The 10 WORST GHETTOS I've Ever Driven Through in the United States

These places will make you sick to your stomach.

I’ve seen a lot of America so far. I haven’t been to every corner of this fine country, but I’ve seen the highlights. Or most of them. It’s quite a great place, the United States is, for the most part. But there are some REALLY terrible areas in this nation, as we all know. And YOU people of YouTube want to see them. It’s pretty clear - whenever I load a video of a nice peaceful drive through a nice part of the country, the clicks are uh.

But when I drive through a BAD neighborhood, people on YouTube are like - I wanna see THAT. Why is that? Why do we all like to see rundown poor neighborhoods?

In this video, I’m going to run through the WORST ghetto hoods I’ve visited. These are all places where areas are rundown and neglected, where the crime is really high and people are poor. Now in MY opinion, the worst hoods are all in the northeast. Sure, the west coast has rundown areas, but the west coast is much more new, so the hoods don’t have that grimy, gritty rundown look. Midwest hoods look really bad, and southern hoods have large areas where there are clearly a lot of issues.

But when it comes down to the king of all true inner city ghettos, it’s the northeast hands down. We’ll see that shortly.

But enough of all the intro stuff. Let’s get down to it. These are the worst hoods I’ve ever seen, and some of the worst ghettos in the United States.

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[christopherhiggins]

In 2008 I was on an East Coast road trip. For part of the journey, I was with a friend. And we were trying to remember what the "deadliest city in America" was. Never could remember. Then, later on the trip I was rolling solo through Philadelphia and low on gas looking for a gas station. Well, ended up making a right turn where I shouldn't have. Sent me across the Benjamin Franklin bridge and into Camden. It was at that moment when I remembered the answer my question. Well, great. So I end up in the middle of the ghetto out of gas. I call AAA and am told it'll be an hour. I told them the situation and that I can't wait an hour. They asked for me to describe the area around me and I'm like "um, just a bunch of brick buildings with graffiti and broken out windows." Not wanting to be just sitting there, I decide to start pushing the car. At that moment, a man comes out of one of those buildings with broken out windows. And another comes from the other direction on the sidewalk. Both men asked how they could help. One said he has a gas can and can drive me to the gas station. Well, I took a leap of faith. Got in his car and got gas. Wasn't murdered. Goes to show that there are good people everywhere.

[beneachus]

There’s always those few houses in the ghetto that look like they try really hard to make it look like they don’t live in a ghetto. Nice, clean yard and a decent looking house. Those people are legends

[jimthompson]

Cleaning up the litter alone would greatly improve the look of these neighborhoods.

[stanleykelly]

The fact that you made it through Chester during the day is a miracle. I lived not too far from Chester and I never went there. Chester has been that way since the 80’s. If you were there during the night you definitely would not have came out.

[beatsfromsoda]

I was born and raised in Chester, I was very fortunate to move out. I still don’t know how I did it sometimes. I just thank God.
Its a very rough and life there. But it’s also the place where I had my first kiss. Where me and my friends would climb trees and talk about WWE. Where we dreamed of being doctors and racecar drivers and football players. It’s where my mom read me bedtime stories about dragons and castles.It’s where my mom took me to church every Sunday. It’s where I blew out my birthday candles after making a wish for a new bike. It’s where I went to my first school it’s also where my friends turned to drugs when we realized we wouldn’t be doctors or lawyers because going to school was more dangerous then staying home. It’s where after getting robbed at 12 you realize you may need a gun just to get home to see your mom again. It’s where depression is considered a good day, at least you weren’t killed. It’s where your denied fair paying jobs because they see the word “Chester” on your application. Not everybody is capable to overcome great struggle. Most succumb to the environment around them.

It’s no excuse because the world does not owe anyone understanding. I just hope that as you see these towns and these people please remember, before we realized we were poor and destined to great hardship, we really thought we would do great things for the world. We thought the world loved us.
As a kid if I would’ve known where I was instead of wishing for a new bike, I would’ve closed my eyes and wished for my friends and family to have had a just reasonably fair chance.

[orhtviu]

I love how you give us silence as you roll through the towns. It lets the mind wander. So many narrators "narrate" and don't let the viewer feel or absorb. Perfect.

[carriedudley]

I'm from England and we have plenty of slum areas too. I really believe this is a generation thing. My grandparents were poor but they had pride. They did everything they could to keep their houses clean and presentable. Their children had enough food, decent clothes on their backs and encouraged to work hard and be honest. Fast forward 50 or 60 years and people have no pride. They are happy to live on benefits, dont care about their cildren and quite happy to commit crimes.
Drug gangs have taken over many run down areas, when my grandparents were alive, communities got together and would not allow this.

[paulettestoddard]

This makes me realize that however humble my home is I am so blessed.

[PhoticSneezeOne]

What actually breaks my heart is that a lot of those abandoned and run down areas could potentially be quite beautiful.

[sterlinsilver]

The thing that's always the saddest to me is you can mentally peel back all the decay and imagine just how beautiful these places once were...

[jamesgeist]

The music was perfect. I watched it like meditation and fell asleep. So sad but peaceful somehow. Good one sir.

[gauzpadsfred]

The fact that you go to all these places on rainy days makes it much more enjoyable. That must take good planning to go on cloudy/rainy days

[jesserobinson]

Detroit ghettos in Detroit seem very unique with how many of the houses are so large with huge porches. Some even have large columns and two story porches. Those must have been beautiful neighborhoods in Detroit's golden era.

[channel]

Kind of sad that the United States is more interested in giving money to other countries when we have places that look like this.

[obscuredgurl]

I lived in the ghettos up N.NJ and you'll always know you're in the ♥ when you start seeing Boost Mobile stores around ~.~

[sarahv]

Camden really does make me sad. I grew up about 20 minutes from there and I always remember a Boy Scout trip I attended (I went with my brother) where we served food at a homeless shelter. The people living there had some of the most character I’ve ever seen, and they were also some of the nicest people. My parents also grew up about 20 minutes from Camden and I remember them telling me how drastically it deteriorated since their childhoods. Camden used to be a strong working class community (my grandma worked at Campbell’s Soup in Camden) and now it has been left to be forgotten. It really does make me sad to see a place with so much history and past life turn into this.

[jjberg]

Giving tax breaks for factories to move overseas and then keep wages down back home for 4 decades was probably a bad idea in hindsight.

[douglasmesina]

Pittsburgh is thriving now. It went from steel mills to technology. Two new stadiums, a relatively new interstate highway, lots of business hubs.Mckeesport is more of it's own town. All the money is north of town.

[Alex-dyhg]

Nick: Look, this is the worst hood I've ever seen in my life.
Me (who used to live in a real third-world country): Hmmm, that's above average, ohh look, there are pretty nice houses on the right!

[JWhisp]

The Northeast has so many horrible Ghettos because we used to have amazing manufacturing jobs, but after those jobs moved overseas or where no longer needed it left big populations of people with no or poor paying jobs. The mass exodus of people out of some of these cities only furthers their economic decline. Growing up in the Northeastern USA I see towns like this all the time and there are millions living in areas like this with no hope of getting out.