This place was amazing. Now, it's trashed and troubled. What the heck happened everyone?

If you follow the news or know anything about Florida, you may know that Daytona Beach is one of the less desirable beach communities in the state. Crime, poverty, drugs and booze rule the day here. The big four. We’ll get into that but we’re going to begin back where we started - on Daytona’s west side. Most of Daytona's 73,000 residents live here on the mainland, which is mostly middle to lower class neighborhoods and low key strip malls.

Daytona is in Volusia County, kinda halfway between Orlando and Jacksonville, right off of I-95. Like the rest of Florida, the population here is going up, but not nearly as fast as the rest of the state.

Where we’re at now was pretty much the worst part of Daytona that I saw. We’re somewhere in the middle of the city. It wasn’t the WORST place I saw in the state on this trip, but it’s up there. A big chunk of Daytona is pretty rundown neighborhoods that look just like this.

As we drive through the neighborhoods, you’re going to see lots of people standing around with nothing to do. This wasn’t a weekend. It was a Monday morning. So, clearly a lot of people in Daytona don’t have regular working hours. I gathered many have ZERO working hours.

You hear sirens pretty much all day - ambulances going to car wrecks or cops flying by for who KNOWS what. There’s a lot of trash, overgrown yards, abandoned cars - stuff you see in rural parts of the country. Not in a big tourist spot.

This isn’t the most dangerous place I’ve been to, but it’s rough. It’s three times higher than the state average. There’s a huge issue with people breaking into cars, and random shootings all over the place. They used to try and run the bad people outta town, but it seems like that effort has diminished. There’s pedophiles all over. It’s sick and it’s unbelievable.

The transplants and the tourists don’t really seem to care much, and are actually part of the problem. It’s the long timers are the most frustrated of all, because it wasn’t always like this.

Outside of tourism jobs in the service industry, there just aren’t a lot of opportunities here. And Daytona’s not cheap, either. They charge tourist prices for a lot of stuff. A lot of the meth junkies you see around town don’t have extra money for food.

You won’t find an apartment under $1,000 here that’s not in the ghetto.

The average home price here is a staggering $250,000 if that’s saying something. Those are like 2018 prices. So it’s definitely not expensive for a beach town, that’s for sure. Maybe it’s just right for you?

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