I always thought I was attracted to neighborhoods like this because of the old architecture. That may be true, but a huge reason now is because they're walkable and human-centric. Not sterile and designed for cars. I hope zoning laws change and we can go back to building these types of neighborhoods.

@ktoth29

2 жыл бұрын

Zoning is one of many "progressive" innovations to have long lasting unintended consequences... nowadays you can't build anything in a city without 10 different administrative approvals, back then people built whatever they wanted wherever they wanted, and managed to organize themselves pretty well in spite of the lack of guidance or regulation.

@isaacribeiro6823

2 жыл бұрын

zoning laws are great, so great, right? kzread.info/dash/bejne/moJ4ycWjhqquedo.html

@isaacribeiro6823

2 жыл бұрын

@@ktoth29 was organic and people could govern themselves better than governors can govern there our household.

@heehokuzunoha7757

2 жыл бұрын

What you're describing isn't representative of the majority of the rust belt. In my part of Michigan we have just about the worst city planning imaginable for pedestrians save for university towns and certain neighborhoods. My town barely has any sidewalks and the ones we do have are straight shots that go on for miles, partially terminate at random points only to resume and are frequently interrupted by road crossings. You pretty much need a car to go anywhere and do anything. My home town that I spent the first 20 years of my life in was actually pretty pedestrian friendly only because the town was built around some of the natural geography such as cliffs and rivers.

@seesee5363

2 жыл бұрын

you people litterly just regurgitate whatever you hear in these videos and then act like you have any sorrt of agency

Detroit sitting there like: c'mon baby, daddy needs a new pair of people..

@ModeFin

2 жыл бұрын

Asians also waiting 🤣

@innercityprepper

2 жыл бұрын

@@ModeFin huh?

@DJ_BROBOT

2 жыл бұрын

the bad thing about Detroit is that its Houston before Houston...every damn road is a 6 lane highway and all look the same (from Detroit to the suburbs) with no walkable places outside the rich bedroom communities. Plus you gotta get everywhere thru nine freeways.

@leozmaxwelljilliumz3360

2 жыл бұрын

And new leadership

@dwaynesbadchemicals

2 жыл бұрын

Detroit Adam and Eve.

I also think it's nice that Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, and Buffalo are all connected by an Amtrak route. Not as fast as a plane, but I think it's a chill way to travel. Have dinner and drinks in the diner car while watching the scenery go by. I mean c'mon who wants to drive if this is an option?

@DByers-ci5kr

Жыл бұрын

The Amtrak Empire Builder sux. Next.

@brixan...

Жыл бұрын

Car enthusiasts...

@austin1fiddler

Жыл бұрын

I agree as long as you are not in a hurry and don't need to sleep during the trip.

@0ffaI

Жыл бұрын

​@@brixan... Do car enthusiasts still exist? I was one for most of my life but modern cars are completely unlovable piles of crap. Most of my friends who once loved cars feel the exact same way and it's not very practical to daily drive something from the 80/90's.

@brixan...

Жыл бұрын

@@0ffaI they're in the comments of these videos talking about how "I'm not giving up my car tho" or hating on electric car videos. They're out there...

Just came back from Chicago, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Seriously thinking of moving my family out of Cali to Pittsburgh PA. Never thought much about Pittsburgh until me and my wife visited and surprisingly fell in love with that little city by the rivers in the mountains. Very underrated town and going through some changes for the better.

@Kaws_One

2 жыл бұрын

Visit in the winter before you make that leap......

@derioboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kaws_One yup, will go back that way during the kids winter break (dec/jan). Appreciate the advice though.

@chairmanlmao4482

2 жыл бұрын

What I love about Pittsburgh is that because of the rolling hills, each neighbourhood kinda acts as a separate smaller town, with a main street or even a mini downtown of its own (if its a larger suburb). When cities are built on flat land the city usually ends up consisting of a relatively small downtown surrounded by endless residential developments, aka car dependent suburbia (Phoenix is a perfect example of this) Also doesn't hurt that Western Pennsylvania is absolutely gorgeous and I would move there in a heartbeat if the US wasn't such a neoliberal capitalist nightmare at the moment

@derioboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@chairmanlmao4482 yes, I noticed that as well. Driving roads and you can make a turn and end up in a cool neighborhood or run into a huge shopping mall but never notice it coming cuz the hills just keep it out of view. Pittsburgh sprawl is different for sure.

@Skzzlemister

Жыл бұрын

I visited Pittsburg for the first time this summer. I was blown away by the beauty of the surroundings and the hilly-ness of the topography. A great American city that is so underrated.

I'm from Colorado and I'm used the sprawling layout. However, this year I moved to a rural town in south korea where everything is built close together with easy access to public transportation. As much as I miss the freedom of driving a car, I also love how everything I need is a 10 minute walk away at most and I don't have to pay for fuel, loans or insurance on a car. I get more exercise and it's better for the environment. I just wish I could have my beautiful colorado mountains here too.

@rockymtnsteeze1815

2 жыл бұрын

a lot of mountain towns in Colorado have great free public transportation and you can walk everywhere. Summit County is like this. I use to live there. It is very expensive now. I am in Leadville and can walk most places. I take a free bus to Summit County. I live in town in Leadville and can walk to the grocery stores, restaurants and bars.

@stacie1595

2 жыл бұрын

@@rockymtnsteeze1815 I'm from Colorado Springs so not such a great place for public transit. I'm actually interested in moving to summit county some day, would love to walk or take busses places.

@موسى_7

2 жыл бұрын

Walkable rural life without need for a car. See, even farmers don't need cars! Lovely! You live like the ancient and medieval life in the lovely paintings and fairy tales! I would love to live that! Walkability and farm animals are the dream!

@stacie1595

2 жыл бұрын

@@موسى_7 haha I love your optimism! Sadly it's not nearly as glamorous as that and no farm animals to speak of... unless you include the colony of feral cats that run my neighborhood.

@موسى_7

2 жыл бұрын

@@stacie1595 No animals? Sad. In the past, animals were the only source of fertiliser, so they were necessary.

For once I’m actually glad to live in the rust belt. You know it’s funny all the people leaving Southern California and they just pick up and go to another desert city. When will people learn not to build cities in a damn desert.

@GabrielFerreira-ue8hs

2 жыл бұрын

I've been thinking about that lately, most of the south region will become unbearable to live.

@mattbpatterson

2 жыл бұрын

I’d love to move to SoCal just can’t afford the rent

@mattbpatterson

2 жыл бұрын

@Keyser Soze it’s worth it

@mattbpatterson

2 жыл бұрын

@Keyser Soze oh I know . California is a magical place though, that’s why a gazillion people live there

@mementomori29231

2 жыл бұрын

Meh. Left the rust belt, depressing to live there in general with the gloomy weather and horrible roads due to the salt used in the winter. Don't miss rust belt one bit. This channel can try to hype it up all he wants, but it is so depressing to live in the rust belt and I'm so glad to no longer live there.

I was born and raised in Traverse City, Michigan and every summer our population goes from 15,000 to like 115,000. Just because the rich buy up all the housing up here for their summer homes. We have almost no middle class here and it’s hitting hard with businesses now. Businesses can’t find enough workers because of how ridiculous our housing situation is and my city could care less as long as they get more tourists (money). It sucks being in a city that cares more for the tourists than the actual citizens.

@lindalemieux4184

2 жыл бұрын

I went to Traverse city once and I just loved it. It is precious. I want to retun for a visit some day.

@flyingfart2804

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindalemieux4184 I will always love my city but I’m just annoyed on how it’s ran right now is all.

@ellispiper6313

Жыл бұрын

That's a tough situation. I'm from southeast Michigan, but have been up to traverse city a few times. It's all great that they want rich travelers/tourists, but there should definetly be a balance. Hope everything goes well

@flyingfart2804

Жыл бұрын

@@ellispiper6313 yeah, if they don’t put up more affordable housing soon, the city is going to collapse on itself. We rely heavily on these Jamaicans that must work abroad. Which is fine, but still not very helpful in the long run.

@DetroitZeal

Жыл бұрын

Detroit pretty much in the same boat but we have a decline of population. Which is a good thing for my people in neighborhoods dealing with outsiders trying to buy homes because of the low climate and growth in communities. Most people just need to stay where they at and stop leaving their dome.

I live in the Akron, Ohio area and frequently work all over Cleveland. I really love Cleveland. It has it's issues, but it has heart & soul. The people are great, the architecture is incredible. It's always felt welcoming in Cleveland

@TeimonKauppa739

Жыл бұрын

Swag like ohio

Interesting...I always thought we were called the rust belt because our economies (directly or indirectly) were base on the steel and car industries and since those industries were closing and rusting away, so it looked like we were. With some changes to transit made to our city in the past year and a half, I decided to use it for work and other errands (as much as possible). I lost 30 lbs in less than 3 months and leveled out at a healthy weight. There are more benefits than you think to the rust belt.

@keybored67

2 жыл бұрын

I lost a remote control

@ham_slam_wich

2 жыл бұрын

That is correct. He just says "industry" in the video, but the decline of specifically steel production is where the phrase first came from.

@maoschanz4665

2 жыл бұрын

it was named the "manufacturing belt" when the steel-based industries were at their peak, "rust belt" is a recent nickname

@historybuff7491

2 жыл бұрын

@@maoschanz4665 I agree, but as I am over 50, it is not that recent a nickname.

@moshspeggeti

2 жыл бұрын

It's also called the "Rust Belt" because our cars Rust faster from the salt. Everything "Rusts" easily up here lol.

Abandoning Phoenix would do our society wonders

@somebonehead

2 жыл бұрын

As well as the rest of the Mojave desert. Nevada is mostly federal land, anyway.

@dalton-at-work

2 жыл бұрын

I plan to leave Phoenix in a few years. I plan to buy a house in a different part of the state, would never buy a house in this city

@jmchristoph

2 жыл бұрын

So as a Phoenix resident, I actually think our city can be pretty sustainable. Yeah, it's hot, sprawly, & car-dependent now. But at the same time we have some of the lowest per-capita emissions among US cities with densities comparable to ours. That's partly b/c so much of our electricity comes from hydroelectric dams & the Palo Verde nuclear plant, but also b/c AC requires a LOT less electricity than heating, & our annual max & min temperatures diverge less from room temperature than places w/ cold winters. Combine that with our rapid densification & fast expansion of a pretty reliable transit system, and that's some decent bones for sustainable urbanism. The sprawl around Phoenix will definitely need to be either retrofitted or abandoned if we're going to decarbonize, but I think it's not hard to envision Phoenix in a few decades having an urban fabric as sustainable & beautiful as Mexico City's.

@AlexCab_49

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalton-at-work Flagstaff is bikeable and isn't hot

@IkeOkerekeNews

2 жыл бұрын

@ F Why though?

Believe me, the best cities in the world are the ones with walkable neighborhoods and good city planning is so important. I've been to many cities, I think London and Paris do it best, but America could catch up if it wanted to. When I lived in Los Angeles I would take the Metro only a few times a year when I went to special events in the city to avoid traffic or parking issues, otherwise I took my car. Even then I would drive to a remote station on the Gold Line and ride down to the event to save on parking and to get to experience the Metro. I'm going to a festival at the Rose Bowl next weekend and I'm trying to decide how to arrive because by car seems inefficient. And it's safer when more people are out late if they're drinking to be on public transportation than driving cars. The best thing though is if you can walk out your front door and walk to a coffeeshop, pub, cafe, convenience store, bodega or whatever without having to get in a car at all.

@misacruzader

Жыл бұрын

As an addendum I will say I drove through Costa Mesa California today and there is a new condo development on 17th Street and it's directly across the street from a Trader Joe's and I think that's brilliant! And what I want to know i why won't they put a Trader Joe's in Anaheim??? They have the huge Platinum Triangle area with loads of condos and apartments, and also tourists coming to Disneyland.

@aimxdy8680

9 ай бұрын

I think that’s a LA problem, Paris is a giant shithole in my opinion, London is up there though.

@Electrodexify

2 ай бұрын

Too bad the LA transport is nasty and filled with homeless. I was in LA a few months ago. Nasty third world city

the "wage cage" LMAO never heard that one before. i love it

I lived the Midwest for 10 years, after moving from Asia. I really appreciate the people there, very hard working ,honest and proud of their culture. Did face some racism, but these were some bad apples.

@nevermindful

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing

@zenray5600

2 жыл бұрын

Racism isn't avoidable since there is racism even in Asian groups. What really gets me feared is hatred. One may suffer from harm or death before showing what kind of person he is.

@zackwyvern2582

2 жыл бұрын

@@zenray5600 That hatred is the real problem. But guess what? In America hatred for Asians doesn't come from other Asians, it comes from white and black people.

@FettiMagazine

2 жыл бұрын

@@zackwyvern2582 stop putting Black people in your mix. If we hated Asians so much then why would we allow them to open shops in our neighborhoods?

@jacobburton7613

2 жыл бұрын

@@zackwyvern2582 idk if you know this, but "Asians" is a very broad term. and many cultures in Asia are racist towards other Asian cultures. just look at what's going on in China and their genocide towards the Uyghurs. Also all the hate and racism from the Japanese to the Chinese and, visa versa, its been there for millenia. Moving to America doesn't make your family not racist, it takes time to assimilate usually a couple generations, and even then there is usually lingering archaic ideology from one's original culture. But it is this very thing, the lingering and melding of cultures, which creates a better place for the next generation to observe and understand the ignorance of their ancestors.

I live on the west side of Lake Michigan and I’ve always commented on how “safe” we are from climate change. No fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, major droughts, or floods. The winters aren’t as bad as they say either.

@steverestless9202

2 жыл бұрын

sssssssh, don't spoil the secret

@naps3386

2 жыл бұрын

As long as you are not between Gary and Milwaukee you should be ok. Otherwise steep plates in your walls and always pack heat and f you go out, there’s gang bangers everywhere.

@naps3386

2 жыл бұрын

The laughable part of that is those thugs damaged their own small parts of the city (I’ve personally driven through Kenosha after the fact and it was confined to the very worst parts of the city and a few blocks of moderately bad area). The gang bangers and thugs know better than to bring their thuggery into the good areas, a bang bang behind every blade of grass…

@pault477

2 жыл бұрын

@@naps3386 Dude - ATFU

@naps3386

2 жыл бұрын

No I’m not going to be quiet. Gang bangers shooting into houses in all the suburbs from Gary to Milwaukee. The insane Democrats have emboldened the thugs. Watch out if you want to move into that area. I moved out many years ago. They can have it all. You couldn’t get me to go into that area any more. Bang Bang

Just throwing this out there not as a correction but as an addition, but Tampa's growth post-WWII - like much of the growth in Florida's big cities and that of cities in other hot climates - is very much tied to the invention and later mass production of AC units, which really took off after the war. It's not just an interesting fact about how a simple appliance can have an enormous impact of the growth of cities but also is important given the topic of climate change. AC is both a vital commodity for hundreds of millions of people in hot climates AND a major source of greenhouse gasses. It's a potentially deadly mixture, as anyone who has read Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future" knows. The reliance on AC is baked into the lives of a huge portion of people on earth, but they also contribute to the global warming that is heating the planet and could overwork power grids, leading to the shutting off of power to these units and subsequently leading to the overheating and death of millions of people in a short time.

@AvsFan32

2 жыл бұрын

Talk about air conditioning. Think of the all the ice arenas now.

@Thisabadusername

2 жыл бұрын

Air conditioners should never be described as “vital.” Humans have lived in much hotter, much more humid climates than Florida just fine for millennia without ever needing Western civilization’s shitty air conditioners that literally blow heat back into the environment. It’s time for people to recognize that air conditioners are a completely worthless machine. Their current use only demonstrates the stinking inferiority of the architecture that houses them

@Joyride37

Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard of some workarounds in that I think are already done in Europe. Like playing with air and condensation in ceiling pipes so that the condensation evaporates evenly and spreads cool moistured air throughout a room. Not entirely sure on the details but it sounded cool

A little disappointed you didn’t mention Milwaukee. Although it has a lot of issues with segregation (like Detroit and Chicago), the city has a lot of untapped potential and infrastructure ripe for renovation. It’s incredible to see how the industrial buildings here can get transformed into beautiful living spaces and workable environments. And to your point about Chicagos socialist mayor… we in Milwaukee had the first socialist mayor in US history, and had the longest string of openly socialist mayors as well. A very vibrant and welcoming city I think.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 жыл бұрын

It s a lousy city with no redeeming value

@Lildizzle420

2 жыл бұрын

Milwaukee has less transit than Cleveland, similair crime, and faces water issues. even though water is plentiful, it's being heavily polluted

@recyclespinning9839

2 жыл бұрын

I love all the bike trails on streets and the Oak Leaf inter urban trail. I don't see many people using them, but it looks like a city well designed and great potential..

@flyingbanana4179

Жыл бұрын

@@Lildizzle420 heavily?

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

Isn't that in Wisconsin? Sorry but that state is solidly in the focus of Capital to strip mine for all it's worth. It will never be made livable for people. At best it might become another tax shelter for capital.

This is exactly why I think cities like Detroit located in the rust belt region will eventually make a comeback. I also think that since I’m from Boston, more and more people will flood west/north of Boston because of climate change/ higher sea levels.

@benjaminrush4443

2 жыл бұрын

Boston. Walk everywhere, Public Transportation and use to be Really Affordable. No more. Miss the " No Name " the original Doyle's Caffe & the older North End Family Restaurants up from abandoned Atlantic Ave where the Hippies & Artist use to rent the Warehouses. Will go underwater.

@ethanphilpot7643

2 жыл бұрын

Detroit is certainly aiming to. They've been putting a shit ton of resources into revitalizing the city. It's gotten to the point that the downtown area is actually pretty nice now, and not just by Detroit standards.

@Waldemarvonanhalt

2 жыл бұрын

IMO Detroit would have to get rid of the income taxes etc that drove large businesses and tax-payers away during its decline.

@ethanphilpot7643

2 жыл бұрын

@@Waldemarvonanhalt lowering taxes ultimately isn't going to do anything in the long run but hurt the city. What they need to do immediately is de annex the outlying suburbs to save on infrastructure costs (seriously, even if those burbs were filled up they'd still be a huge drain on the city's finances) and continue doing their revitalization efforts outside of the immediate downtown area Businesses are more attracted to already established infrastructure and high density populations than low taxes. Look at any poor state in sun belt. Low taxes don't do shit

@Waldemarvonanhalt

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanphilpot7643 it's just one of the factors, yes.

As someone living in the Rust Belt for over two decades, I can say I've hated it here for a long time, but I stuck it out for so long because I want a head start on ensuring I have a sustainable place to live when the proverbial shit inevitably hits the fan. My brother spent everything he had to uproot his life and move out to the West Coast and insists that my family must do the same. And as beautiful as I think the West Coast is, I'd rather live in this godforsaken place than in a place that's constantly catching on fire and will likely someday be in the ocean, no matter how beautiful it is in comparison.

@snowingsniper

2 жыл бұрын

Good thing you didn't move the water situation in the southwest is very bad,all the water reservoirs are drying up and is a huge concern.i live in the las Vegas area and it is terriblely hot,gets over 115f here in the summer and the ac struggles to keep your house cool,constantly running and the rain here has gotten to almost nothing

@KM-pm6qe

Жыл бұрын

@@snowingsniper making matters even worse, mass heavy use of air conditioning adds to the ambient heat and use of fossil fuels for energy to operate it, and they leak heat-trapping greenhouse gases to boot.

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

@@snowingsniper Las Vegas has growth literally dependant on gambling. It's wild. But Vegas is more sustainable then Arizona will ever be.

@mauisunrise8092

Жыл бұрын

You just might start liking your city better. Just by really believing in the good things about your city and area. I believe in your area. I don't want to live in a place that's too hot. Of course, Don't want to encounter fires.

@mauisunrise8092

Жыл бұрын

@@snowingsniper Get out of there. There's no future for you there❗️

Cleveland should do with its lakefront airport what Amsterdam is doing with IJburg! Extend the blue line light rail line through the middle of the reclaimed land and build TOD and missing middle density housing around the line! And also turn some of the lakefront into a park like what Chicago did with Northerly Island.

What bugs me is I live in Vancouver. It's so weird. Parts of Metro Vancouver are designed in a way where you never need a vehicle at all while other parts are very much urban sprawl with lots of corridors designed around individual car use. It's so weird how there isn't a more unified design. More recent development seems to be going more for compact design with more of a focus on pedestrians but there's a lot of push back against that as well.

As a Chicagoan, thank you for being one of the few giving us a good name. All people ever hear is the crime issues which... I don't feel it's any worse here than any other major city. The likelihood of you getting robbed, stabbed, shot, or beaten seems the same here as any other sprawling major city and depends where you are and how you protect yourself and mind your surroundings. People are completely overlooking how beautiful and welcoming the city of Chicago and it's people actually is. Chicago is a big, architecturally stunning northern city with a sprinkling of southern hospitality. As a tourist you'll have a great time, and as a resident you'll become proud to live here.

@sierrajohnson7300

2 жыл бұрын

It's the TROLLS that don't know a thing about Chicago!!!!

@sierrajohnson7300

2 жыл бұрын

And the haters!

@moshspeggeti

2 жыл бұрын

I've lived in Illinois all my life, within the scope of Chicago land, and I was born in cook county. But I'll never want to live in the city of Chicago itself. Unless you have a ton of money to throw around, buying a property in a nice neighborhood is near impossible. Not to mention, JB and Lori Lightfoot got a stranglehold on the city right now and run it very poorly IMO, and act like dictators rather than true leaders. I'm proud to be from Illinois, I'm proud that Chicago has come so far architecturally and was able to recover from the great Chicago fire, but I'm sad to see it wither away as more and more people leave in search of more affordable housing and cheaper cost of living. It is pretty absurd how much more things in Cook county cost vs. Kendall, Will, Kane... etc.

@Desperoro

2 жыл бұрын

I have visited Chicago in 2019. As European I can say, this City is very good for living, has very developed public transportation and its pleasure to walk there. Also I enjoy subway to Airport put between highway lanes.

@TinyTurboVW

2 жыл бұрын

@@Desperoro it's a pretty good place for living in most areas but there are some areas that are bad with crime, but other than that the majority of housing is just too expensive for the average person.

I moved Phoenix to Cleveland within the last year. I've made a point to explore as much as I can, and I can tell you, this city is one of the most culturally dense per capita in the world, between the museums, orchestra, parks, industrial history, sports... Plus, I park my car in a garage and take the train to work every day, and walk nearly everywhere (bars, beaches, museums, grocery store, etc.). It actually makes me a little bit sad thinking about how much has been lost over the past 60 years because of the dramatic population loss and not having resources to preserve some of the incredible amenities.

@trevor_mounts_music

2 жыл бұрын

Cleveland is gross

@michaelsimmons8447

2 жыл бұрын

@@trevor_mounts_music It certainly isn't for everyone, but thats why we love it. Well, that and the pierogis.

@RackGearAddict

2 жыл бұрын

Cleveland has more heavy metal bands than any other city in the entire world

@Angelina6518

2 жыл бұрын

I love Cleveland?

@Vareyeity

2 жыл бұрын

Pheonix must be terrible lol

As a guy who grew up in northern Ohio and moved to the east coast for college and work- I can say that people wildly undervalue how unique it is in world geography to have that many inland deep freshwater lakes. Sure it gives us Lake Effect in the summer and winter, but damn if having this many massive lakes in one place isn't unique in the world. The rust belt is there to begin with for a reason. I can't wait to move back. People don't realize how unique and special of a geographic feature it is.

@Sacto1654

9 ай бұрын

The issue of access to easily potable water is why we may see a sudden boom in the "Rust Belt" within the next 20 years.

There are two Chicagos. The South/Bottom Lake is “rustbelt”. The Core “Loop”, surrounding neighborhoods, much of the entire N/NW, and suburban ring is a different world. Unfortunately, like any large city, there are some violent pockets. Culturally Chicago is amazing. Hamilton ran here for almost 5 years, within months of Broadway. There’s a reason it’s known as the 3rd coast. Chicago takes hits politically, it’s highly Democratic in a Red Sea. Illinois itself is dysfunctional with ridiculous taxes. But the TOTAL cost of living here is lower than the US average. Undeniably, there are political corruption issues….but I will take that many times over the cruel, opportunistic politics of much of the sun belt.

@stlchucko

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure where you get it being known as “the 3rd coast”. Every reference I’ve heard to 3rd coast was in regard to the Gulf coast.

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 жыл бұрын

Hamilton was a shitty play with RAPCRAP...Total Garbage

@a012345

Жыл бұрын

Cook County property taxes say otherwise. Overall taxes are just insane in Chicago.

@peterharren8909

Жыл бұрын

@@a012345 I live in Cook County….the where in Cook County makes a difference. The taxes most people bash IL about is State Taxes and debt.

@sulphurous2656

Жыл бұрын

Those violent pockets in Chicago consist of a sizeable chunk of the metropolitan areas districts, and escaping them is difficult if another district is connected to the El which is effectively the transport vessel for all of the cities criminals. So unless the city stops having yugoslavia tier demographics or enforces curfew in bad areas its hard to imagine the situation improving.

As someone who grew up on the Great Lakes, this is something I've regularly talked to my family about. We have a house on Lake Erie and my parents have considered selling it several times- so glad they didn't! It'll be the American Riviera of the latter half of 21st century as the rest of the country (and world) goes up in flames...

@benduncan4027

2 жыл бұрын

Why your name is displayed in Russian in the comments ? Do you have a slavic ( Ukraine, Russia, Belarus) ancestry ?

@ChristianGardner

2 жыл бұрын

I also am from the Lake Erie area.. I love it here, cheap to live, and the worst weather events are snow

@jackfordon7735

2 жыл бұрын

@@benduncan4027 I am a translator/interpreter, and one of my working languages is Russian.

@jackfordon7735

2 жыл бұрын

@@benduncan4027 Кстати говоря, можно было бы вам задать тот же самый вопрос- Я заглянул на Ваш профиль и судя по Вашим подпискам и маленьким грамматическим ошибкам в Вашем комментарии, я исхожу из того, что Ben Duncan, это тоже не Ваше настоящее имя))

@benduncan4027

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackfordon7735 Да)

Give these other cities some credit: Harrisburg, Rochester, Syracuse, Scranton, Erie, Detroit, Saginaw, Lansing, Philadelphia (you could argue it’s a rust belt city), Mackinaw City, Columbus, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St Paul, Michigan City, Port Huron, Grand Rapids, and South Bend. Give each of these cities an electrified regional rail connection, and either a metro line with a robust bus network or a few light rail lines, and they’d be golden. The rust belt would prosper if people just gave it some love.

@tommywuhu6924

2 жыл бұрын

no one likes the poor rust belt

@AlexCab_49

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommywuhu6924 Well climate change will make the weather in the rust belt more pleasant (or not if cold snaps become the norm) and we could end up seeing a reversal migration as sun belt cities battle with heat waves, floods, worse tropical storms or water scarcity

@BaggyMcPiper

2 жыл бұрын

I'd consider Philly to be a former rust belt city, same with the Twin Cities. Columbus (unlike Cleveland and Cincinnati) never stopped growing, so the label doesn't really fit.

@DMCollmer

2 жыл бұрын

@@BaggyMcPiper And Columbus has shit public transit and no train service (Amtrak.)

@twilightcitystudios

2 жыл бұрын

I'd also add Rockford, Quad Cities, and Madison to your list to. I agree on a regional rail connection. I think it'd be great as someone in the Chicago area to be able to take an Amtrak or other train to the Quad Cities, Rockford, or Madison. In the meantime checkout my Chicago based films and videos over on my KZread channel. :)

I'm a lifelong Cleveland area resident but I have lived in Lithuania, California, Chicago and Cincinnati. I've also been around the world several times in my 40 years in business. As retirees, my wife and I are very happy living in an inner ring Cleveland suburb within walking distance to shopping and 15-20 minute access to virtually all the major cultural resources. After considering Lake Erie to be a cesspool most of my younger life, the Lake has really turned around with kayaking on the once flamable Cuyahoga River and commercial fishing making a comeback. Many Great Lakes area cities are very nice but , oddly, I think Cleveland has the most moderate climate.

My wife and I move to Cleveland in 2 weeks. This video is totally what planted the idea in my head

Shoutouts to Milwaukee, too. We've stroad-pilled ourselves rather hard in the 70s, but a lot of these 4-lane divided highways we shoved into midtown could easily hold streetcars, and in some cases *did* before we tore them out and threw another car lane in there. Waukesha County though, is unsalvagable. Oconomowoc is an utter nightmare that only the most depraved of masochists reside in.

@cw4019

2 жыл бұрын

414 represent. I'd love to see a milwaukee renaissance. If every neighborhood was as easily walkable as the lower east side i'd be one of the best cities in the nation

@cardiel4

2 жыл бұрын

can you elaborate why Waukesha county is unsalvageable ? for all of us unfamiliar with the region.

@wii8

2 жыл бұрын

@@cardiel4 basically suburbia and lake county sprawl. the older downtown waukesha is salvagable, in fact it used to have light rail right to downtown milwaukee before being torn up in the 50s

@cardiel4

2 жыл бұрын

@@wii8 thank you for the reply!

@comicbookguy2326

2 жыл бұрын

what the hell are those names?

As a Youngstown, Ohioan I already knew this before watching the video 😂 We have all four seasons and we rarely get devastating natural disasters. You may get a mild tornado or a flood here or there, but no crazy big tornados, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, or dust storms.

@sherribennington8812

2 жыл бұрын

Whitney, You're right. We are blessed.

@williammorse8330

2 жыл бұрын

Youngstown had a plan to scale down and consolidate given the loss of industrial jobs, I think the plan was called "Youngstown 2020"........ is the city becoming a better place to live? thanks, Whitney

@robertcampbell8027

2 жыл бұрын

Whitley. I grew up in Youngstown (Chaney ‘67). My wife and I left in the mid-70s and headed west. It would be ironic, but not out of the question, to return to NE Ohio at this late point in our lives. I’ve watched several videos of the Y-town area in the last couple of years. The most striking thing is the dramatic improvement in the air quality with the mills gone for 40 years. I once saw a video of people kayaking on the Mahoning River near downtown. Blew me away! That would have been impossible when I was growing up. BTW, I have still never found a better place for pizza than Youngstown.

@sherribennington8812

2 жыл бұрын

@Sunny Crow friend...we do know. As a life long Ohioan, I'm proud, we have gorgeous natural resources, cheap living, and I even like da snow. Fall can be vivid here. Not every fall but give me ample tree in the 2nd week of Oct, I'll show you beautiful. Thank you for chiming in.

@brandipiecora7640

2 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather moved from Youngstown to Seattle area during WWII - He tried to get my grandma to move there in the early 50s but she was a Northwest girl!! I’ve always wanted to check out the area.

I also feel like that, especially the dry southwest will have some serious issues down the line, I mean they already do but It'll only get worse. So much water is being wasted towards agriculture and the people there don't exactly live a typical desert lifestyle, with golf courses, and green lawns in their front yards. Once the water supply gets seriously limited, everybody will run for the hills (for example the rust belt region).

Houston used to have a dense downtown. It was destroyed by urban planners in the 50s

Hey everyone, long time no see. This one took longer than I would have liked too make because of classes restarting and because of dealing with health stuff. Hopefully there won't be a big gap like this again. Anyway enjoy! Also this video only covers the US, mainly cause I don't have enough time in this video to talk about Europe, but that can be the topic of a future video... Edit: small correction at the end. I'll have the normal KZread ads, but I won't ever have In-video ads (sponsorships). I'm not gonna shill for some dumb VPN or whatever.

@carfreeneoliberalgeorgisty5102

2 жыл бұрын

The rust belt city of Hamilton is less than 2 hours west from Buffalo and it's central core is also quite dense and walkable. However like a lot of US and Canadian cities it has sprawled out quite a bit and is becoming unaffordable because of housing refugees from nearby Toronto.

@1121494

2 жыл бұрын

I think you could make it clear you were referencing a recent "Raids Shadow Legends" Shilling, as dumb as many VPNs are.

@bluelotus.society

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for not selling your soul like all of these other KZreadrs. This sort of content is much needed, and a lot of these other channels (*cough* City Beautiful *cough*) LITERALLY drown us in KZread advertisements AND numerous sponsorship ads (PER VIDEO). Education should be free, especially the sort of content that is able to bring immense positive change in our societies and mitigate climate change. More people need to be exposed to this and it's saddening that a number of these other KZreadrs only care about making money from their educational content.

@MCBjoernar

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you get better!

@versedbridge4007

2 жыл бұрын

*cough cough* adam… *cough* something *COUGH*

I like how Alan labels Mississippi and Alabama as "Racism West" and "Racism East"

@doimoi958

2 жыл бұрын

And Canada as "Reece"

@trashrabbit69

2 жыл бұрын

CT being "Where the NEC sucks" is all too accurate. WHY did they leave so many fuckin' curves in their electrification project from the 90s!? Why does it just skip Hartford like a bad dream? Why does CTRail still have ancient crummy rolling stock and handmedown diesels? Why, Joe Lieberman, WHY???

@trashrabbit69

2 жыл бұрын

@@ihazplawe2503 The Northeast Corridor in Connecticut. It just... sucks. Sucks super hard. The stations are really nice, and that's about it.

@independentpatriot1775

2 жыл бұрын

I like that your ironically aware of the biases that are the cause of the cognitive dissonance...

@thetrainguy1

2 жыл бұрын

@@trashrabbit69 Still Better than anything the West and South has.

I have lived near Cleveland most of my life and have felt in recent years that it really is the sweet spot when it comes to climate and the lack of natural disasters. Buffalo gets tons of snow! I feel so sorry for them every winter. I live in a rather rural area several miles from Cleveland, in the so called snow belt, and I feel like we get less snow every winter. Cleveland has its problems but we also have great cultural attractions (Cleveland Orchestra, Rock Hall of Fame, Cleveland Museum of Art), the lake, parks, and the second biggest theater district in the country. Oh - top rated hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic too.

@raydavison4288

9 ай бұрын

I used to live in Warren. I saw my first real snowstorm there. 😊

As an Akron Ohio citizen I gotta say Cleveland is pretty cool, the rail transit is good it has some spread out suburbs but the rail connects them (to an extent). The Amtrak service is hopefully getting an improvement, as I have heard rumors on it. Also I liked your maps

Canadians in a few decades: "We need to build a wall on the southern border! It's gonna be beautiful, believe us, eh?"

@billpenna

2 жыл бұрын

And the US will pay for it...honest!

@TheLumberjack1987

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert Leewell only if Quebec conquers the rest of Canada 🤣

@TheLumberjack1987

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert Leewell Idk I'm living in Toronto, people talk English, followed by French so I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.

@TheLumberjack1987

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert Leewell yeah sorry, not into anti immigrant conspiracy stuff 😀

@runningfromabear8354

2 жыл бұрын

@Robert Leewell I doubt my fellow Canadian is confused. 1 in 5 Canadian's were born in another country, myself included. You'll find the vast majority of Canadian's know first generation immigrants. Doesn't mean it's a problem. My kids speak English, French and Spanish fluently and are thriving in Canada. It's competitive getting in and immigration isn't the result of any lotteries. Either we're qualified to move here or we aren't.

If I hadn't been so angry at Ohio when I was 18 I might have stayed and ended up in Cleveland. It is a pretty cool place, all things considered. But I ended up over in PA instead. Its pretty similar at least. I originally wanted to get out towards DC because all the jobs I really want seem to be in the DC area, but I quickly realized that I'd never afford it. I get paid $20 an hour now and was able to buy a house this year near Pittsburgh. In DC those dream jobs want me to get a Masters so they can also pay me $20/hr. But the cost of living there, even an hour out from DC proper, is 3 times what it is here. I would like a more fulfilling job but I also currently like being able to live independently. Soo. All in all things have been turning out ok.

@darthvader5300

2 жыл бұрын

How about unfair taxes like unrealized gains taxes which are moronic and ILLEGAL in the first place for it violates the "BILL OF RIGHTS" and it violates the 4th Amendment and it violates the 6th Amendment.

@EireHammer

2 жыл бұрын

Born in DC grew up in Northern Virginia, you spared yourself a lot of aggravation, snobby and sitting in traffic. The DMV isn't a goldmine it's a cesspool and unless you're well compensated,well connected or plain looney avoid the DMV! Been in East Tennessee for almost a decade now living it,loving it and go big Orange 🧡

@jakejennings5152

2 жыл бұрын

@@EireHammer considering relocating to Knoxville myself

@darthvader5300

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Clone I am retired already but my American friends who are young, own a precarious business against cheap Chinese imports on iron and steel products produced by an inverted crucible steel furnaces. Crucible steel furnaces are simple furnaces that has hollow vertical columns with a sealed bottom. Raw ore, pure carbon, and limestone in powder form and placed between the hollow vertical columns with a sealed bottom and high temperature flames is injected into the hollow spaces in the middle interior. Since the burning fuel does not come into contact with the ore, the resulting product is of a very high quality. But cheap Chinese imports is making it hard for them to compete because of UNFAIR FOREIGN TRADE DUMPING PRACTICES! President Trump put a stop to that and then your brain dead biden-harris allowed his Communist pals to do it again!

@jackserna3440

2 жыл бұрын

Katie, how can you be "angry at Ohio" ? I have no context for why someone would say that or feel that way

Philly has great transportation, affordable, and you can walk to many places that you would need to go on a normal basis

St. Louis is up there too. Most of the problems here would be largely helped with more capital in the city which would come from more people. We are having more and more rainfall every year so drought isnt a big worry for us and our hilly geography keeps flooding to a minimum. If you like hotter summers and less cold winters compared to other rust belt cities (although it still gets down to zero degrees sometimes) its a great place.

This channel has it all: Responsible Urban Design, Climate Awareness, Trains, and most importantly ~funk music~

@LuxuryDragonessX

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget TF2!

@bluelotus.society

2 жыл бұрын

Came for the climate-aware urban designing, but stayed for the memes and funky beats

@Mr_Man12344

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr lol

@quattrobajeena1689

2 жыл бұрын

You mean, most importantly ~trains~

@3bydacreekside

2 жыл бұрын

And Pittsburgh

Speaking as someone who has lived in Chicago for years, I think you VASTLY overestimate the efficiency of the area. Downtown and the neighborhoods directly around it that you'd visit might have the type of infrastructure you're talking about, but once you get outside of there, it's just as guilty of urban sprawl and inefficient, car centric design as any of your other examples. Not to mention the highway system is HORRIBLY designed and far too heavily relied upon. While there are some main lines to bring commuters in from the Metra, there isn't anywhere near enough intermediate transport to get people from their homes to the Metra stations to make it viable as a primary commuter system, even if the system was upgraded to have more trains with better rolling stock. It's possible some of these issues might be tackled, but it needs a LOT more work than I think you're letting on.

@IanZainea1990

2 жыл бұрын

You're right on all your points. Compared to new cities in the South & Southwest, the Great Lakes/Rust Belt area cities have great cores and have been adapted/mutilated to be like the new cities... but if you strip away this adaptations, you've got good bones to re-do it in the people-first way. Pheonix? It's probably doomed to ghost town

@googoo5646

2 жыл бұрын

this guy lost me when he said "great lakes moderate the weather"...youve clearly not spent any significant time in Chicago.

@IanZainea1990

2 жыл бұрын

@@googoo5646 except, they do. Imagine what the weather would be otherwise! Plus, he's talking about the climate, not the weather. Two different things. Though even weather wise, I've lived right on Lake Erie for 6 years, and I'll say that it's generally a couple degrees cooler than just a mile or so south.

@DaddySizeIt

2 жыл бұрын

​@@googoo5646 He's right. I live next to the lake in Chicago and have for over a decade. Look up the "lake effect". It acts as a battery preventing the swings in temperature that would otherwise be much worse. @Kasbak Gaming you're talking about the suburbs. I've lived in the city for over 10 years without a car. Never needed one. It's extremely efficient here. The Metra is for people in the suburbs and doesn't apply to Chicago itself.

@Bharlos

2 жыл бұрын

While you're right, you're kind of missing the point of the video. These cities in the south are almost at a point of no return, it'll be almost impossible to turn those cities away from cars. Sure our public trasport in Chicago isn't perfect, but the infrastructure is there. I can't speak on some of the cities he mentioned, but in a city like Phoenix, if you don't have a car there's practically no way to get around, much less downtown. Sure there's buses, but they don't pass every 5-20mins like in Chicago. And in some suburbs, you're 15-20 min drive from grocery stores, walking would be ridiculous, if not impossible with no sidewalks in places. Sure the suburbs of Chicago aren't great at public transport, but they could increase busses, increase the # of metra trains, add trains to the L. It's just a matter of improving what's already there, not starting from scratch like the places he mentioned. And that's without mentioning how you can realistically walk around (to the grocery store, pub,etc...) even in some suburbs in Chicago.

The Canadian version of this is kind of like my migration pattern - I was born and raised in Alberta (just north of Montana, Idaho) and moved to the west coast of British Columbia 8 years ago (beside Washington state). I can see Washington from the beach where I live. We are always living under the threat of a massive earthquake and torrential rain/flooding. Admittedly hurricanes and tornados are not much of a thing, at least. Sometimes I wonder if we will end up right back in Alberta one day, where the wind hurts our face but we probably won’t have a magnitude 9.2 earthquake. Mostly, though, people are moving to my home town of Calgary AB for the relatively affordable housing compared to places like Vancouver and Toronto. That being said, the urban planning of those Calgary suburbs is awful. They have so much sprawl and even built a “ring road” that goes around the ENTIRE gigantic city for your car. At least here in Victoria BC people tend to walk and bike more, there is more density. We still have plenty of car dependency unfortunately, though.

Zoning laws are the biggest problem when it comes to walkability. The reason why most people don't have a convenience store near them is because zoning laws banned businesses from opening up in residential areas. This isn't freedom at all

Speaking as someone living in Michigan, yes, extreme weather events are rare, and natural disasters are almost unheard of here. One of the only things we have to deal with is heavy snowfall. Rarely, there can be intense snow and ice storms. Climate change will make those worse (more water vapor in the atmosphere). I am expecting that more people will migrate up here to escape extreme heat, drought, and hurricanes in the future. However, keep in mind that if you're anywhere east (downwind) of the Great Lakes, you'll have to deal with heavy, and occasionally extreme, snowfall. So places like Buffalo, NY have to deal with this as well.

@martyk1156

2 жыл бұрын

I live in western NY and have to say for the past 20 years winters are a lot less harsh. We still get lake effect events but it has been melting with in days because of warmer temperatures. In the past lake erie would freeze over by February but it seems now that it only freezes at the shore line.

@mml1426

2 жыл бұрын

Winter in Detroit and Chicago are extreme though

@warrenpuckett4203

2 жыл бұрын

@@martyk1156 My brother lived In Atlanta, MI until 2005. You still need a snow mobile to go get groceries. Even got to much snow for his Real 4 x 4 1 ton crew cab for weeks. The temps there are not Ft Wainwright harsh. BUT way more snow. Then retired and moved to Nashville. She got tired of cabin fever. Also even the heated snowmobile suit was to much bother for her and her own snowmobile. Then they moved back to Petoskey. I moved to MI in 2000. I do not miss LA or Wainwright.

@martyk1156

2 жыл бұрын

I think those cold Canadian air blasts warm up coming across the great lakes by the time they hit wny. Although in 2015 I did get 8 feet of heavy pack snow in three days. National guard had to open up my road and I live in a town that has and occasionally uses a big payloader with a bigger snowblower to open up my road when the tandem axle plow trucks can't push snow banks higher than 12 or 13 feet high. 20 years ago it was common for them to use it once a week. Also you could snowmobile from the last day of hunting season until sometime in March. Now we're lucky if the trails are open 10 days a season.

@miscalotastuff733

2 жыл бұрын

Around here we are prepared for it. We just get a shovel and go. Around here weather isnt exceptable for an excuse to miss work. It needs to be a major weather event or you will be fired.

Something to note for Cleveland in terms of transit: They were the FIRST city in the Western Hemisphere to offer direct rapid transit service to its airport. Cleveland has one heavy-rail line, three light rail lines, and three bus rapid transit lines...it may not be perfect but it's definitely better than nothing. As the song goes, at least they're not Detroit...with its pathetic touristy People Mover

@mapk1516

2 жыл бұрын

Cleveland had a great Mayor historically, Tom L. Johnson, who was inspired by the economy philosophy of Henry George. He voluntarily repented from being a monopolist and became on of the most progressive mayors in US history

@sevenstarsofthedipper1047

2 жыл бұрын

I was born and raised in Cleveland. Left after high school to go to college and never lived there again. That was 50 years ago. But, before the pandemic, I visited a couple times a year.

@dm9078

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from Columbus and I am impressed as hell with Cleveland’s transit system. I would love it if we had a system as fast and efficient as Cleveland’s.

@time_for_toast4922

2 жыл бұрын

Are they profitable? Do they bring the city money enough to pay for themnselves?

@rowan2828

2 жыл бұрын

@@time_for_toast4922 are highways profitable and do they pay for themselves? No they are paid for by the government to enable fat lazy fucks like yourself to sit alone in a car in traffic for 4 hours a day.

You should have mentioned Toronto, which is just north of Buffalo. It has similar architecture to rust belt cities, and mass transit, but did not experience the same urban decay.

@foragingfleur

2 жыл бұрын

Toronto would not be considered rust belt considering it’s in Canada and it’s a very thriving metropolitan city. It’s in its own league.

The winters are bad but what rust belters hate most is the early to mid spring when temperatures can be cloudy and in the mid 40s. Part of the reason I stay in the rust belt is affordability where someone with a decent salary can live well. Also, the sunbelt has turned into a parking lot with traffic.

So, speaking as a geologist, there's a significant piece you're missing: the Rust Belt cities will all be vulnerable to *more* extreme cold w/ climate change, even as global avg temps rise, b/c the increasing instability of the jet stream overwhelms the lake effect. E.g. why Chicago got down to -60F (edit: it was actually 60F below freezing, or -27F) a couple years ago, & winters will likely keep getting even colder even as extreme heat becomes an increasing problem in summer. You're gonna see massive (>150F) seasonal swings in local temperature, which is going to make keeping all these cities livable a more energy-intensive & maintenance-intensive proposition. Also, if you want to see a Sun Belt city which is in the middle of rapidly retrofitting its sprawl into sustainable density, come check out Phoenix. Our per-capita emissions are already lower than those of cities w/ comparable density *specifically b/c* our local temps never get cold, & we're densifying faster than nearly all other US cities.

@nmpls

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, wait. Chicago got down to -60F?

@jmchristoph

2 жыл бұрын

@@nmpls yeah good catch; it was actually more than 60F below freezing, I just forgot freezing is +32F b/c I'm used to thinking in Celsius for work. Edited accordingly.

@jrm78

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmchristoph It was closer to -20F, which was knocking on the door of the city's all time low of -26F. But the cold snap was fairly long by our standards with a week straight of below 0F temperatures. Fortunately the various infrastructure (heating, electrical) here can handle extreme cold (even if it struggles some), unlike in Texas.

@jmchristoph

2 жыл бұрын

@@jrm78 yeah that's actually a super-important distinction: the duration of a temperature extreme is if anything a bigger problem than the peak temperature high or low. The big problem we're having in Phoenix is that each year we have more days above 100F, & that's posing similar kinds of challenges for our infrastructure that prolonged cold snaps pose for Rust Belt cities: our systems are built to handle it, but they can still fail if they have to work in extreme conditions for a long time.

@nmpls

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmchristoph I caught it because my inner Minnesotan was like "Chicago hasn't been colder than Minneapolis, they'd all have either died or whined loudly."

Cleveland is ABSOLUTELY one of the most underrated cities in the US. It has its problems, but it’s culturally rich in a way people who’ve never been simply don’t understand. One of the best foodie scenes in the country, strong immigrant traditions, unique festivals, underrated natural beauty with a national park just 30 minutes away, lots of beautiful Art Deco buildings, world-class institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Orchestra, not much traffic, and the people are so kind, community-oriented, and determined to work together to make the place they call home a great one in spite of hard times. I loved my day in Cleveland and it’s one of the US cities I’m most interested in going back to revisit.

@teelakovacs208

2 жыл бұрын

Also the renowned Cleveland Museum of Art is free, every day

@Aztec339

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you from a born Clevelander. I tried living in TX in the 1980s. Never got it. The heat, bugs, snakes traffic were too much even then. And the heat, wow, snow is bad????? Anyway, thanks for being pro Cleveland. Few people realize how effin big these Great Lakes are do they. I have protected beautiful parks, forests, the vast lakeshore, parks, culture, tons of gentrification areas. And housing in beautiful, developed green communities are plentiful. Everything is cheap here. And so so green. I couldn’t stand living in a water starved, drought area. We can water anything here and pay almost nothing cuz we have 20% of the total Earths FRESH WATER supply. THAT IS POWER BEYOND BELIEF. There has been ludicrous talk of SW state Governors wanting to TAKE our Lakes water to supply their glut. Never, never will happen. YOU WANTED TO ESCAPE SNOW. WE NEVER DID. WE ARE NEVER GOING TO PAY FOR YOUR SUNSHINE. NEVER.

@SkittleBurstsxoxo

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has lived there, it's ass. Especially the food.

@thebean1693

2 жыл бұрын

SOME people are kind and community-oriented*^*^

@trumplostlol3007

2 жыл бұрын

Tornadoes. You will have more and bigger tornadoes in Cleveland because of climate change.

Moved to Buffalo from Connecticut in 1999. Love it here. Bought a Victorian house. In 2002 for under 100k. So affordable, great architecture and history

I dig the Vulfpeck boppin in the background

As someone who has lived in Cleveland all my life, and have lived elsewhere in the States, I can say that Cleveland is an underrated gem.

@amish-ish

2 жыл бұрын

Make sure you tell everyone how awful it is to live there then so the rabble doesn't creep on in.😉

@theewelder

2 жыл бұрын

its a city...loud neighbors,over charged rent for so little space....no personal quiet space.....

@DENVEROUTDOORMAN

2 жыл бұрын

Nope just a boring garbage city with no redeeming factors

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

@@amish-ish It's too late. The word is out. Cleveland is in

@AL-mz2wh

Жыл бұрын

true, been living out here in Ohio my whole life too myself

The regions around the great lakes and Saint Lawrence river are clutch as hell. Harsh yet stable and safe climates and some of the most vibrant, beautful (albeit greatly misfortuned) cities, Montreal, Chicago, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Kingston, Minneapolis

@IndustrialParrot2816

2 жыл бұрын

i might move over to ontario or pennsylvania some day to be closer to my family

@TheSpecialJ11

2 жыл бұрын

What's interesting is these misfortuned cities look best ready to handle the upcoming mass Detroit across America. Just about every city in this country followed Detroit's infrastructure policy, Detroit just started sooner. Except Chicago, New York, and a few others, just about everywhere is in for a reckoning, and the cities that haven't changed much in population since 1920 are the most prepared.

@paranoidrodent

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Quebec City-Windsor corridor in Ontario and Quebec shares pretty much the same advantages as the Rust Belt and northern New York and New England, only without the urban decay that hit the Rust Belt (Hamilton had a bit of decline but nothing like south of the border). Toronto utterly boomed in the last 50 years and Montreal and Ottawa are healthy and growing. Both of the big Canadian manufacturing cities managed to diversify their local economies to avoid becoming a northern extension of the Rust Belt.

@clarkpalace

2 жыл бұрын

We just experienced some rough news that goes against my city - Montreal. I m pretty well set up, have a city house and country house north of the city. I built both of them. I have all kinds of prepper, my old hiking equipment, stuff up north. Tools, water, wood stove, gennie, solar. But we just had the first heatwave ever in May and the first tornado type storm of my 62 yrs. Lots of neighbours still out of power a week later. This is unheard of. So whats happening. Climate change? Bad luck?

@fr00tloops

2 жыл бұрын

@@clarkpalace indeed. However montreal is building a massive suburban light rail transit system, and extending the underground blue line. With all things considered, its going to grow into a cultural metropolis in two decades mark my words. Toronto is great, but the transit is decades behind, housing unaffordable. Unlike the rust belt cities, toronto was built with traditional victorian era, north american housing urban planning. So everything is built up on Yonge street but is surrounded by detached homes. This makes the city unable to expand.

Do you consider Rochester or Syracuse NY to be in rust belt?

@Drewskeeee

Жыл бұрын

I would say so but definitely the leading rust belt city in NY is Buffalo without question and the best imo.

Detroit is making great strides. I hope it continues to climb. Maybe even Gary will somehow improve

Chicago is one of my favorite US cities. Cleveland is likely the best city in Ohio. I’ve lived in Buffalo my entire life and can confirm that it’s very underrated by many; that might be changing though.

@ToonLinkMain

2 жыл бұрын

Chicago is a big mess with all the ongoing violence

@duncanmcauley7932

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToonLinkMain very true, and just wait until decades from now when people are moving back and gentrifying neighborhoods, then there will be non-stop complaining from the media about inequality and all that 🙄 I can already see the headlines

@ToonLinkMain

2 жыл бұрын

@@duncanmcauley7932 u do realize that most American cities are less white in the next decade. People should know poverty is more issue than this bs.

@cringefootball2020

2 жыл бұрын

@Captain Rico, question, are you a Bills fan?

@dforrest4503

2 жыл бұрын

Columbus is the best city in Ohio.

"Wage Cage" is my new favorite term

@Grap3Ju1ce

2 жыл бұрын

I think you'll appriciate this kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpOc1Laso9rMnco.html

@googleuser868

2 жыл бұрын

The wage cage is also the new tiny house.

@googleuser868

2 жыл бұрын

The wage cage is also the new tiny house.

@davidhill850

2 жыл бұрын

That's why I ride motorcycles.

I'm sorry, is that Tatsuro Yamashita I heard at the beginning there? I've only just subscribed, and now I have another reason to think you're pretty alright.

scuba diving in the former town of old miami is gonna be a huge vibe though

As a Yinzer (Pittsburger), I love my city and think, like other “Rust Belt” cities, it is highly underrated and a great place to live

@amish-ish

2 жыл бұрын

Grew up arahnd Picksburg. I miss yinzes.

@Yarlettuce

2 жыл бұрын

same

@illabesa

2 жыл бұрын

Pittsburgh is incredible. SO underrated. I think people have a lot of misconceptions about it, as I did before I moved here, but in a way that’s a blessing because people who actually live in the city realize what a hidden gem it is.

@phoenixfireclusterbomb

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I love the upper midwest. Not the cities so much. However, people have no clue the serenity found our here in Gods country. Life is everywhere and every morning when I walk outside an orchestra of birds sing there songs. The night is an orchestra of crickets, frogs, all under a river of jewels. Winter, Fall, etc… its absolutely magical.

@martinphilip8998

2 жыл бұрын

My mother was born there in 1924. At about age 6, she’d hop on the inter urban train and ride the full loop. The conductor was black and she always had a big smile for him. He never took her nickel and made sure she was safe.

“Being able to walk down the street to the local bar and getting blasted with friends.” Preach, this is why I loved my college town so much.

Nice content keep up the good work.

I've visited Cleveland about 6 years ago. Very underrated city and worth, atleast, a visit. Same goes for Detroit, St. Louis, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh.

@fatjonseatingadventures5429

Жыл бұрын

St. Louis has so much potential and it’s being ruined by having the county and city not merge

@samuelskillern7365

Жыл бұрын

@@fatjonseatingadventures5429 Ask anyone in the affluent suburbs in the county. They don't want the county and city to merge. The time has passed for that.

@josephhoover4542

3 ай бұрын

Ah yes ST Louis and Cleveland both in the top 10 for murder rates and population decline truly great cites. Just curious you also plan to visit 3rd world countries like Ukraine and Hati?

I was lost during the transition but it made total sense after you explained. Great video.

@MaaveMaave

2 жыл бұрын

I heard the phonk and thought he was gonna talk about snow drifting lol

Walton isn't mayor yet. She won the Democratic primary, but there's a big campaign to get people to write in Brown (the incumbent) on election day.

@AdamSmith-gs2dv

2 жыл бұрын

Kathy Hochul won't come out and support her either.

@estonalexander704

2 жыл бұрын

@gayboyzig Quick Question: What race do you think the Mayor is right now? Also i think that a city where 78% of the population voted democratic in the 2020 election might not be your racist scapegoat.

@estonalexander704

2 жыл бұрын

@gayboyzig I asked 2 simple questions. You failed to acknowledge either. 1) What race is he 2) How are his supporters racist

@estonalexander704

2 жыл бұрын

@gayboyzig I literally said: "Quick Question: What race do you think the Mayor is right now? Also i think that a city where 78% of the population voted democratic in the 2020 election might not be your racist scapegoat." Now respond. Simple Simon.

@estonalexander704

2 жыл бұрын

@gayboyzig What. Is. His. Race.

omg your writing is hilarious!! thank you Alan

Great idea for a channel, and well presented. Happy to subscribe, and will look forward to more. Good job!

I was shocked when you held up Chicago as an example of a well-designed city. As a tourist, I tried to take a commuter train from some kind of suburb to The Loop but it only ran like 3 times a day in each direction. We had to drive on. Very disappointing (I'm from the Netherlands). Also, rush hour is terrible, especially around downtown. But you're right, there's all this infrastructure that could be amazing if utilized fully. It shouldn't be that hard as long as the political will is there to make changes. The existing metro system is great but could be expanded much more. And perhaps higher capacity for rush hour.

@xdizzle0460

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Chicago and its a horribly designed city that is very car dependent outside a few blocks downtown. The public transportation system feels disgusting and being from the south side of Chicago I wouldn't get on a Bus just for the danger factor. I've known people who got shot in the head by gangsters for getting off the train a few stops short to stop at a convenience store. The city has crumbling infrastructure and its bad enough to the point that when I was in high school they would teach about street lamp posts falling over and hurting people due to rust because its cheaper for the city to deal with than to actually repair them all since the number of dangerously corroded poles is in the tens of thousands. Chicago isn't exactly a shining beacon. It could learn a lot from the Netherlands.

@zeroyuki92

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think any city in US will impress you, coming from Netherland.

@rolandxb3581

2 жыл бұрын

@@xdizzle0460 That's scary. We almost went to a crappy hotel in Englewood. Luckily I looked it up and it really wasn't a good idea. The other memory is that it took like two hours to get through very busy traffic just to leave the metro area. Outside rush hours. Totally get why the car infrastructure isn't maintained, there's just way too much of it.

@rolandxb3581

2 жыл бұрын

@@zeroyuki92 I mean, we Dutch people are still in awe when we stand below massive skyscrapers or look at the skyline in megacities like Chicago and New York. It still looks like the future, modern, shiny, and simply awe-inspiring. But away from downtown, its just depressing. South Bend for example was just a town with no soul, no beauty, just endless roads with potholes, parking lots and ugly buildings (except the Notre Dame campus of course).

@xdizzle0460

2 жыл бұрын

@@rolandxb3581 Yeah Englewood is right in the middle of all the worst areas of the south side. Ive never been downtown in a car because of the awful traffic. Id usually go to midway airport and ride the orange line train downtown which is like a 25-30 minute ride. The downtown area is beautiful and theres a ton of cool places to go to and its also a really safe part of the city but as soon as you leave it its just awful.

Tatsuro Yamashita music in the intro? Already perfect.

Well reasoned. The South West is becoming so hot and populated that the reservoirs cannot hold on to water. Desalinating and moving sea water will make water bills as high as property taxes, and the cities will still be uncomfortable five months per year. Not good.

@Fullstrengh100

Жыл бұрын

Have you heard of weather warfare ? They have been altering weather since the 50s

I currently live in a small town in Kansas where I am very car dependent. Summers and winters are pretty brutal here so I don’t feel like it would take me time to adjust to east coast weather. Pittsburg is looking like a good place I would consider moving to. Is anyone familiar with Pittsburg public transportation? Is it reliable? I feel like this would be the deciding factor on if I would actually move there

@liamhodgson

Жыл бұрын

Pittsburgh transit is great. Buses, T (trolley/subway), and the funicular inclines are all about 3 dollars for a three hour unlimited pass (no transfers). There are several busways that allow buses to skip traffic, and one of the also shares a tunnel with all three T lines. All the buses and the T can take bicycles, which I have done. Biking is great within some neighborhoods and down along the rivers, but is sometimes hard to get between neighborhoods without a steep hill. Reliability is fine but some of the routes are pretty infrequent. For example a bus from downtown to Oakland (universities and hospitals) comes every few minutes, but the faraway communities such as trafford are only served every 30-45 minutes. Finally the bikeshare got revamped recently, very high quality and they have electrified ones for not much extra. If you want to experience it all within walking distance go to station square which has an incline, trolley, bikeshare, buses, bike trail, and the gateway clipper boats

@jenniferliggett6385

Жыл бұрын

It is having an issues, like all public transit systems, but the schedule is more frequent and it runs early and late into the night. The route system is extensive. I would rank it at the top of cities for public transit - and the drivers are great people. The system had a good amount of ridership and is supported, due to the number of major colleges in Pittsburgh.

the same people who can’t get over their obsession with suburbs and cars are probably the same people who travel to europe and rave about how beautiful everything is, not realizing it’s beautiful because of the fact it’s transit oriented and pedestrian friendly

@usherthecl1max

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah im sick and tired of stroads :/ need to own a car to get anywhere in the US, public transport is nonexistent and roads aren't accessible for bikes or walking

@josephang9927

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but that is only one variable. Even in America people still prefer suburbs which are far less walkable. Precisely they prefer to visit medieval villages with no accessibility that will never come back, but they do not want to live in an European 5 x 3m apartment. Europe is not infested yet by modern and contemporary architecture as much as America is.

@ausaskar

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephang9927 Yeah, it's nice to visit Disney Land, but no one would actually want to live there.

@gvi341984

2 жыл бұрын

Those walking areas are mostly in the tourist areas. Suburbs exist outside of the US and people do drive as well

@nicolea8205

2 жыл бұрын

This is Phoenix and Houston residents in a nutshell. I grew up in Phoenix and moved to a more walkable and transit friendly city and the difference that has made to my health is night and day. I feel so much happier :)

I’m studying to be a civil engineer and I gotta say, I wasn’t sure about it at first, but your videos TREMENDOUSLY helped me enjoy what I’m learning, I’m thinking about going into the Transportation field, thank you!

@jesseoglidden

2 жыл бұрын

Just don't go work for land developers like I did. They will steal your soul and you'll end up in hell. Do something worthwhile, and keep yourself out of the fiery lakes. It's hot down here.

Our family moved to Rochester, MN from Denver in 2017 and it was the best choice possible. Affordable housing, good economic prospects (Mayo Clinic), virtually no traffic, and a very walkable downtown area. Although most of the city is still very car dependent, the city is making strides to get more people out of their cars. The rust belt is awesome and more people surely will find that out in the next 25 years.

@redcomic619

Жыл бұрын

Should’ve moved to Rochester, NY instead but you went in the right direction.

Minneapolis, Duluth and Rochester in my state of Minnesota are part of the official cities rustbelt because of milling, iron ore shipping and healthcare thanks Mayo Clinic respectively compared that to the sunbelt which grew like Sarasota and Tampa as a result of tourism.

I was glad to.stumble onto this video. I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that if you want to escape the effects of climate change, move to the Great Lakes. We’ve lived in southwestern Michigan for a couple of decades, and it is one of the most beautiful places in the country - for 7 months out of the year. If you like snow, then it’s one of the best places, period. Temperate summers, beautiful autumns, late-but-wonderful springs….and horrible, long, gray, snowy winters (oops!). BUT, here’s a tip to avoid a lot of the snow and “perma-cloud winters”: move to the WEST side of the Great Lakes (Illinois & Wisconsin). Stay away from the south and east sides of the lakes. Why? Because the constant stream of cold Canadian air over the relatively warmer waters of the Great Lakes creates almost constant cloudiness and snow on the east and south sides of them. And depending how close you are to the lakes, you could get a snow squall line setup that stays over you for a day or two that dumps feet of snow on you in relatively narrow corridor. But that doesn’t happen if you’re west of the Great Lakes. You may get the odd snowstorm or two, but it isn’t a constant, weeks long event. The weather is a little colder, but the extra sunshine you get helps keep the wintertime blues away. Or do like we finally did when we retired - keep the place in the Great Lakes and buy a small house in Florida to “snowbird” away the winters. Before you yell at me, I put solar panels and energy storage batteries on our place in Florida (live off the grid!) and our car is a Tesla EV (drive on sunshine). It’s perfect!

@18matts

2 жыл бұрын

Ya keep recommending us to the rest of the country so we can't afford anything. Thanks a lot. Michigan sucks and is dangerous, stay in your state.

@richardellison9833

2 жыл бұрын

You finally found someone who agrees with you. If it takes that long, maybe you're wrong.

@paintup46

2 жыл бұрын

Just moved to SWMI from AZ. I miss the wide open desert and being able to hike and go off-road just about anywhere. But it is beautiful here, especially right now. The people are also much more relaxed and not as aggressive, as is the lifestyle in general. Will be buying another house back in AZ again though to snowbird.

The RCR impression was hilarious and watching you, Not Just Bikes, AND RCR among others is just a slice of every piece of great content I like.

@solomonsheridan8272

2 жыл бұрын

B R O W N

lol loved the video and the commentary hopefully st louis gets some love soon

Humid summer weather makes me miserable, so I'll stick to the west coast as long as I can. Oregon is lovely.

Seeing this man talk so well about Chicago (my home city) filled me with some rust belt pride. Anyone else from Chicago understands Edit: people should really do their research. Sure Chicago is dangerous but it’s not even in the top 50 most dangerous cities in the us. By violent crimes per 100 people Chicago ranks 73rd. (WOW) so yea Chicago gets bad rep for being dangerous but other cities like Milwaukee, Cleavland, Washington DC, and Houston are more dangerous than Chicago but don’t get as bad of a rep for it. So in summery, yes Chicago has a lot of crime, however the chances of being a victim of crime in Chicago is very low. Especially if you stay out of the worse neighborhoods, and you have a higher chance of being assaulted in 72 other US cities, plus every city has its bad neighborhoods it’s not just Chicago. And if we include all the US cities with over 100,000 people (349 us cities) Chicago escapes the bottom 25 percent of most violent cities. I’m not saying Chicago is the best city in the us (Far from it) but I just think it gets a bad rep for no reason

@Nollic15

2 жыл бұрын

I just visited Chicago and wow, it really sucks here, just just endless flat rust belt sprawl as far as the eye can see and flat with no cool geography in any direction. A terrible place to live in a grid down scenario.

@dremmz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nollic15 shut up

@dominichunt1518

2 жыл бұрын

great culture, good places to see. if only the crime was fixed up, i've no doubt chicago would be #1. I may live in south dakota but chicago is my home

@KillaMurda1871

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I live in the suburbs, and it made me so happy and prideful to hear praise for it.

@shukracharya_

2 жыл бұрын

@@dremmz did he hurt you sweety?

You should next take a closer look at secondary cities in the Rust belt like Peoria Illinois which have been abandoned by most industry and are so ridiculously inexpensive and are just a few hours outside of wonderful places like Chicago

I thought you where gonna blow my mind with the tank being solar powered or something

Applying to a few colleges in the rust belt (Illinois and UMichigan) and I’m very glad that their cities are walkable and made for people. I love taking public transit, biking, and not having to use a car. Cars are expensive, and not needing one for college means more money in my pocket for like…. Food and water lol

@gorgorgor1234

2 жыл бұрын

You’ll find most college towns are designed to be walkable. Good luck!

@Landonmoto39

Жыл бұрын

So you like getting mugged?

@crazychurchez3759

Жыл бұрын

​@@Landonmoto39 In Champaign or Ann Arbor? Do you even know what those cities are? Illinois isn't in Chicago, UMich isn't in Detroit. Take your ignorant remarks somewhere else.

Joke's on you, I fully intend to be a wild mountain man in the Rockies.

@oceaniafrontier6923

2 жыл бұрын

wish our fire season wasn't so brutal though, the only downfall to the mountains

@camelusdromedarius3789

2 жыл бұрын

@@oceaniafrontier6923 Where in the Rockies is it pretty bad? Is there anywhere along the Rockies that's not so bad during fire season?

@andrewburney8075

2 жыл бұрын

@@camelusdromedarius3789 nope, from California to Canada the whole thing gets fires

@oceaniafrontier6923

2 жыл бұрын

@@camelusdromedarius3789 The fires happen every year but some years are better and some are worse. Probably places along the Rockies that don't have much vegetation have the best bet of not burning.

@camelusdromedarius3789

2 жыл бұрын

@@oceaniafrontier6923 Damn alright

I moved to Buffalo a few years ago from the west coast (unrelated to climate change). Some of my friends made fun of me but now every summer it's beautiful weather over here, if a bit humid, and my friends are continuously posting photos of dark yellow skies from wildfires, having to evacuate and ration water. I love the snow too so it's a win-win. Electric cars have trouble in the winter though.

Parking on the east side of Milwaukee can be difficult. However, they have built some extra snow lots for emergency plowing. If you want to work at Fiserv Forum which hosts the Milwaukee Bucks or join a new tech start up, then come to the Milwaukee area for more opportunities. The lowest rents can be about $350-$500. However, newer gentrified apartment complexes can start at around $1,250-$1,500 in the Cream City.

Man, this drum has been getting beaten hard since the oughts. Folks saying "Austin will be uninhabitable by 2020, buy a house in St. Louis!"

@Psychosmurf5471

2 жыл бұрын

"Austin will be uninhabitable by 2020" For the thousands of people who died that winter because of its failing power grid, it was.

@mattskag2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Psychosmurf5471 HHS's final report on direct and indirect deaths due to the Texas power outage was 246, could be higher but "thousands" is a stretch.

This video is basically everyone's immediate thoughts after watching a few Not Just Bikes videos.

Loved this video. Well done and great music

Hey, does anybody know what that intro track is? The link in the description got copyright claimed!

When I was able to move away from Montana after a year and a half, where I lived through a brutal summer of unbreathable air due to forest fires, I considered a) moving back to Wisconsin/Minnesota or b) moving to the PNW. Both are places where I have friends and family, but I chose air and moved back to the Midwest, the ACTUAL most based region in the US. We got no hurricanes/storm surges, almost no forest fires, bearable heat waves, and actually somewhat-affordable housing.

@ibrahimazam7699

2 жыл бұрын

PNW also has nice weather. It rarely experiences extreme weather. However, that is beginning to change as Summers are becoming warmer.

@DontUputThatEvilOnMe

2 жыл бұрын

You got tornados

@automnejoy5308

2 жыл бұрын

I thought Minnesota has brutal hot, humid summers?

@stephanimeyers9570

2 жыл бұрын

Which state did you end up moving to? I look at WI and MN a lot too.

@zezmerelda240

2 жыл бұрын

@@DontUputThatEvilOnMe don't-- True! Most tornadoes only last a few minutes, unlike days for a hurricane!

I really like both Chicago and Buffalo, definitely 2 of my favorite cities. Unfortunately a lot of the rust belt is in a similar situation to somewhere like Houston because the downtowns were hollowed out and turned into parking lots and post war development was mostly the same unsustainable suburban sprawl. It's depressing to see old photos of a city like Rochester since now so much of the historic walkable vibrant downtown is gone only being slowly reclaimed from cars.

@ibrahimazam7699

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It is sad to see people leaving these dense cities for spread-out cities such as Dallas and Houston. It is also upsetting to see our modern way of city planning.

@LeeeroyJenkins

2 жыл бұрын

Most of the Rust Belt is full of crime. People don’t want to ride the train because they fear sitting next to another person. They don’t ride it because it’s full of homeless people and drug addicts that are constantly robbing people.

@peterwelby

2 жыл бұрын

@@LeeeroyJenkins Sounds like NYC

@rickitysplitz7035

2 жыл бұрын

Both have high ass amounts of crime.

@seand.g423

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterwelby more like the same old same old Texan Projection...

Loved this ❤ considering buffalo now

Oh the irony of the Rust Belt becoming the Steel Belt again in the next few decades!

lifelong clevelander. said for years that the lakefront properties will be the future cliffs of malibu. cant imagine not living in close proximity to a body of water, it just makes me feel like no matter what happens in terms of the world ending that i have a better chance if surviving than say, anyone in LA, where already they don't have enough water

@kaze_cat

2 жыл бұрын

That may not happen in your lifetime, or mine. Greetings from LA 😅

@kaypee65

2 жыл бұрын

I have been looking for my retirement place and climate change is a top consideration. None of the places I considered fit. After this suggested video came up for me I looked into Cleveland. It checks every box with bold checks. Coming from Alaska, Seattle is my fallback. But it's expensive and so spread out. But Cleveland? I can find a beautiful affordable house walking distance to the lakefront walkways. Please sign me up and Ohio, enjoy the tens of thousands of dollars I'll pay in taxes over the next 30 years.

@chickenpasta7359

2 жыл бұрын

You do realize how long that would take before it becomes reality right? There has to be a healthy balance of cautiousness and fear mongering

@kaypee65

2 жыл бұрын

@@chickenpasta7359 twenty years isn't that long.

@Van-yo2xr

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaze_cat la is already one of the worst planned cities in the US. It’s a bit of a shithole with or without climate change

really thrilled that pittsburgh is the first city in vid. i visited some friends there a few years ago and had a blast, its legit my favorite city in this county and im from nyc

@happybird165

2 жыл бұрын

Steelers are trash. #GORAVENS

@UserName-ts3sp

2 жыл бұрын

@@happybird165 good luck with that running back at qb

@Comeswoopfam

2 жыл бұрын

Jobs there are trash

@ji3946

2 жыл бұрын

lived there for the entire 90's, you can have it. Weather sucks, lots of grey skies. Been back in 2021 to visit friends, the place is crumbling. Lots of the charm is gone with all the tech influx. Constant road work, same shit they were working on 26 years ago. Why can't America build a road the lasts longer than 5 years?

@eatbutter

2 жыл бұрын

@@ji3946 well thats not a fair comparison. this country isnt even the same country as it was in the 90s or before because boomers made a lots of bad decisions (good for them bad for everyone after them), politically and in terms of lifestyle, during 60s-80s its like comparing apples to oranges

Dude i almost spilt my coffee because of the transition xD good video though

I’ve lived near South Bend, IN, most of my life, & I’ve already seen an improvement in the weather. It still has long, overcast winters, but it really seems to have less extreme weather compared to 40 years ago.

I've been telling people for years that Michigan is in a very strategic part of the country for the coming decades. Now if we only had more walkable cities...

@googleuser868

2 жыл бұрын

And lead free water.

@dmrr7739

2 жыл бұрын

@@googleuser868 the lead isn’t in the water, it’s in the service lines to houses. That’s a problem anywhere you find older homes, especially if the water department doesn’t correct the ph level.

@mercynary1058

2 жыл бұрын

Kalamazoo is pretty walkable :p

@josephang9927

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but first we have to nuke detroit and build back better.

@Number1FanProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephang9927 why