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@kendallevans4079

Жыл бұрын

Based on the comments you need to find a new job. You swung and missed trying your best to disparage a community that, apparently has strong support. Maybe consult for TMZ? They love your type of "reporting"

@richardalvarado-ik9br

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a video on Southie (South Boston) or Dorchester which is also a White low income blue collar community near Boston (this community was in "The Fighter" movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams about Irish American boxer Mickey Ward). Boxers don't come from expensive nice neighborhoods like Martha's Vineyard or Dana Pointe.

@kendallevans4079

Жыл бұрын

@@richardalvarado-ik9br Dana Point

@travdasav8829

3 ай бұрын

Pin my comment

I m a middle-aged white guy with penchant for walking. I walk through these neighborhoods daily and have never had a problem. If you are afraid you need to get out more.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Who said I was afraid

@4mabus

3 жыл бұрын

White people in Santa Ana are awesome great people. Best neighbors too.

@steveturner5519

3 жыл бұрын

Well I guess I wouldn't mind taking a walk either through Santa Ana but it's probably going to be through Floral Park and that's about it

@4mabus

3 жыл бұрын

@@steveturner5519 santa ana welcomes everybody regardless of skin color republicans and democrats too. NO FAR RIGHT NAZIS ALLOWED.

@steveturner5519

3 жыл бұрын

@@4mabus I don't care where people come from or who they are what bothers me is that 95% maybe more of the entire city can't even pick up the Frito bags in front of their house the place is covered in garbage and when I go to Irvine it's not covered in garbage and I do not know why this is but I believe it's the inhabitants of the city and like I said it doesn't matter where you come from some people are fine with garbage in their front yard and some people aren't

Still waiting for you to show me the worst parts of Orange County I didn’t see them in this video

@dustinwroten353

2 жыл бұрын

Your car would have the word "gringo" keyed into it within a week of moving there. T. An OC native

@RiverRatGaming

2 жыл бұрын

That's cuz there aren't none lol. Anaheim on beach is a little sketch but I've lived here my whole life

@gadielg5238

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh this guy is LITRALLY sped

@monkeyking8131

Жыл бұрын

@@dustinwroten353 untrue lol quit thinking non white = bad

@magamaga1827

Жыл бұрын

come out at night, white liberal

I'm 72 years old and I've seen a lot of bad neighborhoods over the years. I was surprised that based on the narrator's preparation, how nice all these neighborhoods looked. All the houses seemed well maintained. The yards were obviously cared for, no overgrown weeds, no trash strewn about the streets or sidewalks. No junker cars cluttering the driveways or streets. And I saw only one wall with graffiti along the entire route! If this is the worst of Orange County, then this must be a nice county to live.

@NickJohnson

11 ай бұрын

Yes Ricardo

@darylmarshall6906

10 ай бұрын

I’ve been in this area 35 years. LA is the real SHIT HOLE

@TheLovinjourney

8 ай бұрын

@@NickJohnson There are parts that are a shit hole. This neighbourhood is basic lower middle and clean.

@rosselnator

2 ай бұрын

It's a great place to live

@socaldrivin9590

10 күн бұрын

I've been in Westminster and Irvine all my life of almost 50 years. Santa Ana is just about the worst in OC, and Anaheim is also bad in areas, so @NickJohnson is correct, IMO. Just look at a plot of crimes in OC, and you'll see all the rapes, murders, and robberies concentrated mainly in Santa Ana and inland. But it's still better than nearby South LA, like Compton and inland Long Beach. The buffer between Santa Ana and Long Beach actually has the least crime -- Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, and a corner of Westminster. Fountain Valley is nice, and most of Costa Mesa. And then of course Mission Viejo, Laguna, and South OC are safe. This was filmed 3 years ago. 2 years ago up until now, you'd see plenty of tranc zombies wandering around, hunched over. Anaheim, too, by the stadium. They have camps of homeless drug addicts. Before 3 years ago, as early as 2010, you'd only see this in LA, and a little bit in OC around the Santa Ana river since maybe 2015. The river has been cleaned up for a couple years now. I've seen crimes take place in Santa Ana where it might look nice. I saw a black kid swipe a purse from an old Asian woman. There are prostitutes pacing up and down Harbor. Also on Harbor, 10 years ago, my coworker's friend got shot dead in a cafe for saying the wrong thing (trying to be polite even) to a gangster's GF.

I lived Orange County for 36 years, worked in Santa Ana for 32 years. I even lived in Santa Ana for couple years and walked down many of those streets in the video, but I never encountered any problems on the streets. Interestingly, compared to other poor cities in the US, Santa Ana looks pretty darn good.

@Mike-01234

Жыл бұрын

My family moved to Fountain Valley in 1971 where I started school. I remember Santa Ana looking at the video it looks lot nicer than it did in the 1970's and 80's. Most had bars on the windows back then that is a good sign when you see many homes with bars there is a problem with crime.

@alvarotorres9057

Жыл бұрын

The worst part of Santa Ana is on 1St street off of the 5 and 55 freeway; there are a lot of homeless drug addicts. Most of the Latino neighborhoods are pretty quiet; there isn’t that much gang activity like there was in 70’s or 80’s. Most Latinos just just go to work and go home to their family.

@SpaceCaseZ06

Жыл бұрын

Don't think this video is an accurate reflection of "the worst parts" Need to look along railroad tracks and along the sides of major freeways. Some of this footage and connected commentary is a bit biased. In part this looks tame because this footage appears to have been taken while things were still locked down because of the COVID pandemic. as Alvaro Torres said, 1st St. between 5 & 55 but even heading past Main St through Bristol over to Harbor. also Main St from the 22 South to MacArthur which he only covered part of. This video seemed to suggest that the neighborhoods of Santa Ana were poor and unsafe because it was "Hispanic" but the unhoused and the addicted I encountered here were about equally white. In fact, in my approximation, addicts of opioids such as meth tended to be white more than Latino. They had the grand sense of entitlement and abusive obnoxious narcissism more often too. They even were the more belligerent of the bunch. Generally speaking, Latinos were less belligerent than Blacks or Whites. For the most part, this video does a disservice by capitalizing on tactics of uncertainty, fear and prejudice. Orange County needs policies to help the poor. Costs of housing and healthcare are out of control and many oppose the will to fix these issues. Zoning restrictions enable the NIMBYs and those who've historically benefitted from discriminatory policies to keep stuck the insecure who actually have a right to live in Orange County. Housing developers are abusing their control. Oversight of the bureaucrats and politicians and auditing of the corruption by the corporations profiting from funding allocations devoted to addressing the problem. Policies and contracts are designed in such ways as are certain to fail while for-profit companies grift and their executives pocket taxpayer money only investing to expand continuously their empire. Of the people who genuinely want to help, many are oblivious to the severity of the problem and the great areas of need. Basic needs are steeper cost for the housing insecure however we're too focused on rewarding the wealthy and the bankers. Regulations on the rich are too loose compared to regulations on the poor's access to assistance. Efficient and Expedient and Comprehensive transportation to provide opportunities for upward mobility. Showers & Laundry. We can't assume the unhoused are lazy and leave so many obstacles in their ways while we take so much for granted in a wealthy nation with a disappearing middle class and eradication of the lowest rungs of opportunity.

@inthendwealldie

Жыл бұрын

I would say the big problems are if you are Hispanic and maybe Asian, living in the varrio, esp in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, it gets worse if you are fully banged out, shaved head, or a hat repping where they from, lookin like they for real bang, then definitely may get hit up, likely no hop outs, drive bys, but I heard stories from back then... like one of my friends grew up in Santa Ana, and he had to avoid many certain dangerous active streets walking to school and back home, cuz it was straight hood, so one time when he was a kid or a teenager walking to or from school, and wearing a backpack, a pickup or SUV pulled up on him, stopped on the street, and demanded his backpack, he said no, and they pulled out a sawed off shotgun on him, aimed it and he gave up his backpack, he told me he pretty much had in there was just chips, papers, school stuff, and that his backpack wasn't worth getting blown away for by a sawed off shotty... Heard the robbery stories, where they shot the clerk dead, and I believe the shooter ended up getting life. Heard gang bangers actually shot down a police helicopter... but most of these stories are from back then, and these days, I think there's like over 15-30+ gangs, you'll see them mark up their varrio in Old English, finger fonts and whatnot, crossing out, even writing "CK" up on the wall, doesn't feel too comfy driving thru, it does often get covered up in a week or so unless it's in a hard-to-reach or unseen place behind a business back parking lot or something, they have dedicated city worker that paint the walls. Definitely don't wanna go to a park in SA lookin banged out, and being unfamiliar with the locals there, as you may get pressed, but I'm talking about a straight bald head pelon cholo G'd up, cuz it does happen in SA IMO quite a bit of homeless people, and for some reason, from what I seen a lot of them are White crazy homeless addicts, ever seen homeless people yell, shout, talk to their invisible friends? Even seen people tripping on invisible enemies, I seen it... Downtown Santa Ana, I saw a homeless woman just grabbing weeds, pulling it in an alley, and speaking gibberish, couldn't really understand her, her mind was that gone But it's all up to you how one would view SA, if you grew up hood and familiar with it, or an average joe, or a paisa, etc., cuz IMO when u see them G finger throw up fonts, Old English gang fonts on the wall and all sorts, loads of covered up paint on the wall, with shoes hangin on the electric wires, dogs barkin, it just hits kinda different... like I ain't supposed to be here, in this hood if I ain't know nobody here if you know what I mean... somebody might drive through or walk up, might get checked of where you from... but that's just how I feel

@justanotherputz2538

Жыл бұрын

common theme in many of these comments is past tense

The worst parts of OC are still better than the best parts of South LA.

@evoni2010

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely agree

@kevina5009

3 жыл бұрын

What

@sinnopal1

3 жыл бұрын

True. The worst part of oc would be considered a safe middle class neighborhood if it were in LA.

@kevina5009

3 жыл бұрын

@@sinnopal1 nah bruh that’s not accurate at all

@sinnopal1

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevina5009 nah. It is accurate. Santa ana or anaheim would be as good as westlake or usc neighborhoods. Of course, it is a lot better than south LA or skid row in downyown.

This is a working class neighborhood to me....looks normal.

@diegohernandez9662

3 жыл бұрын

The video hella misleading bruh

@tee228

3 жыл бұрын

working class is where the hood is lol looks normal but theres over 10 ppl living in those houses

@traphouseburger3234

3 жыл бұрын

You have no idea...

@bodaciousbruin3003

3 жыл бұрын

Poverty is not abundant in SFHs. You need to hit the apartment streets to see real poverty.

@davidandrews2059

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I go to UC Irvine and my family lives in Santa Ana. I go there all the time and Santa Ana is a Mexican city through and through. Race always plays a part in what people see as "undesirable" with this beautiful city sitting at the epicenter of white undesirability in SoCal.

Lol it’s funny how this guy is basically painting Santa Ana as a “dangerous” place, and then proceeds to run a red light at the end of the video. 😂

@user-pj3ks7dq7e

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🙌🏻

@mondoman1890

2 жыл бұрын

Glad someone else saw and thought this.

@iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606

Жыл бұрын

He’s a trumper just trying “own the libs” but he is failing miserably here

@CeCe-fh2ix

10 ай бұрын

oh lol that is funny! Good observation

@darylmarshall6906

10 ай бұрын

It’s obvious he doesn’t know OC at all. It’s diverse SA has old Victorian homes worth Multi Millions, he did not show that area of SANTA ANA. It’s majestic

I worked as a street vendor in Santa Ana and met so many humble and generous people. You can just feel it their presence. It was such an amazing and unbelievable experience. From the bottom of my heart thank you again.

This is a joke right? On one hand I do understand where you're coming from because I live in Orange County my entire life and I do know there are parts of Santa Ana that are a bit shady but your actual video recording does not describe in any shape or form any of the points from your narrative. The only thing your video shows was well kept homes for the most part clean city streets and normal people doing normal things that you would see in any other American city. If having a high Hispanic population coincides with violence and danger well you just proved the exact opposite. I know the area well and things have gotten better in the area not worse your video proves that. I will give you an a+ for video quality and an f- for content. Not that any type of critic I just call it as I see it. If you want to see a hood go to Hawaiian gardens.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Fair I suppose but Hawaiian gardens isn't in OC

@juliarobertchewza

3 жыл бұрын

Right Tony! Soo true.. though I don’t vote Democrat. Of course we all wish we could live on balboa peninsula or Newport by the beach , but it doesn’t look that bad...

@tonyboyle9667

3 жыл бұрын

I just want to apologize to the author of this video . I didn't mean to be so Harsh or condescending. I just felt there was a form racial profiling in the commentary , associating violence and danger with certain people and where they live. Neighborhoods in Santa Ana have come a long way in a positive way from what they were 10-20 years ago. It's fair to say that residents working together In the community have helped the city become a little safer of an environment. Santa Ana is rich in history and culture is a very interesting City to learn about. Now I need to apologize for rambling. Lol. All apologies aside I still feel your video did not jive with the commentary.

@tonyboyle9667

3 жыл бұрын

@@juliarobertchewza Balboa peninsula is beautiful. Though I don't vote Republican. (I just had to throw that in there) 😃

@maretvilla1531

3 жыл бұрын

When we enter Hispanic neighborhoods, my husband is like it's ok. If it's a black neighborhood, my husband would be like let's get out of here.

I don't see anything scary about this city 😂

@julioluna4278

3 жыл бұрын

White people logic.... they will stick their hands in a alligators mouth but dont drive through Santaana. They won't live in a neighborhood with people but prefer living in the hills with mountain lions and coyotes. They are moving to Texas where the neighbors have tigers and tornados but dont buy a house in Santaana🤔

@enlightenedone1769

3 жыл бұрын

I'm white and I say he's a wussy lol

@diegohernandez9662

3 жыл бұрын

He didn’t go to the hoods.😂😂 he went to some of the middle class house which is pretty much the only safe places in Santa Ana

@MrPlax11

3 жыл бұрын

This guy should have went to minnie street or down chestnut, Townsend, Salvador park, down center where alley boys reside. There many areas he didn't show

@YouTubechannel-dk8fw

3 жыл бұрын

Ik huh giving my city a bad name tbh go to nyc ur more likely To get robbed there

Seems like a tired perspective by someone's older relative. I'm glad to read all the comments noting that this is a lovely regular working class neighborhood. The housing tract I grew up in was once all white and is now one of the most diverse suburban neighborhoods in the country. I live in LA now and always love visiting places in OC like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anaheim and Orange.

@mwalako

Жыл бұрын

This was based on crime stats. Those are just the ones reported.

Growing up I used to think these places were “bad” neighborhoods but then I experienced the worst parts of Oakland and Philly. Living in the Orange curtain really blinds you to what a real “bad” neighborhood is like. This place is normal compared to the rest of the US.

@zzzzz2621

Жыл бұрын

Right, I used to think Santa Ana was so ghetto but when I took a trip to LA it changed my perspective, truly lucky we get to live in a nice place that some people wish they’d lived in.

@user-di7vl3ol8r

7 ай бұрын

That’s cuz y’all in the good parts of Santa Ana, Sana’a worst hoods get you a 1/11 chance of being a victim to a crime, most of y’all haven’t ever been to McFadden street, Laurelhurst, or fair haven, pico Lowell, edinger/bristol, pretty much bru some of Santa Ana’s bad parts are the worst in the country, jus look at statistics

@user-di7vl3ol8r

7 ай бұрын

I have a homies from San barnadino and he said Santa Ana is similar to SB, just that SB is more ran down but gang affiliation still bad

@RomaineMelvin-zi3iv

Ай бұрын

​@@user-di7vl3ol8rand that's a fact

I've lived in Orange County for 50 years. I've spent time photographing Santa Ana for a while. What I saw in that video was clean streets, tidy and well kept houses, almost all that had been upgraded or remodeled over the years. You drove through neighborhoods where people obviously took care of their property. Downtown Santa Ana, and especially historic downtown, is filled with art, restaurants, bar and shops and lots of rehabilitated historic buildings. It's very walkable and vibrant. There is an online map of all the fantastic murals in the city. There is a Tennis Center, a Performing Arts Center and even a Lawn Bowling Center. And an Artist Village downtown. You don't state what your criteria for "Worst" is. "Worst" in what way? If it's based on crime rates then Santa Ana (and Anaheim) definitely has a higher violent and property crime rate than most of Orange County but Orange County cities have extremely low violent crime and property crime rates overall compared to the rest of California and the US.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

crime poverty and rundown.

@kathialandaverde

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson then why did you wrote worst cities of orange county. I grew up in Santa Ana My whole life and there are less crimes now than before.

@razorsharplifestyle101hard9

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson Exactly,But your definition of run down is personal.Maybe you should have did your mini doc on the chronically homeless community there,drugs, methamphetamine addicts etc.Instead of just drive through the business districts and neighborhoods that wasn't bad looking at all.

@razorsharplifestyle101hard9

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson You must have a terrifying experience in that part of orange county?

@angelzanetti-1947

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson lol this guys is a buffoon 🤡

The home prices you have mentioned are not accurate 350k range is not true. These homes are listed at about $500k right now.

@xC-od8js

3 жыл бұрын

Fr I live by mater dei HS houses be like 650k+

@olg06

3 жыл бұрын

700K where I live (northwest santa ana)

@skatevidcentral

3 жыл бұрын

700k+ in Garden Grove where I live. Good luck finding even a crappy condo for anything below 500k.

@BtrflyBelle

3 жыл бұрын

This person clearly doesn't know what he is talking about... He's only feeding into his prejudice. This video is so pointless.

@micaelaesparza7823

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly can’t even get an apartment for 350k

Looks like a community that is proud of their homes. I've driven through many times and it's not a bad place.

@catintown4404

Жыл бұрын

I am so glad i live in santa ana.May not be the most modern looking city but it sure is the most home feeling city.

The real irony is here that if you drive just a few miles away to main St. and Flower you'll run into a little neighborhood that has multi-million dollar homes in it.

@ooooo3999

2 жыл бұрын

He drives past OCSA which is like an upper middle class, prestigious high school

“Worse parts of OC” *shows Santa Ana* bruh, I love my city, yeah it has its gangs and it’s shady parts but if you ain’t out here looking for trouble youre chillin.

@crystaljmarrujo7425

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@ooooo3999

2 жыл бұрын

He should show the motels of beach blvd instead. That is the area I hate. And driving through there is ok but going inside the motels is scary

This video is problematic and tone deaf. It equates working class with “worst parts”. It is borderline elitism. There are actual neglect/dilapidated neighborhoods, or, as you would say, “worst parts” in Santa Ana and other parts of Orange County. Why didn’t you go to those? Then again, someone else might say the “worst parts” are those neighborhoods in Irvine and elsewhere with all those cookie cutter neighborhoods. All looking the same. All beige and boring with no character or personality. Truly awful.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

That's an opinion

@abebalderas

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson it’s irresponsible

@paigeherrin29

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I grew up in Santa Ana in the 70s and 80s. The track home cookie cutter housing development push south into Irvine is hideous. I went to Foothill High School and Santa Ana High School. I remember huge areas of agriculture between Santa Ana and Irvine. Now it’s all one big housing development for miles and miles. Hell, I remember going to concerts at Irvine Meadows. It seemed like the middle of no where. My parents still live in their modest home in Santa Ana in a beautiful neighborhood that has very nice size manicured lawns. The older homes have way more lot square footage and space between neighbors than the fancy cookie cutters piled on top of each other to the south of it. No character, no uniqueness.

@LunaDewdrops

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This video was trash. All it did for me was give me nostalgia about the neighborhood where i grew up.

@flowersfromh-evanlakshmi7577

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am not crazy of production homes. These are unique and I bet the neighbor's homes don't look exactly the same. Lo

I’ve lived here for 25 years and just recently the last 3 years been in downtown fullerton area. I loved Santa Ana because it felt like home to many Mexicans and everyone in my neighborhood was friendly, but I grew up poor and these areas are actually the decent parts of Santa Ana. I’d choose Santa Ana over LA any day. This is a low income area and just because we don’t have the funds or live in a boujee place, doesn’t make it bad. We do with what we can and just because some people decide to be in gangs, it doesn’t mean everyone in Santa Ana thinks the same. At least Santa Ana doesn’t have urine smells, homeless in every corner, trash liter like other states in other counties. Santa Ana is slowly building it’s way back up with a lot of fun bars and restaurants opening up in the downtown area. Try them, on Broadway street.

@CoronaryArteryDisease.

2 жыл бұрын

Lived in Santa Ana for a few years. Definitely not a bad place to live compared to places around the country. People there are hard working with families and a sense of community and purpose. I loved the vibe. I miss driving down Bristol.

This video made my day. I used to stay at the end of the video. Bring back a lot of memories 😢left when I was 15 now I’m 34 😭I keep having dreams going down 1st thru la cuatro. Miss my hometown. I stay in Michigan now 🤦‍♂️

“The Hispanic population is OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH” not the greatest Choice of words lmao

@marcduchamp5512

3 жыл бұрын

Put in as matter-of-factly speaking. Let’s erase all reality and live in a LaLa Land

@sociedadnortena9514

3 жыл бұрын

As a Mexican I don’t mind the choice of words. He’s correct btw. It went from barely Any Mexicans to majority Mexicans.

@q-chan4764

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that phrasing makes it sound like it shouldn’t be that high or it is a problem.

@ibi137

3 жыл бұрын

But he’s right though

@josephaugello1527

2 жыл бұрын

California is 43% Hispanic. That should not even be a ? Downey is nice it's close to 80% Hispanic, whittier to

You missed the real hoods, you drove thru “middle class” Santana !

@vippersor

3 жыл бұрын

nah middle class santa ana is near the 55

@variouspromotions1391

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Santa Ana and most of it is pretty bad

@tinkerbell69714

2 жыл бұрын

I think he was afraid of going into the real hoods. Because he assumes the worst of us. Just proves that even though you may sound knowledgeable with your extended vocabulary you can still be ignorant in so many other ways.

@elpaletero123

2 жыл бұрын

He should see the Townsend area and warner

@josea.martinez2134

2 жыл бұрын

Should’ve gone through Jackson and 5th street

You did a great job making it look dangerous with the filter and background sound, but honestly to me it looks very clean, just an average US city; if this is bad to you I recommend you not to put a foot in east Los Angeles, Oakland, Tenderloin SF, Detroit or South Beach Fl. ..hmm…. I’m not really able to decode the meaning of this vid, but I’m suspecting.

@kylemontano228

10 ай бұрын

east la really isn’t that bad either, been there countless times

I was raised in Santa Ana and I grew up just fine! Saying that they are poorest residence is not ok. Most of us grew happy here!

@GHOST_M3RK

2 жыл бұрын

F*** Santa Ana it’s too ghetto Newport and Costa Mesa > Santa Ana

@paigeherrin29

Жыл бұрын

I grew up happy in Santa Ana in the 1980s 😁

I'm still waiting to see whats supposed to be so bad about this part of Cali. It looks as good as anywhere else to me.

@CarnageZ.

3 жыл бұрын

Nah trust me it’s pretty bad

@diegohernandez9662

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarnageZ. this foo showed the good parts of Santa Ana and passed it off as ghetto 😂😂

@CarnageZ.

3 жыл бұрын

@@diegohernandez9662 I mean there places even nicer the houses by the cube

@projectjt3149

3 жыл бұрын

@@diegohernandez9662 and he went to Main Street, the BEST part of Santa Ana, before it leads right into Orange and that area is pretty much urban.

@winning3329

3 жыл бұрын

It's very expensive to live there so the bad people got to keep it moving.

I see small, comfortable well-kept homes and nice lawns. No trash or graffiti. I have to ask if his perception of "worst" translates to people of color people moving there (let's just call it what it is - "white flight" - and now it's 80% Latino. If the majority was still white, in his view would this still qualify Santa Ana as a "bad" neighborhood? He said in 2011 Forbes rated it one of the safest large American cities, but "crime has picked up", but is now "about average" for American cities. This is his first video that I ever down voted.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

The title explains it

@angelzanetti-1947

2 жыл бұрын

Nick was trying desperately to spin the narrative.

@saucytats7976

2 жыл бұрын

@TruthSeeker oh so you’re saying you believe in racial inequality and white privilege?

@butafligq1606

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Leave it to a white guy accustomed to wasp areas to label something different bad. There’s worse parts of the OC that aren’t Santa Ana.

The palm Tress are absolutely beautiful. The streets are clean and and it feels quite nice!

Santa Ana’s ghetto is paradise compared to the Central Valley

@kevina5009

3 жыл бұрын

Nah bruh not at all

@lukesmith981

3 жыл бұрын

Yup lol, just moved from Long Beach to Fresno and it was the biggest mistake! Thinking about moving to Clovis just a door over.

@Hairybarryy

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukesmith981 i would check out Kingsburg. Beautiful place. Not far from anything. it has nice breeze too during the summer. Homes are going up in price so dont hesitate if you find something you like

@peaceandquiet1983

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@robzilla730

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukesmith981 West Side Fresno. You'll swear you're in a 4th world country!

this is like a beverly hills compared to other bad areas in the country

@MizaG115.

3 жыл бұрын

He didn’t even drive through the hoods he drove though their nice parts, most their hoods are at apartment complexes

@herbertthewaterrat

3 жыл бұрын

Compared to the hoods back east its a cake walk

@MizaG115.

3 жыл бұрын

@@herbertthewaterrat ye my bad CA actually has the money to gentrify their areas

@douglasl1320

3 жыл бұрын

lmao he didn’t even go thru the biggest hoods of santa ana. he literally passed by the areas with the most money flowing thru. come by Townsend, or Memorial Park. then we’ll see

@elwoodblues9613

3 жыл бұрын

Poorer? Yes. Scary? No. Now South Central LA *is* scary.

My hometown. My childhood home was only a few blocks from that church. My mom would have my brother and I walk to church on Sundays. Santa Ana might not be considered the safest and that’s due to some people who ruin this city for others but the majority of the people who live here work hard to give their families a better life. We are full of life, personality, hope and are a community. This city has given many immigrants a sense of home away from home. I miss my city ❤️

I grew up in Orange county, I've worked in and visited Santa Ana hundreds of times. Santa Ana and its residents are awesome and the beating cultural heart of orange county. Even post covid Santa Ana has a vibrant downtown. I was just up there today for lunch at my favorite roadside taqueria.

I’m sorry that my city scared you. I love it here. Born and raised in this beautiful city full of culture. It’s a shame that you only drove during the day and also during the pandemic. Come visit downtown in the evening after this is all over. It’ll give you a different perspective. I’m not being sarcastic either. I love the nightlife here and always feel safe walking around. Now don’t get me wrong, if you’re up to no good and looking to cause trouble, then trouble you will find. But for the avg folk...it’s all love around here.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Good

@alexistap2658

3 жыл бұрын

Yupp.. born and raised in S*A 🔥

@paigeherrin29

3 жыл бұрын

Same, raised in Santa Ana and my parents still live there in the same house. At 50, I’ve lived all over the country and every time I go home to visit the folks, I’m thankful of the neighborhood I grew up in.

@julioluna4278

3 жыл бұрын

I love California, I've seen worse neighborhoods in Oklahoma city. Not to mention Georgia....abandoned cars homes.

@beths1655

3 жыл бұрын

Lol the fact that he was scared driving by lolol im like who is going to attack you the paletero!?

I actually thought Santa Ana looked pretty good for a bad area. I expected lots of trailer parks with dumped and wrecked cars lining the streets and boarded up houses, what I saw were nice well kept houses and gardens and the main street was nice and clean with no homeless lying around. Only saw a glimpse of one trailer park and even it didn't look too bad. A nice typical suburban cityscape, they hide their "BAD" very well.

@mexicannuts9353

3 жыл бұрын

this guy isnt even driving threw the bad side of santa ana 😂

@eriks8382

2 жыл бұрын

Looks pretty brown I mean BAD to me. Right nick?

I live in Huntington Beach. I drive my 2019 Range Rover often through those same streets you filmed visiting my Vietnamese friends. I’ve never had any issues in these WORKING CLASS neighborhoods. Can it be my 6/2 athletic build, half French (white) half Pac Islander physical features or is it the fact that I show respect to the people living in those areas the reason I’ve never had issue? I believe it’s how you treat people that determines your experiences in Santa Ana…..

@mushy18100

Жыл бұрын

Car thieves don’t like European cars. They like to steal 90s Japanese Honda Cars like Civic Hatches and Integras. Park your 2019 Range Rover outside, you’d see it again flawless the next day whereas a 1992 Honda civic hatch and it’s gone in a heartbeat.

Born and raised, 56 years. Growing up in Santa Ana I would agree on the rapid rise of Hispanic families however all the folks I’ve encountered are hard working, honest individuals. Crime exist everywhere and trouble will find you if you go looking for it. Have not experienced any of that and I feel more than safe walking in my neighborhood.

This area does not look ghetto, at worst, every other house looks they have not remodeled in about 20 years. Ghetto for Orange County is a house that is not a custom made house with atleast one expensive car in the driveway

@user-qy4ir9ib7d

3 жыл бұрын

it’s gentrified in OC foos still gettin shot tho from Fullerton down to Santa Ana don’t get it twisted lol

@kevina5009

3 жыл бұрын

This guy didn’t go to the bad parts of Santa Ana.

@diegohernandez9662

3 жыл бұрын

This video is misleading he showed middle class houses that are most likely owned by Asians or white people.

@crazyxvatox562

3 жыл бұрын

Yea he aint in no Bristol or Beach blv at night time he playing it safe😂

I go quite often to Santa Ana. Feels much safer than LA.

@1javixD

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah totally safer than LA. It’s ghetto and dirty but not quite as LA.

@V8Deuce

2 жыл бұрын

@lidia Davidson Sure thing, numb nuts.....

@larrylo2985

2 жыл бұрын

Man that camp homeless encampment area was off the chain

@danny.96

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed a lot more homeless in Santa Ana. It makes me sad to see but living in OC, it’s not that bad. Every city has its good and bad.

@sleepiestboi4631

2 жыл бұрын

Preach! I always feel a sigh of relief when I'm traveling down the 5 freeway and see Santa Ana on the billboards after a night out in LA

Honestly I was born in Anaheim Hills lived in Brea and Huntington Beach moved to Houston TX and I’ll be honest Santa Ana is a Godsend compared to the neighborhoods in Houston TX been to St Louis and Tulsa, OK mostly white areas that are in dire economic shape and not so safe, not to mention Birmingham Alabama the narratator needs to get out more he’ll appreciate OC the good and not so affluent because or once you step into black neighborhoods or distressed white suburbs of let’s say Detroit or different parts of America you’ll clearly see Mexicans in a whole new light but nevertheless keep at it. I seriously carry concealed anytime I travel anywhere deep in America and only where my Texas LTC license is accepted!

Next week I'm starting to drive school bus in Tustin and just crazy looking for videos to see holw is the city...so far it looks pretty good and adding the fact that I love vintage old town I'm actually looking foward to it

Pfft. Anyone who describes Anaheim as “dangerous” needs to get out of the house more often. It’s only “dangerous” if you grew up in Orange or Yorba Linda.

@ol59kafer92

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Huntington beach been all over Anaheim, Santa Ana, Long Beach and LA at all times of the day and night. It's only dangerous if you cant handle yourself and your scared of your shadow. I once got beaten up in one of the richest neighborhoods in Orange County , Balboa Island. So it dont matter what neighborhood your in rich or poor there are thugs everywhere . ya just dont see them in the richer neighborhoods but they are there.

I’d love to be able to afford one of those cute little Spanish style homes with mature landscapes! I don’t see scary, just middle class??!?

@1javixD

3 жыл бұрын

Omg no. Go to Costa Mesa. Neighbors are rude and not friendly. All you hear is sirens at night and gun shots.

@spacemono5419

3 жыл бұрын

Its not scary! this is just a false advertisement,

@isaacguerrero597

3 жыл бұрын

@@1javixD haha Costa Mesa

@olg06

3 жыл бұрын

Those fully remodeled 1920's Spanish style homes with lush lawns you speak of start at $1,000,000+ now. They are charming indeed tho. You may not be able to afford one put you can stay in one, there is currently an airb&b listing of one in santa ana's higher-end neighborhoods

@nataliesthompsonxo

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who’s middle class I’m not buying a home in Santa Ana 🤣🤣🤣

Wow, what a privileged life to drive through working class neighborhoods and point out how "poor" it looks...

Is Santa Ana really the 4th most densely populated city in the country? When I look up the data, Santa Ana doesn’t even get mentioned. I’m curious if you have your source for this? I grew up in OC and always remember thinking of Santa Ana as like the “downtown” of the OC, but I’d be surprised if it was really that dense in reality.

California cities with a higher violent crime rate than Santa Ana are Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland , Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco and Stockton (which has the highest violent crime rate in CA).To put things in to perspective, Santa Ana has about 1/3 the violent crime rate of Stockton.

@UmAdxXbRo

3 жыл бұрын

I’m surprised Fresno made the list. I feel very safe in Fresno tbh.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

It's bad for the OC

@crazeyjoe

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson Precisely! 🤘

@Aldarionz9

3 жыл бұрын

i had thought about moving to Sacramento. Where would be safe in Cali?

@crazeyjoe

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aldarionz9 Not all areas of Sacramento are crime ridden, so if you choose to live there, just research the neighborhoods and avoid the high crime neighborhoods.

He didn't even drive thru the worst parts of Santa Ana go to Raitt and Mcfadden, Standard and Edinger , El Savador Park, Harbor and 1st all those areas are more active then where u went thru

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

This is the worst crime wise

@hecatelove9667

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. In fact where he went there wasn't even gang guard on the houses. It was actually one of the better kept neighborhoods in SA. Well, for those of us who live in OC, we know where to avoid. 😁

@vce.john1734

3 жыл бұрын

Right at edinger from other side that goes to fountain valley becoming pretty nice because I use to know someone kid own a house down there and backyard was big asf fit a lot of people at the time I was there was a party of something sadly the lady just pass away and the house is either rented out or already sold

@edgarpena3946

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up on harbor and 1st back In the 90s haha

@DragonRiderProductions

3 жыл бұрын

I had a business at Edinger and Standard for decades. I even lived on Minnie St until a certain point. I knew many people in the area and still good friends with a few who live in the 'red circle'. We still do children community events like dia de los ninos, walk the neighborhood and give out invites. We do get word to any gangs what we're doing and never a problem. Yes, there's crime but I never thought it the worst part of the county either.

There's a really really nice neighborhood in Santa Ana (near Main Place) where the homes are actually beautifully classic mansions, huge lots, impeccable landscape, gigantic "Gone With The Wind" style staircase, fancy chandeliers.

@NickJohnson

2 жыл бұрын

Cool 🏠

@brianpatrick9902

Жыл бұрын

It’s called floral park area. Very nice

@monztunes6850

7 ай бұрын

Yup my brother lives close to the st Joseph's and it's nice nice

Can you please video tape the bad areas I. Anaheim California?? 🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you for ur hard work 😊

It looks clean and orderly, though aged. It looks much better than many other cities.

@razorsharplifestyle101hard9

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly,dude I don't get this mini doc he doing.He acting like he driving thru area that looks like skid row.

I'm from England, this reminded me I haven't been back to California since I was 15 years old. God looking at this just pinged so many emotional memories for me, the beautiful wide streets, detatched houses, no traffic at all. This reminds me of ET and Back to the future looking at all these neighbourhoods. And as you were driving around, wow it's cold and nearly december here, but I could taste the sweet taste of the heat in the Californian air. The musk of all those trees lining the streets. The beautiful warmth basking everything around you. Jesus christ I know California is going through a rough patch right now, but it's a beautiful place. The sounds, the positivity, the food, the people. Driving around and getting whatever you want, the feeling of freedom and protection. It's a kind of Magic to drive and walk through California. So few people, some much to do, that air in your lungs, desert mixed with smog and pine and heat. What a fucking state.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Lol it's changed bro

@Aldarionz9

3 жыл бұрын

you could write a book. You have a Poetic style.

@jamescpalmer

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson I like your videos alot. Drawing attention to the deprivation in some parts of the US is important.

@wfireC

3 жыл бұрын

You said it. California is magical.

@foedummm233

3 жыл бұрын

idk about the people imo ppl here suck

I’ve lived in Santa Ana off and on in the good parts and in the bad parts since the early 80s when I was a teenager. Nothing much has changed except for a more liberal government that allows for more crime to go unpunished. But the people that live in those houses and who work there are actually pretty CONSERVATIVE family oriented people who know more about loyalty to one another than most. If you’re going to measure the neighborhood by what it looks like or the type of rims people have on their cars, which is implied, that’s one standard. But the real way to measure the streets you drove is by how well the families that live there care for one another. Measure the degree of that against the clinical more shallow type of familia you might encounter in “nicer” areas and Santa Ana wins hands down. Never had a problem with anyone in Santa Ana. As long as you give people respect, look them in the eye and are sincere, don’t be too aloof, even the most hard gangbangers are going to leave you alone.

@NickJohnson

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know

This is great stuff, how do you film it? 360 camera mount in front of car?

Gee, Nick, the neighborhood is older but most houses looked really well kept. I'd say a pretty nice neighborhood compared to some places in Oakland or L.A. If those houses were in Carmel or Palo Alto I'd say it was a beautiful neighborhood. The downtown seemed typical (and not that bad either) compared to other big cities.

@taelorwatson9822

3 жыл бұрын

The downtown is nice. It contains the center of government for Orange County

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

It's bad for OC but average I guess for all big US cities

@johnmcguinness9596

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson It is not bad for OC, get out and live a little.

@dennisevans3164

3 жыл бұрын

@andydguitar This guys doesn't know anything about Santa Ana. He didn't go threw all the many ghettos in Santa Ana. There are areas like Santa Nita is a part oh f Santa Ana very poor. The section look like Huntington Park in East LA. If he drive threw area like Bristol & McFadden ave,5th ih s ghetto from Eastside all the way to the westside . Then you'd see the truth .

@OnlythaRealness

3 жыл бұрын

Dont let if fool you the problem is the gangs theres helicopters at night and lotta shooting yeah he didnt his alot of the poor neighborhoods but I get he was going thru from some statistics thanks for showing santa ana tho theres alot of culture there I got shot and stabbed there by the age of 16 so I definitely know it can be bad

The sad part is that the average price of a house in Santa Ana is 700 thousand dollars. Good luck finding a house under 300 thousand dollars

@wildrice3050

3 жыл бұрын

right. He's not going to find a house under 400K in Santa Ana. Maybe 2BR condo.

@razorsharplifestyle101hard9

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly,Dude is extremely naive.

@vce.john1734

2 жыл бұрын

Yup a 5 bed 5 bath is for sale which I love to buy but cost 2.1m in Santa Ana but nicer neighborhood that was freshly built

Quite charming in my opinion, I lived In Irvine, Lake Forest, Oakland, San Francisco, and Washington DC. Trust me, Santa Ana is NOT scary, unless you go look for troubles.

I’m impressed some Santa Ana born residents tell me Santa Ana is bad, they haven’t seen L.A. In L.A there are some streets I wouldn’t walk through during day time and even less at night. Santa Ana is just like other city (it’s pros and cons). Never had an issue. 🙂

Your word selection says alot about your perspective, cities like Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anahiem & Orange are the cultural centers of Orange County. I am born and raised in Santa Ana, and I love the city I live in.

@isaiahdaily123

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Orange County. Santa Ana was the first 8 years of my life and I would never live there again. I went to bed hearing automatic fire arms as a child. We had a drive by shooting at our house before I born for no reason. And I got bad looks for not being Hispanic. The only positives I remember were the food and parties/fiestas, and the closeness of the houses made it easy to have friends as a child. The gang/illegal alien presence is VERY strong. Overall bad influences are at every corner.

@antzerr1704

2 жыл бұрын

@@isaiahdaily123 I am curious which part of Santa Ana has been dangerous? I myself have lived in Santa Ana for a long time.

@WorkHardBeNice

2 жыл бұрын

Let's keep it real. Santa Ana (or most of it) is shitty, but it's Orange County shitty. Which means it's a damn sight safer than comparable cities in LA. But as Democrats encroach on Santa Ana, expect it to get worse. Much worse.

@WorkHardBeNice

2 жыл бұрын

@Jorge Do you consider the cities you mentioned "cultural centers" because of their minority populations or because of their history? It almost sounds like you're saying only minorities can contribute anything of cultural significance.

@aldairt4899

2 жыл бұрын

@@WorkHardBeNice not much cultural representation in Cookie Cutter South OC where everyone has the same home

As someone that grew up in east LA, Orange County is Disneyland when compared. Even Santa Ana and Anaheim ain’t bad like everyone claims.

@1javixD

3 жыл бұрын

Well yeah when you compare it to east LA than yeah. LA is huge. Santa Ana is tiny.

@razorsharplifestyle101hard9

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@sandrakicklighter2735

2 жыл бұрын

Just moved to East Anaheim, and LOVE it. Moved to a cul de sac neighborhood of large ranch houses that are well maintained and feel very very safe.

@Jaydawg562

2 жыл бұрын

Shit I live in the city of Orange, I couldn’t believe it when people that lived there claimed it was the “hood”. Hardly any existing crime in the neighborhood I live in and I’ve been here for 6 years and it’s a beautiful neighborhood

@Westcoast10

2 жыл бұрын

@@1javixD Santa Ana ain’t even dangerous, lot of y’all who live in gated communities be tripping over nothing, grow some heuvos.

So I saw a Working class Hispanic neighborhoods. I saw no trash, no homeless encampments, no open air drug markets, no prostitutes. Not saying some of these may exist there, but it looked pretty good. BTW, I grew up there.

These aren’t the worst parts, y’all notice how they bearly tagged, bearly any run down buildings, bearly anyone outside posted up ? 💀

Best Mexican food North of the frontera: El Toro Carneceria - worth dying for. Next door, they'll give you a bag of limes and a bag of salt for your Tequila order.

@GHOST_M3RK

3 жыл бұрын

Taco Bell is better

@J8den

3 жыл бұрын

@@GHOST_M3RK yea it's better if you don't care for food quality and want to try fake tacos

@GHOST_M3RK

3 жыл бұрын

@@J8den nah Taco Bell just better in general

Tbh, it looked just fine to me. Just another boring SoCal suburban sprawl. Didn’t see even 1 graffiti?....

@alexajordan8610

3 жыл бұрын

i did see one.. When he was driving down what looked like an alleyway. But was a street. I guess. Looked like i definitely saw one on a fence. Which still isnt bad.

@Omw2fyb

3 жыл бұрын

Orange county is known to buff graffiti to keep its image as a nice place

@glowboy6098

3 жыл бұрын

@@Omw2fyb true sometimes I’ll see tagging and the next day it’s already gone

@mattbarnes1204

3 жыл бұрын

They've must have been saving some of that spraypaint for N. Main St.--saw a Bank of America there covered with bubble letter graffiti, almost as bad as some of the overpasses on the 710.

@Benjamenvince

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they paint over graf right away in SA. I remember in school they would have anti graf videos.

Santa Ana so beautiful thank you for the video

I think the worst part about these homes are not the neighborhoods or the housing itself, but just how insanely expensive it is to live there. Luxury prices for cramped homes

Still looks better than poor areas in AL, SC, MS KY, WV

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

True

@TheJschafer89

3 жыл бұрын

probably because it is

@markus7n

3 жыл бұрын

Violent all over ca though. Big city but u still feel lonely.

@synecdoche8783

3 жыл бұрын

everyone talks negatively about california yet thousands come here all over the country just to live here despite the rising housing prices, people can bash over california all they want but the number of people coming here everyday don't lie to how great it is being here.

@vce.john1734

3 жыл бұрын

@@synecdoche8783 I love California myself but I just don’t like bullshit laws other than I wouldn’t leave

Dude those aren’t the worst neighborhoods, you need to get out more. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 but hey I’m glad you survived 😂😂

Such a pleasure to know what I could perhaps get into before I go. Nick thanks so much. All, let’s get him to 1 mill subbs! Spread the word

I was born in California. My family traveled a lot, but I lived in Anaheim in 1988. I was 9 years old and my mom walked me to Betsy Ross Elementary school. You really took me back. Thanks.

"It's getting worse.." haha. Not if you ask a local. It's getting better.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they love it

@darlynluk2856

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the ghetto part of Santa Ana. I’m talking low income housing, gangs, Minnie street. It was pretty bad, but since then 10 years have passed. It really has gotten better. Now I live border line SantaAna in a luxury apartment. We are working hard now to own our own home IN SANTA ANA. I also work in a school in the floral park neighborhood which is likewise very beautiful. Santa Ana is a beautiful city and I appreciate it’s rich history and culture. I would like to stay here and although I agree that what you highlighted is a poor area, what I’m arguing is that it truly has gotten better. Trust me 😅

@JohnSmith-sh1zg

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah since they started taxing legal marijuana. Until then it was getting progressively worse.

@alexsandrahernandez9738

3 жыл бұрын

lmao ong

@1javixD

3 жыл бұрын

It’s ghetto ghetto worse every year. I grew up there. There’s more graffiti more gun shots at night. More homeless. People pooping in public. Sometimes it looks like a bird world country.

So blessed in comparison to other parts of the world.

13:29 I used to live in the two story house behind Kitchen Floors on the side of McFadden and in the cul de sac. It was with a very nice family, who I rented a room from for a year. I never had any problems with the family or anyone in the neighborhood around us. It was the first time living away from my family and it was a time in my life that made me feel happy and thankful. I am proud to have lived in the Santa Ana community and are grateful for all the hardworking people who make it what it is today.

Honestly Santa Ana is getting too expensive, even for the thugs. Before the pandemic I lived in Irvine and was (considering) moving to Santa Ana to save some money but the rent for a one-bedroom starts at 1900 dollars a month. There are actually a lot of first year lawyers/nurses/young professionals who live in Santa Ana and Tustin.

@mastertry1935

3 жыл бұрын

same, I ended up getting a one bed at Irvine for 2k

@projectjt3149

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the real estate in Santa Ana spiked a lot the last couple of years. The Artist’s Village REALLY got an upgrade! Speaking of upgrades, WTH happened to the tram?

@glowboy6098

3 жыл бұрын

That’s cuz there gentrifying OC. It was ghetto at one point but those days are long gone

@2livendie331

2 жыл бұрын

U a baddie :)

@hudsonjamesc

2 жыл бұрын

Move to Texas

I really enjoyed this video, as I lived in Santa Ana most of the 90's. I'm going to disagree with you about S.A. getting worse, its getting better.I lived about five years off of McFadden close to Harbor which is not bad at all.When a house would go up for sale,every one was bought by Asian folks. Mostly Vietnamese, but also Philipino or Korean. These people would not buy in a dangerous place. I live in Rosarito Beach in Baja the last five years. It was good to see S.A again.

@elizabethlockmer-ramirez564

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Maybe they need to revamp statistics. Hispanics and Latinos are hard honest working people.

@petervu77

2 жыл бұрын

My cousin's house is on McFadden and Harbor. We use to walk to Cameron's and McDonald's all the time when we were younger. Til this day, I still go the Walmart and Northgate on that corner. Whenever I'm in the mood for real Mexican food....it'll always be Santana, hands down!

I live in a nice part of OC, me and my housekeeper joke around and call anything past Tustin/Irvine, North Mexico or Home Depot’s parking lot supercenter lol it’s funny cause she’s from there but she’s like family so we built a casita on property where she can live and stay safe.

I work santa ana and live anaheim. Its hilarious to me the way this video talks about the cities. Prior to my current station, I worked south central, watts, and inglewood area...people would laugh in your face if they heard you call anywhere in oc the hood. Video is funny. Socal family whoop whoop!!

@sarahelizabeth4796

2 жыл бұрын

right.... try being the token white girl gf in the early 90's...Compton too Bellflower yikers sometimes I am shocked I'm still alive Santa Ana had good parties back in the day

You apparently don’t know Santa Ana that well you might want to Google floral Park in Santa Ana where most homes are in the million range and up.🤔

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

Read the title

@islandboy9580

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson yes one sided

@codenamenova6831

3 жыл бұрын

Yes “you drove to the worst part” of oc and this is “what you saw”

The streets look clean and well maintained, same with the sidewalks. I would not mind walking during the day over there and have some genuine Mexican food in one of those restaurants.

@yads5678

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@sarahelizabeth4796

2 жыл бұрын

AVILA'S EL RANCHITO, Santa Ana - 2201 E 1st St it's my childhood family celebration go to..

@musoehcr

Жыл бұрын

We’re a proud and hard working people no matter how much we make we always strive to be great

@ItsTeeko_

Жыл бұрын

el vaquero has really good quesabirria try it out sometime

@imunmire

9 ай бұрын

@@musoehcrwas born in Santa Ana left when I was a year old or so I would love to visit where I was born my parents are from El Salvador and migrated to Santa ana

Old neighborhood with Craftsman Style bungalows and some Spanish Revival stucco homes. Also wood clad 1930s-1940s single family houses. 1950s modern and Ranch Style, and through the1960s-70s. Nice architectural mix from the decades of occupancy and development

I have cousins who live in Santa Ana, and have been since the first time I came here to visit them and to be fair, its not all that bad and my cousins love it there and hope their doing okay now since its been about 2 or more years since i've seem them irl, and hope to visit them again someday around the holidays or whenever it’s a good time.

I've lived in Santa Ana since the 80s, this video actually makes me see how nice Santa Ana actually looks. As any other booming city, we have overpopulation (which affects parking and how city services respond etc) but we are also seeing the prices of houses have an exponential growth. People want to live in Santa Ana. Something worth mentioning is the homeless population being attributed to the other cities in the County not taking responsibility for their own. Just because the city is comprised of a lower socioeconomic group, does not mean that the rest of the County should just dump their homeless to our city. When I had the decision to either buy a house in Santa Ana or move, I chose to stay here. If Santa Ana scares you, then you need to go out more often.

Looks nice to me but i live in Detroit now.

@albertoacosta6788

3 жыл бұрын

Worst place I ever saw lol empty buildings Detroit or Chicago take the cake for ugliest city

@JesusChrist2000BC

3 жыл бұрын

@@albertoacosta6788 Portland is far more than Detroit nowadays.

@albertoacosta6788

3 жыл бұрын

@@JesusChrist2000BC haven’t been to Portland since 2016 but I don’t disagree I’m sure it gotten worse but you have Denver homes there because the inflated fake market they have there soy boys and leftist women want new upgraded homes

@itzpro5951

3 жыл бұрын

@@albertoacosta6788 downtowns are not that ugly and those are the city so

If these areas are considered awful then sign me up, I want to live here. It's so beautiful I see nothing wrong.

I can assure you that this was NOT the worst part of Santa Ana. Minnie St, Standard, parts near 1st St., McFadden, Warner, off Bristol and Fairview can be much more.

@KarinaRodriguez-ni9nv

3 жыл бұрын

Even walking through there is bad as female. He drove through parts of people who mind their business. I don’t understand how he didn’t walk later in the day through the actual bad areas to get a feel of things

I got a degree from Santa Ana college back in the 90's. I believe it looks better now than back then.

@doodleblockwell2610

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the neighborhood shown in this video. In the late 70's and early 80's it looked much worse. The 1100 sq ft home I grew up is now worth $600K. You don't let that kind of asset fall into disrepair. They are proud of their homes, and it shows.

@anandhbabu18

3 жыл бұрын

Is Santa Anna safe place or not ?

@anandhbabu18

3 жыл бұрын

I got admission in Santa Anna college for my degree 🙄, can you please help me to know something about Santa Anna ?

@razorsharplifestyle101hard9

3 жыл бұрын

@@anandhbabu18 Santa has its methamphetamine issues and chronic homeless community.But as you can see where do is driving thru it basically look like that.His definition of bad is personal.

I used to live in Santa Ana. It's not that bad, just depends on the blocks.

@danielleporter1829

3 жыл бұрын

Danny j As a fellow southern Californian, the same can be said about many part of South LA, Compton, Inglewood, any neighborhood with a mostly minority community. There are bad apples everywhere, but mostly the people who live in these communities are hard working , decent people just living their day to day lives

Worst part of OC is better than most of the US. Also, Santa Ana has a neighborhood called Floral Park which is beautiful and twice named best neighborhood in the US. Also is home to OC Science Discovery center, Bowers Museum and the top-rated HS football team in the country, Mater Dei.

This guy don't know what dangerous is.

It’s my neighborhood!! I love this place, it may be low income but it’s nothing but hardworking people.

THIS, compared with the badlands of Baton Rouge, LA looks like Disney Land.

@sethbearry440

3 жыл бұрын

I’m an LSU student and I support this message.

@valfletcher9285

3 жыл бұрын

@@sethbearry440 Hi Seth! LSU fan here, too. Small world! Happy Thanksgiving.

@504RoadTrips

3 жыл бұрын

Baton Rouge has extremes in both directions. The worst parts of Baton Rouge are slightly worse than the worst parts of New Orleans. There's just more of it in New Orleans.

@NickJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

For the OC it's bad but yeah, it's average for all big cities.

@valfletcher9285

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickJohnson Hi Nick! One day you ought to drive through New Orleans...it is a very interesting and historical city...The old Garden District uptown is gorgeous! Well, it would have more national interest than Baton Rouge would have. The 2 cities are not far apart geographically but are very different. Shreveport, LA does not even seem remotely like either one of them. Louisiana has many regions and culturally diverse areas. Nick, I love your videos.

I'm half way through and all I see are really nice, cute, well kept homes with kept landscaping. I don't see a " worst" neighborhood at all. Only blip was the trailer park

Looks way cleaner and less homeless and mentally deranged people than some of the most expensive cities around LA

This is the nice part of “Santana” lol. West Anacrime, Stanton, La Habra, and some of Buena Park got more of a hood vibe but all is like Heaven compared to Long Beach and LA

@ManilaSlim

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed... I used to drive down beach and ball to get to work and would be impressed to see the prostitutes up and working at 7am.

@AslanKyoya1776

3 жыл бұрын

La Habra isn't really hood it's just mostly run down, I've never felt unsafe there

@kyloken151

3 жыл бұрын

It’s all nice compared to somewhere shittier. It all has to do with perspective I guess

@lavinaannamarie2016

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same! I'm a property manager in LB, Santa Ana is not bad at all.

@mellissafregoso1415

3 жыл бұрын

Truth

So question, before Santa Ana was mostly all whites, at first wasn’t it mostly all Mexican before whites settled there?

@SP-xy7yh

3 жыл бұрын

Before it was a white suburb, it was basically farmland with pockets of indigenous/Spanish/Mexican owners. The entirety of OC used to be strawberry and citrus fields. Santa Ana was pretty much the hub because it’s where the courthouse and stuff were. It wasn’t until after WWII when the suburbanization kicked up, though even towards the 1990s there was still tons of empty land.

@arianelove8513

3 жыл бұрын

@@SP-xy7yh thank you for that History. I have to educate myself on the history of California, I love it so much and the culture.

@hildaprado5413

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Yes!! And if these other dumb rich cities would keep their transients in their own city.... Santa Ana would not be so bad... but no they come and drop them off here.

@josephgonzales3857

3 жыл бұрын

it was spanish from San Clemente to San Francisco hence all the cities had spanish surnames

@Veso27

3 жыл бұрын

@@hildaprado5413 Have literally seen vans from other cities dropping off homeless here.

Looks beautiful and sunny 🌞

Is this an attempt at satire? I see well maintained homes, well maintained lawns, clean streets, well maintained landscaping and lots of trees. Looking at the cars, while not the latest models, I see well maintained vehicles, and in good shape for being 10-15 years old. I didn’t hear one police siren or a helicopter during the filming of this video. Very dramatic.

@magz580

Жыл бұрын

Foreal bro,lmao. I’m from the east coast, just moved to Buena Park and drive around there alot. This dude has clearly never been to bad neighborhoods if he thinks Santa Ana is bad.

I''ll pass on California but seemed really nice for a Poor Area.

@MrOGsonic

3 жыл бұрын

@My Earth Exactly! I live in this *ghetto gangster city" and I pay $1,300/month for a one bedroom apartment. And that's cheap compared to others areas. Living in santa ana is actually pricey.

@MrOGsonic

3 жыл бұрын

@Fungus Amongus Yeah it sucks being labeled the "ghetto" of orange county. When in reality, SA is considered OC's downtown. This video doesn't talk about "Floral Park" the homes there average at $1 million. He didn't talk about "French Park" some beautiful original Victorian houses. We have million dollar flats by the train station. Why would people pay millions to live with gangsters? He never even went through downtown. Which I believe he says he was in the video. He just chose a alleyway and a "bad" neighborhood and based everything from that. It's even funnier that there's neighborhoods that are even worse then what he showcased. Absolutely no research at all. This guy gets a 4/10

@cspan1993

3 жыл бұрын

The average income is 60000 which is really high for the US but in surrounding cities the average income is at least $100000

@rickhunter6479

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah because everybody has their fucking teethssss

@louisesaucedo7033

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrOGsonic How so? Idk where you live, but even in really bad areas the cheapest apartment is like 1500 to 1600 for one bedroom.

As a long past X-Californian. I'm sorry, this looks like a basic middle class working neighborhood. Where are the "for sale" signs, where are the barred windows, street corner hang-outs? I wouldn't live in CA on my worst day again but really???

@ooooo3999

2 жыл бұрын

Because the worst parts of Orange County are like the decent parts of Los Angeles county.

This is a beautiful city with a beautiful culture. I love this city and my friends from there.

Used to live there 3 years ago, such a beautiful place to live. If I could I’d move back or completed all 4 years of highschool there. The culture is beautiful and the feeling of community is great although it is dangerous if you mess with the wrong crowds. Just a great Chicano area