Eureka is a beautiful town and anyone would be blessed to live there.
The vlogger had to hunt far wide to find that much blight. Several of the scenes repeated from different angles, and near the local mission that provides services to the zombies.
He’s counting on the fact that almost nobody has ever been there to be credible.
Oh it’s bad. There are pockets all over and creepy camps including the suster tiwn of Arcata. But yes, he was mainly in a three block area downtown and didnt ventuure behind the Mall or down a few trails.
The area is beautiful but the drugs, mental illness, homelessness and crime is pretty bad. The terrible lack of industry is makung it worse.
I see a lot of my town (200 miles north of Eureka) in that video. In the ‘70s, I lived down the street from Nancy Flemming, who would become mayor of Eureka in 1990. She served through 2002. She and my mom used to pal around, so we visited Eureka, a few times. Pretty cool place, then. You’re right about this guy cherry-picking his blight. We’ve got a former business owner, locally, that became an internet creator, and seems to specialize in picking on the underclass.