Hey welcome back to the world according to Briggs everyone how is your world
spinnin for you? I hope it's going well last month I did a video about rising
sea levels one of the cities that will have some problems if and when this does
happen is Miami and it was a very interesting subject what was even more
interesting were the comments on that video some of the comments were about
neighborhoods in Miami that it would be okay if they sank into the sea they all
seemed to have different reasons and different neighborhoods that they wanted
to see go away sometimes it was because it was a dangerous neighborhood
sometimes it was because it was an expensive neighborhood and some were
just rundown they thought they needed to be you know wiped off the earth taking
all those things into consideration I did some research including getting on
Facebook and getting into a couple groups about Miami and I asked the
people what are the worst neighborhoods in Miami what are the most expensive
neighborhoods Miami and that's what this video is all about or whatever reason
what neighborhoods you don't want to live in in the Magic City and yes that's
their nickname it's one of them the other ones the Gateway to the Americas
so one thing to keep in mind here cuz like I've been saying in a lot of my
videos lately a lot of the new restrictions and a lot of the problems
that you have on YouTube you can't use a lot of video and so maybe not every
single picture will be of that specific neighborhood but they will be of Miami
so just give you the warning there that being said why don't we take a look at
my top ten warts neighborhoods in Miami
number ten Coral Way coral wade can be found west of downtown Miami and just
north of Coconut Grove this area is extremely unaffordable for the average
resident that lives there the cost of living here is about 21% higher than the
state average while the median household income is right at the state average
$48,000 a year you really need about seventy thousand to live comfortably
here some of the more expensive considerations you have living here are
transportation 12% higher than the state average in housing is 68% higher than
the state average what most people have a problem with is the cost of housing
they say it's a nice neighborhood but it's not that nice it's one of those
this isn't the best neighborhood but we're gonna charge you like it is and
hope you don't notice type things on top of that everyone says the traffic and
Korell wages blows it's horrible number nine Flagler Flagler can be found
just south of West Flagler Street and west of Douglas Road this is a
neighborhood people might not know exists a lot of these neighborhoods most
people don't know them for what they're really called most people probably call
this one Coral Gables or East Coral Gables but inside those neighborhoods is
a little place called Flagler I used the proper name the city has for the
neighborhood so if someone wants to do more research they know where it is
after all these videos are really for people looking to move someplace not so
much for the locals so if you're local and you don't know it by that name
that's what it's actually called anyway back to Flagler the unemployment rate
here is about five percent which is above the national average the median
household income is only about $30,000 which is nearly twenty thousand dollars
less than the state average the income per capita in Flagler is 42 percent
lower than the national average so this neighborhood is a B yoi neighborhood
bring your own income number eight Little Havana Little Havana
is one of the more dangerous neighborhoods in Miami but the crime
rate doesn't reflect that the crime rate here is only five percent higher than
the national average now that doesn't seem that bad we've looked at places in
other cities that it was like 125 percent over the national average and
actually we just did st. Louis and we saw some that were like two hundred
seventy five percent higher than the national average that right there is
crazy but here's the thing with Little Havana most Hispanic and Caribbean
cultures don't involve the police in their matters and Little Havana in case
you don't know is very Cuban there are a lot of different reasons why they don't
report their crimes but let's just say probably more than half the crimes
committed in Little Havana are never reported to the police and a good
portion of those unreported crimes are dealt with within the neighborhood
meaning they take care of their own justice now here's what I know about
this neighborhood they have great food everywhere you go it's been years since
I've been there but everything you just smells so great and there's just so much
good food everywhere around here but not everyone's making money in Little Havana
the income per capita in Little Havana is 47% lower than the national average
number seven south Coconut Grove unless you have a job paying more than double
the income per capita of all of Miami you'll find it hard to get by living
here South coconut groves homes are extremely expensive the average home
price here for let's say a 1200 square foot home is around 600,000 even a
two-bedroom apartment that's just an average complex it's nothing special
will cost you about two thousand dollars a month and it can get so much higher if
you could find a house for under three hundred thousand in South Coconut Grove
I promise you at one point that house was used for various forms of Elah
Gillig illegal illegal T legality illegalities
legality some bad things were going on there one person responded to me and
said that if you live here you're extremely rich extremely poor or you got
your house from a dead relative or actually one person said you could be a
squatter that's the only way you live there everyone said it's just a matter
of a year or two before all the old homes are gone in South Coconut Grove
but basically this place is too expensive to live for most people that's
why people say it's a bad neighborhood cost number six Little Haiti not to be
outdone by those Cubans with their little avanná you have little haiti and
like the island of Haiti this is another place that is also known for its
incredible crime rate just like the island the crime rate here is 66% higher
than the national average with that equaling out to about one in every 22
residents being the victim of a crime every year and again I'm sure the crime
rate is much higher than reported here the area is no stranger to shootings
drunk driving deaths and hate crimes like the racist graffiti that was
spray-painted on a food truck in August way to go Haiti now this community is
facing some serious gentrification these days and as you can imagine the locals
are little pissed so here's some advice for Blaine and Tiffany don't move here
they will steal your Beemer and probably spray paint some racist graffiti on your
windshield while you wait in the drive-through it's Starbucks the whole
time tiffany is telling Blaine do something do something in Blaine is
frozen staring straight ahead saying under his breath be calm muffin he'll be
finished in a minute we can get our lattes yeah it's not a good scene in
Little Haiti right now number five downtown Miami
the crime rate downtown is out of control most locals when
you tell them that the crime rate in a downtown area is bad they want to argue
it because they don't see it but it is happening the crime rate in downtown
Miami is one hundred and sixty eight percent higher than the national average
but what's even scary about those crime numbers is it's been decreasing year
over year by 12 percent the year before last it was actually eight percent now
the crime rate is believed to be getting better which might have to do with the
shutting down of some public housing the city of Miami has just had to close its
second public housing complex just outside of downtown because of rampant
crime taking place on the property they told everyone to leave and put up the
fence around it and you know they gave him like Section eight vouchers to go
get new housing and stuff like that but the place was so toxic with crime they
had to do something I was reading up on it a lot of the residents were shocked
that this was happening how how could you be shocked the crime rate has been
high forever in these housing projects the city's been pouring resources into
keeping the good people in those projects safe and it's just not working
out eventually they're gonna cut the cord and they did
number four Upper East Side Miami right next to Little Haiti you have the
amazing and extremely safe Upper East Side totally joking unlike New York's
Upper East Side neighborhood Miami's sucks this one is a twofer high crime
and high cost living not only is your life in danger but so is your bank
account one lady said she was walking her dog and a homeless man walked up
grabbed her dog and demanded money when she said she didn't have any money
he said her dog down gave it a charley horse and walked away that's what she
said she said it gave her dog a charley horse what is the world come to anyway
crime here happens so often nobody really blinks an eye anymore unless of
course someone dies there are places in Los Angeles that are like that if there
ain't a body a cop might take a report over the phone if there's not a body
they're not showing up there's no way they don't have time schools are the
biggest concern here some of the schools are actually putting bulletproof
backpacks on the school supply lists and are putting firearm detection systems in
the hallways number three over town over town it's not the area to go looking for
jobs another place you want to be looking for any thinks that maybe if
you're into a beating that could be something you could find there also a
vacant lot to sleep in always good options the unemployment rate here is
9.2 percent that is a buttload higher than the national average and the median
household income is almost $30,000 less than the state's average so even if you
do possibly happen to obtain a job here it's likely an entry-level position and
your beginning paid minimum wage like a majority of the people that live in this
neighborhood this place sucks if you feel the need to see this neighborhood
do it from a jet as you leave Miami International if you're heading east
look out the left side of the plane just north of the Marlins stadium you'll see
it it's there look for burning tires you'll find it the overall crime rate in
Overtown is 351 percent higher than the national average like I said from a
plane number to model City just west of Little Haiti you have model City and it
is anything but a model city and have you noticed so far that everything seems
to be really bad around Little Haiti it's like Little Haiti is the hub of
suck anyway it's not a model city unless you're trying to make a model of a city
that has a bunch of run-down apartment buildings and homes with bars on the
windows then yes it's a model city most residents here live in poverty and the
unemployment rate model city is about 124 percent higher than the
average making most the residents feel like it's impossible to get out of the
hole that they're in the American Dream doesn't exist in model city you got to
get out of model city to achieve it the overall crime rate in model City is 121
percent higher than the national average now what's really cool while I was doing
the research for this I found Miami Police Department has a
YouTube page and they do a vlog about patrolling the neighborhood which i
think is a great idea kind of shows that they're actually working in the
community and might you know might turn things around they've only been doing it
about a year so maybe it'll work maybe it'll turn one person around so they can
see that you know there's people trying to help them anyway
yeah model City it sucks right now and number one win would win would is
located right between highway 95 an East Coast Avenue and surprise surprise it is
bordered to the north by Little Haiti it is honestly like Little Haiti is the
center of the Miami universe when it comes to suck instead of shutting out in
public housing that has crime problems why don't they just shut down Little
Haiti and see if it works itself out when wood is known to be the worst area
you could live in in Miami the housing is incredibly high for what their
residents can afford the schools are awful test scores here like 30 percent
lower than the national average according to area vibes and the crime
rate is 152 percent higher than the national average about 1 in 15 residents
will be involved in a crime this year that's not good odds the only reason you
should go here is if you want your family to get that life insurance sooner
than later the unemployment rate in Wynwood is 47% higher than national
average the only one that is doing well in Wynwood is probably the guy that sets
up the fences and puts bars on windows look at this you know it's bad when
people are putting their air-conditioning units in cages this
dude caged his air conditioner but not as windows it's like I'll fend for
myself ain't getting at my air conditioner it gets hot in Miami
all right so that is my top 10 worst neighborhoods in Miami I hope you guys
enjoyed hope you got some information out of it I hope more importantly you
know where not to get off the freeway at in Miami it's a dangerous place in a lot
of areas of Miami stay out of them but honestly that's just some of the people
most the people in these neighborhoods are good people like I've said before
it's almost like they're victims to the a-holes that run around their
neighborhoods and cause all the troubles and make them a bad neighborhood those
people you got to feel sorry for the other ones they need to be thrown out of
the city I don't know what you do it anyway don't forget to subscribe and hit
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