Pensacola, Florida | Exploring The Worst Areas

Pensacola, Florida has a lot to offer. Beaches, great weather, tons of outdoor activities, and lots of sports entertainment. However, there are also a lot of run down areas as well. Many abandoned homes, run down housing complexes, and some pretty sketchy places you might not want to be around at night. Crime is an issue but has definitely improved over the years, I seen a lot of police presence in these particular places. Poverty is definitely a problem as it sits around 20%. Let's take a ride and check out some of the worst areas.

[FLPAN]

I was born and raised in Pensacola. I moved from there about 5 yrs ago. I cannot move back even if l wanted to. Cost of living has increased. Use to you can find a decent house to live for $500 a month. Now it is $1, 300 a month. Utilities has skyrocketed. If you ever watch a video for tourists, all you will see is downtown and the beach. Ever since Hurricane Ivan hit Pensacola back in 2004, it was never the same. Crime has increased. 3 years ago there were shootings 7 days in a row. Local politicians never try to bring in new business in Pensacola. They depend on the beach and the Navy. But the video you have seen here is not the whole city. There is still some nice section of Pensacola. But it looks run down and dirty.

[CC-klnh]

Thanks for showing the REAL Pensacola! All them other YouTubers trying to play up Pensacola!

[SunCoastFilms]

I live here and grew up here. I was only gone when I was active duty Navy. Pensacola is beautiful and like all other places, it has some ran down or neglected areas. New Sub here.

[pensacolawatchdog]

Fellow Pensacolian and new subscriber! Trying to shed some light on corruption within our government!

[drum]

As someone whos lived just on the outside of Pensacola for my whole, ive seen every type of home or rental raise in price drastically each year to where now my house sells for almost 3x as much as we bought it. The poverty is tangible

[Gati]

We’ve been in Pensacola for less than a year. Besides the beaches (which are super touristy though), the downtown and surrounding areas, everything else is run down and neglected. We are currently looking to move to the Huntsville area in AL or to Baldwin county AL (close to here as we are almost at the AL border). Things are super expensive in Florida, even in less nice areas such as Pensacola. You can see a huge difference when you drive less than an hour into Alabama, it’s so much nicer, way less homeless and crime in all of Baldwin county.

[kydavion]

Live in Pensacola currently. It’s becoming expensive to live here so those in poverty stay in similar areas shown. But if you have money to live in the “nice areas” you’ll probably never even be around these places.

[vickisawyer]

The saddest part of these videos is that churches are also being abandoned. Thank you for the video.

[rwl]

Strange how poor folk can afford tall rims on their cars.

[tanja]

Once apon a time when all was so easy and simple..
Turn the corner 😢..
This Ain't Living > Marvin Gaye.. Thank you for your time stay safe in your travels

[rhard]

I don't know what you mean by "what happened " ... I was stationed there in the late 80s, and recognize all the streets during your driving, everything looks the same. The only thing Pensacola ever had going for it was those beautiful beaches, some of the whitest sand in the world.

[mincerstephen]

When that hurricane hit the ghetto of New Orleans in 2005, a lot of those people ended up in Pensacola and Mobile. They brought the crime with them.

[CRUCIFi]

Downright prosperous compared to other places in higher elevations of the rust belt.

[opticalspider]

I rmbr when I joined the navy all I heard about from older people is how amazing Pensacola is. After getting there I realized they were talking about back in their day and haven’t been in 20+ years

[Mrs.AmyAlexandriaRamirez]

I was just watching your Pensacola video from a year ago. There was more people, especially children out playing, people out walking and way more traffic than this video.

[priscillafitch]

Pensacola is a very beautiful place.Can anyone tell me what area that's in it kind of looks like Trumanon I'm not sure.

[viwaldi]

I'm going to move there and start working at International Paper.
In which part of the city is it best to rent or buy a house?
A family with two school-aged children.

[LeonteRahja]

It's some nicer areas but they are more expensive. God bless the people living in those hoods, especially the children 🙏🙏

[J.C.Ky.ridgerunner]

I once lived in there, where did all the palm trees go. kinda strange, no palm trees

[wyattoneable]

Some of those apartments were no worse than some Army barracks I lived in. Of course, we kept things more tidy.