I drove to the WORST Neighborhood in North Carolina. This is what I saw.

Wow! This neighborhood looks like it belongs in another country! For this video, I took Route 11 into rural Lenoir County in North Carolina. My goal would be to visit the absolute worst neighborhood in the entire state. I’ve never done that before - typically, I visit the worst area in a city, but when I read a report about a neighborhood in the city of Kinston, I had to see it firsthand. The day was Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 1 in the afternoon. A while back, the University of North Carolina’s Center for Urban Studies issued a report on the most distressed communities in the whole state. Two of them were in East Kinston, a smallish city of 20,000 people way out in the sticks, surrounded by forest and farmland. The report highlighted a part of town on Kinston’s east side, an area that has more poverty and blight than any other tract in the state.