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In the middle of the Mojave desert lies California City, the largest city never built. It is now a vast network of roads carved into the sand for miles and miles with nothing but tumbleweeds and cacti to inhabit them. Tom Scott is a man on a mission to explore interesting places and share them with the world. He explains why this city didn’t grow to fill its vast scope, and how it has evolved over the years into the small, thriving and growing community it is today.
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  • @romanr9883
    @romanr98837 жыл бұрын

    1. buy desert 2. build roads 3. ???? 4. profit

  • @jaapjochemlankman3390

    @jaapjochemlankman3390

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roman R Wow hahahaha you made my fucking day😂😂😂

  • @user-iq8xl8rk8q

    @user-iq8xl8rk8q

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jaap Jochem Lankman dislike due to overuse of emojis

  • @madmallett

    @madmallett

    6 жыл бұрын

    Roman R 3.The end

  • @DaVince21

    @DaVince21

    6 жыл бұрын

    薛陳月美 😆🙂😊😍😋😘😉😎😴😝😴😯🤐😪😟😱😬😧😟😳😩😢😤😞😧😧🤠😈👺👽👽💀🤓🤥👿🤠🤧🙉😿🙉😽😾😿🙊👧👴👵🙉😺🙈🤵💁🤵🙋👲🤵🎅👸🙎🎅👰👸👱👰🕺🕴️👥🏂🛌👯🗣️💃🏌️🛀👬🤾🤸🤽👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏎️🤹🏍️🤽👨‍👨‍👧‍👦👉👨‍👨‍👧👈👨‍👨‍👧‍👦👉👨‍👨‍👧👉👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👧🖐️👍👋🖐️👌🖐️👎💕👣❣️🗨️❣️🗯️💢🗨️👙👜👙👡👘👜💍⛑️⛑️🐯🦁🐵🐅🦁🐃?

  • @supamonkey25

    @supamonkey25

    6 жыл бұрын

    3. Make a racetrack

  • @mysteriouskazakh
    @mysteriouskazakh6 жыл бұрын

    Looks like every major project I ever started on Minecraft.

  • @eliad6543

    @eliad6543

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ohh yes...

  • @1224chrisng

    @1224chrisng

    6 жыл бұрын

    Modded Ender Quarrys with Dirt Fill on

  • @_tsiatsiaros.k

    @_tsiatsiaros.k

    5 жыл бұрын

    True same here

  • @quinnkids177

    @quinnkids177

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah lol back in like 2013

  • @munmilks

    @munmilks

    5 жыл бұрын

    yas omg so tru

  • @danstrayer111
    @danstrayer1115 жыл бұрын

    Blazing heat, no trees, no water, relentless wind, people like Manson running around. Perfect

  • @matthewviramontes3131

    @matthewviramontes3131

    4 жыл бұрын

    And the mountains aren't even close. It's just nothing.

  • @gregbert1037

    @gregbert1037

    4 жыл бұрын

    What could go wrong!! LOL

  • @phillip6500

    @phillip6500

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think you're talkin about Lake Los Angeles it's nowhere near Los Angeles and it doesn't have a lake

  • @TheDesertwalker

    @TheDesertwalker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewviramontes3131 Tehachapis and Sierra are close, actually. Just a few minutes away,

  • @Manie230

    @Manie230

    3 жыл бұрын

    epic redditor that’s also possible in a city. And the plan was that people would move there wich would have mad this a city. All cities once started out with a few houses and only grow over time. If you would have taken a photo of every major city from the sky you could see the growth outwards. What this place lacked was just everything that makes a place suitable for building. It lacked natural protection it lacked water. It’s in a ducking desert wich is already enough for most people to not build a home there. And even if you build in a dessert you build near a oasis.

  • @normalminecraftletsplay
    @normalminecraftletsplay4 жыл бұрын

    I like how McDonalds see a city and just grabs it.

  • @FranklyWatchingYoutube

    @FranklyWatchingYoutube

    3 жыл бұрын

    I live in some really small town and there is 3 McDonald's and 5 subways

  • @FranklyWatchingYoutube

    @FranklyWatchingYoutube

    3 жыл бұрын

    The subways are usually empty

  • @freeopinion2140

    @freeopinion2140

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@FranklyWatchingKZread that's because uRsULA the sandwich crusher has ruined their reputation

  • @modestoca25

    @modestoca25

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@FranklyWatchingKZread you must be near some major highways or other towns nearby? otherwise that does not make sense.

  • @FranklyWatchingYoutube

    @FranklyWatchingYoutube

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@modestoca25 ik I'm right next to a big city but so I guess it makes sense

  • @AlqGo
    @AlqGo7 жыл бұрын

    What? He managed to sell a wasteland and make profit? Fucking genius.

  • @iam_tenko1213

    @iam_tenko1213

    7 жыл бұрын

    That's what Las Vegas once was, look at it now.

  • @AlqGo

    @AlqGo

    7 жыл бұрын

    iAM_TeNKo How many cities have developed like Las Vegas?...Yep, just one.

  • @iam_tenko1213

    @iam_tenko1213

    7 жыл бұрын

    Wrong... Adelanto California UTC−8 City 31,765 Apple Valley California UTC−8 City 69,135 Barstow California UTC−8 City 22,639 Boulder City Nevada UTC−8 City 15,023 Bullhead City Arizona UTC−7 City 39,540 California City California UTC−8 City 14,120 Henderson Nevada UTC−8 City 257,729 Hesperia California UTC−8 City 90,173 Hurricane Utah UTC−7 City 13,748 Ivins Utah UTC−7 City 6,753 Kingman Arizona UTC−7 City 28,068 Lake Havasu City Arizona UTC−7 City 52,527 Lancaster California UTC−8 City 156,633 Las Vegas Nevada UTC−8 City 583,756 La Verkin Utah UTC−7 City 4,719 Leeds Utah UTC−7 Town 820 Mesquite Nevada UTC−8 City 15,276 Needles California UTC−8 City 4,844 North Las Vegas Nevada UTC−8 City 216,961 Pahrump Nevada UTC- 8 Town 43,000 Palmdale California UTC−8 City 152,750 Ridgecrest California UTC−8 City 27,616 Santa Clara Utah UTC−7 City 6,003 St. George Utah UTC−7 City 72,897 Tehachapi California UTC−8 City 14,414 Twentynine Palms California UTC−8 City 25,048 Victorville California UTC−8 City 115,903 Washington Utah UTC−7 City 18,761 Yucca Valley California UTC−8 City 20,70... And that's just in the Mojave.

  • @AlqGo

    @AlqGo

    7 жыл бұрын

    iAM_TeNKo What makes you think cities like Pahrump, Ridgecrest, Tehachapi and many others are comparable to Las Vegas? No offence to people living there but this list is laughable.

  • @iam_tenko1213

    @iam_tenko1213

    7 жыл бұрын

    Cairo, Egypt pop - 9 million...also in a desert

  • @P98D
    @P98D8 жыл бұрын

    when you are bad at sim city

  • @FieldDay

    @FieldDay

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Pietro Deligios HAHA

  • @Petr75661

    @Petr75661

    8 жыл бұрын

    you can still have riots there though

  • @Joeink100

    @Joeink100

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Evi1M4chine you haven't tried sim city 4000 wich a actually Yano good

  • @joshmo1672

    @joshmo1672

    7 жыл бұрын

    funny

  • @THX--nn5bu

    @THX--nn5bu

    7 жыл бұрын

    You beat me to it, the exact same thing that I was going to post, I did this a few times in SimCity 4 Rush hour, build slow and develop slow.

  • @emilyblack7342
    @emilyblack73425 жыл бұрын

    Ooh, this is going to confuse archaeologists 3000 years from now

  • @iansteelmatheson

    @iansteelmatheson

    2 жыл бұрын

    lol that's where my brain went too

  • @rachelcookie321

    @rachelcookie321

    Жыл бұрын

    Is it? How?

  • @emilyblack7342

    @emilyblack7342

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rachelcookie321 a sprawling grid of roads and associated infrastructure. Yet, there are no remnants of houses, no signs of a disaster, no middens of discarded chicken bones and broken dishes, no archeological evidence to be found. Why would a culture create such a place and then abandon it? Was this a monument to their gods? The whim of a crazed and despotic ruler? Punishment for enslaved prisoners? A new capitol abandoned at the start of a forgotten war? Our digital records probably won’t last that long, in the end. My guess is it’s going to be a mystery.

  • @rachelcookie321

    @rachelcookie321

    Жыл бұрын

    @@emilyblack7342 well A. They would probably assume that it was a planned city that was all built out but then the economy went down and it never got finished. And B. Unless a massive disaster wipes out the internet and all our documentation, they will easily be able to find out the actual reason.

  • @emilyblack7342

    @emilyblack7342

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rachelcookie321 I won’t argue point A, maybe they could figure that out. But regarding point B, the internet is one of the least permanent means of communication humans have used. Anything digital doesn’t just require discovery and understanding of the language, like a stone tablet would; it requires the technology (hardware and software) to parse it. The internet is not as permanent as you think.

  • @dirtgirl6227
    @dirtgirl62273 жыл бұрын

    The mayor seems so proud of her city :) she really loves the place where she lives

  • @w3r0ification

    @w3r0ification

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think anyone would be if they had a job in McDonald's then move to a small town and become a mayor 🤣

  • @ih82r8

    @ih82r8

    3 жыл бұрын

    She wants her cushy job reelected.

  • @xJohnny_Ax

    @xJohnny_Ax

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ih82r8 yep, she probably has a nice place in LA with an apartment in CA City so she appears as a “resident.”

  • @AcaTea

    @AcaTea

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@xJohnny_Ax I am a citizen of California City, and the mayor at the time of this video’s production was Jennifer Wood. She lived here, and she has a lot of love for this place. Even being a citizen here, I don’t know where that love comes from, but she certainly loves it here. She’s a nice lady. Just wanted to clear that up.

  • @rosyglasses586

    @rosyglasses586

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ih82r8 being mayor in Cal city is not a cushy job . Mayors only get $500 a month which barely covers the gas money she used to go to meetings and council members only get $300 a month . No mayor in the city did it for the money . The mayor on this video is retired along with her husband , neither of which are rich . She was mayor because she felt a civic duty to help the town from the corruption that had been going on for years . The land games of buying land , and letting the property go because some didn’t like paying their taxes then those same people would buy it back at a reduced price . She helped get that law changed with the state so they couldn’t buy their own property back when it went into default . She was at all the town events , read to kids at the schools , advocated for money for the town , attended festivals , helped with city clean ups , visited citizens when they went to the hospital and helped get new businesses in town . I know all this because I personally know her . She was the best mayor the city has ever had . And this video is very misleading to what the town is really about .

  • @bobbobson2061
    @bobbobson20618 жыл бұрын

    The world's first Kickstarter campaign

  • @BlackPixelLP

    @BlackPixelLP

    8 жыл бұрын

    Quick, get iDubbz on this

  • @mindmaster_osu

    @mindmaster_osu

    8 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @pingpong1138

    @pingpong1138

    8 жыл бұрын

    and like most Kickstarter campaigns it was never finished

  • @reactedtugboat7943

    @reactedtugboat7943

    8 жыл бұрын

    Nah, that was the Statue of Liberty.

  • @metalavenger23

    @metalavenger23

    7 жыл бұрын

    but the guy who started it walked away with the money

  • @GamingTaylor
    @GamingTaylor7 жыл бұрын

    Looks like someone was playing Cities Skylines, spent too much, ran out of money, taxes were too high so everyone left. The end.

  • @josephgreen1051

    @josephgreen1051

    6 жыл бұрын

    GamingTaylor Spends all 75,000 dollars on dirt roads

  • @mumblic

    @mumblic

    6 жыл бұрын

    exactly my first reaction! ;-))

  • @yh2917

    @yh2917

    6 жыл бұрын

    he only connect 1 side of the highway.

  • @twone0445

    @twone0445

    6 жыл бұрын

    GamingTaylor and i live here

  • @jaouenvezin7355

    @jaouenvezin7355

    6 жыл бұрын

    GamingTaylor At first I thought t was a video for cities skyline

  • @easymac79
    @easymac794 жыл бұрын

    3:50 If California City became the super metropolis they dreamed, there wouldn't be any stars, so I'm not sure that's a selling point.

  • @childhoodshows7895

    @childhoodshows7895

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's stars in Cali rn actors

  • @denimchicken104

    @denimchicken104

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s a selling point until it isn’t. By then, it won’t matter. Getting the ball rolling is all that matters. Once people actually fill it out and the star go away, it’ll be developed enough that people will have reason to move there, just no stars.

  • @jakefelty

    @jakefelty

    3 жыл бұрын

    If enough YT, TikTok people move there, they could. Sounds like a plan to make the dream come true!

  • @ih82r8

    @ih82r8

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. And once the place is covered in cement and asphalt and every last inch of desert is bulldozed under, you can forget about the nights cooling down too. People are such fools when it comes to city planning. I hope this never gets any bigger.

  • @DavidKnowles0

    @DavidKnowles0

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ih82r8 This is where city should be planning all ready, they should be planting trees, building lakes, and designing the planning code so buildings have to incorporate garden roofs, that only certain plants can be grown in the gardens.

  • @Krezmick
    @Krezmick3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine how confused the pizza delivery guy would be if you ordered a pizza there.

  • @choppersworld5094

    @choppersworld5094

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you can get pizza there I’m going. I live 10 minutes northwest from nearest pizza shop and they won’t come to me

  • @kimgkomg

    @kimgkomg

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@choppersworld5094 can't have shit in Detroit

  • @GarrettB06

    @GarrettB06

    Жыл бұрын

    I live here and there is a pizza place in the town it’s not all empty

  • @joshuaa.kennedy8837

    @joshuaa.kennedy8837

    Жыл бұрын

    Without a dwelling they will not give you a address.

  • @stellarae8257

    @stellarae8257

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s actually not a problem at all! We’ve got a pizza place or two and they both deliver to anywhere in town :)

  • @ojas42
    @ojas427 жыл бұрын

    "It has all the amenities you'd expect a small city to have" *shows McDonalds*

  • @madmallett

    @madmallett

    6 жыл бұрын

    ojas42 it is America

  • @ivanruiz2218

    @ivanruiz2218

    6 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha

  • @VaderDex

    @VaderDex

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well if you are at a McDonald's and you walk 4 feet you will find another McDonald's

  • @desertdispatch

    @desertdispatch

    6 жыл бұрын

    I been to smaller, and cities and communities that have less. and crappier too

  • @uncurablekill

    @uncurablekill

    6 жыл бұрын

    Think that was more coincidence than anything

  • @abbers0737
    @abbers07376 жыл бұрын

    Hey, I live here! It’s kind of funny, I ride my bike out in the desert and there’s miles and miles of dirt roads. Some place even have house foundations that were never built on. It’s kinda cool!

  • @rambo-cambo3581

    @rambo-cambo3581

    4 жыл бұрын

    But exceedingly bleak, hot, and boring. I live in a small city, so I know how boring it can be living somewhere with nothing to do. But on the plus side, the weather changes, it actually rains, we have unlimited and drinkable tap water, and our city is surrounded with valleys, mountains, rivers and lakes. Why the actual fuck would you (or anyone) choose to live somewhere like that, over somewhere like this? And don't say because it's cheap, because here's cheap.

  • @abbers0737

    @abbers0737

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dredd Mau5 Honestly, it’s all I’ve ever known. My parents got good jobs there, and it a good place to live if you’re into aerospace. It obviously isn’t the best place to live, I know that much for a fact. But I really like exploring the desert and everything around it, so I would never call it boring. You just need to find the right places.

  • @user-ix3dy2dn1z

    @user-ix3dy2dn1z

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can you see a ton of stars at night? I'm jealous if you can lol

  • @Liggliluff

    @Liggliluff

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@user-ix3dy2dn1z I can only see a kilogram of stars at night.

  • @JessicaSilva-oz3ju

    @JessicaSilva-oz3ju

    3 жыл бұрын

    It appears to be missing one of the most desirable things of many cities: a river or body of water

  • @MannyN420
    @MannyN4204 жыл бұрын

    Basically a real life Sim City account that has been abandoned. LOL

  • @garylangley4502
    @garylangley45024 жыл бұрын

    They forgot to mention that the official plant of the city is the tumbleweed. I knew someone who lived there. His dad was a civilian worker at Edwards Air Force Base, and then retired out there. It is a good place to live if you like to ride dirt bikes.

  • @theSelodijehermano
    @theSelodijehermano7 жыл бұрын

    Imagine living in California street in California city, California.

  • @logan758

    @logan758

    7 жыл бұрын

    Most confusing Adress ever

  • @wouldntyouliketoknow8904

    @wouldntyouliketoknow8904

    7 жыл бұрын

    hello, my name is California. I am a Californian living in California and I live on California street. I attend California college and I love California. California.

  • @stormcloudtheory

    @stormcloudtheory

    7 жыл бұрын

    New Hampshire

  • @theSelodijehermano

    @theSelodijehermano

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** lier.

  • @theSelodijehermano

    @theSelodijehermano

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** we want to see the receipts.

  • @samuelskillern7365
    @samuelskillern73657 жыл бұрын

    Why does this seem like a SimCity template?

  • @properjuicytv7458

    @properjuicytv7458

    7 жыл бұрын

    becuase ur name is samuel

  • @VinceIsDatBitch

    @VinceIsDatBitch

    7 жыл бұрын

    Huuuuuuuh?

  • @CoffeeSuccubus

    @CoffeeSuccubus

    7 жыл бұрын

    build it in simcity 3000

  • @FreekyFreezer

    @FreekyFreezer

    7 жыл бұрын

    why refer to simcity when there is a godlike city builder made by paradox?

  • @CoffeeSuccubus

    @CoffeeSuccubus

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** Paradox is the king of games.

  • @DJ.LakeSea
    @DJ.LakeSea5 жыл бұрын

    More stars than Holywood……. That's generally the case in the middle of a desert with no lights around.

  • @Pieceoreece

    @Pieceoreece

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also building a city in a low light-polluted area is probably not a great way to preserve said low light-polluted area lol

  • @57thorns

    @57thorns

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that is kind of a stupid thing to point out. Unless there are a lot of local celebrities, like astronauts, air force pilots and the like that counts as stars. I imagine it is a nice retreat reasonably close to both the Space Center and the Airforce Base, without being on either of those. Or a vacation home for B list celebrities.

  • @doctormcboy5009

    @doctormcboy5009

    3 жыл бұрын

    u noticed that 2!

  • @childhoodshows7895

    @childhoodshows7895

    3 жыл бұрын

    There stars in California city just there old

  • @alertchimp

    @alertchimp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fill it up and watch the stars disappear. She's just parroting the sales pitch.

  • @fartamplifer
    @fartamplifer3 жыл бұрын

    I like the “City of California City” poster behind the old guy.

  • @nate_storm

    @nate_storm

    3 жыл бұрын

    @ಠ_ಠ *CoCC

  • @Nimmo1492
    @Nimmo14928 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a failed Sim City save. Should have built a power plant and power lines.

  • @firefox3249

    @firefox3249

    7 жыл бұрын

    SimCity? More like Cities Skylines, you filthy E.A pleb!

  • @3xclusiv3sodak

    @3xclusiv3sodak

    7 жыл бұрын

    "Commander Shepard"

  • @firefox3249

    @firefox3249

    7 жыл бұрын

    ExlcusiveSodak "Exclusive Sodak"?

  • @3xclusiv3sodak

    @3xclusiv3sodak

    7 жыл бұрын

    it's not a question it's a statement idiot.

  • @Aaronlcyrus

    @Aaronlcyrus

    7 жыл бұрын

    He forgot to hook it to the road leading in....

  • @WorldAccordingToBriggs
    @WorldAccordingToBriggs7 жыл бұрын

    I used to go here when I was a kid. We had dune buggies and motorcycles. It was great to cruise through the streets.

  • @LoganAllec
    @LoganAllec3 жыл бұрын

    True Story: I flipped a house here a few years back.

  • @dragonman1871

    @dragonman1871

    3 жыл бұрын

    Has it landed yet?

  • @davidskidmore8612

    @davidskidmore8612

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your really strong wow 👏

  • @FlyingJournalism

    @FlyingJournalism

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want to build my own airstrip there, who wants a free flight up there?👍👍✈

  • @brentricci9063

    @brentricci9063

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am currently in the process of doing this also

  • @CC-ts2se
    @CC-ts2se3 жыл бұрын

    Haha, my Grandmother purchased a plot there. Someone in the family still owns the plot. We went out and visited it a few times.

  • @CC-ts2se

    @CC-ts2se

    3 жыл бұрын

    She lived across the valley on the mountain in Phelan!

  • @haydenknapp8521

    @haydenknapp8521

    2 жыл бұрын

    A few times?? why did you need to go more than once?

  • @CC-ts2se

    @CC-ts2se

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@haydenknapp8521 I was a child. It was not choice. Hahah

  • @CC-ts2se

    @CC-ts2se

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@haydenknapp8521 I think they might have been trying to figure out who was going to pay the taxes. Ahhahah

  • @jeffreyruiz21

    @jeffreyruiz21

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@navjotsingh8800 ha I bought one at auction 2 1/2 acres for 5k

  • @GraverFILMS
    @GraverFILMS8 жыл бұрын

    Looks ideal for illegal street racing

  • @TomScottGo

    @TomScottGo

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Graver Maybe not racing, but they have actual, legal trails out there for ATV offroading. (The mayor mentioned it, in a bit of the interview we didn't use!) Also there's something called Wasteland Weekend, inspired by Mad Max...

  • @JapaneseModernist

    @JapaneseModernist

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tom Scott Wasteland Weekend? Are there lots still available for purchase??

  • @Reziac

    @Reziac

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Clever Brunozoid Plenty, all the time. There are realtors who make a career out of flipping lots in this area. Be aware that if power doesn't already reach the lot, bringing it in will cost you ... well, in 1984 it was $40/foot, doubtless much higher now. Attaching to the municipal water system will set you back around $15,000. If you're out of its range, drilling a well costs somewhere between $25,000 and $60,000, depending how deep they have to go. (When I had to replace my well pump in 2007, that alone cost me $11,000.) So the low prices on these lots are kinda deceptive as to the total cost. OTOH Kern County is pretty easy to deal with and permit fees are much lower than in most of SoCal (don't know about CA City which might have its own permit system on top of that). If you're outside the city limits, there's basically no restrictions on what you can build or do... tho on that note, take care that your lot isn't in a declared kangaroo rat habitat area, cuz if it is you're not allowed to do ANYTHING with it.

  • @Shadow77999

    @Shadow77999

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Rez Zircon thx for the comment, im buying one of those lots and wanted to be better informed first

  • @romanbukins6527

    @romanbukins6527

    5 жыл бұрын

    *_DEJA VU_*

  • @Grizabeebles
    @Grizabeebles6 жыл бұрын

    Ah, drones. Now everybody can do a $2 million helicopter shot.

  • @Vok250

    @Vok250

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not if the lobbyists can help it! Getting harder and harder to fly drones legally every year!

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Vok250 -- I think that's the way it should be though. We're getting to the point where drones are going from hobby to widespread commercial use. There needs to be clear, consistent regulation in place or people could get hurt.

  • @osdial1

    @osdial1

    4 жыл бұрын

    We had ups and downs lots of them 🤣

  • @yakobswells5491

    @yakobswells5491

    4 жыл бұрын

    Grizabeebles you suck these laws for some reason also apply to hobby craft of all sorts and they are fucking everything up for us folks who just like to build planes

  • @Grizabeebles

    @Grizabeebles

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@yakobswells5491 -- In that case I suggest you get in touch with one of the many model aircraft associations out there. Here in Canada, the transportation department exempts the MAAC from drone rules because it has its own safety procedures and a 75-year history of operating without incident.

  • @fredweller1086
    @fredweller10864 жыл бұрын

    My father bought a lot down there in the early 70's. Waited years for power and water to be brought in... as promised. Never was. Sold the lot about 15 years later. Lost his arse on that one. The good news is the rest of his investments did well. But that was one big mistake... For many folks.

  • @57thorns

    @57thorns

    3 жыл бұрын

    He was there with the rest of the high risk investors. You win some, you lose some, but you never buy to live.

  • @Herrcampzalot
    @Herrcampzalot5 жыл бұрын

    Well this explains The Nasca Lines of peru! Now I get it!!! lool

  • @petroshagos6149

    @petroshagos6149

    3 жыл бұрын

    lolol

  • @pak3ton

    @pak3ton

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hisotry of nasca lines Inca emperor: i want pyramids, as aztecas, mayas, egytians. Builder: i cant do that.... i have a better idea. Inca emperor: well not bad. :v

  • @BillyTubememe
    @BillyTubememe8 жыл бұрын

    in da future ppl are going to think aliens bult those "glyphs" (roads i mean)

  • @FieldDay

    @FieldDay

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Guy Kazemeka SOOO TRUE!

  • @sharpe3698

    @sharpe3698

    8 жыл бұрын

    out that, "they appear to have had a religious purpose"

  • @MrMrMaran

    @MrMrMaran

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Guy Kazemeka Probably not, because they follow the same pattern with lots, streets, boulevards and cul de sacs as any other american city. The city is well recorded in many documents all over the world, and if there is a big disaster where all of known history is forgotten, humanity would likely go with it as well.

  • @BillyTubememe

    @BillyTubememe

    8 жыл бұрын

    MrMrMaran Yeah but maybe a fire may break out and destroy documents and maybe cities would be different in the future...

  • @MrMrMaran

    @MrMrMaran

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Guy Kazemeka Except a fire isn't going to happen all at once all over the world. And even if cities look different in the future, we will still have some old cities around. We constantly discover old cities like the one near Angkor Vat in Cambodia, I'm pretty sure we aren't going to be confused about it's usage. Not 100 years from now, or 10000 years from now.

  • @scanjett
    @scanjett8 жыл бұрын

    you don't actually realize how many stars there are if you live in a big city or near one.

  • @FieldDay

    @FieldDay

    8 жыл бұрын

    +scanjett As our teams are in LA and NYC, we second that!

  • @audience2

    @audience2

    8 жыл бұрын

    As the world replaces all its lights with LEDs it should use light fittings that direct the light downwards.

  • @chrism1516

    @chrism1516

    8 жыл бұрын

    It would be nice, but everything we do in the roads would probably be harder with red light, imagine trying to drive with a dim red light. One city that does use the red light idea is San Diego (maybe) but they use a red phosphorus burning light that is more orange than red, as it is a bit more useful for the roads.

  • @kreeperkiller3223

    @kreeperkiller3223

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Herbert Grabbottom Yes because everyone who comments on a video on youtube is automatically a Westerner, you ignorant piece of shit.

  • @DR-54

    @DR-54

    7 жыл бұрын

    and you do if you live in the middle of no where trust me they're everywhere

  • @JoeBob79569
    @JoeBob795693 жыл бұрын

    _"You can see all the stars here"_ is maybe a bit misleading. I mean, now you probably can, but when thousands of people come to live there, with all their light pollution, you won't be able to. It's like a self unfulfilling prophecy.

  • @kct9967
    @kct99673 жыл бұрын

    I remember going out there as a kid, my parents were actually thinking of moving out there back in the 60's. I believe they also had model homes to look at back then.

  • @notfelix5106
    @notfelix51066 жыл бұрын

    When you start a new sim city, And you spend all your money on roads and stuff but you forget the people and the jobs

  • @jousemartinez1106

    @jousemartinez1106

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isent that citie skylines,

  • @janebayot632

    @janebayot632

    5 жыл бұрын

    8

  • @Voron_Aggrav

    @Voron_Aggrav

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ViperSA depends on which one, the Older ones where Great, the always online one just killed itself basically, and well Simcity just can't compete anymore with City Skylines, but without those old Maxis titles that for their time and limitations where amazing we'd not have Skylines now

  • @garym444

    @garym444

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ViperSA so do you

  • @garym444

    @garym444

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ViperSA so do you

  • @MaartenvanRossemLezingen
    @MaartenvanRossemLezingen7 жыл бұрын

    Buy some worthless land in the desert, build some roads, sell it for double the money.

  • @qantj

    @qantj

    6 жыл бұрын

    "roads"

  • @NukelearFallout

    @NukelearFallout

    6 жыл бұрын

    qantj vulpis There's such a thing called "dirt roads", moron.

  • @qantj

    @qantj

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dirt isn't what most people think when they hear roads, hence my joke which obviously wasn't well received.

  • @NukelearFallout

    @NukelearFallout

    6 жыл бұрын

    That makes sense. I live in more of a rural and suburban area (Oregon), so when I hear road I think of both paved and dirt roads.

  • @kalifornia8110

    @kalifornia8110

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fallout like eastern oregon?

  • @SkyFoxCode
    @SkyFoxCode3 жыл бұрын

    Just checked the real estate and the prices for houses is actually pretty dang good. I live in ABQ right now and honestly this place sounds like a dream. If I ever have a job where I can work from home and make a decent income, I would totally move out there. I love the desert.

  • @jcxxmotoxx
    @jcxxmotoxx4 жыл бұрын

    It's a great place to stage to go dirt biking into the Mojave desert. I've also used it as a gas stop making a big 90ish mile loop from Ridgecrest toward Paiute Peak, fun ride.

  • @davidrossington9756
    @davidrossington97567 жыл бұрын

    If you build it, they MAY come.

  • @speedy01247

    @speedy01247

    7 жыл бұрын

    If you build it they will come, buy most of it, then do nothing with it and let the land fall back into the government's hand's.

  • @davidrossington9756

    @davidrossington9756

    7 жыл бұрын

    speedy01247 Sounds accurate.

  • @tange-lq5jg

    @tange-lq5jg

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheLyingTruthTeller untrue

  • @JackC11111

    @JackC11111

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Field of Dreams movie was good

  • @Ragnar6000

    @Ragnar6000

    7 жыл бұрын

    they built Detroit too.........and its rotting away!

  • @ThePoptartster
    @ThePoptartster8 жыл бұрын

    I lived in the next town over for half my life.. the Mojave is beautiful, but it's dead. Kids end up doing drugs and getting into trouble because there is nothing happening out there. "The only thing to do in a desert is leave."

  • @fooshfoosh

    @fooshfoosh

    8 жыл бұрын

    +ThePoptartster Ya, kinda sad that a place called California City was made in a land locked part of Ca. No ocean, trees, rivers, etc. Not a great location really...

  • @ThePoptartster

    @ThePoptartster

    8 жыл бұрын

    fooshfoosh Well there is the Mojave river. It's landlocked and flows inland... when it flows. And Death Valley is nearby. Also the air is really quite good.

  • @Reziac

    @Reziac

    8 жыл бұрын

    +ThePoptartster There's "nothing happening" in much of the flyover midwest either, yet kids there don't get into more trouble than average (if anything, less). The real problem is that Los Angeles uses their north county area as a dumping ground for perps and early-releases, so lowlife have kinda tended to congregate around these desert communities -- far enough from civilization that no one can see what they're up to, close enough to L.A. to have an easy market for drugs and stolen property. Kids copy their peers, and if that's what they're seeing around them -- well, yeah, it's not a good thing. And the desert itself isn't dead. It's loaded with life, all of it HUNGRY!!

  • @ThePoptartster

    @ThePoptartster

    8 жыл бұрын

    Rez Zircon The High Desert was nicer until the economy tanked. So many houses were abandoned, and the banks rented them out to lower income families fleeing the inner cities.

  • @Reziac

    @Reziac

    8 жыл бұрын

    +ThePoptartster Yep, that's for sure. :( Got to where it was tough to find good tenants, too.

  • @rahkinrah1963
    @rahkinrah19633 жыл бұрын

    I remember going through that area numerous time with my parents "way back when"...and seeing what appeared to be road cuts (like for a new subdivision). We always figured it was someone's plan for a "development. So this is it.

  • @FoxVox
    @FoxVox5 жыл бұрын

    Me and about 5000 other folks flood California City every September, and they are some of the nicest most accommodating people! There may not be a bustling downtown area, but it's more than made up for in charm! Thanks from the Wastelanders, CC!

  • @EmRawson

    @EmRawson

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah I read your comment and knew it had to be a fellow wastelander!!

  • @mxkcrm

    @mxkcrm

    2 жыл бұрын

    Y'all going this year?

  • @snoozz336
    @snoozz3367 жыл бұрын

    I immediately think this would be an amazing place to host a race.

  • @IntenzBeatz

    @IntenzBeatz

    7 жыл бұрын

    True... I like the way you think

  • @garykuyper4669

    @garykuyper4669

    7 жыл бұрын

    There's a lot of them actually. Generally just for CA state, there must be a dozen. Here in the desert, it's mostly off road which is fine. I saw a few guys try to ditch the cops out there, but copters make it look hopeless at that point lol.

  • @robert3302
    @robert33027 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid in the 60's, my family used to go to the State Fair in Sacramento every year. California City had a big exhibit with a scale model and artists pictures showing what it was going to look like when it was finished. It was very exciting. It was a big disappointment when it didn't happen.

  • @punker4Real

    @punker4Real

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Ticky Tocky it's a Flood Zone see google maps satellite mode you can see the scars from water from space

  • @strayboi

    @strayboi

    5 жыл бұрын

    punker4Real the wash is what floods when theres rain

  • @shaneware2939
    @shaneware29393 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many of these post-war desert oasis planned communities were platted and never built. I recently discovered that my family owns a plot in the middle of the Chihuahua Desert in NM, exactly like this.. huge planned community platted and laid out with streets, but never built upon.

  • @AaronOfMpls

    @AaronOfMpls

    Жыл бұрын

    There've been some of those in Florida too -- platted during the land boom of the 1920s but never really built on before it went bust. Heck, there were also some "paper towns" here in Minnesota -- platted in the 1850s, but never developed due to the Panic of 1857 (financial crash/recession) killing off demand, and/or railroads bypassing them in the 1860s and later.

  • @TheEastside661
    @TheEastside6615 жыл бұрын

    I used to visit my grandma here in the late 90’s. We’d drive up from Los Angeles. Good memories & yes it is indeed the epitome of “The Middle of Nowhere”

  • @sirnate9065
    @sirnate90658 жыл бұрын

    If this is not well documented it will be one of the big mysteries in a few hundred years.

  • @max2themax

    @max2themax

    8 жыл бұрын

    Well now it´s on the youtube.... It will live FOREVER.

  • @arkalbin7408

    @arkalbin7408

    7 жыл бұрын

    Someone quick report this until it's removed

  • @salemsaberhagen8390

    @salemsaberhagen8390

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol as if youtube or the internet will last hundreds of years

  • @jamesbond9975

    @jamesbond9975

    7 жыл бұрын

    +David Frigault Will the Internet survive though? I highly suggest you familiarize yourself with European hate speech laws because they're coming to the Internet. ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/files/hate_speech_code_of_conduct_en.pdf

  • @jamesbond9975

    @jamesbond9975

    7 жыл бұрын

    David Frigault Oh little buddy it's already happening in Europe. www.theverge.com/2016/7/13/12170590/facebook-hate-speech-germany-police-raid Americans don't have to worry about getting arrested just having videos and comments censored and deleted.

  • @JerryRigEverything
    @JerryRigEverything8 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you!

  • @llll-lk2mm

    @llll-lk2mm

    3 жыл бұрын

    I like your taste jerry!

  • @Artuar3CRaFT

    @Artuar3CRaFT

    Жыл бұрын

    Fr

  • @PurpleRanger69

    @PurpleRanger69

    4 ай бұрын

    Give me an electric car plz. Thx

  • @conorjamesmahoney5941
    @conorjamesmahoney59415 жыл бұрын

    2:15 OMG I just noticed that the map says "City of California city" LMAO

  • @stevenvanhulle7242

    @stevenvanhulle7242

    4 жыл бұрын

    "City of California City, California"

  • @geothon

    @geothon

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stevenvanhulle7242 COCCC

  • @dolst

    @dolst

    3 жыл бұрын

    For the naming process, they consulted with the Department of Redundancy Department. Surf Wisely.

  • @maggiejetson7904

    @maggiejetson7904

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because if you don't say that it could mean a County of California, you know, a city called YouKnowWhat in the County of California.

  • @dinahmyte3749

    @dinahmyte3749

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's name of a lot cities. My college town was City of Iowa City, Iowa.

  • @jordan_beard
    @jordan_beard4 жыл бұрын

    It appears to be missing one of the most desirable things of many cities: a river or body of water

  • @jeffmurray4627

    @jeffmurray4627

    4 жыл бұрын

    it has a lake that's well......not used....check out Lake Shore Inn in California City. Abandoned hotel. Photos of it remind me of Detroit. Seeing it also makes you feel the same.

  • @MrPolloloco52

    @MrPolloloco52

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldnt drink bloody water. Its easier to have a water well drilled and a septic system installed.

  • @uhhidk8253

    @uhhidk8253

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jeffmurray4627 that's a really tiny lake. Where does it gets its water from?

  • @goodtalker

    @goodtalker

    3 жыл бұрын

    LA, Phoenix, and San Diego....all within the top 10 in the US in terms of size and population and, essentially, not next to any significant water supply. Water is siphoned off the Colorado at Parker, Arizona bound for LA and then south to San Diego. Just up the river, the same thing happens with the Arizona Central Water Project. It takes water inland over 300 miles. California City, more than likely, never had a chance.

  • @goodtalker

    @goodtalker

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sam Erens I do not understand your question Sam.

  • @golubhimself
    @golubhimself7 жыл бұрын

    When you make a lot of roads in Cities Skylines

  • @gamezoid1234
    @gamezoid12348 жыл бұрын

    It's like simcity but everyone decides your city is shit.

  • @mipmipmipmipmip

    @mipmipmipmipmip

    7 жыл бұрын

    So it's like simcity when I play it.

  • @daveboz1984

    @daveboz1984

    7 жыл бұрын

    i actually lol'd :D

  • @RingxWorld

    @RingxWorld

    7 жыл бұрын

    but magnasanti

  • @LanternOfLiberty
    @LanternOfLiberty3 жыл бұрын

    Work used to take me there on a regular basis. Pot is the focus and the City Council doesn't want the city to actually grow since they keep rejecting businesses and making it extremely hard to establish there. Walmart wanted to build their store there, strategically located between Mojave, Tehachapi and Ridgecrest. The city council said that Walmart could not buy the land outright they would have to rent it for several years and be subject to increased taxation at the council's whim. Walmart just laughed and built-in nearby Tehachapi instead, so now the jobs are there instead.

  • @ltnorbiit3020
    @ltnorbiit30202 жыл бұрын

    My father lives out here and I go visit him every once in a while, it’s a great get away place but by no means anywhere to live.

  • @IvanTravels
    @IvanTravels8 жыл бұрын

    California city mayor is a bit optimistic

  • @seigeengine

    @seigeengine

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ivan Travels And why not? They seem to be doing fine, and they have the land to grow as they need to.

  • @TitoTheGeek

    @TitoTheGeek

    8 жыл бұрын

    Field Day keeping the part where she rants about journalists showing the desert was a bit ironic.

  • @ragnkja

    @ragnkja

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tito1337 I think her main rant was about *only* showing the desert.

  • @TitoTheGeek

    @TitoTheGeek

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Nillie Yeah so Field Day included three shots of the city...

  • @choppedfoxx3488

    @choppedfoxx3488

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ivan Travels My brother has a business and lives in a town of 15,000, he is doing very well for himself and ive hlped his business a few times and slept in that city for a few weeks, 15,000 is nothing to scoff at

  • @therealnathnath154
    @therealnathnath1546 жыл бұрын

    I lived at that briefly mentioned Air Force Base nearby. Nobody will move there. It's 100 degrees 9 months of the year and constant gale force winds. Not to mention California's lack of water with its current cities and population.

  • @southernboy2446

    @southernboy2446

    5 жыл бұрын

    Edwards AFB aka back in the day Muroc AFB

  • @lord_hemp

    @lord_hemp

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @milliebarney4354

    @milliebarney4354

    5 жыл бұрын

    Edwards was dull

  • @2MeterLP

    @2MeterLP

    5 жыл бұрын

    I mean, what do you expect in the desert?

  • @sssinjjamiah6844

    @sssinjjamiah6844

    5 жыл бұрын

    same conditions in las vegas and look at its population growth

  • @roy04
    @roy044 жыл бұрын

    Is it just me or I actually like that the desert (and the city) the way it is?

  • @jeffmurray4627

    @jeffmurray4627

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love the way it is too.

  • @x.rohan.001

    @x.rohan.001

    3 жыл бұрын

    As someone whose lived here for the past 7 years, it has its own beauty

  • @alonknaan4536
    @alonknaan45363 жыл бұрын

    I would highly recommend the podcast "California City" from LAist studios for the WAY more thorough story about the past of this city.

  • @tekoeko

    @tekoeko

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you just want I was looking for

  • @samA-qr9ru
    @samA-qr9ru7 жыл бұрын

    I used to ride my dirt bike out there for days! I miss it.

  • @xboboax1

    @xboboax1

    7 жыл бұрын

    same I live up in the mountains behind CA city now cause we hated the dessert, but i still miss my bikes :(

  • @MrPROGAMER56

    @MrPROGAMER56

    7 жыл бұрын

    still go there except the riding fees keep going up

  • @mehdibouchaffra868

    @mehdibouchaffra868

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lmaooo

  • @mehdibouchaffra868

    @mehdibouchaffra868

    6 жыл бұрын

    I just responded to a comment from 1 year ago.

  • @thomas.r344
    @thomas.r3447 жыл бұрын

    Years from now on TV: On the next episode of Ancient Aliens Season 19 we see first evidence that the extraterrestrials visited California. Could these carvings in the earth be a landing zone for spaceships? Or is it part of an interstellar map they used to navigate space?

  • @Mikewee777

    @Mikewee777

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thomas Reichpietsch , funny because it is true.

  • @oneplussixelectricflame2471

    @oneplussixelectricflame2471

    5 жыл бұрын

    ancient aliens actually show lots of important information and ancient sites, you exaggerate too much

  • @hotpockets2224

    @hotpockets2224

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@oneplussixelectricflame2471 you take things too seriously

  • @roguishpaladin

    @roguishpaladin

    5 жыл бұрын

    Funny thing is that it's like one town over from Mojave, CA, which is an actual landing zone for spaceships.

  • @iguanapete3809

    @iguanapete3809

    Жыл бұрын

    Like the Nazca Plains.

  • @entitydotexe6138
    @entitydotexe61383 жыл бұрын

    LMAO, this is exactly how my cities in Cities Skylines turn out every single time

  • @chipslord1013

    @chipslord1013

    2 жыл бұрын

    HAHA SAME

  • @markbowles2382
    @markbowles23828 ай бұрын

    Tom, I'm glad you're still at this, I think you've got something speacial, maybe a few something speacials, that make you a natural presenter of good interesting topics - thanks for sticking with it for so long and cheers from NE FLA.

  • @eightbitminiboss
    @eightbitminiboss8 жыл бұрын

    Used to live there while my Dad was working at Edwards AFB nearby. I was in the Mojave High School (at the time, Cal City didn't have a high school) band that played at the opening of the McDonalds because it was a such a big deal, lol. Also there was a Chevron there for a time, until it burned down and approximately the entire town was there watching it burn...

  • @FieldDay

    @FieldDay

    8 жыл бұрын

    +digitaldiatribe Thanks for sharing!

  • @KuraWulf

    @KuraWulf

    8 жыл бұрын

    +digitaldiatribe Pretty much the exact same circumstances here, Except I went to school on base(Desert High School) because cal city is pretty ghetto. Moved away a year or two ago, glad to have gotten out of there. While the video is pretty optimistic if you have actually been there you know its not that well off.

  • @KuraWulf

    @KuraWulf

    7 жыл бұрын

    I mean, when I was living there our house was robbed so :P Im sure its getting better, and it was never a terrible place, just dusty and didnt have much going on.

  • @motofoto11
    @motofoto117 жыл бұрын

    This location has a drastic problem that will doom it... NO WATER

  • @ryandonahue5141

    @ryandonahue5141

    7 жыл бұрын

    the next great wars will be for water

  • @gamalielgoodman

    @gamalielgoodman

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Ryan Donahue mad max much

  • @tokahontas9990

    @tokahontas9990

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Ryan Donahue no, I 100% promise they won't, we care more about resources that don't cover our entire planet

  • @edofluit7026

    @edofluit7026

    7 жыл бұрын

    no it wont xD

  • @jluehring

    @jluehring

    7 жыл бұрын

    The rest of Southern California where people actually live is already in enough of a water crisis, they are not going to spend billions to pipe precious water out to the middle of the Mojave

  • @solidkingcobra
    @solidkingcobra4 жыл бұрын

    that zoom out at the end was dope.

  • @johnnyc.5979
    @johnnyc.59794 жыл бұрын

    I always like your videos, interesting, easily digestable, straight to the point, and not overly long. Thanks.

  • @crazypeepsbrosk1
    @crazypeepsbrosk17 жыл бұрын

    you won't see any more stars when people move there.

  • @lucaswvargas3826

    @lucaswvargas3826

    7 жыл бұрын

    I thought the same.

  • @youvegotmail9205

    @youvegotmail9205

    7 жыл бұрын

    to letters XD

  • @THELANKANCOMRADE
    @THELANKANCOMRADE8 жыл бұрын

    Ah the 60s and the exciting space craze. Wish I could go back.

  • @LitFart

    @LitFart

    8 жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the 60s. Wish I could go back to be tricked by the government into thinking they cared for space travel for purposes other than a glorified pissing contest.

  • @kalebbruwer

    @kalebbruwer

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Umbrius Spacex is privatising space travel, so soon we can forget all about needing the goverment for it.

  • @Solid_Hank

    @Solid_Hank

    7 жыл бұрын

    The 60s wasn't that good. There was smoking on planes, lead in gasoline, asbestos, disease, and drugs.

  • @kalebbruwer

    @kalebbruwer

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Franke yea, I think I'm happy in this time where people protesting about pathetic things is most people's biggest problem.

  • @FreakingThomas7

    @FreakingThomas7

    7 жыл бұрын

    Wait, drugs were bad?

  • @acasualescapedscp4418
    @acasualescapedscp44184 жыл бұрын

    This has all the charm of Tom Scott's videos with some more, amazing! And a huge, open area with nothing for miles? Sign me the hell up! I'd move there in a heartbeat, oh, the stars you could see.

  • @cityofcaliforniacity6060
    @cityofcaliforniacity60605 жыл бұрын

    Come by and visit anytime!

  • @jjthomas2297

    @jjthomas2297

    4 жыл бұрын

    I did..It's a shithole..

  • @colormedubious4747

    @colormedubious4747

    3 жыл бұрын

    I eventually will, depending on your drone ordinances!

  • @Shmozone
    @Shmozone7 жыл бұрын

    He should have played City Skylines. Never start big, rip.

  • @girlsdrinkfeck

    @girlsdrinkfeck

    5 жыл бұрын

    fuck skylines ,simcity is OG

  • @twisted9285

    @twisted9285

    4 жыл бұрын

    girlsdrinkfeck simcity is garbage

  • @girlsdrinkfeck

    @girlsdrinkfeck

    4 жыл бұрын

    @dark zeratul i disagree, its dumb city skylines makes u lay down power cables like its the 1930s again and water pipes ? thats so sim ciity 2000 ... so glad simcity 5 got rid of that nuisance ,also the rate people die in the game is unrealistic

  • @Randze

    @Randze

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@girlsdrinkfeck I'm pretty sure theres a big difference between a $30 game and a free game

  • @girlsdrinkfeck

    @girlsdrinkfeck

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Randze free what?

  • @TomsBackyardWorkshop
    @TomsBackyardWorkshop7 жыл бұрын

    I live near Cal city. You couldn't pay me to live there. They have a terrible crime rate and a huge drug problem.

  • @crapper1

    @crapper1

    7 жыл бұрын

    that sums up most of the state

  • @bailbondsyesbailbonds

    @bailbondsyesbailbonds

    7 жыл бұрын

    +crapper1 have you ever been to California LA is bad but Northern California is the best

  • @pjdillon7982

    @pjdillon7982

    7 жыл бұрын

    I live near there too I've heard of it but didn't know anything about it kinda like zyzzx

  • @MrYouarethecancer

    @MrYouarethecancer

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sums up most of minority America.

  • @hissoldier2002

    @hissoldier2002

    7 жыл бұрын

    I also live near there.... they have a terrible football team

  • @chrisguy95
    @chrisguy955 жыл бұрын

    We just call it cal city and use it for dirt bike races.

  • @dustojnikhummer

    @dustojnikhummer

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, they could be renting it to dirt races, build an actual racetrack etc

  • @ATBZ
    @ATBZ3 жыл бұрын

    KZread sees a desert and it automatically decides its area 51 lol

  • @doeeyez00
    @doeeyez008 жыл бұрын

    My father is the treasurer of California City. He has lived there for over 20 years while working at Edwards AFB and he loves his city.And the Mayor was spot on about the stars, no where have i ever seen so many and things like the milky way so clearly.

  • @FieldDay
    @FieldDay8 жыл бұрын

    Ever heard of California City? Well by land it's the 3rd largest city in California, only no one came to build! Tom Scott is the best!

  • @Steamrick

    @Steamrick

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Field Day Too bad that the North American Southwest is likely going to experience more and worse droughts in the next century, so California City is going to ultimately fail due to one huge showstopper: lack of water.

  • @Reziac

    @Reziac

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Steamrick Municpall water for desert communities doesn't rely on rainfall; it relies on wells drilled into deep aquifers (the ones I'm familiar with in the area go down 1500+ feet). But I agree, it's a limiting factor. And not because of drought, but because California's water management is sheer lunacy -- even in drought years, FOUR TIMES as much precipitation flows downhill into the sea as is used by Californians, but since no reservoirs have been constructed since the 1970s, water use relative to water storage capacity has become massively lopsided. For that you can thank "green" activists who are less concerned with the fact that every living thing uses that stored water (every reservoir built by man becomes a haven for wildlife), than with driving California into water bankruptcy.

  • @seigeengine

    @seigeengine

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Steamrick Unlikely. We already rely on massive distribution chains for resources, and with rising populations, there's only so much land with direct availability of water. If something causes the city to fail, it's unlikely to be droughts.

  • @Steamrick

    @Steamrick

    8 жыл бұрын

    seigeengine Except that those resources are being used up increasingly rapidly and the massive distribution chain is barely a fraction of what's really needed once groundwater dries up. It's already happening - just take a look at the Hoover Dam water level, it tells you everything you need to know about the water system in the entire region.

  • @seigeengine

    @seigeengine

    8 жыл бұрын

    Steamrick Except that those are problems we already solve,

  • @gordonsumner2085
    @gordonsumner20854 жыл бұрын

    I lived nearby in Pearblossom and never realized this back story of California City. Very interesting.

  • @jeffmurray4627

    @jeffmurray4627

    4 жыл бұрын

    i am in Rosamond. Go check it out Robert. The dirt road grids are great.

  • @taviokagame9305
    @taviokagame93055 жыл бұрын

    The ending is perfect!!

  • @RauSiMic
    @RauSiMic6 жыл бұрын

    Some future civilization is going to come and think there was an enormous cit there and it got wiped by nuclear war or something

  • @melo7572

    @melo7572

    3 жыл бұрын

    No they wouldn't because there's no artifacts

  • @jonanddy

    @jonanddy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@melo7572 Ok Melo

  • @myriadmemento1298

    @myriadmemento1298

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@melo7572 You're not volunteering to become an artifact?

  • @dizzymindy6024

    @dizzymindy6024

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @ianchesney9639
    @ianchesney96394 жыл бұрын

    Awesome documentary, well done.

  • @42luke93
    @42luke934 жыл бұрын

    4:12 Never realized my street sign was the oldest object built first.

  • @raterbeast
    @raterbeast7 жыл бұрын

    I really want to hoon my impreza there now.

  • @blazers12369

    @blazers12369

    7 жыл бұрын

    i was legit thinking the exact same thing😂

  • @ChargerHouse

    @ChargerHouse

    7 жыл бұрын

    That'd be cool, so badly want to do a flaming burnout in my scraping low Bumer.

  • @sadrobokiller4

    @sadrobokiller4

    7 жыл бұрын

    If you can get there you totally should man!

  • @scottcarlson9265

    @scottcarlson9265

    7 жыл бұрын

    I seriously was thinking about the same thing in my WRX

  • @faisal3398

    @faisal3398

    7 жыл бұрын

    If I can get there, I'll make my own rally course

  • @guywhite667
    @guywhite6677 жыл бұрын

    The mayor says there is plenty of space. Well, that's pretty common in the desert. Is there any water?

  • @fartfarmer4951

    @fartfarmer4951

    6 жыл бұрын

    Was gonna say go grab a cactus but I didn't see any... lol bet they are stingy as hell with the water atleast towards homeowners who don't make large contributions...

  • @Senaihh

    @Senaihh

    6 жыл бұрын

    Plan was to build a dam there

  • @continental1970

    @continental1970

    6 жыл бұрын

    no water but the scorpions are the size of my 12 inch running shoes, no bull...a lot of snakes too.

  • @jackmoore3499

    @jackmoore3499

    6 жыл бұрын

    There is a water cleaning facility nearby many aqueducts and a lake which was supposedly to be what the city was built around.

  • @jackmoore3499

    @jackmoore3499

    6 жыл бұрын

    The lake is at a park though and it’s not like you could go in it or just use it, you wouldn’t want to anyways it is kind of gross.

  • @UrMomsUrDad
    @UrMomsUrDad5 жыл бұрын

    I live 30 minutes from here. Cal City is basically section 8 and drifters. Sad to see but I always find peace when I wander off into the desert

  • @levii1173

    @levii1173

    4 жыл бұрын

    Some real fallout type stuff. I love it. Might move to an isolated area there and shoot off guns for fun.

  • @ih82r8

    @ih82r8

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah...like 5K residents and a penitentiary. That should tell us something.

  • @jeffsanders1609
    @jeffsanders16093 жыл бұрын

    And now California has a negative population growth as the state government keeps taxing more and more businesses away

  • @EvilAnomaly
    @EvilAnomaly5 жыл бұрын

    Actually grew up partially in this empty town in my teen years, glad I did too compared to the ghettos of L.A at that time which I was originally from. Would I live there as an adult, not a chance in hell but I'm glad I spent my teen years there!

  • @57thorns

    @57thorns

    3 жыл бұрын

    A step up from the ghetto, a few steps down from where you ended up? Seems like congratulations to a job well done is in place.

  • @LordSandwichII
    @LordSandwichII8 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? DRAG STRIPS!!! :D :D :D

  • @LordSandwichII

    @LordSandwichII

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Or a rally circuit? Anyways, my car is British and eat any American car around corners... ...right after I've sorted out the problem with the carburetor, that is! XD

  • @DannyMinick

    @DannyMinick

    8 жыл бұрын

    not everything has to be rally. drag racing is quite popular.

  • @chrism1516

    @chrism1516

    8 жыл бұрын

    Just go out there Thanksgiving weekend!!!!! :D

  • @thewiirocks

    @thewiirocks

    7 жыл бұрын

    Very true once upon a time. Not so much anymore. My Camaro has little trouble hanging with "the big boys" and in the upper models can easily eat their dinner. Invoke the 'Vette and the cornering value for your money is pretty damn good. (Especially if they've finally got the Z06 problems sorted.)

  • @operator8014

    @operator8014

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well, we make the Corvette as well, which will CRUSH nearly anything costing even twice as much around the Nurburgring.

  • @Michelle-iz5bh
    @Michelle-iz5bh3 жыл бұрын

    Found this after listening to the recent podcast California City - a good listen

  • @mikefitchNYC1971
    @mikefitchNYC19713 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video!

  • @DasIllu
    @DasIllu8 жыл бұрын

    Ok, what i learned from SimCity: 1. Build a town hall 2. Build a PD and a FD 3. Depending on version build some other stuff 4. designate commercial and industrial area nearby 5. Profit !

  • @GamesFromSpace

    @GamesFromSpace

    8 жыл бұрын

    They probably forgot to place roads leading to other regions.

  • @AnarchistMetalhead

    @AnarchistMetalhead

    8 жыл бұрын

    +DasIllu while that is the way to do it in simcity, it is precisely the opposite of what you need to do in real life government leeches off the productive people in society, so creating all the government buildings without a population to leech off you just created a dead weight at a loss of whatever it cost you

  • @aceman0000099

    @aceman0000099

    8 жыл бұрын

    but more people will invest in a place with good security

  • @blindeagle2194
    @blindeagle21948 жыл бұрын

    lol, the stars will disappear the more the city grows though...

  • @ThatBigFail

    @ThatBigFail

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Blind Eagle Not necessarely. Who says there will be any highrises or tall buildings? Most of the buildings will probably just be suburb houses.

  • @grindstone4910

    @grindstone4910

    8 жыл бұрын

    +ThatBigFail Light pollution drowns out visible stars.

  • @blindeagle2194

    @blindeagle2194

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Grindstone Exactly :)

  • @ThatBigFail

    @ThatBigFail

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Grindstone In Denmark where i live, we mostly have surburban houses and some highrises, but in the nighttime the stars are most of the time still highly visible.

  • @KOSAMAGAMES

    @KOSAMAGAMES

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Blind Eagle Its true, In Glendale Arizona you can see so many stars and its anything far from a small empty town.

  • @jansen7640
    @jansen76404 жыл бұрын

    This is the desert where that guy tripped over a rock and woke up in a new dimension where the desert turned into a city and met a guy who had that everyday chemistry tape from the Beatles.

  • @Mo-gm5zm
    @Mo-gm5zm3 жыл бұрын

    I bought my first house there... I actually miss it. Had good times. Peace and love cal city

  • @Mo-gm5zm

    @Mo-gm5zm

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is green tea garden still there? Used to be the best Chinese food for 50 miles!

  • @rexcluff3105
    @rexcluff31056 жыл бұрын

    My Dad was a salesman for this city in the 1950s. The company never took off. Nobody wanted to live in the Mojave Desert.

  • @markrichardson4502

    @markrichardson4502

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rex and Fadora

  • @SuperReviews4you
    @SuperReviews4you7 жыл бұрын

    Once of my favorite places to dirtbike.

  • @Dive-Bar-Casanova

    @Dive-Bar-Casanova

    7 жыл бұрын

    Have you ridden to the Husky memorial?

  • @moto5513

    @moto5513

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Dive-Bar-Casanova Been there several times.

  • @Mugruokgt
    @Mugruokgt4 жыл бұрын

    I really like your content recently. Thank you :)

  • @AcaTea
    @AcaTea2 жыл бұрын

    Update in 2022 (from a person who lives in California City): The city is having a lot of commercial development in the realm of marijuana cultivation. Mike Tyson bought land here to make a weed resort. I don’t know if anything has come of that yet, but it doesn’t seem like it. We still have problems with water pipes, as we took used ones from Long Beach to create the original water infrastructure. They break all the time and need patching or replacing. We just got a Starbucks, which doesn’t seem like much, but a lot of franchises won’t come out here because our population isn’t high enough and we are too far away from major highways. Therefore, the Starbucks is a big deal for us, and it gets a lot of business. There was talks of getting a Love’s truck stop near the 58 freeway, which would have come with a Carl’s Jr. and some other amenities. However, our city screwed the pooch by telling them they had to pay to bring the sewer lines and power lines all the way out there, so the Love’s built their truck stop in our neighboring town, Boron, CA. There were two boys that went missing and it was a whole media kerfuffle. Just recently, they arrested the boys’ foster parents on murder charges. So the city is breathing a bit easier. There is still a murder from almost a decade ago that is unsolved involving a woman who had her throat slit and was found in or near the Central Park in town. The city has two communities, one in the main area with the McDonald’s and such, and another on Galileo Hill. There was a bit of a club/resort up there called Silver Saddle, but I believe the feds shut it down due to the owners being involved in tax evasion or a similar economic crime. It gets really windy during the fall and spring seasons. We also get film studios that come to film on the tarmac at the airport, or sometimes we get sound crews getting sound samples out in the desert where they can blow stuff up or smash large things together with more safety. Our High School basketball team recently won a CIF title, which is like the state title for California. California splits those titles into three sections for the state I believe. It was still a big deal. Let me know if y’all got any questions about the town.

  • @Reziac
    @Reziac8 жыл бұрын

    I used to live about half an hour away, in the far western part of the Mojave Desert. There really is nothing out there to attract average people under normal circumstances, but since the price of housing has gone so high closer to Los Angeles, being 1.5 hours away from the real job market has become less inhibiting, and it's become a bedroom community where you can still buy an inexpensive lot and put up an inexpensive house... if you don't mind the commute. But if you don't love the desert, there's really nothing to attract you. Most people leave the moment they can afford something closer to civilization. Me, I became a desert rat and stayed for 28 years, and left with sore reluctance. That vast expanse of wild wasteland is joy to my eyes.

  • @seigeengine

    @seigeengine

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Rez Zircon One of these days I'm going to go to a desert and likely be profoundly disturbed. I've spent my entire life so far in water-plentiful very green areas.

  • @ragnkja

    @ragnkja

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Rez Zircon Coming from the coast of Norway, the main thing I would miss there would probably be the sea. I definitely don't mind dark, starry skies.

  • @Reziac

    @Reziac

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Nillie Yeah, when you get out far enough to escape the light pollution, the sky is amazing -- on a moonless night, the stars can be bright enough to cast shadows.

  • @Reziac

    @Reziac

    8 жыл бұрын

    +seigeengine My sister says to me, "What do you see in this place? There's nothing here!" And I replied, "That's right! miles and miles of beautiful, wonderful, NOTHING!" When I first moved to the desert, I hated it. But it grew on me, and I became a proper desert rat... I've since moved back to Montana, but I'll probably always miss the desert.

  • @ragnkja

    @ragnkja

    8 жыл бұрын

    Rez Zircon I'm glad I live in a small village, rather than a town or a city. I've tried that for a few years, and really missed the stars I'd grown up with seeing. Living somewhere with so much light pollution that I couldn't even see Cassiopeia or Orion's Belt is definitely not for me!

  • @speedwolf
    @speedwolf8 жыл бұрын

    That spaceport will be the city's eventual success.

  • @HammaneggsAirborne

    @HammaneggsAirborne

    8 жыл бұрын

    All that needs to happen is have Elon Musk's rockets become rated for launching over land, and that would be a great place.

  • @jackmorris303

    @jackmorris303

    8 жыл бұрын

    or Virgin Galatic run their tourist space flights from there. That'll be one way to bring in huge investment.

  • @PunchMyPriest

    @PunchMyPriest

    7 жыл бұрын

    A spaceport in the desert? It will become a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  • @HammaneggsAirborne

    @HammaneggsAirborne

    7 жыл бұрын

    Look who's talking.

  • @stormcloudtheory

    @stormcloudtheory

    7 жыл бұрын

    You had best be cautious.

  • @JJ-pi4zj
    @JJ-pi4zj3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, just tuned in from UK and am now browsing property realtors in CA CA... :O

  • @hannahe7935
    @hannahe79355 жыл бұрын

    I live in California city no joke😂💀well where the city and houses are

  • @noahwilliams8996

    @noahwilliams8996

    5 жыл бұрын

    What about where those huge roads are? Have you been there?

  • @Herbie11

    @Herbie11

    4 жыл бұрын

    My condolences

  • @ceeceepenington7320

    @ceeceepenington7320

    4 жыл бұрын

    Better than Lancaster,Palmdale,Rosamond,and Mojave! I don't see trash and homeless people roaming every gd street.

  • @gregbert1037

    @gregbert1037

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ceeceepenington7320 You forgot Trona...

  • @brandell4638

    @brandell4638

    3 жыл бұрын

    Poor Trona. The quakes were the last straw for me.

  • @George_Azeria
    @George_Azeria8 жыл бұрын

    More Tom Scott plz

  • @FieldDay

    @FieldDay

    8 жыл бұрын

    +George Jordan Go check out his channel! He put up some other really interesting looks into California while he was here!

  • @George_Azeria

    @George_Azeria

    8 жыл бұрын

    Field Day That's where I came from, I didn't know you lot had uploaded! :D

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