Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "CharlieBo313" channel.

  1.  @silversword4428  Since when was anyone guaranteed an "affordable" home? Even worse, when were they assured they'd never have to wait for something in high demand? You either qualify for government programs like Sections 8, get a job that pays more money so you afford to buy or rent your "affordable" home, or move to a place where housing is less expensive. The vast majority of the working poor are in low skill jobs that are available in most parts of the country that are a lot less expensive to live in than places across the river from NYC. Gentrification saves cities from the fate we've already seen in Detroit. Is that your preferred alternative to gentrification?
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  2. Well, Charlie can answer better than me, but his videos are rarely more than a week or two old when he posts them. The state of the trees and other foliage is consistent with late spring. Regardless of how good a job you believe Freeman-Wilson has done, she didn't get every street Charlie drove over repaved in two months.
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  3. What has that got to do with the streets Charlie was driving on? It wasn't on main streets. It was on streets through the worst parts of town. I'll guarantee that Freeman-Brown didn't have those streets paved because Charlies showed them on Youtube. Look, I know she's a black woman, and you're a black woman, so you'd like to put her in the best light possible, but try to respond to what's actually being shown in the video, not new bus stops somewhere else in town.
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  4. Jay, inner city schools have some of highest costs per student of any schools in the country. Detroit schools cost $15,459 per student, and only about 45% of students graduate high school. ACE Academy, a charter school in Detroit, spends $14,975 per student and 100% of their students graduate with higher GPA's than most MIchigan schools. Is the problem money or the Detroit teachers and their union, who fight tooth and nail to prevent more charter schools? Do you think we can already see an answer to the failed Detroit public school system or would you like to pour more money into it? If companies can't look at the inner cities as a good place to invest, ow will anything change? Do you think money will simply fall from heaven like manna on the plains? The "wounds of oppression" are over. Was there anyone alive in Detroit who was more hurt by whites or by Kwame Kilpatrick? Whatever role anyone played in Detroit arriving at the place it's in now is done. We either move forward and stop looking back for excuses or nothing will change. White guilt hasn't built a single home or provided a single job.
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  5. Mostly a bunch of antifa shitheads at work. It had nothing to do with George Floyd at that point.
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  6. Palmer Park and the University District.
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  7. How long do you plan on living?
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  8.  @mookdatruth1996  Dang. Makes me wonder hot tall the ceilings are on some of those third floors. I live in a house with 12 and 14 foot ceilings. I think I'd feel like I was in a cave in one of those.
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  9.  @dalemcnamee2427  I see very few three story houses in Detroit. Two story, two family homes are the norm.
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  10.  @mookdatruth1996  That's what it looks like just seeing the windows compared to rooflines on the third floors.
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  11. Green strobe light to attract the night creatures.
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  12. It's siding scrapers peeling off the aluminum to sell. Between stripping siding and debricking houses, it goes on every day in Detroit.
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  13. Looks like Charlie got himself an undercover bodycam. Needs to set the date right though.
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  14.  @matthewwitter4680  Even after your edit, you don't use any punctuation, no capital letters, can't seem to hold a coherent thought for one sentence, and still seem to think "surprise" is spelled "suppise". On top of that, you decided to use the cringe worthy "family" as a form of greeting to people who aren't your family.
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  15.  @matthewwitter4680  You're not writing to business letter? My problem is you're trashing my country and can't even write a single sentence of proper English. I'm sure you're some kind of superior European type that's not a native English speaker. Still, I imagine you were taught in English class about using things like periods and commas and starting sentences with capital letters so we know what the heck you're talking about. Where exactly are you from? Not even making an attempt to write in proper English while calling my country a shithole is a snarky thing to do. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be happy to have me spend two weeks in your country and then write about it, in a version of your language that looked like it came from Google Translate, being shithole. Grow the fuck up.
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  16.  @hubhub27  Sure. What?
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  17.  @fridge6668  Choose a proper article? You have me confused for yourself. You were the one that said you a McDonald's application really hard to fill out, not me. Way to set up a strawman and then try to knock it down with an ad hominem.
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  18. Yes, the street with the white painted rocks is in Palmer Woods. From 9:11, it's the University District. At 10:22, he's back in Palmer Woods. Both areas have beautiful homes, but they are within a couple blocks of some of the worst of Detroit
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  19. 601, I live in Alabama. We have some depressing hoods as well, but they are not all of Alabama. I live in a town with more historic homes than anywhere in the South than Mobile. We actually have more historic homes per capita than anywhere in the country. Jackson is a depressing city, but the hoods are not all of Jackson, and certainly not all of Mississippi. Jackson has had the misfortune of having two mayors since 1997 who were lunatics, and one of the lunatic's sons is now mayor. Neither of them cared about white flight from the city, and the white population dropped from 60% in 1970 to about 18% in 2010. Unless a way can be found to bring in more middle class people, black and white, and convince businesses that those in charge know what they are doing and aren't thieves. If it can't be done, Jackson rapidly on the road to the Detroit of the South.
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  20. Dere's a new sheriff in town...
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  21. Sounds like spring is returning to the hood. That usually means one more giant snow storm as the last gasp of winter.
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  22.  @ericsean6693  And you're still crazy. Go away.
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  23.  D B  How about San Diego, Mesa AZ, Fresno, Tulsa, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth, Miami?...the list goes on. But there isn't one city on the list as poverty stricken and half destroyed as Detroit.
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  24. Theurban prarie returns to Detroit. There are locals making money shooting pheastants and selling them.
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  25. Shan, the casinos are in Atlantic Beach. It is on the beach and, no, Newark is nowhere near there. The Boardwalk itself is fine. Within three blocks off it, it makes Newark look good. New Jersey is either upper middle class and above or people who are dirt poor.
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  26. I see a nuke plant cooling tower in the distance so Charlie must have been in Oak harbor, Ohio, about halfway between Detroit and Cleveland. These kinds of drive through stores are pretty common in northern Ohio. They were started as any easy way to get milk and bread in bad weather and later as an easy way to load a keg or case of beer in your trunk. I wonder if Charlie ever wins anything from all those lottery tickets he buys?
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  27. I wish Detroit would close off the streets where there are no occupants. Leaving them open just provides a place for construction companies and people from the suburbs to do illegal dumping. Block the streets and stop all the electrical service to the block. Provide a way for fire trucks to get in when the houses are torched but keep everyone else out. A lot of the money for clean up is going to remove all the crap dumped on these vacant lots.
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  28. This looks like a much colder version of Port Au Prince.
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  29. Davey, you sound like a conspiracy theorist that believes in chemtrails and sees faces in clouds....oh, yeah, you do.
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  30. Davey, the videos on you channel suggest you are a conspiracy theorist as does the whole "you're going to be dragged off to a FEMA camp" thing. I'm more prepared for about any eventuality than you realize, but FEMA camps are not high on my list.
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  31. You're absolutely right. Detroit is on the road to becoming a downtown for people to work in and visit. The only residents of Detroit that are benefiting in the long term are the wealthy and young hipsters who are moving into rehabilitated lofts and new construction near downtown. The money being spend on the M1 rail line alone could have helped demolish all the abandoned houses and rehabbed other houses in neighborhoods that could still be saved. That's not the goal, however. The goal is to drive the poor out of Detroit and into the first ring suburbs so they can deal with the problems.
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  32. I have yet to figure out why there are so many boats in the hood.
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  33. Hurry, pharaoh, the other kangs are meeting on the other side of the street. I may sound stupid, but at least I learned how to use punctuation and sentences.
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  34. Yes, there is, You can mail your traffic ticket to his home address.
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  35. Unfortunately, Detroit has schools to serve the 1.3 million people who once lived there and have now fled.
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  36. Interesting to see all that infill housing being built in an older neighborhood, and nice housing at that. The streets don't even have curbs so this must have been a middle of nowhere suburb a couple of decades ago. It must be considered close to the Loop now so that would explain the upscale housing. I see it's right on a METRA line now so getting to either Chicago or Aurora would be doable. A town located in just the right place.
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  37. A lot of the people who left were upside down on a mortgage for a house that couldn't be sold at anywhere near the mortgage balance. At that point, you just walk away and start over somewhere else.
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  38. Crack and bath salts is a bad combination.
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  39. Apparently the colored gentleman in the store thought all sentences end with the word "nigga".
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  40. Damn, the street in Flint are just great...
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  41. Other way around. It was officially a merger but Burger King was into a Canadian company that is mostly run by Tim Horton executives.
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  42. Not just Florida. I'm in Alabama, and we have alligators show up roaming the downtown streets on occasion. There's even a guy who specializes in alligator removal. Most of us think the whole thing is kind of humorous.
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  43. NYPD has to be the last major agency still using halogen Federal Vision and Vector light bars. Those things used to drain our battery in 15 minutes flat if the engine wasn't running. They sure are still attention getters though.
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  44.  @leeleebee1598  Google is a wonderful thing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6qGwmXZtsE
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  45.  @leeleebee1598  I believe they call pickup trucks "utes" in Australia. I only use quotes for things that I'm using in a kind of ironic way different from the normal definition. Street retailing is a commonly used name for what you see happening all the time in the hood.
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  46.  Martin Samoylov  Yeah sure, Now tell me where you park if y9ou happen to have a car or, even worse, two cars. Most people would also like to have a tree in the front of the house as well, to at least somewhere on your street. I didn't see many of them either.
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  47. Geez, Charlie, keep your doors locked. You don't want to have to use your two friends to get you out of trouble.
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  48. Yes, a little love and about $14 billion.
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  49. She looked real disappointed when you didn't stop by for a chat.
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  50.  @luisss.2142  gp? Are you able to speak English? I hope not, just so you have an excuse for your writing.
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