if you dont like rochester then leave people have ny attitudes are we not in new york state if people wouldnt piss us off then they would be ok. GET THE F*** OUT IF YOU CANT STAND THIS PLACE SO WHO CARES DONT FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM BUT WHEN ROCHESTER IS A DESTINATION DONT COME BACK IM NOT LEAVING HOME . WHY NOT TALK GOOD ABOUT THIS PLACE WE HAVE A LOT OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO BE PROUD OF AND THIS IS A WEALTHY CITY
Rochester is not a city of poverty its very wealthy... no offense but you might be poor but not us and the house at 1:27 is no longer boarded up some people live there.
I can't believe that I traveld thousand of miles across Planet Earth to come to a city like Rochester. Once I came here , i took my RIT admission paper and put in The toilet. NO BODY SHOULD EVER COME HERE. IT'S A DEAD PLACE. Hopefully that I will be admitted into UW in Settle , WA (L).
Rochester is unfortunately a textbook example of a city that went to hell; I know, I lived there 30 years. The only thing left is the "attitude" of old Rochesterians!
At 2:09 - 2:11 I worked in that building 20 years ago It was over run with roaches and we redid the apartments and got rid of them. The city redid the street and took away all the parking. The store front got all of its glass shot out of it and thats why it was walled up. Store could never get rented out
Rochesterians are pussies. I used to think there was ghetto here too, until I took a trip to Detroit. Picture the worst part of Clifford ave, thats downtown.
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This video fails to convey any points about the region, it really just is a montage of modern sights in the downtown and surrounding areas (evidentially not the best areas). An empty Midtown Plaza, boarded up houses, and adult enteratainment shops are not the regions only sights. Why didn't you go down any of Park Avenue, East Avenue, the Cornhill region, or any parts of the surrounding suburbs. If you don't like something have more thoughtful reasons other than a car trip.
Looks like most of NYS So sad. New york state was once a beautiful place with jobs for all. Industry was going down and Nafta finished the job. Thank you Ross Perot
Rochester sucks. I got way away from there. No jobs, bad schools and the murder rate is 4.5 times the national average. Rochester was the only city besides NYC in New York that had its own mob boss. on columbus day in 1970 they bombed the monroe county office building the u.s. couthouse and the federal building. a few weeks later they set off 6 more bombs. Not a good place to live.
@chaumont20 Correct. And conservatives are too lazy to keep them out. So thank ALL of these idiots, they've ruined our great cities. Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburgh in the Northeast. God, I'm a Buffalo person, and I bet if I went back just 40-50 years I'd shit bricks. Same with Rochester fans. And even Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, for the midwest, and countless other cities in the United States. These cities are wrecked!
This inpires me to make my own video to show the true beauty of Rochester, that you, unfortunately, do not see, and probably never will. I hope someday, you will. I guess the bottom line, point is... negative, versus positive imagery, and message.
Rochester is one of the most depressing cities in the USA. It's ugly, the people are dangerous, the sun NEVER shines, it's cold, the food is terrible - it needs to be knocked down. We should let it go back to nature.
@hornplayer100 Say that about Buffalo and I'll knock you the fuck out too!, and I'm not even a Buffalonian, I just defend what Buffalo was, and depressed or not still even in parts is. Same with Rochester, well said redcomic619!
And Buffalo still has mouthwatering food today, and I bet you Rochester does have plenty great foods too!
Explain then, if this film is so modern and up to date, why it did not film the much, much larger and newer Mall at Irondequoit? It's empty with only two major stores. An entire baseball stadium size Mall completely empty!!! Why? Maybe bc it's in a nice neighborhood? God forbid that this idiot should show an actually NICE neighborhood in Rochester. Please shove this film down the KKK's butt. Thank you.
PRAussie, check the date the film was posted... four years ago!!! I don't think the Mall at Irondequoit was an empty mall then!!! (Although I don't know that)
Actually, yes it does look like this PRAussie you jackass. It's the perfect representation of this town. Rochester is the biggest crap hole city I've ever seen only second to Detroit, and I've seen A LOT of cities.
this taping is really true the roc is good for one thing they have plenty of food places you will never go hungry but its a depressing lil city i was born there i know
Looks like their are a lot of business opportunities their! Let me guess... Welfare programs and high taxes?? Hmmmm..... Change those policies and you would be amazing and how fast blighted areas pop back! Those old neighborhoods go for top dollar in the city I live in. In fact I love living in the old city. Just get your city government to stop accepting federal welfare dollars. Close the soup kitchens and the homeless and drug people go to other cities. Its really easy to fix these things.
BanjoNaps, the real reason Rochester and other rust belt cities are blighted, and now Birmingham, Atlanta and other sun belt cities are becoming blighted, is because of exposrting of jobs due to so-called "free trade!!" Even the financial bubble and collapse was caused by "free trade." Put tarrifs and barriers back, and we will start re-creating jobs here at home!
The USA economy is about 25% of the global economy. Manufacturing is about 20% of the USA economy. That makes the USA by far the largest manufacturing society on the planet. Our problems lie in agriculture. So much fuel is wasted on the way we do food in this country. in 1900 about 30% of the pop was in farming. Now its less then 1%. THAT is the problem. The "jobs" being lost are repetitive retard jobs. Good riddens! Send them to the fields! Skilled labor is in high demand.
2009 was the 3rd best year on output in human history for a single country. The other 2 years were 2006 and 2007. Our consumption is what is out of control. Employment in manufacturing jobs has been in decline sense the 70s. That is due to automation and it is a good thing. We need more farmers and we need to stop "buying" so many imports. Thats it. Our manufacturing sector could enter the 3rd industrial revolution if it was unleashed into the free market, but its still very healthy as is.
The problem is, we let anything and everything be imported into our country under the rubric of "free trade." Worse is the fact that some other countries feel free to put up tarrifs and barriers against our expoorts -- particularly the Asian powerhouses we import the most goods from. And worst of all is our oil dependency. I don't know how that can come to a good end.
of course u gon say it aint that bad bein out in tha burbs y dont u come vist jefferson ave, genesee street matta fact the whole westside n then u tell me how nice Rocheseter iz den
wow really? come live in rochester and see for urself. its a wholeeee lot better then wherever ur from and ur just to afraid to admit it. rochester is not a gd city of poverty. why the heck wuld it be so well known if the whole city was poor?!
Thank god I'm moving the hell away from this shithole of unimportance and decay. Rochester is the most boring city in the world. Seriously, this video is even too much of a compliment to us. There should be no videos about Rochester. I'm incredulous when anyone says they've heard of the city before. There's no reason for Rochester to even be called a city, it's a glamorized town, mind you a town full of ghettos and ugly developed suburbs. The suburbs are probably the worst thing about the Roc.
And where are you moving to? New York City I think ive seen you post in a video comment before? You say Rochester has a ghetto LMFAO! When you move to NYC your going to have your shit rocked everyday. If your to much of a pussy to live in Rochester then 10 bucks says you will be out of NY in a few months.
Wow, way to exercise selective comprehension you dickweed. I don't care about ghettos, what I care about is that nothing interesting happens here. I am definitely not leaving Rochester because I'm scared. If I'm scared of anything it's that I currently live in the same area as homophobic assholes like you, because according to your profile you really have some issues you need to work out. Let me reiterate this. I don't care about ghettos because they are supposedly "scary." I hate them because
Hey, go shove a Twinkie up your ass you dickhead. And, no i'm not from Irondequoit (you can't even spell, dipshit) I live in the city. So go fuck yourself you stupid ass motherfucker. I hope some asshole gang member high on LSD rapes you when your living in NYC you cocksucker motherfucker.
Are you sure your from Rochester and not Memphis? When you drive downtown and you see those groups of 3-4 black people selling shit do you think its rice or drugs? Fucking retard. LSD isnt just for hippies, douchebag. Go hang with those dirty pizza eaters downstate, nobody wants you here anyway.
Wow, thanks for injecting racism into this you prick. I guarantee you that the majority of people dealing with LSD are wimpy white kids and dirty old flower children, not black gangbangers. Most drug activity related to gangs has to do with crack, meth, heroin, hard drugs that actually cause addiction. Pot or coke, even, but not LSD. They may sell LSD occasionally but it's a drug from a different decade, and you definitely are NOT going to get attacked by a black person on LSD
Hey, Cram it! What your saying is true but your tone sucks. I don't like anyone who thinks they are "better" than Rochester or think they are too important for it. It's bad yeah but the people there are good.
My dad was born there and what's left of my family still lives there and sometimes I wish I lived in a place as boring as Rochester.
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yooooooo dude...homeless guy recked my car man.,...i knows i aint know anybody on this page but culd ya give me a ride peeps?? or i gots to walks everywere man.. plleeeaaaassssee dude!
Acorting to you "we calls buffolo men "eastsiders" n syrcruse dudes "westsidas"" Say what?!?? Its syracuse dudes we call "westsidas" and buffolo men we call "eastsidas Get Real dud
YOOOOO DUDE! I went to scool...all the thru 10nd grade man...i know what im doin yo....tellin ya this .. I KNOWS what im talkin bout dude...calls them TOTS cause they aint so HOTS ya no what im sayin..taste like fried turds man
Man!..what the....Furst of all...its not "marks texas tots n alll" you beter go back to skhool Its "Mark's Texis Hots not tots...lovin them biscits .... "Hots" is what a 'chesta man call a dinur
gratest place man???? get reeeeeeel dude.....chestas one big drizzle pillow dude....why you talkin so good bout chesta? shuld be burning to the ground...marks texas tots n alll
yooooooo assman ...aight you rite about the assy air pockets, us chester folk call thems the "drizzle pillows" here chillin ...monroe ave is my street yo and the beach...simpley butiful. yo we shuld hang man
yo, seriusly, chesta blooooowws. walking thru random ass air pockets yo...STINKS man...nothin like it, but ya no, maybe that smells good to a chesta man. ugliest people in the world yo...im dang neer supermodel here man...king o the city
fo sho biaaac.Why yo ragging my homeland? born n bread in chester YO. andy you talking bad bout my land? my land aint bad..i liv on those trash plates man, the founding of my land...best brand., you can be a fan, of the rochestaaaaaaaaaa man yo. peece.
Yo, Rohcestar sucks ass chunks...i be driven round da markus texis hots and yooo eating beefy pasta n squeeze cheez bites balls bitch...drivin round bitch eating tots...road..ya knowz..chillin with my grillin in yoz rochchezta..city sucks yo.
This video is really old...most of this stuff do not even exist anymore..like midtown plaza and etc.. This video is not making a good picture of rochester,Ny ..i dont think this is cute at all... Some of this stuff is true but, they didnt have to make a video about it..were not the only city that is in poverty.. Rochester has Achievers and etc.. as Well.. N i know because I was Born And I AM as of right now Still in Rochester!! I love alot about my city...((585))
C'mon rochester has history metallica recorded kill em' all here and forginor is from here the grateful dead used to play here all the time we got charlotte beach and garbage plates and the underground rail road sad right through rochester and its only three hours away from toronto were rush formed susan b. anthony lived here and fredrick duggles lived here anything eles guys?
Here's another tale from the bowels of Crotchfester: A friend of mine lived in a East Ave. Commons apartment and had a homeless person living in her walls between her and the next apartment. This individual would even dump trash in her apartment through a small hole in the wall.
Not sure if they are all still there, but here are a few Crotchfester eateries where I've been threatened for money: Aria's, Stromboli's, and the McDonald's on East Ave. A friend of mine was accosted at a fine dining restaurant called the Brasserie. Another friend of mine saw someone get shot at a restaurant called "Pagoda's." The only positive aspect about the city is that Wegman's is awesome.
Ok, let's talk about Rochester's "famous" cuisine. The "garbage plate" is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen/tasted. It literally looks like someone barfed on a plate. And this is Rochester's prized cuisine??? I guess it seems appropriate if you consider the surroundings...
Wegmans has been downsizing lately and now there are only 2 left on the outskirts of the city...everything here is ASS. No jobs...yet the cost of living is high.
Everything downtown is closed at 6pm. And besides there's nothing downtown but court houses and jail now. No place to shop...it sucks here.
First of all, unless that kid was hanging out on Ave D (all you true Rochesterians know exactly where I am talking about), he was not involved in a drive by shooting.
As every city, there are bad parts of Rochester. Yes, our "thugs" seem to think they are the toughest, but as long as you dont piss them off or walk down any dark allies alone (which no smart person would do anywhere), you wont get mugged (like his "smart" friends supposedly did).
Ok, how do I begin a response to this? First of all, I didn't get shot on Ave. D, I got shot on the University of Rochester's campus walking out of class in the AFTERNOON. This only goes to show that there is no such thing as a "safe" part of Rochester. Second of all, I'm college educated...are you??? Forget the dark allies, I know several people who were mugged on East Ave. and Gibbs. St. in daylight. WAKE UP....your city SUCKS.
Rochester is the kind of city where panhandlers threaten to kill you while your eating in a nice restaurant. Some of the restaurant owners there have totally given up trying to shoo them away, so prepared to share your food and give them some "paper money" while your at it!
Rochester is seriously the most depressing city I've ever seen. During college, I was a victim of a dry-by shooting and several of my friends were mugged at gun or knife point. Someone should do this country a favor and burn this city to the ground and start fresh.
ha that was funny, but i agree with what others said before me. ANY city has these problems. You just focused on the bad. Park ave, east ave, Kodak, Xerox are just a few i didn't see in this video. There are many nice parts of the city.
From Rochester, now living in Detroit, and I'll tell you your video looks like sunshine compared to some other cities . Get out and get some perspective. One could find decay in ANY CITY.
rochester is pretty damn dangerous for a small/medium sized city, especially in the conkey ave, plymouth exchange, and some parts of 19th ward. (jefferson, frost, gennesse st)
I'm 20, was born and raised in and around the city of Rochester. Lived in the City, Gates, Greece twice, Spencerport, and went to HS in Brockport. I am now out in Colorado for college and I must say, It is really sad to see how run-down my hometown is. The place I'm in now is flourishing and it's tough to say that I'm from Rochester when THAT is what it means. Here's to wishing on a miracle and the Rock can turn things around in the not-so-distant future.
yea rochester has sure changed alot, back in the earley 60,s was nice, used to work @ hennens cycle shop on court st,hung out at the pythod jazz club,and the gallerie 65, on court street,them were the days cheers
This video is so true. Yes, Rochester does have a lot of great things but first impressions are everything. You often do have to drive through rough neiborhoods to get to Rochster's good features. As far as residential areas go the best neighborhoods are the Park and East Ave area, Most of the rest of the city is like what this video shows.
I live in Chili and it only takes me a few minutes to get to the 19th Ward and Bullshead neighborhoods, both which are very rough.
I will add to my last comment that the City Government squanders the taxpayer's money on top of all this. The failed Fast Ferry is an example. Also High Falls and the proposed Renaisance Square project. Not to mention the crappy shool system they have.
Did the inner city people with a ghetto mentality celebrate? X-( I know from this nation's experience that had the RPD officer shot the kid in the head, there would have been riots!
I should have said the Chili Ave area of 19th. Ward. There are many boarded up houses there. The area around Brooks Ave., Genesee Park Blvd., Thurston Rd. and Scottsville Rd. is really nice. Chili Ave. is at the edge of 19th Ward anyway.
This video tries to be provocative, but ends up being ignorant. Rochester faces many of the same struggles as other cities in the "rust belt." The poverty is real and the violence is real.
But, I have lived in the City of Rochester my entire life, and this video only presents the worst--there is alot more to this place.
Where you live is what you make of it.
It doesn't help to pretend that you are exposing something that no one knows, and it doesn't help to fear-monger either.
Agreed. I was born in Rochester, moved away to Orange County, California for 8 years then moved back to Rochester. I live very luxuriously on Charlotte Beach in Rochester suburb of North Greece, but as far as taste can go, this is pretty much it. Nothing about this city is appealing. Charlotte Beach is pretty much the only nice place in the city I found myself wanting to live. Violent, poor, ugly, and cold - there is nothing good to say about Rochester, NY. Its a dead, deserted city.
If you have to be poor anywhere, Rochester is as good a place as any. Thanks for showing every one the bad spots. How many were there? Ten? Wow! Visit and live in a few other cities and you'll realize Rochester is a heck of a nice town to live in.
There were two homicides within the first three days of 2009. Crime is ten times worse once spring and summer arrive. I am moving out of my suburban home because Gates, NY will become little Rochester eventually. There have been stabbings in Greece, NY already. Twenty years ago, Gates and Greece were nice communities. It will be nice to move to a town where I do not have to carry a concealed knife while I work outside.
I am so glad I moved out of there years ago.
JFER2121 2 days ago
After a year of watching this, I still live in Rochester. Thanks for the thumbs-ups!
PocketJMC 1 month ago
if you dont like rochester then leave people have ny attitudes are we not in new york state if people wouldnt piss us off then they would be ok. GET THE F*** OUT IF YOU CANT STAND THIS PLACE SO WHO CARES DONT FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM BUT WHEN ROCHESTER IS A DESTINATION DONT COME BACK IM NOT LEAVING HOME . WHY NOT TALK GOOD ABOUT THIS PLACE WE HAVE A LOT OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO BE PROUD OF AND THIS IS A WEALTHY CITY
sweets3445 1 month ago
Rochester is not a city of poverty its very wealthy... no offense but you might be poor but not us and the house at 1:27 is no longer boarded up some people live there.
sweets3445 1 month ago
I can't believe that I traveld thousand of miles across Planet Earth to come to a city like Rochester. Once I came here , i took my RIT admission paper and put in The toilet. NO BODY SHOULD EVER COME HERE. IT'S A DEAD PLACE. Hopefully that I will be admitted into UW in Settle , WA (L).
Ch3ls4wy 2 months ago
as i'm watching this, all i'm doing is loling XD
AmericanGirl8807 2 months ago
3:00 Can of Worms FTW
acer3573 3 months ago
Rochester is unfortunately a textbook example of a city that went to hell; I know, I lived there 30 years. The only thing left is the "attitude" of old Rochesterians!
lamorcilla1 4 months ago
You seemed pretty desperate for footage of "hood" areas. Putting He's as a ghetto shop? LOL
redcomic619 5 months ago
damn i thought this was rochester mn
Deangilo1014 5 months ago
@Deangilo1014 GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE
HannnahBalector 4 months ago
@HannnahBalector fuck you faggot u stank bitch
Deangilo1014 4 months ago
@Deangilo1014 U REAL MAD
HannnahBalector 4 months ago
@HannnahBalector exactly if they dont want to be here they can leave this is home just dont come back when rochester is a destination
sweets3445 1 month ago
I died when I saw Cadillac Hotel
Taureg96 10 months ago 2
I hate rochester. I want to move very bad and I will once i'm done with school.
yellowfeverinny 1 year ago
At 2:09 - 2:11 I worked in that building 20 years ago It was over run with roaches and we redid the apartments and got rid of them. The city redid the street and took away all the parking. The store front got all of its glass shot out of it and thats why it was walled up. Store could never get rented out
force311999 1 year ago
Bubble Tea ROCKS!
jt1403 1 year ago
Rochesterians are pussies. I used to think there was ghetto here too, until I took a trip to Detroit. Picture the worst part of Clifford ave, thats downtown.
redcomic619 1 year ago
Don't mess with my Rochester.
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sjoegriffith 1 year ago
i love going to He's for bubble tea
bboytripper 1 year ago
i livez herezz!!
blibitt 1 year ago
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MichaelAlphonsePhoto 1 year ago 9
@MichaelAlphonsePhoto They need to get in there and do the same thing they did in nyc come down hard on the crime
blackmesa10 11 months ago
@blackmesa10 They wont though. Even if they did the people here suck anyway.
coneyislanddiscomark 11 months ago
@blackmesa10 They do come down hard on crime. It only seems to be the cause of more crime, though.
AreThereNoMoreNames 4 months ago
@MichaelAlphonsePhoto :( Attitudes are half of the problem here.
redcomic619 6 months ago
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letsgobuffalo4ever 1 year ago
This video fails to convey any points about the region, it really just is a montage of modern sights in the downtown and surrounding areas (evidentially not the best areas). An empty Midtown Plaza, boarded up houses, and adult enteratainment shops are not the regions only sights. Why didn't you go down any of Park Avenue, East Avenue, the Cornhill region, or any parts of the surrounding suburbs. If you don't like something have more thoughtful reasons other than a car trip.
Funnydego 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you live in Rochester, NY and want to get the hell out!
PocketJMC 1 year ago 15
@PocketJMC Rochester Ny I live near Chili ave.18 years old and I remember everything here in this video.
xdeathkidreaperx 2 months ago
much worse in tampa!
MissShayna143 1 year ago
I live in rochester and I hate it. This video is right on the money. People are assholes here.
pizzafaceddude 1 year ago
There is a plague in every major city in America, it causes laziness, corruption, a total lack of morality and crime.
912newfounder 1 year ago
Looks like most of NYS So sad. New york state was once a beautiful place with jobs for all. Industry was going down and Nafta finished the job. Thank you Ross Perot
akaalbany 1 year ago
Rochester sucks. I got way away from there. No jobs, bad schools and the murder rate is 4.5 times the national average. Rochester was the only city besides NYC in New York that had its own mob boss. on columbus day in 1970 they bombed the monroe county office building the u.s. couthouse and the federal building. a few weeks later they set off 6 more bombs. Not a good place to live.
TheJrgriffin 1 year ago
@TheJrgriffin the mob was bombing everywhere in the 70s and buffalo had its own boss, actually a family...so get your shit straight
studiobuddy 1 year ago
This is what Liberals and Progressive Socialists want to do to every U.S. city.
chaumont20 1 year ago
@chaumont20 Correct. And conservatives are too lazy to keep them out. So thank ALL of these idiots, they've ruined our great cities. Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburgh in the Northeast. God, I'm a Buffalo person, and I bet if I went back just 40-50 years I'd shit bricks. Same with Rochester fans. And even Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, for the midwest, and countless other cities in the United States. These cities are wrecked!
KingMacintosh 1 year ago
This inpires me to make my own video to show the true beauty of Rochester, that you, unfortunately, do not see, and probably never will. I hope someday, you will. I guess the bottom line, point is... negative, versus positive imagery, and message.
benslooking4junk 1 year ago
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benslooking4junk 1 year ago
This is funny but true..
dieselducy 1 year ago
Rochester is one of the most depressing cities in the USA. It's ugly, the people are dangerous, the sun NEVER shines, it's cold, the food is terrible - it needs to be knocked down. We should let it go back to nature.
hornplayer100 1 year ago
@hornplayer100 Come say it to a Rochesterians face and they'll knock you the fuck out in less than 2.2 seconds you fucking cocksucker!
redcomic619 1 year ago
@hornplayer100 Say that about Buffalo and I'll knock you the fuck out too!, and I'm not even a Buffalonian, I just defend what Buffalo was, and depressed or not still even in parts is. Same with Rochester, well said redcomic619!
And Buffalo still has mouthwatering food today, and I bet you Rochester does have plenty great foods too!
KingMacintosh 1 year ago
Funny shit its so true
Whatacrybabygamer 1 year ago
Explain then, if this film is so modern and up to date, why it did not film the much, much larger and newer Mall at Irondequoit? It's empty with only two major stores. An entire baseball stadium size Mall completely empty!!! Why? Maybe bc it's in a nice neighborhood? God forbid that this idiot should show an actually NICE neighborhood in Rochester. Please shove this film down the KKK's butt. Thank you.
PRAussie 1 year ago
PRAussie, check the date the film was posted... four years ago!!! I don't think the Mall at Irondequoit was an empty mall then!!! (Although I don't know that)
EdM021 1 year ago
Actually, yes it does look like this PRAussie you jackass. It's the perfect representation of this town. Rochester is the biggest crap hole city I've ever seen only second to Detroit, and I've seen A LOT of cities.
coreymalowney 1 year ago
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PRAussie 2 years ago
@PRAussie You act like those are good things you described.
Woblesavvy 1 year ago
this taping is really true the roc is good for one thing they have plenty of food places you will never go hungry but its a depressing lil city i was born there i know
bokimbo36 2 years ago
Looks like their are a lot of business opportunities their! Let me guess... Welfare programs and high taxes?? Hmmmm..... Change those policies and you would be amazing and how fast blighted areas pop back! Those old neighborhoods go for top dollar in the city I live in. In fact I love living in the old city. Just get your city government to stop accepting federal welfare dollars. Close the soup kitchens and the homeless and drug people go to other cities. Its really easy to fix these things.
BanjoNaps 2 years ago
BanjoNaps, the real reason Rochester and other rust belt cities are blighted, and now Birmingham, Atlanta and other sun belt cities are becoming blighted, is because of exposrting of jobs due to so-called "free trade!!" Even the financial bubble and collapse was caused by "free trade." Put tarrifs and barriers back, and we will start re-creating jobs here at home!
EdM021 1 year ago
The jobs are being "exported" the south you idiot.
BanjoNaps 1 year ago
And what part of the South do you live in?I'm in the South and we've lost so many jobs to foreign countries it ain't funny!
EdM021 1 year ago
Central Virgina, you are mainly losing those jobs to robots. Get used to it.
BanjoNaps 1 year ago
And the robots are probably in China!
EdM021 1 year ago
The USA economy is about 25% of the global economy. Manufacturing is about 20% of the USA economy. That makes the USA by far the largest manufacturing society on the planet. Our problems lie in agriculture. So much fuel is wasted on the way we do food in this country. in 1900 about 30% of the pop was in farming. Now its less then 1%. THAT is the problem. The "jobs" being lost are repetitive retard jobs. Good riddens! Send them to the fields! Skilled labor is in high demand.
BanjoNaps 1 year ago
Manufacturing used to be a much larger ortion of the US economy.
EdM021 1 year ago 2
2009 was the 3rd best year on output in human history for a single country. The other 2 years were 2006 and 2007. Our consumption is what is out of control. Employment in manufacturing jobs has been in decline sense the 70s. That is due to automation and it is a good thing. We need more farmers and we need to stop "buying" so many imports. Thats it. Our manufacturing sector could enter the 3rd industrial revolution if it was unleashed into the free market, but its still very healthy as is.
BanjoNaps 1 year ago
The problem is, we let anything and everything be imported into our country under the rubric of "free trade." Worse is the fact that some other countries feel free to put up tarrifs and barriers against our expoorts -- particularly the Asian powerhouses we import the most goods from. And worst of all is our oil dependency. I don't know how that can come to a good end.
EdM021 1 year ago 2
Com'on guys, Rochester is not that bad! I have been to Pittsford for 5 weeks and that was wonderful there! and Naz College is one of the best !
rochesterian21 2 years ago
of course u gon say it aint that bad bein out in tha burbs y dont u come vist jefferson ave, genesee street matta fact the whole westside n then u tell me how nice Rocheseter iz den
sincere23ify 2 years ago
fuc dat dewey, lyell, otis, lake, n emerson iz were itz goes down at
cpowelii 2 years ago
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EdM021 1 year ago
LOL.. I pointed out a bunch of spots..Rochester da Shit ..lol lil borin doe..Alot changed since they made this..
JDtFallen 2 years ago
lol that si the getto not rochester lolololol
docterocterploperpos 2 years ago
wow really? come live in rochester and see for urself. its a wholeeee lot better then wherever ur from and ur just to afraid to admit it. rochester is not a gd city of poverty. why the heck wuld it be so well known if the whole city was poor?!
jdbmusiclover 2 years ago
2:06, I've eaten at that restaurant many times, not bad.
greg925 2 years ago
HELLS YA!!!!!!! You SAID it dude....freakin drizzle pilla man
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Thank god I'm moving the hell away from this shithole of unimportance and decay. Rochester is the most boring city in the world. Seriously, this video is even too much of a compliment to us. There should be no videos about Rochester. I'm incredulous when anyone says they've heard of the city before. There's no reason for Rochester to even be called a city, it's a glamorized town, mind you a town full of ghettos and ugly developed suburbs. The suburbs are probably the worst thing about the Roc.
whatastupidmovie 2 years ago
Especially Webster. I would laugh and laugh if Webster were to be obliterated from the planet.
whatastupidmovie 2 years ago
And where are you moving to? New York City I think ive seen you post in a video comment before? You say Rochester has a ghetto LMFAO! When you move to NYC your going to have your shit rocked everyday. If your to much of a pussy to live in Rochester then 10 bucks says you will be out of NY in a few months.
redcomic619 2 years ago
Wow, way to exercise selective comprehension you dickweed. I don't care about ghettos, what I care about is that nothing interesting happens here. I am definitely not leaving Rochester because I'm scared. If I'm scared of anything it's that I currently live in the same area as homophobic assholes like you, because according to your profile you really have some issues you need to work out. Let me reiterate this. I don't care about ghettos because they are supposedly "scary." I hate them because
whatastupidmovie 2 years ago
They are full of low class trash like you. Only too stupid to operate a computer so you must be from Irondiquoit or something.
whatastupidmovie 2 years ago
Hey, go shove a Twinkie up your ass you dickhead. And, no i'm not from Irondequoit (you can't even spell, dipshit) I live in the city. So go fuck yourself you stupid ass motherfucker. I hope some asshole gang member high on LSD rapes you when your living in NYC you cocksucker motherfucker.
redcomic619 2 years ago
An asshole high on LSD??? LMAO
A gang of violent hippies! Whatever am I to do!
HAHAHAHA
LSD
whatastupidmovie 2 years ago
Are you sure your from Rochester and not Memphis? When you drive downtown and you see those groups of 3-4 black people selling shit do you think its rice or drugs? Fucking retard. LSD isnt just for hippies, douchebag. Go hang with those dirty pizza eaters downstate, nobody wants you here anyway.
redcomic619 2 years ago
Wow, thanks for injecting racism into this you prick. I guarantee you that the majority of people dealing with LSD are wimpy white kids and dirty old flower children, not black gangbangers. Most drug activity related to gangs has to do with crack, meth, heroin, hard drugs that actually cause addiction. Pot or coke, even, but not LSD. They may sell LSD occasionally but it's a drug from a different decade, and you definitely are NOT going to get attacked by a black person on LSD
whatastupidmovie 2 years ago
How about I spread peanut butter on my balls and you lick it off you faggot. You would like that
redcomic619 2 years ago
Hey, Cram it! What your saying is true but your tone sucks. I don't like anyone who thinks they are "better" than Rochester or think they are too important for it. It's bad yeah but the people there are good.
My dad was born there and what's left of my family still lives there and sometimes I wish I lived in a place as boring as Rochester.
dkolb 2 years ago
livin on govirnment cheeze dude...
hornplayer100 2 years ago 3
any body gots any money man? cant aford to buy new car dude...friggin recked man...i wuld appreciate a little spare change...let me no dude
hornplayer100 2 years ago
man...im stuck in da drizzles hard core man...sum body gots to help me man...offering rides? any body yo? i gots to friggin walk evrywer man...suuuuccckkkkssss...gots no friends man
hornplayer100 2 years ago
yooooooo dude...homeless guy recked my car man.,...i knows i aint know anybody on this page but culd ya give me a ride peeps?? or i gots to walks everywere man.. plleeeaaaassssee dude!
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Did you said ghetto???? Duuuuude....laying loooww man..aien't no ghetto styling here man...wes the REEL new york..low blow man
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Acorting to you "we calls buffolo men "eastsiders" n syrcruse dudes "westsidas"" Say what?!?? Its syracuse dudes we call "westsidas" and buffolo men we call "eastsidas Get Real dud
09musicaddict 2 years ago
Ya DUDE...you right man. Chestas gots its drizzle pillows like any others city man....STINKS man
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Every city has a bad area.
freckleforce93 2 years ago
say WHAAAAT brotha? terrible thing to say bout chesta.... wheres yo chesta pride man?
hornplayer100 2 years ago
; ) missing footage of a cop beating someone...awesome tho
lysimafia 2 years ago
yeah...we calls buffolo men "eastsiders" n syrcruse dudes "westsidas" Chesta men dang near center of the world man...
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Parody? thought that involved imitation AND HUMOR
MegaGobbler 2 years ago
<------------- Chesta man
hornplayer100 2 years ago
YOOOOO DUDE! I went to scool...all the thru 10nd grade man...i know what im doin yo....tellin ya this .. I KNOWS what im talkin bout dude...calls them TOTS cause they aint so HOTS ya no what im sayin..taste like fried turds man
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Man!..what the....Furst of all...its not "marks texas tots n alll" you beter go back to skhool Its "Mark's Texis Hots not tots...lovin them biscits .... "Hots" is what a 'chesta man call a dinur
09musicaddict 2 years ago 2
gratest place man???? get reeeeeeel dude.....chestas one big drizzle pillow dude....why you talkin so good bout chesta? shuld be burning to the ground...marks texas tots n alll
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Rochester is the greatest place anywhere.
RochesterFICS 2 years ago
....between Buffalo and Syracuse.
friscocali7 2 years ago
yooooooo assman ...aight you rite about the assy air pockets, us chester folk call thems the "drizzle pillows" here chillin ...monroe ave is my street yo and the beach...simpley butiful. yo we shuld hang man
09musicaddict 2 years ago
yo, seriusly, chesta blooooowws. walking thru random ass air pockets yo...STINKS man...nothin like it, but ya no, maybe that smells good to a chesta man. ugliest people in the world yo...im dang neer supermodel here man...king o the city
hornplayer100 2 years ago
fo sho biaaac.Why yo ragging my homeland? born n bread in chester YO. andy you talking bad bout my land? my land aint bad..i liv on those trash plates man, the founding of my land...best brand., you can be a fan, of the rochestaaaaaaaaaa man yo. peece.
09musicaddict 2 years ago
Yo, Rohcestar sucks ass chunks...i be driven round da markus texis hots and yooo eating beefy pasta n squeeze cheez bites balls bitch...drivin round bitch eating tots...road..ya knowz..chillin with my grillin in yoz rochchezta..city sucks yo.
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Now that is funny
juandelavegapr 2 years ago
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crazythreeonefiver 2 years ago
Was that in English?
hornplayer100 2 years ago
This video is really old...most of this stuff do not even exist anymore..like midtown plaza and etc.. This video is not making a good picture of rochester,Ny ..i dont think this is cute at all... Some of this stuff is true but, they didnt have to make a video about it..were not the only city that is in poverty.. Rochester has Achievers and etc.. as Well.. N i know because I was Born And I AM as of right now Still in Rochester!! I love alot about my city...((585))
Msdiva93 2 years ago
I am so happy I moved out of Rochester.
magicfitzpatrick 2 years ago
at 2:36 is dat driving park n dewey ave
cpowelii 2 years ago
Yessir..late..
JDtFallen 2 years ago
C'mon rochester has history metallica recorded kill em' all here and forginor is from here the grateful dead used to play here all the time we got charlotte beach and garbage plates and the underground rail road sad right through rochester and its only three hours away from toronto were rush formed susan b. anthony lived here and fredrick duggles lived here anything eles guys?
ledxzeppelinx182 2 years ago
big frickin deal hippie!
lulziki 2 years ago
you sound like a Dbag
ledxzeppelinx182 2 years ago
you sound like a cry baby waaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lulziki 2 years ago
yah that makes alot of sense,
ledxzeppelinx182 2 years ago
i know it does
lulziki 2 years ago
sarcasim jerk off
ledxzeppelinx182 2 years ago
no shit sherlock?
lulziki 2 years ago
Here's another tale from the bowels of Crotchfester: A friend of mine lived in a East Ave. Commons apartment and had a homeless person living in her walls between her and the next apartment. This individual would even dump trash in her apartment through a small hole in the wall.
09musicaddict 2 years ago
Damn!
grabitup 2 years ago
Not sure if they are all still there, but here are a few Crotchfester eateries where I've been threatened for money: Aria's, Stromboli's, and the McDonald's on East Ave. A friend of mine was accosted at a fine dining restaurant called the Brasserie. Another friend of mine saw someone get shot at a restaurant called "Pagoda's." The only positive aspect about the city is that Wegman's is awesome.
09musicaddict 2 years ago
Ok, let's talk about Rochester's "famous" cuisine. The "garbage plate" is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen/tasted. It literally looks like someone barfed on a plate. And this is Rochester's prized cuisine??? I guess it seems appropriate if you consider the surroundings...
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Wegmans has been downsizing lately and now there are only 2 left on the outskirts of the city...everything here is ASS. No jobs...yet the cost of living is high.
Everything downtown is closed at 6pm. And besides there's nothing downtown but court houses and jail now. No place to shop...it sucks here.
grabitup 2 years ago
First of all, unless that kid was hanging out on Ave D (all you true Rochesterians know exactly where I am talking about), he was not involved in a drive by shooting.
As every city, there are bad parts of Rochester. Yes, our "thugs" seem to think they are the toughest, but as long as you dont piss them off or walk down any dark allies alone (which no smart person would do anywhere), you wont get mugged (like his "smart" friends supposedly did).
Though I cant wait to move.
I do love Rochester.
grrrrrapes 2 years ago
Ok, how do I begin a response to this? First of all, I didn't get shot on Ave. D, I got shot on the University of Rochester's campus walking out of class in the AFTERNOON. This only goes to show that there is no such thing as a "safe" part of Rochester. Second of all, I'm college educated...are you??? Forget the dark allies, I know several people who were mugged on East Ave. and Gibbs. St. in daylight. WAKE UP....your city SUCKS.
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Well said, hornplayer100.
hondolespaul 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
u suck too
cpowelii 2 years ago
Haha, this is hilarious. I live in rochester now and have to agree that this focuses on only the bad.
I'd like to know where 09musicaddict was eating though because that's not exactly customary...
aubs9511 2 years ago
Rochester is the kind of city where panhandlers threaten to kill you while your eating in a nice restaurant. Some of the restaurant owners there have totally given up trying to shoo them away, so prepared to share your food and give them some "paper money" while your at it!
09musicaddict 2 years ago 2
Rochester is seriously the most depressing city I've ever seen. During college, I was a victim of a dry-by shooting and several of my friends were mugged at gun or knife point. Someone should do this country a favor and burn this city to the ground and start fresh.
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Where are you originally from?
grabitup 2 years ago
That "Hotel Cadillac" is full of pimps and hos
09musicaddict 2 years ago
don't forget the crack heads...we must not forget the crackheads.
grabitup 2 years ago
or the panhandlers...
lulziki 2 years ago
We all used to call this city "Crotchfester" when we lived there
09musicaddict 2 years ago
Rochester is the ugliest and worst city in the United States...not to mention a very dangerous place. Trust me...I've lived there.
hornplayer100 2 years ago
Ive been here my whole life and you do have the right to voice your opinion but i do DARE TO DIFFERENT.....585 all day
Msdiva93 2 years ago
the clock of nations is at the airport now
petenice666 2 years ago
Rochester will always be home. This video is funny though but made in the late 80's or early 90's. though.
3323pippen 2 years ago
ummm...this is only the bad side of rochester. its an okay video but seriously...why bash your city like this publicly???????
shay16912 2 years ago
ha that was funny, but i agree with what others said before me. ANY city has these problems. You just focused on the bad. Park ave, east ave, Kodak, Xerox are just a few i didn't see in this video. There are many nice parts of the city.
vistaway3008 2 years ago
All of you Rochester people bashing Buffalo are one of the many reasons I moved the hell away from ROT city.
Woblesavvy 2 years ago
That was awesome, but I don't really like the whole city of poverty thing. I take offense to that. Rochester is bangin.
MisterJohnnyLeBaron 2 years ago
hellz yea
audieros3 2 years ago
From Rochester, now living in Detroit, and I'll tell you your video looks like sunshine compared to some other cities . Get out and get some perspective. One could find decay in ANY CITY.
slowdown80 2 years ago
FUCK ALL YAH
IM FROM ROCHESTER
MANDING031 2 years ago
don't worry guys, Mayor Duffy is on his way!
ishaaq24 2 years ago
Buffalo, NY is the Ugly Step-Sister city of Rochester.
Vearrow 2 years ago 6
rochester is pretty damn dangerous for a small/medium sized city, especially in the conkey ave, plymouth exchange, and some parts of 19th ward. (jefferson, frost, gennesse st)
vershantis 2 years ago
I *guarantee* you that the people who made this video are COMPLETE pussies.
Ihaveanorangemohawk 2 years ago
I'm 20, was born and raised in and around the city of Rochester. Lived in the City, Gates, Greece twice, Spencerport, and went to HS in Brockport. I am now out in Colorado for college and I must say, It is really sad to see how run-down my hometown is. The place I'm in now is flourishing and it's tough to say that I'm from Rochester when THAT is what it means. Here's to wishing on a miracle and the Rock can turn things around in the not-so-distant future.
craphead616 2 years ago
You're stupid.
MisterJohnnyLeBaron 2 years ago
sorry sorry... im still laughing... Stable People hahahahha
singleeto 2 years ago
I'm just seeing this now ! whoa... i love this video...good work. =] i'm speachless =] =] =]
singleeto 2 years ago
great video but very sad and hard to watch. There is just a cloud of despair that hovers over rochester and buffalo
dkolb 2 years ago
A cloud of despair over Buffalo?? lol no.... Rochester for sure but Buffalo has a lot going on these days,
Ziggyisaqueer 2 years ago
great I'm glad we won those 4 superbowls, and the economy is good again
dkolb 2 years ago
Buffalo has a lot going on? Like what? UNEMPLOYMENT AND CRIME!
qp40 2 years ago
Ah man, I'm staying in one of the "rough" neighborhoods for college. Our house is on a little street just northwest of the city called Maryland.
At least our neighbor to the left isn't horrible.
TjGk 2 years ago
Rochester's a great city
Oubound898 2 years ago
Bittersweet vid
GrindStreetMusic 2 years ago
yea rochester has sure changed alot, back in the earley 60,s was nice, used to work @ hennens cycle shop on court st,hung out at the pythod jazz club,and the gallerie 65, on court street,them were the days cheers
briishthebrit 2 years ago
This video is so true. Yes, Rochester does have a lot of great things but first impressions are everything. You often do have to drive through rough neiborhoods to get to Rochster's good features. As far as residential areas go the best neighborhoods are the Park and East Ave area, Most of the rest of the city is like what this video shows.
I live in Chili and it only takes me a few minutes to get to the 19th Ward and Bullshead neighborhoods, both which are very rough.
BluePounder 3 years ago
I will add to my last comment that the City Government squanders the taxpayer's money on top of all this. The failed Fast Ferry is an example. Also High Falls and the proposed Renaisance Square project. Not to mention the crappy shool system they have.
BluePounder 3 years ago
A RPD officer was shot in the head by a 14 year old boy over the weekend. That says a lot about the state of Rochester.
BluePounder 3 years ago 4
Did the inner city people with a ghetto mentality celebrate? X-( I know from this nation's experience that had the RPD officer shot the kid in the head, there would have been riots!
EdM021 2 years ago
19 ward is actually one of the best places in rochester...
kennyd585 2 years ago
I should have said the Chili Ave area of 19th. Ward. There are many boarded up houses there. The area around Brooks Ave., Genesee Park Blvd., Thurston Rd. and Scottsville Rd. is really nice. Chili Ave. is at the edge of 19th Ward anyway.
BluePounder 2 years ago
i remember genesee beer. "every sip is like a trip to snow country."
ukentseeit 3 years ago
This video tries to be provocative, but ends up being ignorant. Rochester faces many of the same struggles as other cities in the "rust belt." The poverty is real and the violence is real.
But, I have lived in the City of Rochester my entire life, and this video only presents the worst--there is alot more to this place.
Where you live is what you make of it.
It doesn't help to pretend that you are exposing something that no one knows, and it doesn't help to fear-monger either.
aliciaazzura 3 years ago
Agreed. I was born in Rochester, moved away to Orange County, California for 8 years then moved back to Rochester. I live very luxuriously on Charlotte Beach in Rochester suburb of North Greece, but as far as taste can go, this is pretty much it. Nothing about this city is appealing. Charlotte Beach is pretty much the only nice place in the city I found myself wanting to live. Violent, poor, ugly, and cold - there is nothing good to say about Rochester, NY. Its a dead, deserted city.
RoXorKakaa 2 years ago
Nothing about what you just said is an exaggeration, just as I'm not being sarcastic.
sockman16 2 years ago
Will, you´ve got to do a parody about the suburbs next.
hondolespaul 3 years ago
RGN SUCKS =]
DatGurlBree585 3 years ago
If you have to be poor anywhere, Rochester is as good a place as any. Thanks for showing every one the bad spots. How many were there? Ten? Wow! Visit and live in a few other cities and you'll realize Rochester is a heck of a nice town to live in.
Bullettube 3 years ago
Is the crime bad in Rochester?
YouKnowImBlazin 3 years ago
There were two homicides within the first three days of 2009. Crime is ten times worse once spring and summer arrive. I am moving out of my suburban home because Gates, NY will become little Rochester eventually. There have been stabbings in Greece, NY already. Twenty years ago, Gates and Greece were nice communities. It will be nice to move to a town where I do not have to carry a concealed knife while I work outside.
hondolespaul 3 years ago