The U.S. Government isn't in charge of every little town in the country.

@buckeyegirl16

24 күн бұрын

The whole of Appalachia is far more than "a small town". Something should have been done decades ago and having no infrastructure for basic needs in this country is unacceptable. Period.

Don't forget that when Warren Jeff's was arrested, he had 80+ wives

When you have to make choices between paying the rent and feeding your children, the concept of "saving" in order to leave is just foreign. Couple that with the fact that illiteracy is a real thing in many of these areas, and you can see that the situation is truly grim.

@jillpodurgiel8593

28 күн бұрын

One of the problems is that generations of poor families having multiple kids they can’t afford is totally normalized. They don’t see life the same way that a little bit better off people do. Maybe it’s a religious thing? Whereas some people may decide it’s a good idea to hold off on starting a family until they’re financially stable, others start at a young age despite being single, unemployed and undereducated and just keep having more.

A lot of areas , because they are so poor, have very little Tax Base, so the Revenue is very low. ALSO, in general, Generational poverty is far more complicated. There just are no “simple “ solutions. Often , local governments are corrupt. 😢

Poverty rates are highest in the states of Mississippi (19.58%), Louisiana (18.65%), New Mexico (18.55%), West Virginia (17.10%), Kentucky (16.61%), and Arkansas (16.08%). In general they get more tax dollar for assistance then they ever send to the government, however most of these places simply has no industry, or its very, very limited, no jobs, and drugs are rife.

The Lakota reservation is not the US. It is a sovereign nation, they govern themselves. Very insulting to say otherwise.

@blacksnapper7684

29 күн бұрын

They’re doing a pretty shit job of governing themselves 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️ maybe they should join the US🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@seijunsejuki

29 күн бұрын

Most people probably don't know that, so it wasn't an insult on purpose.

@shelaughs185

29 күн бұрын

So, they don't vote in National elections or pay Federal taxes? Does that mean they keep their own people in poverty on purpose?

@PhuckYT12

29 күн бұрын

Lets not act as if the reason they exist wasnt out of 19th century pity

@happyfairyjerry

29 күн бұрын

Lol oh no the Internet was wrong, who would've thought 😂

Many European derived people have an enzyme that helps to break down alcohol because of their exposure to it over many centuries. But far fewer American Indians have this enzyme. That is way they are more susceptible to alcoholism.

@molacyVA

29 күн бұрын

Thank you. I couldn't remember if it was a genetic difference but thought it had something to do with the liver being able to process alcohol.

@carolinezook

28 күн бұрын

I knew this but didn’t know why. My father was partly American Indian so I’ve always blamed that for my inability to drink more than 1/2” of wine without feeling it. No alcoholism in the family though.

@lalitabyrd4182

19 күн бұрын

Also the majority of N. American Nations have ancient ( like 60,000 yrs ago )DNA from Siberia and they also have a biological sensitivity or outright allergy to alcohol. Add into the mix that the federal government would block their access to clean water and ship in whiskey instead. They would do the same thing in minority ghettos.

“Are they his kids…or his partners?” Me: “Yes.”

Chicago : We just had the long July 4th weekend. Between Wednesday evening and this morning, there were 109 REPORTED shootings, and 19 fatalities in the city of Chicago.

@sanic1085

26 күн бұрын

And then our mayor blamed Richard Nixon for the shootings. Good times. 🙄

You need to look into the FLDS to really understand how terrible that one town is and why he keeps saying it’s creepy.

@joeshmooo5327

29 күн бұрын

the guy is from england how in the hell is he going to know what FLDS is??? come on mate

@gotham61

29 күн бұрын

@@joeshmooo5327 He talks about the FLDS and what it is @ 13.48

@heathermacdonald2680

29 күн бұрын

@@joeshmooo5327I’m well aware he probably doesn’t know. Reread my comment and I told him TO LOOK INTO IT.

@xxdeviousv2

29 күн бұрын

The parental alienation stories are both heartbreaking, infuriating and some are downright the stuff of nightmares. I don't think I can stomach learning more about that horrendous cult.

@joeshmooo5327

29 күн бұрын

@@xxdeviousv2 Agreed,

OMG He isn't exaggerating Salton Sea. We visited there and the dead fish and flies among the stinky fish - horrible.

Worst place: poverty, lack of health services, crime rate, illiteracy.

Kabir you got to think about it man you live in London I live about an hour and a half away from New Orleans and the only time I ever hear about London it has something to do with Buckingham Palace or Big Ben...... Bourbon Street and the Mardi gras scene makes up about as much of New Orleans as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace does in London.

@YankeeBlues21

29 күн бұрын

The thing that shocked me most about New Orleans when I went was just how SMALL the parts of the city are that everyone thinks of when they think of NOLA. It’s not even like “oh half of NO is nice & festive, but the other half isn’t”, the Mardi Gras parts are like the size of a college campus

@careyjones98

29 күн бұрын

Exactly

West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky were "Coal Country". Mining was virtually the only industry. Things were never good... but once the mines closed things got really bad.

The Ozarks are mostly in Missouri, nowhere near West Virginia. Native lands are semi autonomous regions, you can't just bring in non indigenous businesses and plonk them down there. The LDS Church has a pretty deep hold on all levels of government in Utah, they tend to turn a blind eye to things like the FLDS cult. Eventually outside attention forced them to do something, and they arrested Jeffs. Those women and girls around Jeffs aren't sisters, they are his wives. Jeffs was convicted for raping two of his child brides, ages 12 and 15.

I agree that the government should be ashamed. But we also should bear some responsibility that live in a better area. We should not leave people behind to suffer in my opinion

@ReAllyT1978

29 күн бұрын

❤ Exactly this goes against every military fiber of my being. I've thought of so many small ways to help the communities without realizing how many there are all over the US and how much generational trauma needs to be fixed. This is a large job and the government needs to step up with education first. Not that any one is dumb, just ignorant to certain things and poor education are hard to fight without programs.

I really think that some people you can hand them everything then walk away for a few months and go back and they would be right back in the same position. Some people just aren't going to reach out and get the ring and go with it. They are going to just sit down and let it consume them. It's a lot to do with the people not the government not the other people around them it's the people that are in that situation. They just settle for that situation!

I know a Pastor who is a regular protestant, not in anyway affiliated with the Mormon or FLDS church and since Warren Jeff's went to prison, this Pastor and a few others took over one of the homes members used to live in, as a sort of sanctuary for former members who had no place else to go and recovering from abuse. Attempting to turn a negative into a positive. When they first looked at the property, there was a strange "computer" room which turned out to be an illegal internet server completely separate from the normal grid, which allowed the leaders to keep tabs on what people were up to and prevent anyone who wanted to escape, from escaping. Very, weird and creepy.

@JosephRussellStapleton

26 күн бұрын

wtf

I agree. South Side of Chicago if I had to choose and forced to make a decision. There are very nice areas of Chicago. You will have to survive going in and out and securing your home, but you have utilities, a close enough source of employment, low initial cost of housing. But this is only possible if you start off with good education, health care, and examples of success. If you don't have these things, you got no chance (because you don't know how to succeed). That's not a joke.

@rridderbusch518

24 күн бұрын

My daughter lived on the South Side of Chicago for four years while getting her Master's at the U. of Chicago. She got lucky in that her apartment was kitty-corner to the Obama house, so the Secret Service were there 24/7 for a six-block radius. She did have some scary moments outside of that perimeter, though. She was born to learn easily.

Kabir recently you have reacted to some tragic events. Well, we just had one of those unfortunate events again. This one Vikings rookie Khyree Jackson among three killed in Maryland car crash. This young man was signed to an NFL career, but he never got to play a game before this. It was just a horrific accident with one of the vehicles reportedly traveling 90 MPH in a 35MPH zone. Such a shame.

The Pine Ridge reservation is in South Dakota - where temperatures regularly go well below freezing roughly 5 months of the year - the record low is -33C. Appalachia is "Coal Country" it was poor when coal was "king", now... its just tragic. A large p[art of the Oklahoma / Arkansas border is indeed the Ozarks.

In Chicago it's really the west side (I grew up on the West side in the 60's, which were REALLY bad); it's like 5 neighborhoods, out of 77, that are responsible for 95% of all violent crime in Chicago. It's very sad.

The decaying factory in Detroit was formerly the Packard Motor Car Company. Demolition, one building at a time, began in October 2022, and is expected to be complete later this year. Actually, in 2013, an investor DID buy the Packard factory for $ 400 thousand with plans to develop the site, but very little happened. There are lots of articles about the site.

So true! My mother escaped this type of living! I am the first college educated in my family! She left Tennessee at the age of 17 and never looked back!

Hey Kabir has got the answers to all of our problems. lol... Remember there's no paradise on this earth. Here in Washington state I drove onto the Lummi Indian reservation (unintentionally) in a beautiful part of our state and saw some shocking poverty as soon crossed the border. Abandoned trailers, rusted abandoned cars, trash and graffiti everywhere. It was awful. Especially considering that the private homes and property just outside of the reservation were beautifully maintained and probably owned by wealthy people. The contrast was striking. 🤔

The Ozarks are in Missouri. The Ozarks are not as bad as The Appachians.

@ReAllyT1978

29 күн бұрын

Agreed. Also the Ozarks get some tourist funds. I've never heard anyone picking the Appalachians as a bucket list location.

New Orleans is THE MOST DANGEROUS CITY that I have EVER been in, in my life and I grew up in the 12th highest murder per capita city in America, North Charleston SC.

@jeffking4176

29 күн бұрын

I grew up in ST.LOUIS 😱

Hasn't he seen this before?

@lydiaedwards8100

29 күн бұрын

It's worth re-watching; especially now that he has recently visited the US.

@user-wc8fp4cx6c

29 күн бұрын

Yes.

@DaInfamous0ne

26 күн бұрын

Yep

I went to New Orleans in March this year. Walked two blocks from my hotel to French Quarter for lunch. Felt so unsafe walking the streets alone, I stayed in my hotel for the rest of the 3 days I was there. I like Orlando. I love LA, a richly diverse cosmopolitan city.

New Orleans has never really recovered from hurricane Katrina. The whole gulf coast is constantly being churned up by hurricanes; people are often unable to obtain/afford insurance so it is chronic poverty and a cycle of losing everything and starting again.

People literally live in shacks of plywood and the odd board thrown together. My sister in laws mother and father in law lived in one of those shacks. There was no running water and the bathroom was around the edges of the tobacco field. They had no education, and couldn’t read or write. When I first met them, I was the most educated person, and I only had a high school education, but I was a big reader, so I would talk to them and they would look at me with blank expressions because they didn’t understand what I was saying. I constantly felt like I was talking to little children. I have since gotten my bachelors degree.

West Virginia is very mountainous and it’s very hard to drill into hard rock to create any type of infrastructure. Plus it’s too high up in elevation. The US government has tried to fix West Virginia before but have failed every time because of how crazy the terrain is. It’s just impossible.

@jeffking4176

29 күн бұрын

Excellent point. That’s one I have never thought of.👍

8:15 it's more a matter of practicality. It would probably be cheaper and more practical to move everyone out than to go in and try to develop it. You see trees and vegetation but the area might as well be as remote as a desert or an island. It's just not economical to develop there and the people who choose to stay are basically on their own.

The Appalachian’s are also in Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, as well as extending north, but the really rural areas are in the south. My husbands family were from the Appalachian mountains in Tennessee.

Always great to hear my home town, Santa Cruz CA, being listed a 'strange' lol

10:03 you hit the nail on the head here as to the root problem. Everyone who can leave does. If you are healthy, smart and can save enough to move, you do. The area gets drained of its brain power, business capital, and community. All that is left is those who can't get away. It's a downward spiral.

EAST ST.LOUIS Illinois.😱‼️ St.Louis [ City] Missouri.😢

Downtown Detroit is actually really nice, problem is the fact that 2 million people lives there during ww2 for all the factory jobs but once manufacturing became more outsourced, people left, so now there’s only 600k with all these empty factories and housing, but hey their population just grew for the first time in 60 years so Detroit is starting to come back

@shelaughs185

29 күн бұрын

Not gonna happen. The mindset is not going to change. It encourages the corrupt local government.

Death Valley CA, 128 degrees yesterday.

About 200 years of coal mining kept West Virginia in extreme poverty. Once the mines were shut down it left the state without a tax base to support infrastructure and the companies responsible for polluting the water table folded overnight. The state has done little to build an economic alternative to the mines that are now gone, leaving people destitute and without hope. They don't even have enough money to move to another state. You also have to remember that the Federal government isn't in charge of how states are run. That responsibility is local, not Federal. Companies move to places where they have access to an educated work force and customers that can afford their product. Without that you have no job growth and the cycle continues. As for alcohol and drug use... It's cheap and easily accessible. When you have no hope in life, nothing to live for, and all you want to do is escape... It's a way to block pain and numb yourself to the situation. And maybe this time you OD and don't have to suffer anymore. There's also the chemical addiction component.

I don't think you'd like south Chicago. There were 100 shootings this past holiday weekend. The other places might be bad but at least you have less of chance of getting shot.

I love your optimism about Detroit. It's been going from bad to worse over the past 30 years, and because of that it can't attract much business and since the US passed NAFTA in the mid-late 1990s, 85% of American manufacturing left and it hasn't been brought back and those were the best middle class jobs. The poverty in Appalachia and the south are all victims of mines closing, manufacturing and steel mills leaving. Once the good jobs leave - people are often trapped. Chicago has the strictest gun laws in any city in America and more than 100 people are shot there every week - with about 10-15 deaths. The Reservation in South Dakota is a victim of its location. Most states in the USA have solved their "Reservation poverty" by allowing legal gambling and the reservations have contracted with gaming companies from China to build large casinos with hotels, but they depend on tour buses to bring people in to the casinos so they are generally within an hour or two of a large city - but that one reservation in SD isn't that lucky. A couple of the reservations in SD had enough money to get licensed to sell medicinal marijuana after the state passed a law allowing reservations to sell weed. The reservations in various states that have legal gambling are making huge money so they have built all new homes for the members of the reservations, built their own clinics, new schools, and much more.

Detroit failed because of the car manufacturers pulled completely out of town. There’s just no point in investing in land that’s polluted and basically worthless. Steel industry also left and created this mess. Detroit is where we call the Rust belt where industry just left and nothing is left except urban blight.

@A.J.Valenti

29 күн бұрын

Yep 2/3 of the population left over the course of 70 years, definitely a lot of neglect over that span and a loss of money making it impossible to keep up with infrastructure built for 1.8 million people at peak. That said, there have been pockets of thriving neighborhoods and particularly in the past 10 years, the revitalization of the city is in full swing. To say nothing is there now besides urban blight is disingenuous. Yes, if I walk 30 minutes from my house, I can find sparsely populated areas of abandoned buildings and mostly empty lots from demolished properties. I can also find decent neighborhoods with a couple abandoned buildings with quite affordable homes on the national level. Schools or transit are not great, but you got tons of museums, renovated historic buildings, nationally acclaimed riverwalk, 1 of the best downtowns in the country, and more worth a visit. There's a long way to go, but there is a lot of revitalization happening and planned for the next decade. Even now, there are good areas in a city with historic significance and a tough group of people

@alboyer6

29 күн бұрын

Ford just reopened after redoing it, the old train station. The pics look amazing.

@A.J.Valenti

29 күн бұрын

@@alboyer6 I got to go inside, it was awesome! Everyone was so proud of the restoration. I'm excited for it to open fully by the end of the year and hopefully one day trains can return as well. I haven't uploaded anything in a while but I have some footage of it so when I get the chance

@randalmayeux8880

28 күн бұрын

I got to do the woodwork on 4 passenger cars and the interior of the steam locomotive which pulled them, in Fort Worth, Texas, back in the 90' s. There was a great amount of woodwork in these cars including 90 armrests and 60 window frames, three full sized doors, fifteen ceiling fans with five wooden blades each and a powder room cabinet per car. All were made of mahogany wood. It was a lot of fun, did you know that the floors were made of concrete covered in carpet?

@randalmayeux8880

28 күн бұрын

Did you know that the band Quicksilver Messenger Service had a singer named Dino Valenti?

Reason for a rich person doesn't buy the vacant lands in Detroit, jobs, crime and taxes. No one is going to invest in helping these towns when the crime continues, renters cannot keep their homes clean, yard upkeep, drug dealings, gang violence, and in no time, the place will go back to its run-down city. We have to change the mind-set of people. People who want to live the American dream. A husband and wife raising their children, teaching them by example, attend and learn from the free public schools (K-12th grade), respect each other and your neighbors, eventually get a savings and maybe buy the home you are renting. The dream is ownership and with honest, hard work, the pride one feels when you get that Deed in your name. If the people turn around, the city will not spend so much on police and what they save can be put into improvements, after school programs, etc... The Govt. has tried, spending lots of money to build housing for the low/no-income families and in time, perfect buildings had to be torn down because of the shape the residents has kept them, and the peaceful family hopefully will be able to relocate to another area that are liked minded residents. I feel, get rid of crime and a person can walk down the street without the fear of someone attacking, robbing them or be an innocent person that is in the crossfire of two opposing gangs and the innocent person is the one that gets hit and dies. These start up cities, will attract the people and jobs. The city/state will have to think about the tax system, and how high taxes scare the jobs and moved to other states. Every weekend, our news in CA states how many people were shot and killed in Chicago. Not a good advertisement to attract jobs and people to your city. As for the people living in the rural areas, sometimes they do not want change, govt. coming in and telling them to fix this and that. They probably police themselves to keep the authorities out of their town. As for the Bombay Beach, CA, Chicago, Arkansas/Ozarks, there are people who have roots there, made it big and do not come back and help and motivate their towns for the better. Bill Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and before becoming President was the Governor of Arkansas. Hillary Clinton was at one time from the Chicago area, spent her married life in Arkansas and Obama was the Senator in Illinois and lived in Chicago (a nice home someone gave/donor him). These three did not go back to their cities after their time in Govt., making millions of dollars in book signings, speeches and other companies getting them on their board, consulting fees. They did decide to have their Presidential Libraries in their cities. The Clinton's home is in the wealthy part of NY, and I do not know where the Obama's live, probably have a place in Washington D.C. since they are still in the political field, but have homes in Hawaii, Martha's Vinyard. All these places have one thing in common (and my area of L.A., CA), run by the Democrat Party. The politicians (city, state) have these wonderful plans and visions, keep collecting more tax money, but do not get to the root of the problem, since the problem continues. Now with the millions of illegals that have come over our borders, our own Americans will have to go with even less to cover for the upkeep of these illegals. I was surprised the homes of the rural areas, our homeless here in L.A. have better accommodations (R.V.s, tents, motels) from the govt. fund and organizations. The Lakota Reservation, it is complicated with the Govt. going in the Reservations since they have their own type of authority, schooling, police there. Not anyone can live on the reservation, one has to have a certain percentage of that tribe in them. I do not know why the more well off American Indian Tribes do not help other tribes with the revenue of the gambling industry. I hope one tribe would help another tribe. I do not know why the people drink alcohol, maybe the govt. gives them a check, they do not have to work and what else is there to do and looking around the area and lifestyle you live in does not inspire hope and a better future for the young. The Utah man, I believe the man can marry one bride and the rest are not legally married to him since bigamy is against the law. I believe the problem that brought that town to light, is the man wanting to be with young girls (I do not know if it was their own children or younger sisters of one of the ladies/wives) or it might be, the unmarried ladies with children were getting financial aid from the govt. for their children. Maybe, if you live in a rural area, away from the regular public, support yourselves, pay your taxes, and not cause trouble, no need to bother you.

OZARK: the Ozarks: Mountains running from mid Missouri, south to mid Arkansas, and touching southern tip of Illinois, and western tip of Kentucky, as wet as just a bit of north east corner of Oklahoma.south east tip of Kansas. [ the Boston Mountains, and St.Francois Mountains. About 47,000 square miles/ 120,000 square kilometers. 😁😁 AKA: the Ozark Plateau.

Over 100 people shot over this past weekend in Chicago. I've lived here all my life and fortunately have never seen it.

The Reservation in South Dakota surprised me because all of the Native Americans in my area are wealthy. They have casinos and resorts on their land and don't have to pay taxes on any of it (they voluntarily donate to the schools). Are they able to get government assistance on reservations? I'm curious how that works.

I used to live in Lake of the Ozarks. That’s the name of the town I lived in and it’s at the dam and it’s in Missouri

So untrue that Detroit doesn't have any nice areas. Downtown is beautiful. The Riverwalk, the parks, the beautiful theaters and gorgeous old churches. The recently restored train station. The ice skating rink, the stadiums.

When I was in Palm Springs in 2022 (a nice resort city in the desert), I made a point of driving down to Bombay Beach because of GK's video. It is indeed very unusual. A guy I work with was fascinated by my pictures of it.

Agreed with all his points!

There was a show years ago called “escaping polygamy” where a group of sisters helped people get out of this and the Kingston polygamist group. It was fascinating.

You ask what happened to the tax money...no income, no tax money.

The area in Cali next to the salton sea actually has a small group of unique and interesting people called Slab City, there’s a lot of interesting art and music for people who want to get away from society. There are KZreadrs who do documentaries there.

Thank God nothing in Oklahoma made this list 😂

Made the mistake of checking out Colorado City (AZ side) in search of non-3.2% Utah beer. The "the twilight zone" theme music was already playing in my head by the time I reached town. Saw many towns-women and kids, but not many men, (turns out CC is a polygamist Mormon enclave straddling the UT-AZ state lines to avoid both state's jurisdiction). All the women were wearing 19th century style ankle lenght skirts (with petticoats?) over regular blue jeans, big bonnets, and stared. Checked out the only store in town and since I couldn't find any beer, I asked the man at the check-out if they sold it, he just shook his head and replied "Nope, sure don't".

The Ozarks in NW Arkansas are booming. It’s a great place to live.

Worst place in America is that disgusting hotel you decided to stay at in Vegas. Be careful what you touch. You can put it down but the stink remains.

I'm surprised Belle Glade, FL and Gary, IN weren't mentioned.

I love New Orleans, but I was last there prior to Katrina, so I don’t know how much has changed.

The Ozarks are in Southern Missouri.

Re: Detroit & why investors don’t buy up property (because the population will keep growing) Last year, 2023, was the first year since the 50s that Detroit didn’t have net population loss. Of course the national & global population keep growing, but a lot of abandoned stuff in Detroit (and the Rust Belt in general) has all the value of land in the middle of nowhere Nebraska because there simply isn’t the population or financial capital to make owning things worthwhile.

From the outside it might look like a happy community but the young women (some VERY young) are usually exploited in the FLDS communities.

13:16 it looks so beautiful though. Like you'd have caring neighbours and go for walks in the evenings and maybe camping on the weekends. 17:30 why would you build a square town like that?? It looks weird. Everyone could instead have a lake front house.

Hey Kabir, got an interesting one for ya… “Jay Leno Explores the Beast, inside presidential Limo

i already live in one of these places so i'd probably just stay here in eastern Kentucky the wealth is a huge problem but the freedom and nature makes up for it some

PICK ON A RESERVATION...THIS COUNTRY SOLD THEM OUT....

Wow, I caught this early. Let’s see if I agree! ❤

I've been visiting Detroit for 55 years now. I was born there, moved away when I was 1, but go back to visit family. It's awful and depressing every time. There are about 4 square blocks that are nice downtown due to renovation (or "gentrification" if you're resentful). According to my mom, it used to be great when she was in her teens and early 20s (she's 80).

Generational poverty sometimes keeps people living in these places.

@shelaughs185

29 күн бұрын

You need to read J.D. Vance's book. He got out. Dr. Carson got out. Staying off of drugs, education, and motivation are key.

@buckeyeclayfan

26 күн бұрын

​@shelaughs185 and I will add that there are some very good people living in these depressed areas. Sometimes people fall on hard times for whatever reason but some are still good people.

3:06 Let me introduce you to Omni Consumer Products... Lol 😋

I am from Kentucky. My adoptive grandfather's family is from Eastern Kentucky. A lot of Appalachia is coal mining country. Which is a dying industry in that part of the country.

Detroit was a city built around the automotive industry and then during the 70's when people wanted more gas efficient cars they started to buy Japanese cars and that started the drastic decline of the economy and jobs in Detroit. West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky their entire GDP was based on coal which fueled a lot of different industries such as steel manufacturing for example and when companies started buying IMPORTED steel , many of the steel mills shut down in America and towns and cities supported solely by these steel mills plunged into extreme poverty literally overnight. As for the deep south, places like Mississippi for example their entire GDP based off of cash crops like cotton and when modern day farming techniques and equipment were invented , it destroyed alot of jobs and of course IMPORTING of clothes and raw materials also took a huge toll. Also many parts of the south never fully recovered from the destruction of their infrastructure during the Civil War. As for reservations, they are operated and CONTROLLED by Native Americans and it's their land, so that's a totally different situation and a complicated one at that. The issue and problem is that America was built upon industry and almost all industries have disappeared or on the brink of disappearing because we import most everything with most of our goods coming from China. We literally sent most of our industrial jobs overseas. As for the government doing something, it's not as easy as you think because the economy of cities and states have been destroyed and with nothing viable to bring economic prosperity back to these areas, there's not much that can be done. It's really sad .

To answer your question about New Orleans, it is a poorer city with a high crime rate. New Orleans has a lot of cool and fun things to see, like what you mentioned. It's a really unique American city that developed differently from the rest of the country and has its own cuisine, linguistic oddities, and other unique cultural traits. But there is a dark side. As a rule, the tourist areas, especially in the French Quarter, are fine. You should be wary of pick pocketers and scammers but nothing worse than that is likely in the tourist areas. Mind your business and you should be fine. There are also other pretty good neighbourhoods within the places you generally expect: around museums, parks, universities, etc. But there also lots of bad neighbourhoods in the city. Before going, you should read up and get to know which neighbourhoods to avoid. If you don't know where you're going and you end up in the wrong neighbourhood, you're definitely taking an unnecessarily high risk. As for the Pine Ridge question on alcohol: yeah, that's a big part of it. I used to live 10 minutes away from an aboriginal reserve in Alberta, Canada, and when there's no job opportunities in a remote area with not much to do, a lot of people resort to drugs. There's also a lot of pain that comes from being abused by a lot of people around you, whether it's government schools that basically kidnapped you from your home and community and teachers who abused you, to being raised by parents who were chronically unemployed, depressed, abusive, addicts, etc, to having that all around you as a teenager and as an adult. I would have to agree that the South Side of Chicago would be the place I would live of the eight mentioned.

In 2012,I went on a cruise that sailed out of New Orleans. We drove the 12 hours down there and we got lost trying to find our hotel. This was almost 7 years after Katrina. We got lost in the very wrong part of town. People were staring at us. It seemed like every turn we made took us deeper into bad neighborhoods. There were still abandoned houses all over from Katrina that were falling in. I was on edge, but no one tried to do anything. They just stared at the 2 white people driving through their neighborhood. 😂

@amadsen256

26 күн бұрын

I could just hear them saying like ‘look at these 2 lost idiots!’ 😂

The Ozark Mountains aren't in Appalachia. They're in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The City of Ozark is in Arkansas.

You should check out Warren Jeffs and the FLDS cult. I think you would find it interesting and find yourself disgusted about what really goes on.

You have to remember that the US government doesn't control things or behave like the UK government can or does. Much of Appalachia might as well be 200 years ago.

3:10 The problem with your theory of investors buying up land cheap in Detroit because it will be worth more later after Detroit recovers is that this has been the plan for the past 45+ years and Detroit has only gotten worse so any hope of "recovery" is just silly. Detroit was built up during and after WWII so they're simply no reason for it to exist anymore. Even if a major car manufacturer did build a new production plant there it still wouldn't help because they're be smart enough to hire non union labor and hire dirt cheap labor. Check out the story of the old Pontiac Silverdome football stadium. It once hosted the Superbowl but sold for only $525,000!!! The investors hoped to restore or redevelop it but all those plans failed so it's literally been used just to film disaster movies at and its parking lot has been used to store the thousands of illegal Volkswagens no one can drive.

I wish more Eurpeans would realize that each state is independent. They govern themselves and are in charge of their own people. The states can ask for federal aid and they can pass tax laws and incentives to encourage indusry to move there, but it is mostly up to the states themselves.States even have their own foreign relations.

Worst place…high crime and high drug

The problem is the USA cannot compete on a labor costs scale. Corp. greed has moved so much industry overseas that this is what we are left with. Go buy a new vehicle for example I recently looked at a new Chevrolet vehicle and if was manufactured in Korea with a three percent US content. So many of our vehicles are manufactured in Mexico. Again, cheap labor.

Investors can't change the enviroment. Due to collapse of say steel manufacturing in detroit, jobs were lost and finding a decent job becomes very difficult. So, Crime starts to get out of control. Street gangs, robberies, the business that do try to come to the area end up getting robbed and close down, no one wants to move there or open a shop there because of the cycle of no jobs -> crime -> less jobs -> even more crime . low property values and derelict houses and buildings no one wants. It's a vicious cycle.

Kabir, one day driving on route 666 I witnessed drunk indigenous Americans passed out in rest stops, and a little further on I saw another one jump in front of my car, bottle in one hand and a dead crow with which he was waving me down with in the other A little farther l saw more indians passed out.

@21:18 I don't know why Kabir keeps thinking the Dakotas are Oklahoma. He clearly said Lakota people of South Dakota.

You can't just blame the government. If they came in and cleaned up everything and had water running and power for ligts, if the people were not educated and not wanting to do the work to better themselves, the area would eventually revert back to a bad place to live. People have to be motivated to better themselves and when I was working in a school using Title 1 reading improvement, I had a 16 year old boy who was still in the 6th grade saying, "My daddy didn't finish school, why should I? I can get a job at a gas station." I got out of that situation and went to nursing school. Of course, as a home-health nurse I saw lots of unmotivated people there too.

I would live in Appalachian area.

As soon as I saw the title of the video, I thought "Detroit, for sure".

Worst place, the new St Floyd square in Minneapolis

I'd live in Detroit if I had to pick a place to live on that list. But that's because I spent 30 years living there. It's not as bad as he made it out to be.

Here in the U.S. our government loves the spend decades throwing money at all these problems. It's weird, all the people in government keep getting richer and richer and all these problems keep getting worse.

Talking about the FLDS - Morman people, they have freedom of religion like eveyone. The government has gone in more than once and no one will tell them anything. Some of the young people escaped and started telling about how their leader would marry very young girls and then have many children by them. He'd marry more than one and he'd sexually abuse them. Finally some who came out told about what was happening and they arrested the guy and he's now in prison. But he gives orders from prison and the people still do what he says. He may say, "John Smith should not be married to Missy, his wife, she needs to go and marry David Amos, and be his 5th wife." They still look to this creep for direction. And it goes on and on.

Where would I live? It depends on my income. Can I still work from home? Probably Appalachia then if the wifi is decent. Am I broke as a joke? Maybe Bombay Beach, even though that would mean having to live in California. But realistically I'd stay in-house and live in a small town in Northern Minnesota away from all of that insanity.

I'll give you a hint if you want to know where the tax money is being spent. Just look up what the US military budget is

Kabir, it's that bad or he wouldn't be saying it.

Worst places categories: Crime rate, population decline, low income, education standards etc. I’m surprised Mississippi didn’t make the list. Local governments in those areas are often corrupt that’s why communities don’t get it.

@lynnegulbrand2298

29 күн бұрын

I live in South Mississippi since 1972 from England, went back to England in 1994 came back to Mississippi in 1997 so what does that tell you? I had to work 3 jobs in England as opposed to 1 job in Mississippi to make it. The Casinos have made a great impact in South Mississippi so don't knock it until you try it. The native Americans were screwed by the government but also there is a lot of alcoholism in the tribes.

I remember as a kid me and my dad took a wrong turn in Washington DC and ended up in the ghetto. I couldnt believe it. I was shocked. It was like a third world country not even a mile from the White House. Its just insane. I hope one day we get it cleaned up because this just shouldnt happen in America. Its shameful. People shouldnt live like that

Don't say we can't judge them for their ways. FLDS arrange marriages of multiple CHILDREN to grown men.

Most of these are actually crime havens or just really awful places that bad things have happened.

When I see run-down cities, it makes me think about what it must have been like in its heyday. I try to envision the hustle and bustle of what once was. The majority of these destitute places are in the south or "red states." These poor areas tend to be the product of things like low or no state taxes, which would pay for social programs to give people a leg up. Everyone wants to believe in "picking yourself up by your bootstraps" or not "taking handouts" and being a "self-made millionaire" as if that common. Places with higher state taxes, like New York, don't tend to have as many run-down areas as you will find in the south. People may complain about the high taxes in New York and the regulations to protect people, but I don't mind paying for social programs that the top 1% don't seem to be covering in other places.