮

Parts of Baltimore City definitely need a reset. I agree about Memphis and Little Rock. Passed through them on a trip and didn't want to stop.

@kmech3rd

Жыл бұрын

Hey! Nothing wrong with Bodymore that a half dozen tactical nukes wouldn't cure.

@adamgarrick3778

Жыл бұрын

One of the saddest things, among a list of sad things, about Baltimore is how much potential it has. For every step forward it takes, it ends up taking two steps back. There's a lot of positives there, but it's been poorly run for years and nobody seems to have any real desire to change it.

@kmech3rd

Жыл бұрын

@@adamgarrick3778 I think that since Baltimore City has so much influence over the state, other counties should have a say in its government. Carroll and Cecil Counties choosing its mayor for awhile would help.

I love you’re channel. Keep it up

Anyone who thinks having a refinery in your town is bad needs to visit Whiting, Indiana. There's a big BP refinery there, and the refinery pays all the property taxes for the town. The residents don't pay anything. There isn't a crack in a sidewalk or a pot hole in the street. People have good jobs. There is a beach and a nice riverfront park. The high school athletic fields are new and nice enough to be a college facility. The smell of a refinery is the smell of money!

Great job, Briggs. These lists are always funny but really sad too, because most of these cities were once very nice places. I've never been to Memphis but I know it has a real rich history. Breaks my heart to see it on the list.

@austintrousdale2397

Жыл бұрын

Memphis can be a fun place to visit, just be careful and avoid the summer months 🥵

@the4thempire

Жыл бұрын

yeah they were nice, because they used to be majority white. Non whites are always the factor in destroying cities, not policies or any other made up shit.

@loralarose9615

Жыл бұрын

Dem policy suck but they keep voting democrat they Love it

@hoperules8874

Жыл бұрын

agreed

Very interesting topic, but I'm quite surprised Flint, Michigan and Gary, Indiana didn't make the list.

@robertmoore2049

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he needs to do a part two.

@Marrifikc

Жыл бұрын

Those had to be #11 & #12 😅😅

@billwilson3609

Жыл бұрын

Half or more of Gary was dozed some years ago.

@bracebrooks967

Жыл бұрын

@@billwilson3609 I didn't even notice, and I've been to Gary alot, more than any other city in Indiana. That's only because I have relatives out there on my mom's side of the family who I occasionally visit.

@billwilson3609

Жыл бұрын

@@bracebrooks967 I grew up Hammond ('54 thru '77) so remember Gary when it still was a great place to live and raise a family, though was starting to go downhill in certain areas. Live in NE Texas now so visit the Region using Google Earth and Street Views. Gary once was full of homes, businesses and factories like Hammond is today but now is mostly empty. You can zoom in using Google Earth to see full grown trees growing thru roofs of houses that once were located in nice neighborhoods. The area called Black Oak next to Hammond is still OK along with Miller Beach by the lake. There's other neighborhoods of older homes still standing that once where full of nice big trees and landscaped yards but now are surrounded by dirt and weeds. There appears to be newer building and homes in the south near Merriville. Hammond didn't have the violent drug gang problems like Gary so saved by people moving out of Chicago and Cook County.

In reality, the DOUBLE DEUCE roadhouse in the movie ROAD HOUSE was located in California and has now been demolished. In the film, it is located in Jasper, MO, a long way from St Louis.

I lived in Bakersfield from 2000-2005. It’s a total waste of space in California. It’s pretty much an expansion of East LA with high crime and homeless population and is really hot in the summer. I remember when I lived there, I didn’t even know the place had mountains around it, because it was so covered with smog. I remember during the quarantine in 2020 when leaving California Bakersfield was so clean. It looked like another planet.

This list could go on and on.

Briggs. First of all. I would like to say. Thank you for your service in honor of Veterans Day. Secondly. Awesome video as always. You should definitely do the same type of video. But with towns.

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. We plan on doing more.

It's always amazing the number of videos you see that say something is bad versus videos you see that actually analyze & go into detail about WHY things are bad.

i knew east saint louis would be on this list, i drive on the interstate through it about twice a year and the anxiety levels go up

I used to work on Ft. Benning in Columbus GA. I currently work for a company based there. I was never happier than when remote work became a thing and I haven’t been to the office in almost 3 years now. I felt safer in the worst parts of Atlanta GA or the poorer quarter in New Orleans than I did in Columbus. Though ironically, Phenix City AL across the river from Columbus used to hold the title of America’s Sin City.

@Selmarya

Жыл бұрын

I agree, i got some family living there and i always ask why they don't just move out while they still can, the downtown area is run down, traffic is worse than other Georgia cities of similar populations (ie Athens, Savannah, macon) and the crime in the southern portion is one of the highest anywhere I have been to, except for Anniston, some years there the murder rate is >1000% higher than the national average

The GOP is always on a rant about the level of urban crime in Blue States like Illinois New York and California. Yet 8 of the 10 states mentioned here are in Red States, almost exclusivey in the Deep South. I am very familiar with E St. Louis. i grew up about 40 miles north of there in Illinois where, after 12 years in San Antonio TX, I live today, I went to St.Louis through E. St. Louis many times before I went in the service and lived in Texas, as my family shopped and dined there often and also went to Cardinal gsmes and Forrest Park every summer. St. Lous University played a big role in my families life as I, my father and uncle, and two of my cousin all are alumni of the School-three of us with Doctorates in Medicine and Law. After I married, I lived just the other side of E St. Louis and had to drive through there at night when I was in law school and commuting to one night class. I locked my doors and had a weapon nearby. Better to be jailed than dead. Oddly enough, as a lewyer I have appeared several times there in Federal Court but i leave immediately when my business there is done. Unfortunately E. St. Louis is beyond hope and St Louis is no place that I go to anymore either. Crime is killing what used to be one of the best cities in the US as St. Louis has gone from one of the top 10 cities in the nation in terms of population to having lost 60% of its residents since 1960.

I went through St Louis in the late 80s, it was scary and looked wrong to me from the highway. I had lived my entire life in West Texas up to that point.

Interesting. And thank you for the reply.

"...not sure if you want to be shot or stabbed...locals will help you out".... I was rolling at this! Thank you for a good laugh.

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching.

I was mentally joking about my town being on the list and it ended up being the next one you said! I don't know if I'm embarrassed, sad, or angry....damn it Little Rock

Great video. I live in Rhode Island and we have the same problem. Somehow the Dept of Transportation engineers skipped the part when they went to school where as manhole covers are supposed to be flush with the road! Even on brand new roads! Or maybe they have a deal with Midas so as to give them more customers!!

I rode through Compton in 2021 on my Motorcycle. It's nothing like it was back in the day.

Awesome video Briggs, but sad in a way. I rode the bus to Baton Rouge 55 years ago (1967) to visit LSU and see the real Mike the Tiger. It was a nice city then. Manufacturing in America shut down, poverty and crime shot up. In a few years Seattle and Portland might be on here. I love both cities!😪

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@paulalane8638

Жыл бұрын

@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Hey, thank YOU for your service!

@eddied.5156

Жыл бұрын

@@WorldAccordingToBriggs did you think Detroit and Gary, IN were too obvious? Lbs

@westtownshend5661

Жыл бұрын

I'm with you. I worked for GE for most of my career. We had a plant in Baton Rouge. It wasn't a fun visit except for a visit to a crawfish house. My goodness, what good eating.

@lexusls4305

Жыл бұрын

Baton Rogue is (or perhaps, was) a pretty town. Then all the filth came up New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Cracked me up with Albany, GA (named Agony, GA by the GA folk). At Albany State if they don't teach you to move out of town and how to rent a U-haul, it is a crime. That is funny and I can relate. Grew up in the South so I appreciate it and realize it has many areas for improvement. Thanks for your great videos.

@jsphillip60

Жыл бұрын

Spent 3 years in Albany, GA. Lived there during the 1994 floods. "Agony" is too kind of a nickname for that town!

@playerfishie7

Жыл бұрын

Born and raised there. Moved in 2019 to Tennessee. Best decision I ever made!

Big city suburbs in another state tend to be sketchy -- Gary, East St. Louis, Toledo, Newark, etc. My 2 visits to Memphis were okay, but I stayed overnight in West Memphis, Arkansas. That was sketchy.

@trextrextrex

Жыл бұрын

West Memphis Ark was not the place to stay. Stay in Germantown. 25 minute drive to Beale st but you don't want to go there anyway

@kaydod3190

Жыл бұрын

Memphis ain’t no better than West Memphis

Briggs, can you please do a video for top cities to own a Cabin? Thanks so much!🤙🏼

East St. Louis is in Illinois

When I was in the Air Force, I was stationed at Little Rock AFB, which is actually in Jacksonville, AR just outside the city. Jacksonville was almost as crime-ridden as Little Rock itself. Even though it added about 30 minutes to my commute, I chose to live in North Little Rock just because it was the only safe place to live I could find in the entire area.

@samanthabeaty4578

Жыл бұрын

My ex was stationed at LRAFB and I worked on base as a civilian. It was definitely a dismal little town. I can see why so many people from base lived in Cabot! I don't miss Jacksonville or the ENORMOUS potholes on the interstate!

@stephendennis6298

Жыл бұрын

Literally no one in arkansas other than people that live there or pinebluff would be okay with living anywhere near there hell during the blm riots as riot control it was the first time I been there in years and as soon as I got off the bus all I heard was a dude getting mowed down after he pulled a gun on cops and our medic

@gauchoparaguayo

Жыл бұрын

@@stephendennis6298 Arkansas is pretty rough. Many Ammosexuals Qanorers Sovereign State Types Duck Dynasty Cultists Christian Dominionists White Supremacists Alex Jones Followers Chemtrailers Loco Antivaxxers Fake Jingoistic Patriots and Trumpanzee Loyalists. Hoy sticky summers and tornadoes. But housing is the cheapest in the USA.

@stephendennis6298

Жыл бұрын

@@gauchoparaguayo okay buddy that was a mouthful and most of that is retarded af especially when places in the state with those types of people don’t make their towns as bad as Little Rock and tornados aren’t that bad here I haven’t even seen one in person and the summer it’s not that sticky compared to a state like Louisiana it’s worse there than anywhere else I’ve been hell I bet you never even been here the people aren’t that bad except in the bigger cities mostly littlerock and pinebluff I’ve been to both and they are the worse places in the state with the worse people

@gauchoparaguayo

Жыл бұрын

@@stephendennis6298 Shazam. I caught a right wing extremist in my trap!

Stopped with my wife in East St. Louis back in the early 80's while on a cross country trip. I should have been leary over the fact that the hotel we stayed at asked for no more than the cash for the room, no ID or anything, but the room was clean and we only planned to stay one night and hit the road early. We had eaten earlier on the road so we showered and went to bed. We had been in bed not much more than an hour when we noticed that the mattress was getting damp and sticky, something was seeping up through. We got up turned on the lights and the first thing we noticed was a reddish brown substance on the both of us, when I pulled back the blankets there was a pool of it in the shape of our bodies. I lifted the mattress and between it and the box spring were five blood soaked blankets. After lifting the sheets there were five more blankets between the mattress and the sheets. The amount of blood was mind blowing,but what happened afterwards was even more so. I called the front desk and the local police and had showered and put our luggage into the car when both they and the night clerk showed up. No one not the cops not the hotel employee no one asked us jack. We approached a number of policemen expecting to be asked some questions but all we got was "We'll get to you in a bit " no one ever did, as the sun was coming up and we saw the police leaving we left as well without being stopped or questioned and to this day don't have a clue as to what happened. My wife later made the point that since no one had asked us anything, asked for ID or knew who the hell we were we might be considered suspects in whatever had gone down there but to this day haven't heard a peep, we also have been creeped out by the idea of East St.Louis and hardily agree that bulldozing the town might be a good thing .

We took a car trip across all of Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee. On the way there we passed by Little Rock, Arkansas. There were police sirens going off and it seemed like you could feel the tension in the air. When we arrived in Memphis we went to eat in a McDonald's. Some people there told us not to be here after dark.

Thank you for your service Briggs!

@JoDo777

Жыл бұрын

You're another brainwashed, regurgitating parrot....smmfh

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

Any time!

Always a great day when Briggs uploads a new video

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

You're the best!

@joew.1274

Жыл бұрын

@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Excellent video

@tiki_trash

Жыл бұрын

@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Oh man, I am still laughing at the video title! Just plow it under hahaha!

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

@@joew.1274 Thank you

@tiki_trash

Жыл бұрын

​@@WorldAccordingToBriggs It's like if you take your car to a mechanic and he says we might be able to salvage the headlights.

Hey , what about us…. Yours truly: Shreveport, Gary, Camden and Flint. By the by, People in Youngstown and Dayton would be happy to vacation in Toledo!

Can we add Gary, Indiana? Best pic i ever got was in Gary; a big billboard advertising "great property opportunities" with a backdrop of nuclear chimneys lol People didn't look right there, I'm tellin' ya. And Janis Joplin warned us about Port Arthur :)

Start with East St. Louis! Sorry 618 but y’all gots to go! 💯

@RJDA.Dakota

Жыл бұрын

You can have East St. Louis.

@joemomma3208

Жыл бұрын

@@RJDA.Dakota I’m from there born & raised so that’s no problem.

Surprised that Camden, NJ didn't make the list. Or for that matter, Newark, NJ. Interesting facts about Port Arthur, TX: It was Janis Joplin's hometown. Even when she was famous, locals there weren't impressed. That big refinery may stink but it provides a lot of high paying employment. The port itself is one of busiest in the US. It's not a place for the weak or weary but if you can fit in there, you can make some great friends for life.

@kitnewman3299

Жыл бұрын

Thought the same thing about Trenton, NJ.

@voidfilan5055

Жыл бұрын

Also add Irvington NJ🙀😱‼️

I was surprised the was no mention of Flint, MI, Detroit, and Gary, Indiana

Great video and having been to all (or at least passed through- was warned never to stop in E STL), you’re spot on. Inspiring that TX LA OH FL only had one city on the list and PA was unscathed. Growing up in the 70s though I have to wonder how many east coast pits have pulled themselves up high enough to stay off the list - Richmond, Wilkes Barre, Rottenchester, Easton-Bethlehem-Lehigh, Newark all come to mind, not to mention Flint MI. Georgia taking the prize w 2 cities is impressive and hey if brain dead Herschel wins the runoff, why not just say bulldoze all of Georgia and sell it to TX, NY or CA to be used as their toxic waste dump!

Port Arthur TX is mainly famous for being the home of Janis Joplin, and I don't think she was fond of that place, either!

@Rondogardener

Жыл бұрын

I was never fond of Janis Joplin either. 😁

@MrDan708

Жыл бұрын

@@Rondogardener LOL! 🤣

@mikeshumaker

Жыл бұрын

Former football coach Jimmy Johnson was born there, too.

I'm not sure if I'd put east st Louis in the #1 spot🤔 stats may tell otherwise, it's been a while since I've been there but one things for sure, don't get off the wrong exit or your tires and rims will disappear at the stoplight while ur in the vehicle!

I'm a little surprised Detroit, Flint, Baltimore, or Gary didn't make the list. All are a shell of themselves in their prime years. I'm a Baltimore native and it's sad the state of what was once a good city. There's so much broken and corrupt in that city I don't know where you begin to fix it.

I sell survival equipment at trade shows. I was on the west side of St Louis when a gentleman picked up a Bowie knife off my table and said oh look an East St Louis gut wrench. That told me everything I needed to know about East St Louis.

Before watching I cynically wondered if Florida City would beat East St Louis for #1. I wasn't disappointed to see both actually on this list lol

@pinmode

Жыл бұрын

Florida City began its decline after Hurricane Andrew. Before the hurricane a good portion of the place was retired USAF personnel from Homestead AFB. By the early 2000's both Homestead and FL City became the last refuge of affordable housing from the rest of Dade County. Compounding the problem was the seismic demographic shift to illegal immigrants that worked the large local agriculture industry, especially during the winter months up north. Also, it doesn't help that the area is the southern-most trans-shipment point for smugglers in the continental US. One could argue the local black population runs the drug trade and the local illegals are in charge of property crime and that both groups do not get along.

DETROIT

We moved to Miami in 1990, and the real estate agent we spoke to said we wouldn't want to live in Florida City because it was dangerous and had a lot of poverty. We moved to Cutler Ridge, which has since been incorporated as Cutler Bay.

@marksnyder8189

Жыл бұрын

That's a shame. In my youth, I was dragged to Florida every other summer. Going through Homestead was like going through a third world town, but Florida City was like suddenly being in Bradenton. It was full of mobile homes and old folks peddling around on adult trikes. It was not luxurious, but it was nice. Hurricane Andrew hit that area hard. I am wondering if they never recovered?

Memphis equipment can always come in handy with there heavy equipment as well ex military surplus trucks can always give you a very good edge

I spent some time in Columbus, GA and Memphis, TN, both while visiting my Army son (yes, infantry). Memphis was a bit scary when we got off at the wrong exit outside of Beale St., but Columbus seemed really nice and the people were fantastic. Maybe we were just in the nice area? The city that actually scared us was Albuquerque, NM. Another one that was a total dump was Hinesville, GA outside of Ft. Stewart. You can’t even drink the water because it tastes and smells so bad and it was sketchy going anywhere during the daytime, no way I would venture out at night without my son and his Army buddies.

@alfonsomunoz4424

Жыл бұрын

Albuquerque scared you? You don't like violent crime, drunk drivers and illicit drug users?

@thullraven1

Жыл бұрын

Albuquerque is a cesspool. I was stationed in the desert of NM and would have to occasionally go to Kirkland AFB there and always hated going there. The city should be bulldozed. There's some nice areas nearby like Rio Rancho, but Albuquerque itself sucks.

@marksnyder8189

Жыл бұрын

@@thullraven1 Amen. I like New Mexico a lot. There's just this one city... Lol. Breaking Bad was smart to set their show there.

@shawnflynn1713

Жыл бұрын

My sister lives in Columbus. Driving thru Georgia i feel the entire state needs to be bulldozed.

@JayJackson1981

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Columbus from 2012-2021. It's a shit hole. Worst place I ever lived. You must stayed north of Macon Rd?

Haha! Been waiting for a video like this.

@WorldAccordingToBriggs

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

Surprised Gary Indiana or Decatur Illinois weren't on the list.

Camden, NJ and several cities in north Jersey gotta be here.

I wonder if he has ever done or might do maybe the top ten best air quality/water quality states/cities. Or coldest temperatures in each state. It'd be cool to see.

I like your Ideas on dozing these cities down.

I recall being told that East St. Louis fails the "should you stop at red lights at night?" test. I have always been amused by this since it had only previously come up while cutting through DC to get to events at RFK without sitting in traffic. Of course I stop at the red light. At least wait until the prospective carjacker approaches your car...

@zachfausett3693

Жыл бұрын

I don't know about red lights, but I've heard if you are in East St. Louis and get rear-ended, don't stop. This is usually a pretext to get you out of your car and carjack you.

Toledo sounds OK! Bakersfield, on the other hand, yes, the soil thereabouts is thought to be riddled by noxious fungal spores; and Port A. does have the bad refinery air;

Thought for sure Jackson Mississippi was going to be at the top of this list....Maybe South Bend Indiana also....

Lancaster Pa is the same way with man hole covers. It's a place where potholes are planned in the roads. They have it to where you can't avoid hitting them.

I'm surprised Detroit, MI, Youngstown, OH, Gary, IN, and Camden, NJ didn't make the list. They're very bad too.

Good video Briggs, I'd like to nominate Jackson Michigan for the next such list. I grew up there, and on everyone's lips is the phrase "this f'n town." When I was growing up it was one of the ten most corrupt cities in the nation and no one even knew who the mayor was. Might have been a secret. The streets are in terrible shape, lots of poverty, and it's just a very unhappy town. The two principle products of Jackson when I lived there were bad backs and divorces.

@KMNixon

Жыл бұрын

You are not lying. I was born and raised there. That's why I now live in Florida.

@been2all505

Жыл бұрын

@@KMNixon I thought Cairo IL would have been on it.

@Jmarie0134

Жыл бұрын

@@WWFAttitudeEraFreak it’s definitely not being from Michigan & not from Detroit tells me all I need to know about your prospective

@Jmarie0134

Жыл бұрын

@@WWFAttitudeEraFreak a bowling tournament by the airport yea you weren’t even really in Jackson

@wolfiethedog76

Жыл бұрын

Metro Airport= Romulus, MI....not near Jackson....

When I went to Western Illinois in the 90's kids from the worst neighborhoods in Chicago were wherry of kids from East St. Louis. Speaks volumes.

Add Savannah, GA; others in that state include Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Columbus

Awesome video as usual! One small correction though… East Saint Louis is in Illinois, not Missouri… 👍🏽

How does Flint, Inkster, Highland Park or Muskegon from Michigan or Gary, Indiana not make this list? Outside of East St Louis, they all make the list look like dream cities.

@mattvanderford4920

Жыл бұрын

Personal experience.

@mikeshumaker

Жыл бұрын

Muskegon Heights is actually exponentially worse than Muskegon.

I'm glad to hear there's no place worst than East St. Louis.

wow gary Indiana is not on this list, did it implode.

I'm always surprised when people talk negatively about Little Rock. I worked there for a few months back in 2015 and I was pleasantly surprised at how much nicer it seemed compared to southern New England cities like East Hartford, Providence, New Haven, Bridgeport, etc... Granted it was only a few months, but in general I thought Little Rock was beautiful in comparison, and had much better food and entertainment, and honestly their "ghettos" were laughably tame looking compared to Providence, Bridgeport, East Hartford, and New Haven. The people in Little Rock also seemed very nice; way nicer than southern New England people such as myself haha. I felt much safer in Little Rock than I ever did in southern New England cities.

@lindasnook6735

Жыл бұрын

I lived in New England until I was in my 40s. Thanks for telling it like it is. These days I hate Rhode Island and would never go back. R.I.,...... gangsters, corruption, I worked my ass off and was never so broke in my life. I know the difference now.

@darylmixan8170

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it crazy how you never hear about how bad those cities were. I'm from Omaha, Ne and been all over the west, not much the East... And I would have thought New Haven, Connecticut was nice

@lindasnook6735

Жыл бұрын

@@darylmixan8170 The cities on the coasts are getting hammered with people from other countries. I wish this government had enough intelligence to tell those people to stay in their home countries and shown those people how to build better homes and grow food locally so they could have a better life. But I guess the exploitation has been going on since the days of when they had to deal with our Native people.

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

Like many of these cities it all depends on what neighborhood you're living in.

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

@@lindasnook6735 Biden has let in 4 million more illegals so it's going to get worse.

I grew up in St Louis - the Missouri side. It was common knowledge in the 1950s that smart people stayed clear of East St Louis. But, unfortunately, it was also common knowledge that after hours you could go “across the bridge” and get 3.2 beer. Now there’s something worth risking your life for!

@JoDo777

Жыл бұрын

lol

@BarneeFife

Жыл бұрын

3.2 beer has less alcohol than regular beer, which has about 5%. It’s manadory in some areas in an attempt to control drunkenness which obviously is linked to violent crime. My uncles would bitch about it when we would go on our annual fishing trip to Canada, so they would smuggle their own beer up there and would hope they wouldn’t get the full search at the border. The nickname for it was ‘Nearbeer’.

@darylmixan8170

Жыл бұрын

@@BarneeFife she is probably repeating somebody else's story and got near beer mixed up.

@LR-je7nn

Жыл бұрын

The Tap Room at the stockyards was open until 5 A M. It opened up at 5:01 A M.

@jacquimg2469

Жыл бұрын

I know that 3.2 beer is less than 5% beer. The story is, when the bars in St Louis closed at 2, the party could continue by going to East St Louis where the bars stayed open because they sold 3.2. I’m not relaying someone else’s story. But in the 50s this was the drill for hard core drinkers.

Hey Briggs! What about Phoenix City Alabama? Right across the state border from Columbus, GA. When I was at Ft Benning, Columbus GA was far and away the better place of the two to be.

You left out my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. That place has gone down the tubes big time!

Camden, NJ should have been on this list.

What about Gary,In and Camden, NJ?

Hot Springs, Arkansas, is rebuilding. You can’t go a mile without seeing some kind of construction

I’m shocked that Memphis is so low on the list. I’ve lived here for 35 years, am old and unable to leave. I lock my doors at 6pm, and don’t venture out until around 7am.. I hear hun shots every night. Do not move here! This place sucks.

Love your sense of humor ... and this whole video is just ... sad. 😔

No Gary, IN?