Comments by "Deathscythe Hell" (@deathscythehell7937) on "Why Does St. Louis Continue To FAIL. 70 Years And Counting." video.

St Louis was my hometown, I was born and raised the though the late 60s, 70s and 80s. Anyone who disagrees w/ anything you said is oblivious to what's actually going on there. I moved out to Florida at 26yrs old in 92, I couldn't see a future there. Working a dead end job w/o any foreseeable future wasn't worth staying there. (I own 2 businesses now) Then on top of that you had crime, carjacking, drive-by's people using drugs on the bus and so on. There was a murder on the local news almost every night, I couldn't live like that anymore. I can't remember a time when the murder rate was under 200 annually. You had corrupt politicians and police officers, who I know from first hand knowledge had drug houses in the inner-city. They stole money ment for schools and community development programs. I still have friends and family who love the city and have no plans on moving. Lying to themselves that the city will rejuvenate itself soon. Then on the other hand I've got friends and family who has left and refused to return like me, 5 this year alone. The city is just like a prison, the longer you stay the harder it is to got out. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You don't leave or move out of St Louis, you escape from St Louis. Anyplace is better than St Louis, I haven't been back since 2016 when I moved mom in w/ my wife and I. (She's 99yrs on her way to triple digits this fall)
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I was born and raised in St Louis and left in 92, I saw the future coming and I didn't want to be part of it. I have friends and family who still live there and we talk on regular basis. (Actually talk, not text or IM) Yeah you have a few new bobbles and trinkets but what I hear is that the downtown area has become a war zone. Almost every night there's a murder somewhere in the city even more on the weekends. Hell, there wasn't a year that the murder rate wasn't under 200 when I was living there. By the way the record was set I 1970 if I recall correctly 294. Yes I know the cities history all too well, it was the future that worried me. Most of the Ville neighborhood (first an oldest black neighborhood west of the Mississippi) is a bunch of vacant lots and abandoned houses, w/ very few people and businesses there. (The Jeff Vanderlou neighborhood isn't too far behind) Last year they tried to close Sumner down, (the first an oldest all black high school west of the Mississippi) my old high school. So what's so great about it? From what I see and hear it's a dieing city. It's a wonder why the New Madrid fault hasn't wiped it off the map yet, I'm so glad I'm gone. Love your enthusiasm for a lost cause though.
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Exactly, that why I left, I didn't want gonna be another statistic. As a black man it's already hard, why live somewhere you haven't got a chance for a future?
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Yeah it sucks a waste of time, try going there once a year every year for a grade school field trip. It gets old after the first time, I grew up there, I was born the year it opened in 66. Nobody was displaced the area where the arch was built was old derelict factories and slaughter houses. I know my hometown history, but I'm glad I've been gone since 92.
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Actually it's in the center of the country.
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This is exactly how I feel about St Louis, I also was as born and raised there. I left in 92 at 26yrs old, I came home from college w/ a degree in engineering. I couldn't get a decent job in my field, they under paid me I had no chance for advancement, I couldn't stay there in a dead end job. Once I left everything I was struggling to do or wanted to do fell in place. Within 4yrs of leave I started my own business, 5yrs after that I started my second business. It may be my hometown but it never felt like home, I couldn't survive and be happy. Both are two different things, surviving in one thing, being happy is another. I found out you can't do both, not in St Louis.
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I grew up there I know the summer's all too well. I live in Florida now and it gets humid but nothing like St Louis. As least down here there's a breeze, it would get so hot and humid in St Louis the wind wouldn't blow for days at a time.
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I was born and raised in St Louis, still have friends and family living there. Yeah but from what I hear, East St Louis is mostly vacant lots and houses now. Plus the downtown area has become a war zone. I haven't been back since 2016, I seriously doubt I'll ever step foot in that ****hole again in my life.
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I'm from St Louis, I escape to Florida in 92, it's been the best 31yrs of my life.
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Why would you live that close to St Louis? When I moved I got as far away from that ****hole as possible. (1100 miles to be exact)
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Yeah it definitely lacks excitement. I was born and raised there, we went to everything you mentioned hundreds of times on school field trips. After the hundredth time of going there it gets old. Oh you forgot Grant's Fram and the brewery tours, seen them more times than I wish to remember. Haven't seen the aquarium, but we a world known aquarium in Tampa 20 minutes from my house, so I'm good. So St Louis is and has always lacked excitement, doing the same things over and over gets boring. Not to mention the fun police, the moment something gets popular the city starts to regulate it overrunning it w/ police. I heard they started shutting down access to Fairgrounds Park on the weekends a few years ago. You can't go to a park on the weekends, com'on man.
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Don't do it Briggs, don't go! I was born and raised in St Louis, it's better if you forget it exists.
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Crestwood was the county, growing up in the inner-city wasn't all sunshine and sweet dreams. I too have some of the same fond memories of growing up there, but a study done by Wash-U in 82 opened my eyes. It said 6 out of 10 black males growing up in the inner-city of St Louis would be dead or in jail by age 25. From that point all I could think about was getting the hell outta there. Finally done it in 92 at 26 w/o going to jail, I'm 56 and own two businesses. All happened after and because left St Louis, so I don't have any love for St Louis at all.
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I grew up in St Louis, as kids we called it, St Clueless, Misery. Well the name seems fit better than ever now. I prefer misery after being born and raised there, thankfully I left in 92.
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I used to live in St Louis, you know you can order Imos online and have it sent to your home. You'll have to cook it yourself, but it better than going back.
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Yes, a lot of my friends and family still living there holding on hoping it would get better. Now they're starting to leave now, 10 so far since 2020, 5 more this year alone for a total of 15 only a few are left. I left in 92 I didn't see a future there and definitely wasn't going to raise kids there.
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@danielintheantipodes6741 Thanks, oh yeah I forgot they filmed Escape from New York w/ Kurt Russell there when I was a kid. They closed off a bunch of streets, used Union Station and the Eads bridge in the movie too. That's about the time I started using the phrase. " You don't leave St Louis you escape from it." Lol.
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I was born and raised in St Louis moved out in 92. I haven't been back for more than a few days a year since, I haven't been back since 2016. The only thing I claim about St Louis is it's my hometown, I don't even consider it as home just where I was born that's it. The last thing I think of being is proud of St Louis, it's a ****hole.
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🤣🤣🤣 You must still live there, huh? Life get better once you escape, lol.
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@iluvcakes19 The whole state of Missouri is overrated. The state of Misery is what I called it as a kid growing up there.
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Don't look for leaders, believe in yourself and get the hell outta there.
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I saw it coming in the early 90, that's why I left in 92.
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@dvferyance I live in Lutz FL 15 minutes from downtown Tampa there's so many amusement and water parks here to choose from. Plus little over an hours drive east an I'm at Disney world and universal studios and so many more. On top of that there's festivals year round so there's no lack of entertainment. I'm not even gonna mention the sunset parties on Clearwater beach on the gulf every night. St Louis doesn't even come close to anything we have here in Tampa, so yes St Louis is boring. There's a nationally acclaimed aquarium, football, baseball and hockey and the parks are no contest. I left St Louis in the fall of 92 for Florida 31yrs ago, only went back to visit, I don't consider it as home anymore.
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@dvferyance Well I didn't grow up in any of those places, we're talking about the craphole I grew up in. I grew up in St Louis and always felt limited as to what I could do and what I could achieve. When I left in 92 I'd just started my own business and struggled to keep it going for a year. Moving to Florida more than doubled my profit giving me the ability to expand and also start a second business. I'm 57 now semi-retired since I was 50 I've been running both of my businesses from my home for the last 7yrs and enjoying my life. I can tell for a fact that none of it wouldn't have been possible in St Louis. Had a good friend in the same business, but he decided to stay in St Louis, in less than 3yrs he was outta business and in debt working for someone else. He busted his ass working for someone else up until he died in 2020 from covid with very little if anything to show for it. That's just one story, there's other educated friends and family still there barely living from check to check. Entertainment is about the only thing that St Louis has to offer, financial stability isn't one of them.
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@BootGal I was born and raised there left in 92, the only reason I came back a few days a year was cause mom. Now she's living with my wife and I, I'm looking forward to the new Madrid fault wiping St Louis out of existence.
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Cats yes, no dogs not a fan.
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