East Kinston called the worst place to live in North Carolina, data shows little improvement

Tyshun Wilson stands at the corner of Cedar Lane and Duggins Drive in East Kinston where he grew up.[Brandon Davis/Kinston Free Press]Tyshun Wilson has never met Nick Johnson. Wilson once sold drugs on Adkin Street in East Kinston but now seeks to improve people’s perception of the area he grew up in despite recent YouTube videos produced by Johnson, which portray East Kinston as “the worst place to live in North Carolina.”A YouTube video by Johnson, who has nearly 300,000 subscribers, shows clips of the top 10 worst places to live: Durham (10), Whiteville (9), Albemarle (8), Salisbury (7), Rocky Mount/High Point (6), Winston-Salem (5), Laurinburg (4), Fayetteville (3), Lumberton (2), Kinston (1). Placing a camera on his dashboard, Johnson filmed his drive through East Kinston, highlighting areas of Kinston that may not look very appealing compared to Queen and Herritage Streets.  “The time I moved to North Carolina, I didn’t know anything about Kinston,” Johnson said. “We put in there: this is an unbiased look, I don’t care about these places, politics aside, this is just what the statistics say. I went all in the hood, and I had people looking at me funny. It was bad.“I’ll put the entire segment of the worst neighborhood in North…
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