YouTuber visits the worst parts of California and seems to..... (San Francisco: for sale, real estate)

[dontbelievehim]

Originally Posted by mattja

First of all, the thing about how people live on under $300/week in episode 4 is clickbait. He said it himself it's just under $300/week per capita, counting children. So, for a family of 5 that's closer to $1,500/week.

He also drives through the best neighborhoods and acts confused as to how people can afford to live in those homes with such low incomes. That's easy: Those are the people with the upper median salaries. Everyone else rents an apartment or is packed thirteen to a rundown 3-bedroom home.

Healthcare is cheaper because people don't have insurance and either pay cash or are on Medi-Cal. And with Newsom now giving free Medi-Cal to illegal alien seniors, is it any wonder 40% of the population in those cities is over 65?

I've been through some of those cities and they're not places anyone would want to live. Both the standard and quality of living are low and there's no jobs. And the schools are crap.



Those will be fun. The only thing Oakland and San Jose have in common are increasing numbers of Latinos. But I guess that's true of all of California.

Crappy schools
Sounds like most big city schools in America.

Here's orange cove hs

All Rankings
#2,857
in National Rankings
#439
in California High Schools
#11
in Fresno, CA Metro Area High Schools
#2
in Kings Canyon Joint Unified School District High Schools

It's ranked like a typical good school in the deep south.
People in the parts of the south would pay a premium to have a school like that.
Not bad for a bunch of poor migrants just coming into America.

What apartments? I doubt there are many apartments in these towns. Developers wont chance it.
The poorest people live in farm houses. The neighborhoods look like what he showed you unless it's a really old part of town. They don't build junky new neighborhoods in CA.


I agree that his per Capita stat was useless.

[dontbelievehim]

Originally Posted by M3Guy

There's a pattern. He only likes cities that are a majority of certain demographic. When ironically there are a lot of nice cities that aren't those demographics. Let's just leave it at that.

He oversells those cities cause he thinks his audience wants to hear that or cause he's into that 'great replacement theory' nonsense. Scummy either way

Ive noticed he's toned down his racism some recently, but I'm completely done watching his stuff.

I was reading the comments on a recent video and commenters were blaming californians for ruining their state. They all kept naming issues that Californians were supposedly making worse. They even blamed Californians for stuff that only their own state government could have caused!!! And nick Johnson liked every comment. I said, nope, I'm done. That's the last straw for me
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[UniversalTraveler]

Nick doesn't pull punches that's for sure. Some can't handle that. Dirty is dirty, filth is filth and overcrowding and homeless is simply a reality for many large cities especially in Cali. Can't blame the people however. There simply are have's and have not's and that's not going to change. Your governor sure would like to dig a lot deeper into the have's that's for sure. ;-)

[mattja]

Originally Posted by wamer27

You can buy Mappy clothing now!

I've never been tempted to purchase any youtuber swag, but I might make an exception for Mappy.

[mattja]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

Crappy schools
Sounds like most big city schools in America.

Here's orange cove hs

All Rankings
#2,857
in National Rankings
#439
in California High Schools
#11
in Fresno, CA Metro Area High Schools
#2
in Kings Canyon Joint Unified School District High Schools

It's ranked like a typical good school in the deep south.
People in the parts of the south would pay a premium to have a school like that.
Not bad for a bunch of poor migrants just coming into America.

What apartments? I doubt there are many apartments in these towns. Developers wont chance it.
The poorest people live in farm houses. The neighborhoods look like what he showed you unless it's a really old part of town. They don't build junky new neighborhoods in CA.


I agree that his per Capita stat was useless.

This is what happens when your brain gets old. My brain was jumping between Fresno and the 4 small towns he visited. You're right, the people in those small towns live mostly in homes in town or on small farms. They often have one large extended family in the home. Maybe 10 or more people.

The schools do suck though.

[mattja]

Originally Posted by UniversalTraveler

Nick doesn't pull punches that's for sure. Some can't handle that. Dirty is dirty, filth is filth and overcrowding and homeless is simply a reality for many large cities especially in Cali. Can't blame the people however. There simply are have's and have not's and that's not going to change. Your governor sure would like to dig a lot deeper into the have's that's for sure. ;-)

The part I find funny is these so-called "Californians" are mostly not Californians at all. California was just their most recent stop.

[UniversalTraveler]

Originally Posted by mattja

The part I find funny is these so-called "Californians" are mostly not Californians at all. California was just their most recent stop.

So how long does one have to LIVE in California before they can be considered a Californian?

[M3Guy]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

He oversells those cities cause he thinks his audience wants to hear that or cause he's into that 'great replacement theory' nonsense. Scummy either way

Ive noticed he's toned down his racism some recently, but I'm completely done watching his stuff.

I was reading the comments on a recent video and commenters were blaming californians for ruining their state. They all kept naming issues that Californians were supposedly making worse. They even blamed Californians for stuff that only their own state government could have caused!!! And nick Johnson liked every comment. I said, nope, I'm done. That's the last straw for me
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Yep, this is what I was driving home.

I used to watch his stuff until I noticed a theme/pattern in his videos. Also, you are correct. He is super into the great replacement garbage. He only has one type of audience/followers. God forbid he says SF is nice. He'd probably lose half of his subscribers.

[Oklazona Bound]

Originally Posted by mattja

First of all, the thing about how people live on under $300/week in episode 4 is clickbait. He said it himself it's just under $300/week per capita, counting children. So, for a family of 5 that's closer to $1,500/week.

The median household income is about $38k per year or $3,000 a month. Since you stated per capita income includes children and a town like Firebaugh with a 98% Hispanic population is going to have households with lots of children who don't earn any income. So its meaningless and misleading to say someone can live there on $300 a week. Looking at low end studio apartments. They start in the region at about $1,000 a month. $300 a week is not going to get you a studio apartment let alone anything better than that.

Originally Posted by mattja

He also drives through the best neighborhoods and acts confused as to how people can afford to live in those homes with such low incomes. That's easy: Those are the people with the upper median salaries. Everyone else rents an apartment or is packed thirteen to a rundown 3-bedroom home.

Halfway decent 3br homes start about $350k.

[M3Guy]

Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound

The median household income is about $38k per year or $3,000 a month. Since you stated per capita income includes children and a town like Firebaugh with a 98% Hispanic population is going to have households with lots of children who don't earn any income. So its meaningless and misleading to say someone can live there on $300 a week. Looking at low end studio apartments. They start in the region at about $1,000 a month. $300 a week is not going to get you a studio apartment let alone anything better than that.

Halfway decent 3br homes start about $350k.

Where?!?!