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Berkeley, California is now a TOTAL ghost town - 16 minute you tube video
YouTube ^ | Feb. 16, 2025 | Metal Leo

Posted on 02/20/2025 4:39:59 AM PST by dennisw

Metal Leo>>> Berkeley, California has turned into a ghost town, walking downtown on Shattuck Avenue you can’t find anything open. It looks like every business left.

***** Yikes! I was there a few times when the Steets were crowded with people and students, with all store fronts occupied. And paying top rents! Metal Leo has many other videos of California cities, with dead and abandoned streets. That need the Trump effect really bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOeL7Ky4wo

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; ghosttown
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1 posted on 02/20/2025 4:39:59 AM PST by dennisw
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That’s what the idea of a liberal utopia gets you...


2 posted on 02/20/2025 4:44:11 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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3 posted on 02/20/2025 4:48:26 AM PST by dennisw (DËMÔNràts - Truth is hate to people who hate truth.)
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4 posted on 02/20/2025 4:50:34 AM PST by dennisw (DËMÔNràts - Truth is hate to people who hate truth.)
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I used to live in kalifornia but never went went to Berserkly. It was a dump then, just like now. Berserkly = ghost town sounds like an improvement except, where did all those druggie mongrels go? Hopefully out of the country.


5 posted on 02/20/2025 5:01:15 AM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: dennisw

Have not seen too many SF Bay Area disporia stories of late. I never thought it would look like Detroit, now I am starting to reconsider.


6 posted on 02/20/2025 5:02:40 AM PST by Jolla
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Well, obviously the solution is that city just needs to raise property and sales taxes and increase the min wage.


7 posted on 02/20/2025 5:03:06 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: dennisw

Everything touched by the left turns to Obamastuff.
Everything.
Even the Obamastuff turns into worse Obamastuff.
Sooner or later, things will have to happen to the left.
If not, more and more Obamastuff.
Got it?


8 posted on 02/20/2025 5:05:21 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer place.

/s


9 posted on 02/20/2025 5:11:41 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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The last time I was in Berkeley was the first time I was in a restaurant watching a bum outside take a dump on the sidewalk.

It will be too bad that the Bay Area architecture probably won’t survive.


10 posted on 02/20/2025 5:23:52 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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I’ve read of looting being allowed up to $1,000. I don’t know if that is state-wide, or in just some cities in California. This is tied to Soros (USAID?) funded district attorneys.

Newsome and some mayors have the attitude that it does not matter when employers leave. CA, Berkely, LA and so on are so special, someone else will move in. This video shows that is not always the case.


11 posted on 02/20/2025 5:28:15 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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Sadly, there is a sect of humans who actually believes that is the answer.

EC


12 posted on 02/20/2025 5:36:03 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: LouAvul

“where did all those druggie mongrels go? Hopefully out of the country.”

They’re here in Colorado voting for radical, gun-grabbing politicians, whining incessantly and running red lights.


13 posted on 02/20/2025 5:36:42 AM PST by dljordan
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To: dennisw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4


14 posted on 02/20/2025 5:38:19 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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They say that like it’s a bad thang............


15 posted on 02/20/2025 5:43:18 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: dennisw

Hopefully, the nitwits who voted-in the corrupto-crats (over and over again) enjoy the results of their perfidy.


16 posted on 02/20/2025 5:44:30 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: LouAvul

Many decades ago I lived in Berkeley for a couple of years.

After my car was broken into I fled....

Lol.


17 posted on 02/20/2025 5:50:57 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: dennisw

Are the Student Loan Deadbeat Walkers still wandering the streets looking for normal people to eat?


18 posted on 02/20/2025 5:52:56 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
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To: dennisw
Thomas Sowell wrote about this in 2005 and Berkeley CA is a prime example.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

19 posted on 02/20/2025 6:09:13 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Where did all the looters go?


20 posted on 02/20/2025 6:12:04 AM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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