Hey welcome back to the world accordion Briggs my name is Briggs and I want to
be your twisted American tour guide I was just in St. Louis for a couple days
last month and it hasn't changed in the year or so since I was there last I did
have perfect weather so that was really great but wasn't great was the Indian
uber driver that thought I was speaking another language because I talked so
fast he told me he thought he was gonna need an interpreter but really I just
needed to drink less coffee he dropped me off at the mission taco joint which
is a great place to eat in case you're in the neighborhood and as I got out of
the car he said don't drink any Red Bull or coffee in there you might get
deported like my friend Vijay then he drove off I still don't know what
happened to Vijay anyway st. Louis is a city filled with interesting history and
good people you'll notice the quality of the people as soon as you step foot in
this city they are amazing most of st. Louis is a great place to visit but like
all major cities it has some neighborhoods you need to avoid like a
Somali prince that needs your help getting millions of dollars out of his
country all he needs is your bank account information so he can deposit 1
million dollars in your account no strings attached and that's what today's
list is all about neighborhood you should avoid in st. Louis all of these
neighborhoods have good people probably 90% are decent hard-working people then
like every place you have that 10% that bring the rest down one thing about this
video I will tell you because of copyright things and new restrictions
YouTube has all the pictures and all the videos might not be exact to the
neighborhood in st. Louis but they are videos of st. Louis so let's take a look
at my top 10 worst neighborhoods in st. Louis Missouri
number 10 Mark Twain yes Mark Twain is a writer and it's also a neighborhood in
st. Louis the Mark Twain neighborhood is one of several communities that comprise
Northwest st. Louis it is bound by a couple of cemeteries to the Northeast
Interstate 70 to the south and southwest and Emerson Avenue to the northwest the
overall crime rate in Mark Twain is 255 percent higher than the national average
holy crap congratulations Mark Twain residents if the actual Mark Twain was
still alive he'd probably start using his birth name of Samuel Clemens so we
wouldn't be associated with this neighborhood the unemployment rate in
Mark Twain is 100 fifty-five percent higher than the
national average but if stealing people's stuff was considered job they'd
be doing a lot better here's something in the news a teen was shot at a block
party on Tuesday October 1st that's amazing
these people don't even wait for the weekend to have a block party or shoot
people if you get anywhere near Mark Twain like on the i-70 just don't get
off there just keep going
number nine Wells Goodfellow southwest of Mark Twain you have the neighborhood
of Wells Goodfellow if you drive through this place it looks like someone's
trying to recreate a bad neighborhood in Detroit or it's a shooting location from
the next version of The Walking Dead kind of looks like it could be either
this neighborhood is doing a little bit better than Mark Twain when it comes to
crime but they tank when it comes to people with jobs the unemployment rate
in Wells Goodfellows 179 percent higher than the national average and the income
per capita is 49 percent lower than the national average now when we do these
neighborhoods we call them by whatever the city calls them locals might not
even know that the area has that name some may call this one just Wells or
something like that I mean I grew up in a place I called South Redondo come to
find out after living there for twenty years that it's actually called Clifton
by the sea never even heard of it before but so a lot of people will leave
comments wells isn't even a real play just stop the reason I used the proper
name given by the city is in case viewers want to look it up later so stop
typing but Wells Goodfellow is not a place you want to buy land buy a car buy
a soda or even slow your car down in I doubt you'd be able to get a mortgage
for a building in this neighborhood or car insurance for a car if you live in
this neighborhood call Geico see what they'll do for you number eight
Fox Park Fox Park is the little northwest of the anheuser-busch brewery
and has Interstate 44 on its northern border this is not a place you want to
live if you have school-aged kids area Vybz gives Fox Park a big fat F and F
with an F not a pH test scores for students that live in Fox Park are about
19 percent lower than the national average this place doesn't look terribly
rundown like some of the other places in st. Louis B it has a few boarded up
houses but not a big deal that might be something you want to
consider as a security measure when you hear about the crime rate here the
overall crime rate in Fox Park is a hundred and sixty nine percent higher
than the national average now in the news recently the city decided it's
gonna step up and protect youth soccer games and the league after an unsettling
incident happened over a weekend a couple weeks back parents told police
that four men were drinking in the park with guns and they approached the soccer
field they had some assault weapons in Fox Park it was I don't even know what
to say about that you know what's this country coming to when forum friends
can't get drunk in a park and take their assault weapons to a kids soccer game
come on number seven Kings way west not too far from Mark Twain and right next
to Wells Goodfellow you have the tiny neighborhood of Kings Way West or what
most people call it the place I got robbed that time if you feel like you
have too much stuff put it in your car drive to King's way West get out of your
car sneeze twice get back in your car drive home without all that extra stuff
the overall crime rate in King's way west is 218 percent higher than the
national average it's like they're in a competition with someone to be the worst
it's really weird the unemployment rate here is 176
percent higher than the national average like I said another thing it's like
they're competing against someone to be the worst it's really strange the only
reason you need to go here is if you're on court-ordered community service they
tell you to go here and you might want to just do the time it's that nice of a
neighborhood number six visitation park right off the bat the neighborhood
sounds like a place should go to visit loved ones who are doing time visitation
Park the neighborhood is defined by Maple Avenue on the north Delmar
Boulevard on the South Union Boulevard on the east and Belt Avenue on the west
the neighborhood got its name from an all-girls Catholic Academy that was at
this location the Academy is still in operation at another location but when
they took it down they decided to build a neighborhood the unemployment rate
here is 12 percent that's alarming that's a hundred and fifty-seven percent
higher than the national average there's only about 700 residents living here now
in the 1990s there was about 1500 this is sort of the norm for all of st. Louis
these days people have been flooding out of here for a couple decades now and
there's no sign of its slowing and a lot of that has
with the unemployment numbers throughout st. Louis but here in visitation park
the crime levels are so high it make Batman cry the crime rate is 248 percent
higher than the national average here number five so lard so lard is named
after Antoine soulard who was the first to develop this land lard was a surveyor
for the Spanish government and a refugee from the French Revolution in the 1790s
and that would be the high point of this entry so lard is not the place any
refugee should move to actually nobody should move here the unemployment rate
is 23% lower than the national average which is great it's not terrible
compared to others on this list but here's what got them on the list the
overall crime rates lard is three hundred and six percent higher than the
national average in Salar do you have a one in nine chance of becoming the
victim of a crime that's a one in nine chance every year that's incredible
the best way to protect yourself in Florida is probably by buying a bus
ticket out of town maybe Denver Denver sounds nice number four Benton Park is a
neighborhood on the south side just west of the salar de neighborhood Benton Park
wasn't always a neighborhood in st. Louis at least not for the living it
used to be a cemetery so you know this place has some bad juju going on if you
live here your house could catch a poltergeist and your kid could get
sucked into your TV happened once before ok maybe not maybe that was the premise
of the movie poltergeist back in the eighties and that movie freaked me out
back then everyone was saying that this was based on the true story and when
you're 10 that's some scary shit anyway Benton Park is scary too the overall
crime rate in Benton Park is a hundred and ninety five percent higher than the
national average but the fun doesn't stop there the unemployment rate is a
hundred thirty-four percent higher than the national average and area Vybz gives
their education system pretty much all their schools a big fat ass but really
most of st. Louis's gets big fat F's for their public schools and before you
comment I'm sure there are some fine schools in st. Louis if there is they're
few and far between trust me number three Midtown
Midtown is located west of the city's riverfront at the intersections of
Grandin lyndale Boulevard one interesting fact about Midtown this
the site of the only American Civil War battle in st. Louis the Camp Jackson
affair as it was known took place on May 10th 1861 when the Union Army decided to
fight with the civilians so I guess what happens is the Union soldiers showed up
and the Confederate soldiers surrendered they were there to collect some weapons
and all this and so the Confederate Army decided they didn't want to fight
I guess this pissed off the locals and they started fighting the Union
twenty-eight people died and actually the first officer for the Union Army was
killed during this little fight with them the crime rate in Midtown is about
two hundred seventy nine percent higher than the national average the income per
capita in Midtown is about 38 percent lower than the national average and the
median household like together is about 51 percent lower than the national
average Midtown kinda sucks number two
Penrose this neighborhood is located on the north side of the city just south of
interstate 70 and west of O'Fallon Park the good news about Penrose is the cost
of living is extremely low rent is at a point where some landlords feel guilty
charging you anything it's almost worth it to let you live there for free so the
squatters and homeless don't move in the overall crime rate in Penrose is a
whopping three hundred and forty percent higher than the national average
way to go Penrose what is the deal here are they teaching these kids how to be
adults by playing Grand Theft Auto what's really strange about this place
is the employment is decent the residents have jobs normally you don't
see that high a crime rate when people have jobs to go to strange and number
one Fountain Park and it is official Fountain Park is not suitable for humans
sort of like Mars Fountain Park is a small neighborhood that had 2,500
residents back in the 1990's today it's it's around 1200 half the people of left
now why is this place number one I sort of forgot why was it oh yeah now I
remember the crime rate the crime rate in
Fountain Park is 360 percent higher than the national average you have a one in
seven chance of being the victim of any crime every year you live in the
Fountain Park and you have a one in nine chance of that being a violent crime let
me make that a little more clear if you look at
The Brady Bunch house and the people that live there Jan will be mugged this
year and the chances are high that that person who mugged Jan is unemployed
because the unemployment rate in Fountain Park is 258 percent higher than
the national average staggering numbers in Fountain Park Fountain Park is the
worst place to live in st. Louis alright so that is my top 10 worst neighborhoods
in st. Louis Missouri hope you guys got some information out
of it hope it was entertaining it's kind of alarming this one some scary numbers
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