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What Happened to Oakland California?
What Happened to Oakland…
References:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Oakland-California
https://www.biggestuscities.com/ca
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1081
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Oakland_Rising:_The_Industrialization_of_Alameda_County
https://monumenttoextraction.org/stories/food-processing/
https://oaklandplanninghistory.weebly.com/the-changing-face-of-oakland.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/120076927/cole-california-car-company-stock-sold-o/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/120286987/oakland-now-detroit-of-the-pacific-o/
https://m.yelp.com/biz/kaiser-permanente-corporate-offices-oakland-2#:~:text=Where%20is%20Kaiser%20Permanente%20Corporate,Kaiser%20Plz%2C%20Oakland%2C%20CA.
https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/24/in-her-first-budget-as-mayor-thao...
published: 24 Aug 2023
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Oakland California Travel Guide 4k
In this Oakland California travel guide we explore around the downtown area, Chinatown, the Oakland Waterfront, Cal Berkeley as well as some of the lakes and parks surrounding Oakland. The city of Oakland is located on the East Bay of San Francisco Bay area.
#Oakland #California #TravelGuide
Island Hopper TV takes you around the world to the premiere travel destinations. Our virtual travel guides from across America to Asia, Europe and Australia have assisted many world travelers in educating themselves on their next destination to travel or even vacation.
published: 24 Jun 2021
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OAKLAND , CALIFORNIA - THE WORST CITY IN AMERICA?
published: 13 May 2023
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Oakland begins to shut down of Wood Street homeless encampment
After months of delays due to a court order, work to clear out the massive Wood Street homeless encampment is underway. https://abc7ne.ws/3nZKKrM
#news #homeless #shelter #oakland #california #abc7news
published: 10 Apr 2023
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The Oakland, California Homeless Problem is Beyond Belief
Is this where America is headed?
►Join my community to get exclusive members-only access to additional content: https://www.youtube.com/@NickJohnson/join
Oakland California sure does have a homeless problem. Driving around town, there’s homeless encampments all over the place. They’re on the side of the roads in dirt lots. There’s long stretches of them on sidewalks. Some of em are tents, some are RVs, some are actual encampments with makeshift structures where hundreds of people gather in communities.
It’s estimated there’s around 5,000 homeless individuals throughout the city of Oakland, but no one really knows the exact number. And the number of people on the streets in Oakland has nearly doubled in the last two years alone.
A lot of that has to do with the high cost of living ...
published: 07 Nov 2021
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Here's how AWFUL Oakland, California is Today. Is it Unfixable?
Some say Oakland is Hell on Earth.
Of all the bad places I’ve been to in the United States, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a city that’s as vastly rundown, abandoned and out of control as Oakland, California. It’s a very ugly, rough, littered, dangerous place where the laws aren’t enforced and the crime is staggering. I drove around Oakland for an entire day in late October of 2021 to see what it was like these days. And I don’t recall seeing any part of this city that was welcoming, safe or clean. It was really quite an experience.
Oakland has had trouble for decades now. In the 1990s, it was home to an explosion of gangs and drug use, though a lot of the gang activity here isn’t nearly as bad as it was 30 years ago. Then, following the Bay Area tech boom came a spike in the cost ...
published: 28 Nov 2021
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Oakland, California | 4K Drone Video
Oakland California is one of the biggest cities in California located in the Bay Area... Hometown of NBA Champs Golden State Warriors... Check out that aerial view of its downtown area filmed with drone.... Enjoy
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Oakland residents grouse over influx of sex workers in quiet neighborhood
Responding to community outrage over open-air solicitation, Oakland mayoral candidates promise action. Da Lin reports. (10-1-22)
published: 02 Oct 2022
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Major police activity in Oakland along International Boulevard
There is major police activity in Oakland along International Boulevard.
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published: 15 Dec 2023
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Here's What Downtown Oakland, California Looks Like Today
Oakland just might be broken for good.
Some say tech will help - bringing in new fancy high paying jobs and companies. Some say tech is making things worse here by blowing up the cost of living and forcing people into the streets.
Here's the Oakland PTSD T Shirt featured in the video: https://my-store-578844.creator-spring.com/listing/oakland-ptsd-shirt
Downtown Oakland everyone! Don’t get too excited. This isn’t a very fun place. In fact, it’s not a very nice place at all. Oakland has always been the cheaper, more culturally stimulating ugly sister of San Francisco across the bay. And based on what I saw and from what people are saying, Oakland is in a bad place right now.
For this drive, we’re going to tour downtown Oakland and visit a few neighborhoods here. It was late in the da...
published: 06 Feb 2022
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What Happened to Oakland California?
What Happened to Oakland…
References:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Oakland-California
https://www.biggestuscities.com/ca
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_...
What Happened to Oakland…
References:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Oakland-California
https://www.biggestuscities.com/ca
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1081
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Oakland_Rising:_The_Industrialization_of_Alameda_County
https://monumenttoextraction.org/stories/food-processing/
https://oaklandplanninghistory.weebly.com/the-changing-face-of-oakland.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/120076927/cole-california-car-company-stock-sold-o/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/120286987/oakland-now-detroit-of-the-pacific-o/
https://m.yelp.com/biz/kaiser-permanente-corporate-offices-oakland-2#:~:text=Where%20is%20Kaiser%20Permanente%20Corporate,Kaiser%20Plz%2C%20Oakland%2C%20CA.
https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/24/in-her-first-budget-as-mayor-thao-stares-down-oaklands-biggest-deficit-ever/#:~:text=Oakland%20officials%20say%20the%20city,largest%E2%80%A6in%20its%20history.%E2%80%9D
https://www.shipafreight.com/knowledge-series/largest-ports-in-north-america/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/kaiser-oakland-pleasanton-shift-workers-health-care-jobs-real-estate/amp/
https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/20877/#:~:text=Work%20began%20in%201915%20and,until%20its%20closure%20in%201963.
https://www.up.com/heritage/steam-meet/index.htm#:~:text=The%20completion%20of%20the%20Transcontinental,one%20of%20mankind's%20biggest%20accomplishments.
https://theboutiqueadventurer.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-united-states/
https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/top-10-largest-and-busiest-container-ports-in-the-united-states/
https://www.mamasroyalcafeoakland.com/2021/08/10/oakland/
https://alamedapost.com/history/alameda-first-to-welcome-transcontinental-railroad/
https://www.city2map.com/en/us/ca/oakland/history.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/20/oakland-losing-3rd-major-sports-team-in-5-years-as-as-sign-las-vegas-deal/amp/
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/05/Gold-Rush-Girls/
https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/605051/most-expensive-cities-in-the-us
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2023/01/31/report-ranks-americas-15-safest-and-most-dangerous-cities-for-2023/amp/
USDA.gov
Library of Congress
National Archives
Oakland Chamber of Commerce
Historic American Buildings Survey
US Census
ESPN
Images:
"DSC04691" by Everfalling is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"Raiders" by brianc is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"Oakland Skyline" by jesserichmond is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"Oakland Bay Bridge" by Tony Webster is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"San Francisco Skyline and Port of Oakland" by Tony Webster is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
“Kaiser Center.jpg” by V Smoothe is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"File:Oakland Skyline - Lake Merritt.jpg" by Daniel Ramirez is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
https://wn.com/What_Happened_To_Oakland_California
What Happened to Oakland…
References:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Oakland-California
https://www.biggestuscities.com/ca
https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1081
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Oakland_Rising:_The_Industrialization_of_Alameda_County
https://monumenttoextraction.org/stories/food-processing/
https://oaklandplanninghistory.weebly.com/the-changing-face-of-oakland.html
https://www.newspapers.com/article/120076927/cole-california-car-company-stock-sold-o/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/120286987/oakland-now-detroit-of-the-pacific-o/
https://m.yelp.com/biz/kaiser-permanente-corporate-offices-oakland-2#:~:text=Where%20is%20Kaiser%20Permanente%20Corporate,Kaiser%20Plz%2C%20Oakland%2C%20CA.
https://oaklandside.org/2023/04/24/in-her-first-budget-as-mayor-thao-stares-down-oaklands-biggest-deficit-ever/#:~:text=Oakland%20officials%20say%20the%20city,largest%E2%80%A6in%20its%20history.%E2%80%9D
https://www.shipafreight.com/knowledge-series/largest-ports-in-north-america/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/kaiser-oakland-pleasanton-shift-workers-health-care-jobs-real-estate/amp/
https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/20877/#:~:text=Work%20began%20in%201915%20and,until%20its%20closure%20in%201963.
https://www.up.com/heritage/steam-meet/index.htm#:~:text=The%20completion%20of%20the%20Transcontinental,one%20of%20mankind's%20biggest%20accomplishments.
https://theboutiqueadventurer.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-united-states/
https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/top-10-largest-and-busiest-container-ports-in-the-united-states/
https://www.mamasroyalcafeoakland.com/2021/08/10/oakland/
https://alamedapost.com/history/alameda-first-to-welcome-transcontinental-railroad/
https://www.city2map.com/en/us/ca/oakland/history.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/20/oakland-losing-3rd-major-sports-team-in-5-years-as-as-sign-las-vegas-deal/amp/
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/05/Gold-Rush-Girls/
https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/605051/most-expensive-cities-in-the-us
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2023/01/31/report-ranks-americas-15-safest-and-most-dangerous-cities-for-2023/amp/
USDA.gov
Library of Congress
National Archives
Oakland Chamber of Commerce
Historic American Buildings Survey
US Census
ESPN
Images:
"DSC04691" by Everfalling is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"Raiders" by brianc is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"Oakland Skyline" by jesserichmond is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"Oakland Bay Bridge" by Tony Webster is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"San Francisco Skyline and Port of Oakland" by Tony Webster is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
“Kaiser Center.jpg” by V Smoothe is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
"File:Oakland Skyline - Lake Merritt.jpg" by Daniel Ramirez is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
- published: 24 Aug 2023
- views: 186984
15:47
Oakland California Travel Guide 4k
In this Oakland California travel guide we explore around the downtown area, Chinatown, the Oakland Waterfront, Cal Berkeley as well as some of the lakes and pa...
In this Oakland California travel guide we explore around the downtown area, Chinatown, the Oakland Waterfront, Cal Berkeley as well as some of the lakes and parks surrounding Oakland. The city of Oakland is located on the East Bay of San Francisco Bay area.
#Oakland #California #TravelGuide
Island Hopper TV takes you around the world to the premiere travel destinations. Our virtual travel guides from across America to Asia, Europe and Australia have assisted many world travelers in educating themselves on their next destination to travel or even vacation.
https://wn.com/Oakland_California_Travel_Guide_4K
In this Oakland California travel guide we explore around the downtown area, Chinatown, the Oakland Waterfront, Cal Berkeley as well as some of the lakes and parks surrounding Oakland. The city of Oakland is located on the East Bay of San Francisco Bay area.
#Oakland #California #TravelGuide
Island Hopper TV takes you around the world to the premiere travel destinations. Our virtual travel guides from across America to Asia, Europe and Australia have assisted many world travelers in educating themselves on their next destination to travel or even vacation.
- published: 24 Jun 2021
- views: 50390
1:59
Oakland begins to shut down of Wood Street homeless encampment
After months of delays due to a court order, work to clear out the massive Wood Street homeless encampment is underway. https://abc7ne.ws/3nZKKrM
#news #hom...
After months of delays due to a court order, work to clear out the massive Wood Street homeless encampment is underway. https://abc7ne.ws/3nZKKrM
#news #homeless #shelter #oakland #california #abc7news
https://wn.com/Oakland_Begins_To_Shut_Down_Of_Wood_Street_Homeless_Encampment
After months of delays due to a court order, work to clear out the massive Wood Street homeless encampment is underway. https://abc7ne.ws/3nZKKrM
#news #homeless #shelter #oakland #california #abc7news
- published: 10 Apr 2023
- views: 121722
41:27
The Oakland, California Homeless Problem is Beyond Belief
Is this where America is headed?
►Join my community to get exclusive members-only access to additional content: https://www.youtube.com/@NickJohnson/join
Oa...
Is this where America is headed?
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Oakland California sure does have a homeless problem. Driving around town, there’s homeless encampments all over the place. They’re on the side of the roads in dirt lots. There’s long stretches of them on sidewalks. Some of em are tents, some are RVs, some are actual encampments with makeshift structures where hundreds of people gather in communities.
It’s estimated there’s around 5,000 homeless individuals throughout the city of Oakland, but no one really knows the exact number. And the number of people on the streets in Oakland has nearly doubled in the last two years alone.
A lot of that has to do with the high cost of living in the Bay Area. Apartments that were once $1,000 a month now cost closer to $3,000 a month. A lot of the homeless are addicts. But there’s no real one reason homelessness is so high in Oakland. You ask 10 homeless people why they live on the streets and you’ll get 10 different answers.
Look at this one in West Oakland. This one is sort of sanctioned by the city - meaning they don’t run them off. Sometimes, it’s easier to keep them in one place so they can monitor them and provide support. But this problem is impacting the community in a big way.
Local businesses complain about losing customers. I mean would you want to park near here to shop? Residents complain about homeless people stealing from them. Neighbors complain about loud noise and trash. Some say helping the homeless is backfiring.
And the Oakland police are already stretched thin because of low numbers. There’s many reasons for that - you know, vaccine mandates, early retirements and being defunded.
I spent two days driving around Oakland, looking at how run down this once proud city has become. And along the way, I recorded all the homeless camps I saw. But there was one particular homeless camp that I stumbled onto which put into perspective the state of homelessness here in Oakland, and actually changed my perspective on the homeless problem in general.
#california #moving
OTHER VIDEO SERIES
►The Deep South: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrg0_gX1fq81lsxUQTnt7Vl
►Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yqccGbhjoid97_3BEWegGtf
►Great Lakes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6ypYq3snF04oSnlx1Nz_paCO
►California: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yomU5rB6yOC5C9hr0Qnkf1l
►Texas: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yo9g5TSfY7ySf5apN2Qc8SZ
►The Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yreUhBrJwFhC9LeCYh1TvBL
►The Mountain West: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yq836p_Frch75GtIGQXn-AX
►California Road Trip: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yoGM0mmbTCTmMa9zMFvvDeG
►Appalachia: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrVA4HLAJ9hgylkyIiI4Az6
►Florida: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrjasT68WYExAWy12ydm2ah
►Unboxing America: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yoRYg-ZZSFNFo4dBKxg85JC
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https://wn.com/The_Oakland,_California_Homeless_Problem_Is_Beyond_Belief
Is this where America is headed?
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Oakland California sure does have a homeless problem. Driving around town, there’s homeless encampments all over the place. They’re on the side of the roads in dirt lots. There’s long stretches of them on sidewalks. Some of em are tents, some are RVs, some are actual encampments with makeshift structures where hundreds of people gather in communities.
It’s estimated there’s around 5,000 homeless individuals throughout the city of Oakland, but no one really knows the exact number. And the number of people on the streets in Oakland has nearly doubled in the last two years alone.
A lot of that has to do with the high cost of living in the Bay Area. Apartments that were once $1,000 a month now cost closer to $3,000 a month. A lot of the homeless are addicts. But there’s no real one reason homelessness is so high in Oakland. You ask 10 homeless people why they live on the streets and you’ll get 10 different answers.
Look at this one in West Oakland. This one is sort of sanctioned by the city - meaning they don’t run them off. Sometimes, it’s easier to keep them in one place so they can monitor them and provide support. But this problem is impacting the community in a big way.
Local businesses complain about losing customers. I mean would you want to park near here to shop? Residents complain about homeless people stealing from them. Neighbors complain about loud noise and trash. Some say helping the homeless is backfiring.
And the Oakland police are already stretched thin because of low numbers. There’s many reasons for that - you know, vaccine mandates, early retirements and being defunded.
I spent two days driving around Oakland, looking at how run down this once proud city has become. And along the way, I recorded all the homeless camps I saw. But there was one particular homeless camp that I stumbled onto which put into perspective the state of homelessness here in Oakland, and actually changed my perspective on the homeless problem in general.
#california #moving
OTHER VIDEO SERIES
►The Deep South: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrg0_gX1fq81lsxUQTnt7Vl
►Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yqccGbhjoid97_3BEWegGtf
►Great Lakes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6ypYq3snF04oSnlx1Nz_paCO
►California: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yomU5rB6yOC5C9hr0Qnkf1l
►Texas: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yo9g5TSfY7ySf5apN2Qc8SZ
►The Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yreUhBrJwFhC9LeCYh1TvBL
►The Mountain West: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yq836p_Frch75GtIGQXn-AX
►California Road Trip: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yoGM0mmbTCTmMa9zMFvvDeG
►Appalachia: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrVA4HLAJ9hgylkyIiI4Az6
►Florida: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrjasT68WYExAWy12ydm2ah
►Unboxing America: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yoRYg-ZZSFNFo4dBKxg85JC
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- published: 07 Nov 2021
- views: 17768149
30:19
Here's how AWFUL Oakland, California is Today. Is it Unfixable?
Some say Oakland is Hell on Earth.
Of all the bad places I’ve been to in the United States, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a city that’s as vastly rundown,...
Some say Oakland is Hell on Earth.
Of all the bad places I’ve been to in the United States, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a city that’s as vastly rundown, abandoned and out of control as Oakland, California. It’s a very ugly, rough, littered, dangerous place where the laws aren’t enforced and the crime is staggering. I drove around Oakland for an entire day in late October of 2021 to see what it was like these days. And I don’t recall seeing any part of this city that was welcoming, safe or clean. It was really quite an experience.
Oakland has had trouble for decades now. In the 1990s, it was home to an explosion of gangs and drug use, though a lot of the gang activity here isn’t nearly as bad as it was 30 years ago. Then, following the Bay Area tech boom came a spike in the cost of living, which priced out the lower class. Over the last 5 years, the cost to rent or own a home is pushing even more people out into the streets.
Oakland is drug filled. It’s a graffiti covered shell of its former self where you can’t let your guard down for a minute, or risk being robbed, assaulted or shot at.
At least in the greater downtown area. Here’s a map of the area I covered in my car on this day. Oakland can be broken up into many different regions, but we’ll keep it simple and split it in two - west and east Oakland. That’s usually how it’s divided anyways.
Here in west Oakland, you have the greater downtown area. Downtown itself doesn’t look that bad at all, but just a few blocks west of downtown and you find all sorts of abandoned warehouses and people lining the streets in their RVs and cars, clearly victims of homelessness. This is also the side of town where most of the homeless camps are located. Some look like something you’d see in Haiti - lean to shacks made of recovered junk that serve as four walls and a roof, but that’s just about it.
Other large areas just outside of downtown are home to hundreds of people camped out in makeshift shanties among piles of trash with rats. Parts of West Oakland don’t even look like the United States. And in between the litter and the gutted buildings are neighborhoods. Can you imagine being surrounded by this? I mean paying $3,000 a month for a crummy apartment? It’s an expensive ghetto. And that’s not a good combination, people.
I walked around downtown and within 30 seconds, I saw a mentally ill woman hanging on the wiper blades of a city bus, clearly out of her mind. This was just a block from the hotel I was staying in. It’s like this all over the place. I can only imagine the things that a city bus driver in Oakland California has to deal with on an hourly basis.
Just down the block, I saw a woman get punched by a man. He just socked her in the head right in the middle of the street during an argument. And everyone that saw just shrugged it off. It’s Oakland. Never a dull moment I guess.
There’s no law and order in Oakland anymore. The police are underfunded, or de-funded. Their morale is low, and they’ve been asked to direct their efforts to only the most dire needs. If someone isn’t bleeding, it might take a long time for help to arrive. People run lights and speed around town, and clearly littering and vandalism isn’t going to get you in trouble here.
Here in East Oakland is where it’s really dangerous. Like west Oakland is mostly just ugly and rundown, but this is where a lot of the poor people live and this is where a lot of the gangs are. Shootings happen down here every day, sometimes many times a day. It’s as gritty and grimy as the west side, just on a far larger scale. To me, it seemed like East Oakland has been handed over to the dregs of society, to do with it as they wish. And this is what they’ve done.
Oakland is hell on earth. It's lawless, it's rundown, it's ugly it's dangerous, it's woke. No wonder the warriors and raiders left. The As are next. They’re gonna move to Vegas soon. Look at the place - would you want to play here?
Oakland’s problems don’t just go block after block. it's mile after mile. And very few people I talked to who live here think there’s a chance it can be saved. I think Oakland, California is beyond repair. Forever.
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Some say Oakland is Hell on Earth.
Of all the bad places I’ve been to in the United States, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a city that’s as vastly rundown, abandoned and out of control as Oakland, California. It’s a very ugly, rough, littered, dangerous place where the laws aren’t enforced and the crime is staggering. I drove around Oakland for an entire day in late October of 2021 to see what it was like these days. And I don’t recall seeing any part of this city that was welcoming, safe or clean. It was really quite an experience.
Oakland has had trouble for decades now. In the 1990s, it was home to an explosion of gangs and drug use, though a lot of the gang activity here isn’t nearly as bad as it was 30 years ago. Then, following the Bay Area tech boom came a spike in the cost of living, which priced out the lower class. Over the last 5 years, the cost to rent or own a home is pushing even more people out into the streets.
Oakland is drug filled. It’s a graffiti covered shell of its former self where you can’t let your guard down for a minute, or risk being robbed, assaulted or shot at.
At least in the greater downtown area. Here’s a map of the area I covered in my car on this day. Oakland can be broken up into many different regions, but we’ll keep it simple and split it in two - west and east Oakland. That’s usually how it’s divided anyways.
Here in west Oakland, you have the greater downtown area. Downtown itself doesn’t look that bad at all, but just a few blocks west of downtown and you find all sorts of abandoned warehouses and people lining the streets in their RVs and cars, clearly victims of homelessness. This is also the side of town where most of the homeless camps are located. Some look like something you’d see in Haiti - lean to shacks made of recovered junk that serve as four walls and a roof, but that’s just about it.
Other large areas just outside of downtown are home to hundreds of people camped out in makeshift shanties among piles of trash with rats. Parts of West Oakland don’t even look like the United States. And in between the litter and the gutted buildings are neighborhoods. Can you imagine being surrounded by this? I mean paying $3,000 a month for a crummy apartment? It’s an expensive ghetto. And that’s not a good combination, people.
I walked around downtown and within 30 seconds, I saw a mentally ill woman hanging on the wiper blades of a city bus, clearly out of her mind. This was just a block from the hotel I was staying in. It’s like this all over the place. I can only imagine the things that a city bus driver in Oakland California has to deal with on an hourly basis.
Just down the block, I saw a woman get punched by a man. He just socked her in the head right in the middle of the street during an argument. And everyone that saw just shrugged it off. It’s Oakland. Never a dull moment I guess.
There’s no law and order in Oakland anymore. The police are underfunded, or de-funded. Their morale is low, and they’ve been asked to direct their efforts to only the most dire needs. If someone isn’t bleeding, it might take a long time for help to arrive. People run lights and speed around town, and clearly littering and vandalism isn’t going to get you in trouble here.
Here in East Oakland is where it’s really dangerous. Like west Oakland is mostly just ugly and rundown, but this is where a lot of the poor people live and this is where a lot of the gangs are. Shootings happen down here every day, sometimes many times a day. It’s as gritty and grimy as the west side, just on a far larger scale. To me, it seemed like East Oakland has been handed over to the dregs of society, to do with it as they wish. And this is what they’ve done.
Oakland is hell on earth. It's lawless, it's rundown, it's ugly it's dangerous, it's woke. No wonder the warriors and raiders left. The As are next. They’re gonna move to Vegas soon. Look at the place - would you want to play here?
Oakland’s problems don’t just go block after block. it's mile after mile. And very few people I talked to who live here think there’s a chance it can be saved. I think Oakland, California is beyond repair. Forever.
#california #moving
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Oakland, California | 4K Drone Video
Oakland California is one of the biggest cities in California located in the Bay Area... Hometown of NBA Champs Golden State Warriors... Check out that aerial v...
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Oakland residents grouse over influx of sex workers in quiet neighborhood
Responding to community outrage over open-air solicitation, Oakland mayoral candidates promise action. Da Lin reports. (10-1-22)
Responding to community outrage over open-air solicitation, Oakland mayoral candidates promise action. Da Lin reports. (10-1-22)
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Responding to community outrage over open-air solicitation, Oakland mayoral candidates promise action. Da Lin reports. (10-1-22)
- published: 02 Oct 2022
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Major police activity in Oakland along International Boulevard
There is major police activity in Oakland along International Boulevard.
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Here's What Downtown Oakland, California Looks Like Today
Oakland just might be broken for good.
Some say tech will help - bringing in new fancy high paying jobs and companies. Some say tech is making things worse her...
Oakland just might be broken for good.
Some say tech will help - bringing in new fancy high paying jobs and companies. Some say tech is making things worse here by blowing up the cost of living and forcing people into the streets.
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Downtown Oakland everyone! Don’t get too excited. This isn’t a very fun place. In fact, it’s not a very nice place at all. Oakland has always been the cheaper, more culturally stimulating ugly sister of San Francisco across the bay. And based on what I saw and from what people are saying, Oakland is in a bad place right now.
For this drive, we’re going to tour downtown Oakland and visit a few neighborhoods here. It was late in the day at the end of October and the skies were partly cloudy.
You probably won’t be wowed by this downtown. But it’s actually nice compared to the surrounding areas. Cause Oakland is a very rundown place in every direction. Trash graffiti and homeless people seem to be in every nook and cranny. You can see that in other videos I did.
Downtown is one of the few areas in Oakland that’s not completely trashed. Yet. It’s in west Oakland which is the better Oakland - but that's not saying much. This downtown isn’t fancy and it's very dangerous at night. A little later I’ll talk about my night walk through downtown, but as you might expect it wasn’t pleasant.
Oakland is trying to gentrify the downtown area. They’re tearing out old ugly warehouses and putting in sparkling new condos in parts of town. However, it can be hard to justify paying $5,000 a month for a condo here when the first floor windows get smashed, people are getting shot nearby or your car is vandalized. And all the new growth has outpriced a lot of people here, so there are a bunch of empty buildings. People here wonder why they can’t be turned into cheap apartments.
Now I talked to several people while in Oakland this day, and there seems to be a dichotomy among residents here. On one hand, there’s a lot of pride among people in West Oakland. Oakland is very funky and gritty and rough around the edges, and a lot of people here are into art and music and self expression. It’s often hard to tell what’s vandalism and what’s art. Or what’s both.
Many residents have pride in Oakland, and they think San Francisco is an overpriced bunch of snobs without a sense of community and culture. Here in Oakland you pay $5k for a condo only to have your windows shot out. But across the bay, you pay a million bucks for a house with poop on your porch.
People I talked to say they look out for one another on this side of the bridge and they want change. A lot of people here say they want to make Oakland better - or at least not let it get worse. Some will say Oakland is pushing BACK against the negative that has crept in. Locals will tell you stories about how during protests, the community would stand guard to protect the small business owners from being looted. Or how people will demand a more even playing field for the poor.
But when I drove around Oakland and the surrounding areas, it was hard to see evidence of the community pride. It’s like people live in what they used to call paradise, but now treat it like hell.
Oakland is challenged in many ways. Drugs, gangs, shootings, graffiti, trash, homelessness and poverty are issues that are getting worse all the time. And it used to be that you could flee up into the surrounding hills to get away from Oakland’s drama, into areas like Walnut Creek. But it’s even creeping into the nice neighborhoods, too.
Here in downtown, it’s not very safe. Besides the property crime that happens on just about every block, there are often shootings. Sometimes you can hear gunfire down here every night of the week.
It’s not ALL bad here. Because it’s cheaper here than in San Francisco, a lot of technology companies have moved into the downtown area. There’s certainly a startup scene here and with that comes a lot of smart, motivated wealthy people. The city has a downtown economic development plan with hopes to revitalize the area with additional housing, public spaces, and other improvements. So that’s good.
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Oakland just might be broken for good.
Some say tech will help - bringing in new fancy high paying jobs and companies. Some say tech is making things worse here by blowing up the cost of living and forcing people into the streets.
Here's the Oakland PTSD T Shirt featured in the video: https://my-store-578844.creator-spring.com/listing/oakland-ptsd-shirt
Downtown Oakland everyone! Don’t get too excited. This isn’t a very fun place. In fact, it’s not a very nice place at all. Oakland has always been the cheaper, more culturally stimulating ugly sister of San Francisco across the bay. And based on what I saw and from what people are saying, Oakland is in a bad place right now.
For this drive, we’re going to tour downtown Oakland and visit a few neighborhoods here. It was late in the day at the end of October and the skies were partly cloudy.
You probably won’t be wowed by this downtown. But it’s actually nice compared to the surrounding areas. Cause Oakland is a very rundown place in every direction. Trash graffiti and homeless people seem to be in every nook and cranny. You can see that in other videos I did.
Downtown is one of the few areas in Oakland that’s not completely trashed. Yet. It’s in west Oakland which is the better Oakland - but that's not saying much. This downtown isn’t fancy and it's very dangerous at night. A little later I’ll talk about my night walk through downtown, but as you might expect it wasn’t pleasant.
Oakland is trying to gentrify the downtown area. They’re tearing out old ugly warehouses and putting in sparkling new condos in parts of town. However, it can be hard to justify paying $5,000 a month for a condo here when the first floor windows get smashed, people are getting shot nearby or your car is vandalized. And all the new growth has outpriced a lot of people here, so there are a bunch of empty buildings. People here wonder why they can’t be turned into cheap apartments.
Now I talked to several people while in Oakland this day, and there seems to be a dichotomy among residents here. On one hand, there’s a lot of pride among people in West Oakland. Oakland is very funky and gritty and rough around the edges, and a lot of people here are into art and music and self expression. It’s often hard to tell what’s vandalism and what’s art. Or what’s both.
Many residents have pride in Oakland, and they think San Francisco is an overpriced bunch of snobs without a sense of community and culture. Here in Oakland you pay $5k for a condo only to have your windows shot out. But across the bay, you pay a million bucks for a house with poop on your porch.
People I talked to say they look out for one another on this side of the bridge and they want change. A lot of people here say they want to make Oakland better - or at least not let it get worse. Some will say Oakland is pushing BACK against the negative that has crept in. Locals will tell you stories about how during protests, the community would stand guard to protect the small business owners from being looted. Or how people will demand a more even playing field for the poor.
But when I drove around Oakland and the surrounding areas, it was hard to see evidence of the community pride. It’s like people live in what they used to call paradise, but now treat it like hell.
Oakland is challenged in many ways. Drugs, gangs, shootings, graffiti, trash, homelessness and poverty are issues that are getting worse all the time. And it used to be that you could flee up into the surrounding hills to get away from Oakland’s drama, into areas like Walnut Creek. But it’s even creeping into the nice neighborhoods, too.
Here in downtown, it’s not very safe. Besides the property crime that happens on just about every block, there are often shootings. Sometimes you can hear gunfire down here every night of the week.
It’s not ALL bad here. Because it’s cheaper here than in San Francisco, a lot of technology companies have moved into the downtown area. There’s certainly a startup scene here and with that comes a lot of smart, motivated wealthy people. The city has a downtown economic development plan with hopes to revitalize the area with additional housing, public spaces, and other improvements. So that’s good.
#california #moving
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More places to get my music:
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