DETROIT'S STAGGERING ABANDONED HOUSE FOOTAGE

[CharlieBo]

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[craiggillett]

0:17 this is so sad, each of these homes is beautifully designed, has unique features, gentle roof lines, welcoming porches, this neighbourhood would have been beautiful 50 years ago.

[suzycreamcheese]

This is beyond depressing, and I am haunted by the words my 83 year old aunt told me in 2011 right before she died, " I'm glad that I lived at the peak of this country's greatness and I won't be around to see the continuing decline."

[ktat]

After a tigers day game like 5 years ago I decided to venture into the crappy parts of detroit to see if it was as bad as I’ve heard/seen on videos and let me tell you it was astonishing. He must’ve been in the same area I went, and I wasn’t stopping at any stop signs at all. I drove a good 5 min at least before even seeing another working vehicle. I saw a pack of wild dogs, and that’s when I decided this wasn’t a good place to have any sort of car problems and I got the hell outta there. It almost takes your breath away it’s so surreal that this is in the United States. Shocking to say the least.

[sandysimmer]

My grandmother, mom and I were all born in Detroit. Mom used to say how beautiful it was back then in the 50's and 60's. Safe place to live, prosperous, and every summer we would drive up to Canada to see our aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember walking up the street to play with friends, beautiful homes on a tree lined street, people sitting on their front porch wave as you go by. Breaks my heart...

[WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime]

When you have a house or two on blocks that go abandoned, it's proof there's a problem. When you entire streets and blocks going abandoned, that's a crisis. Even with the stuff going on today, this shouldn't be happening inside America.

[Dante]

Crazy to think that this used to be one of the best cities in America to live in back then

[g.k.]

As I kid in the early 70's many of my relatives lived in those neighborhoods that were kept immaculate. It is weird to think of how I and my cousins would spend nights sleeping on the upper porches, walk to the bakeries or little stores that seemed to be on the corner of every 4th block. We used to sneak around, open the little wooden doors and sift through the dirt under those porches and find old coins from as far back as 1910 as they were kept in good condition in the dry dirt. We figured that a lot of inebriated men coming home from the bar would lose their coins while pulling out their door keys and the coins ended up rolling through the slats in the boards. I would imagine that there are still a lot of valuable coins laying in the dirt under those porches even today.

[wandadailey]

I finally caved and left the city six years ago. Decades of watching it slowly die was enough for me. But thanks to you and your videos it helps me remain grounded and not forget...it helps me to continue praying for my roots, for Detroit.

[roberth]

There's some sections of Detroit where the city should just fence off whole areas and turn off all utilities until they can be bulldozed. Then they can forest or farm the areas, right-sizing the city to the current population. I saw it for many years, and there are many good sections, but there's also many areas that need to be re-purposed.

[mistergrandpasbakery]

There's not much in America that makes me want to cry. But all the beautiful architecture in Detroit is one thing I want to bawl my eyes out for! 😢 This is arguably some of the best architecture in the country. When I was in high school architecture class, I did a rendering of a proud Detroit house.

[femalism]

This is too sad! Those houses and neighborhoods were probably such nice family homes with gardens and flower beds, kids playing and riding their bikes, and dogs barking - unbelievably tragic. 😪😭😥

[MrSoppysod]

I'm nearly 80 years old and in the UK and I find this all so sad. Is it likely that these houses were occupied by car workers? Did the bean counters shut down the factories or move production elsewhere because people were buying European or Japanese cars? I suppose there were many living in these houses who relied on the car workers for their living, and so it goes on. These abandoned houses paint a picture of how the whole world will be once humanity has died out because of the way it has been been made uninhabitable. I shall now go and give my wife a hug to cheer me up!

[rebeccagraves]

This is sad, whole neighborhoods abandoned. I wish our government would invest as much money for our housing crisis as they send overseas to people that hate us.

[smujer]

Beautiful architecture....really a pity to see these once stately homes disintegrate like this.

[sarx]

People’s grandparents and great grandparents are screaming from their graves, “What the hell did you do?!?!”

[djgriffin]

This has been going on for decades. My father was born in 1929 and raised there. For kicks, our family decided to visit his childhood home back in the early 1980's. Needless to say, the house was in disrepair and the neighborhood just wasn't the same. I can't imagine what it looks like now, or even if it's still standing.

[joelyons]

My grandma, born in ‘36, recently passed, she grew up near Tireman, her and my grandpa knew Detroit in it’s prime. They raised their kids, my Mom and her brothers, in Sterling Heights during the 60’s and 70’s. I live in Windsor, Detroit is close to home for me, that’s why I watch this channel.

[daynaphipps]

I really appreciate YTubers like yourself are going out there and showing the plight of American cities. From California to New York, we got a problem. We've all been duped into believing that by sending our industries and tax dollars to other countries around the world, we're doing a good and noble thing. Except for one problem. We forgot to take care of ourselves. We need to take our country back.

[kathrynmolesa]

So sad to see those lovely brick homes abandoned. My grandfather lived in one (Montrose)and the workmanship was remarkable.